Line #263 Characters/Oresuki


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7	!!In General
8	* AlternateCharacterReading: Most of their nicknames are derived from alternate readings of, and/or by omitting certain characters from their names in kanji.
9	* TheAtoner: At the end of first arc, much of the main cast are repentant for how they’ve mistreated each other and are trying to make amends for it.
10	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Almost everyone is hiding their nastier qualities behind friendly faces, though how sincere those amicable personas are varies from character to character.
11	* ClingyJealousGirl: The other girls frown when one of them gets affectionate with Joro.
12	* EasilyForgiven: The cast has done some pretty rotten things to each other out of self-interest, but that doesn’t stop them from counting on each other in times of need and continuing to spend time together. Given that they’re all guilty of something, no one really has any moral high ground over another person, leaving them with only the option of apologizing and forgiving.
13	* FloralThemeNaming: The girls are nicknamed after flowers (which are derived from the kanji in their real names), while the boys are nicknamed for things that help nourish flowers ("jōro" [watering can], "sun", "hose").
14	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Hardly anyone says their real name out loud. Even most people outside the main cast know them by their nicknames. You only ever hear their real names when they’re introduced and if Cosmos happens to address them while in samurai mode.
15	* TeensAreMonsters: Not irredeemable monsters, but they can still be pretty nasty. Almost every conflict is driven by one of the main cast of teenagers selfishly pursuing their own romantic desires at another person’s expense.
16	* TookALevelInKindness: After everyone finally talks things through and apologizes to each other.
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18	!Nishikizuta High School
19	[[folder:Amatsuyu Kisaragi aka “Joro”]]
20	!!"Joro" (Amatsuyu Kisaragi)
21	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaikiYamashita
22	Our protagonist. A second-year student and wannabe harem protagonist who hides his more unpleasant side from others. He finds himself roped into matchmaking his crushes with his best friend, all while the only girl who will look his way is a creepy stalker.
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24	* BreakingTheFourthWall: He’s the most prone to doing this in the anime.
25	* BromanticFoil: The inciting incident of the plot is him realizing that he’s this to Sun-chan’s harem protagonist instead of the other way around. It ends up DoubleSubverted, with Sun-chan becoming this to Joro’s harem protagonist.
26	* ButtMonkey: Much of the CringeComedy is at his expense.
27	* BuxomBeautyStandard: He is a firm believer of this, which is part of why he thinks Pansy's disguise is so ugly.
28	* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: [[spoiler:He's pretty much set to end up with Sasanqua, who as it turns out has the exact kind of scheming personality Pansy has.]]
29	* ChickMagnet: DoubleSubverted. At the start of the series, it turns out his love interests are actually MasterOfTheMixedMessage and the only person in love with Joro is his StalkerWithACrush Pansy. Then Cosmos and Himawari have an UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo for him, Asunaro turns out to have also been a ClingyJealousGirl towards him, and Sasanqua falls for him when he forgives her previous bullying. Plus, Anemone had a thing for him when they were in middle school.
30	* ChivalrousPervert: Even after his CharacterDevelopment, he still ogles the girls and hopes they wind up in compromising positions.
31	* EntitledToHaveYou: His initial attitude towards his ChildhoodFriend Himawari and StudentCouncilPresident Cosmos.
32	* EvilIsHammy: Joro is at his hammiest when he’s doing an evil monologue to himself.
33	* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Sort of. He first met Pansy in her natural appearance the year before the story starts, but doesn't recognize her at school. Once she sheds her disguise, he recognizes her instantly.
34	* GratuitousEnglish: He’s the biggest user of this in the anime.
35	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: The conflict of the third arc is driven by his feelings of inadequacy compared to his friends, and his perception of himself as merely a background character.
36	* HormoneAddledTeenager: Joro’s always thinking with what’s in his pants in addition to what’s in his heart. For instance, the only reasons he entertains Tampopo’s notions of arranging a romance between Pansy and Sun-chan are that she knows Pansy’s secret and she’s bribing him with risqué pictures of herself.
37	* HaremSeeker: At the beginning, his intent is to play ObliviousToLove like a harem anime protagonist so Cosmos and Himawari will be his harem. Although he stops making active efforts to acquire a harem after the first arc, he still has hopes of making one happen. When he tries this at the end of the competition with Hose, all the girls get upset at him. Tsubaki figures out he purposely did this to [[StatusQuoIsGod avoid them breaking up their friendship]] due to him dating Pansy.
38	* HasAType: He prefers busty girls with long black hair. Obviously this applies to Pansy, but when Sasanqua changes her previously dyed hairstyle to her natural black, he's immediately enticed.
39	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: As selfish as he is, deep down Joro always prioritizes the people he cares about over himself. For example, although he was also acting in self-interest, Pansy deduced that his real reason for helping Cosmos and Himawari despite his MatchmakerCrush on them is to help Sun-chan get a girlfriend because Sun-chan is his best friend. As she points out, if he didn’t care about Sun-chan as much, he wouldn’t have bothered trying to ask Pansy herself to date him after finding out about Sun-chan’s crush on her.
40	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Beneath the BitchInSheepsClothing, Joro does care about his friends and will go to great lengths for their sakes.
41	* ManipulativeBastard: Tries to be this at times, but is often OutGambitted by another, more intelligent manipulator. Ultimately, he’s most successful when he schemes to help his friends, rather than doing things solely for his benefit.
42	* MatchmakerCrush: At the start of the story, he has feelings for both Cosmos and Himawari, but reluctantly accepts their requests to be their RomanticWingman for their crushes on Sun-chan.
43	* ObliviousToLove: Zigzagged.
44	** He pretends to be this as part of his NiceGuy harem protagonist façade, but he’s fully cognizant of the affection Himawari and Cosmos give him. He’s subsequently frustrated when it turns out that he was picking up mixed signals and they’re actually crushing on Sun-chan instead.
45	** The fourth arc has him fall into this trope more than he realized, as he neglects to consider that three of the girls he’s counting on to vote for him regarding who Pansy should be with have become his legit harem by this point.
46	** Although he seems oblivious in most of his interactions with Sasanqua, it’s primarily because she’s a tsundere and not in his close circle of friends. However, he does pick up on her attraction to him enough that he offers to make her his Friday girl when he takes a shot at a MarryThemAll result.
47	* PhraseCatcher: “First, would you sit next to me?” and the words following it are said to Joro often verbatim in the prelude to an inconvenient love confession that almost always takes place on the Bench.
48	* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: At the beginning, he’s a twisted version of this, thinking he can get a harem if he mimics the ObliviousToLove NiceGuy protagonists of stories from the harem genre. Even after seeing how that way of thinking backfires, he continues to identify himself as the protagonist of a rom-com.
49	* {{Tsundere}}: For Pansy. He's attracted to her, but also repeatedly turned off by her manipulative and stalking behaviors. Pansy even calls him a tsundere flat out.
50	* UndyingLoyalty: For all his flaws, one of Joro’s greatest virtues is his sincere dedication to his friends.
51	* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: After Joro stops trying to date Himawari and Cosmos and focuses more on being a better friend to them, they start developing feelings for him instead. Downplayed, as he still wants them in his harem, but he’s stopped actively pursuing a romance with them.
52	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Zigzagged. Half of the trouble Joro runs into is the self-inflicted consequence of his own hubris. The other half of it is brought about by other people screwing him over, and it usually strikes when he’s trying to do the right thing.
53	* WardrobeMalfunction: In the BeachEpisode, he hopes to see a nip slip when he and Himawari are riding the water slide. A wardrobe malfunction does happen when they got to the end, but not to who Joro was hoping. Thankfully, Sun-chan steps in to cover for him.
54	* XanatosGambit: His simultaneous LoveConfession to all the girls after defeating Hose. If they accept, it’s a MarryThemAll situation and he finally gets the harem he’s coveted since the start of the series. If they reject it (which they do), it becomes a roundabout way of being able to DumpThemAll without picking one over the other, which he knows would inevitably fracture the girls’ friendships with each other. In either case, he’s able to keep his promise of helping Pansy make some TrueCompanions.
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57	[[folder:Sumireko Sanshokuin aka “Pansy”]]
58	!!"Pansy" (Sumireko Sanshokuin)
59	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HarukaTomatsu
60	A second-year student who runs the school library and stalks Joro in her free time.
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62	* AbhorrentAdmirer: For Joro. Part of his horrified reaction to getting a love confession from her is because he considers her plain, but also her personality and the way she toys with him means she may as well be ugly as sin. Even after learning about her hidden beauty, he still considers her this because she’s still a creepy StalkerWithACrush.
63	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She claims that the part of Joro she’s attracted to is the selfish “Hyde” persona he usually keeps hidden from others. Unusually, she turns out to mix this with SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan, as she can also perceive and equally love the HiddenHeartOfGold beneath his BitchInSheepsClothing which is just as true to him as his nasty side.
64	* ClingyJealousGirl: She doesn't seem very happy when she sees Joro giving all of the girls a LoveConfession, and talking about how he wanted a harem and dating the girls each day of the week.
65	* HiddenBuxom: When she stops binding her breasts, she's the bustiest girl in the series.
66	* LonersAreFreaks: She tells Joro this when they first meet, largely due to her being the target of scorn by girls at her middle school since they were jealous Hose liked her, but she kept rejecting him. Joro promises to help her get some friends. He first accomplishes this by having the Flower Dance participants practice in the library so that Pansy can spend quality time with everyone. He later affirms this by giving her and the other girls a BaitAndSwitchSentiment confession to avoid the other girls being upset that he chose her.
67	* MeaningfulName: Pansy in ''hanakotoba'' means “caring/thoughtful” or in her words, “my mind is filled with thoughts of you.”
68	%%* ScaryShinyGlasses
69	* SoBeautifulItsACurse: She mentions that the reason she hides her true appearance is that someone is after her, which is later revealed to be Hose.
70	** In the manga, after her true appearance is revealed throughout the school, she's repeatedly hounded by male students.
71	* TheSocialExpert: Which is why she’s the most effective ManipulativeBastard in the cast.
72	* StalkerWithACrush: To Joro, which she flatly admits to him. She’s also got a stalker herself in the form of Hose.
73	* TarnishingTheirOwnBeauty: To avoid attracting male attention, she suppresses her breasts, has her hair in braids, puts on thick glasses, and wears a long skirt.
74	* ThroughHisStomach: One of the ways she gets Joro to warm up to her is by baking him cookies.
75	* {{Tsundere}}: Both before and after her LoveConfession to Joro, she speaks to him with a sharp tongue.
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78	[[folder:Taiyō Ōga aka “Sun-chan”]]
79	!!"Sun-chan" (Taiyo Oga)
80	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuumaUchida
81	A second-year student, the ace of the school’s Baseball Club, and Joro’s best friend.
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83	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Laments about how most of the girls in the cast like Joro, including the ones he had a crush on (Pansy and Anemone), but learns to accept it.
84	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Felt jealous about how Joro had two personalities, but played it better than he did.
85	* ArcVillain: He’s the main antagonist of the first arc.
86	* BromanticFoil: DoubleSubverted. The beginning of the series establishes that Joro is this to him instead of the other way around, but he plays the role straight after they repair their friendship.
87	* BookDumb: While he’s socially savvy enough to be an effective ManipulativeBastard, his test-taking performance is less impressive.
88	* BoyfriendBluff: When Joro fails to step up, Sun-chan makes his move and asks Pansy out to give her an excuse to reject Hose. It’s heavily implied that he still carries a torch for her and is indulging in pretending to be her boyfriend, even if he knows it’s just a diversion until Joro can work up the nerve.
89	* DefeatEqualsFriendship: It helps that he was already legitimately friends with Joro and Himawari beforehand. It’s only a matter of everyone apologizing and atoning for their actions in order for their friendship to get back on track.
90	* DumbJock: Played with. He’s far from an ace student, but he knows how to manipulate people.
91	* FriendshipMoment: Joro makes up with him when he says he wants their friendship to continue even after all the scheming Sun-chan did with Cosmos and Himawari towards Pansy.
92	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: It’s the reason he created his Sun-chan persona, as he was previously ostracized and envied by others.
93	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Towards Pansy. Despite his feelings for her, he ultimately decides to forgo their agreement to date if his team won the baseball game for Joro's sake.
94	* JerkJock: Turns out to be one for a while after Pansy exposes his plans to use Cosmos and Himawari to hurt Joro. But he becomes much nicer after making up with Joro.
95	* {{Keet}}: Compared to Joro, he's much more lively and outgoing. It's later revealed to just be an act he cultivated to make friends, and he's painfully shy underneath.
96	* LovableJock: What he becomes after the first arc.
97	* ManipulativeBastard: Tries to be one, but it backfires on him after Pansy points out how Joro was still helping him even after he used Cosmos and Himawari to get back at him for being rejected back in middle school.
98	* MatchmakerCrush: He exploits this in the first arc, turning Cosmos and Himawari’s unrequited crushes on him into this and pinning the blame on Joro so they’ll hate him. Then it’s revealed that he was motivated by being in the same situation Joro was in, having a crush on Anemone but being asked to set her up with Joro.
99	* TheNotLoveInterest: By the end of the OVA, it’s apparent that Joro is the most important person in his life, the one he most admires and who is by his side at every point. He even lampshades it with an IronicEcho to Joro’s words to Pansy at the start of the series, thinking about how he wishes the person who loves him most was a cute girl he could date instead of his male best friend.
100	* ObliviousToLove: He seems to be unaware of how obvious Cosmos and Himawari’s crushes on him are and brushes off their odd behavior as merely them being quirky. Then it’s subverted when it turns out that he knew exactly how they felt, and took advantage of it by pretending to be oblivious when he asked them to help him get with Pansy, knowing it would break their hearts but they could only direct their blame at Joro since they only ever told Joro about their feelings for Sun-chan.
101	* SecretSecretKeeper: It’s revealed that he figured out Joro’s BitchInSheepsClothing routine years ago, but never let on that he knew.
102	* StarterVillain: He’s the first antagonist of the series.
103	* StepfordSmiler: At first, his friendliness hid his secret bitter and manipulative side. After he cleans up his act, it's revealed that deep down, he's actually shy and reserved, and cultivated the Sun-chan persona to overcome this and make friends.
104	%%* ThrowTheDogABone: Finally gets a girlfriend in the light novel?
105	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fried pork skewers, specifically the ones made by Tsubaki’s family.
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108	[[folder:Aoi Hinata aka “Himawari”]]
109	!!"Himawari" (Aoi Hinata)
110	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HarukaShiraishi
111	A second-year student and Joro’s affectionate childhood friend who tends to slap him on the back when she greets him every morning. She takes him on a date to confess that she’s in love with his best friend and wants help.
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113	* ActingUnnatural: When she tries to follow Joro’s plan to matchmake her with Sun-chan, she completely fumbles her lines, reciting them stiffly or out of order.
114	* BadLiar: She cannot lie convincingly when going with Joro’s matchmaking plan. The best deception she does is in the third arc, and even then Joro picks up on her tell.
115	* BookDumb: She’s in the same boat as Sun-chan when it comes to academics.
116	* ChildhoodFriend: With Joro and Sun-chan.
117	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: She realizes this after Joro still goes out of his way to help hook her up with Sun-chan.
118	* GenkiGirl: Almost always a bundle of energy, especially around Joro.
119	* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: In the third arc, she ends up using the money she was saving up for a new tennis racket to instead purchase a replacement for the ''Kokoro'' book that Joro borrowed from Pansy. In turn, he uses his own savings to get Himawari the tennis racket she gave up for him.
120	* ALadyOnEachArm: How she and Asunaro restrain Joro when they catch him in the OVA.
121	* LoveConfessor: She tells Joro she’s in love with his best friend Sun-chan, shortly after Cosmos tells him the same thing.
122	* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: She treats Joro very affectionately and has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace with him, and unintentionally leads him to believe that she’s in love with him when she actually likes Sun-chan. Telling him about her crush on Sun-chan and asking him to help matchmake them together does nothing to change how affectionate she is to Joro, to his frustration.
123	* MeaningfulName: Two that reflect her sunny disposition.
124	** Her family name—Hinata—is Japanese for “a sunny place”.
125	** Himawari means “sunflower”. Sunflowers in ''hanakotoba'' represent radiance and passionate love.
126	* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: With Joro, much to his consternation. It’s part of why he assumed she was in love with him.
127	* PassionateSportsGirl: She's an avid tennis player and part of the school's Tennis Club.
128	* ReadingStageDirectionsOutLoud: When she tries to follow Joro’s matchmaking plan.
129	* SitcomArchNemesis: To Cosmos at first, but it becomes a FriendlyRivalry by the time they move their affections from Sun-chan to Joro.
130	* TheTell: Hers is moving her eyes once to the right and twice to the left. As her childhood friend, Joro picks up on this pretty easily.
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133	[[folder:Sakura Akino aka “Cosmos”]]
134	!!"Cosmos" (Sakura Akino)
135	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SachikaMisawa
136	A third-year student and Joro’s superior on the student council, who takes him on a date to ask for his assistance in pursuing her crush, his best friend.
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138	* ActingUnnatural: She’s an even worse actor than Himawari, since Cosmos talks like a samurai when she’s nervous.
139	* BadLiar: Can’t lie to save her life.
140	* CreepyGood: Sometimes she gives off a creepy, threatening aura, but she’s ultimately a decent person.
141	* DitzyGenius: In contrast to the BookDumb Himawari and Sun-chan, Cosmos is an ace student but very lacking in common sense, making bizarre decisions and theatrical gestures like giving thousands of problems to solve for an afternoon of tutoring and practicing every angle of her meticulous plan to apologize to Joro with a science dummy. And then there’s her talking like a samurai when she’s nervous.
142	* FriendlyRivalry: She’s the first one to affirm that she considers Pansy both a friend and a rival, and the other girls follow suit.
143	* LargeHam: When she’s nervous and talks like a samurai, she gets very theatrical with her words.
144	* LoveConfessor: The story is kicked off by her taking Joro on a date to confess to him that she’s in love… with his best friend.
145	* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: She treats Joro very affectionately, and unintentionally leads him to believe that she’s in love with him when she actually likes Sun-chan. Telling him about her crush on Sun-chan and asking him to help matchmake them together does nothing to change how affectionate she is to Joro, to his frustration.
146	* SitcomArchNemesis: To Himawari at first, but it becomes a FriendlyRivalry by the time they move their affections from Sun-chan to Joro.
147	* SpannerInTheWorks: In the second arc, she’s the one who unravels Asunaro’s scheme to isolate Joro from everyone else. Later on, she, Himawari, and Asunaro all put an unexpected obstacle in Joro’s plan to keep Hose away from Pansy by confessing their love to Joro and giving their barrette votes to Hose.
148	* StudentCouncilPresident: With Joro as her subordinate.
149	* TheTell: Speaking like some kind of ersatz samurai whenever she’s trying to hide her true intentions.
150	* ThroughHisStomach: During the third arc, Cosmos tries to get closer to Joro by giving him food from a quadruple-packed lunch, but Tsubaki steals her thunder. She tries again with a quintuple-packed lunch, but Joro’s too preoccupied with looking for a job to notice.
151	* WallPinOfLove: Played for laughs when Cosmos has this written down in her planner for how Joro reconciles with her. It comes back to bite Joro in the ass when Asunaro snaps a picture of it and presents it as evidence that he’s cheating with three girls.
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154	[[folder:Hina Hanetachi aka “Asunaro”]]
155	!!"Asunaro" (Hina Hanetachi)
156	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShioriMikami
157	A second-year student who runs the school’s Newspaper Club.
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159	* AccentRelapse: Asunaro usually speaks in a formal manner, but slips into her natural Tsugaru dialect when in a state of high emotion, like when Joro suggests she could be one of the girls nominated for the Flower Dance or after Cosmos exposes her scheme to isolate Joro.
160	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Once Cosmos foils her scheme and corners her, she goes on a MotiveRant culminating in one of these to Joro.
161	* ArcVillain: She’s the main antagonist of the second arc.
162	* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Although Cosmos exposes her plan and Joro rejects her, she continues to show up as an ally of the library group and offers her help to them, even if she’s upfront about the fact that she still wants Joro for herself.
163	* ALadyOnEachArm: How she and Himawari restrain Joro when they catch him in the OVA.
164	* MaliciousSlander: She threatens to print a story about how Joro is a three-timing scumbag who’s stringing along three different women (which he wants but hasn’t actually achieved yet). Though she says she won’t print it after he proves he’s not dating three girls, she does it anyway claiming it was an accident. The damage is still done and Joro’s abysmal reputation forces him to keep his distance from his friends, which she wanted.
165	* RescueRomance: Parodied. Her obsession with Joro stems from him saving her from a stray ball at the baseball game. From Joro’s perspective, he wasn’t doing anything particularly heroic, he just happened to be in front of her and got beaned in the head while walking towards a hot chick with huge boobs (Pansy).
166	* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: She uses her role on the school newspaper as an excuse to follow Joro around.
167	* ShipperWithAnAgenda: She tags along when Tampopo ropes Joro into trying to matchmake Sun-chan with Pansy, mostly because she figures it’ll get Pansy out of the way between herself and Joro. However, she ultimately works with him and Pansy to foil Tampopo instead.
168	* StealthHiBye: She somehow crawled through the window unnoticed when Tampopo sat Joro down on the Bench inside the science lab to recruit him in matchmaking Pansy with Sun-chan.
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171	[[folder:Chiharu Yōki aka “Tsubaki”]]
172	!!"Tsubaki" (Chiharu Yoki)
173	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NaoTouyama
174	A second-year student whose family runs the Cheerful Skewers restaurant that was previously just a stand outside the baseball stadium. She introduces herself by kissing Joro’s hand and swearing her devotion to him after transferring into his class.
175	----
176	* ArcVillain: Subverted; Joro predicts that she’ll be this for the third arc, but instead she helps him resolve his internal conflict and there’s NoAntagonist this time.
177	* ChildhoodFriends: With Chifuyu Motoki aka Holly.
178	* HaremNanny: She’s not part of Joro’s harem, but she’s levelheaded and not above the occasional flirt.
179	* IKissYourHand: After transferring into Joro’s class and meeting him again. Sasanqua and Asunaro don’t take it well, while Himawari finds it amusing.
180	* NiceGirl: One of the few characters in this WorldOfJerkass who is always kind and polite without any manipulative agenda.
181	* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Downplayed. After taking Joro's advice to move her food stall to a better location, her family business really takes off.
182	* TheNotLoveInterest: Probably the only supporting role girl who isn't interested romantically in Joro. She appreciates his help at her restaurant, and even gives him a barrette to help him win against Hose.
183	* SheepInSheepsClothing: While just about everyone else is a BitchInSheepsClothing to some degree, Tsubaki is exactly as sweet and angelic as her too-good-to-be-true demeanor indicates, even if Joro doesn’t believe it at first.
184	* SupremeChef: Makes and sells delicious fried pork skewers, which are Sun-chan’s favorite.
185	* ThroughHisStomach: Platonically, she curries Joro’s favor by giving him her lunch when he’s hungry, and unintentionally upstages Cosmos’s attempt to treat him with a quadruple-packed lunch.
186	* UndyingLoyalty: In her introduction, she swears her eternal devotion to Joro with a kiss on the hand, though it’s apparently completely platonic.
187	* YouAreNotAlone: The end of the third arc has her telling this to Joro, after he’s been struggling with HeroicSelfDeprecation and insecurity about not measuring up to his friends.
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189
190	[[folder:Asaka Mayama aka “Sasanqua”]]
191	!!"Sasanqua" (Asaka Mayama)
192	->'''Voiced by:''' Shuka Saitō
193	The leader of a GirlPosse called the Charisma Group, consisting of [[GyaruGirl gals]] like herself in Joro’s class.
194	----
195	* CannotSpitItOut: She chickens out every time she tries to tell Joro how she feels.
196	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Sasanqua develops feelings for Joro after she’s EasilyForgiven by him despite her previous bullying of him due to the nasty gossip in the first two arcs.
197	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: After the second arc, she gets rid of the twin pigtails and stops dyeing her hair, letting down her long, black hair that happens to be Joro’s type. She does this to make a good impression on him when apologizing for her initial bullying of him.
198	* GirlPosse: The Charisma Group, which bullied Joro alongside her in the first two arcs, then supported her feelings for him after they all asked him to forgive them.
199	* GyaruGirl: In the first two arcs. Afterwards, she starts going by a more natural style to make a good impression on Joro.
200	* IHaveThisFriend: In the BeachEpisode, she uses this when asking Joro how she should approach apologizing to him.
201	* {{Tsundere}}: A more traditional one for Joro than he and Pansy are for each other. She’s mostly this in regards to denying her feelings for him, and actually less abusive to him than she was when she hated him. The only time she’s truly abrasive to him after falling for him is when he offers to make her his Friday girl in a MarryThemAll scenario with Pansy, Cosmos, Himawari, and Asunaro.
202	[[/folder]]
203
204	[[folder:Kimie Kamata aka “Tampopo”]]
205	!!"Tampopo" (Kimie Kamata)
206	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IoriSaeki
207	A first-year student and manager of the Baseball Club. She’s initially approached to be one of the three girls who participates in the Flower Dance, but she declines due to the unsavory rumors about their dance partner.
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209	* AccidentalMisnaming: Her nickname is mispronounced Ch＊npopo (Peenpopo in the English subtitles) by some students, which she happens to overhear from Joro’s earpiece.
210	* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. The sound of dog barking can be heard during a couple scenes with her, like when she runs away from Joro when he’s trying to tell her she’s one of the Flower Dance candidates. Dog imagery is seen when she instructs Joro to bite off some peenpopos.
211	* BitingTheHandkerchief: While she’s yelling about “those sons of [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitches]]” who called her Peenpopo.
212	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The reasons she gives for why she wants Joro’s help in setting up Pansy and Sun-chan together are 1). he meets with Pansy at the library on a daily basis, 2). he is Sun-chan’s BestFriend since middle school, and 3). he’s apparently Tampopo’s slave.
213	* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Downplayed, but she is on good enough terms with Pansy to try another matchmaking scheme with her and she’s one of the girls Joro counts on to give him a barrette vote.
214	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: She tries to invoke this in the RecapEpisode by singing the ending theme song when it plays, but Joro shoots her down.
215	* FanCommunityNickname: [[invoked]] In-universe, she anticipates becoming a famous idol and refers to her hypothetical fans (or in her eyes, rubes) as the Wata Guests.
216	* FavorsForTheSexy: She attempts to exploit this by giving Joro a picture of her dressed as a PlayboyBunny and promising more photos of her posing “this and that way” if he helps her out with her matchmaking plan.
217	* GlorySeeker: She wants to be more popular than Cosmos and Himawari, and her matchmaking plan is motivated by the desire to become famous as the manager of a successful baseball team. She also allows Asunaro to participate in her plan when the latter offers to write a special feature article about her for the school newspaper.
218	* GreenEyedMonster: A non-romantic example, she envies Cosmos and Himawari for their popularity and thinks her plan will somehow elevate her above them.
219	* GroinAttack: She demands that Joro bite off the peenpopos of the boys who subjected her to AccidentalMisnaming.
220	* HarmlessVillain: The only wannabe ManipulativeBastard in the cast that even Joro can outsmart easily.
221	* InterimVillain: She’s hardly a threat, but she’s the closest there is to a villain in the interim between the third and fourth arcs.
222	* PlayboyBunny: She uses a picture of herself dressed as one to incentivize Joro into helping her.
223	* PlayingCyrano: After her first plan to get Pansy a boyfriend is foiled, she tries again, only this time Pansy is the one she’s feeding lines to through a conspicuous earpiece and Joro is the target. He’s not amused.
224	* ProudBeauty: Emphasis on the proud part. She is pretty enough that Joro is easily bribed by saucy pics of her.
225	* ShipperWithAnAgenda: The reason she conscripts Joro into matchmaking Sun-chan and Pansy for her is that she thinks there’s a mutual attraction between them ([[DramaticIrony it’s actually very one-sided]]) and that having a girlfriend would improve Sun-chan’s baseball performance, which means [[GlorySeeker more attention for her]]. Her secret other agenda is that Sun-chan would get in the way between Pansy and Hose.
226	* SmallNameBigEgo: Tampopo thinks very highly of herself and her beauty, and has aspirations for even greater fame.
227	* SpottingTheThread: Joro instantly notices the discrepancy in her story about what happened at the baseball game last year that motivated her Bench confession. Namely, where she claimed she was rooting for Nishikizuta in the stands wasn’t where the actual Nishikizuta students were, as she was actually rooting for Toshōbu and only went to Nishikizuta High School because she failed the entrance exam. The rest of the inconsistencies in her claim unravel from there.
228	[[/folder]]
229
230	[[folder:Shiba Tatsuo]]
231	!!Shiba Tatsuo
232	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyotaOhsaka
233	Catcher of the Baseball Club.
234	----
235	* BitchInSheepsClothing: When they were kids, he pretended to be Sun-chan’s friend and then stole a prized keychain from him because he was jealous of the treatment he got.
236	* GreenEyedMonster: Absolutely hated Sun-chan's natural talent at baseball, and always felt he was on a much lower playing field. As a result, he befriends Sun-chan only to stab him in the back later by talking about how he actually hated him.
237	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: One of the few aversions in the series.
238	* UnknownRival: To Sun-chan.
239	[[/folder]]
240
241	[[folder:Ichika Botan aka “Anemone”]]
242	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieTakahashi
243	A childhood friend of Joro, Sun-chan, and Himawari.
244	----
245	* FaceFramedInShadow: She’s depicted this way during Sun-chan’s flashbacks in the OVA.
246	* FirstLove: Before Pansy, she was the person Sun-chan was in love with. Unfortunately for him, she took him to the Bench to ask a favor involving Joro…
247	* SmallRoleBigImpact: As Sun-chan’s FirstLove and the unintentional cause for his StartOfDarkness, she’s a very important character overall, but she doesn’t get directly involved in the present day plot until much later in the series.
248	* UnseenNoMore: She was alluded to in the first arc as the girl who broke Sun-chan’s heart by asking him to set her up with Joro. Anemone herself wouldn’t make an appearance in the flesh until the eighth volume of the light novels, or her cameos in the OVA.
249	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She couldn’t have possibly known that asking Sun-chan to matchmake her with Joro would lead to his StartOfDarkness and a massive GambitPileup in their high school years nearly destroying everyone’s friendships.
250	[[/folder]]
251
252	!Toshōbu High School
253
254	[[folder:Yasuo Hazuki aka “Hose”]]
255	!!"Hose" (Yasuo Hazuki)
256	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunFukuyama
257	A friendly student of Toshōbu who offers his help when Joro is in need. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Except it turns out he has nothing but bad intentions for him]].
258	----
259	* TheBet: Makes one with Joro in an attempt to win Pansy. He does a lot of underhanded things to try and win, such as getting the girls from his school to give him their barrettes.
260	* BigBad: Unlike the previous {{Arc Villain}}s who undergo DefeatEqualsFriendship (or the Bench who isn’t actually a character), Hose returns to cause trouble after his stint as the antagonist, and prior to appearing he was a GreaterScopeVillain who caused Pansy’s backstory.
261	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Turns out to be quite a JerkAss once he reveals his intentions to destroy Joro by not only winning Pansy, but also not allowing him to contact any of her friends ever again.
262	* ChickMagnet: Due to his BishieSparkle and NiceGuy façade, lots of girls are attracted to him, most notably Cherry and Tsukimi.
263	* DoggedNiceGuy: For Pansy, in all the worst ways.
264	* EntitledToHaveYou: Feels this way towards Pansy. However, she absolutely hates him, transferred to a different high school and changed her appearance so as to avoid interacting with him any further. Joro inadvertently causes them to meet up again when he asked Hose for help to avoid the library being shut down.
265	* GambitPileup: Tries to one up Joro by asking all of the girls attending the baseball game to give them their barrettes. Because he's normally a NiceGuy to them, they do it without knowing the motive.
266	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He tries to apply some LoopholeAbuse to the contest by having girls from his school give him their barrettes. It looks like he's finally won, until Sun-chan shows up and essentially does the same thing for Joro with the girls from his school. He tries to break the rules, but Cosmos and Himawari tell him about the rules the same way he did to them earlier. Pansy then gives her barrette to Joro, and tells Hose to never approach her ever again.
267	* IdenticalStranger: [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/oresuki/images/9/95/Joro_with_Hose.jpg He looks very similar to Joro]], except his hair is slightly messier and has a purple tint. He later takes advantage of this by disguising himself as Joro.
268	* KickTheDog: He has one at the prelude to his showdown with Joro. Up until this point, he seems to be a fairly upbeat and likeable guy. He then asks to speak to Joro privately, and asks to modify their agreement. He has an evil aura around him, and says that whoever loses not only loses access to Pansy, but any of her friends as well. He then says he wants to destroy Joro and kick him while he's down while he's at it.
269	* ManipulativeBastard: Hides behind a NiceGuy persona most of the time. But during the contest, he reveals his true nature to Joro, and turns out to be quite a JerkAss.
270	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Hose is only pretending to be ObliviousToLove in regards to the affection he gets from Cherry and Tsukimi, similar to how Sun-chan did with Cosmos and Himawari in the first arc. He is fully aware of their love for him and does not care, as he only wants Pansy, despite also knowing that she wants nothing to do with him.
271	* ShadowArchetype: Turns out he is also a scheming bastard who feels entitled to love because he passes himself off as an ObliviousToLove harem protagonist. Unlike Joro however, he [[LackOfEmpathy doesn't care about the feelings of anyone he's using]].
272	[[/folder]]
273
274	[[folder:Momo Sakuraba aka “Cherry”]]
275	!!"Cherry" (Momo Sakuraba)
276	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RisaTaneda
277	StudentCouncilPresident at Toshōbu and a friend of Hose and Tsukimi.
278	----
279	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Cosmos and Himawari convince her to let Hose know her true feelings for him, after revealing how they were in a similar situation with Sun-chan and Joro.
280	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: While she's obviously in love with Hose, she holds her feelings back since he's interested in Pansy, and because she doesn’t want to conflict with Tsukimi.
281	* MatchmakerCrush: She and Tsukimi share one on Hose, who they try to set up with Pansy. Cosmos and Himawari bring her to realize that their matchmaking efforts are ultimately an excuse to not act on their true feelings. In the end, she decides to forgo this and confesses honestly to him, as well as giving Joro her barrette vote to demonstrate that she wants to be the one Hose is with.
282	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She gives one to Pansy, yelling about why he chose her, and how she can't move forward with him because of that.
283	* ThanksForTheMammary: Joro deliberately does this to her in order to escape from her before she could call Hose. She hits him hard enough that he hits some recycle bins, knocking the cans down and forcing her to clean it up.
284	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Tsukimi.
285	[[/folder]]
286
287	[[folder:Runa Kusami aka “Tsukimi”]]
288	!!"Tsukimi" (Runa Kusami)
289	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KonomiKohara
290	Hose’s childhood friend and Cherry’s best friend.
291	----
292	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Gives one to Hose after Cosmos and Himawari relate their situation towards Joro and regretting not telling him how they felt sooner.
293	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: She’s Hose’s childhood friend, much like Himawari is to Joro and Sun-chan.
294	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Like Cherry, she's also in love with Hose, but is holding back because she knows he likes Pansy and neither of them want to fight each other. She even goes so far as to give her barrette to him, which would've ended the contest right there had both Hose and Joro not have been trying to {{Out Gambit\|ted}} each other.
295	* MatchmakerCrush: She and Cherry share one on Hose, who they try to set up with Pansy. Cosmos and Himawari bring her to realize that their matchmaking efforts are ultimately an excuse to not act on their true feelings. Unlike Cherry, Tsukimi retains this mindset and gives Hose her barrette vote to support his pursuit of Pansy, though she does manage to confess her true feelings to him alongside Cherry.
296	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Cherry.
297	[[/folder]]
298
299	[[folder:Kitakaze Tokushō aka “Fuu-chan”]]
300	!!"Fuu-chan" (Kitakaze Tokushō)
301	A baseball player for Toshōbu and Sun-chan’s rival.
302	[[/folder]]
303
304	[[folder:Asuka Usui aka “Mint”]]
305	!!"Mint" (Asuka Usui)
306	A Toshōbu student who admires Sasanqua.
307	[[/folder]]
308
309	[[folder:Akane Rancho aka “Lilith”]]
310	!!"Lilith" (Akane Rancho)
311	A Toshōbu student who communicates by cellphone text and hides behind her hair due to shyness.
312	[[/folder]]
313
314	!Other
315	[[folder:The Bench]]
316	!!The Bench
317	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oresuki_the_bench.png]]
318	[[caption-width-right:350:“First, would you sit next to me?”]]
319	->'''Joro''': “Why is there a bench?!”
320	An omnipresent menace and omen of many romantic calamities. Nearly every LoveConfession in the series takes place while sitting on the Bench.
321	----
322	* BigBad: [[TheDreaded In Joro’s mind]], the Bench is this and his greatest enemy. The actual main antagonist spot is more appropriately filled by Hose.
323	* TheDreaded: By the third time it appears, Joro is terrified of it.
324	* RuleOfFunny: The odds of people making their troublesome love confessions to Joro with the exact same words in the exact place are slim, yet somehow a bench always appears in the most nonsensical of places to make it happen. Pansy went out of her way to have bench parts express delivered to the school library for her confession to Joro, but how it shows up on the roof and in the science lab is a mystery.
325	* RunningGag: It’s not really a character so much as a recurring prop that Joro has taken to personifying as the harbinger of his rom-com conflicts.
326	* ShoutOut: Its leitmotif is a blatant “[[Franchise/StarWars Imperial March]]” ripoff with some Darth Vader breathing occasionally thrown in.
327	[[/folder]]
328
329	[[folder:Keiki Kisaragi aka “Laurier”]]
330	!!"Laurier" (Keiki Kisaragi)
331	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukariTamura
332	Joro’s mother.
333	----
334	* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: She wears heavy makeup to look the part. She also claims to be “forever 17,” though she’s more likely middle aged.
335	[[/folder]]
336
337	[[folder:Marika Kisaragi aka “Jasmine”]]
338	!!"Jasmine" (Marika Kisaragi)
339	Joro’s older sister who returns to the Kisaragi household after breaking up with her boyfriend.

Context Characters / Oresuki