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Shimeji Simulation Character Index
Main Characters (Shijima Tsukishima) | West Yomogi High School | Other Characters | Spoiler Characters

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The main characters of Shimeji Simulation.

Shijima Tsukishima

Shijima "Shimeji" Tsukishima

Voiced by: Naomi Ozora (VOMIC)

First Appearance: Chapter 1

• For her character page, go here but be warned of heavy spoilers.

Majime Yamashita

WARNING: Majime, post-Chapter 46, is a case of a major Walking Spoiler as her transition to godhood is integral to the final, tail end of Shimeji Simulation. Anything about her tropes will be considered unmarked spoilers, so be warned!

Majime Yamashita

Voiced by: Yumiri Hanamori (VOMIC)

First Appearance: Chapter 1

You're not gonna make any friends if you read books all the time, you know.

—Majime to Shijima

^{Click to see Majime as a goddess.} 

A 15-year-old (later 16-year-old) first-year high school student who is Shijima's rather boisterous friend, serving as the deuteragonist of the story. She has a half-fried egg sitting on top of her head. She lives with her mother and her absent father. In later chapters, she becomes the God of her own world.

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• Allegorical Character: Deconstructed. Majime, as a deity in her new world, is the personification of idealistic friendship, whose idea is to create more friends and put them into the forms of unity that she pursues with, similarly as to how she befriended Shijima in the first place. But her goal of friendship comes with consequences when the countries within her new world, as shown within the "Book of Eggplant" page in Chapter 46, came into a war. This resulted in her unleashing her wrath against the warring factions, leading her to be self-exiled as wishing for too many friends always comes with a price to pay, while leaving promises to her creations.
• The Anti-Nihilist: She is unwilling to see others who think life is considered meaningless. It later becomes the case where she was able to finally befriend Shijima, who started off as a nihilistic Ice Queen, due to her tragedy.
• Bespectacled Cutie: She wears huge red glasses and is a cute, cheerful and energetic girl.
• Best Friend: To Shijima, right after the events of Chapter 10.
• The Bus Came Back: After her last physical appearance in Chapter 43, Majime makes her appearance again in the final chapter reuniting with Shijima.
• Call-Back: A shot in Chapter 29's first page has Majime eating a corn in the Dream World. Chapter 46's "The Book of Corn" blatantly shows Majime in one scene also eating a corn, with her subjects asking how they want to be the same as her.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Exhibits this at one point in the story, when Majime's mother attempted to touch Shijima, going so far with Majime pouting. Of course, with the courtesy of Shijima's snide remarking.
  Majime: Geez! She's mine!
  Shijima: As if.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Majime seemingly pulls this off in some chapters of the manga, given her rather strange personality. Examples include her booping Shijima's mushrooms for "cuteness", as means to befriend her, without knowing the fact that Shijima doesn't like it to be touched. Her attempts of befriending Shijima often leads to annoyance, much to Shijima's dismay.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To Yuuri of Girls' Last Tour.
  • Yuuri, along with her friend Chito, is a survivor of a Crapsack World in the future, who ventures with her through the empty world. Majime is an ordinary teenage girl living in West Yomogi, a seemingly idyllic town, who is a goofball just like Yuuri.
  • While Yuuri has been orphaned since she was born from her unknown parents in a town under a Civil War, Majime lives with a noticeably stable family, including her mother and her father.
  • Both are odd-kitter goofballs and serving as The Anti-Nihilist Foil to the respective main protagonists. Whereas Yuuri's optimism and cheerfulness often excites the rather grey and bleak atmosphere surrounding her and Chito (often to varying results), Majime uses both to defrost Shijima's icy and distant personality in an attempt to make her as her first best friend.
  • Both also lived a much more prolonged life. Though unlike Yuuri who has been dead and is essentially a soul for a thousand years, Majime is a former-human-turned-immortal who is still alive, after ascending to godhood.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Exemplified in Chapter 10. While Majime is often known to be a comic relief teenage girl who is the comedic Foil to the quiet, shy Shijima, she is considered a Big Damn Hero within that very chapter, when she saved an injured Shijima from a giant crab within the Dream World by riding a giant Yoshika pencil and slamming it onto the creature, thus defeating it. In addition, she also used a giant frying pan from the skies to knock it out completely.
• Crystal Dragon Jesus: Majime, as a Goddess, is loosely based on the Greek Goddess of Friendship Philotes, in line with the former's goal of making a world where everyone becomes a friend to one another as its religion. She is currently worshipped by the people of her world and her people calls her as "friend" or even "Majime-chan" rather than a Goddess. Also taken to some ridiculous levels when the Chiho tribe members call her as their "most important friend" in front of her statue. And smaller statues of her are also seen scattered across various places in her own world.
• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 46 solely focuses on her becoming a Physical God.
• Deity of Human Origin: During the first 45 chapters of the manga, Majime is merely an ordinary human before she gains the powers of Reality Warping during the events of Chapters 30 and 40. Enter Chapter 46, where she later becomes the god of her own world, where she created her world from scratch, comprising of Talking Animals and plants she materialises. 1400 years later, the people of her world, with the Chiho tribe for example, worship her for her natural approach to ensuring camaraderie amongst the people of other countries, though it was not without a scene where a war broke out between countries that forced her to unleash a Bolt of Divine Retribution towards the soldiers, leaving her to be on hiding for millennia.
• Determinator: Despite Shijma's constant refusal of friendship, Majime is determined to have her as her closest friend, even if it means to annoy her. She becomes successful with that goal, however, near the end of Chapter 10, thereby making Shijima as Heterosexual Life-Partners.
• Epic Fail:
  • Her attempts to show Shijima the meaning of friendship only failed, when Ayaka told her not to chime from out of nowhere.
  • When Majime tried to "protect" Shijima from being touched by the former's mother, or rather attempted to do so, Shijima has none of it, as she only remarks with an "as if" retort.
  • Played for Drama in Chapter 46 when Majime attempts to stop her created subjects from starting their own war against friendship, leading to her firing a flurry of projectiles onto them as a result. Her disastrous efforts to stop the problem led her to be on exile.
• The Exile: Majime has been in exile for over a millennia after her disastrous attempts to resolve the conflict diplomatically, which escalated into a full-scale war between countries.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: When she started off as a normal teenage girl, her hair is shoulder-length. After becoming a Physical God, her hair reaches up to her back.
• Foil: To Shijima. Unlike Shijima who is black-haired and is a Perpetual Frowner who seldom smiles and is mostly aloof and soft-spoken, Majime is blonde-haired and is a Perpetual Smiler who is bright and optimistic. She's also an idealist but a Dumb Blonde, in contrast to Shijima who is a pessimist but a smart girl.
• Ironic Name: Her name in English means serious and diligent, but she acts contrary to what the name suggests. Hilariously lamphshaded by Shijima.
  Majime: I'm totally diligent!
  Shijima: Only your glasses look the part.
• The Maker: She becomes this once she ascends into becoming the Physical God of her new world that she created in the void using her own toys to create a population of sentient Living Toys.
• The McCoy: To Shijima's Kirk and Big Sis' Spock. Out of the three, she's the most emotionally driven, being a wide-eyed optimist and an anti-nihilist who wants to be friends with each other.
• My God, What Have I Done?: While she only used her Bolt of Divine Retribution (a la her own tears) to stop the war that her subjects started, she felt remorseful over it, as she only wanted to meet everyone and especially Shijima, leading to her hiding for a millennia.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She does this for a few times, as a part of her personality as The Pollyanna. The most obvious example is her attempts to befriend Shijima, who at the time still had traces of her reclusive past, despite Shijima not being initially in the mood for friendship.
• Perpetual Smiler: In contrast to Shijima's Perpetual Frowner, Majime smiles for most of the time, owing to her optimistic nature and her attempts to make friends with one another. Until Chapter 46 where she foregoes it when reality hits her hard after her attempts to spread her religion of friendship failed horribly when countries caused war against each other over it.
• Physical God: After settling into what appeared to be a white, empty vast of nothingness, Majime later becomes a deity wielding a staff, which gave her the ability to create anything based on her imagination. 1400 years later at a Flash Forward scene, Majime is now the God of this world, but she's revealed to have been missing for millennia. The "Book of Eggplant" in Chapter 46 shows the reason: her attempts of spreading camaraderie went on a downward spiral when countries blindly worshipped Majime and wanted more friends that led to a war, only for Majime to unleash her divine reckoning against the warring factions, ultimately leading to her exile and disappearance.
• The Pollyanna: Majime is known to be boisterous, cheerful, and friendly. However, the latter quality is zigzagged, when she attempts to show Shijima on the importance of friendship, only for her to fail when she attempts to communicate with Ayaka and her other friends.
• Prenatal Possessions: It is heavily implied that the egg that sits on top on her head has been existing since her birth.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Shijima's blue. She's much more optimistic and overtly happier than Shijima, being an optimist who easily jokes for most of the time.
• Worshipped for Great Deeds: Majime in the future is worshipped by being the first friend to them, as well as her plans of spreading camaraderie across other countries. But a few of the Chiho tribe members recounted about the rather unfortunate past of countries vying power to make more friends that resulted in Majime unleashing her anger onto them.

Ms. Mogawa

Mogawa-sensei

First Appearance: Chapter 3

The other teachers won't say anything either. Pretty much sure I'm being bullied here.

—Mogawa

Before Chapter 11.

^{After Chapter 11.} 

The slovenly art teacher of Shimeji's class and a known alcoholic, who is the curator of the Hole-Digging Club. She also has a quirky obsession with doughnut-shaped sand holes.

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• Adaptational Dye-Job: In Chapter 1's first page, Mogawa's hair is coloured olive-green, whereas in the rest of her appearance it is coloured pink.
• The Alcoholic: She is a known drinker, as seen in some scenes of the manga, even during school days where she's openly drinking one. At one chapter her fridge in the club's own clubroom is full of unopened beer cans. It is seldom to see her without a beer can or a wine from her hand.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Played for Laughs. Mogawa is pretty much the black sheep of her school's own faculty, as she is mostly ignored by them. Further lampshaded, when she was suddenly turned as the advisor of the Hole-Digging Club, a year prior to the story.
  Mogawa: When I just started working here last year, they suddenly pushed this "Hole-Digging Club" onto me. They made me the advisor of this whatever this club even is.
• Apathetic Teacher: She has zero interest in being a teacher and gets bored easily. In most of the times, she is often seen outside digging holes or lazing right beside their own clubroom, given the fact that she is the curator of the club. She's more focused on being an alcoholic than simply teaching her students or even acting as the club's leader.
• Butt-Monkey: Across the faculty, she's often the butt of someone's jokes to the point it reached to a head when the rest of the staff simply shoved her the responsibility to manage an empty, barely managed club.
• The Cynic: Mogawa seems to often drown in depressive thoughts and sometimes drowns her own sorrows with alcohol. Even in school time. She also has a deep apathy towards school clubs, contemplating how it is no different than digging holes.
• Important Haircut: Chapter 11 shows that she has cut her hair up to shoulder-length, as it interferes with her hole-digging.
• Irony: While she's a Sleepyhead for most of the time, she's still digging holes competently despite the job being heavily concentration-focused.
• Lazy Bum: Taken to a Logical Extreme, where Mogawa seldom shows up to the classroom^note In one instance in Chapter 4 she shows up but that is it, spending most of her time inside the Hole-Digging Club's clubroom drinking alcohol, digging holes within school grounds and lazing herself.
• The Leader: Sort of. Despite being the leader of the Hole-Digging Club, she shows zero interest in her own job. Justified, however, when it was just simply given to her by most of the staff, a year ago.
• Perpetual Frowner: She is a pessimist, who is mostly seen with a frown to her face. Not once in her appearance she even smiles at one point and everything about her "smile" is her usual cynic expression.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: The Yin to her younger sister's Yang. While her younger sister is a police officer who is active and always on the forefront to her job, Mogawa-sensei is a Lazy Bum who has no interest in her job and spends her time as an alcoholic.
• Sleepyhead: She often looks tired, either from the boredom she goes through or simply she only wants to teach and to run the club until the bell rings. That and being The Alcoholic also doesn't help her own case. Surprisingly however, that doesn't cause her problems when digging a hole.
• Tareme Eyes: Her eyes droop tiredly all the time, given her nature as a Sleepyhead who is bored of anything.
• Those Two Guys: She is hardly seen without Sumida on her side whom she treats her as a best friend.

Sumida

Sumida

First Appearance: Chapter 11

A second-year high school student, who is the quiet member of the Hole-Digging Club.

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• Adaptational Dye-Job: In the cover of the manga's first chapter, Sumida is shown to have a dark brown hair, while in the subsequent appearances she is in within the manga, she has green hair. The reason for this change still remains unknown.
• Eyes Always Closed: Her eyes are often closed in all of her appearances.
• No Social Skills: Sumida's social skills are considered crippled that even the bonus chapter, Chapter 20.5, explicitly lampshades in her character page that she is bad at talking. Most of the time she spends socialising is within the clubroom with Mogawa, Shijima and Majime.
• Shrinking Violet: She is often known to be the shiest member of the Hole-Digging Club.
• Talking with Signs: She often does this, when she talks to others, given her rather silent nature. Though she subverts this during their long descent down the endless hole, when she starts talking for the first time.
• Those Two Guys: Sumida is often seen with Mogawa on her side.