History Characters / Nisekoi

* InsecureLoveInterest: In Chapter 227, when Raku confesses to her, Chitoge tearfully admits and acknowledges all her faults and flaws, showing how insecure she feels as a girl when she compares herself to a much more feminine figure such as Onodera, ultimately calling herself a "fake". When Raku chooses her regardless of all that, she happily accepts, with tears running down her face.

* SecondLove: [[spoiler:The girl Raku liked first and made the ChildhoodMarriagePromise with is Kosaki. However, he comes to realize and accept that he has fallen in love with Chitoge and chooses her over Kosaki.]]

* TomboyishVoice: Tsugumi is a {{Bifauxnen}} everyone mistook for a guy during her introduction and the anime gives her a very low voice to conceal her true gender. After the GenderReveal, her voice becomes higher-pitched, but it's still deeper than that of the other girls.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Contrary to Chitoge and Raku initially assuming Hana is just an uncaring mother, Hana doesn't mean to be dismissive of her daughter. Because of her [[NoSocialSkills lack of social skills]], she asks thoughtless questions like how old Chitoge is, which makes Chitoge think her mother must not care about her at all. When she sees Chitoge still wears the ribbon she gave her years ago, she tells Chitoge she should get a better one when Chitoge would have been happier if Hana showed that she remembers giving her the ribbon. It takes Raku telling her how she's making Chitoge feel for Hana to understand all her daughter wanted was for her mother to show her some love.

* ParentsAsPeople: Contrary to the initial impressions, Hana does love Chitoge and has never forgotten her birthday even once. However, running one of the biggest conglomerates in the world leaves her with next to no time for her family and she doesn't even make good use of the little time she does have for Chitoge because of her InnocentlyInsensitive tendencies. All this miscommunication has estranged their relationship since both think the other doesn't love her. With Raku's help, Hana and Chitoge can at least understand how they really feel about each other and have a proper quality time for the first time.

* TroubledAbuser: She says she just treats Marika in the same way her own mother treated her.

[[folder:Commissioner Gen Tachibana]]

Marika's father.

* DotingParent: He cares a lot about his daughter, so he is willing to indulge her. According to Marika, the engagement with Raku was his idea because he could seen that she had grown fond of him.
* HenpeckedHusband: He's the chief of police, but he can't go against his wife. She actually ''throws him into a dungeon'' when he tries to do something about Marika's forced marriage.
* KnightTemplarParent: He has police officers equipped for a ''riot'' follow his daughter around and trained to form a shieldwall around her at a moment's notice.
* LoveMartyr: His wife is an awful, selfish person who only cares about family traditions and treats their daughter like a tool, but he still loves her.
* OddFriendship: He's drinking buddies with Raku's yakuza father.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Which scare Raku to no end.

* WorthyOpponent: He considers Raku's father this because they proved their power to each other in the fight that earned him that eye scar, hence the OddFriendship above.

* MumLooksLikeASister: Does not look any older than Marika. Raku mistakes her for Marika's sister when they first meet and is shocked when she tells him she's her mother.

* OverprotectiveDad: He has police officers equipped for a ''riot'' follow his daughter around and trained to form a shieldwall around her at a moment's notice.

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* WeaponOfChoice: Claude always wields a Desert Eagle.

%%* DotingGrandparent: He absolutely adores his great-granddaughter.

* DotingGrandparent: He absolutely adores his great-granddaughter.

* WeaponOfChoice: Claude always wields a [[RareGuns Desert Eagle]].

* IllGirl: Her body is even frailer than her daughter's.

* IllGirl: She has a weak constitution and spent a good chunk of her childhood in a hospital. It's hinted occasionally that her condition may be worse than it appears, which could explain why she pursues Raku so aggressively. [[spoiler: It's never outright stated what her condition is, but it's revealed to be treatable. However, it requires her to be treated in a foreign hospital for an extended period of time, leading to her exit from the plot.]]

* BishieSparkle: Marika often imagined Raku this way.

* CryCute: Some notable instances include her bursting into tears when reconciling with her mother, and bawling like a child when she thinks her red ribbon is destroyed. [[spoiler:Or when she accepts Raku's confession.]]

* CryCute: Tsugumi is usually so serious and tough that seeing her cry is a tender sight, especially [[spoiler:when she confesses her feelings for Raku before giving them up]].

* CryCute: She breaks down in tears when she finally comes to terms with her love of Chitoge.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: She loves her daughter a lot, but she's also too cool and distant to show it.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Whenever she wants to be alone, she always go to high places. Her first appearance has her standing atop a smokestack.

* AmbiguouslyBi: She has feelings for Raku (despite herself), but she has a PseudoRomanticFriendship with Kosaki and Tsugumi, hinting that she's interested in girls too. In Episode 7, when Tsugumi and Raku argue over who "deserves" her more, Chitoge (who had been eavesdropping) tries to stop them before they escalate into a fight, and she's very much enjoying the idea of being fought over by two people, fully knowing Tsugumi is a girl when Raku didn't at that point. Also, in the Drama CD, she's gushing over Kosaki and breathing heavy when she's a guest at her radio talk show.

* AmbiguouslyBi: She has feelings for Raku (despite herself), but she has a PseudoRomanticFriendship with Kosaki and Tsugumi, hinging that she's interested in girls too. In Episode 7, when Tsugumi and Raku argue over who "deserves" her more, Chitoge (who had been eavesdropping) tries to stop them before they escalate into a fight, and she's very much enjoying the idea of being fought over by two people, fully knowing Tsugumi is a girl when Raku didn't at that point. Her close friendship with Kosaki also veers towards PseudoRomanticFriendship, especially in the Drama CD where she's gushing over Kosaki and breathing heavy when she's a guest at her radio talk show.

* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Her relationship with Seishirou Tsugumi and Kosaki Onodera to a lesser degree. If Raku wasn't in the picture, there are many times where Chitoge acts like she's got a girl-crush on them both, and for their part, both Kosaki and Seishirou feel the same about her.

* AmbiguouslyBi: She has a very obvious crush on Raku, but there have several hints she's interested in girls too, not just Chitoge. When first introduced, her antagonism towards Raku for "being the one at Chitoge's side" can easily be seen as romantic jealously, and her closeness towards Chitoge deepens over the course of the series. When she becomes the LustObject of several of the girls thanks to a LovePotion, Onodera starts hitting on her and she finds herself thinking its not so bad. Another instance has her getting drunk and after failing to capture Raku, she instead ''kisses'' Paula. In that instant she says to Paula the same thing she said to Raku. "You have soft looking lips."

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Contrary to what Chitoge and Rake think of her at first, Hana doesn't mean to be dismissive of her daughter. Because of her [[NoSocialSkills lack of social skills]], she asks thoughtless questions like how old Chitoge is, which makes Chitoge think her mother must not care about her at all. When she sees Chitoge still wears the ribbon she gave her years ago, she tells Chitoge she should get a better one when Chitoge would have been happier if Hana showed that she remembers giving her the ribbon. It takes Raku telling her how she's making Chitoge feel for Hana to understand all her daughter wanted was for her mother to show her some love.

* NoSocialSkills: Turns out Hana is as socially inept as her daughter. Hana gets awkward around Chitoge because she doesn't know what to talk about with her and this leads to InnocentlyInsensitive bahavior that has created an estrangement between her and Chitoge.

* CharacterDevelopment: Her character arc is widely regarded as one of the most compelling, as she undergoes some of the most drastic changes in personality throughout the series, starting with her violent tendencies all but disappearing by series end. The first real change was her anxiety over her FriendlessBackground; she doesn't know how to behave around people and clams up when they approach her. This makes her accidentally seem distant from her female classmates who all admire her but see her as unapproachable. But with a little help from Raku, who completely understands what she's going through, she gains the confidence to strike up conversations with the girls around her, and from there, she quickly becomes a dear friend to Kosaki; they even agree to call each other on a FirstNameBasis by episode 6 of season 1 in the anime.

* LonelyRichKid: Her father is a gangster boss and her mother runs a multi-national business conglomerate. The result is Chitoge lives in a mansion with many servants, but her mother is too busy to spend any time with her and she couldn't make friends because her peers were afraid of father's business.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ramen.
* {{Tsundere}}: Sweet type. Chitoge is a genuine sweetheart to most people, especially the women in her life (like Kosaki and Tsugumi), but is quick to get angry and punch whenever she's together with Raku. At one point, Chitoge herself lampshades her inability to be honest about her feelings for Raku.
** This is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] at the beach scene (episode 18 in the anime), where Chitoge - who is slowly realizing that she has a crush on Raku - asks him point blank if he thinks they would actually work out if they were really dating, and not in a fake relationship. Raku [[BrutalHonesty rather bluntly says no, it would never work out]] ''precisely because'' she's too violent, too angry, too stubborn, too aggressive when faced with conflicting emotions, and too unwilling to be honest about her feelings, let alone how he HasAType and she's not it. It takes ''a lot'' for her to finally overcome her violent temper, self-dishonesty, and stubborn pride in particular before she can even see herself as a good potential girlfriend material for him.

%%* CoolBigSis: Paula considers her this, at the very least.

* HiddenDepths: A hard-hitting, no-nonsense assassin who struggles with her femininity and doesn't feel like she's fully accepted herself as a person because she hasn't reconciled that about herself.
** In Season 2 Episode 10, she subtly reveals just how badly her UnrequitedLove for Raku hurts her. She knows he's unattainable for her, she knows he has feelings for someone else, and yet she still has feelings for him. When asked if she would confess to her one-sided crush, she at first says no, she'd keep the fact that she has a crush secret and wouldn't tell him she likes him because she feels that would be too selfish of her to burden him with that knowledge as he's pursuing a relationship of his own with someone else. She doesn't ''want'' to live with that reality, but she ''has'' to live with it, even though it eats away at her every day.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Turns out this is her actual problem with Chitoge instead of plain neglect. Hana gets awkward around Chitoge because she doesn't know what to talk about with her, so she always ends up asking thoughtless questions like how old Chitoge is, which makes Chitoge think her mother must not care about her at all. When she sees Chitoge still wears the ribbon she gave her years ago, she tells Chitoge she should get a better one when Chitoge would have been happier if Hana showed that she remembers giving her the ribbon. It takes Raku telling her how she's making Chitoge feel for Hana to understand all her daughter wanted was for her mother to show her some love.

* CantHoldHisLiquor: Notable aversion, as while all the other girls get easily drunk from a sip of sweet wine in Chapter 173, Paula doesn't and states that it isn't even good.

* PetTheDog: After making Chitoge cry when mocking her about her lost ribbon, Marika immediately walks it back and promises to help look for the ribbon as a way to console her.

* AbusiveParent: She's emotionally abusive towards Marika, so their relationship is very cold to say the least.

* AmbiguouslyBi: She has feelings for Raku (despite herself), but there are hints she's interested in girls too. In Episode 7, when Tsugumi and Raku argue over who "deserves" her more, Chitoge (who had been eavesdropping) tries to stop them before they escalate into a fight, and she's very much enjoying the idea of being fought over by two people, fully knowing Tsugumi is a girl when Raku didn't at that point. Her close friendship with Kosaki also veers towards PseudoRomanticFriendship, especially in the Drama CD where she's gushing over Kosaki and breathing heavy when she's a guest at her radio talk show.