The characters of the manga series Dengeki Daisy:
A sixteen year old girl in her second year of high school, Teru has been under contact with Daisy, a mysterious person who has watched over Teru since her brother's death. Teru is a stubborn but well-meaning girl, and she becomes the servant of the school janitor Kurosaki after she breaks a window in school.
- Brainy Brunette: Well, she is a scholarship student.
- Catchphrase: "Go bald Kurosaki!"
- Everyone Can See It: The UST between Kurosaki and Teru.
- Gender-Blender Name: Teru is usually a guy's name. Lampshaded in chapter 6.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: Says this to her friends several times when it concerns Kurosaki.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Teru doesn't know that Kurosaki is Daisy until Chapter 14.
- Loves My Alter Ego: Ironically, it's the opposite effect. Teru grows to love Kurosaki while thinking of his alter ego Daisy as a brotherly figure, and she has no idea they're one and the same person until Chapter 14.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Likes to act like an idiot and is often underestimated but is realy quite smart.
- Social Services Does Not Exist: First Teru’s parents die and leave her in the care of her older brother. Then he dies, and basically leaves her in the care of a stranger she can only contact via cellphone.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Kurosaki and Teru.
- Volleying Insults: Often yells at Kurosaki to grow bald.
- Will They or Won't They?: Kurosaki and Teru.
The school janitor who Teru works for. He is considered a jerk and a pervert by Teru, who initially dislikes Kurosaki but soon grows to love him. What Teru doesn't know is that Kurosaki is secretly her precious Daisy.
- The Atoner: Blames himself for the death of Teru's brother, and as a result, watches over Teru as Daisy.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Kurosaki and Teru.
- But Not Too Foreign: Chapter 30 goes back and forth on whether Kurosaki's blond hair is natural or not. But later chapters that show him as a child prove that it is his natural hair color, so his "lie" that he is part English is probably true.
- Character Tics: He tends to hum when in deep thought.
- Delinquent: Resembles one in appearance.
- Domestic Abuse: Played for laughs.
- Driven to Suicide: In the past, but he was stopped by Souchirou.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Kurosaki purposely makes himself look like a Jerkass in front of Teru so she won't realize he's actually her Mysterious Protector Daisy.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Kurosaki is in love with Teru and he knows she loves him back, but he is determined to give up on her. So much that he gets worn out by the idea.
- I'll Kill You!: One of Kurosaki's many, many threats if provoked.
- Insecure Love Interest: Despite his strong feelings for her, Kurosaki believes that he has no right to love Teru as he is "the one that led her brother to his death." Throughout the manga he struggles between his feelings towards her and his own conflicting memories regarding his complicated past as a hacker.
- Mysterious Protector: As Daisy.
- Playful Hacker: Kurosaki is seen as a skilled hacker, who has the abilities to crack into school databases, delete information, hack into Teru's phone, amongst other things. His abilities are notably high-level and most appears to be self-taught, given his lack of formal structured education from not completing secondary school.
- Smoking Is Cool: He smokes Philip Morris brand cigarettes.
- Tsundere: More so than Teru. Lampshaded in Chapter 13.Master: Wah, how creepy. A tsundere guy.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Kurosaki and Teru.
- Vague Age: According to the author, she'll reveal it to the readers as the story progresses. In Chapter 20, it is revealed that Kurosaki is twenty-four years old.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Gender-flipped. Mess with Teru, and you will regret it.
- Volleying Insults: Often insults Teru by calling her an idiot or teasing her A-Cup status.
- Will They or Won't They?: Kurosaki and Teru.
A teacher at Teru's school who knows Kurosaki and was engaged to Teru's older brother Souchirou prior to his death. She looks after Teru and isn't above beating up Kurosaki if he says or does anything insulting.
- Cool Big Sis: To Teru. She would have been Teru's sister-in-law because she was engaged to Teru's older brother Souchirou prior to his death.
Teru's best friend who was threatened into a scam, Kiyoshi now works as a second servant to Kurosaki, who he idolizes.
- Shorter Means Smarter: Inverted more and more as he grows taller.
- Welcome Back, Traitor: Teru forgave him a lot more quickly than he forgave himself.
The student council president. Rena initially looks down on Teru, but she later grows to sympathize with her, but is quick to deny it.
- Alpha Bitch: She eventually develops into a Lovable Alpha Bitch.
- Arranged Marriage: Gets into an arranged marriage because her parents felt she had a bad taste in men.
- Cool Big Sis: Becomes a bit of one towards Teru.
- Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: She has a real lousy taste in guys and each dude we see her dating has just been a real phallus. Obviously, her parents get sick of it.
- Ojou: Acts like one, anyway.
- Tsundere: She can be nice but she ain't good at showing it.
- Yandere: At least that's what Kiyoshi thinks. Played for laughs, of course.
Teru's older brother. His dying gift to Teru was Daisy, so he would have someone to look after her in his stead. Flashbacks reveal that Souchirou was the one who made Kurosaki become Daisy, Souchirou was engaged to Riko prior to his death, and he had an idiot-like personality.
- Big Brother Instinct: He's very loving and affectionate towards his sister but this causes some issues because he made Kurosaki be Daisy so Teru would have someone to look after her.
- Curtains Match the Window: His eyes are brown like his hair.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Not a whole lot to really know about this dude, but we do know he was Teru's older brother and that he died after we first see him.
- Secretly Dying: Actually, we find out much later that he died of stomach cancer, something that Teru didn't know.
A child genius raised as an experiment that made him into a hacking nightmare. Professor M was the only one to treat him as a child, hence his obsession with M's testament.
- Human Weapon: The cyber kind.
- Forceful Kiss: How he steals Teru’s first kiss.
- Only One Name: E'eryone else here got last names but Akira doesn't. Akira's just "Akira". Then again, he was raised as an experiment, so that might explain it.
- Playful Hacker: Akira, like Kurosaki, is a highly skilled hacker; it is later revealed that Akira's ability stems from being able to near instantly decode complex code in his head simply from looking at encrypted data.
