Characters from Kaze no Shōjo Emily.
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Starr Family
As a whole
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: They loved Emily very much, but passed away at different points of her childhood.
- Happily Married: The Murrays looked down on Douglas and didn't want Juliet to marry him. She did so anyway, and they were happy together until her death.
- In the Blood:
- Both Juliet and Emily defied the Murray's traditions for their own happiness.
- Douglas, like his daughter, had a passion for writing and contributing to newspapers.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Juliet and Emily both wore big bows in their hair, except Emily's is pink while hers is blue.
- Stellar Name: Their surname is Starr.
Emily Byrd Starr
Emily Byrd Starr (エミリー・バード・スター)
Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Francesca Bielli (Italian), Raghda Al-Khatib (Arabic)
A 10-year-old Canadian girl who's recently lost her parents. She is forced to relocate to her aunt's house in New Moon and assimilate to their way of life. She has a vivid imagination and a talent for writing. In spite of the fact that others perceive her as wierd, she has a charming personality that draws people in.
Emily Byrd Starr
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- All of the Other Reindeer: At first, everyone at Blair Waters excludes her for being a Murray, even though she disavows them. However, they eventually warm up to her when they realize that she's someone else under the surface.
- Beware the Nice Ones: When Rhoda bullies her and Ilse fights with her, Emily doesn't take it lying down and fights back with everything she's got. By the end of her and Ilse's fight, they're both covered in dirt and roughed up, and Emily convinces Aunt Elizabeth that they were dragged by horses when coming home from school to escape punishment.
- Bitch Slap: Emily is usually a nice girl, but when Rhoda takes her bullying too far, she slaps her.
- Blithe Spirit: Emily is persistent about following your dreams no matter what, and this rubs off Ilse and Perry. She even manages to move Aunt Elizabeth.
- Break the Cutie: She doesn't take her father's death well, and doesn't get along well with her aunt either. She sobs when she loses her beloved pigtails and is forced to sit in a dark room as punishment.
- Cuddle Bug: She loves cuddling Ilse. And though Ilse doesn't show it, she secretly loves it.
- Daddy's Girl: Since her mother died when she was four, her only living parent for most of her life was her father. She even starts writing poems just for him, because she imagines that he's hearing them.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Emily's parents died from different diseases when she was young, and she's sent to live with relatives that constantly abuse her. As she gets older, she sends out her manuscripts to various publishers, but they constantly reject them. Despite this, she pushes on and on until she fulfills her dream of becoming an accomplished writer.
- The Dog Bites Back:
- In the second episode, she doesn't let Ilse get away with bullying her and fights until they're both covered in mud and dirt.
- When she hears Rhoda gloat about how she frightened her to her Girl Posse, Emily marches straight up to them, ignores Rhoda acting sweet and innocent, and Bitch Slaps her.
- Dude Magnet: Both of her closest male friends have crushes on her, but she ends up with Teddy.
- Expository Hairstyle Change : Enforced. Aunt Elizabeth disapproves of her hairstyle, so she cuts them off, even as Emily begs her not to.
- Fairytale Wedding Dress: Emily gets married in a beautiful white gown adorned by flowers.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Emily has a cat, Saucy Sal, which she brings with her to New Moon. He is very playful and follows Emily wherever she goes.
- Heartwarming Orphan: Jimmy, Laura and Nancy are touched by Emily and her optimism, and view her as this.
- Insistent Terminology: She is not a Murray, she is a Starr. She gets upset when the children at her school call her one.
- Mouthy Kid: Not to the extent of Ilse, but Emily always rejects Elizabeth's rules and refuses to conform to them. She also speaks back to Ms. Brownell, causing her to label her as a problem student.
- Orphan's Ordeal: Her beloved father is dead and she copes by writing poems to his spirit. She also lost her mother when she was young, and barely has any memories of her.
- Pink Is Feminine: Emily is always dressed in a pink bow and a pink frock. Though, at Rhoda's party, she wears a red dress.
- Plucky Girl: When Aunt Elizabeth finds out that Emily has been writing even though she told her not to, she tears up her script. Emily tells her it doesn't matter anyway because her and her friends have already memorized all their lines, and goes on to give a stellar performance with them at the show.
- Purple Prose: Her style of writing is very vivid and flowery, which charms her classmates. When she's appraoched by a newspaper that ask her to write poems for them every day, her popularity explodes furthermore.
- Spirited Young Lady: Emily was raised by her father Douglas to be free-spirited, happy young child that could so anything she wanted to if she put her mind to it. This clashes with Aunt Elizabeth's teachings.
- Stepford Smiler: She acts prim and proper on the outside, but on the inside she sorely misses her dad and wishes her life was better. Ilse, Teddy and Perry are amongst the few who are privy to this piece of information.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Wears a big pink bow on the back of her head.
Juliet Starr (née Murray)
Juliet Starr, Juliet Murray (ジ ュリエット・マレー)
Voiced by: Unknown (Japanese), Unknown (Italian), Hazar Al-harak (Arabic)
Emily's deceased mother. She died when she was four.
Juliet (young)
- Everyone Loves Blondes: She has blonde hair and she was considered a lovely person by everyone she met.
- Ill Girl: Juliet passed away from an unknown disease and as a result, Emily grew up without a mother.
- The Lost Lenore: To Douglas, who continues to think of her years after death and speaks of her fondly to Emily.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: She was a happy, free-spirited soul, something which Laura admired about her. She chose to leave the Murray family to marry the man she loved, but died shortly afterwards.
Douglas Starr
Douglas Starr (グラス・スター)
Voiced by: Shigenori Soya (Japanese), Luca Ghignone (Italian), Marwan Farhat (Arabic)
Emily's deceased father. He was a newspaper reporter.- Good Parents: He did his best to raise Emily despite being a single dad Secretly Dying from tuberculosis.
- Plot-Triggering Death: His death leads to Emily moving to New Moon.
- Secretly Dying: At some point, he contracted tuberculosis and passed away when Emily was 11.
- Victorian Novel Disease: Tuberculosis in this case.
Murray family
As a whole
- 0% Approval Rating:
- Almost everyone in New Moon hates the Murrays because they're a stuck-up, rude, pompous assholes that look down on everyone else.
- On her first day at school, Emily is even attacked by the other kids because she's a Murray, even though she hates them too and refuses to use their surname.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Murrays adhere to traditions that prioritize their social image, and as a result they shun things such as individuality, self-expression and personal interests. Aunt Elizabeth is livid when she sees Emily continue to write and play despite her warnings, and harshly punishes her any way she can. Her and Ruth are frequently emotionally and verbally abusive to Emily, and it's implied they think it's normal because they grew up with it. At one point Emily ispunished by being locked in a dark room in the second floor of the Murray house, but escapes through a window.
- The Clan: The Murrays function as one, and Elizabeth is the head. Her siblings either fear her or respect her authority.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: Of sorts. Jimmy tells Emily that the Murray family motto is “always see things through no matter how tough they are”, hence Aunt Elizabeth's rigid mentality.
- Family Eye Resemblance: Most of them have blue eyes that are of similar shapes.
- In the Blood: They believe that their mannerisms and pride is this. On the flip side, they snark at Emily for being the daughter of Douglas, saying she inherited her mannerisms from him. It apparently never occured to them that she likely inherited them from Juliet, the very Murray who defied them, but they're too proud to badmouth her.
- Maligned Mixed Marriage: The Murrays vehemently opposed Juliet marrying Douglas, and cut her off once she made it official with him.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: The Murray family includes five sisters (Elizabeth, Laura, Juliet, Nancy, Ruth) and two brothers (Oliver, Wallace).
- Proper Lady: The Murrays believe this to be the standard of their women, particularly Juliet, Elizabeth and Laura.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Most of the females have a certain hair coil in the middle of their foreheads.
- Token Good Teammate: Laura Murray is the only aunt of Emily's that's openly kind to her and routinely shows her support, while her second cousin Jimmy also befriends her and also plays with her in the garden.
- True Blue Femininity: Laura and Juliet both wear blue clothing. They were also very close as children, until Juliet married Douglas and never saw the Murrays ever again.
Aunt Elizabeth
Aunt Elizabeth, Elizabeth Murray (エリザベス・マレー)
Voiced by: Yoshiko Fujita (Japanese), Cristina Giolitti (Italian), Tharaa Dipsy (Arabic)
Emily's main caretaker, and the daughter of Archibald Murray. She is the head of the Murray family.
Aunt Elizabeth
- Abusive Parents:
- Even though she's well aware Emily just lost her father, she speaks badly of him to her. She also offers little to no emotional support and criticizing almost every aspect of Emily. It's Laura who acts more of a benevolent mother figure to her.
- When Emily arrives in New Moon, Aunt Elizabeth tells her that she must cut off her pigtails to be a Proper Lady. Emily refuses, because her pigtails were her father Douglas's favourite hairstyle. Aunt Elizabeth then forbily cuts them off and locks her in the guest room as punishment.
- She frequently berates Emily for wanting to be a writer and tears up her manuscript for the school play to convince her not to do it. However, Emily goes on with it anyway and receives a standing ovation at the end.
- Anti-Education Mama: She supports Emily going to school, but she also wants her to be a Proper Lady befitting of a Murray and thus abstain from "unladylike" hobbies. Emily, however, wants to be a novelist. When Aunt Elizabeth sees that Emily is adamant, she tries to destroy her written work to stop her.
- Aww Look They Really Do Love Each Other: She's a harsh maternal figure to Emily, but cares for her even if her methods are unorthodox.
- Character Development: She is initially very traditional and scolds Emily for being different, but later comes to meet her halfway. Hell, post-time skip, she even willingly listens to Emily's stories and encourages her.
- Control Freak: She must have the final say on what Emily (and the rest of the Murrays) do.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Elizabeth starts off as cold and haughty, but gradually learns that Emily is a person too and has her own dreams, with added pressure from her own family members to stop being so harsh on the kid.
- Evil Matriarch: She psychologically abuses Emily frequently and is feared by the rest of the family for her overbearing ways. Downplayed, however, because she's not inherently "evil" per se, just very flawed and misguided in her methods.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: She says that Emily can never be a writer, despite the fact that her work is praised by newspapers and her school.
- Jerkass: She's haughty, cold and belittling to her niece and goes as far as to tear up her writing. She also speaks ill of her dead father and forces her to conform to the Murray's rigid standards of womanhood.
- Jerkass Realization: Part of her Character Development is realizing that she's taken her traditions too far towards her family.
- Kick the Dog: She doesn't even wait for Douglas's funeral to end before badmouthing him. And there's also everything else she does to Emily.
- Rich Bitch: She looks down on Perry for coming from a poor family, and also doesn't have the nicest things to say about Douglas.
Aunt Laura
Aunt Laura, Laura Murray (ローラ・マレー)
Voiced by: Masako Ikeda (Japanese), Sonia Mazza (Italian), Asima Youssef (Arabic)
Aunt Ruth
Aunt Ruth (ル ース伯母さん)
Voiced by: Yoko Matsuoka (Japanese), Unknown (Italian), Majd Zaza (Arabic)
The third daughter of Archibald Murray. She is a childless widow.
Aunt Ruth
- Fat Bitch: She's on the heavy side, and part of why Emily is miserable at her new home.
- Freudian Excuse: The reason she always acts cold hearted is because her husband died.
- Jerkass: Like Elizabeth, she is a harsh critic of her little recently-orphaned niece.
- Malicious Misnaming: Likes to call Emily "Amalie".
- Pet the Dog: Despite her horrible attitude, she supports Emily getting a higher education when Elizabeth doesn't. She also vouches for Emily when she's suspended.
- Stylish Sunhats: She wears a large-brimmed white sunhat with the feather, and is part of the esteemed Murray Clan.
Uncle Wallace
Voiced by: Eiji Ito (Japanese), Oliviero Corbetta (Italian), Unknown (Arabic)
The first son of Archibald Murray.- Satellite Character: Not much is known about him, apart from the fact that he's the oldest son of Archibald, but younger than Elizabeth and Laura.
Uncle Oliver
Voiced by: Takeshi Banto (Japanese), Marco Pagani (Italian), Unknown (Arabic)
The second son of Archibald Murray.- Satellite Character: He doesn't have that much of a role in the anime apart from a few lines. All we know about him is that he's older than Ruth but younger than Wallace.
Jimmy Murray
Jimmy Murray (ジミー・マレー), James Murray, Cousin Jimmy
Voiced by: Rokurou Naya (Japanese), Claudio Moneta (Italian), Mansour Salti (Arabic)
Emily's second cousin.
Jimmy Murray
- Affectionate Nickname: His name is James. but everyone calls him Jimmy.
- Caring Gardener: He is the Murray family's gardener, and often kind to Emily.
- Friend to All Children: When Emily is locked in a room by Aunt Elizabeth, Jimmy helps her out and plays with her, teaching her how to make butter. He also welcomes her friends into the garden.
- Funny Afro: Though it's rather small, his hair is unkempt and resembles an afro.
- Green Thumb: Jimmy manages a farm that the children love to play in.
- Nature Lover: He loves pretty flowers.
- Nice Guy: He's a kind-hearted man and is a true friend to Emily.
Emily's friends
As a whole
Left to right: Ilse, Perry, Teddy and Emily
- Better as Friends: Emily and Perry. He used to have a crush on her, but after finding out that Ilse loved him all along, he falls for her. Emily has always had eyes for Teddy anyway.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best:
- Emily's mother died when she was 4 from an illness, and her father died when tuberculosis.
- Ilse's mother, Beatrice Mitchell, died when travelling to repay a loan at New Moon. As a result her grief stricken father can't bring himself to speak about her.
- Teddy's father is implied to be deceased since he lives with his single mom.
- Perry is also implied to be an orphan since he lives with his aunt.
- Cheerful Child: Ilse is of the Hot-Blooded variant, Teddy is the happy-go-lucky kind and Perry and Emily are the Heartwarming Orphan variant.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Emily ends up wedding Teddy; Ilse ends up marrying Perry, or at the very least seems to be engaged to him given how they were an item at Teddy/Emily's wedding.
- Color-Coded Characters: Emily often wears pink and Ilse, Teddy and Perry often wear blue.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: It consists of two girls (Emily and Ilse) and two boys (Teddy and Perry). You can also count Rhoda and Jimmy as Sixth Rangers.
- Happily Married: Post-Time Skip, Emily and Teddy marry after she confesses that she's loved him ever since they were kids, and Perry and Ilse show up to the wedding together, implying they're similarly married/engaged.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Perry is an innocent, down to Earth boy and has blue eyes. Teddy also has blue eyes, and is an Ill Boy suffering the ordeal of an abusive mother.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: A common theme for all of them.
- As mentioned above, Emily's aunt Elizabeth says that Emily can never be a writer despite the fact that her work is praised by newspapers and her school.
- Teddy's mother won't let him become an artist and implores him to stay at home instead.
- Perry's aunt says that he is to become a workhand, and forget his dreams of going to school and getting an education.
- An odd case with Ilse as all she wants is to know more about her mother, but her father won't tell her anything.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Just like in the book: Emily is melancholic, Teddy is phlegmatic, Ilse is choleric, and Perry is sanguine.
- Love Triangle: Emily likes Teddy, Ilse likes Perry, Perry likes Emily, and Teddy likes Emily.
- Nature Lover: Emily, Teddy, Perry and Ilse love playing around in John Sullivan's garden.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy:
- Ilse is a tomboy and often wears blue shades of clothing, while Emily usually wears a pink dress with a pink hair bow.
- Teddy predominantly wears blue, and Emily wears pink.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Their friend group comprises of a Mouthy Kid with a reputation for violence, a shy girl who prefers to stick her head in books and write poems, a rural boy who Never Learned to Read and an Ill Boy artist who's mother is way too attached to him.
- Shipper on Deck: By the end of the anime, Perry and Ilse are this for Emily/Teddy, and vice versa.
- Team Pet: Saucy Sal the cat. He belongs to Emily, but Teddy and Perry adore him.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Ilse is a brash Tomboy who loves to rough-and-tumble, while Emily is the sweet and joyous Girly Girl.
- Victorious Childhood Friend: Ilse marries Perry, who she's always had a crush on, and Emily marries Teddy.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Emily and Ilse. They're close friends and practically attached at the hip, but half the time they'll be at each other's throats like cats and dogs.
- Youthful Freckles: Ilse has freckles and is a mischevious troublemaker. So does Perry, and he loves making people laugh.
Ilse Burnley
Ilse Burnley (イルゼ・バーンリ)
Voiced by: Sachiko Kojima (Japanese), Benedetta Ponticelli (Italian), Asima Youssef (Arabic)
A girl from Emily's class who has it out at her for being a Murray. When Ilse gets to know Emily a little better, she realizes that she was wrong to judge her and becomes her best friend. Emily and Ilse do everything together, from sleepovers to treasure hunts, and when Emily is down, Ilse always encourages her to see the light.
Ilse Burnley
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- A Day in the Limelight: Episode 17, Ilse's Secret, reveals her home life with her dad. Ilse has always wanted to know more about her mother, but her father never told her about her because he was broken from her death. Despite this, Ilse held out hope that she was alive. After a particularly nasty storm, Ilse became angry at her father and ran away from home.
- Bratty Half-Pint: She's boisterous, loud, rude and even Emily is often angry at her, even though she's her best friend.
- Character Development: Ilse was initially an aggressive, loud wild little girl who was ready ti throw punches on a whim, but over the series she begins to bond with Emily and appreciate their bond.
- Boyish Short Hair: She has short, blonde hair that's barely above her shoulders. She retains this hairstyle as an adult.
- Curtains Match the Window: She has light yellow eyes and blonde hair.
- Dub Name Change: Is called Susie in the Arabic dub.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Downplayed as she's not a "demon", but certainly a gremlin in spite of her adorable appearance.
- Fairytale Wedding Dress: Ilse has two major ones. One is blue and has a frilly white collar and a light blue ribbon, while the other is dark blue and Ilse wears it with a blue headband and pearl necklace.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ilse is a plain asshole and a dumbass, but she's a loyal, faithful friend to Emily no matter what. When Emily's aunt belittles her and Rhoda mocks her, Ilse has her back.
- Hidden Depths: Despite being a scrappy, fighting Tomboy, she loves Emily's writings and helps her with them.
- Missing Mom: Her mother died when she was a little girl, and she's been raised by her single father ever since.
- Mouthy Kid: Ilse raises her voice at her father, Aunt Elizabeth, Ms. Brownwell and anyone she wants.
- Searching for the Lost Relative: Ilse had fleeting hope that her mother Beatrice was still alive, and ran away from home hoping to find her. It turns out she's Dead All Along.
- Stylish Sunhats: In the Grand Finale, Ilse wears a bright blue sunhat as she links arms with Perry, signifying that they're now an item.
- Tomboy: She loves fighting with the other kids, wears blue, has short hair and does many things that Aunt Elizabeth doesn't approve of and calls "unladylike".
- True Blue Femininity: As noted in Pink Girl, Blue Boy above, Ilse's Color Motif is blue. Her ballgowns are also blue, and as an adult she wears a bright blue sunhat and blue clothing.
- Wild Child: Like no other. In the first episode, a brash Ilse attacks Emily, saying that since she's a Murray she's probaby a Spoiled Brat who thinks she's better than everyone else (despite not even knowing her), and roughs her up really badly.
Teddy Kent
Teddy Kent (テディ・ケント)
Voiced by: Kouki Miyata (Japanese), Renato Novara (Italian), Amna Omar (Arabic)
A boy in Emily's class who's suffering from an unknown ailment.
Teddy Kent
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- Abusive Parents: His relationship with his mother borders on emotional incest as she always wants him by her side and hates when he gets close to new people. She holds him back from going to school in favour of staying with her, and puts him down whenever he wants to pursue his passion for drawing. Thanks to Emily, he defies her eventually.
- Bishōnen: He can pass for a woman with his volominous hair.
- Generation Xerox: He likes drawing and has an ambiguously fatal disease. Remind you of anyone?note
- Ill Girl: He has an unknown illness that limits his mobility. When he misses school one day, Emily and Ilse are concerned and go to visit him to see if he's alright.
- Intimate Artistry: After his mother finally grants him the permission to draw, the first thing he does is draw Emily.
- My Beloved Smother: Teddy's mother can't bear to live without him and sabotages any chance of him being independent from her.
- Pretty Boy: He has very elegant features and a face that can pass for a woman's.
- Put on a Bus: He attended high school in Paris after his talent for drawing was recognized, but returns to Canada and marries Emily.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Of the four, he's often always wearing suits and other gentlemanly clothing. He also wears a suit at Rhoda's ball where he dances with Emily.
Perry Miller
Perry Miller (ペリー・ミラー)
Voiced by: Akemi Okamura (Japanese), Federico Zanandrea (Italian), Malak Marqada/Fadwa Suleiman (Arabic)
A boy from a poor family who comes to the Murray household to do domestic tasks, in exchange for money. He later befriends Emily.
Perry Miller
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- A Day in the Limelight: Episode 11, Perry's Hopes and Dreams for the Future, showcases his family life. It's revealed that ever since he was young, his aunt forced him to work as a help in richer people's households because she saw reading and writing as a waste of time. When Mr. Carpenter announces that the class has an contest to write a speech about their hopes for the future, Emily and Ilse urge him to join. They even ask Mr. Carpenter to make an exception for him though he's not a student, which he grants. Perry, however, reminds them of his aunt and how she looks down on reading and writing. When Ilse and Emily try to convince her and she refuses, Perry is angered and insists that he will join it and win. That night, a storm attacks New Moon and Perry's aunt, concerned about his safety, slips on some ice and falls. Perry skips the contest to visit her in the hospital, and she admits she thinks Perry has the potential to be a great writer. When Emily, Teddy and Ilse return from school, Emily is happy to hear that he had finally gained her permission to be a writer, and reveals that she actually won the contest. However, she gives Perry the prize - a pretty laurel wreath.
- Big Sister Worship: Emily isn't his big sister, but he views her as this, his feelings even blossoming into a crush on her.
- Country Mouse: He's from a rural, poor part of New Moon.
- Farmer's Daughter: Teddy is good at gardening amongst many other things.
- Green Thumb: Again, he's good at farming since he does many odd jobs for the Murrays, amongst other households.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Perry manages all the domestic tasks of the Murray household, is good with animals and knows how to tend to plants. He becomes even smarter thanks to Emily teaching him how to read and write.
- Never Learned to Read: Perry is from a poor family and they never sent him to school, instead sending him to work for the Murrays as a handyman. However, Emily teaches him how to read and write, and he realizes it is his passion. Perry manages to attend school and win a scholarship to go to another school.
- Oblivious to Love: He doesn't realize that Ilse likes him until the end of the anime, and they're shown married later.
- Rags to Riches: His dream is to become a lawyer and join the Parliament, despite being a rural farm boy.
- Signature Headgear: He's never seen without his red beret. He loses it as an adult.
Lady of the Wind
Voiced by: Emi Shinohara (Japanese), Marcella Silvestri (Italian), Malak Marqada (Arabic)
An imaginary friend of Emily's, who is the subject of many of her plays.
- Imaginary Friend: She's non-existent, but gives Emily bursts of inspirations from time to time.
Family members
Dr. Alan Burnley
Dr. Alan Burnley (アラン・バーンリ)
Voiced by: Naoko Kyoda (Japanese), Unknown (Italian), Marwan Farhat (Arabic)
Ilse's father. He is a doctor.- Broken Bird: The death of his wife, Beatrice, left him a stoic and changed man. Ilse feels as if he's aloof from her because he's hiding something, but the truth is he's too shaken up to speak about her.
- Good Parents: He genuinely loves Ilse and is shocked when she runs away from home. He eventually tells her the truth about her mother, renconciling their relationship.
- Happily Married: He treasured Beatrice when she was alive and is still in shock over her death.
- Parents as People: He's a well-meaning father, but his refusal to talk about Beatrice was alienating to Ilse, who never met her.
Eileen Kent
Eileen Kent
Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Unknown (Italian), Malak Marqada, Asima Youssef (Arabic)
Teddy's mother.
Eileen Kent
- Abusive Parents: Of the My Beloved Smother variant, where she demands Teddy put his social life at hold to tend to her, argues with him when he disagrees and tries to halt his hobbies.
- Adaptational Heroism: Hey, at least she didn't poison Teddy's dog, like in the book.
- Berserk Button: She hates the idea of Teddy being closer to anyone other than her, be it humans or animals.
- Blatant Lies: When Ilse and Emily come to see Teddy because of his absence from school, she tells them Teddy can't see them because he's sleeping. They know she's lying because they can see Teddy from his window and he is clearly not sleeping.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: A platonic (or is it?) example. She is visibly angry when Teddy makes new friends, and doesn't hide her contempt for Emily and Ilse.
- Icy Blue Eyes: She has icy blue eyes and is closed off from everyone, except her son.
- Incest Subtext: She treats every female friendship of his like a threat to her and Teddy's relationship. Even Teddy tells her that he feels alienated by her clingy behaviour.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She has her son's reddish-tainted hair and Icy Blue Eyes.
Aunt Tom
Aunt Tom
Voiced by: Naoko Kyoda (Japanese), Unknown (Italian), Marwan Farhat (Arabic)
Perry's aunt.- Anti-Education Mama: She does not want her nephew to get an education because she looks down on reading and writing. It's also possibly because she wants him to focus on doing odd jobs instead.
- Dub-Induced Plotline Change: For whatever reason, in the Arabic dub she is Perry's grandmother instead of his aunt.
- Gender-Blender Name: Assuming "Tom" isn't a nickname, it's an unusual name for a woman when for most of history its been used as a men's name.
- Parents as People: She was initially against Perry going to school and become literate. However, she could see the devotion he had, and realized it was what he really wanted.
School
Rhoda Stewart
Rhoda Stewart (ロ ーダ・スチュアート)
Voiced by: Atsuko Enomoto (Japanese), Marcella Silvestri (Italian), Amna Omar (Arabic)
Ms. Brownell's favourite student and the richest, most popular girl of the class.
Not Asuka. Rhoda Stewart.
- Academic Alpha Bitch: When Mr. Carpenter starts giving the other students more attention, she gets jealous and tries to be at the center of attention again. Whenever any student shows signs of being more academically gifted than her, she views them as The Rival.
- Alpha Bitch: She has a nasty attitude towards her classmates and always wants to best them, no matter what. She especially hates Emily because her writing talents are something her daddy's money can't affect, and makes it her mission to make her school life as miserable as possible.
- Attention Whore: Rhoda loves being Ms. Brownell's favourite student, and is angered when Mr. Carpenter denies her the same treatment. Not to mention, she always has a need to show up Emily and her friends.
- Blatant Lies: When Emily confronts her for pranking her with a live snake in a box, Rhoda says that "the box's contents must have been replaced", even though she very obviously put it there herself.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Presented herself as a sweet friend to Emily when she was actually planning on pranking her.
- DreamWorks Face: Her default face, as she loves to look down on people.
- Dub Name Change: Rhoda became Rose in the Arabic dub.
- Expy: She's basically Asuka plucked out of Evangelion and into Kaze No Shojo Emily, with her appearance and exact hairstyle, as well as the fact that she's a fiery, red-haired Alpha Bitch dedicated to being the best and views her classmates as competition.
- Fangirl: Of The Little Mermaid. During the school's play, her and her friends put on a show based on it, while her father buys them extremely fancy costumes for their roles.
- Fiery Redhead: She has red hair and is a passionate about being the best.
- Girl Posse: She's always followed by an dedicated group of girls and does everything with them.
- Icy Blue Eyes: She has light blue eyes and auburn red hair.
- Pink Is Feminine: Rhoda often wears clothes that are frilly and have multiple shades of pink, or are pink and checkered.
- Rich Bitch: She is very wealthy and connected with the elite of Vancouver. In one episode she throws a birthday party, and shows off her Big Fancy House to Emily & Co.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: When Emily joins the class, Rhoda gifts her a box, that turns out to have a live snake in it. When Emily gets angry, Rhoda acts innocent and acts like she has no idea how it got there.
- The Rival: She is threatened by Emily's skill in writing and has her Girl Posse hassle at every opportunity they can. She also considers Perry her rival when he announces he wants to join the writing contest.
- Shout-Out: She looks exactly like Asuka Langley Soryu. She was also The Ace at everything until a certain brown-haired individual popped up and took the spotlight away from her.
- Smug Snake: She is always condescending to Emily and Ilse. She's also confident that she can get one over Emily again after pranking her for the first time, only to be Bitch Slapped by her.
- Southern Belle: The Canadian equivalent.
Ms. Brownell
Ms. Brownell (ブラウネル先生)
Voiced by: Nina Komaguchi (Japanese), Unknown (Italian), Amna Omar (Arabic)
The homeroom teacher of Emily's class. She eventually leaves after getting married.
Ms. Brownell
- Brutal Honesty: She thinks Emily's writings are stupid and tells her that she won't accomplish anything in the future.
- Dean Bitterman: She's irked by Emily's attitude, and is often snappy with her. Emily was happy when left her teaching job after getting married and was replaced by a better, nicer teacher.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: She wears glasses and is a mean teacher.
- Jerkass: She goes out of her way to humiliate Emily in class, to Rhoda's delight.
Mr. Carpenter
Francis Carpenter (フランシス・カーペンタ)
Voiced by: Akio Otsuka (Japanese), Marco Balzarotti (Italian), Ayman Al Salek (Arabic)
Brownell's replacement and the new teacher of Emily's class.
Mr. Carpenter
- Cool Teacher: He always encourages his students to learn and makes his classes fun. He also encourages Emily to follow her dreams of being a novelist.
- Dies Differently In The Adaptation: He died of old age in the book. In the anime, he dies of illness.
- Friend to All Children: Emily, Teddy and Ilse adore him, and when they ask him if Perry (who doesn't go to their school) can join the writing contest, he allows it.
- The Mentor: He takes an interest in Emily's writing career and encourages her to keep moving forward with it, even after she's been rejected by multiple publishers.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He makes exceptions for Perry to join school contests, but also maintains that discipline is important.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: He has an unnamed illness and eventually passes away. Emily sheds tears at hins funeral, mourning that the teacher who nurtured her talent is now gone.
Priest Family
Dean Priest
Dean Priest (ディーン・プリースト)
Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Unknown (Italian), Unknown (Arabic)
Dean Priest
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In the book he was a Crazy Jealous Guy and willingly pursued a relationship with Emily, who was two decades younger than him. In the anime he's a plain Nice Guy who's Happily Married to Nancy Murray, and encourages Emily to follow her dreams.
- Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: In the book he was romantically attracted to Emily, but here there's nothing of the sort.
- In the Arabic dub, Dean is Emily's grandfather.
- Best Friend: He was best friends with Douglas, and they attended school together. After he's gone, Dean looks after his little daughter for him.
- Cool Old Guy: After he rescues Emily, he tells her stories about his life, like how he travelled many countries and knows all sorts of trivia, leading her to view her as this.
- Happily Married: Dean and Nancy have been happily married for years.
Nancy Priest (née Murray)
Nancy Priest, Nancy Murray
Voiced by: Naoko Kyoda (Japanese), Unknown (Italian), Majd Zaza (Arabic)
Nancy Priest, née Murray, is one of the Murray sisters. She is married to Dean Priest.- Cool Old Lady: She's a Murray, but like Emily, thinks of Elizabeth as a stick-in-the-mud and an old phooey. The two bond over how they're both free-spirited young women that don't care about what society thinks.
- Dub-Induced Plotline Change: In the Arabic dub, she is Grandma Nancy, not Aunt Nancy.
- Happily Married: She is happily married to Dean, and doesn't care if the Murrays disapprove of him.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: One of the ways that Nancy shows that she rejects the Murray's rigid standards is swearing like a solider.
