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A girl in the former Class D whom Masayoshi Hashimoto dates in order to get information about her class out of her.
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A girl in the Ayanokouji's former Class D whom Masayoshi Hashimoto dates in order to get information about her class out of her.
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A girl in the former Class D whom Masayoshi Hashimoto dates in order to get information about her class out of her.
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A girl in the former Class D whom Masayoshi Hashimoto dates in order to get information about her class out of her.
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!!Maezono
A girl
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!!Tsubasa Nanase
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* AdaptedOut: She's among the 15 classmates who weren't adapted in the anime.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: At least when it comes to Kiyotaka Ayanokouji. She's eventually suspicious of him after he correctly answered the five hardest questions on Co-operative Written Test and deduces that he must have been helping the class from the shadows.
* {{Foil}}: To Chiaki Matsushita. Both eventually [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter figure out there's more to Ayanokoji]] after he correctly answers some of the hardest questions on special tests. However, while Chiaki supports him potentially becoming TheLeader of their class, Maezono considers him a threat and prefers that he doesn't lead the class, being worried that he'd target her and other low-performing students like her next, just as he had done to [[spoiler:Airi Sakura]] in the past.
* HistoryRepeats: Hashimoto dating her just to get info out of her marks the second time when a major player from Class A pretends to like someone from the former Class D in order to use them for their benefit, after Arisu Sakayanagi had manipulated Haruki Yamauchi.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: When it comes to Masayoshi Hashimoto. She's unable to tell that he's only dating her to get information out of her.
* TheLancer: She calls a secret meeting with some of her classmates in order to discuss Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. After his choice to [[spoiler:expel Airi Sakura]] is brought up, she states that she can't let him take charge of their class, as other low-performing students like her and some of her friends would be on the chopping block next. She remains silent after Matsushita asks her to provide a logical reason why he couldn't be TheLeader, though.
* TheMole: She's the one who ends up telling Hashimoto about Suzune Horikita's promise to protect Rokusuke Kouenji from expulsion after he had won first place in Uninhabited Island Exam.
* NoFullNameGiven: Her full name hasn't been revealed as of yet.
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!!Introduced in Year 2
[[folder:Tsubasa Nanase]]
!!Tsubasa Nanase
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsubasa_nanase_ln_visual.png]]
A freshman in Class 1-D with a mysterious interest in Kiyotaka.
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* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: At least when it comes to Kiyotaka Ayanokouji. She's eventually suspicious of him after he correctly answered the five hardest questions on Co-operative Written Test and deduces that he must have been helping the class from the shadows.
* {{Foil}}: To Chiaki Matsushita. Both eventually [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter figure out there's more to Ayanokoji]] after he correctly answers some of the hardest questions on special tests. However, while Chiaki supports him potentially becoming TheLeader of their class, Maezono considers him a threat and prefers that he doesn't lead the class, being worried that he'd target her and other low-performing students like her next, just as he had done to [[spoiler:Airi Sakura]] in the past.
* HistoryRepeats: Hashimoto dating her just to get info out of her marks the second time when a major player from Class A pretends to like someone from the former Class D in order to use them for their benefit, after Arisu Sakayanagi had manipulated Haruki Yamauchi.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: When it comes to Masayoshi Hashimoto. She's unable to tell that he's only dating her to get information out of her.
* TheLancer: She calls a secret meeting with some of her classmates in order to discuss Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. After his choice to [[spoiler:expel Airi Sakura]] is brought up, she states that she can't let him take charge of their class, as other low-performing students like her and some of her friends would be on the chopping block next. She remains silent after Matsushita asks her to provide a logical reason why he couldn't be TheLeader, though.
* TheMole: She's the one who ends up telling Hashimoto about Suzune Horikita's promise to protect Rokusuke Kouenji from expulsion after he had won first place in Uninhabited Island Exam.
* NoFullNameGiven: Her full name hasn't been revealed as of yet.
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!!Introduced in Year 2
[[folder:Tsubasa Nanase]]
!!Tsubasa Nanase
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A freshman in Class 1-D with a mysterious interest in Kiyotaka.
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!!Maezono
A girl in the former Class D whom Masayoshi Hashimoto dates in order to get information about her class out of her.
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* AdaptedOut: She's among the 15 classmates who weren't adapted in the anime.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: At least when it comes to Kiyotaka Ayanokouji. She's eventually suspicious of him after he correctly answered the five hardest questions on Co-operative Written Test and deduces that he must have been helping the class from the shadows.
* {{Foil}}: To Chiaki Matsushita. Both eventually [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter figure out there's more to Ayanokoji]] after he correctly answers some of the hardest questions on special tests. However, while Chiaki supports him potentially becoming TheLeader of their class, Maezono considers him a threat and prefers that he doesn't lead the class, being worried that he'd target her and other low-performing students like her next, just as he had done to [[spoiler:Airi Sakura]] in the past.
* HistoryRepeats: Hashimoto dating her just to get info out of her marks the second time when a major player from Class A pretends to like someone from the former Class D in order to use them for their benefit, after Arisu Sakayanagi had manipulated Haruki Yamauchi.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: When it comes to Masayoshi Hashimoto. She's unable to tell that he's only dating her to get information out of her.
* TheLancer: She calls a secret meeting with some of her classmates in order to discuss Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. After his choice to [[spoiler:expel Airi Sakura]] is brought up, she states that she can't let him take charge of their class, as other low-performing students like her and some of her friends would be on the chopping block next. She remains silent after Matsushita asks her to provide a logical reason why he couldn't be TheLeader, though.
* TheMole: She's the one who ends up telling Hashimoto about Suzune Horikita's promise to protect Rokusuke Kouenji from expulsion after he had won first place in Uninhabited Island Exam.
* NoFullNameGiven: Her full name hasn't been revealed as of yet.
[[folder:Maezono]]
!!Maezono
A girl in the former Class D whom Masayoshi Hashimoto dates in order to get information about her class out of her.
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* AdaptedOut: She's among the 15 classmates who weren't adapted in the anime.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: At least when it comes to Kiyotaka Ayanokouji. She's eventually suspicious of him after he correctly answered the five hardest questions on Co-operative Written Test and deduces that he must have been helping the class from the shadows.
* {{Foil}}: To Chiaki Matsushita. Both eventually [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter figure out there's more to Ayanokoji]] after he correctly answers some of the hardest questions on special tests. However, while Chiaki supports him potentially becoming TheLeader of their class, Maezono considers him a threat and prefers that he doesn't lead the class, being worried that he'd target her and other low-performing students like her next, just as he had done to [[spoiler:Airi Sakura]] in the past.
* HistoryRepeats: Hashimoto dating her just to get info out of her marks the second time when a major player from Class A pretends to like someone from the former Class D in order to use them for their benefit, after Arisu Sakayanagi had manipulated Haruki Yamauchi.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: When it comes to Masayoshi Hashimoto. She's unable to tell that he's only dating her to get information out of her.
* TheLancer: She calls a secret meeting with some of her classmates in order to discuss Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. After his choice to [[spoiler:expel Airi Sakura]] is brought up, she states that she can't let him take charge of their class, as other low-performing students like her and some of her friends would be on the chopping block next. She remains silent after Matsushita asks her to provide a logical reason why he couldn't be TheLeader, though.
* TheMole: She's the one who ends up telling Hashimoto about Suzune Horikita's promise to protect Rokusuke Kouenji from expulsion after he had won first place in Uninhabited Island Exam.
* NoFullNameGiven: Her full name hasn't been revealed as of yet.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: While in a relationship, she grows jealous of Ayanokoji spending alone time with other girls, such as Tsubasa Nanase, Ichika Amasawa, and especially [[LoveTriangle Honami Ichinose]]. Aside from causing a temporary silent treatment following an argument about this, Kei's jealousy only makes her want to spend more time with her boyfriend.
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!!Hideo
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* TheStrategist: In her class, she's second in this regard only to Ayanokoji, thinking of ways for their class to win every special test and reach Class A.
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* TheStrategist: In her class, she's second in this regard only to Ayanokoji, thinking of ways for their class to win every special test and reach Class A.A as well as thinking of ways to make all classmates contribute to the cause.
* TheSchemer: Although her schemes usually backfire on her, she tends to come up with various strategies to screw over her enemies.
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* {{Foil}}: To Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. Both are more gifted than they let on. However, while Ayanakoji is a prodigy RaisedInALab and capable of outright inhuman feats, Matsushita is skilled on more realistic level, being more on par with the likes of Suzune and Yukimura.
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** To Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. Both are more gifted than they let on. However, while Ayanakoji is a prodigy RaisedInALab and capable of outright inhuman feats, Matsushita is skilled on more realistic level, being more on par with the likes of Suzune andYukimura.Yukimura.
** To Maezono. Both eventually [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter figure out there's more to Ayanokoji]] after he correctly answers some of the hardest questions on special tests. However, while Matsushita supports him potentially becoming TheLeader of their class, Maezono considers him a threat and prefers that he doesn't lead the class, being worried that he'd target her and other low-performing students like her next, just as he had done to [[spoiler:Airi Sakura]] in the past.
** To Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. Both are more gifted than they let on. However, while Ayanakoji is a prodigy RaisedInALab and capable of outright inhuman feats, Matsushita is skilled on more realistic level, being more on par with the likes of Suzune and
** To Maezono. Both eventually [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter figure out there's more to Ayanokoji]] after he correctly answers some of the hardest questions on special tests. However, while Matsushita supports him potentially becoming TheLeader of their class, Maezono considers him a threat and prefers that he doesn't lead the class, being worried that he'd target her and other low-performing students like her next, just as he had done to [[spoiler:Airi Sakura]] in the past.
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* TheMole: She's the one who ends up telling Hashimoto about the Suzune Horikita's promise to protect Rokusuke Kouenji from expulsion after he had won first place in Uninhabited Island Exam.
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* TheMole: She's the one who ends up telling Hashimoto about the Suzune Horikita's promise to protect Rokusuke Kouenji from expulsion after he had won first place in Uninhabited Island Exam.
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* NoodleIncident: He buys food for Mei-Yu Wang when she's absent following [[spoiler:Airi Sakura's expulsion]] in order to repay for the time when she had helped him. However, the audience doesn't get to learn about the incident.
* NoodleIncident: Rokusuke Kouenji buys food for her when she's absent following [[spoiler:Airi Sakura's expulsion]] in order to repay the time when she had helped him. However, the audience doesn't get to learn about the incident, nor does she remember which situation he's referring to.
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!!Introduced in Year 2
[[folder:Tsubasa Nanase]]
!!Tsubasa Nanase
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A freshman in Class 1-D with a mysterious interest in Kiyotaka.
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!!Tsubasa Nanase
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A freshman in Class 1-D with a mysterious interest in Kiyotaka.
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!!Maezono
A girl in
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!!Tsubasa Nanase
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A freshman in
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* AdaptedOut: She's among the 15 classmates who weren't adapted in the anime.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: At least when it comes to Kiyotaka Ayanokouji. She's eventually suspicious of him after he correctly answered the five hardest questions on Co-operative Written Test and deduces that he must have been helping the class from the shadows.
* {{Foil}}: To Chiaki Matsushita. Both eventually [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter figure out there's more to Ayanokoji]] after he correctly answers some of the hardest questions on special tests. However, while Chiaki supports him potentially becoming TheLeader of their class, Maezono considers him a threat and prefers that he doesn't lead the class, being worried that he'd target her and other low-performing students like her next, just as he had done to [[spoiler:Airi Sakura]] in the past.
* HistoryRepeats: Hashimoto dating her just to get info out of her marks the second time when a major player from Class A pretends to like someone from the former Class D in order to use them for their benefit, after Arisu Sakayanagi had manipulated Haruki Yamauchi.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: When it comes to Masayoshi Hashimoto. She's unable to tell that he's only dating her to get information out of her.
* TheLancer: She calls a secret meeting with some of her classmates in order to discuss Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. After his choice to [[spoiler:expel Airi Sakura]] is brought up, she states that she can't let him take charge of their class, as other low-performing students like her and some of her friends would be on the chopping block next. She remains silent after Matsushita asks her to provide a logical reason why he couldn't be TheLeader, though.
* TheMole: She's the one who ends up telling Hashimoto about the Suzune Horikita's promise to protect Rokusuke Kouenji from expulsion after he had won first place in Uninhabited Island Exam.
* NoFullNameGiven: Her full name hasn't been revealed as of yet.
[[/folder]]
!!Introduced in Year 2
[[folder:Tsubasa Nanase]]
!!Tsubasa Nanase
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsubasa_nanase_ln_visual.png]]
A freshman in Class 1-D with a mysterious interest in Kiyotaka.
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* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: At least when it comes to Kiyotaka Ayanokouji. She's eventually suspicious of him after he correctly answered the five hardest questions on Co-operative Written Test and deduces that he must have been helping the class from the shadows.
* {{Foil}}: To Chiaki Matsushita. Both eventually [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter figure out there's more to Ayanokoji]] after he correctly answers some of the hardest questions on special tests. However, while Chiaki supports him potentially becoming TheLeader of their class, Maezono considers him a threat and prefers that he doesn't lead the class, being worried that he'd target her and other low-performing students like her next, just as he had done to [[spoiler:Airi Sakura]] in the past.
* HistoryRepeats: Hashimoto dating her just to get info out of her marks the second time when a major player from Class A pretends to like someone from the former Class D in order to use them for their benefit, after Arisu Sakayanagi had manipulated Haruki Yamauchi.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: When it comes to Masayoshi Hashimoto. She's unable to tell that he's only dating her to get information out of her.
* TheLancer: She calls a secret meeting with some of her classmates in order to discuss Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. After his choice to [[spoiler:expel Airi Sakura]] is brought up, she states that she can't let him take charge of their class, as other low-performing students like her and some of her friends would be on the chopping block next. She remains silent after Matsushita asks her to provide a logical reason why he couldn't be TheLeader, though.
* TheMole: She's the one who ends up telling Hashimoto about the Suzune Horikita's promise to protect Rokusuke Kouenji from expulsion after he had won first place in Uninhabited Island Exam.
* NoFullNameGiven: Her full name hasn't been revealed as of yet.
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!!Introduced in Year 2
[[folder:Tsubasa Nanase]]
!!Tsubasa Nanase
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsubasa_nanase_ln_visual.png]]
A freshman in Class 1-D with a mysterious interest in Kiyotaka.
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* MistakenForCheating: Since he often spends time with girls from various classes, there are several instances when his girlfriend, Karuizawa, is understandably worried or annoyed and demands an explanation. A notable example is when he turns down her offer to hang out because he already had plans with Ichinose and refused to explain why he's helping her class, which causes her first major argument with him.
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* HopelessSuitor: He has a massive crush on Honami Ichinose, who's in love with Kiyotaka Ayanokoji.
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* DoWellButNotPerfect: The modus operandi of his DeliberateUnderPerformance described above. His strategy is to not stand out and paint himself as a RidiculouslyAverageGuy without coming off as TheLoad either, thus usually aiming for scores somewhere in the middle.
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* TheStrategist: Being the prime [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] of the cast, Ayanokoji comes up with strategies for all kinds of situations, be it special exams, making deals with other students or helping them grow as a person.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: During Deserted Island Special Test, Horikita tells Ibuki that she's weak because of her refusal to cooperate with others.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: During Deserted Uninhabited Island Special Test, Exam, Horikita tells Ibuki that she's weak because of her refusal to cooperate with others.
* TheStrategist: In her class, she's second in this regard only to Ayanokoji, thinking of ways for their class to win every special test and reach Class A.
* TheStrategist: Although her schemes usually backfire on her, she tends to come up with various strategies to screw over her enemies.
* TheStrategist: Although not to the likes of Kiyotaka and Suzune, he's usually involved in strategic planning for special exams, being one of class representatives and a sort of DecoyLeader of their class.
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* TheBet: He proposes a bet to Suzune so that he can be left alone and not be forced to cooperate in future special exams if he were to place well in Deserted Island Special Test. Horikita rises the stakes by agreeing to grant him freedom only if he scored the first place, [[spoiler:which he manages to do.]]
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* TheBet: He proposes a bet to Suzune so that he can be left alone and not be forced to cooperate in future special exams if he were to place well in Deserted Uninhabited Island Special Test.Exam. Horikita rises the stakes by agreeing to grant him freedom only if he scored the first place, [[spoiler:which he manages to do.]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He usually ditches special tests to enjoy his free time instead. Examples include leaving the Uninhabited Island Special Test under the excuse of feeling sick or correctly outing the VIP of his group early on during Cruise Ship Special Test in order to not attend any more meetings.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He usually ditches special tests to enjoy his free time instead. Examples include leaving the Uninhabited Deserted Island Special Test under the excuse of feeling sick or correctly outing the VIP of his group early on during Cruise Ship Special Test in order to not attend any more meetings.
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* CharacterDevelopment: He acts as an InsufferableImbecile at first, alongside the rest of "3 idiots of Class D". However, he ends up acting mature when neeeded, such as when he apologized to the girls for not considering their feelings during Uninhabited Island Exam, standing up for Shinohara when Yamauichi taunts her for the rumor of her being a prostitute in middle school, and helping her in Deserted Island Special Test. He also ends up displaying his wilderness knowledge and eventually puts more effort in his performance at school.
* DeclarationOfProtection: He declares that he'll protect Shinohara when she's the [[SoleSurvivor only member of her group left]] during Deserted Island Special Test.
* DeclarationOfProtection: He declares that he'll protect Shinohara when she's the [[SoleSurvivor only member of her group left]] during Deserted Island Special Test.
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* CharacterDevelopment: He acts as an InsufferableImbecile at first, alongside the rest of "3 idiots of Class D". However, he ends up acting mature when neeeded, such as when he apologized to the girls for not considering their feelings during Uninhabited Deserted Island Exam, Special Test, standing up for Shinohara when Yamauichi taunts her for the rumor of her being a prostitute in middle school, and helping her in Deserted Uninhabited Island Special Test.Exam. He also ends up displaying his wilderness knowledge and eventually puts more effort in his performance at school.
* DeclarationOfProtection: He declares that he'll protect Shinohara when she's the [[SoleSurvivor only member of her group left]] duringDeserted Uninhabited Island Special Test.Exam.
* DeclarationOfProtection: He declares that he'll protect Shinohara when she's the [[SoleSurvivor only member of her group left]] during
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* HeroicBSOD: He's left depressed when his SecondLove, Satsuki Shinohara, chooses to be in the same group for the Deserted Island Special Test as Kyougo Komiya, who also has a crush on her. Tsubasa Nanase eventually talks him out of this, motivating him to confess his feelings and focus on the exam first, as his potential expulsion would mean he'd likely never see her again.
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* HeroicBSOD: He's left depressed when his SecondLove, Satsuki Shinohara, chooses to be in the same group for the Deserted Uninhabited Island Special Test Exam as Kyougo Komiya, who also has a crush on her. Tsubasa Nanase eventually talks him out of this, motivating him to confess his feelings and focus on the exam first, as his potential expulsion would mean he'd likely never see her again.
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* NatureLover: Proves to be one of the best people during the deserted island excursion. His previous camping skills come in very handy as he's able to identify a river, manages to start a campfire, and easily identifies various fruits some of the girls bring back. He also catches fish for his group in Deserted Island Special Test of the second year.
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* NatureLover: Proves to be one of the best people during the deserted island excursion. His previous camping skills come in very handy as he's able to identify a river, manages to start a campfire, and easily identifies various fruits some of the girls bring back. He also catches fish for his group in Deserted Uninhabited Island Special Test Exam of the second year.
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* CryIntoChest: She cries into Ike's chest after coming out of her hiding spot during Deserted Island Special Test, afraid after her group had been attacked.
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* SoleSurvivor: A non-lethal example. She's the last remaining member of her group in Deserted Island Special Test after Komiya and Kinoshida had to be medically evacuated following being pushed over the edge.
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* SoleSurvivor: A non-lethal example. She's the last remaining member of her group in Deserted Uninhabited Island Special Test Exam after Komiya and Kinoshida had to be medically evacuated following being pushed over the edge.
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* AcademicAthlete: In spite of being placed in Class D, she's actually quite skilled both academically and athletically. She's able to place well in competitions during Uninhabited Island Exam, such as by ranking third against third-year students in swimming contest. Kiyotaka also mentions her good grades as a reason why she deserves a spot in the student council.
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* SmarterThanTheyLook: Much like Kakeru Ryuuen, he seems like a stereotypical TheBully. While he's not among the brightest characters of the series, he's able to come up with his own cunning plans, such as trying to expel Kiyotaka by [[FrameUp framing him]] for stabbing him in an attempt at impaling his own hand with Ayanokoji's knife.
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* ChickMagnet: He has plenty of girls attracted to him, both inside and outside of his class. He receives the most chocolates on Valentine's Day out of all the boys in the former Class D.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She storms off after Kiyotaka rejects her offer to hang out because he has plans with Honami Ichinose and refuses to explain why he's helping her class.
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* {{Revenge}}: During the cultural festival of her second year, he's convinced by Hasebe to drop out of the school to cost their class 600 class points as a way to get back at their classmates for [[spoiler:expelling Sakura]], before Ayanokoji and Kushida talk them out of this.
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* {{Revenge}}: During the cultural festival of her his second year, he's convinced by Hasebe to drop out of the school to cost their class 600 class points as a way to get back at their classmates for [[spoiler:expelling Sakura]], before Ayanokoji and Kushida talk them out of this.
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* TheBet: He accepts a bet from Karuizawa: if Horikita rejects Sudou's confession, Kiyotaka will have to buy her an expensive gift. If Suzune actually reciprocates his feelings, Kei will do anything her boyfriend asks of her.
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* TheBet: She makes a bet with Ayanokouji: if Horikita rejects Sudou's confession, Kiyotaka will have to buy her an expensive gift. If Suzune actually reciprocates his feelings, Kei will do anything her boyfriend asks of her.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Although he makes amends with Akito and Haruka by talking them out of dropping out to spite their class for [[spoiler:expelling Airi, he still parts ways with Ayanokouji's Group at the end of the cultural festival, claiming in his mind that they no longer need him.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Although Keisei forgives Akito and Haruka for their absence and consideration of dropping out while they in turn forgive him for [[spoiler:voting to expel Airi]] and he was only briefly mad at Kiyotaka when he found out how good at math he was, [[spoiler:Ayanokouji parts ways with his former study group at the end of the cultural festival, stating in his inner monologue that they no longer need him.]]
* {{Revenge}}: During the cultural festival of her second year, she intends to drop out of the school alongside Miyake to cost their class 600 class points as a way to get back at their classmates for [[spoiler:expelling Sakura]], before Ayanokoji and Kushida talk them out of this.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Haruka is one of the forming members of Ayanokouji's Group, being one of his main study buddies. However, [[spoiler:she ends up on bad terms with him for a while after he suggests Airi for expulsion, succeeding in doing so. This ends up eventually subverted after they make amends.]]
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Haruka is one of the forming members of Ayanokouji's Group, being one of his main study buddies. However, [[spoiler:she ends up on bad terms with him for a while after he suggests Airi for expulsion, succeeding in doing so. This ends up eventually subverted after they make amends.amends, but also double subverted after he parts ways with the former study group after the end of the cultural festival, stating in his inner monologue that his presence is no longer necessary for them.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: He admits to Ayanokoji in Volume 4.5 of Year 2 that he fell for one of the girls of the Ayanokouji Group. However, Kiyotaka isn't certain which one of the two it could be. The fact that the two have been talking about Airi beforehand suggests her, yet his general closer bond with Haruka implies it could have been her instead.
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* {{Revenge}}: During the cultural festival of her second year, he's convinced by Hasebe to drop out of the school to cost their class 600 class points as a way to get back at their classmates for [[spoiler:expelling Sakura]], before Ayanokoji and Kushida talk them out of this.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Although they make up once Kiyotaka and Kikyo talk him and Haruka out of dropping out with a message from Airi, [[spoiler:Ayanokouji parts ways with his former study group at the end of the cultural festival, claiming in his inner monologue that they no longer need him.]]
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* {{Meido}}: She's one of the maids of Class D's cosplay MaidCafe during culture festival in their second year, although she works more in the backstage due to her serious personality.
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* MsFanservice: She has a few {{Shower Scene}}s, including one where she wears underwear on an island, and was shown in a bikini in a PoolEpisode. She's also shown naked, barely covered with steam, on the [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tape_J_080.jpg illustration for the "In the Changing Room" short story]] for Volume 8 of Year 2.
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* MsFanservice: She has a few {{Shower Scene}}s, including one where she wears underwear on an island, and was shown in a bikini in a PoolEpisode. In said episode, she was seen changing along with the other girls. She's also shown naked, barely covered with steam, on the [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tape_J_080.jpg illustration for the "In the Changing Room" short story]] for Volume 8 of Year 2.
* {{Meido}}: She's one of the maids of Class D's cosplay MaidCafe during culture festival in their second year. Her doing a successful job at attracting customers is what convinces Suzune that saving her from expulsion was a good call.
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* MsFanservice: She has several scenes in a bikini, a school swimsuit, and a ModestyTowel, usually paired with jiggle physics. She's also barely covered with a towel on the [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tape_J_080.jpg illustration for the "In the Changing Room" short story]] for Volume 8 of Year 2.
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* MsFanservice: She has several scenes in a bikini, a school swimsuit, underwear, and a ModestyTowel, usually paired with jiggle physics. She's also barely covered with a towel on the [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tape_J_080.jpg illustration for the "In the Changing Room" short story]] for Volume 8 of Year 2.
* {{Meido}}: After making amends with Ayanokoji, she agrees to be one of the maids of Class D's cosplay MaidCafe during culture festival in their second year.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Following [[spoiler:Sakura's expulsion]], she briefly considered dropping out of the school with Miyake to spite their class before being talked out of this by Ayanokouji and Kushida with a message and a maid outfit delivered from Airi.
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** Following [[spoiler:Sakura's expulsion]], he briefly considered dropping out of the school with Hasebe to spite their class before being talked out of this by Ayanokouji with a message and a maid outfit delivered from Airi.
** He gets too flustered upon seeing Airi and Haruka in daring bikinis at a private pool and immediately goes
** Following [[spoiler:Sakura's expulsion]], he briefly considered dropping out of the school with Hasebe to spite their class before being talked out of this by Ayanokouji with a message and a maid outfit delivered from Airi.
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* {{Meido}}: She's one of the maids of Class D's cosplay MaidCafe during culture festival in their second year.
* {{Meido}}: Per Kanji's suggestion, she gets one of the last two maid outfits to act as one of the maids of Class D's cosplay MaidCafe during culture festival in their second year, even though she's not considered to have a cutesy personality to fit for the role.
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!!Ryōtarō Hondō
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kouseki Kogure (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Wallace Soares (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
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A student in Class D who likes fat girls.
!!Ryōtarō Hondō
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* FetishesAreWeird: When rumors are spread about some of the students of his class, his rumor is that he's only into fat girls.
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: While he's not officially considered a part of the "3 idiots of Class D", he usually hangs out with them.
* LivingProp: He's been given very little characterization and importance, mostly being used to just fill in the scenes of his class. Episode 4 of Season 3 of the anime gives him the most focus thus far and even that's still a minor role.
* MoneyDumb: He's among the students who have spent all of their points in the first month, forcing him to live on free stuff for his second month.
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!!Kayano Onodera
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakotoKoichi (Japanese), Kelsey Maher (English)
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An athletic girl in Class D who has a crush on Ken Sudo.
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* LivingProp: He's been given very little characterization and importance, mostly being used to just fill in the scenes of his class. Episode 4 of Season 3 of the anime gives him the most focus thus far and even that's still a minor role.
* MoneyDumb: He's among the students who have spent all of their points in the first month, forcing him to live on free stuff for his second month.
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!!Kayano Onodera
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakotoKoichi (Japanese), Kelsey Maher (English)
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!!Kokoro Inogashira
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinoShimoji (Japanese), Creator/AmandaGish (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]] Elizabeth Infante (Latin American Spanish), Clotilde Verry (French), Clara Campos (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
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A timid girl in Class D.
!!Kokoro Inogashira
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* LivingProp: She's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
* ShrinkingViolet: In the light novel, she introduces herself to the class after Yosuke Hirata. Courtesy of her shy personality, she ends up stuttering and rushing her introduction, feeling embarrassed as a result. Kikyo Kushida cheers her up, saying that she's going to be fine as long as she takes time in building up her words.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: She's a girly and demure girl whose hobby is sewing.
* ShrinkingViolet: In the light novel, she introduces herself to the class after Yosuke Hirata. Courtesy of her shy personality, she ends up stuttering and rushing her introduction, feeling embarrassed as a result. Kikyo Kushida cheers her up, saying that she's going to be fine as long as she takes time in building up her words.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: She's a girly and demure girl whose hobby is sewing.
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* FetishesAreWeird: When rumors are spread about some of the students of his class, his rumor is that he's only into fat girls.
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: While he's not officially considered a part of the "3 idiots of Class D", he usually hangs out with them.
* LivingProp:She's only ever He's been given very little characterization and importance, mostly being used to just fill in the scenes of Class D.
* ShrinkingViolet: Inhis class. Episode 4 of Season 3 of the light novel, she introduces herself to anime gives him the class after Yosuke Hirata. Courtesy of her shy personality, she ends up stuttering most focus thus far and rushing her introduction, feeling embarrassed as even that's still a result. Kikyo Kushida cheers her up, saying that she's going minor role.
* MoneyDumb: He's among the students who have spent all of their points in the first month, forcing him tobe fine as long as she takes time in building up her words.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: She's a girly and demure girl whose hobby is sewing.live on free stuff for his second month.
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: While he's not officially considered a part of the "3 idiots of Class D", he usually hangs out with them.
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A boy in Class D with bad grades.
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* BookDumb: Even in Class D, he has particularly bad grades.
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* SpearCounterpart: Appearance-wise, he looks like a male version of Kayano Onodera.
* LivingProp: He's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
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A boy in Class D with bad grades.
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* BookDumb: Even in Class D, he has particularly bad grades.
* LivingProp: He's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
* SpearCounterpart: Appearance-wise, he looks like a male version of Kayano Onodera.
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A boy in Class D with bad grades.
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* BookDumb: Even in Class D, he has particularly bad grades.
* LivingProp: He's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
* SpearCounterpart: Appearance-wise, he looks like a male version of Kayano Onodera.
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** She also accepts a bet from Koenji to let him have his freedom if he places well in Deserted Island Special Test, rising the stakes to him specifically placing first in order to be granted this.
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** She also accepts a bet from Koenji to let him have his freedom if he places well in Deserted Island Special Test, rising the stakes to him specifically placing first in order to be granted this.this.
** After some reconsideration and lowering the stakes to one million private points, she also accepts a bet from Ryuuen about which of their classes will have a more profitable maid cafe during the cultural festival.
** After some reconsideration and lowering the stakes to one million private points, she also accepts a bet from Ryuuen about which of their classes will have a more profitable maid cafe during the cultural festival.
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* ObliviousToLove: He's unaware of Onodera's feelings for him until Kiyotaka points it out to him.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She flees in embarrassement after Sudou gives a closer look at her legs following her claim that her legs were too well-built for her to act as a maid for their class's maid cafe.
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Well, that difference is quite pronounced during Deserted Island Special Exam, so he's more of a Foil than Mirror Character.
* {{Foil}}: Everything from the way he wears his school uniform to his violent tendencies may easily remind one of Ryuen. However, unlike Kakeru, Kazuomi prefers to [[IWorkAlone work alone]], whereas Ryuuen relies on working with his subordinates, especially against tougher opponents. Both mock each other for this difference between them.
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* MirrorCharacter: Everything from the way he wears his school uniform to his violent tendencies may easily remind one of Ryuen.
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* EnemyMine: In spite of their rivalry, she sometimes works together with Ibuki against their common enemy, usually Ichika Amasawa or Kikyo Kushida.
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* TakeMeInstead: When Airi is suggested for expulsion during Unanimous Vote Special Exam, Hasebe volunteers as a tribute in her place. She ends up saved by the three votes opposing her expulsion by Ayanokouji, Sakura, and Miyake.
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I can't believe we haven't added this trope to Koenji yet.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He usually ditches special tests to enjoy his free time instead. Examples include leaving the Uninhabited Island Special Test under the excuse of feeling sick or correctly outing the VIP of his group early on during Cruise Ship Special Test in order to not attend any more meetings.
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* {{Foil}}: To Haruki Yamauchi, his [[ThoseTwoGuys best friend]] among the "3 idiots of Class D". Unlike him, Kanji eventually puts more effort in his performance and is shown displaying mature behavior at times. He also actually [[spoiler:RelationshipUpgrade gets the girl after his SecondLove returns his affection.]]
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* {{Foil}}: To Haruki Yamauchi, his [[ThoseTwoGuys best friend]] among the "3 idiots of Class D". Unlike him, Kanji eventually puts more effort in his performance and is shown displaying mature behavior at times. He also actually [[spoiler:RelationshipUpgrade [[spoiler:[[RelationshipUpgrade gets the girl girl]] after his SecondLove returns his affection.]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Much like Akita Miyake, he quickly goes swimming after being too flustered upon seeing Haruka Hasebe in a daring bikini.
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* LasciviousBeautyMark: She spots a beauty mark on her left cheek, which is only meant to add to her appeal as a ReluctantFanserviceGirl who had developed a DCupDistress over being stared at.
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* DemotedToExtra: After the first season, the anime adaptation cut many of her already rare moments, effectively turning her into more of a background character.
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* {{Foil}}: To her best female friend, Haruka Hasebe. While Haruka is more of TheTease and is generally easy-going, Airi is mostly a ShrinkingViolet, only able to upload her revealing pictures under her secret gravure idol persona. Hasebe is the one who insists their friend group refers to each other by their given names, Sakura struggles to be on FirstNameBasis with Ayanokouji. Finally, while Haruka is [[spoiler:temporarily be on bad terms with Kiyotaka after he causes Airi's expulsion]], Sakura herself has UndyingLoyalty to him and doesn't harbor hard feelings for that outcome.
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* {{Foil}}: To her best female friend, Haruka Hasebe. While Haruka is more of TheTease a CoolBigSister to her and is generally easy-going, Airi is mostly a ShrinkingViolet, only able to upload her revealing pictures under her secret gravure idol persona. Hasebe is the one who insists their friend group refers to each other by their given names, Sakura struggles to be on FirstNameBasis with Ayanokouji. Finally, while Haruka is [[spoiler:temporarily be on bad terms with Kiyotaka after he causes Airi's expulsion]], Sakura herself has UndyingLoyalty to him and doesn't harbor hard feelings for that outcome.
* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Not so reluctant when she posts her pictures as a gravure idol. However, she's much more conscious about been seen in daring clothes in person. In order to change herself and grow as a person, she purposefully chooses bold bikinis for Haruka and herself for Ayanokoji Group's meeting at a private pool, even though she's still too flustered by it.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Much like Miyake and Yukimura, she quickly goes swimming after getting too flustered upon being seen in a daring bikini by her male friends.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Much like Akita Miyake, he quickly goes swimming after being too flustered upon seeing Haruka Hasebe in a daring bikini.
* BigSisterInstinct: She's fully aware that Airi is helpless. Thus, Haruka feels like she can't leave her alone and needs to protect her as a best friend and a sort of big sister figure. This can be seen when she motivates Sakura to come out of her shell, even wearing a daring bikini along with her despite her own DCupDistress.
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* {{Foil}}: To her best female friend, Airi Sakura. While Airi is mostly a ShrinkingViolet, only able to upload her revealing pictures under her secret gravure idol persona, Haruka is more of TheTease and is generally easy-going. Sakura struggles to be on FirstNameBasis with Ayanokouji whereas Hasebe is the one who insists their friend group refers to each other by their given names. Finally, Airi has UndyingLoyalty to Kiyotaka even after [[spoiler:being expelled]], whereas her [[spoiler:expulsion]] causes Haruka to [[spoiler:temporarily be on bad terms with him.]]
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* {{Foil}}: To her best female friend, Airi Sakura. While Airi is mostly a ShrinkingViolet, only able to upload her revealing pictures under her secret gravure idol persona, Haruka is more of TheTease CoolBigSister to her and is generally easy-going. Sakura struggles to be on FirstNameBasis with Ayanokouji whereas Hasebe is the one who insists their friend group refers to each other by their given names. Finally, Airi has UndyingLoyalty to Kiyotaka even after [[spoiler:being expelled]], whereas her [[spoiler:expulsion]] causes Haruka to [[spoiler:temporarily be on bad terms with him.]]
* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: She agreed to wear a bold type of bikini in spite of her DCupDistress to help Airi have more courage.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: During Deserted Island Special Test, Horikita tells Ibuki that she's weak because of her refusal to cooperate with others.
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* MrFanservice: He's shown wearing just a speedo as his swimsuit, showing off his well-built body.
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* IWorkAlone: He's known for preferring to work alone, usually through a one-on-one combat with his opponent. While he's not above reluctantly teaming up with someone to achieve his goal, he usually demands a high amount of private points for his cooperation and his involvement still includes a 1v1 fight with an enemy. He gets [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech called out]] for being stupid to fight others all by himself by Ryuuen.
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!D-Class Students
!!Introduced in Year 1
[[folder:Kiyotaka Ayanokōji]]
!!Kiyotaka Ayanokōji
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShoyaChiba (Japanese), Creator/JustinBriner (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/ArturoCastaneda (Latin American Spanish), Yoann Sover (French), Bastian Sierich (German), Lucas Almeida (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
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An inconspicuous student who is very poor at communicating with other people even if he wants to, thus he tends to isolate himself. His emotions are hard to read. He received "perfectly intermediate" scores on his entrance examination, since academic and athletic-wise, he is average.
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* AdaptationalBadass: The end result of his CurbStompBattle against Ryuen's gang is the same in both light novel and anime but in the light novels, he admits through the narrative that he felt some pain from Albert and Ryuen's blows. Most of this is omitted in the anime where Ayanokouji's expression remains the same throughout the entire fight and shows little to no indication that any of their hits even remotely stagger him. The only piece of light novel dialogue that makes it to his thoughts in the anime is that he acknowledges Ryuen is largely self-taught with his own fighting style.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: In the manga adaptation, where his inner thoughts and emotions are more transparent, Kiyotaka shows plenty of external and colorful facial expressions in his interactions. This portrayal not only makes him "normal", but it also gives him a more whimsical feel.
* AdaptationalSeriousness: In the anime, Kiyotaka's stoic tendencies are exaggerated to the point where he's practically robotic, outwardly and inward. Since he rarely changes his FrozenFace, along with some of his inner thoughts being obscured, Kiyotaka lacks any of the comedic moments he had from the light novels and manga, and at the same time, makes the events where he does things in anger, such as his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Ryuen, more chilling.
* AffectionateNickname: He's called Kiyopon and Ayanon by Haruka.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: He undoubtedly does morally ambiguous deeds most of his friends wouldn't do, but people can, and do, benefit from his actions. Sure, his only goal is personal gain and maintaining his sense of freedom, but he still subconsciously helps other people more often than not. Many of his inner monologues highlight this contradictory nature.
* BerserkButton: Quite subtle considering his stoic nature, but he does not like it when people probe into his DarkAndTroubledPast, such as with Suzune, when she asks who he really is, as he tells her he will help her get to Class A but never ask him about his past with a darkened shadow over his eyes.
* BreakThemByTalking: He breaks Hirata by making him feel responsible for failing to come up with and carry out a plan to prevent the first expulsion in their class, unlike Class B. All so that he would start taking responsibility for his failures and grow out of his HeroicBSOD.
* BrilliantButLazy: Despite his insistence that he's just an average guy, he seems to be quite skilled and competent not just in academics, but also in martial arts and ''especially'' exploiting people. The lazy part gradually falls apart as circumstances slowly force him to be more proactive in class events.
* BrokenAce: Later parts of the light novels suggest he is more of this trope than legitimately suffering from mental disorders. The light novels make it clear he's not so much emotionless as much as he is naive and awkward when it comes to what 'normal' social interactions are all about. Couple this with his upbringing in the White Room and his utter lack of any real affection growing up, and you'd be hard-pressed to ''not'' act like a blank slate.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: He's the Brooding Boy to Kei's Gentle Girl.
* CallingParentsByTheirName: He never refers to Atsuomi Ayanokouji as his father, instead only referring to him as "that man".
* CelibateHero: He can notice when other girls are interested in him, but he doesn't return their feelings because they don't have any idea about [[ManipulativeBastard what]] [[NominalHero kind]] [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork of]] [[BrokenAce person]] he actually is. Later on, he personally turns down Maya's confession because [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove he genuinely doesn't understand romantic love at the time]]. It's finally {{subverted|trope}} when he confesses to Kei Karuizawa just before their 2nd year unrolls.
* CharacterExaggeration: In the light novels, he is socially awkward and can actually become emotional at times (though he himself does not think so) while mostly keeping a stoic-looking face. The later adaptations characterize him in two extremes, one where he acts exactly what he thinks he's capable of and the other of how everyone else sees him as.
** In the manga, Kiyotaka's more colorful personality is transparent, making him openly emotional in his interactions with others.
** In the anime, Kiyotaka's stoic behavior is exaggerated to the point where he's near-emotionless, both inside and out.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the first three volumes, Kiyotaka's personality is notably colorful and it makes the reader think he's making the appropriate expressions to correspond, but later volumes make him more melancholic.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Of the BadassNormal variant. It's clear from his encounter with Manabu early on that Kiyotaka is a ''lot'' more physically adept than he lets on. His upbringing under the White Room includes intensive physical training as much as education, which gives him the peak-human level of fitness.
** Just before the sports festival in volume 5 (season 2 episode 4), Kiyotaka asks Sudo what the average grip strength is for boys in their class, unaware the physically adept Sudo has no idea what the average number is. Kiyotaka casually adjusts his strength to around what Sudo told him, and he ends up being second highest just below Sudo himself. Then near the end of the sports festival, Kiyotaka challenges Manabu, who is a great example of this trope himself, into a one-on-one running competition. He nearly outruns him and only loses due to a student from an adjacent line falling down and getting in Kiyotaka's way.
** Volume 7 perhaps establishes just how adept Kiyotaka really is in terms of physique. Kiyotaka handily beats down Albert (who has a bigger build than him), Ibuki, Ishizaki, and Ryuen one after another without suffering any visible injuries, despite taking a few hits ''on purpose''.
** In volume 9, the new acting director Tsukishiro, who is actually one of his father's subordinates, implies Kiyotaka's physical abilities are comparable to trained adults.
* ChickMagnet: DoubleSubverted. Kiyotaka is considered a reasonably good-looking boy, but he is so passive and unassuming to the point most tend to overlook him. Early on, the only girl who wants his affection is [[ShrinkingViolet Sakura]] [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe Airi]]. But as more of his capabilities are gradually revealed, such as almost outrunning the student council president Manabu during the school festival in Volume 5, many girls in the class begin to harbor crushes on him, including Maya Satou and Haruka Hasebe. On a more personal level, Kei Karuizawa gradually develops feelings for him as their relationship goes on, and much later, Honami Ichinose also begins to crush on him after he personally goes out of his way to help her.
* ClarkKentOutfit: His school uniform hides the fact that he has a noticeably muscular body, especially in comparison to his male classmates.
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Due to his upbringing in the White Room, nothing fazes him, barely reacting to things that would normally horrify and traumatize regular people. He doesn't even bat an eye when hearing about the suicides of his butler Matsuo as well as Matsuo's only son.
* ConvenientlySeated: He is seated in the back row right next to the window and also sits next to Suzune.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When Kiyotaka stops Manabu from hitting Suzune, the president attempts to attack him instead. He manages to skillfully evade his attacks in a way that only someone who's spent time learning martial arts could have done. When he's asked if he took martial arts lessons, he simply claims that his only extracurriculars were piano lessons and calligraphy.
* CurbStompBattle: Dishes this once against Ryuen, Albert, Ibuki and Ishizaki at the end of volume 7. Then again toward Ibuki alone in volume 7.5.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Gives a rather epic one to Kei Karuizawa after saving her from Ryuen and company in LN volume 7:
--> "I'm the one who hurt you. I won't ask you to forgive me. But please just remember this one thing. If something like what happened today happens to you again, I will definitely save you."
* DefrostingIceKing: Despite his insistence otherwise, a lot of Kiyotaka's arc revolves around him legitimately starting to view his classmates as friends.
** Hints of this show up as early as the first volume of the light novels. For example, his inner monologue over why he wanted to help Suzune after the encounter with her brother.
--> "I was starting to sound worked up, or perhaps I was actually feeling worked up. Maybe because I'd started to, rather selfishly, consider her a friend. I didn't want Horikita to come to regret her decision."
** That having been said, his need to secure his freedom from potential threats such as his teacher Chabashira who tries to blackmail him to work toward Class A, his father's underlings in the school who work to get him expelled, all contribute to stunting his defrosting, to the point he basically ''refrosts'' at times. Time will tell whether this trope will ultimately be played straight or subverted.
* DeliberateUnderPerformance: He comes off as a very average person, but is hiding multiple talents on top of having rigged his scores in his entrance exams. The light novels go into more detail: Chabashira revealed that he not only solved a difficult problem - only solved by 3% of all students this year - he also included a complex formula and used it flawlessly while getting the wrong score on a question with a correct answer rate of 76%. This is notably the reason why Chabashira and Manabu notice him in the first place.
* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: He's frequently drawn with half-lidded eyes, showing how detached he is from other people.
* EngineeredHeroics: When Ryuen subjects Kei to ColdBloodedTorture, Kiyotaka waits for her to be tortured for ''nearly an hour'' and then appears as though he arrived just in the nick of them to save her in order to keep her dependent on him.
* FallGuy: Kazuomi Housen tried to expel Kiyotaka by stabbing himself with a knife and framing him for the assault.
* GagPenis: In volume 8, it's revealed that he has a huge asset during a boy's bath when they compare to each other.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Subverted or averted depending on how one would look at it. By Kiyotaka's own admission, he has no distinctive characteristics, hobbies, or interests and makes no effort to stand out. While the 'not wanting to stand out' bit is true, the rest are lies given his immense physical, combative, intellectual, and mental prowess throughout the story. However, these "gifts" are said to have been earned during his DarkAndTroubledPast in the White Room. While one could say that Kiyotaka has the "talent" to be able to rise above and beyond the hellish curriculum, the narrative implies that what he's capable of isn't something unique to him and that anyone could be an "artificial genuis" with the correct guidance of the White Room.
* TheHeart: Oddly enough, he becomes this for his own group of friends, the Ayanokouji Group, formed after his big show in the sports festival in volume 6 (season 2 episode 6).
* HiddenDepths: Chabashira warns Suzune that of all the "oddball" students in class D, Kiyotaka is the strangest one of them all, and suggests she learn more about him before she can transfer to Class A. It takes talent to intentionally rig his grades to exactly 50% across the board.
* ItAmusedMe: Not exactly his main motivation, but this is Kiyotaka's reason for challenging Manabu into a one-on-one running competition near the end of sports festival in volume 5. He even notes to himself it's very different and much more entertaining compared to his experience running indifferently in White Room's facilities.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Subverted. He briefly cuts contact with Kei under the pretense of protecting her from being targeted by Class C. Actually, he knew Ryuen would kidnap her anyway and deliberately waited until Kei was on verge of breaking from Ryuen's torture to rescue her at the last minute, all to make sure she would become completely dependent on him emotionally.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: PlayedWith. At first, he's essentially a selfish person who plays with others' feelings through manipulative acts of kindness. However, it gradually becomes clear that while Ayanokouji uses people for his own benefit, he also subconsciously helps them simply because he wants to.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Just like his father, he treats people like tools to get to their own goals. And their hair is a bit spiky too.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: {{Invoked|Trope}}. After making Kei into his pawn, Kiyotaka deliberately exploits her traumatic past with bullying and desire to be protected from harm to make her attach herself to him and completely depend on him to feel safe. After he pretends to cut ties with her and intentionally lets her be tortured by Ryuen, he comes to her rescue to convince her he'll always save her when she's in trouble.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Kiyotaka's modus operandi. He prefers to influence and lead his classmates from the sidelines rather than [[MagneticHero draws attention to himself]]. Due to this, he often has a habit of passing off his schemes as plans others thought of.
* ManipulativeBastard: He masterfully manipulates people around him to make them do his bidding and advance his own plans. For example, he manipulates Manabe and her friends in order to subject Kei to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in order to break her spirit and make her dependent on him.
* MistakenForRomance: Many of his classmates mistakenly think that he's Suzune's boyfriend, because he is the only guy and the person in general with whom she communicates. He does, in his own broken and awkward way, actually consider her a friend of sorts.
* TheMole: PlayedForLaughs in the PoolEpisode. He snitches Ike, Yamauchi, Yukimura, and Sudo's plan of planting a camera in the girls' locker room to Suzune, ensuring that she deletes the footage without their knowledge.
* MrFanservice: He gets to show off his well-built physique in the PoolEpisode as well as in the sauna scene of Mixed Training Camp.
* NiceGuy: Played with. Kiyotaka is tolerant, and willing to help friends; on the other hand, his life philosophy differs from most forms of AllLovingHero in the direction of moderate cynicism with heavy notes of SocialDarwinist.
* NominalHero: He's actually anything but heroic and cares only for his own personal freedom, helping others in a calculated move to earn their trust and then using them for his own ends. This changes as the series goes on as he makes more meaningful personal relationships, but very, very slowly, not helped by the fact that circumstances such as the new acting director of the school conspiring to expel him unfairly with a number of invisible enforcers, which then force him to act more proactively and extremely to maintain his goal.
* NoSocialSkills: This goes [[DownplayedTrope back and forth]] as he is fairly good at reading the mood of others, but it absolutely terrible at [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry expressing his own emotions]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: His attempts to pass himself off as a RidiculouslyAverageGuy don't always work. In fact, it's implied he actually purposefully left holes in his facade for truly perceptive people to find.
* OddFriendship: With the student council president Manabu, Suzune's older brother. Despite their first encounter involving violence, Manabu is intrigued by Kiyotaka's hidden talents and treats him with considerably more respect than anyone else, especially compared to [[AloofBigBrother his treatment of Suzune]]. Notably, Manabu offers Kiyotaka a position in the student council, an offer which he rarely ever extends even to 2nd and 3rd-year students. On Kiyotaka's part, he respects Manabu as a legitimate senior and later on, expresses willingness to form a give-and-take relationship with him after he steps down from the student council. When Manabu graduates in volume 11.5, Kiyotaka goes out of his way to speak with him one last time to share thoughts and experiences in a true Senpai-Kohai fashion, noting to himself he will remember his advice for all his life in this school.
* OnlyFriend:
** Kiyotaka is the one person with whom Suzune communicates, although she still won't call him a friend. It's {{invoked|trope}}, as Suzune deliberately isolates herself from other people.
** Later on, he hangs out with Hiyori Shiina at the library since she doesn't have anyone else to discuss the books she likes with.
* PerpetualFrowner: In the anime, he's always wearing a constant frown with DrearyHalfLiddedEyes (compared to the light novels and manga, where he does occasionally have emotional outbursts), making it practically impossible for the other characters to guess what he's thinking.
* PhotographicMemory: Kiyotaka remembers everything he has done in his life ''since age 0'', a fact that stuns the White Room researchers.
* PrettyBoy: He's a more manly variant, but definitely good-looking. Kushida notes he is ranked 5th in their class in this department.
* RaisedInALab: He was raised from birth in the White Room, a specific facility ''designed'' to educate with TrainingFromHell.
* RelationshipUpgrade: After months of considering the matter, and out of his desire to learn about love, Kiyotaka privately confesses his intent to go out with Kei at the end of volume 11.5 or episode 13 of season 3, which she accepts. They plan to keep it a secret from others, though.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: By his own admission, Kiyotaka has no distinctive characteristics, hobbies, or interests and makes no effort to stand out. Too bad it's all a lie, minus the 'not wanting to stand out' bit. Kiyotaka actually likes reading, as evidenced throughout his monologues and his ability to quote famous authors in light novels.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Kiyotaka's the Savvy Guy to Karuizawa's Energetic Girl.
* SecretlySelfish: Despite his seemingly [[PetTheDog uncharacteristic altruistic actions]], in actuality the only thing he actually cares about is securing his own freedom. He has no qualms about [[UnwittingPawn using his classmates as pawns in his schemes]] to do so.
* SecretRelationship: After eventually asking Kei to be his girlfriend at the end of Year 1, they keep their relationship a secret for a while.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Being good at chess to the point of being superior to Arisu Sakayanagi for whom chess is an IconicItem; is only one of many ways the series demonstrates Kiyotaka Ayanokoji's abilities.
* SocialDarwinist: He is ready to help the weak or those who are in trouble, though only for personal gain, but he also believes that equality does not exist and is impossible in principle.
* SociopathicHero: It's revealed later on the face he puts on in front of everybody in the cast is pretty much a mask; truthfully, he cares little for any of his friends and sees them as tools to use to further his own goals. Or at least, that's what he tells himself in the light novels, as his inner monologues suggest it's not that simple. There's a lot of internal zig-zagging even in his head.
* SoleSurvivor: In the White Room, Kiyotaka came from the facility's 4th generation, which was so extreme that he's hailed by White Room staff as the 'sole graduate of the bloody 4th generation'.
* SoullessBedroom: Kiyotaka's bedroom only contains possessions supplied by the academy, hinting at his borderline emotionless and sociopathic nature. His classmates comment on how clean and empty his room is when they invite themselves over.
* StockLightNovelEveryman: Revealed to be a {{deconstruct|edCharacterArchetype}}ion in the final episode of Season 1 (epilogue of volume 3). He has multiple hidden talents because he was trained in childhood to be the best at everything, to the point he only cares about winning. He gains the attraction of women through mostly calculated moves to earn their trust and make them easier for him to manipulate. He goes out of his way to help many people in trouble, but he only wants to protect himself and will only help people if it advances said goal.
* TheStoic: He hardly reacts to anything in the anime. Downplayed in the light novels and manga, where he can and does react to things... albeit not as much, or as normally, as most people would.
* UnscrupulousHero: Kiyotaka intentionally tries to maintain [[NiceGuy amicable terms]] with his classmates and is capable of reading social cues. Despite this, his true motive is only to maintain his current lifestyle and not be sent back to the facility where he was raised. Deep down, he only views most of his classmates as tools, and the few people he is close to can be best classified as either 'people whom he does not want to make tools out of' or 'people who are too useful to let go'.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about him without mentioning that he's way more than just a RidiculouslyAverageGuy he first appears as. Or that he's been RaisedInALab for that matter.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: His monologue in volume 7.5 is this when he was preparing for his Christmas date with Maya Satou. He ends up thinking about Kei when trying to figure it out.
* WhenHeSmiles: Due to his ever-lasting poker face, the incredibly rare moments when he actually smiles are all the more endearing. He himself realizes he's only ever smiled around Suzune.
* WorthyOpponent: Notable in that he actually wants to have one because he wants to defeat his father by having the man's greatest creation, himself, be defeated. But so far, the only individuals whose abilities are sufficient for Kiyotaka to acknowledge are scarce; as of volume 11, Arisu is currently the only one whom he actually considers this.
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[[folder:Suzune Horikita]]
!!Suzune Horikita
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkariKitou (Japanese), Creator/FeleciaAngelle (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Jessica Ángeles (Latin American Spanish), Creator/AdelineChetail (French), Patrizia Carlucci (German), Bruna Nogueira (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/suzune_horikita_anime.png]]
A beautiful girl who sits next to Ayanokouji. She is the opposite of Ayanokouji when it comes to friendship; she disregards it and thinks of making friends unnecessary, thus she does not communicate much with her classmates. She is not convinced that she was placed in the D class, therefore she aims to get promoted to the A class.
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* AcademicAlphaBitch: Suzune is an exceptional student and she knows it, but her brother indicates that she's been assigned to Class D because she can't work with others. She does [[PetTheDog try an intervention with the three dumbest students]], but they walk out after tiring of her constant insults towards them, and she immediately decides to let them fail out of the school and stop dragging on Class D as a whole.
* ActionGirl: She held her own against Mio Ibuki despite having a fever for a week.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She's a beautiful dark-haired girl with an aloof personality.
* ArchEnemy: PlayedForLaughs with her hatred of Kushida, which she demonstrates by ignoring her at every opportunity. Later events in the novel play this trope seriously during their confrontation.
* AscendedExtra: The anime, due to being a CompressedAdaptation, promotes Suzune to the [[{{Deuteragonist}} "female lead"]] of Season 1. However, Season 2 amends this by putting the spotlight more on Kei Karuizawa, bringing the story closer to the [=LNs'=] approach where the female lead actually [[RotatingProtagonist changes from arc to arc]].
* TheBet:
** In order to get Kiyotaka Ayanokouji to use his full potential, she makes a bet with him about who'll score better in tests in their second year. He accepts, adding that she may even reveal the subject of her choosing right before the tests begin.
** She also accepts a bet from Koenji to let him have his freedom if he places well in Deserted Island Special Test, rising the stakes to him specifically placing first in order to be granted this.
* BeYourself: A major life lesson that she learns over the course of her first year is that she needs to stop pretending to be like her idealized image of her older brother and instead be her own true self.
* BrokenAce: She's beautiful, clever, graceful, skilled in self-defense, and virtually perfect academically, but that means nothing in a setting where classes are judged via group excellence and not individual skill. Manabu all but states that Suzune wouldn't have been stuck in Class D if she were willing to socialize with her peers.
* CharacterDevelopment: She grows from an AcademicAlphaBitch to a DefrostingIceQueen. She also eventually learns to stop trying to live as a copy of her perceived image of her older brother to please him and instead [[BeYourself be herself]].
* CompositeCharacter: The first season of the anime had Suzune take on roles that initially went to other characters in the light novels. For example, in the light novel, Kei is the one to help Kiyotaka sabotage their male classmates' attempt at peeping on the girls' changing room, as well as the one to give the RousingSpeech to the school about how Class D will eventually promote to Class A, but both scenes were given to Suzune in the anime.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the {{Tsundere}} stereotype. Her arrogance and contempt of ordinary people led to her having no friends since early childhood. Moreover, Kiyotaka practically becomes her main contact with the outside world, because, without his help, she is not even able to talk with classmates without starting a conflict.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She starts opening up to some of her classmates later on, albeit at a very slow pace.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: She grew her hair long because her brother lied to her about liking long hair. Near the end of the Year 1, she cuts her hair short, symbolizing her deciding to live as her own person instead of trying to be someone who only seeks her brother's approval.
* FriendlessBackground: Suzune hasn't had any friends since kindergarten.
* GoodIsNotNice: She may be a good person and have good intentions, but Suzune definitely isn't kind in her demeanor.
* ImNotHereToMakeFriends: She rejects any and all attempts from her classmates to befriend her, only caring about getting into Class A.
* IneffectualLoner: At the start, she believes she doesn't need anyone to get into Class A and prefers to isolate herself from her classmates. She's still forced to interact and cooperate with others to make sure Class D doesn't fail, as it would get her expelled along with everyone else. Also, most of her feats were only made possible by Kiyotaka helping her and/or letting her take the credit for getting the class out of trouble.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: She acts like everyone is beneath her to compensate for her inferiority complex towards her older brother. Despite her haughty and egotistic behavior, she's desperate to make her brother acknowledge her.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She initially claims to only care about herself. Her brother berates her for that attitude and mentions it's one reason why she ended up in Class D.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Pretty much everyone would see her as a tough, aloof, cold, and hostile person who doesn't want friends and is only out for herself. In truth, she actually has a good heart and genuinely cares for others.
* LoveMartyr: Suzune is intent on [[WellDoneDaughterGirl proving her worth to her brother]], and she doesn't pay any heed to his humiliation and abuse of her.
* MistakenForRomance: Many of her classmates mistakenly think that she is dating, or at least close to Kiyotaka, since he is the only person in general who regularly talks to her. Kushida teases her about this in episode 7.
* MsFanservice: She has a few {{Shower Scene}}s, including one where she wears underwear on an island, and was shown in a bikini in a PoolEpisode. She's also shown naked, barely covered with steam, on the [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tape_J_080.jpg illustration for the "In the Changing Room" short story]] for Volume 8 of Year 2.
* NoSocialSkills: Her main flaw. She has been so focused on trying to excel academically to make her brother acknowledge her that she never worked on her social skills. Her bad attitude makes it difficult for her to interact with others without insulting them and driving them away. For a long while, Kiyotaka is the only person she can hold a decent conversation with. She slowly improves slightly, but she still struggles to form positive interactions with her classmates.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: During the sports festival, she tells Sudo that he's similar to her because both of them became tough to prove themselves to others, but ended up pushing others away because of their bad personalities. However, it's precisely because they're similar that Suzune believes they can become the better version of themselves by working with their classmates.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: In spite of being a brilliant girl and an excellent pupil, her differences with her brother are so great that she isolates herself from other people.
* PerpetualFrowner: Her default expression is a disdainful glare.
* ProperlyParanoid: She's a naturally distrusting person, which is why she believes Kushida keeps trying to approach her to sabotage her. Turns out she's right since Kushida is secretly a BitchInSheepsClothing who is determined to get her expelled for her own petty reasons.
* RunningGag: OnceAnEpisode in the light novels, Ayanokji will take a peek at what book she's reading at the moment and [[FirstPersonSmartass will make a comment on it]].
* ShipTease: With Kiyotaka, particularly in the anime. In the light novels, their relationship is more or less the same.
* StudentCouncilPresident: [[spoiler:She becomes one after Nagumo during the third semester of the second year.]]
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: For her entire life, Suzune has lived under her more talented brother's shadow.
* TookALevelInKindness: She starts toning down her arrogant and demeaning attitude as she realizes she has to get along with her classmates and get their cooperation so they can move up the class ranking. She still isn't social enough to be friendly, but she does try to encourage and support her classmates in her own way.
* {{Tsundere}}: Harsh type. She coldly rebuffs any attempts from other people to make friends with her, yet she cares about her classmates more than she lets on.
* TsurimeEyes: She's an arrogant and strong-willed {{Tsundere}} whose eyes slant upwards.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Sister version. She devoted her whole life to education to earn her older brother's respect, to no avail. She even grew her long hair because he told her he likes it that way.
* WhenSheSmiles: Since she's serious most of the time, the rare moments when she actually smiles are all the more endearing. Kiyotaka notices how rarely she smiles.
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[[folder:Kikyō Kushida]]
!!Kikyō Kushida
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YurikaKubo (Japanese), Creator/SarahWiedenheft (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Nycolle González (Latin American Spanish), Anna Lauzeray-Gishi [first voice], Alice Orsat [second voice] (French), Franziska Trunte (German)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kikyo_kushida_anime.png]]
A popular girl with a seemingly nice and cheerful personality. She aims to be friends with everyone not just in D class.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the light novels, she claims to hate Kiyotaka at first sight and the latter is fully weary of her, and their relationship doesn't get better as the series goes on. In the anime, however, they have plenty of ShipTease moments with Kushida even asking Kiyotaka if he would either choose to be with her or Suzune.
* AlliterativeName: '''K'''ikyo '''K'''ushida.
* AscendedExtra: Due to the first season of the anime being a CompressedAdaptation, Kushida has been promoted to being the Tritagonist of the series, with [[{{Deuteragonist}} Suzune]] being the female lead. In the light novels and the second season of the anime, the female lead [[RotatingArcs changes from arc to arc]].
* AttentionWhore: Growing up, Kushida was lavished with praise by those around her for every little achievement, and she found that she enjoyed the spotlight and attention. As she got older, the praise began to diminish as she became surrounded by equally talented people, and she resorted to being the class' gopher for positive attention, the stress of which prompted her to make a blog to vent her frustrations which ultimately led to the incident in middle school. In the present, she maintains [[BitchInSheepsClothing a pleasant façade]] to keep her classmates' attention on her by making herself seem the most likable student.
* BirdsOfAFeather: During the second year, she quickly gets involved with Takuya Yagami, a freshman who also uses a FalseFriend facade, much like her.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She acts nice and friendly, yet when things don't go her way she completely becomes a different person, or rather her dark side is shown. She turns out to be two-faced, selfish, self-righteous, possessive, manipulative and can have insane reactions.
* {{Blackmail}}: She forces Kiyotaka to keep her darker personality a secret, lest [[FalseRapeAccusation she accuses him of trying to rape her]].
* BuxomBeautyStandard: She has the biggest breasts in Class D, and this is one of the reasons why she's so popular among her male classmates.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Suzune offers Kikyo a bet where they agree that Suzune and Kiyotaka will drop out from school if Kikyo scores higher than Suzune in a math test. To make sure she gets a perfect score, Kikyo conspires with Ryuen to get the test's answers. However, Suzune had predicted Kikyo would try to cheat and took precautions to make sure the actual test was different from the answers Kikyo got from Ryuen, causing Kikyo to fail the test and lose the bet against Suzune.
* ClassPrincess: Her good looks and friendly personality make her popular with her classmates to the point that she ranks third in positive votes of the Class Poll Exam. It's later revealed that she's actually a subversion; she's only pretending to be nice to get positive attention from her classmates, and in reality, she's very selfish and manipulative.
* CuteIsEvil: In the light novel, despite seeing [[BitchInSheepsClothing Kushida's true nature]], Kiyotaka still can't help but comment that she's incredibly cute.
* DarkSecret: She has a big secret that she doesn't want anyone to know and she wants to get Suzune expelled because she thinks Suzune might know about it since they went to the same middle school. It's later revealed to be Kikyo causing all her classmates from middle school to hate and attack each other by revealing all their dark secrets. She knows everyone in Class D will lose their trust in her if they find out, which would be detrimental to her goal of being the most popular girl.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Her reasons for hating Suzune are merely because she suspects that she knows about her true personality since they went to middle school together where Kushida was involved in a major incident. To make matters worse, Suzune didn't even see the incident herself, only heard a rumor about it. [[AssociationFallacy Kushida is willing to utterly destroy Suzune on the off chance that she paid attention to a rumor that she hardly cares about]].
* DudeMagnet: She quickly earns popularity from the guys.
* EvilIsPetty:
** While rather than outright evil she's insane, manipulative, and selfish, she is ok bringing down her entire class if it means she can humiliate Suzune.
** During middle school, when she was confronted by her class for her blog that held her unpleasant venting on her peers, she retaliated by exposing every single secret that was shared with her, including the badmouthing and infidelity that she had learned, sowing mass discord across the class.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Although rather insane and toxic than evil, her true persona has a deeper, mature, and seductive sounding voice compared to her cutesy one.
* FaceHeelTurn: She becomes a whistleblower for Class D, leaking information to Ryuen starting in Volume 4 (season 2 of the anime).
* TheFakeCutie: Her sweet and cute personality is faked. She's really a very mean-spirited, spiteful, and manipulative BitchInSheepsClothing.
* FalseFriend: To everyone. Kikyo only pretends to be friends with her classmates because she wants to be liked and stand out, but she's ready to backstab everyone if they discover her true nature.
* FalseRapeAccusation: After Kiyotaka discovers her [[BitchInSheepsClothing real personality]], she threatens to falsely accuse him of raping her if he doesn't keep his mouth shut, even [[ThanksForTheMammary placing his hand on her breast so she can have "evidence"]].
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: It's revealed that Suzune and Kushida went to a previous school together where Kushida caused a huge scandal. While Suzune merely heard rumors about the event, Kushida sees her as the biggest threat to her "goody two shoes" reputation and tries desperately to get her expelled.
* GenkiGirl: Normally tries to act like one, but Kiyotaka finds out she Zigzags this when he sees her at the end of episode three when she's ranting about how much she hates Suzune's stuck-up attitude and her refusal of Kushida's repeated attempts to befriend her.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: She usually has cute-looking TaremeEyes when she's in her NiceGirl persona. The evil eyes come out when she displays her darker personality.
* HateAtFirstSight: In the novel only, she claims this was the case with Ayanokouji.
* HatesBeingAlone: She tells Ayanokouji that she hates being suddenly left alone, and it's left as a possible reason for her insistence on being friends with ''everyone''.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Back in middle school, Kikyo caused an incident that drove all her classmates to hate and fight each other until graduation. Suzune happened to go to the same middle school and although she didn't know the details of what happened, Kikyo is trying everything in her power to get Suzune expelled to not take any chances of people finding out about her past. She even extends this threat against Kiyotaka who discovers the truth as well.
* HiddenDisdainReveal: In her initial interactions with Suzune, Kikyo appears to be a NiceGirl who is just trying to befriend the class loner. That's until Kiyotaka happens to find Kikyo angrily kicking a railing as she screams about how much she hates Suzune. The reasons for her hatred are explained much later as they're related to Suzune hearing about an incident that Kikyo caused in their middle school.
* ImproperlyParanoid: She puts all her energy into trying to get Suzune expelled because she's paranoid about Suzune knowing all about a scandalous incident from her middle school. Actually, Suzune only heard second-hand rumors about the incident and she was rather disinterested in it because of her aloof personality. Suzune didn't even recognize Kikyo nor knew why she hated her until she learned Kikyo was even willing to conspire with Ryuen to sabotage her. Had Kikyo just left Suzune alone, neither Suzune nor Kiyotaka would have learned the full truth of her dark past.
* InsidiousRumorMill: Back in middle school, to vent the stress of being the class gopher in her bid for attention, she started a blog where she would badmouth all her classmates. Eventually, the blog was discovered and her class quickly deduced that it was hers, turning against her. Feeling ganged up on, she then proceeded to spill all the information about them that she didn't post, such as acts of infidelity and badmouthing others had done, which led to her classmates turning against each other instead.
* {{Irony}}: At the start of the series, Kikyo repeatedly tries to befriend Suzune, who just ignores her because she thinks she doesn't need friends. By the time Suzune realizes she ''has'' to get along with her classmates to get into Class A, Kikyo has dropped all pretenses of wanting to be friends with Suzune and is now determined to sabotage her. Suzune still doesn't want to give up on making peace with Kikyo, seeing her as a valuable asset to the class.
* MaleGaze: Her breasts get the camera's attention a lot.
* MistakenForRomance: When someone asks Kushida if she and Ayanokouji are dating, she gives a casual "Nope" and Ayanokouji concludes she's being sincere about not liking him.
* MsFanservice: She has several scenes in a bikini, a school swimsuit, and a ModestyTowel, usually paired with jiggle physics. She's also barely covered with a towel on the [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tape_J_080.jpg illustration for the "In the Changing Room" short story]] for Volume 8 of Year 2.
* TheMole: During the Special Test and the sports festival, Kikyo betrays her classmates and conspires with Ryuen to sabotage her own class, all to get a chance to get Suzune expelled.
* NeverMyFault: When she was in middle school, she was desperate to stand out. Instead of finding something she was really good at and liked to do, she opted to become an ExtremeDoormat to her classmates, only to eventually crack from the stress. She then wrote a blog to vent her frustrations, but it backfired when her classmates found out. Realizing she had fallen from grace, she spilled out all of her classmates' darkest secrets to ruin their social lives, all while blaming them for sharing their secrets with her and then expecting her to keep quiet when they stopped praising her.
* PainfulPersona: Her NiceGirl act began in middle school, where she acted like an ExtremeDoormat in order to make up for her lack of talent and [[AttentionWhore gain everyone's attention]]. This ended up causing her a great deal of stress, and whether or not her darker personality was from before this event, it [[SanitySlippage certainly didn't help]].
* PsychologicalProjection: She hates Suzune and wants her gone because she believes Suzune will try to ruin her by spilling out her dark secrets to her classmates. Suzune repeatedly tries to convince her that she has no intention of being her enemy, much less ruining her reputation, but Kikyo insists she can't take any chances with Suzune. As it turns out Kikyo is projecting her own petty and malicious nature on Suzune since in the past, she spilled out her classmates' darkest secret to turn them against each other and now is convinced Suzune will do the same to her at some point.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: She turns into a traitor by selling out her class to Ryuen during the sports festival, just because she thought Ryuen would help her get Suzune expelled. After that fails because of Kiyotaka's interference, she tries to once again make a deal with Ryuen by giving him Class D's test questions in exchange for him giving her the answers of the math test to win her bet against Suzune and force her to resign from the academy. Then it turns out Suzune had made sure Kikyo wouldn't get the real questions of Class D's test and Ryuen left her to her fate, causing her to lose her last chance at getting Suzune to leave the academy.
* SecretKeeper:
** She does this with Ayanokouji, such as claiming that she was the one who obtained the old exams which helped their class tremendously during their midterm exams.
** The friendly facade that she maintained during middle school allowed her to earn the trust of many around her, and she'd eventually be trusted with some dark secrets. She later spilled out all the secrets shared with her out of spite for her classmates criticizing her blog.
* ShipTease: Occasionally with Ayanokouji in the anime.
** In episode 8, she interrupts Sakura's botched LoveConfession to Ayanokouji, and, when he tries to excuse himself from her presence, she slips back into her darker side briefly and tells him that she doesn't like being alone. She adds that she "hoped that he would..." and then she trails off, leaving everyone to guess what she is about to confess to him.
** In episode 12, she asks Ayanokouji who he would pick if it came down to a choice between herself and Suzune.
* SlaveToPR: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Kikyo cares for nothing but her own reputation and will do anything to look good in front of others. Back in middle school, taking on the persona of an ExtremeDoormat to impress her classmates only brought her stress and frustration, but she felt she couldn't quit to not damage her public image. She tried to vent by writing on an anonymous blog, but her classmates discovered what she was doing anyway and she brought them down with her by revealing all their darkest secrets. Now in high school, she obsesses about getting rid of Suzune over the small chance that Suzune might leak information about her past that would ruin her reputation again, even though neither Suzune nor Kiyotaka had any interest in doing anything against her until she kept trying to get them expelled.
* SmugSnake: Despite her villainous true nature, she fails to be an actual threat because she's so arrogant and short-sighted that she completely relies on her BitchInSheepsClothing act for her schemes against Kiyotaka and Suzune, both of whom can read her like a book and easily predict her actions to take countermeasures against her. After failing to get Suzune expelled over and over again, she tries to make Kiyotaka her new main target, unaware that picking a fight with [[ManipulativeBastard Kiyotaka]] would have worse consequences for her than anything Suzune would do to her.
* SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond: {{Subverted|Trope}}. At first, it looks like Kikyo is trying so hard to get close to Suzune because she wants to be friends with everyone in her class and Suzune is the only one who rebuffs her attempts at befriending her. In reality, Kikyo hates Suzune and wants to sabotage her because she's paranoid about Suzune leaking information about an incident that happened in their middle school even though Suzune doesn't care and doesn't have any intentions to do so.
* StupidEvil:
** In the light novel, she willingly works with Ryuen in order to humiliate and expel Suzune, and the stupid part comes into play when Suzune points out that she is purposefully bringing down class D in order to do so.
** Even more so when she says she will get rid of Ryuen as well since he had seen her hidden side... [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder to his face.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Since she hides behind a kind GenkiGirl persona, she's beloved by her classmates and even students from other classes. In the Class Poll, she ranked third place in getting positive votes. Subverted later on once her true nature is revealed to the class.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about her without mentioning that she's TheFakeCutie.
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[[folder:Kei Karuizawa]]
!!Kei Karuizawa
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyanaTaketatsu (Japanese), Creator/BrynApprill (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Wendy Malvárez (Latin American Spanish), Geneviève Doang (French), Ness Gerung (German), Stephany Custodi (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:235:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kei_karuizawa_anime.png]]
A girl with a bad attitude who is located at the top of the D class hierarchy. She fights with Kushida for their class' top 2 places.
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* AffairHair: In volume 12, Kei finds a long red hair, belonging to Amasawa from the new Class 1-A, in Kiyotaka's room. She demands him to explain how and why another girl entered his room to leave that.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She develops a crush on Kiyotaka, who by that point had her go through a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, ColdBloodedTorture, and blackmail in order to further his schemes. Even she lampshades this by remembering what Kiyotaka put her through and still accepting the fact that she has fallen for him.
* AlliterativeName: '''K'''ei '''K'''aruizawa.
* AttentionWhore: Her biography says she likes being the center of attention.
* TheBait: One used both ways. Ryuen kidnaps and tortures Kei to lure the real mastermind, Kiyotaka, out of hiding. Actually, Kiyotaka had predicted what Ryuen would do and deliberately let him use Kei as bait so he could come to rescue her and show Ryuen the difference in power between them.
* BecomingTheMask: Despite the rocky start, Kei's role as Kiyotaka's forced assistant gradually becomes less and less true as she begins to feel comfortable working for him. To the point that, in volume 7, Kiyotaka telling her he will cut off their ties hurts her more than she is willing to admit. After Kiyotaka rescues her from Ryuen and re-establishes their relationship, their partnership becomes a legitimate one at the end of volume 7.5.
* BeneathTheMask: At first glance, she comes off as a stuck-up and self-centered popular girl who relishes getting attention. However, it is revealed that her outwards personality is a façade, as she uses her stuck-up popular persona as means to escape being bullied like she was in the past.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Her backstory has some similarities with Kiyotaka's, which is why both become attracted to each other and ultimately become lovers. Both were [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer ostracized]] by their peers (Kiyotaka for the talent he displayed in the White Room, while Kei was a BullyMagnet to the mean girls who disliked her), both have personas that they use as a means of protection (Kiyotaka's [[TheSociopath White Room persona]] and Kei's AlphaBitch persona).
* {{Blackmail}}: In volume 4, Kiyotaka blackmails Kei into effectively becoming his assistant in his various plans, since he doesn't like drawing attention to himself. It lasts up to volume 7, at which point Kiyotaka attempts to cut their connection off.
* BreakTheHaughty: At first, she puts on a pompous and headstrong mask because she doesn't want to let others know she's weak. After she attracts the attention of some bullies from Class C, Kiyotaka deliberately lets the bullying of Kei escalate and sets her up to be mercilessly beaten, until she's completely broken and desperate enough to do whatever Kiyotaka asks her to get his protection.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: She's the Gentle Girl to Kiyotaka's Brooding Boy.
* BullyMagnet: In middle school, Kei was subjected to traumatic bullying by other girls due to her headstrong and competitive nature. She was humiliated, forced to confess to people she didn't like, and was given animal corpses, and other nasty things just to make her upset. She tried to change her entire personality to make herself less subjectable to bullying, but some girls of Class C ended up targeting her for harassment and abuse anyway. This leaves her no choice but to become Kiyotaka's pawn in exchange for him using his machinations to protect her, which is exactly what he wants.
* ButtMonkey: Kei is one of the most abused characters in the series. She was a victim of horrific bullying in her past. Her panties get stolen by Ibuki to seed distrust in Class D during the survival test. Manabe's group harasses her over a trivial mistake she made when she accidentally pushed their classmate. Seeing her potential as a pawn, Kiyotaka sets her up to be [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally beaten]] by Manabe's group. Kiyotaka repeatedly uses her for his schemes while sharing minimum information with her and continues to manipulate her to assure her total emotional dependency on him. Ryuen kidnaps her and subjects her to WaterTorture in a cold room to try to get information about Kiyotaka out of her.
* TheConfidant: After she's blackmailed, she essentially works as one to Kiyotaka, since she is the only person who has seen his true personality thus far. Her role as his assistant also means she has the most insight into his plans, even if she doesn't really understand them.
* CryIntoChest: After being tortured by Ryuen, Kei breaks down crying on Kiyotaka's chest as he comforts her to make her more emotionally dependent on him.
* DamselInDistress:
** The first one happens in volume 4 (season 2 episode 3), when Manabe and a few other girls in Class C manage to corner her on the cruise ship. Just as Kiyotaka plans it, he swoops into 'rescuing' her and then takes advantage of her crippling fear of being bullied to blackmail her to do his bidding.
** The second one happens in volume 7 (season 2 episodes 11-12), when Ryuen and his gang manage to identify Karuizawa as the assistant of X, the true mastermind of Class D. After a series of HumiliationConga which culminates with Ryuen telling Karuizawa she was actually manipulated by X (Kiyotaka) from the very start, she remains defiant on not telling him who X actually is, which prompts Kiyotaka to come in and rescue her.
* DemotedToExtra: In season 1 of the anime, she has fewer scenes than she does in the light novel since some of her moments were given to Suzune instead. It's subverted from Season 2 onwards, as she gets the appropriate spotlight for the relevant arcs.
* FakeRelationship: She initially appears to be dating Hirata, but it's later revealed she only asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend to attach herself to the most popular guy in class and protect herself from potential bullying. She stops relying on Hirata when he refuses to defend her from Manabe's group, but keeps on the charade of them being a couple in front of their classmates, even after Hirata notices she's actually crushing on Kiyotaka.
* TheFashionista: She's known to be the most fashionable and modish student in her class.
* FirstNameBasis: She calls Hirata by his first name to make the charade of them being a couple more believable, but they aren't as close as they pretend to be. Later on, she starts calling Kiyotaka by his first name after she becomes his main accomplice.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Kushida. Both have another secret side to their personality which is found out by Kiyotaka, but Kushida's relationship with him is entirely antagonistic, and she grows to be so wary of him to the point she wants nothing more than to see him expelled to ensure her secret is safe. Karuizawa, on the other hand, gradually develops a genuine bond with him and later even forms a romantic relationship with him. Their time in middle school is also quite different despite both of them standing out. Kushida was LovedByAll due to her [[ExtremeDoormat willingness to be the class gofer]] before eventually losing her good standing by writing whatever secret her classmates told her of them on her blog to vent out stress and then spilling ''more'' secrets when being angrily confronted by them. Kei was viciously bullied by the other girls during middle school due to her headstrong and competitive nature, which psychologically damages her to the point of being willing to do ''anything'' as a way to NeverBeHurtAgain.
** To her friend, Maya Satou. Both are popular girls in the same friend circle and both are [[TheFashionista interested in fashion]], along with both developing a crush on Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. However, while he's not interested in using Satou for his plans, [[RomanticRunnerUp rejects her]], and judges her unworthy to smile for in his inner monologue; he sees Karuizawa as a useful pawn thanks to her influence among the girls and her dependant personality and eventually [[RelationshipUpgrade chooses her to be his girlfriend]].
* GyaruGirl: She has blonde hair, and is very interested in boys, fashion, and accessories.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: She puts on a bravado by making herself act prideful, vain, and outspoken, but in reality, she's very vulnerable and fearful of being bullied because of her traumatic experiences in middle school.
* LoveEpiphany: She realizes that she has fallen for Kiyotaka after he rescues her from Ryuen.
* LoveMartyr: Kiyotaka intentionally exposes her to Class C's bullying to blackmail and manipulate her by offering to protect her from all potential threats, to make her more loyal. Even after finding out the truth, Kei finds herself unable to betray Kiyotaka, and instead pledges UndyingLoyalty to him.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Kei's relationship with Kiyotaka kickstarts when he sets her up to be mercilessly beaten by Manabe and her posse, all to make her hit rock bottom and leave her no choice but to accept his protection for the rest of high school in exchange of her absolute obedience. From then on, Kiyotaka uses Kei as a tool constantly and exposes her to danger so he can rescue her and keep her dependent on him. It's very messed up and Kei knows it, but later on, she develops a crush on Kiyotaka and ends up becoming his girlfriend after he confesses to her.
* MatchmakerCrush: In volume 7.5, she attempts to play the matchmaker between Kiyotaka and Maya Satou. Not only it does not work, but Kei also ends up realizing she has basically fallen in love with Kiyotaka by the end of the volume.
* MinionManipulatedIntoVillainy: An anti-heroic example. Kiyotaka sets in motion the bullying of Kei from Manabe and her posse, all to break her spirit and turn her into his lackey for his manipulative schemes in exchange for him protecting her from further bullying.
* MoneyDumb: She's among the students who have recklessly spent their private points in the first month, causing her to ask her friends for buying things for her in the second month.
* MsFanservice: She has a ShowerScene in the anime and is shown in her underwear while changing.
* NeverMyFault: One of her character faults is her refusal to accept her own mistakes to not let others see her as weak.
* RelationshipUpgrade: After months of wrestling with her feelings for Kiyotaka, she finally receives a LoveConfession from him just before their 2nd year. She accepts, though they plan to keep it a secret from others... which lasts until [[spoiler:2nd Year Volume 5, where she loudly announces the relationship to the entire class while keeping the Ayanokouji Group from having lunch with him.]]
* SamaritanRelationshipStarter: In the light novel and manga, Kei starts getting a more positive impression of Kiyotaka's [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative true self]] when he asks her help in sabotaging their male classmates' attempt at peeping on the girls' changing room, which leads her to believe his ruthless schemes ultimately have the best interests of Class D in mind.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Kei's the Energetic Girl to Ayanokoji's Savvy Guy.
* SecretRelationship: After Kiyotaka eventually asks her to be his girlfriend at the end of Year 1, they keep their relationship a secret for a while.
* ScarsAreForever: She has a large scar below her left breast as a result of the severe bullying she suffered in middle school.
* ShowerOfAngst: At the end of episode 1 of season 2, Kei is shown crying in the shower after some mean girls from Class C ganged up on her for accidentally pushing one of their classmates.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Despite originally being depicted as a very silly and frivolous girl, she is a lot smarter and socially adept than she lets on. This is why Kiyotaka considers her a good pawn to control the class.
* StalkerWithACrush: She ends up following Kiyotaka and Maya around a couple times due to her jealousy.
* TraumaButton: If Kei were to be intimidated or abused to a certain extent, it would trigger the [=PTSD=] she has from the severe bullying she suffered in elementary and middle school.
* {{Tsundere}}: Interestingly enough, she is a Harsh type for Kiyotaka after she realizes her feelings for him in volume 7.5. In the subsequent volumes, she tries ''hard'' to make it seem like she doesn't really care for him, but side stories focusing on her reveal she is basically helplessly infatuated with him.
* TheUnapologetic: She gets into trouble with Manabe and her posse when they demand her to apologize for accidentally knocking over one of their classmates, and Kei stubbornly refuses to apologize, which doesn't do her any favors since her attitude only motivates the girls to keep harassing her.
* UndyingLoyalty: She initially obeys Kiyotaka only because he promises to protect her from bullying, but she eventually becomes genuinely loyal to him. Even when she's bullied terribly by Ryuen and his lackeys, she never reveals Kiyotaka's name as X, surprising both him and Ryuen's lackeys. Kiyotaka then rescues her.
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[[folder:Yōsuke Hirata]]
!!Yōsuke Hirata
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyotaOhsaka (Japanese), Creator/DallasReid (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Luis Navarro (Latin American Spanish), Bastien Bourlé (French), Levin Jäger (German), Carloz Magno (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yosuke_hirata_anime.png]]
A leader in summarizing the D class. He is a perfect male student and it is a mystery why it was assigned to the falling class D class.
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* BreakThemByTalking: He's on the receiving end when Kiyotaka tries to motivate him out of his HeroicBSOD after Ayanokoji motivates him by making him take responsibility for his failures.
* BrokenAce: Hirata has been highly implied to be one for a while; he is one of the smarter Class D students, fairly athletic, a social butterfly, and is effectively the "leader" of the class. Despite this, the series has been vague about what his actual character flaw is that landed him in Class D. Even Ayanokouji and Suzune, who are both good at reading character's hidden motives, have a hard time sizing Hirata up. Eventually, Kiyotaka learns his DarkAndTroubledPast.
* CharacterDevelopment: Thanks to a rather harsh motivation from Kiyotaka, he learns to move on from his past trauma, take responsibility for his actions, and accepts that it's alright to show his vulnerable side around his friends and ask them for help when needed rather than shoulder everything by himself.
* TheCharmer: Kiyotaka notes on the first day of class that Hirata is such a people-person that the rest of the class immediately gravitates towards him.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was traumatized over his old friend attempting to commit suicide and ending up comatose in middle school.
* DecoyLeader: In a sense. Hirata is treated and viewed as the leader of Class D by his peers, but Kiyotaka is normally the one who actually works as the problem solver behind the scenes.
* ExtremeDoormat: His defect is that he's a people-pleaser to a fault. This trait comes to effect when the class has to decide who to expel with him trying to save everybody. In the end, he couldn't stop Yamauchi from being expelled.
* FakeRelationship: He initially appears to be dating Karuizawa, but it's later revealed she only asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend to attach herself to the most popular guy in class and protect herself from potential bullying. She stops relying on Hirata when he refuses to defend her from Manabe's group, but keeps on the charade of them being a couple in front of their classmates, even after he notices she's actually crushing on Kiyotaka.
* HeroicBSOD: He experiences one after failing to prevent the first expulsion in his class due to ganging up on the target reminding him of his friend being bullied and DrivenToSuicide in the past.
* NiceGuy: His most distinguishing feature is his niceness.
* TraumaButton: His extreme reaction to Yamauchi's expulsion and resulting HeroicBSOD is because it cropped up memories of when his BestFriend in middle school was bullied.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Back in Middle School, his friend attempted to commit suicide and ended up in a coma after suffering severe bullying in their class, and [[IgnoredEpiphany instead of reflecting on the outcome of their actions]], the class not only found a new person among them to torment, but those who previously [[BystanderSyndrome just didn't get involved]] ended up [[TookALevelInJerkass taking part in the bullying.]] An enraged Hirata then decided to take over the class and rule it through fear, using violence on both sides of any conflict that cropped up, which stopped the bullying, but also sucked out any joy his old class felt, causing them to operate more like robots than students.
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[[folder:Rokusuke Kōenji]]
!!Rokusuke Kōenji
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Toshiki Iwasawa (Japanese), Creator/ChristopherWehkamp (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Sergio Morel (Latin American Spanish), Simon Herlin (French), Tim Gössler (German), Dláigelles Riba (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rokusuke_koenji_anime.png]]
A student who comes from a well-known family of scholars. He ended up in Class-D for his egotistical behavior.
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* AcademicAthlete: He's a very smart student and an outstanding athlete.
* AdaptationalCurves: He's much bulkier in the anime adaptation.
* TheBet: He proposes a bet to Suzune so that he can be left alone and not be forced to cooperate in future special exams if he were to place well in Deserted Island Special Test. Horikita rises the stakes by agreeing to grant him freedom only if he scored the first place, [[spoiler:which he manages to do.]]
* BlatantLies: When the students must survive on a deserted island for a week, Rokusuke claims that he's not feeling well, despite having just swung around through the trees like a monkey hours earlier and being able to swim back to the ship, just so he can quit the test on the first day.
* BrilliantButLazy: His superb academic and athletic skills would make him a valuable member of the class, if only he bothered to put in the effort. He repeatedly skips out on school activities that he finds too boring or bothersome, like surviving on a deserted island for a week or participating in a sports festival, which comes to the detriment of his class. He only does put effort when it comes to events that involve expulsion.
* BullyingADragon: Although Kouenji remains mostly passive-aggressive at worst, likely not wanting to stoop to petty levels and not wanting Ryuuen to have a potential recording to use against him, he mockingly calls [[{{Sadist}} Kakeru Ryuen]] Dragon Boy during their encounter, ironically for this trope. He also states that he'd call suspecting him for lack of evidence that he controls Class D a stupid behavior.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's actually intelligent and academically gifted, but he is in Class D because of his narcissistic attitude and lack of social contribution, and therefore he just comes across as an egotistical and dimwitted beefcake.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: His strength and stamina are nearly superhuman. During the Mixed Training Camp, he performs a safe landing after jumping from a high cliff and single-handedly kills a wild boar.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: It can't be denied that his attitude is definitely ''odd'' - such as when he walks around wet, after a shower, stating that a wet guy is more handsome, and when he jumps around in the vines like Tarzan.
* DumbBlonde: {{Subverted}} as he's a lot smarter than he looks, despite coming across as just a dimwitted egomaniac.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: During his introduction, he refuses to give up his bus seat to an elderly woman. It's a very rude and selfish act, ''especially'' in Japanese culture, yet he argues it isn't fundamentally "wrong" when pointing out that it's ''not'' illegal for him to refuse to give up his seat just because of someone's age.
* {{Foil}}: To Kiyotaka Ayanakoji of all people. Both are way more skilled than they appear, in all kinds of areas. However, while Ayanakoji prefers to work in the shadows and only lets his true colors show to a select few when his plan calls for it and it benefits him in the long run, Koenji simply comes off as a BunnyEarsLawyer due to his eccentric behavior and rather than hide his talents, he just opts to rarely use them, valuing his freedom and his own choice to participate above all else.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Nobody in Class D likes him because he's so annoyingly self-centered that he doesn't care if his selfish actions cost points to the class. This is {{lampshaded}} by Yamauchi who points out everyone in the class dislikes Kouenji. However, he does have a high academic performance and is therefore valuable to the class.
* GagPenis: He, alongside Kiyotaka, has the largest assets amongst the male cast as revealed in volume 8.
* HateSink: Between his revolting narcissism and selfish attitude, there's basically nothing likable about this guy.
* {{Hunk}}: He has a well-built and muscular body, and is definitely one of the most handsome and manly-looking guys.
* InsufferableGenius: He's one of the smartest students in his class, despite his utterly self-absorbed and obnoxious personality.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He only cares about himself and getting what he wants, even if it comes at the hindrance of those around him.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's an arrogant and obnoxious egomaniac whose selfish behavior is a nuisance to everyone around him.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As seen in his EstablishingCharacterMoment, he isn't technically in the wrong when refusing to give his priority seat to the elderly woman, despite his action being a very, very ''rude'' thing to do in Japanese culture, since it's not "legally" required of him to do so. Even Kiyotaka lampshades his narration that Rokusuke has a point there when one takes away the emotional aspect of the action.
* MrFanservice: He's shown wearing just a speedo as his swimsuit, showing off his well-built body.
* {{Narcissist}}: He stares at himself in the mirror quite a lot.
* TheNicknamer: He usually calls other students by adding -boy or -girl to their names. Of particular note, he was the one to call Ryuen "Dragon Boy".
* NoSocialSkills: Given his sheltered upbringing, egotistical nature, and lack of willingness to cooperate, his social skills are quite abysmal.
* ProudBeauty: He knows he's handsome, with this being the main reason he's so narcissistic.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kouenji mouths off at [[InsufferableImbecile Yamauchi]] for being an irredeemable defect that deserves to be kicked out of the school.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He's from a wealthy family and they apparently pay for his points if he needs them (even though it's not allowed due to the school's strict policy).
* SecretKeeper: He figures out Kiyotaka was the one who beat up Ryuen and his gang but doesn't have any interest in spilling his secret. Although, Kiyotaka knows he can't really do anything to stop Rokusuke from revealing the truth if he ever feels like it.
* SlasherSmile: His usual smug smile changes into this when he prepares to beat Yamauchi for attacking him, although their teacher stops them before the fight escalates.
* SmarterThanYouLook: He's definitely intelligent despite his narcissistic and frivolous attitude which makes him come across as an idiot.
* SmugSmiler: He's always seen wearing a smug grin.
* SpoiledBrat: He comes from a wealthy family of scholars and grew up thinking the world revolves around him, resulting in his belief that he's entitled to do whatever he pleases even if it makes him an inconvenience to other people.
* SuperSwimmingSkills: He's the fastest swimmer in his class, with a speed of 2.153 meters/second, which is considered to be on the tier of the world's best swimmers.
* UpperClassTwit: Played with. He is intelligent, but his narcissism and privileged upbringing leave his social skills something to desire.
* WildCard: He does whatever he wants and has no loyalty to anyone, nor lets anyone tell him what to do. Depending on his mood, he can be helpful to the class or ditch them for his own comfort. Even [[ManipulativeBastard Kiyotaka]] knows he can't make Rokusuke do what he wants him to.
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[[folder:Ken Sudō]]
!!Ken Sudō
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Eiji Takeuchi (Japanese), Creator/BrandonMcInnis (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Javi Sánchez (Latin American Spanish), Arnaud Laurent (French), Jermain Meyer (German), Leandro Loureiro (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:255:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ken_sudo_anime.png]]
One of the "3 Idiots of Class-D" and a basketball team player for the club.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: In the light novels, he's a lot more of the StraightMan to Ike and Yamaguchi's antics and showed a bit more remorse in attempting to spy on the girls changing room, in the anime he has no such qualms.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He might come across as a petty thug, but he is an exceptionally good athlete. Aside from basketball he also had the fastest swim time in his class and was able to crush Class B in a volleyball tournament almost singlehandedly.
* CharacterDevelopment: He acts as an InsufferableImbecile at first, alongside the rest of "3 idiots of Class D". However, he ends up learning to control his HairTriggerTemper, acting more mature over the course of the series, and starting to put more effort in his studies.
* DumbJock: Although he has the best athletic ability compared to his classmates, he has very poor intelligence.
* FallGuy: Three Class C students attempt to frame him for an assault. Though Sudo does attack them, he claims it was in self-defense. Their story also has some holes in it, as Suzune wonders how he managed to hurt three guys around his size without taking a hit at all. In a normal fight, Sudo would've been at a huge disadvantage since it'd be a three-on-one fight. Suzune and Kiyotaka later clear his name using their own deception, and the three Class C students end up getting punished by the mastermind behind this incident.
* FieryRedhead: He has red hair and is pretty aggressive when angered.
* FirstFriend:
** In the light novels, he is the first person that Ayanokoji has a positive interaction with, and is usually the one that will invite him out.
** By the end of Volume 5 he also fills out this role for Suzune.
* {{Foil}}: To Haruki Yamauchi, one of his friend among the "3 idiots of Class D". Unlike him, Ken eventually puts more effort in his performance and is shown displaying mature behavior at times. He also actually has a girl genuinely attracted to him, unlike Yamauchi who was just being manipulated.
* HairTriggerTemper: He has a short temper and a thin-skinned personality, making him easily angered and provoked.
* HopelessSuitor: He has a crush on Suzune, but she only sees him as a valuable classmate at best.
* {{Hunk}}: He's muscular, tall, handsome, and manly.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be rude and angry, but by no means a bad guy.
* LightningBruiser: He's the most athletic guy in class D along with Koenji, he is so good in fact that he can place 1st in all of the solo competitions during the sports festival before he drops out.
* TheMillstone: At least from Suzune's perspective. Sudo is academically one of the weakest students in class and shows no interest in improving his brash personality means that he is a magnet for false accusations of misbehavior. Basically, at the early stages of their school year, Class D will have to carry him across the line if they expect to have him graduate.
* MirrorCharacter: To Kanji Ike, one of his closest friends of "3 idiots of Class D" trio. Both act as a {{Foil}} to their remaining [[WithFriendsLikeThese "friend"]], Haruki Yamauchi, as unlike him, both Ken and Kanji end up eventually [[CharacterDevelopment putting more effort in their studies, acting more mature]], and getting a girl attracted to them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kanji Ike]]
!!Kanji Ike
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daiki Abe (Japanese), Creator/AaronDismuke (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Brandon Montor (Latin American Spanish), Enzo Ratsito [first voice], Rémi Gutton [second voice] (French), Tom Ferenc (German), Guilherme de Barros (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kanji_ike_anime.png]]
One of the "3 Idiots of Class-D", who has poor intelligence, though his communication skills and experiences in camping are excellent. He is also shown to have a crush on Kushida.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: While not really shown in the anime adaptation, Ike and Shinohara would often butt heads before [[spoiler:getting a RelationshipUpgrade in their second year.]]
* BookDumb: He's known as one of the "Three Idiots of D-Class".
* CharacterDevelopment: He acts as an InsufferableImbecile at first, alongside the rest of "3 idiots of Class D". However, he ends up acting mature when neeeded, such as when he apologized to the girls for not considering their feelings during Uninhabited Island Exam, standing up for Shinohara when Yamauichi taunts her for the rumor of her being a prostitute in middle school, and helping her in Deserted Island Special Test. He also ends up displaying his wilderness knowledge and eventually puts more effort in his performance at school.
* DeclarationOfProtection: He declares that he'll protect Shinohara when she's the [[SoleSurvivor only member of her group left]] during Deserted Island Special Test.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He dislikes Satsuki for looking down on him and the other boys, but he still tries to punch [[InsufferableImbecile Yamauchi]] when the latter insults and mocks Satsuki by taking advantage of the nasty rumors spread about the first-year students, one which claimed that Satsuki is a ''teenage prostitute''.
* {{Foil}}: To Haruki Yamauchi, his [[ThoseTwoGuys best friend]] among the "3 idiots of Class D". Unlike him, Kanji eventually puts more effort in his performance and is shown displaying mature behavior at times. He also actually [[spoiler:RelationshipUpgrade gets the girl after his SecondLove returns his affection.]]
* HeroicBSOD: He's left depressed when his SecondLove, Satsuki Shinohara, chooses to be in the same group for the Deserted Island Special Test as Kyougo Komiya, who also has a crush on her. Tsubasa Nanase eventually talks him out of this, motivating him to confess his feelings and focus on the exam first, as his potential expulsion would mean he'd likely never see her again.
* HiddenDepths: He's usually seen as one of the "three idiots" of Class D. However, he's actually a quite skilled survivalist.
* LazyBum: One of the less-than-stellar students of Class-D.
* MirrorCharacter: To Ken Sudo, one of his closest friends of "3 idiots of Class D" trio. Both act as a {{Foil}} to their remaining [[WithFriendsLikeThese "friend"]], Haruki Yamauchi, as unlike him, both Ike and Sudo end up eventually [[CharacterDevelopment putting more effort in their studies, acting more mature]], and getting a girl attracted to them.
* MoneyDumb: He's among the students who have spent all of their points in the first month, forcing him to live on free stuff for his second month.
* NatureLover: Proves to be one of the best people during the deserted island excursion. His previous camping skills come in very handy as he's able to identify a river, manages to start a campfire, and easily identifies various fruits some of the girls bring back. He also catches fish for his group in Deserted Island Special Test of the second year.
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:With Satsuki, surprisingly. They eventually start dating in the 2nd year arc.]]
* SamaritanRelationshipStarter: Shinohara seems to warm up to Ike after he stands up for her when she's confronted about the false rumor of her being a prostitute and even tries to punch Yamauchi for using the rumor to insult her. Afterwards, they start getting along so well that their classmates think they're dating.
* SecondLove: His first crush on Kikyo Kushida goes nowhere. He then develops feelings for Satsuki Shinohara, with whom he actually [[spoiler:gets a RelationshipUpgrade in their second year.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Yamauchi, so much that Suzune has trouble remembering which is who.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Haruki Yamauchi]]
!!Haruki Yamauchi
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Mutsuki Iwanaka (Japanese), Creator/TravisMullenix (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Víctor Ruiz (Latin American Spanish), Nicolas Dussaut (French), Marc Skanderberg (German), Matheus Tayti (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haruki_yamauchi_anime.png]]
One of the "3 Idiots of Class-D", who has lying tendencies. He also has a crush on Kushida but has feelings for Sakura as well.
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* BookDumb: He's known as one of the "Three Idiots of D-Class".
* BullyingADragon: He tries to attack Kouenji with a chair when the latter makes fun of him for being irredeemably useless to the end. Kouenji easily catches the chair and states he will return the ''favor'' back to Yamauchi for attacking him. Luckily, Sae steps in to stop them.
* CompulsiveLiar: According to the interviewer who assessed him during the entrance examination, Haruki tends to lie, which really bites him in the ass upon his exposure as a traitor during Volume 10.
* DefiantToTheEnd: {{Subverted|Trope}} as it's framed as him rejecting the reality of his consequences rather than being brave. When Haruki ends up getting exposed as a traitor by Suzune and faced expulsion, Haruki continues to selfishly deny any wrongdoing, attempts to say that he was "[[FrameUp framed]]", insults his now former classmates while boasting that Arisu and Class 1-A would save him. Then, when ''that'' didn't work since he and Arisu never made a "written contract" to protect him, which means that he has no physical proof besides his own word to go by, Haruki undergoes a complete VillainousBreakdown, leading to him attempting to assault Rokusuke with a chair when the latter insults him.
* {{Foil}}: To the remaining two members of the "3 idiots of Class D", Sudo and Ike. Both of them [[CharacterDevelopment mature]] over the course of the series, eventually starting to put more effort in their studies and displaying more responsible behavior. Both also end up having girls attracted to them. Meanwhile, Yamauichi never changes at all, continuing acting as an InsufferableImbecile, even displaying more and more [[HateSink unsympathetic traits]] over time. He's also generally [[TheFriendNobodyLikes disliked by just about everyone]] outside of his group and the one girl who seemingly was interested in him ended up just manipulating him to screw him over.
* HateSink: He was already one in the light novel, but the anime adaptation takes it up a notch by making him even more unsympathetic, making sure neither his classmates nor the audience will [[spoiler:miss him once he's the first one expelled from his class.]]
* HumiliationConga: By the end of The Class Poll, after a TemptingFate boast about being safe, he learns that Arisu Sakayanagi was merely using him as opposed to being genuinely in love with him and betrayed him, not giving her class's positive points to him, unlike she promised. Her scheme to have Yamauchi orchestrate Ayanokoji's expulsion with [[ClassPrincess Kushida's help]] turns out to be a ruse that was used against him. Finally, he finds out that he's been given the most negative votes, [[spoiler:being [[PutOnABus expelled]] as a result]], and his charge at [[TheBigGuy Koenji]] fails miserably. [[spoiler:He leaves the class in tears and screams of agony as all of his classmates watch his pathetic conclusion.]]
* InsufferableImbecile: He's one of the biggest idiots of Class-D, but even compared to Sudo and Ike, he's obnoxious, rude, and will do anything for a date, even betraying his own class.
* LaserGuidedKarma: In Volume 10, [[spoiler:he ends up expelled after he willingly betrays his class in order to get a date with Sakayanagi.]]
* LazyBum: One of the less-than-stellar students of Class-D. [[spoiler:This trait, along with his other flaws and Sakayanagi's manipulations, ends up leading him into being expelled by Volume 10.]]
* LustMakesYouDumb: His perverted tendencies bite him in the back, which leads him into being easily manipulated by Sakayanagi into being a traitor to Class-D on the "[[BlatantLies promise]]" of her being his girlfriend.
* TheMole: He ends up betraying Class-D by trying vote against Kiyotaka during the special exams on Arisu's orders.
* MoneyDumb: He's among the students who have spent all of their points in the first month, forcing him to live on free stuff for his second month.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:He immediately freaks out upon hearing that his expulsion has been guaranteed. When he tries to deny it by telling Sae and everyone in Class 1-D that he has Arisu's and Class 1-A's protection, he further loses his composure when he has no "physical proof" of it aside from his own words. Then, when he hits his RageBreakingPoint after being insulted by Rokusuke, Yamauchi tries to assault him with a chair, only for his attack to be stopped ''dead'' by Rokusuke's immense physical strength and quickly realizes what a bad idea it was.]]
* PetTheDog: His only redeeming quality is that he can act somewhat maturely, although rarely, as shown after being rejected by Airi in Volume 4.5.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:He's the first classmate of Ayanakoji's to be expelled, which highly limits his chance for future appearances.]]
* RageBreakingPoint: After undergoing a FreakOut from [[spoiler:being expelled]], Haruki completely loses his temper upon hearing Rokusuke insulting him, taking a chair with the murderous intention of assaulting him.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:Arisu asks him to set all negative votes to Kiyotaka in the class poll. Yamauchi agrees because he thinks it'll get him a date with Arisu, but it was all a set up since the class ends up exposing him as a traitor and most of the negative votes end up going to him. Yamauchi still thought he would be safe because Arisu promised him her class's positive points, but that was a lie and she deliberately lets him take the fall and get expelled.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: After he believes Arisu is romantically interested in him, Haruki views himself as his class's "lethal weapon". Not only is he completely unaware of her rather obvious manipulation of him, he didn't really have any influence thanks to this "alliance" either, with the ploy to cast negative votes on Kiyotaka Ayanokoji only initially succeeding thanks to [[ClassPrincess Kikyo Kushida]]'s influence (who had to be blackmailed by Sakayanagi into cooperating) and being easily turned against him. And that's not even mentioning that he has the poorest performance in the class.
* TemptingFate: He boasts to his classmates how he [[spoiler:can't be expelled because Arisu had promised him her class's positive points...only to soon learn [[ILied she had lied]] and he's indeed getting expelled.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Ike, so much that Suzune has trouble remembering which is who.
* UnwittingPawn: Yamauchi wants to get a girlfriend so badly that it leads him into being easily duped by Arisu's promise to date him if he betrays Class-D.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: He's a part of the "3 idiots of Class D" trio with Ike and Sudo. However, when Suzune suggests him for expulsion, stating his poor contribution to the class as her first reason, he immediately throws his two supposed best friends under the bus, claiming they're just as bad as him. He then does it again when she states him plotting against Ayanokouji as her second reason, claiming that Kanji was the one who told him to cast his negative vote for Kiyotaka.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Airi Sakura]]
!!Airi Sakura
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaoIchimichi (Japanese), Creator/LeahClark (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Jennifer Medel (Latin American Spanish), Amandine Hauguel (French), Jennifer Weiß (German), Michelle Giudice (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/airi_sakura_anime.png]]
A female photographer who joined Class-D, due to her fear and nervousness, causing her to have difficulties communicating and interacting with others. She dislikes standing out and likes to take modeling pictures.
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* AttemptedRape: Episode 6 of season 1 reveals she has a stalker who sends her disturbing emails and pictures he's secretly taken of her. It later turns out to be the electronics store employee who took her camera in for repair. Fortunately, he only gets as far as unbuttoning her jacket before Kiyotaka shows up with Honami, along with two police officers who promptly arrest Airi's assailant.
* BespectacledCutie: She's a kind and adorable ShrinkingViolet wearing glasses.
* BookDumb: Her test scores are among the lowest in the class.
* CannotSpitItOut: It is pretty obvious that she has feelings for Kiyotaka, especially after he saves her from a rapist. But due partly to the other girls around him and her own shyness, she never manages to tell him she likes him.
* CatharticCrying: [[spoiler:When the day is through after her expulsion, she goes up to Kiyotaka and shows him her real face one last time before exiting the building, with the biggest smile she could muster. It's not until she's alone in the hallway that she wails and releases all that pent-up frustration and grief.]]
* DemotedToExtra: After the first season, the anime adaptation cut many of her already rare moments, effectively turning her into more of a background character.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: She has a fairly good intuition about people, as she instinctively can't trust or be comfortable around [[BitchInSheepsClothing Kikyo]] despite not having seen the nastier side of her personality.
* {{Foil}}: To her best female friend, Haruka Hasebe. While Haruka is more of TheTease and is generally easy-going, Airi is mostly a ShrinkingViolet, only able to upload her revealing pictures under her secret gravure idol persona. Hasebe is the one who insists their friend group refers to each other by their given names, Sakura struggles to be on FirstNameBasis with Ayanokouji. Finally, while Haruka is [[spoiler:temporarily be on bad terms with Kiyotaka after he causes Airi's expulsion]], Sakura herself has UndyingLoyalty to him and doesn't harbor hard feelings for that outcome.
* FormalCharactersUseKeigo: She's overly polite and formal, using ''keigo'' while speaking with everyone, including her classmates.
* GirlishPigtails: She's a feminine and demure girl with hair styled in low twin pigtails.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: She takes off her fake glasses when she takes pictures of herself under the identity of the gravure idol Shizuku.
* HiddenBuxom: While she looks average in her uniform, her street clothes make it obvious she's as big as Kikyo.
* HopelessSuitor: Every other girl attracted to Kiyotaka seems to have a chance with him, but Airi not so much because she gets the least amount of interaction with him and he sees no use in getting closer to her since her shy personality doesn't make her very useful for his plans. [[spoiler:She definitely loses any chance she had with him after she's expelled.]]
* MoralityPet: An interesting variation of one for Kiyotaka who intentionally orchestrates most of his PetTheDog moments to manipulate people. Sakura interestingly enough is the one person to whom he is genuinely kind without an ulterior motive. [[spoiler:This doesn't stop him from putting her up for expulsion in Year 2.]]
* MsFanservice: She has a well-developed figure, which she shows off in her pictures in a bikini as a gravure idol. She's also shown in a bikini that Kiyotaka describes as daring on an [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:LN_EN_2nd_Vol_4.5-01.jpg illustration]] from Volume 4.5 of Year 2.
* NiceGirl: She's one of the most benevolent people in the series.
* OutOfFocus: For a character who's set up as one of the main potential love interests for Ayanokoji, she's got much less focus than the other main heroines. Then there's the fact that [[spoiler:getting expelled]] [[PutOnABus doesn't help her case at all]].
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Her glasses aren't real prescription ones; she only wears them to draw less attention to herself. She takes them off for her job as a gravure idol.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:To save the class on a test in 2nd Year Volume 5, Kiyotaka decides to offer her up for expulsion. Airi agrees to it, and she's officially expelled from school after a majority vote against her. It's later shown she is actually doing fine, as she went back on her gravure model job.]]
* RescueRomance: She develops a crush on Kiyotaka after he saves her from being sexually assaulted by her stalker.
* RoseHairedSweetie: She's a very gentle and pure-hearted girl with pink hair.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:A non-fatal example. Her expulsion in Year 2 Volume 5 hammers in for the readers that not even the people who Kiyotaka values, and who are not a threat to his plans, are safe from his manipulations or be used as a scapegoat if they're no longer useful.]]
* SheCleansUpNicely: She looks much more attractive when she [[LettingHerHairDown unties her pigtails]], [[TheGlassesGottaGo removes her glasses]], and puts on cute outfits for her modeling pictures.
* ShipTease: She has a crush on Kiyotaka and is also one of the girls who are closest to him.
* ShrinkingViolet: She's a shy and nervous person who hates when people stare at her.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: She's one of the prettiest girls in Class D when she dolls herself up, even being a popular gravure idol. Unfortunately, her looks nearly make her a victim of sexual assault from a creepy stalker, only being saved by Kiyotaka's arrival.
* StageName: She's a gravure idol with the stage name Shizuku.
* StalkerWithACrush: She follows Kiyotaka around a couple times while having a crush on him. Doing so is what makes her learn of Ayanokoji Group's existence and decide to join it.
* SurpriseWitness: She inadvertently becomes one during Sudo's trial against three Class C students who claim he beat them up after she reveals a picture that she took while the incident with Sudo and the others took place behind her. Though this doesn't clear Sudo's name, it does at least buy his classmates a few more days to try to come up with an alternate solution to his frame-up.
* TokenWholesome: In the PoolEpisode, she wears a rash guard instead of a revealing swimsuit like the other girls.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: She and Hasebe are the only girls of Ayanokoji's friend circle in Class D [[spoiler:before she ends up expelled]].
* UndyingLoyalty: She's very loyal to Ayanokoji after developing a RescueRomance crush on him. In fact, she still thinks positively of him even after [[spoiler:being expelled by him.]]
* WhenSheSmiles: She looks prettier when she smiles.
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[[folder:Teruhiko "Keisei" Yukimura]]
!!Teruhiko "Keisei" Yukimura
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tsubasa Gōden (Japanese), Creator/JoshGrelle (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Geezuz González (Latin American Spanish), Enzo Ratsito [first voice], Rémi Gutton [second voice] (French), Alexander Gaida (German), Gabriel Martins (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/teruhiko_yukimura_anime.png]]
A boy with great intelligence, but poor athletic skills.
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* AbandonmentInducedAnimosity: He resents his mother for abandoning him and his father.
* AffectionateNickname: He's called Yukimū by Haruka.
* AthleticallyChallenged: He has always been bad at sports and concentrated on studying instead. Despite his academic ability, his poor athletic ability landed him in Class-D.
* BookSmart: He's among the best academically performing students of his class.
* BullyAndWimpPairing: He forms this with Ishizaki while in the same group during Mixed Training Camp exam, being the Wimp to his Bully.
* CharacterDevelopment: In the light novel, Kiyotaka himself points out that throughout his first year Yukimura went from a person who believed academics is everything and looked down on those who struggle to study to someone who values the power of teamwork and intends to help his class in ways not just related to studying.
* DoNotCallMePaul: He doesn't like being called by his first name Teruhiko, given to him by his mother who abandoned him. He prefers the name given to him by his father, Keisei.
* HatesTheirParent: Since his mother left the family, he hates her so much that he refuses to use the first name that she gave him.
* TheLeader: He's the leader of his group during Mixed Training Camp, which he's insecure about.
* NoSocialSkills: His lack of social skills is one of the reasons why he's in the D-Class.
* RedHerring:
** He's used as a decoy for the VIP by Kiyotaka during the Cruise Ship Special Test.
** He's this InUniverse for the role of the secret mastermind of Class D after Ryuen learns that he and Ayanokoji were the only witnesses of Manabe and her group bullying Kei.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He's one of the most studious students in Class D and he needs to wear glasses.
* TheStrategist: While not to the extent of Kiyotaka or even Suzune, he has his fair share of strategic planning. He's the one who suggests Ayanokoji's Group should spread their positive votes between each other for The Class Poll supplementary exam. He's also the one who suggests making a deal with Kohei Katsuragi to get info on Class A's chosen subjects for the Event Selection Exam.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Haruka Hasebe]]
!!Haruka Hasebe
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuikoTatsumi (Japanese), Creator/AlexMoore (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Olga Patlán (Latin American Spanish), Samira Mameche (French), Julia Vieregge (German)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haruka_hasebe_anime.png]]
A girl who tends to prefer keeping to herself. She only becomes sociable around people that she is comfortable with, such as those in the Ayanokouji Group.
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* AlliterativeName: '''Ha'''ruka '''Ha'''sebe.
* BirdsOfAFeather: After being paired with Miyake for an exam, she connects with him due to both being [[LonelyTogether loners]].
* DCupDistress: She's uncomfortable about boys staring at her large chest.
* FirstNameBasis: She's the one who insists that the members of Ayanokoji's Group should refer to each other by their first names.
* {{Foil}}: To her best female friend, Airi Sakura. While Airi is mostly a ShrinkingViolet, only able to upload her revealing pictures under her secret gravure idol persona, Haruka is more of TheTease and is generally easy-going. Sakura struggles to be on FirstNameBasis with Ayanokouji whereas Hasebe is the one who insists their friend group refers to each other by their given names. Finally, Airi has UndyingLoyalty to Kiyotaka even after [[spoiler:being expelled]], whereas her [[spoiler:expulsion]] causes Haruka to [[spoiler:temporarily be on bad terms with him.]]
* LonerTurnedFriend: She prefers to keep to herself, which is why she was a loner before forming Ayanokoji's Group.
* MsFanservice: She has a well-developed figure, which she shows off while wearing a bikini that Kiyotaka describes as daring on an [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:LN_EN_2nd_Vol_4.5-01.jpg illustration]] from Volume 4.5 of Year 2.
* TheNicknamer: She has a habit of nicknaming her friends, such as giving Kiyotaka the nickname "Kiyopon" or "Ayanon".
* OneOfTheBoys: With the only exception of Airi Sakura [[spoiler:(who winds up being taken away from her due to being expelled)]], Haruka is mostly seen hanging out with just her male classmates.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female member of Ayanokoji's Group before Airi Sakura joins [[spoiler:as well as after she's expelled.]]
* TheTease: She teases Kiyotaka about getting to see her and Airi in a bikini.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: She and Sakura are the only girls in Ayanokoji's friend circle in Class D [[spoiler:before the latter is expelled]].
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Haruka is one of the forming members of Ayanokouji's Group, being one of his main study buddies. However, [[spoiler:she ends up on bad terms with him for a while after he suggests Airi for expulsion, succeeding in doing so. This ends up eventually subverted after they make amends.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Akito Miyake]]
!!Akito Miyake
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyoutaSuzuki (Japanese), Creator/JordanDashCruz (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Miguel de León (Latin American Spanish), Morgan Sarpaux/Stevie Tomi/Sydney Taieb (French), Renato Hermeto (Portugese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akito_miyake_anime.png]]
A boy who tends to prefer keeping to himself. He only becomes sociable around people that he is comfortable with, such as those in the Ayanokouji Group.
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* AffectionateNickname: He's called Miyatchi by Haruka.
* BirdsOfAFeather: After being paired with Hasebe for an exam, he connects with her due to both being [[LonelyTogether loners]].
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: He has dark magenta hair and eyes.
* LonerTurnedFriend: Much like Haruka Hasebe, he prefers to keep to himself, which is why he was a loner before forming Ayanokoji's Group.
* MasterArcher: He's a skilled member of the Archery Club. When he represents his class against Class A in the archery competition of Event Selection Exam, he ends up scoring a point for his class.
* TheStoic: He's usually serious and rarely shows emotions.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Maya Satō]]
!!Maya Satō
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Lynn}} (Japanese), Creator/MichelleRojas (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Geezuz González (Latin American Spanish), Camille Ravel (French), Norma Anthes (German)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maya_satou_anime.png]]
A girl who often hangs out with Kei Karuizawa, with whom she is especially close. After seeing Kiyotaka's performance at the sports festival, she develops a crush on him.
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* BookDumb: Her test scores are among the lowest in the class and she admits to Kiyotaka that she doesn't like studying.
* TheFashionista: She's interested in fashion.
* {{Foil}}: To her friend, Kei Karuizawa. Both are popular girls in the same friend circle and both are [[TheFashionista interested in fashion]], along with both developing a crush on Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. However, whereas he sees Karuizawa as a useful pawn thanks to her influence among the girls and her dependant personality and eventually [[RelationshipUpgrade chooses her to be his girlfriend]], he's not interested in using Satou for his plans, [[RomanticRunnerUp rejects her]], and judges her unworthy to smile for in his inner monologue.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: After a rumor about Maya hating Onodera is spread, Sōshi Miyamoto points out that the two girls have never been hanging out with just the two of them.
* HopelessSuitor: She develops a crush on Kiyotaka, who doesn't reciprocate and turns down her confession.
* RomanticRunnerUp: Although she only falls for him because of his [[WomenPreferStrongMen physical prowess]], Sato treats Kiyotaka kindly and prepares their date. However, he ends up rejecting her, eventually choosing Kei over her and judging her as "unworthy to smile for" in his inner monologue.
* UnknownRival: When rumors are spread about some of Class D (C at the time) students, one of the rumors is that Maya Satou hates Kayano Onodera.
* WomenPreferStrongMen: She ignored Kiyotaka when she thought he was a scrawny RidiculouslyAverageGuy. When she sees his athletic prowess at a track race, she immediately falls for him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Chiaki Matsushita]]
!!Chiaki Matsushita
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Masumi Tazawa (Japanese), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Gabriela Ortiz (Latin American Spanish), Clotilde Verry (French), Julia Bautz (German), Juju Bac (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chiaki_matsushita_anime.png]]
A girl who often hangs out with Kei and Maya. She's decent at studying but doesn't really stand out in class.
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* BrilliantButLazy: She could easily score in the top 10% of her class if she truly tried to, but believes it's to be pointless because she's in the lowest of the classes.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Although she falls for his RidiculouslyAverageGuy act at first like most others, Chiaki realizes there must be more to Kiyotaka after he correctly answers the hardest question of the mental math competition of the Event Selection Evam in her place.
* {{Fauxshadow}}: Near the end of their first year, she pieces together that Kiyotaka Ayanokouji is more than just a RidiculouslyAverageGuy based on a few hints and [[StalkerWithoutACrush following him around]] and approaches him about the matter. This seems to hint that she's become a major character, who could potentially be promoted to the main heroine of an incoming arc. However, [[spoiler:she ends up retaining a relatively minor role throughout the second year, rarely getting the spotlight.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. Both are more gifted than they let on. However, while Ayanakoji is a prodigy RaisedInALab and capable of outright inhuman feats, Matsushita is skilled on more realistic level, being more on par with the likes of Suzune and Yukimura.
* MirrorCharacter: To Rokusuke Kouenji. Both come from at least moderately wealthy background and both have a case of BrilliantButLazy, being gifted enough to carry their class, but choosing not to for various reasons, be it freedom in Koenji's case or feeling like it's pointless to work so hard while stuck in Class D in Matsushita's case. The only difference is that Rokusuke is much more capable than her.
* NiceGirl: She's generally kind to everyone around her. This can be seen when she stands up for Satou after there's a rumor spread about her hating Onodera.
* SpoiledSweet: According to her, she was born and raised in a moderately wealthy family where she was brought up in a kind and free environment. She would achieve outstanding results in school and, in return, her parents would get her whatever she desired.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: After the first event selection exam, she started to pay close attention to Kiyotaka by following him around from afar.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Satsuki Shinohara]]
!!Satsuki Shinohara
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Saori Koda (Japanese), Creator/LuciChristian (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Adriana Olmedo (Latin American Spanish), Amandine Hauguel (French), Daniela Kälin (German), Luana Stteger (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/satsuki_shinohara_anime.png]]
A female student who often associates with the girls in the class. She's quite sociable, but her academic and physical abilities are both low.
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* AlliterativeName: '''S'''atsuki '''S'''hinohara.
* BelligerentSexualTension: While not really shown in the anime adaptation, Shinohara and Ike would often butt heads before [[spoiler:getting a RelationshipUpgrade in their second year]]. Satsuki also [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend denies dating him]] while growing closer to him.
* CryIntoChest: She cries into Ike's chest after coming out of her hiding spot during Deserted Island Special Test, afraid after her group had been attacked.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: When her friends ask her about her recent dates with Kanji Ike, she denies that their relationship is like that.
* InformedFlaw: {{Justified|Trope}}. She's mentioned to have an "ugly" personality by Ike, but considering their poor relationship, he's the only one who thinks of this.
* MistakenForProstitute: She gets mocked by Yamauchi after rumors of her being a teenage prostitute spread across the school.
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:She becomes Ike's girlfriend in the 2nd year arc.]]
* SamaritanRelationshipStarter: She seems to warm up to Ike after he stands up for her when she's confronted about the false rumor of her being a prostitute and even tries to punch Yamauchi for using the rumor to insult her. Afterwards, they start getting along so well that their classmates think they're dating.
* SecondLove: She's the second LoveInterest for Kanji Ike, after his first crush on Kikyo Kushida. Unlike his former crush, they actually [[spoiler:get to have a RelationshipUpgrade.]]
* SoleSurvivor: A non-lethal example. She's the last remaining member of her group in Deserted Island Special Test after Komiya and Kinoshida had to be medically evacuated following being pushed over the edge.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mei-Yu Wang]]
!!Mei-Yu Wang
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Amisa Sakuragi (Japanese), Creator/DawnMBennett (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Fer Navarro (Latin American Spanish), Geneviève Doang (French), Mascha Raykhman (German), Raissa Bueno (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mei_yu_wang_anime.png]]
An international student from China.
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* AffectionateNickname: She's nicknamed Mii-chan by the girls she's close to.
* AllLovingHeroine: She's so nice and kind that she [[UndyingLoyalty remains loyal]] to Hirata even after he mistreats her so that he wouldn't feel alone, and becomes the [[OnlyFriend only person]] to form a closer bond with [[TheNarcissist Koenji]].
* AthleticallyChallenged: She runs behind the other 1st year girls while jogging.
* GirlishPigtails: Her hair is tied up in twin-tails, emphasizing her status as the TokenMiniMoe.
* LoveMartyr: She continues to check up on Hirata, even though he mistreats her as she does so, just so that he'd know there's someone by his side.
* NiceGirl: Mei-Yu doesn't have a mean bone in her body.
* TokenMiniMoe: She's by far the shortest girl and classmate of Class D in general, which coupled with her NiceGirl personality adds to her endearing attributes. Koenji in fact becomes protective of her.
* TokenMinority: She's the only student in Class 1-D to be non-Japanese, originally hailing from China during elementary school.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hideo Satamura]]
!!Hideo Satamura
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shunsuke Kawabe (Japanese), Creator/MattShipman (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Bruno Méyère (French), Christian Intorp (German), João Victor Granja (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hideo_sotomura_anime.png]]
An otaku who helps the operation of spying on girls.
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* HonoraryTrueCompanion: While he's not officially considered a part of the "3 idiots of Class D", he usually hangs out with them.
* NerdGlasses: He's an {{Otaku}} who wears glasses.
* NerdsArePervs: He's a perverted {{Otaku}}. In the PoolEpisode, he supervises the operation of spying on girls in changing room. He's also made a list of his female classmates' bust sizes.
* {{Otaku}}: Among his interests are bishōjo games, manga, and anime.
* UnderdogsAlwaysWin: Despite being among the least impressive students of his class, he scores a point for his class in the typying competition of Event Selection Special Exam.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ryōtarō Hondō]]
!!Ryōtarō Hondō
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kouseki Kogure (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Wallace Soares (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rytar_hond_anime.png]]
A student in Class D who likes fat girls.
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* FetishesAreWeird: When rumors are spread about some of the students of his class, his rumor is that he's only into fat girls.
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: While he's not officially considered a part of the "3 idiots of Class D", he usually hangs out with them.
* LivingProp: He's been given very little characterization and importance, mostly being used to just fill in the scenes of his class. Episode 4 of Season 3 of the anime gives him the most focus thus far and even that's still a minor role.
* MoneyDumb: He's among the students who have spent all of their points in the first month, forcing him to live on free stuff for his second month.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kayano Onodera]]
!!Kayano Onodera
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakotoKoichi (Japanese), Kelsey Maher (English)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kayano_onodera_anime.png]]
An athletic girl in Class D who has a crush on Ken Sudo.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: She has a crush on Sudo, a fellow athlete in her class.
* BoyishShortHair: She has short hair, which is meant to add to her {{Tomboy}} traits.
* DemotedToExtra: While she's not a major character by any means, the anime adaptation reduces her role to a LivingProp due to not adapting her more noticeable moments.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: After a rumor about Maya hating Onodera is spread, Sōshi Miyamoto points out that the two girls have never been hanging out with just the two of them.
* HopelessSuitor: She has a crush on Ken Sudo, who has a crush on Suzune Horikita.
* MaleGaze: When the girls are enjoying themselves at a pool in the premiere episode of the anime's second season, there are two close-up shots on Onodera wearing a rather skimpy bikini.
* PassionateSportsGirl: She's good at sports.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's interested in sports and has the shortest hairstyle of all the girls in her class, if not all female characters in general. Although most of her traits are typically tomboyish, she's shown enjoying shopping and hanging out with other girls.
* UnknownRival: When rumors are spread about some of Class D (C at the time) students, one of the rumors is that Maya Satou hates Kayano Onodera.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kokoro Inogashira]]
!!Kokoro Inogashira
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinoShimoji (Japanese), Creator/AmandaGish (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]] Elizabeth Infante (Latin American Spanish), Clotilde Verry (French), Clara Campos (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kokoro_inogashira_anime.png]]
A timid girl in Class D.
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* LivingProp: She's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
* ShrinkingViolet: In the light novel, she introduces herself to the class after Yosuke Hirata. Courtesy of her shy personality, she ends up stuttering and rushing her introduction, feeling embarrassed as a result. Kikyo Kushida cheers her up, saying that she's going to be fine as long as she takes time in building up her words.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: She's a girly and demure girl whose hobby is sewing.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kyōsuke Okitani]]
!!Kyōsuke Okitani
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kysuke_okitani_anime.png]]
A boy in Class D with bad grades.
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* BookDumb: Even in Class D, he has particularly bad grades.
* LivingProp: He's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
* SpearCounterpart: Appearance-wise, he looks like a male version of Kayano Onodera.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nene Mori]]
!!Nene Mori
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaHonnizumi (Japanese), Marianne Bray (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]] Mayara Stefane (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nene_mori_anime.png]]
A girl in Class D who joined the study group with Ayanokoji, Kushida, Karuizawa, Hirata, Matsushita, and the "3 Idiots of Class D".
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* LivingProp: She's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sōshi Miyamoto]]
!!Sōshi Miyamoto
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kazuki Miyagi (Japanese), Eric Wheeldon (English)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sshi_miyamoto_anime.png]]
A boy in Class D who looks similar to Kiyotaka Ayanokoji and Ryoutarou Hondou. He points out that Maya Satou and Kayano Onodera never hang out together when a rumor of Maya hating Kayano is spread.
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* LivingProp: He's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
* TheStoic: He has a similar resting poker face to Kiyotaka Ayanokouji.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wataru Ijūin]]
!!Wataru Ijūin
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wataru_ijin_anime.png]]
A chubby student in Class D with glasses.
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* LivingProp: He's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
[[/folder]]
!!Introduced in Year 2
[[folder:Tsubasa Nanase]]
!!Tsubasa Nanase
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsubasa_nanase_ln_visual.png]]
A freshman in Class 1-D with a mysterious interest in Kiyotaka.
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* ChildhoodFriends: She was close friends with [[spoiler:Eiichirō]] from an early age.
* ConnectedAllAlong: It turns out that she was ChildhoodFriends with [[spoiler:Eiichirō, the son of a butler who helped Kiyotaka escape the White Room, and his suicide is what drives her {{Revenge}} against Ayanokoji.]]
* FormalCharactersUseKeigo: She's a very polite girl who speaks in respectful ''keigo'' to whoever she is speaking to, including her classmates.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has blonde hair and other than her initial dislike of [[spoiler: Kiyotaka]], she is a polite, honest, and responsible girl.
* HeelFaceTurn: While she is hardly a villain in the first place, she still is antagonistic to Kiyotaka when she first meets him. After [[spoiler:he defeats her without harming her]], she realizes that he's a decent guy, apologizes for her actions, and treats him as a friend afterward.
* JerkassToOne: Tsubasa is a very polite and goodhearted girl, but she's antagonistic towards Kiyotaka, to the point of [[spoiler:wanting to get him expelled]], because [[spoiler:she blames him for the suicide of her friend Eiichirō]].
* MisplacedRetribution: She blames Kiyotaka for [[spoiler: Eiichirō's suicide, despite the fact that Kiyotaka couldn't have possibly known that him escaping the White Room would result in such a horrible event.]]
* MoralityPet: Compared to all the people who have tried messing with Kiyotaka, he doesn't try to hurt Tsubasa [[spoiler:when they fight]] and is always polite to her. It helps that she's actually decent and polite, and [[spoiler: Kiyotaka realizes that Tsukishiro is manipulating her]].
* PlatonicLifePartners:
** With her ChildhoodFriend [[spoiler:Eiichirō]]. They share a very close bond without any romance between them.
** She's usually seen with Kazuomi Housen, but they're not a couple.
* RedHerring: Due to being one of the main freshmen introduced in Year 2 arc as well as her {{Revenge}} against Kiyotaka, she's this for the role of [[spoiler:the White Room student sent to expel Ayanokoji.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Eiichirō's suicide greatly affected Tsubasa to the point that she attended the Advanced Nurturing Academy in ''Year 2'' to exact revenge on Kiyotaka by getting him expelled.]]
* SheatheYourSword: [[spoiler: This is the approach Kiyotaka takes when fighting her in Year 2 Volume 3, as he opts to simply dodge all her attacks and let her tire herself out despite being fully capable of delivering a CurbStompBattle.]]
* UnwittingPawn: She is trying to [[spoiler:get Kiyotaka expelled]], but does so because she is being manipulated by [[spoiler:Tsukishiro]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kazuomi Hōsen]]
!!Kazuomi Hōsen
[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kazuomi_hsen_ln_2nd_year_arc_visual.png]]
A freshman in Class 1-D who much like Ryuen prefers to conquer his opponents with violence.
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* {{Jerkass}}: He rivals Ryuen's initial behavior in the asshole department.
* MirrorCharacter: Everything from the way he wears his school uniform to his violent tendencies may easily remind one of Ryuen.
* PlatonicLifePartners: He's usually seen with Tsubasa Nanase, but they're not in romantic relationship.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: He tried to expel Kiyotaka Ayanokouji by stabbing himself with a knife and framing him for the assault.
* RedHerring: Due to being one of the main freshmen introduced in Year 2 arc and being one of the students actively trying to expel Kiyotaka, he's this for the role of [[spoiler:the White Room student sent to expel Ayanokoji.]]
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: His strategies involve violence.
[[/folder]]
[[Characters/ClassroomOfTheElite Characters]] ([[Characters/ClassroomOfTheEliteClassD Class D]])-]]]]]
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The character page for every known Class D in ''Literature/ClassroomOfTheElite''.
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[[foldercontrol]]
!D-Class Students
!!Introduced in Year 1
[[folder:Kiyotaka Ayanokōji]]
!!Kiyotaka Ayanokōji
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShoyaChiba (Japanese), Creator/JustinBriner (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/ArturoCastaneda (Latin American Spanish), Yoann Sover (French), Bastian Sierich (German), Lucas Almeida (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:185:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kiyotaka_ayanokoji_anime.png]]
An inconspicuous student who is very poor at communicating with other people even if he wants to, thus he tends to isolate himself. His emotions are hard to read. He received "perfectly intermediate" scores on his entrance examination, since academic and athletic-wise, he is average.
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* AdaptationalBadass: The end result of his CurbStompBattle against Ryuen's gang is the same in both light novel and anime but in the light novels, he admits through the narrative that he felt some pain from Albert and Ryuen's blows. Most of this is omitted in the anime where Ayanokouji's expression remains the same throughout the entire fight and shows little to no indication that any of their hits even remotely stagger him. The only piece of light novel dialogue that makes it to his thoughts in the anime is that he acknowledges Ryuen is largely self-taught with his own fighting style.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: In the manga adaptation, where his inner thoughts and emotions are more transparent, Kiyotaka shows plenty of external and colorful facial expressions in his interactions. This portrayal not only makes him "normal", but it also gives him a more whimsical feel.
* AdaptationalSeriousness: In the anime, Kiyotaka's stoic tendencies are exaggerated to the point where he's practically robotic, outwardly and inward. Since he rarely changes his FrozenFace, along with some of his inner thoughts being obscured, Kiyotaka lacks any of the comedic moments he had from the light novels and manga, and at the same time, makes the events where he does things in anger, such as his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Ryuen, more chilling.
* AffectionateNickname: He's called Kiyopon and Ayanon by Haruka.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: He undoubtedly does morally ambiguous deeds most of his friends wouldn't do, but people can, and do, benefit from his actions. Sure, his only goal is personal gain and maintaining his sense of freedom, but he still subconsciously helps other people more often than not. Many of his inner monologues highlight this contradictory nature.
* BerserkButton: Quite subtle considering his stoic nature, but he does not like it when people probe into his DarkAndTroubledPast, such as with Suzune, when she asks who he really is, as he tells her he will help her get to Class A but never ask him about his past with a darkened shadow over his eyes.
* BreakThemByTalking: He breaks Hirata by making him feel responsible for failing to come up with and carry out a plan to prevent the first expulsion in their class, unlike Class B. All so that he would start taking responsibility for his failures and grow out of his HeroicBSOD.
* BrilliantButLazy: Despite his insistence that he's just an average guy, he seems to be quite skilled and competent not just in academics, but also in martial arts and ''especially'' exploiting people. The lazy part gradually falls apart as circumstances slowly force him to be more proactive in class events.
* BrokenAce: Later parts of the light novels suggest he is more of this trope than legitimately suffering from mental disorders. The light novels make it clear he's not so much emotionless as much as he is naive and awkward when it comes to what 'normal' social interactions are all about. Couple this with his upbringing in the White Room and his utter lack of any real affection growing up, and you'd be hard-pressed to ''not'' act like a blank slate.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: He's the Brooding Boy to Kei's Gentle Girl.
* CallingParentsByTheirName: He never refers to Atsuomi Ayanokouji as his father, instead only referring to him as "that man".
* CelibateHero: He can notice when other girls are interested in him, but he doesn't return their feelings because they don't have any idea about [[ManipulativeBastard what]] [[NominalHero kind]] [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork of]] [[BrokenAce person]] he actually is. Later on, he personally turns down Maya's confession because [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove he genuinely doesn't understand romantic love at the time]]. It's finally {{subverted|trope}} when he confesses to Kei Karuizawa just before their 2nd year unrolls.
* CharacterExaggeration: In the light novels, he is socially awkward and can actually become emotional at times (though he himself does not think so) while mostly keeping a stoic-looking face. The later adaptations characterize him in two extremes, one where he acts exactly what he thinks he's capable of and the other of how everyone else sees him as.
** In the manga, Kiyotaka's more colorful personality is transparent, making him openly emotional in his interactions with others.
** In the anime, Kiyotaka's stoic behavior is exaggerated to the point where he's near-emotionless, both inside and out.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the first three volumes, Kiyotaka's personality is notably colorful and it makes the reader think he's making the appropriate expressions to correspond, but later volumes make him more melancholic.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Of the BadassNormal variant. It's clear from his encounter with Manabu early on that Kiyotaka is a ''lot'' more physically adept than he lets on. His upbringing under the White Room includes intensive physical training as much as education, which gives him the peak-human level of fitness.
** Just before the sports festival in volume 5 (season 2 episode 4), Kiyotaka asks Sudo what the average grip strength is for boys in their class, unaware the physically adept Sudo has no idea what the average number is. Kiyotaka casually adjusts his strength to around what Sudo told him, and he ends up being second highest just below Sudo himself. Then near the end of the sports festival, Kiyotaka challenges Manabu, who is a great example of this trope himself, into a one-on-one running competition. He nearly outruns him and only loses due to a student from an adjacent line falling down and getting in Kiyotaka's way.
** Volume 7 perhaps establishes just how adept Kiyotaka really is in terms of physique. Kiyotaka handily beats down Albert (who has a bigger build than him), Ibuki, Ishizaki, and Ryuen one after another without suffering any visible injuries, despite taking a few hits ''on purpose''.
** In volume 9, the new acting director Tsukishiro, who is actually one of his father's subordinates, implies Kiyotaka's physical abilities are comparable to trained adults.
* ChickMagnet: DoubleSubverted. Kiyotaka is considered a reasonably good-looking boy, but he is so passive and unassuming to the point most tend to overlook him. Early on, the only girl who wants his affection is [[ShrinkingViolet Sakura]] [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe Airi]]. But as more of his capabilities are gradually revealed, such as almost outrunning the student council president Manabu during the school festival in Volume 5, many girls in the class begin to harbor crushes on him, including Maya Satou and Haruka Hasebe. On a more personal level, Kei Karuizawa gradually develops feelings for him as their relationship goes on, and much later, Honami Ichinose also begins to crush on him after he personally goes out of his way to help her.
* ClarkKentOutfit: His school uniform hides the fact that he has a noticeably muscular body, especially in comparison to his male classmates.
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Due to his upbringing in the White Room, nothing fazes him, barely reacting to things that would normally horrify and traumatize regular people. He doesn't even bat an eye when hearing about the suicides of his butler Matsuo as well as Matsuo's only son.
* ConvenientlySeated: He is seated in the back row right next to the window and also sits next to Suzune.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When Kiyotaka stops Manabu from hitting Suzune, the president attempts to attack him instead. He manages to skillfully evade his attacks in a way that only someone who's spent time learning martial arts could have done. When he's asked if he took martial arts lessons, he simply claims that his only extracurriculars were piano lessons and calligraphy.
* CurbStompBattle: Dishes this once against Ryuen, Albert, Ibuki and Ishizaki at the end of volume 7. Then again toward Ibuki alone in volume 7.5.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Gives a rather epic one to Kei Karuizawa after saving her from Ryuen and company in LN volume 7:
--> "I'm the one who hurt you. I won't ask you to forgive me. But please just remember this one thing. If something like what happened today happens to you again, I will definitely save you."
* DefrostingIceKing: Despite his insistence otherwise, a lot of Kiyotaka's arc revolves around him legitimately starting to view his classmates as friends.
** Hints of this show up as early as the first volume of the light novels. For example, his inner monologue over why he wanted to help Suzune after the encounter with her brother.
--> "I was starting to sound worked up, or perhaps I was actually feeling worked up. Maybe because I'd started to, rather selfishly, consider her a friend. I didn't want Horikita to come to regret her decision."
** That having been said, his need to secure his freedom from potential threats such as his teacher Chabashira who tries to blackmail him to work toward Class A, his father's underlings in the school who work to get him expelled, all contribute to stunting his defrosting, to the point he basically ''refrosts'' at times. Time will tell whether this trope will ultimately be played straight or subverted.
* DeliberateUnderPerformance: He comes off as a very average person, but is hiding multiple talents on top of having rigged his scores in his entrance exams. The light novels go into more detail: Chabashira revealed that he not only solved a difficult problem - only solved by 3% of all students this year - he also included a complex formula and used it flawlessly while getting the wrong score on a question with a correct answer rate of 76%. This is notably the reason why Chabashira and Manabu notice him in the first place.
* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: He's frequently drawn with half-lidded eyes, showing how detached he is from other people.
* EngineeredHeroics: When Ryuen subjects Kei to ColdBloodedTorture, Kiyotaka waits for her to be tortured for ''nearly an hour'' and then appears as though he arrived just in the nick of them to save her in order to keep her dependent on him.
* FallGuy: Kazuomi Housen tried to expel Kiyotaka by stabbing himself with a knife and framing him for the assault.
* GagPenis: In volume 8, it's revealed that he has a huge asset during a boy's bath when they compare to each other.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Subverted or averted depending on how one would look at it. By Kiyotaka's own admission, he has no distinctive characteristics, hobbies, or interests and makes no effort to stand out. While the 'not wanting to stand out' bit is true, the rest are lies given his immense physical, combative, intellectual, and mental prowess throughout the story. However, these "gifts" are said to have been earned during his DarkAndTroubledPast in the White Room. While one could say that Kiyotaka has the "talent" to be able to rise above and beyond the hellish curriculum, the narrative implies that what he's capable of isn't something unique to him and that anyone could be an "artificial genuis" with the correct guidance of the White Room.
* TheHeart: Oddly enough, he becomes this for his own group of friends, the Ayanokouji Group, formed after his big show in the sports festival in volume 6 (season 2 episode 6).
* HiddenDepths: Chabashira warns Suzune that of all the "oddball" students in class D, Kiyotaka is the strangest one of them all, and suggests she learn more about him before she can transfer to Class A. It takes talent to intentionally rig his grades to exactly 50% across the board.
* ItAmusedMe: Not exactly his main motivation, but this is Kiyotaka's reason for challenging Manabu into a one-on-one running competition near the end of sports festival in volume 5. He even notes to himself it's very different and much more entertaining compared to his experience running indifferently in White Room's facilities.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Subverted. He briefly cuts contact with Kei under the pretense of protecting her from being targeted by Class C. Actually, he knew Ryuen would kidnap her anyway and deliberately waited until Kei was on verge of breaking from Ryuen's torture to rescue her at the last minute, all to make sure she would become completely dependent on him emotionally.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: PlayedWith. At first, he's essentially a selfish person who plays with others' feelings through manipulative acts of kindness. However, it gradually becomes clear that while Ayanokouji uses people for his own benefit, he also subconsciously helps them simply because he wants to.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Just like his father, he treats people like tools to get to their own goals. And their hair is a bit spiky too.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: {{Invoked|Trope}}. After making Kei into his pawn, Kiyotaka deliberately exploits her traumatic past with bullying and desire to be protected from harm to make her attach herself to him and completely depend on him to feel safe. After he pretends to cut ties with her and intentionally lets her be tortured by Ryuen, he comes to her rescue to convince her he'll always save her when she's in trouble.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Kiyotaka's modus operandi. He prefers to influence and lead his classmates from the sidelines rather than [[MagneticHero draws attention to himself]]. Due to this, he often has a habit of passing off his schemes as plans others thought of.
* ManipulativeBastard: He masterfully manipulates people around him to make them do his bidding and advance his own plans. For example, he manipulates Manabe and her friends in order to subject Kei to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in order to break her spirit and make her dependent on him.
* MistakenForRomance: Many of his classmates mistakenly think that he's Suzune's boyfriend, because he is the only guy and the person in general with whom she communicates. He does, in his own broken and awkward way, actually consider her a friend of sorts.
* TheMole: PlayedForLaughs in the PoolEpisode. He snitches Ike, Yamauchi, Yukimura, and Sudo's plan of planting a camera in the girls' locker room to Suzune, ensuring that she deletes the footage without their knowledge.
* MrFanservice: He gets to show off his well-built physique in the PoolEpisode as well as in the sauna scene of Mixed Training Camp.
* NiceGuy: Played with. Kiyotaka is tolerant, and willing to help friends; on the other hand, his life philosophy differs from most forms of AllLovingHero in the direction of moderate cynicism with heavy notes of SocialDarwinist.
* NominalHero: He's actually anything but heroic and cares only for his own personal freedom, helping others in a calculated move to earn their trust and then using them for his own ends. This changes as the series goes on as he makes more meaningful personal relationships, but very, very slowly, not helped by the fact that circumstances such as the new acting director of the school conspiring to expel him unfairly with a number of invisible enforcers, which then force him to act more proactively and extremely to maintain his goal.
* NoSocialSkills: This goes [[DownplayedTrope back and forth]] as he is fairly good at reading the mood of others, but it absolutely terrible at [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry expressing his own emotions]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: His attempts to pass himself off as a RidiculouslyAverageGuy don't always work. In fact, it's implied he actually purposefully left holes in his facade for truly perceptive people to find.
* OddFriendship: With the student council president Manabu, Suzune's older brother. Despite their first encounter involving violence, Manabu is intrigued by Kiyotaka's hidden talents and treats him with considerably more respect than anyone else, especially compared to [[AloofBigBrother his treatment of Suzune]]. Notably, Manabu offers Kiyotaka a position in the student council, an offer which he rarely ever extends even to 2nd and 3rd-year students. On Kiyotaka's part, he respects Manabu as a legitimate senior and later on, expresses willingness to form a give-and-take relationship with him after he steps down from the student council. When Manabu graduates in volume 11.5, Kiyotaka goes out of his way to speak with him one last time to share thoughts and experiences in a true Senpai-Kohai fashion, noting to himself he will remember his advice for all his life in this school.
* OnlyFriend:
** Kiyotaka is the one person with whom Suzune communicates, although she still won't call him a friend. It's {{invoked|trope}}, as Suzune deliberately isolates herself from other people.
** Later on, he hangs out with Hiyori Shiina at the library since she doesn't have anyone else to discuss the books she likes with.
* PerpetualFrowner: In the anime, he's always wearing a constant frown with DrearyHalfLiddedEyes (compared to the light novels and manga, where he does occasionally have emotional outbursts), making it practically impossible for the other characters to guess what he's thinking.
* PhotographicMemory: Kiyotaka remembers everything he has done in his life ''since age 0'', a fact that stuns the White Room researchers.
* PrettyBoy: He's a more manly variant, but definitely good-looking. Kushida notes he is ranked 5th in their class in this department.
* RaisedInALab: He was raised from birth in the White Room, a specific facility ''designed'' to educate with TrainingFromHell.
* RelationshipUpgrade: After months of considering the matter, and out of his desire to learn about love, Kiyotaka privately confesses his intent to go out with Kei at the end of volume 11.5 or episode 13 of season 3, which she accepts. They plan to keep it a secret from others, though.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: By his own admission, Kiyotaka has no distinctive characteristics, hobbies, or interests and makes no effort to stand out. Too bad it's all a lie, minus the 'not wanting to stand out' bit. Kiyotaka actually likes reading, as evidenced throughout his monologues and his ability to quote famous authors in light novels.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Kiyotaka's the Savvy Guy to Karuizawa's Energetic Girl.
* SecretlySelfish: Despite his seemingly [[PetTheDog uncharacteristic altruistic actions]], in actuality the only thing he actually cares about is securing his own freedom. He has no qualms about [[UnwittingPawn using his classmates as pawns in his schemes]] to do so.
* SecretRelationship: After eventually asking Kei to be his girlfriend at the end of Year 1, they keep their relationship a secret for a while.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Being good at chess to the point of being superior to Arisu Sakayanagi for whom chess is an IconicItem; is only one of many ways the series demonstrates Kiyotaka Ayanokoji's abilities.
* SocialDarwinist: He is ready to help the weak or those who are in trouble, though only for personal gain, but he also believes that equality does not exist and is impossible in principle.
* SociopathicHero: It's revealed later on the face he puts on in front of everybody in the cast is pretty much a mask; truthfully, he cares little for any of his friends and sees them as tools to use to further his own goals. Or at least, that's what he tells himself in the light novels, as his inner monologues suggest it's not that simple. There's a lot of internal zig-zagging even in his head.
* SoleSurvivor: In the White Room, Kiyotaka came from the facility's 4th generation, which was so extreme that he's hailed by White Room staff as the 'sole graduate of the bloody 4th generation'.
* SoullessBedroom: Kiyotaka's bedroom only contains possessions supplied by the academy, hinting at his borderline emotionless and sociopathic nature. His classmates comment on how clean and empty his room is when they invite themselves over.
* StockLightNovelEveryman: Revealed to be a {{deconstruct|edCharacterArchetype}}ion in the final episode of Season 1 (epilogue of volume 3). He has multiple hidden talents because he was trained in childhood to be the best at everything, to the point he only cares about winning. He gains the attraction of women through mostly calculated moves to earn their trust and make them easier for him to manipulate. He goes out of his way to help many people in trouble, but he only wants to protect himself and will only help people if it advances said goal.
* TheStoic: He hardly reacts to anything in the anime. Downplayed in the light novels and manga, where he can and does react to things... albeit not as much, or as normally, as most people would.
* UnscrupulousHero: Kiyotaka intentionally tries to maintain [[NiceGuy amicable terms]] with his classmates and is capable of reading social cues. Despite this, his true motive is only to maintain his current lifestyle and not be sent back to the facility where he was raised. Deep down, he only views most of his classmates as tools, and the few people he is close to can be best classified as either 'people whom he does not want to make tools out of' or 'people who are too useful to let go'.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about him without mentioning that he's way more than just a RidiculouslyAverageGuy he first appears as. Or that he's been RaisedInALab for that matter.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: His monologue in volume 7.5 is this when he was preparing for his Christmas date with Maya Satou. He ends up thinking about Kei when trying to figure it out.
* WhenHeSmiles: Due to his ever-lasting poker face, the incredibly rare moments when he actually smiles are all the more endearing. He himself realizes he's only ever smiled around Suzune.
* WorthyOpponent: Notable in that he actually wants to have one because he wants to defeat his father by having the man's greatest creation, himself, be defeated. But so far, the only individuals whose abilities are sufficient for Kiyotaka to acknowledge are scarce; as of volume 11, Arisu is currently the only one whom he actually considers this.
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[[folder:Suzune Horikita]]
!!Suzune Horikita
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkariKitou (Japanese), Creator/FeleciaAngelle (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Jessica Ángeles (Latin American Spanish), Creator/AdelineChetail (French), Patrizia Carlucci (German), Bruna Nogueira (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/suzune_horikita_anime.png]]
A beautiful girl who sits next to Ayanokouji. She is the opposite of Ayanokouji when it comes to friendship; she disregards it and thinks of making friends unnecessary, thus she does not communicate much with her classmates. She is not convinced that she was placed in the D class, therefore she aims to get promoted to the A class.
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* AcademicAlphaBitch: Suzune is an exceptional student and she knows it, but her brother indicates that she's been assigned to Class D because she can't work with others. She does [[PetTheDog try an intervention with the three dumbest students]], but they walk out after tiring of her constant insults towards them, and she immediately decides to let them fail out of the school and stop dragging on Class D as a whole.
* ActionGirl: She held her own against Mio Ibuki despite having a fever for a week.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She's a beautiful dark-haired girl with an aloof personality.
* ArchEnemy: PlayedForLaughs with her hatred of Kushida, which she demonstrates by ignoring her at every opportunity. Later events in the novel play this trope seriously during their confrontation.
* AscendedExtra: The anime, due to being a CompressedAdaptation, promotes Suzune to the [[{{Deuteragonist}} "female lead"]] of Season 1. However, Season 2 amends this by putting the spotlight more on Kei Karuizawa, bringing the story closer to the [=LNs'=] approach where the female lead actually [[RotatingProtagonist changes from arc to arc]].
* TheBet:
** In order to get Kiyotaka Ayanokouji to use his full potential, she makes a bet with him about who'll score better in tests in their second year. He accepts, adding that she may even reveal the subject of her choosing right before the tests begin.
** She also accepts a bet from Koenji to let him have his freedom if he places well in Deserted Island Special Test, rising the stakes to him specifically placing first in order to be granted this.
* BeYourself: A major life lesson that she learns over the course of her first year is that she needs to stop pretending to be like her idealized image of her older brother and instead be her own true self.
* BrokenAce: She's beautiful, clever, graceful, skilled in self-defense, and virtually perfect academically, but that means nothing in a setting where classes are judged via group excellence and not individual skill. Manabu all but states that Suzune wouldn't have been stuck in Class D if she were willing to socialize with her peers.
* CharacterDevelopment: She grows from an AcademicAlphaBitch to a DefrostingIceQueen. She also eventually learns to stop trying to live as a copy of her perceived image of her older brother to please him and instead [[BeYourself be herself]].
* CompositeCharacter: The first season of the anime had Suzune take on roles that initially went to other characters in the light novels. For example, in the light novel, Kei is the one to help Kiyotaka sabotage their male classmates' attempt at peeping on the girls' changing room, as well as the one to give the RousingSpeech to the school about how Class D will eventually promote to Class A, but both scenes were given to Suzune in the anime.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the {{Tsundere}} stereotype. Her arrogance and contempt of ordinary people led to her having no friends since early childhood. Moreover, Kiyotaka practically becomes her main contact with the outside world, because, without his help, she is not even able to talk with classmates without starting a conflict.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She starts opening up to some of her classmates later on, albeit at a very slow pace.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: She grew her hair long because her brother lied to her about liking long hair. Near the end of the Year 1, she cuts her hair short, symbolizing her deciding to live as her own person instead of trying to be someone who only seeks her brother's approval.
* FriendlessBackground: Suzune hasn't had any friends since kindergarten.
* GoodIsNotNice: She may be a good person and have good intentions, but Suzune definitely isn't kind in her demeanor.
* ImNotHereToMakeFriends: She rejects any and all attempts from her classmates to befriend her, only caring about getting into Class A.
* IneffectualLoner: At the start, she believes she doesn't need anyone to get into Class A and prefers to isolate herself from her classmates. She's still forced to interact and cooperate with others to make sure Class D doesn't fail, as it would get her expelled along with everyone else. Also, most of her feats were only made possible by Kiyotaka helping her and/or letting her take the credit for getting the class out of trouble.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: She acts like everyone is beneath her to compensate for her inferiority complex towards her older brother. Despite her haughty and egotistic behavior, she's desperate to make her brother acknowledge her.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She initially claims to only care about herself. Her brother berates her for that attitude and mentions it's one reason why she ended up in Class D.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Pretty much everyone would see her as a tough, aloof, cold, and hostile person who doesn't want friends and is only out for herself. In truth, she actually has a good heart and genuinely cares for others.
* LoveMartyr: Suzune is intent on [[WellDoneDaughterGirl proving her worth to her brother]], and she doesn't pay any heed to his humiliation and abuse of her.
* MistakenForRomance: Many of her classmates mistakenly think that she is dating, or at least close to Kiyotaka, since he is the only person in general who regularly talks to her. Kushida teases her about this in episode 7.
* MsFanservice: She has a few {{Shower Scene}}s, including one where she wears underwear on an island, and was shown in a bikini in a PoolEpisode. She's also shown naked, barely covered with steam, on the [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tape_J_080.jpg illustration for the "In the Changing Room" short story]] for Volume 8 of Year 2.
* NoSocialSkills: Her main flaw. She has been so focused on trying to excel academically to make her brother acknowledge her that she never worked on her social skills. Her bad attitude makes it difficult for her to interact with others without insulting them and driving them away. For a long while, Kiyotaka is the only person she can hold a decent conversation with. She slowly improves slightly, but she still struggles to form positive interactions with her classmates.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: During the sports festival, she tells Sudo that he's similar to her because both of them became tough to prove themselves to others, but ended up pushing others away because of their bad personalities. However, it's precisely because they're similar that Suzune believes they can become the better version of themselves by working with their classmates.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: In spite of being a brilliant girl and an excellent pupil, her differences with her brother are so great that she isolates herself from other people.
* PerpetualFrowner: Her default expression is a disdainful glare.
* ProperlyParanoid: She's a naturally distrusting person, which is why she believes Kushida keeps trying to approach her to sabotage her. Turns out she's right since Kushida is secretly a BitchInSheepsClothing who is determined to get her expelled for her own petty reasons.
* RunningGag: OnceAnEpisode in the light novels, Ayanokji will take a peek at what book she's reading at the moment and [[FirstPersonSmartass will make a comment on it]].
* ShipTease: With Kiyotaka, particularly in the anime. In the light novels, their relationship is more or less the same.
* StudentCouncilPresident: [[spoiler:She becomes one after Nagumo during the third semester of the second year.]]
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: For her entire life, Suzune has lived under her more talented brother's shadow.
* TookALevelInKindness: She starts toning down her arrogant and demeaning attitude as she realizes she has to get along with her classmates and get their cooperation so they can move up the class ranking. She still isn't social enough to be friendly, but she does try to encourage and support her classmates in her own way.
* {{Tsundere}}: Harsh type. She coldly rebuffs any attempts from other people to make friends with her, yet she cares about her classmates more than she lets on.
* TsurimeEyes: She's an arrogant and strong-willed {{Tsundere}} whose eyes slant upwards.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Sister version. She devoted her whole life to education to earn her older brother's respect, to no avail. She even grew her long hair because he told her he likes it that way.
* WhenSheSmiles: Since she's serious most of the time, the rare moments when she actually smiles are all the more endearing. Kiyotaka notices how rarely she smiles.
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[[folder:Kikyō Kushida]]
!!Kikyō Kushida
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YurikaKubo (Japanese), Creator/SarahWiedenheft (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Nycolle González (Latin American Spanish), Anna Lauzeray-Gishi [first voice], Alice Orsat [second voice] (French), Franziska Trunte (German)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kikyo_kushida_anime.png]]
A popular girl with a seemingly nice and cheerful personality. She aims to be friends with everyone not just in D class.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the light novels, she claims to hate Kiyotaka at first sight and the latter is fully weary of her, and their relationship doesn't get better as the series goes on. In the anime, however, they have plenty of ShipTease moments with Kushida even asking Kiyotaka if he would either choose to be with her or Suzune.
* AlliterativeName: '''K'''ikyo '''K'''ushida.
* AscendedExtra: Due to the first season of the anime being a CompressedAdaptation, Kushida has been promoted to being the Tritagonist of the series, with [[{{Deuteragonist}} Suzune]] being the female lead. In the light novels and the second season of the anime, the female lead [[RotatingArcs changes from arc to arc]].
* AttentionWhore: Growing up, Kushida was lavished with praise by those around her for every little achievement, and she found that she enjoyed the spotlight and attention. As she got older, the praise began to diminish as she became surrounded by equally talented people, and she resorted to being the class' gopher for positive attention, the stress of which prompted her to make a blog to vent her frustrations which ultimately led to the incident in middle school. In the present, she maintains [[BitchInSheepsClothing a pleasant façade]] to keep her classmates' attention on her by making herself seem the most likable student.
* BirdsOfAFeather: During the second year, she quickly gets involved with Takuya Yagami, a freshman who also uses a FalseFriend facade, much like her.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She acts nice and friendly, yet when things don't go her way she completely becomes a different person, or rather her dark side is shown. She turns out to be two-faced, selfish, self-righteous, possessive, manipulative and can have insane reactions.
* {{Blackmail}}: She forces Kiyotaka to keep her darker personality a secret, lest [[FalseRapeAccusation she accuses him of trying to rape her]].
* BuxomBeautyStandard: She has the biggest breasts in Class D, and this is one of the reasons why she's so popular among her male classmates.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Suzune offers Kikyo a bet where they agree that Suzune and Kiyotaka will drop out from school if Kikyo scores higher than Suzune in a math test. To make sure she gets a perfect score, Kikyo conspires with Ryuen to get the test's answers. However, Suzune had predicted Kikyo would try to cheat and took precautions to make sure the actual test was different from the answers Kikyo got from Ryuen, causing Kikyo to fail the test and lose the bet against Suzune.
* ClassPrincess: Her good looks and friendly personality make her popular with her classmates to the point that she ranks third in positive votes of the Class Poll Exam. It's later revealed that she's actually a subversion; she's only pretending to be nice to get positive attention from her classmates, and in reality, she's very selfish and manipulative.
* CuteIsEvil: In the light novel, despite seeing [[BitchInSheepsClothing Kushida's true nature]], Kiyotaka still can't help but comment that she's incredibly cute.
* DarkSecret: She has a big secret that she doesn't want anyone to know and she wants to get Suzune expelled because she thinks Suzune might know about it since they went to the same middle school. It's later revealed to be Kikyo causing all her classmates from middle school to hate and attack each other by revealing all their dark secrets. She knows everyone in Class D will lose their trust in her if they find out, which would be detrimental to her goal of being the most popular girl.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Her reasons for hating Suzune are merely because she suspects that she knows about her true personality since they went to middle school together where Kushida was involved in a major incident. To make matters worse, Suzune didn't even see the incident herself, only heard a rumor about it. [[AssociationFallacy Kushida is willing to utterly destroy Suzune on the off chance that she paid attention to a rumor that she hardly cares about]].
* DudeMagnet: She quickly earns popularity from the guys.
* EvilIsPetty:
** While rather than outright evil she's insane, manipulative, and selfish, she is ok bringing down her entire class if it means she can humiliate Suzune.
** During middle school, when she was confronted by her class for her blog that held her unpleasant venting on her peers, she retaliated by exposing every single secret that was shared with her, including the badmouthing and infidelity that she had learned, sowing mass discord across the class.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Although rather insane and toxic than evil, her true persona has a deeper, mature, and seductive sounding voice compared to her cutesy one.
* FaceHeelTurn: She becomes a whistleblower for Class D, leaking information to Ryuen starting in Volume 4 (season 2 of the anime).
* TheFakeCutie: Her sweet and cute personality is faked. She's really a very mean-spirited, spiteful, and manipulative BitchInSheepsClothing.
* FalseFriend: To everyone. Kikyo only pretends to be friends with her classmates because she wants to be liked and stand out, but she's ready to backstab everyone if they discover her true nature.
* FalseRapeAccusation: After Kiyotaka discovers her [[BitchInSheepsClothing real personality]], she threatens to falsely accuse him of raping her if he doesn't keep his mouth shut, even [[ThanksForTheMammary placing his hand on her breast so she can have "evidence"]].
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: It's revealed that Suzune and Kushida went to a previous school together where Kushida caused a huge scandal. While Suzune merely heard rumors about the event, Kushida sees her as the biggest threat to her "goody two shoes" reputation and tries desperately to get her expelled.
* GenkiGirl: Normally tries to act like one, but Kiyotaka finds out she Zigzags this when he sees her at the end of episode three when she's ranting about how much she hates Suzune's stuck-up attitude and her refusal of Kushida's repeated attempts to befriend her.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: She usually has cute-looking TaremeEyes when she's in her NiceGirl persona. The evil eyes come out when she displays her darker personality.
* HateAtFirstSight: In the novel only, she claims this was the case with Ayanokouji.
* HatesBeingAlone: She tells Ayanokouji that she hates being suddenly left alone, and it's left as a possible reason for her insistence on being friends with ''everyone''.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Back in middle school, Kikyo caused an incident that drove all her classmates to hate and fight each other until graduation. Suzune happened to go to the same middle school and although she didn't know the details of what happened, Kikyo is trying everything in her power to get Suzune expelled to not take any chances of people finding out about her past. She even extends this threat against Kiyotaka who discovers the truth as well.
* HiddenDisdainReveal: In her initial interactions with Suzune, Kikyo appears to be a NiceGirl who is just trying to befriend the class loner. That's until Kiyotaka happens to find Kikyo angrily kicking a railing as she screams about how much she hates Suzune. The reasons for her hatred are explained much later as they're related to Suzune hearing about an incident that Kikyo caused in their middle school.
* ImproperlyParanoid: She puts all her energy into trying to get Suzune expelled because she's paranoid about Suzune knowing all about a scandalous incident from her middle school. Actually, Suzune only heard second-hand rumors about the incident and she was rather disinterested in it because of her aloof personality. Suzune didn't even recognize Kikyo nor knew why she hated her until she learned Kikyo was even willing to conspire with Ryuen to sabotage her. Had Kikyo just left Suzune alone, neither Suzune nor Kiyotaka would have learned the full truth of her dark past.
* InsidiousRumorMill: Back in middle school, to vent the stress of being the class gopher in her bid for attention, she started a blog where she would badmouth all her classmates. Eventually, the blog was discovered and her class quickly deduced that it was hers, turning against her. Feeling ganged up on, she then proceeded to spill all the information about them that she didn't post, such as acts of infidelity and badmouthing others had done, which led to her classmates turning against each other instead.
* {{Irony}}: At the start of the series, Kikyo repeatedly tries to befriend Suzune, who just ignores her because she thinks she doesn't need friends. By the time Suzune realizes she ''has'' to get along with her classmates to get into Class A, Kikyo has dropped all pretenses of wanting to be friends with Suzune and is now determined to sabotage her. Suzune still doesn't want to give up on making peace with Kikyo, seeing her as a valuable asset to the class.
* MaleGaze: Her breasts get the camera's attention a lot.
* MistakenForRomance: When someone asks Kushida if she and Ayanokouji are dating, she gives a casual "Nope" and Ayanokouji concludes she's being sincere about not liking him.
* MsFanservice: She has several scenes in a bikini, a school swimsuit, and a ModestyTowel, usually paired with jiggle physics. She's also barely covered with a towel on the [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tape_J_080.jpg illustration for the "In the Changing Room" short story]] for Volume 8 of Year 2.
* TheMole: During the Special Test and the sports festival, Kikyo betrays her classmates and conspires with Ryuen to sabotage her own class, all to get a chance to get Suzune expelled.
* NeverMyFault: When she was in middle school, she was desperate to stand out. Instead of finding something she was really good at and liked to do, she opted to become an ExtremeDoormat to her classmates, only to eventually crack from the stress. She then wrote a blog to vent her frustrations, but it backfired when her classmates found out. Realizing she had fallen from grace, she spilled out all of her classmates' darkest secrets to ruin their social lives, all while blaming them for sharing their secrets with her and then expecting her to keep quiet when they stopped praising her.
* PainfulPersona: Her NiceGirl act began in middle school, where she acted like an ExtremeDoormat in order to make up for her lack of talent and [[AttentionWhore gain everyone's attention]]. This ended up causing her a great deal of stress, and whether or not her darker personality was from before this event, it [[SanitySlippage certainly didn't help]].
* PsychologicalProjection: She hates Suzune and wants her gone because she believes Suzune will try to ruin her by spilling out her dark secrets to her classmates. Suzune repeatedly tries to convince her that she has no intention of being her enemy, much less ruining her reputation, but Kikyo insists she can't take any chances with Suzune. As it turns out Kikyo is projecting her own petty and malicious nature on Suzune since in the past, she spilled out her classmates' darkest secret to turn them against each other and now is convinced Suzune will do the same to her at some point.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: She turns into a traitor by selling out her class to Ryuen during the sports festival, just because she thought Ryuen would help her get Suzune expelled. After that fails because of Kiyotaka's interference, she tries to once again make a deal with Ryuen by giving him Class D's test questions in exchange for him giving her the answers of the math test to win her bet against Suzune and force her to resign from the academy. Then it turns out Suzune had made sure Kikyo wouldn't get the real questions of Class D's test and Ryuen left her to her fate, causing her to lose her last chance at getting Suzune to leave the academy.
* SecretKeeper:
** She does this with Ayanokouji, such as claiming that she was the one who obtained the old exams which helped their class tremendously during their midterm exams.
** The friendly facade that she maintained during middle school allowed her to earn the trust of many around her, and she'd eventually be trusted with some dark secrets. She later spilled out all the secrets shared with her out of spite for her classmates criticizing her blog.
* ShipTease: Occasionally with Ayanokouji in the anime.
** In episode 8, she interrupts Sakura's botched LoveConfession to Ayanokouji, and, when he tries to excuse himself from her presence, she slips back into her darker side briefly and tells him that she doesn't like being alone. She adds that she "hoped that he would..." and then she trails off, leaving everyone to guess what she is about to confess to him.
** In episode 12, she asks Ayanokouji who he would pick if it came down to a choice between herself and Suzune.
* SlaveToPR: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Kikyo cares for nothing but her own reputation and will do anything to look good in front of others. Back in middle school, taking on the persona of an ExtremeDoormat to impress her classmates only brought her stress and frustration, but she felt she couldn't quit to not damage her public image. She tried to vent by writing on an anonymous blog, but her classmates discovered what she was doing anyway and she brought them down with her by revealing all their darkest secrets. Now in high school, she obsesses about getting rid of Suzune over the small chance that Suzune might leak information about her past that would ruin her reputation again, even though neither Suzune nor Kiyotaka had any interest in doing anything against her until she kept trying to get them expelled.
* SmugSnake: Despite her villainous true nature, she fails to be an actual threat because she's so arrogant and short-sighted that she completely relies on her BitchInSheepsClothing act for her schemes against Kiyotaka and Suzune, both of whom can read her like a book and easily predict her actions to take countermeasures against her. After failing to get Suzune expelled over and over again, she tries to make Kiyotaka her new main target, unaware that picking a fight with [[ManipulativeBastard Kiyotaka]] would have worse consequences for her than anything Suzune would do to her.
* SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond: {{Subverted|Trope}}. At first, it looks like Kikyo is trying so hard to get close to Suzune because she wants to be friends with everyone in her class and Suzune is the only one who rebuffs her attempts at befriending her. In reality, Kikyo hates Suzune and wants to sabotage her because she's paranoid about Suzune leaking information about an incident that happened in their middle school even though Suzune doesn't care and doesn't have any intentions to do so.
* StupidEvil:
** In the light novel, she willingly works with Ryuen in order to humiliate and expel Suzune, and the stupid part comes into play when Suzune points out that she is purposefully bringing down class D in order to do so.
** Even more so when she says she will get rid of Ryuen as well since he had seen her hidden side... [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder to his face.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Since she hides behind a kind GenkiGirl persona, she's beloved by her classmates and even students from other classes. In the Class Poll, she ranked third place in getting positive votes. Subverted later on once her true nature is revealed to the class.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about her without mentioning that she's TheFakeCutie.
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[[folder:Kei Karuizawa]]
!!Kei Karuizawa
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyanaTaketatsu (Japanese), Creator/BrynApprill (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Wendy Malvárez (Latin American Spanish), Geneviève Doang (French), Ness Gerung (German), Stephany Custodi (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:235:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kei_karuizawa_anime.png]]
A girl with a bad attitude who is located at the top of the D class hierarchy. She fights with Kushida for their class' top 2 places.
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* AffairHair: In volume 12, Kei finds a long red hair, belonging to Amasawa from the new Class 1-A, in Kiyotaka's room. She demands him to explain how and why another girl entered his room to leave that.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She develops a crush on Kiyotaka, who by that point had her go through a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, ColdBloodedTorture, and blackmail in order to further his schemes. Even she lampshades this by remembering what Kiyotaka put her through and still accepting the fact that she has fallen for him.
* AlliterativeName: '''K'''ei '''K'''aruizawa.
* AttentionWhore: Her biography says she likes being the center of attention.
* TheBait: One used both ways. Ryuen kidnaps and tortures Kei to lure the real mastermind, Kiyotaka, out of hiding. Actually, Kiyotaka had predicted what Ryuen would do and deliberately let him use Kei as bait so he could come to rescue her and show Ryuen the difference in power between them.
* BecomingTheMask: Despite the rocky start, Kei's role as Kiyotaka's forced assistant gradually becomes less and less true as she begins to feel comfortable working for him. To the point that, in volume 7, Kiyotaka telling her he will cut off their ties hurts her more than she is willing to admit. After Kiyotaka rescues her from Ryuen and re-establishes their relationship, their partnership becomes a legitimate one at the end of volume 7.5.
* BeneathTheMask: At first glance, she comes off as a stuck-up and self-centered popular girl who relishes getting attention. However, it is revealed that her outwards personality is a façade, as she uses her stuck-up popular persona as means to escape being bullied like she was in the past.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Her backstory has some similarities with Kiyotaka's, which is why both become attracted to each other and ultimately become lovers. Both were [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer ostracized]] by their peers (Kiyotaka for the talent he displayed in the White Room, while Kei was a BullyMagnet to the mean girls who disliked her), both have personas that they use as a means of protection (Kiyotaka's [[TheSociopath White Room persona]] and Kei's AlphaBitch persona).
* {{Blackmail}}: In volume 4, Kiyotaka blackmails Kei into effectively becoming his assistant in his various plans, since he doesn't like drawing attention to himself. It lasts up to volume 7, at which point Kiyotaka attempts to cut their connection off.
* BreakTheHaughty: At first, she puts on a pompous and headstrong mask because she doesn't want to let others know she's weak. After she attracts the attention of some bullies from Class C, Kiyotaka deliberately lets the bullying of Kei escalate and sets her up to be mercilessly beaten, until she's completely broken and desperate enough to do whatever Kiyotaka asks her to get his protection.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: She's the Gentle Girl to Kiyotaka's Brooding Boy.
* BullyMagnet: In middle school, Kei was subjected to traumatic bullying by other girls due to her headstrong and competitive nature. She was humiliated, forced to confess to people she didn't like, and was given animal corpses, and other nasty things just to make her upset. She tried to change her entire personality to make herself less subjectable to bullying, but some girls of Class C ended up targeting her for harassment and abuse anyway. This leaves her no choice but to become Kiyotaka's pawn in exchange for him using his machinations to protect her, which is exactly what he wants.
* ButtMonkey: Kei is one of the most abused characters in the series. She was a victim of horrific bullying in her past. Her panties get stolen by Ibuki to seed distrust in Class D during the survival test. Manabe's group harasses her over a trivial mistake she made when she accidentally pushed their classmate. Seeing her potential as a pawn, Kiyotaka sets her up to be [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally beaten]] by Manabe's group. Kiyotaka repeatedly uses her for his schemes while sharing minimum information with her and continues to manipulate her to assure her total emotional dependency on him. Ryuen kidnaps her and subjects her to WaterTorture in a cold room to try to get information about Kiyotaka out of her.
* TheConfidant: After she's blackmailed, she essentially works as one to Kiyotaka, since she is the only person who has seen his true personality thus far. Her role as his assistant also means she has the most insight into his plans, even if she doesn't really understand them.
* CryIntoChest: After being tortured by Ryuen, Kei breaks down crying on Kiyotaka's chest as he comforts her to make her more emotionally dependent on him.
* DamselInDistress:
** The first one happens in volume 4 (season 2 episode 3), when Manabe and a few other girls in Class C manage to corner her on the cruise ship. Just as Kiyotaka plans it, he swoops into 'rescuing' her and then takes advantage of her crippling fear of being bullied to blackmail her to do his bidding.
** The second one happens in volume 7 (season 2 episodes 11-12), when Ryuen and his gang manage to identify Karuizawa as the assistant of X, the true mastermind of Class D. After a series of HumiliationConga which culminates with Ryuen telling Karuizawa she was actually manipulated by X (Kiyotaka) from the very start, she remains defiant on not telling him who X actually is, which prompts Kiyotaka to come in and rescue her.
* DemotedToExtra: In season 1 of the anime, she has fewer scenes than she does in the light novel since some of her moments were given to Suzune instead. It's subverted from Season 2 onwards, as she gets the appropriate spotlight for the relevant arcs.
* FakeRelationship: She initially appears to be dating Hirata, but it's later revealed she only asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend to attach herself to the most popular guy in class and protect herself from potential bullying. She stops relying on Hirata when he refuses to defend her from Manabe's group, but keeps on the charade of them being a couple in front of their classmates, even after Hirata notices she's actually crushing on Kiyotaka.
* TheFashionista: She's known to be the most fashionable and modish student in her class.
* FirstNameBasis: She calls Hirata by his first name to make the charade of them being a couple more believable, but they aren't as close as they pretend to be. Later on, she starts calling Kiyotaka by his first name after she becomes his main accomplice.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Kushida. Both have another secret side to their personality which is found out by Kiyotaka, but Kushida's relationship with him is entirely antagonistic, and she grows to be so wary of him to the point she wants nothing more than to see him expelled to ensure her secret is safe. Karuizawa, on the other hand, gradually develops a genuine bond with him and later even forms a romantic relationship with him. Their time in middle school is also quite different despite both of them standing out. Kushida was LovedByAll due to her [[ExtremeDoormat willingness to be the class gofer]] before eventually losing her good standing by writing whatever secret her classmates told her of them on her blog to vent out stress and then spilling ''more'' secrets when being angrily confronted by them. Kei was viciously bullied by the other girls during middle school due to her headstrong and competitive nature, which psychologically damages her to the point of being willing to do ''anything'' as a way to NeverBeHurtAgain.
** To her friend, Maya Satou. Both are popular girls in the same friend circle and both are [[TheFashionista interested in fashion]], along with both developing a crush on Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. However, while he's not interested in using Satou for his plans, [[RomanticRunnerUp rejects her]], and judges her unworthy to smile for in his inner monologue; he sees Karuizawa as a useful pawn thanks to her influence among the girls and her dependant personality and eventually [[RelationshipUpgrade chooses her to be his girlfriend]].
* GyaruGirl: She has blonde hair, and is very interested in boys, fashion, and accessories.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: She puts on a bravado by making herself act prideful, vain, and outspoken, but in reality, she's very vulnerable and fearful of being bullied because of her traumatic experiences in middle school.
* LoveEpiphany: She realizes that she has fallen for Kiyotaka after he rescues her from Ryuen.
* LoveMartyr: Kiyotaka intentionally exposes her to Class C's bullying to blackmail and manipulate her by offering to protect her from all potential threats, to make her more loyal. Even after finding out the truth, Kei finds herself unable to betray Kiyotaka, and instead pledges UndyingLoyalty to him.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Kei's relationship with Kiyotaka kickstarts when he sets her up to be mercilessly beaten by Manabe and her posse, all to make her hit rock bottom and leave her no choice but to accept his protection for the rest of high school in exchange of her absolute obedience. From then on, Kiyotaka uses Kei as a tool constantly and exposes her to danger so he can rescue her and keep her dependent on him. It's very messed up and Kei knows it, but later on, she develops a crush on Kiyotaka and ends up becoming his girlfriend after he confesses to her.
* MatchmakerCrush: In volume 7.5, she attempts to play the matchmaker between Kiyotaka and Maya Satou. Not only it does not work, but Kei also ends up realizing she has basically fallen in love with Kiyotaka by the end of the volume.
* MinionManipulatedIntoVillainy: An anti-heroic example. Kiyotaka sets in motion the bullying of Kei from Manabe and her posse, all to break her spirit and turn her into his lackey for his manipulative schemes in exchange for him protecting her from further bullying.
* MoneyDumb: She's among the students who have recklessly spent their private points in the first month, causing her to ask her friends for buying things for her in the second month.
* MsFanservice: She has a ShowerScene in the anime and is shown in her underwear while changing.
* NeverMyFault: One of her character faults is her refusal to accept her own mistakes to not let others see her as weak.
* RelationshipUpgrade: After months of wrestling with her feelings for Kiyotaka, she finally receives a LoveConfession from him just before their 2nd year. She accepts, though they plan to keep it a secret from others... which lasts until [[spoiler:2nd Year Volume 5, where she loudly announces the relationship to the entire class while keeping the Ayanokouji Group from having lunch with him.]]
* SamaritanRelationshipStarter: In the light novel and manga, Kei starts getting a more positive impression of Kiyotaka's [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative true self]] when he asks her help in sabotaging their male classmates' attempt at peeping on the girls' changing room, which leads her to believe his ruthless schemes ultimately have the best interests of Class D in mind.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Kei's the Energetic Girl to Ayanokoji's Savvy Guy.
* SecretRelationship: After Kiyotaka eventually asks her to be his girlfriend at the end of Year 1, they keep their relationship a secret for a while.
* ScarsAreForever: She has a large scar below her left breast as a result of the severe bullying she suffered in middle school.
* ShowerOfAngst: At the end of episode 1 of season 2, Kei is shown crying in the shower after some mean girls from Class C ganged up on her for accidentally pushing one of their classmates.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Despite originally being depicted as a very silly and frivolous girl, she is a lot smarter and socially adept than she lets on. This is why Kiyotaka considers her a good pawn to control the class.
* StalkerWithACrush: She ends up following Kiyotaka and Maya around a couple times due to her jealousy.
* TraumaButton: If Kei were to be intimidated or abused to a certain extent, it would trigger the [=PTSD=] she has from the severe bullying she suffered in elementary and middle school.
* {{Tsundere}}: Interestingly enough, she is a Harsh type for Kiyotaka after she realizes her feelings for him in volume 7.5. In the subsequent volumes, she tries ''hard'' to make it seem like she doesn't really care for him, but side stories focusing on her reveal she is basically helplessly infatuated with him.
* TheUnapologetic: She gets into trouble with Manabe and her posse when they demand her to apologize for accidentally knocking over one of their classmates, and Kei stubbornly refuses to apologize, which doesn't do her any favors since her attitude only motivates the girls to keep harassing her.
* UndyingLoyalty: She initially obeys Kiyotaka only because he promises to protect her from bullying, but she eventually becomes genuinely loyal to him. Even when she's bullied terribly by Ryuen and his lackeys, she never reveals Kiyotaka's name as X, surprising both him and Ryuen's lackeys. Kiyotaka then rescues her.
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[[folder:Yōsuke Hirata]]
!!Yōsuke Hirata
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyotaOhsaka (Japanese), Creator/DallasReid (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Luis Navarro (Latin American Spanish), Bastien Bourlé (French), Levin Jäger (German), Carloz Magno (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yosuke_hirata_anime.png]]
A leader in summarizing the D class. He is a perfect male student and it is a mystery why it was assigned to the falling class D class.
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* BreakThemByTalking: He's on the receiving end when Kiyotaka tries to motivate him out of his HeroicBSOD after Ayanokoji motivates him by making him take responsibility for his failures.
* BrokenAce: Hirata has been highly implied to be one for a while; he is one of the smarter Class D students, fairly athletic, a social butterfly, and is effectively the "leader" of the class. Despite this, the series has been vague about what his actual character flaw is that landed him in Class D. Even Ayanokouji and Suzune, who are both good at reading character's hidden motives, have a hard time sizing Hirata up. Eventually, Kiyotaka learns his DarkAndTroubledPast.
* CharacterDevelopment: Thanks to a rather harsh motivation from Kiyotaka, he learns to move on from his past trauma, take responsibility for his actions, and accepts that it's alright to show his vulnerable side around his friends and ask them for help when needed rather than shoulder everything by himself.
* TheCharmer: Kiyotaka notes on the first day of class that Hirata is such a people-person that the rest of the class immediately gravitates towards him.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was traumatized over his old friend attempting to commit suicide and ending up comatose in middle school.
* DecoyLeader: In a sense. Hirata is treated and viewed as the leader of Class D by his peers, but Kiyotaka is normally the one who actually works as the problem solver behind the scenes.
* ExtremeDoormat: His defect is that he's a people-pleaser to a fault. This trait comes to effect when the class has to decide who to expel with him trying to save everybody. In the end, he couldn't stop Yamauchi from being expelled.
* FakeRelationship: He initially appears to be dating Karuizawa, but it's later revealed she only asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend to attach herself to the most popular guy in class and protect herself from potential bullying. She stops relying on Hirata when he refuses to defend her from Manabe's group, but keeps on the charade of them being a couple in front of their classmates, even after he notices she's actually crushing on Kiyotaka.
* HeroicBSOD: He experiences one after failing to prevent the first expulsion in his class due to ganging up on the target reminding him of his friend being bullied and DrivenToSuicide in the past.
* NiceGuy: His most distinguishing feature is his niceness.
* TraumaButton: His extreme reaction to Yamauchi's expulsion and resulting HeroicBSOD is because it cropped up memories of when his BestFriend in middle school was bullied.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Back in Middle School, his friend attempted to commit suicide and ended up in a coma after suffering severe bullying in their class, and [[IgnoredEpiphany instead of reflecting on the outcome of their actions]], the class not only found a new person among them to torment, but those who previously [[BystanderSyndrome just didn't get involved]] ended up [[TookALevelInJerkass taking part in the bullying.]] An enraged Hirata then decided to take over the class and rule it through fear, using violence on both sides of any conflict that cropped up, which stopped the bullying, but also sucked out any joy his old class felt, causing them to operate more like robots than students.
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[[folder:Rokusuke Kōenji]]
!!Rokusuke Kōenji
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Toshiki Iwasawa (Japanese), Creator/ChristopherWehkamp (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Sergio Morel (Latin American Spanish), Simon Herlin (French), Tim Gössler (German), Dláigelles Riba (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rokusuke_koenji_anime.png]]
A student who comes from a well-known family of scholars. He ended up in Class-D for his egotistical behavior.
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* AcademicAthlete: He's a very smart student and an outstanding athlete.
* AdaptationalCurves: He's much bulkier in the anime adaptation.
* TheBet: He proposes a bet to Suzune so that he can be left alone and not be forced to cooperate in future special exams if he were to place well in Deserted Island Special Test. Horikita rises the stakes by agreeing to grant him freedom only if he scored the first place, [[spoiler:which he manages to do.]]
* BlatantLies: When the students must survive on a deserted island for a week, Rokusuke claims that he's not feeling well, despite having just swung around through the trees like a monkey hours earlier and being able to swim back to the ship, just so he can quit the test on the first day.
* BrilliantButLazy: His superb academic and athletic skills would make him a valuable member of the class, if only he bothered to put in the effort. He repeatedly skips out on school activities that he finds too boring or bothersome, like surviving on a deserted island for a week or participating in a sports festival, which comes to the detriment of his class. He only does put effort when it comes to events that involve expulsion.
* BullyingADragon: Although Kouenji remains mostly passive-aggressive at worst, likely not wanting to stoop to petty levels and not wanting Ryuuen to have a potential recording to use against him, he mockingly calls [[{{Sadist}} Kakeru Ryuen]] Dragon Boy during their encounter, ironically for this trope. He also states that he'd call suspecting him for lack of evidence that he controls Class D a stupid behavior.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's actually intelligent and academically gifted, but he is in Class D because of his narcissistic attitude and lack of social contribution, and therefore he just comes across as an egotistical and dimwitted beefcake.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: His strength and stamina are nearly superhuman. During the Mixed Training Camp, he performs a safe landing after jumping from a high cliff and single-handedly kills a wild boar.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: It can't be denied that his attitude is definitely ''odd'' - such as when he walks around wet, after a shower, stating that a wet guy is more handsome, and when he jumps around in the vines like Tarzan.
* DumbBlonde: {{Subverted}} as he's a lot smarter than he looks, despite coming across as just a dimwitted egomaniac.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: During his introduction, he refuses to give up his bus seat to an elderly woman. It's a very rude and selfish act, ''especially'' in Japanese culture, yet he argues it isn't fundamentally "wrong" when pointing out that it's ''not'' illegal for him to refuse to give up his seat just because of someone's age.
* {{Foil}}: To Kiyotaka Ayanakoji of all people. Both are way more skilled than they appear, in all kinds of areas. However, while Ayanakoji prefers to work in the shadows and only lets his true colors show to a select few when his plan calls for it and it benefits him in the long run, Koenji simply comes off as a BunnyEarsLawyer due to his eccentric behavior and rather than hide his talents, he just opts to rarely use them, valuing his freedom and his own choice to participate above all else.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Nobody in Class D likes him because he's so annoyingly self-centered that he doesn't care if his selfish actions cost points to the class. This is {{lampshaded}} by Yamauchi who points out everyone in the class dislikes Kouenji. However, he does have a high academic performance and is therefore valuable to the class.
* GagPenis: He, alongside Kiyotaka, has the largest assets amongst the male cast as revealed in volume 8.
* HateSink: Between his revolting narcissism and selfish attitude, there's basically nothing likable about this guy.
* {{Hunk}}: He has a well-built and muscular body, and is definitely one of the most handsome and manly-looking guys.
* InsufferableGenius: He's one of the smartest students in his class, despite his utterly self-absorbed and obnoxious personality.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He only cares about himself and getting what he wants, even if it comes at the hindrance of those around him.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's an arrogant and obnoxious egomaniac whose selfish behavior is a nuisance to everyone around him.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As seen in his EstablishingCharacterMoment, he isn't technically in the wrong when refusing to give his priority seat to the elderly woman, despite his action being a very, very ''rude'' thing to do in Japanese culture, since it's not "legally" required of him to do so. Even Kiyotaka lampshades his narration that Rokusuke has a point there when one takes away the emotional aspect of the action.
* MrFanservice: He's shown wearing just a speedo as his swimsuit, showing off his well-built body.
* {{Narcissist}}: He stares at himself in the mirror quite a lot.
* TheNicknamer: He usually calls other students by adding -boy or -girl to their names. Of particular note, he was the one to call Ryuen "Dragon Boy".
* NoSocialSkills: Given his sheltered upbringing, egotistical nature, and lack of willingness to cooperate, his social skills are quite abysmal.
* ProudBeauty: He knows he's handsome, with this being the main reason he's so narcissistic.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kouenji mouths off at [[InsufferableImbecile Yamauchi]] for being an irredeemable defect that deserves to be kicked out of the school.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He's from a wealthy family and they apparently pay for his points if he needs them (even though it's not allowed due to the school's strict policy).
* SecretKeeper: He figures out Kiyotaka was the one who beat up Ryuen and his gang but doesn't have any interest in spilling his secret. Although, Kiyotaka knows he can't really do anything to stop Rokusuke from revealing the truth if he ever feels like it.
* SlasherSmile: His usual smug smile changes into this when he prepares to beat Yamauchi for attacking him, although their teacher stops them before the fight escalates.
* SmarterThanYouLook: He's definitely intelligent despite his narcissistic and frivolous attitude which makes him come across as an idiot.
* SmugSmiler: He's always seen wearing a smug grin.
* SpoiledBrat: He comes from a wealthy family of scholars and grew up thinking the world revolves around him, resulting in his belief that he's entitled to do whatever he pleases even if it makes him an inconvenience to other people.
* SuperSwimmingSkills: He's the fastest swimmer in his class, with a speed of 2.153 meters/second, which is considered to be on the tier of the world's best swimmers.
* UpperClassTwit: Played with. He is intelligent, but his narcissism and privileged upbringing leave his social skills something to desire.
* WildCard: He does whatever he wants and has no loyalty to anyone, nor lets anyone tell him what to do. Depending on his mood, he can be helpful to the class or ditch them for his own comfort. Even [[ManipulativeBastard Kiyotaka]] knows he can't make Rokusuke do what he wants him to.
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[[folder:Ken Sudō]]
!!Ken Sudō
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Eiji Takeuchi (Japanese), Creator/BrandonMcInnis (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Javi Sánchez (Latin American Spanish), Arnaud Laurent (French), Jermain Meyer (German), Leandro Loureiro (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:255:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ken_sudo_anime.png]]
One of the "3 Idiots of Class-D" and a basketball team player for the club.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: In the light novels, he's a lot more of the StraightMan to Ike and Yamaguchi's antics and showed a bit more remorse in attempting to spy on the girls changing room, in the anime he has no such qualms.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He might come across as a petty thug, but he is an exceptionally good athlete. Aside from basketball he also had the fastest swim time in his class and was able to crush Class B in a volleyball tournament almost singlehandedly.
* CharacterDevelopment: He acts as an InsufferableImbecile at first, alongside the rest of "3 idiots of Class D". However, he ends up learning to control his HairTriggerTemper, acting more mature over the course of the series, and starting to put more effort in his studies.
* DumbJock: Although he has the best athletic ability compared to his classmates, he has very poor intelligence.
* FallGuy: Three Class C students attempt to frame him for an assault. Though Sudo does attack them, he claims it was in self-defense. Their story also has some holes in it, as Suzune wonders how he managed to hurt three guys around his size without taking a hit at all. In a normal fight, Sudo would've been at a huge disadvantage since it'd be a three-on-one fight. Suzune and Kiyotaka later clear his name using their own deception, and the three Class C students end up getting punished by the mastermind behind this incident.
* FieryRedhead: He has red hair and is pretty aggressive when angered.
* FirstFriend:
** In the light novels, he is the first person that Ayanokoji has a positive interaction with, and is usually the one that will invite him out.
** By the end of Volume 5 he also fills out this role for Suzune.
* {{Foil}}: To Haruki Yamauchi, one of his friend among the "3 idiots of Class D". Unlike him, Ken eventually puts more effort in his performance and is shown displaying mature behavior at times. He also actually has a girl genuinely attracted to him, unlike Yamauchi who was just being manipulated.
* HairTriggerTemper: He has a short temper and a thin-skinned personality, making him easily angered and provoked.
* HopelessSuitor: He has a crush on Suzune, but she only sees him as a valuable classmate at best.
* {{Hunk}}: He's muscular, tall, handsome, and manly.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be rude and angry, but by no means a bad guy.
* LightningBruiser: He's the most athletic guy in class D along with Koenji, he is so good in fact that he can place 1st in all of the solo competitions during the sports festival before he drops out.
* TheMillstone: At least from Suzune's perspective. Sudo is academically one of the weakest students in class and shows no interest in improving his brash personality means that he is a magnet for false accusations of misbehavior. Basically, at the early stages of their school year, Class D will have to carry him across the line if they expect to have him graduate.
* MirrorCharacter: To Kanji Ike, one of his closest friends of "3 idiots of Class D" trio. Both act as a {{Foil}} to their remaining [[WithFriendsLikeThese "friend"]], Haruki Yamauchi, as unlike him, both Ken and Kanji end up eventually [[CharacterDevelopment putting more effort in their studies, acting more mature]], and getting a girl attracted to them.
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[[folder:Kanji Ike]]
!!Kanji Ike
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daiki Abe (Japanese), Creator/AaronDismuke (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Brandon Montor (Latin American Spanish), Enzo Ratsito [first voice], Rémi Gutton [second voice] (French), Tom Ferenc (German), Guilherme de Barros (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kanji_ike_anime.png]]
One of the "3 Idiots of Class-D", who has poor intelligence, though his communication skills and experiences in camping are excellent. He is also shown to have a crush on Kushida.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: While not really shown in the anime adaptation, Ike and Shinohara would often butt heads before [[spoiler:getting a RelationshipUpgrade in their second year.]]
* BookDumb: He's known as one of the "Three Idiots of D-Class".
* CharacterDevelopment: He acts as an InsufferableImbecile at first, alongside the rest of "3 idiots of Class D". However, he ends up acting mature when neeeded, such as when he apologized to the girls for not considering their feelings during Uninhabited Island Exam, standing up for Shinohara when Yamauichi taunts her for the rumor of her being a prostitute in middle school, and helping her in Deserted Island Special Test. He also ends up displaying his wilderness knowledge and eventually puts more effort in his performance at school.
* DeclarationOfProtection: He declares that he'll protect Shinohara when she's the [[SoleSurvivor only member of her group left]] during Deserted Island Special Test.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He dislikes Satsuki for looking down on him and the other boys, but he still tries to punch [[InsufferableImbecile Yamauchi]] when the latter insults and mocks Satsuki by taking advantage of the nasty rumors spread about the first-year students, one which claimed that Satsuki is a ''teenage prostitute''.
* {{Foil}}: To Haruki Yamauchi, his [[ThoseTwoGuys best friend]] among the "3 idiots of Class D". Unlike him, Kanji eventually puts more effort in his performance and is shown displaying mature behavior at times. He also actually [[spoiler:RelationshipUpgrade gets the girl after his SecondLove returns his affection.]]
* HeroicBSOD: He's left depressed when his SecondLove, Satsuki Shinohara, chooses to be in the same group for the Deserted Island Special Test as Kyougo Komiya, who also has a crush on her. Tsubasa Nanase eventually talks him out of this, motivating him to confess his feelings and focus on the exam first, as his potential expulsion would mean he'd likely never see her again.
* HiddenDepths: He's usually seen as one of the "three idiots" of Class D. However, he's actually a quite skilled survivalist.
* LazyBum: One of the less-than-stellar students of Class-D.
* MirrorCharacter: To Ken Sudo, one of his closest friends of "3 idiots of Class D" trio. Both act as a {{Foil}} to their remaining [[WithFriendsLikeThese "friend"]], Haruki Yamauchi, as unlike him, both Ike and Sudo end up eventually [[CharacterDevelopment putting more effort in their studies, acting more mature]], and getting a girl attracted to them.
* MoneyDumb: He's among the students who have spent all of their points in the first month, forcing him to live on free stuff for his second month.
* NatureLover: Proves to be one of the best people during the deserted island excursion. His previous camping skills come in very handy as he's able to identify a river, manages to start a campfire, and easily identifies various fruits some of the girls bring back. He also catches fish for his group in Deserted Island Special Test of the second year.
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:With Satsuki, surprisingly. They eventually start dating in the 2nd year arc.]]
* SamaritanRelationshipStarter: Shinohara seems to warm up to Ike after he stands up for her when she's confronted about the false rumor of her being a prostitute and even tries to punch Yamauchi for using the rumor to insult her. Afterwards, they start getting along so well that their classmates think they're dating.
* SecondLove: His first crush on Kikyo Kushida goes nowhere. He then develops feelings for Satsuki Shinohara, with whom he actually [[spoiler:gets a RelationshipUpgrade in their second year.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Yamauchi, so much that Suzune has trouble remembering which is who.
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[[folder:Haruki Yamauchi]]
!!Haruki Yamauchi
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Mutsuki Iwanaka (Japanese), Creator/TravisMullenix (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Víctor Ruiz (Latin American Spanish), Nicolas Dussaut (French), Marc Skanderberg (German), Matheus Tayti (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haruki_yamauchi_anime.png]]
One of the "3 Idiots of Class-D", who has lying tendencies. He also has a crush on Kushida but has feelings for Sakura as well.
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* BookDumb: He's known as one of the "Three Idiots of D-Class".
* BullyingADragon: He tries to attack Kouenji with a chair when the latter makes fun of him for being irredeemably useless to the end. Kouenji easily catches the chair and states he will return the ''favor'' back to Yamauchi for attacking him. Luckily, Sae steps in to stop them.
* CompulsiveLiar: According to the interviewer who assessed him during the entrance examination, Haruki tends to lie, which really bites him in the ass upon his exposure as a traitor during Volume 10.
* DefiantToTheEnd: {{Subverted|Trope}} as it's framed as him rejecting the reality of his consequences rather than being brave. When Haruki ends up getting exposed as a traitor by Suzune and faced expulsion, Haruki continues to selfishly deny any wrongdoing, attempts to say that he was "[[FrameUp framed]]", insults his now former classmates while boasting that Arisu and Class 1-A would save him. Then, when ''that'' didn't work since he and Arisu never made a "written contract" to protect him, which means that he has no physical proof besides his own word to go by, Haruki undergoes a complete VillainousBreakdown, leading to him attempting to assault Rokusuke with a chair when the latter insults him.
* {{Foil}}: To the remaining two members of the "3 idiots of Class D", Sudo and Ike. Both of them [[CharacterDevelopment mature]] over the course of the series, eventually starting to put more effort in their studies and displaying more responsible behavior. Both also end up having girls attracted to them. Meanwhile, Yamauichi never changes at all, continuing acting as an InsufferableImbecile, even displaying more and more [[HateSink unsympathetic traits]] over time. He's also generally [[TheFriendNobodyLikes disliked by just about everyone]] outside of his group and the one girl who seemingly was interested in him ended up just manipulating him to screw him over.
* HateSink: He was already one in the light novel, but the anime adaptation takes it up a notch by making him even more unsympathetic, making sure neither his classmates nor the audience will [[spoiler:miss him once he's the first one expelled from his class.]]
* HumiliationConga: By the end of The Class Poll, after a TemptingFate boast about being safe, he learns that Arisu Sakayanagi was merely using him as opposed to being genuinely in love with him and betrayed him, not giving her class's positive points to him, unlike she promised. Her scheme to have Yamauchi orchestrate Ayanokoji's expulsion with [[ClassPrincess Kushida's help]] turns out to be a ruse that was used against him. Finally, he finds out that he's been given the most negative votes, [[spoiler:being [[PutOnABus expelled]] as a result]], and his charge at [[TheBigGuy Koenji]] fails miserably. [[spoiler:He leaves the class in tears and screams of agony as all of his classmates watch his pathetic conclusion.]]
* InsufferableImbecile: He's one of the biggest idiots of Class-D, but even compared to Sudo and Ike, he's obnoxious, rude, and will do anything for a date, even betraying his own class.
* LaserGuidedKarma: In Volume 10, [[spoiler:he ends up expelled after he willingly betrays his class in order to get a date with Sakayanagi.]]
* LazyBum: One of the less-than-stellar students of Class-D. [[spoiler:This trait, along with his other flaws and Sakayanagi's manipulations, ends up leading him into being expelled by Volume 10.]]
* LustMakesYouDumb: His perverted tendencies bite him in the back, which leads him into being easily manipulated by Sakayanagi into being a traitor to Class-D on the "[[BlatantLies promise]]" of her being his girlfriend.
* TheMole: He ends up betraying Class-D by trying vote against Kiyotaka during the special exams on Arisu's orders.
* MoneyDumb: He's among the students who have spent all of their points in the first month, forcing him to live on free stuff for his second month.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:He immediately freaks out upon hearing that his expulsion has been guaranteed. When he tries to deny it by telling Sae and everyone in Class 1-D that he has Arisu's and Class 1-A's protection, he further loses his composure when he has no "physical proof" of it aside from his own words. Then, when he hits his RageBreakingPoint after being insulted by Rokusuke, Yamauchi tries to assault him with a chair, only for his attack to be stopped ''dead'' by Rokusuke's immense physical strength and quickly realizes what a bad idea it was.]]
* PetTheDog: His only redeeming quality is that he can act somewhat maturely, although rarely, as shown after being rejected by Airi in Volume 4.5.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:He's the first classmate of Ayanakoji's to be expelled, which highly limits his chance for future appearances.]]
* RageBreakingPoint: After undergoing a FreakOut from [[spoiler:being expelled]], Haruki completely loses his temper upon hearing Rokusuke insulting him, taking a chair with the murderous intention of assaulting him.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:Arisu asks him to set all negative votes to Kiyotaka in the class poll. Yamauchi agrees because he thinks it'll get him a date with Arisu, but it was all a set up since the class ends up exposing him as a traitor and most of the negative votes end up going to him. Yamauchi still thought he would be safe because Arisu promised him her class's positive points, but that was a lie and she deliberately lets him take the fall and get expelled.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: After he believes Arisu is romantically interested in him, Haruki views himself as his class's "lethal weapon". Not only is he completely unaware of her rather obvious manipulation of him, he didn't really have any influence thanks to this "alliance" either, with the ploy to cast negative votes on Kiyotaka Ayanokoji only initially succeeding thanks to [[ClassPrincess Kikyo Kushida]]'s influence (who had to be blackmailed by Sakayanagi into cooperating) and being easily turned against him. And that's not even mentioning that he has the poorest performance in the class.
* TemptingFate: He boasts to his classmates how he [[spoiler:can't be expelled because Arisu had promised him her class's positive points...only to soon learn [[ILied she had lied]] and he's indeed getting expelled.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Ike, so much that Suzune has trouble remembering which is who.
* UnwittingPawn: Yamauchi wants to get a girlfriend so badly that it leads him into being easily duped by Arisu's promise to date him if he betrays Class-D.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: He's a part of the "3 idiots of Class D" trio with Ike and Sudo. However, when Suzune suggests him for expulsion, stating his poor contribution to the class as her first reason, he immediately throws his two supposed best friends under the bus, claiming they're just as bad as him. He then does it again when she states him plotting against Ayanokouji as her second reason, claiming that Kanji was the one who told him to cast his negative vote for Kiyotaka.
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[[folder:Airi Sakura]]
!!Airi Sakura
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaoIchimichi (Japanese), Creator/LeahClark (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Jennifer Medel (Latin American Spanish), Amandine Hauguel (French), Jennifer Weiß (German), Michelle Giudice (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/airi_sakura_anime.png]]
A female photographer who joined Class-D, due to her fear and nervousness, causing her to have difficulties communicating and interacting with others. She dislikes standing out and likes to take modeling pictures.
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* AttemptedRape: Episode 6 of season 1 reveals she has a stalker who sends her disturbing emails and pictures he's secretly taken of her. It later turns out to be the electronics store employee who took her camera in for repair. Fortunately, he only gets as far as unbuttoning her jacket before Kiyotaka shows up with Honami, along with two police officers who promptly arrest Airi's assailant.
* BespectacledCutie: She's a kind and adorable ShrinkingViolet wearing glasses.
* BookDumb: Her test scores are among the lowest in the class.
* CannotSpitItOut: It is pretty obvious that she has feelings for Kiyotaka, especially after he saves her from a rapist. But due partly to the other girls around him and her own shyness, she never manages to tell him she likes him.
* CatharticCrying: [[spoiler:When the day is through after her expulsion, she goes up to Kiyotaka and shows him her real face one last time before exiting the building, with the biggest smile she could muster. It's not until she's alone in the hallway that she wails and releases all that pent-up frustration and grief.]]
* DemotedToExtra: After the first season, the anime adaptation cut many of her already rare moments, effectively turning her into more of a background character.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: She has a fairly good intuition about people, as she instinctively can't trust or be comfortable around [[BitchInSheepsClothing Kikyo]] despite not having seen the nastier side of her personality.
* {{Foil}}: To her best female friend, Haruka Hasebe. While Haruka is more of TheTease and is generally easy-going, Airi is mostly a ShrinkingViolet, only able to upload her revealing pictures under her secret gravure idol persona. Hasebe is the one who insists their friend group refers to each other by their given names, Sakura struggles to be on FirstNameBasis with Ayanokouji. Finally, while Haruka is [[spoiler:temporarily be on bad terms with Kiyotaka after he causes Airi's expulsion]], Sakura herself has UndyingLoyalty to him and doesn't harbor hard feelings for that outcome.
* FormalCharactersUseKeigo: She's overly polite and formal, using ''keigo'' while speaking with everyone, including her classmates.
* GirlishPigtails: She's a feminine and demure girl with hair styled in low twin pigtails.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: She takes off her fake glasses when she takes pictures of herself under the identity of the gravure idol Shizuku.
* HiddenBuxom: While she looks average in her uniform, her street clothes make it obvious she's as big as Kikyo.
* HopelessSuitor: Every other girl attracted to Kiyotaka seems to have a chance with him, but Airi not so much because she gets the least amount of interaction with him and he sees no use in getting closer to her since her shy personality doesn't make her very useful for his plans. [[spoiler:She definitely loses any chance she had with him after she's expelled.]]
* MoralityPet: An interesting variation of one for Kiyotaka who intentionally orchestrates most of his PetTheDog moments to manipulate people. Sakura interestingly enough is the one person to whom he is genuinely kind without an ulterior motive. [[spoiler:This doesn't stop him from putting her up for expulsion in Year 2.]]
* MsFanservice: She has a well-developed figure, which she shows off in her pictures in a bikini as a gravure idol. She's also shown in a bikini that Kiyotaka describes as daring on an [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:LN_EN_2nd_Vol_4.5-01.jpg illustration]] from Volume 4.5 of Year 2.
* NiceGirl: She's one of the most benevolent people in the series.
* OutOfFocus: For a character who's set up as one of the main potential love interests for Ayanokoji, she's got much less focus than the other main heroines. Then there's the fact that [[spoiler:getting expelled]] [[PutOnABus doesn't help her case at all]].
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Her glasses aren't real prescription ones; she only wears them to draw less attention to herself. She takes them off for her job as a gravure idol.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:To save the class on a test in 2nd Year Volume 5, Kiyotaka decides to offer her up for expulsion. Airi agrees to it, and she's officially expelled from school after a majority vote against her. It's later shown she is actually doing fine, as she went back on her gravure model job.]]
* RescueRomance: She develops a crush on Kiyotaka after he saves her from being sexually assaulted by her stalker.
* RoseHairedSweetie: She's a very gentle and pure-hearted girl with pink hair.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:A non-fatal example. Her expulsion in Year 2 Volume 5 hammers in for the readers that not even the people who Kiyotaka values, and who are not a threat to his plans, are safe from his manipulations or be used as a scapegoat if they're no longer useful.]]
* SheCleansUpNicely: She looks much more attractive when she [[LettingHerHairDown unties her pigtails]], [[TheGlassesGottaGo removes her glasses]], and puts on cute outfits for her modeling pictures.
* ShipTease: She has a crush on Kiyotaka and is also one of the girls who are closest to him.
* ShrinkingViolet: She's a shy and nervous person who hates when people stare at her.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: She's one of the prettiest girls in Class D when she dolls herself up, even being a popular gravure idol. Unfortunately, her looks nearly make her a victim of sexual assault from a creepy stalker, only being saved by Kiyotaka's arrival.
* StageName: She's a gravure idol with the stage name Shizuku.
* StalkerWithACrush: She follows Kiyotaka around a couple times while having a crush on him. Doing so is what makes her learn of Ayanokoji Group's existence and decide to join it.
* SurpriseWitness: She inadvertently becomes one during Sudo's trial against three Class C students who claim he beat them up after she reveals a picture that she took while the incident with Sudo and the others took place behind her. Though this doesn't clear Sudo's name, it does at least buy his classmates a few more days to try to come up with an alternate solution to his frame-up.
* TokenWholesome: In the PoolEpisode, she wears a rash guard instead of a revealing swimsuit like the other girls.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: She and Hasebe are the only girls of Ayanokoji's friend circle in Class D [[spoiler:before she ends up expelled]].
* UndyingLoyalty: She's very loyal to Ayanokoji after developing a RescueRomance crush on him. In fact, she still thinks positively of him even after [[spoiler:being expelled by him.]]
* WhenSheSmiles: She looks prettier when she smiles.
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[[folder:Teruhiko "Keisei" Yukimura]]
!!Teruhiko "Keisei" Yukimura
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tsubasa Gōden (Japanese), Creator/JoshGrelle (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Geezuz González (Latin American Spanish), Enzo Ratsito [first voice], Rémi Gutton [second voice] (French), Alexander Gaida (German), Gabriel Martins (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/teruhiko_yukimura_anime.png]]
A boy with great intelligence, but poor athletic skills.
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* AbandonmentInducedAnimosity: He resents his mother for abandoning him and his father.
* AffectionateNickname: He's called Yukimū by Haruka.
* AthleticallyChallenged: He has always been bad at sports and concentrated on studying instead. Despite his academic ability, his poor athletic ability landed him in Class-D.
* BookSmart: He's among the best academically performing students of his class.
* BullyAndWimpPairing: He forms this with Ishizaki while in the same group during Mixed Training Camp exam, being the Wimp to his Bully.
* CharacterDevelopment: In the light novel, Kiyotaka himself points out that throughout his first year Yukimura went from a person who believed academics is everything and looked down on those who struggle to study to someone who values the power of teamwork and intends to help his class in ways not just related to studying.
* DoNotCallMePaul: He doesn't like being called by his first name Teruhiko, given to him by his mother who abandoned him. He prefers the name given to him by his father, Keisei.
* HatesTheirParent: Since his mother left the family, he hates her so much that he refuses to use the first name that she gave him.
* TheLeader: He's the leader of his group during Mixed Training Camp, which he's insecure about.
* NoSocialSkills: His lack of social skills is one of the reasons why he's in the D-Class.
* RedHerring:
** He's used as a decoy for the VIP by Kiyotaka during the Cruise Ship Special Test.
** He's this InUniverse for the role of the secret mastermind of Class D after Ryuen learns that he and Ayanokoji were the only witnesses of Manabe and her group bullying Kei.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He's one of the most studious students in Class D and he needs to wear glasses.
* TheStrategist: While not to the extent of Kiyotaka or even Suzune, he has his fair share of strategic planning. He's the one who suggests Ayanokoji's Group should spread their positive votes between each other for The Class Poll supplementary exam. He's also the one who suggests making a deal with Kohei Katsuragi to get info on Class A's chosen subjects for the Event Selection Exam.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Haruka Hasebe]]
!!Haruka Hasebe
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuikoTatsumi (Japanese), Creator/AlexMoore (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Olga Patlán (Latin American Spanish), Samira Mameche (French), Julia Vieregge (German)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haruka_hasebe_anime.png]]
A girl who tends to prefer keeping to herself. She only becomes sociable around people that she is comfortable with, such as those in the Ayanokouji Group.
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* AlliterativeName: '''Ha'''ruka '''Ha'''sebe.
* BirdsOfAFeather: After being paired with Miyake for an exam, she connects with him due to both being [[LonelyTogether loners]].
* DCupDistress: She's uncomfortable about boys staring at her large chest.
* FirstNameBasis: She's the one who insists that the members of Ayanokoji's Group should refer to each other by their first names.
* {{Foil}}: To her best female friend, Airi Sakura. While Airi is mostly a ShrinkingViolet, only able to upload her revealing pictures under her secret gravure idol persona, Haruka is more of TheTease and is generally easy-going. Sakura struggles to be on FirstNameBasis with Ayanokouji whereas Hasebe is the one who insists their friend group refers to each other by their given names. Finally, Airi has UndyingLoyalty to Kiyotaka even after [[spoiler:being expelled]], whereas her [[spoiler:expulsion]] causes Haruka to [[spoiler:temporarily be on bad terms with him.]]
* LonerTurnedFriend: She prefers to keep to herself, which is why she was a loner before forming Ayanokoji's Group.
* MsFanservice: She has a well-developed figure, which she shows off while wearing a bikini that Kiyotaka describes as daring on an [[https://you-zitsu.fandom.com/wiki/File:LN_EN_2nd_Vol_4.5-01.jpg illustration]] from Volume 4.5 of Year 2.
* TheNicknamer: She has a habit of nicknaming her friends, such as giving Kiyotaka the nickname "Kiyopon" or "Ayanon".
* OneOfTheBoys: With the only exception of Airi Sakura [[spoiler:(who winds up being taken away from her due to being expelled)]], Haruka is mostly seen hanging out with just her male classmates.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female member of Ayanokoji's Group before Airi Sakura joins [[spoiler:as well as after she's expelled.]]
* TheTease: She teases Kiyotaka about getting to see her and Airi in a bikini.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: She and Sakura are the only girls in Ayanokoji's friend circle in Class D [[spoiler:before the latter is expelled]].
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Haruka is one of the forming members of Ayanokouji's Group, being one of his main study buddies. However, [[spoiler:she ends up on bad terms with him for a while after he suggests Airi for expulsion, succeeding in doing so. This ends up eventually subverted after they make amends.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Akito Miyake]]
!!Akito Miyake
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyoutaSuzuki (Japanese), Creator/JordanDashCruz (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Miguel de León (Latin American Spanish), Morgan Sarpaux/Stevie Tomi/Sydney Taieb (French), Renato Hermeto (Portugese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akito_miyake_anime.png]]
A boy who tends to prefer keeping to himself. He only becomes sociable around people that he is comfortable with, such as those in the Ayanokouji Group.
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* AffectionateNickname: He's called Miyatchi by Haruka.
* BirdsOfAFeather: After being paired with Hasebe for an exam, he connects with her due to both being [[LonelyTogether loners]].
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: He has dark magenta hair and eyes.
* LonerTurnedFriend: Much like Haruka Hasebe, he prefers to keep to himself, which is why he was a loner before forming Ayanokoji's Group.
* MasterArcher: He's a skilled member of the Archery Club. When he represents his class against Class A in the archery competition of Event Selection Exam, he ends up scoring a point for his class.
* TheStoic: He's usually serious and rarely shows emotions.
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[[folder:Maya Satō]]
!!Maya Satō
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Lynn}} (Japanese), Creator/MichelleRojas (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Geezuz González (Latin American Spanish), Camille Ravel (French), Norma Anthes (German)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maya_satou_anime.png]]
A girl who often hangs out with Kei Karuizawa, with whom she is especially close. After seeing Kiyotaka's performance at the sports festival, she develops a crush on him.
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* BookDumb: Her test scores are among the lowest in the class and she admits to Kiyotaka that she doesn't like studying.
* TheFashionista: She's interested in fashion.
* {{Foil}}: To her friend, Kei Karuizawa. Both are popular girls in the same friend circle and both are [[TheFashionista interested in fashion]], along with both developing a crush on Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. However, whereas he sees Karuizawa as a useful pawn thanks to her influence among the girls and her dependant personality and eventually [[RelationshipUpgrade chooses her to be his girlfriend]], he's not interested in using Satou for his plans, [[RomanticRunnerUp rejects her]], and judges her unworthy to smile for in his inner monologue.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: After a rumor about Maya hating Onodera is spread, Sōshi Miyamoto points out that the two girls have never been hanging out with just the two of them.
* HopelessSuitor: She develops a crush on Kiyotaka, who doesn't reciprocate and turns down her confession.
* RomanticRunnerUp: Although she only falls for him because of his [[WomenPreferStrongMen physical prowess]], Sato treats Kiyotaka kindly and prepares their date. However, he ends up rejecting her, eventually choosing Kei over her and judging her as "unworthy to smile for" in his inner monologue.
* UnknownRival: When rumors are spread about some of Class D (C at the time) students, one of the rumors is that Maya Satou hates Kayano Onodera.
* WomenPreferStrongMen: She ignored Kiyotaka when she thought he was a scrawny RidiculouslyAverageGuy. When she sees his athletic prowess at a track race, she immediately falls for him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Chiaki Matsushita]]
!!Chiaki Matsushita
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Masumi Tazawa (Japanese), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Gabriela Ortiz (Latin American Spanish), Clotilde Verry (French), Julia Bautz (German), Juju Bac (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chiaki_matsushita_anime.png]]
A girl who often hangs out with Kei and Maya. She's decent at studying but doesn't really stand out in class.
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* BrilliantButLazy: She could easily score in the top 10% of her class if she truly tried to, but believes it's to be pointless because she's in the lowest of the classes.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Although she falls for his RidiculouslyAverageGuy act at first like most others, Chiaki realizes there must be more to Kiyotaka after he correctly answers the hardest question of the mental math competition of the Event Selection Evam in her place.
* {{Fauxshadow}}: Near the end of their first year, she pieces together that Kiyotaka Ayanokouji is more than just a RidiculouslyAverageGuy based on a few hints and [[StalkerWithoutACrush following him around]] and approaches him about the matter. This seems to hint that she's become a major character, who could potentially be promoted to the main heroine of an incoming arc. However, [[spoiler:she ends up retaining a relatively minor role throughout the second year, rarely getting the spotlight.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. Both are more gifted than they let on. However, while Ayanakoji is a prodigy RaisedInALab and capable of outright inhuman feats, Matsushita is skilled on more realistic level, being more on par with the likes of Suzune and Yukimura.
* MirrorCharacter: To Rokusuke Kouenji. Both come from at least moderately wealthy background and both have a case of BrilliantButLazy, being gifted enough to carry their class, but choosing not to for various reasons, be it freedom in Koenji's case or feeling like it's pointless to work so hard while stuck in Class D in Matsushita's case. The only difference is that Rokusuke is much more capable than her.
* NiceGirl: She's generally kind to everyone around her. This can be seen when she stands up for Satou after there's a rumor spread about her hating Onodera.
* SpoiledSweet: According to her, she was born and raised in a moderately wealthy family where she was brought up in a kind and free environment. She would achieve outstanding results in school and, in return, her parents would get her whatever she desired.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: After the first event selection exam, she started to pay close attention to Kiyotaka by following him around from afar.
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[[folder:Satsuki Shinohara]]
!!Satsuki Shinohara
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Saori Koda (Japanese), Creator/LuciChristian (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Adriana Olmedo (Latin American Spanish), Amandine Hauguel (French), Daniela Kälin (German), Luana Stteger (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/satsuki_shinohara_anime.png]]
A female student who often associates with the girls in the class. She's quite sociable, but her academic and physical abilities are both low.
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* AlliterativeName: '''S'''atsuki '''S'''hinohara.
* BelligerentSexualTension: While not really shown in the anime adaptation, Shinohara and Ike would often butt heads before [[spoiler:getting a RelationshipUpgrade in their second year]]. Satsuki also [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend denies dating him]] while growing closer to him.
* CryIntoChest: She cries into Ike's chest after coming out of her hiding spot during Deserted Island Special Test, afraid after her group had been attacked.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: When her friends ask her about her recent dates with Kanji Ike, she denies that their relationship is like that.
* InformedFlaw: {{Justified|Trope}}. She's mentioned to have an "ugly" personality by Ike, but considering their poor relationship, he's the only one who thinks of this.
* MistakenForProstitute: She gets mocked by Yamauchi after rumors of her being a teenage prostitute spread across the school.
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:She becomes Ike's girlfriend in the 2nd year arc.]]
* SamaritanRelationshipStarter: She seems to warm up to Ike after he stands up for her when she's confronted about the false rumor of her being a prostitute and even tries to punch Yamauchi for using the rumor to insult her. Afterwards, they start getting along so well that their classmates think they're dating.
* SecondLove: She's the second LoveInterest for Kanji Ike, after his first crush on Kikyo Kushida. Unlike his former crush, they actually [[spoiler:get to have a RelationshipUpgrade.]]
* SoleSurvivor: A non-lethal example. She's the last remaining member of her group in Deserted Island Special Test after Komiya and Kinoshida had to be medically evacuated following being pushed over the edge.
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[[folder:Mei-Yu Wang]]
!!Mei-Yu Wang
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Amisa Sakuragi (Japanese), Creator/DawnMBennett (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Fer Navarro (Latin American Spanish), Geneviève Doang (French), Mascha Raykhman (German), Raissa Bueno (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mei_yu_wang_anime.png]]
An international student from China.
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* AffectionateNickname: She's nicknamed Mii-chan by the girls she's close to.
* AllLovingHeroine: She's so nice and kind that she [[UndyingLoyalty remains loyal]] to Hirata even after he mistreats her so that he wouldn't feel alone, and becomes the [[OnlyFriend only person]] to form a closer bond with [[TheNarcissist Koenji]].
* AthleticallyChallenged: She runs behind the other 1st year girls while jogging.
* GirlishPigtails: Her hair is tied up in twin-tails, emphasizing her status as the TokenMiniMoe.
* LoveMartyr: She continues to check up on Hirata, even though he mistreats her as she does so, just so that he'd know there's someone by his side.
* NiceGirl: Mei-Yu doesn't have a mean bone in her body.
* TokenMiniMoe: She's by far the shortest girl and classmate of Class D in general, which coupled with her NiceGirl personality adds to her endearing attributes. Koenji in fact becomes protective of her.
* TokenMinority: She's the only student in Class 1-D to be non-Japanese, originally hailing from China during elementary school.
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[[folder:Hideo Satamura]]
!!Hideo Satamura
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shunsuke Kawabe (Japanese), Creator/MattShipman (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Bruno Méyère (French), Christian Intorp (German), João Victor Granja (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hideo_sotomura_anime.png]]
An otaku who helps the operation of spying on girls.
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* HonoraryTrueCompanion: While he's not officially considered a part of the "3 idiots of Class D", he usually hangs out with them.
* NerdGlasses: He's an {{Otaku}} who wears glasses.
* NerdsArePervs: He's a perverted {{Otaku}}. In the PoolEpisode, he supervises the operation of spying on girls in changing room. He's also made a list of his female classmates' bust sizes.
* {{Otaku}}: Among his interests are bishōjo games, manga, and anime.
* UnderdogsAlwaysWin: Despite being among the least impressive students of his class, he scores a point for his class in the typying competition of Event Selection Special Exam.
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[[folder:Ryōtarō Hondō]]
!!Ryōtarō Hondō
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kouseki Kogure (Japanese)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Wallace Soares (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rytar_hond_anime.png]]
A student in Class D who likes fat girls.
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* FetishesAreWeird: When rumors are spread about some of the students of his class, his rumor is that he's only into fat girls.
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: While he's not officially considered a part of the "3 idiots of Class D", he usually hangs out with them.
* LivingProp: He's been given very little characterization and importance, mostly being used to just fill in the scenes of his class. Episode 4 of Season 3 of the anime gives him the most focus thus far and even that's still a minor role.
* MoneyDumb: He's among the students who have spent all of their points in the first month, forcing him to live on free stuff for his second month.
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[[folder:Kayano Onodera]]
!!Kayano Onodera
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakotoKoichi (Japanese), Kelsey Maher (English)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kayano_onodera_anime.png]]
An athletic girl in Class D who has a crush on Ken Sudo.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: She has a crush on Sudo, a fellow athlete in her class.
* BoyishShortHair: She has short hair, which is meant to add to her {{Tomboy}} traits.
* DemotedToExtra: While she's not a major character by any means, the anime adaptation reduces her role to a LivingProp due to not adapting her more noticeable moments.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: After a rumor about Maya hating Onodera is spread, Sōshi Miyamoto points out that the two girls have never been hanging out with just the two of them.
* HopelessSuitor: She has a crush on Ken Sudo, who has a crush on Suzune Horikita.
* MaleGaze: When the girls are enjoying themselves at a pool in the premiere episode of the anime's second season, there are two close-up shots on Onodera wearing a rather skimpy bikini.
* PassionateSportsGirl: She's good at sports.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's interested in sports and has the shortest hairstyle of all the girls in her class, if not all female characters in general. Although most of her traits are typically tomboyish, she's shown enjoying shopping and hanging out with other girls.
* UnknownRival: When rumors are spread about some of Class D (C at the time) students, one of the rumors is that Maya Satou hates Kayano Onodera.
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[[folder:Kokoro Inogashira]]
!!Kokoro Inogashira
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinoShimoji (Japanese), Creator/AmandaGish (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]] Elizabeth Infante (Latin American Spanish), Clotilde Verry (French), Clara Campos (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kokoro_inogashira_anime.png]]
A timid girl in Class D.
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* LivingProp: She's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
* ShrinkingViolet: In the light novel, she introduces herself to the class after Yosuke Hirata. Courtesy of her shy personality, she ends up stuttering and rushing her introduction, feeling embarrassed as a result. Kikyo Kushida cheers her up, saying that she's going to be fine as long as she takes time in building up her words.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: She's a girly and demure girl whose hobby is sewing.
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[[folder:Kyōsuke Okitani]]
!!Kyōsuke Okitani
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kysuke_okitani_anime.png]]
A boy in Class D with bad grades.
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* BookDumb: Even in Class D, he has particularly bad grades.
* LivingProp: He's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
* SpearCounterpart: Appearance-wise, he looks like a male version of Kayano Onodera.
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[[folder:Nene Mori]]
!!Nene Mori
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaHonnizumi (Japanese), Marianne Bray (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]] Mayara Stefane (Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nene_mori_anime.png]]
A girl in Class D who joined the study group with Ayanokoji, Kushida, Karuizawa, Hirata, Matsushita, and the "3 Idiots of Class D".
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* LivingProp: She's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
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[[folder:Sōshi Miyamoto]]
!!Sōshi Miyamoto
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kazuki Miyagi (Japanese), Eric Wheeldon (English)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sshi_miyamoto_anime.png]]
A boy in Class D who looks similar to Kiyotaka Ayanokoji and Ryoutarou Hondou. He points out that Maya Satou and Kayano Onodera never hang out together when a rumor of Maya hating Kayano is spread.
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* LivingProp: He's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
* TheStoic: He has a similar resting poker face to Kiyotaka Ayanokouji.
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[[folder:Wataru Ijūin]]
!!Wataru Ijūin
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wataru_ijin_anime.png]]
A chubby student in Class D with glasses.
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* LivingProp: He's only ever been used to fill in the scenes of Class D.
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!!Introduced in Year 2
[[folder:Tsubasa Nanase]]
!!Tsubasa Nanase
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsubasa_nanase_ln_visual.png]]
A freshman in Class 1-D with a mysterious interest in Kiyotaka.
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* ChildhoodFriends: She was close friends with [[spoiler:Eiichirō]] from an early age.
* ConnectedAllAlong: It turns out that she was ChildhoodFriends with [[spoiler:Eiichirō, the son of a butler who helped Kiyotaka escape the White Room, and his suicide is what drives her {{Revenge}} against Ayanokoji.]]
* FormalCharactersUseKeigo: She's a very polite girl who speaks in respectful ''keigo'' to whoever she is speaking to, including her classmates.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has blonde hair and other than her initial dislike of [[spoiler: Kiyotaka]], she is a polite, honest, and responsible girl.
* HeelFaceTurn: While she is hardly a villain in the first place, she still is antagonistic to Kiyotaka when she first meets him. After [[spoiler:he defeats her without harming her]], she realizes that he's a decent guy, apologizes for her actions, and treats him as a friend afterward.
* JerkassToOne: Tsubasa is a very polite and goodhearted girl, but she's antagonistic towards Kiyotaka, to the point of [[spoiler:wanting to get him expelled]], because [[spoiler:she blames him for the suicide of her friend Eiichirō]].
* MisplacedRetribution: She blames Kiyotaka for [[spoiler: Eiichirō's suicide, despite the fact that Kiyotaka couldn't have possibly known that him escaping the White Room would result in such a horrible event.]]
* MoralityPet: Compared to all the people who have tried messing with Kiyotaka, he doesn't try to hurt Tsubasa [[spoiler:when they fight]] and is always polite to her. It helps that she's actually decent and polite, and [[spoiler: Kiyotaka realizes that Tsukishiro is manipulating her]].
* PlatonicLifePartners:
** With her ChildhoodFriend [[spoiler:Eiichirō]]. They share a very close bond without any romance between them.
** She's usually seen with Kazuomi Housen, but they're not a couple.
* RedHerring: Due to being one of the main freshmen introduced in Year 2 arc as well as her {{Revenge}} against Kiyotaka, she's this for the role of [[spoiler:the White Room student sent to expel Ayanokoji.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Eiichirō's suicide greatly affected Tsubasa to the point that she attended the Advanced Nurturing Academy in ''Year 2'' to exact revenge on Kiyotaka by getting him expelled.]]
* SheatheYourSword: [[spoiler: This is the approach Kiyotaka takes when fighting her in Year 2 Volume 3, as he opts to simply dodge all her attacks and let her tire herself out despite being fully capable of delivering a CurbStompBattle.]]
* UnwittingPawn: She is trying to [[spoiler:get Kiyotaka expelled]], but does so because she is being manipulated by [[spoiler:Tsukishiro]].
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[[folder:Kazuomi Hōsen]]
!!Kazuomi Hōsen
[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kazuomi_hsen_ln_2nd_year_arc_visual.png]]
A freshman in Class 1-D who much like Ryuen prefers to conquer his opponents with violence.
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* {{Jerkass}}: He rivals Ryuen's initial behavior in the asshole department.
* MirrorCharacter: Everything from the way he wears his school uniform to his violent tendencies may easily remind one of Ryuen.
* PlatonicLifePartners: He's usually seen with Tsubasa Nanase, but they're not in romantic relationship.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: He tried to expel Kiyotaka Ayanokouji by stabbing himself with a knife and framing him for the assault.
* RedHerring: Due to being one of the main freshmen introduced in Year 2 arc and being one of the students actively trying to expel Kiyotaka, he's this for the role of [[spoiler:the White Room student sent to expel Ayanokoji.]]
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: His strategies involve violence.
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