Line #19 Characters/NoRin


1	List of characters featured in ''Literature/NoRin''.
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3	!!Kousaku Hata
4	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kousakuhata_7641.jpg]]
5	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ShintaroAsanuma (Japanese), Creator/AustinTindle (English)
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7	A sixteen-year-old who dreams of opening up his own "trendy" farm in Tokyo. He is extremely infatuated with the idol Yuka Kusakabe.
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9	* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:His family moved to Aioi to start farming and failed. They fell into debt, forcing his mother to work a part-time job and his father to take another job. The stress of being in debt made her sick, so Kousaku's father had to work farther away from his family, until Kousaku's mother died and Kousaku's father abandoned the farm and his son. As a result, Minori's family raised him.]]
10	* EveryoneHasStandards: Even a well-known pervert like him has his limits, and some of Bekki-sensei's [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl depraved antics]] are way beyond what he can stomach.
11	* {{Fanboy}}: Of "Yuka-tan".
12	* GratuitousEnglish: Likes to sprinkle English words and phrases here and there:
13	-->"Kusakabe Yuka is God!"
14	* HeroicBSOD: PlayedForLaughs in the beginning, when he heard of Yuka's sudden retirement.
15	* IKnewIt: His InUniverse reaction to Bekki-sensei openly admitting to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections exploiting her status as daughter of a local assemblyman]] to remain in her post in spite of her sheer lack of moral values.
16	* LoonyFan: Borderline example towards Ringo's idol alter-ego Yuka-tan. So far [[EmotionlessGirl Ringo]] has no reaction to this.
17	* LovableSexManiac: One of his defining traits. He acts more restrained as the story progresses.
18	* MetaGuy: Frequently hangs [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] and [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] throughout the series.
19	* NiceGuy: He's generally a helpful person when given the chance.
20	* ParentalAbandonment: He has lost all contact with his father and his mother died from overwork and stress.
21	* ObliviousToLove: Does not notice Minori's affections for him (like when she willingly gives him her ''panties''). His obsession with Yuka-tan doesn't help. This is lampshaded twice by Kei, who warns him that his obliviousness will get him in trouble one day, and by Rintarou, who points out why Minori would make for a good housewife (and even that still flies over his head).
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24	!!Ringo Kinoshita/Yuka Kusakabe
25	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ringo_kinoshita_3770.jpg]]
26	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ringokinoshita_2735.jpg]]
27	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YukariTamura (Japanese), Creator/JadSaxton (English)
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29	A popular teen idol, who suddenly retires from the industry, then appears one day as a transferee to Tamo Agricultural School under her real name, Ringo.
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31	* AloofDarkHairedGirl: As her "student" persona.
32	* ACupAngst: So much so Kousaku had to restrain her from hitting Bekki-sensei with kitchen utensils in Episode 8 when she deliberately mocks her flat chest.
33	* BerserkButton: Kousaku being too intimate with another girl? She emits a rather scary aura. Bekki-sensei mocking her bust size? She will have ''none'' of that. Belittling her friends? She will ''not'' let it slide.
34	* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Minori's Betty.
35	* BewareTheQuietOnes: Despite her aloofness, she can be very assertive whenever she wants to. In addition, don't make fun of her bust size.
36	* CityMouse: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. Minori thinks she's this and tries to humiliate her with various farming contests, but the girl turns out to have quite a talent.
37	* CleavageWindow: Her idol outfit.
38	* ClingyJealousGirl:
39	** Does not like Kousaku being too close to Minori. Interestingly, this crops up almost right away. During the king's game in episode 2, she snaps her stick when Kousaku gets the king's stick and accidentally has Minori do strange stuff to him, such as putting her foot on his face.
40	** She has a CatFight with Minori in episode 3, then their dueling cools off for a while afterwards.
41	** In episode 11, after he comments that Minori's dress makes her look pregnant, the latter is about to comment that it would make them look like a married couple, but is interrupted by Ringo shoving her butt into and knocking her over. She also gets quite upset when she finds out that Minori's family is planning a marriage between her and Kousaku in episode 11.
42	* EmotionlessGirl: Her expression rarely changes when in SugarAndIcePersonality mode. In Episode 4, she says that she has lost her ability to smile. Her friends speculate that it is due to mental exhaustion from her idol career.
43	* GenkiGirl: Her "idol" persona.
44	* GirlishPigtails: Her "idol" looks and her "student" looks have different variants.
45	* GirlyRun
46	* IdolSinger: Her prior occupation.
47	* InSeriesNickname: Yuka-tan during her idol days and Ringo-cchi given to her by Minori.
48	* LethalChef: According to Minori and Kochou, her miso tastes sour and fishy. Then Ringo reveals she boiled her slippers' insole paddings to give it the appearance of red miso. Even Kousaku is not amused.
49	* NervesOfSteel: Almost nothing can faze this girl. Being forced to wear a skimpy ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' bikini armor? She takes it in stride. A bunch of caterpillars? She calmly pick them up and put them in her hand one at a time. A smelly hen house? Doesn't flinch one bit. A horde of cockroaches? She ''stomps'' them one by one without batting an eye. However, she still has her own {{Berserk Button}}s as mentioned above.
50	* NewTransferStudent: Her sudden transfer to Kousaku's school kickstarts the story.
51	* TheQuietOne: What she is in real life, which greatly contrasts with her lively idol persona.
52	* ShyBlueHairedGirl: Acts very reserved toward her classmates.
53	* SugarAndIcePersonality: When not being an idol.
54	* TranquilFury: Due to being an EmotionlessGirl.
55	* WhenSheSmiles: When the stoic Ringo finally manages to have a heartfelt smile, all her friends are stunned.
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58	!!Minori Nakazawa
59	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minorinakazawa_7855.jpg]]
60	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Lynsey Hale (English)
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62	Kousaku's tomboyish childhood friend, who has feelings for him.
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64	* BigOlEyebrows: Her brows are thicker than the other main characters.
65	* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Ringo's Veronica.
66	* BigBreastPride: She loves to flaunt them at Ringo, or to try and get Kousaku's attention with them.
67	* BoyishShortHair
68	* CannotSpitItOut: Has feelings for Kousaku, but can't bring herself to tell him outright, although she hints at it, such as telling him he'll just marry a girl from their town and become a regular farmer in the first episode. He then points out that she's the only girl his age, causing her to blush.
69	* {{Childhood Friend\|s}}: Grew up with Kousaku. In episode 5, Kosaku explains that because of his MissingMom, and his dad working late, that he had to live with her, and her parents essentially raised him due to his father abandoning him shortly after his mother died.
70	* ClingyJealousGirl: Outright declares that she won't let Ringo take Kousaku. She also destroyed all of the Ringo related merchandise in his room, such as posters, under the pretext of his mom asking her to do it.
71	* CovertPervert:
72	** In Episode 2, after seeing Kousaku getting excited at the chance of handling Ringo's panties, she decides that if Kousaku likes panties that much, he can take ''hers'' instead.
73	** In Episode 4, when Kousaku comes to her room late at night, she immediately assumes the dirtiest scenario, then proceeds to redecorate her room to look like a {{Love Hotel\|s}} room and make herself ReadyForLovemaking.
74	** In Episode 5, she gets a little too excited when talking about bathing together with Kousaku.
75	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Minori subjects Kousaku to physical punishment, sometimes justified, and other times due to some {{Tsundere}} tendencies.
76	* GirlNextDoor: Has this dynamic with Kousaku.
77	* IdiotHair: Which also functions as ExpressiveHair.
78	* InSeriesNickname: Minoppoyo given to her by Ringo.
79	* PatientChildhoodLoveInterest: To Kousaku.
80	* SchoolSportUniform: She wears bloomers during one of the farming contests. Ringo calls her a "big ass", and with good reason.
81	* {{Shorttank}}: Emphasized by her casual outfits.
82	* StrongFamilyResemblance: Shares the exact same face as her mother and sisters.
83	* SuperDrowningSkills: Has never been to the beach before and is seen wearing a swim ring.
84	* VaporWear: Reveals that she isn't wearing a bra after giving Kosaku her [[BullSeeingRed red shirt to distract the bull]] in the first episode.
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87	!!Kei Kamatori
88	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/keikamatori_3033.jpg]]
89	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/WataruHatano (Japanese), Creator/DerickSnow (English)
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91	Kousaku's best friend and fellow pervert.
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93	* AmbiguouslyBi: He seems to enjoy shooting yogurt on Kousaku a little too much.
94	* BromanticFoil: To Kousaku, albeit downplayed in that he actually has a girl pining for him in secret.
95	* TheComicallySerious: Tries to keep a cool-guy act in public, but when talking about perverted things, he actually gets riled up.
96	* IHaveNoSon: Inverted example. [[spoiler:Kei disowned his father, a businessman dealing in agriculture. In episode 10, he reveals that his mother died because of the chemicals his father insisted on using on their crops. As a result, he ran away and had his aunt adopt him so he could take her last name instead of his father's.]]
97	* LargeHam: Primarily when it concerns perverted subjects.
98	* LovableSexManiac: Just a little more restrained than Kousaku. Until he gets riled up.
99	* ObliviousToLove: Remains unaware of Kochou's affections for him; unlike Kousaku's case, however, he's not wholly at fault, given the latter's [[{{Tsundere}} awkward approach]].
100	* PutOnABus: He goes overseas at the end of episode 10 to get some more farm training.
101	* ScaryShinyGlasses: PlayedForLaughs.
102	* SeriousBusiness: He goes into a monologue about panties in Episode 2.
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105	!!Kochou "Boin" Yoshida
106	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kouchouyoshida_1269.jpg]]
107	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MarinaInoue (Japanese), Creator/MeganShipman (English)
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109	A snobbish girl in Animal Husbandry Department, known for a great rack and a rivalry with Agricultural Department, where Kousaku and his friends belong. Member of the "Shitennou" ("Four Kings of Farming"), a clique of the school's top students. She has a crush on Kei, and gets easily flustered from interacting with him.
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111	* AccidentalMisnaming: Her schoolmates tend to call her "Boobs" (aka "Boing" in Japanese) instead of her real name.
112	* CannotSpitItOut: She likes Kei, but can't bring herself to tell him.
113	* DCupDistress: Yoshida suffers from this when some of the other students mentions her breasts in a derogatory manner.
114	* FriendToAllLivingThings
115	* FullNameBasis: How she addresses others, when she is not calling them vulgarians (in the dub).
116	* InSeriesNickname: "Boin Yoshida", "Boobs" ''(oppai)'' among other variants.
117	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all her snobbery, her love for animals is undisputed. One such instance is when Kousaku's gang manages to incapacitate a monkey who frequently messes up their crops and consider offing him (except Ringo), her solution is to send him to the local zoo, where he will be taken care of and have a handful of mates to keep him company.
118	* PutOnABus: She goes overseas with Kei to learn more farming techniques at the end of episode 10.
119	* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Suffers this in episode 9 after several of the other characters strip her down to her underwear in an attempt to have her join them at the "beach". Which in reality is one of the flooded fields at their school during a typhoon.
120	* {{Tsundere}}: Type A towards Kei.
121	* UncattyResemblance: Her prominent udders reflect those of the cows she cares for.
122	* VerbalTic: When flustered, she mispronounces "na" as "nya", "no" as "nyo", and so forth.
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125	!!Natsumi Becky
126	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bekkinatsumi_1813.jpg]]
127	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ChiwaSaito (Japanese), Creator/TiaBallard (English)
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129	Kousaku's homeroom teacher, who does not look, let alone act, like her forty years of age.
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131	* ADayInTheLimelight: Episode 8 focuses on a day filled with her depraved antics going up a notch.
132	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: According to her flashback, she was either bullied or ignored by her classmates back from way before she was her students' age.
133	* BerserkButton: Mentioning that she's an OldMaid to her face will not end well.
134	* BodySushi: Attempted this in episode 8 and her students weren't amused.
135	* ButtMonkey: She gets smacked around a lot in Episode 8.
136	** IronButtmonkey: She even gets thrown out a third floor window.
137	* CuteAndPsycho: PlayedForLaughs. One minute she puts up a GenkiGirl act while talking about her escapades to her students, then come the next she's emitting a dark aura, speaking in a CreepyMonotone, and occasionally sporting DullEyesOfUnhappiness.
138	* TheEeyore: She sometimes acts like a GenkiGirl, but then when she mentions very private stuff she did in her personal life, such as being an OldMaid, it often brings down the mood of her entire class.
139	* EmotionBomb: PlayedForLaughs but her middle-aged Genma Fist causes her students fall into HeroicBSOD.
140	* FanDisservice: Her students do not appreciate her depraved behavior in the classroom one bit.
141	* HotTeacher: Has good looks for a woman her age, but the students don't find her attractive.
142	* {{Kawaiiko}}: As a facade to hide her insecurities about her single life.
143	* LovableSexManiac: Her perverted shenanigans are PlayedForLaughs.
144	* MoodSwinger: Can switch from being energetic and chipper to brooding and menacing in a blink of an eye.
145	* MrsRobinson: Although she's single, she acts this way towards Kousaku at times.
146	* OlderThanSheLooks: Looks too young to be 40 years old.
147	* OldMaid: She's a single 40-year-old, and very bitter about it. Adding insult to injury is the fact that her students are less than receptive to her childish antics.
148	* PowerGivesYouWings: When she gets pissed off enough, the wings on her usual outfit expands and she obtains superpowers.
149	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Kousaku explicitly asks why she's still a teacher after all her shameless antics, she mentions that her father is a prefectural assemblyman.
150	* SenseiChan: She often puts on a GenkiGirl facade, and seems a little too unprofessional as a teacher towards her students most of the time. Then there's her [[LovableSexManiac depraved]] [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl antics]] that would make [[Manga/HidamariSketch Yoshinoya-sensei]] look ''innocent''.
151	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Besides looking half her age, she will take every opportunity to suit up in rather skimpy outfits or show off in the nude, including stripping off and putting food on her body in front of her class. It only [[FanDisservice grosses her students out]] even more than she already does by even simply trying to be young.
152	* [[ManChild Woman Child]]: So much so she resents the fact that her younger sister apparently matured earlier than her, being already a mother to a ninth-grade girl with a healthy adolescent life (and a steady boyfriend).
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155	!!Akari "Bio" Suzuki
156	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bio_suzuki_1863.jpg]]
157	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YukaOotsubo (Japanese), Creator/BrynApprill (English)
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159	Head of Biotechnology Department and member of the Shitennou, as well as the school's biggest pervert.
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161	* CameraFiend: She and her underlings will never let any homoerotic moment passes by.
162	* ExoticEyeDesigns: Has cross-shaped pupils.
163	* LargeHam
164	* LovableSexManiac
165	* MadScientist: Acts like one.
166	* TheTease
167	* YaoiFangirl: Kousaku outright calls her a fujoshi.
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170	!!Rintarou "Woodman" Miyamoto
171	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/norin_rintarou_699.jpg]]
172	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/NobuyukiHiyama (Japanese), Jarrod Greene (English)
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174	Head of Forestry Department and one of the Shitennou.
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176	* BadassLongcoat
177	* {{Hachimaki}}
178	* HotBlooded: Considering [[Creator/NobuyukiHiyama his voice actor]], this is a given.
179	* LargeHam
180	* ManlyTears
181	* NoIndoorVoice
182	* NoShirtLongJacket
183	* PunnyName: Rin (林) means forest. And -Tarou can mean as Jack.
184	* {{Sarashi}}
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187	!!Kaoru "Rose" Hanazono
188	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/norin_kaoru_6990.jpg]]
189	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KisshoTaniyama (Japanese), Creator/JoelMcDonald (English)
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191	Head of Landscaping Department and one of the Shitennou.
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193	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Of Kousaku, much to his chagrin.
194	* CampGay: Seems like a womanizing pretty boy at first, but is actually this.
195	* GratuitousEnglish: "YES I AM!"
196	* GratuitousItalian: "Belíssimo."
197	* LargeHam
198	* PunnyName: "Hana" means "flower".
199	* PrettyBoy: Kousaku outright calls him a {{Bishonen}}.
200	* SomethingAboutARose: Always has a rose in his hand. It's even his nickname.
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203	!!Torao "Money" Kanegami
204	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/norin_torao_9271.jpg]]
205	->'''Voiced by''': Mariko Higashiuchi (Japanese), Creator/MorganGarrett (English)
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207	Head of Agronomics Department and one of the Shitennou.
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209	* IRegretNothing: Doesn't mind earning a three-week suspension for her money-grubbing antics so long as she is having fun (and also gets to teach her schoolmates valuable lessons in life).
210	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Yes, she's a scheming money-grubber, but compared to Akari she's a relatively nicer person. She will often give Kousaku practical advice or reward them for helping her, such as loaning them the bus to go to the beach at the end of episode 9.
211	* ManipulativeBitch: Is skilled at using people desire so they can do what she wants.
212	* MeaningfulName: Kane means money and she has money fetish.
213	* NavelDeepNeckline: Wears her jacket open and doesn't wear a bra.
214	* PunnyName: "Kane" means "money".
215	* StealthMentor: On the surface she teaches unethical business strategies. Her true intent, however, is to foster teamwork and camaraderie on her proteges.
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217	!!Wakadanna
218	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nourin_wakadanna_8833.jpg]]
219	!!! Wakadanna or Young Master
220	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EmiriKatou (Japanese), Creator/CaitlinGlass (English)
221
222	A wallaby that is owned by and lives at Tamo Agricultural School. He is very friendly with Kousaku and his friends and also serves as the official mascot of Class 2A.
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224	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter
225	* SilentSnarker: Occasionally reacts to Kousaku and his friends' hijinks with consternation.
226	* TeamPet
227	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Carrots.

Context Characters / NoRin