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A 15-year-old (later 16-year-old) first-year high school student who is Shijima's rather boisterous friend, serving as the deuteragonist of the story. She has a half-fried egg sitting on top of her head. She lives with her mother and her absent father. In later chapters, she becomes the God of her own world.
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* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: To Yuuri of ''Manga/GirlsLastTour''.
** Yuuri, along with her friend Chito, is a survivor of a CrapsackWorld in the future, who ventures with her through the empty world. Majime is an ordinary teenage girl living in West Yomogi, a seemingly idyllic town, who is a goofball just like Yuuri.
** While Yuuri has been orphaned since she was born from her unknown parents in a town under a CivilWar, Majime lives with a noticeably stable family, including her mother and her father.
** Both are odd-kitter goofballs and serving as TheAntiNihilist {{Foil}} to the respective main protagonists. Whereas Yuuri's optimism and cheerfulness often excites the rather grey and bleak atmosphere surrounding her and Chito (often to varying results), Majime uses both to [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]] Shijima's icy and distant personality in an attempt to make her as her first best friend.
** Both also lived a much more prolonged life. Though unlike Yuuri who has been dead and is essentially a soul for a thousand years, Majime is a former-human-turned-immortal who is still alive, after ascending to godhood.
** Yuuri, along with her friend Chito, is a survivor of a CrapsackWorld in the future, who ventures with her through the empty world. Majime is an ordinary teenage girl living in West Yomogi, a seemingly idyllic town, who is a goofball just like Yuuri.
** While Yuuri has been orphaned since she was born from her unknown parents in a town under a CivilWar, Majime lives with a noticeably stable family, including her mother and her father.
** Both are odd-kitter goofballs and serving as TheAntiNihilist {{Foil}} to the respective main protagonists. Whereas Yuuri's optimism and cheerfulness often excites the rather grey and bleak atmosphere surrounding her and Chito (often to varying results), Majime uses both to [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]] Shijima's icy and distant personality in an attempt to make her as her first best friend.
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* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: To Yuuri Majime is basically the polar opposite of ''Manga/GirlsLastTour''.
**[[Manga/GirlsLastTour Chito]]. But unlike the oft-serious Chito who is often annoyed with Yuuri, Majime is non-serious who easily gets along with her friend Chito, is a survivor of a CrapsackWorld in the future, who ventures with her through the empty world. Majime is an ordinary teenage girl living in West Yomogi, a seemingly idyllic town, who is a goofball just like Yuuri.
** While Yuuri has been orphaned since she was born from her unknown parents in a town under a CivilWar, Majime lives with a noticeably stable family, including her mother and her father.
** Both are odd-kitter goofballs and serving as TheAntiNihilist {{Foil}} to the respective main protagonists. Whereas Yuuri's optimism and cheerfulness often excites the rather grey and bleak atmosphere surrounding her and Chito (often to varying results), Majime uses both to [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]] Shijima's icy and distant personality in an attempt to make her as her first best friend.
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** Both are odd-kitter goofballs and serving as TheAntiNihilist {{Foil}} to the respective main protagonists. Whereas Yuuri's optimism and cheerfulness often excites the rather grey and bleak atmosphere surrounding her and Chito (often to varying results), Majime uses both to [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]] Shijima's icy and distant personality in an attempt to make her as her first best friend.
** Both also lived a much more prolonged life. Though unlike Yuuri who has been dead and is essentially a soul for a thousand years, Majime is a former-human-turned-immortal who is still alive, after ascending to godhood.
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->''Plenty of things happened when I was in my first year of middle school. Things that made me hate it. Ever since then, I shut myself inside my closet for two years. Two years later, a thought occurred to me that it's about time I leave.''
-->--'''Shijima'''
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The main protagonist of the story. A 15-year-old (later 16-year-old) former social recluse and an orphan along with her sister, Shijima later leaves out of her closet after two years, as she starts her term as a first-year high-school student. She lives with her big sister at the apartment complex (danchis) in the middle of nowhere in West Yomogi.\\
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[[WMG:[[center: [-''Manga/ShimejiSimulation'' [[Characters/ShimejiSimulation Character Index]]\\
'''Main Characters''' ([[Characters/ShimejiSimulationShijimaTsukishima Shijima Tsukishima]]) | [[Characters/ShimejiSimulationWestYomogiHighSchool West Yomogi High School]] | [[Characters/ShimejiSimulationOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/ShimejiSimulationSpoilerCharacters Spoiler Characters]]-]]]]]
!!Due to the [[SpoileredRotten sheer amount of spoilers]] the [[Manga/ShimejiSimulation work]] is known for, every single examples [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff will be unmarked]] by default!
The main characters of ''Manga/ShimejiSimulation''.
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[[folder:Shijima Tsukishima]]
!!Shijima "Shimeji" Tsukishima
!!!Voiced by: Creator/NaomiOzora (VOMIC)
!!!'''First Appearance:''' Chapter 1
->''Plenty of things happened when I was in my first year of middle school. Things that made me hate it. Ever since then, I shut myself inside my closet for two years. Two years later, a thought occurred to me that it's about time I leave.''
-->--'''Shijima'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shijima_tsukishima_9.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:''Click to see Shijima with three mushrooms on her head.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shijima_tsukishima_5.png[[/labelnote]]]]
The main protagonist of the story. A 15-year-old (later 16-year-old) former social recluse and an orphan along with her sister, Shijima later leaves out of her closet after two years, as she starts her term as a first-year high-school student. She lives with her big sister at the apartment complex (danchis) in the middle of nowhere in West Yomogi.\\
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After hiding herself inside a closet, she is later seen with two mushrooms sprouting on her head. While she starts out as a person with an emotional baggage to begin with, Shijima's life later turns upside down for the good when she befriends Majime.\\
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Over the course of the story, Shijima gets involved in Majime's antics, as well as others including her sister and the members of Hole-Digging Club including Mogawa and Sumida.\\
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* For her character page, go [[Characters/ShimejiSimulationShijimaTsukishima here]] [[WalkingSpoiler but be warned of heavy spoilers.]]
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[[folder:Majime Yamashita]]
!WARNING: Majime, post-Chapter 46, is a case of a major WalkingSpoiler as her transition to godhood is integral to the final, tail end of ''Shimeji Simulation''. Anything about her tropes will be considered [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers]], so be warned!
!!Majime Yamashita
!!!Voiced by: Creator/YumiriHanamori (VOMIC)
!!!'''First Appearance:''' Chapter 1
-> ''You're not gonna make any friends if you read books all the time, you know.''
-->--'''Majime to Shijima'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/majime_yamashita_2.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:''Click to see Majime as a goddess.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/majime_goddess.png]][[/labelnote]]
A 15-year-old (later 16-year-old) first-year high school student who is Shijima's rather boisterous friend, serving as the deuteragonist of the story. She has a half-fried egg sitting on top of her head. She lives with her mother and her absent father. In later chapters, she becomes the God of her own world.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: {{Deconstructed}}. Majime, as a deity in her new world, is the personification of idealistic friendship, whose idea is to create more friends and put them into the forms of unity that she pursues with, similarly as to how she befriended Shijima in the first place. But her goal of friendship comes with consequences when the countries within her new world, as shown within the "Book of Eggplant" page in Chapter 46, came into a war. This resulted in her unleashing her wrath against the warring factions, leading her to be self-exiled as wishing for too many friends always comes with a price to pay, while leaving promises to her creations.
* TheAntiNihilist: She is unwilling to see others who think life is considered meaningless. It later becomes the case where she was able to ''finally'' befriend Shijima, who started off as a nihilistic IceQueen, due to her [[DarkAndTroubledPast tragedy]].
* BespectacledCutie: She wears huge red glasses and is a cute, cheerful and energetic girl.
* BestFriend: To Shijima, right after the events of Chapter 10.
* TheBusCameBack: After her last physical appearance in Chapter 43, Majime makes her appearance again in the final chapter reuniting with Shijima.
* CallBack: A shot in Chapter 29's first page has Majime eating a corn in the Dream World. Chapter 46's "The Book of Corn" blatantly shows Majime in one scene also eating a corn, with her subjects asking how they want to be the same as her.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Exhibits this at one point in the story, when Majime's mother attempted to touch Shijima, going so far with Majime pouting. Of course, with the courtesy of Shijima's snide remarking.
--> '''Majime:''' Geez! ''She's'' mine!
--> '''Shijima:''' As if.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Majime seemingly pulls this off in some chapters of the manga, given her rather strange personality. Examples include her booping Shijima's mushrooms for "cuteness", as means to befriend her, without knowing the fact that Shijima ''doesn't'' like it to be touched. Her attempts of befriending Shijima often leads to annoyance, much to Shijima's dismay.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: To Yuuri of ''Manga/GirlsLastTour''.
** Yuuri, along with her friend Chito, is a survivor of a CrapsackWorld in the future, who ventures with her through the empty world. Majime is an ordinary teenage girl living in West Yomogi, a seemingly idyllic town, who is a goofball just like Yuuri.
** While Yuuri has been orphaned since she was born from her unknown parents in a town under a CivilWar, Majime lives with a noticeably stable family, including her mother and her father.
** Both are odd-kitter goofballs and serving as TheAntiNihilist {{Foil}} to the respective main protagonists. Whereas Yuuri's optimism and cheerfulness often excites the rather grey and bleak atmosphere surrounding her and Chito (often to varying results), Majime uses both to [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]] Shijima's icy and distant personality in an attempt to make her as her first best friend.
** Both also lived a much more prolonged life. Though unlike Yuuri who has been dead and is essentially a soul for a thousand years, Majime is a former-human-turned-immortal who is still alive, after ascending to godhood.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Exemplified in Chapter 10. While Majime is often known to be a comic relief teenage girl who is the comedic {{Foil}} to the quiet, shy Shijima, she is considered a BigDamnHero within that very chapter, when she saved an injured Shijima from a giant crab within the Dream World by riding a giant Yoshika pencil and slamming it onto the creature, thus defeating it. In addition, she also used a ''giant'' frying pan from the skies to knock it out completely.
* CrystalDragonJesus: Majime, as a Goddess, is loosely based on the Greek Goddess of Friendship Philotes, in line with the former's goal of making a world where everyone becomes a friend to one another as its religion. She is currently worshipped by the people of her world and her people calls her as "friend" or even "Majime-chan" rather than a Goddess. Also taken to some ridiculous levels when the Chiho tribe members call her as their "most important friend" in front of her statue. And smaller statues of her are also seen scattered across various places in her own world.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter 46 solely focuses on her becoming a PhysicalGod.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: During the first 45 chapters of the manga, Majime is merely an ordinary human before she gains the powers of RealityWarping during the events of Chapters 30 and 40. Enter Chapter 46, where she later becomes the god of her own world, where she created her world from scratch, comprising of {{Talking Animal}}s and plants she materialises. 1400 years later, the people of her world, with the Chiho tribe for example, worship her for her natural approach to ensuring camaraderie amongst the people of other countries, though it was not without a scene where a war broke out between countries that forced her to unleash a BoltOfDivineRetribution towards the soldiers, leaving her to be on hiding for millennia.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite Shijma's constant refusal of friendship, Majime is determined to have her as her closest friend, even if it means to annoy her. She becomes successful with that goal, however, near the end of Chapter 10, thereby making Shijima as HeterosexualLifePartners.
* EpicFail:
** Her attempts to show Shijima the meaning of friendship only failed, when Ayaka told her not to chime from out of nowhere.
** When Majime tried to "protect" Shijima from being touched by the former's mother, or rather attempted to do so, Shijima has none of it, as she only remarks with an "[[DeadpanSnarker as if]]" retort.
** PlayedForDrama in Chapter 46 when Majime attempts to stop her created subjects from starting their own war against friendship, leading to her firing a flurry of projectiles onto them as a result. Her disastrous efforts to stop the problem led her to be on exile.
* TheExile: Majime has been in exile for over a millennia after her disastrous attempts to resolve the conflict diplomatically, which escalated into a full-scale war between countries.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When she started off as a normal teenage girl, her hair is shoulder-length. After becoming a PhysicalGod, her hair reaches up to her back.
* {{Foil}}: To Shijima. Unlike Shijima who is black-haired and is a PerpetualFrowner who seldom smiles and is mostly aloof and soft-spoken, Majime is blonde-haired and is a PerpetualSmiler who is bright and optimistic. She's also an idealist but a DumbBlonde, in contrast to Shijima who is a pessimist but a smart girl.
* IronicName: Her name in English means serious and diligent, but she acts contrary to what the name suggests. Hilariously [[LampshadeHanging lamphshaded]] by Shijima.
--> '''Majime:''' I'm [[BlatantLies totally diligent]]!
--> '''Shijima:''' ''Only'' your glasses look the part.
* TheMaker: She becomes this once she ascends into becoming the PhysicalGod of her new world that she created in the void using her own toys to create a population of sentient LivingToys.
* TheMcCoy: To Shijima's [[TheKirk Kirk]] and Big Sis' [[TheSpock Spock]]. Out of the three, she's the most emotionally driven, being a wide-eyed optimist and an [[TheAntiNihilist anti-nihilist]] who wants to be friends with each other.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: While she only used her BoltOfDivineRetribution (a la her own tears) to stop the war that her subjects started, she felt remorseful over it, as she only wanted to meet everyone and especially Shijima, leading to her hiding for a millennia.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She does this for a few times, as a part of her personality as ThePollyanna. The most obvious example is her attempts to befriend Shijima, who at the time still had traces of her reclusive past, despite Shijima not being initially in the mood for friendship.
* PerpetualSmiler: In contrast to Shijima's PerpetualFrowner, Majime smiles for most of the time, owing to her optimistic nature and her attempts to make friends with one another. Until Chapter 46 where she foregoes it when reality hits her hard after her attempts to spread her religion of friendship failed horribly when countries caused war against each other over it.
* PhysicalGod: After settling into what appeared to be a white, empty vast of nothingness, Majime later becomes a deity wielding a staff, which gave her the ability to create anything based on her imagination. 1400 years later at a FlashForward scene, Majime is now the God of this world, but she's revealed to have been missing ''for millennia''. The "Book of Eggplant" in Chapter 46 shows the reason: her attempts of spreading camaraderie went on a downward spiral when countries blindly worshipped Majime and wanted more friends that led to a war, only for Majime to unleash her divine reckoning against the warring factions, ultimately leading to her exile and disappearance.
* ThePollyanna: Majime is known to be boisterous, cheerful, and friendly. However, the latter quality is zigzagged, when she attempts to show Shijima on the importance of friendship, only for her to fail when she attempts to communicate with Ayaka and her other friends.
* PrenatalPossessions: It is heavily implied that the egg that sits on top on her head has been existing since her birth.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Shijima's blue. She's much more optimistic and overtly happier than Shijima, being an optimist who easily jokes for most of the time.
* WorshippedForGreatDeeds: Majime in the future is worshipped by being the first friend to them, as well as her plans of spreading camaraderie across other countries. But a few of the Chiho tribe members recounted about the rather unfortunate past of countries vying power to make more friends that resulted in Majime unleashing her anger onto them.
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[[folder:Ms. Mogawa]]
!!Mogawa-sensei
!!!'''First Appearance:''' Chapter 3
-> ''The [[ApatheticTeacher other teachers]] won't say anything either. Pretty much sure I'm being bullied here.''
-->--'''Mogawa'''
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[[caption-width-right:250:Before Chapter 11.]]
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The slovenly art teacher of Shimeji's class and a known alcoholic, who is the curator of the Hole-Digging Club. She also has a quirky obsession with doughnut-shaped sand holes.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: In Chapter 1's first page, Mogawa's hair is coloured olive-green, whereas in the rest of her appearance it is coloured pink.
* TheAlcoholic: She is a known drinker, as seen in some scenes of the manga, even during school days where she's openly drinking one. At one chapter her fridge in the club's own clubroom ''is full'' of unopened beer cans. It is seldom to see her without a beer can or a wine from her hand.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: PlayedForLaughs. Mogawa is pretty much the black sheep of her school's own faculty, as she is mostly ignored by them. Further [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], when she was suddenly turned as the advisor of the Hole-Digging Club, a year prior to the story.
--> '''Mogawa:''' When I just started working here last year, they ''suddenly'' pushed this "Hole-Digging Club" onto me. They made me the advisor of this whatever this club even is.
* ApatheticTeacher: She has ''zero'' interest in being a teacher and gets bored easily. In most of the times, she is often seen outside digging holes or lazing right beside their own clubroom, given the fact that she is the curator of the club. She's more focused on being an alcoholic than simply teaching her students or even acting as the club's leader.
* ButtMonkey: Across the faculty, she's often the butt of someone's jokes to the point it reached to a head when the rest of the staff simply shoved her the responsibility to manage an empty, barely managed club.
* TheCynic: Mogawa seems to often drown in depressive thoughts and sometimes [[TheAlcoholic drowns her own sorrows with alcohol]]. Even in school time. She also has a deep apathy towards school clubs, contemplating how it is no different than digging holes.
* ImportantHaircut: Chapter 11 shows that she has cut her hair up to shoulder-length, as it interferes with her hole-digging.
* {{Irony}}: While she's a {{Sleepyhead}} for most of the time, she's still digging holes competently despite the job being heavily concentration-focused.
* LazyBum: Taken to a LogicalExtreme, where Mogawa seldom shows up to the classroom[[note]]In one instance in Chapter 4 she shows up but that is it[[/note]], spending most of her time inside the Hole-Digging Club's clubroom [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking drinking alcohol, digging holes within school grounds and lazing herself.]]
* TheLeader: Sort of. Despite being the leader of the Hole-Digging Club, she shows zero interest in her own job. Justified, however, when it was just simply given to her by most of the staff, a year ago.
* PerpetualFrowner: She is [[TheCynic a pessimist]], who is mostly seen with a frown to her face. Not ''once'' in her appearance she even smiles at one point and everything about her "smile" is her usual cynic expression.
* SiblingYinYang: The Yin to her younger sister's Yang. While her younger sister is a police officer who is active and always on the forefront to her job, Mogawa-sensei is a LazyBum who has no interest in her job and spends her time as an alcoholic.
* {{Sleepyhead}}: She often looks tired, either from the boredom she goes through or simply she only wants to teach and to run the club until the bell rings. That and being TheAlcoholic also doesn't help her own case. Surprisingly however, that doesn't cause her problems when digging a hole.
* TaremeEyes: Her eyes droop tiredly all the time, given her nature as a {{Sleepyhead}} who is bored of anything.
* ThoseTwoGuys: She is hardly seen without Sumida on her side whom she treats her as a best friend.
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[[folder:Sumida]]
!!Sumida
!!!'''First Appearance:''' Chapter 11
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A second-year high school student, who is the quiet member of the Hole-Digging Club.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: In the cover of the manga's first chapter, Sumida is shown to have a dark brown hair, while in the subsequent appearances she is in within the manga, she has green hair. The reason for this change still remains unknown.
* EyesAlwaysClosed: Her eyes are often closed in all of her appearances.
* NoSocialSkills: Sumida's social skills are considered ''crippled'' that even the bonus chapter, Chapter 20.5, explicitly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] in her character page that she is ''bad at talking''. Most of the time she spends socialising is within the clubroom with Mogawa, Shijima and Majime.
* ShrinkingViolet: She is often known to be the shiest member of the Hole-Digging Club.
* TalkingWithSigns: She often does this, when she talks to others, given her rather silent nature. Though she [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this during their long descent down the endless hole, when she starts talking for the first time.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Sumida is often seen with Mogawa on her side.
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'''Main Characters''' ([[Characters/ShimejiSimulationShijimaTsukishima Shijima Tsukishima]]) | [[Characters/ShimejiSimulationWestYomogiHighSchool West Yomogi High School]] | [[Characters/ShimejiSimulationOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/ShimejiSimulationSpoilerCharacters Spoiler Characters]]-]]]]]
!!Due to the [[SpoileredRotten sheer amount of spoilers]] the [[Manga/ShimejiSimulation work]] is known for, every single examples [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff will be unmarked]] by default!
The main characters of ''Manga/ShimejiSimulation''.
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[[folder:Shijima Tsukishima]]
!!Shijima "Shimeji" Tsukishima
!!!Voiced by: Creator/NaomiOzora (VOMIC)
!!!'''First Appearance:''' Chapter 1
->''Plenty of things happened when I was in my first year of middle school. Things that made me hate it. Ever since then, I shut myself inside my closet for two years. Two years later, a thought occurred to me that it's about time I leave.''
-->--'''Shijima'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shijima_tsukishima_9.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:''Click to see Shijima with three mushrooms on her head.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shijima_tsukishima_5.png[[/labelnote]]]]
The main protagonist of the story. A 15-year-old (later 16-year-old) former social recluse and an orphan along with her sister, Shijima later leaves out of her closet after two years, as she starts her term as a first-year high-school student. She lives with her big sister at the apartment complex (danchis) in the middle of nowhere in West Yomogi.\\
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After hiding herself inside a closet, she is later seen with two mushrooms sprouting on her head. While she starts out as a person with an emotional baggage to begin with, Shijima's life later turns upside down for the good when she befriends Majime.\\
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Over the course of the story, Shijima gets involved in Majime's antics, as well as others including her sister and the members of Hole-Digging Club including Mogawa and Sumida.\\
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[[index]]
* For her character page, go [[Characters/ShimejiSimulationShijimaTsukishima here]] [[WalkingSpoiler but be warned of heavy spoilers.]]
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Majime Yamashita]]
!WARNING: Majime, post-Chapter 46, is a case of a major WalkingSpoiler as her transition to godhood is integral to the final, tail end of ''Shimeji Simulation''. Anything about her tropes will be considered [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers]], so be warned!
!!Majime Yamashita
!!!Voiced by: Creator/YumiriHanamori (VOMIC)
!!!'''First Appearance:''' Chapter 1
-> ''You're not gonna make any friends if you read books all the time, you know.''
-->--'''Majime to Shijima'''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/majime_yamashita_2.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:''Click to see Majime as a goddess.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/majime_goddess.png]][[/labelnote]]
A 15-year-old (later 16-year-old) first-year high school student who is Shijima's rather boisterous friend, serving as the deuteragonist of the story. She has a half-fried egg sitting on top of her head. She lives with her mother and her absent father. In later chapters, she becomes the God of her own world.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: {{Deconstructed}}. Majime, as a deity in her new world, is the personification of idealistic friendship, whose idea is to create more friends and put them into the forms of unity that she pursues with, similarly as to how she befriended Shijima in the first place. But her goal of friendship comes with consequences when the countries within her new world, as shown within the "Book of Eggplant" page in Chapter 46, came into a war. This resulted in her unleashing her wrath against the warring factions, leading her to be self-exiled as wishing for too many friends always comes with a price to pay, while leaving promises to her creations.
* TheAntiNihilist: She is unwilling to see others who think life is considered meaningless. It later becomes the case where she was able to ''finally'' befriend Shijima, who started off as a nihilistic IceQueen, due to her [[DarkAndTroubledPast tragedy]].
* BespectacledCutie: She wears huge red glasses and is a cute, cheerful and energetic girl.
* BestFriend: To Shijima, right after the events of Chapter 10.
* TheBusCameBack: After her last physical appearance in Chapter 43, Majime makes her appearance again in the final chapter reuniting with Shijima.
* CallBack: A shot in Chapter 29's first page has Majime eating a corn in the Dream World. Chapter 46's "The Book of Corn" blatantly shows Majime in one scene also eating a corn, with her subjects asking how they want to be the same as her.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Exhibits this at one point in the story, when Majime's mother attempted to touch Shijima, going so far with Majime pouting. Of course, with the courtesy of Shijima's snide remarking.
--> '''Majime:''' Geez! ''She's'' mine!
--> '''Shijima:''' As if.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Majime seemingly pulls this off in some chapters of the manga, given her rather strange personality. Examples include her booping Shijima's mushrooms for "cuteness", as means to befriend her, without knowing the fact that Shijima ''doesn't'' like it to be touched. Her attempts of befriending Shijima often leads to annoyance, much to Shijima's dismay.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: To Yuuri of ''Manga/GirlsLastTour''.
** Yuuri, along with her friend Chito, is a survivor of a CrapsackWorld in the future, who ventures with her through the empty world. Majime is an ordinary teenage girl living in West Yomogi, a seemingly idyllic town, who is a goofball just like Yuuri.
** While Yuuri has been orphaned since she was born from her unknown parents in a town under a CivilWar, Majime lives with a noticeably stable family, including her mother and her father.
** Both are odd-kitter goofballs and serving as TheAntiNihilist {{Foil}} to the respective main protagonists. Whereas Yuuri's optimism and cheerfulness often excites the rather grey and bleak atmosphere surrounding her and Chito (often to varying results), Majime uses both to [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]] Shijima's icy and distant personality in an attempt to make her as her first best friend.
** Both also lived a much more prolonged life. Though unlike Yuuri who has been dead and is essentially a soul for a thousand years, Majime is a former-human-turned-immortal who is still alive, after ascending to godhood.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Exemplified in Chapter 10. While Majime is often known to be a comic relief teenage girl who is the comedic {{Foil}} to the quiet, shy Shijima, she is considered a BigDamnHero within that very chapter, when she saved an injured Shijima from a giant crab within the Dream World by riding a giant Yoshika pencil and slamming it onto the creature, thus defeating it. In addition, she also used a ''giant'' frying pan from the skies to knock it out completely.
* CrystalDragonJesus: Majime, as a Goddess, is loosely based on the Greek Goddess of Friendship Philotes, in line with the former's goal of making a world where everyone becomes a friend to one another as its religion. She is currently worshipped by the people of her world and her people calls her as "friend" or even "Majime-chan" rather than a Goddess. Also taken to some ridiculous levels when the Chiho tribe members call her as their "most important friend" in front of her statue. And smaller statues of her are also seen scattered across various places in her own world.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter 46 solely focuses on her becoming a PhysicalGod.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: During the first 45 chapters of the manga, Majime is merely an ordinary human before she gains the powers of RealityWarping during the events of Chapters 30 and 40. Enter Chapter 46, where she later becomes the god of her own world, where she created her world from scratch, comprising of {{Talking Animal}}s and plants she materialises. 1400 years later, the people of her world, with the Chiho tribe for example, worship her for her natural approach to ensuring camaraderie amongst the people of other countries, though it was not without a scene where a war broke out between countries that forced her to unleash a BoltOfDivineRetribution towards the soldiers, leaving her to be on hiding for millennia.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite Shijma's constant refusal of friendship, Majime is determined to have her as her closest friend, even if it means to annoy her. She becomes successful with that goal, however, near the end of Chapter 10, thereby making Shijima as HeterosexualLifePartners.
* EpicFail:
** Her attempts to show Shijima the meaning of friendship only failed, when Ayaka told her not to chime from out of nowhere.
** When Majime tried to "protect" Shijima from being touched by the former's mother, or rather attempted to do so, Shijima has none of it, as she only remarks with an "[[DeadpanSnarker as if]]" retort.
** PlayedForDrama in Chapter 46 when Majime attempts to stop her created subjects from starting their own war against friendship, leading to her firing a flurry of projectiles onto them as a result. Her disastrous efforts to stop the problem led her to be on exile.
* TheExile: Majime has been in exile for over a millennia after her disastrous attempts to resolve the conflict diplomatically, which escalated into a full-scale war between countries.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When she started off as a normal teenage girl, her hair is shoulder-length. After becoming a PhysicalGod, her hair reaches up to her back.
* {{Foil}}: To Shijima. Unlike Shijima who is black-haired and is a PerpetualFrowner who seldom smiles and is mostly aloof and soft-spoken, Majime is blonde-haired and is a PerpetualSmiler who is bright and optimistic. She's also an idealist but a DumbBlonde, in contrast to Shijima who is a pessimist but a smart girl.
* IronicName: Her name in English means serious and diligent, but she acts contrary to what the name suggests. Hilariously [[LampshadeHanging lamphshaded]] by Shijima.
--> '''Majime:''' I'm [[BlatantLies totally diligent]]!
--> '''Shijima:''' ''Only'' your glasses look the part.
* TheMaker: She becomes this once she ascends into becoming the PhysicalGod of her new world that she created in the void using her own toys to create a population of sentient LivingToys.
* TheMcCoy: To Shijima's [[TheKirk Kirk]] and Big Sis' [[TheSpock Spock]]. Out of the three, she's the most emotionally driven, being a wide-eyed optimist and an [[TheAntiNihilist anti-nihilist]] who wants to be friends with each other.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: While she only used her BoltOfDivineRetribution (a la her own tears) to stop the war that her subjects started, she felt remorseful over it, as she only wanted to meet everyone and especially Shijima, leading to her hiding for a millennia.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She does this for a few times, as a part of her personality as ThePollyanna. The most obvious example is her attempts to befriend Shijima, who at the time still had traces of her reclusive past, despite Shijima not being initially in the mood for friendship.
* PerpetualSmiler: In contrast to Shijima's PerpetualFrowner, Majime smiles for most of the time, owing to her optimistic nature and her attempts to make friends with one another. Until Chapter 46 where she foregoes it when reality hits her hard after her attempts to spread her religion of friendship failed horribly when countries caused war against each other over it.
* PhysicalGod: After settling into what appeared to be a white, empty vast of nothingness, Majime later becomes a deity wielding a staff, which gave her the ability to create anything based on her imagination. 1400 years later at a FlashForward scene, Majime is now the God of this world, but she's revealed to have been missing ''for millennia''. The "Book of Eggplant" in Chapter 46 shows the reason: her attempts of spreading camaraderie went on a downward spiral when countries blindly worshipped Majime and wanted more friends that led to a war, only for Majime to unleash her divine reckoning against the warring factions, ultimately leading to her exile and disappearance.
* ThePollyanna: Majime is known to be boisterous, cheerful, and friendly. However, the latter quality is zigzagged, when she attempts to show Shijima on the importance of friendship, only for her to fail when she attempts to communicate with Ayaka and her other friends.
* PrenatalPossessions: It is heavily implied that the egg that sits on top on her head has been existing since her birth.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Shijima's blue. She's much more optimistic and overtly happier than Shijima, being an optimist who easily jokes for most of the time.
* WorshippedForGreatDeeds: Majime in the future is worshipped by being the first friend to them, as well as her plans of spreading camaraderie across other countries. But a few of the Chiho tribe members recounted about the rather unfortunate past of countries vying power to make more friends that resulted in Majime unleashing her anger onto them.
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[[folder:Ms. Mogawa]]
!!Mogawa-sensei
!!!'''First Appearance:''' Chapter 3
-> ''The [[ApatheticTeacher other teachers]] won't say anything either. Pretty much sure I'm being bullied here.''
-->--'''Mogawa'''
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The slovenly art teacher of Shimeji's class and a known alcoholic, who is the curator of the Hole-Digging Club. She also has a quirky obsession with doughnut-shaped sand holes.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: In Chapter 1's first page, Mogawa's hair is coloured olive-green, whereas in the rest of her appearance it is coloured pink.
* TheAlcoholic: She is a known drinker, as seen in some scenes of the manga, even during school days where she's openly drinking one. At one chapter her fridge in the club's own clubroom ''is full'' of unopened beer cans. It is seldom to see her without a beer can or a wine from her hand.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: PlayedForLaughs. Mogawa is pretty much the black sheep of her school's own faculty, as she is mostly ignored by them. Further [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], when she was suddenly turned as the advisor of the Hole-Digging Club, a year prior to the story.
--> '''Mogawa:''' When I just started working here last year, they ''suddenly'' pushed this "Hole-Digging Club" onto me. They made me the advisor of this whatever this club even is.
* ApatheticTeacher: She has ''zero'' interest in being a teacher and gets bored easily. In most of the times, she is often seen outside digging holes or lazing right beside their own clubroom, given the fact that she is the curator of the club. She's more focused on being an alcoholic than simply teaching her students or even acting as the club's leader.
* ButtMonkey: Across the faculty, she's often the butt of someone's jokes to the point it reached to a head when the rest of the staff simply shoved her the responsibility to manage an empty, barely managed club.
* TheCynic: Mogawa seems to often drown in depressive thoughts and sometimes [[TheAlcoholic drowns her own sorrows with alcohol]]. Even in school time. She also has a deep apathy towards school clubs, contemplating how it is no different than digging holes.
* ImportantHaircut: Chapter 11 shows that she has cut her hair up to shoulder-length, as it interferes with her hole-digging.
* {{Irony}}: While she's a {{Sleepyhead}} for most of the time, she's still digging holes competently despite the job being heavily concentration-focused.
* LazyBum: Taken to a LogicalExtreme, where Mogawa seldom shows up to the classroom[[note]]In one instance in Chapter 4 she shows up but that is it[[/note]], spending most of her time inside the Hole-Digging Club's clubroom [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking drinking alcohol, digging holes within school grounds and lazing herself.]]
* TheLeader: Sort of. Despite being the leader of the Hole-Digging Club, she shows zero interest in her own job. Justified, however, when it was just simply given to her by most of the staff, a year ago.
* PerpetualFrowner: She is [[TheCynic a pessimist]], who is mostly seen with a frown to her face. Not ''once'' in her appearance she even smiles at one point and everything about her "smile" is her usual cynic expression.
* SiblingYinYang: The Yin to her younger sister's Yang. While her younger sister is a police officer who is active and always on the forefront to her job, Mogawa-sensei is a LazyBum who has no interest in her job and spends her time as an alcoholic.
* {{Sleepyhead}}: She often looks tired, either from the boredom she goes through or simply she only wants to teach and to run the club until the bell rings. That and being TheAlcoholic also doesn't help her own case. Surprisingly however, that doesn't cause her problems when digging a hole.
* TaremeEyes: Her eyes droop tiredly all the time, given her nature as a {{Sleepyhead}} who is bored of anything.
* ThoseTwoGuys: She is hardly seen without Sumida on her side whom she treats her as a best friend.
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[[folder:Sumida]]
!!Sumida
!!!'''First Appearance:''' Chapter 11
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A second-year high school student, who is the quiet member of the Hole-Digging Club.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: In the cover of the manga's first chapter, Sumida is shown to have a dark brown hair, while in the subsequent appearances she is in within the manga, she has green hair. The reason for this change still remains unknown.
* EyesAlwaysClosed: Her eyes are often closed in all of her appearances.
* NoSocialSkills: Sumida's social skills are considered ''crippled'' that even the bonus chapter, Chapter 20.5, explicitly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] in her character page that she is ''bad at talking''. Most of the time she spends socialising is within the clubroom with Mogawa, Shijima and Majime.
* ShrinkingViolet: She is often known to be the shiest member of the Hole-Digging Club.
* TalkingWithSigns: She often does this, when she talks to others, given her rather silent nature. Though she [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this during their long descent down the endless hole, when she starts talking for the first time.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Sumida is often seen with Mogawa on her side.
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