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The characters of ''Manga/SakuraGari'' are here.

!!Masataka Tagami

* AccidentalPervert: He meets Katsuragi... when walking on him and Souma doing it.
* AloofBigBrother: To Mitsugu, though they get better.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He is incredibly kind-hearted and friendly, to the point of coming across as rather passive, but if he's pushed to his RageBreakingPoint, he ''will'' lash out.
* BreakTheCutie: The story ''bends over'' to break the kid. [[spoiler: It ''almost'' succeeds.]]
* [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Brooding Older Guy, Gentle Younger Kid]]: The Gentle part.
* CelibateHero: How he starts. He doesn't stay like that, obviously.
* ChildByRape: The reason why [[spoiler: Masataka's birth mother hates him. She then pretty much "sold" him to the Tagamis when he was six.]]
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: The Tagamis paid much more attention to Mitsugu due to his weak health, but they didn't exactly abandon Masataka either.]]
* TheUnfavorite: He feels resentment over his younger brother Mitsugu so he often tends to act cold to him, while Mitsugu obliviously clings to him to try have his attention.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: First Souma, then Katsuragi.]]
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: Takafumi's harmonica.]]
* WhatBeautifulEyes: As said by Souma.

!!Souma Saiki

* BenevolentBoss[=/=]BadBoss: Both of these tropes are zig-zagged. Souma seems to be a good boss at first, giving Masataka a job when he desperately needed one without anyone's recommendation. He refuses to fire him despite a jealous lover recommending he do so. He treats Masataka fairly and encourages him in his personal growth, even spending time with him out of work. So despite Souma having a few perverted tendencies, he doesn't seem too bad, right? '''WRONG.''' This all goes out the window when Masataka finds out frightening facts about him. Then Souma sexually assaults him and outright rapes Masataka multiple times and blackmails him into staying in service with Takafumi's debt when Masataka tries leaving. This continues even after [[spoiler:Takafumi is already dead, which Souma knows but intentionally hides from Masataka to make sure the latter won't leave]]. Then [[spoiler:Masataka does find out and ''snaps'', openly showing all his rage at being abused and deceived, and Souma [[HeelRealization realizes what an utterly horrible person he's been]], causing him to attempt suicide out of guilt. He survives, and from that point onwards, he starts to change his ways and become much more genuinely benevolent.]]
* BerserkButton: DON'T touch Masataka.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's regal, cynical, soft-spoken and polite. But please, don't cross him.
* BrokenAce and BrokenBird: Genius businessman. Very cultured. Totally loaded. Beautiful. Charismatic. ''And a massive bundle of issues''.
* [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Brooding Older Guy, Gentle Younger Kid]]: The Brooding part.
* ButNotTooForeign: Half-English, half-Japanese
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The Abel to Sakurako's Cain. Sorta.]]
* TheCasanova
* ChickMagnet ''and'' EvenTheGuysWantHim
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:"Abigail... Mother... [[MissingMom Mother has definitely-- She has...]]!" [[SubvertedTrope She has forgiven you...]]"]]
* CooldownHug: To Masataka, after [[spoiler: the torture and rape deal with Katsuragi.]] Somewhat subverted since [[spoiler: at first Masataka rejects him, and it's only after Souma promises to not go beyond ''and'' keeps his word that Masataka lets him do it.]]
** And again, he gives another to Masataka when [[spoiler: he explains his backstory and issues almost at the end, which concludes with poor Masataka having an HeroicBSOD.]]
%%* DepravedBisexual
* {{Deconstruction}}: Arguably deconstructs the "[[spoiler:rapist]] {{seme}}" character type so common in BoysLove. Plenty of BoysLove manga try to justify or explain this trope by making the {{seme}} a TroubledAbuser, but Sakura Gari goes out of its way to show exactly ''how'' a person can come to associate [[spoiler: rape]] with love, or see it as their only option when faced with losing the person they love.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:As a kid, he thought of giving himself as SlashedThroat due to his deals with Katsuragi but couldn't bring himself to do so. Later he tries to go the BathSuicide way after realizing how badly he had broken Masataka.]]
* EntitledToHaveYou: Before he fell in love with Masataka, he clearly disregards Masataka's personal space and gropes him when Masataka made clear he had no interest in sex. After...[[spoiler: he expects Masataka to fall into his arms because he likes Masataka and that Masataka should accept him despite the very '''unsettling''' discovery Masataka found. When Masataka refuses him out of fear, Souma rapes him.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Following Masataka's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, he comes to realize just how awful his actions up until that point were.]]
* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:When he breaks away from "Abigail" he asks Masataka to help him his hair cut short.]]
* LoveMakesYouDumb: His affection for Masataka can bring out the idiot in him.
* LoveRedeems and LadykillerInLove: [[spoiler:For Masataka]]
* ReallyGetsAround: He's more or less a [[HighClassCallGirl High Class Call Boy]] and has slept around with many people [[spoiler: with his consent or not.]]
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Very, very much so.
* TroubledAbuser: His horribly fucked up view of love and sex comes [[spoiler: from the truly horrid abuse he's been through.]]
* {{Yandere}}: He blackmails Masataka into staying with him when [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Masataka tries to run away.]] [[spoiler: Souma poisons Dr.Katsuragi for hurting Masataka and eggs on the doctor's abused wife to finish him off.]]

!!Lord Saiki

* LovingAShadow: Has completely idealized his long-lost love, Souma's dead mother Abigail. To the point of [[spoiler: periodically asking Souma, who's a dead-ringer for her, to put on her shawl and let his hair down so he can sort-of speak to her.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: When Souma almost goes CallingTheOldManOut on him.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He isn't an evil person per se, but he hasn't been a good father to any of his children.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Subverted: while he's not a bad and horrible person, not only his health has taken a nosedive, but he's unable to handle the family business and thus Souma is the one who does so.
* StarCrossedLovers: Him and Abigail

!!Lady [[spoiler:Sakurako]] Saiki

* BathSuicide: [[spoiler:Everyone ''thinks'' she died like this. The truth is FAR uglier]]
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler:Totally averted. Her rape of young Souma is ''not'' played for laughs or excused in any way.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:She despised Souma for being made heir when instead of her child, but Youya is not Lord Saiki's son.]]
* TheResenter: [[spoiler:She hated Souma for being made heir over her child.]]
* WickedStepmother: [[spoiler: Towards Souma, to incredible degrees. She also was verbally/mentally abusive to Youya/Sakurako, or at least poisoned them with her own hate.]]
%%* WalkingSpoiler: Very much so.

!!Sakurako Saiki [[spoiler:(Youya Saiki)]]

* BreakTheCutie: Used to be a CheerfulChild as a toddler. Then... something ''horrible'' happened. S/he never recovered from it.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The Cain to Souma's Abel. Sorta.]]
%%* CherryBlossomGirl
* ClingyJealousGirl: To her brother Souma.
%%** CrazyJealousGuy
%%* CreepyCrossdresser
* EnfanteTerrible: She has just turned 15 years old, but is really screwed up.
%%* HimeCut
* LittleMissBadass: Very proficient with a katana when it's needed.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: [[spoiler:After an incident during a CherryBlossoms pasrt, Youya/Sakurako was locked away in the old house, with Katou as their only caretaker and constant company, while everyone outside the manse thought s/he had died of illness. S/he only got out when a fire broke in and Terashima died.]]
* [[spoiler: [[MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe My Mom Will Live Through Me]]: Took up the first Sakurako's name after witnessing her murder at the hands of Katsuragi and Souma.]]
* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: [[spoiler:Was originally Youya, Sakurako's son, but essentially took over the role of "Sakurako" after she died]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: She has red eyes, and she is a seriously messed up and dangerous person.
* TheUnfavorite: [[spoiler:Became this when Souma was aknowledged and taken in by Lord Saiki. This is what drove the original Sakurako to madness and to all the Souma abuse, as revenge for her child being shoved aside in the succesion.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Sorta. She appears rather early in the story, but a good part of her motivations are driven by a massive secret in the past.
%%* {{Yandere}}

!!Nogawa "Takafumi" Matsushita

* BigBrotherMentor: To his little brother Masataka.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Harsh and rough around the edges, but basically a kind and hardworking young man who loves his baby brother. [[spoiler: He's also the only member of Masataka's birth family that he's more or less in contact with.]]
* PoliceBrutality: [[spoiler:He dies as a result of being captured and subjected to ColdBloodedTorture by the police... Which Masataka found out after Souma blackmailed him into sex.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He ends up dead because of the...]]
* {{Yakuza}}: [[spoiler:He gets in trouble with them, and Masataka is stuck with [[WorkOffTheDebt working off his debt...]] to Souma. He ''does'' keep his word and pays up. Bad thing, it still doesn't work.]]

!!Mitsugu Tagami

* CherryBlossoms: He likes to make charms in the shape of ''sakura'' flowers. [[spoiler: And he gives some to Masataka before he returns home, to wish him luck in his university exams.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[spoiler:Subverted. Mitsugu clung to Masataka [[AloofBigBrother which caused him to reject him]], but later he revealed that he ''was'' very aware of the tensions between them and even confesses that he almost wanted to die because of it. Masataka calls him foolish, but from then on they start getting along better.]]

!!Ohatsu

%%* OldRetainer
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:She actually ''did'' know that Souma was abused by the first Sakurako, but she kept it quiet to not tarnish the family's honor. She never forgave herself for it.]]
* SupremeChef: An excellent cook, and sometimes makes YourFavorite to show affection to others.
* TeamMom: Tries to keep order among the maids and butlers.

!!Katou

* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: He and the actual Sakurako are responsible for Youya's fall to madness, but he didn't do anything besides act as Sakurako's right hand. Until the end, where he ''does'' stab Souma over Youya's death.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:He's Youya's true father.]]
* OldRetainer: [[spoiler: Subverted, he turns out to be ''way'' more than that. More exactly: he is Sakurako/Youya's real father as well as their caretaker.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Sakurako.

!!Abigail

* DeathByChildbirth: Died giving birth to Souma.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: [[spoiler:Her family once was old money, but they lost it all at some point. Abigail's mother [[PrincessInRags still acted like they were rich]].]]
* TheLostLenore [[spoiler: For Lord Saiki]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She's the one Souma inherited his looks from.

!!Dr. Tomohiko Katsuragi

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Off-handedly mentions that his mother abused him. He also has a flashback of his teenage self tied up to a cherry tree, but not many details are given.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He appears at first to be a handsome but stoic doctor. Then we're led to believe he's a shady but not really evil guy, even getting an apparent PetTheDog moment via supporting Masataka in public. And ''then'' we get to see what an horrible person he '''actually''' is.
%%* DomesticAbuse: Poor Asayo
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:When he [[{{Fingore}} puts Masataka's hand]] inside a pot of boiling tea, Masataka is finally able to react and defends himself via throwing the pot and the tea on Katsuragi's face before running away. Later, Katsuragi is seen [[BandagedFace with half his face bandaged]] - including his left eye.]]
* HospitalHottie: Very handsome and works as a doctor.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:The three persons he abused the most become the key to his perdition.]]
* [[spoiler: MasterPoisoner: Katsuragi made his own drugs and poison, using hemlock and arsenic among other things. Considering that he poisoned Lady Saiki to death and later slowly started to do the same to Lord Saiki...]]
* RagsToRiches: The backstory shows him as as a low-to-mid class highschool student who lived and worked in the Saiki's BigFancyHouse. When we meet him, he's one of the top doctors in a local hospital ''and'' the personal physician of the Saiki clan.
%%** FromNobodyToNightmare
%%* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to [[spoiler:Masataka while raping him]]. Is given one by [[spoiler: Souma right before his fatal HumiliationConga.]]
* TwoFaced: [[spoiler:Under the bandages covering his face, you can see the borders of the massive burns left by the boiling tea that Masataka threw at him in self-defense.]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: To NightmareFuel levels.]]

!!Asayo Katsuragi

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Her father beat her, according to her testimony.]]
%%* BrokenBird
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:The cherry on top of Katsuragi's HumiliationConga comes when [[ManOnFire she burns him alive]], as her way to punish him for abusing her.]]
* LettingHerHairDown and SlipknotPonytail: When [[spoiler:Souma has sex with her to get info about what Katsuragi did to Masataka]], Asayo's long black hair (until then arranged in the traditional Japanese manner) goes loose.
* StepfordSmiler: She seems to be a sweet YamatoNadeshiko. The truth is ''far'' sadder and uglier.
* UnwantedSpouse: Not only it's implied that Katsuragi married Asayo just [[ArrangedMarriage because her dad owns the hospital he works at]], but she clearly knows about his obsession with Souma. ''And'' [[DomesticAbuse her husband cruelly beats her]].
-->[[spoiler: '''Souma''']]: "Katsuragi truly is a man beyond redemption."
-->'''Asayo''': "It's fine... [[LampshadeHanging I'm his wife... in name only]]"

!!Nobuhito Terashima

* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:Applied to him by Sakurako. For worse, she nonchalantly crushes ''his drawing hand'']]
%%* SacrificialLamb
* StaircaseTumble: [[spoiler:What follows his {{Fingore}} episode. But that's not what kills him...]]
** ManOnFire: [[spoiler:''This'' is what does him in.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: A very good-looking boarding student who also is a talented illustrator.

!!Hiroshi Yoshino

* CrazyJealousGuy: For Souma, again.
%%* SpurnedIntoSuicide
* {{Yandere}}: For Souma, [[spoiler:whom he tries to stab to death.]]

!!Kanako Kawamori

* AlphaBitch and ClingyJealousGirl
* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler:What her dad wants between her and Souma. Souma seemed inclined to agree, but then the ending came.]]
* SheCleansUpNicely: Not that Kanako didn't dress up prettily, but seeing her in a luxurious kimono [[note]]which seems to be a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furisode furisode]][[/note]] instead of a Western dress has a similar effect.

!!The Unnamed Maid

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:We meet her already broken.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:What Sakurako put her through. She was first BoundAndGagged in UnwillingSuspension fashion, then beaten savagely, and ''then'' photographed while half-naked and still tied up.]]
** ConvenientMiscarriage: [[spoiler:She was pregnant with Souma's baby and lost him/her due to this.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Suffers a ''massive'' meltdown [[spoiler: upon seeing Sakurako.]]
* MadnessMantra: "[[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOO!]] Give it back, give it back, GIVE IT BACK!"
* TheMistress: [[spoiler:What she was to Souma, though likely not by full will. We'll never know.]]
%%* NoNameGiven: Well, yes.
* TheOphelia: By the time we see this poor girl, [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness her eyes look dull]] and [[DissonantSerenity her expression is vacant.]] She then attempts to get info about [[spoiler: Souma's well-being after his suicide attempt]] and asks Masataka if [[spoiler: he has stepped into the warehouse]], but as she's speaking to him she briefly [[spoiler: sees Sakurako around]] and starts screaming... The next time we see her she [[TheUnsmile is smiling madly]] and tells [[spoiler: Kitamura]] that [[spoiler: she believes Sakurako tried to kill Souma, just like she did to her and Souma's baby.]] Poor, poor little girl.

!!Inspector Kitamura

* CoolOldGuy: OnlySaneMan: Among the few people with constant common sense
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sorta. He's a rather levelheaded police inspector.