Line #74 Characters/EromangaSensei


1	Characters in ''Literature/EromangaSensei''. Work in progress.
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3	[[foldercontrol]]
4	!! Main Characters
5	[[folder:Masamune Izumi]]
6	!!Masamune Izumi
7	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka
8	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/masamuneizumi.jpg]]
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10	A light novel author, who wrote the recently concluded ''Silverwolf of Reincarnation''.
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12	* AccidentalPervert: In Episode 3, Masamune goes next door to a rumored haunted mansion to investigate a supposed piano-playing ghost which is frightening Sagiri. Through the window he witnesses Elf playing the piano. ''Naked''.
13	* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Does this to Sagiri, but she doesn't appreciate it.
14	* AffectionateNickname: Tomoe addresses him as "Mune-kun".
15	* AuthorAvatar: A writer writing a light novel in the genre of romantic comedy with younger sisters, who is the protagonist in a ... light novel, which is a romantic comedy with younger sisters.
16	* BigBrotherInstinct: Masamune fully took care of his sister, including cooking and trying to save her from loneliness. Further, he directly tells her that he must take care of her, since she is his younger sister.
17	* BrotherSisterIncest: Though not related by blood, Masamune and Sagiri's growing feelings for each other is still an eyebrow-raising issue even in Japan. Masamune still confesses his love for Sagiri in spite of being aware of said social-taboo, but [[spoiler: Sagiri rejects his confession, while warmly acceptting his love for her as a big brother.]]
18	* CelebrityParadox: ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' apparently exists in this universe as a light novel. Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka is Kirito's voice actor. He even reprises his role as Kirito for [[TheCameo a cameo]].
19	* {{Determinator}}: Vows to win the light novel Tenkaichi Budokai and get his Sagiri-dedicated light novel published. [[spoiler:He succeeds.]]
20	* DisappearedDad: His biological father was supposedly killed in a car accident and his biological mother died before that too.
21	* GenreShift: Goes for a romantic comedy after the conclusion of his action light novel ''Silverwolf of Reincarnation''.
22	* HardHead: If the sheer ''amount'' of doors slammed into his face and computers ''repeatedly'' bashed into his head were not PlayedForLaughs, poor Masamune would be disfigured at best or outright mentally-disabled from concussion.
23	* IfIWereARichMan: Hopes for his Sagiri-dedicated light novel proposal to take off, earning sufficient funds for his household to not only cover necessities, but also a large LCD TV for the living room, accompanied with expensive speakers, and a cake to celebrate with Sagiri, outside of her room, the moment his proposal receives an anime adaptation.
24	* LoveConfession: Delivers one to [[spoiler:Sagiri]]. He gets turned down.
25	* [[MarketBasedTitle Market Based Name]]: The fact that he made his PenName by writing his name in katakana is as untranslatable in Chinese as in English. In the official Chinese translations, the translators decided to put an extra radical to the first kanji/hanzi of his name (for "Masa") so as to make it look different but have the same pronunciation.
26	* MissingMom: His biological mother died some time before his biological father died in a car accident.
27	* MistakenForGay:
28	** Megumi assumes him to be someone who loves individuals of his own gender because he hasn't fallen for her.
29	** Later, Shido thinks the same thing when he sees Sagiri as Eromanga-sensei act jealous over Masamume while thinking Eromanga-sensei is a boy, and thus declines to share the same room with him, and leaves the open air bath immediately after witnessing Chris supposedly make a marriage proposal to Masamune.
30	* NotBloodSiblings: Sagiri is his younger stepsister and they first met only last year.
31	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Downplayed. Writing light novels was once a hobby of his, but lately he does it to make ends meet.
32	* OvershadowedByAwesome: Part of the reason for his lower light novel sales is that his writing style is very similar to Muramasa but not as good as such many of Muramasa's fans look down on him as a copycat. [[spoiler:Made ironic when it's revealed that Muramasa was influenced by his writing style and not the other way around.]]
33	* PenName: The same as his real name, except he writes his given name in katakana.
34	* RapidFireTyping: He is a fast writer, and can supposedly write around ''88'' novels per year[[note]]That's approximately one novel every four days.[[/note]], but the majority of them get turned down.
35	* RealMenCook: Makes meals for his little sister.
36	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Much like [[Literature/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell]] or especially [[Literature/ReZero Petelgeuse]], Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka playing Masamune is capable of suddenly going from baritone to truly-hilarious screaming soprano when the comedic situation requires it.
37	* StockLightNovelEveryman: Masamune Izumi is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who is also an [[MostWritersAreWriters esteemed light novel author]]. He lives with his [[NotBloodSiblings step-sister]] Sagiri who is a {{Hikikomori}} who never leaves her room. Having no artistic talent himself, Masamune hires an anonymous artist known as "Eromanga Sensei" to draw for him, but discovers said artist is actually his own little sister. As the series progresses other girls start getting introduced which form Masamune's UnwantedHarem whereby they crush on him and try to win over his affection, which may or may not include his own LittleSisterHeroine.
38	* TakenForGranite: Parodied; Masamune freezes in place as if he were petrified after Megumi discovers his PenName. He quickly snaps out of it after Megumi reminds him of her plan to befriend Sagiri.
39	[[/folder]]
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41	[[folder:Sagiri Izumi]]
42	!!Sagiri Izumi
43	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkaneFujita
44	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sagiriizumi.jpg]]
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46	Masamune's little stepsister, and secretly an illustrator who goes by the series' titular Eromanga-sensei.
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48	* AmbiguouslyBi: While she likes Masamune, she's rather too interested in seeing other girls nude and drawing racy artwork of female characters.
49	* AuthorAvatar: Represented by the face of [[Literature/{{Oreimo}} Meruru]], the main character of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Stardust Witch Meruru]]''.
50	* BewareTheQuietOnes: While normally a quiet girl, she loses it when she refuses to hand over Masamune to Muramasa. In fact, she got so angry that not only was she screaming at Muramasa, but she was outside of her room, and not wearing her mask while yelling.
51	* BigBrotherAttraction: It seems that she is very offended and disappointed when her brother denies having romantic feelings between them and considers her to be his family.
52	* BlatantLies:
53	** Claims that she doesn't know anyone by the name of Eromanga-sensei every time she is addressed as such. This also triples as a RunningGag and Sagiri's CatchPhrase.
54	** After Masamune points out that she really is Eromanga-sensei for drawing an R-18 doujinshi, she claims she only likes drawing lewd art and isn't lewd herself.
55	* CatchPhrase: "[[BlatantLies I don't know anyone by that name.]]", which she often says every time she is addressed as Eromanga-sensei.
56	* CharacterTic: Stomps on the floor of her room to grab Masamune's attention.
57	* CheerfulChild: Masamune notes that she puts on a happier disposition when livestreaming.
58	* ClingyJealousGirl: Gets upset every time she hears or sees Masamune getting a little too friendly with other girls, such as when Elf moves next door to them, and she notices that they seem to be rather talkative to each other. She is also extremely annoyed when Megumin calls Masamune "brother".
59	* DirtyKid: Well... she does have a penchant for lewd illustrations. [[SharedFamilyQuirks Something she takes after her mother.]] She illustrates an R-18 {{doujinshi}} of ''[=SekaImo=]'', Masamune's light novel series which she also provided illustrations for.
60	* {{Expy}}: Essentially a socially-awkward, sweeter and cuter version of [[Literature/{{Oreimo}} Kirino]] (also a light-novel author)
61	* {{Hikikomori}}: She's holed up in her room after her mother died, so Masamune always has to leave her meals in front of the entrance to her room. [[spoiler: This wasn't the first time either, as she also refused to go to school during grade school till talking with Masamune online encouraged her to finish it.]]
62	* HypocriticalHumor:
63	** Announces in a livestream that her illustration for the session won't be very erotic. Cue her illustration of Beniusagi flashing her ass.
64	** Coming from someone who specializes in lewd illustrations, she calls Masamune a pervert as she slowly closes her room's door.
65	* InnocentBlueEyes: Highlighting her shyness.
66	* InsaneTrollLogic:
67	** Argues that Masamune petting her on the head while thinking lewd thoughts is what makes him a light novel protagonist.
68	** Also argues that her drawing lewd pictures doesn't mean she herself is a lewd person.
69	* LameComeback: Can you imagine anyone else who'd call someone a light novel protagonist as an insult?
70	* LittleSisterHeroine: She's Masamune's cute little stepsister, who is supposed to be his main LoveInterest in the future.
71	* LocationThemeNaming: Claims that her PenName has nothing to do with erotic manga and is inspired by Erromango, an island in Vanuatu. Curiously, there is also a town in Queensland, Australia named Eromanga.
72	* MissingMom: Sagiri's biological mother died at some point before the start of the series, and is the main cause of her [[spoiler:returning to her]] {{hikikomori}} state.
73	* NotBloodSiblings: She is Masamune's younger stepsister and have only known each other for a year.
74	* PenName: Eromanga-sensei.
75	* ProneToTears: Masamune describes her as being as fragile as spring snow.
76	* ProtagonistTitle: She is the titular Eromanga-sensei.
77	* TheQuietOne: Doesn't talk much, but she becomes considerably more talkative when live streaming.
78	* ReclusiveArtist: In-universe; nothing is known about her personal life as Eromanga-sensei.
79	* RunningGag: Anytime Masamune calls her "Eromanga-sensei", she quietly and unconvincingly says [[BlatantLies she doesn't know anyone by that name]].
80	* StrongFamilyResemblance: A flashback shows her biological mother looks almost identical to her.
81	* TokenMiniMoe: One of the youngest characters in the cast, at 12 years old.
82	[[/folder]]
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84	!! Friends
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86	[[folder:Megumi Jinno]]
87	!!Megumi Jinno
88	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IbukiKido
89	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/megumijinno.jpg]]
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91	A classmate of Sagiri's and also her class's ClassRepresentative, and a former amateur model.
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93	* ArmorPiercingResponse: Proposes that Masamune cancel his household's internet so that Sagiri will get out of her {{hikikomori}} state. Masamune won't have any of it, however.
94	* AwesomenessWithdrawal: In-universe; she feels dissatisfied after she finishes reading light novels with awesome endings, impatiently waiting for sequels to be released. Masamune proposes that she read other interesting light novels to overcome this.
95	* BrutalHonesty: Describes Masamune's ''Silverwolf of Reincarnation'' as iffy, to his annoyance.
96	* ClassRepresentative: Of Sagiri's class.
97	* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Light brown hair and eyes.
98	* DirtyKid: Subverted; she comes across as this at first with how much she claims to love dicks, but this turns out to be a ruse. Megumi is actually quite innocent and just pretends to be extremely experienced and dirty because she thinks it's "cool".
99	* GenkiGirl: Energetic, open about her feelings, and loves making new friends.
100	* InsaneTrollLogic: Claims that all girls her age, including Sagiri, love dicks, to Masamune's shock. Of course, she also claims she's trolling. This later turns out to be a front, since she's actually very innocent.
101	* InSeriesNickname: "Megumin".
102	* InsistentTerminology: Doesn't like to be addressed by the "-chan" honorific, and would prefer either simply her given name or her InSeriesNickname.
103	* NotDistractedByTheSexy: When she first meets Masamune, she's confused that he's not immediately falling head over heels for her like most other guys. He then thinks to himself that Sagiri is prettier, hence why he seems indifferent. At least until Megumi starts mentioning liking certain parts on men...
104	* {{Otaku}}: Proclaims herself as one, but the farce falls as she mentions she's only read (entry-level) manga like ''Manga/OnePiece''.
105	* TheTease: Attempts this by flirting with Masamune to try and get Sagiri to come out of her room, and hopefully to go to school.
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108	[[folder:Elf Yamada]]
109	!!Elf Yamada [[spoiler: Real Name: Emily Granger]]
110	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MinamiTakahashi
111	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elfyamada.jpg]]
112
113	A light novel author like Masamune and the author of ''Dark Elf of Explosive Fire''.
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115	* AccidentalMisnaming: "Yamashita" and "Yamamoto", by Muramasa.
116	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Her older brother has to personally come to her home and forcibly take her to the publishing house to get her to work.
117	* AuthorAppeal: Masamune notes that a lot of her books involve women stripping, and Elf likes to play the piano naked. She says it gives her inspiration.
118	* BrilliantButLazy: She only writes when she feels like it. Masamune is confused by that, as he writes every day. But this causes her to get mad, because she claims his work may not be interesting because he's not creatively motivated doing that. Considering she's sold ten times as many books as he has, he can't really refute that.
119	* CannotSpitItOut: Her interactions with him strongly imply this, as she calls her and Masamune hanging out briefly before visiting their publisher as a date. She even jokingly tells Senju they're living together when asked why she was at his house. He clarifies it though, telling her that just being next door neighbors doesn't count as "living together".
120	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Views her house as a Crystal Castle, and likes to play the piano... ''stark naked''.
121	* FeminineWomenCanCook: Makes a meal for Masamune, which, to his surprise, is very tasty.
122	* GorgeousGaijin: Unsurprisingly, her Japanese name is an alias; as revealed in the OVA by her invitation letter to her millionaire mother in London, she is a British Girl called [[spoiler: Emily Granger.]] She's also a ShamelessFanserviceGirl who has seemingly no nudity taboo.
123	* HiddenDepths: In episode 3, [[spoiler:she says she's deduced Eromanga-sensei's habits, lack of a social life, one family member, and general location (the same district she's in), just by reading her blog. Every single thing she says is dead-on accurate.]]
124	* ItsAllAboutMe: Declares herself to be the number one Oricon author, and the prettiest and best light novel author in history.
125	* LargeHam: She is so hyperactive and loves the spectacular scenes that she immediately steals almost every scene in which she appears.
126	* OjouRinglets: Her sidelocks curl like this.
127	* PenName: The name "Elf Yamada" is later revealed to be this, as it turns out her real name is [[spoiler:Emily Granger]].
128	* PointyEars: Appropriately, sports elven ears. Probably fakes, or via plastic surgery, but interestingly her older brother and mother also have them.
129	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Wears a tiny bikini when at the resort and even goes topless when requesting Masamune that he apply sunscreen to her, to his embarrassment.
130	* {{Tsundere}}: Lampshaded by Masamune, who notes that she's the type to act this way to her readers, caring only for sales and compliments and sees them only as servants. Elf, however, insists that she's only setting some distance between herself and the readers as a professional.
131	* UnlimitedWardrobe: She has a lot of dresses and often changes even during the same episode. Similarly, she owns a lot of swimsuits and wears a Wa-Lolita Yukata more than once.
132	[[/folder]]
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134	[[folder:Tomoe Takasago]]
135	!!Tomoe Takasago
136	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuiIshikawa
137	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/324564.jpg]]
138
139	A schoolmate of Masamune's, working part-time at Takasago Books.
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141	* AlliterativeName: '''T'''omoe '''T'''akasago.
142	* BerserkButton: ''Don't'' describe light novels as "creepy" in front of her. You'll be sorry especially if Masamune isn't around to console her.
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146	[[folder:Muramasa Senju]]
147	!!Muramasa Senju [[spoiler:Real Name: Hana Umezono]]
148	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriOnishi
149	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/324562.jpg]]
150
151	The wildly successful light novel author of ''Fantasy Demon Blade Legend''. She writes to create "the most interesting novel in the world" and therefore doesn't care for anything else about her novels, be it sales, profit or even the title. To her, Masamune's light novels are the most interesting, so she aims to stop him from switching genres to writing love comedies and continue writing her favourite battle novels. She has a crush on Masamune and wrote her short story based on them for the writing competition.
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153	* AwesomenessWithdrawal: In-universe; she experienced this after the conclusion of Masamune's ''Silverwolf of Reincarnation'', musing over what happened to her favorite characters, and how they could've achieved a happy ending. Masamune solves this by pulling an all-nighter to write an afterstory for the series.
154	* BirdsOfAFeather: Its been shown that she's very similar to Masamune, she confessed the same way as him, they have the same style of writing and even have the same writing tics.
155	* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Downplayed; her eyes are a lighter shade of purple as opposed to her dark purple hair.
156	* DisproportionateRetribution: Masamune's project getting pushed back by his publisher was as a result of Senju purposely taking up their time so as to force him to go back to writing action novels instead of trying to transition to romantic comedy, since she wanted to keep reading his works in that genre.
157	* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Loses to Masamune in the Tenkaichi Budokai, and admits that his short story was so interesting, she'd rate it a one million out of 100.]]
158	* HeroicBSOD: Suffers this a few times when she is incredibly embarassed. Represented visually by her turning into stone and smoke coming out of her mouth.
159	* HiddenBuxom: The beach episode shows that when wearing a bikini instead of her kimono, she's actually rather well endowed.
160	* InsistentTerminology: Demands that Masamune address her as "senpai".
161	* {{Irony}}: Is the more successful light novel author compared to Masamune, but [[spoiler:it was his writing style that influenced Muramasa]].
162	* LoveConfession: Delivers one to Masamune, who turns her down as he states that he has feelings for someone else.
163	* PenName: Like Masamune, her pen name is the same as her real name, except she writes her given name in katakana. [[spoiler:As it turns out, her "real" name is also a pen name; her real name is actually Hana Umezono]].
164	* TheRival: Vows not to allow Masamune to win the light novel Tenkaichi Budokai. [[spoiler:She would've won... had she stuck to the page limit set by the competition's rules.]]
165	* TokenWholesome: Compared to CovertPervert Sagiri, DirtyKid Megumin and ShamelessFanserviceGirl Elf, she consistently wears fully-covering kimono, except once when she was suggested to try a SailorFuku for Masamune. The other time, Elf left her with nothing but a tiny bikini. In general, she is also easily embarassed when it comes to lewd topics.
166	* VaporWear: Is forced to admit to Masamune and the others that, as is traditional, she wears nothing under her kimono. The embarrassment of this has her suffer a HeroicBSOD for a while.
167	* WhatTheHellHero: One gets directed at her by Sagiri. Senju basically gives Masamune a LoveConfession when she tells him to only write novels exclusively for her, and in return, she'd take care of him and his sister financially. This pisses Sagiri off enough that not only does she scream at Senju that Masamune belongs to her, she's also out of her room, and not wearing her mask either.
168	[[/folder]]
169
170	!! Adults and Other
171
172	[[folder:Ayame Kagurazaka]]
173	!!Ayame Kagurazaka
174	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu
175	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/345951.jpg]]
176
177	An editor for ASCII Media Works, and also Masamune and Muramasa's personal editor.
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179	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Masamune was sick with a fever, and couldn't work to finish his deadlines, she happily extends it so he can recover.
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181	[[/folder]]
182
183	[[folder:Chris Yamada]]
184	!!Chris Yamada [[spoiler: Real Name: Chris Granger]]
185	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SeiichiroYamashita
186	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chris_yamada_main_image.png]]
187
188	An editor for Fulldrive Bunko, Elf's older brother, and her personal editor.
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190	* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Is oftentimes keeping his sister's more rash, impulsive, and childish desires in check.
191	* MistakenForGay: When he supposedly makes a marriage proposal to Masamune when discussing Elf, as witnessed by Shido. To be fair though, Chris didn't make himself clear at first that he wanted Masamune to consider wedding Elf.
192	* PointyEars: Like Elf, he sports pointy ears.
193	* WouldHitAGirl: Has no problem thumping his little sister on the head when she labels Masamune, Muramasa, and Shido as her servants.
194	[[/folder]]
195
196	[[folder:Kunimitsu Shido]]
197	!!Kunimitsu Shido
198	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobunagaShimazaki
199
200	A Tenkaichi Budokai participant who ended up in second place.
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202	* CantHoldHisLiquor: Gets drunk off of five cans of sake.
203	* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Light brown hair and eyes.
204	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Screams and skedaddles after the first round of the King's Game, in which the King (Elf) orders number 1 (Masamune) to kiss number 2 (Shido).
205	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / EromangaSensei