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Characters / Mars (1996)

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Asou Kira

A quiet girl, known for her aversion to men and her artistic skill. She catches the attention of Rei when he asks her for directions. Instead of answering him, she draws him a map on the back of a sketch she did of a mother holding a child that Rei finds moving. Her relationship with Rei is the main focus of the story.
  • Accidental Pervert: To get Rei to model for her art, she asks him to "lend her his body," which is first misunderstood by Rei because she says this in reply to Rei offering to "lend her his body" to mess around anytime she wants as payment for giving him one of her sketches by accident.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: Deconstructed. She's attracted to Rei, but is put off from the outset by his callousness regarding violence. In fact, Rei's destructive behavior becomes an obstacle for both Kira and Rei to overcome.
  • Ambiguously Bi:
    • While romantically, Kira only seems to have eyes for Rei, she talks about the beauty of other female characters in similar terms, and admits to Tatsuya that she would have a crush on Rei even if he were a woman.
    • Another reading of Kira's behavior is that she has a Single-Target Sexuality for Rei, seeing as she never expresses romantic feelings for another person, male or female, in the story. Which, given her trauma makes a lot of sense. Her ability to comment on the beauty of women coming from her artistic sensibility than from any true attraction.
  • Artists Are Attractive: A painter of burgeoning talent whose beauty is only dampened by her gloomy disposition. Even when she was her most introverted and withdrawn, Tatsuya had a crush on her.
  • Aura Vision: As an artist, Kira associates people's personalities and energies with particular colors.
    • When she paints Rei, she uses reds, oranges, yellows, and other warm tones, likening his aura to the vivid intensity of the setting sun. As Rei begins to calm down throughout their relationship, Kira comments that his aura has become softer and warmer.
    • Masao offers himself as a model for Kira to paint in a similar style to her portrait of Rei. Kira struggles because when she looks at Masao, she doesn't see any colors at all.
  • Beneath the Mask: As Kira starts to come to terms with her trauma, she sheds the Emotionless Girl mask that was her trauma response. Rei notes that the real Kira is much happier, lighter, and a bit of The Determinator with a habit of being kind but blunt.
  • Betty and Veronica: The perpetual Betty to Rei's Archie, with all other challengers filling in the Veronica role.
  • Beware the Quiet Ones: She bashes her step-father's head in when he tries to molest her again and confesses to Rei that whenever she came across people who she didn't like, she would imagine killing them in her head, repeatedly.
  • Bodyguard Crush: After their teacher tries to molest her, Rei says that in exchange for keeping the sketch she accidentally gave him, he'll protect her, making his developing feelings for her a version of this.
  • Break the Cutie: Starts the story already broken (her adverseness to men) and we are shown later what it was exactly that made her this way. She does get better, in no small part due to having the support of Rei and some new friends she makes along the way.
  • Brutal Honesty: After Kira deals with the bulk of her trauma and comes out of her shell, she reveals to have this trait. She quite plainly tells Masao about her conflicting feelings about him and has no qualms telling Rei what his shortcomings are, to which he responds, "You don't hold back, do you?"
  • Bully Magnet: Discussed by Tatsuya and Rei about Kira. They claim that her timid nature and blatant aversion to men is in its own way, provoking negative attention.
  • Creepy Loner Girl: How she is perceived by her classmates because of her quietness and dowdy appearance at the start of the story. Everyone leaves her alone and most of the girls find her unsettlingly quiet.
  • Damsel in Distress: Becomes this several times during the story and the story works to deconstruct the idea that Rei, just another teenager at the end of the day, can actually save her from the myriad of problems she faces, especially when the threat is as much psychological as it is physical.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Her father died in a traffic accident when she was young and her step-father raped her several times over the course of her adolescence.
  • Defiled Forever: How Kira views herself as a victim of rape. She struggles being physically intimate with Rei in part because she considers herself soiled.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: She does not like Rei when they first interact, in no small part because of his bad boy ways. As she actually gets to know him and deal with her trauma, she softens her attitude not just toward him, but to men in general.
  • The Determinator: A trait that reveals itself to Rei once she deals with the vast majority of her trauma. For example, when she decides to work a part time job at a fast food place in order to become more independent, Rei initially objects because she had only recently overcome her aversion to men. She pushes past it and is, unfortunately, sexually harassed by customers. Despite it shaking her up some, she refuses to quit.
  • Disappeared Dad: Twice. Her dad died when she was in grade school and her mom has remarried since to a man that is not around for the vast majority of the story. We find out why he's been gone much later.
  • Does Not Like Men: When the story begins, Kira is shy around most people, but avoids even speaking to her male classmates.
  • Emotionless Girl: Does not emote a lot in general. This is a Truth in Television trauma response many sexual assault victims exhibit.
  • Extreme Doormat: At her worst, this is what Kira can be and the story goes to great lengths to show how detrimental this mindset can be. The Shiori arc only really happens because Kira, out of fear of coming off as the Clingy Jealous Girl, continuously allows and sanctions other girls to monopolize Rei's time. This drives a wedge between her and Rei as he takes it to mean that she doesn't really care about him.
  • First Kiss: Has her first with Rei, which they both find particularly meaningful given her past.
  • Hates Being Touched: Though Kira keeps to herself mostly, she flinches away from even accidental physical contact from any person of the male persuasion. This becomes a hurdle in her relationship with Rei Kashino, as the closer they get the more physical intimacy he wants and Kira's constant rebuffs (without explanation) begin to hurt Rei.
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Her boyfriend Rei towers over her.
  • Ineffectual Loner: Rei forces Kira to realize that isolating herself and never speaking up makes her an easy target to prey on and prevents her from getting help when she needs it.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Kira's approach to the Shiori situation reveals that she is willing to let Rei go and be with Shiori because she believes he's purposefully avoiding her as a way to avoid dealing with his unresolved trauma with Sei's death. So as much as she loves him, she's willing to step aside should she need to, in order to allow Rei to fully heal.
  • Morality Chain: She is very much so this to Rei, as it is shown several times that often the only thing keeping Rei from pummeling and even killing someone is Kira herself or the memory of Kira's words telling Rei to not hurt people.
  • Oblivious to Love: Didn't even realize that Tatsuya was interested in her back in middle school. Though, to be fair, she had a very good reason.
  • The Quiet One: Comes with her shrinking violet status. She does not speak up much and is a loner because of it.
  • Rape as Backstory: Her step-father raped her when she was younger, causing her aversion to men and withdrawn personality.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Rei's red, given her quiet and introverted disposition in contrast to his boisterous extroverted personality.
  • Replacement Goldfish: A constant point of insecurity for Kira who can't help but shake the fact that the only reason Rei is interested in her is because her personality is similar to Sei's. Rei admits he thought that too, at first, but the closer they got, the more he realized how different (stronger) she was from Sei. However, it doesn't help that every time Kira meets someone who once knew Sei, they bring up how similar they are and when Rei becomes frustrated by her passivity, he tells her to stop acting so much like Sei.
  • Sensitive Artist: Kira starts off as an Emotionless Girl, however this is later revealed to be a trauma response to being raped by her step-father when she was younger. As she unpacks that trauma, Kira is shown to actually be very empathetic and intuitive, shown best by her Aura Vision: she unconsciously associates people with colors that inidicate their personality. This is what tips her off that something is deeply wrong with Masao, because she can't see colors when she looks at him. She just sees darkness.
  • Shrinking Violet: Rarely speaks up and avoids talking to men if she can help it.
  • Trauma Button: Has 2:
    • The first is sudden death because of her father's tragic death in a car accident. She is unable to stand up after giving the panic attack suffering Rei CPR because she was so afraid.
    • The second is almost all male contact, prior to getting close to Rei because of her step-father raping her when she was younger.
  • Used to Be More Social: Though not a social butterfly, Tatsuya tells Rei that Kira was like this until one day she suddenly was quiet, withdrawn, and afraid of all male contact.
  • Wet Blanket Wife: What Masao and at certain points Rei himself accuses her of being, as she is often disturbed by and scared of Rei's abrupt mood swings, violent tendencies, and general delinquent ways.

Kashino Rei

A wild guy, known for his boisterous attitude, skipping school, his flirtatious ways and casual sexual behavior, and for racing motorbikes semi-professionally at the young age of 16. He meets Kira by chance when he asks her for directions to a nearby hospital. His interest in her sparks the plot of the story.
  • Afraid of Doctors: When he gets a fever, he refuses to go to the hospital because of this. Justified as he's spent a large amount of his life in and out of them, either visiting his mom or getting treatment for his own trauma.
  • Angsty Surviving Twin: Rei after Sei's death, as he blames himself for his brother's death.
  • Ax-Crazy: Can fall into this when triggered,beating people into bloody pulps to relieve stress and even threatening to kill people.
  • Badass Biker: The coolest guy at school and is a motorbike racing prodigy.
  • Big Man on Campus: Nearly universally liked at school for being the cool and fun loving guy. He even becomes friends with an older student who he previously beat the crap out of.
  • Bodyguard Crush: After their teacher tries to molest Kira, Rei says that in exchange for keeping the sketch she accidentally gave him, he'll protect her, making her developing feelings for him a version of this.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: Rei is actually very intelligent and highly adaptable. He got the highest score on the high school entrance exam. He just has zero interest in school, much to the dismay of his teachers.
  • Broken Ace: The coolest guy in school while also harboring more trauma than an ICU, due to his mother's and brother's deaths, as well as the pressure placed on him to be Sei's main protector when the latter was still alive.
  • The Brute: At his worse, Rei can be very antagonistic, picking fights just to blow off steam and enjoying every minute of the brutal beatdowns he dishes out.
  • The Casanova: Rei flirts and hooks up with any girl he doesn't find annoying or clingy. This is what makes him developing genuine feelings for Kira startling, both to Rei and those around him.
  • Challenge Seeker: When it comes to racing, there is no challenge too hard for Rei to try to take on, even if it comes at the expense of his body. In both of the races depicted it shows Rei pushing himself and his bike to their limits in order to beat his competitors and to possibly race a track record.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: How he is perceived by Kira and his classmates due to his flirtatious, carefree ways. Everyone knows he's a flirt but he's generally so likeable, cool, and good-natured that no one holds it against him and if anything, see it as part of his charm.
  • Color Motif: Warm tones, red and oranges in particular, evoking both Red Is Heroic and Red Is Violent.
  • Cycle of Revenge: This is one of Rei's core beliefs at the start of the story: do unto others what they do to you and then some. Thus, when Masao makes a veiled threat about trying to kill Kira again and Rei points out the futility in trying to get revenge, it shows just how far he's come to both the audience and Masao, who isn't very pleased to see this change in him.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Rei's family life is a breeding ground for psychological trauma. In short, his mom killed herself after trying to kill him and his twin brother committed suicide in front of him.
  • Death Seeker: Can come off as this at the beginning of the story given his exceedingly reckless behavior and his apathetic attitude towards the thought of his own death and death in general
  • Delinquent: Has all of the hallmarks: skips school, sleeps through classes, dates around, gets into violent conflicts liberally, threatens and opposes supposed authority figures.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Rei's violent outbursts are often triggered by some perceived injustice happening, so they often can be justified, despite their extremity. However, when Kurasawa steals Kira's art and submits a painting based on it as his own original creation, Rei was going to break his fingers in the middle of class if no one stopped him.
  • Dissonant Serenity: The biggest indicator that something is not quite right with Rei is the calm and sometimes pleasure apparent on his face as he is beating people into a pulp or threatening someone.
  • Enemy Within: One of the main dramatic questions of the manga is can Rei overcome his own darkness which manifests in apathy and violent outbursts.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: Rei is so attractive he gets regularly scouted on the street to be a model. When new male student Masao is introduced, he confesses to having a crush on Rei.
  • Finger-Suck Healing: Does this to Kira in the middle of class when she slices her finger sharpening a pencil, much to the shock and chagrin of everyone else in the room.
  • Freudian Excuse: Given what he had to deal with throughout his childhood (both his mother and twin brother committing suicide), his volatile behavioral issues can be understood as a reaction to those traumas.
  • Gotta Pass the Class: As a consequence of his poor attendance and falling asleep in class, Rei has to put in a lot of effort once he starts regularly attending.
  • Knight Templar Big Brother: How Rei acted towards Sei for the vast majority of their childhood, a trait Sei specifically cultivated in Rei to exploit for his own benefit. He would beat anyone who seemed to be picking on or hurting Sei to a pulp.
  • Hates Their Parent: Hates Takayuki because Rei believes Takayuki never cared about him or Sei. Turns out that was just malicious lies Shoko told Rei and Sei to turn them against him.
  • Hot-Blooded: He has the positives and the negatives of this. He is high energy, always playing a sport, can't seem to sit still, and flirts shamelessly to much success. He also has extremely violent outbursts when he feels antagonized.
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: He towers over Kira, his girlfriend.
  • In the Blood: Apart from his physical apperance, Rei seems to have inherited his charming, Lovable Jock nature from his father and his behavioral issues from his mother. This is part of the reason why Takayuki is against Rei becoming a racer as Rei reminds him too much of his brother who eventually died in a car racing accident.
  • It's All My Fault: He blames himself for Sei's suicide, going so far as to tell police who arrived at the scene that he pushed him, despite that being obviously untrue. Why he blames himself changes a few times as Rei's memories of what happened that day become clearer, ultimately settling on him revealing to Sei the Awful Truth about their parentage sending fragile Sei into an emotional tailspin. And even then Rei's only half right.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rei's an interesting case since to strangers and people he does not like, Rei genuinely does not care about their well-being and whether they live or die, which would normally make him more of a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk. With his friends and loved ones though, Rei is far gentler and understanding, and even his more antagonistic behavior is usually in service to protecting those around him, tipping the scales towards this trope.
  • Knight Templar Big Brother: Even as a kid, Rei would go absolutely ballistic on anyone that was threatening Sei. Best exemplified by the incident when they lived in LA and a racist bully was harassing Sei. Rei grabbed a gun, put it in the kids mouth, and threatened to blow his brains out. Deconstructed however as Sei manipulated Rei to become this way and Rei grew to eventually resent Sei for always having to be the "violent sibling" to Sei's rule-abiding sibling.
  • Kubrick Stare: Rei lapses into these from time to time, often when engaging in exceedingly violent acts, paired with a calm or emotionless expression. It's one of the first things that Kira notices about Rei that makes her think there's more to him than the perception she has.
  • Ladykiller in Love: He's a well-known ladies man at school, but he falls head over heels for Kira after sometime to the point that he's willing to marry her and drop out of school to start working just to provide a safe home for her to be in.
  • Like Father, Like Son: He bears an uncanny resemblance to his biological father, Akihiko. Moreover, he shares his father's cheerfulness and love of motorbike racing.
  • Lonely Rich Kid: It doesn't get revealed until later in the story that Rei comes from a very well off family. But once it does, he can be seen as this, since it is just him and his dad now, from whom he is estranged at the start of the story. This is made especially true when Kira finds out Rei never even told Tatsuya, his closest friend in school, about having a twin brother, let alone that he died.
  • Lovable Jock: Be it basketball or motorbiking, Rei has a natural gift for physical activity and is well-liked by his peers for his fun and seemingly carefree attitude.
  • Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Not only is he a rare male variant of the trope, he also acts as a deconstruction:
    • He's the energetic, carefree, and slightly eccentric partner to the brooding, emotionless, and repressed main character. He teaches Kira how to be more assertive and stick up for herself.
    • His "eccentricities" tend towards reckless and violent behavior that often gets himself in trouble and hurts those around him, including manic mood swings and outright sociopathic tendencies. In addition, though he does love Kira, he finds her passivity deeply frustrating, at one point breaking up with her because he realizes he can't solve all of her problems. Finally, as much as Kira learns from him, she teaches Rei how to care more about those around him and to treasure his own life more.
  • Mood-Swinger: He can go from joking to deadly serious in the blink of an eye when triggered.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: This is Rei's philosophy, which puts him at odds with the society he exists in and Kira as well, because she is more inclined to be passive rather than proactive in the face of injustice. Later deconstructed as Rei learns that rarely can a thing be fixed by applying more violence, especially when you are a kid challenging a person of authority.
  • Politically Incorrect Hero: He calls Masao a homophobic slur in front of their entire class after he learns about Masao's feelings for him indirectly. The entire class calls him out for this and he soon after apologizes with some prodding from Kira.
  • Pretty Boy: Frequently is called a pretty boy for his obvious good looks by both adoring fan girls and in a derogative fashion by other guys, usually those he's in a physical fight with.
  • Professional Gambler: Rei hustles as a side gig for extra income, first betting on pick up basketball games he participates in and later by playing billiards after school.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: Can fall into this when he gives in to his darker tendencies, as everyone comments about how boyish he already is normally
  • Really Gets Around: He has a reputation for sleeping with just about any one to the extent that when Masao confesses his feelings for him, Tatsuya asks Rei multiple times whether or not he's interested despite Rei only ever pursuing women. Typically though, he's not hung up about it, that is until he falls for Kira. In fact, when he becomes overwhelmed by just how much trauma he and Kira need to work through in order to be together, he temporarily ends things and almost immediately goes back to pursuing casual sex and casual women because it's easier.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Kira's and Sei's blue. Though, regarding Sei, this gets deconstructed as Rei grew up to dislike Sei for this very reason. He found Sei's moralizing self-righteous, especially when Rei finds himself fighting on behalf of Sei more often than not. Most importantly though, being around Sei made Rei more aware of how violent and impulsive he really is and it disgusted him.
  • Riches to Rags: Self-imposed by Rei because he does not get along with his wealthy father and has moved out because of that. His apartment is almost completely bare and he has to work a construction job after school to pay the bills.
  • Sadist: Rei does take pleasure out of inflicting pain on others, often using No Holds Barred Beatdowns to usually deserving folks as a form of stress relief, just as much as he does it to protect others. He even uses Masao as an ashtray as a form of intimidation, despite Masao not really doing anything to provoke him yet.
  • Shared Family Quirks: According to both Kira and his mother, Rei lifts his left eyebrow higher when he smiles, just like his father
  • Sibling Triangle: Instigated one when he decided to act on his feelings for Shiori and pursue her, despite her dating Sei.
  • Skipping School: Rei does this so often that when he starts regularly attending school in order to fulfill his promise of protecting Kira, his classmates are surprised.
  • The Sociopath: Shows shades of this throughout the story, to the horror of everyone around him. Part of his character development is to learn how to deal with and overcome these tendencies.
  • Speed Demon: Rei is an exceptionally fast racer and he is constantly trying to push himself to go faster and faster whenever he is on the track. In the final race of the story in which he and Kyoko have to switch off, he manages to not only catch up, but make a bid for the lead, despite starting well behind the pack. He and Kyoko are ultimately disqualified since Rei drove far longer than he should (Kyoko had injured herself earlier), but his impressive rally was noticed by a recruiter.
  • Street Urchin: According to Rei, when he lived in LA he and other kids in the neighborhood would steal side mirrors off of cars and sell them.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Looks like a near carbon copy of his father when he was younger, just with longer hair and his mother's more melancholic eyes.
  • Thrill Seeker: What he finds the most appealing about racing. Kyoko and Akitaka comment that Rei can go so fast because he does not care about his life enough to worry.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Rei is prone to meeting conflict with violence (or the threat of it), often at a level that far exceeds what the situation calls for. For instance, when another Delinquent slaps Kira for trying to protect a cat, Rei beats him up, threatens to blind another guy, and threatens to either slice the slapper's nose off or blind him for what he did. His choice.
  • Too Broken to Break: Learning more about Rei's traumatic family history reveals that the Death Seeker behavior and blase attitude towards death Broken Ace Rei exhibits at the beginning of the story is because he has been an unstable and broken person since childhood.
  • Trauma Button:
    • Someone jumping off a building nearby triggers a panic attack in the normally unflappable Rei, causing him to pass out from lack of air as that is the same way Sei killed himself.
    • Kurasawa doing the same thing momentarily stuns him, but Kira brings him back to reality.
  • Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Rei suffers this as well as extreme violent behavior after Sei's suicide. His psychiatrist and father use it to rewrite his childhood to make him forget his mother's madness.
  • Troubled, but Cute: He's the semi-sociopathic school heartthrob.
  • Unpleasant Parent Reveal: The things Rei begins to remember about his mother once he begins to process his trauma and talks with the psychiatrist who attended her paint a picture of an unstable and spiteful woman in love with a ghost.
  • Unreliable Expositor: Partly because of his Trauma-Induced Amnesia, but also partly because both Sei and his mother fed him lies about themselves and, in Shoko's case, his father, it becomes more and more obvious that the version of events and people Rei remembers and tells to Kira are not wholly accurate to what happened and how people actually were.

    High Schoolers 

Kida Tatsuya

Rei's closest friend in school who also went to the same middle school as Kira and tries to warn Rei away from getting involved with Kira, for her sake.
  • Beta Couple: Becomes part of one when he starts dating Harumi.
  • Big Brother Instinct: His explanation to Rei for why Kira seems to be able to confide in him. He's got a lot of younger brothers and that has made him easy to talk to.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: Rei intuits pretty quickly that part of the reason Tatsuya has been on his case to leave Kira alone is because Tatsuya is actually into her. Tatsuya, however, doesn't make a move on her because back in middle school Kira reacts to him accidentally brushing his hand against hers with blatant disgust. In some ways, the manga deconstructs this approach since at the end, it is the much more proactive Rei who actively pursues Kira that ends up winning her affection.
  • Hopeless Suitor: Even after it is pretty clear Kira is only interested in Rei, Tatsuya admittedly still holds some lingering feelings for her and later uses this to try to teach Rei to not take Kira for granted.
  • Nice Guy: He is basically just this, supporting Rei and Kira's relationship despite his own feelings.
  • Operation: Jealousy: When he finds Kira still waiting for Rei after Rei escorts his ex Shiori home, he impulsively hugs her, which Mood-Swinger and sometimes Ax-Crazy Rei sees. Instead of denying that the hug was completely platonic, Tatsuya uses this trope as a way to get Rei to be more considerate of Kira's feelings.
  • Ordinary High-School Student: Given the levels of trauma and tragedy in the backstories of those around him and the extreme behavior they exhibit, Tatsuya almost stands out because of how ordinary he is.

Sugihara Harumi

A popular classmate who is interested in Rei and who Rei briefly messes around with before becoming infatuated with Kira. Harumi doesn't take this well and becomes the first antagonist of the story when she begins to bully Kira in retaliation.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: Deconstructed. Harumi is initially into Rei solely for the fact that he is a cool guy. But when he shows her just how sociopathic he can be, she is thoroughly put off. She ends up dating Tatsuya, the resident Nice Guy.
  • Alpha Bitch: A particularly violent version of this who rallies her classmates to bully and spread rumors about Kira when Rei begins to show her even the slightest bit of affection.
  • Beta Couple: Becomes one when she starts dating Tatsuya.
  • Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Kira's perpetual Betty and Rei's perpetual Archie.
  • Cool Big Sis: What Harumi becomes to Kira once things between them calm down. Indicated by her protecting Kira from the senior girls picking on her and her giving her advice on how to deal with Shiori.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: To the point that it takes Rei chillingly threatening violence on her for her to snap out of it.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: She corners and slaps Kira across the face then throws her school slippers and shoes in a nearby incinerator, just because Rei was showing Kira some attention.
  • Tsundere: How she acts with Tatsuya. She tries to put on a good face that they are just friends and maintains some of her Alpha Bitch personality traits with him, but she can't help herself from softening from his earnestness.
  • Yandere: She was going to crush Kira's fingers using a dumbbell all because Rei was interested in Kira and not her. She gets better as the story continues, though.

Kurasawa

A senior student who has won awards for his art and is planning on applying to art school upon graduation.
  • Broken Ace: Though being fully capable of producing good work, the pressure to continue to succeed has made him lose confidence in himself, making his art void of emotional depth, according to Rei.
  • Bungled Suicide: Since he ultimately lived through it. However, that's if you believe he was actually trying to kill himself and was not simply looking for an out.
  • Driven to Suicide: He attempts this after the pressure to continuously succeed with his art becomes too much for him to bear.
  • Technician Versus Performer: Rei's criticism of Kurasawa's work is that it is technically perfect but lacks any emotional depth. Kurasawa does not take the criticism well.
  • What You Are in the Dark: Feeling the pressure to perform, he steals Kira's sketch of the mother holding the child, paints it himself, and submits it to win a contest.

Sakurazawa Shiori

A student at the prestigious private school Seiwa Academy who went to junior high with Rei and was friends with him and Sei, along with Takemura Shuichi. She wins an auction to get a date with Rei at the school festival after she sees him in Kira's award winning portrait.
  • Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Kira's perpetual Betty and Rei's perpetual Archie.
  • A Family Affair: Originally dated Sei, but dumped him for Rei.
  • First Girl Wins: Subverted. Though they dated prior to Sei's suicide, Rei does not want to date Shiori now.
  • It's All My Fault: Blames herself for Sei's suicide because right before he did it, she told him things would be better off (for her) if only either Rei or Sei were around, and not both of them, as they seem to only care about each other.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Throws a hissy fit saying that she isn't feeling well when she notices Rei holding Kira's hand. When Rei is forced to escort her home, she makes a miraculous recovery and demands her driver to take them to the beach.
  • Lonely Among People: How she describes dating Sei and Rei, as in her eyes, they only ever really cared about each other.
  • Playing the Victim Card: When she tries to forcibly remove the bracelet Rei gave to Kira off of Kira, Kira pushes her away and she hits her head. When Rei shows up, she tries to make it seem as if Kira hit her unprovoked out of jealousy. Rei doesn't buy it for a second.
  • Rich Bitch: She has lots of money and is tries to steal Rei away from Kira right in front of Kira's face.
  • Settle for Sibling: What Rei accuses her of doing. In his mind, she didn't really care which brother she got since they both looked the same despite being very different people. So when the more aggressive (and physically affectionate) brother chased after her, she went. How much you're supposed to believe Rei, however is ambiguous.
  • Sibling Triangle: Was the focal point in one, since she was in a relationship with Sei, but Rei liked her, too.
  • Spoiled Brat: Takemura argues that Shiori is used to getting whatever she wants because she is pretty and rich, which has made her horribly self-centered.
  • Spurned into Suicide: After Rei slaps her and tells her to quit it with trying to turn him against Kira, she aimlessly walks in front of a car, forcing Rei to save her, saying there is no point in living if she has to lose Rei AND Sei.

Kirishima Masao

A first year student who instantly attracts attention in school because of his androgynous good looks and because he admits he has feelings for Rei and later Kira. Though flat out rejected, he soon begins to get closer to both Kira and Rei.
  • All Take and No Give: How his relationship with Yuji was really like, with Masao allowing Yuji to beat him up because Masao was using Yuji to fill the void as someone who gets his sociopathy. However, watching Rei brutally beat Yuji and his gang up made Masao realize that Yuji was just insecure, and not the sociopathic comrade he was looking for. So he kills him in hopes of replacing him with Rei.
  • Ax-Crazy: Tries to kill Kira and then later almost kills Rei.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: Part of the reason why Masao is interested in Rei. And as selfish and self-serving it is, Masao's desire to get rid of Kira is in service of preserving what he believes to be Rei's true nature.
  • Berserk Button: Comparing him to everyone else, especially to his former bully Aoki Yuji. Rei intentionally pushes it at the end of the manga and Masao reacts just about as you'd expect.
  • Beware the Quiet Ones: Killed his childhood bully in what was determined to be an act of self-defense after being bullied for years. He's also an Ax-Crazy sociopath.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: His gentle demeanor and beauty makes him seem harmless and he feigns niceness to Kira and Rei to get close to them. In truth though, he's a sociopath obsessed with Rei, and willing to kill to get close to him.
  • Color Motif: Subverted, as Kira sees no colors when looking at Masao, just darkness.
  • Covered in Scars: Has scars and burn marks all over his body from the bullying he received at the hands of Yuji.
  • The Cynic: Explains to Rei how he believes that because the span of human history is filled with war, violence, and bloodshed, that violence is the true human nature and condemning killing makes no sense.
  • Depraved Bisexual: He's a sociopathic murderer who explicitly expresses romantic interest in both Kira and Rei.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: When word gets around about his confession of feelings for Rei, some of Rei's friends respond by lamenting about why Masao would be interested in a brute like Rei.
  • Foil:
    • To Rei. Both are attractive young men, desired by many, with a sociopathic streak in them. In the narrative, Masao exists to show how important it was that Rei had people like Kira, the Katayamas, and even Sei around that cared about and loved him, giving Rei people and things to care and love in return. If not, he'd likely be just as bad, if not worse than Masao.
    • Masao also considers himself to be one to Kira, stating that though he wants to be more like Rei, he's really more like Kira in that they both are really twisted on the inside, but lack the strength to act on them.
  • Karma Houdini: Despite attempting to kill Kira and actually killing another person, the worst that happens to Masao is that he gets institutionalized. And even then, it doesn't last for long.
  • Kick The Son Of A Bitch: He murdered Yuji, who was a violent and abusive bully to him, though he didn't actually do it because of the abuse. [[spoiler:It was more because he realized that Yuji's abuse and violence came from a place of insecurity, not from a place of sadistic sociopathy. Seeing Rei made him realize that, which made him kill Yuji because he stopped being useful to him as a kindred spirit.
  • Kubrick Stare: Often has one of these when he's not trying to mask his sociopathy. When first talking to Masao, Kira notices it and realizes it's the same coldly cruel expression Rei sometimes has.
  • Love Confessor: After he rejects a female students confession, he is forced to confess his own feelings for Rei. Kira happens to overhear this. This happens again except this time, he is talking to Rei, who asks Masao what kinds of girls he's into when Masao suggests he's not only into guys, per se. Masao's response: "Someone like...Kira."
  • Manipulative Bastard: He often uses Crocodile Tears to feign sympathy and remorse. Rei calls him out on this when he does this in front of Kira. Later in the manga, he cries in a therapy session in order to feign remorse for his actions, knowing that doing so would likely get him released sooner.
  • Not So Stoic: One of the few moments we see Masao truly and genuinely upset is at the end when he talks with Rei both at the fast food place and later as he's trying to kill Rei because Rei tells him that he's not so different from all of the people he thinks he's above
  • Pretty Boy: Is so androgynously beautiful, Rei confuses him for a girl when they first meet and can't help but call him cute.
  • Sadist: Describes how moving it was to see Yuji writhing in a pool of his own blood after stabbing him.
  • Shadow Archetype: Masao is a living embodiment of the darkness Rei doesn't want to acknowledge he has in himself, despite giving into it more often than not. That he's the manga's last true obstacle Rei and Kira need to overcome in order to be completely happy shows his importance in fulfilling this role. Because of the similarities in their personalities, Rei is able to deduce that there's something wrong with Masao even before he is outright told as much by a local police officer.
  • The Sociopath: Masao is almost a classic example. He feels no empathy or remorse when causing physical harm to others, he lies with ease in order to get what he wants, he finds the idea of living straight laced and by the norms of society undesirable, and acts only with concern of getting what he wants, others' wishes be damned. The only box he doesn't check is that he doesn't seem to completely be unable to form emotional attachments, as he becomes fairly fixated on Rei.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist: He's a sociopathic kid with a delicate appearance and a general soft-spoken way of talking.
  • Speak Ill of the Dead: Masao has no problem talking crap about how much of a Jerkass Yuji was.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Joins the art club in order to stay close to Rei and Kira. Also enrolls in the same psychiatric clinic that Rei goes too and follows Rei to the bar where he works his side gig. It is so obvious that Rei even calls him out.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Surprisingly exhibits this behavior when he comes to Kira's aid after a Delinquent slaps her. In retaliation, he grabs a rock, with the clear intention of bashing the guy's head in. He's stopped only because Rei intervenes.
  • Would Hit a Girl: More than hit, he's determined to kill Kira.
  • Yandere: Obsessed with Rei, he tries to kill Kira when he realizes that Rei reins in his more sociopathic tendencies as to not scare or hurt her. When that fails, he switches to killing Rei who he finds to be another disappointment since Rei has calmed his reckless ways

    Asou Family 

Mrs. Asou

Kira's mother.
  • Struggling Single Mother: She works herself to the point of needing to be hospitalized in her efforts to send Kira to art school
  • Useless Bystander Parent: She chooses to ignore what Kira's step-father has done to her daughter in the past. When it seems like he's trying to start up the abuse again, she merely cries to Kira and allows her to live with Rei, rather than stepping in and calling the police on him.
  • What Does She See in Him?: Unlike those around them, Mrs. Asou does not have the luxury of not knowing who her new husband really is and what he did to Kira. That doesn't stop her from turning a blind eye to the truth and taking him back.

Mr. Asou

Kira's estranged step-father, who is neither mentioned nor shown in the story until he makes his first appearance about halfway in.
  • Abusive Parent: He raped Kira when she was in middle school and attempts to assault her again when Kira's mom takes him back. Given that he's also Kira's step-father, overlaps with Lecherous Stepparent and Parental Incest.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He pretends to be a nice guy and uses his good reputation to disincentivize anyone from going to the authorities about what he's done.
  • Forced from Their Home: The explanation given as to why he was not mentioned or shown until later in the story is that Kira's mom kicked him out.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Learning that Kira is dating Rei makes him drop all facade that he has changed in any way and he proceeds to interfere with their relationship, telling her to stop seeing him.
  • Love-Obstructing Parents: Tries to stop Kira from seeing Rei. It doesn't work.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: Because he has a respectable job with no previous record, he knows that if Kira were to ever try to go public with what he did, it would be her word against his and he'd likely win. Same thing if Rei ever tried to do something against him as a form of revenge. He smugly tells this to Rei to his face.

    Kashino Family 

Kashino Takayuki

Rei's father who is introduced through Rei's comments about how much he hates him for being cold, unloving and distant. In reality, Takayuki cares deeply for Rei but it's complicated.
  • Always Second Best: In comparison to Akihiko, Takayuki felt like he could never measure up against him given that everyone seemed to adore his younger brother and only tolerated him.
  • Driven by Envy: Takayuki still hasn't fully come to terms with almost letting his younger brother drown as a kid, but he recognizes that envy over his brother being the clear favorite in the family was likely the reason why.
  • Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Makes Rei give up riding in favor of studying to inherit his company the one condition for him accepting both he and Kira back into his home, after Kira refuses to go back to hers when her abusive stepfather moves back in. The reason behind this is pretty sympathetic, though, as he does not want to lose his remaining son Rei in the same way he lost his brother, Akihiko.
  • Follow in My Footsteps: Takayuki forbids Rei from racing motorbikes and allows him to move back home on the condition that he begins training to inherit the company from him.
  • I Have No Son!: Inverted. It is clear that Rei is the one who left on his own and is trying what he can to effectively disown himself. Despite not being able to communicate his feelings effectively, Takayuki wants Rei around.
  • Murder by Inaction: Admits to Kira that when he was a teen, he almost let 4-year-old Akihiko drown in a lake, standing by and watching him drown while doing nothing. The only thing that prevented this from happening is another guest jumping in to save Akihiko.
  • Not Actually His Child: Shoko spitefully tells him that Rei and Sei are his brother Akihiko's kids, as she really is in love with him.
  • Off to Boarding School: After the death of Shoko, Takayuki sends the boys to live with relatives in America for 8 years. Subverted, however since it was on recommendation from the family psychiatrist that Takayuki separate himself from Rei and Sei in order to properly grieve his wife and come to terms with raising the children born from her affair with his brother all by himself.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite what Rei believes, when Takayuki can see how desperate Rei is to protect Kira, he uses his power as the CEO of a major manufacturing company to convince Kira's step-dad not to press charges against Rei and to allow her to stay with Rei
  • Resentful Guardian: Rei describes his dad to Kira as a hateful and cold man when he remembers that he and Sei are not Takayuki's biological children and that they look like their bio-dad. Takayuki himself can't deny that he didn't feel some resentment towards them when he talks to Kira much later in the story and had Akihiko still been alive he likely would've hated them. That said, the story goes to length to show that Takayuki genuinely cares about Rei (and Sei) and it is obvious that Takayuki's feelings were nowhere near what Rei had assumed.
  • Sibling Rivalry: One-sided, all coming from Takayuki as he was envious both of Akihiko's charming personality and their father's obvious favoritism towards his younger brother.
  • Silver Fox: Is described as a handsome older gentleman by Kira after she unknowingly meets him at an art exhibition where he wanted to purchase her painting of Rei
  • Successful Sibling Syndrome: Felt like he could never come close to the popularity and attention his younger brother naturally attracted and became resentful towards Akihiko because of it.
  • The Unfavorite: Takayuki's feelings of envy and being Always Second Best with respect to his brother are not unfounded. The psychiatrist at the hospital confirms to Rei that Takayuki's father did in fact favor Akihiko over him.
  • Unwanted Spouse: Shoko fully resented being married to him, especially once Akihiko is no longer around.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Slaps Shoko after she tried to strangle Rei.

Kashino Shoko

Rei's mother who died when Rei was a child. She is revealed to have suffered a psychological break when her lover, and the biological father of Rei and Sei, was killed in a motorbike accident. Though she gets treatment, it unfortunately doesn't stick, and she attempts to kill both of her children in a twisted attempt to protect them from the world. When she is stopped, she later hangs herself in the family house.
  • Ax-Crazy: When told that she will be separated from the boys because she is unstable, Kyoko becomes this.
  • Driven to Suicide: Kills herself by hanging. Takayuki and Rei believe that it was in order to be with her one true love, Akihiko, who had died years earlier.
  • A Family Affair: Had an affair with her husband's younger brother.
  • Knight Templar Parent: So fixated she is on protecting her children from the world she one time kills the family dog in front of Sei because she perceives it as attacking him, but everyone else could see they were just playing
  • Living Emotional Crutch: Shoko treated Rei and Sei as her lifelines in her unwanted marriage towards Takayuki, which is why she would get concerningly overbearing and overprotective of them.
  • Mama Bear: She thinks she's just being a protective mother with her overbearing actions, but in reality...
  • My Beloved Smother: Shoko is so controlling and overprotective as to be abusive. By the time the boys were 4 she still hadn't even let them leave the house.
  • Murder-Suicide: Shoko tries to kill her two sons and herself, but she only ends up fulfilling the latter half as she is stopped from doing the former by Takayuki halfway through.
  • The Ophelia: Beautiful, with long flowing hair, and unstable enough to eventually hang herself after failing to kill her two sons.
  • Posthumous Character: Is long dead before the story starts.
  • Yandere: She is so insane and so devoted to keeping her children safe that she tries to strangle them to death before committing suicide so she would never be separated from them.

Kashino Akihiko

Takayuki's younger brother and Rei and Sei's biological father. He died before the start of the main plot of the story in a motorbike accident.
  • A Family Affair: Had an affair with his older brother's wife.
  • It's All About Me: From what little is discussed about Akihiko, he got whatever he wanted whenever he wanted from society and his father, including a racing license and his own racing car. One can interpret his eventual decision to sleep with the wife of his brother as part of this mindset.
  • The Mistress: He was Shoko's mistress given that she was married to his older brother.
  • Parental Favoritism: Was the lucky recipient of his father's love and affection in comparison to his older brother Takayuki who was treated as an afterthought.
  • Posthumous Character: Is long dead before the story starts.
  • Youngest Child Wins: Was the younger of two kids and the better treated one. Also in terms of Shoko's affections, he was the clear winner, if there even was a competition.

Kashino Sei

Rei's identical twin brother who committed suicide by jumping off a building a few years before the plot of the main story. His death causes a lot of psychological trauma for Rei that Rei spends the vast majority of the story dealing with still.
  • All Take and No Give: Sei tried to create a variant of the second type. He knew that by continuously and consistently playing up how weak and incapable he is, Rei would seek to protect him, often with violence. Therefore, he cultivated a co-dependent relationship between himself and Rei, in which Sei would allow himself to be victimized just to watch Rei go on a rampage on people Sei thinks are fundamentally inferior. This entire thing backfires when Rei begins to resent Sei, as the burden of being his protector becomes too much to bear for the young Rei and because compared to him, Rei will always be the brutish sibling in the wrong. This caused Rei to pull away from Sei and lash out at him in frustration, including telling Sei about their true parentage.
  • Artists Are Attractive: Sei was an artist into sketching portraits and as the identical twin to Rei, Sei was equally as attractive.
  • Beware the Quiet Ones: Despite his more shy personality, he was just as, if not more vicious than Rei when he was alive.
  • Celibate Hero: When he was dating Shiori but did nothing more than hang out with her (not even holding her hand, much to Shiori's distress), this was basically the reason he told Rei. From the way Rei described this to Kira, it's clear he didn't buy it, possibly implying Sei had an incompatibale orientation. Also serves as further evidence that Sei was unable to form any meaningful connections with people, outside of Rei.
  • Driven to Suicide: Why he killed himself is one of the questions that hangs over Rei's head for the entirety of the story. Kira founds out exactly why towards the end.
  • The Dutiful Son: Rei saw Sei as the "good twin" after they moved back to Japan to live with their father, since Sei seemed to obediently accept their relocation without any fuss. This made him resent Sei for what he saw as blind and unfounded loyalty to a man Rei was made to believe didn't even like them.
  • In the Blood: Apart from looking like his parents, Sei seems to also have inherited his artistic ability and mental instability from his mother. This is discussed by Kira and Takayuki in a later chapter.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He tells Rei the reason why he didn't fight for Shiori when Rei made a move on her is because he'd rather have the person he loves be happy even if it comes at his loss. Unbeknownst to Rei, the "beloved" in this case being him and not Shiori.
  • Knight Templar: Takemura remembers Sei as being stubbornly righteousness and having a deep hatred of what he perceived to be injustice, in contrast to the weak, sensitive, crybaby memory of Sei Rei remembers him as. This is the first indication that Rei's memory of Sei's personality isn't fully accurate and that Sei may have had a darker side to him.
  • Like Father, Like Son: He bears an uncanny resemblance to his biological father, Akihiko. In terms of personality though, he has much more in common with his mother.
  • Living Emotional Crutch: Sei describes his dependency on Rei as Rei being his only salvation in the world, a trait he shared with his mother. Kyoko didn't find it healthy.
    Sei: We were born into this world together. So when we die, let's die together too.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Once the reveal is known, it becomes much more apparent that Sei played up how weak he was in comparison to Rei in order to ensure Rei felt the need to continuously protect him by going berserk. This is most obvious when Kira talks with Takemura, who describes Sei as anything but weak. Compare that to Rei, who only describes Sei by his weakness when he first talks to Kira about him.
  • Mirror Character: An obvious one for Rei, given that they are identical twins. Similar to Masao, his sociopathic ways and thinking are used to show the kind of person Rei could be if he lets himself.
  • Posthumous Character: Is long dead before the story starts.
  • Pretty Boy: As Rei's twin, he was equally as physically attractive as he is with boyishly charming good looks.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to his twin Rei's red, given his more quiet and introverted personality and Rei's more outgoing and adventurous one.
  • Sensitive Artist: Sei was an artist and was the shy, quiet, and much more emotional counterpart to Rei's outgoing, boisterous, and playful personality. Rei grew up having to defend Sei from bullies and generally remembers him being weaker and fragile because of his gentler and sensitive nature. He even says Kira reminds him of Sei because of this. Subverted, after Sei is revealed to have been The Sociopath putting up a gentle and weak front to manipulate Rei into an All Take and No Give relationship, molding him into a Knight Templar Big Brother on his behalf.
  • Sibling Triangle: Was in one when he dated Shiori, as Rei also held feelings for her and eventually stole her from him.
  • The Sociopath:
    • Sei realizes he is one when he and Rei are living in America as kids and are victims of racist bullying. Because of his more meek nature, he does not typically act out his sociopathic desires on his own, preferring to manipulate and egg on the far more brash Rei into doing his dirty work for him.
    Sei: People talk about the sacredness of human life, but to me, humans are just moving piles of meat.
    • When Kira and Rei enter Sei's former art room and she finds all of the portraits of Rei Sei drew, Rei wonders aloud whether Sei ever actually drew him or if Sei was only ever really drawing himself, subtly pointing out Sei's likely inflated sense of self-importance.
  • Spiteful Suicide: Turns out he killed himself to spite Rei for a perceived betrayal after Rei tells Sei that they are the children from their mother's affair in a moment of pettiness. He even made sure to do it in front of Rei for maximum psychological damage.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Looks like a near carbon copy of his father when he was younger, just with longer hair and his mother's more melancholic eyes.
  • Yandere: The only person Sei valued was Rei, in part because Rei was useful to Sei as a tool Sei could use to carry out his sociopathic desires. When Rei "turned his maliciousness" on Sei by cruelly revealing to Sei they aren't their dad's biological sons, Sei decides to kill himself for the explicit purpose of psychologically scarring Rei, hoping it would force Rei into enough despair to commit suicide, too.

    Other Notable Characters 

Akitaka and Kyoko Katayama

An older couple who mentored Rei in motorbiking and race alongside him. It is Akitaka who Rei is visiting in the hospital in the first chapter, after Akitaka loses a leg in a motorbike accident.
  • Happily Married: The only example in the entire story, Akitaka and Kyoko seem to have a stable and supportive marriage.
  • Informed Ability: Even though we are repeatedly told that Kyoko's racing skills are on par with male racers, her performance in the story doesn't really prove that as she lags behind in the race we see her participate in.
  • Men Act, Women Are: Despite being a lauded racer in the sport, Kyoko reveals that she has a somewhat gendered way of thinking about men and women while watching Rei race.
    Kyoko: Watching Rei's riding makes you realize that racing was made for men...The instinct to fight is purely male.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: Kyoko's Informed Ability racing skills are likely just overshadowed, as her racing partner is the prodigy Rei. In the race we see her participate in, the settings on the bike for their were set for Rei's preference, making it harder for Kyoko to perform to the best of her ability as having a smaller frame.

Mr.Yoshioka

A teacher at the school Kira and Rei attend.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In the very first chapter, Kira thinks that he seems nice because he defends her against her classmates' bullying. But later that day, he tries to molest Kira when she's alone in the art room. He is only stopped because Rei enters the room and sees what he is doing.
  • Karma Houdini: Outside of the threats he receives from Rei, he never gets punished or formally held accountable for what he tries to do to Kira, opting to just leave the school instead.
  • Sadist Teacher: Because Rei threatened him and because he just doesn't like the kid, Mr. Yoshioka tries to humiliate Rei in class by asking him to answer a question he knows Rei didn't hear. When Rei turns the situation back on Yoshioka, it is heavily implied that Yoshioka takes the brake pads off of Rei's bike, almost causing Rei to crash into a semitruck.

Aoki Yuji

A childhood friend of Masao's who was also the leader of a local gang, who Masao killed in self-defense after being viciously bullied by him for years.
  • Big Brother Instinct: According to the police officer who warns Rei to stay away from Masao, as abusive as he was to Masao, Yuji also protected him from others who tried to hurt him. The officer compares the relationship to the one between Rei and Sei.
  • The Bully: Bullied Masao pretty viciously, beating and even using his body as an ashtray.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Unlucky for him, he found out he picked the wrong guy to bully as Masao is a sociopath who has no problems killing him once he got tired of his behavior.
  • Delinquent: Yuji was a teen gangbanger who skipped school and engaged in criminal activity.
  • Gangbangers: Was the leader of a fairly violent criminal gang.
  • Jerkass: From the little that we learn about Yuji, he was a selfish, violent, insecure kid who had no problems beating someone into a bloody pulp just to take out his frustrations.
  • The Leader: As the head of a gang, he technically was this, but...
  • Leader Wannabe: According to Masao, he was more of a leader in name, but not in disposition. Apparently, Yuji was hysterical, whiny, and not happy unless he was bossing people around.
  • Posthumous Character: Was killed by Masao in what was determined to be an act of self defense by the police.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The real reason why Masao kills him once Masao finds someone who is an actual sociopath like him.

Shiina Sonoko

Takayuki's secretary (possibly also his lover) who acts as an intermediary between Rei and his dad as the two aren't on talking terms.
  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Older than what this trope typically describes, but she still easily applies.
  • Dark Mistress: This is how she introduced in the story by Rei, since he is very antagonistic towards his father and everything related to him. As Rei's relationship with his father improves, this is subverted since Takayuki is far more sympathetic than first thought.
  • Sexy Secretary: Mature, attractive, and Takayuki's personal assistant.

Violet and Kenny

Two of Rei's neighbors in the apartment complex.

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