| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/etra_chan_characters.jpg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:All the characters in Etra-chan Saw It!]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | The ''dramatis personae'' for ''Etra chan saw it!'', featuring some background information on the characters and tropes they provide examples of. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 7 | |
| 8 | [[folder:Etra]] |
| 9 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/etra.JPG]] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | The mascot of the channel, she also gives her opinion on what happened in the story at the end. She'll sometimes appear in the stories themselves, often as a host or announcer for whatever event the characters are attending. |
| 12 | ---- |
| 13 | * BlatantLies: She claims she has never been drunk; however, she is shown to be drunk in several special episodes starring her. |
| 14 | * ButtMonkey: Even she isn't immune to a fair share of suffering as she's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpmLFeR7DWM been pranked]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HRBoWfJKIU attended a wedding from hell.]] |
| 15 | * CantHoldHerLiquor: She isn't that good with alcohol. |
| 16 | * CreatorCameo: She sometimes makes appearances in the stories. |
| 17 | * FashionableAsymmetry: Only one side of her kimono has a sleeve. That same side has a bow near the shoulder. |
| 18 | * GoodAngelBadAngel: Two versions of Etra-chan acting as an angel and a devil appear when Kuroki is thinking about an opportunity to boost his channel views, he decides to follow the angel Etra-chan's advice and abandons the opportunity. |
| 19 | * MagicalGirl: Some episodes depict her as having her own TV series where she is a magical girl. |
| 20 | * RecurringExtra: Within the comics themselves, she almost never gets involved in the plot (barring a few episodes) and usually appears in the background or as a side character. |
| 21 | * TheCameo: She appears occasionally in the episodes themselves. |
| 22 | * VirtualYoutuber: She appears in this form during the end of episode segments. She also has a streaming channel in addition to the English and Japanese versions of this channel. |
| 23 | [[/folder]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | !!Protagonists |
| 26 | Characters mostly portrayed as protagonists. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 29 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: All the protagonists, especially Katsura, Yuri, Tokusa and Karin will snap at the antagonists. |
| 30 | * CheerfulChild: As a child, they usually have a cheerful personality. |
| 31 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindows: While in earlier videos the characters had black eyes in recent installments all 12 of the main cast have the same hair and eye colour. |
| 32 | * TheDogBitesBack: Many episodes have them being pushed around and bullied by the antagonists until they eventually fight back. |
| 33 | * GenderEqualEnsemble: The six protagonists consist of three male characters (Katsura, Kuroki, and Tokusa) and three female characters (Karin, Tsutsuji, and Yuri). |
| 34 | * GoodParents: When portrayed as a parent, they raise their kids right. |
| 35 | * HappilyMarried: If the story pairs up two protagonists, they're pretty much guaranteed to have a happy and healthy marriage. If they're married to one of the ''antagonists'' however... it's a mixed bag. |
| 36 | * NiceGuy: They are always depicted as nice people. |
| 37 | * {{Typecasting}}: They are always, with very few expections, the good guys of whatever story they're in. %%invoked |
| 38 | [[/folder]] |
| 39 | |
| 40 | [[folder:Karin]] |
| 41 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karin_8.jpg]] |
| 42 | A black-haired woman. |
| 43 | ---- |
| 44 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She is usually nice but that doesn't mean she is a pushover. |
| 45 | * BigDamnHeroes: In several videos with her as the protagonist, she will save anyone who is in danger. |
| 46 | * BrainyBrunette: One [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43N6btydlrI episode]] depicts her as a scholar. |
| 47 | * BoxingLesson: In one episode, has her defending a child from his abusive mom and her boyfriend by punching the said boyfriend. She immediately told the viewers that she's actually a boxing teacher. |
| 48 | * ChildhoodMarriagePromise: In one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNRIIH5qvko story]], apparently Azami was under the impression that Karin had made one to Akamatsu, but Karin had no memory of it and when Azami reminded her, she was already engaged to Tokusa. It's an understatement to say that Azami did ''not'' take that well. |
| 49 | * DubPronunciationChange: Some voice actors pronounce her name as Karen. |
| 50 | * DrowningMySorrows: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME9tT2BWTOY When Hiiragi dumped her because of his mother's advice]], she begins drinking in Yuzuriha's house and complains about the breakup. [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy While drunk]], she confesses her love for Yuzuriha's brother, Kuroki, which he reciprocates once she becomes sober. |
| 51 | * FloralThemeNaming: Her name is used as a word for the Chinese quince tree (''Pseudocydonia sinensis''), whose flowers mean "resplendent/lovely" and "one and only love" in ''hanakotoba'', which fits with her [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak feminine side]] whenever she shows it. |
| 52 | * GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM4V_hGbmKE When Yuzuriha demands her to abort]] because of a superstition about one of the two pregnant women in the same household having a miscarriage, Karin doesn't believe the superstition and refuses to abort. |
| 53 | * HairColorDissonance: While her hair is black, some episodes add a blue or purple shade in her hair. |
| 54 | * HeroicBystander: There's at least two separate stories where she's a neighbor who comes to the rescue of a child being abused by their parents. In another instance, she sees a man molesting a high school girl on the train and stops him. This one ends up costing her a job interview because it turned out he worked for the company and was supposed to be the guy interviewing her that day. Not that she sees that as much of a loss. |
| 55 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Karin can be judgmental and a bit too quick to jump to conclusions, but her intentions are always good. |
| 56 | * MagicPlasticSurgery: |
| 57 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVmJNy6gd8 In one story]], she dumps Hiiragi when he advertently mocked Yuri's face for supposedly having plastic surgery, which she ''didn't'' as she's Italian-Japanese and had her distinct facial features since birth, and inadvertently insults her while claiming that a natural face is more beautiful than an artificial face, even though she ''did'' have plastic surgery since she had a different face when she was a child. |
| 58 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_F9mbzRWo In another story]], Hiiragi abuses Yuzuriha by comparing her already beautiful face to his favorite celebrity, Karin. However, when he discovers that Karin admitted to having plastic surgery, he completely breaks down and throws her merchandise away. |
| 59 | * MamaBear: |
| 60 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHpQS5wnLwY She splashes water at Hiiragi and his family]], then begin throwing stuff at them when they came to her room to, once again, harass Tsutsuji. This is after she has just given birth to her daughter, Yuri. |
| 61 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1szCB2bC3U When she heard Kuroki was put inside a washer by his mother and her boyfriend]], she instinctively breaks through a wall separating the balcony, knocks out Tachibana with one punch, and rescues Kuroki. |
| 62 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWpwrRk3mDU&t=290s When Yuzuriha tries to kidnap her son Katsura]], Karin flying side kicks her. |
| 63 | * NeverGetsDrunk: One episode has her defeating Tachibana by drinking him under the table. She explains that she has a high alcohol tolerance because her family runs a brewery. |
| 64 | * NoSympathy: In one episode, Karin has this attitude towards Yuzuriha, an ill girl with NoSocialSkills who dies believing Karin was her OnlyFriend. Understandable as a child, as she was unaware of the situation, but she comes across as a major {{Jerkass}} as an adult when she gets the full story and still shows no sympathy. |
| 65 | * ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: After she saves a high school girl from a pervert on the train while on the way to a job interview, she discovers later that not only was the pervert the guy who was going to interview her that day, but he was also the nephew of the company president. Said company president shows up at her apartment to try to bribe her not to testify against him in court, but she refuses. |
| 66 | * {{Tomboy}}: She's the most boyish of the female characters. Some stories comment on this by having antagonist characters attack her lack of femininity. |
| 67 | * TomboyishVoice: She usually speaks with a deeper voice than any of the other female characters. |
| 68 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: While being the most masculine of the female characters, she's still often portrayed as having a more feminine side, sometimes being perfectly happy to live as a housewife in some stories and having a weakness for cute things. |
| 69 | [[/folder]] |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [[folder:Katsura]] |
| 72 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/katsura.jpg]] |
| 73 | A brown-haired man. |
| 74 | ---- |
| 75 | * BenevolentBoss: Always when he's in charge at the protagonists' workplace. |
| 76 | * BewareTheNiceOnes[=/=]BewareTheQuietOnes: In some episodes, he is either a nice guy or a quiet guy, that apparently can attack back toward those who wronged him. |
| 77 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Katsura was more prone to playing morally gray roles in the early months of the series, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhjts-PhXcg&t stalking Yuri]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ppujnrz_0 beating his wife for cheating on him]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYkxLOq_RT4&t threatening his dad with violence if he refused to shut down his company]]. Nowadays he's quite firmly the [[TheGenericGuy average joe]] of the cast. |
| 78 | * CrazyPrepared: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXfeG9IRqPY an episode]] that takes place during the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, it turns out that he had been preparing his family just in case of this type of disaster for a long time. He nailed down all the furniture in the house to stop it from falling over in the event of an earthquake, played games with the grandkids meant to teach them what to do in the event of a tsunami, maintained backpacks with all the supplies the family would need to survive if they had to evacuate in a hurry and maintained a large support network of their neighbors who would be willing to help his family in the event of an emergency. This ultimately saves his family's lives when the disaster hits, even though he had passed away a mere three months prior. |
| 79 | * DomesticAbuse: Downplayed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ppujnrz_0 one episode]], Katsura assaults his wife Yuzuriha for cheating on him with several men which resulted in a child being conceived from one of these affairs. |
| 80 | * FloralThemeNaming: Katsura's name is used for the ''Cercidiphyllium japonicum'' tree, whose meaning in ''hanakotoba'' is "disloyalty", "unchangingness", "melancholy", and "dreamer". |
| 81 | * FunnyAfro: In several episodes, he's seen having a hairstyle similar to an afro. |
| 82 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3lQHvVP6xI this episode]], before he becomes a model, he had his hair unkempt which looked similar to an afro. |
| 83 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OucTmefuKfk Another episode]] has him being ridiculed by Tachibana for having his hair looking like an afro, because he didn't have time to dry his hair. |
| 84 | * TheGenericGuy: Aside from the one episode where he was portrayed as a stalker, there's really not much to say about Katsura in terms of personality. |
| 85 | * GlassesOfAging: When he is depicted as an older man, he wears a pair of glasses. |
| 86 | * GratuitousGerman: In some episodes, he speaks with a German accent and words. |
| 87 | * OutOfFocus: Sometimes Katsura goes entire months without getting a starring role. |
| 88 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He often ends up being one. If he's in a managerial position he's always going to take the protagonist's side and defend them from more abusive authority figures like Akamatsu. |
| 89 | * StalkerWithACrush: In a rare instance of the protagonist being an antagonist, Katsura becomes this in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhjts-PhXcg&t=130s&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 episode]] where he stalks Yuri and develops an obsession with her, to the point where he cannot mentally distinguish the [[IRejectYourReality reality]] of the situation and insists they're getting married despite her terror. His friends are horrified by the situation and send him to a mental health clinic to help him. |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | [[folder:Kuroki]] |
| 93 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kuroki.jpg]] |
| 94 | A black-haired man. |
| 95 | ---- |
| 96 | * AbusiveParents: He ends up with these fairly frequently as a child. |
| 97 | * AmnesiacLover: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nx2mL1_BG8 Kuroki loses his memories relating to his wife, Yuri]], due to being overworked for a year. Yuri tries to help Kuroki regain those lost memories, which rekindles their romance. |
| 98 | * ButtMonkey: It doesn't happen in every story where he's the protagonist, but Kuroki is the one whose suffering is most frequently played for laughs. |
| 99 | * DrowningMySorrows: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mJzwQSahCQ When he finds out that his estranged wife Akane was pregnant with Tachibana's baby]], he begins drinking, with Tokusa comforting him. |
| 100 | * HeroicBSOD: In one episode he falls into a serious depression after his fiancee Yuzuriha cheats on him and leaves him for Akamatsu shortly before the wedding. He starts drinking, refuses to leave the house, and eventually even [[BloodFromTheMouth coughs up blood]] due to stress. This pisses off his sister Yuri, who decides to seek revenge against Yuzuriha and Akamatsu for what they did to her brother. |
| 101 | * ExtremeDoormat: In many episodes, he initially lets other characters walk all over him until he finally stands up for himself. |
| 102 | * FloralThemeNaming: While his name literally means "black wood" and is a reference to his black hair, it's also the name of the ''Symplocos kuroki'' tree, whose flowers mean "friendship" in ''hanakotoba'', a nod to his friendly, unassuming attitude. |
| 103 | * KindheartedCatLover: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZIqxLByB4 When he was a boy]], he once owned a cat named Kuro, who he loved so much that she fixed his family. Years later, he and his wife Yuri meets a black cat, who resembles Kuro and is oddly very attached to him, in a lodge. After the owner allows them to adopt the cat, Kuroki wonders if the cat is reincarnated to make him happy again. |
| 104 | * NerdGlasses: When he appears as a shy person, he often wears a pair of glasses. |
| 105 | * {{Otaku}}: |
| 106 | ** One episode depicted him as a collector of the Etra-chan magical girl show. |
| 107 | ** In another episode he's a Youtuber who uploads videos discussing theories about his favorite anime while wearing cosplay. |
| 108 | ** When he finds out in a different episode that his girlfriend Tsutsuji is into cosplay, he develops a {{Nosebleed}} and immediately becomes supportive of her hobby. |
| 109 | ** Even in episodes where it's not the main focus, he frequently makes offhand references to being an otaku. He's the one character most likely to make refences to anime or to be seen buying manga or other such items. |
| 110 | * SuddenlySpeaking: He spends nearly an entire [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqU5TNG3tV0 episode]] mute. After befriending Karin, and sharing her interest in photography, he eventually spoke up for the first time since his father died. |
| 111 | * SupremeChef: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CtwegW9hAM one story]], he is shown good at cooking, including fried chicken and cupcakes, Tokusa praises him for making the latter, asking him to make more for him. |
| 112 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He is afraid of ghosts, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSt2XlFkpVU he freaks out]] when Hiiragi mentions there are ghosts at the beach where their club is going to film a short film. |
| 113 | [[/folder]] |
| 114 | |
| 115 | [[folder:Tokusa]] |
| 116 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tokusa.jpg]] |
| 117 | A green-haired man. |
| 118 | ---- |
| 119 | * BenevolentBoss: When he's in charge at the protagonist's workplace. |
| 120 | * ButtMonkey: Though not to the same extent as Kuroki, he still gets his fair share of suffering that's PlayedForLaughs. Mainly in the form of his love of porn getting exposed. |
| 121 | * CovertPervert: Tokusa occasionally lets it slip that he's into porn. Usually accidentally since he seems pretty keen to hide it from whoever his partner is that story. |
| 122 | * DependingOnTheArtist: Most of the time his jacket has long sleeves, though some episodes have him wearing a short-sleeved version of his jacket. |
| 123 | * FloralThemeNaming: Tokusa's name is Japanese for "common horsetail," but the plant's meaning in ''hanakotoba'' is "straightforward" or "remarkable," which is a nod to his straightforward and HotBlooded personality. |
| 124 | * HotBlooded: Hands down the most energetic of the protagonists, and the loudest when angry. |
| 125 | * LargeHam: Subtlety isn't usually his thing. |
| 126 | * MurderByInaction: In one particularly chilling [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAnSGTYM1AE&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 episode]], Tokusa admits that he knew his brother Hiiragi would die if he left him alone... and he does. The smile he has at the end is rather creepy. |
| 127 | * [[NeverMessWithGranny Never Mess With Grandad]]: He has several episodes as an old man where he'll go to great lengths to protect his family. |
| 128 | * PornStash: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43N6btydlrI one story]], it's discovered he was hiding a porn magazine in one of Karin's books. And for some reason he's surprised when Karin finds out about it, even though this was a book she needed for her job. The only thing that actually was surprising under those conditions was that Karin found out because of Akane trying to steal that book rather than on her own. |
| 129 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Funnily enough, he's usually this with Akamatsu when the latter is either the protagonist or a good side character. |
| 130 | * TinyGuyHugeGirl: This was Tsutsuji and Tokusa in one story when they were in middle school. Both of them were bullied for it, which gave them reason to bond. By the time they were adults though, Tokusa had undergone a growth spurt and was no longer short. |
| 131 | * XanatosGambit: When his sister Tsutsuji tells him that her coworkers, Hiiragi, Akamatsu and Tachibana, were recording her changing in the backroom, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg8ie7rtdMY he comes up with a plan]] to expose their misdeed. His first plan is to find Hiiragi's phone in the backroom to use as evidence, but he sees it's not recording this time because Hiiragi was on them, allowing him to play innocent. But then, Tokusa tells him he called the police, causing Hiiragi to panic and tell his coworkers to delete the evidence on their phones. Then, he reveals he didn't really call the police and that he [[EngineeredPublicConfession recorded the whole conversation]] and plans to use that as evidence. |
| 132 | [[/folder]] |
| 133 | |
| 134 | [[folder:Tsutsuji]] |
| 135 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsutsuji.jpg]] |
| 136 | A soft-spoken woman with dirty blonde hair. |
| 137 | ---- |
| 138 | * CosplayOtakuGirl: She develops an interest in cosplay in one story, which she initially hides from her live-in boyfriend Kuroki, causing him to suspect her of cheating until he finds out. |
| 139 | * DomesticAbuse: She's a common victim of this, both as a child and as a housewife. |
| 140 | * DubPronunciationChange: How her name is pronounced alternates between "Soot-Soo-jee" and "Tuh-Soo-Jee". |
| 141 | * ExtremeDoormat: In many episodes, she has a hard time saying no to others. She often ends up being bullied and mistreated by the antagonists and, unlike Kuroki, rarely stands up for herself, usually needing to be rescued by another character. She does have a better track record standing up for others though. |
| 142 | * FloralThemeNaming: Her name means "azalea" in Japanese. In flower language, azaleas symbolize femininity, softness, and taking care of others, which reflects her soft-spoken nature and selflessness. |
| 143 | * GirlishPigtails: As a little girl and a teenager. |
| 144 | * GlassesOfAging: When she is depicted as an older woman, she wears a pair of glasses. |
| 145 | * HugeSchoolGirl: In one story, Tsutsuji was taller than the other girls her age during middle school, which she got bullied and called "Tree" for. She ended up with Tokusa who at the time was short for a boy his age and also got bullied for it. |
| 146 | * KindheartedCatLover: Several episodes show that she loves cats. |
| 147 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFTz3WvIT1c When she finds a injured kitten by the side of the road]], she takes it in, names it Chako, and nurses it back to health. |
| 148 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxVjLhxUOY In this episode]], she has a cat named Chibi who she says isn't feeling well so she, some other old ladies, and Yuri pray for his health. Later on, the cat makes a full recovery. |
| 149 | * LawOfInverseFertility: |
| 150 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7GuQF0SlhM Due to surgery that removed her uterus cancer]], she can no longer conceive. Her husband, Hiiragi, wants children, so he divorces her so that he can marry Akane and have children with her. She remarries to Kuroki, and the two owns a couple of cats in the end. |
| 151 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGgwS58aTtQ One story]] has her and her husband Hiiragi trying to have a baby together, but they don't have any luck at all. Hiiragi thinks it's because Tsutsuji is infertile and gets angry when she suggests he get himself checked out because she'd already gone to the doctor, and they insisted she was fine. Then she finds out he had an affair with his brother Kuroki's wife Akane and they, supposedly, are having a baby together. Tsutsuji is devastated and Hiiragi's family become angry both at the betrayal and at Hiiragi suggesting that his parents, Tokusa and Yuri, would care more about grandkids than about his betraying both his brother and his wife like that. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the baby is neither Hiiragi's nor Kuroki's but Akamatsu's, and Hiiragi really is the infertile one after all. Tsutsuji ends up getting remarried to Kuroki and they have two children together. |
| 152 | * MamaBear: While she might have trouble standing up for herself at times, she has no trouble at all dealing with people who try to mess with her kids and will firmly stand by her husband and friends. |
| 153 | * NeverGetsDrunk: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4x5SQ7Y-AQ In this story]], Tsutsuji drinks Akamatsu's recommended drink for an ''hour'' and is never drunk from it. Compared to her family, she's the runt-of-the-litter who can't handle a ''few'' bottles of alcohol by herself. |
| 154 | [[/folder]] |
| 155 | |
| 156 | [[folder:Yuri]] |
| 157 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yuri_548.jpg]] |
| 158 | A pink-haired lady who is nice most of the time. |
| 159 | ---- |
| 160 | * AlwaysIdenticalTwins: She appears as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuD8YbXpxX0 a pair of twins]] in one episode. |
| 161 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Has her moments where she can snap at those who mistreated her. |
| 162 | * BloodFromTheMouth: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J1IVELF57w At first]], the men thought Yuri was dying because she was coughing up blood in her mouth. However, the women in the company reveal that she has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endometriosis endometriosis]] in her lungs. |
| 163 | * BornLucky: One story portrays her as an accident-prone girl who somehow never suffers serious injury even when she by all rights should have. This includes getting run over twice in a row, once accidentally and the second time deliberately. |
| 164 | * ButNotTooForeign: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVmJNy6gd8 In one story]], she's Italian-Japanese through her grandmother. |
| 165 | * TheCutie: She's a cute, innocent young lady who speaks with a child's voice most of the time, which evokes all the more sympathy for her when she's targeted by the episode's antagonist. |
| 166 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Yuzuriha is shown to be attracted to her in no less than [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuAQS0NceZs two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0OpAec4y8c episodes.]] |
| 167 | * FloralThemeNaming: Her name means "lily" in Japanese. In flower language, lilies symbolize purity and innocence, which reflects her naïve personality. |
| 168 | * GoodStepmother: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1TGdQ73Fc In this episode]], she is a kind stepmother to Kuroki, Kuroki in return also considers her as his only mother after his biological mother Akane ran away. |
| 169 | * HasAType: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRKbGfPX60&t In one video]] she was established to prefer the rugged, manly sort over conventionally handsome pretty boys, which resulted in LoveAtFirstSight when she met Tachibana at work. |
| 170 | * LawOfInverseFertility: |
| 171 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1TGdQ73Fc Yuri's husband]] cheated on her, because she was unable to conceive children. She marries Tokusa, and becomes [[ParentalSubstitute Kuroki's mother]] after his mother, Akane, ran away. |
| 172 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJwo6F0qO4E As a young girl]], Yuri noticed that she wasn't having periods, while other girls do. When she consults a doctor, he reveals that her uterus didn't develop, preventing her from conceiving. She hides the truth from her friends or her mother, until she confesses to her boyfriend, Kuroki, who proposed to her. Kuroki accepts her condition, and the two consider adoption after getting married. |
| 173 | * MsFanservice: Yuri always gets the skimpiest wedding dresses, not to mention ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW7ERIGLoXo that]]'' episode with Hiiragi, which was shameless enough to use her curves as the thumbnail. There was even one episode where she cameo'd as a gravure model. |
| 174 | * NaiveEverygirl: One of her main characteristics, she is oblivious to everything and the antagonists also exploit her naiveness. |
| 175 | * NiceGirl: Most of the time. |
| 176 | * ObliviousToHints: One episode has her taking care of her mother-in-law Azami who keeps hinting for her to do things for her without asking her directly. Every time, Yuri completely missed what Azami was trying to do and failed to do as asked. It turns into SelectiveObliviousness when she learns that Azami had been doing that to Tsutsuji to the point of driving her to exhaustion. In the end Azami is forced to admit that she just didn't realize she was overdoing it and had taken Tsutsuji for granted. |
| 177 | * PitbullDatesPuppy: She forms this dynamic whenever she's paired up with Tachibana, or less frequently Akamatsu. Both being antagonists, it's a toss-up on whether or not their devotion to her is genuine. |
| 178 | * ThePollyanna: In some of the more comedic episodes, she's cheerfully optimistic to the point where she's able to laugh off incidents that would traumatize most other human beings. |
| 179 | * PosthumousCharacter: |
| 180 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftyTRN6dJLk&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 one episode]], Kuroki telling Akane about his wife and daughter (Both Yuri) having died in a car accident 13 years before the start of the episode. |
| 181 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuAQS0NceZs&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 In another]], Yuri was Yuzuriha's best friend from high school. After they went their separate ways, she killed herself a year later because of Akane's relentless bullying. The story takes place years later, with Yuzuriha seeking to avenge her. |
| 182 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXCUru0l54o In this episode]], She was Kuroki's wife, who died from an illness a few years ago, leaving behind a bunch of letters for him and his two sons. |
| 183 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeY4BIgDex4 In this episode]], She's Karin's mother, who died saving Tsutsuji from a truck when Karin was just a baby. |
| 184 | * PreciousPuppy: She appears as a puppy in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09IY4na-zEc this episode]] and she even retains her hairstyle in this form. |
| 185 | * PrecisionFStrike: Yuri never swears, but in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbso6maHZpk one episode]], she says the word "bitch". |
| 186 | * RoseHairedSweetie: She has pink hair and is one of the most cheerful characters in the series. |
| 187 | * SweetBaker: She is a kindhearted person who is shown to like baking in several episodes. |
| 188 | * SweetTooth: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un9kk6XZ904 In this episode]], Yuri loves sugar to the point of addiction. For example, she puts at least 7 tablespoons of sugar in her coffee, enough for Akane to gag. However, after witnessing Hiiragi's degeneration from alcoholism, she abstains from sugar. |
| 189 | * TomboyishPonytail: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5jRhJZen4E She wears a ponytail]] instead of her usual hairstyle as a police officer. |
| 190 | * VocalEvolution: When voiced by Trina Deuhart, Old!Yuri initially sounded very simialr to Old!Tsutsuji. In recent videos, Trina started using a voice that is more similar to the regular Yuri. |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | !!Antagonists |
| 194 | |
| 195 | Characters that are portrayed as mostly antagonists but have stories where they are protagonists. |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 198 | * AbusiveParents: Most of them will abuse or neglect their children. |
| 199 | * ArchEnemy: Ironically, considering that they're both antagonists, the most consistent rivalry among the cast is between Akamatsu and Hiiragi, who trade victories over each other as frequently as they flip-flop on whether they're good or bad. For the female antagonists, it's Azami and Yuzuriha due to the former's main role being an [[ObnoxiousInLaws Obnoxious In-Law ]]and the latter being the most likely to be cast in a heroic role. |
| 200 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: They may sometimes act friendly, but they show their true colors when everyone is not looking. |
| 201 | * TheBully: They sometimes play the part of the bully when in a school setting. |
| 202 | * ClassicalAntiHero: If the story calls for one of these, it's always one of these people that gets casted, usually Akamatsu or Yuzuriha. |
| 203 | * CrossingTheBurntBridge: Sometimes, the antagonist will cheat on the main character then try to get back with them when things don't quite work out. |
| 204 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Their characterization varies wildly from story to story. Sometimes they're just as nice as the protagonists, other times they're bullies and cheaters, and in darker stories they can be utter monsters. |
| 205 | * GenderEqualEnsemble: The six antagonists consist of three male characters (Akamatsu, Tachibana, and Hiiragi) and three female characters (Akane, Azami, and Yuzuriha). |
| 206 | * {{Jerkass}}: On their bad days, they are extremely selfish and will walk all over the protagonists. |
| 207 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In several episodes, they may have rough personalities, but they are kind on the inside. |
| 208 | * MeanCharacterNiceActor: While they are often cast as antagonists, all of them are good people as shown in the behind the scenes episodes. |
| 209 | * NaughtyIsGood: In several of their roles as children, while they might not be the best behaved, they're still good kids at heart. |
| 210 | * NeverMyFault: They will blame anyone but themselves for their downfall. |
| 211 | * NiceGuy: Not usually, but when they're playing heroic roles, they can be just as kind as the typical protagonists. |
| 212 | * SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness: Depending on the story, they run the gamut of anything from simple bullies and delinquents, to cheaters and abusers, to full-blown murderers and sexual predators. |
| 213 | * ThrowTheDogABone: Since an episode rarely needs more than two antagonists (or other times [[NoAntagonist lacks one at all]]), each of them often get a chance to play the good guy for a change. |
| 214 | * {{Typecasting}}: Though they have a larger variety of roles compared to the "Protagonists", whenever a story has an antagonist, it's always one of these six. %%invoked |
| 215 | * VillainousBreakdown: The antagonist will usually have a breakdown when things don't go his or her way. |
| 216 | [[/folder]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | [[folder:Akamatsu]] |
| 219 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akamatsu.jpg]] |
| 220 | A red-haired man. |
| 221 | ---- |
| 222 | * AllMenArePerverts: This often goes hand in hand with him being a StrawMisogynist. |
| 223 | * BadBoss: Whenever he's in charge of a large company, he never takes good care of his employees at all, nor does he have a good work attitude, which would lead to him being fired or demoted. |
| 224 | * BadLiar: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksKEJuD4dHk Yuzuriha]] quickly suspects Akamatsu's infidelity with Akane because he was wearing a different tie than the one Yuzuriha gave him, and she knows him too well as a blunt and lazy manchild to make a lie. This was the last straw for her, and she divorced him. |
| 225 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnH5Yo7Os6s Akamatsu]] tries to punch a dog he bought [[DisproportionateRetribution because the pet store clerk refuses refunds, due to policy]]. Thankfully, Karin intervenes and buys the dog from him, and his violence blacklists him from buying at another pet store. |
| 226 | * BaldOfEvil: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYkxLOq_RT4 this episode]], he is depicted as a bald [[FatBastard overweight]] man who abuses his son Katsura. |
| 227 | * ButtMonkey: It doesn't matter if he's good or bad, the narrative always seems to get a kick out of humiliating Akamatsu. |
| 228 | * CelebrityLie: He does this at a Hostess Club in an attempt to score with the hostesses working there, even though they're not really allowed to do things like that with the customers and none of them ever believe him. This keeps up until the celebrity he's been claiming to be the father of, the famous young actor Hiiragi, finds out and confronts him about it in front of everyone in the club, calling out his lies. |
| 229 | * ChubbyChaser: He turns out to be one in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2i9yc3QXIA this]] story where he's the husband of an Akane who's fat and very insecure about her looks compared to her brother Tokusa's new wife Yuzuriha, which is just as well since his honest belief that she's beautiful boosts her confidence, but it also gets odd looks from Tokusa and Yuzuriha. |
| 230 | * ClosetKey: Hiiragi is this for him in one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qQOTtgAU2E&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 episode]]. |
| 231 | * DirtyOldMan: As a middle-aged man, he attempted to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3gWQpe7f7M molest]] a younger Tsutsuji inside a train. |
| 232 | * TheDogBitesBack: Being one of the biggest {{Butt Monkey}}s of the cast, Akamatsu gets payback in the second anniversary video where Etra-chan lets him in on her own revenge scheme against the cast for their prank the previous year. |
| 233 | * EndearinglyDorky: Often when he's a protagonist or good side character. |
| 234 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He's cool with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWR0_PDtwUc getting into an affair with his coworker's wife]], even while said coworker is in the hospital. But once he learns that Kuroki was in the hospital because Akane tried to ''murder'' him, he's horrified, pays the compensation money without a complaint, and then dumps Akane out of fear of being her next victim. |
| 235 | * EvilOldFolks: The odds of him being good-aligned are inversely proportional to how old he is. |
| 236 | * AFamilyAffair: He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJpxN30OzkE cheated]] on Karin with her sister Akane because he wanted a son. This causes him to be disowned by his parents and not given any inheritance from them. |
| 237 | * FamilyVersusCareer: He faces this twice, both involving Tsutsuji: |
| 238 | ** In one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZD5O63QuCk&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 episode]], he is married to Tsutsuji, but their marriage grows distant due to a project as work taking up all his time. Luckily, they patch things up when they finally have time to properly communicate, and Akamatsu is able to successfully balance both his career and married life. |
| 239 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg60HQVCSxo another episode]], Akamatsu raised his daughter Tsutsuji alone since her mother died from an illness, but they grew distant due to Akamatsu's work taking up all his time. Though they patch things up and Tsutsuji wrote a glowing essay about how hard her father worked to raise her. |
| 240 | * FatBastard: |
| 241 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYkxLOq_RT4 this episode]], he appears as an overweight middle-aged man combined with BaldOfEvil who [[AbusiveParents abuses]] his son Katsura. |
| 242 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE1rXgnolI8 this episode]], he only becomes fat to hide the fact that he's still cheating on Yuzuriha with Akane, even after the former forgave him for the sake of their son. |
| 243 | * FieryRedhead: Has red hair and is very HotBlooded and has a HairTriggerTemper in some videos. |
| 244 | * FloralThemeNaming: His name means "red pine" and it's the Japanese name for the ''Pinus densiflora'' tree, which in ''hanakotoba'' means "eternal youth and longevity," owing to the tree's symbolism in Japanese culture for its sturdy bark. That said, he's often depicted as immature even as a middle-aged or old man. |
| 245 | * HairTriggerTemper: He's prone to having anger management issues, especially as a middle-aged man. This especially comes up in his BadBoss roles. |
| 246 | * IdiotHero: When he ends ups as the protagonist of the episode or at least a good/neutral side character, he's usually not the sharpest tool in the shed. |
| 247 | * ImportantHaircut: He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiEJ16ZfBhA shaved]] his hair after being threatened by Yuri and Tachibana to pay $320 of debt for lying to his friends about the food at Yuri's restaurant being cheap during a class reunion. |
| 248 | * IWasQuiteALooker: Compared to how he is as a young man, his older self is a borderline {{Gonk}}, having lost most of his hair while gaining square facial features and a scratchy voice. |
| 249 | * MamasBabyPapasMaybe: In a few stories, he's accused his wife of having some other man's child for some flimsy reason. In all of them, he's wrong. |
| 250 | * MommasBoy: He is one of the two characters to have the possiblity to be this if the story of the day involves an ObnoxiousInLaws, along with Hiiragi. |
| 251 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: He jumped out of an apartment and landed straight on Yuri while naked. |
| 252 | * PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: In some stories, where he's portrayed as not a fundamentally bad person, but rather one whose naivety or lack of willpower renders him easily influenced by the real antagonist(s). |
| 253 | * PlotIncitingInfidelity: If a man's cheating on his partner, that man is usually Akamatsu. There was even a story where he was the protagonist and was ''still'' cheating on his girlfriend Yuri. |
| 254 | * PointyHairedBoss: He's played this role a few times when the characters are office workers. |
| 255 | * PoliceAreUseless: He's sometimes depicted as a police officer in several videos; however, he will do nothing to help the protagonists. |
| 256 | * PornStash: Any story involving one will almost always have Akamatsu as its owner. |
| 257 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eB3f1oMcYI He]] buried a tin box with porn magazines at a construction site, unwittingly causing people to be curious regarding the content inside the box. |
| 258 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsmgjBPtpOQ His wife Karin debunks the rumors about him being gay]] to her former co-workers by searching through his laptop, she happens to find his collections of porn inside it. |
| 259 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqQvP7bgPU He]] hid a bunch of erotic magazines in the ceiling over his sister Tsutsuji's closet and gets defensive when Tsutsuji asks what he's doing there. |
| 260 | * {{Pyromaniac}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yaupiVHlmo In one story]], his hobby involves lighting a bonfire in his backyard, despite his neighbor's complaint of the smoke. Due to his [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior advanced age]], he ignores their complaints, even from the fire department who arrived when a neighbor called them as a last resort. This finally bites him in the ass when a stray ember ignites his ''wooden'' house, and his room is soaked by the fireman's hose. He also didn't have fire insurance, despite his hobby. |
| 261 | * StrawMisogynist: He sometimes becomes one in some stories, where either the story centers entirely around him being sexist towards women or he gives a sexist justification for his actions towards the female protagonist. |
| 262 | * ThoseTwoGuys: When he's one of the protagonists of the episodes, he tends to be this with Tokusa and is this with Hiiragi in his villainous roles. He's also this with Tachibana at times in both his good and bad roles. |
| 263 | * TookALevelInKindness: In many of his lead roles, he starts off as an irresponsible slacker who's forced by the events of the story to clean up his act and become a more mature person. |
| 264 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Suffered this when he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRKbGfPX60&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 married Karin]], as people couldn't believe someone as beautiful as Karin could get with Akamatsu unless he was rich. Leads to a hilarious DoubleTake when Karin goes "what money?!". |
| 265 | * VillainProtagonist: He sometimes plays the bad guy even when he's the main character. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Akane]] |
| 269 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akane_27.jpg]] |
| 270 | A red-haired woman. |
| 271 | ---- |
| 272 | * AbusiveParents: As an antagonist, Akane tends to be more neglectful and irresponsible than physically or emotionally abusive (Though she's still had her moments of that too). She's also been known to attempt to exploit her kids for child support payments from their fathers. As a protagonist, she's been a victim of abusive parents herself several times. |
| 273 | * AlphaBitch: She often plays this role when a story focuses on the characters as high school students, though she might also play Beta Bitch to Yuzuriha. Even when she's an adult, she'll still act like one. |
| 274 | * BigBeautifulWoman: In one episode, Akamatsu sees her as this. |
| 275 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Several of her antagonistic roles will have her acting friendly. |
| 276 | * {{Bridezilla}}: She always wants the fanciest most expensive wedding she can wring out of her soon to be husband and often ends up causing other kinds of trouble typical of this character type. |
| 277 | * BrutalHonesty: Akane often engages in this to some extent regardless of alignment, but the best example is a specific story where she is a protagonist. In this story, she is working at an office and annoying her coworkers with this plus a seeming inability to read the room and being InnocentlyInsensitive, but then one day she comes up against Azami, who is an attention whore who is also currently annoying everyone by pretending to have a cold to garner sympathy but refusing to wear a mask. Where everyone else was too polite to tell her that they didn't want to catch her "cold" and that her constant coughing was annoying them, Akane just says it outright. When Azami tries to claim that she doesn't like to wear masks because they stink, Akane responds that that's probably her breath, then recommends a product one can apply to the mask to hide the odder. She is then confused when Azami runs off, not seeming to have realized that she had embarrassed Azami with her actions since she honestly was just trying to help. |
| 278 | * TheBully: She is often used as the main antagonist with this role if the setting takes place in a school. |
| 279 | * ButtMonkey: She's the main source of female slapstick in the series. |
| 280 | * CheaterGetsCheatedOn: Because she's often involved in affairs, this happens with her on occasion. Sometimes she's the one who's the perpetrator of this, other times she's the victim, with some occasions having her being ''both''. |
| 281 | * DisposableSexWorker: Non-fatal example, under the pseudonym of Tsubaki. She was called for services by Akamatsu who broke into Karin's apartment. After the services, she was then threatened by Akamatsu to stay quiet and then he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUct8M1SrnY stole]] her and Karin's money. |
| 282 | * TheDitz: Sometimes she is depicted as clueless, such as in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ejftt_A864 episode]] where she can't figure out how to order food and holds up the line. |
| 283 | * FloralThemeNaming: "Akane" is Japanese for "deep red", which is the color of both her shirt and her hair. It is also a name for the ''Rubia akane'' plant, whose flowers mean "think of me" and "flattery" in ''hanakotoba'' (Japanese flower language), which fits with her self-centered nature. |
| 284 | * GoldDigger: She's very prone to marrying men for their money or at least trying to. |
| 285 | * GreenEyedMonster: A common character flaw that motivates her as an antagonist is jealousy. She often ends up causing trouble for the protagonists due to being jealous of them or one of their loved ones. |
| 286 | * HairColorDissonance: In at least one episode, Akane has purple hair instead of the usual red. |
| 287 | * HappilyAdopted: By Kuroki in one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftyTRN6dJLk&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 episode]], where she is the protagonist and abused by her father. |
| 288 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She can be this in episodes where she's a good character. An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJjyuHSdLcI&t=310s&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 example]] would be when her Aunt Tsutsuji and cousin Kuroki are left in debt by the death of her cheating Uncle Akamatsu, Akane comes back home and gives them over 200,000 dollars to help them out despite coming across as a rough around the edges. |
| 289 | * LoveInterestVsLustInterest: Akane often plays the role of the Lust Interest in stories where she acts as an antagonist; Akane typically desires men for shallow reasons like [[GoldDigger money]], looks, or the thrill of stealing away another woman's man, while her rivals choose men for deeper reasons. Akane, [[WastedBeauty while typically portrayed as very attractive, usually has a very unlikable personality]], relying on sex appeal and feminine charm to woo men, while her less attractive rivals are able to win men with their more likable personalities. In stories where Akane ends up stealing away her rival's man, the relationship tends to go sour quickly due to their superficial personalities, with either Akane and/or her man discovering the hard way that a person who'll cheat with them would also cheat on them; by contrast, Akane's rivals tend to enjoy much more fulfilling relationship due to their willingness to be loyal to one another. |
| 290 | * MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Unsurprisingly, given how often she's portrayed as an Adulteress, there's been a few times when the paternity of her child was called into question. |
| 291 | * MamaBear: In rare stories where she's a [[GoodParents good parent]], she is this. Best seen when she realizes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4C0ueovd8Q&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 Yuri]] was being bullied. |
| 292 | * TheMistress: If a female protagonist's husband or boyfriend is cheating on her, she is almost guaranteed to be the one he's cheating on her with. She also frequently cheats on her own husband or boyfriend. Occasionally this happens even when she's actually good in that story, but in those cases, she will be unaware of her boyfriend already having a wife or girlfriend and get pissed when she finds out. |
| 293 | * MoneyDumb: She often has a habit of spending way too much money on frivolous things or acting like a credit card is some kind of magic item that can get her whatever she wants, which sometimes leads to her getting herself and her family into debt in some stories. |
| 294 | * MsFanservice: Akane is the most prone out of all the female characters to dressing provocatively, often to play up her attractiveness compared to the more plain or conservative girls that end up getting the guy instead of her. |
| 295 | * MsRedInk: As mentioned above, this is a common problem with her. |
| 296 | * NeverMyFault: She frequently falls into this in her antagonistic roles. |
| 297 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d_BcWyT6Cs One]] story has her working as a new hostess at a Hostess Club, where she meets Akamatsu, a middle-aged man who constantly claims to be the father of the famous actor Hiiragi. She pretends to believe him, but then asks for concrete proof. When he comes back a week later with a photo of himself with Hiiragi as a child and spins a story of having raised him as a single father after divorcing his wife who cheated on him, Akane promises to give him a "special service" so she can "meet Hiiragi" but tells him she needs to prepare for it so he should come back in two weeks. When he shows up however, Hiiragi is there, and he calls him out for his lies. Turns out Akane was Hiiragi's childhood friend, and she knew he was full of shit the whole time. She finally decided to tell Hiiragi about the whole thing because she couldn't forgive Akamatsu for disrespecting Hiiragi's mother Tsutsuji, who died of cancer when they were kids and his ''real'' father, Kuroki, who worked really hard to raise him after his wife's death. |
| 298 | * PlotIncitingInfidelity: When she's not acting as TheMistress for the female protagonist's cheating husband or boyfriend, she will usually be cheating on her own husband or boyfriend. |
| 299 | * RedemptionRejection: In one story she gets jealous of Yuri because of how well liked she is by the rest of the neighborhood and tries to frame her for stealing to ruin her reputation. This fails utterly, but despite what she tried to do, Yuri is willing to forgive her and tries to befriend her. Akane is so ashamed of herself though that she slaps Yuri's hand away and runs off cursing herself. She moves away a few weeks later. |
| 300 | * ReluctantFanserviceGirl: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSt2XlFkpVU She is forced to wear a bikini]] after trying to sabotage Yuri's costume, with Tachibana looking enthusiastically at her with his camera. |
| 301 | * SerialHomewrecker: Akane is willing to seduce husbands and boyfriends from their significant others, especially if the woman is the protagonist. |
| 302 | * SexualExtortion: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hume553aFxE In one story]] she borrowed money from a loan shark but blew all of it on pachinko. When he shows up to collect, he offers to forgive the debt if she allows him to rape her daughter Yuri. [[AbusiveParents Akane agrees without hesitation.]] |
| 303 | * StupidEvil: Many of her antagonist roles depict her as stupid and this often leads to her downfall. For example, she frequently ends up loudly bragging about her affairs, then she either gets upset when people don't take her side and start viewing her negatively or is surprised when the wife/girlfriend finds out about it because she couldn't keep her mouth shut. A few times she clearly believed that the man she was TheMistress of would eventually dump his current partner for her, not seeming to realize how stupid it is to trust a guy who'd cheat on his partner in the first place and is always shocked when this inevitably blows up in her face. And this doesn't even cover the stupidity she displays in stories where she's not having an affair. |
| 304 | * StalkerWithACrush: She almost never does this, but she has had her turn in this role. It started when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSGKzScTP3Q she]] and Yuri went on vacation together. On the plane ride back, a business class seat was open, so Akane chose to take it while Yuri stayed in Economy class. Because of this, Yuri met Katsura and the two started dating. Akane became jealous as a result and began to stalk both of them, repeatedly insisting to anyone who'd listen that if ''she'' had stayed in Economy instead of Yuri, ''she'' would be dating Katsura instead and everything Yuri got from Katsura should belong to her. |
| 305 | * ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: In multiple episodes, she is shown to have an idealized view on romance. How sympathetically she is portrayed having this depends on whether she has a good role or not. |
| 306 | * ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Some episodes have her play this role. |
| 307 | * ObnoxiousInLaws: Usually she's a sister-in-law, but she's been a mother-in-law a couple of times too. |
| 308 | * UngratefulBitch: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ST-PUVcbn4 In one story]], she insistently accuses Katsura of sexual harassment, despite the fact that he saved her from drowning in a rapid river that she and her boyfriend entered despite the warnings. Unsurprisingly, nobody listens to her and she loses the respect of everyone around her, especially her boyfriend, for her ungratefulness. |
| 309 | * ValleyGirl: Almost always, sometimes even as an old lady. |
| 310 | * WomanChild: She can be incredibly childish as an antagonist. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Azami]] |
| 314 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/azami.jpg]] |
| 315 | A purple-haired woman. |
| 316 | ---- |
| 317 | * BeautifulAllAlong: In this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVf5b4HJsFs&t=586s&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 video]], where she meets two teenage girls who change her life and show just how beautiful she is. |
| 318 | * EducationMama: A pretty dark example. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNRIIH5qvko one episode]], Azami wanted Akamatsu to become a doctor like his father Hiiragi, even though Akamatsu didn't want to become one, and would punish him if he didn't get good enough grades. However, Akamatsu was certain that this wasn't really about Azami's own pride and had way more to do with a desire to avoid disappointing her husband, who was the one who really wanted him to become a doctor but didn't play much of a direct hand in his upbringing. When Akamtasu fails to get good enough grades to get into medical school, Azami snaps, and things go downhill from there. |
| 319 | * FanDisservice: She is depicted as an old woman who dresses up like a sexy doctor with her panties visible, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OANFLZKd34 making anyone who sees her face leave with a shocked face after being examined by her.]] |
| 320 | * FemaleMisogynist: In one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXsFdU5-TQ8&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 video]], she declares that a girl is useless when Tsutsuji gives birth to one. But in a rare twist, she is redeemed when she is called out by Karin, and later reveals to Tsutsuji and Kuroki that her own parents mistreated her for being born a girl and makes up for it by becoming a doting grandmother. Another time, in a less sympathetic example, she abused Akane and favored Tokusa over her because she didn't want a daughter at all. |
| 321 | * FloralThemeNaming: Her name means "thistle" in Japanese. In flower language, thistles are often associated with aggression, inconvenience, and intrusion, apart from their color being associated with nobility and royalty, which fits with her meddlesome, stuck-up nature whenever she's an antagonist. |
| 322 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: She's an (usually) selfish woman whose [[IconicOutfit common accessory]] is her thin glasses. |
| 323 | * GenderFlip: An unnamed character that resembles a male version of her can be spotted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZgekgdZ_ug this episode.]] |
| 324 | * {{Greed}}: Her most common motivation in her roles as an antagonist is in some way related to money. This includes, stealing, mooching off of friends and co-workers, exploiting family members for money or attempting to steal their inheritance and more. |
| 325 | * ImNotPretty: In the episodes where she's the main character, she will often feel as though she isn't as pretty as her friends and colleagues. |
| 326 | * InsaneEqualsViolent: |
| 327 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_zcfpncpEE Azami]] admits to Karin, while she was being transported into an ambulance, that she tried to run her over, because she doesn't approve of her son's marriage. Prior to the revelation, Karin thought she crashed the car because of her age and suffering dementia. The fact that she's never remorseful of it and doesn't seem to understand the weight of her crime, even when confronted by her own son, shows that she lost grasp of reality. |
| 328 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCq0uK_GYNI After her son's death]], she demands custody of her son's inheritance and his children from his wife Tsutsuji. Naturally, Tsutsuji refuses, but Azami irrationally accuses her of his death and beats her, until the police arrest her. |
| 329 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNRIIH5qvko She]] grew unhinged when Akamatsu failed to enter a medical college and she failed to please her husband. At first, she tries to pretend that he was a doctor (while confining him in his room) and projects Karin's engagement to her son, until she notices Karin's engagement ring. She demands Karin to remove her ring while violently grabbing her wrist, until she's restrained by Akamatsu. After Karin escaped, she pursues her up to her parent's house, where she violently breaks the door until the police arrests her. When Karin and Tokusa leaves the house, they see the intercom broken and the door covered in broken glass and blood. |
| 330 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In videos where she's not necessarily the protag but is still a good character, she can be this. Such as when she got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjGNCVJbSj0&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 revenge]] against a scammer who scammed her daughter's friend out of 1,000 dollars, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcCcJRK4F4&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 followed]] her daughter-in-law around to protect her against her creepy grandfather-in-law, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIi2rf3OoOI&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 exposed]] Akane as a liar despite initially keeping quiet as she had a child. |
| 331 | * LethalChef: In several stories, she cannot cook, despite being a housewife. |
| 332 | * LettingHerHairDown: A few stories show that if Azami untied her hair, her beauty could rival Yuzuriha's. |
| 333 | * LoveObstructingParents: If she's the mother of the female protagonist's male love interest, no woman will be good enough for her son and she absolutely will try to get in their way even after they're married. This includes things like feeding them food that she was specifically told they were allergic to or didn't like and once she even tried to run her daughter-in-law over. |
| 334 | * TheMatchmaker: |
| 335 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ldai2MIfI While a little pushy]], Azami wants to find Kuroki a girlfriend, so she sets him up with her friend, Karin. |
| 336 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL_mcQPpG0w another episode]], she tries to hook up her 40 year-old cousin Hiiragi with a 17 year-old Yuzuriha. |
| 337 | * MyBelovedSmother: Goes hand-in-hand with ObnoxiousInLaws. |
| 338 | * MsFanservice: While she isn't this as often as Akane and Yuzuriha, there are indeed episodes that show that she's quite attractive in a BeautifulAllAlong sort of way. |
| 339 | * NerdGlasses: She wears a pair of glasses most of the time. |
| 340 | * NeverMessWithGranny: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOLmToW_UI one story]] where she's a protagonist, she's a very spirited old woman who's still spry even at 83, even having apparently once scared off a bear with a hand scythe. When a one member of a group of teen delinquents accidentally hits her in the face with a full ashtray, her friends who were with her at the time get the license plate number of the car they were in after they choose to flee the scene and has them brought to her by the police. She then proceeds to give them such a thorough dressing-down that they stop causing trouble and become better people from then on. |
| 341 | * ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: She's probably the antagonist who gets this role the most often. |
| 342 | * ObnoxiousInLaws: Most of the time she is an in-law that mistreats the protagonists. Often times it's because she doesn't think her son's new wife or girlfriend is worthy of him. |
| 343 | * OldMaid: Since she's typically older than the rest of the cast by default, she is also often portrayed as this. |
| 344 | * OutOfFocus: Even compared to the other antagonist actors, it's rare for Azami to get a starring role. |
| 345 | * PrimAndProperBun: Her main hairstyle is a bun in the back of her head, though the placement of her bun depends on her age. She will always have a low bun if she is depicted as a little girl or young adult, while as an old woman, she will always have a high bun instead of a low bun. |
| 346 | * RacistGrandma: [[https://youtu.be/s1mxRVjxA74 Azami]] discriminates against her daughter-in-law Yuzuriha because she spent much of her childhood in Southeast Asia, which Azami considers an "uneducated and underdeveloped country." She bullies her with chores, call her prejudiced slurs, and even tells her to "go back to her country." |
| 347 | * RelationshipSabotage: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ln3lxwCIFY Azami]] tried to sabotage her son Akamatsu's betrothal with Yuri by stealing his food prepared by her and anonymously sending a picture of Yuri with her brother as "evidence" of infidelity. When the two confronts her about it, she not only admits that she tried to sabotage their love because she [[ParentalMarriageVeto didn't approve]] of Yuri's educational background but also the [[EmptyNest loneliness]] of losing her son as a single mother. Yuri empathizes Azami's concern and forgives her, which causes Azami to change her mind about her. |
| 348 | * TheScrooge: Azami will go to extremes to save money, even if it makes others suffer. She even stole toilet paper from public places in one episode. |
| 349 | * SheCleansUpNicely: There are several episodes where Azami is the protagonist where she looks absolutely stunning after letting her hair down and putting on some makeup. |
| 350 | * StalkerWithACrush: As the landlady for an apartment complex, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxh3eyE5HD4 she]] has a crush on Tokusa and installed several surveillance cameras and listening devices inside his apartment, making her to be able to see what he's doing inside, this includes spying on him leaving for work or hearing what food he's craving for. She also claims to have Tokusa as her boyfriend to her parents, this causes them to be suspicious, they then visit Tokusa to confirm her claim. Tokusa becomes terrified after hearing what her parents say, and he decides to call the police about the situation, later they find more evidence in Azami's room, causing her to be arrested. |
| 351 | * StickyFingers: |
| 352 | ** In most stories that involve her as the main antagonist, she is prone to steal anything she sees and later complains about it to the people she stole their belongings from. |
| 353 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg17YkUBmEU one story]], she was stealing people's things [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior as a second grader]] and refuses to take responsibility for it. It took Yuri and Tsutsuji's plan, with Tsutsuji's cousin Tachibana's help, of pranking her with a box of plastic bugs [[ScareEmStraight for her to stop stealing]], [[GoneHorriblyRight at a cost of making her]] [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes entomophobic]]. |
| 354 | * StupidEvil: Usually her downfall is a matter of her completely lacking in any form of common sense or forethought. This is especially true when she's being greedy or cheap. She often ends up bragging about it and turning people against her as a result. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo4gYh5K-Ls Like when she admitted]] on the way to Akane's wedding that she planned to "Save money" by giving them an empty envelope instead of actually donating money as is customary for Japanese weddings and then claim the receptionist must have lost it. This not only got her kicked out of Tsutsuji's car, but all her other friends subsequently decided not to invite her to their weddings since she had the gall to post this piece of "money saving advice" on her blog. She's also amazingly prone to doing stupid, dangerous and sometimes even illegal things in her attempts to save money. |
| 355 | * TooDumbToLive: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM6uwuUwUCs She]] threatens to blow up the city hall, [[DisproportionateRetribution because the library was close on a Sunday, and she was too lazy to send the books into a return chute]]. She made the threat in front of Karin, a ''security guard'', who calls the city's police station, which was close to the library. The episode also takes place 6 months after 9/11, so the city took the threat very seriously. [[DiggingYourselfDeeper And she never shut up about her threat while she was being taken away by the police]]. |
| 356 | * TrashOfTheTitans: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClrjKOvt41c She doesn't come to work for two days]], causing Karin and Akamatsu to check up on her by coming to her apartment. It turns out the reason she didn't came to work because she was stuck under a mountain of trash bags inside her apartment, prompting them to call the paramedics to rescue her. |
| 357 | * {{Tsundere}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcCcJRK4F4&t=7s In this episode,]] Azami comes off as harsh towards Tsutsuji but secretly looks out for her. |
| 358 | * VocalDissonance: In the English dub, she often has an elderly voice, even if she is a teenager or a young adult. |
| 359 | * YaoiFangirl: She is shown to be a fan of YaoiGenre works in several episodes. |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Hiiragi]] |
| 363 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hiiragi_3.jpg]] |
| 364 | A purple-haired man. |
| 365 | ---- |
| 366 | * AllMenArePerverts: Of all the male antagonists, he's the one who falls into this the most frequently. Especially when he appears as an [[DirtyOldMan older man]]. |
| 367 | * BadBoss: When he's in charge of a workplace he's either sexually harassing his female employees or very apathetic to any problems his employees are having. |
| 368 | * BestServedCold: He can be very vindictive and even downright nasty when taking revenge against the antagonist the rare few times he's a protagonist. |
| 369 | * BigBrotherInstinct: When he finds out that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6HcECHXng his sister Tsutsuji was falsely accused by Azami for supposedly stealing her money]], he responds by finding and exposing her stealing her company's money to the police. |
| 370 | * BigNo: He frequently lets one out whenever he gets his comeuppance. |
| 371 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: It's common for Hiiragi to initially appear to be a nice guy or even a PrincelyYoungMan, only for it to turn out to be a facade. |
| 372 | * BrainlessBeauty: He sometimes is portrayed as one. |
| 373 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: Almost all of his appearances as a kid tend to have him as a much nicer person than his adult self. |
| 374 | * ComicallyIneptHealing: He often plays an incompetent doctor in several episodes. |
| 375 | * CreepyGood: Some stories feature him as a good guy, but still maintains his creepy nature. |
| 376 | * TheCorrupter: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV0QL-KcdpM Some people change, others don't...]], he tried to convince his friends to commit shoplifting. |
| 377 | * DepravedHomosexual: Usually Averted. The majority of his appearances where he's depicted as being gay have him as a good person, but there's one episode where he pulls his usual StalkerWithACrush bit on Akamatsu. |
| 378 | * FanDisservice: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j_BosuyF90 He approaches Akane in the middle of night while wearing a coat]], he then shows his naked body to her by opening his coat, causing Akane to be terrified and he is eventually arrested for public nudity. |
| 379 | * FatBastard: Interestingly, of the antagonists he's the one who's been overweight the most often. Either gaining weight at some point in the story or starting out that way. |
| 380 | * FloralThemeNaming: His name means "holly olive" in Japanese, which in turn is a name for the ''Osmanthus heterophyllus'' plant. In ''hanakotoba'', the holly olive's flowers mean "trustworthiness," "protection," "welcome," and "fortitude," the former he uses as [[BitchInSheepsClothing a facade to manipulate people]] and he often lacks the other three in his roles as an antagonist. |
| 381 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: When he is depicted as an older man, he is commonly given glasses. It usually make him unwelcoming or conniving, especially [[ScaryShinyGlasses when they shine]]. |
| 382 | * GlassesOfAging: When he is depicted as an older man, he wears a pair of glasses. |
| 383 | * TheGrovel: A few times Hiiragi ends up doing this after his significant other catches him cheating and subsequently breaks up with him. Naturally, this never works out for him, considering it was his fault in the first place. One story in particular is entirely focused on him trying to convince his ex-wife Tsutsuji to take him back by sending her bad poetry while his family tries to convince him to leave her alone already. |
| 384 | * HateSink: Not Hiiragi as a whole - He's just an actor playing the roles Etra-chan assigns him, after all - But he plays some of the most depraved villains the show's had, including pedophiles, murderers, and stalkers. And the less said about him as Kuroki's "best friend", the better. |
| 385 | * HidingBehindYourBangs: He tends to have his hair covering one of his eyes when he is depicted as a young boy. |
| 386 | * InsaneTrollLogic: Often in his antagonist roles, he frequently does things that make sense only to him. Like in one story, after he accidentally runs Yuri over, he runs her over ''again'' out of the belief that if he kills her, he won't have to pay damages for injuring her. |
| 387 | * IronicName: In ''hanakotoba'', the holly olive's flowers mean "trustworthiness," "protection," "welcome," and "fortitude," the former he uses as [[BitchInSheepsClothing a facade to manipulate people]] and he often lacks the other three in his roles as an antagonist. |
| 388 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: |
| 389 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVmJNy6gd8 In this story]], Hiiragi claims to be a great cosmetic surgeon, even though his bad date with Karin shows otherwise. He dumped Yuri because he assumed she had plastic surgery, even though she had her features since birth due to her [[ButNotTooForeign mixed heritage]], and praises Karin's face as natural, despite the fact that she had plastic surgery in the past. Karin even questions why Hiiragi is even a cosmetic surgeon if he had such low opinion of plastic surgery. When Karin learns that he was fired from a clinic, she isn't surprised at all. |
| 390 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WM11t9Q83E In this story,]] he protests the cutting down of cherry blossom trees, asserting that they were planted before the war and had historical value. He says all this to the ''grandson'' of the man who gave him trees as a wedding present, long after the war. |
| 391 | * MommasBoy: He is one of the two characters to have the possiblity to be this if the story of the day involves an ObnoxiousInLaws, along with Akamatsu. |
| 392 | * ManipulativeBastard: A common character trait is that he tricks people either to get what he wants or to get back at them. |
| 393 | * {{Narcissist}}: Often when he is an antagonist. |
| 394 | * ObnoxiousInLaws: Usually when paired up with Azami as her husband and the protagonist's father-in-law, though sometimes he turns out to be more reasonable than her. |
| 395 | * PaedoHunt: |
| 396 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiYT2bwPKXM He accuses Kuroki of being a creep]] for playing with his own daughter Tsutsuji. Unsurprisingly, Kuroki reflects the accusation back and proves it when he and bystanders looked through his camera and finds a picture of Tsutsuji. As the result, he was expelled from college and thrown in jail. |
| 397 | ** [[https://youtu.be/qQK8BH56jHU He tries to marry Yuzuriha]] who, despite her [[YoungerThanSheLooks looks]], is 11 years old. When he proposes to her in person, her friends, Akane and Azami, beat him up and the police arrests him. |
| 398 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMQm_AHtGnY In this story]], he goes under the username of "UK" and posts predatory descriptions of Yuri in social media, much to her mother Tsutsuji's dismay. When Karin sent Tsutsuji a photo of the predator's house, Hiiragi is revealed in the TV screen's reflection. When Tokusa finally arrests him, [[spoiler:it's revealed he had tons of child porn in his computer.]] |
| 399 | * PantyThief: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5jRhJZen4E He breaks into other people's apartments]] to take a shower and steal their underwear. |
| 400 | * ParentalAbandonment: In several episode where he's a child, he gets abandoned and often left for dead by one of his parents. |
| 401 | %%* PrettyBoy |
| 402 | * PurpleProse: He writes in this manner InUniverse, especially about women. Those who read his writings are understandably grossed out by how corny and pretentious they are. |
| 403 | * ReplacementGoldfish: A rather twisted example combined with ParentalIncest. After his wife died, he ended up completely losing it to the point where he started seeing his daughter, Yuzuriha, [[IdenticalGrandson who looked just like her mother]], ''as'' her mother. It reached a point where he seemingly erased his actual daughter's existence from his mind. Naturally once she realized this, Yuzuriha was quick to get as far away from him as possible. |
| 404 | * StalkerWithACrush: If a story features a female protagonist being menaced by a stalker, then most of the time, it's going to be him. |
| 405 | * SadistTeacher: One episode has him pick the weakest person in the group in order to 'unite' his class. He asks the students to write their classmates' weaknesses and after reviewing them, he picks Akane, a reformed bully and points out her faults in front of the whole class, embarrassing her. This makes the class unite against him and he was fired. |
| 406 | * StraightGay: |
| 407 | ** In one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qQOTtgAU2E video]], he ends up dating Akamatsu. |
| 408 | ** Another episode has him as a friend and co-worker of Tokusa's who gets falsely accused of molesting Azami on the train. Fortunately there were enough witnesses who saw that it couldn't be him because his hands were occupied, he had a phone in one hand and was holding on to the bus handle with another. Afterwards he comes out as being gay to Tokusa, saying he wouldn't have been interested in molesting a woman anyway since he's not interested in women. |
| 409 | * StupidEvil: Many of his antagonist episodes depict him as a complete idiot who doesn't think twice before doing something. |
| 410 | * {{Unperson}}: In this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78D2jMkd628 story]], Yuri was so disheartened by his infidelity with Akane that she unconsciously erases him from her cognition for 6 months. When she finally recognizes him, he has given up on reconciling with her and ask for a divorce. |
| 411 | * VocalDissonance: In the English dub of [[https://youtu.be/xJhRinygf6U?feature=shared&t=166 this video]], he is voiced by a woman. |
| 412 | * WeaselCoWorker: This seems to be a popular role for him too. |
| 413 | * {{Yandere}}: He's a male example in some stories. |
| 414 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un9kk6XZ904 When he was hired by the company]], both Yuri and Akane notices that he looks the same age as their boss, Katsura, despite being at least in his 30s and having children that are elementary school students. This is because his alcoholism aged him. |
| 415 | [[/folder]] |
| 416 | |
| 417 | [[folder:Tachibana]] |
| 418 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tachibana.jpg]] |
| 419 | A blond tough guy. |
| 420 | ---- |
| 421 | * AuthoritySoundsDeep: Tachibana speaks with his usual deep voice when portrayed as an authority figure. |
| 422 | * BaritoneOfStrength: He often speaks with a deep voice to emphasize his ruggedness. |
| 423 | * BigBrotherInstinct: In some episodes, he is depicted as a protective brother who defends his sibling from bullies. |
| 424 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mZV2NaoupY this episode]], he defended his sister Karin from bullies when they were kids. |
| 425 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8N0lCrZaw another episode]], he defended his brother Akamatsu from a group of bullies by beating them almost to death; however, this caused himself to end up with a criminal record. |
| 426 | * BruiserWithASoftCenter: When he's good, Tachibana is still gruff and intimidating, but uses that to stand up for his loved ones. |
| 427 | * DomesticAbuse: He's the male antagonist most frequently given the role of an abusive spouse, boyfriend, or father. |
| 428 | * FaceOfAThug: In the stories where he is the protagonist or good side character, Tachibana will often look scary but ultimately have a heart of gold. |
| 429 | * FloralThemeNaming: His name means "mandarin orange", which is also a reference to the ''Citrus tachibana'' tree, which is hailed as a symbol of immortality and permanence among the Japanese high society as its leaves never wither even in winter. This is also a reference to his depictions as a tough-but-fair authority and being physically strong even in old age. |
| 430 | * GyaruGirl: He is a ''gyaru-oh'', he even maintains the look when he appears as a young boy or an old man. |
| 431 | * InsaneTrollLogic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OucTmefuKfk He believes he got back together with Yuri]] after they broke up by deciding to get back together without telling her. He thinks they're soulmates who don't need words. |
| 432 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In stories where he's good though he can be quite rough around the edges. |
| 433 | * ObviouslyEvil: In episodes where he's an antagonist he's every bit the violent thug he looks like. |
| 434 | * PapaWolf: On his good days as a father. Do ''not'' mess with his kids if you don't want his bad side to come out. |
| 435 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YZUrNECoFU one story]], he decides to give Hiiragi a lesson by intimidating him after he treated his daughter Yuri like crap. |
| 436 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVwPqJ5VkkE In another]], he came ''very'' close to [[WouldHurtAChild beating the middle school-aged Akamatsu]] for creeping on his daughter Karin and beating up his son Kuroki, [[spoiler:only for Hiiragi to beat him to the punch. He decides to leave Akamatsu to his fate.]] |
| 437 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPyxbg16Dmg After hearing about]] how his daughter Tsutsuji has been mistreated by her fiance and his family, Tachibana gets some creative payback -- by subjecting Hiiragi to absolutely brutal TrainingFromHell that persists even after Tsutsuji breaks off the engagement. |
| 438 | ** Don't think you'll get away with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E969mCwy1c scamming him out of his stepdaughter's college fund]] either. |
| 439 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Aio-ms4EM Bring a knife to his school at your own peril.]] |
| 440 | * PitbullDatesPuppy: He's a common choice for [[RoseHairedSweetie Yuri's]] boyfriend/husband. How healthy their relationship is depends on whether or not he's an antagonist. He will occasionally have this relationship with Tsutsuji as well. |
| 441 | * PrimalScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgXYPKUOaqw When he was a boy]], he witnessed his mother sleeping with another man, with the man resembling Tachibana himself. When Yuzuriha caught and threatened him to be quiet, he blocks the memory until his adulthood, where he crashes into a truck and unlock that memory. |
| 442 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's often given the role of the tough but fair boss to the other characters. |
| 443 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHfOPqFpEVk Here]], he's the manager of his sector who works his employees to the bone, but nobody holds it against him because he works ''himself'' even harder, and the real problem is ''his'' boss [[PointyHairedBoss Hiiragi]]. |
| 444 | * RetiredBadass: He is often depicted as a retired police officer. |
| 445 | * RuggedScar: He has a scar on his left forehead when he appears as an older man. |
| 446 | * SadistTeacher: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Aio-ms4EM One episode]] features him as a DrillSergeantNasty gym teacher who often yells at students for violating the school rules even outside of his class. Subverted when it turns out that he's really more of a SternTeacher who does care about his students and people only view him as otherwise due to how intimidating he can be. The student body gains a new respect for him after he saves the school from a knife wielding psycho. |
| 447 | * TestosteronePoisoning: There are occasionally cases where his manliness will be PlayedForLaughs. |
| 448 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Aio-ms4EM In this episode]] he is known as the Gorilla, he effortlessly destroys a door by slamming it and later on manages to shred his own shirt with a single flex. He also manages to intimidate Hiiragi into dropping his weapon while he himself is unarmed. |
| 449 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPlzJG1-yLY&t=559s Despite being in his 70's, he and his fellow fishermen are absolutely ripped]], get into fights frequently and deal with poachers with their bare hands. |
| 450 | * TokenGoodTeammate: He's actually the "antagonist" actor least frequently casted as such. In a lot of stories where he appears, his rugged looks and the natural suspicion he draws are often used to cast him as a RedHerring to the real villains. |
| 451 | * {{Yakuza}}: Tachibana was often portrayed as a member of a gang or yakuza. |
| 452 | * UglyGuyHotWife: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRKbGfPX60 one]] of the episodes where he is a protagonist, he ends up in this sort of relationship with Yuri, but this is only in the eyes of characters other than Yuri herself, who actually finds him attractive. This brings her into conflict with Yuzuriha, who refuses to believe that she's genuinely attracted to Tachibana and convinces herself that she's actually after his more handsome brother Tokusa, who Yuzuriha is engaged to. |
| 453 | [[/folder]] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | [[folder:Yuzuriha]] |
| 456 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yuzuriha_2.jpg]] |
| 457 | An aqua-haired woman. |
| 458 | ---- |
| 459 | * AffectionateNickname: Sometimes, she is called "Yuzu" by the male characters, especially Hiiragi and Kuroki. |
| 460 | * AlphaBitch: The other most common character to play this role in a high school setting. |
| 461 | * AxCrazy: Some of her antagonist roles have her as unhinged. Even in her roles as a good side character, this can still pop up, like in one story where she threatens Hiiragi with a knife after Katsura tells her he's been cheating on her. |
| 462 | * AbusiveParents: As an antagonist, she often ends up being an abusive or neglectful mother. |
| 463 | * BestServedCold: As a protagonist she's often the vengeful anti-heroine who can be quite vicious and creative in getting revenge against those who've wronged her or those she cares about. |
| 464 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: In several of her protagonist and neutral roles, she is a kind and sweet woman who is absolutely terrifying when she gets angry and is pushed too far. |
| 465 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Some of her antagonistic roles will have her act friendly, but secretly have a nasty side. |
| 466 | * ClingyJealousGirl: When she isn't being a straight up yandere she will usually still be this. |
| 467 | * CrusadingLawyer: |
| 468 | ** In this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwK4vssDoYs story]], Yuzuriha is a lawyer who sues Kuroki's parents for abusing her sister Akane and chastises Kuroki for being a terrible husband and not protecting her. However, when Kuroki discovers that Akane was cheating on him and stole his savings, not even she overlooks this and regretted defending her. |
| 469 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d73M9YbsXh4 Karin and Akane]] hire Yuzuriha as their lawyer to prosecute Hiiragi, another lawyer and Akane's husband, for cheating on her. This also counts as revenge for her because she and Hiiragi dated in Law School and he cheated on her too back then. |
| 470 | ** After [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGgwS58aTtQ Hiiragi's family]] disowned him for cheating on Tsutsuji with his brother's wife, Tsutsuji hires Yuzuriha as her lawyer for the divorce trial. When Yuzuriha calls Hiiragi, she flat-out tells him to go to hell for his amoral behavior. |
| 471 | * TheDogBitesBack: She is sometimes played as the victim of bullying, either by classmates or by in-laws, but will always strike back. |
| 472 | ** After suffering several harassments from her boss, Akane. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvw_uPBMD8A Yuzuriha]] [[spoiler: decides to spread the photos of her affair around their workplace, causing Akane to be fired.]] |
| 473 | * DistinguishingMark: She has a mole under her left eye. [[spoiler:This is important, because in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frDfG64-UZ8 this episode]], Tsutsuji inexplicably has a mole under her left eye, with TheReveal that she's a transformed Yuzuriha.]] |
| 474 | * DubPronunciationChange: How her name is pronounced alternates between "You-Zoo-Ree-Hah" and "You-Zur-Ree-Ah." Sometimes in the same video. |
| 475 | * DyingAlone: One story has her as an old woman who was feared and avoided by the rest of the neighborhood because she was a temperamental loner who would chase anyone who came into her garden with a hand scythe. In the end, she dies alone of old age in front of the alter to her husband who'd died years before her, but not before giving a very young Yuri a bag of Sunflower seeds and instructing her on how to plant them after the little girl told her the sunflowers in her garden were pretty. |
| 476 | * FloralThemeNaming: Her name means "false daphne", which is a common name for the ''Daphniphyllium macropodum'' plant. In ''hanakotoba'', the most common meanings associated with this plant are "generational change", "transfer", or "rejuvenation". |
| 477 | * FormerTeenRebel: In several episodes, it's shown or mentioned that she used to be [[JapaneseDelinquents a delinquent]] when she was younger. |
| 478 | * GoodBadGirl: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEVSp5P5MYY this]] story where she's Karin's older sister. While her tendency to cause chaos by being TheTease put Karin off dating, she still comes through for Yuri by helping her get revenge on her ex-boyfriend Hiiragi after he gets caught cheating on her. |
| 479 | * GoshDangItToHeck: In stories where the word "shit" is censored, if not outright bleeped out, she uses the word "shot" in its place. |
| 480 | * GuileHeroine: In many of her protagonist roles, if she isn't straight up scaring the shit out of them, she will often use her charm and wits to get back those who have either harmed her or her loved ones. |
| 481 | * IJustWantToBeYou: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_F9mbzRWo Yuzuriha]] became obsessed with changing her face like Karin, because her ex-boyfriend Hiiragi emotionally abused her by comparing her to his idol, despite the fact that Yuzuriha is already beautiful. Tokusa reassures her that she is a beautiful woman and she regains her self-confidence. |
| 482 | * IdentityImpersonator: |
| 483 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frDfG64-UZ8 She]] [[spoiler: took a plastic surgery to change her appearance and renamed her name to Tsutsuji to exact revenge on her former bullies.]] |
| 484 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1HhzgQM1Ds She]] [[spoiler: pretended to be Akane after buying the identity from the real Akane to hide from her ex-husband.]] |
| 485 | * JerkassHasAPoint: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uh8DievIlM In one story]] where she's a mother who tried to spread nasty rumors about Karin, another mother with a child in the same kindergarten as her, Karin reveals that everything she said about her was actually true about Yuzuriha instead. This causes Azami and Akane to turn on her, but Yuzuriha points out that they have no right to be self-righteous when they blindly believed her lies and bullied Karin alongside her without questioning anything. |
| 486 | * LawOfInverseFertility: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDs9fiNDBZE She and Kuroki]] spent years trying to have a baby, even taking fertility treatments, with fruitless result. This led to Yuzuriha growing resentful and envious of pregnant women and children, until her episode upsets her husband. They eventually made up and, in the end, she manages to get pregnant. |
| 487 | * MamasBabyPapasMaybe: |
| 488 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ppujnrz_0 She]] cheated on her husband Katsura with several men, she eventually became pregnant with the child of one of the men, Tachibana, a former neighbor who moved away before the child was conceived. Katsura attends a BBQ party along with the neighbors, then Tachibana's wife, Yuri suddenly arrives with her son who looks like Katsura's daughter, this causes him to get confused for a while, though eventually he understands what's going on. The reveal causes Katsura to snap and hit Yuzuriha for what she did to him. He later divorces Yuzuriha, her daughter is now in the custody of her grandparents, and she is now a broken woman trying to apologize to her ex-husband. |
| 489 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgXYPKUOaqw One story]] has it turn out that her son Tachibana was actually the son of the man she was cheating on her husband Katsura with, and Katsura knew the whole time, but still loved Tachibana and raised him as his son anyway. |
| 490 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldwsx2hryjs another story]] Yuzuriha herself found out that she was the result of an affair with another man, but she didn't find out until after her mother died and she found a letter addressed to the man her mother was cheating with in her old room. She and her sister Akane chose to keep it a secret from their father because he'd already gone half insane from losing his wife. |
| 491 | * MamaBear: In contrast to her antagonist roles, if a protagonist or good side character Yuzuriha has children, you really don't want to mess with them if you know what's good for you. |
| 492 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-oQNKRHJIg&t=306s This episode]] is a good example of this as she and Tachibana used to be delinquents when they were younger but mellowed out after time. However, after their daughter gets kidnapped, Yuzuriha straight up points a gun at said kidnappers. |
| 493 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: She tends to have this relationship with Kuroki when they're a couple. While she does have a feminine side to her, she's the tougher and more assertive of the two while Kuroki is more passive and timid. |
| 494 | * MotherlySidePlait: Her signature hairstyle is a side plait on the right, even when she's not a mother in stories. When she appears as an old woman, her side plait is on the left. Averted as a child where she has GirlishPigtails. |
| 495 | * MsFanservice: Yuzuriha is often portrayed as a voluptuous model or a very beautiful and mature woman. |
| 496 | * PunchAWall: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uh8DievIlM She punches a wall to intimidate Karin]] after finding out that she is aware of her dark past. |
| 497 | * PsychoKnifeNut: Her main weapon of choice appears to be a knife |
| 498 | * PsychoLesbian: |
| 499 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuAQS0NceZs&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 A sympathetic version.]] Even though she's the one tormenting Akane, the reason Yuzuriha even went crazy was due to the fact her best friend and crush Yuri committed suicide, thanks to Akane's relentless bullying. |
| 500 | ** Another has her stalking Akane, who thought they were only hanging out as friends, after she told Yuzuriha that she'd started dating Kuroki. Eventually Kuroki finds out when Yuzuriha shows up at Akane's house while he's visiting her and [[SelfHarm slits her wrist in front of Akane]]. |
| 501 | * ShoeSlap: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM6uwuUwUCs Yuzuriha]], who is a city official, throws her heel at the fleeing Azami, who was running away when she was being apprehended for threatening to bomb the city hall. |
| 502 | * StalkerWithACrush: She stalked Kuroki when he broke up with her. There are many other examples throughout the series of her doing this aside from that. |
| 503 | * TerrifiedOfGerms: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swOVw1a4X4Y In this episode]], she is germaphobic to the point where she always wears a mask and gloves inside her house. |
| 504 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Out of the female antagonists, she's the one that has the most good/neutral roles to date. |
| 505 | * TraumaButton: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGjPukUUbAg In this episode]], Yuzuriha lives a sweet life with her husband Kuroki and daughter Tsutsuji. But when she overheard Tsutsuji, at the start of puberty, say she hates her dad, she suddenly flips out and grabs and yell at her. It is revealed that she grew up with an abusive father and Tsutsuji rebelling against Kuroki triggered her traumatic memory. |
| 506 | * WeaknessTurnsHerOn: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzGoPa3NZEk one episode]], Kuroki's parents seem skeptical about why she married their son, given that he's a shy nerd who was bullied a lot in school and continued to be shy and timid as an adult, but she insists it's because she finds his timid nature cute. |
| 507 | * WomanScorned: If she is cheated on, she can become very vengeful towards the offender. |
| 508 | * {{Yandere}}: She frequently plays this role and it's probably the antagonist role she's most known for. |
| 509 | [[/folder]] |
| 510 | |
| 511 | !!Other |
| 512 | |
| 513 | Minor characters. |
| 514 | |
| 515 | [[folder:John the American]] |
| 516 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/john_642.jpg]] |
| 517 | A blond foreigner from America. |
| 518 | ---- |
| 519 | * ADayInTheLimelight: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PNaaNjBTWI This episode]] has him as the protagonist where he frequents a ramen shop. |
| 520 | * BigFun: He is chubby and also a friendly person. |
| 521 | * GratuitousEnglish: Will occasionally insert English into his lines in the Japanese episodes. This is [[{{JustifiedTrope}} Justified]] as he is from America. |
| 522 | * LanguageBarrier: Several episodes involve him trying to speak English to several people, however nobody understands him. |
| 523 | * NiceGuy: He is the most wholesome character on the channel. |
| 524 | * SixthRanger: As of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p978A9Gqi5g 2nd Anniversary Video]], he is fully established as a cast and crew member of the "Etra-chan Saw It" channel. |
| 525 | * SupremeChef: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YlJeHMrVI this episode]], he appears as a renowned French chef whom Hiiragi met while working in France. |
| 526 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: His favorite food is ramen. |
| 527 | [[/folder]] |
| 528 | |
| 529 | [[folder:Kuro the Cat]] |
| 530 | A black cat. |
| 531 | ---- |
| 532 | * CuteKitten: It is an adorable cat that helped mend Kuroki's broken family through their friendship. |
| 533 | * OneSteveLimit: It is a syllable away from spelling out Kuroki. Incidentally, kuro means "black" in Japanese. |
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