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!!Tomoko
[[folder:Tomoko Kuroki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IzumiKitta (Japanese), Creator/MonicaRial (English)
The main character of the series, who struggles with becoming "popular", making friends and coping with adolescence. Unfortunately, this is not helped by her [[NoSocialSkills social ineptitude]] and [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant]] [[TheEeyore personality]].
Despite being incredibly anti-social, she craves the companionship and attention of others. She suffers from a raging superiority complex, [[IndulgentFantasySegue vivid delusions of grandeur]], intense self-loathing, and social anxiety so severe that she can barely get out a sentence when talking to someone she is not intimately acquainted with.
The dark circles under her eyes are genetic (and shared by her brother).
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* AccidentalHero: Tomoko manages to help some people now and then, but only by happenstance. She gives Shizuku some half-hearted advice on how to handle the entrance exams (with the intention of discouraging the girl from attending her school at all), only to end up encouraging her to pass and apply to the school in full. [[spoiler:Tomoko also gets Hina and Akane to patch things up. How? By showing the latter a clip from an eroge game while explaining to her the likely reasons Hina was so secretive about her dream to become a voice actress, which horrifies Akane so much that she outright confronts Hina about it, allowing them to talk things out.]]
* AccidentalPervert: Only towards Yoshida, whom she always gropes by complete accident, which more often than not gets her smacked. Anyone else she pervs on is very intentional. For what it's worth though, Tomoko ''does'' like how the delinquent feels.
* ACupAngst: It's not as apparent as most examples of this trope, but it's there.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: One particularly infamous chapter/episode has Tomoko buy both a [[YaoiGenre BL visual novel]] and a personal body massager. Tomoko even notes that if anyone saw her with both, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything they'd get the wrong idea]]. Or rather the ''right'' idea, since that's exactly what she had planned.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Although she doesn't actually hook up with a "bad boy", she seems to be fond of BastardBoyfriend characters, as evidenced by her enjoyment of a drama CD about {{Yandere}} boys.
* AmbiguouslyBi: While her PerverseSexualLust for Otome Game characters and early fixation on getting a boyfriend make her attraction to men obvious, her constant sexual harassment of Yuu raises a few eyebrows. What keeps Tomoko's sexuality ambiguous is that it's made clear at multiple points that Tomoko's [[NoSocialSkills lack of social awareness]] and [[WrongGenreSavvy reliance on anime tropes to navigate real life situations]] cause her to assume that LesYay in female friendships is not only common, but ''expected'', leading her to enforce it. Even as she develops more real life relationships and her pervertedness dies down, however, being caught in several NotWhatItLooksLike moments have led to Ucchi becoming absolutely ''certain'' that Tomoko is not only a lesbian, but a sexual deviant who surrounds herself with a harem of girls at all times. As Tomoko matures and becomes explicitly more aware of the concept of homosexuality (she even correctly defines "LGBT" in class), she still can't help but fall for Yuu's or [[https://imgur.com/a/9IM3Agq Asuka's]] charms. She's also shown blatant sexual attraction to Miho, one of Asuka's friends, and Shizuku, her own kohai. In the latter's case she's outright said that if she were a guy she'd want to NTR Shizuku's boyfriend.
* BeautifulAllAlong: It's been brought up that Tomoko actually has good looks, but the problem is that she doesn't try grooming and looking after herself that much. When she actually does, many of her friends do say how cute she is. This aspect can actually be seen in some of the later chapters where Tomoko decides to wear more flattering clothes and cleans herself more.
** Her official profile shows that she has a Charisma score of '''five''', the maximum possible score, shared only with super-model-esque Katou Asuka. This means that Tomoko always had the potential to be popular, if her crippling self-doubt hadn't dragged down her confidence.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: As time goes on and Tomoko finds herself on the receiving end of more PetTheDog moments, she feels the need to repay the people who show her kindness even if she doesn't really know them.
** She makes a batch of chocolates for everyone who gave her some for Valentine's Day, like Mako, Yuri, and Ucchi. She even gives some to Yoshida, despite their dysfunctional relationship.
** Because Megumi came to her aid a few times in the past, Tomoko congratulates her for graduating high school and even asks the former StudentCouncilPresident if there's anything she can do for her. She feels rather crushed when she realizes she won't be able to give anything back to Megumi.
* BerserkButton: When Yuu makes a joke about Kotomi marrying Tomoki this is one of the few times that we see Tomoko get legitimately angry at Yuu, making no attempts at hiding her anger at all.
* BettyAndVeronica: Tomoko possibly serves as the Archie to Asuka's Betty and Ucchi's Veronica.
* BigBrotherBully: Tomoko tries to pass herself off as a CoolBigSis to Tomoki, and was indeed like that at one point, but in actuality she's extremely negative and manipulative whenever she's around him. It's also implied that this is the reason why Tomoki stopped being friendly with her to begin with.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Oh yes. For the longest time, Tomoko was only ever interested in her popularity at school, all the while being loathe to do any work around the house, eager to annoy her brother, and quick to snap at her mother. This got her a good share of slaps from the latter, who was often irritated at how irresponsible Tomoko was despite being the older child.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: She has made a huge impact on Ucchi's life, to the point where the girl is utterly obsessed with her. However, Tomoko never intended to do such, their first real interaction was on the last night of their field trip, and Tomoko was just being her [[NoSocialSkills normal]] [[CovertPervert self]]. Later "interactions" were mostly Tomoko doing something else and it just so happened Ucchi was the target or a witness.
* ButtMonkey: Any of her attempts to become popular ''always'' come out wrong for her.
* CannotTalkToMen: Nothing frays Tomoko's nerves more than attractive boys. Even after her social skills improve enough that she can communicate with strangers without tripping over her words too much, she still turns into a nervous, stuttering puddle of goo in the presence of hot guys.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Tomoko has been walked in on playing her Hentai games, ''[[RunningGag multiple times]]''.
* CharacterDevelopment: Slowly but surely, Tomoko matures a good deal over the course of the manga, particularly in her second year. She dials back on her ill-thought schemes to become popular to the point where she eventually gives up on them entirely, doesn't stutter nearly as often as before, is more comfortable in public places like cafes, lets go of a lot of the resentment she felt towards her peers, shows occasional bouts of consideration for others, and is more studious and responsible in general. By the end of the year, she even manages to get herself a small circle of friends and acquaintances to regularly socialize with.
* ChildHater: Played with. In chapter 138 she admits that she hates middle schoolers, but she also mentions that she doesn't have strong feelings about grade schoolers, and in the past she used to play card games with kids in a candy store. In any case, she states that her dislike of kids is the reason why she would never want to be a teacher.
* ChronicVillainy: She's never managed to break her bad habit of doing {{Jerkass}} things.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Tomoko ''can'' care about people, she's shown to have an extremely active imagination with a creative streak to her, and [[{{Determinator}} she's extremely resilient in the pursuit of her goal]]. That being said, she's a liar, a pervert, very lazy, and tries to take the easy way out of anything she can. She even LiesToChildren and calls any girls even slightly more popular than her "bitches" and "sluts". Tomoko gradually does undergo character development to get rid of the worst parts of these traits, but they never completely disappear.
* ClingyJealousGirl: When it comes to Yuu or her brother, the latter of which she declared if he ever brought home a girl, she would take responsibility and ''[[{{Yandere}} kill her]]''.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Somehow, against all logic or reason, she's managed to become this in her 3rd year. To wit, Yuri has grown quite attached to her and is prone to jealously whenever Tomoko gets close to someone else. Nemo is similarly quite attached to Tomoko, and while they're also vitriolic best buds, it's clear that Nemo values their "honest" friendship a great deal. Asuka is extremely fond of her, and her affectionate gestures border on outright flirting. Ucchi is outright infatuated by her, having become increasingly more obsessive about Tomoko over the course of the manga. Shizuku hero-worships her, looking at Tomoko as a kind and thoughtful sempai. While her friendships with some of the other girls aren't as pronounced, she's still amassed a huge following of female friends and acquaintances. It's ironic that the usually self-aware Tomoko often [[https://imgur.com/oJ358si seems to be completely unaware of this.]]
* ConsummateLiar: "How do I bullshit my way out of this?"
* ConvenientlySeated: At first, she seats in the back row seat by the window. When the second semester starts and Tomoko loses her seat, she lampshades it by commenting about how lucky she was getting "the seat main characters always get in anime and light-novels" in the first semester, lamenting that she now has to dwell in an awkward spot, surrounded by people. Tomoko regains her original seating arrangement come her second year, and keeps it for her third year, now surrounded by people she's either friends or friendly with.
* CosmicPlaything: She doesn't realize it, which might be a good thing as the truth might plunge her into the pit of despair or worse, since she can't realize why her attempts to make friends are massive failures. The moment she gains some self-awareness of her faults and tries to not be so judgmental anymore, the universe ''seems'' to ease up on her ...and decides to spread the weirdness around to her new friends.
* CovertPervert: Played with; since the viewers are always privy to her thoughts, it's easy for us to see that she's ''very'' perverted, but most other characters (aside from Tomoki) are unaware of how perverted she really is. This becomes subverted over time; though Tomoko ''tries'' to keep her lewd side under wraps, she either proves to be really bad at hiding her lecherous habits, or has a number of [[AccidentalPervert accidents]] that leave people with the impression that she's a massive pervert anyway. Before her third year is even halfway done, pretty much everyone familiar with Tomoko knows what a huge sex-obsessed perv she is.
* CreepyLonerGirl: Tomoko is an unattractive, friendless {{Otaku}} with absolutely NoSocialSkills who stays up all night playing dating sims to compensate for her nonexistent social and love life. She daydreams about becoming popular, but her social awkwardness ruins her attempts at it every time.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Seems to be a family trait; however, Tomoko's habit of staying up late at night probably doesn't help, as she notes before trying on glasses to hide them.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: This is her her single strongest desire for most of the series. It's likely why she's overly attached to her brother (much to his chagrin) and also part of why she's so attached to her only real friend, Yuu. This ends up becoming subverted pretty later on in the series, once Tomoko actually gets a circle of friends.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite the universe doing [[CosmicPlaything everything it can]] to make her give up, Tomoko never relents in her quest to become popular, make friends, or just improve herself in general. Whenever one scheme fails, she just gets up, dusts herself off, and moves on to the next plan.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: She has a bad habit of voicing her more lewd thoughts out loud. Initially this was only toward Yuu, but eventually spread to anyone Tomoko felt mildy attracted to, like Asuka.
-->'''Tomoko''': ''(Thinking)'' A cute girl, wearing such cute underwear and such a short skirt must flash a bit from time to time...just imagine, if I were her boyfriend... \\
'''Tomoko''': ''(Out loud)'' Bet those'd really give ya a stiffy. \\
'''Yuu''': MOKOCCHI!!?
* DisappointingOlderSibling: Despite being the older sibling, Tomoki thinks she's an annoying loser. According to the volume 5 omake, it was her obnoxiousness that caused their once-loving relationship to turn sour. On the other hand, one WhatIf omake shows that he would end up disliking her even if she were to remain kind to him.
* DontYouDarePityMe: As shown in chapters 33 and 42, she doesn't like it when others take pity on her, as she feels patronized by this.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: In addition to being very large and roughly-sketched, her eyes lack a notable sheen that's present in most other characters, illustrating her perpetually dour mood.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The bags under her eyes only serve to further emphasize this aspect of hers.
* TheEeyore: She falls into bouts of self-loathing and has a lot of negative thoughts in social situations. Even when she acknowledges that her life got better than how it used to be, such as in chapter 115, she doesn't expect the good times to last.
* ExpressiveHair: You can often tell how exasperated she is just by seeing how much her hair is flaring out.
* FailureHero: In the early chapters she can't do ''anything'' right. Every time she has a goal, it's bound to fail or backfire horribly. The few ThrowTheDogABone moments she gets are usually down to luck and the kindness of others, or when she's not actually trying so hard to become popular. This part of her characterization is largely dropped as the story progresses and Tomoko starts setting more realistic goals for her social life, which she eventually starts achieving.
* FemaleMisogynist: [[GreenEyedMonster Her jealousy]] leads to a general resentment of other girls aside from Yuu, often viewing girls who are more socially adept than her as "bitches" or "sluts". [[spoiler: However, this doesn't appear to apply to Yuri, probably because she recognizes that Yuri is almost as socially inept as she is]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Tomoki's Responsible. She tends to laze around and do stupid things to improve her status while Tomoki focuses on his sports, studies, and his household chores. Tomoko being so irresponsible is a frequent source of stress for her mother.
* GamerChick: Effortlessly plays a Pop'N Music knockoff with only a blank stare on her face, not to mention her constant playing of otome games.
* {{Gonk}}: Often pulls ugly faces when emotional.
** There's also the time where she tries to change her appearance, which works out well until she decides to mess with her face.
* GreenEyedMonster: Bonus points for the VisualPun. She enjoys the misfortune of others and frequently wishes for horrible things to happen to people that she perceives as having happy, carefree lives. Her internal monologues frequently call girls more socially successful than herself, including her best friend Yuu, "bitches", "sluts", etc.
--> '''Tomoko:''' If you're not a worthless god, I'd like to see you try and make me happy... If you can't manage that, at least make everyone as unhappy as me. If you can't, it's fine I guess... But I'll despise you forever...
** Also why she couldn't get along with Kotomi in middle school despite being much alike, as she wanted to keep Yuu to herself.
** As of chapter 97 she seems to have realized that her former classmates who are more sociable than her don't act sociable to spite her, [[CharacterDevelopment and she doesn't hate them for this anymore]].
* HasAType: An inversion, when she's finally able to hold a real conversation with a male classmate (Wada), she dismisses it as much of a step forward since she doesn't find him all that attractive, believing that "shota doesn't go with chibi".
* HeyYou: In general, she is very bad at remembering names, or just doesn't care to learn them in the first place, leading her to often refer to the people around her by (often derisive) descriptors in her mind. In Chapter 124, Tomoko even notes that she's never once actually called Yuri by name, even though Yuri's ostensibly the best friend she has in her high school. [[spoiler:This comes to a head in 126, when she tries to get Yuri's attention by just repeatedly calling out "Hey", resulting in a frustrated Yuri telling her that her name is not "Hey".]]
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Tomoko implicitly UsedToBeASweetKid, but as she entered adolescence, she became a more self-centered {{Jerkass}} who only ever thought about sex.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She angrily denounces anyone more popular than her as shallow, vapid and selfish, and refers to any girls more sociable than her as "sluts". She's the real shallow and selfish one, who seeks popularity above all else, and proclaims: "Without doing anything, I can get into the pants of the boys for three years!" in the very first chapter. At the same time, she looks down on anyone ''as'' unpopular as she is as being losers, freaks and weirdos who are somehow beneath her despite them generally having the same interests that she does.
** HypocriticalHumor: is a RunningGag in this series.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: ...and get laid, apparently.
** As the series progresses, there's a subtle development in that Tomoko's goal moves down from "getting popular" to just "making a friend", and at the very least "talking to people". These get fulfilled during the middle of her second year, as she became close to Yuri, Mako, and Masaki.
* IneffectualDeathThreat: Frequently wishes death and worse on her classmates for the smallest of offences, like someone apparently taking her umbrella.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: While she's rather self-centered and looks down on a lot of people for petty reasons, it's still clear that her self-esteem is actually very, very low.
* InnerMonologue: Keeps her thoughts to herself more often than actually speaking.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Towards Yuri. Yuri is bothered by how aloof Tomoko seems to act towards her despite spending most of their time at school together, but Tomoko has no idea there's even a problem in the first place. She's also oblivious to the effect she's had on Ucchi, disturbing the girl with her mere presence at first, and going on to making her jealous at the drop of a hat.
* InSeriesNickname: "Mokocchi." Only Yuu gets to call her that, though. [[spoiler:In chapter 126 Hina Nemoto comes up with another nickname for her, "Kuro".]]
* {{Irony}}: After spending her first year desperately trying to be popular with one ZanyScheme after another Tomoko eventually resigns herself to being a loner ...and then she actually ends up making an increasingly larger social circle of friends and acquaintances to hang out with.
* IronicName: Her given name roughly means "wise child". Considering how often she makes bad decisions, it's safe to say "wise" isn't a good way to describe her.
* ItAmusedMe: Some of her antics aren't done to improve her popularity, but just to stave off boredom or amuse herself, which can include things like trolling her brother or hanging wishes laced with dirty jokes up for Tanabata. She also decides to become Shizuku's sempai largely because she hopes the younger girl will give her some kinky stories, though to Tomoko's credit, she does build up some sympathy for her over time.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She's a very self-centered person who doesn't have any particular empathy for anyone around her. Thankfully, Tomoko's been [[CharacterDevelopment growing out of it]], acknowledging that even more social people have problems of their own, and is willing to show genuine consideration for others every now and then.
* {{Jerkass}}: Downplayed. In the main series, she can come off as a condescending jackass who can occasionally show humility and self-esteem, although she most often keeps her negativity to herself. However, Tomoki and Komiyama tend to see and feel the more unpleasant side of Tomoko.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As maladjusted, unpleasant, and warped as she is, Tomoko does raise valid points every now and then.
** When Akari's friend, Sayaka, confronts her over the former's feelings for Tomoki and her eagerness to see his genitals, Tomoko is correct when she points out it's perverse and inappropriate to say such things in front of his older sister.
** She accuses Akari and Kotomi of being perverts. While her poor treatment of them is usually uncalled for, she's not wrong, and the latter in particular takes her attraction towards Tomoki to very creepy levels.
** Related to the above, by accusing Kotomi and Akari of only liking Tomoki for his dick, Tomoko implies that their feelings for him are shallow. Considering how taciturn Tomoki is, and how they have never held a real conversation with him, neither girl can claim to actually know him, meaning they really ''are'' only interested in him for his good looks.
** While it devolves into a nonsensical rant about how all baseball players are smokers and delinquents, Tomoko is correct when she notes that the baseball club gets preferential treatment in how it forces the whole student body to come cheer for its games when other clubs work just as hard for less recognition.
** In Universe. When Tomoko mocks Yoshida behind her back as the type to go way overboard during her coming of age debut, Yuri is about to admonish her only to realise she can indeed picture Yoshida that way too.
* JerkassRealization: In Chapter 97, she admits that she was a horribly judgmental person in her first year of high school, and lets go of a lot of the resentment she feels toward her more social peers.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Thanks to character development, Tomoko grows from her warped and selfish self, to a more thoughtful and pleasant individual. While she's still a pervert who sees the world through a cynical lens, she's willing to show consideration for both her friends and the occasional stranger.
* KickTheDog: Her treatment of her brother when he fell ill was pretty appalling. She tried to lower his temperature and poured hot porridge on his face out of spite, and otherwise annoyed him at every opportunity. [[LaserGuidedKarma This went on to bite Tomoko in the ass]] when she caught his disease at the beginning of a three-day weekend.
* LazyBum: When left to her own devices, Tomoko would rather just laze around her room, playing video games, watching anime, and surfing the web. When called out on her unwillingness to help around the house by her mother as opposed to her younger but more responsible brother, Tomoko's first instinct is to [[NeverMyFault blame Tomoki for making her look bad]].
* LittleBigSister: She's considerably shorter than her younger brother. Not very unusual given he's only a year younger, but it still highlights her immaturity.
* LonelyDollGirl: On occasion, Tomoko will use her plushies to act out her fantasies of a better social life, from envisioning what her time in a school club could be like, to...imagining how sex with Yuu would go.
* LonersAreFreaks: Her mindset, which she desperately wants to avoid.
* LonerTurnedFriend: After the Kyoto field trip, her previously almost non-existent social circle slowly starts to expand.
* LoserProtagonist: Though, she tries hard to not be this. She eventually does edge away from this through CharacterDevelopment, with all of her remaining quirks instead being mostly portrayed as a part of her unique identity that attracts others to her rather than a source of ostracization.
* LovableSexManiac: While Tomoko never gets to have much in the way of sex, her mind is nevertheless always in the gutter, and she gets a lot of enjoyment out of sexually harassing her female friends.
** As the series delves further, her friends sees her as this. They are all aware of her perverted side, but they make it clear they don't mind it and actually find it as a part of her charm.
* MagneticHero: As the series has continued, she has consistently shown to be able to attract the interest and attention of pretty much anyone who spends even a small amount of time with her. Even characters who initially display complete indifference to her become obsessed with learning more about her after witnessing her bizarre behavior firsthand.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: She acts as a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version for Yuri. While their relationship is purely platonic, she tends to encourage Yuri to try things she wouldn't do otherwise, like make Valentine's Day chocolate for her friends. She's even caused [[NotSoStoic the normally stoic girl to laugh]], which Mako has noted she's never seen Yuri do before.
* ManipulativeBastard: She tries. Dear lord, she tries.
* MeaningfulName: "Kuroki" can literally mean "black mood". It sums up her character pretty well.
* MessyHair: Her long hair is rarely combed.
* MirrorCharacter: For her brother, Tomoki, especially in later chapters. The initial assumptions both have after meeting the same person for the first time are often identical. Even more recently, Tomoko and Tomoki barely acknowledge that people have crushes on them, though Tomoko's case is more downplayed than her brother's: [[spoiler:while two girls have admitted to Tomoki's face they want to see his dick, Ucchi has been less direct in her crush on Tomoko, simply trying to find some excuse to be near Tomoko during some activity while she herself is thinking more about the activity itself, or the strange behavior of the other girls she knows]].
* MsFanservice: As the manga goes on, Tomoko has gradually gotten increasing numbers of genuine fanservice involving her, including occasionally being shown completely nude. She even has a ShowerScene in Chapter 178.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Kuroki Tomohiro Kuroki]].
* NerdsAreVirgins: Several storylines are about Tomoko's lack of experience and sexual frustration.
* NeverMyFault: Zigzagged. She often derides herself and finds faults with her social skills and appearance, but never dwells on it and immediately finds something else to blame for her social failings.
* NiceHat: As part of her casual wear, she'll frequently don a newsboy hat.
* NighttimeBathroomPhobia: In chapter 13, Tomoko reads too many spooky stories at night, so she bugs Tomoki into accompanying her to the bathroom when she's too nervous to walk there in the dark.
* NoSocialSkills: Pretty much the entire conflict of the plot is based around the fact that Tomoko's skills leave a lot to be desired. As she begins to socialize more, her complete lack of social awareness causes her to regularly put her foot in her mouth and unintentionally piss off others. Subverted over time, as she undergoes CharacterDevelopment; Tomoko turns out to be actually pretty socially perceptive and adept when not overcome by social anxiety, trying to become popular or invoking anime tropes.
* ObliviousToLove: Tomoko is completely unaware of Ucchi's growing fixation with her and is confused whenever Ucchi does something nice for her. Unfortunately for Ucchi, Tomoko has few opportunities to directly notice Ucchi's advances.
* OddFriendship: Is more or less the facilitator of an entire group of odd friends by the time she becomes a third year. Shown most prominently at the end of the suspension arc where she goes to eat with the group that had been waiting for her to get out: an introverted loner (Yuri), an outgoing [[NiceGirl nice girl]] (Mako), popular girls of varying degrees of normalcy (Nemo, Asuka, Akane and Ucchi) and a group of delinquents (Yoshida, Anna and Reina).
* OhCrapSmile: Pretty much every time Tomoko's latest plan blows up in her face and leaves her thoroughly humiliated in front of everyone, it's all but guaranteed this is the face she's going to put on. It's one of her most common expressions.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's 15 when the manga and anime begin, but she's so short, thin, and physically undeveloped that you'd be forgiven if you thought she was 10.
* OnlyHasSameSexAdmirers: No guys have taken any interest in Tomoko, but eventually Asuka develops a mutual infatuation, Ucchi becomes her StalkerWithACrush, and a few other girls have gotten ''at least'' a platonic desire for her attention.
* {{Otaku}}: Of Otome games. So much that she attempts to socialize in real life with tactics from the games.
* OtakuSurrogate: Downplayed; while she does have interests in anime and video games that male otaku in real life would have, she's also into things that are aimed specifically at girls, such as otome games. Unfortunately, her interests in all the perverted media aimed at otaku only make her more unapproachable and unable to function in social situations.
* PeekABangs: Although both of her eyes can occasionally be seen, her hair hides her right eye through much of the series.
* PersonAsVerb: In Chapter 39, she tries to stand out more in her class by performing a wacky introduction during the first day of second year. For her efforts, among her classmates, her name becomes a synonym for [[EpicFail doing something exceptionally poorly.]] Fortunately, it seems to have gone out of fashion by Chapter 42.
* PetTheDog: Originally Tomoko only agreed to start hanging out with Shizuku because she seemed like a slut who might have entertaining stories. Eventually however she decides to follow Imae's example and starts acting as more of a proper senpai despite getting no real benefit out of it.
* ThePigPen: Usually averted. Despite being a disheveled shut-in, Tomoko is shown regularly bathing herself and is confirmed to not smell. That said, some of her actions have caused her to unwittingly fall into prolonged periods of dirtiness.
** In chapter 6, after she spends so much time playing a dating sim out of a deluded belief that doing so will make her sexier that she forgets to bathe for several days. She ends up looking so greasy that her brother likens her to a bird caught in an oil slick.
** In chapter 11, she accidentally soaks herself in soda and attracts ants that spend the whole day crawling all over Tomoko without her knowing. Every person she runs into gets creeped out when they see the bugs on her.
** In chapter 56, Tomoko worries she might be a Pig-Pen and opts to combat it by drenching herself in perfume. This causes her to go from having no body odor to absolutely reeking.
* PlayboyBunny: Dresses as one in a fantasy sequence that's a ShoutOut to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. She somehow manages to make it look ugly and unappealing.
* PrettyInMink: Wears a faux mink stole during cold weather.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: She begins taking care of her appearance more as she gains a circle of friends and even gets some fanservice-y shots later on.
* TheQuietOne: She once went a month and a half without talking to anyone outside her family -- her streak was broken when she managed to tell her teacher "goodbye". In contrast, she tends to be ''very'' chatty in her [[InnerMonologue Inner Monologues]].
* SanityBall: Tomoko gets to enjoy being the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Girl]] whenever she interacts with Akari. The girl's crush on Tomoki, her easily flustered demeanor, and her terrible habit of misreading the situation all combine to turn her into a sobbing, stammering mess. This goes double whenever Kotomi gets involved, whose infatuation for Tomoki leads her to commit all sorts of craziness as well that leaves her in the same position. Either way, Tomoko is left equally bemused and annoyed by their antics.
* SelfServingMemory: Whenever Tomoko tries to guilt Tomoki into hanging out with her, she frequently brings up how [[BigBrotherWorship he used to look up to her when they were kids]]. She conveniently ignores the fact that the reason why Tomoki is currently so distant from her is because she started ''[[BigBrotherBully bullying him]]''.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Zigzagged. Whenever Tomoko or someone else tried to fix her appearance by dressing her up nicely or putting makeup on her, she would always end up looking ''even worse'' than before. However, once she gains a circle of friends, Tomoko starts putting more effort into her appearance, and she can be genuinely cute when she puts in the time.
** Played straight during her meet-up with Katou in Chapter 140; Tomoko's appearance was much nicer and more attractive than usual.
** One of the Christmas chapters has a subversion. Tomoko manages to indeed improve her appearance greatly for the class Christmas party. But she's so shy and quiet that nobody notices.
** As pointed out by Katou and Yuu, Tomoko can actually be very cute when she tries to groom herself more. When she dyes her hair silver, they point out how it looks good on her.
** Thanks to her CharacterDevelopment, this has become even more frequent with later chapters. Compared to her old outfits where she seemed to make a half-hearted attempt to groom herself, now Tomoko is actually putting effort into how she dresses, including fixing her hair, making sure her clothes match, and even wearing accessories and slight make-up.
** The cover of Volume 18 teases what a stylish Tomoko could look like, and many readers agree that the silver-haired, cardigan-wearing Tomoko is '''very''' cute.
** Some WhatIf omakes show Tomoko doing this in various ways, like styling herself as a [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]], tidying herself up, and adopting a more fashionable stance. She looks attractive in ''all'' of them.
** When visiting Yuu's school at Chapter 198, Tomoko ends up putting on the school uniform which looks great on her, especially when she decides to tie her hair into a ponytail.
** Exemplified best of all when Asuka decides to give Tomoko a makeover for a "landmine" look and actually does a decent job of it this time. With straight hair and her ExhaustedEyeBags hidden, everyone comments on how cute and innocent she looks.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: A platonic variant with Kotomi. When asked about her by characters other than Yuu, she denies that she's friends with Kotomi, and in chapter 112 even claims not to know her when asked by Yuri. [[spoiler:In chapter 133 Tomoko and Kotomi simultaneously claim that they aren't friends, leaving their classmates unconvinced; even Tomoko herself realizes that she's acting like a stereotypical tsundere.]]
* ShesAllGrownUp: [[http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/watashi_ga_motenai_no_wa_dou_kangaete_mo_omaera_ga_warui_anthology/bt/207725/Ch6/4/ A page in the anthology]] [[ThrowTheDogABone reveals that she could grow up to be quite pretty.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Combined with NoSocialSkills, this is the reason she can barely put together a full sentence with anyone she doesn't know. She improves after getting a circle of friends she regularly socializes with, but she still is prone to stuttering.
* SiblingYinYang: With Tomoki.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Komiyama, whom Tomoko dislikes because she feels that she has to compete with her over Yuu's attention, [[spoiler:as well as because Komiyama is romantically and sexually interested in Tomoki, causing Tomoko to be disgusted with her, and, as of chapter 47 of the main story, also because Komiyama admitted that she didn't like Tomoko back in middle school.]]
** During the third year this fades away to an extent likely due both to Tomoko's ongoing development and because Tomoko gains a new nemesis in Fuuka.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: As we see in Chapter 121, she gets her particular brand of CreepyShadowedUndereyes from her father. Later on, a WhatIf chapter featuring Tomoko with short hair shows that she's a near dead-ringer for her mother.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: Only by giving up her goal to become popular does Tomoko actually get better at socializing. By the end of her second year in particular, Tomoko has managed to get herself a small circle of friends, stutters over her words far less often, shows genuine consideration for other people's emotions, and helps people (like her kohai) for no tangible benefit to herself. [[spoiler:A "What If?" story shows that she wouldn't have been happy had she become popular, anyway; in the story, when Tomoko becomes part of the popular group, she gets hit on constantly by boys, and is shown to hate it.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: Overall Tomoko's second year in high school became a lot better and she was actually able to make sort of friends with people. Her third year became even better since now most of the friends she made in high school are all in her homeroom class and she has amassed quite a large social circle that she can hang out with.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Chapter 1: After 5 months trying to convince herself that she's popular, Tomoko literally sees herself at the mirror and admits the horrible truth:
--> ''Now that I look in the mirror after a few years, I see that I turned into some creepy entity!''
* TookALevelInKindness: Part of her character development. While she remains a cynical pervert, she's become a lot more pleasant and thoughtful.
* TransparentCloset: She's either unaware or in deep denial of her attraction to girls, but is very bad about hiding it, particularly when around Asuka. Yuri, Hina and Ucchi are well aware at how easily swayed Tomoko is toward her.
* {{Troll}}: She enjoys pranking, insulting, or otherwise getting under the skin of people she knows purely [[ForTheLulz for lulz]]. Tomoki and Kotomi are her favorite targets.
* TwiceShy: Tomoko has a blatant infatuation with Asuka, but her self-esteem is too low for her to accept Asuka's increasingly obvious hints that she feels the same--up to ''groping Tomoko's breasts'' during a walk on the beach.
* UnkemptBeauty: She never loses the ExhaustedEyeBags or disheveled hair, but that doesn't stop her from becoming ProgressivelyPrettier later on thanks to her gaining softer facial expressions and more flattering outfits.
* TheUnsmile: Pretty much every attempt she makes at smiling ends up coming off as looking more like a SlasherSmile. Combined with her CreepyShadowedUndereyes, the effect is... rather unsettling.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Her portrayal switches between this, CosmicPlaything and some combination of both depending on the chapter. She can be very pitiable, but at the same time rather self-centered, condescending (especially to her classmates, though this is restricted to her {{Inner Monologue}}s and never expressed outwardly) and, in Chapter 33, is shown to be a devotee of [[ComedicSociopathy schadenfreude]]. However, the more unsympathetic aspects do get downplayed or outright vanish later on thanks to CharacterDevelopment. In the spinoff, she's portrayed much more unsympathetically than in the main story.
* VisualPun: Her big [[GreenEyedMonster green eyes.]]
* WeirdnessMagnet: Tomoko seems to have developed a knack for attracting a lot of oddballs to her, or at least in making people develop their own idiosyncrasies. Yoshida is a [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]] but [[AmbiguousInnocence oddly innocent]] teen who's often mistaken for a delinquent, Ucchi has grown progressively more obsessive over Tomoko to the point of stalking her, Kii-chan has gone from a normal girl to a borderline CreepyChild, and both Kotomi and Akari have become incredibly perverse ([[ButtMonkey and unlucky]]) in pursuing their mutual crush on Tomoki. Lampshaded in Chapter 116, where Tomoki notes that all of his sister's friends appear to be a bunch of weirdos.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: She has this expression a lot.
* WrongGenreSavvy: One of the major factors behind her inability to adapt to society is the fact that she tends to "learn" social skills through anime and video games, and mistakes many character interactions therein (including those that are, from an objective viewpoint, downright outlandish) for actual practice, and tries to emulate them in real life, which more often than not only serves to further humiliate her.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The reason she despises Kotomi. Both are antisocial and their OnlyFriend is Yuu. Each one of them believes the other is below her.
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!!Tomoko's Family
[[folder:Tomoki Kuroki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese), Creator/DavidMatranga (English)
Tomoko's younger and more responsible brother. He is a fairly average and well-adjusted person for his age and treats his sister with the usual level of sibling-related intolerance. Despite this, he ''does'' care for his sister and tries to support her when she needs it.
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* AcademicAthlete: He's a considerably more motivated student than his sister is and is skilled enough at soccer to have an active spot on his school's team in his freshman year, along with the respect of his upperclassman teammates.
* TheAce: In comparison to Tomoko, at least. He's mature, reliable, athletic, has a large social circle, and multiple girls that are interested in him. During the sports festival, it's revealed that even the [[{{Bishonen}} attractive]] and [[BigManOnCampus popular]] third-year students on the soccer team respect Tomoki, despite him only being a first year.
* AccidentalPervert:
** In chapter 134, when he tries to prevent Masaki from attacking Kotomi [[spoiler:and ends up groping Masaki by accident, much to his own horror.]]
** He follows it up in chapter 168 by accidentally [[ShowerOfAwkward walking in on her showering.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played with. He does tend to get on Tomoko's nerves, though not so much due to obnoxiousness as due to the fact that he's guilty of such "crimes" as staying home sick while Tomoko has to go to school, having friends who care enough to visit him while he's sick, or cleaning his own room and making his lunch himself (much to their mother's praise - and unlike his sister, thus making her look bad in comparison). Also inverted, Tomoki definitely sees Tomoko as his annoying ''older'' sibling.
* BerserkButton: While he always braces himself whenever his sister approaches him, he gets particularly angry at her when she barges into his room unannounced, which she does frequently.
* BigLittleBrother: He's considerably taller and older-looking than his older sister. While it's not particularly strange, as they're only one year apart and both teenagers, it emphasizes how down-to-earth and mature he is in comparison to her.
* ChasteHero: While his sister is a raging pervert, Tomoki is completely unfazed by two girls telling him that they want to see his dick, [[CluelessChickMagnet to the point of failing to pick up that either is interested in him at all]]. Chapter 169 reveals that he owns no pornography whatsoever and that he reacts to [[AccidentalPervert accidentally walking in on a girl naked]] with annoyance rather than embarrassment or arousal. His chasteness is so notable that Akari's friend, Sayaka, suspects he may not be heterosexual at all, but ''soccer''sexual.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Both Kotomi and Akari pine for him, but he remains oblivious to their feelings even after they both blurt out in his presence that they would like to see his dick, and shows no interest in romance in general. In later chapters, he seems to catch on to Kotomi's crush on him (mostly as a result of Kotomi repeatedly embarrassing herself in his presence because of said crush), but at this point, he is too weirded out by her to reciprocate. Later, even [[spoiler:Sachi]] of all people falls for him [[LoveAtFirstSight after a single conversation]].
* CovertPervert: Subverted. Tomoko constantly accuses him of being [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Caught With His Pants Down]] whenever she enters his room, but he's always shown to simply be listening to music, reading a book or sleeping. Likewise, whenever Tomoko accuses him of [[BrotherSisterIncest being attracted to her]], he expresses disgust and confusion about why she would even suggest it. Later, when forced to sit down and have lunch with Kotomi and Akari by Tomoko, it's made pretty clear that he simply isn't interested in having a girlfriend.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Like both his parents and his sister, though his are much less pronounced.
* DeadpanSnarker: In response to Tomoko's antics.
* ExtremeDoormat: Zigzagged. He will only put up with his sister's shit for so long and liberally employs physical force to shut her up, but he tends to let just about everyone else walk all over him. Tomoki hardly puts up any resistance to the unwanted attention he gets from all the assorted girls who take a shine to him, particularly Masaki who has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace, and can't even find it in himself to refuse hospitality when Sayaka pretty much invites herself and Akari into his room for a study session without waiting for his input.
* FacePalmOfDoom: When ticked off, he simply grips his sister's head really hard.
* FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: In a home video their mom found in episode 7, he said like a little kid he wanted to marry Tomoko. He was notably disturbed when he saw this video (also because of how much more affectionate he was towards her).
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Responsible to Tomoko's Foolish. Despite being younger than her, Tomoki has a much better work ethic, helps around the house more willingly, and appears to get better grades than her while also playing soccer.
* GetOut: Practically his {{Catchphrase}}, as he says it whenever his sister enters his room without permission.
* GrumpyBear: Tomoki maintains a pretty sullen attitude even when he's not around his annoying sister.
* HiddenDepths: Generally comes off as a grouchy loner, though this is almost entirely because we nearly only ever get to see him when he's forced to put up with Tomoko's obnoxious antics. On the occasions where we get to see his life outside of his sister, he is shown to be a surprisingly popular guy with a large friend group, multiple female admirers and an active spot on his school's soccer team.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: ''Nothing'' about the female form interests this guy. When he and the rest of the soccer team run by Tomoko and Asuka, the guys comment on how gorgeous they think Asuka is, while Tomoki can only grouse about seeing a shrimp (his sister). When [[ItMakesSenseInContext Akari is stuck playing Twister all by herself in his room]], he only looks on boredly and wanting nothing to do with the game. Then there are his numerous AccidentalPervert moments with Masaki, which he only ever reacts to with annoyance.
* IHaveNoSon: Sibling variation. He exclusively refers to Tomoko as "that girl", even in his own thoughts. This is in stark contrast to when he was young, where he affectionately called her "nee-chan".
* JerkassToOne: Tends to physically rein in his sister if needed. That said, deep down he is a generally good-natured guy who is shown to be perfectly nice and friendly when dealing with people who aren't Tomoko.
* MatureYoungerSibling: Tomoki takes school seriously and does chores, unlike his older sister Tomoko, the socially dead otaku who would rather just play video games all day. [[BigLittleBrother He's even taller than her to symbolize that he's the more mature one]].
* TheOneGuy: Currently the only major male character. Justified due to Tomoko having problems working up the courage to talk to other girls, let alone guys. This is briefly lampshaded when, after realizing that she has begun interacting with other girls more frequently, Tomoko vows to try to talk to a guy, only to awkwardly barge into Tomoki's room, wave at him and then leave.
* OnlySaneMan: The only major character who is able to completely shut down Tomoko's antics before they escalate even further. It helps that [[WouldHitAGirl he's willing to get violent with her]]. He maintains this role even as the cast expands; responding to the increasingly bizarre antics of the people around his sister with the same exasperation he has when dealing with her.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: All evidence points to him having a perfectly normal and fulfilling school life, in contrast to his sister.
* OutOfFocus: As one of the few people Tomoko was comfortable talking to for the longest time, he used to be a very prominent character in the manga. Once Tomoko finally started forming some close bonds at school, Tomoki's appearances were reduced to the occasional [[ADayInTheLimelight day in the limelight]] chapter.
* PerpetualFrowner: He's always wearing a grumpy expression of some sort, at least when around his sister.
* PetTheDog: Sometimes he takes pity on Tomoko. Notably, he expresses relief during her second-year graduation that she has managed to make some friends by the end of the year. Of course, he also makes a point of noting [[WeirdnessMagnet how all of her new friends seem to be a bunch of weirdos]].
* ThePowerOfHate: Thinking about various occasions when Tomoko has pissed him off causes him to tap into an UnstoppableRage that has allowed him to become the star player of his soccer team. In comparison, thinking about the few occasions when the two of them have actually gotten along causes him to be thrown off his game and miss scoring the winning goal.
* TheQuietOne: Even when talking to people that he doesn't hate (as in, anyone other than Tomoko), he still rarely says more than a few words at a time.
* TheReliableOne: Viewed as this by his parents. While Tomoko's laziness and rude personality results in her frequently screwing up, their parents can always count on Tomoki to meet, or even occasionally exceed their expectations.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: One of his most frequent responses to his sister's wacky antics is staring at her for a few moments and then promptly walking away without even so much as asking what she's doing. He's even started doing this in regards to the girls in his own class getting on his nerves, opting to eat lunch by himself in a narrow alleyway that Tomoko once showed him just so he doesn't have to hear them.
* SiblingYinYang: With Tomoko.
* TheStoic: His only emotion is seemingly a perpetually-annoyed calm. Even when he isn't particularly agitated, his expressions remain dour and his speech remains curt.
* StraightMan: Serves as this whenever he shares a scene with his sister.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Invoked in chapter 106. Ucchi claims that his eyes and mouth are very similar to Tomoko's, which is how she is instantly able to tell that the two are siblings. Hina also comments on their similarity in chapter 134.
* TranquilFury: While he's frequently pissed off at his sister, he only explodes at her when she's being particularly obnoxious. Otherwise, he remains fairly stoic when dealing with her.
* UnkemptBeauty: Despite sharing his sister's CreepyShadowedUndereyes while also being a PerpetualFrowner, giving him a fairly disheveled and unfriendly appearance at all times, he is seen as attractive by girls. This may be because AllGirlsWantBadBoys.
* TheUnsmile: One of the very few times he ever smiles is to Akari's friend, Sayaka, once she encourages him to do his best after getting him stuck in the lead role of a play their class is putting on. It's obviously forced to a very painful degree, and Akari compares it to the way an animal would bare its teeth as an intimidation tactic.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: While he's suggested to be a decent guy when not around his sister at his present age, old home videos of him as a kid show that he used to be ''much'' more chipper.
* VitriolicBestBuds: What few glimpses we catch of him with his friends imply this. While they're a lot more boisterous than he is, Tomoki's not above throwing the occasional good-natured insult at them.
* WouldHitAGirl: He's not above lashing out when Tomoko's getting on his nerves (giving her a kick, grabbing her face, etc.). He invoked [[WouldntHitAGirl the other trope]] one time Tomoko was annoying him. Then when her antics went too far, he had no choice but to strike her into calming down.
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[[folder:The Kuroki Parents]]
->'''Mrs. Kuroki voiced by:''' Creator/RisaHayamizu (Japanese), Creator/ShelleyCaleneBlack (English)
->'''Mr. Kuroki voiced by:''' RyÅ Iwasaki (Japanese), Creator/DavidWald (English)
Tomoko's and Tomoki's parents.
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* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Like both of her children, Mrs. Kuroki sports a pair of these. Though unlike theirs, hers are substantially less visible. Also, judging from [[https://www.reddit.com/r/watamote/comments/61m6y4/volume_11_bonus_postcard_young_watamom_and_her/ a bonus drawing by Nico Tanigawa]], she got her eye bags at a later age than her kids did. Mr. Kuroki is also revealed to have these in the single panel where we get to see one of his eyes reflected in a rearview mirror.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Well, "limelight" isn't exactly right, but the chapter "Because I'm Not Popular, I'll Spend Time With My Dad" marks the first time Mr. Kuroki has ever had a significant amount of screen time and focuses on Tomoko going on a fishing trip with him.
* TheFaceless: During the few occasions where he actually appears, Mr. Kuroki's face is never completely shown. We've been shown, at various different points, his hair, mouth, and eyes, though, so we have a decent idea of what he looks like.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mrs. Kuroki has no idea that Tomoko is a loner with no friends [[spoiler:until chapter 90, when Ogino mentions this during their parent-teacher conference]]. In fact, Tomoko actively tried to hide this from her mother, e.g. by lying to her about having fun with her classmates in one of the Christmas specials. Mr. Kuroki has it even worse, getting almost all of his information about his children secondhand from his wife.
* NoNameGiven: The only reason we even know their last name is because we know their children's. They're exclusively called "mom" and "dad" in-universe.
* ParentalFavoritism: Played with. Mrs. Kuroki loves both Tomoko and Tomoki equally but is often exasperated at her daughter for being lazy and irresponsible. This causes Tomoko to become slightly resentful whenever her mom praises Tomoki for his maturity and self-reliance.
* {{Salaryman}}: Judging from his usual clothing of a suit and the fact that he's almost never around the house due to being too busy working, Mr. Kuroki is one of these.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Mrs. Kuroki was shown to resemble a tidier-looking Tomoko when she was younger, and, from what we've seen of his face, Mr. Kuroki resembles an older Tomoki.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** After Tomoko complains about having to help with housework, Mrs. Kuroki calls her out on the fact that Tomoki not only helps out without complaint, but he does so on top of also having Club Activities and studying for his High School Entrance Exam.
** When Tomoko forgets to mail Tomoki's application to the entrance exams for a school in Saitama, the furious mother subjects her daughter to a very harsh lecture about how she ruined her brother's future.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Mr. Kuroki's appearances can be counted on one hand and are extremely brief. At all other times, it can be easy to forget that Tomoko even has a dad.
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[[folder:Kiko "Kii-chan" Satozaki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieKugimiya (Japanese), Creator/JulietSimmons (English)
Tomoko and Tomoki's thirteen-year-old cousin and a seventh-grade schoolgirl. Having been fed a steady stream of face-saving lies by Tomoko, she idolizes her older cousin.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Ever since she lost Kii's respect, Tomoko has come to see her cousin as this and always dreads their meetings.
* AudienceSurrogate: Her reaction to Tomoko's card game.
* BrokenPedestal: How she sees Tomoko after all her attempts to look cool backfires spectacularly on her. Unlike other examples though, she takes the revelation well, and the next time they meet her admiration is replaced not with utter disdain, but with pity and appreciation that at least she tried her best.
* CreepyChild: When she gets in a bad mood, Kii becomes very...unsettling. It's bad enough that Tomoko regards her as TheDreaded and she's always painted in a sinister light in Tomoko's dreams. [[spoiler:To say nothing of the nightmare she had where Kii-chan implicitly [[BlackComedyRape raped her with an eggplant.]] As Tomoko woke up from that nightmare it turned out that Kii was actually in her room, watching her sleep.]]
* DeathGlare: Pulled one mixed with a ThousandYardStare when she was angry with Tomoko, also...
-->''"No! Just take it."''
** This has become a regular expression for her when she is angry, with an added {{Stepford Smile|r}}.
* IncestSubtext: When asked about what kind of boy she likes, Kii-chan responds with "like Onee-chan!", specifying that as someone who makes her heart skip a beat, "like [Tomoko]". Tomoko is understandably unnerved by this.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She means well when she tries to take care of Tomoko after finding out the truth about her, but so far her actions just drive it home to Tomoko how pathetic she has gotten.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoya_Satozaki Tomoya Satozaki]].
* NiceGirl: An unusual role for a Type-A {{Tsundere}} specialist like Creator/RieKugimiya. She's so nice she doesn't harbor any grudge against Tomoko for unwittingly breaking her good impression of her.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until chapter 60, where it's revealed that her given name is Kiko. Her full name is revealed in chapter 141.
* PerpetualSmiler: Is almost never seen without a smile, especially when around Tomoko.
* ReplacementGoldfish: In chapter 60 Tomoko speculates that Kii tries to take care of her because she treats her as a replacement for her deceased dog. [[spoiler: At the end of that chapter Kii even gives Tomoko that dog's hairpin (the one she is always wearing).]]
* SlasherSmile: A lot of her smiles look decidedly empty and sinister, particularly when combined with WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Her response to a rather sad story Tomoko tells her is more verbal than actually emotional.
-->'''Kii''': [''while smiling brightly''] You're so kind, Onee-chan. I'm tearing up. \\
'''Tomoko''': [''thinking''] Like hell you are!
* TokenMiniMoe: She has a very cutesy design that stands out from the rest of the cast. It makes sense while she's 12 years old, but it becomes even more notable when she retains it even as she approaches her mid-teens.
* UnwantedAssistance: She wants to help Tomoko become a better person, but Tomoko, who knows she's driven by pity and finds Kii's efforts demeaning, wants nothing to do with it.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Whenever she gets unpleasantly surprised, aggravated, disapproving, or devious, her eyes take on this look, which never fails to unnerve Tomoko. This is practically her default look in Tomoko's mind since Kii always has these eyes whenever Tomoko thinks or dreams about her.
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!!Tomoko's Middle School Friends
[[folder:Yuu Naruse]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Creator/EmilyNeves (English)
Tomoko's best friend from middle school, who managed the transition to adolescence far more gracefully than Tomoko. She was originally very quiet and nerdy; however, after moving to high school she dyed her hair, improved her fashion sense and personal appearance, became more outgoing and eventually got a steady boyfriend. Despite changing so much, she remains a kind friend to Tomoko, though she remains blissfully oblivious to how different their social lives are and is unaware of the more unpleasant aspects of Tomoko's personality.
She is the protagonist of the spin-off manga ''It's Your Fault My Friend's Not Popular'', which details her middle school life with Tomoko from her perspective.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In the final episode of the anime, she starts to chase after a distraught Tomoko out of concern for her but ends up being distracted by a cat.
* BeautifulAllAlong: An interesting case where she's introduced after having this already happen to her. Back in middle school she wore thick glasses and unflattering clothing but was still beautiful underneath them.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: After embarrassingly winning a bet in the Christmas special of 2016, Yuu makes Tomoko and Komiyama sing Christmas carols together for an hour. She then makes use of ExactWords by saying they'll have to do the same thing next Christmas.]]
* BookDumb: Yuu is very socially aware and has a knack for treating people how they want to be treated, but her grades aren't very good. Yuu even recognizes that Tomoko wanting to get into Aoyama University means that Yuu probably won't be able to follow her because of the disparity between their grades. Yuu comes to the conclusion that she should back off from Tomoko so that Tomoko has a better chance of getting into the university.
* BrainlessBeauty: Despite her beauty and kindness, she's oblivious to Tomoko's unsavory nature and has below-average grades. In the second Christmas special Tomoko opines that even using Twitter or keeping a blog would be too complicated for Yuu to handle. She also remains oblivious to the animosity between Tomoko and Kotomi [[spoiler:until chapter 54 of the main story. In chapter 124 she also does not pick up on Yuri's jealousy of her friendship with Tomoko, and is just happy that Tomoko's new friends like her so much]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Probably one of the rare occasions where OutOfFocus actually helped. As the third year rolls on and she learns of Tomoko's desire to get into the more academically prestigious Aoyama University and Tomoko's now large group of friends, Yuu starts to show insecurity at the possibility of being left behind by Tomoko while not wanting her lack of intelligence to drag her friend down and stop her from achieving her dream.
* ClosetGeek: She's currently this, due to her popularity having soared at her high school after she cleaned up her appearance. At one point she says that she's happy that she can still hang out with Tomoko since she doesn't have anyone else to talk to about anime-related things.
* CoolPet: In chapter 64, while catching bugs with Tomoko and Kotomi, she manages to catch a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynastinae rhinoceros beetle]]. Tomoko and Kotomi comment on its coolness and rarity, and Tomoko convinces Yuu to keep it as a pet.
* CluelessChickMagnet: She's completely unaware of the effect she had on Tomoko and Kotomi in middle school, and even in high school, she still hasn't caught on to Tomoko's blatantly obvious lust for her.
* CovertPervert: One thing she ''isn't'' oblivious about is innuendo.
* DecoyProtagonist: In the spin-off, she is set up as the protagonist at first, but the narrative focus eventually moves from her to Tomoko and Komiyama, and the story is mostly about the two's "[[SitcomArchNemesis friendship]]."
* DudeMagnet: She draws guys to her without even trying, much to Tomoko's eternal chagrin.
* DumbBlonde: Her hair is dyed, but otherwise applies.
* DumbIsGood: She's the ditziest of the three middle school friends, but also by far the sweetest.
* EroticDream: [[spoiler: Implied in chapter 7 of the spin-off. Tomoko and Kotomi are pretty delighted by it.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Tomoko and Kotomi both have pretty obvious crushes on her in middle school and separate high schools have done little to ebb their lust.
* {{Foil}}: To Tomoko, also to Kotomi. She had been, initially, shy like her two friends but was able to overcome it and build a social life, unlike Tomoko. In middle school, she already had a hidden natural beauty that drew attention. Most importantly, she has shown negative feelings towards other people the least, unlike her friends.
* FriendToBugs: Played with. She doesn't particularly deal well with insects, but when she goes bug-catching with her friends, she insists on letting the critters go when Tomoko wanted to watch them eat each other. She also keeps a rhinoceros beetle she catches as a pet.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: After taking her glasses off, her popularity soared.
* GoodBadGirl: Mostly implied, but she's suggested to have attended [[WildTeenParty Wild Teen Parties]] before and may have already lost her virginity, both things that the much sleazier Tomoko could only dream of doing.
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, in chapter 57! She deals with it in a completely different way than Tomoko, though.]]
* HeadTurningBeauty: ''Everyone'' who sees her is astounded by her looks, she has no problem drawing attention from guys, and even girls like Tomoko and Kotomi express attraction to her.
* TheHeart: She is pretty much the only reason Tomoko and Kotomi even talk to each other, and also the only reason they are willing to be civil when they do talk. [[spoiler: In chapter 54 she takes an active role to the trope.]]
* HiddenDepths: It's implied that while she may not be as [[BookDumb academically smart]] as the rest of the cast, she's much sharper than she lets on. Yuu's fully aware that her two best friends don't like each other but is able to get them to at least tolerate one another by steering them to an arcade, where they can hone their rivalry into playing fun games together. One Christmas special shows she does indeed have her own devilish side that can embarrass them ForTheLulz.
* ImportantHaircut: In Chapter 100, Yuu cuts her hair to shoulder length, due in part to [[spoiler: breaking up with her boyfriend.]]
* InformedAttractiveness: Everyone who sees Yuu always makes a note on how cute and attractive she is. While the manga has plenty of attractive and fashionable girls, she stands out as the only one who is consistently given this treatment.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Her casual remarks indicating that she has a much more fulfilling social life than Tomoko can hope for, including having a boyfriend, cause Tomoko a lot of distress.
** Komiyama was also hit with this, in chapter 6 of the spin-off.
** During Tomoko's, Yuu's and Kotomi's Christmas party in the 2016 Christmas special Tomoko come up with the idea for the trio to buy one another funny gifts that would be completely useless to the recipient rather than ordinary Christmas gifts. In response, Yuu [[spoiler:buys Tomoko a pack of condoms. Yuu claims to have thought about it simply as a funny gift, and is embarrassed when Tomoko points out what such a gift implies about [[NerdsAreVirgins what Yuu thinks of Tomoko]].]]
** In chapter 124 Yuu says that she would love to meet Kotomi's friends, and claims that they have to be kind if they are friends with her; Kotomi notes in her InnerMonologue that the way Yuu phrased that is a bit hurtful for her.
* MoralityPet: She was the only person for whom Tomoko displayed any kind of empathy for in the early parts of the manga.
* MsFanservice: Or at least this is how Tomoko sees her. While her clothing is occasionally somewhat risque, she herself is quite modest and buttoned-down.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihisa_Naruse Yoshihisa Naruse]].
* NiceGirl: Overall, a pretty nice and sweet (if somewhat airheaded) person.
* ObliviousToLove: Doesn't notice Tomoko's crush on her.
* OnlyFriend: To Tomoko (who even admits this in one of her {{Inner Monologue}}s in chapter 29) in the early chapters, and also to Kotomi in the prequel. Not so much in later chapters, as Tomoko makes a few more friends, while Kotomi befriends a girl named Itou and has a somewhat OddFriendship with her romantic rival Akari. Even then, Yuu seems to remain the closest friend to Tomoko and Kotomi.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: In anime flashbacks, though her eyes are visible in both manga.
* {{Otaku}}: She was this during middle school. Now that she's in high school and has a better social life, she's more of a ClosetOtaku around everyone except Tomoko and Kotomi, whom she feels she can be more open about otaku-related things with.
* OutOfFocus: Yuu has had fewer appearances in the story since Tomoko managed to get some semblance of social life at her school.
* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: Used to clue the reader in to the frequent discomfort or awkwardness beneath her perpetual smile.
* ShesAllGrownUp: She was a mousy, nerdy and shy girl in middle school who became a trendy, beautiful and outgoing girl in high school.
* TheSocialExpert: She may be an academic dunce, but Yuu is very good at reading people and understanding why they act as they do without needing to hear them explain themselves. She functionally teaches Tomoko and Kotomi to tolerate each other better by steering them towards activities that would allow them to channel their rivalry in less hostile ways, and defuses tensions between Tomoko and Asuka that would otherwise have risen due to their TwiceShy relationship.
* StepfordSmiler: Has a tendency to put up a cheerful front, even when she's going through bouts of depression, often from the trouble she has with her boyfriend.
* StupidGood: Her niceness can be very high when it comes to her friends. For example, when they were in the pool:
--> '''Tomoko:''' ''"If I peed in here, would you pull away from me?"''\\
'''Yuu:''' ''"I wouldn't. Because we're friends."''
* ThousandYardStare: A minor running gag whenever she becomes [[BookDumb overwhelmed by academia]], displaying a vacant look on her face complete with an empty smile that displays no happiness whatsoever. Tomoko thinks she looks like a rape victim this way.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Tomoko and Kotomi are both rather self-absorbed and prone to seeking out flaws in people, while Yuu is sweet and rarely criticizes others.
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[[folder:Kotomi Komiyama]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaoriMizuhashi
One of Yuu's old middle school friends. She immediately takes a dislike to Tomoko, who sees Kotomi as a rival for Yuu's attention. Unfortunately, Kotomi proves to be just as passive-aggressive and anti-social as Tomoko.
Kotomi is formally introduced in the spin-off manga ''It's Your Fault My Friend's Not Popular'', and later on she is re-introduced in the main series. Kotomi does not appear in the anime as it only adapts stories from before her first appearance. However, she appears in a special {{OVA}}, bundled with the Japanese release of the main series's seventh volume.
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* ACupAngst: Just like Tomoko.
* AlliterativeName: Both her first and last name begin with "K".
* AscendedExtra: She first appeared in Tomoko's flashback to her middle school years in Chapter 30 of the main series as the third, unnamed girl running the marathon with Tomoko and Yuu; she's only seen in three frames and has no speaking lines. In the spin-off series, starting with Chapter 2, she is one of the main characters. She then makes her formal debut in the main manga in Chapter 46.
* BerserkButton:
** Badmouthing her crush Tomoki, as Tomoko found out in chapter 54.
** ''Any'' girl getting close to Tomoki is enough to invoke her hostility.
* {{Bookworm}}: Always shown reading a book during her job as the school librarian.
* ButtMonkey: Not only is her crush on Tomoki unrequited, as he barely knows she even exists, but the plots revolving around said crush tend to end with her in some embarrassing situation or otherwise miserable.
* TheCameo: She makes a short appearance in the OVA that's about a minute long, which constitutes the only time she's ever been animated (and voiced).
* CovertPervert: Revealed to be one in Chapter 7 of the spin-off, though she is in denial about it. Also, in chapter 91 of the main series she blurts out that she is interested in Tomoki's dick... in Tomoki's presence, no less. As of chapter 101, she seems to have accepted that this is a part of her personality.
* CrossPoppingVeins: When Tomoko pisses her off. Which is often.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: During periods of extensive relaxation, she has a habit of mumbling some of her inner thoughts out loud. Normally, this isn't a problem as it usually happens in private, but she also does it while studying with her friends over Skype, which leads to much awkwardness. Particularly when her inner thoughts are about Tomoki.
* DontYouDarePityMe: If there's one thing Kotomi hates more than Tomoko being a {{Jerkass}} to her, it's the rare times when Tomoko actually expresses pity for her.
* {{Flanderization}}: Kotomi in Tomomote and the first few chapters after her Watamote debut was a shy and awkward girl with an interest in baseball and the Chiba Lotte Marines and a crush on Tomoki. As Watamote progressed, however, Kotomi's interest in the Marines became an obsession, to the point where Ogino had to stop her introduction at the start of the third year because she wouldn't shut up about it, and she took charge of the softball team during the sports meet. Kotomi's crush on Tomoki, originally innocent, became more creepy and perverted over time, and eventually reached the point where she was open about wanting to see his dick, stalked him at sports events to take photos, and even blurted out that she wanted to lick his eye bags.
* {{Foil}}: To Tomoko. She's basically her but more proper looking and with more common sense.
* ForgettableCharacter: Tomoko completely forgot that she existed as soon as she graduated from middle school. To be fair to Kotomi, this may have more to do with Tomoko not liking her enough to bother remembering her than it does with her flat out being a forgettable person.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: A comedic example. She and Tomoko had a friendship that was tenuous at best in middle school and immediately split apart as soon as [[TheHeart Yuu]] was taken out of the picture. By the time they reunite in high school, their relationship is entirely hostile and only becomes slightly more civil on the occasions where they both hang out with Yuu at the same time.
* FriendlyRivalry: With Akari. They both pine for Tomoki, and in an omake set after events of chapter 91 Akari even declares herself to be Kotomi's rival. However, so far there seems to be little animosity between the two, and Kotomi actually seems to care about Akari's well-being a bit. Kotomi encourages Akari to be honest about her feelings for Tomoki in chapter 101, and later, in chapter 108, she hesitates whether to tell Akari that Tomoki greeted her, because she didn't want to rub it in Akari's face. Akari, in turn, wanted to badmouth Kotomi when asked about her by Tomoki but backed off when she realized that Kotomi's feelings for Tomoki are the same as her own. In chapters 112 and 113 Akari is even shown helping Kotomi prepare the Valentine's Day chocolates for Tomoki and it turns out it was Akari who convinced Kotomi to give the Valentine's Day chocolates to Tomoki.
* GameOfNerds: She's a massive baseball enthusiast who follows the Chiba Lotte Marines with almost religious zeal. Of note is that she knows the make, model, and plate number of every player's car on the team. Chapter 117 reveals that she was once a member of the baseball cheer squad.
* GreenEyedMonster: She does not take kindly to other girls showing romantic interest with Tomoki, or interacting with him in any way, [[UpToEleven or even talking about him]]. [[spoiler:Even finding out about the existence of Kii in chapter 141 triggers her jealousy.]]
* IAmWhatIAm: While Tomoko's accusations on her fixation with Tomoki's genitals used to be a source of angst, Kotomi has made peace with that perverse side of her and freely admits that she would in fact love to see his dick. As of chapter 101, Tomoko's accusations no longer bother her.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: In a clothes store she hinted an interest in cosplaying. In chapter 79 she looks like the protagonist of a Final Fantasy game.
* InSeriesNickname: "Komi-something". Also: "Glasses". Both given by Tomoko.
** Her friend, Itou, refers to her as "Koto."
* KickTheDog: Calling Shizuku a pig to her face. In the past, if Kotomi wasn't able to bottle up her hostile feelings towards anyone she perceived as a rival for Tomoki's affections, then she was at least able to catch herself and make an effort to retain some civility, but this was the first time she was very open and unapologetic about it.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Tends to lose her common sense and act irrationally whenever the plot involves her crush Tomoki in some way.
* MyParentsAreDead: [[spoiler:Has revealed that her father died from an illness when she was five. Yuu gets awkward, Tomoko... not much.]]
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Fittingly, she shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoru_Komiyama Satoru Komiyama]].
* NerdGlasses: As a {{Bookworm}} she's among the more nerdy members of the cast, which she wears glasses to emphasize.
* NotHelpingYourCase:
** Like Tomoko, she insists that they are by absolutely no means friends. But when she gets into an angry confrontation with Masaki over the latter's apparent closeness to Tomoki, she tries to play it off as just BigSisterInstinct for her "best friend's" little brother, which only reinforces everyone's beliefs that they are friends.
** Furthermore, the above incident happens while Kotomi is trying to apologize to Masaki for lashing out at her. She does this in the hope of not looking like a terrible person in front of Tomoki while also downplaying her jealousy...only to immediately lose her temper ''again'' once Masaki starts getting friendly with Tomoki once more.
* OnlySaneWoman: Has more common sense than her two friends, at least in matters not related to her crush Tomoki or potential romantic rivals.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Sometimes she is presented like this depending on the situation. Her glasses are a little variant of this trope because they are not so big.
* {{Otaku}}: She shares the same interests in anime that Tomoko does, but to nowhere near the same extent. It's the subject of baseball where her obsessions really skyrocket into otaku territory, especially when it comes to the Chiba Lotte Marines.
* OutOfFocus: Not to the same extent as Yuu, but her screentime has been reduced considerably since the cast has grown in size.
* PrecisionFStrike:
-->''"Shithead."''
--> ''[[InnerMonologue "That fucking bitch!"]]''
* RightInFrontOfMe: In Chapter 2 of the spin-off she tried to break the ice with Tomoko by telling her a story about having a laugh in the previous year when she heard that some middle schooler was still riding a bike with training wheels. Guess who that middle schooler was?
* SheCleansUpNicely: While she may seem plain and mousy at school, Kotomi is shown to have a keen fashion sense that gives her a more showy appearance. Most notably, she managed to turn a bathing suit that Tomoko suggested to her as a joke into something very stylish at the beach, and dialogue implies she even got some boys' attention with it.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Tomoko. She dislikes Tomoko because the latter tends to act like a {{Jerkass}} towards her for [[GreenEyedMonster reasons she can't fathom]], and only ever strikes back at her when provoked. This is eventually downplayed massively in third year as Tomoko doesn't have as much reason to be jealous of her with her own expanded friend group and the two are now able to much better tolerate each other as a result.
* StalkerWithACrush: Acts like this towards Tomoki in some chapters, though this is PlayedForLaughs. In chapter 88 she is shown taking photos of him during the athletics meet, getting turned on when he is made to wear baseball uniform and hoping he would be wearing the kind of uniform where the understocking is showing. In the very next chapter, when let into Tomoki's room by Tomoko, she considers looking through his drawers or his trash before deciding to lie in his bed instead.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Even though they mutually dislike one another, she and Tomoko are frequently on the same wavelength, coming to the same conclusions independently, and even acting as they can communicate without even speaking.
* TheStrategist: Appoints herself as the strategist of her softball team during the sports tournament in her third year of high school. It seems not to be very successful, as Minami doesn't even understand her directions, and other girls are weirded out by her.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In spite of their mutual dislike, she and Tomoko are at least willing to cooperate to keep Yuu happy.
* UnknownRival: When they reunite in Chapter 46 of the main story, Tomoko has forgotten about Kotomi. On the other hand, Kotomi bears a grudge against Tomoko. (The next chapter reveals that they didn't spend all of their middle school years in the same class.) Now both are aware of the other's dislike.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Tomoko on their ''best'' of days, particularly past Chapter 57. On their worst, it's a SitcomArchNemesis relationship. Even their classmates, Yuu [[spoiler:and Kii]] seem to think they've got this kind of relationship going with how in-sync they act despite their affirmations to the contrary.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: When she is surprised and/or angry.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Yuu is the only link that makes her and Tomoko tolerate each other.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The reason she despises Tomoko. Both are antisocial and their OnlyFriend is Yuu. Each one of them believes the other is below her.
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!!The Kyoto Group
[[folder:Masaki Yoshida]]
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A girl with blonde hair and a bad temper that Tomoko has a habit of pissing off.
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* AsleepInClass: If she's attending class, chances are good she's sleeping at her desk.
* BerserkButton: When first introduced she has two: 1) perverted acts in general, especially being groped, and 2) being called a delinquent. [[NoSocialSkills Tomoko]] being [[AccidentalPervert Tomoko]], she manages to repeatedly push both these buttons, and it seems she is becoming yet another BerserkButton for Yoshida. During the trip to Disneyland, it is also shown that she hates it when people criticize cute things that she likes [[spoiler:which causes her to start a fight with one of her yankii friends.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early chapters portrayed her as being an ordinary girl with a FaceOfAThug who Tomoko was exceptionally good at pissing off. Later chapters show that she genuinely ''is'' a delinquent with a HairTriggerTemper, but also portray her as being a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold.
* DelinquentHair: She's a bleached blonde.
* FaceOfAThug: Certainly ''looks'' like a standard delinquent girl, but is heavily suggested to simply be an ordinary girl who is into punk fashion that Tomoko just ''assumes'' is a delinquent.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Turns out she and Tomoko (and Kotomi for that matter) actually first met while they were still middle school students. Tomoko tried to demonstrate to Yuu how to safely walk past a delinquent without incurring their wrath, only to accidentally kick Masaki's bottle of soda away and incur her wrath anyway. By all appearances, no one seems to recall the incident or who was involved.
* GenderBlenderName: Unlike the names of the other girls, "Masaki" is a unisex name in Japan which fits for a tomboy like her.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She seems to have an affinity for cute things in general.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Tomoko mentions that she wears Hello Kitty-print panties. A later chapter suggests that ''all'' of her underwear features cute mascot characters on them, to the point where Tomoko claims that the fact that she wears them is an OpenSecret.
* HairTriggerTemper: She is always quick to threaten or even hit Tomoko, sometimes with little provocation. On the other hand, she doesn't act like this when interacting with other characters, so maybe it's just that Tomoko is really good at hitting her {{Berserk Button}}s. Notably, in chapter 106 she does not lash out at Anna who called her a moron to her face. Later chapters, especially those covering the trip to Disneyland during her third year of high school, show that she can be quite friendly when in a good mood [[spoiler: though these chapters also show that even her yankii friends aren't safe from her wrath]].
* HiddenDepths: Despite what Tomoko thinks of her, she is shown to like cute things, couldn't recognize a love hotel when every other character could and apparently plans to celebrate her [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_Day Coming of Age Day]] in Disneyland. She also notices that Hina and Akane have a falling out in chapter 129, and tries to bond with Akane over the problems they both have with their friends [[spoiler:though she quickly changes her mind and attacks Akane when the latter pushes one of her {{Berserk Button}}s.]]
** There are enough hints that Masaki is actually much more well-off than her being a ''yankii'' implies. The brand of pudding she bought as a gift is somewhat pricy in the real world, she's shown to have both a scooter and managed to rent a van for her friends, but not even once mentions working part-time to fund them. Finally, when we're introduced to her mother, she doesn't look like a housewife at all (unlike Tomoko's mom), and instead looks like a longtime career woman.
* HotBlooded: The angry type. She also gets extremely fired up when she's excited about something, such as when talking about how cool Disneyland is.
* HugeSchoolGirl: Standing at 165 cm, the only non-adult taller than her is Asuka. As such she's the tallest among Tomoko's original circle of acquaintances.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Invoked in-universe, as several characters are convinced Yoshida is a delinquent, not helped by her bleached hair and [[HairTriggerTemper volatile personality]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While she's generally angry and annoyed, this is mostly because she is justifiably pissed off at Tomoko for saying or doing something insensitive to her. Otherwise, she is shown to be a relatively pleasant person who seems to actually like Tomoko to some degree.
* LastNameBasis: Mostly because Tomoko hasn't bothered to learn her first name. It isn't until she introduces herself to her third-year class several chapters after her debut that we learn her full name.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Her intimidating appearance and short temper cause others to overlook her softer side. In a sort of twist on this trope, Tomoko ''also'' completely overlooks her softer side when interacting with her, but interacts with her much more openly than others do, allowing Yuri (and the reader) to see that there's more to her than her tough looks.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuta_Yoshida Yuta Yoshida]].
* NeverMyFault: She's completely unapologetic about her outbursts. If Masaki's violent anger causes any problems, it's the fault of whoever provoked her, not Masaki for losing her temper.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: She gives Tomoko a ride home on her friend's scooter for no reason other than to be a chum. Doing so gets them both suspended for a week.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Beating up Tomoko for calling her a delinquent only further convinces Tomoko that Yoshida is a delinquent.
* OddFriendship: She and Tomoko couldn't be any more different, and going off of most of their interactions, you'd think they'd hate each other's guts. As later chapters show, however, Yoshida has no problem letting Tomoko hang around with her, despite Tomoko pressing her buttons sometimes.
** It's telling that that nowadays Tomoko simply ''can't'' imagine Yoshida not being around with her and Yuri. Ironically, Masaki seems to be the only person among her friends that she has absolutely no issue with introducing to the rest of her family.
** Yoshida seems to have become good friends with [[NiceGirl Mako]] during the Disneyland field trip, to the point where Mako is helping her with her future career choices and texting her during Yoshida's suspension.
** She takes a surprising shine to Tomoki as they continue bumping into each other, and responds to his AccidentalPervert moments much less violently than she does with Tomoko's.
* PerpetualFrowner: There's seldom a moment when she isn't scowling, which only fuels how intimidated Tomoko is by her.
* PervertRevengeMode: Her preferred response to Tomoko's antics.
* PetTheDog: She does occasionally do nice things for Tomoko, like offer to share an umbrella as they walk home on a rainy day. It's just that Tomoko always runs her mouth off at the wrong time and gets punched in the face. In chapter 116 she actually drags Tomoko over to Megumi, who was graduating, so that Tomoko, who was too nervous to approach, could say good-bye.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: A tough-talking and thuggish girl who likes all things cute and is generally pretty naive and innocent.
* {{Tsundere}}: A platonic example. She's almost always (justifiably) pissed off at Tomoko but still seems to like and care about her. She displays a similar attitude toward Tomoki, being casual and friendly to him one moment before switching to angry when he has an AccidentalPervert moment, though it's ambiguous if that's just as platonic.
* VitriolicBestBuds: The vast majority of her interactions with Tomoko consist of Tomoko saying or doing something insensitive or perverted to her and Yoshida responding with anger and violence. To onlookers, Yoshida appears to be bullying her. Gradually turns into grudging tolerance, especially after their trip to Disneyland, to the point that Masaki herself ''proactively'' invites Tomoko to hang out after school.
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[[folder:Yuri Tamura]]
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A fairly stoic girl from Tomoko's class who ends up in her group for their class trip after a falling out with her friend.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Post-CharacterizationMarchesOn, Yuri displays many symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: [[NoSocialSkills Little to no social ability and awareness]], [[BrutalHonesty speaks bluntly and straightforwardly]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive without a thought for how others will react]], [[TheStoic poor emotional display]], [[TheKlutz is clumsy and uncoordinated]], [[HairTriggerTemper has issues controlling her temper]] and occasionally focuses on some oddly childish interests.
* AudienceSurrogate: She's more or less taken up the role of the audience's representative within the story in recent chapters. She's a bit of a loner herself, but not nearly to the same degree as Tomoko, and while she is constantly bewildered by the other girl's behavior, she is also both amused enough by it to develop a fondness for her and empathetic enough to it to develop a sense of kinship with her.
* BerserkButton: While Yuri is not fond of Minami, to say the least, most of the time she is able to stay calm even in Minami's presence. However, in chapter 124 [[spoiler:when Mako calls her out on barging into Tomoko's meeting with Yuu and points out that she is acting like Minami would, Yuri actually punches Mako's arm in anger.]]
* BigEater: Yuri has a habit of eating large amounts of food during group meetings, perhaps as a way of avoiding conversation.
* BrutalHonesty: When she does talk to people Yuri is incredibly blunt and straightforward.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Yuri's personality takes a dramatic turn towards the end of the second year, to the point where she practically became a different character. Initially, Yuri had been the OnlySaneMan of the Kyoto trio. She was socially adept enough to mediate conflicts in the group and see through Tomoko attempting reverse psychology while Yoshida fell for it. While she was reserved at times during the Kyoto field trip, she was generally expressive, smiling regularly, being shocked by Tomoko's antics and even being introduced screaming angrily at Mako. From Valentine's Day onward, she became socially inept and unaware to the point of entering AmbiguousDisorder territory, and the end of year party showed her being [[UpToEleven even worse off socially than Tomoko.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: A platonic version. Yuri can be very clingy towards her close friends and doesn't like it when they're involved with others she isn't close to. This is seen in her fight with Mako over joining what was implied to be Minami's group for Kyoto and barging into Tomoko's meet-ups with Yuu and Nemo to engage in PassiveAggressiveKombat.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: In chapter 106, she prevented Tomoko from saying something to Yoshida that would get her punched. Overall, she has a better grasp of what kind of person Tomoko is than the rest of the school. Yuri herself invokes this trope in an omake set during the events of chapter 119, telling Masaki that they should look after Tomoko during the class farewell party because she might do something weird otherwise.
* CovertPervert: Invoked in chapter 145. Tomoko accuses Yuri of being this when she catches her reading an ecchi manga. Yuri on her part insists that she doesn't like this sort of manga and that she checked this particular one for a different reason. [[spoiler:Her willingness to watch porn with Tomoko at an internet café in Chapter 151 kind of gives the game away, though...]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: It's very slow but as third year goes along she starts to occasionally show more emotion. Most notably, laughing during a study trip to the beach with Tomoko, Nemo and Akane and smiling while talking to Miyazaki during the study camp.
* {{Flanderization}}: In a couple of ways:
** When she was first introduced Yuri was occasionally reserved and stand-offish (which was largely because she was separated from Mako for the Kyoto trip) but was generally sociable and expressive, and after the Kyoto field trip she was even cheerful and friendly. Later chapters played up her reserved nature to the point where she was TheStoic, only barely displaying emotion in moments of genuine joy, shock or anger. Likewise, Yuri went from being somewhat stand-offish to either ignoring or passive-aggressively sniping at people she didn't care for.
** The first time Yuri hit someone (Mako in chapter 124) was actually a WhamShot moment, and she only did so out of brief but serious anger over Mako pressing her BerserkButton. Later chapters would have her hit people casually when mildly irritated.
* {{Foil}}: Like many of Tomoko's friends, she can be seen as one to her. Both are introverted, have poor self-esteem, and lack much of a social circle, but while Tomoko is profoundly weird and histrionic, Yuri is one of the most reserved characters. Also, while Tomoko is generally mean but shows increasing moments of kindness and empathy, Yuri is generally kind but has something of a dark side.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Minami's story arc shows that she used to be part of the same friend group as Minami and Sachi in first year but eventually fell out with them.
* TheHeart: Since Tomoko, Mako, and Yoshida are more friends with her than they are with each other, Yuri is pretty much the glue that holds them together. Despite being an introvert, she convinces them to attend the class end-of-the-year party with her just so they can all have one last chance to hang together.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuri values the few friends she's managed to make, and as such is ''very'' attached to them. Seeing them interact in a familiar manner with other people outside her group of four (which includes Mako, Tomoko, and Masaki) causes ''intense'' feelings of jealousy to bubble up, as chapter 124 and 126 show.
* HiddenDepths: Initially introduced as a normal, if a somewhat reserved and stoic girl. Later chapters show that she's not that great at social interactions, and places a ''lot'' of value on the very few friendships she's managed to make. She also gets jealous if any of her friends seem to be getting closer to people outside the group than with her.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Due to her [[NoSocialSkills lack of social awareness]], Yuri tends to say or do things that annoy people around her and not pick up on their irritation. Lampshaded by Ucchi, who remarks it's the reason why Yuri has such a small social circle.
* InSeriesNickname: In Chapter 124, Tomoko considers calling her by a nickname after knowing her for so long, indicating that she conceivably might receive one of these in the near future. [[spoiler:Chapter 126 shows that the fact that Tomoko did not come up with a nickname for her is a sore spot for Yuri.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Yuri can be selfish, and easily becomes a GreenEyedMonster whenever Tomoko is with her other friends. Downplayed in that Yuri is more unaware than truly malicious, she'll back off when she realizes that she's being hurtful, and she can be empathetic and helpful outside of her jealous fits.
* LoonyFriendsImproveYourPersonality: Zig-zagged. Yuri's friendship with Tomoko and Yoshida seems to make Yuri more expressive and openly affectionate to her friends, but eventually, it also brought her issues with jealousy to light.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: A RunningGag with Yuri is that she packs a ''lot'' of strength in her hands and arms despite her slender build, which makes the punches and squeezes that she doles out whenever she gets annoyed really painful.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuhiro_Tamura Tatsuhiro Tamura]].
* NiceGirl: Played with. While she thinks Tomoko is a bit of an idiot, she treats her with respect and kindness, invites her to eat lunch with her, and becomes the loner's first real friend in high school. However, Yuri has issues when it comes to "sharing" her friends, which makes her act standoffish, passive-aggressive, and prone to lashing out. She's even guiltily admitted that she doesn't think she's a nice person.
* NightmareFetishist: She seems to have a taste for the macabre. Tear-jerking, sentimental manga do nothing for her, but something more gory and horrific like ''Manga/{{Goth}}'' is more up her alley. Furthermore, while Yuri says she likes musicals, her favorite is the darkly depressing ''Film/DancerInTheDark''.
* NoodleIncident: She spends most of the Class Trip thinking about how to make up with her friend Mako, but it's never said what caused the falling out, and they seem to have made up by the end. [[spoiler:Later chapters heavily imply that it was because Mako accepted Minami's invite to join the latter's group for the class trip without considering Yuri's feelings about it.]]
* NoSocialSkills: She's very low key about it compared to Tomoko, but Yuri is still very awkward and inept socially. She consistently fails to notice social cues or engage in niceties (as seen in chapter 145 when she simply eats the lunch Mako made without thanking her). Yuri is also very blunt, tactless and even rude when not being reserved or uninterested. From the Disneyland field trip onwards, Yuri actually was shown to be [[UpToEleven even less socially capable than Tomoko.]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark: She gets on the recieving end of this. When Yuri starts bad-talking Tomoko to Yuu, Mako tells her that she's acting an awful lot like Koharu. Yuri's violent reaction to that shows it's not a comparison she likes.
* OddFriendship: Arguably her main group counts but she also winds up developing one with Ucchi's friends during the study camp after they invite her to hang out with them at a hot spring noting that they're surprisingly easy to talk to.
* OnlySaneWoman: She notices how much of an idiot Tomoko is, but still makes an effort to befriend her. She does the same for Yoshida. She's by far the most normal of the three and usually takes it upon herself to try and keep them civil with each other.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Originally presented like this, but subverted over time as she became more and more of a {{Foil}} to Tomoko.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: In later chapters, whenever she gets jealous of other characters getting friendly with Tomoko, she either [[SilentTreatment ostentatiously ignores them]], or tries to one-up them by bringing up inside stories to prove that she's Tomoko's closest friend. [[spoiler:Yuu was her first target in chapter 124, followed by Hina during and after the Disneyland trip, and Shizuku in chapter 132]].
* TheStoic: Downplayed. She's not emotionless, but she maintains a pretty firm poker face no matter what happens around her.
* UnfazedEveryman: Her reactions to her new kind-of-friends' behaviors are much more subdued than you'd expect.
* WhenSheSmiles: She very rarely smiles, and when she does, she'll always be quick to hide it. She almost never laughs either, so when a biting remark from Tomoko gets a small chortle out of Yuri, Mako reacts with visible happiness that someone could actually make Yuri do that.
* WouldNotHitAGirl: Discussed. Yuri herself is a girl and she has no problems hitting Tomoko, who is also a girl albeit a very scruffy-looking one, whenever she says or does something stupid. However, when the latter gets a landmine makeover that makes her [[SheCleansUpNicely appear more feminine and beautiful]], Yuri says she wouldn't be able to hit Tomoko while she looks like that because it would just look like abuse rather than discipline.
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A popular girl from Tomoko's second year class who has strange eyes and similar hair to Yuu. After spending most of her time with her friends in a different group during the class trip, the short time she actually spends with Tomoko leaves a very huge impression on her.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Bad ''girls'' in this case. In Ucchi's mind, Tomoko is a [[ReallyGetsAround sexually promiscuous]] creeper who peeped on her in the shower, stole her panties, watched her while she slept, stalked her relentlessly, and makes a pass at just about every attractive girl she encounters. While it scared her at first, it also got Ucchi interested.
* AmbiguouslyGay: She thinks Tomoko is stalking her to sexually harass her, [[RapeAsComedy maybe more]], which of course frightens her, but when it looks like Tomoko isn't interested in her, Ucchi becomes noticeably miffed.
** In later chapters it starts to look like she might actually have a crush on Tomoko, going by her reaction to Tomoko giving her a secret "Thank You" note or how she was able to instantly tell Tomoki was Tomoko's brother just by looking at his face.
** [[spoiler:Chapter 127 pretty much puts an end to any lingering ambiguity, as Ucchi admits that there's someone she likes. While she doesn't mention who that is, [[HoYay/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular all the clues point in one direction]].]]
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Due to Tomoko's [[NoSocialSkills mannerisms]], [[AmbiguouslyBi comments]] and [[CovertPervert actions]] when interacting with her, she's convinced Tomoko is stalking her and is obviously creeped out when Tomoko is trying to peek under her skirt. However, when she notes her also peeking under the skirts of other girls, her reaction shows this:
--> "So long as you've got a girl to stare at, you don't care who it is?!"
** She later has the same reaction again when she sees Tomoko going shopping with Yuu, who looks similar to herself. Ucchi is convinced that Tomoko is trying to replace her with Yuu.
* AscendedExtra: Made a brief appearance in chapter 59 (as the girl sitting next to Tomoko in a bus and ignoring her to chat with her friends instead) before becoming a recurring character. This appears to be the origin of her NonstandardCharacterDesign; her face is drawn only once in her first appearance and it seems to be simply an indication that she isn't important.
* BettyAndVeronica: Tomoko possibly serves as the Archie to Asuka's Betty and Ucchi's Veronica.
* ButtMonkey: After becoming Tomoko's StalkerWithACrush, every chapter featuring her is practically guaranteed to feature her getting humiliated in some way.
* CannotSpitItOut: She'll do everything she can around Tomoko. Everything, that is, except outright says that she likes her.
* CatchPhrase: ãã¢ã€ (kimoi), which is usually translated as "disgusting".
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In her first few appearances, Ucchi seemed to be something of a StepfordSmiler who would maintain a steady grin on her face even while feeling uncomfortable. Starting with chapter 80, she became more expressive in general, no longer does anything to maintain her cool, and very seldom ever smiles.
* CovertPervert: As much as she'll outwardly voice her disgust for Tomoko, Ucchi frequently has dirty thoughts about her. She's subtly but deliberately tried to arrange for moments that Tomoko could perv on her, fantasized about drinking water she's bathed in, thought about filming Tomoko taking her clothes off, and even tried bringing her to a love hotel.
* CrushBlush: She does this more and more around Tomoko.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Her belief that Tomoko is lusting after her is borne out of a lot of situations where Tomoko did seem to be acting in a sexual manner. She just doesn't know Tomoko well enough to recognize that Tomoko didn't mean anything by it and was too nervous to try and clear anything up.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the chapters that followed the second-year school trip she was at first portrayed as legitimately creeped out by Tomoko, but with hints that her interest in Tomoko might go beyond that. She gradually turns into a SmittenTeenageGirl who is completely obsessed with Tomoko, actively looks for opportunities to meet her and seems to be disgusted with Tomoko [[GreenEyedMonster only when she thinks that Tomoko is flirting with other girls]].
* {{Foil}}:
** To Yuu. They both have active social lives, fairly similar appearances, and a connection of sorts to Tomoko. However, while Tomoko bears an obvious lust for Yuu, who knows absolutely nothing about it, Ucchi misinterprets ''everything'' Tomoko does as being in relation to a perverse lust towards ''her''. That and Ucchi appears to be well on her way to developing a lust for Tomoko, who has no clue about it.
** Ucchi can also be seen as an embodiment of Tomoko's early-days habit of making wildly imaginative and EntertaininglyWrong appraisals of the situation, her highly sexual mindset, and her weekly ZanyScheme for attention. The difference is that Tomoko wanted to be beloved by everyone and generally had little commitment, while Ucchi cares only about Tomoko and sticks to her guns.
* TheGenericGirl: Implied by her official profile. To whit, Ucchi is the ''only'' member of the cast with all her stats listed as '''three'''.
* GreenEyedMonster: Whenever Tomoko shows or receives attention from someone who isn't Ucchi, Ucchi always reacts with visible jealousy. In one of the panels in chapter 115, she can be [[FunnyBackgroundEvent seen in the background]] angrily clenching her teeth as she watches a graduating upperclassman patting Tomoko's head.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Her beliefs that Tomoko is a creepy stalker who's utterly obsessed with her are so strong that Ucchi has in turn taken to obsessing over Tomoko and stalking ''her''.
* HiddenDepths: During her trip to Aoyama in chapter 140 she apparently wanted to check the university's school of business (until she noticed Tomoko and got sidetracked); Tomoko even wonders whether Ucchi is planning on opening up an Emoji Mart.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Even though Ucchi repeatedly tells her friends and acquaintances that Tomoko is a disgusting creep, she does not tolerate anyone else badmouthing Tomoko, [[spoiler:as Minami found out in chapter 156.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: By all accounts, she's guilty of everything she accuses Tomoko of being. [[spoiler:For instance, when Tomoko leaves some chocolates for Ucchi in her locker, Ucchi calls her a creep for not giving them to her in person, even though she did the exact same thing the day before.]]
* IdenticalStranger: Somewhat resembles ([[NonstandardCharacterDesign a highly-simplified]]) Yuu. This actually gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in one chapter, where, after seeing them together, Ucchi assumes Tomoko is using Yuu as a proxy for her.
* InformedAttractiveness: Ucchi is supposedly pretty, enough to be part of her second-year class' cheerleading team. You would ''never'' know this though due to how her face is normally drawn.
** According to her official profile, Ucchi has the body of a fashion model. Though Tomoko acknowledges this in chapter 176, you'd be hard-pressed to notice this due to the way Ucchi is drawn.
* InsultOfEndearment: Seems to be what "kimoi[[note]]Usually translated as "gross," "creepy," or "disgusting"[[/note]]" has become, at least when it's applied to Tomoko. She's even outright said she uses it to simultaneously praise and insult her.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Ucchi's growing obsession with Tomoko has made her act increasingly more erratic. She stares at her intensely from a distance, actively stalks her, tries to contrive meetings and encounters with her through incredibly roundabout ways, and throws childish tantrums every time something gets between her and Tomoko. It ends up seriously straining Ucchi's relationship with her usual group of friends, though they cut her some slack when they notice ''why'' she's acting that way.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: She doesn't say or do anything every chapter, but she can often be seen in the background. [[StalkerWithACrush Always watching Tomoko]]. Crosses over with FunnyBackgroundEvent with some of the humorous expressions she makes, particularly whenever she starts [[GreenEyedMonster angrily gritting her teeth]] every time Tomoko pays any sort of attention to someone else.
** In chapter 132, there are several blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments where she can be seen peering at Tomoko from behind a tree.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuya_Uchi Tatsuya Uchi]].
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Always has BlackBeadEyes. It's so unusual, that even in-universe, Tomoko compared her to an emoji. The outlines of her eyelids are drawn only in some of her emotional moments, most notably in chapters 80, 131, 152 and 156.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until chapter 114, where her surname (å , Uchi) can be seen on her locker [[spoiler:when Tomoko is looking for her locker to leave the Valentine's Day chocolates there]], and chapter 127, which reveals her given name. "Ucchi" is just what her friends call her. Tomoko doesn't even ''know'' her actual nickname due to how little time they actually spend directly interacting, and instead just calls her "emoji girl".
* RightForTheWrongReasons: She's one of the few people who see Tomoko for the perverted creeper she is, but only because she comically misunderstands everything Tomoko does, no matter how innocuous, as having perverted intentions.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The official English translation writes her given name [[MultiEthnicName "Emily"]]. Foreign words/names are typically written in katakana, but her name is written in kanji, so it's more likely supposed to be romanized "Emiri".
* StalkerWithACrush: Thinks Tomoko is hers. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters In her paranoia, she has become Tomoko's]].
* StupidSexyFlanders: Considering that Tomoko's creepiness is what Ucchi finds so fascinating and attractive about her, Ucchi's constant referring to her as creepy and gross is functionally how she expresses both her frustration and attraction to Tomoko.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: As much as she loves to talk about how creepy and weird Tomoko is, she sure doesn't seem to mind her. [[spoiler:Chapter 114 shows her to be somewhat pleased that Tomoko gave her chocolate for Valentine's Day, and as she's inwardly berating the fact that it looks like poop, she's still eating it.]]
* ThroughHisStomach: She's making a habit of trying to attract Tomoko's attention via food, [[spoiler:first by making [[ChocolateOfRomance chocolates for her on Valentine's Day]], and later by grilling and seasoning a strip of meat at a Korean BBQ restaurant - and then sneaking it onto Tomoko's plate.]]
* TransparentCloset: The only person who knows Ucchi and hasn't figured out that she has romantic feelings for Tomoko is... well, Ucchi. This creates some problems when her friends try to coax her into confession, only for Ucchi to then do her usual thing of calling Tomoko a disgusting creep.
* {{Tsundere}}: A quiet, long-distance variation. Whenever she thinks about Tomoko, her thoughts are always full of unmitigated disgust, but she frequently goes out of her way to do nice things for her (complete with extensive rationalization [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that it's not because she likes her or anything]]), and blushes whenever Tomoko returns the favor. It's gradually become a lot more direct as she's started to outright call Tomoko a disgusting creep right in front of her, claiming that it's meant to be both an insult and a compliment.
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[[folder:Tomoko Kuroki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IzumiKitta (Japanese), Creator/MonicaRial (English)
The main character of the series, who struggles with becoming "popular", making friends and coping with adolescence. Unfortunately, this is not helped by her [[NoSocialSkills social ineptitude]] and [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant]] [[TheEeyore personality]].
Despite being incredibly anti-social, she craves the companionship and attention of others. She suffers from a raging superiority complex, [[IndulgentFantasySegue vivid delusions of grandeur]], intense self-loathing, and social anxiety so severe that she can barely get out a sentence when talking to someone she is not intimately acquainted with.
The dark circles under her eyes are genetic (and shared by her brother).
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* AccidentalHero: Tomoko manages to help some people now and then, but only by happenstance. She gives Shizuku some half-hearted advice on how to handle the entrance exams (with the intention of discouraging the girl from attending her school at all), only to end up encouraging her to pass and apply to the school in full. [[spoiler:Tomoko also gets Hina and Akane to patch things up. How? By showing the latter a clip from an eroge game while explaining to her the likely reasons Hina was so secretive about her dream to become a voice actress, which horrifies Akane so much that she outright confronts Hina about it, allowing them to talk things out.]]
* AccidentalPervert: Only towards Yoshida, whom she always gropes by complete accident, which more often than not gets her smacked. Anyone else she pervs on is very intentional. For what it's worth though, Tomoko ''does'' like how the delinquent feels.
* ACupAngst: It's not as apparent as most examples of this trope, but it's there.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: One particularly infamous chapter/episode has Tomoko buy both a [[YaoiGenre BL visual novel]] and a personal body massager. Tomoko even notes that if anyone saw her with both, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything they'd get the wrong idea]]. Or rather the ''right'' idea, since that's exactly what she had planned.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Although she doesn't actually hook up with a "bad boy", she seems to be fond of BastardBoyfriend characters, as evidenced by her enjoyment of a drama CD about {{Yandere}} boys.
* AmbiguouslyBi: While her PerverseSexualLust for Otome Game characters and early fixation on getting a boyfriend make her attraction to men obvious, her constant sexual harassment of Yuu raises a few eyebrows. What keeps Tomoko's sexuality ambiguous is that it's made clear at multiple points that Tomoko's [[NoSocialSkills lack of social awareness]] and [[WrongGenreSavvy reliance on anime tropes to navigate real life situations]] cause her to assume that LesYay in female friendships is not only common, but ''expected'', leading her to enforce it. Even as she develops more real life relationships and her pervertedness dies down, however, being caught in several NotWhatItLooksLike moments have led to Ucchi becoming absolutely ''certain'' that Tomoko is not only a lesbian, but a sexual deviant who surrounds herself with a harem of girls at all times. As Tomoko matures and becomes explicitly more aware of the concept of homosexuality (she even correctly defines "LGBT" in class), she still can't help but fall for Yuu's or [[https://imgur.com/a/9IM3Agq Asuka's]] charms. She's also shown blatant sexual attraction to Miho, one of Asuka's friends, and Shizuku, her own kohai. In the latter's case she's outright said that if she were a guy she'd want to NTR Shizuku's boyfriend.
* BeautifulAllAlong: It's been brought up that Tomoko actually has good looks, but the problem is that she doesn't try grooming and looking after herself that much. When she actually does, many of her friends do say how cute she is. This aspect can actually be seen in some of the later chapters where Tomoko decides to wear more flattering clothes and cleans herself more.
** Her official profile shows that she has a Charisma score of '''five''', the maximum possible score, shared only with super-model-esque Katou Asuka. This means that Tomoko always had the potential to be popular, if her crippling self-doubt hadn't dragged down her confidence.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: As time goes on and Tomoko finds herself on the receiving end of more PetTheDog moments, she feels the need to repay the people who show her kindness even if she doesn't really know them.
** She makes a batch of chocolates for everyone who gave her some for Valentine's Day, like Mako, Yuri, and Ucchi. She even gives some to Yoshida, despite their dysfunctional relationship.
** Because Megumi came to her aid a few times in the past, Tomoko congratulates her for graduating high school and even asks the former StudentCouncilPresident if there's anything she can do for her. She feels rather crushed when she realizes she won't be able to give anything back to Megumi.
* BerserkButton: When Yuu makes a joke about Kotomi marrying Tomoki this is one of the few times that we see Tomoko get legitimately angry at Yuu, making no attempts at hiding her anger at all.
* BettyAndVeronica: Tomoko possibly serves as the Archie to Asuka's Betty and Ucchi's Veronica.
* BigBrotherBully: Tomoko tries to pass herself off as a CoolBigSis to Tomoki, and was indeed like that at one point, but in actuality she's extremely negative and manipulative whenever she's around him. It's also implied that this is the reason why Tomoki stopped being friendly with her to begin with.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Oh yes. For the longest time, Tomoko was only ever interested in her popularity at school, all the while being loathe to do any work around the house, eager to annoy her brother, and quick to snap at her mother. This got her a good share of slaps from the latter, who was often irritated at how irresponsible Tomoko was despite being the older child.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: She has made a huge impact on Ucchi's life, to the point where the girl is utterly obsessed with her. However, Tomoko never intended to do such, their first real interaction was on the last night of their field trip, and Tomoko was just being her [[NoSocialSkills normal]] [[CovertPervert self]]. Later "interactions" were mostly Tomoko doing something else and it just so happened Ucchi was the target or a witness.
* ButtMonkey: Any of her attempts to become popular ''always'' come out wrong for her.
* CannotTalkToMen: Nothing frays Tomoko's nerves more than attractive boys. Even after her social skills improve enough that she can communicate with strangers without tripping over her words too much, she still turns into a nervous, stuttering puddle of goo in the presence of hot guys.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Tomoko has been walked in on playing her Hentai games, ''[[RunningGag multiple times]]''.
* CharacterDevelopment: Slowly but surely, Tomoko matures a good deal over the course of the manga, particularly in her second year. She dials back on her ill-thought schemes to become popular to the point where she eventually gives up on them entirely, doesn't stutter nearly as often as before, is more comfortable in public places like cafes, lets go of a lot of the resentment she felt towards her peers, shows occasional bouts of consideration for others, and is more studious and responsible in general. By the end of the year, she even manages to get herself a small circle of friends and acquaintances to regularly socialize with.
* ChildHater: Played with. In chapter 138 she admits that she hates middle schoolers, but she also mentions that she doesn't have strong feelings about grade schoolers, and in the past she used to play card games with kids in a candy store. In any case, she states that her dislike of kids is the reason why she would never want to be a teacher.
* ChronicVillainy: She's never managed to break her bad habit of doing {{Jerkass}} things.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Tomoko ''can'' care about people, she's shown to have an extremely active imagination with a creative streak to her, and [[{{Determinator}} she's extremely resilient in the pursuit of her goal]]. That being said, she's a liar, a pervert, very lazy, and tries to take the easy way out of anything she can. She even LiesToChildren and calls any girls even slightly more popular than her "bitches" and "sluts". Tomoko gradually does undergo character development to get rid of the worst parts of these traits, but they never completely disappear.
* ClingyJealousGirl: When it comes to Yuu or her brother, the latter of which she declared if he ever brought home a girl, she would take responsibility and ''[[{{Yandere}} kill her]]''.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Somehow, against all logic or reason, she's managed to become this in her 3rd year. To wit, Yuri has grown quite attached to her and is prone to jealously whenever Tomoko gets close to someone else. Nemo is similarly quite attached to Tomoko, and while they're also vitriolic best buds, it's clear that Nemo values their "honest" friendship a great deal. Asuka is extremely fond of her, and her affectionate gestures border on outright flirting. Ucchi is outright infatuated by her, having become increasingly more obsessive about Tomoko over the course of the manga. Shizuku hero-worships her, looking at Tomoko as a kind and thoughtful sempai. While her friendships with some of the other girls aren't as pronounced, she's still amassed a huge following of female friends and acquaintances. It's ironic that the usually self-aware Tomoko often [[https://imgur.com/oJ358si seems to be completely unaware of this.]]
* ConsummateLiar: "How do I bullshit my way out of this?"
* ConvenientlySeated: At first, she seats in the back row seat by the window. When the second semester starts and Tomoko loses her seat, she lampshades it by commenting about how lucky she was getting "the seat main characters always get in anime and light-novels" in the first semester, lamenting that she now has to dwell in an awkward spot, surrounded by people. Tomoko regains her original seating arrangement come her second year, and keeps it for her third year, now surrounded by people she's either friends or friendly with.
* CosmicPlaything: She doesn't realize it, which might be a good thing as the truth might plunge her into the pit of despair or worse, since she can't realize why her attempts to make friends are massive failures. The moment she gains some self-awareness of her faults and tries to not be so judgmental anymore, the universe ''seems'' to ease up on her ...and decides to spread the weirdness around to her new friends.
* CovertPervert: Played with; since the viewers are always privy to her thoughts, it's easy for us to see that she's ''very'' perverted, but most other characters (aside from Tomoki) are unaware of how perverted she really is. This becomes subverted over time; though Tomoko ''tries'' to keep her lewd side under wraps, she either proves to be really bad at hiding her lecherous habits, or has a number of [[AccidentalPervert accidents]] that leave people with the impression that she's a massive pervert anyway. Before her third year is even halfway done, pretty much everyone familiar with Tomoko knows what a huge sex-obsessed perv she is.
* CreepyLonerGirl: Tomoko is an unattractive, friendless {{Otaku}} with absolutely NoSocialSkills who stays up all night playing dating sims to compensate for her nonexistent social and love life. She daydreams about becoming popular, but her social awkwardness ruins her attempts at it every time.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Seems to be a family trait; however, Tomoko's habit of staying up late at night probably doesn't help, as she notes before trying on glasses to hide them.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: This is her her single strongest desire for most of the series. It's likely why she's overly attached to her brother (much to his chagrin) and also part of why she's so attached to her only real friend, Yuu. This ends up becoming subverted pretty later on in the series, once Tomoko actually gets a circle of friends.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite the universe doing [[CosmicPlaything everything it can]] to make her give up, Tomoko never relents in her quest to become popular, make friends, or just improve herself in general. Whenever one scheme fails, she just gets up, dusts herself off, and moves on to the next plan.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: She has a bad habit of voicing her more lewd thoughts out loud. Initially this was only toward Yuu, but eventually spread to anyone Tomoko felt mildy attracted to, like Asuka.
-->'''Tomoko''': ''(Thinking)'' A cute girl, wearing such cute underwear and such a short skirt must flash a bit from time to time...just imagine, if I were her boyfriend... \\
'''Tomoko''': ''(Out loud)'' Bet those'd really give ya a stiffy. \\
'''Yuu''': MOKOCCHI!!?
* DisappointingOlderSibling: Despite being the older sibling, Tomoki thinks she's an annoying loser. According to the volume 5 omake, it was her obnoxiousness that caused their once-loving relationship to turn sour. On the other hand, one WhatIf omake shows that he would end up disliking her even if she were to remain kind to him.
* DontYouDarePityMe: As shown in chapters 33 and 42, she doesn't like it when others take pity on her, as she feels patronized by this.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: In addition to being very large and roughly-sketched, her eyes lack a notable sheen that's present in most other characters, illustrating her perpetually dour mood.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The bags under her eyes only serve to further emphasize this aspect of hers.
* TheEeyore: She falls into bouts of self-loathing and has a lot of negative thoughts in social situations. Even when she acknowledges that her life got better than how it used to be, such as in chapter 115, she doesn't expect the good times to last.
* ExpressiveHair: You can often tell how exasperated she is just by seeing how much her hair is flaring out.
* FailureHero: In the early chapters she can't do ''anything'' right. Every time she has a goal, it's bound to fail or backfire horribly. The few ThrowTheDogABone moments she gets are usually down to luck and the kindness of others, or when she's not actually trying so hard to become popular. This part of her characterization is largely dropped as the story progresses and Tomoko starts setting more realistic goals for her social life, which she eventually starts achieving.
* FemaleMisogynist: [[GreenEyedMonster Her jealousy]] leads to a general resentment of other girls aside from Yuu, often viewing girls who are more socially adept than her as "bitches" or "sluts". [[spoiler: However, this doesn't appear to apply to Yuri, probably because she recognizes that Yuri is almost as socially inept as she is]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Tomoki's Responsible. She tends to laze around and do stupid things to improve her status while Tomoki focuses on his sports, studies, and his household chores. Tomoko being so irresponsible is a frequent source of stress for her mother.
* GamerChick: Effortlessly plays a Pop'N Music knockoff with only a blank stare on her face, not to mention her constant playing of otome games.
* {{Gonk}}: Often pulls ugly faces when emotional.
** There's also the time where she tries to change her appearance, which works out well until she decides to mess with her face.
* GreenEyedMonster: Bonus points for the VisualPun. She enjoys the misfortune of others and frequently wishes for horrible things to happen to people that she perceives as having happy, carefree lives. Her internal monologues frequently call girls more socially successful than herself, including her best friend Yuu, "bitches", "sluts", etc.
--> '''Tomoko:''' If you're not a worthless god, I'd like to see you try and make me happy... If you can't manage that, at least make everyone as unhappy as me. If you can't, it's fine I guess... But I'll despise you forever...
** Also why she couldn't get along with Kotomi in middle school despite being much alike, as she wanted to keep Yuu to herself.
** As of chapter 97 she seems to have realized that her former classmates who are more sociable than her don't act sociable to spite her, [[CharacterDevelopment and she doesn't hate them for this anymore]].
* HasAType: An inversion, when she's finally able to hold a real conversation with a male classmate (Wada), she dismisses it as much of a step forward since she doesn't find him all that attractive, believing that "shota doesn't go with chibi".
* HeyYou: In general, she is very bad at remembering names, or just doesn't care to learn them in the first place, leading her to often refer to the people around her by (often derisive) descriptors in her mind. In Chapter 124, Tomoko even notes that she's never once actually called Yuri by name, even though Yuri's ostensibly the best friend she has in her high school. [[spoiler:This comes to a head in 126, when she tries to get Yuri's attention by just repeatedly calling out "Hey", resulting in a frustrated Yuri telling her that her name is not "Hey".]]
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Tomoko implicitly UsedToBeASweetKid, but as she entered adolescence, she became a more self-centered {{Jerkass}} who only ever thought about sex.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She angrily denounces anyone more popular than her as shallow, vapid and selfish, and refers to any girls more sociable than her as "sluts". She's the real shallow and selfish one, who seeks popularity above all else, and proclaims: "Without doing anything, I can get into the pants of the boys for three years!" in the very first chapter. At the same time, she looks down on anyone ''as'' unpopular as she is as being losers, freaks and weirdos who are somehow beneath her despite them generally having the same interests that she does.
** HypocriticalHumor: is a RunningGag in this series.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: ...and get laid, apparently.
** As the series progresses, there's a subtle development in that Tomoko's goal moves down from "getting popular" to just "making a friend", and at the very least "talking to people". These get fulfilled during the middle of her second year, as she became close to Yuri, Mako, and Masaki.
* IneffectualDeathThreat: Frequently wishes death and worse on her classmates for the smallest of offences, like someone apparently taking her umbrella.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: While she's rather self-centered and looks down on a lot of people for petty reasons, it's still clear that her self-esteem is actually very, very low.
* InnerMonologue: Keeps her thoughts to herself more often than actually speaking.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Towards Yuri. Yuri is bothered by how aloof Tomoko seems to act towards her despite spending most of their time at school together, but Tomoko has no idea there's even a problem in the first place. She's also oblivious to the effect she's had on Ucchi, disturbing the girl with her mere presence at first, and going on to making her jealous at the drop of a hat.
* InSeriesNickname: "Mokocchi." Only Yuu gets to call her that, though. [[spoiler:In chapter 126 Hina Nemoto comes up with another nickname for her, "Kuro".]]
* {{Irony}}: After spending her first year desperately trying to be popular with one ZanyScheme after another Tomoko eventually resigns herself to being a loner ...and then she actually ends up making an increasingly larger social circle of friends and acquaintances to hang out with.
* IronicName: Her given name roughly means "wise child". Considering how often she makes bad decisions, it's safe to say "wise" isn't a good way to describe her.
* ItAmusedMe: Some of her antics aren't done to improve her popularity, but just to stave off boredom or amuse herself, which can include things like trolling her brother or hanging wishes laced with dirty jokes up for Tanabata. She also decides to become Shizuku's sempai largely because she hopes the younger girl will give her some kinky stories, though to Tomoko's credit, she does build up some sympathy for her over time.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She's a very self-centered person who doesn't have any particular empathy for anyone around her. Thankfully, Tomoko's been [[CharacterDevelopment growing out of it]], acknowledging that even more social people have problems of their own, and is willing to show genuine consideration for others every now and then.
* {{Jerkass}}: Downplayed. In the main series, she can come off as a condescending jackass who can occasionally show humility and self-esteem, although she most often keeps her negativity to herself. However, Tomoki and Komiyama tend to see and feel the more unpleasant side of Tomoko.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As maladjusted, unpleasant, and warped as she is, Tomoko does raise valid points every now and then.
** When Akari's friend, Sayaka, confronts her over the former's feelings for Tomoki and her eagerness to see his genitals, Tomoko is correct when she points out it's perverse and inappropriate to say such things in front of his older sister.
** She accuses Akari and Kotomi of being perverts. While her poor treatment of them is usually uncalled for, she's not wrong, and the latter in particular takes her attraction towards Tomoki to very creepy levels.
** Related to the above, by accusing Kotomi and Akari of only liking Tomoki for his dick, Tomoko implies that their feelings for him are shallow. Considering how taciturn Tomoki is, and how they have never held a real conversation with him, neither girl can claim to actually know him, meaning they really ''are'' only interested in him for his good looks.
** While it devolves into a nonsensical rant about how all baseball players are smokers and delinquents, Tomoko is correct when she notes that the baseball club gets preferential treatment in how it forces the whole student body to come cheer for its games when other clubs work just as hard for less recognition.
** In Universe. When Tomoko mocks Yoshida behind her back as the type to go way overboard during her coming of age debut, Yuri is about to admonish her only to realise she can indeed picture Yoshida that way too.
* JerkassRealization: In Chapter 97, she admits that she was a horribly judgmental person in her first year of high school, and lets go of a lot of the resentment she feels toward her more social peers.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Thanks to character development, Tomoko grows from her warped and selfish self, to a more thoughtful and pleasant individual. While she's still a pervert who sees the world through a cynical lens, she's willing to show consideration for both her friends and the occasional stranger.
* KickTheDog: Her treatment of her brother when he fell ill was pretty appalling. She tried to lower his temperature and poured hot porridge on his face out of spite, and otherwise annoyed him at every opportunity. [[LaserGuidedKarma This went on to bite Tomoko in the ass]] when she caught his disease at the beginning of a three-day weekend.
* LazyBum: When left to her own devices, Tomoko would rather just laze around her room, playing video games, watching anime, and surfing the web. When called out on her unwillingness to help around the house by her mother as opposed to her younger but more responsible brother, Tomoko's first instinct is to [[NeverMyFault blame Tomoki for making her look bad]].
* LittleBigSister: She's considerably shorter than her younger brother. Not very unusual given he's only a year younger, but it still highlights her immaturity.
* LonelyDollGirl: On occasion, Tomoko will use her plushies to act out her fantasies of a better social life, from envisioning what her time in a school club could be like, to...imagining how sex with Yuu would go.
* LonersAreFreaks: Her mindset, which she desperately wants to avoid.
* LonerTurnedFriend: After the Kyoto field trip, her previously almost non-existent social circle slowly starts to expand.
* LoserProtagonist: Though, she tries hard to not be this. She eventually does edge away from this through CharacterDevelopment, with all of her remaining quirks instead being mostly portrayed as a part of her unique identity that attracts others to her rather than a source of ostracization.
* LovableSexManiac: While Tomoko never gets to have much in the way of sex, her mind is nevertheless always in the gutter, and she gets a lot of enjoyment out of sexually harassing her female friends.
** As the series delves further, her friends sees her as this. They are all aware of her perverted side, but they make it clear they don't mind it and actually find it as a part of her charm.
* MagneticHero: As the series has continued, she has consistently shown to be able to attract the interest and attention of pretty much anyone who spends even a small amount of time with her. Even characters who initially display complete indifference to her become obsessed with learning more about her after witnessing her bizarre behavior firsthand.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: She acts as a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version for Yuri. While their relationship is purely platonic, she tends to encourage Yuri to try things she wouldn't do otherwise, like make Valentine's Day chocolate for her friends. She's even caused [[NotSoStoic the normally stoic girl to laugh]], which Mako has noted she's never seen Yuri do before.
* ManipulativeBastard: She tries. Dear lord, she tries.
* MeaningfulName: "Kuroki" can literally mean "black mood". It sums up her character pretty well.
* MessyHair: Her long hair is rarely combed.
* MirrorCharacter: For her brother, Tomoki, especially in later chapters. The initial assumptions both have after meeting the same person for the first time are often identical. Even more recently, Tomoko and Tomoki barely acknowledge that people have crushes on them, though Tomoko's case is more downplayed than her brother's: [[spoiler:while two girls have admitted to Tomoki's face they want to see his dick, Ucchi has been less direct in her crush on Tomoko, simply trying to find some excuse to be near Tomoko during some activity while she herself is thinking more about the activity itself, or the strange behavior of the other girls she knows]].
* MsFanservice: As the manga goes on, Tomoko has gradually gotten increasing numbers of genuine fanservice involving her, including occasionally being shown completely nude. She even has a ShowerScene in Chapter 178.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Kuroki Tomohiro Kuroki]].
* NerdsAreVirgins: Several storylines are about Tomoko's lack of experience and sexual frustration.
* NeverMyFault: Zigzagged. She often derides herself and finds faults with her social skills and appearance, but never dwells on it and immediately finds something else to blame for her social failings.
* NiceHat: As part of her casual wear, she'll frequently don a newsboy hat.
* NighttimeBathroomPhobia: In chapter 13, Tomoko reads too many spooky stories at night, so she bugs Tomoki into accompanying her to the bathroom when she's too nervous to walk there in the dark.
* NoSocialSkills: Pretty much the entire conflict of the plot is based around the fact that Tomoko's skills leave a lot to be desired. As she begins to socialize more, her complete lack of social awareness causes her to regularly put her foot in her mouth and unintentionally piss off others. Subverted over time, as she undergoes CharacterDevelopment; Tomoko turns out to be actually pretty socially perceptive and adept when not overcome by social anxiety, trying to become popular or invoking anime tropes.
* ObliviousToLove: Tomoko is completely unaware of Ucchi's growing fixation with her and is confused whenever Ucchi does something nice for her. Unfortunately for Ucchi, Tomoko has few opportunities to directly notice Ucchi's advances.
* OddFriendship: Is more or less the facilitator of an entire group of odd friends by the time she becomes a third year. Shown most prominently at the end of the suspension arc where she goes to eat with the group that had been waiting for her to get out: an introverted loner (Yuri), an outgoing [[NiceGirl nice girl]] (Mako), popular girls of varying degrees of normalcy (Nemo, Asuka, Akane and Ucchi) and a group of delinquents (Yoshida, Anna and Reina).
* OhCrapSmile: Pretty much every time Tomoko's latest plan blows up in her face and leaves her thoroughly humiliated in front of everyone, it's all but guaranteed this is the face she's going to put on. It's one of her most common expressions.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's 15 when the manga and anime begin, but she's so short, thin, and physically undeveloped that you'd be forgiven if you thought she was 10.
* OnlyHasSameSexAdmirers: No guys have taken any interest in Tomoko, but eventually Asuka develops a mutual infatuation, Ucchi becomes her StalkerWithACrush, and a few other girls have gotten ''at least'' a platonic desire for her attention.
* {{Otaku}}: Of Otome games. So much that she attempts to socialize in real life with tactics from the games.
* OtakuSurrogate: Downplayed; while she does have interests in anime and video games that male otaku in real life would have, she's also into things that are aimed specifically at girls, such as otome games. Unfortunately, her interests in all the perverted media aimed at otaku only make her more unapproachable and unable to function in social situations.
* PeekABangs: Although both of her eyes can occasionally be seen, her hair hides her right eye through much of the series.
* PersonAsVerb: In Chapter 39, she tries to stand out more in her class by performing a wacky introduction during the first day of second year. For her efforts, among her classmates, her name becomes a synonym for [[EpicFail doing something exceptionally poorly.]] Fortunately, it seems to have gone out of fashion by Chapter 42.
* PetTheDog: Originally Tomoko only agreed to start hanging out with Shizuku because she seemed like a slut who might have entertaining stories. Eventually however she decides to follow Imae's example and starts acting as more of a proper senpai despite getting no real benefit out of it.
* ThePigPen: Usually averted. Despite being a disheveled shut-in, Tomoko is shown regularly bathing herself and is confirmed to not smell. That said, some of her actions have caused her to unwittingly fall into prolonged periods of dirtiness.
** In chapter 6, after she spends so much time playing a dating sim out of a deluded belief that doing so will make her sexier that she forgets to bathe for several days. She ends up looking so greasy that her brother likens her to a bird caught in an oil slick.
** In chapter 11, she accidentally soaks herself in soda and attracts ants that spend the whole day crawling all over Tomoko without her knowing. Every person she runs into gets creeped out when they see the bugs on her.
** In chapter 56, Tomoko worries she might be a Pig-Pen and opts to combat it by drenching herself in perfume. This causes her to go from having no body odor to absolutely reeking.
* PlayboyBunny: Dresses as one in a fantasy sequence that's a ShoutOut to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. She somehow manages to make it look ugly and unappealing.
* PrettyInMink: Wears a faux mink stole during cold weather.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: She begins taking care of her appearance more as she gains a circle of friends and even gets some fanservice-y shots later on.
* TheQuietOne: She once went a month and a half without talking to anyone outside her family -- her streak was broken when she managed to tell her teacher "goodbye". In contrast, she tends to be ''very'' chatty in her [[InnerMonologue Inner Monologues]].
* SanityBall: Tomoko gets to enjoy being the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Girl]] whenever she interacts with Akari. The girl's crush on Tomoki, her easily flustered demeanor, and her terrible habit of misreading the situation all combine to turn her into a sobbing, stammering mess. This goes double whenever Kotomi gets involved, whose infatuation for Tomoki leads her to commit all sorts of craziness as well that leaves her in the same position. Either way, Tomoko is left equally bemused and annoyed by their antics.
* SelfServingMemory: Whenever Tomoko tries to guilt Tomoki into hanging out with her, she frequently brings up how [[BigBrotherWorship he used to look up to her when they were kids]]. She conveniently ignores the fact that the reason why Tomoki is currently so distant from her is because she started ''[[BigBrotherBully bullying him]]''.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Zigzagged. Whenever Tomoko or someone else tried to fix her appearance by dressing her up nicely or putting makeup on her, she would always end up looking ''even worse'' than before. However, once she gains a circle of friends, Tomoko starts putting more effort into her appearance, and she can be genuinely cute when she puts in the time.
** Played straight during her meet-up with Katou in Chapter 140; Tomoko's appearance was much nicer and more attractive than usual.
** One of the Christmas chapters has a subversion. Tomoko manages to indeed improve her appearance greatly for the class Christmas party. But she's so shy and quiet that nobody notices.
** As pointed out by Katou and Yuu, Tomoko can actually be very cute when she tries to groom herself more. When she dyes her hair silver, they point out how it looks good on her.
** Thanks to her CharacterDevelopment, this has become even more frequent with later chapters. Compared to her old outfits where she seemed to make a half-hearted attempt to groom herself, now Tomoko is actually putting effort into how she dresses, including fixing her hair, making sure her clothes match, and even wearing accessories and slight make-up.
** The cover of Volume 18 teases what a stylish Tomoko could look like, and many readers agree that the silver-haired, cardigan-wearing Tomoko is '''very''' cute.
** Some WhatIf omakes show Tomoko doing this in various ways, like styling herself as a [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]], tidying herself up, and adopting a more fashionable stance. She looks attractive in ''all'' of them.
** When visiting Yuu's school at Chapter 198, Tomoko ends up putting on the school uniform which looks great on her, especially when she decides to tie her hair into a ponytail.
** Exemplified best of all when Asuka decides to give Tomoko a makeover for a "landmine" look and actually does a decent job of it this time. With straight hair and her ExhaustedEyeBags hidden, everyone comments on how cute and innocent she looks.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: A platonic variant with Kotomi. When asked about her by characters other than Yuu, she denies that she's friends with Kotomi, and in chapter 112 even claims not to know her when asked by Yuri. [[spoiler:In chapter 133 Tomoko and Kotomi simultaneously claim that they aren't friends, leaving their classmates unconvinced; even Tomoko herself realizes that she's acting like a stereotypical tsundere.]]
* ShesAllGrownUp: [[http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/watashi_ga_motenai_no_wa_dou_kangaete_mo_omaera_ga_warui_anthology/bt/207725/Ch6/4/ A page in the anthology]] [[ThrowTheDogABone reveals that she could grow up to be quite pretty.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Combined with NoSocialSkills, this is the reason she can barely put together a full sentence with anyone she doesn't know. She improves after getting a circle of friends she regularly socializes with, but she still is prone to stuttering.
* SiblingYinYang: With Tomoki.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Komiyama, whom Tomoko dislikes because she feels that she has to compete with her over Yuu's attention, [[spoiler:as well as because Komiyama is romantically and sexually interested in Tomoki, causing Tomoko to be disgusted with her, and, as of chapter 47 of the main story, also because Komiyama admitted that she didn't like Tomoko back in middle school.]]
** During the third year this fades away to an extent likely due both to Tomoko's ongoing development and because Tomoko gains a new nemesis in Fuuka.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: As we see in Chapter 121, she gets her particular brand of CreepyShadowedUndereyes from her father. Later on, a WhatIf chapter featuring Tomoko with short hair shows that she's a near dead-ringer for her mother.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: Only by giving up her goal to become popular does Tomoko actually get better at socializing. By the end of her second year in particular, Tomoko has managed to get herself a small circle of friends, stutters over her words far less often, shows genuine consideration for other people's emotions, and helps people (like her kohai) for no tangible benefit to herself. [[spoiler:A "What If?" story shows that she wouldn't have been happy had she become popular, anyway; in the story, when Tomoko becomes part of the popular group, she gets hit on constantly by boys, and is shown to hate it.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: Overall Tomoko's second year in high school became a lot better and she was actually able to make sort of friends with people. Her third year became even better since now most of the friends she made in high school are all in her homeroom class and she has amassed quite a large social circle that she can hang out with.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Chapter 1: After 5 months trying to convince herself that she's popular, Tomoko literally sees herself at the mirror and admits the horrible truth:
--> ''Now that I look in the mirror after a few years, I see that I turned into some creepy entity!''
* TookALevelInKindness: Part of her character development. While she remains a cynical pervert, she's become a lot more pleasant and thoughtful.
* TransparentCloset: She's either unaware or in deep denial of her attraction to girls, but is very bad about hiding it, particularly when around Asuka. Yuri, Hina and Ucchi are well aware at how easily swayed Tomoko is toward her.
* {{Troll}}: She enjoys pranking, insulting, or otherwise getting under the skin of people she knows purely [[ForTheLulz for lulz]]. Tomoki and Kotomi are her favorite targets.
* TwiceShy: Tomoko has a blatant infatuation with Asuka, but her self-esteem is too low for her to accept Asuka's increasingly obvious hints that she feels the same--up to ''groping Tomoko's breasts'' during a walk on the beach.
* UnkemptBeauty: She never loses the ExhaustedEyeBags or disheveled hair, but that doesn't stop her from becoming ProgressivelyPrettier later on thanks to her gaining softer facial expressions and more flattering outfits.
* TheUnsmile: Pretty much every attempt she makes at smiling ends up coming off as looking more like a SlasherSmile. Combined with her CreepyShadowedUndereyes, the effect is... rather unsettling.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Her portrayal switches between this, CosmicPlaything and some combination of both depending on the chapter. She can be very pitiable, but at the same time rather self-centered, condescending (especially to her classmates, though this is restricted to her {{Inner Monologue}}s and never expressed outwardly) and, in Chapter 33, is shown to be a devotee of [[ComedicSociopathy schadenfreude]]. However, the more unsympathetic aspects do get downplayed or outright vanish later on thanks to CharacterDevelopment. In the spinoff, she's portrayed much more unsympathetically than in the main story.
* VisualPun: Her big [[GreenEyedMonster green eyes.]]
* WeirdnessMagnet: Tomoko seems to have developed a knack for attracting a lot of oddballs to her, or at least in making people develop their own idiosyncrasies. Yoshida is a [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]] but [[AmbiguousInnocence oddly innocent]] teen who's often mistaken for a delinquent, Ucchi has grown progressively more obsessive over Tomoko to the point of stalking her, Kii-chan has gone from a normal girl to a borderline CreepyChild, and both Kotomi and Akari have become incredibly perverse ([[ButtMonkey and unlucky]]) in pursuing their mutual crush on Tomoki. Lampshaded in Chapter 116, where Tomoki notes that all of his sister's friends appear to be a bunch of weirdos.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: She has this expression a lot.
* WrongGenreSavvy: One of the major factors behind her inability to adapt to society is the fact that she tends to "learn" social skills through anime and video games, and mistakes many character interactions therein (including those that are, from an objective viewpoint, downright outlandish) for actual practice, and tries to emulate them in real life, which more often than not only serves to further humiliate her.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The reason she despises Kotomi. Both are antisocial and their OnlyFriend is Yuu. Each one of them believes the other is below her.
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!!Tomoko's Family
[[folder:Tomoki Kuroki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese), Creator/DavidMatranga (English)
Tomoko's younger and more responsible brother. He is a fairly average and well-adjusted person for his age and treats his sister with the usual level of sibling-related intolerance. Despite this, he ''does'' care for his sister and tries to support her when she needs it.
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* AcademicAthlete: He's a considerably more motivated student than his sister is and is skilled enough at soccer to have an active spot on his school's team in his freshman year, along with the respect of his upperclassman teammates.
* TheAce: In comparison to Tomoko, at least. He's mature, reliable, athletic, has a large social circle, and multiple girls that are interested in him. During the sports festival, it's revealed that even the [[{{Bishonen}} attractive]] and [[BigManOnCampus popular]] third-year students on the soccer team respect Tomoki, despite him only being a first year.
* AccidentalPervert:
** In chapter 134, when he tries to prevent Masaki from attacking Kotomi [[spoiler:and ends up groping Masaki by accident, much to his own horror.]]
** He follows it up in chapter 168 by accidentally [[ShowerOfAwkward walking in on her showering.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played with. He does tend to get on Tomoko's nerves, though not so much due to obnoxiousness as due to the fact that he's guilty of such "crimes" as staying home sick while Tomoko has to go to school, having friends who care enough to visit him while he's sick, or cleaning his own room and making his lunch himself (much to their mother's praise - and unlike his sister, thus making her look bad in comparison). Also inverted, Tomoki definitely sees Tomoko as his annoying ''older'' sibling.
* BerserkButton: While he always braces himself whenever his sister approaches him, he gets particularly angry at her when she barges into his room unannounced, which she does frequently.
* BigLittleBrother: He's considerably taller and older-looking than his older sister. While it's not particularly strange, as they're only one year apart and both teenagers, it emphasizes how down-to-earth and mature he is in comparison to her.
* ChasteHero: While his sister is a raging pervert, Tomoki is completely unfazed by two girls telling him that they want to see his dick, [[CluelessChickMagnet to the point of failing to pick up that either is interested in him at all]]. Chapter 169 reveals that he owns no pornography whatsoever and that he reacts to [[AccidentalPervert accidentally walking in on a girl naked]] with annoyance rather than embarrassment or arousal. His chasteness is so notable that Akari's friend, Sayaka, suspects he may not be heterosexual at all, but ''soccer''sexual.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Both Kotomi and Akari pine for him, but he remains oblivious to their feelings even after they both blurt out in his presence that they would like to see his dick, and shows no interest in romance in general. In later chapters, he seems to catch on to Kotomi's crush on him (mostly as a result of Kotomi repeatedly embarrassing herself in his presence because of said crush), but at this point, he is too weirded out by her to reciprocate. Later, even [[spoiler:Sachi]] of all people falls for him [[LoveAtFirstSight after a single conversation]].
* CovertPervert: Subverted. Tomoko constantly accuses him of being [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Caught With His Pants Down]] whenever she enters his room, but he's always shown to simply be listening to music, reading a book or sleeping. Likewise, whenever Tomoko accuses him of [[BrotherSisterIncest being attracted to her]], he expresses disgust and confusion about why she would even suggest it. Later, when forced to sit down and have lunch with Kotomi and Akari by Tomoko, it's made pretty clear that he simply isn't interested in having a girlfriend.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Like both his parents and his sister, though his are much less pronounced.
* DeadpanSnarker: In response to Tomoko's antics.
* ExtremeDoormat: Zigzagged. He will only put up with his sister's shit for so long and liberally employs physical force to shut her up, but he tends to let just about everyone else walk all over him. Tomoki hardly puts up any resistance to the unwanted attention he gets from all the assorted girls who take a shine to him, particularly Masaki who has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace, and can't even find it in himself to refuse hospitality when Sayaka pretty much invites herself and Akari into his room for a study session without waiting for his input.
* FacePalmOfDoom: When ticked off, he simply grips his sister's head really hard.
* FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: In a home video their mom found in episode 7, he said like a little kid he wanted to marry Tomoko. He was notably disturbed when he saw this video (also because of how much more affectionate he was towards her).
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Responsible to Tomoko's Foolish. Despite being younger than her, Tomoki has a much better work ethic, helps around the house more willingly, and appears to get better grades than her while also playing soccer.
* GetOut: Practically his {{Catchphrase}}, as he says it whenever his sister enters his room without permission.
* GrumpyBear: Tomoki maintains a pretty sullen attitude even when he's not around his annoying sister.
* HiddenDepths: Generally comes off as a grouchy loner, though this is almost entirely because we nearly only ever get to see him when he's forced to put up with Tomoko's obnoxious antics. On the occasions where we get to see his life outside of his sister, he is shown to be a surprisingly popular guy with a large friend group, multiple female admirers and an active spot on his school's soccer team.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: ''Nothing'' about the female form interests this guy. When he and the rest of the soccer team run by Tomoko and Asuka, the guys comment on how gorgeous they think Asuka is, while Tomoki can only grouse about seeing a shrimp (his sister). When [[ItMakesSenseInContext Akari is stuck playing Twister all by herself in his room]], he only looks on boredly and wanting nothing to do with the game. Then there are his numerous AccidentalPervert moments with Masaki, which he only ever reacts to with annoyance.
* IHaveNoSon: Sibling variation. He exclusively refers to Tomoko as "that girl", even in his own thoughts. This is in stark contrast to when he was young, where he affectionately called her "nee-chan".
* JerkassToOne: Tends to physically rein in his sister if needed. That said, deep down he is a generally good-natured guy who is shown to be perfectly nice and friendly when dealing with people who aren't Tomoko.
* MatureYoungerSibling: Tomoki takes school seriously and does chores, unlike his older sister Tomoko, the socially dead otaku who would rather just play video games all day. [[BigLittleBrother He's even taller than her to symbolize that he's the more mature one]].
* TheOneGuy: Currently the only major male character. Justified due to Tomoko having problems working up the courage to talk to other girls, let alone guys. This is briefly lampshaded when, after realizing that she has begun interacting with other girls more frequently, Tomoko vows to try to talk to a guy, only to awkwardly barge into Tomoki's room, wave at him and then leave.
* OnlySaneMan: The only major character who is able to completely shut down Tomoko's antics before they escalate even further. It helps that [[WouldHitAGirl he's willing to get violent with her]]. He maintains this role even as the cast expands; responding to the increasingly bizarre antics of the people around his sister with the same exasperation he has when dealing with her.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: All evidence points to him having a perfectly normal and fulfilling school life, in contrast to his sister.
* OutOfFocus: As one of the few people Tomoko was comfortable talking to for the longest time, he used to be a very prominent character in the manga. Once Tomoko finally started forming some close bonds at school, Tomoki's appearances were reduced to the occasional [[ADayInTheLimelight day in the limelight]] chapter.
* PerpetualFrowner: He's always wearing a grumpy expression of some sort, at least when around his sister.
* PetTheDog: Sometimes he takes pity on Tomoko. Notably, he expresses relief during her second-year graduation that she has managed to make some friends by the end of the year. Of course, he also makes a point of noting [[WeirdnessMagnet how all of her new friends seem to be a bunch of weirdos]].
* ThePowerOfHate: Thinking about various occasions when Tomoko has pissed him off causes him to tap into an UnstoppableRage that has allowed him to become the star player of his soccer team. In comparison, thinking about the few occasions when the two of them have actually gotten along causes him to be thrown off his game and miss scoring the winning goal.
* TheQuietOne: Even when talking to people that he doesn't hate (as in, anyone other than Tomoko), he still rarely says more than a few words at a time.
* TheReliableOne: Viewed as this by his parents. While Tomoko's laziness and rude personality results in her frequently screwing up, their parents can always count on Tomoki to meet, or even occasionally exceed their expectations.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: One of his most frequent responses to his sister's wacky antics is staring at her for a few moments and then promptly walking away without even so much as asking what she's doing. He's even started doing this in regards to the girls in his own class getting on his nerves, opting to eat lunch by himself in a narrow alleyway that Tomoko once showed him just so he doesn't have to hear them.
* SiblingYinYang: With Tomoko.
* TheStoic: His only emotion is seemingly a perpetually-annoyed calm. Even when he isn't particularly agitated, his expressions remain dour and his speech remains curt.
* StraightMan: Serves as this whenever he shares a scene with his sister.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Invoked in chapter 106. Ucchi claims that his eyes and mouth are very similar to Tomoko's, which is how she is instantly able to tell that the two are siblings. Hina also comments on their similarity in chapter 134.
* TranquilFury: While he's frequently pissed off at his sister, he only explodes at her when she's being particularly obnoxious. Otherwise, he remains fairly stoic when dealing with her.
* UnkemptBeauty: Despite sharing his sister's CreepyShadowedUndereyes while also being a PerpetualFrowner, giving him a fairly disheveled and unfriendly appearance at all times, he is seen as attractive by girls. This may be because AllGirlsWantBadBoys.
* TheUnsmile: One of the very few times he ever smiles is to Akari's friend, Sayaka, once she encourages him to do his best after getting him stuck in the lead role of a play their class is putting on. It's obviously forced to a very painful degree, and Akari compares it to the way an animal would bare its teeth as an intimidation tactic.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: While he's suggested to be a decent guy when not around his sister at his present age, old home videos of him as a kid show that he used to be ''much'' more chipper.
* VitriolicBestBuds: What few glimpses we catch of him with his friends imply this. While they're a lot more boisterous than he is, Tomoki's not above throwing the occasional good-natured insult at them.
* WouldHitAGirl: He's not above lashing out when Tomoko's getting on his nerves (giving her a kick, grabbing her face, etc.). He invoked [[WouldntHitAGirl the other trope]] one time Tomoko was annoying him. Then when her antics went too far, he had no choice but to strike her into calming down.
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[[folder:The Kuroki Parents]]
->'''Mrs. Kuroki voiced by:''' Creator/RisaHayamizu (Japanese), Creator/ShelleyCaleneBlack (English)
->'''Mr. Kuroki voiced by:''' RyÅ Iwasaki (Japanese), Creator/DavidWald (English)
Tomoko's and Tomoki's parents.
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* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Like both of her children, Mrs. Kuroki sports a pair of these. Though unlike theirs, hers are substantially less visible. Also, judging from [[https://www.reddit.com/r/watamote/comments/61m6y4/volume_11_bonus_postcard_young_watamom_and_her/ a bonus drawing by Nico Tanigawa]], she got her eye bags at a later age than her kids did. Mr. Kuroki is also revealed to have these in the single panel where we get to see one of his eyes reflected in a rearview mirror.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Well, "limelight" isn't exactly right, but the chapter "Because I'm Not Popular, I'll Spend Time With My Dad" marks the first time Mr. Kuroki has ever had a significant amount of screen time and focuses on Tomoko going on a fishing trip with him.
* TheFaceless: During the few occasions where he actually appears, Mr. Kuroki's face is never completely shown. We've been shown, at various different points, his hair, mouth, and eyes, though, so we have a decent idea of what he looks like.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mrs. Kuroki has no idea that Tomoko is a loner with no friends [[spoiler:until chapter 90, when Ogino mentions this during their parent-teacher conference]]. In fact, Tomoko actively tried to hide this from her mother, e.g. by lying to her about having fun with her classmates in one of the Christmas specials. Mr. Kuroki has it even worse, getting almost all of his information about his children secondhand from his wife.
* NoNameGiven: The only reason we even know their last name is because we know their children's. They're exclusively called "mom" and "dad" in-universe.
* ParentalFavoritism: Played with. Mrs. Kuroki loves both Tomoko and Tomoki equally but is often exasperated at her daughter for being lazy and irresponsible. This causes Tomoko to become slightly resentful whenever her mom praises Tomoki for his maturity and self-reliance.
* {{Salaryman}}: Judging from his usual clothing of a suit and the fact that he's almost never around the house due to being too busy working, Mr. Kuroki is one of these.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Mrs. Kuroki was shown to resemble a tidier-looking Tomoko when she was younger, and, from what we've seen of his face, Mr. Kuroki resembles an older Tomoki.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** After Tomoko complains about having to help with housework, Mrs. Kuroki calls her out on the fact that Tomoki not only helps out without complaint, but he does so on top of also having Club Activities and studying for his High School Entrance Exam.
** When Tomoko forgets to mail Tomoki's application to the entrance exams for a school in Saitama, the furious mother subjects her daughter to a very harsh lecture about how she ruined her brother's future.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Mr. Kuroki's appearances can be counted on one hand and are extremely brief. At all other times, it can be easy to forget that Tomoko even has a dad.
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[[folder:Kiko "Kii-chan" Satozaki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieKugimiya (Japanese), Creator/JulietSimmons (English)
Tomoko and Tomoki's thirteen-year-old cousin and a seventh-grade schoolgirl. Having been fed a steady stream of face-saving lies by Tomoko, she idolizes her older cousin.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Ever since she lost Kii's respect, Tomoko has come to see her cousin as this and always dreads their meetings.
* AudienceSurrogate: Her reaction to Tomoko's card game.
* BrokenPedestal: How she sees Tomoko after all her attempts to look cool backfires spectacularly on her. Unlike other examples though, she takes the revelation well, and the next time they meet her admiration is replaced not with utter disdain, but with pity and appreciation that at least she tried her best.
* CreepyChild: When she gets in a bad mood, Kii becomes very...unsettling. It's bad enough that Tomoko regards her as TheDreaded and she's always painted in a sinister light in Tomoko's dreams. [[spoiler:To say nothing of the nightmare she had where Kii-chan implicitly [[BlackComedyRape raped her with an eggplant.]] As Tomoko woke up from that nightmare it turned out that Kii was actually in her room, watching her sleep.]]
* DeathGlare: Pulled one mixed with a ThousandYardStare when she was angry with Tomoko, also...
-->''"No! Just take it."''
** This has become a regular expression for her when she is angry, with an added {{Stepford Smile|r}}.
* IncestSubtext: When asked about what kind of boy she likes, Kii-chan responds with "like Onee-chan!", specifying that as someone who makes her heart skip a beat, "like [Tomoko]". Tomoko is understandably unnerved by this.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She means well when she tries to take care of Tomoko after finding out the truth about her, but so far her actions just drive it home to Tomoko how pathetic she has gotten.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoya_Satozaki Tomoya Satozaki]].
* NiceGirl: An unusual role for a Type-A {{Tsundere}} specialist like Creator/RieKugimiya. She's so nice she doesn't harbor any grudge against Tomoko for unwittingly breaking her good impression of her.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until chapter 60, where it's revealed that her given name is Kiko. Her full name is revealed in chapter 141.
* PerpetualSmiler: Is almost never seen without a smile, especially when around Tomoko.
* ReplacementGoldfish: In chapter 60 Tomoko speculates that Kii tries to take care of her because she treats her as a replacement for her deceased dog. [[spoiler: At the end of that chapter Kii even gives Tomoko that dog's hairpin (the one she is always wearing).]]
* SlasherSmile: A lot of her smiles look decidedly empty and sinister, particularly when combined with WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Her response to a rather sad story Tomoko tells her is more verbal than actually emotional.
-->'''Kii''': [''while smiling brightly''] You're so kind, Onee-chan. I'm tearing up. \\
'''Tomoko''': [''thinking''] Like hell you are!
* TokenMiniMoe: She has a very cutesy design that stands out from the rest of the cast. It makes sense while she's 12 years old, but it becomes even more notable when she retains it even as she approaches her mid-teens.
* UnwantedAssistance: She wants to help Tomoko become a better person, but Tomoko, who knows she's driven by pity and finds Kii's efforts demeaning, wants nothing to do with it.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Whenever she gets unpleasantly surprised, aggravated, disapproving, or devious, her eyes take on this look, which never fails to unnerve Tomoko. This is practically her default look in Tomoko's mind since Kii always has these eyes whenever Tomoko thinks or dreams about her.
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!!Tomoko's Middle School Friends
[[folder:Yuu Naruse]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Creator/EmilyNeves (English)
Tomoko's best friend from middle school, who managed the transition to adolescence far more gracefully than Tomoko. She was originally very quiet and nerdy; however, after moving to high school she dyed her hair, improved her fashion sense and personal appearance, became more outgoing and eventually got a steady boyfriend. Despite changing so much, she remains a kind friend to Tomoko, though she remains blissfully oblivious to how different their social lives are and is unaware of the more unpleasant aspects of Tomoko's personality.
She is the protagonist of the spin-off manga ''It's Your Fault My Friend's Not Popular'', which details her middle school life with Tomoko from her perspective.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In the final episode of the anime, she starts to chase after a distraught Tomoko out of concern for her but ends up being distracted by a cat.
* BeautifulAllAlong: An interesting case where she's introduced after having this already happen to her. Back in middle school she wore thick glasses and unflattering clothing but was still beautiful underneath them.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: After embarrassingly winning a bet in the Christmas special of 2016, Yuu makes Tomoko and Komiyama sing Christmas carols together for an hour. She then makes use of ExactWords by saying they'll have to do the same thing next Christmas.]]
* BookDumb: Yuu is very socially aware and has a knack for treating people how they want to be treated, but her grades aren't very good. Yuu even recognizes that Tomoko wanting to get into Aoyama University means that Yuu probably won't be able to follow her because of the disparity between their grades. Yuu comes to the conclusion that she should back off from Tomoko so that Tomoko has a better chance of getting into the university.
* BrainlessBeauty: Despite her beauty and kindness, she's oblivious to Tomoko's unsavory nature and has below-average grades. In the second Christmas special Tomoko opines that even using Twitter or keeping a blog would be too complicated for Yuu to handle. She also remains oblivious to the animosity between Tomoko and Kotomi [[spoiler:until chapter 54 of the main story. In chapter 124 she also does not pick up on Yuri's jealousy of her friendship with Tomoko, and is just happy that Tomoko's new friends like her so much]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Probably one of the rare occasions where OutOfFocus actually helped. As the third year rolls on and she learns of Tomoko's desire to get into the more academically prestigious Aoyama University and Tomoko's now large group of friends, Yuu starts to show insecurity at the possibility of being left behind by Tomoko while not wanting her lack of intelligence to drag her friend down and stop her from achieving her dream.
* ClosetGeek: She's currently this, due to her popularity having soared at her high school after she cleaned up her appearance. At one point she says that she's happy that she can still hang out with Tomoko since she doesn't have anyone else to talk to about anime-related things.
* CoolPet: In chapter 64, while catching bugs with Tomoko and Kotomi, she manages to catch a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynastinae rhinoceros beetle]]. Tomoko and Kotomi comment on its coolness and rarity, and Tomoko convinces Yuu to keep it as a pet.
* CluelessChickMagnet: She's completely unaware of the effect she had on Tomoko and Kotomi in middle school, and even in high school, she still hasn't caught on to Tomoko's blatantly obvious lust for her.
* CovertPervert: One thing she ''isn't'' oblivious about is innuendo.
* DecoyProtagonist: In the spin-off, she is set up as the protagonist at first, but the narrative focus eventually moves from her to Tomoko and Komiyama, and the story is mostly about the two's "[[SitcomArchNemesis friendship]]."
* DudeMagnet: She draws guys to her without even trying, much to Tomoko's eternal chagrin.
* DumbBlonde: Her hair is dyed, but otherwise applies.
* DumbIsGood: She's the ditziest of the three middle school friends, but also by far the sweetest.
* EroticDream: [[spoiler: Implied in chapter 7 of the spin-off. Tomoko and Kotomi are pretty delighted by it.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Tomoko and Kotomi both have pretty obvious crushes on her in middle school and separate high schools have done little to ebb their lust.
* {{Foil}}: To Tomoko, also to Kotomi. She had been, initially, shy like her two friends but was able to overcome it and build a social life, unlike Tomoko. In middle school, she already had a hidden natural beauty that drew attention. Most importantly, she has shown negative feelings towards other people the least, unlike her friends.
* FriendToBugs: Played with. She doesn't particularly deal well with insects, but when she goes bug-catching with her friends, she insists on letting the critters go when Tomoko wanted to watch them eat each other. She also keeps a rhinoceros beetle she catches as a pet.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: After taking her glasses off, her popularity soared.
* GoodBadGirl: Mostly implied, but she's suggested to have attended [[WildTeenParty Wild Teen Parties]] before and may have already lost her virginity, both things that the much sleazier Tomoko could only dream of doing.
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, in chapter 57! She deals with it in a completely different way than Tomoko, though.]]
* HeadTurningBeauty: ''Everyone'' who sees her is astounded by her looks, she has no problem drawing attention from guys, and even girls like Tomoko and Kotomi express attraction to her.
* TheHeart: She is pretty much the only reason Tomoko and Kotomi even talk to each other, and also the only reason they are willing to be civil when they do talk. [[spoiler: In chapter 54 she takes an active role to the trope.]]
* HiddenDepths: It's implied that while she may not be as [[BookDumb academically smart]] as the rest of the cast, she's much sharper than she lets on. Yuu's fully aware that her two best friends don't like each other but is able to get them to at least tolerate one another by steering them to an arcade, where they can hone their rivalry into playing fun games together. One Christmas special shows she does indeed have her own devilish side that can embarrass them ForTheLulz.
* ImportantHaircut: In Chapter 100, Yuu cuts her hair to shoulder length, due in part to [[spoiler: breaking up with her boyfriend.]]
* InformedAttractiveness: Everyone who sees Yuu always makes a note on how cute and attractive she is. While the manga has plenty of attractive and fashionable girls, she stands out as the only one who is consistently given this treatment.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Her casual remarks indicating that she has a much more fulfilling social life than Tomoko can hope for, including having a boyfriend, cause Tomoko a lot of distress.
** Komiyama was also hit with this, in chapter 6 of the spin-off.
** During Tomoko's, Yuu's and Kotomi's Christmas party in the 2016 Christmas special Tomoko come up with the idea for the trio to buy one another funny gifts that would be completely useless to the recipient rather than ordinary Christmas gifts. In response, Yuu [[spoiler:buys Tomoko a pack of condoms. Yuu claims to have thought about it simply as a funny gift, and is embarrassed when Tomoko points out what such a gift implies about [[NerdsAreVirgins what Yuu thinks of Tomoko]].]]
** In chapter 124 Yuu says that she would love to meet Kotomi's friends, and claims that they have to be kind if they are friends with her; Kotomi notes in her InnerMonologue that the way Yuu phrased that is a bit hurtful for her.
* MoralityPet: She was the only person for whom Tomoko displayed any kind of empathy for in the early parts of the manga.
* MsFanservice: Or at least this is how Tomoko sees her. While her clothing is occasionally somewhat risque, she herself is quite modest and buttoned-down.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihisa_Naruse Yoshihisa Naruse]].
* NiceGirl: Overall, a pretty nice and sweet (if somewhat airheaded) person.
* ObliviousToLove: Doesn't notice Tomoko's crush on her.
* OnlyFriend: To Tomoko (who even admits this in one of her {{Inner Monologue}}s in chapter 29) in the early chapters, and also to Kotomi in the prequel. Not so much in later chapters, as Tomoko makes a few more friends, while Kotomi befriends a girl named Itou and has a somewhat OddFriendship with her romantic rival Akari. Even then, Yuu seems to remain the closest friend to Tomoko and Kotomi.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: In anime flashbacks, though her eyes are visible in both manga.
* {{Otaku}}: She was this during middle school. Now that she's in high school and has a better social life, she's more of a ClosetOtaku around everyone except Tomoko and Kotomi, whom she feels she can be more open about otaku-related things with.
* OutOfFocus: Yuu has had fewer appearances in the story since Tomoko managed to get some semblance of social life at her school.
* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: Used to clue the reader in to the frequent discomfort or awkwardness beneath her perpetual smile.
* ShesAllGrownUp: She was a mousy, nerdy and shy girl in middle school who became a trendy, beautiful and outgoing girl in high school.
* TheSocialExpert: She may be an academic dunce, but Yuu is very good at reading people and understanding why they act as they do without needing to hear them explain themselves. She functionally teaches Tomoko and Kotomi to tolerate each other better by steering them towards activities that would allow them to channel their rivalry in less hostile ways, and defuses tensions between Tomoko and Asuka that would otherwise have risen due to their TwiceShy relationship.
* StepfordSmiler: Has a tendency to put up a cheerful front, even when she's going through bouts of depression, often from the trouble she has with her boyfriend.
* StupidGood: Her niceness can be very high when it comes to her friends. For example, when they were in the pool:
--> '''Tomoko:''' ''"If I peed in here, would you pull away from me?"''\\
'''Yuu:''' ''"I wouldn't. Because we're friends."''
* ThousandYardStare: A minor running gag whenever she becomes [[BookDumb overwhelmed by academia]], displaying a vacant look on her face complete with an empty smile that displays no happiness whatsoever. Tomoko thinks she looks like a rape victim this way.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Tomoko and Kotomi are both rather self-absorbed and prone to seeking out flaws in people, while Yuu is sweet and rarely criticizes others.
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[[folder:Kotomi Komiyama]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaoriMizuhashi
One of Yuu's old middle school friends. She immediately takes a dislike to Tomoko, who sees Kotomi as a rival for Yuu's attention. Unfortunately, Kotomi proves to be just as passive-aggressive and anti-social as Tomoko.
Kotomi is formally introduced in the spin-off manga ''It's Your Fault My Friend's Not Popular'', and later on she is re-introduced in the main series. Kotomi does not appear in the anime as it only adapts stories from before her first appearance. However, she appears in a special {{OVA}}, bundled with the Japanese release of the main series's seventh volume.
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* ACupAngst: Just like Tomoko.
* AlliterativeName: Both her first and last name begin with "K".
* AscendedExtra: She first appeared in Tomoko's flashback to her middle school years in Chapter 30 of the main series as the third, unnamed girl running the marathon with Tomoko and Yuu; she's only seen in three frames and has no speaking lines. In the spin-off series, starting with Chapter 2, she is one of the main characters. She then makes her formal debut in the main manga in Chapter 46.
* BerserkButton:
** Badmouthing her crush Tomoki, as Tomoko found out in chapter 54.
** ''Any'' girl getting close to Tomoki is enough to invoke her hostility.
* {{Bookworm}}: Always shown reading a book during her job as the school librarian.
* ButtMonkey: Not only is her crush on Tomoki unrequited, as he barely knows she even exists, but the plots revolving around said crush tend to end with her in some embarrassing situation or otherwise miserable.
* TheCameo: She makes a short appearance in the OVA that's about a minute long, which constitutes the only time she's ever been animated (and voiced).
* CovertPervert: Revealed to be one in Chapter 7 of the spin-off, though she is in denial about it. Also, in chapter 91 of the main series she blurts out that she is interested in Tomoki's dick... in Tomoki's presence, no less. As of chapter 101, she seems to have accepted that this is a part of her personality.
* CrossPoppingVeins: When Tomoko pisses her off. Which is often.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: During periods of extensive relaxation, she has a habit of mumbling some of her inner thoughts out loud. Normally, this isn't a problem as it usually happens in private, but she also does it while studying with her friends over Skype, which leads to much awkwardness. Particularly when her inner thoughts are about Tomoki.
* DontYouDarePityMe: If there's one thing Kotomi hates more than Tomoko being a {{Jerkass}} to her, it's the rare times when Tomoko actually expresses pity for her.
* {{Flanderization}}: Kotomi in Tomomote and the first few chapters after her Watamote debut was a shy and awkward girl with an interest in baseball and the Chiba Lotte Marines and a crush on Tomoki. As Watamote progressed, however, Kotomi's interest in the Marines became an obsession, to the point where Ogino had to stop her introduction at the start of the third year because she wouldn't shut up about it, and she took charge of the softball team during the sports meet. Kotomi's crush on Tomoki, originally innocent, became more creepy and perverted over time, and eventually reached the point where she was open about wanting to see his dick, stalked him at sports events to take photos, and even blurted out that she wanted to lick his eye bags.
* {{Foil}}: To Tomoko. She's basically her but more proper looking and with more common sense.
* ForgettableCharacter: Tomoko completely forgot that she existed as soon as she graduated from middle school. To be fair to Kotomi, this may have more to do with Tomoko not liking her enough to bother remembering her than it does with her flat out being a forgettable person.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: A comedic example. She and Tomoko had a friendship that was tenuous at best in middle school and immediately split apart as soon as [[TheHeart Yuu]] was taken out of the picture. By the time they reunite in high school, their relationship is entirely hostile and only becomes slightly more civil on the occasions where they both hang out with Yuu at the same time.
* FriendlyRivalry: With Akari. They both pine for Tomoki, and in an omake set after events of chapter 91 Akari even declares herself to be Kotomi's rival. However, so far there seems to be little animosity between the two, and Kotomi actually seems to care about Akari's well-being a bit. Kotomi encourages Akari to be honest about her feelings for Tomoki in chapter 101, and later, in chapter 108, she hesitates whether to tell Akari that Tomoki greeted her, because she didn't want to rub it in Akari's face. Akari, in turn, wanted to badmouth Kotomi when asked about her by Tomoki but backed off when she realized that Kotomi's feelings for Tomoki are the same as her own. In chapters 112 and 113 Akari is even shown helping Kotomi prepare the Valentine's Day chocolates for Tomoki and it turns out it was Akari who convinced Kotomi to give the Valentine's Day chocolates to Tomoki.
* GameOfNerds: She's a massive baseball enthusiast who follows the Chiba Lotte Marines with almost religious zeal. Of note is that she knows the make, model, and plate number of every player's car on the team. Chapter 117 reveals that she was once a member of the baseball cheer squad.
* GreenEyedMonster: She does not take kindly to other girls showing romantic interest with Tomoki, or interacting with him in any way, [[UpToEleven or even talking about him]]. [[spoiler:Even finding out about the existence of Kii in chapter 141 triggers her jealousy.]]
* IAmWhatIAm: While Tomoko's accusations on her fixation with Tomoki's genitals used to be a source of angst, Kotomi has made peace with that perverse side of her and freely admits that she would in fact love to see his dick. As of chapter 101, Tomoko's accusations no longer bother her.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: In a clothes store she hinted an interest in cosplaying. In chapter 79 she looks like the protagonist of a Final Fantasy game.
* InSeriesNickname: "Komi-something". Also: "Glasses". Both given by Tomoko.
** Her friend, Itou, refers to her as "Koto."
* KickTheDog: Calling Shizuku a pig to her face. In the past, if Kotomi wasn't able to bottle up her hostile feelings towards anyone she perceived as a rival for Tomoki's affections, then she was at least able to catch herself and make an effort to retain some civility, but this was the first time she was very open and unapologetic about it.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Tends to lose her common sense and act irrationally whenever the plot involves her crush Tomoki in some way.
* MyParentsAreDead: [[spoiler:Has revealed that her father died from an illness when she was five. Yuu gets awkward, Tomoko... not much.]]
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Fittingly, she shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoru_Komiyama Satoru Komiyama]].
* NerdGlasses: As a {{Bookworm}} she's among the more nerdy members of the cast, which she wears glasses to emphasize.
* NotHelpingYourCase:
** Like Tomoko, she insists that they are by absolutely no means friends. But when she gets into an angry confrontation with Masaki over the latter's apparent closeness to Tomoki, she tries to play it off as just BigSisterInstinct for her "best friend's" little brother, which only reinforces everyone's beliefs that they are friends.
** Furthermore, the above incident happens while Kotomi is trying to apologize to Masaki for lashing out at her. She does this in the hope of not looking like a terrible person in front of Tomoki while also downplaying her jealousy...only to immediately lose her temper ''again'' once Masaki starts getting friendly with Tomoki once more.
* OnlySaneWoman: Has more common sense than her two friends, at least in matters not related to her crush Tomoki or potential romantic rivals.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Sometimes she is presented like this depending on the situation. Her glasses are a little variant of this trope because they are not so big.
* {{Otaku}}: She shares the same interests in anime that Tomoko does, but to nowhere near the same extent. It's the subject of baseball where her obsessions really skyrocket into otaku territory, especially when it comes to the Chiba Lotte Marines.
* OutOfFocus: Not to the same extent as Yuu, but her screentime has been reduced considerably since the cast has grown in size.
* PrecisionFStrike:
-->''"Shithead."''
--> ''[[InnerMonologue "That fucking bitch!"]]''
* RightInFrontOfMe: In Chapter 2 of the spin-off she tried to break the ice with Tomoko by telling her a story about having a laugh in the previous year when she heard that some middle schooler was still riding a bike with training wheels. Guess who that middle schooler was?
* SheCleansUpNicely: While she may seem plain and mousy at school, Kotomi is shown to have a keen fashion sense that gives her a more showy appearance. Most notably, she managed to turn a bathing suit that Tomoko suggested to her as a joke into something very stylish at the beach, and dialogue implies she even got some boys' attention with it.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Tomoko. She dislikes Tomoko because the latter tends to act like a {{Jerkass}} towards her for [[GreenEyedMonster reasons she can't fathom]], and only ever strikes back at her when provoked. This is eventually downplayed massively in third year as Tomoko doesn't have as much reason to be jealous of her with her own expanded friend group and the two are now able to much better tolerate each other as a result.
* StalkerWithACrush: Acts like this towards Tomoki in some chapters, though this is PlayedForLaughs. In chapter 88 she is shown taking photos of him during the athletics meet, getting turned on when he is made to wear baseball uniform and hoping he would be wearing the kind of uniform where the understocking is showing. In the very next chapter, when let into Tomoki's room by Tomoko, she considers looking through his drawers or his trash before deciding to lie in his bed instead.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Even though they mutually dislike one another, she and Tomoko are frequently on the same wavelength, coming to the same conclusions independently, and even acting as they can communicate without even speaking.
* TheStrategist: Appoints herself as the strategist of her softball team during the sports tournament in her third year of high school. It seems not to be very successful, as Minami doesn't even understand her directions, and other girls are weirded out by her.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In spite of their mutual dislike, she and Tomoko are at least willing to cooperate to keep Yuu happy.
* UnknownRival: When they reunite in Chapter 46 of the main story, Tomoko has forgotten about Kotomi. On the other hand, Kotomi bears a grudge against Tomoko. (The next chapter reveals that they didn't spend all of their middle school years in the same class.) Now both are aware of the other's dislike.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Tomoko on their ''best'' of days, particularly past Chapter 57. On their worst, it's a SitcomArchNemesis relationship. Even their classmates, Yuu [[spoiler:and Kii]] seem to think they've got this kind of relationship going with how in-sync they act despite their affirmations to the contrary.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: When she is surprised and/or angry.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Yuu is the only link that makes her and Tomoko tolerate each other.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The reason she despises Tomoko. Both are antisocial and their OnlyFriend is Yuu. Each one of them believes the other is below her.
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!!The Kyoto Group
[[folder:Masaki Yoshida]]
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A girl with blonde hair and a bad temper that Tomoko has a habit of pissing off.
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* AsleepInClass: If she's attending class, chances are good she's sleeping at her desk.
* BerserkButton: When first introduced she has two: 1) perverted acts in general, especially being groped, and 2) being called a delinquent. [[NoSocialSkills Tomoko]] being [[AccidentalPervert Tomoko]], she manages to repeatedly push both these buttons, and it seems she is becoming yet another BerserkButton for Yoshida. During the trip to Disneyland, it is also shown that she hates it when people criticize cute things that she likes [[spoiler:which causes her to start a fight with one of her yankii friends.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early chapters portrayed her as being an ordinary girl with a FaceOfAThug who Tomoko was exceptionally good at pissing off. Later chapters show that she genuinely ''is'' a delinquent with a HairTriggerTemper, but also portray her as being a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold.
* DelinquentHair: She's a bleached blonde.
* FaceOfAThug: Certainly ''looks'' like a standard delinquent girl, but is heavily suggested to simply be an ordinary girl who is into punk fashion that Tomoko just ''assumes'' is a delinquent.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Turns out she and Tomoko (and Kotomi for that matter) actually first met while they were still middle school students. Tomoko tried to demonstrate to Yuu how to safely walk past a delinquent without incurring their wrath, only to accidentally kick Masaki's bottle of soda away and incur her wrath anyway. By all appearances, no one seems to recall the incident or who was involved.
* GenderBlenderName: Unlike the names of the other girls, "Masaki" is a unisex name in Japan which fits for a tomboy like her.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She seems to have an affinity for cute things in general.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Tomoko mentions that she wears Hello Kitty-print panties. A later chapter suggests that ''all'' of her underwear features cute mascot characters on them, to the point where Tomoko claims that the fact that she wears them is an OpenSecret.
* HairTriggerTemper: She is always quick to threaten or even hit Tomoko, sometimes with little provocation. On the other hand, she doesn't act like this when interacting with other characters, so maybe it's just that Tomoko is really good at hitting her {{Berserk Button}}s. Notably, in chapter 106 she does not lash out at Anna who called her a moron to her face. Later chapters, especially those covering the trip to Disneyland during her third year of high school, show that she can be quite friendly when in a good mood [[spoiler: though these chapters also show that even her yankii friends aren't safe from her wrath]].
* HiddenDepths: Despite what Tomoko thinks of her, she is shown to like cute things, couldn't recognize a love hotel when every other character could and apparently plans to celebrate her [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_Day Coming of Age Day]] in Disneyland. She also notices that Hina and Akane have a falling out in chapter 129, and tries to bond with Akane over the problems they both have with their friends [[spoiler:though she quickly changes her mind and attacks Akane when the latter pushes one of her {{Berserk Button}}s.]]
** There are enough hints that Masaki is actually much more well-off than her being a ''yankii'' implies. The brand of pudding she bought as a gift is somewhat pricy in the real world, she's shown to have both a scooter and managed to rent a van for her friends, but not even once mentions working part-time to fund them. Finally, when we're introduced to her mother, she doesn't look like a housewife at all (unlike Tomoko's mom), and instead looks like a longtime career woman.
* HotBlooded: The angry type. She also gets extremely fired up when she's excited about something, such as when talking about how cool Disneyland is.
* HugeSchoolGirl: Standing at 165 cm, the only non-adult taller than her is Asuka. As such she's the tallest among Tomoko's original circle of acquaintances.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Invoked in-universe, as several characters are convinced Yoshida is a delinquent, not helped by her bleached hair and [[HairTriggerTemper volatile personality]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While she's generally angry and annoyed, this is mostly because she is justifiably pissed off at Tomoko for saying or doing something insensitive to her. Otherwise, she is shown to be a relatively pleasant person who seems to actually like Tomoko to some degree.
* LastNameBasis: Mostly because Tomoko hasn't bothered to learn her first name. It isn't until she introduces herself to her third-year class several chapters after her debut that we learn her full name.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Her intimidating appearance and short temper cause others to overlook her softer side. In a sort of twist on this trope, Tomoko ''also'' completely overlooks her softer side when interacting with her, but interacts with her much more openly than others do, allowing Yuri (and the reader) to see that there's more to her than her tough looks.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuta_Yoshida Yuta Yoshida]].
* NeverMyFault: She's completely unapologetic about her outbursts. If Masaki's violent anger causes any problems, it's the fault of whoever provoked her, not Masaki for losing her temper.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: She gives Tomoko a ride home on her friend's scooter for no reason other than to be a chum. Doing so gets them both suspended for a week.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Beating up Tomoko for calling her a delinquent only further convinces Tomoko that Yoshida is a delinquent.
* OddFriendship: She and Tomoko couldn't be any more different, and going off of most of their interactions, you'd think they'd hate each other's guts. As later chapters show, however, Yoshida has no problem letting Tomoko hang around with her, despite Tomoko pressing her buttons sometimes.
** It's telling that that nowadays Tomoko simply ''can't'' imagine Yoshida not being around with her and Yuri. Ironically, Masaki seems to be the only person among her friends that she has absolutely no issue with introducing to the rest of her family.
** Yoshida seems to have become good friends with [[NiceGirl Mako]] during the Disneyland field trip, to the point where Mako is helping her with her future career choices and texting her during Yoshida's suspension.
** She takes a surprising shine to Tomoki as they continue bumping into each other, and responds to his AccidentalPervert moments much less violently than she does with Tomoko's.
* PerpetualFrowner: There's seldom a moment when she isn't scowling, which only fuels how intimidated Tomoko is by her.
* PervertRevengeMode: Her preferred response to Tomoko's antics.
* PetTheDog: She does occasionally do nice things for Tomoko, like offer to share an umbrella as they walk home on a rainy day. It's just that Tomoko always runs her mouth off at the wrong time and gets punched in the face. In chapter 116 she actually drags Tomoko over to Megumi, who was graduating, so that Tomoko, who was too nervous to approach, could say good-bye.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: A tough-talking and thuggish girl who likes all things cute and is generally pretty naive and innocent.
* {{Tsundere}}: A platonic example. She's almost always (justifiably) pissed off at Tomoko but still seems to like and care about her. She displays a similar attitude toward Tomoki, being casual and friendly to him one moment before switching to angry when he has an AccidentalPervert moment, though it's ambiguous if that's just as platonic.
* VitriolicBestBuds: The vast majority of her interactions with Tomoko consist of Tomoko saying or doing something insensitive or perverted to her and Yoshida responding with anger and violence. To onlookers, Yoshida appears to be bullying her. Gradually turns into grudging tolerance, especially after their trip to Disneyland, to the point that Masaki herself ''proactively'' invites Tomoko to hang out after school.
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[[folder:Yuri Tamura]]
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A fairly stoic girl from Tomoko's class who ends up in her group for their class trip after a falling out with her friend.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Post-CharacterizationMarchesOn, Yuri displays many symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: [[NoSocialSkills Little to no social ability and awareness]], [[BrutalHonesty speaks bluntly and straightforwardly]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive without a thought for how others will react]], [[TheStoic poor emotional display]], [[TheKlutz is clumsy and uncoordinated]], [[HairTriggerTemper has issues controlling her temper]] and occasionally focuses on some oddly childish interests.
* AudienceSurrogate: She's more or less taken up the role of the audience's representative within the story in recent chapters. She's a bit of a loner herself, but not nearly to the same degree as Tomoko, and while she is constantly bewildered by the other girl's behavior, she is also both amused enough by it to develop a fondness for her and empathetic enough to it to develop a sense of kinship with her.
* BerserkButton: While Yuri is not fond of Minami, to say the least, most of the time she is able to stay calm even in Minami's presence. However, in chapter 124 [[spoiler:when Mako calls her out on barging into Tomoko's meeting with Yuu and points out that she is acting like Minami would, Yuri actually punches Mako's arm in anger.]]
* BigEater: Yuri has a habit of eating large amounts of food during group meetings, perhaps as a way of avoiding conversation.
* BrutalHonesty: When she does talk to people Yuri is incredibly blunt and straightforward.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Yuri's personality takes a dramatic turn towards the end of the second year, to the point where she practically became a different character. Initially, Yuri had been the OnlySaneMan of the Kyoto trio. She was socially adept enough to mediate conflicts in the group and see through Tomoko attempting reverse psychology while Yoshida fell for it. While she was reserved at times during the Kyoto field trip, she was generally expressive, smiling regularly, being shocked by Tomoko's antics and even being introduced screaming angrily at Mako. From Valentine's Day onward, she became socially inept and unaware to the point of entering AmbiguousDisorder territory, and the end of year party showed her being [[UpToEleven even worse off socially than Tomoko.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: A platonic version. Yuri can be very clingy towards her close friends and doesn't like it when they're involved with others she isn't close to. This is seen in her fight with Mako over joining what was implied to be Minami's group for Kyoto and barging into Tomoko's meet-ups with Yuu and Nemo to engage in PassiveAggressiveKombat.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: In chapter 106, she prevented Tomoko from saying something to Yoshida that would get her punched. Overall, she has a better grasp of what kind of person Tomoko is than the rest of the school. Yuri herself invokes this trope in an omake set during the events of chapter 119, telling Masaki that they should look after Tomoko during the class farewell party because she might do something weird otherwise.
* CovertPervert: Invoked in chapter 145. Tomoko accuses Yuri of being this when she catches her reading an ecchi manga. Yuri on her part insists that she doesn't like this sort of manga and that she checked this particular one for a different reason. [[spoiler:Her willingness to watch porn with Tomoko at an internet café in Chapter 151 kind of gives the game away, though...]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: It's very slow but as third year goes along she starts to occasionally show more emotion. Most notably, laughing during a study trip to the beach with Tomoko, Nemo and Akane and smiling while talking to Miyazaki during the study camp.
* {{Flanderization}}: In a couple of ways:
** When she was first introduced Yuri was occasionally reserved and stand-offish (which was largely because she was separated from Mako for the Kyoto trip) but was generally sociable and expressive, and after the Kyoto field trip she was even cheerful and friendly. Later chapters played up her reserved nature to the point where she was TheStoic, only barely displaying emotion in moments of genuine joy, shock or anger. Likewise, Yuri went from being somewhat stand-offish to either ignoring or passive-aggressively sniping at people she didn't care for.
** The first time Yuri hit someone (Mako in chapter 124) was actually a WhamShot moment, and she only did so out of brief but serious anger over Mako pressing her BerserkButton. Later chapters would have her hit people casually when mildly irritated.
* {{Foil}}: Like many of Tomoko's friends, she can be seen as one to her. Both are introverted, have poor self-esteem, and lack much of a social circle, but while Tomoko is profoundly weird and histrionic, Yuri is one of the most reserved characters. Also, while Tomoko is generally mean but shows increasing moments of kindness and empathy, Yuri is generally kind but has something of a dark side.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Minami's story arc shows that she used to be part of the same friend group as Minami and Sachi in first year but eventually fell out with them.
* TheHeart: Since Tomoko, Mako, and Yoshida are more friends with her than they are with each other, Yuri is pretty much the glue that holds them together. Despite being an introvert, she convinces them to attend the class end-of-the-year party with her just so they can all have one last chance to hang together.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuri values the few friends she's managed to make, and as such is ''very'' attached to them. Seeing them interact in a familiar manner with other people outside her group of four (which includes Mako, Tomoko, and Masaki) causes ''intense'' feelings of jealousy to bubble up, as chapter 124 and 126 show.
* HiddenDepths: Initially introduced as a normal, if a somewhat reserved and stoic girl. Later chapters show that she's not that great at social interactions, and places a ''lot'' of value on the very few friendships she's managed to make. She also gets jealous if any of her friends seem to be getting closer to people outside the group than with her.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Due to her [[NoSocialSkills lack of social awareness]], Yuri tends to say or do things that annoy people around her and not pick up on their irritation. Lampshaded by Ucchi, who remarks it's the reason why Yuri has such a small social circle.
* InSeriesNickname: In Chapter 124, Tomoko considers calling her by a nickname after knowing her for so long, indicating that she conceivably might receive one of these in the near future. [[spoiler:Chapter 126 shows that the fact that Tomoko did not come up with a nickname for her is a sore spot for Yuri.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Yuri can be selfish, and easily becomes a GreenEyedMonster whenever Tomoko is with her other friends. Downplayed in that Yuri is more unaware than truly malicious, she'll back off when she realizes that she's being hurtful, and she can be empathetic and helpful outside of her jealous fits.
* LoonyFriendsImproveYourPersonality: Zig-zagged. Yuri's friendship with Tomoko and Yoshida seems to make Yuri more expressive and openly affectionate to her friends, but eventually, it also brought her issues with jealousy to light.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: A RunningGag with Yuri is that she packs a ''lot'' of strength in her hands and arms despite her slender build, which makes the punches and squeezes that she doles out whenever she gets annoyed really painful.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuhiro_Tamura Tatsuhiro Tamura]].
* NiceGirl: Played with. While she thinks Tomoko is a bit of an idiot, she treats her with respect and kindness, invites her to eat lunch with her, and becomes the loner's first real friend in high school. However, Yuri has issues when it comes to "sharing" her friends, which makes her act standoffish, passive-aggressive, and prone to lashing out. She's even guiltily admitted that she doesn't think she's a nice person.
* NightmareFetishist: She seems to have a taste for the macabre. Tear-jerking, sentimental manga do nothing for her, but something more gory and horrific like ''Manga/{{Goth}}'' is more up her alley. Furthermore, while Yuri says she likes musicals, her favorite is the darkly depressing ''Film/DancerInTheDark''.
* NoodleIncident: She spends most of the Class Trip thinking about how to make up with her friend Mako, but it's never said what caused the falling out, and they seem to have made up by the end. [[spoiler:Later chapters heavily imply that it was because Mako accepted Minami's invite to join the latter's group for the class trip without considering Yuri's feelings about it.]]
* NoSocialSkills: She's very low key about it compared to Tomoko, but Yuri is still very awkward and inept socially. She consistently fails to notice social cues or engage in niceties (as seen in chapter 145 when she simply eats the lunch Mako made without thanking her). Yuri is also very blunt, tactless and even rude when not being reserved or uninterested. From the Disneyland field trip onwards, Yuri actually was shown to be [[UpToEleven even less socially capable than Tomoko.]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark: She gets on the recieving end of this. When Yuri starts bad-talking Tomoko to Yuu, Mako tells her that she's acting an awful lot like Koharu. Yuri's violent reaction to that shows it's not a comparison she likes.
* OddFriendship: Arguably her main group counts but she also winds up developing one with Ucchi's friends during the study camp after they invite her to hang out with them at a hot spring noting that they're surprisingly easy to talk to.
* OnlySaneWoman: She notices how much of an idiot Tomoko is, but still makes an effort to befriend her. She does the same for Yoshida. She's by far the most normal of the three and usually takes it upon herself to try and keep them civil with each other.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Originally presented like this, but subverted over time as she became more and more of a {{Foil}} to Tomoko.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: In later chapters, whenever she gets jealous of other characters getting friendly with Tomoko, she either [[SilentTreatment ostentatiously ignores them]], or tries to one-up them by bringing up inside stories to prove that she's Tomoko's closest friend. [[spoiler:Yuu was her first target in chapter 124, followed by Hina during and after the Disneyland trip, and Shizuku in chapter 132]].
* TheStoic: Downplayed. She's not emotionless, but she maintains a pretty firm poker face no matter what happens around her.
* UnfazedEveryman: Her reactions to her new kind-of-friends' behaviors are much more subdued than you'd expect.
* WhenSheSmiles: She very rarely smiles, and when she does, she'll always be quick to hide it. She almost never laughs either, so when a biting remark from Tomoko gets a small chortle out of Yuri, Mako reacts with visible happiness that someone could actually make Yuri do that.
* WouldNotHitAGirl: Discussed. Yuri herself is a girl and she has no problems hitting Tomoko, who is also a girl albeit a very scruffy-looking one, whenever she says or does something stupid. However, when the latter gets a landmine makeover that makes her [[SheCleansUpNicely appear more feminine and beautiful]], Yuri says she wouldn't be able to hit Tomoko while she looks like that because it would just look like abuse rather than discipline.
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[[folder:Emiri "Ucchi" Uchi]]
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A popular girl from Tomoko's second year class who has strange eyes and similar hair to Yuu. After spending most of her time with her friends in a different group during the class trip, the short time she actually spends with Tomoko leaves a very huge impression on her.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Bad ''girls'' in this case. In Ucchi's mind, Tomoko is a [[ReallyGetsAround sexually promiscuous]] creeper who peeped on her in the shower, stole her panties, watched her while she slept, stalked her relentlessly, and makes a pass at just about every attractive girl she encounters. While it scared her at first, it also got Ucchi interested.
* AmbiguouslyGay: She thinks Tomoko is stalking her to sexually harass her, [[RapeAsComedy maybe more]], which of course frightens her, but when it looks like Tomoko isn't interested in her, Ucchi becomes noticeably miffed.
** In later chapters it starts to look like she might actually have a crush on Tomoko, going by her reaction to Tomoko giving her a secret "Thank You" note or how she was able to instantly tell Tomoki was Tomoko's brother just by looking at his face.
** [[spoiler:Chapter 127 pretty much puts an end to any lingering ambiguity, as Ucchi admits that there's someone she likes. While she doesn't mention who that is, [[HoYay/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular all the clues point in one direction]].]]
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Due to Tomoko's [[NoSocialSkills mannerisms]], [[AmbiguouslyBi comments]] and [[CovertPervert actions]] when interacting with her, she's convinced Tomoko is stalking her and is obviously creeped out when Tomoko is trying to peek under her skirt. However, when she notes her also peeking under the skirts of other girls, her reaction shows this:
--> "So long as you've got a girl to stare at, you don't care who it is?!"
** She later has the same reaction again when she sees Tomoko going shopping with Yuu, who looks similar to herself. Ucchi is convinced that Tomoko is trying to replace her with Yuu.
* AscendedExtra: Made a brief appearance in chapter 59 (as the girl sitting next to Tomoko in a bus and ignoring her to chat with her friends instead) before becoming a recurring character. This appears to be the origin of her NonstandardCharacterDesign; her face is drawn only once in her first appearance and it seems to be simply an indication that she isn't important.
* BettyAndVeronica: Tomoko possibly serves as the Archie to Asuka's Betty and Ucchi's Veronica.
* ButtMonkey: After becoming Tomoko's StalkerWithACrush, every chapter featuring her is practically guaranteed to feature her getting humiliated in some way.
* CannotSpitItOut: She'll do everything she can around Tomoko. Everything, that is, except outright says that she likes her.
* CatchPhrase: ãã¢ã€ (kimoi), which is usually translated as "disgusting".
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In her first few appearances, Ucchi seemed to be something of a StepfordSmiler who would maintain a steady grin on her face even while feeling uncomfortable. Starting with chapter 80, she became more expressive in general, no longer does anything to maintain her cool, and very seldom ever smiles.
* CovertPervert: As much as she'll outwardly voice her disgust for Tomoko, Ucchi frequently has dirty thoughts about her. She's subtly but deliberately tried to arrange for moments that Tomoko could perv on her, fantasized about drinking water she's bathed in, thought about filming Tomoko taking her clothes off, and even tried bringing her to a love hotel.
* CrushBlush: She does this more and more around Tomoko.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Her belief that Tomoko is lusting after her is borne out of a lot of situations where Tomoko did seem to be acting in a sexual manner. She just doesn't know Tomoko well enough to recognize that Tomoko didn't mean anything by it and was too nervous to try and clear anything up.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the chapters that followed the second-year school trip she was at first portrayed as legitimately creeped out by Tomoko, but with hints that her interest in Tomoko might go beyond that. She gradually turns into a SmittenTeenageGirl who is completely obsessed with Tomoko, actively looks for opportunities to meet her and seems to be disgusted with Tomoko [[GreenEyedMonster only when she thinks that Tomoko is flirting with other girls]].
* {{Foil}}:
** To Yuu. They both have active social lives, fairly similar appearances, and a connection of sorts to Tomoko. However, while Tomoko bears an obvious lust for Yuu, who knows absolutely nothing about it, Ucchi misinterprets ''everything'' Tomoko does as being in relation to a perverse lust towards ''her''. That and Ucchi appears to be well on her way to developing a lust for Tomoko, who has no clue about it.
** Ucchi can also be seen as an embodiment of Tomoko's early-days habit of making wildly imaginative and EntertaininglyWrong appraisals of the situation, her highly sexual mindset, and her weekly ZanyScheme for attention. The difference is that Tomoko wanted to be beloved by everyone and generally had little commitment, while Ucchi cares only about Tomoko and sticks to her guns.
* TheGenericGirl: Implied by her official profile. To whit, Ucchi is the ''only'' member of the cast with all her stats listed as '''three'''.
* GreenEyedMonster: Whenever Tomoko shows or receives attention from someone who isn't Ucchi, Ucchi always reacts with visible jealousy. In one of the panels in chapter 115, she can be [[FunnyBackgroundEvent seen in the background]] angrily clenching her teeth as she watches a graduating upperclassman patting Tomoko's head.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Her beliefs that Tomoko is a creepy stalker who's utterly obsessed with her are so strong that Ucchi has in turn taken to obsessing over Tomoko and stalking ''her''.
* HiddenDepths: During her trip to Aoyama in chapter 140 she apparently wanted to check the university's school of business (until she noticed Tomoko and got sidetracked); Tomoko even wonders whether Ucchi is planning on opening up an Emoji Mart.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Even though Ucchi repeatedly tells her friends and acquaintances that Tomoko is a disgusting creep, she does not tolerate anyone else badmouthing Tomoko, [[spoiler:as Minami found out in chapter 156.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: By all accounts, she's guilty of everything she accuses Tomoko of being. [[spoiler:For instance, when Tomoko leaves some chocolates for Ucchi in her locker, Ucchi calls her a creep for not giving them to her in person, even though she did the exact same thing the day before.]]
* IdenticalStranger: Somewhat resembles ([[NonstandardCharacterDesign a highly-simplified]]) Yuu. This actually gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in one chapter, where, after seeing them together, Ucchi assumes Tomoko is using Yuu as a proxy for her.
* InformedAttractiveness: Ucchi is supposedly pretty, enough to be part of her second-year class' cheerleading team. You would ''never'' know this though due to how her face is normally drawn.
** According to her official profile, Ucchi has the body of a fashion model. Though Tomoko acknowledges this in chapter 176, you'd be hard-pressed to notice this due to the way Ucchi is drawn.
* InsultOfEndearment: Seems to be what "kimoi[[note]]Usually translated as "gross," "creepy," or "disgusting"[[/note]]" has become, at least when it's applied to Tomoko. She's even outright said she uses it to simultaneously praise and insult her.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Ucchi's growing obsession with Tomoko has made her act increasingly more erratic. She stares at her intensely from a distance, actively stalks her, tries to contrive meetings and encounters with her through incredibly roundabout ways, and throws childish tantrums every time something gets between her and Tomoko. It ends up seriously straining Ucchi's relationship with her usual group of friends, though they cut her some slack when they notice ''why'' she's acting that way.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: She doesn't say or do anything every chapter, but she can often be seen in the background. [[StalkerWithACrush Always watching Tomoko]]. Crosses over with FunnyBackgroundEvent with some of the humorous expressions she makes, particularly whenever she starts [[GreenEyedMonster angrily gritting her teeth]] every time Tomoko pays any sort of attention to someone else.
** In chapter 132, there are several blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments where she can be seen peering at Tomoko from behind a tree.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuya_Uchi Tatsuya Uchi]].
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Always has BlackBeadEyes. It's so unusual, that even in-universe, Tomoko compared her to an emoji. The outlines of her eyelids are drawn only in some of her emotional moments, most notably in chapters 80, 131, 152 and 156.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until chapter 114, where her surname (å , Uchi) can be seen on her locker [[spoiler:when Tomoko is looking for her locker to leave the Valentine's Day chocolates there]], and chapter 127, which reveals her given name. "Ucchi" is just what her friends call her. Tomoko doesn't even ''know'' her actual nickname due to how little time they actually spend directly interacting, and instead just calls her "emoji girl".
* RightForTheWrongReasons: She's one of the few people who see Tomoko for the perverted creeper she is, but only because she comically misunderstands everything Tomoko does, no matter how innocuous, as having perverted intentions.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The official English translation writes her given name [[MultiEthnicName "Emily"]]. Foreign words/names are typically written in katakana, but her name is written in kanji, so it's more likely supposed to be romanized "Emiri".
* StalkerWithACrush: Thinks Tomoko is hers. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters In her paranoia, she has become Tomoko's]].
* StupidSexyFlanders: Considering that Tomoko's creepiness is what Ucchi finds so fascinating and attractive about her, Ucchi's constant referring to her as creepy and gross is functionally how she expresses both her frustration and attraction to Tomoko.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: As much as she loves to talk about how creepy and weird Tomoko is, she sure doesn't seem to mind her. [[spoiler:Chapter 114 shows her to be somewhat pleased that Tomoko gave her chocolate for Valentine's Day, and as she's inwardly berating the fact that it looks like poop, she's still eating it.]]
* ThroughHisStomach: She's making a habit of trying to attract Tomoko's attention via food, [[spoiler:first by making [[ChocolateOfRomance chocolates for her on Valentine's Day]], and later by grilling and seasoning a strip of meat at a Korean BBQ restaurant - and then sneaking it onto Tomoko's plate.]]
* TransparentCloset: The only person who knows Ucchi and hasn't figured out that she has romantic feelings for Tomoko is... well, Ucchi. This creates some problems when her friends try to coax her into confession, only for Ucchi to then do her usual thing of calling Tomoko a disgusting creep.
* {{Tsundere}}: A quiet, long-distance variation. Whenever she thinks about Tomoko, her thoughts are always full of unmitigated disgust, but she frequently goes out of her way to do nice things for her (complete with extensive rationalization [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that it's not because she likes her or anything]]), and blushes whenever Tomoko returns the favor. It's gradually become a lot more direct as she's started to outright call Tomoko a disgusting creep right in front of her, claiming that it's meant to be both an insult and a compliment.
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[[folder:Tomoko Kuroki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IzumiKitta (Japanese), Creator/MonicaRial (English)
The main character of the series, who struggles with becoming "popular", making friends and coping with adolescence. Unfortunately, this is not helped by her [[NoSocialSkills social ineptitude]] and [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant]] [[TheEeyore personality]].
Despite being incredibly anti-social, she craves the companionship and attention of others. She suffers from a raging superiority complex, [[IndulgentFantasySegue vivid delusions of grandeur]], intense self-loathing, and social anxiety so severe that she can barely get out a sentence when talking to someone she is not intimately acquainted with.
The dark circles under her eyes are genetic (and shared by her brother).
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* AccidentalHero: Tomoko manages to help some people now and then, but only by happenstance. She gives Shizuku some half-hearted advice on how to handle the entrance exams (with the intention of discouraging the girl from attending her school at all), only to end up encouraging her to pass and apply to the school in full. [[spoiler:Tomoko also gets Hina and Akane to patch things up. How? By showing the latter a clip from an eroge game while explaining to her the likely reasons Hina was so secretive about her dream to become a voice actress, which horrifies Akane so much that she outright confronts Hina about it, allowing them to talk things out.]]
* AccidentalPervert: Only towards Yoshida, whom she always gropes by complete accident, which more often than not gets her smacked. Anyone else she pervs on is very intentional. For what it's worth though, Tomoko ''does'' like how the delinquent feels.
* ACupAngst: It's not as apparent as most examples of this trope, but it's there.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: One particularly infamous chapter/episode has Tomoko buy both a [[YaoiGenre BL visual novel]] and a personal body massager. Tomoko even notes that if anyone saw her with both, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything they'd get the wrong idea]]. Or rather the ''right'' idea, since that's exactly what she had planned.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Although she doesn't actually hook up with a "bad boy", she seems to be fond of BastardBoyfriend characters, as evidenced by her enjoyment of a drama CD about {{Yandere}} boys.
* AmbiguouslyBi: While her PerverseSexualLust for Otome Game characters and early fixation on getting a boyfriend make her attraction to men obvious, her constant sexual harassment of Yuu raises a few eyebrows. What keeps Tomoko's sexuality ambiguous is that it's made clear at multiple points that Tomoko's [[NoSocialSkills lack of social awareness]] and [[WrongGenreSavvy reliance on anime tropes to navigate real life situations]] cause her to assume that LesYay in female friendships is not only common, but ''expected'', leading her to enforce it. Even as she develops more real life relationships and her pervertedness dies down, however, being caught in several NotWhatItLooksLike moments have led to Ucchi becoming absolutely ''certain'' that Tomoko is not only a lesbian, but a sexual deviant who surrounds herself with a harem of girls at all times. As Tomoko matures and becomes explicitly more aware of the concept of homosexuality (she even correctly defines "LGBT" in class), she still can't help but fall for Yuu's or [[https://imgur.com/a/9IM3Agq Asuka's]] charms. She's also shown blatant sexual attraction to Miho, one of Asuka's friends, and Shizuku, her own kohai. In the latter's case she's outright said that if she were a guy she'd want to NTR Shizuku's boyfriend.
* BeautifulAllAlong: It's been brought up that Tomoko actually has good looks, but the problem is that she doesn't try grooming and looking after herself that much. When she actually does, many of her friends do say how cute she is. This aspect can actually be seen in some of the later chapters where Tomoko decides to wear more flattering clothes and cleans herself more.
** Her official profile shows that she has a Charisma score of '''five''', the maximum possible score, shared only with super-model-esque Katou Asuka. This means that Tomoko always had the potential to be popular, if her crippling self-doubt hadn't dragged down her confidence.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: As time goes on and Tomoko finds herself on the receiving end of more PetTheDog moments, she feels the need to repay the people who show her kindness even if she doesn't really know them.
** She makes a batch of chocolates for everyone who gave her some for Valentine's Day, like Mako, Yuri, and Ucchi. She even gives some to Yoshida, despite their dysfunctional relationship.
** Because Megumi came to her aid a few times in the past, Tomoko congratulates her for graduating high school and even asks the former StudentCouncilPresident if there's anything she can do for her. She feels rather crushed when she realizes she won't be able to give anything back to Megumi.
* BerserkButton: When Yuu makes a joke about Kotomi marrying Tomoki this is one of the few times that we see Tomoko get legitimately angry at Yuu, making no attempts at hiding her anger at all.
* BettyAndVeronica: Tomoko possibly serves as the Archie to Asuka's Betty and Ucchi's Veronica.
* BigBrotherBully: Tomoko tries to pass herself off as a CoolBigSis to Tomoki, and was indeed like that at one point, but in actuality she's extremely negative and manipulative whenever she's around him. It's also implied that this is the reason why Tomoki stopped being friendly with her to begin with.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Oh yes. For the longest time, Tomoko was only ever interested in her popularity at school, all the while being loathe to do any work around the house, eager to annoy her brother, and quick to snap at her mother. This got her a good share of slaps from the latter, who was often irritated at how irresponsible Tomoko was despite being the older child.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: She has made a huge impact on Ucchi's life, to the point where the girl is utterly obsessed with her. However, Tomoko never intended to do such, their first real interaction was on the last night of their field trip, and Tomoko was just being her [[NoSocialSkills normal]] [[CovertPervert self]]. Later "interactions" were mostly Tomoko doing something else and it just so happened Ucchi was the target or a witness.
* ButtMonkey: Any of her attempts to become popular ''always'' come out wrong for her.
* CannotTalkToMen: Nothing frays Tomoko's nerves more than attractive boys. Even after her social skills improve enough that she can communicate with strangers without tripping over her words too much, she still turns into a nervous, stuttering puddle of goo in the presence of hot guys.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Tomoko has been walked in on playing her Hentai games, ''[[RunningGag multiple times]]''.
* CharacterDevelopment: Slowly but surely, Tomoko matures a good deal over the course of the manga, particularly in her second year. She dials back on her ill-thought schemes to become popular to the point where she eventually gives up on them entirely, doesn't stutter nearly as often as before, is more comfortable in public places like cafes, lets go of a lot of the resentment she felt towards her peers, shows occasional bouts of consideration for others, and is more studious and responsible in general. By the end of the year, she even manages to get herself a small circle of friends and acquaintances to regularly socialize with.
* ChildHater: Played with. In chapter 138 she admits that she hates middle schoolers, but she also mentions that she doesn't have strong feelings about grade schoolers, and in the past she used to play card games with kids in a candy store. In any case, she states that her dislike of kids is the reason why she would never want to be a teacher.
* ChronicVillainy: She's never managed to break her bad habit of doing {{Jerkass}} things.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Tomoko ''can'' care about people, she's shown to have an extremely active imagination with a creative streak to her, and [[{{Determinator}} she's extremely resilient in the pursuit of her goal]]. That being said, she's a liar, a pervert, very lazy, and tries to take the easy way out of anything she can. She even LiesToChildren and calls any girls even slightly more popular than her "bitches" and "sluts". Tomoko gradually does undergo character development to get rid of the worst parts of these traits, but they never completely disappear.
* ClingyJealousGirl: When it comes to Yuu or her brother, the latter of which she declared if he ever brought home a girl, she would take responsibility and ''[[{{Yandere}} kill her]]''.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Somehow, against all logic or reason, she's managed to become this in her 3rd year. To wit, Yuri has grown quite attached to her and is prone to jealously whenever Tomoko gets close to someone else. Nemo is similarly quite attached to Tomoko, and while they're also vitriolic best buds, it's clear that Nemo values their "honest" friendship a great deal. Asuka is extremely fond of her, and her affectionate gestures border on outright flirting. Ucchi is outright infatuated by her, having become increasingly more obsessive about Tomoko over the course of the manga. Shizuku hero-worships her, looking at Tomoko as a kind and thoughtful sempai. While her friendships with some of the other girls aren't as pronounced, she's still amassed a huge following of female friends and acquaintances. It's ironic that the usually self-aware Tomoko often [[https://imgur.com/oJ358si seems to be completely unaware of this.]]
* ConsummateLiar: "How do I bullshit my way out of this?"
* ConvenientlySeated: At first, she seats in the back row seat by the window. When the second semester starts and Tomoko loses her seat, she lampshades it by commenting about how lucky she was getting "the seat main characters always get in anime and light-novels" in the first semester, lamenting that she now has to dwell in an awkward spot, surrounded by people. Tomoko regains her original seating arrangement come her second year, and keeps it for her third year, now surrounded by people she's either friends or friendly with.
* CosmicPlaything: She doesn't realize it, which might be a good thing as the truth might plunge her into the pit of despair or worse, since she can't realize why her attempts to make friends are massive failures. The moment she gains some self-awareness of her faults and tries to not be so judgmental anymore, the universe ''seems'' to ease up on her ...and decides to spread the weirdness around to her new friends.
* CovertPervert: Played with; since the viewers are always privy to her thoughts, it's easy for us to see that she's ''very'' perverted, but most other characters (aside from Tomoki) are unaware of how perverted she really is. This becomes subverted over time; though Tomoko ''tries'' to keep her lewd side under wraps, she either proves to be really bad at hiding her lecherous habits, or has a number of [[AccidentalPervert accidents]] that leave people with the impression that she's a massive pervert anyway. Before her third year is even halfway done, pretty much everyone familiar with Tomoko knows what a huge sex-obsessed perv she is.
* CreepyLonerGirl: Tomoko is an unattractive, friendless {{Otaku}} with absolutely NoSocialSkills who stays up all night playing dating sims to compensate for her nonexistent social and love life. She daydreams about becoming popular, but her social awkwardness ruins her attempts at it every time.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Seems to be a family trait; however, Tomoko's habit of staying up late at night probably doesn't help, as she notes before trying on glasses to hide them.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: This is her her single strongest desire for most of the series. It's likely why she's overly attached to her brother (much to his chagrin) and also part of why she's so attached to her only real friend, Yuu. This ends up becoming subverted pretty later on in the series, once Tomoko actually gets a circle of friends.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite the universe doing [[CosmicPlaything everything it can]] to make her give up, Tomoko never relents in her quest to become popular, make friends, or just improve herself in general. Whenever one scheme fails, she just gets up, dusts herself off, and moves on to the next plan.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: She has a bad habit of voicing her more lewd thoughts out loud. Initially this was only toward Yuu, but eventually spread to anyone Tomoko felt mildy attracted to, like Asuka.
-->'''Tomoko''': ''(Thinking)'' A cute girl, wearing such cute underwear and such a short skirt must flash a bit from time to time...just imagine, if I were her boyfriend... \\
'''Tomoko''': ''(Out loud)'' Bet those'd really give ya a stiffy. \\
'''Yuu''': MOKOCCHI!!?
* DisappointingOlderSibling: Despite being the older sibling, Tomoki thinks she's an annoying loser. According to the volume 5 omake, it was her obnoxiousness that caused their once-loving relationship to turn sour. On the other hand, one WhatIf omake shows that he would end up disliking her even if she were to remain kind to him.
* DontYouDarePityMe: As shown in chapters 33 and 42, she doesn't like it when others take pity on her, as she feels patronized by this.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: In addition to being very large and roughly-sketched, her eyes lack a notable sheen that's present in most other characters, illustrating her perpetually dour mood.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The bags under her eyes only serve to further emphasize this aspect of hers.
* TheEeyore: She falls into bouts of self-loathing and has a lot of negative thoughts in social situations. Even when she acknowledges that her life got better than how it used to be, such as in chapter 115, she doesn't expect the good times to last.
* ExpressiveHair: You can often tell how exasperated she is just by seeing how much her hair is flaring out.
* FailureHero: In the early chapters she can't do ''anything'' right. Every time she has a goal, it's bound to fail or backfire horribly. The few ThrowTheDogABone moments she gets are usually down to luck and the kindness of others, or when she's not actually trying so hard to become popular. This part of her characterization is largely dropped as the story progresses and Tomoko starts setting more realistic goals for her social life, which she eventually starts achieving.
* FemaleMisogynist: [[GreenEyedMonster Her jealousy]] leads to a general resentment of other girls aside from Yuu, often viewing girls who are more socially adept than her as "bitches" or "sluts". [[spoiler: However, this doesn't appear to apply to Yuri, probably because she recognizes that Yuri is almost as socially inept as she is]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Tomoki's Responsible. She tends to laze around and do stupid things to improve her status while Tomoki focuses on his sports, studies, and his household chores. Tomoko being so irresponsible is a frequent source of stress for her mother.
* GamerChick: Effortlessly plays a Pop'N Music knockoff with only a blank stare on her face, not to mention her constant playing of otome games.
* {{Gonk}}: Often pulls ugly faces when emotional.
** There's also the time where she tries to change her appearance, which works out well until she decides to mess with her face.
* GreenEyedMonster: Bonus points for the VisualPun. She enjoys the misfortune of others and frequently wishes for horrible things to happen to people that she perceives as having happy, carefree lives. Her internal monologues frequently call girls more socially successful than herself, including her best friend Yuu, "bitches", "sluts", etc.
--> '''Tomoko:''' If you're not a worthless god, I'd like to see you try and make me happy... If you can't manage that, at least make everyone as unhappy as me. If you can't, it's fine I guess... But I'll despise you forever...
** Also why she couldn't get along with Kotomi in middle school despite being much alike, as she wanted to keep Yuu to herself.
** As of chapter 97 she seems to have realized that her former classmates who are more sociable than her don't act sociable to spite her, [[CharacterDevelopment and she doesn't hate them for this anymore]].
* HasAType: An inversion, when she's finally able to hold a real conversation with a male classmate (Wada), she dismisses it as much of a step forward since she doesn't find him all that attractive, believing that "shota doesn't go with chibi".
* HeyYou: In general, she is very bad at remembering names, or just doesn't care to learn them in the first place, leading her to often refer to the people around her by (often derisive) descriptors in her mind. In Chapter 124, Tomoko even notes that she's never once actually called Yuri by name, even though Yuri's ostensibly the best friend she has in her high school. [[spoiler:This comes to a head in 126, when she tries to get Yuri's attention by just repeatedly calling out "Hey", resulting in a frustrated Yuri telling her that her name is not "Hey".]]
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Tomoko implicitly UsedToBeASweetKid, but as she entered adolescence, she became a more self-centered {{Jerkass}} who only ever thought about sex.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She angrily denounces anyone more popular than her as shallow, vapid and selfish, and refers to any girls more sociable than her as "sluts". She's the real shallow and selfish one, who seeks popularity above all else, and proclaims: "Without doing anything, I can get into the pants of the boys for three years!" in the very first chapter. At the same time, she looks down on anyone ''as'' unpopular as she is as being losers, freaks and weirdos who are somehow beneath her despite them generally having the same interests that she does.
** HypocriticalHumor: is a RunningGag in this series.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: ...and get laid, apparently.
** As the series progresses, there's a subtle development in that Tomoko's goal moves down from "getting popular" to just "making a friend", and at the very least "talking to people". These get fulfilled during the middle of her second year, as she became close to Yuri, Mako, and Masaki.
* IneffectualDeathThreat: Frequently wishes death and worse on her classmates for the smallest of offences, like someone apparently taking her umbrella.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: While she's rather self-centered and looks down on a lot of people for petty reasons, it's still clear that her self-esteem is actually very, very low.
* InnerMonologue: Keeps her thoughts to herself more often than actually speaking.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Towards Yuri. Yuri is bothered by how aloof Tomoko seems to act towards her despite spending most of their time at school together, but Tomoko has no idea there's even a problem in the first place. She's also oblivious to the effect she's had on Ucchi, disturbing the girl with her mere presence at first, and going on to making her jealous at the drop of a hat.
* InSeriesNickname: "Mokocchi." Only Yuu gets to call her that, though. [[spoiler:In chapter 126 Hina Nemoto comes up with another nickname for her, "Kuro".]]
* {{Irony}}: After spending her first year desperately trying to be popular with one ZanyScheme after another Tomoko eventually resigns herself to being a loner ...and then she actually ends up making an increasingly larger social circle of friends and acquaintances to hang out with.
* IronicName: Her given name roughly means "wise child". Considering how often she makes bad decisions, it's safe to say "wise" isn't a good way to describe her.
* ItAmusedMe: Some of her antics aren't done to improve her popularity, but just to stave off boredom or amuse herself, which can include things like trolling her brother or hanging wishes laced with dirty jokes up for Tanabata. She also decides to become Shizuku's sempai largely because she hopes the younger girl will give her some kinky stories, though to Tomoko's credit, she does build up some sympathy for her over time.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She's a very self-centered person who doesn't have any particular empathy for anyone around her. Thankfully, Tomoko's been [[CharacterDevelopment growing out of it]], acknowledging that even more social people have problems of their own, and is willing to show genuine consideration for others every now and then.
* {{Jerkass}}: Downplayed. In the main series, she can come off as a condescending jackass who can occasionally show humility and self-esteem, although she most often keeps her negativity to herself. However, Tomoki and Komiyama tend to see and feel the more unpleasant side of Tomoko.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As maladjusted, unpleasant, and warped as she is, Tomoko does raise valid points every now and then.
** When Akari's friend, Sayaka, confronts her over the former's feelings for Tomoki and her eagerness to see his genitals, Tomoko is correct when she points out it's perverse and inappropriate to say such things in front of his older sister.
** She accuses Akari and Kotomi of being perverts. While her poor treatment of them is usually uncalled for, she's not wrong, and the latter in particular takes her attraction towards Tomoki to very creepy levels.
** Related to the above, by accusing Kotomi and Akari of only liking Tomoki for his dick, Tomoko implies that their feelings for him are shallow. Considering how taciturn Tomoki is, and how they have never held a real conversation with him, neither girl can claim to actually know him, meaning they really ''are'' only interested in him for his good looks.
** While it devolves into a nonsensical rant about how all baseball players are smokers and delinquents, Tomoko is correct when she notes that the baseball club gets preferential treatment in how it forces the whole student body to come cheer for its games when other clubs work just as hard for less recognition.
** In Universe. When Tomoko mocks Yoshida behind her back as the type to go way overboard during her coming of age debut, Yuri is about to admonish her only to realise she can indeed picture Yoshida that way too.
* JerkassRealization: In Chapter 97, she admits that she was a horribly judgmental person in her first year of high school, and lets go of a lot of the resentment she feels toward her more social peers.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Thanks to character development, Tomoko grows from her warped and selfish self, to a more thoughtful and pleasant individual. While she's still a pervert who sees the world through a cynical lens, she's willing to show consideration for both her friends and the occasional stranger.
* KickTheDog: Her treatment of her brother when he fell ill was pretty appalling. She tried to lower his temperature and poured hot porridge on his face out of spite, and otherwise annoyed him at every opportunity. [[LaserGuidedKarma This went on to bite Tomoko in the ass]] when she caught his disease at the beginning of a three-day weekend.
* LazyBum: When left to her own devices, Tomoko would rather just laze around her room, playing video games, watching anime, and surfing the web. When called out on her unwillingness to help around the house by her mother as opposed to her younger but more responsible brother, Tomoko's first instinct is to [[NeverMyFault blame Tomoki for making her look bad]].
* LittleBigSister: She's considerably shorter than her younger brother. Not very unusual given he's only a year younger, but it still highlights her immaturity.
* LonelyDollGirl: On occasion, Tomoko will use her plushies to act out her fantasies of a better social life, from envisioning what her time in a school club could be like, to...imagining how sex with Yuu would go.
* LonersAreFreaks: Her mindset, which she desperately wants to avoid.
* LonerTurnedFriend: After the Kyoto field trip, her previously almost non-existent social circle slowly starts to expand.
* LoserProtagonist: Though, she tries hard to not be this. She eventually does edge away from this through CharacterDevelopment, with all of her remaining quirks instead being mostly portrayed as a part of her unique identity that attracts others to her rather than a source of ostracization.
* LovableSexManiac: While Tomoko never gets to have much in the way of sex, her mind is nevertheless always in the gutter, and she gets a lot of enjoyment out of sexually harassing her female friends.
** As the series delves further, her friends sees her as this. They are all aware of her perverted side, but they make it clear they don't mind it and actually find it as a part of her charm.
* MagneticHero: As the series has continued, she has consistently shown to be able to attract the interest and attention of pretty much anyone who spends even a small amount of time with her. Even characters who initially display complete indifference to her become obsessed with learning more about her after witnessing her bizarre behavior firsthand.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: She acts as a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version for Yuri. While their relationship is purely platonic, she tends to encourage Yuri to try things she wouldn't do otherwise, like make Valentine's Day chocolate for her friends. She's even caused [[NotSoStoic the normally stoic girl to laugh]], which Mako has noted she's never seen Yuri do before.
* ManipulativeBastard: She tries. Dear lord, she tries.
* MeaningfulName: "Kuroki" can literally mean "black mood". It sums up her character pretty well.
* MessyHair: Her long hair is rarely combed.
* MirrorCharacter: For her brother, Tomoki, especially in later chapters. The initial assumptions both have after meeting the same person for the first time are often identical. Even more recently, Tomoko and Tomoki barely acknowledge that people have crushes on them, though Tomoko's case is more downplayed than her brother's: [[spoiler:while two girls have admitted to Tomoki's face they want to see his dick, Ucchi has been less direct in her crush on Tomoko, simply trying to find some excuse to be near Tomoko during some activity while she herself is thinking more about the activity itself, or the strange behavior of the other girls she knows]].
* MsFanservice: As the manga goes on, Tomoko has gradually gotten increasing numbers of genuine fanservice involving her, including occasionally being shown completely nude. She even has a ShowerScene in Chapter 178.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Kuroki Tomohiro Kuroki]].
* NerdsAreVirgins: Several storylines are about Tomoko's lack of experience and sexual frustration.
* NeverMyFault: Zigzagged. She often derides herself and finds faults with her social skills and appearance, but never dwells on it and immediately finds something else to blame for her social failings.
* NiceHat: As part of her casual wear, she'll frequently don a newsboy hat.
* NighttimeBathroomPhobia: In chapter 13, Tomoko reads too many spooky stories at night, so she bugs Tomoki into accompanying her to the bathroom when she's too nervous to walk there in the dark.
* NoSocialSkills: Pretty much the entire conflict of the plot is based around the fact that Tomoko's skills leave a lot to be desired. As she begins to socialize more, her complete lack of social awareness causes her to regularly put her foot in her mouth and unintentionally piss off others. Subverted over time, as she undergoes CharacterDevelopment; Tomoko turns out to be actually pretty socially perceptive and adept when not overcome by social anxiety, trying to become popular or invoking anime tropes.
* ObliviousToLove: Tomoko is completely unaware of Ucchi's growing fixation with her and is confused whenever Ucchi does something nice for her. Unfortunately for Ucchi, Tomoko has few opportunities to directly notice Ucchi's advances.
* OddFriendship: Is more or less the facilitator of an entire group of odd friends by the time she becomes a third year. Shown most prominently at the end of the suspension arc where she goes to eat with the group that had been waiting for her to get out: an introverted loner (Yuri), an outgoing [[NiceGirl nice girl]] (Mako), popular girls of varying degrees of normalcy (Nemo, Asuka, Akane and Ucchi) and a group of delinquents (Yoshida, Anna and Reina).
* OhCrapSmile: Pretty much every time Tomoko's latest plan blows up in her face and leaves her thoroughly humiliated in front of everyone, it's all but guaranteed this is the face she's going to put on. It's one of her most common expressions.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's 15 when the manga and anime begin, but she's so short, thin, and physically undeveloped that you'd be forgiven if you thought she was 10.
* OnlyHasSameSexAdmirers: No guys have taken any interest in Tomoko, but eventually Asuka develops a mutual infatuation, Ucchi becomes her StalkerWithACrush, and a few other girls have gotten ''at least'' a platonic desire for her attention.
* {{Otaku}}: Of Otome games. So much that she attempts to socialize in real life with tactics from the games.
* OtakuSurrogate: Downplayed; while she does have interests in anime and video games that male otaku in real life would have, she's also into things that are aimed specifically at girls, such as otome games. Unfortunately, her interests in all the perverted media aimed at otaku only make her more unapproachable and unable to function in social situations.
* PeekABangs: Although both of her eyes can occasionally be seen, her hair hides her right eye through much of the series.
* PersonAsVerb: In Chapter 39, she tries to stand out more in her class by performing a wacky introduction during the first day of second year. For her efforts, among her classmates, her name becomes a synonym for [[EpicFail doing something exceptionally poorly.]] Fortunately, it seems to have gone out of fashion by Chapter 42.
* PetTheDog: Originally Tomoko only agreed to start hanging out with Shizuku because she seemed like a slut who might have entertaining stories. Eventually however she decides to follow Imae's example and starts acting as more of a proper senpai despite getting no real benefit out of it.
* ThePigPen: Usually averted. Despite being a disheveled shut-in, Tomoko is shown regularly bathing herself and is confirmed to not smell. That said, some of her actions have caused her to unwittingly fall into prolonged periods of dirtiness.
** In chapter 6, after she spends so much time playing a dating sim out of a deluded belief that doing so will make her sexier that she forgets to bathe for several days. She ends up looking so greasy that her brother likens her to a bird caught in an oil slick.
** In chapter 11, she accidentally soaks herself in soda and attracts ants that spend the whole day crawling all over Tomoko without her knowing. Every person she runs into gets creeped out when they see the bugs on her.
** In chapter 56, Tomoko worries she might be a Pig-Pen and opts to combat it by drenching herself in perfume. This causes her to go from having no body odor to absolutely reeking.
* PlayboyBunny: Dresses as one in a fantasy sequence that's a ShoutOut to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. She somehow manages to make it look ugly and unappealing.
* PrettyInMink: Wears a faux mink stole during cold weather.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: She begins taking care of her appearance more as she gains a circle of friends and even gets some fanservice-y shots later on.
* TheQuietOne: She once went a month and a half without talking to anyone outside her family -- her streak was broken when she managed to tell her teacher "goodbye". In contrast, she tends to be ''very'' chatty in her [[InnerMonologue Inner Monologues]].
* SanityBall: Tomoko gets to enjoy being the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Girl]] whenever she interacts with Akari. The girl's crush on Tomoki, her easily flustered demeanor, and her terrible habit of misreading the situation all combine to turn her into a sobbing, stammering mess. This goes double whenever Kotomi gets involved, whose infatuation for Tomoki leads her to commit all sorts of craziness as well that leaves her in the same position. Either way, Tomoko is left equally bemused and annoyed by their antics.
* SelfServingMemory: Whenever Tomoko tries to guilt Tomoki into hanging out with her, she frequently brings up how [[BigBrotherWorship he used to look up to her when they were kids]]. She conveniently ignores the fact that the reason why Tomoki is currently so distant from her is because she started ''[[BigBrotherBully bullying him]]''.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Zigzagged. Whenever Tomoko or someone else tried to fix her appearance by dressing her up nicely or putting makeup on her, she would always end up looking ''even worse'' than before. However, once she gains a circle of friends, Tomoko starts putting more effort into her appearance, and she can be genuinely cute when she puts in the time.
** Played straight during her meet-up with Katou in Chapter 140; Tomoko's appearance was much nicer and more attractive than usual.
** One of the Christmas chapters has a subversion. Tomoko manages to indeed improve her appearance greatly for the class Christmas party. But she's so shy and quiet that nobody notices.
** As pointed out by Katou and Yuu, Tomoko can actually be very cute when she tries to groom herself more. When she dyes her hair silver, they point out how it looks good on her.
** Thanks to her CharacterDevelopment, this has become even more frequent with later chapters. Compared to her old outfits where she seemed to make a half-hearted attempt to groom herself, now Tomoko is actually putting effort into how she dresses, including fixing her hair, making sure her clothes match, and even wearing accessories and slight make-up.
** The cover of Volume 18 teases what a stylish Tomoko could look like, and many readers agree that the silver-haired, cardigan-wearing Tomoko is '''very''' cute.
** Some WhatIf omakes show Tomoko doing this in various ways, like styling herself as a [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]], tidying herself up, and adopting a more fashionable stance. She looks attractive in ''all'' of them.
** When visiting Yuu's school at Chapter 198, Tomoko ends up putting on the school uniform which looks great on her, especially when she decides to tie her hair into a ponytail.
** Exemplified best of all when Asuka decides to give Tomoko a makeover for a "landmine" look and actually does a decent job of it this time. With straight hair and her ExhaustedEyeBags hidden, everyone comments on how cute and innocent she looks.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: A platonic variant with Kotomi. When asked about her by characters other than Yuu, she denies that she's friends with Kotomi, and in chapter 112 even claims not to know her when asked by Yuri. [[spoiler:In chapter 133 Tomoko and Kotomi simultaneously claim that they aren't friends, leaving their classmates unconvinced; even Tomoko herself realizes that she's acting like a stereotypical tsundere.]]
* ShesAllGrownUp: [[http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/watashi_ga_motenai_no_wa_dou_kangaete_mo_omaera_ga_warui_anthology/bt/207725/Ch6/4/ A page in the anthology]] [[ThrowTheDogABone reveals that she could grow up to be quite pretty.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Combined with NoSocialSkills, this is the reason she can barely put together a full sentence with anyone she doesn't know. She improves after getting a circle of friends she regularly socializes with, but she still is prone to stuttering.
* SiblingYinYang: With Tomoki.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Komiyama, whom Tomoko dislikes because she feels that she has to compete with her over Yuu's attention, [[spoiler:as well as because Komiyama is romantically and sexually interested in Tomoki, causing Tomoko to be disgusted with her, and, as of chapter 47 of the main story, also because Komiyama admitted that she didn't like Tomoko back in middle school.]]
** During the third year this fades away to an extent likely due both to Tomoko's ongoing development and because Tomoko gains a new nemesis in Fuuka.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: As we see in Chapter 121, she gets her particular brand of CreepyShadowedUndereyes from her father. Later on, a WhatIf chapter featuring Tomoko with short hair shows that she's a near dead-ringer for her mother.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: Only by giving up her goal to become popular does Tomoko actually get better at socializing. By the end of her second year in particular, Tomoko has managed to get herself a small circle of friends, stutters over her words far less often, shows genuine consideration for other people's emotions, and helps people (like her kohai) for no tangible benefit to herself. [[spoiler:A "What If?" story shows that she wouldn't have been happy had she become popular, anyway; in the story, when Tomoko becomes part of the popular group, she gets hit on constantly by boys, and is shown to hate it.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: Overall Tomoko's second year in high school became a lot better and she was actually able to make sort of friends with people. Her third year became even better since now most of the friends she made in high school are all in her homeroom class and she has amassed quite a large social circle that she can hang out with.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Chapter 1: After 5 months trying to convince herself that she's popular, Tomoko literally sees herself at the mirror and admits the horrible truth:
--> ''Now that I look in the mirror after a few years, I see that I turned into some creepy entity!''
* TookALevelInKindness: Part of her character development. While she remains a cynical pervert, she's become a lot more pleasant and thoughtful.
* TransparentCloset: She's either unaware or in deep denial of her attraction to girls, but is very bad about hiding it, particularly when around Asuka. Yuri, Hina and Ucchi are well aware at how easily swayed Tomoko is toward her.
* {{Troll}}: She enjoys pranking, insulting, or otherwise getting under the skin of people she knows purely [[ForTheLulz for lulz]]. Tomoki and Kotomi are her favorite targets.
* TwiceShy: Tomoko has a blatant infatuation with Asuka, but her self-esteem is too low for her to accept Asuka's increasingly obvious hints that she feels the same--up to ''groping Tomoko's breasts'' during a walk on the beach.
* UnkemptBeauty: She never loses the ExhaustedEyeBags or disheveled hair, but that doesn't stop her from becoming ProgressivelyPrettier later on thanks to her gaining softer facial expressions and more flattering outfits.
* TheUnsmile: Pretty much every attempt she makes at smiling ends up coming off as looking more like a SlasherSmile. Combined with her CreepyShadowedUndereyes, the effect is... rather unsettling.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Her portrayal switches between this, CosmicPlaything and some combination of both depending on the chapter. She can be very pitiable, but at the same time rather self-centered, condescending (especially to her classmates, though this is restricted to her {{Inner Monologue}}s and never expressed outwardly) and, in Chapter 33, is shown to be a devotee of [[ComedicSociopathy schadenfreude]]. However, the more unsympathetic aspects do get downplayed or outright vanish later on thanks to CharacterDevelopment. In the spinoff, she's portrayed much more unsympathetically than in the main story.
* VisualPun: Her big [[GreenEyedMonster green eyes.]]
* WeirdnessMagnet: Tomoko seems to have developed a knack for attracting a lot of oddballs to her, or at least in making people develop their own idiosyncrasies. Yoshida is a [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]] but [[AmbiguousInnocence oddly innocent]] teen who's often mistaken for a delinquent, Ucchi has grown progressively more obsessive over Tomoko to the point of stalking her, Kii-chan has gone from a normal girl to a borderline CreepyChild, and both Kotomi and Akari have become incredibly perverse ([[ButtMonkey and unlucky]]) in pursuing their mutual crush on Tomoki. Lampshaded in Chapter 116, where Tomoki notes that all of his sister's friends appear to be a bunch of weirdos.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: She has this expression a lot.
* WrongGenreSavvy: One of the major factors behind her inability to adapt to society is the fact that she tends to "learn" social skills through anime and video games, and mistakes many character interactions therein (including those that are, from an objective viewpoint, downright outlandish) for actual practice, and tries to emulate them in real life, which more often than not only serves to further humiliate her.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The reason she despises Kotomi. Both are antisocial and their OnlyFriend is Yuu. Each one of them believes the other is below her.
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!!Tomoko's Family
[[folder:Tomoki Kuroki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese), Creator/DavidMatranga (English)
Tomoko's younger and more responsible brother. He is a fairly average and well-adjusted person for his age and treats his sister with the usual level of sibling-related intolerance. Despite this, he ''does'' care for his sister and tries to support her when she needs it.
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* AcademicAthlete: He's a considerably more motivated student than his sister is and is skilled enough at soccer to have an active spot on his school's team in his freshman year, along with the respect of his upperclassman teammates.
* TheAce: In comparison to Tomoko, at least. He's mature, reliable, athletic, has a large social circle, and multiple girls that are interested in him. During the sports festival, it's revealed that even the [[{{Bishonen}} attractive]] and [[BigManOnCampus popular]] third-year students on the soccer team respect Tomoki, despite him only being a first year.
* AccidentalPervert:
** In chapter 134, when he tries to prevent Masaki from attacking Kotomi [[spoiler:and ends up groping Masaki by accident, much to his own horror.]]
** He follows it up in chapter 168 by accidentally [[ShowerOfAwkward walking in on her showering.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played with. He does tend to get on Tomoko's nerves, though not so much due to obnoxiousness as due to the fact that he's guilty of such "crimes" as staying home sick while Tomoko has to go to school, having friends who care enough to visit him while he's sick, or cleaning his own room and making his lunch himself (much to their mother's praise - and unlike his sister, thus making her look bad in comparison). Also inverted, Tomoki definitely sees Tomoko as his annoying ''older'' sibling.
* BerserkButton: While he always braces himself whenever his sister approaches him, he gets particularly angry at her when she barges into his room unannounced, which she does frequently.
* BigLittleBrother: He's considerably taller and older-looking than his older sister. While it's not particularly strange, as they're only one year apart and both teenagers, it emphasizes how down-to-earth and mature he is in comparison to her.
* ChasteHero: While his sister is a raging pervert, Tomoki is completely unfazed by two girls telling him that they want to see his dick, [[CluelessChickMagnet to the point of failing to pick up that either is interested in him at all]]. Chapter 169 reveals that he owns no pornography whatsoever and that he reacts to [[AccidentalPervert accidentally walking in on a girl naked]] with annoyance rather than embarrassment or arousal. His chasteness is so notable that Akari's friend, Sayaka, suspects he may not be heterosexual at all, but ''soccer''sexual.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Both Kotomi and Akari pine for him, but he remains oblivious to their feelings even after they both blurt out in his presence that they would like to see his dick, and shows no interest in romance in general. In later chapters, he seems to catch on to Kotomi's crush on him (mostly as a result of Kotomi repeatedly embarrassing herself in his presence because of said crush), but at this point, he is too weirded out by her to reciprocate. Later, even [[spoiler:Sachi]] of all people falls for him [[LoveAtFirstSight after a single conversation]].
* CovertPervert: Subverted. Tomoko constantly accuses him of being [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Caught With His Pants Down]] whenever she enters his room, but he's always shown to simply be listening to music, reading a book or sleeping. Likewise, whenever Tomoko accuses him of [[BrotherSisterIncest being attracted to her]], he expresses disgust and confusion about why she would even suggest it. Later, when forced to sit down and have lunch with Kotomi and Akari by Tomoko, it's made pretty clear that he simply isn't interested in having a girlfriend.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Like both his parents and his sister, though his are much less pronounced.
* DeadpanSnarker: In response to Tomoko's antics.
* ExtremeDoormat: Zigzagged. He will only put up with his sister's shit for so long and liberally employs physical force to shut her up, but he tends to let just about everyone else walk all over him. Tomoki hardly puts up any resistance to the unwanted attention he gets from all the assorted girls who take a shine to him, particularly Masaki who has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace, and can't even find it in himself to refuse hospitality when Sayaka pretty much invites herself and Akari into his room for a study session without waiting for his input.
* FacePalmOfDoom: When ticked off, he simply grips his sister's head really hard.
* FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: In a home video their mom found in episode 7, he said like a little kid he wanted to marry Tomoko. He was notably disturbed when he saw this video (also because of how much more affectionate he was towards her).
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Responsible to Tomoko's Foolish. Despite being younger than her, Tomoki has a much better work ethic, helps around the house more willingly, and appears to get better grades than her while also playing soccer.
* GetOut: Practically his {{Catchphrase}}, as he says it whenever his sister enters his room without permission.
* GrumpyBear: Tomoki maintains a pretty sullen attitude even when he's not around his annoying sister.
* HiddenDepths: Generally comes off as a grouchy loner, though this is almost entirely because we nearly only ever get to see him when he's forced to put up with Tomoko's obnoxious antics. On the occasions where we get to see his life outside of his sister, he is shown to be a surprisingly popular guy with a large friend group, multiple female admirers and an active spot on his school's soccer team.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: ''Nothing'' about the female form interests this guy. When he and the rest of the soccer team run by Tomoko and Asuka, the guys comment on how gorgeous they think Asuka is, while Tomoki can only grouse about seeing a shrimp (his sister). When [[ItMakesSenseInContext Akari is stuck playing Twister all by herself in his room]], he only looks on boredly and wanting nothing to do with the game. Then there are his numerous AccidentalPervert moments with Masaki, which he only ever reacts to with annoyance.
* IHaveNoSon: Sibling variation. He exclusively refers to Tomoko as "that girl", even in his own thoughts. This is in stark contrast to when he was young, where he affectionately called her "nee-chan".
* JerkassToOne: Tends to physically rein in his sister if needed. That said, deep down he is a generally good-natured guy who is shown to be perfectly nice and friendly when dealing with people who aren't Tomoko.
* MatureYoungerSibling: Tomoki takes school seriously and does chores, unlike his older sister Tomoko, the socially dead otaku who would rather just play video games all day. [[BigLittleBrother He's even taller than her to symbolize that he's the more mature one]].
* TheOneGuy: Currently the only major male character. Justified due to Tomoko having problems working up the courage to talk to other girls, let alone guys. This is briefly lampshaded when, after realizing that she has begun interacting with other girls more frequently, Tomoko vows to try to talk to a guy, only to awkwardly barge into Tomoki's room, wave at him and then leave.
* OnlySaneMan: The only major character who is able to completely shut down Tomoko's antics before they escalate even further. It helps that [[WouldHitAGirl he's willing to get violent with her]]. He maintains this role even as the cast expands; responding to the increasingly bizarre antics of the people around his sister with the same exasperation he has when dealing with her.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: All evidence points to him having a perfectly normal and fulfilling school life, in contrast to his sister.
* OutOfFocus: As one of the few people Tomoko was comfortable talking to for the longest time, he used to be a very prominent character in the manga. Once Tomoko finally started forming some close bonds at school, Tomoki's appearances were reduced to the occasional [[ADayInTheLimelight day in the limelight]] chapter.
* PerpetualFrowner: He's always wearing a grumpy expression of some sort, at least when around his sister.
* PetTheDog: Sometimes he takes pity on Tomoko. Notably, he expresses relief during her second-year graduation that she has managed to make some friends by the end of the year. Of course, he also makes a point of noting [[WeirdnessMagnet how all of her new friends seem to be a bunch of weirdos]].
* ThePowerOfHate: Thinking about various occasions when Tomoko has pissed him off causes him to tap into an UnstoppableRage that has allowed him to become the star player of his soccer team. In comparison, thinking about the few occasions when the two of them have actually gotten along causes him to be thrown off his game and miss scoring the winning goal.
* TheQuietOne: Even when talking to people that he doesn't hate (as in, anyone other than Tomoko), he still rarely says more than a few words at a time.
* TheReliableOne: Viewed as this by his parents. While Tomoko's laziness and rude personality results in her frequently screwing up, their parents can always count on Tomoki to meet, or even occasionally exceed their expectations.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: One of his most frequent responses to his sister's wacky antics is staring at her for a few moments and then promptly walking away without even so much as asking what she's doing. He's even started doing this in regards to the girls in his own class getting on his nerves, opting to eat lunch by himself in a narrow alleyway that Tomoko once showed him just so he doesn't have to hear them.
* SiblingYinYang: With Tomoko.
* TheStoic: His only emotion is seemingly a perpetually-annoyed calm. Even when he isn't particularly agitated, his expressions remain dour and his speech remains curt.
* StraightMan: Serves as this whenever he shares a scene with his sister.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Invoked in chapter 106. Ucchi claims that his eyes and mouth are very similar to Tomoko's, which is how she is instantly able to tell that the two are siblings. Hina also comments on their similarity in chapter 134.
* TranquilFury: While he's frequently pissed off at his sister, he only explodes at her when she's being particularly obnoxious. Otherwise, he remains fairly stoic when dealing with her.
* UnkemptBeauty: Despite sharing his sister's CreepyShadowedUndereyes while also being a PerpetualFrowner, giving him a fairly disheveled and unfriendly appearance at all times, he is seen as attractive by girls. This may be because AllGirlsWantBadBoys.
* TheUnsmile: One of the very few times he ever smiles is to Akari's friend, Sayaka, once she encourages him to do his best after getting him stuck in the lead role of a play their class is putting on. It's obviously forced to a very painful degree, and Akari compares it to the way an animal would bare its teeth as an intimidation tactic.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: While he's suggested to be a decent guy when not around his sister at his present age, old home videos of him as a kid show that he used to be ''much'' more chipper.
* VitriolicBestBuds: What few glimpses we catch of him with his friends imply this. While they're a lot more boisterous than he is, Tomoki's not above throwing the occasional good-natured insult at them.
* WouldHitAGirl: He's not above lashing out when Tomoko's getting on his nerves (giving her a kick, grabbing her face, etc.). He invoked [[WouldntHitAGirl the other trope]] one time Tomoko was annoying him. Then when her antics went too far, he had no choice but to strike her into calming down.
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[[folder:The Kuroki Parents]]
->'''Mrs. Kuroki voiced by:''' Creator/RisaHayamizu (Japanese), Creator/ShelleyCaleneBlack (English)
->'''Mr. Kuroki voiced by:''' RyÅ Iwasaki (Japanese), Creator/DavidWald (English)
Tomoko's and Tomoki's parents.
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* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Like both of her children, Mrs. Kuroki sports a pair of these. Though unlike theirs, hers are substantially less visible. Also, judging from [[https://www.reddit.com/r/watamote/comments/61m6y4/volume_11_bonus_postcard_young_watamom_and_her/ a bonus drawing by Nico Tanigawa]], she got her eye bags at a later age than her kids did. Mr. Kuroki is also revealed to have these in the single panel where we get to see one of his eyes reflected in a rearview mirror.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Well, "limelight" isn't exactly right, but the chapter "Because I'm Not Popular, I'll Spend Time With My Dad" marks the first time Mr. Kuroki has ever had a significant amount of screen time and focuses on Tomoko going on a fishing trip with him.
* TheFaceless: During the few occasions where he actually appears, Mr. Kuroki's face is never completely shown. We've been shown, at various different points, his hair, mouth, and eyes, though, so we have a decent idea of what he looks like.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mrs. Kuroki has no idea that Tomoko is a loner with no friends [[spoiler:until chapter 90, when Ogino mentions this during their parent-teacher conference]]. In fact, Tomoko actively tried to hide this from her mother, e.g. by lying to her about having fun with her classmates in one of the Christmas specials. Mr. Kuroki has it even worse, getting almost all of his information about his children secondhand from his wife.
* NoNameGiven: The only reason we even know their last name is because we know their children's. They're exclusively called "mom" and "dad" in-universe.
* ParentalFavoritism: Played with. Mrs. Kuroki loves both Tomoko and Tomoki equally but is often exasperated at her daughter for being lazy and irresponsible. This causes Tomoko to become slightly resentful whenever her mom praises Tomoki for his maturity and self-reliance.
* {{Salaryman}}: Judging from his usual clothing of a suit and the fact that he's almost never around the house due to being too busy working, Mr. Kuroki is one of these.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Mrs. Kuroki was shown to resemble a tidier-looking Tomoko when she was younger, and, from what we've seen of his face, Mr. Kuroki resembles an older Tomoki.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** After Tomoko complains about having to help with housework, Mrs. Kuroki calls her out on the fact that Tomoki not only helps out without complaint, but he does so on top of also having Club Activities and studying for his High School Entrance Exam.
** When Tomoko forgets to mail Tomoki's application to the entrance exams for a school in Saitama, the furious mother subjects her daughter to a very harsh lecture about how she ruined her brother's future.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Mr. Kuroki's appearances can be counted on one hand and are extremely brief. At all other times, it can be easy to forget that Tomoko even has a dad.
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[[folder:Kiko "Kii-chan" Satozaki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieKugimiya (Japanese), Creator/JulietSimmons (English)
Tomoko and Tomoki's thirteen-year-old cousin and a seventh-grade schoolgirl. Having been fed a steady stream of face-saving lies by Tomoko, she idolizes her older cousin.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Ever since she lost Kii's respect, Tomoko has come to see her cousin as this and always dreads their meetings.
* AudienceSurrogate: Her reaction to Tomoko's card game.
* BrokenPedestal: How she sees Tomoko after all her attempts to look cool backfires spectacularly on her. Unlike other examples though, she takes the revelation well, and the next time they meet her admiration is replaced not with utter disdain, but with pity and appreciation that at least she tried her best.
* CreepyChild: When she gets in a bad mood, Kii becomes very...unsettling. It's bad enough that Tomoko regards her as TheDreaded and she's always painted in a sinister light in Tomoko's dreams. [[spoiler:To say nothing of the nightmare she had where Kii-chan implicitly [[BlackComedyRape raped her with an eggplant.]] As Tomoko woke up from that nightmare it turned out that Kii was actually in her room, watching her sleep.]]
* DeathGlare: Pulled one mixed with a ThousandYardStare when she was angry with Tomoko, also...
-->''"No! Just take it."''
** This has become a regular expression for her when she is angry, with an added {{Stepford Smile|r}}.
* IncestSubtext: When asked about what kind of boy she likes, Kii-chan responds with "like Onee-chan!", specifying that as someone who makes her heart skip a beat, "like [Tomoko]". Tomoko is understandably unnerved by this.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She means well when she tries to take care of Tomoko after finding out the truth about her, but so far her actions just drive it home to Tomoko how pathetic she has gotten.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoya_Satozaki Tomoya Satozaki]].
* NiceGirl: An unusual role for a Type-A {{Tsundere}} specialist like Creator/RieKugimiya. She's so nice she doesn't harbor any grudge against Tomoko for unwittingly breaking her good impression of her.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until chapter 60, where it's revealed that her given name is Kiko. Her full name is revealed in chapter 141.
* PerpetualSmiler: Is almost never seen without a smile, especially when around Tomoko.
* ReplacementGoldfish: In chapter 60 Tomoko speculates that Kii tries to take care of her because she treats her as a replacement for her deceased dog. [[spoiler: At the end of that chapter Kii even gives Tomoko that dog's hairpin (the one she is always wearing).]]
* SlasherSmile: A lot of her smiles look decidedly empty and sinister, particularly when combined with WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Her response to a rather sad story Tomoko tells her is more verbal than actually emotional.
-->'''Kii''': [''while smiling brightly''] You're so kind, Onee-chan. I'm tearing up. \\
'''Tomoko''': [''thinking''] Like hell you are!
* TokenMiniMoe: She has a very cutesy design that stands out from the rest of the cast. It makes sense while she's 12 years old, but it becomes even more notable when she retains it even as she approaches her mid-teens.
* UnwantedAssistance: She wants to help Tomoko become a better person, but Tomoko, who knows she's driven by pity and finds Kii's efforts demeaning, wants nothing to do with it.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Whenever she gets unpleasantly surprised, aggravated, disapproving, or devious, her eyes take on this look, which never fails to unnerve Tomoko. This is practically her default look in Tomoko's mind since Kii always has these eyes whenever Tomoko thinks or dreams about her.
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!!Tomoko's Middle School Friends
[[folder:Yuu Naruse]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Creator/EmilyNeves (English)
Tomoko's best friend from middle school, who managed the transition to adolescence far more gracefully than Tomoko. She was originally very quiet and nerdy; however, after moving to high school she dyed her hair, improved her fashion sense and personal appearance, became more outgoing and eventually got a steady boyfriend. Despite changing so much, she remains a kind friend to Tomoko, though she remains blissfully oblivious to how different their social lives are and is unaware of the more unpleasant aspects of Tomoko's personality.
She is the protagonist of the spin-off manga ''It's Your Fault My Friend's Not Popular'', which details her middle school life with Tomoko from her perspective.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In the final episode of the anime, she starts to chase after a distraught Tomoko out of concern for her but ends up being distracted by a cat.
* BeautifulAllAlong: An interesting case where she's introduced after having this already happen to her. Back in middle school she wore thick glasses and unflattering clothing but was still beautiful underneath them.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: After embarrassingly winning a bet in the Christmas special of 2016, Yuu makes Tomoko and Komiyama sing Christmas carols together for an hour. She then makes use of ExactWords by saying they'll have to do the same thing next Christmas.]]
* BookDumb: Yuu is very socially aware and has a knack for treating people how they want to be treated, but her grades aren't very good. Yuu even recognizes that Tomoko wanting to get into Aoyama University means that Yuu probably won't be able to follow her because of the disparity between their grades. Yuu comes to the conclusion that she should back off from Tomoko so that Tomoko has a better chance of getting into the university.
* BrainlessBeauty: Despite her beauty and kindness, she's oblivious to Tomoko's unsavory nature and has below-average grades. In the second Christmas special Tomoko opines that even using Twitter or keeping a blog would be too complicated for Yuu to handle. She also remains oblivious to the animosity between Tomoko and Kotomi [[spoiler:until chapter 54 of the main story. In chapter 124 she also does not pick up on Yuri's jealousy of her friendship with Tomoko, and is just happy that Tomoko's new friends like her so much]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Probably one of the rare occasions where OutOfFocus actually helped. As the third year rolls on and she learns of Tomoko's desire to get into the more academically prestigious Aoyama University and Tomoko's now large group of friends, Yuu starts to show insecurity at the possibility of being left behind by Tomoko while not wanting her lack of intelligence to drag her friend down and stop her from achieving her dream.
* ClosetGeek: She's currently this, due to her popularity having soared at her high school after she cleaned up her appearance. At one point she says that she's happy that she can still hang out with Tomoko since she doesn't have anyone else to talk to about anime-related things.
* CoolPet: In chapter 64, while catching bugs with Tomoko and Kotomi, she manages to catch a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynastinae rhinoceros beetle]]. Tomoko and Kotomi comment on its coolness and rarity, and Tomoko convinces Yuu to keep it as a pet.
* CluelessChickMagnet: She's completely unaware of the effect she had on Tomoko and Kotomi in middle school, and even in high school, she still hasn't caught on to Tomoko's blatantly obvious lust for her.
* CovertPervert: One thing she ''isn't'' oblivious about is innuendo.
* DecoyProtagonist: In the spin-off, she is set up as the protagonist at first, but the narrative focus eventually moves from her to Tomoko and Komiyama, and the story is mostly about the two's "[[SitcomArchNemesis friendship]]."
* DudeMagnet: She draws guys to her without even trying, much to Tomoko's eternal chagrin.
* DumbBlonde: Her hair is dyed, but otherwise applies.
* DumbIsGood: She's the ditziest of the three middle school friends, but also by far the sweetest.
* EroticDream: [[spoiler: Implied in chapter 7 of the spin-off. Tomoko and Kotomi are pretty delighted by it.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Tomoko and Kotomi both have pretty obvious crushes on her in middle school and separate high schools have done little to ebb their lust.
* {{Foil}}: To Tomoko, also to Kotomi. She had been, initially, shy like her two friends but was able to overcome it and build a social life, unlike Tomoko. In middle school, she already had a hidden natural beauty that drew attention. Most importantly, she has shown negative feelings towards other people the least, unlike her friends.
* FriendToBugs: Played with. She doesn't particularly deal well with insects, but when she goes bug-catching with her friends, she insists on letting the critters go when Tomoko wanted to watch them eat each other. She also keeps a rhinoceros beetle she catches as a pet.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: After taking her glasses off, her popularity soared.
* GoodBadGirl: Mostly implied, but she's suggested to have attended [[WildTeenParty Wild Teen Parties]] before and may have already lost her virginity, both things that the much sleazier Tomoko could only dream of doing.
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, in chapter 57! She deals with it in a completely different way than Tomoko, though.]]
* HeadTurningBeauty: ''Everyone'' who sees her is astounded by her looks, she has no problem drawing attention from guys, and even girls like Tomoko and Kotomi express attraction to her.
* TheHeart: She is pretty much the only reason Tomoko and Kotomi even talk to each other, and also the only reason they are willing to be civil when they do talk. [[spoiler: In chapter 54 she takes an active role to the trope.]]
* HiddenDepths: It's implied that while she may not be as [[BookDumb academically smart]] as the rest of the cast, she's much sharper than she lets on. Yuu's fully aware that her two best friends don't like each other but is able to get them to at least tolerate one another by steering them to an arcade, where they can hone their rivalry into playing fun games together. One Christmas special shows she does indeed have her own devilish side that can embarrass them ForTheLulz.
* ImportantHaircut: In Chapter 100, Yuu cuts her hair to shoulder length, due in part to [[spoiler: breaking up with her boyfriend.]]
* InformedAttractiveness: Everyone who sees Yuu always makes a note on how cute and attractive she is. While the manga has plenty of attractive and fashionable girls, she stands out as the only one who is consistently given this treatment.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Her casual remarks indicating that she has a much more fulfilling social life than Tomoko can hope for, including having a boyfriend, cause Tomoko a lot of distress.
** Komiyama was also hit with this, in chapter 6 of the spin-off.
** During Tomoko's, Yuu's and Kotomi's Christmas party in the 2016 Christmas special Tomoko come up with the idea for the trio to buy one another funny gifts that would be completely useless to the recipient rather than ordinary Christmas gifts. In response, Yuu [[spoiler:buys Tomoko a pack of condoms. Yuu claims to have thought about it simply as a funny gift, and is embarrassed when Tomoko points out what such a gift implies about [[NerdsAreVirgins what Yuu thinks of Tomoko]].]]
** In chapter 124 Yuu says that she would love to meet Kotomi's friends, and claims that they have to be kind if they are friends with her; Kotomi notes in her InnerMonologue that the way Yuu phrased that is a bit hurtful for her.
* MoralityPet: She was the only person for whom Tomoko displayed any kind of empathy for in the early parts of the manga.
* MsFanservice: Or at least this is how Tomoko sees her. While her clothing is occasionally somewhat risque, she herself is quite modest and buttoned-down.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihisa_Naruse Yoshihisa Naruse]].
* NiceGirl: Overall, a pretty nice and sweet (if somewhat airheaded) person.
* ObliviousToLove: Doesn't notice Tomoko's crush on her.
* OnlyFriend: To Tomoko (who even admits this in one of her {{Inner Monologue}}s in chapter 29) in the early chapters, and also to Kotomi in the prequel. Not so much in later chapters, as Tomoko makes a few more friends, while Kotomi befriends a girl named Itou and has a somewhat OddFriendship with her romantic rival Akari. Even then, Yuu seems to remain the closest friend to Tomoko and Kotomi.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: In anime flashbacks, though her eyes are visible in both manga.
* {{Otaku}}: She was this during middle school. Now that she's in high school and has a better social life, she's more of a ClosetOtaku around everyone except Tomoko and Kotomi, whom she feels she can be more open about otaku-related things with.
* OutOfFocus: Yuu has had fewer appearances in the story since Tomoko managed to get some semblance of social life at her school.
* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: Used to clue the reader in to the frequent discomfort or awkwardness beneath her perpetual smile.
* ShesAllGrownUp: She was a mousy, nerdy and shy girl in middle school who became a trendy, beautiful and outgoing girl in high school.
* TheSocialExpert: She may be an academic dunce, but Yuu is very good at reading people and understanding why they act as they do without needing to hear them explain themselves. She functionally teaches Tomoko and Kotomi to tolerate each other better by steering them towards activities that would allow them to channel their rivalry in less hostile ways, and defuses tensions between Tomoko and Asuka that would otherwise have risen due to their TwiceShy relationship.
* StepfordSmiler: Has a tendency to put up a cheerful front, even when she's going through bouts of depression, often from the trouble she has with her boyfriend.
* StupidGood: Her niceness can be very high when it comes to her friends. For example, when they were in the pool:
--> '''Tomoko:''' ''"If I peed in here, would you pull away from me?"''\\
'''Yuu:''' ''"I wouldn't. Because we're friends."''
* ThousandYardStare: A minor running gag whenever she becomes [[BookDumb overwhelmed by academia]], displaying a vacant look on her face complete with an empty smile that displays no happiness whatsoever. Tomoko thinks she looks like a rape victim this way.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Tomoko and Kotomi are both rather self-absorbed and prone to seeking out flaws in people, while Yuu is sweet and rarely criticizes others.
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[[folder:Kotomi Komiyama]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaoriMizuhashi
One of Yuu's old middle school friends. She immediately takes a dislike to Tomoko, who sees Kotomi as a rival for Yuu's attention. Unfortunately, Kotomi proves to be just as passive-aggressive and anti-social as Tomoko.
Kotomi is formally introduced in the spin-off manga ''It's Your Fault My Friend's Not Popular'', and later on she is re-introduced in the main series. Kotomi does not appear in the anime as it only adapts stories from before her first appearance. However, she appears in a special {{OVA}}, bundled with the Japanese release of the main series's seventh volume.
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* ACupAngst: Just like Tomoko.
* AlliterativeName: Both her first and last name begin with "K".
* AscendedExtra: She first appeared in Tomoko's flashback to her middle school years in Chapter 30 of the main series as the third, unnamed girl running the marathon with Tomoko and Yuu; she's only seen in three frames and has no speaking lines. In the spin-off series, starting with Chapter 2, she is one of the main characters. She then makes her formal debut in the main manga in Chapter 46.
* BerserkButton:
** Badmouthing her crush Tomoki, as Tomoko found out in chapter 54.
** ''Any'' girl getting close to Tomoki is enough to invoke her hostility.
* {{Bookworm}}: Always shown reading a book during her job as the school librarian.
* ButtMonkey: Not only is her crush on Tomoki unrequited, as he barely knows she even exists, but the plots revolving around said crush tend to end with her in some embarrassing situation or otherwise miserable.
* TheCameo: She makes a short appearance in the OVA that's about a minute long, which constitutes the only time she's ever been animated (and voiced).
* CovertPervert: Revealed to be one in Chapter 7 of the spin-off, though she is in denial about it. Also, in chapter 91 of the main series she blurts out that she is interested in Tomoki's dick... in Tomoki's presence, no less. As of chapter 101, she seems to have accepted that this is a part of her personality.
* CrossPoppingVeins: When Tomoko pisses her off. Which is often.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: During periods of extensive relaxation, she has a habit of mumbling some of her inner thoughts out loud. Normally, this isn't a problem as it usually happens in private, but she also does it while studying with her friends over Skype, which leads to much awkwardness. Particularly when her inner thoughts are about Tomoki.
* DontYouDarePityMe: If there's one thing Kotomi hates more than Tomoko being a {{Jerkass}} to her, it's the rare times when Tomoko actually expresses pity for her.
* {{Flanderization}}: Kotomi in Tomomote and the first few chapters after her Watamote debut was a shy and awkward girl with an interest in baseball and the Chiba Lotte Marines and a crush on Tomoki. As Watamote progressed, however, Kotomi's interest in the Marines became an obsession, to the point where Ogino had to stop her introduction at the start of the third year because she wouldn't shut up about it, and she took charge of the softball team during the sports meet. Kotomi's crush on Tomoki, originally innocent, became more creepy and perverted over time, and eventually reached the point where she was open about wanting to see his dick, stalked him at sports events to take photos, and even blurted out that she wanted to lick his eye bags.
* {{Foil}}: To Tomoko. She's basically her but more proper looking and with more common sense.
* ForgettableCharacter: Tomoko completely forgot that she existed as soon as she graduated from middle school. To be fair to Kotomi, this may have more to do with Tomoko not liking her enough to bother remembering her than it does with her flat out being a forgettable person.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: A comedic example. She and Tomoko had a friendship that was tenuous at best in middle school and immediately split apart as soon as [[TheHeart Yuu]] was taken out of the picture. By the time they reunite in high school, their relationship is entirely hostile and only becomes slightly more civil on the occasions where they both hang out with Yuu at the same time.
* FriendlyRivalry: With Akari. They both pine for Tomoki, and in an omake set after events of chapter 91 Akari even declares herself to be Kotomi's rival. However, so far there seems to be little animosity between the two, and Kotomi actually seems to care about Akari's well-being a bit. Kotomi encourages Akari to be honest about her feelings for Tomoki in chapter 101, and later, in chapter 108, she hesitates whether to tell Akari that Tomoki greeted her, because she didn't want to rub it in Akari's face. Akari, in turn, wanted to badmouth Kotomi when asked about her by Tomoki but backed off when she realized that Kotomi's feelings for Tomoki are the same as her own. In chapters 112 and 113 Akari is even shown helping Kotomi prepare the Valentine's Day chocolates for Tomoki and it turns out it was Akari who convinced Kotomi to give the Valentine's Day chocolates to Tomoki.
* GameOfNerds: She's a massive baseball enthusiast who follows the Chiba Lotte Marines with almost religious zeal. Of note is that she knows the make, model, and plate number of every player's car on the team. Chapter 117 reveals that she was once a member of the baseball cheer squad.
* GreenEyedMonster: She does not take kindly to other girls showing romantic interest with Tomoki, or interacting with him in any way, [[UpToEleven or even talking about him]]. [[spoiler:Even finding out about the existence of Kii in chapter 141 triggers her jealousy.]]
* IAmWhatIAm: While Tomoko's accusations on her fixation with Tomoki's genitals used to be a source of angst, Kotomi has made peace with that perverse side of her and freely admits that she would in fact love to see his dick. As of chapter 101, Tomoko's accusations no longer bother her.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: In a clothes store she hinted an interest in cosplaying. In chapter 79 she looks like the protagonist of a Final Fantasy game.
* InSeriesNickname: "Komi-something". Also: "Glasses". Both given by Tomoko.
** Her friend, Itou, refers to her as "Koto."
* KickTheDog: Calling Shizuku a pig to her face. In the past, if Kotomi wasn't able to bottle up her hostile feelings towards anyone she perceived as a rival for Tomoki's affections, then she was at least able to catch herself and make an effort to retain some civility, but this was the first time she was very open and unapologetic about it.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Tends to lose her common sense and act irrationally whenever the plot involves her crush Tomoki in some way.
* MyParentsAreDead: [[spoiler:Has revealed that her father died from an illness when she was five. Yuu gets awkward, Tomoko... not much.]]
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Fittingly, she shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoru_Komiyama Satoru Komiyama]].
* NerdGlasses: As a {{Bookworm}} she's among the more nerdy members of the cast, which she wears glasses to emphasize.
* NotHelpingYourCase:
** Like Tomoko, she insists that they are by absolutely no means friends. But when she gets into an angry confrontation with Masaki over the latter's apparent closeness to Tomoki, she tries to play it off as just BigSisterInstinct for her "best friend's" little brother, which only reinforces everyone's beliefs that they are friends.
** Furthermore, the above incident happens while Kotomi is trying to apologize to Masaki for lashing out at her. She does this in the hope of not looking like a terrible person in front of Tomoki while also downplaying her jealousy...only to immediately lose her temper ''again'' once Masaki starts getting friendly with Tomoki once more.
* OnlySaneWoman: Has more common sense than her two friends, at least in matters not related to her crush Tomoki or potential romantic rivals.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Sometimes she is presented like this depending on the situation. Her glasses are a little variant of this trope because they are not so big.
* {{Otaku}}: She shares the same interests in anime that Tomoko does, but to nowhere near the same extent. It's the subject of baseball where her obsessions really skyrocket into otaku territory, especially when it comes to the Chiba Lotte Marines.
* OutOfFocus: Not to the same extent as Yuu, but her screentime has been reduced considerably since the cast has grown in size.
* PrecisionFStrike:
-->''"Shithead."''
--> ''[[InnerMonologue "That fucking bitch!"]]''
* RightInFrontOfMe: In Chapter 2 of the spin-off she tried to break the ice with Tomoko by telling her a story about having a laugh in the previous year when she heard that some middle schooler was still riding a bike with training wheels. Guess who that middle schooler was?
* SheCleansUpNicely: While she may seem plain and mousy at school, Kotomi is shown to have a keen fashion sense that gives her a more showy appearance. Most notably, she managed to turn a bathing suit that Tomoko suggested to her as a joke into something very stylish at the beach, and dialogue implies she even got some boys' attention with it.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Tomoko. She dislikes Tomoko because the latter tends to act like a {{Jerkass}} towards her for [[GreenEyedMonster reasons she can't fathom]], and only ever strikes back at her when provoked. This is eventually downplayed massively in third year as Tomoko doesn't have as much reason to be jealous of her with her own expanded friend group and the two are now able to much better tolerate each other as a result.
* StalkerWithACrush: Acts like this towards Tomoki in some chapters, though this is PlayedForLaughs. In chapter 88 she is shown taking photos of him during the athletics meet, getting turned on when he is made to wear baseball uniform and hoping he would be wearing the kind of uniform where the understocking is showing. In the very next chapter, when let into Tomoki's room by Tomoko, she considers looking through his drawers or his trash before deciding to lie in his bed instead.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Even though they mutually dislike one another, she and Tomoko are frequently on the same wavelength, coming to the same conclusions independently, and even acting as they can communicate without even speaking.
* TheStrategist: Appoints herself as the strategist of her softball team during the sports tournament in her third year of high school. It seems not to be very successful, as Minami doesn't even understand her directions, and other girls are weirded out by her.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In spite of their mutual dislike, she and Tomoko are at least willing to cooperate to keep Yuu happy.
* UnknownRival: When they reunite in Chapter 46 of the main story, Tomoko has forgotten about Kotomi. On the other hand, Kotomi bears a grudge against Tomoko. (The next chapter reveals that they didn't spend all of their middle school years in the same class.) Now both are aware of the other's dislike.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Tomoko on their ''best'' of days, particularly past Chapter 57. On their worst, it's a SitcomArchNemesis relationship. Even their classmates, Yuu [[spoiler:and Kii]] seem to think they've got this kind of relationship going with how in-sync they act despite their affirmations to the contrary.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: When she is surprised and/or angry.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Yuu is the only link that makes her and Tomoko tolerate each other.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The reason she despises Tomoko. Both are antisocial and their OnlyFriend is Yuu. Each one of them believes the other is below her.
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!!The Kyoto Group
[[folder:Masaki Yoshida]]
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A girl with blonde hair and a bad temper that Tomoko has a habit of pissing off.
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* AsleepInClass: If she's attending class, chances are good she's sleeping at her desk.
* BerserkButton: When first introduced she has two: 1) perverted acts in general, especially being groped, and 2) being called a delinquent. [[NoSocialSkills Tomoko]] being [[AccidentalPervert Tomoko]], she manages to repeatedly push both these buttons, and it seems she is becoming yet another BerserkButton for Yoshida. During the trip to Disneyland, it is also shown that she hates it when people criticize cute things that she likes [[spoiler:which causes her to start a fight with one of her yankii friends.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early chapters portrayed her as being an ordinary girl with a FaceOfAThug who Tomoko was exceptionally good at pissing off. Later chapters show that she genuinely ''is'' a delinquent with a HairTriggerTemper, but also portray her as being a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold.
* DelinquentHair: She's a bleached blonde.
* FaceOfAThug: Certainly ''looks'' like a standard delinquent girl, but is heavily suggested to simply be an ordinary girl who is into punk fashion that Tomoko just ''assumes'' is a delinquent.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Turns out she and Tomoko (and Kotomi for that matter) actually first met while they were still middle school students. Tomoko tried to demonstrate to Yuu how to safely walk past a delinquent without incurring their wrath, only to accidentally kick Masaki's bottle of soda away and incur her wrath anyway. By all appearances, no one seems to recall the incident or who was involved.
* GenderBlenderName: Unlike the names of the other girls, "Masaki" is a unisex name in Japan which fits for a tomboy like her.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She seems to have an affinity for cute things in general.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Tomoko mentions that she wears Hello Kitty-print panties. A later chapter suggests that ''all'' of her underwear features cute mascot characters on them, to the point where Tomoko claims that the fact that she wears them is an OpenSecret.
* HairTriggerTemper: She is always quick to threaten or even hit Tomoko, sometimes with little provocation. On the other hand, she doesn't act like this when interacting with other characters, so maybe it's just that Tomoko is really good at hitting her {{Berserk Button}}s. Notably, in chapter 106 she does not lash out at Anna who called her a moron to her face. Later chapters, especially those covering the trip to Disneyland during her third year of high school, show that she can be quite friendly when in a good mood [[spoiler: though these chapters also show that even her yankii friends aren't safe from her wrath]].
* HiddenDepths: Despite what Tomoko thinks of her, she is shown to like cute things, couldn't recognize a love hotel when every other character could and apparently plans to celebrate her [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_Day Coming of Age Day]] in Disneyland. She also notices that Hina and Akane have a falling out in chapter 129, and tries to bond with Akane over the problems they both have with their friends [[spoiler:though she quickly changes her mind and attacks Akane when the latter pushes one of her {{Berserk Button}}s.]]
** There are enough hints that Masaki is actually much more well-off than her being a ''yankii'' implies. The brand of pudding she bought as a gift is somewhat pricy in the real world, she's shown to have both a scooter and managed to rent a van for her friends, but not even once mentions working part-time to fund them. Finally, when we're introduced to her mother, she doesn't look like a housewife at all (unlike Tomoko's mom), and instead looks like a longtime career woman.
* HotBlooded: The angry type. She also gets extremely fired up when she's excited about something, such as when talking about how cool Disneyland is.
* HugeSchoolGirl: Standing at 165 cm, the only non-adult taller than her is Asuka. As such she's the tallest among Tomoko's original circle of acquaintances.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Invoked in-universe, as several characters are convinced Yoshida is a delinquent, not helped by her bleached hair and [[HairTriggerTemper volatile personality]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While she's generally angry and annoyed, this is mostly because she is justifiably pissed off at Tomoko for saying or doing something insensitive to her. Otherwise, she is shown to be a relatively pleasant person who seems to actually like Tomoko to some degree.
* LastNameBasis: Mostly because Tomoko hasn't bothered to learn her first name. It isn't until she introduces herself to her third-year class several chapters after her debut that we learn her full name.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Her intimidating appearance and short temper cause others to overlook her softer side. In a sort of twist on this trope, Tomoko ''also'' completely overlooks her softer side when interacting with her, but interacts with her much more openly than others do, allowing Yuri (and the reader) to see that there's more to her than her tough looks.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuta_Yoshida Yuta Yoshida]].
* NeverMyFault: She's completely unapologetic about her outbursts. If Masaki's violent anger causes any problems, it's the fault of whoever provoked her, not Masaki for losing her temper.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: She gives Tomoko a ride home on her friend's scooter for no reason other than to be a chum. Doing so gets them both suspended for a week.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Beating up Tomoko for calling her a delinquent only further convinces Tomoko that Yoshida is a delinquent.
* OddFriendship: She and Tomoko couldn't be any more different, and going off of most of their interactions, you'd think they'd hate each other's guts. As later chapters show, however, Yoshida has no problem letting Tomoko hang around with her, despite Tomoko pressing her buttons sometimes.
** It's telling that that nowadays Tomoko simply ''can't'' imagine Yoshida not being around with her and Yuri. Ironically, Masaki seems to be the only person among her friends that she has absolutely no issue with introducing to the rest of her family.
** Yoshida seems to have become good friends with [[NiceGirl Mako]] during the Disneyland field trip, to the point where Mako is helping her with her future career choices and texting her during Yoshida's suspension.
** She takes a surprising shine to Tomoki as they continue bumping into each other, and responds to his AccidentalPervert moments much less violently than she does with Tomoko's.
* PerpetualFrowner: There's seldom a moment when she isn't scowling, which only fuels how intimidated Tomoko is by her.
* PervertRevengeMode: Her preferred response to Tomoko's antics.
* PetTheDog: She does occasionally do nice things for Tomoko, like offer to share an umbrella as they walk home on a rainy day. It's just that Tomoko always runs her mouth off at the wrong time and gets punched in the face. In chapter 116 she actually drags Tomoko over to Megumi, who was graduating, so that Tomoko, who was too nervous to approach, could say good-bye.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: A tough-talking and thuggish girl who likes all things cute and is generally pretty naive and innocent.
* {{Tsundere}}: A platonic example. She's almost always (justifiably) pissed off at Tomoko but still seems to like and care about her. She displays a similar attitude toward Tomoki, being casual and friendly to him one moment before switching to angry when he has an AccidentalPervert moment, though it's ambiguous if that's just as platonic.
* VitriolicBestBuds: The vast majority of her interactions with Tomoko consist of Tomoko saying or doing something insensitive or perverted to her and Yoshida responding with anger and violence. To onlookers, Yoshida appears to be bullying her. Gradually turns into grudging tolerance, especially after their trip to Disneyland, to the point that Masaki herself ''proactively'' invites Tomoko to hang out after school.
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[[folder:Yuri Tamura]]
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A fairly stoic girl from Tomoko's class who ends up in her group for their class trip after a falling out with her friend.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Post-CharacterizationMarchesOn, Yuri displays many symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: [[NoSocialSkills Little to no social ability and awareness]], [[BrutalHonesty speaks bluntly and straightforwardly]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive without a thought for how others will react]], [[TheStoic poor emotional display]], [[TheKlutz is clumsy and uncoordinated]], [[HairTriggerTemper has issues controlling her temper]] and occasionally focuses on some oddly childish interests.
* AudienceSurrogate: She's more or less taken up the role of the audience's representative within the story in recent chapters. She's a bit of a loner herself, but not nearly to the same degree as Tomoko, and while she is constantly bewildered by the other girl's behavior, she is also both amused enough by it to develop a fondness for her and empathetic enough to it to develop a sense of kinship with her.
* BerserkButton: While Yuri is not fond of Minami, to say the least, most of the time she is able to stay calm even in Minami's presence. However, in chapter 124 [[spoiler:when Mako calls her out on barging into Tomoko's meeting with Yuu and points out that she is acting like Minami would, Yuri actually punches Mako's arm in anger.]]
* BigEater: Yuri has a habit of eating large amounts of food during group meetings, perhaps as a way of avoiding conversation.
* BrutalHonesty: When she does talk to people Yuri is incredibly blunt and straightforward.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Yuri's personality takes a dramatic turn towards the end of the second year, to the point where she practically became a different character. Initially, Yuri had been the OnlySaneMan of the Kyoto trio. She was socially adept enough to mediate conflicts in the group and see through Tomoko attempting reverse psychology while Yoshida fell for it. While she was reserved at times during the Kyoto field trip, she was generally expressive, smiling regularly, being shocked by Tomoko's antics and even being introduced screaming angrily at Mako. From Valentine's Day onward, she became socially inept and unaware to the point of entering AmbiguousDisorder territory, and the end of year party showed her being [[UpToEleven even worse off socially than Tomoko.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: A platonic version. Yuri can be very clingy towards her close friends and doesn't like it when they're involved with others she isn't close to. This is seen in her fight with Mako over joining what was implied to be Minami's group for Kyoto and barging into Tomoko's meet-ups with Yuu and Nemo to engage in PassiveAggressiveKombat.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: In chapter 106, she prevented Tomoko from saying something to Yoshida that would get her punched. Overall, she has a better grasp of what kind of person Tomoko is than the rest of the school. Yuri herself invokes this trope in an omake set during the events of chapter 119, telling Masaki that they should look after Tomoko during the class farewell party because she might do something weird otherwise.
* CovertPervert: Invoked in chapter 145. Tomoko accuses Yuri of being this when she catches her reading an ecchi manga. Yuri on her part insists that she doesn't like this sort of manga and that she checked this particular one for a different reason. [[spoiler:Her willingness to watch porn with Tomoko at an internet café in Chapter 151 kind of gives the game away, though...]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: It's very slow but as third year goes along she starts to occasionally show more emotion. Most notably, laughing during a study trip to the beach with Tomoko, Nemo and Akane and smiling while talking to Miyazaki during the study camp.
* {{Flanderization}}: In a couple of ways:
** When she was first introduced Yuri was occasionally reserved and stand-offish (which was largely because she was separated from Mako for the Kyoto trip) but was generally sociable and expressive, and after the Kyoto field trip she was even cheerful and friendly. Later chapters played up her reserved nature to the point where she was TheStoic, only barely displaying emotion in moments of genuine joy, shock or anger. Likewise, Yuri went from being somewhat stand-offish to either ignoring or passive-aggressively sniping at people she didn't care for.
** The first time Yuri hit someone (Mako in chapter 124) was actually a WhamShot moment, and she only did so out of brief but serious anger over Mako pressing her BerserkButton. Later chapters would have her hit people casually when mildly irritated.
* {{Foil}}: Like many of Tomoko's friends, she can be seen as one to her. Both are introverted, have poor self-esteem, and lack much of a social circle, but while Tomoko is profoundly weird and histrionic, Yuri is one of the most reserved characters. Also, while Tomoko is generally mean but shows increasing moments of kindness and empathy, Yuri is generally kind but has something of a dark side.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Minami's story arc shows that she used to be part of the same friend group as Minami and Sachi in first year but eventually fell out with them.
* TheHeart: Since Tomoko, Mako, and Yoshida are more friends with her than they are with each other, Yuri is pretty much the glue that holds them together. Despite being an introvert, she convinces them to attend the class end-of-the-year party with her just so they can all have one last chance to hang together.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuri values the few friends she's managed to make, and as such is ''very'' attached to them. Seeing them interact in a familiar manner with other people outside her group of four (which includes Mako, Tomoko, and Masaki) causes ''intense'' feelings of jealousy to bubble up, as chapter 124 and 126 show.
* HiddenDepths: Initially introduced as a normal, if a somewhat reserved and stoic girl. Later chapters show that she's not that great at social interactions, and places a ''lot'' of value on the very few friendships she's managed to make. She also gets jealous if any of her friends seem to be getting closer to people outside the group than with her.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Due to her [[NoSocialSkills lack of social awareness]], Yuri tends to say or do things that annoy people around her and not pick up on their irritation. Lampshaded by Ucchi, who remarks it's the reason why Yuri has such a small social circle.
* InSeriesNickname: In Chapter 124, Tomoko considers calling her by a nickname after knowing her for so long, indicating that she conceivably might receive one of these in the near future. [[spoiler:Chapter 126 shows that the fact that Tomoko did not come up with a nickname for her is a sore spot for Yuri.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Yuri can be selfish, and easily becomes a GreenEyedMonster whenever Tomoko is with her other friends. Downplayed in that Yuri is more unaware than truly malicious, she'll back off when she realizes that she's being hurtful, and she can be empathetic and helpful outside of her jealous fits.
* LoonyFriendsImproveYourPersonality: Zig-zagged. Yuri's friendship with Tomoko and Yoshida seems to make Yuri more expressive and openly affectionate to her friends, but eventually, it also brought her issues with jealousy to light.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: A RunningGag with Yuri is that she packs a ''lot'' of strength in her hands and arms despite her slender build, which makes the punches and squeezes that she doles out whenever she gets annoyed really painful.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuhiro_Tamura Tatsuhiro Tamura]].
* NiceGirl: Played with. While she thinks Tomoko is a bit of an idiot, she treats her with respect and kindness, invites her to eat lunch with her, and becomes the loner's first real friend in high school. However, Yuri has issues when it comes to "sharing" her friends, which makes her act standoffish, passive-aggressive, and prone to lashing out. She's even guiltily admitted that she doesn't think she's a nice person.
* NightmareFetishist: She seems to have a taste for the macabre. Tear-jerking, sentimental manga do nothing for her, but something more gory and horrific like ''Manga/{{Goth}}'' is more up her alley. Furthermore, while Yuri says she likes musicals, her favorite is the darkly depressing ''Film/DancerInTheDark''.
* NoodleIncident: She spends most of the Class Trip thinking about how to make up with her friend Mako, but it's never said what caused the falling out, and they seem to have made up by the end. [[spoiler:Later chapters heavily imply that it was because Mako accepted Minami's invite to join the latter's group for the class trip without considering Yuri's feelings about it.]]
* NoSocialSkills: She's very low key about it compared to Tomoko, but Yuri is still very awkward and inept socially. She consistently fails to notice social cues or engage in niceties (as seen in chapter 145 when she simply eats the lunch Mako made without thanking her). Yuri is also very blunt, tactless and even rude when not being reserved or uninterested. From the Disneyland field trip onwards, Yuri actually was shown to be [[UpToEleven even less socially capable than Tomoko.]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark: She gets on the recieving end of this. When Yuri starts bad-talking Tomoko to Yuu, Mako tells her that she's acting an awful lot like Koharu. Yuri's violent reaction to that shows it's not a comparison she likes.
* OddFriendship: Arguably her main group counts but she also winds up developing one with Ucchi's friends during the study camp after they invite her to hang out with them at a hot spring noting that they're surprisingly easy to talk to.
* OnlySaneWoman: She notices how much of an idiot Tomoko is, but still makes an effort to befriend her. She does the same for Yoshida. She's by far the most normal of the three and usually takes it upon herself to try and keep them civil with each other.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Originally presented like this, but subverted over time as she became more and more of a {{Foil}} to Tomoko.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: In later chapters, whenever she gets jealous of other characters getting friendly with Tomoko, she either [[SilentTreatment ostentatiously ignores them]], or tries to one-up them by bringing up inside stories to prove that she's Tomoko's closest friend. [[spoiler:Yuu was her first target in chapter 124, followed by Hina during and after the Disneyland trip, and Shizuku in chapter 132]].
* TheStoic: Downplayed. She's not emotionless, but she maintains a pretty firm poker face no matter what happens around her.
* UnfazedEveryman: Her reactions to her new kind-of-friends' behaviors are much more subdued than you'd expect.
* WhenSheSmiles: She very rarely smiles, and when she does, she'll always be quick to hide it. She almost never laughs either, so when a biting remark from Tomoko gets a small chortle out of Yuri, Mako reacts with visible happiness that someone could actually make Yuri do that.
* WouldNotHitAGirl: Discussed. Yuri herself is a girl and she has no problems hitting Tomoko, who is also a girl albeit a very scruffy-looking one, whenever she says or does something stupid. However, when the latter gets a landmine makeover that makes her [[SheCleansUpNicely appear more feminine and beautiful]], Yuri says she wouldn't be able to hit Tomoko while she looks like that because it would just look like abuse rather than discipline.
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[[folder:Emiri "Ucchi" Uchi]]
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A popular girl from Tomoko's second year class who has strange eyes and similar hair to Yuu. After spending most of her time with her friends in a different group during the class trip, the short time she actually spends with Tomoko leaves a very huge impression on her.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Bad ''girls'' in this case. In Ucchi's mind, Tomoko is a [[ReallyGetsAround sexually promiscuous]] creeper who peeped on her in the shower, stole her panties, watched her while she slept, stalked her relentlessly, and makes a pass at just about every attractive girl she encounters. While it scared her at first, it also got Ucchi interested.
* AmbiguouslyGay: She thinks Tomoko is stalking her to sexually harass her, [[RapeAsComedy maybe more]], which of course frightens her, but when it looks like Tomoko isn't interested in her, Ucchi becomes noticeably miffed.
** In later chapters it starts to look like she might actually have a crush on Tomoko, going by her reaction to Tomoko giving her a secret "Thank You" note or how she was able to instantly tell Tomoki was Tomoko's brother just by looking at his face.
** [[spoiler:Chapter 127 pretty much puts an end to any lingering ambiguity, as Ucchi admits that there's someone she likes. While she doesn't mention who that is, [[HoYay/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular all the clues point in one direction]].]]
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Due to Tomoko's [[NoSocialSkills mannerisms]], [[AmbiguouslyBi comments]] and [[CovertPervert actions]] when interacting with her, she's convinced Tomoko is stalking her and is obviously creeped out when Tomoko is trying to peek under her skirt. However, when she notes her also peeking under the skirts of other girls, her reaction shows this:
--> "So long as you've got a girl to stare at, you don't care who it is?!"
** She later has the same reaction again when she sees Tomoko going shopping with Yuu, who looks similar to herself. Ucchi is convinced that Tomoko is trying to replace her with Yuu.
* AscendedExtra: Made a brief appearance in chapter 59 (as the girl sitting next to Tomoko in a bus and ignoring her to chat with her friends instead) before becoming a recurring character. This appears to be the origin of her NonstandardCharacterDesign; her face is drawn only once in her first appearance and it seems to be simply an indication that she isn't important.
* BettyAndVeronica: Tomoko possibly serves as the Archie to Asuka's Betty and Ucchi's Veronica.
* ButtMonkey: After becoming Tomoko's StalkerWithACrush, every chapter featuring her is practically guaranteed to feature her getting humiliated in some way.
* CannotSpitItOut: She'll do everything she can around Tomoko. Everything, that is, except outright says that she likes her.
* CatchPhrase: ãã¢ã€ (kimoi), which is usually translated as "disgusting".
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In her first few appearances, Ucchi seemed to be something of a StepfordSmiler who would maintain a steady grin on her face even while feeling uncomfortable. Starting with chapter 80, she became more expressive in general, no longer does anything to maintain her cool, and very seldom ever smiles.
* CovertPervert: As much as she'll outwardly voice her disgust for Tomoko, Ucchi frequently has dirty thoughts about her. She's subtly but deliberately tried to arrange for moments that Tomoko could perv on her, fantasized about drinking water she's bathed in, thought about filming Tomoko taking her clothes off, and even tried bringing her to a love hotel.
* CrushBlush: She does this more and more around Tomoko.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Her belief that Tomoko is lusting after her is borne out of a lot of situations where Tomoko did seem to be acting in a sexual manner. She just doesn't know Tomoko well enough to recognize that Tomoko didn't mean anything by it and was too nervous to try and clear anything up.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the chapters that followed the second-year school trip she was at first portrayed as legitimately creeped out by Tomoko, but with hints that her interest in Tomoko might go beyond that. She gradually turns into a SmittenTeenageGirl who is completely obsessed with Tomoko, actively looks for opportunities to meet her and seems to be disgusted with Tomoko [[GreenEyedMonster only when she thinks that Tomoko is flirting with other girls]].
* {{Foil}}:
** To Yuu. They both have active social lives, fairly similar appearances, and a connection of sorts to Tomoko. However, while Tomoko bears an obvious lust for Yuu, who knows absolutely nothing about it, Ucchi misinterprets ''everything'' Tomoko does as being in relation to a perverse lust towards ''her''. That and Ucchi appears to be well on her way to developing a lust for Tomoko, who has no clue about it.
** Ucchi can also be seen as an embodiment of Tomoko's early-days habit of making wildly imaginative and EntertaininglyWrong appraisals of the situation, her highly sexual mindset, and her weekly ZanyScheme for attention. The difference is that Tomoko wanted to be beloved by everyone and generally had little commitment, while Ucchi cares only about Tomoko and sticks to her guns.
* TheGenericGirl: Implied by her official profile. To whit, Ucchi is the ''only'' member of the cast with all her stats listed as '''three'''.
* GreenEyedMonster: Whenever Tomoko shows or receives attention from someone who isn't Ucchi, Ucchi always reacts with visible jealousy. In one of the panels in chapter 115, she can be [[FunnyBackgroundEvent seen in the background]] angrily clenching her teeth as she watches a graduating upperclassman patting Tomoko's head.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Her beliefs that Tomoko is a creepy stalker who's utterly obsessed with her are so strong that Ucchi has in turn taken to obsessing over Tomoko and stalking ''her''.
* HiddenDepths: During her trip to Aoyama in chapter 140 she apparently wanted to check the university's school of business (until she noticed Tomoko and got sidetracked); Tomoko even wonders whether Ucchi is planning on opening up an Emoji Mart.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Even though Ucchi repeatedly tells her friends and acquaintances that Tomoko is a disgusting creep, she does not tolerate anyone else badmouthing Tomoko, [[spoiler:as Minami found out in chapter 156.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: By all accounts, she's guilty of everything she accuses Tomoko of being. [[spoiler:For instance, when Tomoko leaves some chocolates for Ucchi in her locker, Ucchi calls her a creep for not giving them to her in person, even though she did the exact same thing the day before.]]
* IdenticalStranger: Somewhat resembles ([[NonstandardCharacterDesign a highly-simplified]]) Yuu. This actually gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in one chapter, where, after seeing them together, Ucchi assumes Tomoko is using Yuu as a proxy for her.
* InformedAttractiveness: Ucchi is supposedly pretty, enough to be part of her second-year class' cheerleading team. You would ''never'' know this though due to how her face is normally drawn.
** According to her official profile, Ucchi has the body of a fashion model. Though Tomoko acknowledges this in chapter 176, you'd be hard-pressed to notice this due to the way Ucchi is drawn.
* InsultOfEndearment: Seems to be what "kimoi[[note]]Usually translated as "gross," "creepy," or "disgusting"[[/note]]" has become, at least when it's applied to Tomoko. She's even outright said she uses it to simultaneously praise and insult her.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Ucchi's growing obsession with Tomoko has made her act increasingly more erratic. She stares at her intensely from a distance, actively stalks her, tries to contrive meetings and encounters with her through incredibly roundabout ways, and throws childish tantrums every time something gets between her and Tomoko. It ends up seriously straining Ucchi's relationship with her usual group of friends, though they cut her some slack when they notice ''why'' she's acting that way.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: She doesn't say or do anything every chapter, but she can often be seen in the background. [[StalkerWithACrush Always watching Tomoko]]. Crosses over with FunnyBackgroundEvent with some of the humorous expressions she makes, particularly whenever she starts [[GreenEyedMonster angrily gritting her teeth]] every time Tomoko pays any sort of attention to someone else.
** In chapter 132, there are several blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments where she can be seen peering at Tomoko from behind a tree.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuya_Uchi Tatsuya Uchi]].
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Always has BlackBeadEyes. It's so unusual, that even in-universe, Tomoko compared her to an emoji. The outlines of her eyelids are drawn only in some of her emotional moments, most notably in chapters 80, 131, 152 and 156.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until chapter 114, where her surname (å , Uchi) can be seen on her locker [[spoiler:when Tomoko is looking for her locker to leave the Valentine's Day chocolates there]], and chapter 127, which reveals her given name. "Ucchi" is just what her friends call her. Tomoko doesn't even ''know'' her actual nickname due to how little time they actually spend directly interacting, and instead just calls her "emoji girl".
* RightForTheWrongReasons: She's one of the few people who see Tomoko for the perverted creeper she is, but only because she comically misunderstands everything Tomoko does, no matter how innocuous, as having perverted intentions.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The official English translation writes her given name [[MultiEthnicName "Emily"]]. Foreign words/names are typically written in katakana, but her name is written in kanji, so it's more likely supposed to be romanized "Emiri".
* StalkerWithACrush: Thinks Tomoko is hers. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters In her paranoia, she has become Tomoko's]].
* StupidSexyFlanders: Considering that Tomoko's creepiness is what Ucchi finds so fascinating and attractive about her, Ucchi's constant referring to her as creepy and gross is functionally how she expresses both her frustration and attraction to Tomoko.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: As much as she loves to talk about how creepy and weird Tomoko is, she sure doesn't seem to mind her. [[spoiler:Chapter 114 shows her to be somewhat pleased that Tomoko gave her chocolate for Valentine's Day, and as she's inwardly berating the fact that it looks like poop, she's still eating it.]]
* ThroughHisStomach: She's making a habit of trying to attract Tomoko's attention via food, [[spoiler:first by making [[ChocolateOfRomance chocolates for her on Valentine's Day]], and later by grilling and seasoning a strip of meat at a Korean BBQ restaurant - and then sneaking it onto Tomoko's plate.]]
* TransparentCloset: The only person who knows Ucchi and hasn't figured out that she has romantic feelings for Tomoko is... well, Ucchi. This creates some problems when her friends try to coax her into confession, only for Ucchi to then do her usual thing of calling Tomoko a disgusting creep.
* {{Tsundere}}: A quiet, long-distance variation. Whenever she thinks about Tomoko, her thoughts are always full of unmitigated disgust, but she frequently goes out of her way to do nice things for her (complete with extensive rationalization [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that it's not because she likes her or anything]]), and blushes whenever Tomoko returns the favor. It's gradually become a lot more direct as she's started to outright call Tomoko a disgusting creep right in front of her, claiming that it's meant to be both an insult and a compliment.
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!!Tomoko
[[folder:Tomoko Kuroki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IzumiKitta (Japanese), Creator/MonicaRial (English)
The main character of the series, who struggles with becoming "popular", making friends and coping with adolescence. Unfortunately, this is not helped by her [[NoSocialSkills social ineptitude]] and [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant]] [[TheEeyore personality]].
Despite being incredibly anti-social, she craves the companionship and attention of others. She suffers from a raging superiority complex, [[IndulgentFantasySegue vivid delusions of grandeur]], intense self-loathing, and social anxiety so severe that she can barely get out a sentence when talking to someone she is not intimately acquainted with.
The dark circles under her eyes are genetic (and shared by her brother).
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* AccidentalHero: Tomoko manages to help some people now and then, but only by happenstance. She gives Shizuku some half-hearted advice on how to handle the entrance exams (with the intention of discouraging the girl from attending her school at all), only to end up encouraging her to pass and apply to the school in full. [[spoiler:Tomoko also gets Hina and Akane to patch things up. How? By showing the latter a clip from an eroge game while explaining to her the likely reasons Hina was so secretive about her dream to become a voice actress, which horrifies Akane so much that she outright confronts Hina about it, allowing them to talk things out.]]
* AccidentalPervert: Only towards Yoshida, whom she always gropes by complete accident, which more often than not gets her smacked. Anyone else she pervs on is very intentional. For what it's worth though, Tomoko ''does'' like how the delinquent feels.
* ACupAngst: It's not as apparent as most examples of this trope, but it's there.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: One particularly infamous chapter/episode has Tomoko buy both a [[YaoiGenre BL visual novel]] and a personal body massager. Tomoko even notes that if anyone saw her with both, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything they'd get the wrong idea]]. Or rather the ''right'' idea, since that's exactly what she had planned.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Although she doesn't actually hook up with a "bad boy", she seems to be fond of BastardBoyfriend characters, as evidenced by her enjoyment of a drama CD about {{Yandere}} boys.
* AmbiguouslyBi: While her PerverseSexualLust for Otome Game characters and early fixation on getting a boyfriend make her attraction to men obvious, her constant sexual harassment of Yuu raises a few eyebrows. What keeps Tomoko's sexuality ambiguous is that it's made clear at multiple points that Tomoko's [[NoSocialSkills lack of social awareness]] and [[WrongGenreSavvy reliance on anime tropes to navigate real life situations]] cause her to assume that LesYay in female friendships is not only common, but ''expected'', leading her to enforce it. Even as she develops more real life relationships and her pervertedness dies down, however, being caught in several NotWhatItLooksLike moments have led to Ucchi becoming absolutely ''certain'' that Tomoko is not only a lesbian, but a sexual deviant who surrounds herself with a harem of girls at all times. As Tomoko matures and becomes explicitly more aware of the concept of homosexuality (she even correctly defines "LGBT" in class), she still can't help but fall for Yuu's or [[https://imgur.com/a/9IM3Agq Asuka's]] charms. She's also shown blatant sexual attraction to Miho, one of Asuka's friends, and Shizuku, her own kohai. In the latter's case she's outright said that if she were a guy she'd want to NTR Shizuku's boyfriend.
* BeautifulAllAlong: It's been brought up that Tomoko actually has good looks, but the problem is that she doesn't try grooming and looking after herself that much. When she actually does, many of her friends do say how cute she is. This aspect can actually be seen in some of the later chapters where Tomoko decides to wear more flattering clothes and cleans herself more.
** Her official profile shows that she has a Charisma score of '''five''', the maximum possible score, shared only with super-model-esque Katou Asuka. This means that Tomoko always had the potential to be popular, if her crippling self-doubt hadn't dragged down her confidence.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: As time goes on and Tomoko finds herself on the receiving end of more PetTheDog moments, she feels the need to repay the people who show her kindness even if she doesn't really know them.
** She makes a batch of chocolates for everyone who gave her some for Valentine's Day, like Mako, Yuri, and Ucchi. She even gives some to Yoshida, despite their dysfunctional relationship.
** Because Megumi came to her aid a few times in the past, Tomoko congratulates her for graduating high school and even asks the former StudentCouncilPresident if there's anything she can do for her. She feels rather crushed when she realizes she won't be able to give anything back to Megumi.
* BerserkButton: When Yuu makes a joke about Kotomi marrying Tomoki this is one of the few times that we see Tomoko get legitimately angry at Yuu, making no attempts at hiding her anger at all.
* BettyAndVeronica: Tomoko possibly serves as the Archie to Asuka's Betty and Ucchi's Veronica.
* BigBrotherBully: Tomoko tries to pass herself off as a CoolBigSis to Tomoki, and was indeed like that at one point, but in actuality she's extremely negative and manipulative whenever she's around him. It's also implied that this is the reason why Tomoki stopped being friendly with her to begin with.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Oh yes. For the longest time, Tomoko was only ever interested in her popularity at school, all the while being loathe to do any work around the house, eager to annoy her brother, and quick to snap at her mother. This got her a good share of slaps from the latter, who was often irritated at how irresponsible Tomoko was despite being the older child.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: She has made a huge impact on Ucchi's life, to the point where the girl is utterly obsessed with her. However, Tomoko never intended to do such, their first real interaction was on the last night of their field trip, and Tomoko was just being her [[NoSocialSkills normal]] [[CovertPervert self]]. Later "interactions" were mostly Tomoko doing something else and it just so happened Ucchi was the target or a witness.
* ButtMonkey: Any of her attempts to become popular ''always'' come out wrong for her.
* CannotTalkToMen: Nothing frays Tomoko's nerves more than attractive boys. Even after her social skills improve enough that she can communicate with strangers without tripping over her words too much, she still turns into a nervous, stuttering puddle of goo in the presence of hot guys.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Tomoko has been walked in on playing her Hentai games, ''[[RunningGag multiple times]]''.
* CharacterDevelopment: Slowly but surely, Tomoko matures a good deal over the course of the manga, particularly in her second year. She dials back on her ill-thought schemes to become popular to the point where she eventually gives up on them entirely, doesn't stutter nearly as often as before, is more comfortable in public places like cafes, lets go of a lot of the resentment she felt towards her peers, shows occasional bouts of consideration for others, and is more studious and responsible in general. By the end of the year, she even manages to get herself a small circle of friends and acquaintances to regularly socialize with.
* ChildHater: Played with. In chapter 138 she admits that she hates middle schoolers, but she also mentions that she doesn't have strong feelings about grade schoolers, and in the past she used to play card games with kids in a candy store. In any case, she states that her dislike of kids is the reason why she would never want to be a teacher.
* ChronicVillainy: She's never managed to break her bad habit of doing {{Jerkass}} things.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Tomoko ''can'' care about people, she's shown to have an extremely active imagination with a creative streak to her, and [[{{Determinator}} she's extremely resilient in the pursuit of her goal]]. That being said, she's a liar, a pervert, very lazy, and tries to take the easy way out of anything she can. She even LiesToChildren and calls any girls even slightly more popular than her "bitches" and "sluts". Tomoko gradually does undergo character development to get rid of the worst parts of these traits, but they never completely disappear.
* ClingyJealousGirl: When it comes to Yuu or her brother, the latter of which she declared if he ever brought home a girl, she would take responsibility and ''[[{{Yandere}} kill her]]''.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Somehow, against all logic or reason, she's managed to become this in her 3rd year. To wit, Yuri has grown quite attached to her and is prone to jealously whenever Tomoko gets close to someone else. Nemo is similarly quite attached to Tomoko, and while they're also vitriolic best buds, it's clear that Nemo values their "honest" friendship a great deal. Asuka is extremely fond of her, and her affectionate gestures border on outright flirting. Ucchi is outright infatuated by her, having become increasingly more obsessive about Tomoko over the course of the manga. Shizuku hero-worships her, looking at Tomoko as a kind and thoughtful sempai. While her friendships with some of the other girls aren't as pronounced, she's still amassed a huge following of female friends and acquaintances. It's ironic that the usually self-aware Tomoko often [[https://imgur.com/oJ358si seems to be completely unaware of this.]]
* ConsummateLiar: "How do I bullshit my way out of this?"
* ConvenientlySeated: At first, she seats in the back row seat by the window. When the second semester starts and Tomoko loses her seat, she lampshades it by commenting about how lucky she was getting "the seat main characters always get in anime and light-novels" in the first semester, lamenting that she now has to dwell in an awkward spot, surrounded by people. Tomoko regains her original seating arrangement come her second year, and keeps it for her third year, now surrounded by people she's either friends or friendly with.
* CosmicPlaything: She doesn't realize it, which might be a good thing as the truth might plunge her into the pit of despair or worse, since she can't realize why her attempts to make friends are massive failures. The moment she gains some self-awareness of her faults and tries to not be so judgmental anymore, the universe ''seems'' to ease up on her ...and decides to spread the weirdness around to her new friends.
* CovertPervert: Played with; since the viewers are always privy to her thoughts, it's easy for us to see that she's ''very'' perverted, but most other characters (aside from Tomoki) are unaware of how perverted she really is. This becomes subverted over time; though Tomoko ''tries'' to keep her lewd side under wraps, she either proves to be really bad at hiding her lecherous habits, or has a number of [[AccidentalPervert accidents]] that leave people with the impression that she's a massive pervert anyway. Before her third year is even halfway done, pretty much everyone familiar with Tomoko knows what a huge sex-obsessed perv she is.
* CreepyLonerGirl: Tomoko is an unattractive, friendless {{Otaku}} with absolutely NoSocialSkills who stays up all night playing dating sims to compensate for her nonexistent social and love life. She daydreams about becoming popular, but her social awkwardness ruins her attempts at it every time.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Seems to be a family trait; however, Tomoko's habit of staying up late at night probably doesn't help, as she notes before trying on glasses to hide them.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: This is her her single strongest desire for most of the series. It's likely why she's overly attached to her brother (much to his chagrin) and also part of why she's so attached to her only real friend, Yuu. This ends up becoming subverted pretty later on in the series, once Tomoko actually gets a circle of friends.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite the universe doing [[CosmicPlaything everything it can]] to make her give up, Tomoko never relents in her quest to become popular, make friends, or just improve herself in general. Whenever one scheme fails, she just gets up, dusts herself off, and moves on to the next plan.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: She has a bad habit of voicing her more lewd thoughts out loud. Initially this was only toward Yuu, but eventually spread to anyone Tomoko felt mildy attracted to, like Asuka.
-->'''Tomoko''': ''(Thinking)'' A cute girl, wearing such cute underwear and such a short skirt must flash a bit from time to time...just imagine, if I were her boyfriend... \\
'''Tomoko''': ''(Out loud)'' Bet those'd really give ya a stiffy. \\
'''Yuu''': MOKOCCHI!!?
* DisappointingOlderSibling: Despite being the older sibling, Tomoki thinks she's an annoying loser. According to the volume 5 omake, it was her obnoxiousness that caused their once-loving relationship to turn sour. On the other hand, one WhatIf omake shows that he would end up disliking her even if she were to remain kind to him.
* DontYouDarePityMe: As shown in chapters 33 and 42, she doesn't like it when others take pity on her, as she feels patronized by this.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: In addition to being very large and roughly-sketched, her eyes lack a notable sheen that's present in most other characters, illustrating her perpetually dour mood.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The bags under her eyes only serve to further emphasize this aspect of hers.
* TheEeyore: She falls into bouts of self-loathing and has a lot of negative thoughts in social situations. Even when she acknowledges that her life got better than how it used to be, such as in chapter 115, she doesn't expect the good times to last.
* ExpressiveHair: You can often tell how exasperated she is just by seeing how much her hair is flaring out.
* FailureHero: In the early chapters she can't do ''anything'' right. Every time she has a goal, it's bound to fail or backfire horribly. The few ThrowTheDogABone moments she gets are usually down to luck and the kindness of others, or when she's not actually trying so hard to become popular. This part of her characterization is largely dropped as the story progresses and Tomoko starts setting more realistic goals for her social life, which she eventually starts achieving.
* FemaleMisogynist: [[GreenEyedMonster Her jealousy]] leads to a general resentment of other girls aside from Yuu, often viewing girls who are more socially adept than her as "bitches" or "sluts". [[spoiler: However, this doesn't appear to apply to Yuri, probably because she recognizes that Yuri is almost as socially inept as she is]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Tomoki's Responsible. She tends to laze around and do stupid things to improve her status while Tomoki focuses on his sports, studies, and his household chores. Tomoko being so irresponsible is a frequent source of stress for her mother.
* GamerChick: Effortlessly plays a Pop'N Music knockoff with only a blank stare on her face, not to mention her constant playing of otome games.
* {{Gonk}}: Often pulls ugly faces when emotional.
** There's also the time where she tries to change her appearance, which works out well until she decides to mess with her face.
* GreenEyedMonster: Bonus points for the VisualPun. She enjoys the misfortune of others and frequently wishes for horrible things to happen to people that she perceives as having happy, carefree lives. Her internal monologues frequently call girls more socially successful than herself, including her best friend Yuu, "bitches", "sluts", etc.
--> '''Tomoko:''' If you're not a worthless god, I'd like to see you try and make me happy... If you can't manage that, at least make everyone as unhappy as me. If you can't, it's fine I guess... But I'll despise you forever...
** Also why she couldn't get along with Kotomi in middle school despite being much alike, as she wanted to keep Yuu to herself.
** As of chapter 97 she seems to have realized that her former classmates who are more sociable than her don't act sociable to spite her, [[CharacterDevelopment and she doesn't hate them for this anymore]].
* HasAType: An inversion, when she's finally able to hold a real conversation with a male classmate (Wada), she dismisses it as much of a step forward since she doesn't find him all that attractive, believing that "shota doesn't go with chibi".
* HeyYou: In general, she is very bad at remembering names, or just doesn't care to learn them in the first place, leading her to often refer to the people around her by (often derisive) descriptors in her mind. In Chapter 124, Tomoko even notes that she's never once actually called Yuri by name, even though Yuri's ostensibly the best friend she has in her high school. [[spoiler:This comes to a head in 126, when she tries to get Yuri's attention by just repeatedly calling out "Hey", resulting in a frustrated Yuri telling her that her name is not "Hey".]]
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Tomoko implicitly UsedToBeASweetKid, but as she entered adolescence, she became a more self-centered {{Jerkass}} who only ever thought about sex.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She angrily denounces anyone more popular than her as shallow, vapid and selfish, and refers to any girls more sociable than her as "sluts". She's the real shallow and selfish one, who seeks popularity above all else, and proclaims: "Without doing anything, I can get into the pants of the boys for three years!" in the very first chapter. At the same time, she looks down on anyone ''as'' unpopular as she is as being losers, freaks and weirdos who are somehow beneath her despite them generally having the same interests that she does.
** HypocriticalHumor: is a RunningGag in this series.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: ...and get laid, apparently.
** As the series progresses, there's a subtle development in that Tomoko's goal moves down from "getting popular" to just "making a friend", and at the very least "talking to people". These get fulfilled during the middle of her second year, as she became close to Yuri, Mako, and Masaki.
* IneffectualDeathThreat: Frequently wishes death and worse on her classmates for the smallest of offences, like someone apparently taking her umbrella.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: While she's rather self-centered and looks down on a lot of people for petty reasons, it's still clear that her self-esteem is actually very, very low.
* InnerMonologue: Keeps her thoughts to herself more often than actually speaking.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Towards Yuri. Yuri is bothered by how aloof Tomoko seems to act towards her despite spending most of their time at school together, but Tomoko has no idea there's even a problem in the first place. She's also oblivious to the effect she's had on Ucchi, disturbing the girl with her mere presence at first, and going on to making her jealous at the drop of a hat.
* InSeriesNickname: "Mokocchi." Only Yuu gets to call her that, though. [[spoiler:In chapter 126 Hina Nemoto comes up with another nickname for her, "Kuro".]]
* {{Irony}}: After spending her first year desperately trying to be popular with one ZanyScheme after another Tomoko eventually resigns herself to being a loner ...and then she actually ends up making an increasingly larger social circle of friends and acquaintances to hang out with.
* IronicName: Her given name roughly means "wise child". Considering how often she makes bad decisions, it's safe to say "wise" isn't a good way to describe her.
* ItAmusedMe: Some of her antics aren't done to improve her popularity, but just to stave off boredom or amuse herself, which can include things like trolling her brother or hanging wishes laced with dirty jokes up for Tanabata. She also decides to become Shizuku's sempai largely because she hopes the younger girl will give her some kinky stories, though to Tomoko's credit, she does build up some sympathy for her over time.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She's a very self-centered person who doesn't have any particular empathy for anyone around her. Thankfully, Tomoko's been [[CharacterDevelopment growing out of it]], acknowledging that even more social people have problems of their own, and is willing to show genuine consideration for others every now and then.
* {{Jerkass}}: Downplayed. In the main series, she can come off as a condescending jackass who can occasionally show humility and self-esteem, although she most often keeps her negativity to herself. However, Tomoki and Komiyama tend to see and feel the more unpleasant side of Tomoko.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As maladjusted, unpleasant, and warped as she is, Tomoko does raise valid points every now and then.
** When Akari's friend, Sayaka, confronts her over the former's feelings for Tomoki and her eagerness to see his genitals, Tomoko is correct when she points out it's perverse and inappropriate to say such things in front of his older sister.
** She accuses Akari and Kotomi of being perverts. While her poor treatment of them is usually uncalled for, she's not wrong, and the latter in particular takes her attraction towards Tomoki to very creepy levels.
** Related to the above, by accusing Kotomi and Akari of only liking Tomoki for his dick, Tomoko implies that their feelings for him are shallow. Considering how taciturn Tomoki is, and how they have never held a real conversation with him, neither girl can claim to actually know him, meaning they really ''are'' only interested in him for his good looks.
** While it devolves into a nonsensical rant about how all baseball players are smokers and delinquents, Tomoko is correct when she notes that the baseball club gets preferential treatment in how it forces the whole student body to come cheer for its games when other clubs work just as hard for less recognition.
** In Universe. When Tomoko mocks Yoshida behind her back as the type to go way overboard during her coming of age debut, Yuri is about to admonish her only to realise she can indeed picture Yoshida that way too.
* JerkassRealization: In Chapter 97, she admits that she was a horribly judgmental person in her first year of high school, and lets go of a lot of the resentment she feels toward her more social peers.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Thanks to character development, Tomoko grows from her warped and selfish self, to a more thoughtful and pleasant individual. While she's still a pervert who sees the world through a cynical lens, she's willing to show consideration for both her friends and the occasional stranger.
* KickTheDog: Her treatment of her brother when he fell ill was pretty appalling. She tried to lower his temperature and poured hot porridge on his face out of spite, and otherwise annoyed him at every opportunity. [[LaserGuidedKarma This went on to bite Tomoko in the ass]] when she caught his disease at the beginning of a three-day weekend.
* LazyBum: When left to her own devices, Tomoko would rather just laze around her room, playing video games, watching anime, and surfing the web. When called out on her unwillingness to help around the house by her mother as opposed to her younger but more responsible brother, Tomoko's first instinct is to [[NeverMyFault blame Tomoki for making her look bad]].
* LittleBigSister: She's considerably shorter than her younger brother. Not very unusual given he's only a year younger, but it still highlights her immaturity.
* LonelyDollGirl: On occasion, Tomoko will use her plushies to act out her fantasies of a better social life, from envisioning what her time in a school club could be like, to...imagining how sex with Yuu would go.
* LonersAreFreaks: Her mindset, which she desperately wants to avoid.
* LonerTurnedFriend: After the Kyoto field trip, her previously almost non-existent social circle slowly starts to expand.
* LoserProtagonist: Though, she tries hard to not be this. She eventually does edge away from this through CharacterDevelopment, with all of her remaining quirks instead being mostly portrayed as a part of her unique identity that attracts others to her rather than a source of ostracization.
* LovableSexManiac: While Tomoko never gets to have much in the way of sex, her mind is nevertheless always in the gutter, and she gets a lot of enjoyment out of sexually harassing her female friends.
** As the series delves further, her friends sees her as this. They are all aware of her perverted side, but they make it clear they don't mind it and actually find it as a part of her charm.
* MagneticHero: As the series has continued, she has consistently shown to be able to attract the interest and attention of pretty much anyone who spends even a small amount of time with her. Even characters who initially display complete indifference to her become obsessed with learning more about her after witnessing her bizarre behavior firsthand.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: She acts as a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version for Yuri. While their relationship is purely platonic, she tends to encourage Yuri to try things she wouldn't do otherwise, like make Valentine's Day chocolate for her friends. She's even caused [[NotSoStoic the normally stoic girl to laugh]], which Mako has noted she's never seen Yuri do before.
* ManipulativeBastard: She tries. Dear lord, she tries.
* MeaningfulName: "Kuroki" can literally mean "black mood". It sums up her character pretty well.
* MessyHair: Her long hair is rarely combed.
* MirrorCharacter: For her brother, Tomoki, especially in later chapters. The initial assumptions both have after meeting the same person for the first time are often identical. Even more recently, Tomoko and Tomoki barely acknowledge that people have crushes on them, though Tomoko's case is more downplayed than her brother's: [[spoiler:while two girls have admitted to Tomoki's face they want to see his dick, Ucchi has been less direct in her crush on Tomoko, simply trying to find some excuse to be near Tomoko during some activity while she herself is thinking more about the activity itself, or the strange behavior of the other girls she knows]].
* MsFanservice: As the manga goes on, Tomoko has gradually gotten increasing numbers of genuine fanservice involving her, including occasionally being shown completely nude. She even has a ShowerScene in Chapter 178.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Kuroki Tomohiro Kuroki]].
* NerdsAreVirgins: Several storylines are about Tomoko's lack of experience and sexual frustration.
* NeverMyFault: Zigzagged. She often derides herself and finds faults with her social skills and appearance, but never dwells on it and immediately finds something else to blame for her social failings.
* NiceHat: As part of her casual wear, she'll frequently don a newsboy hat.
* NighttimeBathroomPhobia: In chapter 13, Tomoko reads too many spooky stories at night, so she bugs Tomoki into accompanying her to the bathroom when she's too nervous to walk there in the dark.
* NoSocialSkills: Pretty much the entire conflict of the plot is based around the fact that Tomoko's skills leave a lot to be desired. As she begins to socialize more, her complete lack of social awareness causes her to regularly put her foot in her mouth and unintentionally piss off others. Subverted over time, as she undergoes CharacterDevelopment; Tomoko turns out to be actually pretty socially perceptive and adept when not overcome by social anxiety, trying to become popular or invoking anime tropes.
* ObliviousToLove: Tomoko is completely unaware of Ucchi's growing fixation with her and is confused whenever Ucchi does something nice for her. Unfortunately for Ucchi, Tomoko has few opportunities to directly notice Ucchi's advances.
* OddFriendship: Is more or less the facilitator of an entire group of odd friends by the time she becomes a third year. Shown most prominently at the end of the suspension arc where she goes to eat with the group that had been waiting for her to get out: an introverted loner (Yuri), an outgoing [[NiceGirl nice girl]] (Mako), popular girls of varying degrees of normalcy (Nemo, Asuka, Akane and Ucchi) and a group of delinquents (Yoshida, Anna and Reina).
* OhCrapSmile: Pretty much every time Tomoko's latest plan blows up in her face and leaves her thoroughly humiliated in front of everyone, it's all but guaranteed this is the face she's going to put on. It's one of her most common expressions.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's 15 when the manga and anime begin, but she's so short, thin, and physically undeveloped that you'd be forgiven if you thought she was 10.
* OnlyHasSameSexAdmirers: No guys have taken any interest in Tomoko, but eventually Asuka develops a mutual infatuation, Ucchi becomes her StalkerWithACrush, and a few other girls have gotten ''at least'' a platonic desire for her attention.
* {{Otaku}}: Of Otome games. So much that she attempts to socialize in real life with tactics from the games.
* OtakuSurrogate: Downplayed; while she does have interests in anime and video games that male otaku in real life would have, she's also into things that are aimed specifically at girls, such as otome games. Unfortunately, her interests in all the perverted media aimed at otaku only make her more unapproachable and unable to function in social situations.
* PeekABangs: Although both of her eyes can occasionally be seen, her hair hides her right eye through much of the series.
* PersonAsVerb: In Chapter 39, she tries to stand out more in her class by performing a wacky introduction during the first day of second year. For her efforts, among her classmates, her name becomes a synonym for [[EpicFail doing something exceptionally poorly.]] Fortunately, it seems to have gone out of fashion by Chapter 42.
* PetTheDog: Originally Tomoko only agreed to start hanging out with Shizuku because she seemed like a slut who might have entertaining stories. Eventually however she decides to follow Imae's example and starts acting as more of a proper senpai despite getting no real benefit out of it.
* ThePigPen: Usually averted. Despite being a disheveled shut-in, Tomoko is shown regularly bathing herself and is confirmed to not smell. That said, some of her actions have caused her to unwittingly fall into prolonged periods of dirtiness.
** In chapter 6, after she spends so much time playing a dating sim out of a deluded belief that doing so will make her sexier that she forgets to bathe for several days. She ends up looking so greasy that her brother likens her to a bird caught in an oil slick.
** In chapter 11, she accidentally soaks herself in soda and attracts ants that spend the whole day crawling all over Tomoko without her knowing. Every person she runs into gets creeped out when they see the bugs on her.
** In chapter 56, Tomoko worries she might be a Pig-Pen and opts to combat it by drenching herself in perfume. This causes her to go from having no body odor to absolutely reeking.
* PlayboyBunny: Dresses as one in a fantasy sequence that's a ShoutOut to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. She somehow manages to make it look ugly and unappealing.
* PrettyInMink: Wears a faux mink stole during cold weather.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: She begins taking care of her appearance more as she gains a circle of friends and even gets some fanservice-y shots later on.
* TheQuietOne: She once went a month and a half without talking to anyone outside her family -- her streak was broken when she managed to tell her teacher "goodbye". In contrast, she tends to be ''very'' chatty in her [[InnerMonologue Inner Monologues]].
* SanityBall: Tomoko gets to enjoy being the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Girl]] whenever she interacts with Akari. The girl's crush on Tomoki, her easily flustered demeanor, and her terrible habit of misreading the situation all combine to turn her into a sobbing, stammering mess. This goes double whenever Kotomi gets involved, whose infatuation for Tomoki leads her to commit all sorts of craziness as well that leaves her in the same position. Either way, Tomoko is left equally bemused and annoyed by their antics.
* SelfServingMemory: Whenever Tomoko tries to guilt Tomoki into hanging out with her, she frequently brings up how [[BigBrotherWorship he used to look up to her when they were kids]]. She conveniently ignores the fact that the reason why Tomoki is currently so distant from her is because she started ''[[BigBrotherBully bullying him]]''.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Zigzagged. Whenever Tomoko or someone else tried to fix her appearance by dressing her up nicely or putting makeup on her, she would always end up looking ''even worse'' than before. However, once she gains a circle of friends, Tomoko starts putting more effort into her appearance, and she can be genuinely cute when she puts in the time.
** Played straight during her meet-up with Katou in Chapter 140; Tomoko's appearance was much nicer and more attractive than usual.
** One of the Christmas chapters has a subversion. Tomoko manages to indeed improve her appearance greatly for the class Christmas party. But she's so shy and quiet that nobody notices.
** As pointed out by Katou and Yuu, Tomoko can actually be very cute when she tries to groom herself more. When she dyes her hair silver, they point out how it looks good on her.
** Thanks to her CharacterDevelopment, this has become even more frequent with later chapters. Compared to her old outfits where she seemed to make a half-hearted attempt to groom herself, now Tomoko is actually putting effort into how she dresses, including fixing her hair, making sure her clothes match, and even wearing accessories and slight make-up.
** The cover of Volume 18 teases what a stylish Tomoko could look like, and many readers agree that the silver-haired, cardigan-wearing Tomoko is '''very''' cute.
** Some WhatIf omakes show Tomoko doing this in various ways, like styling herself as a [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]], tidying herself up, and adopting a more fashionable stance. She looks attractive in ''all'' of them.
** When visiting Yuu's school at Chapter 198, Tomoko ends up putting on the school uniform which looks great on her, especially when she decides to tie her hair into a ponytail.
** Exemplified best of all when Asuka decides to give Tomoko a makeover for a "landmine" look and actually does a decent job of it this time. With straight hair and her ExhaustedEyeBags hidden, everyone comments on how cute and innocent she looks.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: A platonic variant with Kotomi. When asked about her by characters other than Yuu, she denies that she's friends with Kotomi, and in chapter 112 even claims not to know her when asked by Yuri. [[spoiler:In chapter 133 Tomoko and Kotomi simultaneously claim that they aren't friends, leaving their classmates unconvinced; even Tomoko herself realizes that she's acting like a stereotypical tsundere.]]
* ShesAllGrownUp: [[http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/watashi_ga_motenai_no_wa_dou_kangaete_mo_omaera_ga_warui_anthology/bt/207725/Ch6/4/ A page in the anthology]] [[ThrowTheDogABone reveals that she could grow up to be quite pretty.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Combined with NoSocialSkills, this is the reason she can barely put together a full sentence with anyone she doesn't know. She improves after getting a circle of friends she regularly socializes with, but she still is prone to stuttering.
* SiblingYinYang: With Tomoki.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Komiyama, whom Tomoko dislikes because she feels that she has to compete with her over Yuu's attention, [[spoiler:as well as because Komiyama is romantically and sexually interested in Tomoki, causing Tomoko to be disgusted with her, and, as of chapter 47 of the main story, also because Komiyama admitted that she didn't like Tomoko back in middle school.]]
** During the third year this fades away to an extent likely due both to Tomoko's ongoing development and because Tomoko gains a new nemesis in Fuuka.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: As we see in Chapter 121, she gets her particular brand of CreepyShadowedUndereyes from her father. Later on, a WhatIf chapter featuring Tomoko with short hair shows that she's a near dead-ringer for her mother.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: Only by giving up her goal to become popular does Tomoko actually get better at socializing. By the end of her second year in particular, Tomoko has managed to get herself a small circle of friends, stutters over her words far less often, shows genuine consideration for other people's emotions, and helps people (like her kohai) for no tangible benefit to herself. [[spoiler:A "What If?" story shows that she wouldn't have been happy had she become popular, anyway; in the story, when Tomoko becomes part of the popular group, she gets hit on constantly by boys, and is shown to hate it.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: Overall Tomoko's second year in high school became a lot better and she was actually able to make sort of friends with people. Her third year became even better since now most of the friends she made in high school are all in her homeroom class and she has amassed quite a large social circle that she can hang out with.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Chapter 1: After 5 months trying to convince herself that she's popular, Tomoko literally sees herself at the mirror and admits the horrible truth:
--> ''Now that I look in the mirror after a few years, I see that I turned into some creepy entity!''
* TookALevelInKindness: Part of her character development. While she remains a cynical pervert, she's become a lot more pleasant and thoughtful.
* TransparentCloset: She's either unaware or in deep denial of her attraction to girls, but is very bad about hiding it, particularly when around Asuka. Yuri, Hina and Ucchi are well aware at how easily swayed Tomoko is toward her.
* {{Troll}}: She enjoys pranking, insulting, or otherwise getting under the skin of people she knows purely [[ForTheLulz for lulz]]. Tomoki and Kotomi are her favorite targets.
* TwiceShy: Tomoko has a blatant infatuation with Asuka, but her self-esteem is too low for her to accept Asuka's increasingly obvious hints that she feels the same--up to ''groping Tomoko's breasts'' during a walk on the beach.
* UnkemptBeauty: She never loses the ExhaustedEyeBags or disheveled hair, but that doesn't stop her from becoming ProgressivelyPrettier later on thanks to her gaining softer facial expressions and more flattering outfits.
* TheUnsmile: Pretty much every attempt she makes at smiling ends up coming off as looking more like a SlasherSmile. Combined with her CreepyShadowedUndereyes, the effect is... rather unsettling.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Her portrayal switches between this, CosmicPlaything and some combination of both depending on the chapter. She can be very pitiable, but at the same time rather self-centered, condescending (especially to her classmates, though this is restricted to her {{Inner Monologue}}s and never expressed outwardly) and, in Chapter 33, is shown to be a devotee of [[ComedicSociopathy schadenfreude]]. However, the more unsympathetic aspects do get downplayed or outright vanish later on thanks to CharacterDevelopment. In the spinoff, she's portrayed much more unsympathetically than in the main story.
* VisualPun: Her big [[GreenEyedMonster green eyes.]]
* WeirdnessMagnet: Tomoko seems to have developed a knack for attracting a lot of oddballs to her, or at least in making people develop their own idiosyncrasies. Yoshida is a [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]] but [[AmbiguousInnocence oddly innocent]] teen who's often mistaken for a delinquent, Ucchi has grown progressively more obsessive over Tomoko to the point of stalking her, Kii-chan has gone from a normal girl to a borderline CreepyChild, and both Kotomi and Akari have become incredibly perverse ([[ButtMonkey and unlucky]]) in pursuing their mutual crush on Tomoki. Lampshaded in Chapter 116, where Tomoki notes that all of his sister's friends appear to be a bunch of weirdos.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: She has this expression a lot.
* WrongGenreSavvy: One of the major factors behind her inability to adapt to society is the fact that she tends to "learn" social skills through anime and video games, and mistakes many character interactions therein (including those that are, from an objective viewpoint, downright outlandish) for actual practice, and tries to emulate them in real life, which more often than not only serves to further humiliate her.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The reason she despises Kotomi. Both are antisocial and their OnlyFriend is Yuu. Each one of them believes the other is below her.
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!!Tomoko's Family
[[folder:Tomoki Kuroki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese), Creator/DavidMatranga (English)
Tomoko's younger and more responsible brother. He is a fairly average and well-adjusted person for his age and treats his sister with the usual level of sibling-related intolerance. Despite this, he ''does'' care for his sister and tries to support her when she needs it.
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* AcademicAthlete: He's a considerably more motivated student than his sister is and is skilled enough at soccer to have an active spot on his school's team in his freshman year, along with the respect of his upperclassman teammates.
* TheAce: In comparison to Tomoko, at least. He's mature, reliable, athletic, has a large social circle, and multiple girls that are interested in him. During the sports festival, it's revealed that even the [[{{Bishonen}} attractive]] and [[BigManOnCampus popular]] third-year students on the soccer team respect Tomoki, despite him only being a first year.
* AccidentalPervert:
** In chapter 134, when he tries to prevent Masaki from attacking Kotomi [[spoiler:and ends up groping Masaki by accident, much to his own horror.]]
** He follows it up in chapter 168 by accidentally [[ShowerOfAwkward walking in on her showering.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played with. He does tend to get on Tomoko's nerves, though not so much due to obnoxiousness as due to the fact that he's guilty of such "crimes" as staying home sick while Tomoko has to go to school, having friends who care enough to visit him while he's sick, or cleaning his own room and making his lunch himself (much to their mother's praise - and unlike his sister, thus making her look bad in comparison). Also inverted, Tomoki definitely sees Tomoko as his annoying ''older'' sibling.
* BerserkButton: While he always braces himself whenever his sister approaches him, he gets particularly angry at her when she barges into his room unannounced, which she does frequently.
* BigLittleBrother: He's considerably taller and older-looking than his older sister. While it's not particularly strange, as they're only one year apart and both teenagers, it emphasizes how down-to-earth and mature he is in comparison to her.
* ChasteHero: While his sister is a raging pervert, Tomoki is completely unfazed by two girls telling him that they want to see his dick, [[CluelessChickMagnet to the point of failing to pick up that either is interested in him at all]]. Chapter 169 reveals that he owns no pornography whatsoever and that he reacts to [[AccidentalPervert accidentally walking in on a girl naked]] with annoyance rather than embarrassment or arousal. His chasteness is so notable that Akari's friend, Sayaka, suspects he may not be heterosexual at all, but ''soccer''sexual.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Both Kotomi and Akari pine for him, but he remains oblivious to their feelings even after they both blurt out in his presence that they would like to see his dick, and shows no interest in romance in general. In later chapters, he seems to catch on to Kotomi's crush on him (mostly as a result of Kotomi repeatedly embarrassing herself in his presence because of said crush), but at this point, he is too weirded out by her to reciprocate. Later, even [[spoiler:Sachi]] of all people falls for him [[LoveAtFirstSight after a single conversation]].
* CovertPervert: Subverted. Tomoko constantly accuses him of being [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Caught With His Pants Down]] whenever she enters his room, but he's always shown to simply be listening to music, reading a book or sleeping. Likewise, whenever Tomoko accuses him of [[BrotherSisterIncest being attracted to her]], he expresses disgust and confusion about why she would even suggest it. Later, when forced to sit down and have lunch with Kotomi and Akari by Tomoko, it's made pretty clear that he simply isn't interested in having a girlfriend.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Like both his parents and his sister, though his are much less pronounced.
* DeadpanSnarker: In response to Tomoko's antics.
* ExtremeDoormat: Zigzagged. He will only put up with his sister's shit for so long and liberally employs physical force to shut her up, but he tends to let just about everyone else walk all over him. Tomoki hardly puts up any resistance to the unwanted attention he gets from all the assorted girls who take a shine to him, particularly Masaki who has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace, and can't even find it in himself to refuse hospitality when Sayaka pretty much invites herself and Akari into his room for a study session without waiting for his input.
* FacePalmOfDoom: When ticked off, he simply grips his sister's head really hard.
* FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: In a home video their mom found in episode 7, he said like a little kid he wanted to marry Tomoko. He was notably disturbed when he saw this video (also because of how much more affectionate he was towards her).
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Responsible to Tomoko's Foolish. Despite being younger than her, Tomoki has a much better work ethic, helps around the house more willingly, and appears to get better grades than her while also playing soccer.
* GetOut: Practically his {{Catchphrase}}, as he says it whenever his sister enters his room without permission.
* GrumpyBear: Tomoki maintains a pretty sullen attitude even when he's not around his annoying sister.
* HiddenDepths: Generally comes off as a grouchy loner, though this is almost entirely because we nearly only ever get to see him when he's forced to put up with Tomoko's obnoxious antics. On the occasions where we get to see his life outside of his sister, he is shown to be a surprisingly popular guy with a large friend group, multiple female admirers and an active spot on his school's soccer team.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: ''Nothing'' about the female form interests this guy. When he and the rest of the soccer team run by Tomoko and Asuka, the guys comment on how gorgeous they think Asuka is, while Tomoki can only grouse about seeing a shrimp (his sister). When [[ItMakesSenseInContext Akari is stuck playing Twister all by herself in his room]], he only looks on boredly and wanting nothing to do with the game. Then there are his numerous AccidentalPervert moments with Masaki, which he only ever reacts to with annoyance.
* IHaveNoSon: Sibling variation. He exclusively refers to Tomoko as "that girl", even in his own thoughts. This is in stark contrast to when he was young, where he affectionately called her "nee-chan".
* JerkassToOne: Tends to physically rein in his sister if needed. That said, deep down he is a generally good-natured guy who is shown to be perfectly nice and friendly when dealing with people who aren't Tomoko.
* MatureYoungerSibling: Tomoki takes school seriously and does chores, unlike his older sister Tomoko, the socially dead otaku who would rather just play video games all day. [[BigLittleBrother He's even taller than her to symbolize that he's the more mature one]].
* TheOneGuy: Currently the only major male character. Justified due to Tomoko having problems working up the courage to talk to other girls, let alone guys. This is briefly lampshaded when, after realizing that she has begun interacting with other girls more frequently, Tomoko vows to try to talk to a guy, only to awkwardly barge into Tomoki's room, wave at him and then leave.
* OnlySaneMan: The only major character who is able to completely shut down Tomoko's antics before they escalate even further. It helps that [[WouldHitAGirl he's willing to get violent with her]]. He maintains this role even as the cast expands; responding to the increasingly bizarre antics of the people around his sister with the same exasperation he has when dealing with her.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: All evidence points to him having a perfectly normal and fulfilling school life, in contrast to his sister.
* OutOfFocus: As one of the few people Tomoko was comfortable talking to for the longest time, he used to be a very prominent character in the manga. Once Tomoko finally started forming some close bonds at school, Tomoki's appearances were reduced to the occasional [[ADayInTheLimelight day in the limelight]] chapter.
* PerpetualFrowner: He's always wearing a grumpy expression of some sort, at least when around his sister.
* PetTheDog: Sometimes he takes pity on Tomoko. Notably, he expresses relief during her second-year graduation that she has managed to make some friends by the end of the year. Of course, he also makes a point of noting [[WeirdnessMagnet how all of her new friends seem to be a bunch of weirdos]].
* ThePowerOfHate: Thinking about various occasions when Tomoko has pissed him off causes him to tap into an UnstoppableRage that has allowed him to become the star player of his soccer team. In comparison, thinking about the few occasions when the two of them have actually gotten along causes him to be thrown off his game and miss scoring the winning goal.
* TheQuietOne: Even when talking to people that he doesn't hate (as in, anyone other than Tomoko), he still rarely says more than a few words at a time.
* TheReliableOne: Viewed as this by his parents. While Tomoko's laziness and rude personality results in her frequently screwing up, their parents can always count on Tomoki to meet, or even occasionally exceed their expectations.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: One of his most frequent responses to his sister's wacky antics is staring at her for a few moments and then promptly walking away without even so much as asking what she's doing. He's even started doing this in regards to the girls in his own class getting on his nerves, opting to eat lunch by himself in a narrow alleyway that Tomoko once showed him just so he doesn't have to hear them.
* SiblingYinYang: With Tomoko.
* TheStoic: His only emotion is seemingly a perpetually-annoyed calm. Even when he isn't particularly agitated, his expressions remain dour and his speech remains curt.
* StraightMan: Serves as this whenever he shares a scene with his sister.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Invoked in chapter 106. Ucchi claims that his eyes and mouth are very similar to Tomoko's, which is how she is instantly able to tell that the two are siblings. Hina also comments on their similarity in chapter 134.
* TranquilFury: While he's frequently pissed off at his sister, he only explodes at her when she's being particularly obnoxious. Otherwise, he remains fairly stoic when dealing with her.
* UnkemptBeauty: Despite sharing his sister's CreepyShadowedUndereyes while also being a PerpetualFrowner, giving him a fairly disheveled and unfriendly appearance at all times, he is seen as attractive by girls. This may be because AllGirlsWantBadBoys.
* TheUnsmile: One of the very few times he ever smiles is to Akari's friend, Sayaka, once she encourages him to do his best after getting him stuck in the lead role of a play their class is putting on. It's obviously forced to a very painful degree, and Akari compares it to the way an animal would bare its teeth as an intimidation tactic.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: While he's suggested to be a decent guy when not around his sister at his present age, old home videos of him as a kid show that he used to be ''much'' more chipper.
* VitriolicBestBuds: What few glimpses we catch of him with his friends imply this. While they're a lot more boisterous than he is, Tomoki's not above throwing the occasional good-natured insult at them.
* WouldHitAGirl: He's not above lashing out when Tomoko's getting on his nerves (giving her a kick, grabbing her face, etc.). He invoked [[WouldntHitAGirl the other trope]] one time Tomoko was annoying him. Then when her antics went too far, he had no choice but to strike her into calming down.
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[[folder:The Kuroki Parents]]
->'''Mrs. Kuroki voiced by:''' Creator/RisaHayamizu (Japanese), Creator/ShelleyCaleneBlack (English)
->'''Mr. Kuroki voiced by:''' RyÅ Iwasaki (Japanese), Creator/DavidWald (English)
Tomoko's and Tomoki's parents.
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* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Like both of her children, Mrs. Kuroki sports a pair of these. Though unlike theirs, hers are substantially less visible. Also, judging from [[https://www.reddit.com/r/watamote/comments/61m6y4/volume_11_bonus_postcard_young_watamom_and_her/ a bonus drawing by Nico Tanigawa]], she got her eye bags at a later age than her kids did. Mr. Kuroki is also revealed to have these in the single panel where we get to see one of his eyes reflected in a rearview mirror.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Well, "limelight" isn't exactly right, but the chapter "Because I'm Not Popular, I'll Spend Time With My Dad" marks the first time Mr. Kuroki has ever had a significant amount of screen time and focuses on Tomoko going on a fishing trip with him.
* TheFaceless: During the few occasions where he actually appears, Mr. Kuroki's face is never completely shown. We've been shown, at various different points, his hair, mouth, and eyes, though, so we have a decent idea of what he looks like.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mrs. Kuroki has no idea that Tomoko is a loner with no friends [[spoiler:until chapter 90, when Ogino mentions this during their parent-teacher conference]]. In fact, Tomoko actively tried to hide this from her mother, e.g. by lying to her about having fun with her classmates in one of the Christmas specials. Mr. Kuroki has it even worse, getting almost all of his information about his children secondhand from his wife.
* NoNameGiven: The only reason we even know their last name is because we know their children's. They're exclusively called "mom" and "dad" in-universe.
* ParentalFavoritism: Played with. Mrs. Kuroki loves both Tomoko and Tomoki equally but is often exasperated at her daughter for being lazy and irresponsible. This causes Tomoko to become slightly resentful whenever her mom praises Tomoki for his maturity and self-reliance.
* {{Salaryman}}: Judging from his usual clothing of a suit and the fact that he's almost never around the house due to being too busy working, Mr. Kuroki is one of these.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Mrs. Kuroki was shown to resemble a tidier-looking Tomoko when she was younger, and, from what we've seen of his face, Mr. Kuroki resembles an older Tomoki.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** After Tomoko complains about having to help with housework, Mrs. Kuroki calls her out on the fact that Tomoki not only helps out without complaint, but he does so on top of also having Club Activities and studying for his High School Entrance Exam.
** When Tomoko forgets to mail Tomoki's application to the entrance exams for a school in Saitama, the furious mother subjects her daughter to a very harsh lecture about how she ruined her brother's future.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Mr. Kuroki's appearances can be counted on one hand and are extremely brief. At all other times, it can be easy to forget that Tomoko even has a dad.
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[[folder:Kiko "Kii-chan" Satozaki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieKugimiya (Japanese), Creator/JulietSimmons (English)
Tomoko and Tomoki's thirteen-year-old cousin and a seventh-grade schoolgirl. Having been fed a steady stream of face-saving lies by Tomoko, she idolizes her older cousin.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Ever since she lost Kii's respect, Tomoko has come to see her cousin as this and always dreads their meetings.
* AudienceSurrogate: Her reaction to Tomoko's card game.
* BrokenPedestal: How she sees Tomoko after all her attempts to look cool backfires spectacularly on her. Unlike other examples though, she takes the revelation well, and the next time they meet her admiration is replaced not with utter disdain, but with pity and appreciation that at least she tried her best.
* CreepyChild: When she gets in a bad mood, Kii becomes very...unsettling. It's bad enough that Tomoko regards her as TheDreaded and she's always painted in a sinister light in Tomoko's dreams. [[spoiler:To say nothing of the nightmare she had where Kii-chan implicitly [[BlackComedyRape raped her with an eggplant.]] As Tomoko woke up from that nightmare it turned out that Kii was actually in her room, watching her sleep.]]
* DeathGlare: Pulled one mixed with a ThousandYardStare when she was angry with Tomoko, also...
-->''"No! Just take it."''
** This has become a regular expression for her when she is angry, with an added {{Stepford Smile|r}}.
* IncestSubtext: When asked about what kind of boy she likes, Kii-chan responds with "like Onee-chan!", specifying that as someone who makes her heart skip a beat, "like [Tomoko]". Tomoko is understandably unnerved by this.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She means well when she tries to take care of Tomoko after finding out the truth about her, but so far her actions just drive it home to Tomoko how pathetic she has gotten.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoya_Satozaki Tomoya Satozaki]].
* NiceGirl: An unusual role for a Type-A {{Tsundere}} specialist like Creator/RieKugimiya. She's so nice she doesn't harbor any grudge against Tomoko for unwittingly breaking her good impression of her.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until chapter 60, where it's revealed that her given name is Kiko. Her full name is revealed in chapter 141.
* PerpetualSmiler: Is almost never seen without a smile, especially when around Tomoko.
* ReplacementGoldfish: In chapter 60 Tomoko speculates that Kii tries to take care of her because she treats her as a replacement for her deceased dog. [[spoiler: At the end of that chapter Kii even gives Tomoko that dog's hairpin (the one she is always wearing).]]
* SlasherSmile: A lot of her smiles look decidedly empty and sinister, particularly when combined with WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Her response to a rather sad story Tomoko tells her is more verbal than actually emotional.
-->'''Kii''': [''while smiling brightly''] You're so kind, Onee-chan. I'm tearing up. \\
'''Tomoko''': [''thinking''] Like hell you are!
* TokenMiniMoe: She has a very cutesy design that stands out from the rest of the cast. It makes sense while she's 12 years old, but it becomes even more notable when she retains it even as she approaches her mid-teens.
* UnwantedAssistance: She wants to help Tomoko become a better person, but Tomoko, who knows she's driven by pity and finds Kii's efforts demeaning, wants nothing to do with it.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Whenever she gets unpleasantly surprised, aggravated, disapproving, or devious, her eyes take on this look, which never fails to unnerve Tomoko. This is practically her default look in Tomoko's mind since Kii always has these eyes whenever Tomoko thinks or dreams about her.
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!!Tomoko's Middle School Friends
[[folder:Yuu Naruse]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Creator/EmilyNeves (English)
Tomoko's best friend from middle school, who managed the transition to adolescence far more gracefully than Tomoko. She was originally very quiet and nerdy; however, after moving to high school she dyed her hair, improved her fashion sense and personal appearance, became more outgoing and eventually got a steady boyfriend. Despite changing so much, she remains a kind friend to Tomoko, though she remains blissfully oblivious to how different their social lives are and is unaware of the more unpleasant aspects of Tomoko's personality.
She is the protagonist of the spin-off manga ''It's Your Fault My Friend's Not Popular'', which details her middle school life with Tomoko from her perspective.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In the final episode of the anime, she starts to chase after a distraught Tomoko out of concern for her but ends up being distracted by a cat.
* BeautifulAllAlong: An interesting case where she's introduced after having this already happen to her. Back in middle school she wore thick glasses and unflattering clothing but was still beautiful underneath them.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: After embarrassingly winning a bet in the Christmas special of 2016, Yuu makes Tomoko and Komiyama sing Christmas carols together for an hour. She then makes use of ExactWords by saying they'll have to do the same thing next Christmas.]]
* BookDumb: Yuu is very socially aware and has a knack for treating people how they want to be treated, but her grades aren't very good. Yuu even recognizes that Tomoko wanting to get into Aoyama University means that Yuu probably won't be able to follow her because of the disparity between their grades. Yuu comes to the conclusion that she should back off from Tomoko so that Tomoko has a better chance of getting into the university.
* BrainlessBeauty: Despite her beauty and kindness, she's oblivious to Tomoko's unsavory nature and has below-average grades. In the second Christmas special Tomoko opines that even using Twitter or keeping a blog would be too complicated for Yuu to handle. She also remains oblivious to the animosity between Tomoko and Kotomi [[spoiler:until chapter 54 of the main story. In chapter 124 she also does not pick up on Yuri's jealousy of her friendship with Tomoko, and is just happy that Tomoko's new friends like her so much]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Probably one of the rare occasions where OutOfFocus actually helped. As the third year rolls on and she learns of Tomoko's desire to get into the more academically prestigious Aoyama University and Tomoko's now large group of friends, Yuu starts to show insecurity at the possibility of being left behind by Tomoko while not wanting her lack of intelligence to drag her friend down and stop her from achieving her dream.
* ClosetGeek: She's currently this, due to her popularity having soared at her high school after she cleaned up her appearance. At one point she says that she's happy that she can still hang out with Tomoko since she doesn't have anyone else to talk to about anime-related things.
* CoolPet: In chapter 64, while catching bugs with Tomoko and Kotomi, she manages to catch a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynastinae rhinoceros beetle]]. Tomoko and Kotomi comment on its coolness and rarity, and Tomoko convinces Yuu to keep it as a pet.
* CluelessChickMagnet: She's completely unaware of the effect she had on Tomoko and Kotomi in middle school, and even in high school, she still hasn't caught on to Tomoko's blatantly obvious lust for her.
* CovertPervert: One thing she ''isn't'' oblivious about is innuendo.
* DecoyProtagonist: In the spin-off, she is set up as the protagonist at first, but the narrative focus eventually moves from her to Tomoko and Komiyama, and the story is mostly about the two's "[[SitcomArchNemesis friendship]]."
* DudeMagnet: She draws guys to her without even trying, much to Tomoko's eternal chagrin.
* DumbBlonde: Her hair is dyed, but otherwise applies.
* DumbIsGood: She's the ditziest of the three middle school friends, but also by far the sweetest.
* EroticDream: [[spoiler: Implied in chapter 7 of the spin-off. Tomoko and Kotomi are pretty delighted by it.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Tomoko and Kotomi both have pretty obvious crushes on her in middle school and separate high schools have done little to ebb their lust.
* {{Foil}}: To Tomoko, also to Kotomi. She had been, initially, shy like her two friends but was able to overcome it and build a social life, unlike Tomoko. In middle school, she already had a hidden natural beauty that drew attention. Most importantly, she has shown negative feelings towards other people the least, unlike her friends.
* FriendToBugs: Played with. She doesn't particularly deal well with insects, but when she goes bug-catching with her friends, she insists on letting the critters go when Tomoko wanted to watch them eat each other. She also keeps a rhinoceros beetle she catches as a pet.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: After taking her glasses off, her popularity soared.
* GoodBadGirl: Mostly implied, but she's suggested to have attended [[WildTeenParty Wild Teen Parties]] before and may have already lost her virginity, both things that the much sleazier Tomoko could only dream of doing.
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, in chapter 57! She deals with it in a completely different way than Tomoko, though.]]
* HeadTurningBeauty: ''Everyone'' who sees her is astounded by her looks, she has no problem drawing attention from guys, and even girls like Tomoko and Kotomi express attraction to her.
* TheHeart: She is pretty much the only reason Tomoko and Kotomi even talk to each other, and also the only reason they are willing to be civil when they do talk. [[spoiler: In chapter 54 she takes an active role to the trope.]]
* HiddenDepths: It's implied that while she may not be as [[BookDumb academically smart]] as the rest of the cast, she's much sharper than she lets on. Yuu's fully aware that her two best friends don't like each other but is able to get them to at least tolerate one another by steering them to an arcade, where they can hone their rivalry into playing fun games together. One Christmas special shows she does indeed have her own devilish side that can embarrass them ForTheLulz.
* ImportantHaircut: In Chapter 100, Yuu cuts her hair to shoulder length, due in part to [[spoiler: breaking up with her boyfriend.]]
* InformedAttractiveness: Everyone who sees Yuu always makes a note on how cute and attractive she is. While the manga has plenty of attractive and fashionable girls, she stands out as the only one who is consistently given this treatment.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Her casual remarks indicating that she has a much more fulfilling social life than Tomoko can hope for, including having a boyfriend, cause Tomoko a lot of distress.
** Komiyama was also hit with this, in chapter 6 of the spin-off.
** During Tomoko's, Yuu's and Kotomi's Christmas party in the 2016 Christmas special Tomoko come up with the idea for the trio to buy one another funny gifts that would be completely useless to the recipient rather than ordinary Christmas gifts. In response, Yuu [[spoiler:buys Tomoko a pack of condoms. Yuu claims to have thought about it simply as a funny gift, and is embarrassed when Tomoko points out what such a gift implies about [[NerdsAreVirgins what Yuu thinks of Tomoko]].]]
** In chapter 124 Yuu says that she would love to meet Kotomi's friends, and claims that they have to be kind if they are friends with her; Kotomi notes in her InnerMonologue that the way Yuu phrased that is a bit hurtful for her.
* MoralityPet: She was the only person for whom Tomoko displayed any kind of empathy for in the early parts of the manga.
* MsFanservice: Or at least this is how Tomoko sees her. While her clothing is occasionally somewhat risque, she herself is quite modest and buttoned-down.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihisa_Naruse Yoshihisa Naruse]].
* NiceGirl: Overall, a pretty nice and sweet (if somewhat airheaded) person.
* ObliviousToLove: Doesn't notice Tomoko's crush on her.
* OnlyFriend: To Tomoko (who even admits this in one of her {{Inner Monologue}}s in chapter 29) in the early chapters, and also to Kotomi in the prequel. Not so much in later chapters, as Tomoko makes a few more friends, while Kotomi befriends a girl named Itou and has a somewhat OddFriendship with her romantic rival Akari. Even then, Yuu seems to remain the closest friend to Tomoko and Kotomi.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: In anime flashbacks, though her eyes are visible in both manga.
* {{Otaku}}: She was this during middle school. Now that she's in high school and has a better social life, she's more of a ClosetOtaku around everyone except Tomoko and Kotomi, whom she feels she can be more open about otaku-related things with.
* OutOfFocus: Yuu has had fewer appearances in the story since Tomoko managed to get some semblance of social life at her school.
* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: Used to clue the reader in to the frequent discomfort or awkwardness beneath her perpetual smile.
* ShesAllGrownUp: She was a mousy, nerdy and shy girl in middle school who became a trendy, beautiful and outgoing girl in high school.
* TheSocialExpert: She may be an academic dunce, but Yuu is very good at reading people and understanding why they act as they do without needing to hear them explain themselves. She functionally teaches Tomoko and Kotomi to tolerate each other better by steering them towards activities that would allow them to channel their rivalry in less hostile ways, and defuses tensions between Tomoko and Asuka that would otherwise have risen due to their TwiceShy relationship.
* StepfordSmiler: Has a tendency to put up a cheerful front, even when she's going through bouts of depression, often from the trouble she has with her boyfriend.
* StupidGood: Her niceness can be very high when it comes to her friends. For example, when they were in the pool:
--> '''Tomoko:''' ''"If I peed in here, would you pull away from me?"''\\
'''Yuu:''' ''"I wouldn't. Because we're friends."''
* ThousandYardStare: A minor running gag whenever she becomes [[BookDumb overwhelmed by academia]], displaying a vacant look on her face complete with an empty smile that displays no happiness whatsoever. Tomoko thinks she looks like a rape victim this way.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Tomoko and Kotomi are both rather self-absorbed and prone to seeking out flaws in people, while Yuu is sweet and rarely criticizes others.
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[[folder:Kotomi Komiyama]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaoriMizuhashi
One of Yuu's old middle school friends. She immediately takes a dislike to Tomoko, who sees Kotomi as a rival for Yuu's attention. Unfortunately, Kotomi proves to be just as passive-aggressive and anti-social as Tomoko.
Kotomi is formally introduced in the spin-off manga ''It's Your Fault My Friend's Not Popular'', and later on she is re-introduced in the main series. Kotomi does not appear in the anime as it only adapts stories from before her first appearance. However, she appears in a special {{OVA}}, bundled with the Japanese release of the main series's seventh volume.
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* ACupAngst: Just like Tomoko.
* AlliterativeName: Both her first and last name begin with "K".
* AscendedExtra: She first appeared in Tomoko's flashback to her middle school years in Chapter 30 of the main series as the third, unnamed girl running the marathon with Tomoko and Yuu; she's only seen in three frames and has no speaking lines. In the spin-off series, starting with Chapter 2, she is one of the main characters. She then makes her formal debut in the main manga in Chapter 46.
* BerserkButton:
** Badmouthing her crush Tomoki, as Tomoko found out in chapter 54.
** ''Any'' girl getting close to Tomoki is enough to invoke her hostility.
* {{Bookworm}}: Always shown reading a book during her job as the school librarian.
* ButtMonkey: Not only is her crush on Tomoki unrequited, as he barely knows she even exists, but the plots revolving around said crush tend to end with her in some embarrassing situation or otherwise miserable.
* TheCameo: She makes a short appearance in the OVA that's about a minute long, which constitutes the only time she's ever been animated (and voiced).
* CovertPervert: Revealed to be one in Chapter 7 of the spin-off, though she is in denial about it. Also, in chapter 91 of the main series she blurts out that she is interested in Tomoki's dick... in Tomoki's presence, no less. As of chapter 101, she seems to have accepted that this is a part of her personality.
* CrossPoppingVeins: When Tomoko pisses her off. Which is often.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: During periods of extensive relaxation, she has a habit of mumbling some of her inner thoughts out loud. Normally, this isn't a problem as it usually happens in private, but she also does it while studying with her friends over Skype, which leads to much awkwardness. Particularly when her inner thoughts are about Tomoki.
* DontYouDarePityMe: If there's one thing Kotomi hates more than Tomoko being a {{Jerkass}} to her, it's the rare times when Tomoko actually expresses pity for her.
* {{Flanderization}}: Kotomi in Tomomote and the first few chapters after her Watamote debut was a shy and awkward girl with an interest in baseball and the Chiba Lotte Marines and a crush on Tomoki. As Watamote progressed, however, Kotomi's interest in the Marines became an obsession, to the point where Ogino had to stop her introduction at the start of the third year because she wouldn't shut up about it, and she took charge of the softball team during the sports meet. Kotomi's crush on Tomoki, originally innocent, became more creepy and perverted over time, and eventually reached the point where she was open about wanting to see his dick, stalked him at sports events to take photos, and even blurted out that she wanted to lick his eye bags.
* {{Foil}}: To Tomoko. She's basically her but more proper looking and with more common sense.
* ForgettableCharacter: Tomoko completely forgot that she existed as soon as she graduated from middle school. To be fair to Kotomi, this may have more to do with Tomoko not liking her enough to bother remembering her than it does with her flat out being a forgettable person.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: A comedic example. She and Tomoko had a friendship that was tenuous at best in middle school and immediately split apart as soon as [[TheHeart Yuu]] was taken out of the picture. By the time they reunite in high school, their relationship is entirely hostile and only becomes slightly more civil on the occasions where they both hang out with Yuu at the same time.
* FriendlyRivalry: With Akari. They both pine for Tomoki, and in an omake set after events of chapter 91 Akari even declares herself to be Kotomi's rival. However, so far there seems to be little animosity between the two, and Kotomi actually seems to care about Akari's well-being a bit. Kotomi encourages Akari to be honest about her feelings for Tomoki in chapter 101, and later, in chapter 108, she hesitates whether to tell Akari that Tomoki greeted her, because she didn't want to rub it in Akari's face. Akari, in turn, wanted to badmouth Kotomi when asked about her by Tomoki but backed off when she realized that Kotomi's feelings for Tomoki are the same as her own. In chapters 112 and 113 Akari is even shown helping Kotomi prepare the Valentine's Day chocolates for Tomoki and it turns out it was Akari who convinced Kotomi to give the Valentine's Day chocolates to Tomoki.
* GameOfNerds: She's a massive baseball enthusiast who follows the Chiba Lotte Marines with almost religious zeal. Of note is that she knows the make, model, and plate number of every player's car on the team. Chapter 117 reveals that she was once a member of the baseball cheer squad.
* GreenEyedMonster: She does not take kindly to other girls showing romantic interest with Tomoki, or interacting with him in any way, [[UpToEleven or even talking about him]]. [[spoiler:Even finding out about the existence of Kii in chapter 141 triggers her jealousy.]]
* IAmWhatIAm: While Tomoko's accusations on her fixation with Tomoki's genitals used to be a source of angst, Kotomi has made peace with that perverse side of her and freely admits that she would in fact love to see his dick. As of chapter 101, Tomoko's accusations no longer bother her.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: In a clothes store she hinted an interest in cosplaying. In chapter 79 she looks like the protagonist of a Final Fantasy game.
* InSeriesNickname: "Komi-something". Also: "Glasses". Both given by Tomoko.
** Her friend, Itou, refers to her as "Koto."
* KickTheDog: Calling Shizuku a pig to her face. In the past, if Kotomi wasn't able to bottle up her hostile feelings towards anyone she perceived as a rival for Tomoki's affections, then she was at least able to catch herself and make an effort to retain some civility, but this was the first time she was very open and unapologetic about it.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Tends to lose her common sense and act irrationally whenever the plot involves her crush Tomoki in some way.
* MyParentsAreDead: [[spoiler:Has revealed that her father died from an illness when she was five. Yuu gets awkward, Tomoko... not much.]]
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Fittingly, she shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoru_Komiyama Satoru Komiyama]].
* NerdGlasses: As a {{Bookworm}} she's among the more nerdy members of the cast, which she wears glasses to emphasize.
* NotHelpingYourCase:
** Like Tomoko, she insists that they are by absolutely no means friends. But when she gets into an angry confrontation with Masaki over the latter's apparent closeness to Tomoki, she tries to play it off as just BigSisterInstinct for her "best friend's" little brother, which only reinforces everyone's beliefs that they are friends.
** Furthermore, the above incident happens while Kotomi is trying to apologize to Masaki for lashing out at her. She does this in the hope of not looking like a terrible person in front of Tomoki while also downplaying her jealousy...only to immediately lose her temper ''again'' once Masaki starts getting friendly with Tomoki once more.
* OnlySaneWoman: Has more common sense than her two friends, at least in matters not related to her crush Tomoki or potential romantic rivals.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Sometimes she is presented like this depending on the situation. Her glasses are a little variant of this trope because they are not so big.
* {{Otaku}}: She shares the same interests in anime that Tomoko does, but to nowhere near the same extent. It's the subject of baseball where her obsessions really skyrocket into otaku territory, especially when it comes to the Chiba Lotte Marines.
* OutOfFocus: Not to the same extent as Yuu, but her screentime has been reduced considerably since the cast has grown in size.
* PrecisionFStrike:
-->''"Shithead."''
--> ''[[InnerMonologue "That fucking bitch!"]]''
* RightInFrontOfMe: In Chapter 2 of the spin-off she tried to break the ice with Tomoko by telling her a story about having a laugh in the previous year when she heard that some middle schooler was still riding a bike with training wheels. Guess who that middle schooler was?
* SheCleansUpNicely: While she may seem plain and mousy at school, Kotomi is shown to have a keen fashion sense that gives her a more showy appearance. Most notably, she managed to turn a bathing suit that Tomoko suggested to her as a joke into something very stylish at the beach, and dialogue implies she even got some boys' attention with it.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Tomoko. She dislikes Tomoko because the latter tends to act like a {{Jerkass}} towards her for [[GreenEyedMonster reasons she can't fathom]], and only ever strikes back at her when provoked. This is eventually downplayed massively in third year as Tomoko doesn't have as much reason to be jealous of her with her own expanded friend group and the two are now able to much better tolerate each other as a result.
* StalkerWithACrush: Acts like this towards Tomoki in some chapters, though this is PlayedForLaughs. In chapter 88 she is shown taking photos of him during the athletics meet, getting turned on when he is made to wear baseball uniform and hoping he would be wearing the kind of uniform where the understocking is showing. In the very next chapter, when let into Tomoki's room by Tomoko, she considers looking through his drawers or his trash before deciding to lie in his bed instead.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Even though they mutually dislike one another, she and Tomoko are frequently on the same wavelength, coming to the same conclusions independently, and even acting as they can communicate without even speaking.
* TheStrategist: Appoints herself as the strategist of her softball team during the sports tournament in her third year of high school. It seems not to be very successful, as Minami doesn't even understand her directions, and other girls are weirded out by her.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In spite of their mutual dislike, she and Tomoko are at least willing to cooperate to keep Yuu happy.
* UnknownRival: When they reunite in Chapter 46 of the main story, Tomoko has forgotten about Kotomi. On the other hand, Kotomi bears a grudge against Tomoko. (The next chapter reveals that they didn't spend all of their middle school years in the same class.) Now both are aware of the other's dislike.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Tomoko on their ''best'' of days, particularly past Chapter 57. On their worst, it's a SitcomArchNemesis relationship. Even their classmates, Yuu [[spoiler:and Kii]] seem to think they've got this kind of relationship going with how in-sync they act despite their affirmations to the contrary.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: When she is surprised and/or angry.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Yuu is the only link that makes her and Tomoko tolerate each other.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The reason she despises Tomoko. Both are antisocial and their OnlyFriend is Yuu. Each one of them believes the other is below her.
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!!The Kyoto Group
[[folder:Masaki Yoshida]]
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A girl with blonde hair and a bad temper that Tomoko has a habit of pissing off.
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* AsleepInClass: If she's attending class, chances are good she's sleeping at her desk.
* BerserkButton: When first introduced she has two: 1) perverted acts in general, especially being groped, and 2) being called a delinquent. [[NoSocialSkills Tomoko]] being [[AccidentalPervert Tomoko]], she manages to repeatedly push both these buttons, and it seems she is becoming yet another BerserkButton for Yoshida. During the trip to Disneyland, it is also shown that she hates it when people criticize cute things that she likes [[spoiler:which causes her to start a fight with one of her yankii friends.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early chapters portrayed her as being an ordinary girl with a FaceOfAThug who Tomoko was exceptionally good at pissing off. Later chapters show that she genuinely ''is'' a delinquent with a HairTriggerTemper, but also portray her as being a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold.
* DelinquentHair: She's a bleached blonde.
* FaceOfAThug: Certainly ''looks'' like a standard delinquent girl, but is heavily suggested to simply be an ordinary girl who is into punk fashion that Tomoko just ''assumes'' is a delinquent.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Turns out she and Tomoko (and Kotomi for that matter) actually first met while they were still middle school students. Tomoko tried to demonstrate to Yuu how to safely walk past a delinquent without incurring their wrath, only to accidentally kick Masaki's bottle of soda away and incur her wrath anyway. By all appearances, no one seems to recall the incident or who was involved.
* GenderBlenderName: Unlike the names of the other girls, "Masaki" is a unisex name in Japan which fits for a tomboy like her.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She seems to have an affinity for cute things in general.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Tomoko mentions that she wears Hello Kitty-print panties. A later chapter suggests that ''all'' of her underwear features cute mascot characters on them, to the point where Tomoko claims that the fact that she wears them is an OpenSecret.
* HairTriggerTemper: She is always quick to threaten or even hit Tomoko, sometimes with little provocation. On the other hand, she doesn't act like this when interacting with other characters, so maybe it's just that Tomoko is really good at hitting her {{Berserk Button}}s. Notably, in chapter 106 she does not lash out at Anna who called her a moron to her face. Later chapters, especially those covering the trip to Disneyland during her third year of high school, show that she can be quite friendly when in a good mood [[spoiler: though these chapters also show that even her yankii friends aren't safe from her wrath]].
* HiddenDepths: Despite what Tomoko thinks of her, she is shown to like cute things, couldn't recognize a love hotel when every other character could and apparently plans to celebrate her [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_Day Coming of Age Day]] in Disneyland. She also notices that Hina and Akane have a falling out in chapter 129, and tries to bond with Akane over the problems they both have with their friends [[spoiler:though she quickly changes her mind and attacks Akane when the latter pushes one of her {{Berserk Button}}s.]]
** There are enough hints that Masaki is actually much more well-off than her being a ''yankii'' implies. The brand of pudding she bought as a gift is somewhat pricy in the real world, she's shown to have both a scooter and managed to rent a van for her friends, but not even once mentions working part-time to fund them. Finally, when we're introduced to her mother, she doesn't look like a housewife at all (unlike Tomoko's mom), and instead looks like a longtime career woman.
* HotBlooded: The angry type. She also gets extremely fired up when she's excited about something, such as when talking about how cool Disneyland is.
* HugeSchoolGirl: Standing at 165 cm, the only non-adult taller than her is Asuka. As such she's the tallest among Tomoko's original circle of acquaintances.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Invoked in-universe, as several characters are convinced Yoshida is a delinquent, not helped by her bleached hair and [[HairTriggerTemper volatile personality]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While she's generally angry and annoyed, this is mostly because she is justifiably pissed off at Tomoko for saying or doing something insensitive to her. Otherwise, she is shown to be a relatively pleasant person who seems to actually like Tomoko to some degree.
* LastNameBasis: Mostly because Tomoko hasn't bothered to learn her first name. It isn't until she introduces herself to her third-year class several chapters after her debut that we learn her full name.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Her intimidating appearance and short temper cause others to overlook her softer side. In a sort of twist on this trope, Tomoko ''also'' completely overlooks her softer side when interacting with her, but interacts with her much more openly than others do, allowing Yuri (and the reader) to see that there's more to her than her tough looks.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuta_Yoshida Yuta Yoshida]].
* NeverMyFault: She's completely unapologetic about her outbursts. If Masaki's violent anger causes any problems, it's the fault of whoever provoked her, not Masaki for losing her temper.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: She gives Tomoko a ride home on her friend's scooter for no reason other than to be a chum. Doing so gets them both suspended for a week.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Beating up Tomoko for calling her a delinquent only further convinces Tomoko that Yoshida is a delinquent.
* OddFriendship: She and Tomoko couldn't be any more different, and going off of most of their interactions, you'd think they'd hate each other's guts. As later chapters show, however, Yoshida has no problem letting Tomoko hang around with her, despite Tomoko pressing her buttons sometimes.
** It's telling that that nowadays Tomoko simply ''can't'' imagine Yoshida not being around with her and Yuri. Ironically, Masaki seems to be the only person among her friends that she has absolutely no issue with introducing to the rest of her family.
** Yoshida seems to have become good friends with [[NiceGirl Mako]] during the Disneyland field trip, to the point where Mako is helping her with her future career choices and texting her during Yoshida's suspension.
** She takes a surprising shine to Tomoki as they continue bumping into each other, and responds to his AccidentalPervert moments much less violently than she does with Tomoko's.
* PerpetualFrowner: There's seldom a moment when she isn't scowling, which only fuels how intimidated Tomoko is by her.
* PervertRevengeMode: Her preferred response to Tomoko's antics.
* PetTheDog: She does occasionally do nice things for Tomoko, like offer to share an umbrella as they walk home on a rainy day. It's just that Tomoko always runs her mouth off at the wrong time and gets punched in the face. In chapter 116 she actually drags Tomoko over to Megumi, who was graduating, so that Tomoko, who was too nervous to approach, could say good-bye.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: A tough-talking and thuggish girl who likes all things cute and is generally pretty naive and innocent.
* {{Tsundere}}: A platonic example. She's almost always (justifiably) pissed off at Tomoko but still seems to like and care about her. She displays a similar attitude toward Tomoki, being casual and friendly to him one moment before switching to angry when he has an AccidentalPervert moment, though it's ambiguous if that's just as platonic.
* VitriolicBestBuds: The vast majority of her interactions with Tomoko consist of Tomoko saying or doing something insensitive or perverted to her and Yoshida responding with anger and violence. To onlookers, Yoshida appears to be bullying her. Gradually turns into grudging tolerance, especially after their trip to Disneyland, to the point that Masaki herself ''proactively'' invites Tomoko to hang out after school.
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[[folder:Yuri Tamura]]
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A fairly stoic girl from Tomoko's class who ends up in her group for their class trip after a falling out with her friend.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Post-CharacterizationMarchesOn, Yuri displays many symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: [[NoSocialSkills Little to no social ability and awareness]], [[BrutalHonesty speaks bluntly and straightforwardly]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive without a thought for how others will react]], [[TheStoic poor emotional display]], [[TheKlutz is clumsy and uncoordinated]], [[HairTriggerTemper has issues controlling her temper]] and occasionally focuses on some oddly childish interests.
* AudienceSurrogate: She's more or less taken up the role of the audience's representative within the story in recent chapters. She's a bit of a loner herself, but not nearly to the same degree as Tomoko, and while she is constantly bewildered by the other girl's behavior, she is also both amused enough by it to develop a fondness for her and empathetic enough to it to develop a sense of kinship with her.
* BerserkButton: While Yuri is not fond of Minami, to say the least, most of the time she is able to stay calm even in Minami's presence. However, in chapter 124 [[spoiler:when Mako calls her out on barging into Tomoko's meeting with Yuu and points out that she is acting like Minami would, Yuri actually punches Mako's arm in anger.]]
* BigEater: Yuri has a habit of eating large amounts of food during group meetings, perhaps as a way of avoiding conversation.
* BrutalHonesty: When she does talk to people Yuri is incredibly blunt and straightforward.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Yuri's personality takes a dramatic turn towards the end of the second year, to the point where she practically became a different character. Initially, Yuri had been the OnlySaneMan of the Kyoto trio. She was socially adept enough to mediate conflicts in the group and see through Tomoko attempting reverse psychology while Yoshida fell for it. While she was reserved at times during the Kyoto field trip, she was generally expressive, smiling regularly, being shocked by Tomoko's antics and even being introduced screaming angrily at Mako. From Valentine's Day onward, she became socially inept and unaware to the point of entering AmbiguousDisorder territory, and the end of year party showed her being [[UpToEleven even worse off socially than Tomoko.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: A platonic version. Yuri can be very clingy towards her close friends and doesn't like it when they're involved with others she isn't close to. This is seen in her fight with Mako over joining what was implied to be Minami's group for Kyoto and barging into Tomoko's meet-ups with Yuu and Nemo to engage in PassiveAggressiveKombat.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: In chapter 106, she prevented Tomoko from saying something to Yoshida that would get her punched. Overall, she has a better grasp of what kind of person Tomoko is than the rest of the school. Yuri herself invokes this trope in an omake set during the events of chapter 119, telling Masaki that they should look after Tomoko during the class farewell party because she might do something weird otherwise.
* CovertPervert: Invoked in chapter 145. Tomoko accuses Yuri of being this when she catches her reading an ecchi manga. Yuri on her part insists that she doesn't like this sort of manga and that she checked this particular one for a different reason. [[spoiler:Her willingness to watch porn with Tomoko at an internet café in Chapter 151 kind of gives the game away, though...]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: It's very slow but as third year goes along she starts to occasionally show more emotion. Most notably, laughing during a study trip to the beach with Tomoko, Nemo and Akane and smiling while talking to Miyazaki during the study camp.
* {{Flanderization}}: In a couple of ways:
** When she was first introduced Yuri was occasionally reserved and stand-offish (which was largely because she was separated from Mako for the Kyoto trip) but was generally sociable and expressive, and after the Kyoto field trip she was even cheerful and friendly. Later chapters played up her reserved nature to the point where she was TheStoic, only barely displaying emotion in moments of genuine joy, shock or anger. Likewise, Yuri went from being somewhat stand-offish to either ignoring or passive-aggressively sniping at people she didn't care for.
** The first time Yuri hit someone (Mako in chapter 124) was actually a WhamShot moment, and she only did so out of brief but serious anger over Mako pressing her BerserkButton. Later chapters would have her hit people casually when mildly irritated.
* {{Foil}}: Like many of Tomoko's friends, she can be seen as one to her. Both are introverted, have poor self-esteem, and lack much of a social circle, but while Tomoko is profoundly weird and histrionic, Yuri is one of the most reserved characters. Also, while Tomoko is generally mean but shows increasing moments of kindness and empathy, Yuri is generally kind but has something of a dark side.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Minami's story arc shows that she used to be part of the same friend group as Minami and Sachi in first year but eventually fell out with them.
* TheHeart: Since Tomoko, Mako, and Yoshida are more friends with her than they are with each other, Yuri is pretty much the glue that holds them together. Despite being an introvert, she convinces them to attend the class end-of-the-year party with her just so they can all have one last chance to hang together.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuri values the few friends she's managed to make, and as such is ''very'' attached to them. Seeing them interact in a familiar manner with other people outside her group of four (which includes Mako, Tomoko, and Masaki) causes ''intense'' feelings of jealousy to bubble up, as chapter 124 and 126 show.
* HiddenDepths: Initially introduced as a normal, if a somewhat reserved and stoic girl. Later chapters show that she's not that great at social interactions, and places a ''lot'' of value on the very few friendships she's managed to make. She also gets jealous if any of her friends seem to be getting closer to people outside the group than with her.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Due to her [[NoSocialSkills lack of social awareness]], Yuri tends to say or do things that annoy people around her and not pick up on their irritation. Lampshaded by Ucchi, who remarks it's the reason why Yuri has such a small social circle.
* InSeriesNickname: In Chapter 124, Tomoko considers calling her by a nickname after knowing her for so long, indicating that she conceivably might receive one of these in the near future. [[spoiler:Chapter 126 shows that the fact that Tomoko did not come up with a nickname for her is a sore spot for Yuri.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Yuri can be selfish, and easily becomes a GreenEyedMonster whenever Tomoko is with her other friends. Downplayed in that Yuri is more unaware than truly malicious, she'll back off when she realizes that she's being hurtful, and she can be empathetic and helpful outside of her jealous fits.
* LoonyFriendsImproveYourPersonality: Zig-zagged. Yuri's friendship with Tomoko and Yoshida seems to make Yuri more expressive and openly affectionate to her friends, but eventually, it also brought her issues with jealousy to light.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: A RunningGag with Yuri is that she packs a ''lot'' of strength in her hands and arms despite her slender build, which makes the punches and squeezes that she doles out whenever she gets annoyed really painful.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuhiro_Tamura Tatsuhiro Tamura]].
* NiceGirl: Played with. While she thinks Tomoko is a bit of an idiot, she treats her with respect and kindness, invites her to eat lunch with her, and becomes the loner's first real friend in high school. However, Yuri has issues when it comes to "sharing" her friends, which makes her act standoffish, passive-aggressive, and prone to lashing out. She's even guiltily admitted that she doesn't think she's a nice person.
* NightmareFetishist: She seems to have a taste for the macabre. Tear-jerking, sentimental manga do nothing for her, but something more gory and horrific like ''Manga/{{Goth}}'' is more up her alley. Furthermore, while Yuri says she likes musicals, her favorite is the darkly depressing ''Film/DancerInTheDark''.
* NoodleIncident: She spends most of the Class Trip thinking about how to make up with her friend Mako, but it's never said what caused the falling out, and they seem to have made up by the end. [[spoiler:Later chapters heavily imply that it was because Mako accepted Minami's invite to join the latter's group for the class trip without considering Yuri's feelings about it.]]
* NoSocialSkills: She's very low key about it compared to Tomoko, but Yuri is still very awkward and inept socially. She consistently fails to notice social cues or engage in niceties (as seen in chapter 145 when she simply eats the lunch Mako made without thanking her). Yuri is also very blunt, tactless and even rude when not being reserved or uninterested. From the Disneyland field trip onwards, Yuri actually was shown to be [[UpToEleven even less socially capable than Tomoko.]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark: She gets on the recieving end of this. When Yuri starts bad-talking Tomoko to Yuu, Mako tells her that she's acting an awful lot like Koharu. Yuri's violent reaction to that shows it's not a comparison she likes.
* OddFriendship: Arguably her main group counts but she also winds up developing one with Ucchi's friends during the study camp after they invite her to hang out with them at a hot spring noting that they're surprisingly easy to talk to.
* OnlySaneWoman: She notices how much of an idiot Tomoko is, but still makes an effort to befriend her. She does the same for Yoshida. She's by far the most normal of the three and usually takes it upon herself to try and keep them civil with each other.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Originally presented like this, but subverted over time as she became more and more of a {{Foil}} to Tomoko.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: In later chapters, whenever she gets jealous of other characters getting friendly with Tomoko, she either [[SilentTreatment ostentatiously ignores them]], or tries to one-up them by bringing up inside stories to prove that she's Tomoko's closest friend. [[spoiler:Yuu was her first target in chapter 124, followed by Hina during and after the Disneyland trip, and Shizuku in chapter 132]].
* TheStoic: Downplayed. She's not emotionless, but she maintains a pretty firm poker face no matter what happens around her.
* UnfazedEveryman: Her reactions to her new kind-of-friends' behaviors are much more subdued than you'd expect.
* WhenSheSmiles: She very rarely smiles, and when she does, she'll always be quick to hide it. She almost never laughs either, so when a biting remark from Tomoko gets a small chortle out of Yuri, Mako reacts with visible happiness that someone could actually make Yuri do that.
* WouldNotHitAGirl: Discussed. Yuri herself is a girl and she has no problems hitting Tomoko, who is also a girl albeit a very scruffy-looking one, whenever she says or does something stupid. However, when the latter gets a landmine makeover that makes her [[SheCleansUpNicely appear more feminine and beautiful]], Yuri says she wouldn't be able to hit Tomoko while she looks like that because it would just look like abuse rather than discipline.
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[[folder:Emiri "Ucchi" Uchi]]
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A popular girl from Tomoko's second year class who has strange eyes and similar hair to Yuu. After spending most of her time with her friends in a different group during the class trip, the short time she actually spends with Tomoko leaves a very huge impression on her.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Bad ''girls'' in this case. In Ucchi's mind, Tomoko is a [[ReallyGetsAround sexually promiscuous]] creeper who peeped on her in the shower, stole her panties, watched her while she slept, stalked her relentlessly, and makes a pass at just about every attractive girl she encounters. While it scared her at first, it also got Ucchi interested.
* AmbiguouslyGay: She thinks Tomoko is stalking her to sexually harass her, [[RapeAsComedy maybe more]], which of course frightens her, but when it looks like Tomoko isn't interested in her, Ucchi becomes noticeably miffed.
** In later chapters it starts to look like she might actually have a crush on Tomoko, going by her reaction to Tomoko giving her a secret "Thank You" note or how she was able to instantly tell Tomoki was Tomoko's brother just by looking at his face.
** [[spoiler:Chapter 127 pretty much puts an end to any lingering ambiguity, as Ucchi admits that there's someone she likes. While she doesn't mention who that is, [[HoYay/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular all the clues point in one direction]].]]
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Due to Tomoko's [[NoSocialSkills mannerisms]], [[AmbiguouslyBi comments]] and [[CovertPervert actions]] when interacting with her, she's convinced Tomoko is stalking her and is obviously creeped out when Tomoko is trying to peek under her skirt. However, when she notes her also peeking under the skirts of other girls, her reaction shows this:
--> "So long as you've got a girl to stare at, you don't care who it is?!"
** She later has the same reaction again when she sees Tomoko going shopping with Yuu, who looks similar to herself. Ucchi is convinced that Tomoko is trying to replace her with Yuu.
* AscendedExtra: Made a brief appearance in chapter 59 (as the girl sitting next to Tomoko in a bus and ignoring her to chat with her friends instead) before becoming a recurring character. This appears to be the origin of her NonstandardCharacterDesign; her face is drawn only once in her first appearance and it seems to be simply an indication that she isn't important.
* BettyAndVeronica: Tomoko possibly serves as the Archie to Asuka's Betty and Ucchi's Veronica.
* ButtMonkey: After becoming Tomoko's StalkerWithACrush, every chapter featuring her is practically guaranteed to feature her getting humiliated in some way.
* CannotSpitItOut: She'll do everything she can around Tomoko. Everything, that is, except outright says that she likes her.
* CatchPhrase: ãã¢ã€ (kimoi), which is usually translated as "disgusting".
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In her first few appearances, Ucchi seemed to be something of a StepfordSmiler who would maintain a steady grin on her face even while feeling uncomfortable. Starting with chapter 80, she became more expressive in general, no longer does anything to maintain her cool, and very seldom ever smiles.
* CovertPervert: As much as she'll outwardly voice her disgust for Tomoko, Ucchi frequently has dirty thoughts about her. She's subtly but deliberately tried to arrange for moments that Tomoko could perv on her, fantasized about drinking water she's bathed in, thought about filming Tomoko taking her clothes off, and even tried bringing her to a love hotel.
* CrushBlush: She does this more and more around Tomoko.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Her belief that Tomoko is lusting after her is borne out of a lot of situations where Tomoko did seem to be acting in a sexual manner. She just doesn't know Tomoko well enough to recognize that Tomoko didn't mean anything by it and was too nervous to try and clear anything up.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the chapters that followed the second-year school trip she was at first portrayed as legitimately creeped out by Tomoko, but with hints that her interest in Tomoko might go beyond that. She gradually turns into a SmittenTeenageGirl who is completely obsessed with Tomoko, actively looks for opportunities to meet her and seems to be disgusted with Tomoko [[GreenEyedMonster only when she thinks that Tomoko is flirting with other girls]].
* {{Foil}}:
** To Yuu. They both have active social lives, fairly similar appearances, and a connection of sorts to Tomoko. However, while Tomoko bears an obvious lust for Yuu, who knows absolutely nothing about it, Ucchi misinterprets ''everything'' Tomoko does as being in relation to a perverse lust towards ''her''. That and Ucchi appears to be well on her way to developing a lust for Tomoko, who has no clue about it.
** Ucchi can also be seen as an embodiment of Tomoko's early-days habit of making wildly imaginative and EntertaininglyWrong appraisals of the situation, her highly sexual mindset, and her weekly ZanyScheme for attention. The difference is that Tomoko wanted to be beloved by everyone and generally had little commitment, while Ucchi cares only about Tomoko and sticks to her guns.
* TheGenericGirl: Implied by her official profile. To whit, Ucchi is the ''only'' member of the cast with all her stats listed as '''three'''.
* GreenEyedMonster: Whenever Tomoko shows or receives attention from someone who isn't Ucchi, Ucchi always reacts with visible jealousy. In one of the panels in chapter 115, she can be [[FunnyBackgroundEvent seen in the background]] angrily clenching her teeth as she watches a graduating upperclassman patting Tomoko's head.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Her beliefs that Tomoko is a creepy stalker who's utterly obsessed with her are so strong that Ucchi has in turn taken to obsessing over Tomoko and stalking ''her''.
* HiddenDepths: During her trip to Aoyama in chapter 140 she apparently wanted to check the university's school of business (until she noticed Tomoko and got sidetracked); Tomoko even wonders whether Ucchi is planning on opening up an Emoji Mart.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Even though Ucchi repeatedly tells her friends and acquaintances that Tomoko is a disgusting creep, she does not tolerate anyone else badmouthing Tomoko, [[spoiler:as Minami found out in chapter 156.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: By all accounts, she's guilty of everything she accuses Tomoko of being. [[spoiler:For instance, when Tomoko leaves some chocolates for Ucchi in her locker, Ucchi calls her a creep for not giving them to her in person, even though she did the exact same thing the day before.]]
* IdenticalStranger: Somewhat resembles ([[NonstandardCharacterDesign a highly-simplified]]) Yuu. This actually gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in one chapter, where, after seeing them together, Ucchi assumes Tomoko is using Yuu as a proxy for her.
* InformedAttractiveness: Ucchi is supposedly pretty, enough to be part of her second-year class' cheerleading team. You would ''never'' know this though due to how her face is normally drawn.
** According to her official profile, Ucchi has the body of a fashion model. Though Tomoko acknowledges this in chapter 176, you'd be hard-pressed to notice this due to the way Ucchi is drawn.
* InsultOfEndearment: Seems to be what "kimoi[[note]]Usually translated as "gross," "creepy," or "disgusting"[[/note]]" has become, at least when it's applied to Tomoko. She's even outright said she uses it to simultaneously praise and insult her.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Ucchi's growing obsession with Tomoko has made her act increasingly more erratic. She stares at her intensely from a distance, actively stalks her, tries to contrive meetings and encounters with her through incredibly roundabout ways, and throws childish tantrums every time something gets between her and Tomoko. It ends up seriously straining Ucchi's relationship with her usual group of friends, though they cut her some slack when they notice ''why'' she's acting that way.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: She doesn't say or do anything every chapter, but she can often be seen in the background. [[StalkerWithACrush Always watching Tomoko]]. Crosses over with FunnyBackgroundEvent with some of the humorous expressions she makes, particularly whenever she starts [[GreenEyedMonster angrily gritting her teeth]] every time Tomoko pays any sort of attention to someone else.
** In chapter 132, there are several blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments where she can be seen peering at Tomoko from behind a tree.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuya_Uchi Tatsuya Uchi]].
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Always has BlackBeadEyes. It's so unusual, that even in-universe, Tomoko compared her to an emoji. The outlines of her eyelids are drawn only in some of her emotional moments, most notably in chapters 80, 131, 152 and 156.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until chapter 114, where her surname (å , Uchi) can be seen on her locker [[spoiler:when Tomoko is looking for her locker to leave the Valentine's Day chocolates there]], and chapter 127, which reveals her given name. "Ucchi" is just what her friends call her. Tomoko doesn't even ''know'' her actual nickname due to how little time they actually spend directly interacting, and instead just calls her "emoji girl".
* RightForTheWrongReasons: She's one of the few people who see Tomoko for the perverted creeper she is, but only because she comically misunderstands everything Tomoko does, no matter how innocuous, as having perverted intentions.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The official English translation writes her given name [[MultiEthnicName "Emily"]]. Foreign words/names are typically written in katakana, but her name is written in kanji, so it's more likely supposed to be romanized "Emiri".
* StalkerWithACrush: Thinks Tomoko is hers. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters In her paranoia, she has become Tomoko's]].
* StupidSexyFlanders: Considering that Tomoko's creepiness is what Ucchi finds so fascinating and attractive about her, Ucchi's constant referring to her as creepy and gross is functionally how she expresses both her frustration and attraction to Tomoko.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: As much as she loves to talk about how creepy and weird Tomoko is, she sure doesn't seem to mind her. [[spoiler:Chapter 114 shows her to be somewhat pleased that Tomoko gave her chocolate for Valentine's Day, and as she's inwardly berating the fact that it looks like poop, she's still eating it.]]
* ThroughHisStomach: She's making a habit of trying to attract Tomoko's attention via food, [[spoiler:first by making [[ChocolateOfRomance chocolates for her on Valentine's Day]], and later by grilling and seasoning a strip of meat at a Korean BBQ restaurant - and then sneaking it onto Tomoko's plate.]]
* TransparentCloset: The only person who knows Ucchi and hasn't figured out that she has romantic feelings for Tomoko is... well, Ucchi. This creates some problems when her friends try to coax her into confession, only for Ucchi to then do her usual thing of calling Tomoko a disgusting creep.
* {{Tsundere}}: A quiet, long-distance variation. Whenever she thinks about Tomoko, her thoughts are always full of unmitigated disgust, but she frequently goes out of her way to do nice things for her (complete with extensive rationalization [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that it's not because she likes her or anything]]), and blushes whenever Tomoko returns the favor. It's gradually become a lot more direct as she's started to outright call Tomoko a disgusting creep right in front of her, claiming that it's meant to be both an insult and a compliment.
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!!Tomoko
[[folder:Tomoko Kuroki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IzumiKitta (Japanese), Creator/MonicaRial (English)
The main character of the series, who struggles with becoming "popular", making friends and coping with adolescence. Unfortunately, this is not helped by her [[NoSocialSkills social ineptitude]] and [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant]] [[TheEeyore personality]].
Despite being incredibly anti-social, she craves the companionship and attention of others. She suffers from a raging superiority complex, [[IndulgentFantasySegue vivid delusions of grandeur]], intense self-loathing, and social anxiety so severe that she can barely get out a sentence when talking to someone she is not intimately acquainted with.
The dark circles under her eyes are genetic (and shared by her brother).
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* AccidentalHero: Tomoko manages to help some people now and then, but only by happenstance. She gives Shizuku some half-hearted advice on how to handle the entrance exams (with the intention of discouraging the girl from attending her school at all), only to end up encouraging her to pass and apply to the school in full. [[spoiler:Tomoko also gets Hina and Akane to patch things up. How? By showing the latter a clip from an eroge game while explaining to her the likely reasons Hina was so secretive about her dream to become a voice actress, which horrifies Akane so much that she outright confronts Hina about it, allowing them to talk things out.]]
* AccidentalPervert: Only towards Yoshida, whom she always gropes by complete accident, which more often than not gets her smacked. Anyone else she pervs on is very intentional. For what it's worth though, Tomoko ''does'' like how the delinquent feels.
* ACupAngst: It's not as apparent as most examples of this trope, but it's there.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: One particularly infamous chapter/episode has Tomoko buy both a [[YaoiGenre BL visual novel]] and a personal body massager. Tomoko even notes that if anyone saw her with both, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything they'd get the wrong idea]]. Or rather the ''right'' idea, since that's exactly what she had planned.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Although she doesn't actually hook up with a "bad boy", she seems to be fond of BastardBoyfriend characters, as evidenced by her enjoyment of a drama CD about {{Yandere}} boys.
* AmbiguouslyBi: While her PerverseSexualLust for Otome Game characters and early fixation on getting a boyfriend make her attraction to men obvious, her constant sexual harassment of Yuu raises a few eyebrows. What keeps Tomoko's sexuality ambiguous is that it's made clear at multiple points that Tomoko's [[NoSocialSkills lack of social awareness]] and [[WrongGenreSavvy reliance on anime tropes to navigate real life situations]] cause her to assume that LesYay in female friendships is not only common, but ''expected'', leading her to enforce it. Even as she develops more real life relationships and her pervertedness dies down, however, being caught in several NotWhatItLooksLike moments have led to Ucchi becoming absolutely ''certain'' that Tomoko is not only a lesbian, but a sexual deviant who surrounds herself with a harem of girls at all times. As Tomoko matures and becomes explicitly more aware of the concept of homosexuality (she even correctly defines "LGBT" in class), she still can't help but fall for Yuu's or [[https://imgur.com/a/9IM3Agq Asuka's]] charms. She's also shown blatant sexual attraction to Miho, one of Asuka's friends, and Shizuku, her own kohai. In the latter's case she's outright said that if she were a guy she'd want to NTR Shizuku's boyfriend.
* BeautifulAllAlong: It's been brought up that Tomoko actually has good looks, but the problem is that she doesn't try grooming and looking after herself that much. When she actually does, many of her friends do say how cute she is. This aspect can actually be seen in some of the later chapters where Tomoko decides to wear more flattering clothes and cleans herself more.
** Her official profile shows that she has a Charisma score of '''five''', the maximum possible score, shared only with super-model-esque Katou Asuka. This means that Tomoko always had the potential to be popular, if her crippling self-doubt hadn't dragged down her confidence.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: As time goes on and Tomoko finds herself on the receiving end of more PetTheDog moments, she feels the need to repay the people who show her kindness even if she doesn't really know them.
** She makes a batch of chocolates for everyone who gave her some for Valentine's Day, like Mako, Yuri, and Ucchi. She even gives some to Yoshida, despite their dysfunctional relationship.
** Because Megumi came to her aid a few times in the past, Tomoko congratulates her for graduating high school and even asks the former StudentCouncilPresident if there's anything she can do for her. She feels rather crushed when she realizes she won't be able to give anything back to Megumi.
* BerserkButton: When Yuu makes a joke about Kotomi marrying Tomoki this is one of the few times that we see Tomoko get legitimately angry at Yuu, making no attempts at hiding her anger at all.
* BettyAndVeronica: Tomoko possibly serves as the Archie to Asuka's Betty and Ucchi's Veronica.
* BigBrotherBully: Tomoko tries to pass herself off as a CoolBigSis to Tomoki, and was indeed like that at one point, but in actuality she's extremely negative and manipulative whenever she's around him. It's also implied that this is the reason why Tomoki stopped being friendly with her to begin with.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Oh yes. For the longest time, Tomoko was only ever interested in her popularity at school, all the while being loathe to do any work around the house, eager to annoy her brother, and quick to snap at her mother. This got her a good share of slaps from the latter, who was often irritated at how irresponsible Tomoko was despite being the older child.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: She has made a huge impact on Ucchi's life, to the point where the girl is utterly obsessed with her. However, Tomoko never intended to do such, their first real interaction was on the last night of their field trip, and Tomoko was just being her [[NoSocialSkills normal]] [[CovertPervert self]]. Later "interactions" were mostly Tomoko doing something else and it just so happened Ucchi was the target or a witness.
* ButtMonkey: Any of her attempts to become popular ''always'' come out wrong for her.
* CannotTalkToMen: Nothing frays Tomoko's nerves more than attractive boys. Even after her social skills improve enough that she can communicate with strangers without tripping over her words too much, she still turns into a nervous, stuttering puddle of goo in the presence of hot guys.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Tomoko has been walked in on playing her Hentai games, ''[[RunningGag multiple times]]''.
* CharacterDevelopment: Slowly but surely, Tomoko matures a good deal over the course of the manga, particularly in her second year. She dials back on her ill-thought schemes to become popular to the point where she eventually gives up on them entirely, doesn't stutter nearly as often as before, is more comfortable in public places like cafes, lets go of a lot of the resentment she felt towards her peers, shows occasional bouts of consideration for others, and is more studious and responsible in general. By the end of the year, she even manages to get herself a small circle of friends and acquaintances to regularly socialize with.
* ChildHater: Played with. In chapter 138 she admits that she hates middle schoolers, but she also mentions that she doesn't have strong feelings about grade schoolers, and in the past she used to play card games with kids in a candy store. In any case, she states that her dislike of kids is the reason why she would never want to be a teacher.
* ChronicVillainy: She's never managed to break her bad habit of doing {{Jerkass}} things.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Tomoko ''can'' care about people, she's shown to have an extremely active imagination with a creative streak to her, and [[{{Determinator}} she's extremely resilient in the pursuit of her goal]]. That being said, she's a liar, a pervert, very lazy, and tries to take the easy way out of anything she can. She even LiesToChildren and calls any girls even slightly more popular than her "bitches" and "sluts". Tomoko gradually does undergo character development to get rid of the worst parts of these traits, but they never completely disappear.
* ClingyJealousGirl: When it comes to Yuu or her brother, the latter of which she declared if he ever brought home a girl, she would take responsibility and ''[[{{Yandere}} kill her]]''.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Somehow, against all logic or reason, she's managed to become this in her 3rd year. To wit, Yuri has grown quite attached to her and is prone to jealously whenever Tomoko gets close to someone else. Nemo is similarly quite attached to Tomoko, and while they're also vitriolic best buds, it's clear that Nemo values their "honest" friendship a great deal. Asuka is extremely fond of her, and her affectionate gestures border on outright flirting. Ucchi is outright infatuated by her, having become increasingly more obsessive about Tomoko over the course of the manga. Shizuku hero-worships her, looking at Tomoko as a kind and thoughtful sempai. While her friendships with some of the other girls aren't as pronounced, she's still amassed a huge following of female friends and acquaintances. It's ironic that the usually self-aware Tomoko often [[https://imgur.com/oJ358si seems to be completely unaware of this.]]
* ConsummateLiar: "How do I bullshit my way out of this?"
* ConvenientlySeated: At first, she seats in the back row seat by the window. When the second semester starts and Tomoko loses her seat, she lampshades it by commenting about how lucky she was getting "the seat main characters always get in anime and light-novels" in the first semester, lamenting that she now has to dwell in an awkward spot, surrounded by people. Tomoko regains her original seating arrangement come her second year, and keeps it for her third year, now surrounded by people she's either friends or friendly with.
* CosmicPlaything: She doesn't realize it, which might be a good thing as the truth might plunge her into the pit of despair or worse, since she can't realize why her attempts to make friends are massive failures. The moment she gains some self-awareness of her faults and tries to not be so judgmental anymore, the universe ''seems'' to ease up on her ...and decides to spread the weirdness around to her new friends.
* CovertPervert: Played with; since the viewers are always privy to her thoughts, it's easy for us to see that she's ''very'' perverted, but most other characters (aside from Tomoki) are unaware of how perverted she really is. This becomes subverted over time; though Tomoko ''tries'' to keep her lewd side under wraps, she either proves to be really bad at hiding her lecherous habits, or has a number of [[AccidentalPervert accidents]] that leave people with the impression that she's a massive pervert anyway. Before her third year is even halfway done, pretty much everyone familiar with Tomoko knows what a huge sex-obsessed perv she is.
* CreepyLonerGirl: Tomoko is an unattractive, friendless {{Otaku}} with absolutely NoSocialSkills who stays up all night playing dating sims to compensate for her nonexistent social and love life. She daydreams about becoming popular, but her social awkwardness ruins her attempts at it every time.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Seems to be a family trait; however, Tomoko's habit of staying up late at night probably doesn't help, as she notes before trying on glasses to hide them.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: This is her her single strongest desire for most of the series. It's likely why she's overly attached to her brother (much to his chagrin) and also part of why she's so attached to her only real friend, Yuu. This ends up becoming subverted pretty later on in the series, once Tomoko actually gets a circle of friends.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite the universe doing [[CosmicPlaything everything it can]] to make her give up, Tomoko never relents in her quest to become popular, make friends, or just improve herself in general. Whenever one scheme fails, she just gets up, dusts herself off, and moves on to the next plan.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: She has a bad habit of voicing her more lewd thoughts out loud. Initially this was only toward Yuu, but eventually spread to anyone Tomoko felt mildy attracted to, like Asuka.
-->'''Tomoko''': ''(Thinking)'' A cute girl, wearing such cute underwear and such a short skirt must flash a bit from time to time...just imagine, if I were her boyfriend... \\
'''Tomoko''': ''(Out loud)'' Bet those'd really give ya a stiffy. \\
'''Yuu''': MOKOCCHI!!?
* DisappointingOlderSibling: Despite being the older sibling, Tomoki thinks she's an annoying loser. According to the volume 5 omake, it was her obnoxiousness that caused their once-loving relationship to turn sour. On the other hand, one WhatIf omake shows that he would end up disliking her even if she were to remain kind to him.
* DontYouDarePityMe: As shown in chapters 33 and 42, she doesn't like it when others take pity on her, as she feels patronized by this.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: In addition to being very large and roughly-sketched, her eyes lack a notable sheen that's present in most other characters, illustrating her perpetually dour mood.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The bags under her eyes only serve to further emphasize this aspect of hers.
* TheEeyore: She falls into bouts of self-loathing and has a lot of negative thoughts in social situations. Even when she acknowledges that her life got better than how it used to be, such as in chapter 115, she doesn't expect the good times to last.
* ExpressiveHair: You can often tell how exasperated she is just by seeing how much her hair is flaring out.
* FailureHero: In the early chapters she can't do ''anything'' right. Every time she has a goal, it's bound to fail or backfire horribly. The few ThrowTheDogABone moments she gets are usually down to luck and the kindness of others, or when she's not actually trying so hard to become popular. This part of her characterization is largely dropped as the story progresses and Tomoko starts setting more realistic goals for her social life, which she eventually starts achieving.
* FemaleMisogynist: [[GreenEyedMonster Her jealousy]] leads to a general resentment of other girls aside from Yuu, often viewing girls who are more socially adept than her as "bitches" or "sluts". [[spoiler: However, this doesn't appear to apply to Yuri, probably because she recognizes that Yuri is almost as socially inept as she is]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Tomoki's Responsible. She tends to laze around and do stupid things to improve her status while Tomoki focuses on his sports, studies, and his household chores. Tomoko being so irresponsible is a frequent source of stress for her mother.
* GamerChick: Effortlessly plays a Pop'N Music knockoff with only a blank stare on her face, not to mention her constant playing of otome games.
* {{Gonk}}: Often pulls ugly faces when emotional.
** There's also the time where she tries to change her appearance, which works out well until she decides to mess with her face.
* GreenEyedMonster: Bonus points for the VisualPun. She enjoys the misfortune of others and frequently wishes for horrible things to happen to people that she perceives as having happy, carefree lives. Her internal monologues frequently call girls more socially successful than herself, including her best friend Yuu, "bitches", "sluts", etc.
--> '''Tomoko:''' If you're not a worthless god, I'd like to see you try and make me happy... If you can't manage that, at least make everyone as unhappy as me. If you can't, it's fine I guess... But I'll despise you forever...
** Also why she couldn't get along with Kotomi in middle school despite being much alike, as she wanted to keep Yuu to herself.
** As of chapter 97 she seems to have realized that her former classmates who are more sociable than her don't act sociable to spite her, [[CharacterDevelopment and she doesn't hate them for this anymore]].
* HasAType: An inversion, when she's finally able to hold a real conversation with a male classmate (Wada), she dismisses it as much of a step forward since she doesn't find him all that attractive, believing that "shota doesn't go with chibi".
* HeyYou: In general, she is very bad at remembering names, or just doesn't care to learn them in the first place, leading her to often refer to the people around her by (often derisive) descriptors in her mind. In Chapter 124, Tomoko even notes that she's never once actually called Yuri by name, even though Yuri's ostensibly the best friend she has in her high school. [[spoiler:This comes to a head in 126, when she tries to get Yuri's attention by just repeatedly calling out "Hey", resulting in a frustrated Yuri telling her that her name is not "Hey".]]
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Tomoko implicitly UsedToBeASweetKid, but as she entered adolescence, she became a more self-centered {{Jerkass}} who only ever thought about sex.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She angrily denounces anyone more popular than her as shallow, vapid and selfish, and refers to any girls more sociable than her as "sluts". She's the real shallow and selfish one, who seeks popularity above all else, and proclaims: "Without doing anything, I can get into the pants of the boys for three years!" in the very first chapter. At the same time, she looks down on anyone ''as'' unpopular as she is as being losers, freaks and weirdos who are somehow beneath her despite them generally having the same interests that she does.
** HypocriticalHumor: is a RunningGag in this series.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: ...and get laid, apparently.
** As the series progresses, there's a subtle development in that Tomoko's goal moves down from "getting popular" to just "making a friend", and at the very least "talking to people". These get fulfilled during the middle of her second year, as she became close to Yuri, Mako, and Masaki.
* IneffectualDeathThreat: Frequently wishes death and worse on her classmates for the smallest of offences, like someone apparently taking her umbrella.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: While she's rather self-centered and looks down on a lot of people for petty reasons, it's still clear that her self-esteem is actually very, very low.
* InnerMonologue: Keeps her thoughts to herself more often than actually speaking.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Towards Yuri. Yuri is bothered by how aloof Tomoko seems to act towards her despite spending most of their time at school together, but Tomoko has no idea there's even a problem in the first place. She's also oblivious to the effect she's had on Ucchi, disturbing the girl with her mere presence at first, and going on to making her jealous at the drop of a hat.
* InSeriesNickname: "Mokocchi." Only Yuu gets to call her that, though. [[spoiler:In chapter 126 Hina Nemoto comes up with another nickname for her, "Kuro".]]
* {{Irony}}: After spending her first year desperately trying to be popular with one ZanyScheme after another Tomoko eventually resigns herself to being a loner ...and then she actually ends up making an increasingly larger social circle of friends and acquaintances to hang out with.
* IronicName: Her given name roughly means "wise child". Considering how often she makes bad decisions, it's safe to say "wise" isn't a good way to describe her.
* ItAmusedMe: Some of her antics aren't done to improve her popularity, but just to stave off boredom or amuse herself, which can include things like trolling her brother or hanging wishes laced with dirty jokes up for Tanabata. She also decides to become Shizuku's sempai largely because she hopes the younger girl will give her some kinky stories, though to Tomoko's credit, she does build up some sympathy for her over time.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She's a very self-centered person who doesn't have any particular empathy for anyone around her. Thankfully, Tomoko's been [[CharacterDevelopment growing out of it]], acknowledging that even more social people have problems of their own, and is willing to show genuine consideration for others every now and then.
* {{Jerkass}}: Downplayed. In the main series, she can come off as a condescending jackass who can occasionally show humility and self-esteem, although she most often keeps her negativity to herself. However, Tomoki and Komiyama tend to see and feel the more unpleasant side of Tomoko.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As maladjusted, unpleasant, and warped as she is, Tomoko does raise valid points every now and then.
** When Akari's friend, Sayaka, confronts her over the former's feelings for Tomoki and her eagerness to see his genitals, Tomoko is correct when she points out it's perverse and inappropriate to say such things in front of his older sister.
** She accuses Akari and Kotomi of being perverts. While her poor treatment of them is usually uncalled for, she's not wrong, and the latter in particular takes her attraction towards Tomoki to very creepy levels.
** Related to the above, by accusing Kotomi and Akari of only liking Tomoki for his dick, Tomoko implies that their feelings for him are shallow. Considering how taciturn Tomoki is, and how they have never held a real conversation with him, neither girl can claim to actually know him, meaning they really ''are'' only interested in him for his good looks.
** While it devolves into a nonsensical rant about how all baseball players are smokers and delinquents, Tomoko is correct when she notes that the baseball club gets preferential treatment in how it forces the whole student body to come cheer for its games when other clubs work just as hard for less recognition.
** In Universe. When Tomoko mocks Yoshida behind her back as the type to go way overboard during her coming of age debut, Yuri is about to admonish her only to realise she can indeed picture Yoshida that way too.
* JerkassRealization: In Chapter 97, she admits that she was a horribly judgmental person in her first year of high school, and lets go of a lot of the resentment she feels toward her more social peers.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Thanks to character development, Tomoko grows from her warped and selfish self, to a more thoughtful and pleasant individual. While she's still a pervert who sees the world through a cynical lens, she's willing to show consideration for both her friends and the occasional stranger.
* KickTheDog: Her treatment of her brother when he fell ill was pretty appalling. She tried to lower his temperature and poured hot porridge on his face out of spite, and otherwise annoyed him at every opportunity. [[LaserGuidedKarma This went on to bite Tomoko in the ass]] when she caught his disease at the beginning of a three-day weekend.
* LazyBum: When left to her own devices, Tomoko would rather just laze around her room, playing video games, watching anime, and surfing the web. When called out on her unwillingness to help around the house by her mother as opposed to her younger but more responsible brother, Tomoko's first instinct is to [[NeverMyFault blame Tomoki for making her look bad]].
* LittleBigSister: She's considerably shorter than her younger brother. Not very unusual given he's only a year younger, but it still highlights her immaturity.
* LonelyDollGirl: On occasion, Tomoko will use her plushies to act out her fantasies of a better social life, from envisioning what her time in a school club could be like, to...imagining how sex with Yuu would go.
* LonersAreFreaks: Her mindset, which she desperately wants to avoid.
* LonerTurnedFriend: After the Kyoto field trip, her previously almost non-existent social circle slowly starts to expand.
* LoserProtagonist: Though, she tries hard to not be this. She eventually does edge away from this through CharacterDevelopment, with all of her remaining quirks instead being mostly portrayed as a part of her unique identity that attracts others to her rather than a source of ostracization.
* LovableSexManiac: While Tomoko never gets to have much in the way of sex, her mind is nevertheless always in the gutter, and she gets a lot of enjoyment out of sexually harassing her female friends.
** As the series delves further, her friends sees her as this. They are all aware of her perverted side, but they make it clear they don't mind it and actually find it as a part of her charm.
* MagneticHero: As the series has continued, she has consistently shown to be able to attract the interest and attention of pretty much anyone who spends even a small amount of time with her. Even characters who initially display complete indifference to her become obsessed with learning more about her after witnessing her bizarre behavior firsthand.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: She acts as a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version for Yuri. While their relationship is purely platonic, she tends to encourage Yuri to try things she wouldn't do otherwise, like make Valentine's Day chocolate for her friends. She's even caused [[NotSoStoic the normally stoic girl to laugh]], which Mako has noted she's never seen Yuri do before.
* ManipulativeBastard: She tries. Dear lord, she tries.
* MeaningfulName: "Kuroki" can literally mean "black mood". It sums up her character pretty well.
* MessyHair: Her long hair is rarely combed.
* MirrorCharacter: For her brother, Tomoki, especially in later chapters. The initial assumptions both have after meeting the same person for the first time are often identical. Even more recently, Tomoko and Tomoki barely acknowledge that people have crushes on them, though Tomoko's case is more downplayed than her brother's: [[spoiler:while two girls have admitted to Tomoki's face they want to see his dick, Ucchi has been less direct in her crush on Tomoko, simply trying to find some excuse to be near Tomoko during some activity while she herself is thinking more about the activity itself, or the strange behavior of the other girls she knows]].
* MsFanservice: As the manga goes on, Tomoko has gradually gotten increasing numbers of genuine fanservice involving her, including occasionally being shown completely nude. She even has a ShowerScene in Chapter 178.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Kuroki Tomohiro Kuroki]].
* NerdsAreVirgins: Several storylines are about Tomoko's lack of experience and sexual frustration.
* NeverMyFault: Zigzagged. She often derides herself and finds faults with her social skills and appearance, but never dwells on it and immediately finds something else to blame for her social failings.
* NiceHat: As part of her casual wear, she'll frequently don a newsboy hat.
* NighttimeBathroomPhobia: In chapter 13, Tomoko reads too many spooky stories at night, so she bugs Tomoki into accompanying her to the bathroom when she's too nervous to walk there in the dark.
* NoSocialSkills: Pretty much the entire conflict of the plot is based around the fact that Tomoko's skills leave a lot to be desired. As she begins to socialize more, her complete lack of social awareness causes her to regularly put her foot in her mouth and unintentionally piss off others. Subverted over time, as she undergoes CharacterDevelopment; Tomoko turns out to be actually pretty socially perceptive and adept when not overcome by social anxiety, trying to become popular or invoking anime tropes.
* ObliviousToLove: Tomoko is completely unaware of Ucchi's growing fixation with her and is confused whenever Ucchi does something nice for her. Unfortunately for Ucchi, Tomoko has few opportunities to directly notice Ucchi's advances.
* OddFriendship: Is more or less the facilitator of an entire group of odd friends by the time she becomes a third year. Shown most prominently at the end of the suspension arc where she goes to eat with the group that had been waiting for her to get out: an introverted loner (Yuri), an outgoing [[NiceGirl nice girl]] (Mako), popular girls of varying degrees of normalcy (Nemo, Asuka, Akane and Ucchi) and a group of delinquents (Yoshida, Anna and Reina).
* OhCrapSmile: Pretty much every time Tomoko's latest plan blows up in her face and leaves her thoroughly humiliated in front of everyone, it's all but guaranteed this is the face she's going to put on. It's one of her most common expressions.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's 15 when the manga and anime begin, but she's so short, thin, and physically undeveloped that you'd be forgiven if you thought she was 10.
* OnlyHasSameSexAdmirers: No guys have taken any interest in Tomoko, but eventually Asuka develops a mutual infatuation, Ucchi becomes her StalkerWithACrush, and a few other girls have gotten ''at least'' a platonic desire for her attention.
* {{Otaku}}: Of Otome games. So much that she attempts to socialize in real life with tactics from the games.
* OtakuSurrogate: Downplayed; while she does have interests in anime and video games that male otaku in real life would have, she's also into things that are aimed specifically at girls, such as otome games. Unfortunately, her interests in all the perverted media aimed at otaku only make her more unapproachable and unable to function in social situations.
* PeekABangs: Although both of her eyes can occasionally be seen, her hair hides her right eye through much of the series.
* PersonAsVerb: In Chapter 39, she tries to stand out more in her class by performing a wacky introduction during the first day of second year. For her efforts, among her classmates, her name becomes a synonym for [[EpicFail doing something exceptionally poorly.]] Fortunately, it seems to have gone out of fashion by Chapter 42.
* PetTheDog: Originally Tomoko only agreed to start hanging out with Shizuku because she seemed like a slut who might have entertaining stories. Eventually however she decides to follow Imae's example and starts acting as more of a proper senpai despite getting no real benefit out of it.
* ThePigPen: Usually averted. Despite being a disheveled shut-in, Tomoko is shown regularly bathing herself and is confirmed to not smell. That said, some of her actions have caused her to unwittingly fall into prolonged periods of dirtiness.
** In chapter 6, after she spends so much time playing a dating sim out of a deluded belief that doing so will make her sexier that she forgets to bathe for several days. She ends up looking so greasy that her brother likens her to a bird caught in an oil slick.
** In chapter 11, she accidentally soaks herself in soda and attracts ants that spend the whole day crawling all over Tomoko without her knowing. Every person she runs into gets creeped out when they see the bugs on her.
** In chapter 56, Tomoko worries she might be a Pig-Pen and opts to combat it by drenching herself in perfume. This causes her to go from having no body odor to absolutely reeking.
* PlayboyBunny: Dresses as one in a fantasy sequence that's a ShoutOut to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. She somehow manages to make it look ugly and unappealing.
* PrettyInMink: Wears a faux mink stole during cold weather.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: She begins taking care of her appearance more as she gains a circle of friends and even gets some fanservice-y shots later on.
* TheQuietOne: She once went a month and a half without talking to anyone outside her family -- her streak was broken when she managed to tell her teacher "goodbye". In contrast, she tends to be ''very'' chatty in her [[InnerMonologue Inner Monologues]].
* SanityBall: Tomoko gets to enjoy being the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Girl]] whenever she interacts with Akari. The girl's crush on Tomoki, her easily flustered demeanor, and her terrible habit of misreading the situation all combine to turn her into a sobbing, stammering mess. This goes double whenever Kotomi gets involved, whose infatuation for Tomoki leads her to commit all sorts of craziness as well that leaves her in the same position. Either way, Tomoko is left equally bemused and annoyed by their antics.
* SelfServingMemory: Whenever Tomoko tries to guilt Tomoki into hanging out with her, she frequently brings up how [[BigBrotherWorship he used to look up to her when they were kids]]. She conveniently ignores the fact that the reason why Tomoki is currently so distant from her is because she started ''[[BigBrotherBully bullying him]]''.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Zigzagged. Whenever Tomoko or someone else tried to fix her appearance by dressing her up nicely or putting makeup on her, she would always end up looking ''even worse'' than before. However, once she gains a circle of friends, Tomoko starts putting more effort into her appearance, and she can be genuinely cute when she puts in the time.
** Played straight during her meet-up with Katou in Chapter 140; Tomoko's appearance was much nicer and more attractive than usual.
** One of the Christmas chapters has a subversion. Tomoko manages to indeed improve her appearance greatly for the class Christmas party. But she's so shy and quiet that nobody notices.
** As pointed out by Katou and Yuu, Tomoko can actually be very cute when she tries to groom herself more. When she dyes her hair silver, they point out how it looks good on her.
** Thanks to her CharacterDevelopment, this has become even more frequent with later chapters. Compared to her old outfits where she seemed to make a half-hearted attempt to groom herself, now Tomoko is actually putting effort into how she dresses, including fixing her hair, making sure her clothes match, and even wearing accessories and slight make-up.
** The cover of Volume 18 teases what a stylish Tomoko could look like, and many readers agree that the silver-haired, cardigan-wearing Tomoko is '''very''' cute.
** Some WhatIf omakes show Tomoko doing this in various ways, like styling herself as a [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]], tidying herself up, and adopting a more fashionable stance. She looks attractive in ''all'' of them.
** When visiting Yuu's school at Chapter 198, Tomoko ends up putting on the school uniform which looks great on her, especially when she decides to tie her hair into a ponytail.
** Exemplified best of all when Asuka decides to give Tomoko a makeover for a "landmine" look and actually does a decent job of it this time. With straight hair and her ExhaustedEyeBags hidden, everyone comments on how cute and innocent she looks.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: A platonic variant with Kotomi. When asked about her by characters other than Yuu, she denies that she's friends with Kotomi, and in chapter 112 even claims not to know her when asked by Yuri. [[spoiler:In chapter 133 Tomoko and Kotomi simultaneously claim that they aren't friends, leaving their classmates unconvinced; even Tomoko herself realizes that she's acting like a stereotypical tsundere.]]
* ShesAllGrownUp: [[http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/watashi_ga_motenai_no_wa_dou_kangaete_mo_omaera_ga_warui_anthology/bt/207725/Ch6/4/ A page in the anthology]] [[ThrowTheDogABone reveals that she could grow up to be quite pretty.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Combined with NoSocialSkills, this is the reason she can barely put together a full sentence with anyone she doesn't know. She improves after getting a circle of friends she regularly socializes with, but she still is prone to stuttering.
* SiblingYinYang: With Tomoki.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Komiyama, whom Tomoko dislikes because she feels that she has to compete with her over Yuu's attention, [[spoiler:as well as because Komiyama is romantically and sexually interested in Tomoki, causing Tomoko to be disgusted with her, and, as of chapter 47 of the main story, also because Komiyama admitted that she didn't like Tomoko back in middle school.]]
** During the third year this fades away to an extent likely due both to Tomoko's ongoing development and because Tomoko gains a new nemesis in Fuuka.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: As we see in Chapter 121, she gets her particular brand of CreepyShadowedUndereyes from her father. Later on, a WhatIf chapter featuring Tomoko with short hair shows that she's a near dead-ringer for her mother.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: Only by giving up her goal to become popular does Tomoko actually get better at socializing. By the end of her second year in particular, Tomoko has managed to get herself a small circle of friends, stutters over her words far less often, shows genuine consideration for other people's emotions, and helps people (like her kohai) for no tangible benefit to herself. [[spoiler:A "What If?" story shows that she wouldn't have been happy had she become popular, anyway; in the story, when Tomoko becomes part of the popular group, she gets hit on constantly by boys, and is shown to hate it.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: Overall Tomoko's second year in high school became a lot better and she was actually able to make sort of friends with people. Her third year became even better since now most of the friends she made in high school are all in her homeroom class and she has amassed quite a large social circle that she can hang out with.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Chapter 1: After 5 months trying to convince herself that she's popular, Tomoko literally sees herself at the mirror and admits the horrible truth:
--> ''Now that I look in the mirror after a few years, I see that I turned into some creepy entity!''
* TookALevelInKindness: Part of her character development. While she remains a cynical pervert, she's become a lot more pleasant and thoughtful.
* TransparentCloset: She's either unaware or in deep denial of her attraction to girls, but is very bad about hiding it, particularly when around Asuka. Yuri, Hina and Ucchi are well aware at how easily swayed Tomoko is toward her.
* {{Troll}}: She enjoys pranking, insulting, or otherwise getting under the skin of people she knows purely [[ForTheLulz for lulz]]. Tomoki and Kotomi are her favorite targets.
* TwiceShy: Tomoko has a blatant infatuation with Asuka, but her self-esteem is too low for her to accept Asuka's increasingly obvious hints that she feels the same--up to ''groping Tomoko's breasts'' during a walk on the beach.
* UnkemptBeauty: She never loses the ExhaustedEyeBags or disheveled hair, but that doesn't stop her from becoming ProgressivelyPrettier later on thanks to her gaining softer facial expressions and more flattering outfits.
* TheUnsmile: Pretty much every attempt she makes at smiling ends up coming off as looking more like a SlasherSmile. Combined with her CreepyShadowedUndereyes, the effect is... rather unsettling.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Her portrayal switches between this, CosmicPlaything and some combination of both depending on the chapter. She can be very pitiable, but at the same time rather self-centered, condescending (especially to her classmates, though this is restricted to her {{Inner Monologue}}s and never expressed outwardly) and, in Chapter 33, is shown to be a devotee of [[ComedicSociopathy schadenfreude]]. However, the more unsympathetic aspects do get downplayed or outright vanish later on thanks to CharacterDevelopment. In the spinoff, she's portrayed much more unsympathetically than in the main story.
* VisualPun: Her big [[GreenEyedMonster green eyes.]]
* WeirdnessMagnet: Tomoko seems to have developed a knack for attracting a lot of oddballs to her, or at least in making people develop their own idiosyncrasies. Yoshida is a [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]] but [[AmbiguousInnocence oddly innocent]] teen who's often mistaken for a delinquent, Ucchi has grown progressively more obsessive over Tomoko to the point of stalking her, Kii-chan has gone from a normal girl to a borderline CreepyChild, and both Kotomi and Akari have become incredibly perverse ([[ButtMonkey and unlucky]]) in pursuing their mutual crush on Tomoki. Lampshaded in Chapter 116, where Tomoki notes that all of his sister's friends appear to be a bunch of weirdos.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: She has this expression a lot.
* WrongGenreSavvy: One of the major factors behind her inability to adapt to society is the fact that she tends to "learn" social skills through anime and video games, and mistakes many character interactions therein (including those that are, from an objective viewpoint, downright outlandish) for actual practice, and tries to emulate them in real life, which more often than not only serves to further humiliate her.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The reason she despises Kotomi. Both are antisocial and their OnlyFriend is Yuu. Each one of them believes the other is below her.
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!!Tomoko's Family
[[folder:Tomoki Kuroki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese), Creator/DavidMatranga (English)
Tomoko's younger and more responsible brother. He is a fairly average and well-adjusted person for his age and treats his sister with the usual level of sibling-related intolerance. Despite this, he ''does'' care for his sister and tries to support her when she needs it.
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* AcademicAthlete: He's a considerably more motivated student than his sister is and is skilled enough at soccer to have an active spot on his school's team in his freshman year, along with the respect of his upperclassman teammates.
* TheAce: In comparison to Tomoko, at least. He's mature, reliable, athletic, has a large social circle, and multiple girls that are interested in him. During the sports festival, it's revealed that even the [[{{Bishonen}} attractive]] and [[BigManOnCampus popular]] third-year students on the soccer team respect Tomoki, despite him only being a first year.
* AccidentalPervert:
** In chapter 134, when he tries to prevent Masaki from attacking Kotomi [[spoiler:and ends up groping Masaki by accident, much to his own horror.]]
** He follows it up in chapter 168 by accidentally [[ShowerOfAwkward walking in on her showering.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played with. He does tend to get on Tomoko's nerves, though not so much due to obnoxiousness as due to the fact that he's guilty of such "crimes" as staying home sick while Tomoko has to go to school, having friends who care enough to visit him while he's sick, or cleaning his own room and making his lunch himself (much to their mother's praise - and unlike his sister, thus making her look bad in comparison). Also inverted, Tomoki definitely sees Tomoko as his annoying ''older'' sibling.
* BerserkButton: While he always braces himself whenever his sister approaches him, he gets particularly angry at her when she barges into his room unannounced, which she does frequently.
* BigLittleBrother: He's considerably taller and older-looking than his older sister. While it's not particularly strange, as they're only one year apart and both teenagers, it emphasizes how down-to-earth and mature he is in comparison to her.
* ChasteHero: While his sister is a raging pervert, Tomoki is completely unfazed by two girls telling him that they want to see his dick, [[CluelessChickMagnet to the point of failing to pick up that either is interested in him at all]]. Chapter 169 reveals that he owns no pornography whatsoever and that he reacts to [[AccidentalPervert accidentally walking in on a girl naked]] with annoyance rather than embarrassment or arousal. His chasteness is so notable that Akari's friend, Sayaka, suspects he may not be heterosexual at all, but ''soccer''sexual.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Both Kotomi and Akari pine for him, but he remains oblivious to their feelings even after they both blurt out in his presence that they would like to see his dick, and shows no interest in romance in general. In later chapters, he seems to catch on to Kotomi's crush on him (mostly as a result of Kotomi repeatedly embarrassing herself in his presence because of said crush), but at this point, he is too weirded out by her to reciprocate. Later, even [[spoiler:Sachi]] of all people falls for him [[LoveAtFirstSight after a single conversation]].
* CovertPervert: Subverted. Tomoko constantly accuses him of being [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Caught With His Pants Down]] whenever she enters his room, but he's always shown to simply be listening to music, reading a book or sleeping. Likewise, whenever Tomoko accuses him of [[BrotherSisterIncest being attracted to her]], he expresses disgust and confusion about why she would even suggest it. Later, when forced to sit down and have lunch with Kotomi and Akari by Tomoko, it's made pretty clear that he simply isn't interested in having a girlfriend.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Like both his parents and his sister, though his are much less pronounced.
* DeadpanSnarker: In response to Tomoko's antics.
* ExtremeDoormat: Zigzagged. He will only put up with his sister's shit for so long and liberally employs physical force to shut her up, but he tends to let just about everyone else walk all over him. Tomoki hardly puts up any resistance to the unwanted attention he gets from all the assorted girls who take a shine to him, particularly Masaki who has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace, and can't even find it in himself to refuse hospitality when Sayaka pretty much invites herself and Akari into his room for a study session without waiting for his input.
* FacePalmOfDoom: When ticked off, he simply grips his sister's head really hard.
* FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: In a home video their mom found in episode 7, he said like a little kid he wanted to marry Tomoko. He was notably disturbed when he saw this video (also because of how much more affectionate he was towards her).
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Responsible to Tomoko's Foolish. Despite being younger than her, Tomoki has a much better work ethic, helps around the house more willingly, and appears to get better grades than her while also playing soccer.
* GetOut: Practically his {{Catchphrase}}, as he says it whenever his sister enters his room without permission.
* GrumpyBear: Tomoki maintains a pretty sullen attitude even when he's not around his annoying sister.
* HiddenDepths: Generally comes off as a grouchy loner, though this is almost entirely because we nearly only ever get to see him when he's forced to put up with Tomoko's obnoxious antics. On the occasions where we get to see his life outside of his sister, he is shown to be a surprisingly popular guy with a large friend group, multiple female admirers and an active spot on his school's soccer team.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: ''Nothing'' about the female form interests this guy. When he and the rest of the soccer team run by Tomoko and Asuka, the guys comment on how gorgeous they think Asuka is, while Tomoki can only grouse about seeing a shrimp (his sister). When [[ItMakesSenseInContext Akari is stuck playing Twister all by herself in his room]], he only looks on boredly and wanting nothing to do with the game. Then there are his numerous AccidentalPervert moments with Masaki, which he only ever reacts to with annoyance.
* IHaveNoSon: Sibling variation. He exclusively refers to Tomoko as "that girl", even in his own thoughts. This is in stark contrast to when he was young, where he affectionately called her "nee-chan".
* JerkassToOne: Tends to physically rein in his sister if needed. That said, deep down he is a generally good-natured guy who is shown to be perfectly nice and friendly when dealing with people who aren't Tomoko.
* MatureYoungerSibling: Tomoki takes school seriously and does chores, unlike his older sister Tomoko, the socially dead otaku who would rather just play video games all day. [[BigLittleBrother He's even taller than her to symbolize that he's the more mature one]].
* TheOneGuy: Currently the only major male character. Justified due to Tomoko having problems working up the courage to talk to other girls, let alone guys. This is briefly lampshaded when, after realizing that she has begun interacting with other girls more frequently, Tomoko vows to try to talk to a guy, only to awkwardly barge into Tomoki's room, wave at him and then leave.
* OnlySaneMan: The only major character who is able to completely shut down Tomoko's antics before they escalate even further. It helps that [[WouldHitAGirl he's willing to get violent with her]]. He maintains this role even as the cast expands; responding to the increasingly bizarre antics of the people around his sister with the same exasperation he has when dealing with her.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: All evidence points to him having a perfectly normal and fulfilling school life, in contrast to his sister.
* OutOfFocus: As one of the few people Tomoko was comfortable talking to for the longest time, he used to be a very prominent character in the manga. Once Tomoko finally started forming some close bonds at school, Tomoki's appearances were reduced to the occasional [[ADayInTheLimelight day in the limelight]] chapter.
* PerpetualFrowner: He's always wearing a grumpy expression of some sort, at least when around his sister.
* PetTheDog: Sometimes he takes pity on Tomoko. Notably, he expresses relief during her second-year graduation that she has managed to make some friends by the end of the year. Of course, he also makes a point of noting [[WeirdnessMagnet how all of her new friends seem to be a bunch of weirdos]].
* ThePowerOfHate: Thinking about various occasions when Tomoko has pissed him off causes him to tap into an UnstoppableRage that has allowed him to become the star player of his soccer team. In comparison, thinking about the few occasions when the two of them have actually gotten along causes him to be thrown off his game and miss scoring the winning goal.
* TheQuietOne: Even when talking to people that he doesn't hate (as in, anyone other than Tomoko), he still rarely says more than a few words at a time.
* TheReliableOne: Viewed as this by his parents. While Tomoko's laziness and rude personality results in her frequently screwing up, their parents can always count on Tomoki to meet, or even occasionally exceed their expectations.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: One of his most frequent responses to his sister's wacky antics is staring at her for a few moments and then promptly walking away without even so much as asking what she's doing. He's even started doing this in regards to the girls in his own class getting on his nerves, opting to eat lunch by himself in a narrow alleyway that Tomoko once showed him just so he doesn't have to hear them.
* SiblingYinYang: With Tomoko.
* TheStoic: His only emotion is seemingly a perpetually-annoyed calm. Even when he isn't particularly agitated, his expressions remain dour and his speech remains curt.
* StraightMan: Serves as this whenever he shares a scene with his sister.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Invoked in chapter 106. Ucchi claims that his eyes and mouth are very similar to Tomoko's, which is how she is instantly able to tell that the two are siblings. Hina also comments on their similarity in chapter 134.
* TranquilFury: While he's frequently pissed off at his sister, he only explodes at her when she's being particularly obnoxious. Otherwise, he remains fairly stoic when dealing with her.
* UnkemptBeauty: Despite sharing his sister's CreepyShadowedUndereyes while also being a PerpetualFrowner, giving him a fairly disheveled and unfriendly appearance at all times, he is seen as attractive by girls. This may be because AllGirlsWantBadBoys.
* TheUnsmile: One of the very few times he ever smiles is to Akari's friend, Sayaka, once she encourages him to do his best after getting him stuck in the lead role of a play their class is putting on. It's obviously forced to a very painful degree, and Akari compares it to the way an animal would bare its teeth as an intimidation tactic.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: While he's suggested to be a decent guy when not around his sister at his present age, old home videos of him as a kid show that he used to be ''much'' more chipper.
* VitriolicBestBuds: What few glimpses we catch of him with his friends imply this. While they're a lot more boisterous than he is, Tomoki's not above throwing the occasional good-natured insult at them.
* WouldHitAGirl: He's not above lashing out when Tomoko's getting on his nerves (giving her a kick, grabbing her face, etc.). He invoked [[WouldntHitAGirl the other trope]] one time Tomoko was annoying him. Then when her antics went too far, he had no choice but to strike her into calming down.
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[[folder:The Kuroki Parents]]
->'''Mrs. Kuroki voiced by:''' Creator/RisaHayamizu (Japanese), Creator/ShelleyCaleneBlack (English)
->'''Mr. Kuroki voiced by:''' RyÅ Iwasaki (Japanese), Creator/DavidWald (English)
Tomoko's and Tomoki's parents.
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* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Like both of her children, Mrs. Kuroki sports a pair of these. Though unlike theirs, hers are substantially less visible. Also, judging from [[https://www.reddit.com/r/watamote/comments/61m6y4/volume_11_bonus_postcard_young_watamom_and_her/ a bonus drawing by Nico Tanigawa]], she got her eye bags at a later age than her kids did. Mr. Kuroki is also revealed to have these in the single panel where we get to see one of his eyes reflected in a rearview mirror.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Well, "limelight" isn't exactly right, but the chapter "Because I'm Not Popular, I'll Spend Time With My Dad" marks the first time Mr. Kuroki has ever had a significant amount of screen time and focuses on Tomoko going on a fishing trip with him.
* TheFaceless: During the few occasions where he actually appears, Mr. Kuroki's face is never completely shown. We've been shown, at various different points, his hair, mouth, and eyes, though, so we have a decent idea of what he looks like.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mrs. Kuroki has no idea that Tomoko is a loner with no friends [[spoiler:until chapter 90, when Ogino mentions this during their parent-teacher conference]]. In fact, Tomoko actively tried to hide this from her mother, e.g. by lying to her about having fun with her classmates in one of the Christmas specials. Mr. Kuroki has it even worse, getting almost all of his information about his children secondhand from his wife.
* NoNameGiven: The only reason we even know their last name is because we know their children's. They're exclusively called "mom" and "dad" in-universe.
* ParentalFavoritism: Played with. Mrs. Kuroki loves both Tomoko and Tomoki equally but is often exasperated at her daughter for being lazy and irresponsible. This causes Tomoko to become slightly resentful whenever her mom praises Tomoki for his maturity and self-reliance.
* {{Salaryman}}: Judging from his usual clothing of a suit and the fact that he's almost never around the house due to being too busy working, Mr. Kuroki is one of these.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Mrs. Kuroki was shown to resemble a tidier-looking Tomoko when she was younger, and, from what we've seen of his face, Mr. Kuroki resembles an older Tomoki.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** After Tomoko complains about having to help with housework, Mrs. Kuroki calls her out on the fact that Tomoki not only helps out without complaint, but he does so on top of also having Club Activities and studying for his High School Entrance Exam.
** When Tomoko forgets to mail Tomoki's application to the entrance exams for a school in Saitama, the furious mother subjects her daughter to a very harsh lecture about how she ruined her brother's future.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Mr. Kuroki's appearances can be counted on one hand and are extremely brief. At all other times, it can be easy to forget that Tomoko even has a dad.
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[[folder:Kiko "Kii-chan" Satozaki]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieKugimiya (Japanese), Creator/JulietSimmons (English)
Tomoko and Tomoki's thirteen-year-old cousin and a seventh-grade schoolgirl. Having been fed a steady stream of face-saving lies by Tomoko, she idolizes her older cousin.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Ever since she lost Kii's respect, Tomoko has come to see her cousin as this and always dreads their meetings.
* AudienceSurrogate: Her reaction to Tomoko's card game.
* BrokenPedestal: How she sees Tomoko after all her attempts to look cool backfires spectacularly on her. Unlike other examples though, she takes the revelation well, and the next time they meet her admiration is replaced not with utter disdain, but with pity and appreciation that at least she tried her best.
* CreepyChild: When she gets in a bad mood, Kii becomes very...unsettling. It's bad enough that Tomoko regards her as TheDreaded and she's always painted in a sinister light in Tomoko's dreams. [[spoiler:To say nothing of the nightmare she had where Kii-chan implicitly [[BlackComedyRape raped her with an eggplant.]] As Tomoko woke up from that nightmare it turned out that Kii was actually in her room, watching her sleep.]]
* DeathGlare: Pulled one mixed with a ThousandYardStare when she was angry with Tomoko, also...
-->''"No! Just take it."''
** This has become a regular expression for her when she is angry, with an added {{Stepford Smile|r}}.
* IncestSubtext: When asked about what kind of boy she likes, Kii-chan responds with "like Onee-chan!", specifying that as someone who makes her heart skip a beat, "like [Tomoko]". Tomoko is understandably unnerved by this.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She means well when she tries to take care of Tomoko after finding out the truth about her, but so far her actions just drive it home to Tomoko how pathetic she has gotten.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoya_Satozaki Tomoya Satozaki]].
* NiceGirl: An unusual role for a Type-A {{Tsundere}} specialist like Creator/RieKugimiya. She's so nice she doesn't harbor any grudge against Tomoko for unwittingly breaking her good impression of her.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until chapter 60, where it's revealed that her given name is Kiko. Her full name is revealed in chapter 141.
* PerpetualSmiler: Is almost never seen without a smile, especially when around Tomoko.
* ReplacementGoldfish: In chapter 60 Tomoko speculates that Kii tries to take care of her because she treats her as a replacement for her deceased dog. [[spoiler: At the end of that chapter Kii even gives Tomoko that dog's hairpin (the one she is always wearing).]]
* SlasherSmile: A lot of her smiles look decidedly empty and sinister, particularly when combined with WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Her response to a rather sad story Tomoko tells her is more verbal than actually emotional.
-->'''Kii''': [''while smiling brightly''] You're so kind, Onee-chan. I'm tearing up. \\
'''Tomoko''': [''thinking''] Like hell you are!
* TokenMiniMoe: She has a very cutesy design that stands out from the rest of the cast. It makes sense while she's 12 years old, but it becomes even more notable when she retains it even as she approaches her mid-teens.
* UnwantedAssistance: She wants to help Tomoko become a better person, but Tomoko, who knows she's driven by pity and finds Kii's efforts demeaning, wants nothing to do with it.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Whenever she gets unpleasantly surprised, aggravated, disapproving, or devious, her eyes take on this look, which never fails to unnerve Tomoko. This is practically her default look in Tomoko's mind since Kii always has these eyes whenever Tomoko thinks or dreams about her.
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!!Tomoko's Middle School Friends
[[folder:Yuu Naruse]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Creator/EmilyNeves (English)
Tomoko's best friend from middle school, who managed the transition to adolescence far more gracefully than Tomoko. She was originally very quiet and nerdy; however, after moving to high school she dyed her hair, improved her fashion sense and personal appearance, became more outgoing and eventually got a steady boyfriend. Despite changing so much, she remains a kind friend to Tomoko, though she remains blissfully oblivious to how different their social lives are and is unaware of the more unpleasant aspects of Tomoko's personality.
She is the protagonist of the spin-off manga ''It's Your Fault My Friend's Not Popular'', which details her middle school life with Tomoko from her perspective.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In the final episode of the anime, she starts to chase after a distraught Tomoko out of concern for her but ends up being distracted by a cat.
* BeautifulAllAlong: An interesting case where she's introduced after having this already happen to her. Back in middle school she wore thick glasses and unflattering clothing but was still beautiful underneath them.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: After embarrassingly winning a bet in the Christmas special of 2016, Yuu makes Tomoko and Komiyama sing Christmas carols together for an hour. She then makes use of ExactWords by saying they'll have to do the same thing next Christmas.]]
* BookDumb: Yuu is very socially aware and has a knack for treating people how they want to be treated, but her grades aren't very good. Yuu even recognizes that Tomoko wanting to get into Aoyama University means that Yuu probably won't be able to follow her because of the disparity between their grades. Yuu comes to the conclusion that she should back off from Tomoko so that Tomoko has a better chance of getting into the university.
* BrainlessBeauty: Despite her beauty and kindness, she's oblivious to Tomoko's unsavory nature and has below-average grades. In the second Christmas special Tomoko opines that even using Twitter or keeping a blog would be too complicated for Yuu to handle. She also remains oblivious to the animosity between Tomoko and Kotomi [[spoiler:until chapter 54 of the main story. In chapter 124 she also does not pick up on Yuri's jealousy of her friendship with Tomoko, and is just happy that Tomoko's new friends like her so much]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Probably one of the rare occasions where OutOfFocus actually helped. As the third year rolls on and she learns of Tomoko's desire to get into the more academically prestigious Aoyama University and Tomoko's now large group of friends, Yuu starts to show insecurity at the possibility of being left behind by Tomoko while not wanting her lack of intelligence to drag her friend down and stop her from achieving her dream.
* ClosetGeek: She's currently this, due to her popularity having soared at her high school after she cleaned up her appearance. At one point she says that she's happy that she can still hang out with Tomoko since she doesn't have anyone else to talk to about anime-related things.
* CoolPet: In chapter 64, while catching bugs with Tomoko and Kotomi, she manages to catch a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynastinae rhinoceros beetle]]. Tomoko and Kotomi comment on its coolness and rarity, and Tomoko convinces Yuu to keep it as a pet.
* CluelessChickMagnet: She's completely unaware of the effect she had on Tomoko and Kotomi in middle school, and even in high school, she still hasn't caught on to Tomoko's blatantly obvious lust for her.
* CovertPervert: One thing she ''isn't'' oblivious about is innuendo.
* DecoyProtagonist: In the spin-off, she is set up as the protagonist at first, but the narrative focus eventually moves from her to Tomoko and Komiyama, and the story is mostly about the two's "[[SitcomArchNemesis friendship]]."
* DudeMagnet: She draws guys to her without even trying, much to Tomoko's eternal chagrin.
* DumbBlonde: Her hair is dyed, but otherwise applies.
* DumbIsGood: She's the ditziest of the three middle school friends, but also by far the sweetest.
* EroticDream: [[spoiler: Implied in chapter 7 of the spin-off. Tomoko and Kotomi are pretty delighted by it.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Tomoko and Kotomi both have pretty obvious crushes on her in middle school and separate high schools have done little to ebb their lust.
* {{Foil}}: To Tomoko, also to Kotomi. She had been, initially, shy like her two friends but was able to overcome it and build a social life, unlike Tomoko. In middle school, she already had a hidden natural beauty that drew attention. Most importantly, she has shown negative feelings towards other people the least, unlike her friends.
* FriendToBugs: Played with. She doesn't particularly deal well with insects, but when she goes bug-catching with her friends, she insists on letting the critters go when Tomoko wanted to watch them eat each other. She also keeps a rhinoceros beetle she catches as a pet.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: After taking her glasses off, her popularity soared.
* GoodBadGirl: Mostly implied, but she's suggested to have attended [[WildTeenParty Wild Teen Parties]] before and may have already lost her virginity, both things that the much sleazier Tomoko could only dream of doing.
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, in chapter 57! She deals with it in a completely different way than Tomoko, though.]]
* HeadTurningBeauty: ''Everyone'' who sees her is astounded by her looks, she has no problem drawing attention from guys, and even girls like Tomoko and Kotomi express attraction to her.
* TheHeart: She is pretty much the only reason Tomoko and Kotomi even talk to each other, and also the only reason they are willing to be civil when they do talk. [[spoiler: In chapter 54 she takes an active role to the trope.]]
* HiddenDepths: It's implied that while she may not be as [[BookDumb academically smart]] as the rest of the cast, she's much sharper than she lets on. Yuu's fully aware that her two best friends don't like each other but is able to get them to at least tolerate one another by steering them to an arcade, where they can hone their rivalry into playing fun games together. One Christmas special shows she does indeed have her own devilish side that can embarrass them ForTheLulz.
* ImportantHaircut: In Chapter 100, Yuu cuts her hair to shoulder length, due in part to [[spoiler: breaking up with her boyfriend.]]
* InformedAttractiveness: Everyone who sees Yuu always makes a note on how cute and attractive she is. While the manga has plenty of attractive and fashionable girls, she stands out as the only one who is consistently given this treatment.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Her casual remarks indicating that she has a much more fulfilling social life than Tomoko can hope for, including having a boyfriend, cause Tomoko a lot of distress.
** Komiyama was also hit with this, in chapter 6 of the spin-off.
** During Tomoko's, Yuu's and Kotomi's Christmas party in the 2016 Christmas special Tomoko come up with the idea for the trio to buy one another funny gifts that would be completely useless to the recipient rather than ordinary Christmas gifts. In response, Yuu [[spoiler:buys Tomoko a pack of condoms. Yuu claims to have thought about it simply as a funny gift, and is embarrassed when Tomoko points out what such a gift implies about [[NerdsAreVirgins what Yuu thinks of Tomoko]].]]
** In chapter 124 Yuu says that she would love to meet Kotomi's friends, and claims that they have to be kind if they are friends with her; Kotomi notes in her InnerMonologue that the way Yuu phrased that is a bit hurtful for her.
* MoralityPet: She was the only person for whom Tomoko displayed any kind of empathy for in the early parts of the manga.
* MsFanservice: Or at least this is how Tomoko sees her. While her clothing is occasionally somewhat risque, she herself is quite modest and buttoned-down.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihisa_Naruse Yoshihisa Naruse]].
* NiceGirl: Overall, a pretty nice and sweet (if somewhat airheaded) person.
* ObliviousToLove: Doesn't notice Tomoko's crush on her.
* OnlyFriend: To Tomoko (who even admits this in one of her {{Inner Monologue}}s in chapter 29) in the early chapters, and also to Kotomi in the prequel. Not so much in later chapters, as Tomoko makes a few more friends, while Kotomi befriends a girl named Itou and has a somewhat OddFriendship with her romantic rival Akari. Even then, Yuu seems to remain the closest friend to Tomoko and Kotomi.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: In anime flashbacks, though her eyes are visible in both manga.
* {{Otaku}}: She was this during middle school. Now that she's in high school and has a better social life, she's more of a ClosetOtaku around everyone except Tomoko and Kotomi, whom she feels she can be more open about otaku-related things with.
* OutOfFocus: Yuu has had fewer appearances in the story since Tomoko managed to get some semblance of social life at her school.
* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: Used to clue the reader in to the frequent discomfort or awkwardness beneath her perpetual smile.
* ShesAllGrownUp: She was a mousy, nerdy and shy girl in middle school who became a trendy, beautiful and outgoing girl in high school.
* TheSocialExpert: She may be an academic dunce, but Yuu is very good at reading people and understanding why they act as they do without needing to hear them explain themselves. She functionally teaches Tomoko and Kotomi to tolerate each other better by steering them towards activities that would allow them to channel their rivalry in less hostile ways, and defuses tensions between Tomoko and Asuka that would otherwise have risen due to their TwiceShy relationship.
* StepfordSmiler: Has a tendency to put up a cheerful front, even when she's going through bouts of depression, often from the trouble she has with her boyfriend.
* StupidGood: Her niceness can be very high when it comes to her friends. For example, when they were in the pool:
--> '''Tomoko:''' ''"If I peed in here, would you pull away from me?"''\\
'''Yuu:''' ''"I wouldn't. Because we're friends."''
* ThousandYardStare: A minor running gag whenever she becomes [[BookDumb overwhelmed by academia]], displaying a vacant look on her face complete with an empty smile that displays no happiness whatsoever. Tomoko thinks she looks like a rape victim this way.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Tomoko and Kotomi are both rather self-absorbed and prone to seeking out flaws in people, while Yuu is sweet and rarely criticizes others.
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[[folder:Kotomi Komiyama]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaoriMizuhashi
One of Yuu's old middle school friends. She immediately takes a dislike to Tomoko, who sees Kotomi as a rival for Yuu's attention. Unfortunately, Kotomi proves to be just as passive-aggressive and anti-social as Tomoko.
Kotomi is formally introduced in the spin-off manga ''It's Your Fault My Friend's Not Popular'', and later on she is re-introduced in the main series. Kotomi does not appear in the anime as it only adapts stories from before her first appearance. However, she appears in a special {{OVA}}, bundled with the Japanese release of the main series's seventh volume.
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* ACupAngst: Just like Tomoko.
* AlliterativeName: Both her first and last name begin with "K".
* AscendedExtra: She first appeared in Tomoko's flashback to her middle school years in Chapter 30 of the main series as the third, unnamed girl running the marathon with Tomoko and Yuu; she's only seen in three frames and has no speaking lines. In the spin-off series, starting with Chapter 2, she is one of the main characters. She then makes her formal debut in the main manga in Chapter 46.
* BerserkButton:
** Badmouthing her crush Tomoki, as Tomoko found out in chapter 54.
** ''Any'' girl getting close to Tomoki is enough to invoke her hostility.
* {{Bookworm}}: Always shown reading a book during her job as the school librarian.
* ButtMonkey: Not only is her crush on Tomoki unrequited, as he barely knows she even exists, but the plots revolving around said crush tend to end with her in some embarrassing situation or otherwise miserable.
* TheCameo: She makes a short appearance in the OVA that's about a minute long, which constitutes the only time she's ever been animated (and voiced).
* CovertPervert: Revealed to be one in Chapter 7 of the spin-off, though she is in denial about it. Also, in chapter 91 of the main series she blurts out that she is interested in Tomoki's dick... in Tomoki's presence, no less. As of chapter 101, she seems to have accepted that this is a part of her personality.
* CrossPoppingVeins: When Tomoko pisses her off. Which is often.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: During periods of extensive relaxation, she has a habit of mumbling some of her inner thoughts out loud. Normally, this isn't a problem as it usually happens in private, but she also does it while studying with her friends over Skype, which leads to much awkwardness. Particularly when her inner thoughts are about Tomoki.
* DontYouDarePityMe: If there's one thing Kotomi hates more than Tomoko being a {{Jerkass}} to her, it's the rare times when Tomoko actually expresses pity for her.
* {{Flanderization}}: Kotomi in Tomomote and the first few chapters after her Watamote debut was a shy and awkward girl with an interest in baseball and the Chiba Lotte Marines and a crush on Tomoki. As Watamote progressed, however, Kotomi's interest in the Marines became an obsession, to the point where Ogino had to stop her introduction at the start of the third year because she wouldn't shut up about it, and she took charge of the softball team during the sports meet. Kotomi's crush on Tomoki, originally innocent, became more creepy and perverted over time, and eventually reached the point where she was open about wanting to see his dick, stalked him at sports events to take photos, and even blurted out that she wanted to lick his eye bags.
* {{Foil}}: To Tomoko. She's basically her but more proper looking and with more common sense.
* ForgettableCharacter: Tomoko completely forgot that she existed as soon as she graduated from middle school. To be fair to Kotomi, this may have more to do with Tomoko not liking her enough to bother remembering her than it does with her flat out being a forgettable person.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: A comedic example. She and Tomoko had a friendship that was tenuous at best in middle school and immediately split apart as soon as [[TheHeart Yuu]] was taken out of the picture. By the time they reunite in high school, their relationship is entirely hostile and only becomes slightly more civil on the occasions where they both hang out with Yuu at the same time.
* FriendlyRivalry: With Akari. They both pine for Tomoki, and in an omake set after events of chapter 91 Akari even declares herself to be Kotomi's rival. However, so far there seems to be little animosity between the two, and Kotomi actually seems to care about Akari's well-being a bit. Kotomi encourages Akari to be honest about her feelings for Tomoki in chapter 101, and later, in chapter 108, she hesitates whether to tell Akari that Tomoki greeted her, because she didn't want to rub it in Akari's face. Akari, in turn, wanted to badmouth Kotomi when asked about her by Tomoki but backed off when she realized that Kotomi's feelings for Tomoki are the same as her own. In chapters 112 and 113 Akari is even shown helping Kotomi prepare the Valentine's Day chocolates for Tomoki and it turns out it was Akari who convinced Kotomi to give the Valentine's Day chocolates to Tomoki.
* GameOfNerds: She's a massive baseball enthusiast who follows the Chiba Lotte Marines with almost religious zeal. Of note is that she knows the make, model, and plate number of every player's car on the team. Chapter 117 reveals that she was once a member of the baseball cheer squad.
* GreenEyedMonster: She does not take kindly to other girls showing romantic interest with Tomoki, or interacting with him in any way, [[UpToEleven or even talking about him]]. [[spoiler:Even finding out about the existence of Kii in chapter 141 triggers her jealousy.]]
* IAmWhatIAm: While Tomoko's accusations on her fixation with Tomoki's genitals used to be a source of angst, Kotomi has made peace with that perverse side of her and freely admits that she would in fact love to see his dick. As of chapter 101, Tomoko's accusations no longer bother her.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: In a clothes store she hinted an interest in cosplaying. In chapter 79 she looks like the protagonist of a Final Fantasy game.
* InSeriesNickname: "Komi-something". Also: "Glasses". Both given by Tomoko.
** Her friend, Itou, refers to her as "Koto."
* KickTheDog: Calling Shizuku a pig to her face. In the past, if Kotomi wasn't able to bottle up her hostile feelings towards anyone she perceived as a rival for Tomoki's affections, then she was at least able to catch herself and make an effort to retain some civility, but this was the first time she was very open and unapologetic about it.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Tends to lose her common sense and act irrationally whenever the plot involves her crush Tomoki in some way.
* MyParentsAreDead: [[spoiler:Has revealed that her father died from an illness when she was five. Yuu gets awkward, Tomoko... not much.]]
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Fittingly, she shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoru_Komiyama Satoru Komiyama]].
* NerdGlasses: As a {{Bookworm}} she's among the more nerdy members of the cast, which she wears glasses to emphasize.
* NotHelpingYourCase:
** Like Tomoko, she insists that they are by absolutely no means friends. But when she gets into an angry confrontation with Masaki over the latter's apparent closeness to Tomoki, she tries to play it off as just BigSisterInstinct for her "best friend's" little brother, which only reinforces everyone's beliefs that they are friends.
** Furthermore, the above incident happens while Kotomi is trying to apologize to Masaki for lashing out at her. She does this in the hope of not looking like a terrible person in front of Tomoki while also downplaying her jealousy...only to immediately lose her temper ''again'' once Masaki starts getting friendly with Tomoki once more.
* OnlySaneWoman: Has more common sense than her two friends, at least in matters not related to her crush Tomoki or potential romantic rivals.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Sometimes she is presented like this depending on the situation. Her glasses are a little variant of this trope because they are not so big.
* {{Otaku}}: She shares the same interests in anime that Tomoko does, but to nowhere near the same extent. It's the subject of baseball where her obsessions really skyrocket into otaku territory, especially when it comes to the Chiba Lotte Marines.
* OutOfFocus: Not to the same extent as Yuu, but her screentime has been reduced considerably since the cast has grown in size.
* PrecisionFStrike:
-->''"Shithead."''
--> ''[[InnerMonologue "That fucking bitch!"]]''
* RightInFrontOfMe: In Chapter 2 of the spin-off she tried to break the ice with Tomoko by telling her a story about having a laugh in the previous year when she heard that some middle schooler was still riding a bike with training wheels. Guess who that middle schooler was?
* SheCleansUpNicely: While she may seem plain and mousy at school, Kotomi is shown to have a keen fashion sense that gives her a more showy appearance. Most notably, she managed to turn a bathing suit that Tomoko suggested to her as a joke into something very stylish at the beach, and dialogue implies she even got some boys' attention with it.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Tomoko. She dislikes Tomoko because the latter tends to act like a {{Jerkass}} towards her for [[GreenEyedMonster reasons she can't fathom]], and only ever strikes back at her when provoked. This is eventually downplayed massively in third year as Tomoko doesn't have as much reason to be jealous of her with her own expanded friend group and the two are now able to much better tolerate each other as a result.
* StalkerWithACrush: Acts like this towards Tomoki in some chapters, though this is PlayedForLaughs. In chapter 88 she is shown taking photos of him during the athletics meet, getting turned on when he is made to wear baseball uniform and hoping he would be wearing the kind of uniform where the understocking is showing. In the very next chapter, when let into Tomoki's room by Tomoko, she considers looking through his drawers or his trash before deciding to lie in his bed instead.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Even though they mutually dislike one another, she and Tomoko are frequently on the same wavelength, coming to the same conclusions independently, and even acting as they can communicate without even speaking.
* TheStrategist: Appoints herself as the strategist of her softball team during the sports tournament in her third year of high school. It seems not to be very successful, as Minami doesn't even understand her directions, and other girls are weirded out by her.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In spite of their mutual dislike, she and Tomoko are at least willing to cooperate to keep Yuu happy.
* UnknownRival: When they reunite in Chapter 46 of the main story, Tomoko has forgotten about Kotomi. On the other hand, Kotomi bears a grudge against Tomoko. (The next chapter reveals that they didn't spend all of their middle school years in the same class.) Now both are aware of the other's dislike.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Tomoko on their ''best'' of days, particularly past Chapter 57. On their worst, it's a SitcomArchNemesis relationship. Even their classmates, Yuu [[spoiler:and Kii]] seem to think they've got this kind of relationship going with how in-sync they act despite their affirmations to the contrary.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: When she is surprised and/or angry.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Yuu is the only link that makes her and Tomoko tolerate each other.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The reason she despises Tomoko. Both are antisocial and their OnlyFriend is Yuu. Each one of them believes the other is below her.
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!!The Kyoto Group
[[folder:Masaki Yoshida]]
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A girl with blonde hair and a bad temper that Tomoko has a habit of pissing off.
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* AsleepInClass: If she's attending class, chances are good she's sleeping at her desk.
* BerserkButton: When first introduced she has two: 1) perverted acts in general, especially being groped, and 2) being called a delinquent. [[NoSocialSkills Tomoko]] being [[AccidentalPervert Tomoko]], she manages to repeatedly push both these buttons, and it seems she is becoming yet another BerserkButton for Yoshida. During the trip to Disneyland, it is also shown that she hates it when people criticize cute things that she likes [[spoiler:which causes her to start a fight with one of her yankii friends.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early chapters portrayed her as being an ordinary girl with a FaceOfAThug who Tomoko was exceptionally good at pissing off. Later chapters show that she genuinely ''is'' a delinquent with a HairTriggerTemper, but also portray her as being a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold.
* DelinquentHair: She's a bleached blonde.
* FaceOfAThug: Certainly ''looks'' like a standard delinquent girl, but is heavily suggested to simply be an ordinary girl who is into punk fashion that Tomoko just ''assumes'' is a delinquent.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Turns out she and Tomoko (and Kotomi for that matter) actually first met while they were still middle school students. Tomoko tried to demonstrate to Yuu how to safely walk past a delinquent without incurring their wrath, only to accidentally kick Masaki's bottle of soda away and incur her wrath anyway. By all appearances, no one seems to recall the incident or who was involved.
* GenderBlenderName: Unlike the names of the other girls, "Masaki" is a unisex name in Japan which fits for a tomboy like her.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She seems to have an affinity for cute things in general.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Tomoko mentions that she wears Hello Kitty-print panties. A later chapter suggests that ''all'' of her underwear features cute mascot characters on them, to the point where Tomoko claims that the fact that she wears them is an OpenSecret.
* HairTriggerTemper: She is always quick to threaten or even hit Tomoko, sometimes with little provocation. On the other hand, she doesn't act like this when interacting with other characters, so maybe it's just that Tomoko is really good at hitting her {{Berserk Button}}s. Notably, in chapter 106 she does not lash out at Anna who called her a moron to her face. Later chapters, especially those covering the trip to Disneyland during her third year of high school, show that she can be quite friendly when in a good mood [[spoiler: though these chapters also show that even her yankii friends aren't safe from her wrath]].
* HiddenDepths: Despite what Tomoko thinks of her, she is shown to like cute things, couldn't recognize a love hotel when every other character could and apparently plans to celebrate her [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_Day Coming of Age Day]] in Disneyland. She also notices that Hina and Akane have a falling out in chapter 129, and tries to bond with Akane over the problems they both have with their friends [[spoiler:though she quickly changes her mind and attacks Akane when the latter pushes one of her {{Berserk Button}}s.]]
** There are enough hints that Masaki is actually much more well-off than her being a ''yankii'' implies. The brand of pudding she bought as a gift is somewhat pricy in the real world, she's shown to have both a scooter and managed to rent a van for her friends, but not even once mentions working part-time to fund them. Finally, when we're introduced to her mother, she doesn't look like a housewife at all (unlike Tomoko's mom), and instead looks like a longtime career woman.
* HotBlooded: The angry type. She also gets extremely fired up when she's excited about something, such as when talking about how cool Disneyland is.
* HugeSchoolGirl: Standing at 165 cm, the only non-adult taller than her is Asuka. As such she's the tallest among Tomoko's original circle of acquaintances.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Invoked in-universe, as several characters are convinced Yoshida is a delinquent, not helped by her bleached hair and [[HairTriggerTemper volatile personality]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While she's generally angry and annoyed, this is mostly because she is justifiably pissed off at Tomoko for saying or doing something insensitive to her. Otherwise, she is shown to be a relatively pleasant person who seems to actually like Tomoko to some degree.
* LastNameBasis: Mostly because Tomoko hasn't bothered to learn her first name. It isn't until she introduces herself to her third-year class several chapters after her debut that we learn her full name.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Her intimidating appearance and short temper cause others to overlook her softer side. In a sort of twist on this trope, Tomoko ''also'' completely overlooks her softer side when interacting with her, but interacts with her much more openly than others do, allowing Yuri (and the reader) to see that there's more to her than her tough looks.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuta_Yoshida Yuta Yoshida]].
* NeverMyFault: She's completely unapologetic about her outbursts. If Masaki's violent anger causes any problems, it's the fault of whoever provoked her, not Masaki for losing her temper.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: She gives Tomoko a ride home on her friend's scooter for no reason other than to be a chum. Doing so gets them both suspended for a week.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Beating up Tomoko for calling her a delinquent only further convinces Tomoko that Yoshida is a delinquent.
* OddFriendship: She and Tomoko couldn't be any more different, and going off of most of their interactions, you'd think they'd hate each other's guts. As later chapters show, however, Yoshida has no problem letting Tomoko hang around with her, despite Tomoko pressing her buttons sometimes.
** It's telling that that nowadays Tomoko simply ''can't'' imagine Yoshida not being around with her and Yuri. Ironically, Masaki seems to be the only person among her friends that she has absolutely no issue with introducing to the rest of her family.
** Yoshida seems to have become good friends with [[NiceGirl Mako]] during the Disneyland field trip, to the point where Mako is helping her with her future career choices and texting her during Yoshida's suspension.
** She takes a surprising shine to Tomoki as they continue bumping into each other, and responds to his AccidentalPervert moments much less violently than she does with Tomoko's.
* PerpetualFrowner: There's seldom a moment when she isn't scowling, which only fuels how intimidated Tomoko is by her.
* PervertRevengeMode: Her preferred response to Tomoko's antics.
* PetTheDog: She does occasionally do nice things for Tomoko, like offer to share an umbrella as they walk home on a rainy day. It's just that Tomoko always runs her mouth off at the wrong time and gets punched in the face. In chapter 116 she actually drags Tomoko over to Megumi, who was graduating, so that Tomoko, who was too nervous to approach, could say good-bye.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: A tough-talking and thuggish girl who likes all things cute and is generally pretty naive and innocent.
* {{Tsundere}}: A platonic example. She's almost always (justifiably) pissed off at Tomoko but still seems to like and care about her. She displays a similar attitude toward Tomoki, being casual and friendly to him one moment before switching to angry when he has an AccidentalPervert moment, though it's ambiguous if that's just as platonic.
* VitriolicBestBuds: The vast majority of her interactions with Tomoko consist of Tomoko saying or doing something insensitive or perverted to her and Yoshida responding with anger and violence. To onlookers, Yoshida appears to be bullying her. Gradually turns into grudging tolerance, especially after their trip to Disneyland, to the point that Masaki herself ''proactively'' invites Tomoko to hang out after school.
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[[folder:Yuri Tamura]]
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A fairly stoic girl from Tomoko's class who ends up in her group for their class trip after a falling out with her friend.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Post-CharacterizationMarchesOn, Yuri displays many symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: [[NoSocialSkills Little to no social ability and awareness]], [[BrutalHonesty speaks bluntly and straightforwardly]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive without a thought for how others will react]], [[TheStoic poor emotional display]], [[TheKlutz is clumsy and uncoordinated]], [[HairTriggerTemper has issues controlling her temper]] and occasionally focuses on some oddly childish interests.
* AudienceSurrogate: She's more or less taken up the role of the audience's representative within the story in recent chapters. She's a bit of a loner herself, but not nearly to the same degree as Tomoko, and while she is constantly bewildered by the other girl's behavior, she is also both amused enough by it to develop a fondness for her and empathetic enough to it to develop a sense of kinship with her.
* BerserkButton: While Yuri is not fond of Minami, to say the least, most of the time she is able to stay calm even in Minami's presence. However, in chapter 124 [[spoiler:when Mako calls her out on barging into Tomoko's meeting with Yuu and points out that she is acting like Minami would, Yuri actually punches Mako's arm in anger.]]
* BigEater: Yuri has a habit of eating large amounts of food during group meetings, perhaps as a way of avoiding conversation.
* BrutalHonesty: When she does talk to people Yuri is incredibly blunt and straightforward.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Yuri's personality takes a dramatic turn towards the end of the second year, to the point where she practically became a different character. Initially, Yuri had been the OnlySaneMan of the Kyoto trio. She was socially adept enough to mediate conflicts in the group and see through Tomoko attempting reverse psychology while Yoshida fell for it. While she was reserved at times during the Kyoto field trip, she was generally expressive, smiling regularly, being shocked by Tomoko's antics and even being introduced screaming angrily at Mako. From Valentine's Day onward, she became socially inept and unaware to the point of entering AmbiguousDisorder territory, and the end of year party showed her being [[UpToEleven even worse off socially than Tomoko.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: A platonic version. Yuri can be very clingy towards her close friends and doesn't like it when they're involved with others she isn't close to. This is seen in her fight with Mako over joining what was implied to be Minami's group for Kyoto and barging into Tomoko's meet-ups with Yuu and Nemo to engage in PassiveAggressiveKombat.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: In chapter 106, she prevented Tomoko from saying something to Yoshida that would get her punched. Overall, she has a better grasp of what kind of person Tomoko is than the rest of the school. Yuri herself invokes this trope in an omake set during the events of chapter 119, telling Masaki that they should look after Tomoko during the class farewell party because she might do something weird otherwise.
* CovertPervert: Invoked in chapter 145. Tomoko accuses Yuri of being this when she catches her reading an ecchi manga. Yuri on her part insists that she doesn't like this sort of manga and that she checked this particular one for a different reason. [[spoiler:Her willingness to watch porn with Tomoko at an internet café in Chapter 151 kind of gives the game away, though...]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: It's very slow but as third year goes along she starts to occasionally show more emotion. Most notably, laughing during a study trip to the beach with Tomoko, Nemo and Akane and smiling while talking to Miyazaki during the study camp.
* {{Flanderization}}: In a couple of ways:
** When she was first introduced Yuri was occasionally reserved and stand-offish (which was largely because she was separated from Mako for the Kyoto trip) but was generally sociable and expressive, and after the Kyoto field trip she was even cheerful and friendly. Later chapters played up her reserved nature to the point where she was TheStoic, only barely displaying emotion in moments of genuine joy, shock or anger. Likewise, Yuri went from being somewhat stand-offish to either ignoring or passive-aggressively sniping at people she didn't care for.
** The first time Yuri hit someone (Mako in chapter 124) was actually a WhamShot moment, and she only did so out of brief but serious anger over Mako pressing her BerserkButton. Later chapters would have her hit people casually when mildly irritated.
* {{Foil}}: Like many of Tomoko's friends, she can be seen as one to her. Both are introverted, have poor self-esteem, and lack much of a social circle, but while Tomoko is profoundly weird and histrionic, Yuri is one of the most reserved characters. Also, while Tomoko is generally mean but shows increasing moments of kindness and empathy, Yuri is generally kind but has something of a dark side.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Minami's story arc shows that she used to be part of the same friend group as Minami and Sachi in first year but eventually fell out with them.
* TheHeart: Since Tomoko, Mako, and Yoshida are more friends with her than they are with each other, Yuri is pretty much the glue that holds them together. Despite being an introvert, she convinces them to attend the class end-of-the-year party with her just so they can all have one last chance to hang together.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuri values the few friends she's managed to make, and as such is ''very'' attached to them. Seeing them interact in a familiar manner with other people outside her group of four (which includes Mako, Tomoko, and Masaki) causes ''intense'' feelings of jealousy to bubble up, as chapter 124 and 126 show.
* HiddenDepths: Initially introduced as a normal, if a somewhat reserved and stoic girl. Later chapters show that she's not that great at social interactions, and places a ''lot'' of value on the very few friendships she's managed to make. She also gets jealous if any of her friends seem to be getting closer to people outside the group than with her.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Due to her [[NoSocialSkills lack of social awareness]], Yuri tends to say or do things that annoy people around her and not pick up on their irritation. Lampshaded by Ucchi, who remarks it's the reason why Yuri has such a small social circle.
* InSeriesNickname: In Chapter 124, Tomoko considers calling her by a nickname after knowing her for so long, indicating that she conceivably might receive one of these in the near future. [[spoiler:Chapter 126 shows that the fact that Tomoko did not come up with a nickname for her is a sore spot for Yuri.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Yuri can be selfish, and easily becomes a GreenEyedMonster whenever Tomoko is with her other friends. Downplayed in that Yuri is more unaware than truly malicious, she'll back off when she realizes that she's being hurtful, and she can be empathetic and helpful outside of her jealous fits.
* LoonyFriendsImproveYourPersonality: Zig-zagged. Yuri's friendship with Tomoko and Yoshida seems to make Yuri more expressive and openly affectionate to her friends, but eventually, it also brought her issues with jealousy to light.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: A RunningGag with Yuri is that she packs a ''lot'' of strength in her hands and arms despite her slender build, which makes the punches and squeezes that she doles out whenever she gets annoyed really painful.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuhiro_Tamura Tatsuhiro Tamura]].
* NiceGirl: Played with. While she thinks Tomoko is a bit of an idiot, she treats her with respect and kindness, invites her to eat lunch with her, and becomes the loner's first real friend in high school. However, Yuri has issues when it comes to "sharing" her friends, which makes her act standoffish, passive-aggressive, and prone to lashing out. She's even guiltily admitted that she doesn't think she's a nice person.
* NightmareFetishist: She seems to have a taste for the macabre. Tear-jerking, sentimental manga do nothing for her, but something more gory and horrific like ''Manga/{{Goth}}'' is more up her alley. Furthermore, while Yuri says she likes musicals, her favorite is the darkly depressing ''Film/DancerInTheDark''.
* NoodleIncident: She spends most of the Class Trip thinking about how to make up with her friend Mako, but it's never said what caused the falling out, and they seem to have made up by the end. [[spoiler:Later chapters heavily imply that it was because Mako accepted Minami's invite to join the latter's group for the class trip without considering Yuri's feelings about it.]]
* NoSocialSkills: She's very low key about it compared to Tomoko, but Yuri is still very awkward and inept socially. She consistently fails to notice social cues or engage in niceties (as seen in chapter 145 when she simply eats the lunch Mako made without thanking her). Yuri is also very blunt, tactless and even rude when not being reserved or uninterested. From the Disneyland field trip onwards, Yuri actually was shown to be [[UpToEleven even less socially capable than Tomoko.]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark: She gets on the recieving end of this. When Yuri starts bad-talking Tomoko to Yuu, Mako tells her that she's acting an awful lot like Koharu. Yuri's violent reaction to that shows it's not a comparison she likes.
* OddFriendship: Arguably her main group counts but she also winds up developing one with Ucchi's friends during the study camp after they invite her to hang out with them at a hot spring noting that they're surprisingly easy to talk to.
* OnlySaneWoman: She notices how much of an idiot Tomoko is, but still makes an effort to befriend her. She does the same for Yoshida. She's by far the most normal of the three and usually takes it upon herself to try and keep them civil with each other.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Originally presented like this, but subverted over time as she became more and more of a {{Foil}} to Tomoko.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: In later chapters, whenever she gets jealous of other characters getting friendly with Tomoko, she either [[SilentTreatment ostentatiously ignores them]], or tries to one-up them by bringing up inside stories to prove that she's Tomoko's closest friend. [[spoiler:Yuu was her first target in chapter 124, followed by Hina during and after the Disneyland trip, and Shizuku in chapter 132]].
* TheStoic: Downplayed. She's not emotionless, but she maintains a pretty firm poker face no matter what happens around her.
* UnfazedEveryman: Her reactions to her new kind-of-friends' behaviors are much more subdued than you'd expect.
* WhenSheSmiles: She very rarely smiles, and when she does, she'll always be quick to hide it. She almost never laughs either, so when a biting remark from Tomoko gets a small chortle out of Yuri, Mako reacts with visible happiness that someone could actually make Yuri do that.
* WouldNotHitAGirl: Discussed. Yuri herself is a girl and she has no problems hitting Tomoko, who is also a girl albeit a very scruffy-looking one, whenever she says or does something stupid. However, when the latter gets a landmine makeover that makes her [[SheCleansUpNicely appear more feminine and beautiful]], Yuri says she wouldn't be able to hit Tomoko while she looks like that because it would just look like abuse rather than discipline.
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[[folder:Emiri "Ucchi" Uchi]]
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A popular girl from Tomoko's second year class who has strange eyes and similar hair to Yuu. After spending most of her time with her friends in a different group during the class trip, the short time she actually spends with Tomoko leaves a very huge impression on her.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Bad ''girls'' in this case. In Ucchi's mind, Tomoko is a [[ReallyGetsAround sexually promiscuous]] creeper who peeped on her in the shower, stole her panties, watched her while she slept, stalked her relentlessly, and makes a pass at just about every attractive girl she encounters. While it scared her at first, it also got Ucchi interested.
* AmbiguouslyGay: She thinks Tomoko is stalking her to sexually harass her, [[RapeAsComedy maybe more]], which of course frightens her, but when it looks like Tomoko isn't interested in her, Ucchi becomes noticeably miffed.
** In later chapters it starts to look like she might actually have a crush on Tomoko, going by her reaction to Tomoko giving her a secret "Thank You" note or how she was able to instantly tell Tomoki was Tomoko's brother just by looking at his face.
** [[spoiler:Chapter 127 pretty much puts an end to any lingering ambiguity, as Ucchi admits that there's someone she likes. While she doesn't mention who that is, [[HoYay/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular all the clues point in one direction]].]]
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Due to Tomoko's [[NoSocialSkills mannerisms]], [[AmbiguouslyBi comments]] and [[CovertPervert actions]] when interacting with her, she's convinced Tomoko is stalking her and is obviously creeped out when Tomoko is trying to peek under her skirt. However, when she notes her also peeking under the skirts of other girls, her reaction shows this:
--> "So long as you've got a girl to stare at, you don't care who it is?!"
** She later has the same reaction again when she sees Tomoko going shopping with Yuu, who looks similar to herself. Ucchi is convinced that Tomoko is trying to replace her with Yuu.
* AscendedExtra: Made a brief appearance in chapter 59 (as the girl sitting next to Tomoko in a bus and ignoring her to chat with her friends instead) before becoming a recurring character. This appears to be the origin of her NonstandardCharacterDesign; her face is drawn only once in her first appearance and it seems to be simply an indication that she isn't important.
* BettyAndVeronica: Tomoko possibly serves as the Archie to Asuka's Betty and Ucchi's Veronica.
* ButtMonkey: After becoming Tomoko's StalkerWithACrush, every chapter featuring her is practically guaranteed to feature her getting humiliated in some way.
* CannotSpitItOut: She'll do everything she can around Tomoko. Everything, that is, except outright says that she likes her.
* CatchPhrase: ãã¢ã€ (kimoi), which is usually translated as "disgusting".
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In her first few appearances, Ucchi seemed to be something of a StepfordSmiler who would maintain a steady grin on her face even while feeling uncomfortable. Starting with chapter 80, she became more expressive in general, no longer does anything to maintain her cool, and very seldom ever smiles.
* CovertPervert: As much as she'll outwardly voice her disgust for Tomoko, Ucchi frequently has dirty thoughts about her. She's subtly but deliberately tried to arrange for moments that Tomoko could perv on her, fantasized about drinking water she's bathed in, thought about filming Tomoko taking her clothes off, and even tried bringing her to a love hotel.
* CrushBlush: She does this more and more around Tomoko.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Her belief that Tomoko is lusting after her is borne out of a lot of situations where Tomoko did seem to be acting in a sexual manner. She just doesn't know Tomoko well enough to recognize that Tomoko didn't mean anything by it and was too nervous to try and clear anything up.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the chapters that followed the second-year school trip she was at first portrayed as legitimately creeped out by Tomoko, but with hints that her interest in Tomoko might go beyond that. She gradually turns into a SmittenTeenageGirl who is completely obsessed with Tomoko, actively looks for opportunities to meet her and seems to be disgusted with Tomoko [[GreenEyedMonster only when she thinks that Tomoko is flirting with other girls]].
* {{Foil}}:
** To Yuu. They both have active social lives, fairly similar appearances, and a connection of sorts to Tomoko. However, while Tomoko bears an obvious lust for Yuu, who knows absolutely nothing about it, Ucchi misinterprets ''everything'' Tomoko does as being in relation to a perverse lust towards ''her''. That and Ucchi appears to be well on her way to developing a lust for Tomoko, who has no clue about it.
** Ucchi can also be seen as an embodiment of Tomoko's early-days habit of making wildly imaginative and EntertaininglyWrong appraisals of the situation, her highly sexual mindset, and her weekly ZanyScheme for attention. The difference is that Tomoko wanted to be beloved by everyone and generally had little commitment, while Ucchi cares only about Tomoko and sticks to her guns.
* TheGenericGirl: Implied by her official profile. To whit, Ucchi is the ''only'' member of the cast with all her stats listed as '''three'''.
* GreenEyedMonster: Whenever Tomoko shows or receives attention from someone who isn't Ucchi, Ucchi always reacts with visible jealousy. In one of the panels in chapter 115, she can be [[FunnyBackgroundEvent seen in the background]] angrily clenching her teeth as she watches a graduating upperclassman patting Tomoko's head.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Her beliefs that Tomoko is a creepy stalker who's utterly obsessed with her are so strong that Ucchi has in turn taken to obsessing over Tomoko and stalking ''her''.
* HiddenDepths: During her trip to Aoyama in chapter 140 she apparently wanted to check the university's school of business (until she noticed Tomoko and got sidetracked); Tomoko even wonders whether Ucchi is planning on opening up an Emoji Mart.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Even though Ucchi repeatedly tells her friends and acquaintances that Tomoko is a disgusting creep, she does not tolerate anyone else badmouthing Tomoko, [[spoiler:as Minami found out in chapter 156.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: By all accounts, she's guilty of everything she accuses Tomoko of being. [[spoiler:For instance, when Tomoko leaves some chocolates for Ucchi in her locker, Ucchi calls her a creep for not giving them to her in person, even though she did the exact same thing the day before.]]
* IdenticalStranger: Somewhat resembles ([[NonstandardCharacterDesign a highly-simplified]]) Yuu. This actually gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in one chapter, where, after seeing them together, Ucchi assumes Tomoko is using Yuu as a proxy for her.
* InformedAttractiveness: Ucchi is supposedly pretty, enough to be part of her second-year class' cheerleading team. You would ''never'' know this though due to how her face is normally drawn.
** According to her official profile, Ucchi has the body of a fashion model. Though Tomoko acknowledges this in chapter 176, you'd be hard-pressed to notice this due to the way Ucchi is drawn.
* InsultOfEndearment: Seems to be what "kimoi[[note]]Usually translated as "gross," "creepy," or "disgusting"[[/note]]" has become, at least when it's applied to Tomoko. She's even outright said she uses it to simultaneously praise and insult her.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Ucchi's growing obsession with Tomoko has made her act increasingly more erratic. She stares at her intensely from a distance, actively stalks her, tries to contrive meetings and encounters with her through incredibly roundabout ways, and throws childish tantrums every time something gets between her and Tomoko. It ends up seriously straining Ucchi's relationship with her usual group of friends, though they cut her some slack when they notice ''why'' she's acting that way.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: She doesn't say or do anything every chapter, but she can often be seen in the background. [[StalkerWithACrush Always watching Tomoko]]. Crosses over with FunnyBackgroundEvent with some of the humorous expressions she makes, particularly whenever she starts [[GreenEyedMonster angrily gritting her teeth]] every time Tomoko pays any sort of attention to someone else.
** In chapter 132, there are several blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments where she can be seen peering at Tomoko from behind a tree.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuya_Uchi Tatsuya Uchi]].
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Always has BlackBeadEyes. It's so unusual, that even in-universe, Tomoko compared her to an emoji. The outlines of her eyelids are drawn only in some of her emotional moments, most notably in chapters 80, 131, 152 and 156.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until chapter 114, where her surname (å , Uchi) can be seen on her locker [[spoiler:when Tomoko is looking for her locker to leave the Valentine's Day chocolates there]], and chapter 127, which reveals her given name. "Ucchi" is just what her friends call her. Tomoko doesn't even ''know'' her actual nickname due to how little time they actually spend directly interacting, and instead just calls her "emoji girl".
* RightForTheWrongReasons: She's one of the few people who see Tomoko for the perverted creeper she is, but only because she comically misunderstands everything Tomoko does, no matter how innocuous, as having perverted intentions.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The official English translation writes her given name [[MultiEthnicName "Emily"]]. Foreign words/names are typically written in katakana, but her name is written in kanji, so it's more likely supposed to be romanized "Emiri".
* StalkerWithACrush: Thinks Tomoko is hers. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters In her paranoia, she has become Tomoko's]].
* StupidSexyFlanders: Considering that Tomoko's creepiness is what Ucchi finds so fascinating and attractive about her, Ucchi's constant referring to her as creepy and gross is functionally how she expresses both her frustration and attraction to Tomoko.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: As much as she loves to talk about how creepy and weird Tomoko is, she sure doesn't seem to mind her. [[spoiler:Chapter 114 shows her to be somewhat pleased that Tomoko gave her chocolate for Valentine's Day, and as she's inwardly berating the fact that it looks like poop, she's still eating it.]]
* ThroughHisStomach: She's making a habit of trying to attract Tomoko's attention via food, [[spoiler:first by making [[ChocolateOfRomance chocolates for her on Valentine's Day]], and later by grilling and seasoning a strip of meat at a Korean BBQ restaurant - and then sneaking it onto Tomoko's plate.]]
* TransparentCloset: The only person who knows Ucchi and hasn't figured out that she has romantic feelings for Tomoko is... well, Ucchi. This creates some problems when her friends try to coax her into confession, only for Ucchi to then do her usual thing of calling Tomoko a disgusting creep.
* {{Tsundere}}: A quiet, long-distance variation. Whenever she thinks about Tomoko, her thoughts are always full of unmitigated disgust, but she frequently goes out of her way to do nice things for her (complete with extensive rationalization [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that it's not because she likes her or anything]]), and blushes whenever Tomoko returns the favor. It's gradually become a lot more direct as she's started to outright call Tomoko a disgusting creep right in front of her, claiming that it's meant to be both an insult and a compliment.
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[[folder:Hina Nemoto]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' YÅ«ko Kurose (Japanese), Creator/MargaretMcDonald (English)
Tomoko's classmate and the first person in Tomoko's class that Tomoko is able to talk to on a semi-regular basis.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Subverted. She seems to have light-colored hair in the manga, and the cover of volume 11 (published after the anime concluded) shows her with red or pink hair, while she has brown hair in the anime. However, in the manga, she dyes her hair, and the flashback in chapter 110 shows her natural hair color is indeed brown or black.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Due to winning a poll, she got a special chapter devoted to her that went into detail in her middle school years, and explained why she became a ClosetGeek in high school.
* AmbiguousInnocence: As Tomoko gets to know her better, it becomes increasingly harder to tell apart when she's genuinely trying to be nice to her from when she's passive-aggressively antagonizing her. [[spoiler:That aside, chapter 139 makes it abundantly clear that she's more innocent than she thinks when it comes to sex, as she finds hardcore uncensored eroge ''very'' uncomfortable to watch.]]
* AscendedExtra: Appears as a background character as early as chapter 4 of the manga/the first episode of the anime. She becomes a recurring character starting with chapter 39. By the third year, she moves from recurring to part of the main cast as a member of Tomoko's group of friends.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: While she typically acts cheerful and friendly, as Hina gets to know Tomoko more, she starts to display more of a blunt side that she previously didn't show anyone. It's [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] though, in that Hina doesn't want to be mean, she just wants to be more honest, and she enjoys the pushback Tomoko gives her when her buttons get pressed.
* BrutalHonesty: When that topic comes up, she trashes the anime that Tomoko's watching, much to Tomoko's annoyance. [[spoiler:In chapter 139 Hina also tells Tomoko that she doesn't think that Tomoko would be able to get a job regardless of what club she joins at the university.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: More of a case where this largely applies to the way she was depicted in an adaptation. Hina was little more than a prop for the first few volumes of the manga, so the anime portrayed her as a pretty normal girl who was capable of frowning, looking serious, or scowling visibly if she got angry. As her character was expanded upon in later volumes of the manga, it became more firmly established that she almost ''never'' stops smiling no matter how aggravated she gets.
* ClosetGeek: Likes SliceOfLife anime and wishes to be a voice actress, which she hides from her friends. Tomoko accidentally discovers her secret in Chapter 97, [[spoiler:and in Chapter 122 she finally comes out of the closet about it]]. A special chapter published in 2018 suggests that the reason why she stayed in the closet [[spoiler:was the memory of the two otaku girls who were her friends in middle school, who were mocked by their classmates because of their interests. This eventually led to the end of their friendship with Hina, as they wrongly assumed that she mocked them just as the rest of their classmates did.]]
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Her eyes darken considerably and lose their shine whenever she starts to feel aggravated. [[PerpetualSmiler Since Hina never stops smiling]], it's really the only way to gauge her mood.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's not above being blunt and teasing towards Tomoko, but an omake showed she doesn't approve of Minami's mean-spirited gossip.
* {{Foil}}: She is pretty much what Tomoko would be like if she had better social skills and cared about fitting in with the popular crowd -- while privately keeping her geeky hobbies and abrasive attitude.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Chapter 110 reveals that she and Tomoko took their high school entrance exam together, and afterward even talked briefly and fist-bumped. However, Tomoko ignored Hina when she was trying to introduce herself. Zig-zagged, as Tomoko, remembers the meeting itself, but not that the girl she met was Hina. [[spoiler:Even in chapter 117, after Hina made an impersonation of Tomoko that directly referenced the event, Tomoko still has trouble connecting the dots.]]
** Seemingly because of this (and Tomoko still being unable to remember her), subsequent chapters have shown that even the mere ''mention'' of an entrance exam has become a sort of BerserkButton for Hina, as her passive-aggressiveness just ramps up as a result.
* TheGadfly: In later chapters, she seems to like to make Tomoko uncomfortable just for the fun of it. [[spoiler:And in chapter 129 she decides that, if she ever has to dub a HGame, she will tell Akane just to watch her reaction. In chapter 139 she actually starts a contest with Tomoko to see who can freak out Akane the most.]]
* IAmWhatIAm: Zigzagged in chapter 122. [[spoiler:Tomoko boldly proclaiming that she is looking for a boyfriend during her introduction at the beginning of the third year of high school inspires Hina to stop being a ClosetGeek and admit that she wants to be a voice actress in her own introduction. However, Tomoko notices that her hands are shaking afterward, and Hina asks Tomoko to teach her how to live as a loner if the worst comes to the worst, showing that Hina isn't sure that she did the right thing. Later chapters keep it ambiguous whether Hina made peace with this; in chapter 124 she goes so far as to skip out on hanging out with Okada to watch anime, but on the other hand, she gets angry in chapter 135 when Tomoko claims that she acts like an otaku and a [[{{Chuunibyou}} chuuni]].]]
* InSeriesNickname: Tomoko comes up with a nickname "Nemo" for Hina, but she only uses it in her inner monologues [[spoiler:until chapter 126, when she says it out loud, and Hina demands her to use it when talking to her from now on]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: While her prediction about Tomoko having a hard time finding a job due to her poor social skills is insulting, Nemo is right that a lot of the time employment comes down to who you know and not what you know.
* LaserGuidedKarma: In Chapter 139, she decides to freak out her friend, Akane, purely ForTheLulz, only for Tomoko to freak ''her'' out in that same chapter, and again later in her own special chapter, ''without even trying''.
* LivingProp: Started out like this. In the early chapters and in the anime she was simply yet another popular kid in the background, and she had even less presence than [[ThoseTwoGuys Okada and Kiyota]]. Hina's line in chapter 39, when she notes that her presence is usually forgotten, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall seems to refer to this more than to anything shown in the story itself]]. Her importance in the story gradually increases starting with that very chapter, where she and Tomoko talk for the first time.
* LongingForFictionland: In a special chapter published in 2018 Hina mentions that she wants her life to be like a SliceOfLife anime, with no conflicts and everyone getting along, and wants to invoke and experience anime cliches in her life. Downplayed, as the life she wishes for actually isn't much different from the life she's leading already, as noted by Tomoko.
* MistakenForGay: After Hina lends her some chapstick, Tomoko interprets it as an IndirectKiss and starts to believe her classmate must be a lesbian who has a crush on her. Tomoko seems quite open to the idea of swinging the other way, despite her insistence that she is completely straight...until Hina shares her chapstick with another girl, leading Tomoko to assume she just got two-timed.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunichi_Nemoto Shunichi Nemoto]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever her smile drops, her chipper demeanor disappears, and/or she actually gets angry, even slightly, it means a line has been crossed. Notable is how cold and serious Hina gets when Tomoko says Hina might need to sleep her way to the top if she wants to make it as a voice actor. Even Hina is shocked by her reaction, noting how in the past, she would let anything that annoyed her just roll off her back.
* PerpetualSmiler: Almost never seen without a smile on her face, even when she's acting abrasive and hostile towards someone. Tomoko finds it very unsettling. [[spoiler:It takes Tomoko talking about how Hina's panties, pubic hair, and ''genitals'' looked for her to finally drop the smile and smack her in a state of mad panic.]]
* SitcomArchnemesis: For Yuri. There's some tension between the two, with Yuri often getting jealous of the attention Hina garners from Tomoko. This manifests in Yuri going out of her way to passive-aggressively brag about her greater familiarity of Tomoko to Hina, often to the latter's confusion and annoyance.
* StepfordSmiler: Hina almost ''never'' stops smiling. She keeps smiling even when she's angry or annoyed, and Tomoko finds those particular expressions of hers very unnerving.
* UnwantedAssistance: On two occasions her well-meaning attempts to reach out to Tomoko ended rather poorly for Tomoko:
** In chapter 39, when the time comes for Tomoko to introduce herself at the first day of her second year, it turns out that Hina not only thought that Tomoko's introduction at the beginning of the first year was great, but also told everyone about it, and thus everyone in the class is looking forward to another great introduction. This causes Tomoko to panic and publicly embarrass herself.
** In chapter 43, Hina gets curious about what Tomoko is searching the Internet for on her phone (during class) and asks Tomoko about this. This startles Tomoko so much that she drops her phone and it ends up in their teacher's hands with some NSFW images still onscreen.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Her relationship with Tomoko is this. The Comiket trip arc shows that despite their willingness to trade barbs and be competitive they do care about one another and Nemo is usually the first person to offer Tomoko support or encouragement when she needs it.
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[[folder:Akane Okada]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyakaAsai (Japanese), Ashley Miller (English)
A popular girl in Tomoko's class who is friends with Hina.
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* ADayInTheLimeLight: She gets a very short 5 page one in Chapter 118, where she grudgingly saves Tomoko from Yoshida but gives her back once she learns why she Yoshida was angry at her in the first place.
* AscendedExtra: She's been part of the series since the earliest chapters but spent most of it as a background character with the odd speaking line. After the trip at the start of the third year, she's become part of Tomoko's circle of friends and acquaintances and thus part of the main cast.
* BreakTheCutie: A rare instance where this trope is PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:Tomoko systematically breaks the poor girl down when she explains all the reasons why her friend, Hina, likely didn't tell her about her dream to be a voice actress. First, Tomoko tells Akane that voice actors typically do voices for eroge games. She follows up by informing Akane that even the entire cast of ''Anime/CrayonShinChan'' has landed some dirty roles in the past. Then, just to remove all doubt as to what these roles really entail, Tomoko shows the girl a scene featuring some very explicit sex acts between a [[BrotherSisterIncest brother and a sister]]. Akane looks downright ''traumatized''.]]
** This happens to her again in chapter 139, [[spoiler:after Hina convinces her to visit a shop selling sex toys, and also later in that chapter when Hina buys a HGame in spite of Akane's protest.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Does not mince words at all, most notably [[spoiler:asking Minami why she was hanging around with her and Asuka considering neither of them invited her, which was enough to send Minami running off upset, and telling Masaki that it wasn't right of her to start a fight with her friends just because they insulted Disneyland mascots.]]
* BullyHunter: Despite her usual indifference to Tomoko, she immediately steps in to defend her from (what appears to be) Yoshida bullying her.
* ButtMonkey: She's a so-called normie surrounded by otaku, outcasts and other weirdos and has no real knowledge of broader otaku culture with [[BreakTheCutie usually traumatic results when she learns about it]]. Not helped by having a best friend now obsessed with giving her a crash course just to see the results.
* ForeheadOfDoom: She has a pretty sizable dome, which her choice of hairstyle further emphasizes. Tomoko even refers to her as "Forehead Girl."
* HiddenDepths: There's a strong implication that she isn't completely happy with school when Tomoko questioned why she would really want a break considering she seemed the type to like going to school. It's suggested it has to do with the stress of keeping her social bonds, considering the only person she seems to really show a deeper side of herself is Nemo and Kiyota.
* TheIngenue: She's a sweet girl and is incredibly naive when it comes to matters of sex and lewdness. When Wada makes a self-deprecating joke about being gay it takes Akane a long time to actually figure out what he was talking about and this naivete is something that Nemo's preyed on for her own amusement at times.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She means well and is one of the nicer characters in the series but because she's just a normal girl she doesn't quite "get" the more introverted outcasts like Tomoko and Yuri she can some times make situations worse for them without meaning to. This is especially highlighted in chapter 165 when she's genuinely happy to see Yuri being more social but doesn't see that pointing it out only causes her to start withdrawing again.
* InSeriesNickname: Hina calls her "A-chan". Tomoko comes up with a nickname "Forehead girl" for her, but she only uses it in her inner monologues.
* KnightInSourArmor: A very soft version. She doesn't tolerate bullying and if she sees someone doing it or badmouthing others she's quick to call them out. At the same time if she feels that the "victim" brought it on themselves she's far more willing to hang back unless things get out of control.
* LovableAlphaBitch: To a degree. She has a large social circle and appears to be quite popular, but also always acts pleasantly towards Tomoko whenever they interact. Despite this, she is generally shown to be disinterested in or even put off by Tomoko, showing that, while friendly, she still isn't exactly clamoring to spend time with unpopular kids. This changes as the third year go on and after Tomoko's suspension it's clear that she sees the other girls in the group, Tomoko included, as her friends.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshifumi_Okada Yoshifumi Okada]].
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Seemingly an entirely ordinary teenager with a fulfilling school life. Tomoko at one point even refers to her as a "normie".
* OnlySaneMan: By virtue of being the biggest "normie" of the group of people that hangs around Tomoko she's by far the most grounded one of all.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Kiyota appears to be her best friend, but their relationship seems to be completely platonic, with Okada even teasing Kiyota about his love life.
* SatelliteCharacter: Exists mostly to serve as a "popular kid" for Tomoko to grumble at. This is highlighted multiple times to be entirely the result of Tomoko's ProtagonistCenteredMorality preventing her from seeing her as anything more. Even as she's gotten more focus, her character is still largely defined as "Hina's normie friend".
* ThoseTwoGuys: Used to have this dynamic going with Kiyota, as they would often appear together as close, platonic confidantes. However, this stopped being the case toward the end of the second year, as [[AscendedExtra Akane's character was expanded upon]] while Kiyota was shoved even deeper into the background.
* WhatTheHellHero: She doesn't hesitate to call Yuri out for [[BystanderSyndrome just standing back and passively watching]] what appears to be a bullying incident. Of course, this is before she learns what was really going on.
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[[folder:Yoshinori Kiyota]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Kengo Takanashi (Japanese), Creator/BlakeShepard (English)
A popular boy in Tomoko's class who is friends with Hina.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Has brown hair in the anime, while the cover of volume 11 of the manga (published after the anime concluded) shows him with blond hair.
* ButtMonkey: Seems to be something of this within his friend group, as he regularly gets teased for his romantic failings. It's all shown to be good-natured ribbing, though, and he frequently instigates it by making self-deprecating jokes about himself.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Generally appears to be well-intentioned in his interactions with Tomoko, but only ever ends up making her more self-conscious when doing so. Even when he ''isn't'' interacting with Tomoko, he still manages to make her feel bad about herself by bringing up his fulfilling teenage life when around her.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikuhiro_Kiyota Ikuhiro Kiyota]].
* TheOneGuy: While the popular clique ''does'' include multiple guys, they are reserved entirely for group shots. Outside of these instances, Kiyota is the only popular male student we ever see, making all of his close friendships seemingly be with girls.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Seemingly an entirely ordinary teenager with a fulfilling school life. Tomoko at one point even refers to him as a "normie".
* OutOfFocus: A bizarre case of this happening to someone who was already a SatelliteCharacter, to begin with. As both Hina and Okada have gotten more screen time and characterization, he has begun appearing less and less.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Okada appears to be his best friend, but their relationship seems to be completely platonic, with Okada even teasing Kiyota about his love life.
* SatelliteCharacter: Exists mostly to serve as a "popular kid" for Tomoko to grumble at. Becomes even more notable later on, as while Hina has evolved into a major supporting character and Okada has received two focus chapters of her own, he has yet to do anything of particular note.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Almost always appears with Okada in the early chapters. As Okada has become an AscendedExtra, however, she has appeared without him several times. He ends up substituting her with Wada.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: He can be seen dressed as a maid during the first year cultural festival, and if his cheerful expression is anything to go by, he has no problems with it at all.
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[[folder:Asuka Katou]]
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Tomoko's classmate with an interest in make-up. Implied to be very attractive in-universe.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Initially it seemed that she simply felt like doting on Tomoko due seeing her as a younger sister of sorts but as the series progresses and she continues to strengthen her friendship with Tomoko it becomes clear her interest in Tomoko goes deeper than that. To wit, she has become focused on her and Tomoko going to the same college together, she's continuously by Tomoko's side regardless of the circumstances, offers Tomoko the chance to grope her breasts and takes Tomoko's absence really hard after the latter was suspended a week by riding a scooter in school uniform.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Ever since Tomoko admitted to sexually harassing her friends, Asuka's interest in her has only grown, getting to the point where she even offers to let Tomoko grope her own breasts since that's what she expected Tomoko to do to her friends. When Tomoko turns her down, Asuka seems oddly melancholy about it.
* AscendedExtra: Made brief appearances in chapters 71 (sitting next to Tomoko on the train) and 90 before becoming a recurring character. Even earlier she was Tomoko's classmate who called her home in chapter 58 (as confirmed in chapter 164). Much like Akane, after the amusement park trip, she became part of Tomoko's group of friends and thus part of the main cast. Chapter 166 confirms she was the cheerleader Tomoko was ogling in chapter 87.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: She manages to keep up her poise even while suffering a nosebleed. Averted after she vomits.
* BettyAndVeronica: Tomoko possibly serves as the Archie to Asuka's Betty and Ucchi's Veronica.
* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: Asuka is among the prettiest and most popular girls in school yet is genuinely interested in having an honest and open friendship with Tomoko, her complete opposite. Even Tomoko doesn't get it.
* CosmeticCatastrophe: Asuka has attempted to give Tomoko a makeover several times. Both times involving makeup turn into a struggle for Hina to not laugh outright. It's unclear if it's because of Katou's incompetence as a beautician or from Tomoko getting a makeover in general. Dyeing Tomoko's hair silver works much better, though sadly her mother forces Tomoko to dye it back immediately afterward. Averted completely when she gives Tomoko a makeover in chapter 199.3 which [[SheCleansUpNicely turns out very well]].
* CovertPervert:
** She shows shades of this the longer she interacts with Tomoko. It starts with her being unfazed by Tomoko's admission of her tendency to sexual harass her friends, to offering Tomoko the chance to grope her breasts to unwind and as of chapter 156, taking Tomoko's innocent suggestion of touching her hair as Tomoko wanting to touch her pubes, with her only reaction being getting flustered at the idea. Chapter 166 reveals she was perfectly aware of Tomoko ogling her during the second year's athletic meet, ''before'' they talked for the first time.
** In chapter 157 she refuses to tell Fuuka what happened between her and Tomoko, arguing that isn't the kind of topic that can be talked in the open, proving she's perfectly aware of how unusual her actions are.
** She's one of only four students in the school to get a perfect score on the health and phys ed exam (a test with mostly sex-related questions) along with Mako, Komiyama, and Hatsushiba.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Inadvertently does this to Tomoko without ever realizing there was an ice queen to defrost in the first place. Tomoko starts off leery towards Asuka, interpreting her (well-meaning) words in the worst way and finding her doting tendencies patronizing. [[TastesLikeFriendship One surprise churro in the mouth]] later, and Tomoko is instantly lovestruck by Asuka.
* DisappointedInYou: Downplayed. While she never expresses it openly, Asuka always reacts unhappily whenever she suspects that Tomoko isn't taking her studies seriously. Luckily, Tomoko usually proves her wrong in short order without ever realizing she disappointed her, which repairs Asuka's impression of her.
* {{Foil}}: To Ucchi. Both are among the more stereotypically popular and pretty crowd of girls at school and both share an odd fascination with Tomoko and a desire to get closer to her and know her better. But whereas Ucchi's attempts are much more comedic, frantic and roundabout, Asuka's are generally treated with more seriousness and sweetness, are much more laid back, and much more direct.
* EndearinglyDorky: When she realizes that Tomoko tends to be on edge around her because of [[CoolKidAndLoserFriendship how high up on the social ladder Asuka is compared to her]], she tries to bridge the gap between them by cultivating this image, making corny jokes to look a lot less idyllic to the green-eyed girl. It only ends up confusing Tomoko.
* GreenEyedMonster: It becomes very apparent that she wants to be the main, if not only, recipient of Tomoko's attention. Most notably when Tomoko was suspended she frets over only getting a simple response from her but is relieved when she finds out that Nemo and Yuri never got responses... then showed irritation when she hears Tomoko also talked to Yuu, leading to clear jealousy on her part in subsequent chapters. It is a bit more downplayed in that her jealousy is something she keeps mostly private and doesn't bleed over all that much into her interactions with the other girls. Notably, despite clearly being jealous of the attention Tomoko gives Yuu, she gets along with Yuu just fine when they meet in person
* HeadTurningBeauty: Asuka is ''very'' pretty, with even Tomoki's classmate commenting on how hot she is. Her official profile lists her Charisma as five (shared only with, ironicaly, [[SheCleansUpNicely Tomoko]]), the max possible score, while the same profile states that she has the figure of a fashion model (shared with [[GenericCuteness Ucchi]]).
* TheHeart: In chapter 128 she convinces Akane [[spoiler:to try to make up with Hina]].
* HellishPupils: Her pupils get very small and very thin when she's upset.
* HiddenDepths: There's a lot more to Asuka aside from being a pretty face.
** While not outright stated, Asuka's apparently one of the most academically-capable girls of her class. [[spoiler:Among the girls in the summer cram school, she's the only one to be part of Class A; for comparison Tomoko starts in Class C]].
** She also has a bit of a dreamy side to her as well -- for example, the reason why she's applying for Aoyama? It's not because of its academics (that's just a bonus); instead it's because of the ''annual Christmas festivities''.
** As mentioned in previous entries, Asuka's been very possessive with regards to Tomoko's attention. This seems to come as a surprise ''even to herself''.
* HugeSchoolgirl: At 167 cm, Asuka is easily the tallest of Tomoko's close acquaintances. This ''also'' makes her OneHeadTaller than Tomoko's petite 148 cm.
* MyBelovedSmother: Show shades of this after convincing Tomoko to take the exam for the same college as her. Since then she continuously pushes Tomoko to study together. In chapter 164 she even admits to Tomoko that she's worried that she's being too pushy with her.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shohei_Kato ShÅhei KatÅ]].
* NiceGirl: Shown to be kind and helpful to her classmates, even unpopular ones such as Tomoko or one of Kakinuma's nerdy friends in chapter 120. [[spoiler:She remains kind and friendly to Tomoko even after the latter confesses to being a huge pervert in chapter 140.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: As her apparent crush on Tomoko grows, it's shown that she can be prone to jealousy and even possessiveness despite otherwise being a NiceGirl.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: It turns out she and Yuu share a mutual friend named Sawa who goes to the same school as the latter.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: In chapter 164 Tomoko outright acknowledges that without Asuka's friendship she would've not made an effort to pick a college or work at improving herself. Asuka, on the other hand, realizes that Tomoko is the kind of person that needs to be pushed to do something.
* TeamMom: Her eagerness to help out and accommodate her fellow students prompts Tomoko to wonder if Katou thinks of herself as the class mom. [[DontYouDarePityMe Tomoko initially finds her attempts to be nice patronizing]], but comes to enjoy them.
* {{Troll}}: She's shown to intentionally be ambiguous while talking with Fuuka about her relationship with Tomoko for no other reason than getting a rise out of Fuuka's flustered reactions. As she tells Yuu, she also enjoys teasing Tomoko since she thinks Tomoko's cute.
* TwiceShy: For a while, she was of the opinion that Tomoko didn't really have any interest in her due to the latter appearing to be more comfortable around girls like Yuri, Hina and Ucchi. She hadn't quite realized at the time that the source of Tomoko's discomfort was her own crush on Asuka. In chapter 170, Yuu finally explains to her the reasons behind Tomoko's behavior and from that point on, Asuka starts acting more astonishingly forward, though Tomoko still doesn't quite seem to get it.
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[[folder:Mako Tanaka]]
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A friend of Yuri's who becomes acquainted with Tomoko through their mutual relationship with her.
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* TheAtoner: She and Yuri implicitly got into a fight that resulted in the latter not being grouped up with her. While they have made up since then, Mako still feels guilty about it. She similarly feels guilty when she doesn't have lunch with Tomoko and decides to befriend her to make up for it.
* BerserkButton: Masaki not taking her future seriously has become a point of aggravation for her. Whenever Mako suspects the delinquent is wasting her time on something frivolous, she tends to act like a naggy mother towards her, and even joins Sachi in badmouthing Masaki when they see the girl talking with Tomoki.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Every time she sees someone who looks upset (e.g. Tomoko in chapter 99, Yuri at the end of chapter 120, [[spoiler:Minami in chapter 129]]), she tries to help or at least comfort them.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: [[spoiler: In Chapter 124, she serves as this trope to ''Yuri'', who out of jealousy inserted herself into Tomoko's meetup with Yuu and Kotomi and made the conversation all about field trip inside stories she shared with Tomoko. Mako had to pull her away from the table and call her out on her behavior before she realized how immaturely she was acting]]
* CovertPervert: [[spoiler:She's one of only four students in the school to get a perfect score on the health and phys ed exam along with Asuka, Komiyama, and Hatsushiba. It's a test with mostly sex-related questions and Mako's embarrassed reaction seems to mean she knows what this implies.]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She's convinced that ''Tomoko'' is a selfless, kind, and misunderstood soul. If only she knew what dark thoughts lurk in that girl's head.
* InnocentBetaBitch: She's not a full member of their group, but Mako is a good friend of Koharu and can get along just fine with Sachi, even if she doesn't like their gossip-mongering.
* MistakenForGay: Her often behavior around Tomoko, particularly one incident where she drags Tomoko into a bathroom stall, has convinced the Tomoko that she's a lesbian.
* MoralityPet: Could be considered this for Minami. The fact that they're friends would imply the fanged girl has ''some'' redeeming qualities, and Mako for her part wants to steer Minami into being a better person.
* NiceGirl: Aside from a fight she got into with Yuri (which is implied to be pretty one-sided), she's impeccably sweet.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: The incident in chapter 99 that makes Tomoko think that Mako might be a lesbian involves [[spoiler:Mako following Tomoko into a bathroom stall, covering Tomoko's ears so she won't hear her classmates badmouthing her, then holding Tomoko's hands and asking Tomoko to be her friend (with her face very close to Tomoko's) - while they're still in the stall.]]
* OddFriendship: She seems to have become good friends with [[JapaneseDelinquents Yoshida]] during the Disneyland field trip, to the point where she's helping her with her future career choices and texting her during Yoshida's suspension. She actually gets ''upset'' that Masaki isn't putting as much thought into her future as Mako thinks she should be doing.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Downplayed in that she never talks about it, but a lot of omakes imply that Yuri has never fully gotten over Mako abandoning her during the school trip to Kyoto and still regards that incident as a betrayal.
* OnlyFriend: For Yuri before Tomoko and Yoshida enter the scene. She's also suggested to be the only person who seems to genuinely care about Minami at all.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She's normally the picture person of niceness. However, Mako gets frustrated trying to figure out a seating arrangement that will group her up with Koharu, Yuri, Masaki, and Tomoko while keeping the former two as far apart as possible and snaps, getting a stunned reaction out of everyone present.
* WhatTheHellHero: In Chapter 124, [[spoiler:after noting how Yuri inserted herself into Tomoko's meetup with Yuu and took over the conversation out of jealousy for the closeness the two displayed to one another, Mako takes her friend aside and lambasts her for her behavior, going so far as to say she's acting [[NotSoDifferentRemark no different from Minami]], whom Yuri ''really'' doesn't like.]]
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[[folder:Koharu Minami]]
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A popular girl in Tomoko's class. Minami is the reason for Yuri's and Mako's falling out before and during the school trip, as she invited Mako to join her group for the trip, which meant that Yuri and Mako could not be in the same group. She takes an interest in Mako in general and wants her to join her group of friends. On the other hand, she does not get along with Yuri, and neither of them tries to befriend the other.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: She gets her own story arc starting in chapter 187 detailing her own loneliness since starting third year, a burgeoning friendship with Futaki and her increasing alienation from her old friends.
* AloneInACrowd: While she has a very large social circle, she's suggested to not be particularly close to any of them, with Akane outright disliking her. This seems to explain her fixation on her friendship with Mako, who, while being of only middling popularity, is the only person who seems to genuinely like her.
* BetaBitch: She tended to hover around Sachi and her group, and together they enjoyed looking pretty, laughing at other people's misfortunes, and badmouthing them behind their backs. However, when Koharu gets separated from the rest of her gang, she has trouble finding anyone else who's willing to tolerate her presence for long, finds she isn't immune to her own clique's mocking, and is forced to confront the fact that she's not a very good person.
* BreakTheHaughty: Her experiences as a third year student whose bad attitude prevents her from bonding with anyone cause Koharu to realize just how low on the social totem pole she really is.
* ButtMonkey: Her luck takes a turn for the worse when she enters her third year. Minami gets separated from her friends, repeatedly fails to connect with anyone, and even suffers some hilarious mishaps that are not so dissimilar from what Tomoko put up with.
* CharacterDevelopment: After being forced to eat the HumblePie all throughout her third year of high school, forming a bond with Futaki, and having a falling out with her friends, Koharu realizes that being a self-centered, gossip-mongering AlphaBitch isn't all it's cracked up to be, and starts making an effort to be a better individual.
* CuteLittleFangs: Has an enlarged left fang, which is visible when she's talking. [[spoiler:Tomoko making a quip about it in chapter 117 almost made Yuri [[NotSoStoic burst out laughing]] for the first time.]]
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In chapter 128, during the trip to Disneyland. [[spoiler:When she notices that [[BullyHunter Akane]] and [[NiceGirl Asuka]] aren't thrilled by her badmouthing of Tomoko, she starts badmouthing Hina instead. At this point Akane essentially tells her to get lost.]]
* DontYouDarePityMe: She's way too prideful to accept the charity or sympathy of others. She even turns down her own friends' invitation to join their group at Disneyland after things with her previous group failed to work out.
* FatalFlaw: Her inability to read the room always gets her into trouble. Whenever she hears people complaining about or poking fun at others, Koharu always takes it as an invitation to bad-talk them for fun, never realizing that their comments are linked to more emotionally complex issues and her mean-spirited gossip is not the thing they want to hear.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: In the third year due to being separated from her normal group of friends and more or less alienating herself from everyone in 3-5. Even her own friend Sachi admits that she's a jerk and it's because of her personality and lack of humility that nobody likes her.
* GossipyHens: Minami's favorite activity seems to be to bad-talk people behind their backs, and it's often her go-to tactic when it comes to trying to make new friends. Unfortunately for her, it doesn't work on anyone outside her usual clique. Even her own friends, in turn, talk about her behind her back seemingly out of a sense that she's [[LaserGuidedKarma getting what she deserves]].
* HateSink: In contrast to the other popular kids, who are all generally shown to be reasonably nice, she more or less serves as the designated villain every time she appears, and is largely portrayed as being unsympathetic. However, this gets subverted over time; her antics start looking more pitiful than anything, and she eventually admits that neither she nor her friends are good people.
* HeelRealization: The entire point of her story arc is her coming to realize that she's been a pretty awful person.
* HiddenDepths: She's actually suggested to be quite lonely, explaining why she's so fixated on her friendship with Mako, who is shown to genuinely care about her, unlike nearly all of her other friends.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Whenever a conversation or social situation she's involved with doesn't go the way she likes, Minami has a tendency to accuse everyone else of failing to read the room. However, it's always Minami who fails to read the room and properly gauge what's bothering the people she's with, which is why things turn sour for her.
* {{Jerkass}}: An overall unpleasant bully.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After splitting Yuri up from her OnlyFriend and leaving her isolated for the field trip, Minami finds herself separated from her own friends in her third year of high school.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaki_Minami Masaki Minami]].
* NeverBareheaded: She's always got a pair of matching ornaments in her hair. They're usually triangular in shape, but she occasionally mixes things up.
* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: She's particularly derisive of Tomoko, saying that "she acts all high and mighty even though she's a loser loner." A description that honestly applies more to Minami than Tomoko, especially since the latter has no shortage of people to hang out with now while the former struggles to fit in with anyone outside her clique. She even has the gall to mock Tomoko for rolling up her skirt, [[{{Hypocrite}} even though Minami wears hers even shorter]].
* OddFriendship: [[spoiler:Goes out of her way to start one with Futaki just to have someone else to eat lunch with which leads to her HeelRealization.]]
* SmugSmiler: It's pretty much her default expression.
* TraumaButton: Akane's very presence after being told off by her during the field trip. The mere act of Akane sitting next to her is enough to make her move somewhere else while looking very uncomfortable.
* UnknownRival: Tomoko seems to be a favorite target for Minami, who views her as a never-ending source of juicy gossip. However, Tomoko seldom ever hears what Minami has to say about her, and as such doesn't even have the fanged girl on her radar. It's implied that Koharu is actually secretly envious of her.
* VillainOfAnotherStory: For a given value of "[[VillainyFreeVillain villain]]," but she has this vibe. There's some animosity between her and Yuri that's strongly implied, but not outright shown. However, while Minami doesn't have a good opinion of Tomoko, and Tomoko doesn't think much of her either, the two rarely cross paths and their insults toward one another usually go unheard.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When she sees an old woman get aboard a train, Koharu admits she would only have given up her seat for her if Mako was around to appreciate her generosity. When Kaho ends up giving her seat to the elder, Koharu then imagines badmouthing her with her other friends. Either way, she shows herself to be a scummy person deep down.
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[[folder:Hatsushiba]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokazuSugita (Japanese), Corey Hartzog (English)
An overweight student in the manga club who Tomoko is partnered with in order to complete a portrait-drawing assignment for her art class. While Tomoko believes that the cute-looking portrait he drew of her meant that he found her attractive, it is later revealed that [[OnlySixFaces he draws all female characters with the same face]].
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Tomoko is immensely grossed out by the idea of him being into her at first. After she sees the picture he drew of her, though, she becomes more keen on it. [[SubvertedTrope Of course, it's later made clear that he has no interest in her at all, and his attraction to her was all in her head]]. It also counts as HypocriticalHumor on Tomoko's part, as she's a huge loser and geek herself who constantly pervs on people who barely know her.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The anime downplays his lips, making him less weird-looking overall.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter 131 actually gives some insight into his character.
* TheBusCameBack: Makes a surprise reappearance five volumes after his debut as a person checking out books from the library while Komiyama was on duty. Not only does Tomoko still think that he has a thing for her, but Komiyama mistakes Tomoko as having a thing for ''him''. [[spoiler:Even later, in chapter 122, he becomes Tomoko's classmate.]]
* CovertPervert: Possibly, if his perfect score on his health exam is anything to go off of.
* GeekPhysiques: He's fat and a member of the manga club.
* {{Gonk}}: He's fat, has a strange and unattractive face, and acts in an unappealing manner.
* HiddenDepths:
** Despite his apathetic front, he admits to being insecure about his drawing skills, which is why he rushed through his portrait of Tomoko in their first year.
** He was one of only four students in his grade to get a perfect score in his health exams, implying that he may actually be as much of a pervert as Tomoko assumed him to be.
* {{Jerkass}}: Downplayed. He's not outwardly hostile, but he's so apathetic that considering the needs of other people is just something he can't be bothered with. For instance, he rushes through his portrait assignment with Tomoko and leaves, not caring at all that she still needed to use him as a reference.
* LastNameBasis: Mostly because Tomoko doesn't know him very well.
* {{Nerd}}: Certainly ''seems'' like one, at least. He's [[GeekPhysiques fat]], wears [[NerdGlasses glasses]] and [[{{Otaku}} is in the manga club]]. Tomoko even guesses that he has no friends at all just by looking at him. Since we don't actually get to see what his social life is like though, this is entirely an assumption.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: His lips and nose look nothing like any other character's.
* OnlySixFaces: He draws all of his female characters with the same stock {{Moe}} face. His portrait of Tomoko in this style convinces her that he has a crush on her. However, chapter 131 shows that he can draw proper portraits as well.
* PetTheDog: When he catches Tomoko at the theme park, he draws a more accurate picture of her along with her friends to make up for the rushed portrait he made of her in his first year. Hatsushiba later gives it to her when they meet again at Comiket.
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't say much at all.
* TheStoic: Maintains the same expression throughout all of his screen time.
* TerribleArtist: Played with. He's actually quite good at drawing but was originally incapable of giving his characters different-looking faces. After a few years, he improves significantly.
* TookALevelInBadass: His drawing skills improve substantially between his first and third years of high school; beginning as [[OnlySixFaces decent but bland and lacking in diversity and expressiveness]] before growing to be genuinely impressive to look at.
* TranquilFury: He doesn't visibly react to Minami's snide comments toward him, choosing instead to vent his anger at her in his art by drawing an unflattering image of her as Mako's bondage pet.
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[[folder:Kakinuma]]
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A nerdy boy who sits next to Tomoko in class.
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* TheBusCameBack: Reappears in chapter 188 where he's revealed as one of Futaki's arcade buddies.
* ButtMonkey: Tends to get slightly humiliated every time he appears, and Tomoko loves to mock him inside her own InternalMonologue, clearly viewing him as being beneath her.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Becomes very flustered when he's forced to compete in a three-legged race with a cute girl during the school's athletic meet.
* DoubleStandard: When Tomoko is told to wake up after falling asleep in class, everyone goes silent, when he does the same, everyone laughs. Tomoko Lampshades this.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: He's gangly, pale and has shaggy black hair.
* GeekPhysiques: He's a skinny, scrawny nerd.
* LastNameBasis: Justified, since Tomoko doesn't know or care about him very much.
* {{Nerd}}: Has all of the standard traits of one, at least. He's [[GeekPhysiques rail-thin]], [[OpaqueNerdGlasses wears thick glasses]] and [[CannotTalkToWomen gets anxious around pretty girls]]. Tomoko even calls him one in her thoughts. Like Hatsushiba, though, we see so little of him that this is entirely an assumption.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Tomoko assumes this trope when judging him in her InternalMonologue.
* NoSocialSkills: Is always shown to be visibly nervous whenever he interacts with another person.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: His glasses completely conceal his eyes, and make his status as an unpopular nerd immediately obvious.
* {{Otaku}}: Tomoko describes him as one, though this is entirely an InformedAbility as we don't get to see enough of him to confirm it.
* PutOnABus: Or in a different class at any rate. He hasn't shown up since the second year as he's no longer in Tomoko's class.
* SatelliteCharacter: We don't know much about him besides the fact that he's unpopular and sits near Tomoko. This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as being the result of Tomoko's disdainful indifference to him.
* SpearCounterpart: Seems to be one to Tomoko, being an awkward EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette {{Otaku}} with poor social skills. Naturally, [[HypocriticalHumor Tomoko overlooks their similarities in order to mock him]].
* UnluckyExtra: Most of his appearances involve suffering some comical mishap. He's otherwise completely unimportant.
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[[folder:Shiki Futaki]]
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A girl with pigtails and an emoji-shaped face who joins Tomoko's class at the start of the third year.
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* AcademicAthlete: She's both an accomplished athlete ''and'' one of the highest-scoring students in her class.
* TheAce: She pretty much excels at everything she does. Shiki singlehandedly takes at least five headbands in a cavalry battle during a sports festival, shoots every target in a theme park game, wins every tabletop tennis match in another sports festival, plays soccer incredibly well despite having not played it since elementary school, can effortlessly pull off splits, and dominates every video game she plays. She's also ranked 99 in her class. That said, her skills don't extend to more luck-based games like mahjong.
* EarlyBirdCameo: First shows up in the second year during the sports festival when Tomoko's friends were unable to find her during the cavalry battle before becoming part of Tomoko's class during the third year.
* GamerChick: Is often seen playing, and is very good at, video games and dreams of being a pro gamer. It's later revealed that she's become a popular streamer during the third year summer break.
* HotterAndSexier: Her Youtube channel became much more popular when she started uploading more titillating videos.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Her frame is thin, but she is shown to be incredibly strong and athletic regardless. She can pull off perfect splits and was able to push a teacup ride faster by herself than two boys her age (who unlike her, also broke into a sweat doing so).
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kota_Futaki Kota Futaki]]
* NoNameGiven: Went nameless in her brief appearances until chapter 128 revealed her name to be Futaki. Her given name is revealed to be Shiki in chapter 147.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: To the point where she makes [[UpToEleven Ucchi look ordinary in comparison]]. Her blank dot eyes and triangular mouth are already strange enough, but unlike Ucchi, [[PerpetualExpression they almost never change expression]].
* OddFriendship: Develops one with Yoshida's delinquent group when they and Tomoko hang out at the arcade. It's later heavily implied that Anna and Reina help film her gaming streams. [[spoiler:She later begins to develop one with Minami.]]
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: All of her supposed feats happen entirely offscreen.
* OneOfTheBoys: The groups she tends to hang out with, such as the school trip to Disneyland or her after-school arcade club, consist entirely of boys, who generally treat her as a platonic friend.
* TheStoic: Even past her [[NonStandardCharacterDesign blank, unmoving expression]], she doesn't really express herself through body language either. In the brief moments where she speaks, she comes off as rather dry and unemotive.
* {{Tomboy}}: Quite possibly. She's athletically gifted, seems to be a master of most games she plays and her group during the Disneyland trip seems to be made up exclusively of boys.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Judging by chapter 154, focaccia. The perspective of eating it is one of the few things that make her [[CatSmile change expression]].
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[[folder:Hikari Itou]]
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Tomoko's schoolmate who is friends with Kotomi. In their third year of high school, she becomes Tomoko's classmate.
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* BlackBeadEyes: Overall her eyes are quite similar to Ucchi's, though unlike Ucchi Itou also has an outline of her upper eyelids drawn.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Acts like Kotomi's sometimes, most notably in chapter 134 when she tries to prevent Kotomi and Masaki from fighting.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter 153 focuses on the beginning of her friendship with Kotomi [[spoiler:and confirms that in spite of occasionally being weirded out by Kotomi, [[FriendshipMoment she actually likes her.]]]]
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Flashback in chapter 110 shows that she, Tomoko and Hina took their high school entrance exam together; afterward she and Tomoko talked briefly and Tomoko tried to fist bump with her. Tomoko remembers the meeting itself, but not that the girl she met was Itou [[spoiler:and gets embarrassed in chapter 122 when the two meet again and Itou brings the incident up.]]
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Ito_(baseball) Yoshihiro Ito]].
* NotSoAboveItAll: She thinks of herself as [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder Kotomi's minder]] and often inwardly rants about her friend's antics, but Itou has shown she's not really all there herself. She's done things like base a locker passcode off the syllable of Kotomi's name ([[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud and accidentally saying it out loud]]), and describing her friend in an overly long, detailed, and encyclopedic manner when Tomoki asks about her. The latter incident has Tomoki conclude that even Itou is a weirdo.
* OnlyFriend: Seems to be this to Kotomi in their high school, as she is the only person that Kotomi is regularly shown hanging out with at school and during the school trips. Itou herself is not shown to have any friends other than Kotomi.
* TheStoic: Tends to keep a poker face no matter what she is thinking and what happens around her.
* TheStraightMan: She is frequently shown confused or even grossed out by Kotomi's antics, but the two stick together anyway.
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* [[Characters/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopularTomokosSocialCircle Tomoko's Social Circle]]
* [[Characters/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopularOtherClassmates Other Classmates]]
* [[Characters/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopularTomokosSchool Tomoko's School]]
* [[Characters/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopularTomokosSocialCircle Tomoko's Social Circle]]
* [[Characters/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopularOtherClassmates Other Classmates]]
* [[Characters/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopularTomokosSchool Tomoko's School]]
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!!Other Residents of Tomoko's School
[[folder:Megumi Imae]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiNonaka (Japanese), Creator/JulietSimmons (English)
President of Tomoko's (and later Tomoki's) student council.
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* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: She's liked and respected by just about everyone at school, males, females, peers, and juniors alike, to the point where she's absolutely surrounded by admirers and well-wishers during her graduation ceremony. Even Tomoko in her most bitter state takes a shine to Megumi.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the anime, when she replaces the random girl holding the stack of papers that Tomoko accidentally runs into. Downplayed because this first appearance is in an earlier part of the chapter/episode she would appear in.
* ButtMonkey: Despite her status, Megumi can be prone to comical mishaps herself. Her panties get exposed from a gust of wind, she's embarrassed by spreading rumors of her being a pervert due to the perverse antics of her dog, and the delinquents' antics cause no shortage of humiliation for her.
* ClassPrincess: She's stated to be widely respected by everyone in the school, and is an absolute saint who keeps an eye out on even a social misfit like Tomoko. This made Megumi one of the few people that Tomoko actually admired during her most cynical periods.
* CovertPervert: Anna and Reina suspect she is due to her dog sticking its head under Masaki's skirt seemingly on command and apparently giving her cunnilingus. Megumi denies having anything to do with this of course, and insists that everything she knows about sex she learned from a friend.
* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: While she was in elementary school, she found a dog who had been abandoned and took it home with her. Unlike most examples, it was adopted and is still the family pet to this day. It's heavily implied that this mindset is also what led her to take notice of, and make it a point to look out for, Tomoko.
* OnlyFriend: For a while, she was pretty much the closest thing to an actual friend Tomoko had in high school. She even tries claiming she's Tomoko's friend when Ogino starts grilling the girl on how her social life is going.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiaki_Imae Toshiaki Imae]].
* NiceGirl: Some female students mention that she's popular with both boys and girls at the school due to her helpfulness. She is noticeably kind and even protective toward Tomoko and regularly goes out of her way to watch over the latter.
* PutOnABus: Since she's a year older than Tomoko, she graduates at the end of Tomoko's second year of high school. [[spoiler:An omake from volume 14 of the manga reveals that she went to Aoyama University after graduating and she makes a proper return at the end of summer where she winds up spending a day at the beach with Tomoko and Yoshida's group.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only makes a handful of appearances before graduating but the impression she leaves on Tomoko is considerable which plays a major role in the latter's growth. Even after her graduation, she serves as a model for Tomoko's relationship with her own kouhai, Shizuku.
* StudentCouncilPresident: Goes without saying. She's depicted as being heavily involved with the school, leading things for the cultural festival, delivering speeches to the student body, and implementing holiday events like a wishing tree for Tanabata.
* ThrowTheDogABone: She does this frequently for Tomoko.
** Chapter 21[=/=]Episode 12: [[spoiler:Seeing Tomoko down after Yuu leaves at the end of the school festival, Megumi borrows a mascot costume and gives her a hug and a balloon. In Episode 12, she also mentions having to keep an eye on that "cute girl" after Tomoko ends up getting flustered out of trying to strike up a conversation with her after a gust of wind gave her a good view of Megumi's panties.]]
** Chapter 42: Steps in once she sees Ogino browbeating Tomoko at the school gate for being such a loner, going so far as to say that she's her friend.
** Chapter 51: She helps Tomoko after the latter slips in the hall, and accompanies the latter to the infirmary to have her nosebleed looked at.
** Chapter 98: Despite her home being in the opposite direction, she joins Yoshida in walking Tomoko to the train station, after Tomoko gets stuck at school due to the rain.
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[[folder:Ogino]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Sanae Nakata (Japanese), Beth Lazarou (English)
Tomoko's P.E. teacher. During Tomoko's second year she becomes Tomoko's homeroom teacher and becomes so again once she reaches her third year.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Zig-zagged. She is one of the few people who actually noticed how isolated Tomoko was in her class, questioned her about it and tried to help her. Unfortunately, her initial efforts to help Tomoko make friends failed due to her bluntness and mostly just put Tomoko in more awkward situations. However, Ogino grouping Tomoko up with Yoshida, Yuri, and Ucchi for the school trip does result in her social circle expanding, with Yuri in particular becoming her first real friend.
* AscendedExtra: Made her first, brief appearances in chapters 10 and 25 of the manga. Once she became Tomoko's homeroom teacher she was also given a larger role in the story.
* BoyishShortHair: Makes her look androgynous as a result.
* CannotKeepASecret: Zig-zagged. She likes to spill out her students' secrets as long as she doesn't mention their names.
* CoolTeacher: ''Attempts'' to be one, at least. She frequently tries to help Tomoko come out of her shell and socialize, and generally acts like a relatively lenient ReasonableAuthorityFigure when around her. Unfortunately, all of her efforts end up being seen as UnwantedAssistance by Tomoko, causing her to develop something of a grudge against her.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the CoolTeacher trope. Her efforts to connect with her students on a personal level end up making them view her with contempt as an invasive annoyance rather than as a mentor that they can confide in.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While her attempts to help Tomoko are heavy-handed and generally useless, she is correct when she points out that the girl needs to be more proactive and should not expect people to just approach her of their own accord. She also shoots down Megumi's attempts to come to Tomoko's aid by claiming that she's a friend of the junior student. While she was blunt to do so, Ogino was also correct in pointing out that Tomoko needs friends in her own peer group and that Megumi won't be able to help her after she graduates.
* LastNameBasis: Justified due to her being a teacher that Tomoko isn't particularly close to.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Ogino Takashi Ogino]].
* OutOfFocus: She loses a lot of importance during the third year given that Tomoko managed to make more friends and so she has no real reason to butt into things anymore.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While Ogino can be very stern and authoritative, she is willing to let things slide in extenuating circumstances. For instance, when Tomoko's field trip group tried sneaking out at night to get some food, she allowed them to go to a nearby convenience store since they slept past dinner, provided she accompany them.
* UnwantedAssistance: Tomoko's opinion on her attempts to help her make friends. Hina didn't seem thrilled about Ogino helping her prepare for her future career as a voice actress, either.
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[[folder:Kosaka]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunFukushima (Japanese), Johnny [=DeLaCerda=] (English)
A friendly older student who lent a sleeping Tomoko his umbrella during a rainy day. Since then, she's developed a crush on him.
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* AnimeHair: Complete with a little tuft of hair across his face
* {{Bishonen}}: He's drawn with a noticeably more feminine face than most other male characters, and is seen as very attractive by Tomoko.
* BoyfriendBluff: Tomoko attempts to pretend that she's dating him in an effort to impress Kii-chan. It works at first, but she's eventually forced to tell the truth after Kii-chan [[NotWhatItLooksLike mistakes him tutoring another girl]] for him cheating on Tomoko and confronts him.
* TheBusCameBack: Makes a brief reappearance in chapter 163, which establishes that he's now in college and that Tomoko is still awkward around him.
* LastNameBasis: He only told Tomoko his last name when introducing himself to her, further demonstrating how nonexistent their "relationship" actually is.
* LoveInterest: A one-sided and very minor example. Tomoko has a crush on him, but she also barely knows him. While he's pleasant towards her whenever they meet, he also pretty clearly doesn't harbor any particularly strong feelings for her.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Kosaka Makoto Kosaka]].
* NiceGuy: Seems to be generally pleasant and kind, giving Tomoko his umbrella during a rainy day and acting patiently towards her usual awkwardness. The second time we see him, he's tutoring a girl, once again showing that he's a helpful individual.
* OldSchoolChivalry: Appears to be a rather classic gentleman, as seen by his polite and courteous treatment of even the strange and awkward Tomoko.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Mostly because his status as a potential love interest is entirely in Tomoko's head. Tomoko has only spoken to him a few times, and outside of being a NiceGuy, not much can be seen of his personality from their exchanges.
* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: He first meets Tomoko when he lends her an umbrella during a rainy day, and she later becomes smitten with him.
* TheUnsmile: While generally an overall NiceGuy, Tomoko's BoyfriendBluff stunt and getting confronted by Kii for "cheating" on Tomoko kind of strains Kosaka's ability to be nice. When he tries to smile off Tomoko's apology, it's shown that he is struggling to.
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[[folder:Akari Iguchi]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Kanami SatÅ (Japanese)
Tomoki's classmate from middle school, and later also from high school. Revealed to have a crush on Tomoki, much to Kotomi's distress.
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* ACupAngst: In Tomoko's words, she's "an A-cup...B-cup at best." Akari is devastated when Tomoko reveals this information to her crush, Tomoki.
* AscendedExtra: She made her first, brief appearances in chapter 25/episode 3 of the anime (as one of the girls who brought Tomoki printouts from school when he was sick) and in chapter 41 (where she was revealed to have a crush on Tomoki). After chapter 83 she becomes a recurring character.
* BeneathTheMask: While she presents herself as friendly and polite girl on the outside, Akari's inner monologue tends to be full of snark and frustration whenever she converses with people who try her patience, such as Kotomi and Sayaka. While she's eventually able to make peace with Kotomi and all her weirdness, Sayaka continues to annoy her until Akari has enough and just slaps her.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Eventually when she figures out that Kotomi isn't Tomoki's sister. She's willing to admit, at least in her InnerMonologue, that the girl is a huge pervert.]]
* ButtMonkey: Pretty much every chapter featuring Akari will just end with her flustered and humiliated.
* CannotSpitItOut: She turns into a ShrinkingViolet in Tomoki's presence and is paralyzed by fear of embarrassing herself in front of him, which prevents her from confessing her feelings. It doesn't help that the one time she mustered the courage to try to act on her crush did result in her embarrassing herself in front of Tomoki in chapter 91.
* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: For a few chapters she was convinced that Tomoko is her romantic rival. Neither Tomoko nor Tomoki had any idea she felt that way.
* InSeriesNickname: After the events of chapter 91, Tomoko coins "Dicky-chan" for her.
* LoveHurts: So far her crush on Tomoki has only caused misery and embarrassment for her.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadahito_Iguchi Tadahito Iguchi]].
* NiceGirl: [[spoiler: When straight out asked about Kotomi by Tomoki, she thinks for a moment of admitting that she thinks Kotomi is perverted but sympathizes too much with her affection for Tomoki to actually do so. She instead tells him that Kotomi is a really innocent girl.]]
* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: Later chapters show that Akari believes [[SexIsEvil having sexual desires is something that makes one "impure"]]; as a result, she spends the first chapters after becoming a recurring character insisting that her crush on Tomoki has no sexual element whatsoever. In chapter 101 she finally acknowledges that she is also sexually interested in Tomoki, but this realization makes her loathe herself; in chapter 108 she calls both Kotomi and herself "[[SlutShaming vulgar perverts]]" in her thoughts.
* PyrrhicVictory: Feeling some measure of animosity for Tomoko during the sports meet due to the latter seeming to have some kind of relationship with her crush, Akari soundly beats her in a cavalry battle. However, not only does the victory feel shallow to her, but it gave Tomoko a chance to grope her, figure out her bra size, and report it to Tomoki. Akari gets nothing but thorough humiliation.
* RedOniBlueOni: She's the blue to Sayaka's red. She's more reserved than her friend, but also has a difficult time speaking her mind.
* UnknownRival: For the longest time, Tomoko had no idea that Akari considered her to be her chief rival for Tomoki's affections.
* UnwantedAssistance: Gets some from her friend, Sayaka, in chapter 95 when the latter attempts to debate Akari's so-called perverted tendencies with Tomoko. All she ends up doing is embarrassing poor Akari and further solidifying Tomoko's impression of her.
-->'''Sayaka''': Akari's been in love with Tomoki-kun since middle school! She's just a pure-hearted girl who wants to see Tomoki-kun's dick! \\
'''Akari''': Please just stop!
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When her crush, Tomoki, asks her what she knows about Kotomi, Akari realizes she has an opportunity to completely sabotage her rival for his affections. However, before she can voice it out loud, she remembers how happy Kotomi was about previously being able to converse with him, and instead decides to say that she is "a very pure-hearted girl," painting her in as positive a light as possible and knowing no one will ever find out what she did either way.
* WrongAssumption: She makes two in chapter 83, when she manages to both mistake Kotomi for Tomoki's sister[[note]]though Kotomi was also at fault here, as she wanted to take advantage of the misunderstanding in order to discourage Iguchi from romantically pursuing Kotomi, and thus did not correct Iguchi[[/note]] and mistake Tomoko for Tomoki's suitor.
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[[folder:Sayaka]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Kanami SatÅ (Japanese)
Akari's best friend in both middle and high school. She's determined to help her friend finally connect with her longtime crush, Tomoki, but Sayaka's efforts leave a lot to be desired.
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* AscendedExtra: She appears as early as chapter 25, coming to the Kuroki household alongside Akari to give some printouts to Tomoki. Sayaka becomes a recurring character much later.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Akari's blue. Sayaka is the bolder and more assertive of the two, but her lack of a filter between her mind and her mouth means she says a lot of stupid things that only embarrass or irritate her friend.
* SatelliteCharacter: Her appearances are always made alongside and in relation to her friend Akari.
* ShipperOnDeck: She's very aggressive in helping Akari hook up with Tomoki. Unfortunately, her methods only humiliate her friend and annoy him.
* {{Tsundere}}: She tends to get very argumentative towards a boy named Nakamura, but it's very evident she has a huge crush on him.
* UnwantedAssistance: Her attempts to help Akari form a relationship with Tomoki always backfire and leave the poor girl embarrassed and no closer to hooking up with him.
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[[folder:Shizuku Hirasawa]]
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A first year student at Tomoko's school and Tomoko's kouhai. Tomoko originally met her when she was taking the school's entrance exam and later reconnected with her when she entered high school. Her popularity with boys leaves her greatly unpopular with other girls and so she greatly looks up to Tomoko both as her senpai and as her first real female friend.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Pretty much the reason why she's so attached to Tomoko. Tomoko gave her some encouraging words and advice when she fell ill during the entrance exam, and Shizuku latched onto her ever since. PlayedWith in that Tomoko never meant to be nice to her; she intended her advice to steer Shizuku ''away'' from going to the same school as her, and didn't think much of the younger student when she got in. However, Tomoko over time did soften up and started to treat Shizuku with more genuine kindness.
* BullyMagnet: Girls just have it out for Shizuku and subject her to all sorts of StockShoujoBullyingTactics. Even Tomoko's friends and acquaintances have a tendency to grab the JerkassBall around her.
* CovertPervert: Possibly. She acts innocent and has even admitted to being too scared to have sexual intercourse with her boyfriend, but Shizuku seems to know how to perform a handjob, which she demonstrates on a clay penis that she even models to look anatomically correct.
* DudeMagnet: Shizuku doesn't seem to have any problems attracting boys to her side. On the flip side, she's disliked by all her female classmates as a result, hence why she doesn't have any female friends.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Or at least Tomoko does because in her words Shizuku might be sly and try to butter up the boys but she looks hot doing it so she's okay in Tomoko's book. It should be noted that this does not apply to anyone else; other girls ''hate'' her.
* HeroWorshipper: Adores Tomoko, her first real senpai and female friend. During tanabata her only wish is to have Tomoko call her by her first name with no honorifics and when Tomoko does she's completely over the moon.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Was under the impression that ''Tomoko'', of all people, was a kind and thoughtful senior looking out for her when in reality, the older girl was apathetic to Shizuku at best and was only hanging out with her to hear some spicy stories about her sex life. Though she's eventually proven somewhat correct as Tomoko does try to give her advice and spend time with her even though Tomoko stands to gain nothing from it.
* TheIngenue: She's sweet, naive and attractive so she has no problem attracting boys. Although she seems to think they just want to be friends with her and is seemingly unaware of their attraction.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She's not a mean person intentionally, but she's woefully unaware of her ButtMonkey boyfriend's obvious misery, doesn't seem all too keen on giving him emotional support when he needs it, and even blurts out his failings to others without even attempting to sugarcoat them. Tomoko suspects this might be why Shizuku doesn't have any real friends.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga_Hirasawa Taiga Hirasawa]].
* OnlySixFaces: Shizuku is almost a dead-ringer for a younger Megumi Imae, which is why for the longest time people have been theorizing that they're somehow related.
* SempaiKouhai: Seems to have latched on to this role, with Tomoko as her (unwilling) "sempai".
* {{Squee}}: To say she is positively elated when Tomoko calls her by her given name is putting it mildly.
-->'''Tomoko''': Shizuku... \\
'''Shizuku''': KYAAAH! Senpai called me by my name! My [Tanabata] wish came true right away!
* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: A recurring victim of this. Chapter 132 reveals that she's ignored by her girl classmates, who are jealous of her popularity with boys. This also happened to her back in middle school, as her friends abandoned her when she started getting along with the boys. [[spoiler:Likewise, Tomoko's friends do not welcome Shizuku with open arms when they find out that she tries to befriend Tomoko; Yuri ignores her, Hina creeps her out, and Ucchi intimidates her. In chapter 142 Kotomi openly badmouths Shizuku after the latter showed some interest in Tomoki.]]
* TheVamp: Other girls (including Tomoko) see her actions as an intentional ploy to seduce and entrance the boys around her. In reality, she seems to be unaware of the effect she has on the school's male population.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Tomoko.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She seems to be operating under the impression that she's the protagonist of a shoujo manga, viewing Tomoko as her kind sempai and even seeing her under [[ArtShift an idealized shoujo filter]].
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[[folder:Reina and Anna]]
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Delinquents from another class who happen to be Yoshida's friends. In contrast to their friend, they're much more worldly.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After seeing Tomoko on the receiving end of Yoshida's fury Anna finds her hilarious and invites Tomoko to sit with them at lunch sometimes.
* BrutalHonesty: Anna calls Masaki a moron to her face in chapter 106. Later, seeing Tomoko and Shiki relaxing in an arcade rather than studying for midterms, she directly asks them whether they are both stupid in chapter 147.
* EyeObscuringHat: Reina's shadowed face is caused by one during the amusement park trip. Normally however there's no particular reason for it.
* TheGadfly: Reina seems to enjoy trying to get a rise out of other people.
* HiddenDepths: Like Masaki, they're both implied to come from very well-off families. To wit, after they get into a fight with Masaki at Disneyland, they head over to [=DisneySea=], which requires purchasing a separate ticket, just to buy a plushy that's only sold there (which was stated to be very pricey in and of itself) as an apology to her.
* HiddenEyes: Reina's eyes, and the entire top half of her face, is so far covered in permanent shadow.
* JapaneseDelinquents: A pair of them.
* NoNameGiven: For a long time, they had no names. Reina's name was revealed during the amusement park field trip while Anna's was revealed when Tomoko showed Kii-chan around her school.
* OddFriendship: With Futaki, a geeky GamerChick.
* OnlySaneMan: Seems to be Anna's role in the trio.
* RuleAbidingRebel: Though they style themselves as delinquents, they don't really engage in any criminal or antisocial behavior. About the worst things they do include talking a little bluntly, riding motorized vehicles around town when their school prohibits it, and getting into fistfights with each other. A WhatIf omake even shows them balking at the idea of repeating a grade and urging Tomoko to study more when she brags about how many classes she's failing.
* TaremeEyes: Anna's eyes are droopy giving her a laid back and sleepy expression.
* TeamMom: As the most levelheaded member of their group Anna falls into this by default.
* ThoseTwoGuys: At the moment they fulfill this role for Yoshida. It's only fairly recently that they've even received names.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Reina's blunt, cynical nature can clash with Yoshida's innocent and temperamental one which has, on a couple of occasions, led to them coming to blows. They seem to quickly make up, however.
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[[folder:The Emoji Gang]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''L-R: Kaede, Natsu, Nagi, Kayo, Miyazaki'']]
A group of girls who are close friends with Ucchi. They were part of Tomoko's 2nd-year class, but along with Ucchi were transferred to a different class for their third year, much to the latter's dismay. Their friendship with Ucchi is the source of Tomoko's somewhat derisive nickname for them.
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* {{Foil}}: To Minami's cadre of friends. While Minami's friends are faceless their designs are unique. Minami's friends get a kick out of gossiping and badmouthing others, even making fun of Minami behind her back for coming to their class to eat lunch all the time. Ucchi's friends, on the other hand, are much friendlier even towards someone like Tomoko and their friendship with Ucchi is solid as a rock.
** They also serve as one to Asuka's group. Whereas the Ucchi gang is incredibly close to each other and supports Ucchi on her attempts to get close to Tomoko, Asuka only seems close to Kaho and none of them understands Asuka's attachment to Tomoko.
* InUniverseNickname: Ucchi calls Miyazaki "Miya-chan".
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Miyazaki shares the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsushi_Miyazaki Atsushi Miyazaki]].
* NiceGirl: All of them come off this way, Nagi especially who's quick to warm up to Tomoko during the sports meet and invite Yuri to hang out during the study camp.
* NoNameGiven: Initially anyway. They all have unique designs but their names are only revealed over a long period of time. It's not until chapter 172, nearly 100 chapters after their debut, that the last of them is given a name.
* OddFriendship: It seems to be the group's M.O. as they like going out of their way to try and be friendly with a wide variety of people. According to Nagi they originally only stuck to their small group but found that not caring about social distinctions was more fun.
* ShipperOnDeck: In chapter 152 they figure out that Ucchi's strange actions are caused by her fixation with Tomoko [[spoiler:and actually try to help the two get closer, not that it works out]]. Special note goes to Nagi, who seems to be the only one that fully understands Ucchi has a crush on Tomoko.
* ThoseTwoGuys: In a sense the group as a whole falls into this as they're largely [[SatelliteCharacter satellite characters]] for Ucchi. However among the group itself Miyazaki, Kayo and Nagi receive far more attention than Natsu and Kaede leaving the two of them to fall under this for the rest of the group.
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[[folder:Asuka's Friends]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''L-R: Miho Narita, Fuuka Sasaki, Kaho Kusunoki'']]
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A group of girls from class 3-6 who are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Asuka's friends]]. Their first meeting with Tomoko, a group study session involving her and Asuka, leaves a large impression on them. They're joined by a fourth member though her name and whether she shares their class are both currently unknown.
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* AcademicAthlete: Subverted. Fuuka appears to be one at first as she's athletic and also aiming to get into Aoyama University. However, later chapters show that while she is indeed athletic, she's also incredibly dumb.
* AccidentalPervert: Fuuka walks into the bathroom without knowing Tomoko is in there and sees her sitting on the toilet without any pants on. Fuuka, however, [[NeverMyFault refuses to admit that it was just an honest mishap on her part]] and is of the opinion that Tomoko arranged for it to happen on purpose.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Kaho has one in the light novel anthology, which focuses on her first year, and how she befriends Asuka and Fuuka.
* AscendedExtra: As has become common in the series. Fuuka and Miho both appeared during the sports festival in second year as cheerleaders and wouldn't reappear again until the sports meet in third year and have become regular characters since then. Kaho appeared a little more frequently though always as a minor character.
* BigEater: In Tomoko's words, Fuuka appears to have the appetite of a gorilla. At the study camp's breakfast buffet, she overloads her tray with a ton of food, which includes hard boiled eggs, curry, bananas, rolls, a mountain of salad, a pile of sausages and potatoes, and a glass of milk. It's likely thanks to her athleticism that she's able to stay slim.
* BoyishShortHair: Miho's hair is this.
* BrokenAce: Fuuka is gorgeous, popular with boys, respected by girls, a terrific athlete, and great singer. She's also a complete knucklehead who's willing to do anything to show Tomoko up, and her efforts to do so have trashed her reputation at school.
* ButtMonkey: Fuuka in spades. Her fixation on sexual topics and figuring out the weird stuff with Asuka and Tomoko leads her to be publicly embarrassed and seems to have affected her studies and it only gets worse for her from there. By the end of the summer study camp even her own friends have labeled her as "worthless" while Asuka later admits that she's "a bit dim".
* CovertPervert: If she wasn't before then Fuuka seems to be turning into one. After the incident where Asuka offered to let Tomoko grab her breasts, she became obsessed with finding out whether or not it happened. After finally learning the answer Fuuka is surprised to find herself disappointed that it didn't.
* DumbJock: Fuuka's physical gifts are many but she's definitely not the brightest bulb around.
* EntertaininglyWrong: As Fuuka obsesses more and more about Tomoko and Asuka's relationship, she starts coming up with some out-there theories about them, from thinking Tomoko had Asuka and Yuu dye her pubic hair, to Tomoko intentionally tricking Fuuka into walking in on her in the bathroom.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Unless she's surprised Miho's eyes are like this to go along with her more mischievous personality.
* EthicalSlut: Experienced Girl might be willing to give Fuuka sexual advice and teach her lewd terms but she puts her foot down at actually spreading a rumor (at Fuuka's own request no less) that Fuuka is a slut.
* FeigningIntelligence: When it comes to the subject of sex, Fuuka tries to act like she is an experienced expert on the subject, spinning lies and reciting whatever her friend tells her just to troll Tomoko, who she knows is sensitive about her virginity. Emphasis on "tries;" Fuuka doesn't even know what any of the slang terms mean, let alone what a sex act like a handjob actually looks like.
* {{Flanderization}}: When she was first properly introduced Fuuka was implied to be pretty normal, just hung up on Tomoko's weirdness. As time has gone on she's become quite possibly the dumbest character in the series and seems to lack anything in the way of common sense. Somewhat justified in-universe as her being consumed by her obsession with Tomoko but Miho and her other friends also treat her actions as not being all that out of the ordinary for her either.
* FunPersonified: Seems to be Miho's shtick. She's constantly upbeat, prone to making jokes and is rarely ever seen without a smile. She even finds Tomoko's pervertedness hilarious and quickly takes to calling her Kuro-chan. During the study camp her own thoughts during class are centered on wanting to play around and her reasoning for wanting to shout at the sea is simply "youth".
* GoodBadGirl: The fourth and currently unnamed member of this group who Fuuka consults for sex advice as she's openly sexually active.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Both Fuuka and Miho are explicitly asked to cheer on the baseball team during third year because they're very popular with the underclassmen boys, especially Miho. If Tomoko's fantasies are anything to go by then she herself seems to consider Miho to be on the same level as Asuka and Yuu in terms of attractiveness.
* HiddenDepths: As it turns out, Fuuka is a very good singer, which Miho admits to have been surprised by.
* HypocriticalHumor: Fuuka is a frequent victim of this as part of her ButtMonkey role. She sees or overhears other characters bringing up sexual topics only to get told that's not the kind of subject to talk about in public when she brings it up to those same people.
* TheNicknamer: Miho seems to liberally hand these out as she very quickly takes to calling Tomoko "Kuro-chan" and Yuu "Naru-chan".
* PetTheDog: Despite her leeriness towards Tomoko, Fuuka does give Asuka an honest, if perverted, suggestion in how she can get closer to the introverted girl.
* SatelliteCharacter: They all serve as this for Asuka intially. However the summer study camp gives all of them, especially Miho, some spotlight.
* SchoolIdol: Due to her looks and being good at sports Fuuka is very popular with the other students. Even Miyazaki seems to think highly of her... at least initially.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Miho isn't put off at all by Tomoko's perverted antics, and reacts to the latter's ogling of her shaved crotch with outright amusement. Because of this Tomoko pretty quickly develops a liking for her.
* SitcomArchnemesis: Fuuka and Tomoko are this for each other though only internally. In their thoughts Fuuka thinks that Tomoko is a weird, gross pervert while Tomoko thinks that Fuuka is also a weird, gross pervert and a slut on top of it. After the third year summer break the antagonism is out in the open to the point where Fuuka tells an unnamed friend to spread a rumor that ''Fuuka herself'' is a slut solely so she can look like she knows more about sex than Tomoko.
* TomboyishPonytail: Fuuka sports one due to being an athlete.
* UnfazedEveryman: Kaho seems to be largely unbothered by all of the weirdos that surround her. Notably in chapter 173 she seems to take all of Komiyama's weird behavior, like bringing her phone into the sauna to watch baseball, in stride and makes an effort to talk to her about it.
* YouthfulFreckles: Kaho has them.
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A friend of Minami from another class. Like her friend she loves to gossip and badmouth others.
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* AlphaBitch: She is definitely a bitch and seems to be the leading figure among Minami's group. [[spoiler:Until she intentionally destroys it.]]
* ArsonMurderAndAdmiration: She likes to make fun of Minami and readily admits that her friend's openly negative and annoying qualities are why nobody likes her. That said she also seems to adore those same qualities about her since it means having another person willing to shit talk others.
* AscendedExtra: Started out as a literally faceless mob extra before becoming the most prominent of Minami's friends and one of the main characters.
* CantTakeCriticism: It's implied that for all that she dishes out she doesn't like having it flung back at her. [[spoiler:Minami seems to be the one exception as being insulted by her actually works to begin mending their frayed friendship.]]
* TheCorruptor: Mako believes that her influence is why Minami turned out so bad.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Realizing that Minami's grown apart from her and doesn't put as much stock in badmouthing others which causes her to intentionally destroy their group by revealing that Nori had been making fun of Maki's boyfriend.]]
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: [[spoiler:When her full face is revealed in chapter 188 her eyes are like this.]]
* EyelessFace: Her face is notably lacking in ocular organs, a trait she shares with the rest of her clique and numerous other background characters. [[spoiler:At least until chapter 188.]]
* HellishPupils: [[spoiler:When we finally do see her eyes, they're shown to be very dull, very dark, and ''very'' unnerving. They give the impression that she's shooting you with a DeathGlare even while she's still smiling.]]
* HiddenDepths: It's very heavily implied that she's much more melancholy than she lets on and her bitchiness is at least in part a means of feeling better about herself while trying to maintain the image of being cool and aloof.
* GossipyHens: Along with Minami and the rest of their group. It seems to be one of the few things that unites them.
* GreenEyedMonster: She shows intense jealousy when she realizes that Minami is hanging out with Futaki and when the two finally make up she explicitly tells Minami to not bring Futaki around whenever they meet. She later displays resentment towards Masaki for cozying up to Tomoki, whom Sachi has begun to develop a crush on.
* {{Jerkass}}: Is easily the biggest one in the series. She even has zero qualms talking bad about her own friends either.
* LoveAtFirstSight: It only takes Tomoki sitting with her once[[note]]Because she was sitting in a place he usually goes to for privacy[[/note]] and exchanging a few words[[note]]Mostly to make sure she wasn't in the same classroom as his sister, where he's convinced all the crazy people go[[/note]] for Sachi to become yet another girl to develop a crush on him.
* NeverMyFault: She seems incredibly bitter at how distant Koharu grew from her, especially when she started hanging out with people Sachi deemed beneath her. Sachi never considers the fact that ''she'' was the reason Koharu started going her own way, as Sachi frequently mocked the fanged girl for her inability to make any other friends.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Lacks eyes like most unimportant background characters. Even after she starts to gain more prominence however her design doesn't change.
* NoSympathy: She's never all that sympathetic to Koharu Minami's plight of being stuck in a classroom all alone with no friends (save Mako), waving off her distress at best, and using it as a source of ridicule at worst.
* PetTheDog:
** Despite how much she seems to revel in being an unrepentant bitch, she genuinely likes Minami even when she intends to make fun of her and goes out of her way to do kind things for her like getting Minami a birthday cake. It's implied that it's because she likes and even admires Minami's ability to just naturally say whatever she's thinking.
** When Koharu mocks Tomoki as likely being a pathetic virgin, Sachi comes to his defense, arguing that he probably isn't one and it's not a big deal even if he is.
* TranquilFury: In a WhatIf omake her response to Tomoko insulting her is to cheerily laugh along and ask if that's what she thinks of her while Tomoko notes that she is definitely pissed. When she confronts Minami after spotting her at an arcade she never lets her calm demeanor drop though she's clearly unhappy.
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A member of the popular clique from Tomoko's class, he's friendly and outgoing.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: It's revealed that he gave his contact info to a guy hitting on him while he was crossdressing without hesitation and a backpack he's seen wearing is one that's stereotypically associated with gay men in Japan. He's also more than comfortable making jokes about having been with another man.
* AscendedExtra: Like virtually every other character. He appears as early as chapter 4 but doesn't start becoming prominent until well into third year.
* AttractiveBentGender: He makes a pretty convincing girl. In chapter 192.2 it's noted that while dressed as a girl during the class' maid cafe back in first year that he was hit on by another guy.
* {{Bishonen}}: Very much so.
* {{Keet}}: A very downplayed example but he's small and definitely seems to be the more energetic and outgoing of the main male characters in class.
* NiceGuy: Seems to be easygoing and pleasant. He has no issue striking up conversations with Tomoko and seems to find her style of dirty jokes funny enough to try using them himself.
* OlderThanTheyLook: As a high a schooler, he should be in his late teens, but he doesn't even look like he's started going through puberty yet.
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* CluelessChickMagnet: Both Kotomi and Akari pine for him, but he remains oblivious to their feelings even after they both blurt out in his presence that they would like to see his dick, and shows no interest in romance in general. In later chapters, he seems to catch on to Kotomi's crush on him (mostly as a result of Kotomi repeatedly embarrassing herself in his presence because of said crush), but at this point, he is too weirded out by her to reciprocate.
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* CluelessChickMagnet: Both Kotomi and Akari pine for him, but he remains oblivious to their feelings even after they both blurt out in his presence that they would like to see his dick, and shows no interest in romance in general. In later chapters, he seems to catch on to Kotomi's crush on him (mostly as a result of Kotomi repeatedly embarrassing herself in his presence because of said crush), but at this point, he is too weirded out by her to reciprocate. Later, even [[spoiler:Sachi]] of all people falls for him [[LoveAtFirstSight after a single conversation]].
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* NighttimeBathroomPhobia: In chapter 13, Tomoko reads too many spooky stories at night, so she bugs Tomoki into accompanying her to the bathroom when she's too nervous to walk there in the dark.
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* [[NiceGuy Nice Girls]]: All of them come off this way, Nagi especially who's quick to warm up to Tomoko during the sports meet and invite Yuri to hang out during the study camp.
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* ButtMonkey: Despite her status, Megumi can be prone to comical mishaps herself. Her panties get exposed from a gust of wind, she's embarrassed by spreading rumors of her being a pervert due to the perverse antics of her dog, and the delinquents' antics cause no shortage of embarrassment for her.
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* ButtMonkey: Despite her status, Megumi can be prone to comical mishaps herself. Her panties get exposed from a gust of wind, she's embarrassed by spreading rumors of her being a pervert due to the perverse antics of her dog, and the delinquents' antics cause no shortage of embarrassment humiliation for her.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While her attempts to help Tomoko are heavy-handed and generally useless, she is correct when she points out that the girl needs to be more proactive and should not expect people to just approach her of their own accord. She also shoots down Megumi's attempts to come to Tomoko's aid by claiming that she's a friend of the junior student. While she was blunt to do so, Ogino was also correct in pointing out that Tomoko needs friends in her own peer group and that Megumi won't be able to help her after she graduates.
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* TheBusCameBack: Reappears in chapter 188 where he's revealed as one of Futaki's arcade buddies.
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* ShipperOnDeck: In chapter 152 they figure out that Ucchi's strange actions are caused by her fixation with Tomoko [[spoiler:and actually try to help the two get closer, not that it works out]].
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* ShipperOnDeck: In chapter 152 they figure out that Ucchi's strange actions are caused by her fixation with Tomoko [[spoiler:and actually try to help the two get closer, not that it works out]]. Special note goes to Nagi, who seems to be the only one that fully understands Ucchi has a crush on Tomoko.
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* RapunzelHair: In middle school, her hair extended past her waist and she typically wore it in twin braids. Since entering high school, she's had it cut and dyed.
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* MusclesAreMeaningless: Her frame is thin, but she is shown to be incredibly strong and athletic regardless. She can pull off perfect splits and was able to push a teacup ride faster by herself than two boys her age (who unlike her, also broke into a sweat doing so).
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* DisappointedInYou: Downplayed. While she never expresses it openly, Asuka always reacts unhappily whenever she suspects that Tomoko isn't taking her studies seriously. Luckily, Tomoko usually proves her wrong in short order without ever realizing she disappointed her, which repairs Asuka's impression of her.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: As her apparent crush on Tomoko grows, it's shown that she can be prone to jealousy and even possessiveness despite otherwise being a NiceGirl.
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* RedOniBlueOni: She's the blue to Sayaka's red. She's more reserved than her friend, but also has a difficult time speaking her mind.
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A first year student at Tomoko's school and Tomoko's kouhai. Tomoko originally met her when she was taking the school's entrance exam and later reconnected with her when she entered high school. Her popularity with boys leaves her greatly unpopular with other girls and so she greatly looks up to Tomoko both as her senpai and as her first real female friend.
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A first year student at Tomoko's school
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* AscendedExtra: She appears as early as chapter 25, coming to the Kuroki household alongside Akari to give some printouts to Tomoki. Sayaka becomes a recurring character much later.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Akari's blue. Sayaka is the bolder and more assertive of the two, but her lack of a filter between her mind and her mouth means she says a lot of stupid things that only embarrass or irritate her friend.
* SatelliteCharacter: Her appearances are always made alongside and in relation to her friend Akari.
* ShipperOnDeck: She's very aggressive in helping Akari hook up with Tomoki. Unfortunately, her methods only humiliate her friend and annoy him.
* {{Tsundere}}: She tends to get very argumentative towards a boy named Nakamura, but it's very evident she has a huge crush on him.
* UnwantedAssistance: Her attempts to help Akari form a relationship with Tomoki always backfire and leave the poor girl embarrassed and no closer to hooking up with him.
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[[folder:Shizuku Hirasawa]]
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A first year student at Tomoko's school and Tomoko's kouhai. Tomoko originally met her when she was taking the school's entrance exam and later reconnected with her when she entered high school. Her popularity with boys leaves her greatly unpopular with other girls and so she greatly looks up to Tomoko both as her senpai and as her first real female friend.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Akari's blue. Sayaka is the bolder and more assertive of the two, but her lack of a filter between her mind and her mouth means she says a lot of stupid things that only embarrass or irritate her friend.
* SatelliteCharacter: Her appearances are always made alongside and in relation to her friend Akari.
* ShipperOnDeck: She's very aggressive in helping Akari hook up with Tomoki. Unfortunately, her methods only humiliate her friend and annoy him.
* {{Tsundere}}: She tends to get very argumentative towards a boy named Nakamura, but it's very evident she has a huge crush on him.
* UnwantedAssistance: Her attempts to help Akari form a relationship with Tomoki always backfire and leave the poor girl embarrassed and no closer to hooking up with him.
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A first year student at Tomoko's school and Tomoko's kouhai. Tomoko originally met her when she was taking the school's entrance exam and later reconnected with her when she entered high school. Her popularity with boys leaves her greatly unpopular with other girls and so she greatly looks up to Tomoko both as her senpai and as her first real female friend.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Zig-zagged. She is one of the few people who actually noticed how isolated Tomoko was in her class, questioned her about it and tried to help her. Unfortunately, her initial efforts to help Tomoko make friends failed due to her bluntness and mostly just put Tomoko in more awkward situations. However, Ogino grouping Tomoko with Yoshida, Yuri, and Ucchi for a school trip did result in Tomoko's social circle expanding a bit, as after the school trip Tomoko started regularly hanging out with Yuri [[spoiler:(who ended up viewing Tomoko as a friend)]] and occasionally interacting with Yoshida (though this turned out to be at best a mixed blessing for Tomoko).
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* AdultsAreUseless: Zig-zagged. She is one of the few people who actually noticed how isolated Tomoko was in her class, questioned her about it and tried to help her. Unfortunately, her initial efforts to help Tomoko make friends failed due to her bluntness and mostly just put Tomoko in more awkward situations. However, Ogino grouping Tomoko up with Yoshida, Yuri, and Ucchi for a school trip did result in Tomoko's social circle expanding a bit, as after the school trip Tomoko started regularly hanging out does result in her social circle expanding, with Yuri [[spoiler:(who ended up viewing Tomoko as a friend)]] and occasionally interacting with Yoshida (though this turned out to be at best a mixed blessing for Tomoko).in particular becoming her first real friend.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: She gets on the recieving end of this. When Yuri start bad-talking Tomoko to Yuu, Mako tells her that she's acting an awful lot like Koharu. Yuri's violent reaction to that shows it's not a comparison she likes.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: She gets on the recieving end of this. When Yuri start starts bad-talking Tomoko to Yuu, Mako tells her that she's acting an awful lot like Koharu. Yuri's violent reaction to that shows it's not a comparison she likes.
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* CovertPervert: As much as she'll outwardly voice her disgust for Tomoko, Ucchi frequently has dirty thoughts about her. She's subtly but deliberately tried to arrange for moments that Tomoko could perv on her, fantasized about drinking water she's bathed in, and thought about filming Tomoko taking her clothes off.
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