The characters of the manga/anime series
Nichijou. Names are in western order.
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Schoolgirl Trio
Yuuko "Yukko" Aioi
One of the five "main" characters of the series, "Yukko" is an ordinary student with a propensity for forgetting her homework. She is also locked in a perpetual "
Boke and Tsukkomi" gag with Mai.
Mio Naganohara
Another of the five "main" characters, Mio is the most normal of the cast,
but that isn't saying much. She usually plays the straight man to Yukko's antics.
- Badass Adorable
- Bob Haircut: When her hair is down
- Covert Pervert: To the extent that she beat up Yukko, a police officer, an old man, and a goat all in the name of preventing people from finding out she draws Yaoi.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
- Everything Is Better With Spinning: Hit Yoshino with a corkscrew and attacked Yukko and Sasahara's goat with a Dragon Screw
- Flash Step: During her Unstoppable Rage, she pulls of a Ashura Senkuu before dragon screwing Sasahara's goat.
- Girlish Pigtails
- Gretzky Has the Ball: Can't play sports to save her life.
- Epic Fail
- Unless she's suffering from Heroic BSOD
- Actually, she used to practice Kendo and is quite adapt in shadow-boxing and wrestling apparently, implying her problem is with non-combat sports.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Around Yukko and Yoshino.
- Imagine Spot: At one point created an entire romantic scenario between Nano & Sasahara when Yuuko convinced her they were a couple.
- Iwo Jima Pose: Making small talk with Sasahara is momentous enough to merit a pose of a whole bunch of Mios raising a Sasahara flag !
- Laughing Mad: When she, Yuuko and Mai are stuck in an elevator. After Mio says "Eggplant", she and Yuuko break down into mad laughter over this, the fact that they're not getting any help any time soon, and the fact that Mai appears to have died. Laughing mad indeed.
- Love Hurts: After seeing Misato "escorting" Sasahara, she goes into Heroic BSOD.
- My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: When she tastes her sister's kusaya (salted,sun-dried mackerel) jam the second time.
- Power Palms: During her fight vs the green mooks.
- Serious Business: Her food and her Yaoi.
- Straight Man: Most frequently of the cast.
- Wrestler in All of Us
- Yaoi Fangirl: And for your own safety, YOU BETTER NOT. FUCKING. READ IT.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Mai Minakami
Rounding off the
Power Trio with Yukko and Mio is Mai, a quiet
bespectacled girl with a fondness for
screwing with people just to see how they'll respond. Makes up the "Boke" side of her relationship with Yukko. Also has a thing for whittled Buddha statues.
Shinonome Laboratories
Nano Shinonome
A robot who wishes she were a real girl more than anything, even if it means things like being able to get dental cavities. She struggles to keep the fact that she's a robot a secret. A struggle not at all helped by the obvious wind-up key in her back which her creator absolutely refuses to remove.
Professor (Hakase)
Voiced by:
Hiromi KonnoThe creator of Nano. Hard to believe, right.
Nano's eight-year-old creator. Aside from her ability to build incredibly advanced machines, she's a completely normal kid. Likes sharks.
Sakamoto(-san)
Voiced by:
Minoru Shiraishi"No matter how you look at it, that was too much petting."
A black cat living with Nano and the Professor. He is able to talk due to a scarf the Professor created.
He was originally Nakamura-sensei's cat, named Taisho. Students
Koujirou Sasahara
A spacy student who wears an ascot at all times and rides a goat to school. He puts on pretensions of being the Eldest Son of a wealthy family. Though it's quickly revealed he's the Eldest Son of a family of farmers (hence the goat). He tends to irritate his classmate Misato Tachibana with his oblivious nature, causing her to frequently shoot him. Don't worry, he can take it.
Misato Tachibana
Voiced by:
Chika HorikawaThe lengths she'll go to in order to deny her love for Koji—
*boom*
A high school girl who frequently finds herself angered by the oblivious carefree actions of Sasahara. She expresses her frustration by unleashing an escalating arsenal of weapons ranging from revolvers to missile launchers. There are
subtle hints that these outbursts may be the result of feelings for Sasahara on Misato's part.
Tsuyoshi Nakanojou
A boy whose most prominent feature is a naturally growing mohawk. When not at school, he is a skeptic and seeks to debunk supernatural phenomena. Despite his mohawk making him look like a delinquent, he actually is a fairly nice guy.
Haruna Annaka
Voiced by:
Kaori SadoharaThis is pretty much Annaka's default expression.
A girl noted for her very large red ribbon that she wears in her hair. She's fond of trying out new places that she reads about, but tends to find the experiences more confusing than enlightening.
Kenzaburou Daiku
Son of the C.E.O. of the Daiku Corporation, which runs chains of restaurants and cafes among other things. Created the "Igo Soccer" Club on a whim and has since come to regret it since encountering people actually familiar with the game.
Yuria Sekiguchi
For a while she was the only member of the Igo Soccer Club alongside Daiku. However, she shows little interest in anything beyond reading the latest volumes of
Helvetica Standard.
Makoto Sakurai
The younger brother of teacher Izumi Sakurai. He was surprised to learn his school had an Igo Soccer club and eagerly joined. To Daiku's shock, however, Makoto takes his Igo Soccer
very seriously.
Tanaka
A student with an afro. Appears more often in the background than as a speaking character.
Weboshi
One of Misato's friends. She is attracted to Nakanojou.
Fecchan
One of Misato's best friends. A bit of a ditz.
Mihoshi Tachibana
Misato's younger sister. She's in middle school and is a member of the kendo club. Her response to the absurdities that surround her is barely contained laughter. She's fully aware of Misato's feelings for Sasahara.
- Bratty Half-Pint: She can barely contain laughter when someone embarasses themselves, and likes to tease her sister every now and then about her feelings for Sasahara.
- Girlish Pigtails
Ogi
A member of the Igo Soccer club, and one of the few people who are actually familiar with the rules of the game.
Teachers
Izumi Sakurai
A timid teacher who became a guidance counselor as much to improve herself as her students. She tends to get flustered very easily, and has a hard time actually disciplining students. The elder sister of Makoto Sakurai.
Manabu Takasaki
A teacher at the high school. Frequently on Yuuko's case regarding her inability to do her homework. He harbors a crush on Izumi Sakurai. His
imagination tends to run wild when he's speaking to her. He's also sponsor for the Igo Soccer Club, blackmailed by Makoto.
Kana Nakamura
A science teacher who managed to figure out that Nano's a robot. Confused about why Nano would be enrolled in school instead of announced to the world, she has made it a point to capture Nano and
study her. Her schemes always end up backfiring.
Principal
The school principal who often tells old jokes that no one gets. He has also suplexed a deer.
Vice Principal
The Vice Principal of the high school. He sad life is brightened by visits from his little grandson Micchan... until Micchan does something that leaves him sadder than before. Seems to dislike the Principal.
Others
Yoshino Naganohara
Mio's elder sister. An immature young woman fond of playing pranks on people she comes across. She attends college and is skilled at kendo.
Counter Girl
A girl who works at the Daiku Cafe. She's very timid and has a hard time explaining things when her customers are angry or flustered.
Nakanojou, Sr., the Daifuku Guy
Runs a daifuku stall on the streets of town. He takes selling Daifuku very seriously, and insists on model behavior from the people he hires to be his daifuku mascots. Like his son, he has a natural mohawk. Though his has grown long enough that he can fake a normal hairstyle with it.
Micchan
The Vice Principal's grandson. The Vice Principal anticipates his visits, but Micchan always ends up doing something to horrify his grandpa, such as trying to get him to eat mudpies.
Crow
A random crow that the Professor brings home. She puts Sakamoto's scarf on it so it can speak.
Biscuit #2
A robot made by the Professor. He runs on biscuits. An improvement over Biscuit #1, whose head flew off.
- The Unfavorite: He was only made to impress Nano, so he gets neglected often.
Buddy
A dog who has sometimes appeared before Yuuko to offer a comforting paw when things are especially rough on the girl. Is sometimes accompanied by a puppy, Kobuddy.
The Fey Kingdom
A king, princess, and their soldiers who fly high above the world in a zeppelin. Their adventures are really just elaborate dreams on Yuuko's part. Or are they?
King Albert
Ruler of the Fey Kingdom. He decided to take a trip around the world on a zeppelin, providing Dolph the chance he needed to grab power. He carries one of the two wood cubes which can be used to resurrect an ancient weapon.
Princess Starla
Princess of the Fey Kingdom. She holds the second wood cube needed to resurrect an ancient weapon. She manages to keep it hidden from Dolph until his rebellion fails. She holds the Mooks' turning on her and her father against them.
Dolph
An officer in the Fey Kingdom's army, adopted and raised by King Albert. Despite his grand plans, his attempt at rebellion ultimately fails due to his own clumsiness.
The Mooks
The men who serve the king and princess on the Fey Kingdom Zeppelin. They wear identical uniforms of slacks with green jackets and caps, and are distinguished by the numbers on their hats. Number Eight is usually the centerpiece in skits featuring the zeppelin.
Helvetica Standard
A manga often seen being read by characters in
Nichijou, some episodes have
Helvetica Standard segments of their own.
With the exception of Chirashizushi, none of these names are "official", merely descriptive. Character entries are reserved for characters who have appeared in more than one
Helvetica Standard sketch.
The Clueless Shinigami
A Shinigami who doesn't understand how to read the atmosphere of a situation. Once had his scythe stolen by the Poverty-Stricken Tengu.
- I Do Not Speak Non Verbal: The first Helvetica Standard skit has him asking what "KY"*
"Kuuki Yomenai", the inability to read social situations, translated as Clueless in some fansubs
refers to. His captain answers "You."
Chirashizushi
An angel. Tries to help others when she can and owns a very powerful toaster.
The Landlady
A kind landlady who isn't so kind to tenants who are behind on rent.
Poverty-Stricken Tengu
A Tengu who has sometimes resorted to theft to get enough money to eat.
