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Ayuzawa Family
Minako Ayuzawa
Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Emily Neves (English)
Misaki's sickly mother who tries her best to support her two daughters.
- Beware the Nice Ones: As open-minded and sweet as she can be, Minako has an intimidating side.
- Good Parents: She is a very caring person and loves her daughters very much. For example, in Chapter 47 of the manga, she encourages Misaki to accept the offer of going on a double date to the hot springs with Usui, Sakura and Kūga, even after Misaki explains the expenses of the trip and that there will be boys.
- Mama Bear: She calmly threatened her husband to stay away from her daughters when he was begging to come inside the house.
- Nice Girl: Minako is also calm, friendly and kind.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She has a striking resemblance to her daughters — same hair color, eye color, and skin complexion.
Suzuna Ayuzawa
Voiced by: Kaori Ishihara (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English)
Misaki's younger sister.
- Born Lucky: And how! Her hobby is winning a prize from the magazines, and somehow she always wins.
- Dude Magnet: When she enters Seika High School, a number students from the male population find her attractive.
- Emotionless Girl: She is very apathetic and shows little to no emotion. Apparently, when she's afraid, she shows even less emotion.
- Girlish Pigtails: Although she isn't that particularly girly.
- Luminescent Blush: Quite a few times during the Ship Tease moments with Hinata in chapter 68.
- Meido: Dresses up to help out at the maid cafe at one point. Misaki is ''NOT'' happy about this.
- Official Couple: She's married to Hinata in the finale, with a child on the way, it turns out.
- Running Gag: Her incredibly good luck, which she uses to win prizes in various raffles.
- Second Love: For Hinata, after he gets over his feelings for Misaki. In the Distant Finale, they are already married and, as an extra reveals, pregnant with their first child.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: The reserved, stoic to her older sister, Misaki's emotional, expressiveness.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: To mirror her She Is All Grown Up realization regarding Hinata in an omake, chapter 68 has Hinata realize this when he sees her dolled up.
- Shipper on Deck: She likes Misaki and Usui together, once helping her big sister get ready for a date.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Suzuna develops a crush on the friendly and caring Hinata.
- Through His Stomach: Lately she's been finding excuses to give stuff she's cooked to Hinata.
- Victorious Childhood Friend: In the Distant Finale, she actually marries Hinata three years before her sister and Usui get married.
Sakuya Ayuzawa
Misaki and Suzuna's father.
- The Atoner: Sakuya knows that he screwed up, and desperately wants to make it up to his family.
- Butt-Monkey: The universe does not go easy on him once he finally returns to the family he'd left. Misaki brutally shoots down his attempts to reenter her life, Minako refuses to let him back in the house, and Usui kicks his ass in a cooking competition when he tries to take over as head chef at the cafe.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Averted. While it turns out that he left his family to help a friend who got into trouble with every intention of returning once he did so, it doesn't change the fact that he saddled his family with debt before leaving his wife and two young daughters to help a friend who, in the end, turned out to be fine anyway. Sakuya himself acknowledges this.
- Disappeared Dad: To Misaki and Suzuna. He is absent for the first part of the series until he returns in Chapter 69.
- The Gambling Addict: Misaki explains that he left them with a huge debt of his. Subverted. His friend, Kazu, left a huge debt on him and his family so he decided to leave to find him. His wife lied to their daughters about him, telling them he was a lazy gambling father, because she wasn't sure if he would come home soon.
- In-Series Nickname: "Sakkun."
- Manchild: Sakuya has a childish and even immature attitude and he even states that he is a kid on the inside.
- Nice Guy: He has a very bright and cheerful personality reminiscent of Hinata. Sakuya is optimistic and joyful. He is not a bad person but a friendly one, as stated by Erika.
- The Nicknamer: He often addresses to people with nicknames.
- Parental Abandonment: He abandoned his family, leaving them a huge debt as well.
- Parents as People: Ultimately turns out to be a case of this. He's not a bad person, just not a particularly responsible one. In the end, he tries to do right by the family that he wronged, and it's implied in the epilogue that at least Suzuna and Minako have forgiven him.
- The Reveal: The debt he acquired, was someone else's.
- Supreme Chef: Specializes on Japanese-style food.
Usui's Family
Warning: there are a lot of unavoidable spoilers included in this, given that it's all part of one reveal or another, so that aspect of them is left unmarked. Gerard Walker
Usui's British older half-brother, who looks like an older, more polished version of him.
- Arc Villain: basically becomes this during the England Arc, being the greatest obstacle against Usui and Misaki being together.
- Aloof Big Brother: Gerald despises Usui, and even goes so far as to say to his face in chapter 75:"I hate your existence."
- The reasons for this hatred are shown to not be as simple as blaming Usui for their mother's faults. While part of it definitely stems from the fact that Usui is an illegitimate child whose birth ultimately resulted in their mother's death and has many of the personality traits of said mother which he thinks accounted for her cheating in the first place. It is also because he knew and was fond of Usui's father, Yuu, and so on top of the betrayal he had already felt by Patricia's affair, the fact that the other party was Yuu added an additional layer.
- By the time the story ends, he's gotten a lot better. Although still aloof, the close of the story, especially the distant epilogue, show him to have become much, much closer to his younger brother, merely getting exasperated and resigned, rather than angry and trying to stop him. The way his son asks his father about where "Uncle Takumi and Aunt Misaki" are going, indicates plenty.
- Babies Ever After: A panel in the final chapter reveals that he's married and has an apparently healthy son.
- Bad Boss: Zigzagged with Benevolent Boss. He regularly orders his servants, especially Cedric, to do humiliating tasks for his own amusement. That being said, he genuinely cares about the people who work for the Walker family, and wants to ensure that they are taken care of in case anything happens to him.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Dark blue hair and Icy Blue Eyes.
- Freudian Excuse: His animosity towards Usui stems from the fact that their mother cheated on his father, with someone he trusted, then abandoned them all to give birth to Usui in secret.
- The Gadfly: Like his mother and brother, only he takes it much further, to the annoyance of Cedric.
- Heel–Face Turn: By the end of the manga, he's dropped his animosity towards Usui and Misaki, going as far as to attend their wedding.
- Icy Blue Eyes: Gerard has blue eyes and acts a sort of antagonist to Misaki and Usui, for a time, anyway.
- Jerkass: Flat out states that he hates Usui to his face, and only reenters his life in an attempt to force him to become the back-up heir to the Walker family in case Gerard dies. Said attempt involves locking Usui in a Gilded Cage and trying to end his relationship with the one person that has ever truly loved him.
- It's worth noting that he's only shown to be like this towards Usui, together with the fact that he puts the Walker family first, the overall picture isn't as bad as that. And, by the end of the story, his attitude toward Usui is merely confined to the two having different priorities and minor disagreements.
- Shipping Torpedo: Gerald is disapproving of the relationship between Misaki and Takumi and is out to separate them. That is until the Distant Finale, when Misaki and Usui get married. At that point he seems to be half teasing them and half putting the Walker family's matters first.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With Usui, oh so very much, despite the two having a lot of similarities. It can be inferred, given Gerard's reputation, that when it comes to academics, the two are fairly equal, but Gerard is an extremely sickly person and lacks any athleticism whatsoever (in contrast to Usui being healthy and practically impervious). Moreover, Gerard is hardly good at anything Usui does (and in some cases down-right pathetic), but is excellent at most things Usui doesn't bother with (like human relations). They also have opposite external attitudes, Usui appearing stoic and unfriendly, while Gerard himself appears jovial and friendly.
- Additionally, while Usui doesn't care about the Walker family in the slightest, Gerard is completely devoted to it, to the extent of trying to have Usui be his backup in the event of his dying young and without issue, despite that plan hinging on what he hated most about Usui and the entire plan going against the will of their grandfather, the head of the Walker family.
- Smoking Is Cool: He enjoys smoking, despite his poor health.
- The Stoic: While he is externally very outgoing and jovial, considering his situation (and the fact that he is Secretly Dying for a while), seeing as you really can't tell, he can't be anything but this.
- Strong Family Resemblance: He and Usui look almost identical, except that Gerald's hair is straight and dark blue and also his eyes are light blue. Their personalities are also both very similar to their mother's. That said, he ends up looking a lot like Yuu Hirose as a result of Usui's resemblance to the man.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Though he appears devious and calculating, he is strangely jovial and enjoys teasing Cedric Morris, similar to how Takumi makes fun of his acquaintances. The way he teases Usui is probably also in this vein, at least in part, and he later extends this to Misaki, once Usui and Misaki's relationship is approved. On the other hand, Gerald is seen to be very sincere and serious when the moment calls for it.
- Two First Names: "Walker" can also be a first name.
Patricia Walker
Usui and Gerard's mother.
- Arranged Marriage: With her childhood friend, Edward.
- Brutal Honesty: She was outspoken and straightforward and wasn't afraid to voice her mind, like when she bluntly told Edward that he had the worst taste in gifts when he presented her a pot of saplings for her 16th birthday.
- Meaningful Name: Her first name, Patricia, means "noble woman" and refers to her rank in the society.
- Missing Mom: To Takumi and Gerard, as she is dead by the start of the series.
- Posthumous Character: She only appears in flashbacks.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man:
- This seems to have been the reason she fell for Takumi's father, Yuu. This is likewise implied to have been the reason she came to love her husband.
- In the final passage in her diary, she refers to Edward as "my unreliable, but kind and brilliant husband," and "the one who has always been by my side, Yuu." That said, given that she mentions them in the same way she mentions her parents, the people serving her family, and children, the type of love she held for Edward is never specified.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: with Yuu, her butler and Takumi's father. They loved each other, but could not be together because of Patricia's Arranged Marriage and their difference in social status. When she gets terminally ill, she basically says "screw it" and consummates her love with Yuu before she dies.
- Two First Names: "Walker" can also be a first name.
- Uptown Girl: With respect to both of her partners, since she's from upper nobility. Edward is only a baron's son, while Yuu was her valet/butler.
- Walking Spoiler: Even giving away of who she is related to will spoil half the series.
Yukimura Family
Ruri Yukimura
Voiced by: Yui Ogura (Japanese), Emily Neves (English)
Yukimura's younger sister, who views Usui as a "prince" and doesn't see her own brother as manly at all. Later, though, she realizes that Usui's "princess" isn't her, and grows to accept Yukimura as her brother.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Downplayed. Though she's not bad, she only thinks of herself and she's really selfish as she doesn't show any emotion thinking how Shōichirō feels when she claims in front of her friends that he's not her brother. Ruri has a personality trait of pride as well, which makes her seem self-absorbed.
- Girlish Pigtails: She wears her hair in two pigtails and her biggest dream is to be a proper princess.
- Precocious Crush: She has a huge crush on "prince" Usui.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Ruri has a very similar appearance to that of her older brother, Shōichirō, which has been even commented on by Misaki.
Tsuwamono Family
Nagisa Tsuwamono
Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi (anime) (Japanese), Beth Lazarou (English)
Satsuki's younger sister and Aoi's aunt. She's very hard on Aoi's crossdressing because her older brother (Aoi's father) disapproves of it. Her shop Ocean House isn't getting as many customers as she would like, so naturally the Maid Latte girls (+Usui) head to it to help, thus the Beach Episode.
- Genki Girl: Nagisa is a sportive and energetic person.
- Meaningful Name: Her first name, Nagisa, means "the seashore"; the kanji of her last name means "water's edge". Both refer to her owning her own beach house and her liking of the sea itself.
- Strong Family Resemblance: The Maid Latte Cafe staff commented that she looks a lot like Satsuki, her older sister.
Spoiler Characters
Spoiler Characters
Sara Usui
Misaki and Takumi's 10-year-old daughter.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Foolish to Rui's Responsible. She attempts to persuade him into mischief making while he scolds her for immaturity.
- Like Parent, Like Child: Misaki states Sara's head is wired like his father and she gets her recklessness from her mother.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Given the hair and eye color, Sara is basically a female version of her father.
Rui Usui
Misaki and Takumi's 8-year-old son.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Responsible to Sara's Foolish. He scolds her for her immaturity while she's all about having fun even when it's probably dangerous.
- Like Parent, Like Child: Like his mother, Misaki, he often gets frustrated by Sara. And like his father, Takumi, he is often very quiet and tries to stay out of trouble.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Given the hair and eye color, Rui is basically a male version of his mother.
