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Note: For consistency's sake, all names in the headings are in East Asian order, i.e. surname first. It makes it easier to see any Japanese-language puns in them.
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An example of an Extranormal Institute, Itan Private High School houses students that are weird, plain and simple, characterized by exhibiting extreme personality traits. One of the fears of Tadano regarding Komi's goal is that due to the quirkiness of the students, she might find making friends there particularly difficult. This is by design In-Universe; entry into the school is based entirely on a student's interview, with the school viewing personality as the most important aspect of a person. It's a normal school otherwise though.
Examples in this page may include minor friends of Komi and Tadano, friends of members of their inner circle, school staff and classmates/schoolmates that may be circumstantial acquaintances.
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Yadano Makeru
Yadano Makeru
Voiced by: Ami Maeshima (Japanese), Kira Buckland (English), Cynthia Chong (Latin American Spanish)
Introduction: Chapters 20 & 21
A highly competitive girl, Yadano often puts herself in conflict with Komi in order to surpass her, though Komi is none the wiser about her intentions. Yadano is assigned to a different class during her second year.I'm nothing but a humble plebeian, but there is something I'd like to achieve today. That is... I'm going to win against Komi-san!
- Always Second Best: Invoked and subverted. This is what she thinks she is compared to Komi. In reality, she is not even remotely close to Komi in any aspect, athletics, academics, or even biometrics. Still, even when her efforts are not noticed by Komi, they are noticed and admired by other classmates, earning her a fan club.
- The Artifact: Yadano gets slightly more focus than some of the other reoccurring characters in the series but despite this, the few spotlight chapters she gets don't flesh her out beyond her quirk. So the few times Yadano does get to reappear it's largely to make her the butt of the joke until Chapter 431.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Regularly talks directly to the reader/viewer during her appearances to narrate her attempts to beat Komi at something.
- Butt-Monkey: Yadano being a Sore Loser combined with her one-sided rivalry with Komi results in this. She's not much better when competing against her own family, as seen in chapter 186.
- Comical Angry Face: You see her image above? It's one of the very few times she looks normal. 90% of the time, she'll be depicted with a very exaggerated angry face.
- Commander Contrarian: Yadano is the only character in the story who stands in complete opposition to Komi in order to both undermine and upstage her. However, she's ostensibly ineffective at this due to two factors: first, because she has more limitations than Komi, she's academically worse and she is physically lagging behind her, and second, because she's not immune to Komi's charms.
- Competition Freak: Her primary character trait. She'll challenge Komi in any field she can think of and inevitably get trounced.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Due to her aggressiveness and competitive nature, Yadano tends to underperform by trying too hard, as she measures her coordination rather poorly. Funnily enough, this aspect of her has earned her admirers.
- Demoted to Extra: With Komi's classmates no longer treating her like a Parody Sue, this has put a major dent in Yadano's role as being her Unknown Rival who is obsessed with one-upping her. And her generally absence naturally continues as Komi changes classes after second year outside of one-off gags until Chapter 431, where her initial character gimmick is finally built up on.
- Didn't See That Coming: Unbeknownst to Tadano, she has her own club of admirers.
- Harmless Villain: Yadano never directly antagonizes Komi, but rather, tries to upstage her on the side. However, on top of the fact that it never works for her, she also makes bad choices that lead her to lose. She indeed makes the effort (which earns her many admirers), but her planning sucks.
- Hidden Depths:
- While most of her marks on her tests were terriblenote , she actually did well above average in Social Sciences, and significantly above average in Science, the two toughest subjects judging by the fact that they have the lowest averages of the five subjects.
- While she's comically resentful and idiotically persistent, Yadano never vents out on Komi or cheats in their "competitions"; the virtue in all of this comes from her sheer perseverance, which is an aspect that has earned her a group of admirers. This also implies that even with that resentment, Yadano proceeds more out of self-satisfaction rather than to actually one-up Komi, who's just the vehicle to feed her neuroses.
- Yadano presents herself as a plucky competitor outwardly (one of the reasons she has admirers), while harboring a great deal of resentment inside. This implies that she doesn't realize that she lacks the very self-esteem that she conveys.
- It's revealed in the third year sports festival that deep down Yadano knows and accepts she has always lost to Komi, and that she intentionally overreacts and makes ridiculous faces because it will make the people around her laugh and not realize that the losses do genuinely get to her. All the same, she despises pity, and truly bonds with Komi for real when Komi recognizes this and decides not to help her up after her most recent loss, instead accepting her as a genuine rival.
- His Own Worst Enemy: She always sets herself to lose against Komi because she either doesn't admit her own shortcomings or doesn't see them in the first place. It's not only that, but she also tends to put herself in ostensibly disadvantageous situations (like helping the stand next to Komi's in the Summer Festival, a stand that can possibly sell nothing or attract customers), first, without any reason whatsoever other than to "antagonize" Komi, and second, without even getting Komi's attention to her efforts.
- Lethal Chef: In chocolate at least, when compared to Komi, her chocolate was very bitter and gross.
- Meaningful Name: Her name literally means "Don't want to lose", indicating her nature as a Sore Loser.
- Not So Above It All: Yadano is envious of Komi's many virtues, but given the circumstance, she too is charmed by Komi on occasion.
- Out of Focus: Yadano perhaps gets this the most of all the supporting characters. Despite getting a grand introduction of being established as Komi's Unknown Rival, she never formally joins Komi's friend group until Chapter 431, when she narrowly loses to Komi in the third year's sports festival relay and finally calls out for her attention.
- Pride: Her main and defining fault, overlapping with Driven by Envy. In her introduction, she states that it's her intention to overshadow Komi in the physical exam and that nothing would bring more pride to her, and she later makes other attempts at the sports festival and during their tests, but it's shown that Komi is in a considerably better physical state than she is, and is better academically. In spite of her efforts, Yadano never succeeds at her goals and is barely noticed to begin with.
- Punny Name: "Yada" translates to "don't want," and "makeru" to "lose."
- Running Gag: Declaring an obvious loss on her part to be a "draw" as she walks away doing a cool pose.
- Sore Loser: When your gimmick is "hates losing," this is definitely the case. Occasionally subverted when she accepts defeat gracefully (or, more likely, calmly declares the match a draw despite losing horribly). This is finally built upon in Chapter 431, where it's explained her consistent 2nd place status led her to question whether she could ever "win" at anything despite her efforts, but hides it with over-reactive frustration in order to get a laugh out of people and not sense her actual turmoil.
- Unknown Rival: Yadano considers herself Komi's rival and tries to beat her in anything. Komi doesn't even notice her.
- This changes in Chapter 431, where her introduction gimmick finally changes from "hates losing" to "is a formidible rival".
Inaka Nokoko
Inaka Nokoko
Voiced by: Megumi Han (Japanese), Suzie Yeung (English), Regina Tiscareño (Latin American Spanish)
Introduction: Chapter 51
A girl from the countryside, she strives to be like Komi in the way of being an exemplary member of the "City Folk". She is afraid of being bullied due to her roots and tries unsuccessfully to hide them from her classmates. Inaka is assigned to a different class than Komi on her second year.He said 'Sabowey'. That be one'a them stylish city places like Stanbek! [...] Aww shucks! I'd like to go to Sabowey and eatin' a sandwich.
Inaka hails from the same country village as Komi's grandma, being close acquaintances and contributing parishioners to the local temple, though she hadn't met Grandma Komi's granddaughter until they enrolled in the same high school.
- Accent Adaptation: She's given a Southern drawl in the English dub, as an equivalent to her Tohoku dialect in the original Japanese.
- Comically Missing the Point: She thinks that Komi is a shining example of a "city girl" due to her seriousness. Komi is usually a nervous wreck with a poker face, though.
- For added irony, Komi's stoic demeanor comes from her father's side of the family, which actually comes from the exact same country town as she does. In fact, it specifically seems to come from her grandmother, who Inaka actually knew before she ever met Komi herself.
- Country Mouse: Her gimmick is that she's from the countryside and is easily wowed by big city life. She has an extremely thick Tohoku dialect and tends to view anything her classmates do as amazing "City Folk" activities.
- Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: In her introduction, her inner monologue ends on "I am just a country bumpkin!", which she says out loud, in a crowd of schoolmates, while just having thought about how she doesn't want people to know that. However, by not realizing she just did that, she subverts the trope.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: She doesn't consider herself worthy of many of the aspects of her life at the city, and many of the friendships she attains. For instance, at the doors of the portentous and historical city of Kyoto, she is almost taken away by the train that brought her because she doesn't think herself worthy of touching its sacred soil.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: She thinks that she'll be bullied if her accent is found out. This makes her reluctant to approach people, in spite of her wish to have friends.
- Meaningful Name: Inaka's attempts to hide she's a Country Mouse would be just that much simpler if her name didn't literally mean "girl from the countryside".
- Native Guide: She is one for Komi and Akira when they go to their grandmother's countryside village for Obon, showing them the ways to have fun in the middle of nowhere.
- Nice Girl: She's the salt of the earth, that lass! Nary an ounce of wickedness!
- Miko: She serves as one at her town's temple during the holidays.
- One Degree of Separation: She hails from the same town as the Komi family home and has known Grandma Komi for years before everyone realized that Inaka goes to school with her granddaughter Shouko.
- Open Secret: She's desperate to keep her country roots a secret for fear of being bullied over it, but everyone in the class pretty much figured it out easily. (No, she isn't bullied.)
- Punny Name: Her name means "girl from the countryside."
- Tender Tears: When Onemine and Otori excitedly accept her handmade picture frames to commemorate their class trip together, she is so delighted at the fact that they are willing to be her friends even when they know that she has an accent that she breaks into tears, showing how much of an issue her accent was to her, and finally realizing how much she was unnecessarily burdening herself by thinking it diminished her on her classmates' eyes.
- Tomboy: Of the rural kind. As there is little to do in her hometown in terms of entertainment, she makes do with what's available in the countryside: she makes shurikens out of grass blades, improvises fishing rods with bamboo, catches insects and crabs, forages for edible mushrooms, you name it.
Onigashima Akako
Onigashima Akako
Voiced by: Sarah Emi Bridcutt (Japanese), Erika Harlacher (English), Elizabeth Infante (Latin American Spanish)
Introduction: Chapter 121
A sweet girl with a short, short fuse. She's a childhood friend of Yamai and an almost constant companion to her. Onigashima is assigned to a different class than Komi in her second year.Yamai: (regarding Onigashima) Well, we've been friends for a long time, and since we've been together since grade school, I know... that I have no idea what that girl's capable of when she's mad. [...] You be careful, Tadano-Kun. Just let sleeping dogs lie.
- Batter Up!: Her way of dealing with stress is to go to a batting center to hit all of them away.
- Characterization Marches On: In her official introduction near the end of the first year, we're shown that (up until she hits her Rage Breaking Point,) she's a kind, sweet-natured girl, and one of the few members of the class to act friendly towards Tadano. This can make it odd going back to the early chapters where she behaves more like Yamai or the normie trio, obsessing over Komi and resenting Tadano for getting so close to her.
- Cute Little Fangs: This goes well with both her cheerful demeanor and her personal gimmick.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Having passed almost a year since the beginning of high school, and being a friend of Yamai, Onigashima makes several appearances in the manga before her formal introduction. She first appears conversing with Yamai in Chapter 7.
- Expressive Hair: Normally lays flat as shown, but as she gets angry, a pair of tufts that resemble demon horns pop up.
- Fiery Redhead: She has dark red hair, as well as a very short fuse.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Her mood can go sour as fast as lightning, and it's something to behold. Her wrath is such that Yamai, of all people, warns Tadano not to get in her way.
- Genki Girl: Cheerful and full of energy, to the point where she gets angry if she's unable to RUN to school.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is a reference to the oni of the Momotarō fairy tale, reflecting how monstrous she can become when angered.
- Nice Girl: Unlike Yamai. Onigashima is noted to cheerfully greet pretty much everyone, including unpopular people like Tadano. Unless you catch her in a foul mood.
- Punny Name: Her name means "red girl from oni island," which is from Momotarou (that spawned the Red Oni, Blue Oni trope).
- Rage Breaking Point: Her gimmick is that she's generally a very nice girl, but becomes a demon when she gets angry enough. Even Yamai, Onigashima's friend and one of the scariest characters in the comic in her own right is terrified at the idea of being near an enraged Onigashima.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's explicitly referred to as a red oni (Kishi is quite likely her blue oni).
- Stating the Simple Solution: The way to defuse her wrath? As Komi shows, it's simple: be kind to her when she's about to break because, believe it or not, she needs it.
- Tender Tears: When her rage is about to hit the boiling point, Komi's simple act of kindness towards her makes her burst out in Tears of Joy, thus ensuring that Komi becomes her friend.
- Those Two Guys: Generally only appears along with Kishi as one of Yamai's friends, though she did get chapter 121 as her own.
- Tomboy: Going by her way to relieve stress (batting home runs), it's implied she's one. This also implies that she is the tomboy to Yamai's Girly Girl.
Satou Amami
Satou Amami
Voiced by: Live Mukai (Japanese), Sarah Anne Williams (English), Regina Ruiz (Latin American Spanish)
Introduction: Chapter 122
A girl whose niceness is actually a fault, Amami is known for her absolute selflessness, to the point that people both over-rely on her and take advantage of her kindness. In the first year, she seats next to Komi on the opposite side of Tadano. Satou is assigned to a different class than Komi in her second year.Hmmm... Am I being too kind... But helping out people like this doesn't hurt anybody.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: She can be seen occasionally in the anime long before her focused chapter.
- Early-Bird Cameo:
- Gets name-dropped in chapter 56 when a teacher calls on her to read a book passage, but her personality isn't revealed until chapter 122.
- She can also be seen in the second chapter though her face was obscure at the time.
- Extreme Doormat: Pretty much completely incapable of saying No to anyone asking a favor. She's an even bigger doormat than Komi.
- Foil: To Tadano, who has a similar (but lesser) degree of selflessness. Tadano would be just like her if he didn't give any thought to the stuff people ask of him and completely lacked self-awareness.
- Meaningful Name: Her name reflects her Nice Girl traits by literally meaning "sweet as sugar".
- Nice Girl: She genuinely enjoys making people feel happy.
- Punny Name: Her name translates to "sweet as sugar."
- Sweet and naive are homophones: amai; Satou Amami is as amai (sweet/naive) as sugar.
- Super Gullible: May fall into this; one guy asks her to scratch his back (to get her to touch him) and her friend tries to get her to practice saying No to favors by asking for a 100,000 yen loan (about $1000), both of which she immediately agrees to. Knowing her nice nature though, it's possible she would've agreed even if she didn't believe them.
Chiarai Shigeo, Sonoda Taisei, and Shinobino Mono
Chiarai Shigeo, Sonoda Taisei, and Shinobino Mono / The Normies
Chiarai Shigeo
Sonoda Taisei
Shinobino Mono
Voiced by: Kenji Akabane (Shigeo, Japanese), Sean Chiplock (Shigeo, English), Yuga Sato (Sonoda, Japanese), Devin Hennessy (Sonoda, English), Kensho Ono (Shinobino, Japanese), Jack Dillon (Shinobino, English), Arturo Castañeda (Shigeo, Latin American Spanish), Abraham Vega (Sonoda, Latin American Spanish), Brandon Motor (Shinobino, Latin American Spanish)
Introduction: (Shinobino) Chapter 3; Chapter 19 (Sonoda & Chiarai)
The so-called "Normies" in Tadano's classroom, they are also part of the "Komi Imperial Guard". They tend to fantasize about the girls in class, thinking about possible scenarios in which they have a relationship with them. The Normies are assigned to a different class than Komi and Tadano during their second year.- Attractiveness Isolation: Played for laughs, them being on the other side of the equation. They consider their possibility of romancing Komi so remote that they have to put it in a period drama setting. To them, the mere chance is basically fictional.
- Chocolate of Romance: Sonoda receives one from Nakanaka during Valentine's Day... though it's revealed that he's imagining it.
- Demoted to Extra: Invoked. In Chapter 193, they show up at Matsuri's stall with Yamai's friends and are referred to as "extras" by the narrator.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Chiarai and Shinobino base their fantasy of Agari based on her plentiful chest. Sonoda immediately protests, as he might not be a boob guy, or was expecting something deeper than that.
- Driven by Envy: Though they are less antagonizing than, for instance, Yamai, they are definitely not Tadano's friends and have shown scorn and disdain towards him due to his closeness with Komi, even when they're all socializing as a group in outings. It's also important to mention that while they are in Komi's friend list(!), they did not reach a significant connection with Komi. This aspect of them is eventually discarded as they focus on things other than Komi.
- Has a Type: Apart from their unrequited, and admittedly unreachable attraction to Komi:
- Shinobino likes competitive girls and country types, namely Makeru and Inaka.
- Sonoda is specifically aiming for Nakanaka.
- Chiarai seems to have a preference for Yamai, or just tsunderes in general and is also a member of the Makeru Fan Club and likes whenever she gets overtly competitive.
- His Own Worst Enemy: If only they approached Komi instead of admiring her from afar and tried to see beyond their superficial understanding of her, Komi would have become closer to them.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: The three of them. They base their fantasies on superficial knowledge about their girl classmates and tend to be showy, disloyal to one another, and act hungry for girls. It's precisely due to their shallowness that they don't cover much territory with girls past mere friendship. They acknowledge this in chapter 365, wondering if their tendency to just play around with girls has kept them from actually getting any girlfriends.
- Imagine Spot: Two chapters are entirely dedicated to them imagining various romantic scenarios with the girls (and Osana), with Tadano silently Imagine Spotting. Humorously, they're unable to come up with one for Komi (though Tadano could).
- Irony:
- Their scenarios are surprisingly romantic coming from high school kids, so much so that Tadano often gets enthralled by their conversations. In other contexts, they could be more pervy.
- Though they come up with romantic scenarios involving their female classmates, they all admit that they'd prefer Komi above all of them. The funny thing is, they consider the possibility so remote, and they know so little of how Komi actually is, that they have to come up with a fictional scenario set as a period drama. At that point, they haven't even engaged Komi in conversation, so that possibility, as remote as they think it is, is more remote still.
- Even when they're nicknamed "the Normies", they are more deficient at talking with girls than the definition of "normie" suggests.
- Jerkass to One: To Tadano, because of his closeness to Komi. While they tone it down in later chapters, and eventually cease to be antagonistic at all to him, it's unclear if they consider him a friend now.
- Jerks With Hearts Of Gold: Although they don't favor Tadano, it's shown that they do favor Komi and try their best not to let other people come close to ogle at her. Shinobino, in fact, is part of the "Secret Komi Security". They are also seen to have some respect for the girls, if their Imagine Spots where they imagine a relationship with them are anything to go by. When Komi and Tadano start dating, despite being part of the mob that initially seeks to attack Tadano over this, they collapse in tears at the heartwarming sight of the couple protecting each other and cease their antagonism toward Tadano altogether (in sharp contrast to Yamai who runs off yelling that she will never accept this).
- Laser-Guided Karma: In a sense of poetic justice, just because they don't get close to Tadano, they don't get close to Komi as a result.
- Ninja: Shinobino invokes this through his attire.
- Non-Indicative Name: Despite being "the normies", they really aren't that normal (or have girlfriends or interact with girls as much as the "normie" colloquialism suggests), if you couldn't tell by the fact that one of them is apparently a ninja.
- Punny Name:
- "Shinobino" dresses like a ninja or shinobi.
- "Chiarai" is a play on the concept of the Charao, which is the male counterpart of the Gyaru Girl. A Charao is flirty, easygoing, and stylish, but has a reputation of being unreliable and unfaithful.
- "Sonoda" (that!) "Taisei" (target) roughly means "that's it!" or "that's the target". It may refer to his introduction in the manga and his particular choice of girls in said chapter.
- Running Gag: Together with Yamai, they elbow each other's faces out of the way to get Komi's attention, meaning that they're not loyal even to each other.
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel: The scenarios the guys imagine look like stuff from a romance manga. As it stands, it's shown that they have more significant relationships in mind than it appears, instead of merely physical ones.
- Those Two Guys: In this case, three. They're always together, in and out of school.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Yamai is among the girls they have Imagine Spots of... except their vision of her is as a Tsundere and not, well, Yamai.
Kishi Himeko
Kishi Himeko
Introduction: As a background character in Chapter 8; introduced by name only in Chapters 162 & 193; first showing in Chapter 270
A friend of Yamai and Onigashima who resembles a knight, wearing plate armor alongside her school uniform and carrying a (replica) sword at her side. Himeko has taken it upon herself to protect Komi from anyone who would cause her harm, and is a founding member of the "Komi Imperial Guard". After spending much of the series as a background character, she gained some prominence in the third year as one of the few familiar faces in Komi and Tadano's new class.I don't even care who I serve, I just want to... As long as it's someone who looks and feels a bit noble...!
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Played for Laughs. Himeko's face is shown much earlier in the anime (episode 2) than in the manga (chapter 270).
- A Day in the Limelight: Chapters 342 and 343 are Himeko's long overdue spotlight chapters, finally delving into exactly who she is and her quirk of being a knight.
- Action Girl: She's tremendously skilled, having been taught kendo, judo, karate, fencing, and horse riding. Her main drive is to serve and protect a worthy individual.
- All There in the Manual: Barely averts No Name Given if you're paying attention; her surname is revealed in the volume 3 extras when she writes her name as one of Komi's list of friends along with the other four normies (Onigashima, Chiarai, Sonoda, and Shinobino), leaving the last name as hers by process of elimination, and her full name is shown when Komi is scrolling through her phone contacts in Chapter 162.
- Axes at School: Apparently, the teachers at Itan High School have no issues with her carrying a sword at school, though Chapter 343 reveals it's a replica.
- Bit Character: Himeko was introduced quite literally as a background character in chapter 8. She didn't get named until Chapter 162 and didn't have an active role in a chapter until Chapter 270. This gets addressed in chapters 342 & 343; because she was so devoted to her ideal of being Komi's knight she never actually became close friends with her, and Komi wants to change that. These chapters are actually the first time they held a true conversation.
- Bullet Catch: During the toy gun battle royale, Shiinya Muzuka attempts to shoot Komi In the Back, only for Himeko to intercept the foam dart mid-flight just before it hits her.
- Characterization Marches On: Originally, Himeko was depicted as one of Yamai's groupies in their first year. By her spotlight chapters, Himeko routinely protects Komi from her obsessive fans, which includes Yamai in particular.
- Commonality Connection: Chapter 343 implies that Himeko also has a communication disorder like Komi, though rather than having crippling social anxiety, she opts to try and be her friends' protector to compensate for her lacking social skills.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Her main drive was to find someone with an air of nobility to serve and protect. Cue Komi, her "Princess".
- The Dreaded: Yamai can border on Ax-Crazy so it says something that Himeko is the one person she actually fears.
- The Faceless: It takes a long time before the reader is given a good look at her face. Every time she's on-panel, she's either facing away from the reader, has her face obscured by objects or speech bubbles, or her face simply isn't drawn. Her first face showing happens in chapter 62, and it's not particularly detailed. In her first named appearance (Ch. 193) her face is obscured by the stall's awning. It's only in Chapter 270 that her face is finally shown in detail. The anime meanwhile shows her face early on (in the pool episode), though several of the gags that hid her face in the manga remain in the anime.
- Foreshadowing: That she would turn out to be someone who had taken it upon herself to rein in Komi's more excessive fans was indicated long before it was officially revealed during the third year of high school, namely her silently knocking Yamai unconscious at the end of the first year to stop her from begging for a kiss from Komi.
- Hidden Depths:
- In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, during the planning for the Cultural Festival, when Agari suggests a whack-a-mole game where she's the mole to be whacked, Kishi is one of the students included in the "class masochists". It goes to show how she's Yamai's friend... Curiously, it's the first instance where her face is shown, albeit in a cartoony style.
- In the same chapter, she is shown protesting Shinobino's suggestion of a ninja-themed period drama movie, stating that she'd rather do a Western period chronicle movie instead. As such, she's shown to be partial to medieval themes, akin to her character design.
- Her spotlight chapters reveal she's a member of the volleyball club, on top of being trained in kendo, fencing, kudo, karate, and horseback riding since she was young.
- Hopeless with Tech: In Chapter 270, Yamai remarks that Himeko is terrible at video games, as she's shown struggling with her controller.
- Huge Schoolgirl: She's easily one of the tallest girls in the manga (172 cm / 5 ft 7-8 in), perhaps only behind Gorimi Senpai. She's certainly the tallest girl in her grade.
- Japanese Delinquents: As a consequence of Komi telling Himeko that she doesn't need to dedicate her school life to protecting her, Himeko takes the wrong lesson from this. Now finding herself without any cause to dedicate herself towards, she falls into becoming a delinquent. She snaps out of it in the next chapter after Komi encourages her to still be herself but to also treat her like a friend.
- Knighting: Played for laughs. In Chapter 259 (a retrospective chapter), Komi decides to give presents back to the friends that celebrated her birthday, Kishi included. At the moment of her receiving her birthday gift, Kishi kneels and receives Komi's gift as if she were being given a sword by a queen.
- Meaningful Name: "Kishi" can mean "knight", and "Himeko" means "princess girl", so her name roughly translates to "Knight Princess".
- Mysterious Protector: Gets Played for Laughs in Chapter 342. Originally portrayed as one of the Komi groupies in the first year, she saw how toxic their behavior could really get, and instead formed the "Komi Imperial Guard" to protect Komi from her overly obsessive fans. We are then treated to a montage of Himeko negating Yamai's attempts at stalking Komi.
- Also played up in the anime as she is depicted as one of the people preventing Naruse from talking to Komi in Season 2 Episode 7 during a montage. Notable as she is the only one involved who hasn't been named yet in the show.
- Not So Stoic: After Kishi intercepts a bullet for Komi during the Battle Royale, in the next chapter she solemnly turns her armband in as Komi thanks her. Kishi responds by nodding, only to trip down the stairs five seconds later because being thanked by Komi made her so happy her legs gave out.
- Passionate Sports Girl: She's a multidisciplinary athlete and martial artist, as well as being part of the school's volleyball team, accounting for her height.
- Poke the Poodle: Her fall into delinquency in Chapter 343 is punctuated with such heinous actions as drinking juice in class, licking all of the chocolate off of a pocky stick before eating it, not throwing away other people's litter, and having a (supposedly) more stern look on her face than usual.
- The Quiet One: Perhaps even more so than Komi, to the point where Tadano theorizes her knightly persona may just be her way of dealing with her own communication issues. Even Chapter 342, which focuses directly on her, has her mostly communicate via Internal Monologue.
- Rōnin: Gets parodied in Chapter 343. After getting dismissed as the Knight by her "lady" Komi, Himeko suffers from a fall from grace and turns to delinquency as her new outlet.
- Running Gag: The longer the manga runs, the more faceless appearances she makes to the point that the author includes her in some chapters and purposely obscures her face. Finally averted as of Chapter 342.
- Scarred Equipment: After her fall into delinquency by the end of Chapter 342, her usually well-maintained armor becomes scarred and worn.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When it looks like Onigashima is about to explode from anger, Kishi is just as quick to flee as Yamai.
- Small Role, Big Impact:
- She's the reason Yamai hasn't been able to approach Komi nearly as much as she did before their second year, basically removing one of the biggest obstacles between Tadano and Komi for a considerable time and thus allowing them to grow closer together.
- She's the person behind Komi's "Imperial Guard".
- Statuesque Stunner: Even taller than Komi (who's noted to be quite tall herself), making her most likely the tallest girl in the class, and given her status as one of the "normies", she's almost certainly attractive.
- Tap on the Head: Gives the neck chop variety to Yamai when the latter tries to badger Komi for a kiss at the end of the first year, and after this it becomes one of her routine ways to put a stop to Yamai's antics, to the point that Yamai eventually starts mastering countermeasures to block the attack.
- The Slacker: Played for Laughs at the end of Chapter 342. Komi wanted Kishi to see her not in a Lady and Knight manner, but as friends and equals. Kishi misinterpreted this as Komi not needing her protection any longer, more upon noticing Tadano nearby. At the end of her chapter, she's already dozing off on her table with Scarred Equipment and a few empty cans of (hopefully non-alcoholic) beverages.
- Warrior Princess: A slight parody, as well as her name being a reference to it.
Takarazuka Maya
Takarazuka Maya
Introduction: Chapters 188 and 221
Takarazuka is a girl classmate of Komi and Tadano in their second year of high school. Androgynously handsome, and equally admirable for her collected nature and impeccable acting skills, Takarazuka is a key player in the class's Cultural Festival theater play.As I'm still a woman, the least you could do is say "lead protagonist"... if you would.
- Accent Slip-Up: While apologizing to Manbagi, she reverts to a speech style similar to Manbagi and her friends, implying she might have been a gyaru in the past.
- Affectionate Nickname: "Zukacchi" by Manbagi. It's noted that only Manbagi calls her that.
- Bearer of Bad News: She's the one who tells Manbagi that pretty much the whole class are Komi x Tadano shippers, making her realize that she's the only one who hadn't put it together.
- Bifauxnen: She looks like a stereotypical shoujo manga protagonist/love interest.
- Bishie Sparkles: When she's first introduced, and true to her nature as a "male" shoujo protagonist / love interest.
- Camp Straight: Even though she's princely handsome and dresses like a man (as expected of a Bara performer) she clarifies that she's actually interested in boys.
- Distaff Counterpart: To Tadano, when they're in drag. Takarazuka-san is very handsome while dressed as a boy, while Tadano is very cute when dressed as a girl. They are also both voices of reassurance within their class.
- Foil:
- To Najimi, as they're both androgynous individuals. Unlike Najimi, her gender is known and she's an agent of order (while Najimi leans on the chaotic).
- To Komi, as they represent extreme apexes of beauty for female/male ideals, all while they're both girls.
- To Tadano, as they're Spear and Distaff Counterpart to one another... while in drag.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After learning that Manbagi also has feelings for Tadano, she ends up tearfully apologizing to her for interfering and trying to use the play as a vehicle to hook Tadano up with Komi.
- Nice Girl: It's because of her that the play goes smoothly, as she serves as the buffer between the class and the main actors.
- Punny Name: Her name is a play on the performances of Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theater troupe, known for their versatility and, true to Takarazuka's appearance, for being Wholesome Crossdressers.
- Shipper on Deck: For Komi x Tadano. She modifies the play so that they share dialogue, and it's her input that leads to Komi's onstage confession. She later admits so to Manbagi, which disheartens the girl until Takarazuka-san consoles her and offers her support for her too.
- Silver Tongue: She manages to get hard criticism points across when it comes to Komi's role in the play, somehow managing to not cause her classmates to rise up in arms to defend Komi, which is quite the accomplishment.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Her defining feature, as she has the appearance of a very handsome young man, to the point where she is incapable of playing female roles because, as she herself explains, she doesn't make a very convincing actress.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Essentially tells Manbagi this in regards to her Love Triangle dilemma with Komi and Tadano. When Manbagi starts self-deprecating that she'll likely lose, Takarazawa tells her that she's equally as beautiful as Komi.
Toro Mitsu
Toro Mitsu
Introduction: Chapter 240
Toro is a female classmate of Komi and Tadano's during their second year. She's widely considered the most seductive female student in the school and has her male classmates wrapped around her fingers. Komi and Manbagi go to her for flirting advice.It's time for Toro Mitsu's love techniques you can start using today!
- Dude Magnet: Going hand and hand with being so attractive, Toro has her own harem of male classmates at her beck and call.
- Fille Fatale: Toro is seductive, but she's also a teenager. Even when using sex appeal to get her way, most of the techniques she suggests to Komi and Manbagi involve using flattery to get their way.
- Hidden Depths: The Parent-Teacher conference reveals that Toro is interested in becoming an author. She even becomes the class rep of her new class once she's a third year, though knowing Toro she also likely gets her male classmates to do her work for her.
- Lazy Bum: Seduces her male classmates into performing menial tasks for her, even down to carrying her to class so she doesn't have to walk herself.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: Despite having the makings of being the Alpha Bitch, Toro is actually rather nice and earnestly gives Komi and Manbagi advice on how they can try and attract Tadano.
- Nonstandard Character Design: She's one of the few characters drawn with visible lips, to highlight her attractiveness and Fille Fatale tendencies.
- Silver Tongue: Along with being attractive, a major element of Toro managing to get her male classmates to do what she wants is using flattery to puff up their egos.
Shiroki Yuka
Shiroki Yuka
Introduction: First appearance in Chapter 140, introduced in Chapter 325
The leader of Manbagi's original Gyaru Girl clique, they were assigned to different classes at the start of their second year, leading to Manbagi growing close with Komi and Tadano. Interestingly enough, Shiroki winds up in Komi and Tadano's class during their third year.
- Affectionate Nickname: She is initially introduced as "Yukapuyo", which is Manbagi's nickname for her.
- Ascended Extra: Shiroki was introduced as a fairly minor character, being a part of Manbagi's original clique. Since they were in different classes, Shiroki didn't play much of a role but over 150 chapters later, she's now in Komi's homeroom class in their third year.
- Gyaru Girl: Much like Manbagi, she follows the trend of having blonde hair, tanned skin, and fashion style.
- Hidden Depths: She's actually much smarter than she looks, scoring 4th place in her year in exams.
- Nice Girl: Her intro chapter sees Shiroki thanking Komi for befriending Manbagi since she knows that Manbagi was very shy and was worried she'd someone would be a Toxic Friend Influence on her.
- The Social Expert: Shiroki winds up in a class dedicated to helping students who have social anxiety and a hard time making friends, which is odd since Shiroki is actually a social butterfly much like Najimi, although it's implied this was why she was placed in the class.
Shiina Muzuka
Shiina Muzuka
Introduction: Chapter 325
A confrontational and unfriendly girl, Shiina aims to burst Komi's optimistic bubble when it comes to friendship, to mixed results.(To Komi) What? You're the type of person who wants everyone to be happy, no? I'm the worst at dealing with people like you. Always smiling and having fun with other people like an idiot... It makes me sick.
- Attention Whore: She starts hammering on Komi mostly to kick her down of what she perceives is a high horse, and makes a point of doing it in front of their class.
- Break the Haughty: Shiroki takes her down a peg by calling her out for being rude by labeling her a coward and a loser. However, Komi stops Shiroki from continuing the verbal lashing.
- Brutal Honesty: She's the one acquaintance of Komi's who can give her a completely unbiased opinion, as Shiina is uninterested in pandering to Komi.
- Commander Contrarian: She's established as a complete cynic. In her very introduction, she is quick to change her mind after she's encouraged to follow her dreams.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: After she's forced to participate in the Battle Royale, she starts getting more cordial, though not by much.
- Entertainingly Wrong: She proceeds under the mistaken impression that Komi is just a saccharine optimist, rather than the shy wallflower that she actually is.
- In the Back: During the Battle Royale arc, she attempts to shoot Komi behind her back, but Kishi blocks her shot.
- Jerkass: By nature. She's cynical to a fault and she's openly rude to Komi.
- Jerkass Has a Point: In her own way, she comforts Komi by telling her she shouldn't be bothered what Kawai said about her not being worthy of making Tadano happy since it doesn't change that she's Tadano's girlfriend in the end.
- Punny Name: Her name is a play on the expression "Muzukashii" (hard to deal with).
- Smug Snake: Very much proud of her asocial behavior and sharp tongue, which she uses to try to bully Komi.
- Stubborn Mule: Even after she realizes that Komi isn't the saccharine optimist beauty she thought she was, Shiina expresses no interest in being Komi's friend.
Omakawa Machi
Introduction: Chapter 325
A girl who likes cute things and being called cute. She's part of Komi's class in the third year.
- Battle Aura: Omakawa positively explodes with delight whenever she's called cute.
- Meaningful Name: Omakawa means "you are cute", while Machi means "waiting"; both signify how Omakawa is just waiting for people to call her cute.
- Nothing but Skin and Bones: If Omakawa goes for more than seven days without being called cute, she becomes emaciated and loses all strength (her parents calling her cute doesn't count).
Seikimatsu Toshio
Introduction: Chapter 1
A muscular boy. He's part of Komi's class in both her first and third years.
- The Big Guy: Seikimatsu is much larger than all of the other students at Itan except Katai, who is the same size. The two are so much larger than everybody else that the third year sports festival's tug of war battle becomes a one-on-one fight between the two. Seikimatsu and Katai are stronger than everybody else in their respective classes combined, so everybody else abandoned the battle.
- Call-Back: In Chapter 335, Seikimatsu brings up how he elbowed Tadano in the face at the start of their first year and had always wanted to apologize, but never got the chance (not that Tadano even remembers).
- Small Role, Big Impact: A massively understated one, too: because Seikimatsu accidentally elbowed Tadano in the face at the start of the manga, he passed out and was left behind during gym class, which allowed him to talk with and become friends with Komi.
- Taking the Bullet: Takes one for Tadano during the Battle Royale to make up for elbowing him in the face two years prior. Tadano can't even remember the incident.
- Tough Spikes and Studs: Wears spikes on his shoulders as part of his school uniform.
- Younger Than They Look: Would not look out of place in Fist of the North Star, yet he's still only a high school student.
Other Itan High School Characters
Omojiri Miwa
Omojiri Miwa
Introduction: Chapter 158
Assistant homeroom teacher for Komi and Tadano's second-year class, who presents herself as the very image of a proper teacher at work, but can't be asked to do anything at home.- Because You Were Nice to Me: She starts engaging her students in a more friendly manner after Komi brings her a bento as an apology for interrupting her grocery shopping. Touched by the gesture, she opens herself up more and becomes both an educator and a friend to her students.
- Brick Joke: In her introductory chapter, she arrives home on a Friday night and exhausted, she collapses at the entrance until Sunday afternoon; two chapters later, she states that she intends to sleep in her bed throughout the Summer break, implying two things: first, she passes out at the entrance of her apartment a lot, and second, fittingly, that she doesn't get to sleep in her bed that often as a result. So, it's a Brick Joke combined with From Bad to Worse.
- The Finicky One: At work, she presents herself as someone who does everything properly... even if that means she has to rush to cover everything she wants to in class. Her proper attitude is mostly due to her overcompensating.
- Lazy Bum: Y'know how you get home from work and there are all these things that need doing and you can't bring yourself to do any of them and just have a nice lie-down? That's basically her life. Plus, when we see inside her home, it looks like she still has the boxes from when she moved in and never got around to unpacking.
- Meaningful Name: Her full name means "pretty words, heavy ass" - that is, she may talk a good game, but she's lazy.
- Punny Name: Miwa translates as "pretty words", while Omojiri translates as "heavy ass", referring to the expression "the heavy ass's ass is heavy", meaning someone's lazy.
- Rank Up: Omojiri ends up becoming the official Homeroom Teacher for Komi's class starting in her third year after their previous homeroom teacher actually managed to get promoted by the Head Faculty.
- Sensei-chan: A bit of a Downplayed Trope as Omojiri tries her best to take her job seriously but between her mentor, the original homeroom teacher being a notorious slacker, and Najimi constantly derailing her teaching, she's ultimately forced to go with the flow.
- Stern Teacher: Initially. She behaves like this towards Komi's class because she's nervous around them, but Komi's kind gesture makes her soften the load.
Gorimi Senpai
Introduction: Chapter 36
Agari's upperclassman at the library, Gorimi is a second-year student (later a senior) and the implacable, immovable, towering library chief at Komi's school and a member of the Student Council. She is very strict in enforcing silence at the library, usually slapping offenders with her ever-present paper fan, and kicking them out when they strike out after three warning slaps.- The Dragon: During the second year sports festival at school, she becomes one for Isagi when she assumes the presidency of the Student Council, enforcing equal treatment from the judges who were hilariously skewed in favor of Komi the previous year.
- The Dreaded: Although she's intimidated by herself, she is dutiful in her function, so most of the characters understand her punishments. However, she's Najimi's bane because Najimi is very loud and a repeat offender.
- Huge School Girl: She's built like a castle.
- Irony: Tadano points out that her fan slaps are the loudest thing in the library, in comparison to when the students talk.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In spite of how they try her patience, Gorimi is very fond of Komi's group.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: She looks like a bodybuilder wearing pigtails.
- Loophole Abuse: A victim of it courtesy of Komitani. His inner dialogue can't be perceived by her. As she can't hear him talk, or doesn't perceive him as talking when he does, Komitani is her favorite.
- New Rules as the Plot Demands: Turns out, it's not only an offense to be loud, Gorimi also doesn't tolerate people being obnoxious.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: She's one of the few characters in the manga who doesn't grovel at Komi.
- Paper Fan of Doom: She always uses one to enforce silence in the library.
- Perpetual Frowner: She's no smiling cookie!
- Punny Name: "Gorimi" means "gorilla beauty".
- Rule of Three: Three slaps of her fan and you're out of the library.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Implied. It's hinted that one of the reasons Agari has gained some agency and self-esteem, aside from her friendship with Komi and Tadano, is due to her being an understudy library chief of someone as imponent as Gorimi.
- Threshold Guardians: A parody of the trope. Trying to study without eliciting Gorimi's wrath becomes an informal game played by Komi's group as if competing to see who lasts the longest and prodding Gorimi to see what she tolerates and what sets her off.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Najimi protests that Manbagi's talking doesn't constitute an offense. It turns out that, of course, as long as they're studying, talking gets a pass. However, Najimi is so loud in the protest that Gorimi kicks them out.
Netsuno Chika
Netsuno Chika
Voiced by: Megumi Han (Japanese), Karen Vallejo (Latin American Spanish)
Introduction: Chapters 54 & 55
A literally hot-headed girl, Netsuno is a highly competitive senpai that uses heat terms to describe class dynamics, catching Komi with her eye and deeming her "cold" compared to her classmates, as Komi's isolated.They care more about her (Komi) than they did about the result... Huh... (crying/covering mouth) Dwo handred degreef...! What good komradef...!
- Demoted to Extra: Despite Netsuno's rather prominent introduction being introduced as a fellow "School Idol" just like Komi, she only goes on to be a rather minor character.
- Flaming Hair: Not actual fire, but it's red with a lighter tuft sticking up in the middle, giving it the appearance of a torch.
- Hot-Blooded: It's literally her name!
- Inelegant Blubbering: Sheds Manly Tears upon seeing the entirety of Class 1-1 supporting Komi after she fell during their race, as seen in the quote above.
- Meaningful Name: Netsuno's surname refers to heat, reflecting her Hot-Blooded nature and tendency to measure people in degrees of temperature.
- Passionate Sports Girl: She's a multidisciplinary athlete, and in Chapter 209 she's mentioned to be in every sports club in one way or another.
- Power Levels: Tends to rank people on their "heat," or how hot-blooded they are, in terms of degrees.
- Punny Name: "Netsuno" refers to "heat" or "fever."
- The Rival: To Komi. Netsuno is one of the most popular girls in school, because of both her attractiveness and her physical prowess. Alongside Komi (and mistakenly, if somewhat true due to her popularity), Netsuno is considered one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Itan High School.
Ichou Setoka
Ichou Setoka
President Ichou receiving a Paper Fan of Doom from Gorimi
Introduction: First mentioned Chapter 146; introduced in Chapter 200
The Student Council president of Itan High School, she is a model president... apparently.My, my. Whom do we have here... Do you have some business with the Student Council?
—Ichou with swollen lips from a spicy hotpot.
- Anti-Role Model: She's everything a Student Council president shouldn't be, and then some.
- Authority in Name Only: It's implied that the council works in spite of her, and that no one that has met her for more than five minutes considers her an "authority".
- Broken Pedestal: To Isagi, who idolized her from the introduction ceremony for apparently noticing an anemic student in front of her and yanking the mic off of the principal's hands to make the audience take a seat. However, she was just tired. On top of that, Isagi finds out that she is currently repeating her third year of high school, and that she's notoriously untidy.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She's the Skewed Priorities tropes page personified. She holds a spicy hotpot meal at the council room, she states during a speech that she wants to repeat another year because if she graduates she'd be lonely, she holds bets and splits watermelons at the sports festival, you name it. So far, she's always been shown doing the wrong thing at the wrong time.
- Dumbass Has a Point: She forms a group during the second school festival specifically to oppose Isagi's massive crackdown on any visible relationships between students during the festival. Considering the fact that Isagi and her group were going around and hitting students on the head for doing things like walking arm-in-arm, holding hands, or failing to stand at least 20cm from students of the opposite gender, she's in the right in opposing her.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She's first shown in Chapter 146 as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Itan High School as "Top Of The World Ichou", though this information came from Najimi, which makes it as unreliable as it can possibly get.
- Everyone Has Standards: In Chapter 330, upon being questioned by Isagi about the funds she used to purchase the toy guns for the battle royale (which would constitute a massive misappropriation of school funds if those were used), she reveals that she paid out of pocket from her savings from her part-time work, as well as having asked for three months of advance payment from the school. As she spent so much out of her own funds and effort, Isagi cannot stop the battle royale.
- Foil: To Isagi, as they're complete antitheses to each other. She's everything that Isagi isn't: messy, irresponsible, friendly, academically deficient, carefree, non-rule-abiding, procrastinating, etc.
- Genki Girl: Combined with The Pollyanna, she's unwaveringly bubbly and immune to criticism.
- Held Back in School: She's repeating the third year, and during the Student Council elections, she manifests to the audience that she would be okay repeating again because she'd be lonely otherwise. Her age also suggests this is far from the first time it's happened, too.
- Hidden Depths: She has many faults, but she has an unwavering dedication to the school; the problem is, this dedication is more often than not, counterproductive.
- Nepotism: It's revealed in Chapter 330 that her grandfather was the school's founder, which explains why she was able to get away with so many antics as a student. She's even now the acting (substitute) Principal.
- Older Than They Look: According to Chapter 330, she's had to repeat so many years that she ended up graduating high school at twenty.
- The Pig-Pen: To add to her Broken Pedestal status to Isagi, Ichou is revealed to be a complete slob who keeps the Student Council office in complete disarray.
- Punny Name: "Ichou Setoka" is a play on the words "seto kaichou", meaning "student council president". It's meant to reflect how she's a clumsy, jumbled version of what a Student Council President should be.
- Rank Up: Goes from former-Student Council President to (substitute) Principal of the school after graduating.
- Sensei-chan: As the (substitute) principal, nothing about Setoka's childish personality has actually changed.
- Sleazy Politician: A parody. As president of the Student Council, she has held a hotpot in the council room, tried to split a watermelon during the sports festival, and on the same event she tried to take bets alongside Najimi for the relay races. She does whatever the hell she wants, whenever she wants to do it.
- Sore Loser: After she challenges four players to attack her at once during the Battle Royale as part of an optional mission, the players quickly fill her with bullets. Setoka promptly throws a tantrum and shamelessly changes the rules of the mission.
- Student Council President: In her case, it's Exactly What It Says on the Tin until Isagi takes over the presidency.
Wakai Taketoshi
Wakai Taketoshi
Introduction: Chapter 328 & 345
A new classmate of Manbagi's, introduced in her third year, and the soccer club captain. He sits next to her in class 3-5 but suffers from crippling anxiety when it comes to talking to the opposite sex, to the point that he'll faint if women talk to him too much.
- Cannot Talk to Women: Quite literally Wakai's quirk to a T, he becomes a stuttering mess when it comes to talking to girls or even being spoken to by them (represented by a gauge that reduces every time a girl addresses him), and once this metaphorical gauge runs out, he'll outright pass out. This is reduced if he manages to befriend a girl though, as he steadily becomes more able to talk with Manbagi as she continues to put forth effort to get to know him.
- Chick Magnet: Not to Shosuke's exaggerated level, but between being considered attractive and being the captain of the school's soccer team, Wakai is pretty popular with the female students, to his consternation. His status as this makes Manbagi feel pretty special that he is interested in her.
- Commonality Connection: He and Katai bond quickly over their mutual difficulties with women, Katai encouraging him that they are not all frightening.
- Distaff Counterpart:
- Wakai being in a class separated from his close friends and being crippling shy is quite similar to Manbagi's introduction into the series.
- He has a communication disorder just like Komi, but in Wakai's case, it's limited to crippling anxiety when talking to the opposite sex.
- Entertainingly Wrong: He's initially under the impression Katai is Manbangi's boyfriend, completely unaware they are only friends. When he finds this out it immediately sets back how comfortable he was getting with Manbagi, as he is very attracted to her.
- Love Confession: Blurts an unplanned one out to Manbagi in chapter 399, causing new awkwardness between them as Manbagi isn't ready to give him an answer.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: After Manbagi was placed in a different class from Komi and Tadano in her third year, readers were quick to note that Wakai bears a shockingly similar appearance to Tadano (with a bit of Komi mixed in), though there are a lot of differences in their personalities.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Manbagi confides to him how she still feels inferior to Komi, he does all he can to encourage her that he thinks she isn't. The noise of fireworks going off interferes with this, leading to him getting increasingly emotional until he outright gives a Love Confession.
Hiki Komorebi
Hiki Komorebi
Introduction: Chapter 275
Inaka Nokoko's younger cousin, a third-year middle school student who meets Komi while the latter is filling in as a shrine maiden. She has profound social anxiety and has to work herself up to even leave her own room. She eventually joins Itan High School as a new freshman when Komi enters her third year.
- Dark Horse Victory: During the Battle Royale, she and a few of her classmates missed out on their class getting completely trounced since they decided to take a bathroom break. She leads her class to victory and becomes the MVP because Ichou dresses her up as a Gun (& bullet) Dam.
- Hikikomori: She used to be one, but she breaks out of her shell to attend high school.
- Huge Schoolgirl: 181 cm tall (5'11.3"), but it's hard to tell with how often she slouches down. She noticeably lacks the athleticism usually associated with this trope.
- Shrinking Violet: She gets incredibly anxious around other people, and nearly vomits during her New Year shrine visit due to how many people are around.
- Younger Than They Look: When they first met, Komi initially assumed she was older than her.
Shujou Susumu
Introduction: Chapter 330
(To Komorebi) If you find something interesting, enjoy it to the fullest.
A bubbly, cheerful girl. She joins Komorebi's class at Itan High School and becomes friends with her during the Battle Royale.
- The Glomp: Glomps Komorebi the day after the Battle Royale, which snaps her out of an anxiety attack.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is a pun for "soon-to-be commander". Thanks to her taking the initiative, the first-years end up winning the Battle Royale.
- The Pollyanna: Is always excited at the shenanigans that take place around her.
Netsuno Aoi
Introduction: first appearance Ch. 331; formally introduced in Ch. 333
Netsuno Chika's younger cousin. She joins Komorebi's class at Itan High School and becomes friends with her during the Battle Royale.
- The Glomp: Aoi tries to follow Susumu's example; unfortunately, Aoi's version is more of a sumo tackle. She's stopped from attempting it.
- Hot-Blooded: When faced with a difficult situation, Aoi's first instinct is to get pumped. It must run in the family.
- No Indoor Voice: Being as Hot-Blooded as her cousin, Aoi cannot speak quietly and seems unfamiliar with the concept of stealth.
