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Meme Kakure

The Vanishing Shy Girl

Debut: Chapter 45

One of Rentarou's classmates, a shy girl who can't handle drawing attention. She becomes the 11th girlfriend after Rentarou gets a look under her eye-concealing bangs.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: The anime gives her an Early-Bird Cameo in the very first episode.
• Alternate Self Shipping: In-universe. After Meme discovers Rentarou hugging the life-size knit toy she made of him, she has an... interesting dream about it.
• Ambiguously Bi: She's very taken by Mimimi, and getting a kiss from her on the neck, or imagining her embarrassed in her underwear, flusters her enough she Ninja Logs out (and she realizes ahead of time that getting a kiss from Mimimi will have her vanishing out of there). Kurumi complimenting her smell and the thought of imminent breast contact with Karane also trigger her Ninja Log reflex.
• Beautiful All Along: Very heavily implied, but never confirmed to the readers, is that she's extremely pretty under those bangs.
• Covert Pervert:
  • She occasionally has sexy dreams and fantasies about other members of the harem, such as imagining Mimimi in her underwear and dreaming about two Rentarous kissing each other.
  • She knit a life-size stuffed toy Rentarou she keeps secret from everyone, sleeping with it and using it for lap pillows and hugs. The original Rentarou discovers it when he visits her house.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She wears all dark clothing and has black hair that covers her eyes. She looks ominous in her first appearance, but really couldn't be any more harmless.
• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 122 features Rentarou coming to her house.
• D-Cup Distress: As part of her discomfort with anything that makes her stand out, she wears a minimizing bra to conceal her true breast size. To make it worse for her, even with the minimizer, she appears to be as stacked as Hakari.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Meme is a deconstruction of Shrinking Violet, as she's so shy, she'll run away when she gets too embarrassed when looked at due to not being comfortable being around others at all, and conceals everything about herself to stay unnoticeable, such as her face and bust size, so much that it matters more than her life.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Volume extras show she sleeps with a sleep mask over her bangs rather than directly over her eyes.
• Distinctive Appearances: Lampshaded. She actively tries to look like a background character by hiding her face, but Rentarou points out that she fails because of how distinct her bangs are. She wasn't any good at it as a child either, considering she wore face masks at school.
  Rentarou: I've never spoken to her before, but her character design makes her hard to forget.
• Don't Look At Me: Meme can't stand people looking at her, especially her face, because of how shy she is.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She's one of the students that was on Rentarou's opening ceremony in the first episode of the anime.
• Early Personality Signs: She's been a Shrinking Violet who hates anyone seeing her face and will disappear if she gets too much attention since she was a baby.
• Escape Artist: Gets explicitly called this after stating that she'd dislocate her own joints to slip away from someone trying to keep her from disappearing - with the implication that she's done it before. She puts this ability to use in Chapter 77 to get out from under a powerful water hose.
• Expository Pronoun: Defaults to watashi.
• Eyes Out of Sight: In her own words, she can't function without her bangs hiding her. Even if they're moved aside, the audience still can't see her eyes.
• Foil:
  • To Shizuka, another very shy girl. Shizuka is childlike in body and, while mostly non-verbal, is comfortable being around the company; Meme has a very mature body, is perfectly capable of speech, and is not comfortable being around others at all.
  • To Mimimi. Mimimi works extremely hard to be beautiful and delights in being made the center of attention, while Meme actively makes herself look less beautiful so she can fade into the background and go unnoticed. The two exploit this by using Meme's misdirection to draw attention to Mimimi instead.
• The Gift: Her vanishing act isn't trained. She's been doing it since she was a baby just as well as she does now.
• Hammerspace: Meme always has a toy on hand for her misdirections. She can use dozens of them in a single sitting and even drop one while she's wearing a swimsuit.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Meme doesn't think of herself as a Nice Girl; in her mind, she's just afraid of offending people and giving them reason to hate her.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: She constantly has her face covered with her bangs, showcasing her Shrinking Violet personality.
• Invisible Introvert: Meme can make herself disappear when she gets embarrassed enough, using homemade plushies as Ninja Logs.
• Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: When Meme was first introduced, her shyness was so bad that she could hardly function in public, to the point where she'd disappear at the drop of a hat. After spending time with Rentarou's family, Meme becomes much more comfortable socializing with others and doesn't vanish as much as she used to. Nowadays, she only disappears if she's surprised, really embarrassed, gets her chest touched, or her personal space is invaded.
• Meaningful Name: Meme is "eye" repeated twice, and Kakure means "hidden/vanish", referencing both her Hidden Eyes and her vanishing abilities.
• Nice Girl: Apart from Shizuka, quite possibly the sweetest of the girlfriends. Despite her... unusual social skills, she actually gets along with people very well, and personally knitted toys for all the other girlfriends when she first joined.
• Ninja Log: Though she uses stuffed animals rather than logs. Whenever she gets so embarrassed she wants to disappear, she unconsciously throws a stuffed animal to misdirect people's attention, then hides. She's very, very quick at it. Eventually, she uses Mimimi instead.
• Odd Friendship: With Mimimi, as she comes to greatly respect Mimimi's confidence and extroversion, and Mimimi lets Meme use her like the stuffed animals she uses to misdirect people and hide from attention. Meme looks up to her so much that when Naddy has all the girls design and wear their own dream outfits, Meme exactly copies what Mimimi usually wears.
• Remember the New Guy?: The last character - so far - to be retroactively added to Rentarou's homeroom (which also contains his first four girlfriends: Hakari, Karane, Shizuka, and Nano). Downplayed in that Rentarou notes they've never spoken before, though he certainly glimpsed her enough times to memorize her character design; in the anime, she's among the students in Rentarou's high school opening ceremony.
• Revealing Cover Up: For someone who doesn't want people to look at her, Meme is pretty bad at not standing out.
  • When she was younger, she wore masks at school, which only drew more attention to her.
  • Meme would do a better job of blending in with the crowd if she just wore the standard school uniform, but hers is darker and she wears a sweater underneath it.
• Security Blanket: She doesn't cope well without her bangs, and her first priority, if at all possible, will be getting them back in place. If she's in the body of someone without eye-covering bangs - which is most of the other girls - she ends up a quivering mess.
• Shrinking Violet: Can't take anyone looking at her, especially her face, so she does her best to make sure she doesn't draw attention. Unfortunately, her design makes her hard to forget.
• Skewed Priorities: Exaggerated; keeping her bangs in place to hide her eyes is a higher priority for Meme than her own life. It's a mark of her Character Development that in Chapter 163 she's willing to risk her bangs if it means preventing Shizuka from being blown away (she's saved by a Contrived Coincidence covering her eyes).
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Her looks make her stand out, which she can't handle, so she does her best to downplay them.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: She makes Batman look like an amateur. He at least waits for people to turn around when he leaves. She practically vanishes from thin air, even with consideration of her Ninja Log tactic.
• Textile Work Is Feminine: Meme's hobby is knitting, and she knits her own stuffed animals, always having some on hand to throw out if she gets too embarrassed. She even knits one out of noodles for a hotpot party.
• The Un-Favorite: Apparently of the narrator, given it has attempted at least two times to turn her into The One That Got Away before Rentarou starts ripping off the pages until he finds her again.
• Whole Episode Flashback: Volume 6's bonus chapter reveals Meme's been a Shrinking Violet since she was an infant, and has been using her Ninja Log abilities for almost as long. Her parents haven't seen her face since then, and have no idea what she looks like now.

Chiyo Iin

The Orderly Class President

Debut: Chapter 51

Rentarou's cousin, who is the class president in her first-year class in junior high. She becomes his 12th girlfriend during an eventful day babysitting her at his uncle's request.

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• Ambiguously Absent Parent: Chiyo's mother was a big part of her life when she was little, but she's pointedly absent in the present day, and her father is now a single parent. Chiyo wears her mother's glasses as a keepsake, and is reminded of her when she sees older Kusuri.
• Angrish: Slips into this when her OCD acts up, practically snarling at whatever's out of place.
• Animal Motif: Rentarou once compared the look of her OCD mode to an angry chihuahua. It doesn't help that she snarls.
• Art Evolution: Compared to her debut appearance, Chiyo's irises have lost their almost-vertical shape and her fringe covers most of her forehead.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Not counting the Yakuzens' child forms, Chiyo and Matsuri are the youngest members of the family. She is so young that the first thing Rentarou does after getting a spark with her is break the fourth wall and ask if the publisher is really okay with this. Chapter 76 reveals her actual age is 12, the average age of 1st year junior high students.
• Blind Without 'Em: Her vision is extremely blurry without her glasses, which causes her social anxiety to act up and makes her burst into tears whenever she's lost them. Given her flashbacks don't show her with glasses, it looks to be something that developed later on rather than something she was born with.
• Class Representative: She's class president, and has the stereotypical Meganekko look to boot.
• A Day in the Limelight: She shares one with Naddy in Chapter 71, with both of them trying to get two delinquent classmates of hers to stop smoking. She later goes on a solo date with Rentarou in Chapter 126.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the diligent class representative/only child. The more everyone around her kept telling her how proper and responsible she was, the more she felt like that was how she had to be, trying to live up to expectations. Her wants and needs never entered the equation, until Rentarou came along.
• Expository Pronoun: Being the proper, formal sort, she uses watashi.
• Flanderization: Inverted. Her Obsessively Organized traits become toned down over time, giving her the role of the third Straight Man in the series.
• Flashback Echo: Older Kusuri's behavior can get Chiyo to recall her mother.
• Foil:
  • To Nano. Chiyo is orderly, while Nano is logical. Chiyo believes in heaven, while Nano dismisses it because it's unscientific.
  • To Kusuri. Kusuri acts younger than her age but becomes more mature around Chiyo. Chiyo acts above her age but is more comfortable letting her guard down around older Kusuri.
  • To Naddy, her cover-mate. Chiyo is disciplined and values upholding the rules. Naddy is relaxed and values freedom.
• Girlish Pigtails: Has two braided pigtails, and is in junior high.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Is prone to crying if she loses her glasses.
• Kissing Cousins: She and Rentarou are related.
• Letting Her Hair Down: There have been multiple cases where she has done this. Chiyo typically has two small pigtails when in uniform for school. When outside of school and dressed more casually, she generally has her hair down.
• Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: Justified. When Chiyo's first introduced, she's pushing herself to be what everyone expects her to be: the diligent, organized girl who gets everyone else sorted out, repressing everything else about herself. She's already feeling trapped in the role, but doesn't have a way out until she meets Rentarou and the others. After spending time with them, she's able to relax around them, accept their eccentricities, and let her vulnerabilities show, best demonstrated when she admits her previous flaws to Mai in Chapter 102.
• Missing Mom: Only her father's around, for whatever reason. A number of flashbacks show her mother was at least around for her toddler years.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Her reaction after seeing what her initial bout of OCD's done to the rest of Rentarou's family.
• Neat Freak: Can't stand anything being messy or disorderly, which compels her to clean it up or straighten it out - emphasis on "compels", because she won't stop until everything around her proximity is in order.
• Obsessively Organized: To put it simply, anything that seems unorganized or out of place will be immediately fixed.
• Only Sane Man: She's delivered her share of commentary on the other girls' antics akin to Karane and Kurumi.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Chiyo usually has average strength for her age, but when she enters OCD mode, she becomes surprisingly strong, to the point where she almost pushes Rentarou out of the ring during a sumo match.
• Punny Name: Her name in Japanese order (Iin Chiyo) sounds like the word "iinchou", meaning "class representative".
• Security Blanket: Chiyo needs to wear something to correct her eyesight, whether glasses or contacts, otherwise her anxiety at not being able to see anything makes her start blubbering.
• Skewed Priorities: In Chapter 52, she's more irked by Shizuka's messy hair than the fact that she uses a text-to-speech app to communicate.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Glimpses of her past, such as her brief flashback in Chapter 59, and her dream in Chapter 80, show that she resembles a younger version of her mother.
• Supreme Chef: Chiyo often does the cooking at her house and became a very skilled chef as a result. She's so good that Matsuri thinks Chiyo can cook yakisoba even better than her, something Matsuri has been making her whole life.
• Terse Talker: When in one of her OCD episodes.
• Tiny Tyrannical Girl: Downplayed. She's far from the Spoiled Brat this trope is associated with under normal circumstances, and her OCD mode is solely driven by a need to maintain order. She just happens to be near-feral about it.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Chiyo was quite bossy in her earlier appearances, but she's become more accepting of the other girls' quirks over time. She's also much more tactful with her OCD moments, as they usually happen when they're beneficial or in situations most people would agree is warranted. Some of her OCD episodes just have her voice her disapproval without actually doing anything, and sometimes she'll tidy something up without entering OCD mode.
• Tragic Keepsake: Whatever happened to her mom, Chiyo wears her glasses frames as a keepsake. Unfortunately, this also means they're a bit too big for her and contributes to them frequently getting knocked off her face. When baby Chiyo sees them, she starts crying her head off.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Her father Hiro is a Bumbling Dad with Love Freak tendencies who is easily scared, to the point where he often calls Chiyo for help when something scares him. Chiyo herself is one of the most sensible characters in the series unless her OCD is triggered.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Her proper and dutiful personality makes Rentarou think about her doing chores with an apron, like a housewife. In a more dramatic sense, she reminds Naddy of her past self.

Nadeshiko "Naddy" Yamato

The Yamato Nadeshiko turned reverse Occidental Otaku

Debut: Chapter 57

A transfer teacher from America - though in actuality, she's fully Japanese and putting on a persona. She becomes the 13th girlfriend after coming in as the new Japanese teacher for Rentarou's class.

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• Affectionate Nickname: She calls Rentarou "Sugar".
• Americans Are Cowboys: Her outfit is an invocation of this trope.
• Be Yourself: In keeping with her love of freedom, Naddy firmly believes in being who you want to be; does her best to live up to it; and fully approves of anyone else who does the same, even if others are dubious or skeptical, as seen in Tama's introduction.
• Beneath the Mask:
  • Occasionally, when Naddy thinks she's in trouble, her American persona slips and we get a glimpse of Nadeshiko underneath: nervous, lacking in self-confidence, and speaking normally. When she gets turned into a baby, she reverts to baby Nadeshiko: isolated and subdued when left to herself, rather than becoming baby Naddy.
  • In Chapter 146, when all the girls dress up in either Japanese or Western bridalwear, she chooses the former.
• Big Eater: Subverted. Naddy always orders huge portions to be more American but can't finish that much food.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: We get a reminder that Naddy is still a teacher when she helps Chiyo wrangle some of her classmates who had become delinquents... despite her initial advice being a little barbaric.
• Character Tics: Naddy tends to raise her arms out with a big smile when she's really happy.
• Cool Teacher: A footnote in Chapter 118 mentions that none of the students ever complained about the way Naddy speaks because they like her so much. The extra for that chapter even reveals that her odd way of speaking was actually improving her students' grades because it made class interesting and forced them to pay closer attention to decipher her words.
• Cuddle Bug: Part of Naddy's 'Murrican routine is treating hugs like a normal greeting. She proclaims as much both in her introductory chapter and during the Sea Otter Hotpot Sumo Tournament. Her solo date with Rentarou in chapter 156 has her giving Rentarou various kinds of hugs throughout.
• Damn You, Muscle Memory!: In-Universe.
  • When the girls are training for an idol performance, Naddy unconsciously relapses into traditional Japanese dance and enka singing because of her childhood training.
  • Later in Chapter 102, her attempt at walking with a maid's gait comes off as a Noh performance.
• Dark Secret: She sees her original identity as this in her introduction. While it's not said outright, it's strongly suggested that one reason she's pretending to be American is that deep down she sees herself as a disgrace, being born and raised Japanese yet preferring to adopt American culture, and wants to hide any sign of her background for fear of being found out. With Rentarou's help, she manages to unburden herself of it. Though no one outside of Rentarou's Family, not even most of the staff at the school, knows.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • Chapter 71, where she helps Chiyo deal with some troublesome classmates.
  • Chapter 118, where a teacher gives her grief over the way she talks in class.
  • Chapter 156, where she goes on a solo date with Rentarou.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: At first glance, you'd expect her to be one for Eagleland, but she really deconstructs the Yamato Nadeshiko and the reverse Occidental Otaku. The reason why she's so obsessed with America is that her parents forced her to learn and uphold the behavior of a proper Japanese lady despite her immense dislike of it. Watching an American film she found in the storehouse they would lock her in for making mistakes inspired her to eventually take on a more "free" and rebellious look, in response to which her parents kicked her out and prohibited her from ever returning. Once Rentarou blows her cover as a Japanese woman she fears that she'll be rejected for disgracing her roots.
• Double Consciousness: Under the surface, Naddy is deeply conflicted about the American and Japanese sides of her identity. She's committed to her American persona as being who she wants to be, but she doesn't want to give up being Japanese in favor of becoming a real American because it still matters deeply to her, and because she privately sees herself as a disgrace to her heritage. Additionally, while she feels guilty over her terrible English, not using it leaves her feeling uncomfortable and isolated.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Naddy had these back when she was a child as a result of her abusive upbringing. Her eyes also become less vibrant when she relapses into her Yamato Nadeshiko persona.
• Dye Hard: Invoked. Naddy's hair is actually black,^note or a dark shade of some other Hair Color but she dyes it blonde to look more American.
• Exact Words: Rentaro notes in Naddy's debut chapter that she goes to some lengths to avoid outright lying through this trope. He specifically noted her honesty upon learning that she had flown to America and back just so she could say that she had "transferred from the US," but it applies to her name just as much. She admitted to Rentaro that she simply introduces herself as "Naddy," and lets people think that it's a nickname for Nadia, not Nadeshiko.
• Expository Pronoun: Uses the English "I" in her American persona and watakushi in her Japanese persona, reflecting her very formal upbringing.
• Fauxreigner: Naddy claims that she comes from America, but she was born and raised in Japan her whole life. While she did transfer in from America, she was only there for five minutes the previous day.
• Foil:
  • Naddy embraces freedom to an almost fetishistic degree, while Mei struggles to comprehend the idea of freedom. Interestingly, both of them were hired by Hahari because she thought they were cute.
  • Naddy values freedom while Chiyo values rules and responsibilities, but both of them value doing the right thing, and both notice the issues the other has with how they approach things: Naddy sees Chiyo can end up taking on more responsibilities than she can handle, while Chiyo sees Naddy apologizing for helping her - her lack of confidence in doing the right thing - and decides to help her escape.
  • Naddy decided to abandon everything related to Japanese culture after she couldn't become the Yamato Nadeshiko her parents expected her to be, whereas Yaku is a traditional Yamato Nadeshiko who has trouble understanding anything that isn't Japanese.
  • Naddy revealed to her parents her love of American culture from television, causing them to disown her. Rin hid her love of violence (which she got from television) from her parents out of fear they would disown her.
• Foreign Culture Fetish: Nadeshiko styles herself as stereotypically American as possible in both looks and mannerisms, even taking on the name "Naddy". The glimpse of American life that she saw in a movie and the personal freedom American children were allowed ran so counter to her stifled upbringing that she began modeling her entire identity after it.
• Genki Girl: She's prone to throwing her arms up in the air with a smile at least once a chapter.
• Gratuitous English: In the original Japanese, she speaks incorrectly grammared English with a few Japanese words thrown in. The scanlation and official English translation give her a Southern Belle way of speaking and deliberately bad Gratuitous Spanish.
• Heritage Disconnect: An enforced version of the trope; she was forced from a young age to be the perfect Japanese girl, but she grew to hate her own culture and idolize American culture. Up until she met the harem, she hid any sign she was Japanese. Once she manages to open up to them, she finds herself wrestling with where she stands, because America and Japan are both important to her, and she doesn't want to choose one at the expense of the other.
• I Have No Daughter!: Becomes the victim of this trope after embracing her obsession with America.
• In Vino Veritas: When she gets drunk, she becomes a sad, self-loathing Nadeshiko.
• Intentional Engrish for Funny: How she speaks as Naddy, with some deliberately bad Japanese thrown in. (The scanlators and official English translation render it as her talking in a strong, and slightly awkward, Southern US dialect).
• Intergenerational Friendship: Naddy has particularly close relationships with Chiyo and Yaku, who are younger and (much) older than her respectively.
• Ironic Name: Her name is a reference to the Yamato Nadeshiko archetype as she was raised to be by her traditional parents, but she hated being one and actively strives to be as American as possible to distance herself from it.
• Liquid Courage: Inverted. See In Vino Veritas above.
• Love Confession: The fact of this trope being used before engaging in a relationship barely exists outside of Japan is what tips off Rentarou to her true identity:
• Occidental Otaku: Inverted. She's a Japanese woman obsessed with America. More specifically, she's obsessed with the idea of America, and doesn't know much about the actual place, or how the English language works, having basically picked up bits and pieces as she went along. Somehow it's been enough for her to successfully fake being American, with only Rentarou managing to figure it out.
• Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: Prone to sweating whenever she gets nervous.
• Phenotype Stereotype: Invoked. She dyed her hair blonde upon adopting her American persona.
• Precision F-Strike: She's the first character in the manga to drop an F-bomb, and it's quite possibly one of the more adorable F-bombs on record.
  Fakkyuu...!
• Sad Clown: Her cheerful obsession with America hides a person who sees herself as a disgrace to her home country. Any time Naddy drops the act, she's noticeably more depressed than usual. In chapter 80, Yaku notices that Naddy's been dropping the act while they're stranded in the woods together and tells her to Be Yourself, even if Yaku can't understand her, as it's clearly what makes her happy.
• Sensei-chan: Even more so than Hahari (who occasionally at least tries to act prim, proper, and authoritative - and technically speaking is supposed to handle administration, not students).
• Signature Headgear: Her oversized Stetson.
• Significant Birth Date: February 11th, Japan's National Foundation Day.
• Strange-Syntax Speaker: Peppers her speech with so much Gratuitous English that sometimes it's barely comprehensible. The scanlation cleans it up significantly, to a thick Texan accent, and even then the readers can't parse what she's saying half the time.
• Stripperiffic: The cowgirl outfit she wears as a teacher.
• Success Through Insanity: Volume 14's extra page for chapter 118, which has Naddy in trouble with a senior teacher because her way of speaking is nigh-incomprehensible, depicts one of her lessons when she was being required to speak normally. The students are bored and uninterested, and a footnote reveals that Naddy's students' grades have not only improved since she began teaching, but have done so because of her mannerisms. Her "completely borked language" is interesting, keeps students engaged, and students have to put more effort into actually listening to decipher what she says.
• Teacher/Student Romance: The manga rarely addresses this after her debut chapter (since the gang are rarely shown in class, to begin with), but she is a fully-licensed adult dating a teenage student, just like Hahari...not that she usually acts like it. Lampshaded by her during her confession.
• The Tease: She didn't waste time with kissing Rentarou right off the bat before confessing to him. She also gave Hahari a peck on the cheek (though not much further than Hahari would like) and took advantage of the aphrodisiac Rentarou was under during her sumo match with him.
• They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Naddy tends to be the most sensitive to this concept, due to her own issues. In chapter 71 when she sees Chiyo is bothered by something, Naddy tells her it's okay to keep to herself if she prefers, but also assures Chiyo she's there to hear her out and respects Chiyo's wishes to not involve the rest of Rentaro's Family after they've talked. In chapter 144, Naddy is the one who discourages further conversation when it's clear Karane is reluctant to speak about her family.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Big Macs, the most American food Naddy knows. She uses it as her ingredient of choice in the secret ingredient hot pot, and without hesitation orders a ramen featuring it as part of the dish despite said dish being created to be undesirable.
• Verbal Tic: "Ya hear?"
• Whole Episode Flashback: Volume 7's extra chapter reveals her terrible Engrish began with her teaching herself English and guessing how romanji worked without anything to correct her (she assumed that because "apple" and "doggy" have double consonants in English, the equivalent Japanese words have double consonants in romanji).
• Yamato Nadeshiko: It's her real name, and she used to be one in her youth. She hated every second of it and now strives to defy the trope by pretending to be American.

Yamame Yasashiki

The Nature Lover

Debut: Chapter 64

The first-year president of the gardening club, who becomes Rentarou's 14th girlfriend.

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• Actual Pacifist: Played with. Yamame will not harm any living thing regardless of whether it's actually alive or not - she'll completely redirect herself midair to avoid falling on a stray leaf, despite the leaf having essentially died by the time it fell from the tree.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: Along with the countless vegetables she brought for a potluck, the "secret ingredient" she brought was a whole rose flower. She's hurt when Iku takes the odd ingredient as a challenge.
• Caring Gardener: She's the president of the gardening club, and she cares greatly about all kinds of plants, even weeds.
• Character Tics: Yamame tends to flex her arms after demonstrating her strength.
• Curtains Match the Window: Green hair and eyes.
• Cute Giant: She's a big girl with a cute face and a gentle, innocent personality.
• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 78, which sees Hakari try to get her to see how sexy she is, and Chapter 131, where Rentarou helps her out at her aunt and uncle's tea shop.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Nature Lover. She was unable to make friends growing up due to being unusually tall for a girl her age. With the few people she did get along with, she found herself always performing favors without receiving any in return. She learned how to value herself through protecting and looking after plants and animals, but didn't have anyone else who'd value and protect her until Rentarou helped her with her gardening and saved her from a sudden gust of fire.
• Expository Pronoun: Ode, a dialect version of ore (similar to ora), marking her as a country girl rather than associating her with masculinity.
• Flowers of Nature: Her hair has living flowers and butterflies in it, fitting with how she's a Friend to All Living Things. According to her, the flowers sprouted there one day without explanation so she decided to raise them.
  Yamame: Aye, the key is to shampoo very gently.
• Foil: To Hakari. While Hakari is a good person overall, she acts more innocent than she really is as a part of her seduction act. Yamame is so pure-hearted that her attempts at being seductive are mistaken for something innocuous.
• Friend to All Living Things: She wears stilts while gardening so she doesn't crush anything beneath her feet. She lets live butterflies stay in her hair. (No, those aren't accessories.) She deliberately tumbles herself over to avoid crushing a leaf.
• Friendless Background: She was made fun of for most of her life due to her unusual size.
• Funetik Aksent: The scanlation gives her an Irish accent.
• Gentle Giant: She is One Head Taller than Rentarou and a Friend to All Living Things.
• Green Means Natural: She is a kind Friend to All Living Things and Nature Lover. Naturally, she has green hair and green eyes.
• Height Angst: Has a touch of this in Chapter 65, having picked up that some men don't like being the shorter one in a relationship. Rentarou explains that it doesn't matter to him what height his girlfriends are; he loves them all the same.
• Huge Schoolgirl: She's in her first year at high school, and at 200cm, already taller than most adults.
• I Am Not Pretty: See Height Angst above. She doesn't see herself as ladylike, unlike Hakari. Hakari herself isn't terribly flattered when Yamame comments that Rentarou dating both of them is a sign of a good heart.
• Insecure Love Interest: Even if she's aware of Rentarou having feelings for her, she considers herself not as beautiful as some of his other girlfriends.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: "[X] are living things too." in the scanlation; "[X] are alive too." in the official manga translation.
• Meaningful Name: Her name literally means "Kindness Mountain Woman".
• My God, What Have I Done?: As a little girl, she was so saddened and distraught that she had accidentally squashed a bug that she refused to go into the garden again until her father hypnotized her into thinking that the bug had come back from Heaven to forgive her.
• Nature Lover: She constantly has butterflies and squirrels on or around her. She even takes care of the weeds that sprout up in her garden, putting them in a separate garden of their own. She can also make plants bloom just by holding them.
• Nice Girl: Yamame quite literally would not hurt a fly.
• One Head Taller: Inverted. Her exact height is 200 cm (6' 7").
• The Pratfall: Will drop to the ground and play dead if she smells smoke, complete with a "Thwoom!" sound due to her massive size.
• Primal Fear: She has a fear of fire. Just smelling smoke is enough to make her play dead.
• Significant Birth Date: August 11th, Japan's Mountain Day.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: She's shown to be able to understand what animals are saying, and can translate for those around her.
• Statuesque Stunner: At 200 cm (6' 7"), she's taller than the vast majority of adult men. It doesn't take away from her gentleness or beauty, however.
• Super Gullible: Yamame is an incredibly trusting person who will believe just about anything she hears.
  • When Kusuri was acting like she was in an And I Must Scream situation during a game of zombie nurse tag, Yamame thought Kusuri needed help and easily fell for her trap.
  • Yamame believes all of Uto's tall tales no matter how outlandish they are, including one where Uto described herself as a god.
• Super-Strength: According to her, she once bear hugged an actual bear to calm it down. In addition to proving said claim by holding back a bear in Chapter 104, she manages to haul several boulders into a stream to form a stepping stone bridge.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The huge girl to Rentarou's tiny guy. (It's not that Rentarou is particularly short; Yamame is just that tall.)
• Trauma Button: When Nano is shrunk by one of Kusuri's drugs, Yamame immediately gets onto her stilts, quaking with fear that she might crush Nano by accident.
  Yamame: Naw, ah'm not... ah'm not gonna step on her...!
  "This seems like a sore spot for you."
• Verbal Tic: "Aye" in the scanlation, "Yes-siree" in the official manga translation.
• Whole Episode Flashback: The volume 8 extras reveal that when she was a little girl, she accidentally stepped on and squashed an insect, which left her in such a devastated state that her father had to hypnotize her in order to break her out of her guilt-ridden state, and then teach her to walk on stilts so she could feel comfortable working in the garden.

Momiji Momi

The Happy Ending Masseuse

Debut: Chapter 69

An amateur masseuse with No Sense of Personal Space who becomes Rentarou's 15th girlfriend.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: She's especially fond of groping Meme, much to the latter's discomfort.
• Agony of the Feet: Her foot massages are rather painful, but the girls who receive them are pleased with the results.
• Alliterative Name: Like Nobi Nobita, as she says. Apparently, her dad's name is similar.
• Ambiguously Bi: She unashamedly loves groping women to the point of salivation, but it seems to just be the sensation of touch that she's into more than anything overtly sexual.
• Character Tics: Momiji has her hands up in a clutching gesture 90% of the time as if preparing to grope something.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Her intentions for giving massages are genuinely so that the recipients can have their stress alleviated, and she states that she's completely detached from any feelings of attraction towards said recipient. But she also freely admits that she likes touching soft things, particularly female bodies, and does so while openly groping a girl she'd just massaged into a pleasure-coma. The thought of massaging a gravure model makes her start drooling.
• Curtains Match the Window: Purple hair and eyes.
• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 119, where she performs a "Freaky Friday" Flip with Rentarou in order to grope the other girls in his body, and Chapter 155, where she and Kurumi find themselves together in a queue for the ultimate fluffy daifuku.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Happy Ending Masseuse. Her desire to become a world-class masseuse leaves her with No Sense of Personal Space. While she's able to make such quick work with her talents that entire sports teams can get massages in a matter of minutes, she also has no restraint when it comes to groping sensitive body parts and/or touching other people's bodies with her face.
• Didn't Think This Through: Neither Momiji nor Rentarou realized what would happen if they returned to their own bodies while Momiji in Rentarou's body was groping Rentarou in Momiji's body - namely, that Rentarou would find himself groping Momiji. They're both embarrassed about it, for their own reasons, although it doesn't slow Momiji's groping down any.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Her massages are so good that they left a trail of girls in such a state of ecstasy that they couldn't move on their own and were barely aware of their surroundings. According to Momiji herself, her clients apparently forget the experiences of their massage - something Rentarou states is more along the lines of drugs.
• Early Personality Signs: According to her parents, she's loved touching soft things since she was little, even before her fateful encounter with Hahari and Hakari.
• First-Name Basis: While most of the main cast are on First-Name Basis with each other, Momiji's use of it is distinctive: she addresses most of the others as "[X]-san" (aside from Shiina, who specifically asked to be called "Usa-chan", so she calls her "Usa-chan-san"). If going by typical Japanese formalities, this would indicate she sees herself as being on a casual, friendly basis with everyone, but not so close she can drop the "-san"; it's noticeable she doesn't use "-senpai" or "-sensei", addressing everyone equally. However, it may be a shared family Verbal Tic, as her mom calls her "Momiji-san".
• Flat Character: Has easily the least backstory and emotional hangups of all the girlfriends thus far, and almost no interactions with anyone outside her single groping gag. Even her debut chapter was set up as a tribute to the manga's real-life artist, rather than trying to examine her more as a person. Moments throughout the series hint at a deeper personality - someone who's generous by nature, who's just as emotionally invested in the harem as the others - but it's not been explored in-depth.
• Foil: To her classmate Kurumi. Both of them are obsessed with certain sensations, with Kurumi focusing on taste and Momiji focused on touch. Kurumi becomes irritable if she's unable to get food but still tries to be civil, while Momiji is more easygoing but has a bad habit of invading people's personal space.
• Forgotten First Meeting: As a kindergartener, she met Hakari and Hahari at a moon bounce, and touching their assets was what cemented her current personality. She doesn't remember it too well, but she does remember the ZING!! she got.
• Freudian Excuse: She was always fond of feeling soft things even as a toddler, but her perverted tendencies were awoken when she got a Zing from feeling Hahari's chest.
• A Friend in Need: Momiji's signature virtue is generosity; she thinks nothing of giving what she has to others or reciprocating their kindness, though she doesn't take it to Momoha's extreme.
• Frozen Face: Momiji has a perpetual pout on her face. When Mai told her to smile, she needed Nano to do a Finger-Forced Smile on her to pull it off. When she gets (pretend) drunk, it swaps to an underbite. Chapter 119 shows this isn't because of her body, since she adopts the same expression while she's in Rentarou's body, while Rentarou in her body has regular facial expressions. This later holds true in another body swap chapter where Eira is in her body while she's in Rin's. Her debut chapter and chapter 155 show that she can change her expression in serious moments, such as when she's massaging Kurumi's legs while they're both exhausted from the long line.
• Happy-Ending Massage: Her specialty. It says something when she manages to relieve muscle pain that is heavily implied to have been cultivated for many years.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Has a moment with Suu in Chapter 128 showing she's just as invested in the harem as any of the others, beyond the opportunities for massaging and groping:
    Suu: Why are all of you... acting like this? Why are you all helping each other? This isn't a team sport. It doesn't matter if anyone else busts out, so why...?
    Momiji: Mmh. I guess that's not strictly untrue. But I know we'll all be a lot happier if we can win this thing together.
  • Momiji decides to knead bread to work off her desire to massage Rentarou in Chapter 69, is hinted to be a very skilled baker in Chapter 88, and bakes bread with a variety of different textures in Chapter 139.
• If It's You, It's Okay: Twofold. Rentarou becomes the sole exception to Momiji's (allegedly) professional separation between her emotions and her job once she falls in love with him. He's also the exception to her preference for massaging girls, as she finds his body just as pleasing to work on.
• Kuudere: Always has a deadpan expression on, even when excited.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Just ask the alleviated tennis girls that she groped. She's even willing to massage people's faces.
• Older Than They Look: Momiji is one of the shortest people in the family, being about the same height as Kusuri and Chiyo. However, as a third-year middle schooler, she's around the same age as Kurumi and likely just one year younger than Rentarou.
• Perpetual Motion Machine: She's able to replenish her own energy by groping a woman's chest.
• Photographic Memory: She’s able to remember the girls’ bust sizes and list them off when the need arises for sorting the girls by bust size.
• Power Perversion Potential: Uses Kusuri's body-swap drug to switch places with Rentarou to grope the other girls before they can guard against it (a la the Bed Trick).
• Punny Name: In the proper Japanese order her name sounds like "momi-momi", the onomatopoeia for groping something.
• Repetitive Name: Momiji Momi.
• Revive Kills Zombie: Momiji's healing massage makes the masochistic Iku extremely distraught.
• Sense Freak: For touch. In fact, she specifically became a masseuse for the express purpose of groping women's soft bodies and even keeps an oppai mousepad of Nami on-hand. Eventually, it extends to Rentarou's stiff, overworked back.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Looks like a younger version of her mom.
• Super-Senses: She's able to sense fatigue, muscle stiffness, and pain just by looking at people, even when they show no signs of it at all.
  Momiji: Just like how Goku can sense someone's strength by looking at them.
  Rentarou: You have an internal scouter!?
• Third-Person Person: She talks like this in the original Japanese, although there's no real clue why - is it her gesture to femininity and cuteness? A personal quirk? A sign she doesn't take herself too seriously?
  • The official manga translation gives her "I, Momiji" as a Verbal Tic.
• To Be a Master: She wants to become the best masseuse she possibly can so she'll be able to heal any woman's body, then once she's famous, she'll be flooded with requests from gravure idols.
• Verbal Tic: Mm, I guess you could call it that.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Kurumi, although it's mostly one-sided on Kurumi's part. Even though Kurumi often expresses annoyance at Momiji's groping, Momiji mostly takes it in stride. The only time she ever got mad at Kurumi was when the latter almost ruined the texture of a rice bun Momiji was groping.

Yaku Yakuzen

The Ageless Yamato Nadeshiko

Debut: Chapter 74

An octogenarian with the body of a child due to taking her granddaughter Kusuri's immortality drug, and Rentarou's 16th girlfriend.

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• Achievements in Ignorance:
  • She was able to set a new record in a go-kart track despite having no idea how to drive.
  • She also managed to complete an obstacle course competition despite never realizing that she'd been mistaken for a contestant.
• Acquired Poison Immunity: Like Kusuri, the Yakuzens' Professor Guinea Pig habits mean that even the Serious Group's Knockout Gas has no effect on her.
• The Ageless: The immortality drug she took locks her physical age at 8 years old, and the neutralization drug does not affect her in this regard.
• Alliterative Name: Almost the same name, coincidentally just like Momiji right before her.
• Blank White Eyes: She tends to have these when she gets confused.
• Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: Downplayed. Yaku normally has a reasonable grasp of the difference between fiction and reality, but her technological blindness - namely, her lack of knowledge about television - left her confused when it came to TV programs. Her initial assumption was that they were all fiction, because they all took place inside the TV, before Kusuri explained that some of them were real, leading Yaku to question whether Pentarou was real too.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: Despite her actual age, she's still physically a child, which prevents her from being able to drink. Playing Drunk ends up knocking her unconscious after a while.
• Cool Old Lady: She's capable of impressive agility despite her age, chronological or otherwise.
• Culture Blind: Is somehow ignorant of all her country's changes since her youth.
• Dark and Troubled Past:
  • She alludes to this, mentioning she once had no time to be a picky eater, and even a single bite of food was hard to come by. Rentarou is quick to pick up she's talking about her childhood in World War II.
  • When asked about her time as a battlefield medic in volume 9's extras, her Imagine Spot is censored, with people shouting in horror about arms and heads, and her "Knits-Body-Parts-Together Drug" getting put to use.
  • In the relay race, the memory of her life being in danger gets her sweating, speeding up, and repeating "I do not want to die...!".
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • In Chapter 105, Kishika and Rentarou join forces to try and dote on Yaku.
  • In Chapter 140, Rentarou accompanies her as she gets a prized vase appraised and discovers a secret her husband had never been able to tell her.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype:
  • Of The Ageless. She's certainly got several decades of life experience under her belt despite having the body of a grade-schooler, but even with the immortality drug locking her physical age in place, she still isn't immune to the mental problems that come with old age, such as being a slow learner and struggling to remember certain details of what she was told in the last hour.
  • She also deconstructs May–December Romance, in that she actually turns Rentarou down the first time, due to the age gap being so great that she could not view him as anything but a child, and it is only after he proved he really meant it that she accepted him after all.
• Epic Fail: She doesn't match a single girl correctly with their personality or physical traits in Chapter 76. To take it further, she gave traits to girls who couldn't have them, such as claiming Kurumi was the one who cries when she loses her glasses, except Kurumi doesn't even wear glasses in the first place.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Apparently Kusuri's drug naming method is another one of those things that run in the family.
• Expository Pronoun: Washi, as a sign of her chronological age.
• Expressive Hair: Her Idiot Hair droops or becomes jagged if she's nervous.
• Eyes Always Shut: Not to the same extent as Mei, but Yaku's eyes are usually shut to demonstrate her serene nature.
• Foil:
  • To Hahari. While they're both adult girlfriends who not only have relatives who are also girlfriends with Rentarou but have had previous soulmates, Hahari is a young mother who acts younger than she is around Rentarou's girlfriends, is shown to be a physical tease, and who fell in love with Rentarou the moment they saw each other. Yaku, on the other hand, is an old grandmother who (thanks to the immortality drug) looks like a little girl acting older than she is, is more of a mental tease, and initially admits to only humoring Rentarou about being her boyfriend, requiring significant effort on his part to convince her to actually date him.
  • To Kusuri. Yaku is calm and mature while Kusuri is energetic and generally acts like a kid. Yaku's hair is well-kept while Kusuri's is messy. Yaku is locked in her current form, while Kusuri can switch between forms.
  • To Naddy. Naddy was a Yamato Nadeshiko in-training who chose to abandon it in favor of American culture, while Yaku is a traditional Yamato Nadeshiko who has trouble understanding anything that isn't Japanese. This means Yaku often has trouble trying to understand what Naddy says. At least she doesn't hold anything against Naddy acting how she does, proving that the latter's parents' behavior was not just because of their culture. Indeed, she encourages Naddy to act as she does because of how clearly happy doing so makes Naddy.
  • To Kishika, her cover-mate. Yaku is youthful on the outside but inside she is wise and unflappable. Kishika is cool and knightly on the outside but inside she is very quick to cave to her child-like desires.
• Fountain of Youth: She took a stronger, near-perfect version of Kusuri's immortality drug, making her permanently have a young body and giving the neutralizer drug no effect.
• Goroawase Number: While her name does share a kanji with Kusuri, phonetically her first name also refers to her age: Ya (8) ku (9) se/n (years old). Her birthday uses the same reference, being August 9th, 8/9.
• Handwriting as Characterization: Her handwriting consists of an ancient form of Japanese writing that gets dubbed "chicken scratch from hell". Which makes sense, as she's an 89-year-old Yamato Nadeshiko. The only other person able to read it is Naddy, who lived a Yamato Nadeshiko lifestyle in her youth before she became a reverse Occidental Otaku.
• Hidden Depths: The Volume 12 extras show she has a fondness for Japanese ware. While this would be expected from a Yamato Nadeshiko, she becomes as excitable as Kusuri normally is when she sees the massive vase that Hahari bought in Chapter 96. She also identifies who made it.
• Hime Cut: She wears hers with a hair tie at the back. In her case, it represents her being dignified, calm, and traditional.
• Hopeless with Tech: She can't even operate a landline telephone; to her, smart devices are just planks.
• The Illegible: Yaku's handwriting is so cramped nobody can read it apart from Naddy, who grew up seeing similar writing at home (it's an early 20th-century thing).
• Immune to Jump Scares: When Yaku went into a haunted house, she wasn't fazed by any of the jump scares.
• Kimono Is Traditional: Loves wearing kimonos and other traditional Japanese clothes, and from her flashbacks she's been doing it pretty much her whole life.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Limited to a single subject. She claims to be an expert on antiques but in reality doesn't have a clue how to distinguish a falsification from a legitimate one, though she will own up to it if the truth comes out. The trouble is that she keeps getting carried away by her passion for antiques, leaving her susceptible to fakes.
• Malaproper: More pronounced in the original Japanese text, where one of her quirks is being unable to grasp English loan words. For example, she mistakes "maid" as "Meido", the Buddhist underworld. She also can't pronounce Naddy's nickname^note it wasn't until after the war that Japanese speakers tried to pronounce "ti" or "di" as such instead of "chi" or "ji" and calls her "Nade" instead, which is actually closer to how her real name is pronounced.
• May–December Romance: The oldest member of Rentarou's harem at 89 years old, a distinction that's unlikely to be bested any time in the future.
• Mayfly–December Romance: An implied aversion. Even if the immortality drug doesn't prevent her from aging, it can be assumed that she won't die of old age (assuming such a thing would actually happen) before Rentarou is old enough to die of old age.
• The Medic: She served as a medic in a war, making medicine.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Defied. According to her, Kusuri is subject to this because she's still a child and her brain is still developing, while Yaku's is not.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: Parodied. She looks like an 8-year-old because of an immortality drug her granddaughter invented.
• Mysterious Past: Invoked Trope. She's coy about certain parts of her background, saying "The key to a woman's charm is how many secrets she has".
• Nice Girl: Yaku stands out as one of the kindest and most patient members of the family. She's always polite to everyone she meets, never shows anger or annoyance, and is very open-minded about other people's differences, even if she has difficulty understanding them.
• Older Than They Look: She is eighty nine years old! Just look at her!
• Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: Starts sweating heavily whenever she's confused or afraid.
• Perpetual Smiler: Is smiling 90% of the time, even when confused, mildly embarrassed, or in the face of something weird. A sign of her politeness and overall wisdom compared to everybody else.
• Playful Cat Smile: Like grandmother like granddaughter.
• Repetitive Name: Yaku Yakuzen.
• Reverse Arm-Fold: Yaku frequently keeps her arms behind her back, even when she's doing something rigorous like running.
• Romancing the Widow: She's one of Rentarou's soulmates, despite being married and having a child before they met. Rentarou sometimes has visions of Yaku as an adult, hinting he may be the reincarnation of Yaku's husband.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Despite being told who all the girls are an hour before, she manages to get everyone's personalities and physical traits mixed up without matching a single one correctly.
• Shared Family Quirks:
  • Like the other Yakuzen women, her default expression is a Playful Cat Smile. She also has an Idiot Hair of her own that's shaped like a brush.
  • She makes the same comically-sulky depressed face as Kusuri after being told her late husband's vase was a forgery.
• Super Gullible: Downplayed, being limited to one subject. Despite having a passion for antique wares, Yaku has an astonishingly poor eye for spotting counterfeits because of said passion. A flashback shows her nearly being swindled out of five hundred thousand yen^note around US$3,550 by a roadside scammer, and having to be stopped by Kusuri and her father.
• The Tease: A lot of Rentarou's girlfriends are this, but she is unique in that she's a tease of a specifically mature position, compared to adults like Nadeshiko and Hahari. She's pretty much the only girlfriend so far that can turn Rentarou into the blushing schoolboy he actually is compared to a super boyfriend. Heck, she's pretty much the only character in the series who acts her age and not her shoe size.
• Technologically Blind Elders: She struggles with landlines, let alone smartphones; the most she can manage is a Tin-Can Telephone.
  Yaku: Ahh... are you talking about that funny plank Kusuri plays with sometimes?
• Technophobia: Courtesy of her grandmother, who never liked machines; she taught Yaku that cars could kill people, and her knees buckle every time one drives past. This causes Rentarou to wonder under which emperor she was born.^note It should be Shōwa, but that's the behavior of someone from Meiji, two whole eras earlier, when Japan belatedly left the Middle Ages.
• Unaffected by Spice: Just like her granddaughter. It's not clear if it's also because she drinks experimental drugs on the reg.
• Unseen No More: She was first mentioned in Chapter 48 before finally appearing at the end of Chapter 74.
• Verbal Tic: She ends her sentences with "yes yes".^note In the original Japanese version, it's "nanoja".. The official manga translation drops the tic, as it does with all the adult Yakuzens.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: A much straighter example than Naddy (which isn't a difficult bar to clear); she always wears a kimono and is very polite and wise despite her youthful appearance. However, this is because she's actually in her eighties and was raised in a much more traditional way than most modern girls would be.

Kishika Torotoro

The Samurai Womanchild

Debut: Chapter 81

The third-year kendo team captain and Rentarou's 17th girlfriend.

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• Abilene Paradox: Kishika wanted to be pampered, but she kept it a secret because she believed her mother depended on her to be a reliable caretaker for her siblings. Kishika's mother wanted to pamper Kishika, but she chose not to because she thought Kishika didn't want to be treated like a child.
• Action Girl: She introduces herself by curb-stomping a gang of delinquents harassing Rentarou for keychains. And almost all the previous girlfriends in a sparring match with little effort.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Kishika specifically associates being patted on the head with being pampered by parental affection. Almost any form of it will immediately send her into baby mode. A bonus chapter shows this association began in elementary school, when a glove fell on top of her head during cleaning.
• Amusingly Awful Aim: Her lack of skill with non-sword weapons and distaste for ranged weapons in general combine to form this. When surrounded during a game of zombie tag, Kishika panics under pressure and whips around to shoot Yaku instead of the zombies.
• Baby Talk: When Kishika regresses into her infant state, she talks like this.
• Beneath the Mask: The face she normally presents is the responsible knightly senpai. Pamper her for a bit, and she basically returns to infancy. She finds this deeply, deeply embarrassing.
• Berserk Button: She hates being compared to babies or being reminded of how she acts in an infantile state.
• Born in the Wrong Century: As if just practicing kendo wasn't enough for her, she talks like a knight, adheres to a knight's code, and wears a 17th-century European-style dress.
• Butt-Monkey: Her typical reaction to regressing to her infant state is to later fall on her knees and shout...
• Character Catchphrase:
  • ..."Just kill me!"
  • She says "Baboo" whenever she acts like a baby.
• Classy Cravat: She wears a cravat with her school uniform to go with her knightly demeanor.
• Covert Pervert: At the end of Chapter 166, she gets so excited while Rentarou is pampering her that she becomes the second girlfriend (after Momoha) to straight-up ask him for sex. Rentarou says they’ll do it in the future (meaning years later) only for her to get quite mad and say she wants it now, even stripping naked and hugging him. Fortunately she falls asleep before this can go anywhere, and once she comes to her senses asks to be killed.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Kishika is frighteningly skilled with swords, but only with swords; put any other type of weapon in her hands, and her competency plummets. This goes double for guns (water guns, to be clear), which she detests due to their being "unchivalrous".
• Dark Secret: She has a deep desire to be pampered, spoiled, and doted on... to the point she made up parents who'd do that for her by patting herself with a rubber glove and modulating lines she'd recorded. Being well aware of how it looked, she did her best to make sure no one else found out.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • In Chapter 105, Kishika and Rentarou join forces to try and dote on Yaku.
  • Chapter 125 sees her clash with Kusuri over revealing they're dating the same guy to their classmates.
  • The beach swordfighting tournament in Chapter 166 reassures her that Rentarou accepts her strength as well as her weakness.
• Death Seeker: Played for Laughs. Pretty much any time she does something embarrassing or passes for something that she considers tarnishes her honor, she will start begging to be killed.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype:
  • Of Promoted to Parent. She ended up being the one who has to look out for others (her siblings, juniors, and friends) since she had no one in a position to look after her in return. Because of this she secretly craves affection, acts out interactions with made-up parents in private, and devolves into a child whenever someone pampers her.
  • Also the hentai-based archetype of the lady knight who gets humiliated, complete with the signature line "Just kill me!", updated for a modern-day setting. Instead of having Kishika be humiliated by others, she's humiliated by her own actions.
• Disappeared Dad: The most mention her father's got is her thinking of her parents counting on her when she was eight years old, suggesting he was at least around at that point. Rentarou is probably the first positive interaction she's had that wasn't just a kouhai relationship in a very long time and contributed to her infantilism kink.
• Dork Knight: About as literal a case as you can get in a contemporary high-school setting: normally an unflappably suave (and selfless) swordswoman, but hit her with anything resembling parental affection and watch her melt. Moreover, unlike most of Rentarou's other girlfriends, she's actively aware and embarrassed of her eccentricity, often invoking Let Us Never Speak of This Again after she's gotten her right mind back.
• The Dulcinea Effect: Gender-Inverted. She saves Rentarou from a group of street thugs before she even sees his face.
• Emotional Regression: Kishika craves parental affection to the point of initially having props to simulate it. Whenever she gets it, she mentally regresses into an infantile state of mind for a period, to her great embarrassment once she snaps out of it.
• Entertainment Below Their Age: As a part of her Womanchild status, Kishika often expresses interest in activities and products aimed for children like kids' meals.
• Expository Pronoun: Watashi, going for a default level of politeness.
• Fan Disservice: Any sexiness that may have been engendered at the end of Chapter 166 is more than negated by the fact she is in her childish persona at the time.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. She values maintaining a public image as a mature and responsible senpai and will go to any lengths to keep up appearances. Unfortunately for her, she's unable to resist her own desire to be pampered like a baby.
• Foil:
  • To Kusuri. Kusuri lacks self-awareness and doesn't care what other people think about her, while Kishika is very self-conscious of her actions and worries about how other people view her. Kusuri becomes more mature and sensible when she turns into her older self, while Kishika acts like a baby if she gets pampered.
  • To Chiyo, as the other family member who finds themselves bound by responsibility. Kishika is the older sister/senpai who secretly wants to be pampered, while Chiyo is the only child/class president who's been pushing themselves to take on more responsibility and setting their own needs aside.
  • To Yaku. Where Yaku looks like a grade schooler but has a mature personality, Kishika looks mature but descends into infancy with just a minute of pampering.
  • To Rin. Both present themselves as upstanding and well-disciplined in public but secretly have desires they desperately try to keep hidden from everyone around them. When Rentarou and the girls find out about them, they're still willing to be friends with them in spite of that. The main difference is that Kishika's desires are below her age group, while Rin's desires are above her age group.
• Hates Being Touched: Subverted. She most certainly does not hate being touched. But she acts like it because she's embarrassed about what would happen if she stays in physical contact for too long.
• Kendo Team Captain: For Rentarou's school. She's very popular, with her teammates clamoring for her attention.
• Knight Errant: Her Establishing Character Moment heavily suggests that she patrols the streets in her spare time rescuing innocent bystanders from trouble.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: She tries to invoke this after recovering from an infantile state.
• Made Myself Sad: In her debut chapter, she expresses amusement that the head of the chemistry club looks like a grade-schooler before inwardly moping about the head pats Kusuri receives.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Has five younger siblings.
• Meaningful Name: Kishi means "knight". As someone who was looking out for everyone, including her siblings, it's rather fitting. Torotoro is onomatopoeia for melting or drooping, like when she drops her composure for pampering.
• Missing Mom: All that's said of her mother in her debut is that Kishika had to raise and care for her siblings when her mother could not. Volume 10's focus story clarifies this, showing it's a case of her mother having a lot to deal with, including raising her children.
• Pose of Supplication: Every time Kishika acts like a baby, she gets on her hands and knees in shame when she realizes what happened, usually accompanied by her saying, "Just kill me!"
• Promoted to Parent: With her parents so busy, she decided to share the responsibility of looking after her siblings from a young age.
• Rescue Romance: Her relationship with Rentarou begins when she saves him from some guys who were harassing him for keychains.
• Rōnin: The Samurai version of this.
• Shared Family Quirks: Well, complementary family quirks, anyway. Where Kishika secretly wanted to be pampered but couldn't admit it, her mother secretly wants to pamper her but respects her maturity above everything else.
• Spirited Competitor: Along with Iku, Kishika is ready to make or accept any possible physical challenge given the opportunity. Unlike Iku, Kishika takes the challenges entirely seriously as she isn't also indulging a masochistic streak like Iku is. When Kishika joins the family, she accepts Iku's challenge to a kendo match, extends it to the entire family, and takes it seriously enough that she's only defeated by Hahari's trickery. She challenges Eira when the capoeirista joins the family and they fight to a draw, both popping the balloons they were using as targets simultaneously. She even re-challenges Eira while in baby mode, yelling "Ba-boo! Ba-bout!" and swinging her kendo sword wildly. When jogging along with Iku and Mimimi, both she and Iku are baffled when Mimimi declines to race with them.
• Still Sucks Thumb: She sucks her thumb whenever she enters an infant state.
• Straight Man: Her need for pampering and old-school knights' code aside, Kishika is one of the more sane girls.
• Tsundere: Her insistence on maintaining a mature persona makes her come off as one.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Kishika has a rather strained relationship with Kusuri. Kusuri's immaturity and shamelessness get on Kishika's nerves, while Kishika's pride and uptightness annoy Kusuri.
• Whole Episode Flashback: Volume 10's bonus chapter shows how she melted for the first time after getting her first head pat.
• Womanchild: What she devolves into when someone pampers her... though it's less "child" and more "toddler or infant."
• Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: Her shinai is a bamboo sword that sometimes displays Absurd Cutting Power, being able to slice through Kusuri's drug vial and a wedding cake with clean cuts.

Aashii "Ahko" Kedarui

The Sleepy Gyaru Girl

Debut: Chapter 87

A first-year shopaholic gyaru and Rentarou's 18th girlfriend.

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• Abandoned Catchphrase: In her early appearances, Ahko would often say, "That sends me," when she was happy. Her catchphrase became less frequent as the series progressed, to the point where she barely says it anymore.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Ahko is one of the friendliest girls around, but she can be surprisingly ruthless when she's really mad. Case in point, she was willing to let the Gorira Alliance do whatever they wanted to her former friends because the latter insulted Karane.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "That sends me."^note "Where?"
  • "Cuuute", whenever she sees something cute. It was even her first word.
• Cuddle Bug: Ahko loves to hug her friends.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • In Chapter 92, she and Karane run into her old friends while out shopping.
  • In Chapter 111, she and Uto learn about each other's way of life while on a date with Rentarou.
  • In Chapter 162, she and Rentarou try out recording for a couple channel.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the stereotypical Gyaru Girl. Her behavior is rooted in an underlying medical condition, which led people to be off-put by her apparent inappropriate emotions, in turn leading her to fill the myriad gaps in her life with Retail Therapy.
• Delicate and Sickly: While she looks healthy at first glance, her low blood pressure means she struggles with physical activity like running.
• The Ditz: Subverted. She comes across as one due to her Frozen Face-induced Perpetual Smiler appearance. Not only is she fully capable of understanding and expressing emotions, but she's also shown herself to come up with genuinely clever ideas more than once.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Constantly has this expression and slow speech, which she puts down to low blood pressure. This often causes misunderstandings when people assume she's bored or mocking them.
• Dull Surprise: Literally, as Ahko's voice and facial expressions are quite understated even if she's surprised or scared.
• Expository Pronoun: Aashi, a gyaru version of atashi (and possibly also a reference to her name).
• Flat Joy: Her default demeanor. In her case, though, it's not sarcastic - she really is sincerely cheerful, but she's also slow and sleepy thanks to her low blood pressure.
• Foil:
  • To Karane. Ahko has no trouble talking about what she's feeling, but can't really show it in her expressions, while Karane finds it difficult to talk about what she's feeling, but it's obvious to anyone around her.
  • To Naddy, but only in the sense that Naddy wants everyone to believe she's a foreigner, while Ahko immediately corrects Rentarou and says she is fully Japanese after stating her name is RC, correcting any potential misunderstanding before it happens. But the characters are not otherwise similar at all.
• Frozen Face: Her face is stuck sporting a constant smile, but ironically she's unable to laugh; even Kusuri's laughing drug only caused her to repeat her catchphrase more enthusiastically than normal. The only parts of her face that can emote properly are her eyebrows. She eventually manages a happy giggle upon realizing Suu doesn't need a mnemonic to remember her.
• Genki Girl: She tries hard to be this, but she comes off as slow and relaxed. Even Kusuri's laughing drug didn't work on her the way it did Chiyo.
• Gyaru Girl: A total Kogal, complete with accessories, bright hair, socks, and a casual style of speech.
• Hates Being Alone: Ahko doesn't like being by herself, which is why she hung out with her former friends even though they mistreated her. She also begs Uto not to leave when it sounds like Uto will be gone for a while until Rentarou clarified Uto was just going to the bathroom.
• The Heart: Ahko has a particular knack for bonding with the girlfriends she pairs up with without even trying, namely Karane, Uto, and Suu. None of them are exactly emotionally open - Karane's tsundere, Uto's cool and aloof, and Suu isn't interested in most people - but after their time together, Karane declares she's her BFF, Uto's left Not So Stoic when she gets close, and Suu doesn't need to associate her with a number to remember her face and name. She may miss things in her read of a situation, or in her plans to help, but her feelings still get through regardless. As she puts it, she's always looking to share feelings with others.
• Hereditary Hairstyle: She has similar multicolored hair to her mother, and has had it since she was an infant.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: She blamed herself for the breakdown of her relationship with her former friends, but as it turned out, said friends were insensitive assholes who didn't care she'd been hurt.
• Hidden Depths:
  • She shows herself to be quite inventive in finding solutions to problems, such as pitching the idea for Suu to associate the girls with numbers to help her befriend them.
  • She can be remarkably emotionally perceptive, even if she misses things elsewhere.
  • It's implied she's a big Pokémon fan, as she mentions knowing all the Pokémon.
• Improvised Clothes: Give her twenty garbage bags and a pair of scissors, and she can come up with a stylish gyaru No-Face costume.
• Like Is, Like, a Comma: One of her defining speech patterns.
• Lonely Among People:
  • She felt out of place when she was with her former friends because when they were getting invested in something, her slow, low-key nature, combined with her half-lidded eyes and perpetual smile, made her look like a wet blanket. Rentarou helps her see she doesn't always have to be on the same page as others.
  • Karane points out that it wasn't just on Ahko, it went both ways, with her friends leaving her out, ignoring her feelings, and writing her off.
• Meaningful Name: All readings of Kedarui imply sluggishness, such as Inert, Listless, and Dull. Ashi can mean sun which can double as an Ironic Name. If we go beyond Japanese Aashi in Hindi means Smile, which is fitting.
• Muscle Angst: Though she has little fear of it happening, Ahko sometimes worries that carrying heavy stuff will make her muscular, which she doesn't find cute.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: After meeting Rentarou and the rest of the harem, she asks them to just call her Ahko, because she thinks her real name's goofy, and so they do.
• Perpetual Smiler: Deconstructed. For Ahko, this is something of an issue, because the only expression she seems capable of is a smile, regardless of what she's actually feeling - she can be excited, downcast, angry, or touched, and she'll still have that same smile on her face. When combined with her Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes, it can make her look like she's not really taking things seriously, even if she actually is.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: Ahko claims she'd literally die if her phone broke.
• Retail Therapy: Can't resist buying anything cute she sees in a store, to the point that her bedroom is filled to the brim with junk she doesn't want to throw away.
• Shared Family Quirks: Turns out Ahko talks just like her parents.
• Signature Laugh: Implied. Her reaction to Kusuri's laughing drug suggests that her catchphrase is supposed to be laughter. It's clearer in Japanese, where her catchphrase is slang for "lol".
• Tranquil Fury: If someone insults her friends, her anger won't show on her face, but she won't easily forgive them, and she won't lift a finger to help if they get into trouble. If she wants to get her point across, she'll go for That Makes Me Feel Angry.
• Valley Girl: She has the dialogue, the fashion sense, the apparent ditziness, and the desire to shop that comes with this persona.
• Verbal Tic:
  • She adds "cchi" to the end of everyone's names.
  • A lot of her sentences will draaaaag out a syllable or two. This seems to be a result of her low blood pressure, as her thoughts don't have this.
• What Are Records?: Thought flea market apps came first, and the real-life version later.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: She doesn't understand what her parents were thinking when they named her.
• Young Entrepreneur: Becomes this thanks to Rentarou's encouragement, combining her love of shopping with her love of making connections with people by selling some of the merchandise she acquired at a flea market. She immediately starts making plans to open her own fancy goods store.

Uto Nakaji

The Philosophical Wandering Minstrel Chuunibyou

Debut: Chapter 94

Rentarou's 19th girlfriend, a modern-day wandering minstrel... or so she says, but actually, she's a chuunibyou in her second year of junior high.

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• Added Alliterative Appeal: Indulges in this on occasion, befitting her poet persona. She's also shown to be impressively talented at Tongue Twisters.
• Author Appeal: In-Universe example; the song she sings in Chapter 94 is about Rentarou meeting her.
• Becoming the Mask: When she's first introduced, her attempts at philosophy rely on Ice Cream Koans. When Eira comes along, she begins sounding properly philosophical, if still prone to waffling.
• Beneath the Mask: Despite not seeming like it at first, she is aware of her lack of talent and has tried to improve her musical ability, only to no avail. This means that, after hearing one of Himeka’s songs on the radio and realizing how talented she is, she stops mentoring her on how to be abnormal, since she envies Himeka’s talent and thinks she herself sucks.
• Bifauxnen: Capable of this if she dresses up like it, as seen in the opening page of Chapter 96 and a sketch in the Volume 11 extras. She finally does it in the series proper in Chapter 165.
• Blatant Lies: She's actually startlingly good at making her tall tales sound convincing when she wants to. The problem is that she also has a tendency to say stuff that is just too patently ridiculous to even be justified, like claiming that her first word was something more like a first poem, or nonchalantly denying being scared by a horror movie that we just saw had her shrieking in terror.
• Character Catchphrase: "Perhaps... or perhaps not."
• Chewbacca Defense: Goes hand-in-hand with her Feigning Intelligence, including using a lot of profound words to conceal she's not saying anything concrete, using Mathematician's Answers, using Insane Troll Logic to justify her answers, etc. Kusuri gives her the dubious compliment of being second to none at hair-splitting sophistry.
• Chuunibyou: Compared to a lot of chuunis, Uto is relatively subdued, content to present herself as a Wandering Minstrel, with the clothes to match - although she keeps it up all the time, 24/7, regardless of where she is or who she's with. That said, she goes full-on Evil Eye chuuni when Playing Drunk in Chapter 110.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • In Chapter 111, she and Ahko learn about each other's way of life while on a date with Rentarou.
  • In Chapter 158, teaching Himeka how to be abnormal brings up her insecurity about being a Dreadful Musician.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Much like Naddy before her, Uto deconstructs her initial archetype, the philosophical Wandering Minstrel, by not actually being that archetype; she's a Chuunibyou who pretends she's a Wandering Minstrel. On top of that, she keeps undermining her attempts at being philosophical by basically dishing out nothing but Ice Cream Koans.
• Dreadful Musician: She can't play, she can't write lyrics, and she can't sing, but nevertheless, she throws herself into it.
• Early Personality Signs: She claims she was interested in becoming a Wandering Minstrel even as a baby, though being prone to tall tales it's unclear how much of that is true.
• Expository Pronoun: Uses the boku pronoun, and has an androgynous appearance.
• Fangirl: Uto's possession of an ocarina comes from being a fan of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, while her outfit is based on Snufkin from The Moomins.
• Feigning Intelligence: Part and parcel of her chuuni persona. Deftly dodges any challenge to this claim by saying "Perhaps, or perhaps not." (Ironically enough, she's very good at playing with language, it's just she's using that talent on subjects she's not so good with, philosophy and wisdom.)
• Foil: To Ahko. Ahko Hates Being Alone while Uto likes to spend time by herself. Ahko is a Gyaru Girl and dresses the part while Uto's Wandering Minstrel clothes are gender-concealing. Ahko appears constantly cheerful while Uto appears cool and aloof, but both of them have deeper emotions.
• Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies: To the point of nearly falling out of her seat. Naturally, she denies being scared after the film was over.
• Hereditary Hairstyle: If her flashbacks are to be trusted, she's had her father's star-flecked hair from infancy.
• The Hermit: While she gets along well enough with everyone else, Uto also likes to be alone sometimes.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: If nothing else, it helps with giving her the look of a mysterious lone wanderer.
• Ice-Cream Koan: Dispenses these almost every other line. A few have a kind of twisted Cloudcuckoolander logic if you squint, but most are completely meaningless attempts to look profound while not actually answering anything.
• Iconic Item: Her ocarina, which she carries on her belt and often plays (badly).
• Indy Ploy: When a student takes a photo of Himeka without the girl’s knowledge or permission, and refuses to delete it, Uto tells a Seamless Spontaneous Lie about being related to a police officer to get him to back down, threatening legal consequences. Then after the student leaves, she tells Himeka that she made it up on the spot.
• Ironic Name: Uto means World or Wing depending on the Kanji. She fancies herself a traveler, but she's probably never left Japan.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Proclaims to have wisdom gained from her travels, which consists of vague or obvious answers to mundane questions.
• Mathematician's Answer: After telling a troublemaker to back off because she is related to a cop, Himeka asks if that’s true, and Uto says that some relative of her parents or grandparents or cousins, or a relative of a relative, must be a police officer somewhere. Since all humans are related if one goes back far enough, she is related to a cop, indeed to every cop, in the very manner in which she is related to everyone else.
• Mellow Fellow: Aside from her occasional moments of abrupt expressiveness listed below, she almost always affects a lazy expression and mild smile, responding to every occasion with aloof serenity; during the Haunted House arc, she keeps that exact same expression even while Eira has picked her up bodily and is running away in terror. However, it's not that she truly doesn't care; during the second Idol arc, she becomes just as depressed about her lack of talent as everyone else and is the first to suggest stepping aside so as not to burden the others.
• Mutual Envy: Himeka admires Uto's effortless eccentricity, to the point of asking her to be her mentor and thoroughly enjoying the entire process. However, Uto herself envies Himeka's natural talent, even trying to call off the mentorship because compared to Himeka, she's just a 'fraud.'
• Not So Stoic:
  • Uto has the same cool, aloof reaction to practically everything, but she's nonetheless embarrassed by the rather undignified squeak she makes whenever Ahko gets unexpectedly close to her. Chapter 119 is the biggest example of this, as getting groped by "Rentarou" (who was later revealed to be Momiji after switching bodies with him) causes Uto to scream in complete shock and be rendered speechless for a while.
  • She panics when knocked into water because she can't swim.
  • She is really scared of horror movies.
  • Generally speaking, she loses her cool whenever she's surprised.
• Painting the Medium: In the original Japanese, Uto speaks in a distinctive font in chuuni mode, dropping into the regular font when her facade breaks. The initial font the scanlators chose for her looked too similar to the ordinary font for some readers, meaning this part of her gag didn't really come through for them, so they changed her chuuni font to a more distinctive variant (one much like the Asgardians in modern Marvel Comics) from Chapter 163 onwards.
• The Philosopher: Invoked and zigzagged. Uto is committed to presenting herself as a philosophical Wandering Minstrel, with wisdom she's learned in her travels, but a lot of the time she's faking it using Ice Cream Koans.
• Phrase Catcher: "Which is it?", in response to her frequent statements of "Perhaps, perhaps not" and similar.
• Punny Name: Her surname is written with the same kanji (中二) as the "chuuni" part in Chuunibyou.
• Seamless Spontaneous Lie: Makes up a story to convince a classmate to stop stalking Himeka that is so convincing he does exactly what she wants.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: As a part of her bard act, Uto tends to use a lot of complex words.
• Signature Headgear: She wears a minstrel's hat, complete with a feather in the band.
• Super Drowning Skills: She can't swim, and getting plunged into water is one of the things that can make her lose her cool.
• Unreliable Expositor: Uto isn't above making up stuff when talking about her life. When discussing what everyone's first words were, Uto claims she didn't have first words so much as a first poem. A part of chapter 130 has her making increasingly outrageous claims and having to backpedal when she realizes Yamame is believing each and every one.
  Momiji: Smoking out lies not by doubting, but by believing them — mmh, pretty profound.
• Wandering Minstrel: How she initially introduces herself; in truth, it's more what she'd like to be.
• Younger Than They Look: A Downplayed case. She looks as if she could be Rentarou's classmate in High School, but she's only a second year in Junior High, making her two years younger than him. This is more noticeable when comparing her to other Junior High girlfriends like Chiyo or Rin, both of whom she looks older than.

Mai Meido

The Cute Clumsy Maid

Debut: Chapter 101^note She makes various cameos prior to this, but Chapter 101 is when she makes her official debut as a girlfriend.

Another of Hahari's maids who sees Mei as her surrogate older sister. She becomes Rentarou's 20th girlfriend after a botched attempt to break them up.

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• Ambiguously Bi:
  • "Ambiguous" only in the sense her feelings for Mei are framed in terms of Big Sister Worship, akin to certain Yuri Genre works. She's starstruck by Mei, is prone to zoning out around her, thinks about her constantly, and is possessive of her. She longs for Mei and wants to go on dates with her. On the flip side, her feelings for Rentarou ARE genuine even if she insists that she hates him, and she's one of the few girlfriends who often thinks of how physically attractive he is.
  • She absolutely loses it when Rentarou, Iku, and Uto dress up as Pretty Boys, thinking her world's become an otome game.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Much of Mai's clumsiness is due to her being too busy admiring Mei to focus on her work.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Believe it or not, she's this with Mei in one panel during the Zombie Nurse Tag game. She was so enamored by how cool this looks that she misses one of the zombies, although she's saved at the last second by Yaku.
• Big Sister Worship: Her primary trait. Mai and Mei aren't actually related (in spite of her questionable logic suggesting otherwise), but Mai started working part-time at the Hanazonos' estate in order to spend time with her and admires her greatly. Mai and Rentarou get into a full-on competition over who can name more of Mei's endearing qualities.
• The Caretaker: Despite how clumsy she is, Mai is actually a pretty capable caretaker for Momoha. She helps Momoha get back to her tent when the latter is too drunk to do so by herself, cleans Momoha's tent up when it gets too messy, and arrives each morning to check on her. Momoha exploits this in Chapter 170 by getting drunk so Mai will take care of her. Seeing how well Mai watches over her impresses the judges during Mai's exam.
• Character Catchphrase: "My dear sister..."
• Character Development: It takes more chapters than normal for Mai to accept being in love with Rentarou and reconcile with her jealousy towards him for Mei's attention, even after joining the family. Even her first kiss with him required that Rentarou use the fact that he kissed Mei already. Chapter 114 has her bellow all of her feelings in a shouting-your-love contest, declaring her hatred and confusion towards Rentarou before saying she loves him a million times more.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She doesn't like it when anyone gets close to Mei.
• Comically Missing the Point: Her Whole Episode Flashback in Volume 12 reveals that calling Mei her older sister started as a Freudian Slip on her part. Mei was amused by it and said she didn't mind (as in, she wasn't offended), but Mai took this to mean Mei didn't mind being called that and promptly doubled and tripled down.
• Conflicting Loyalty:
  • Mai is heavily conflicted over her love for Mei and her growing love for Rentarou, whom she believes is trying to "steal" Mei from her.
  • As much as Mai adores Mei, she also takes her duties as a maid seriously. When she hears Mei say she views Hakari like a sister, Mai is so torn over her position as Mei's "little sister" being threatened and her loyalty to Hakari that she collapses with a fever.
• Crush Filter: Starts getting hit with this, complete with Bishie Sparkle, the instant she actually sees what Rentarou's face looks like.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Her other primary trait. She's so enamored with Mei that she often zones out in the middle of doing things. And even when she isn't, she's prone to slipping on thin air.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • Chapter 114 is a compare-and-contrast with fellow tsunderes Karane and Kurumi on a date with Rentarou.
  • Chapter 170 charts her attempt to avoid getting sent back home for a year for further maid training after she accidentally applies for bunny girl certification rather than maid certification, with support from Momoha.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Big Sister Worshipper. She worships Mei to the point of becoming a Hanazono maid herself so that she could call her an older sister. However, as a result of her devotion, she is nowhere near as good at her job as Mei is, and her attempts at making the rest of the harem "suitable" friends for Mei fail miserably and earn her scorn from Mei. She's painfully aware that her lack of competence only serves to maintain the distance between the two of them.
• Distinctive Appearances: Has grey hair shading to brown.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Her expression in the chapters before she was revealed to be one of Rentarou's soulmates, hinting at her animosity toward him.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Mai makes numerous background appearances before her proper introduction.
  • She's visible in a shot of Hahari and her maids in Chapter 28.
  • She can be seen looking after Hahari in Chapter 31 when Mei returns to the mansion.
  • She can be seen among Hahari's staff during the "Tsundere Recovery" arc, fussing over Hahari's Horny Nosebleed.
  • She also was the one to bring out the Lie Detector in Chapter 66 before the hot pot party, and she helps set up the sumo ring in the following chapter.
  • She's one of the maids who welcomes Yamame to the Hanazonos' home in Chapter 78.
• Family Business: Mai's family have been maids for so long they've developed customs for the qualification process; they're expected to pass the maid certification after middle school, and failure to do so means returning to the family home to train for the next exam the following year.
• Fangirl: She's a fan of erotic yuri fiction, and has been known to make comparisons to shoujo manga and otome games.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: Mei's backstory would've prevented anyone from her family from knowing about what became of her, so it shouldn't make sense for Mai to be her blood relative.
• Foil: Mei is older, a flawless maid, and devoted to her masters. Mai is younger, a cute clumsy Maid, and devoted to Mei especially. Mei's devotion compels her to go above and beyond in the name of duty, while Mai's devotion distracts her from her duty. Mei is an Extreme Doormat, while Mai knows full well what she wants, and takes action to get it.
• French Maid: She's obviously the more assertive maid in Rentarou's family, even if she isn't quite dressed the part.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She tries to sabotage Rentarou's relationship with Mei due to seeing him as unfit to be dating her.
• Haughty Help: Her arrogance, fueled by her idolization of Mei, leads her to consider anyone outside the Hanazonos' employ to be undeserving of Mei's attention. She does get better about this as the series progresses.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: She hates how her incompetence messes things up, and how it maintains the distance between herself and Mei.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Mai is well aware of how clumsy and incompetent she is, so she acts prideful in an attempt to hide it.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy. Mai is willing to forfeit her spot as Mei's "little sister" if she believes someone else deserves it more than her.
• Legacy of Service: Her grandmother was the previous head maid of the Hanazono residence.
• Love at First Sight: Like Mei, a delayed variant. While they'd met before, Mai hated Rentarou so much that she deliberately avoided looking at his face until he caught her during a pratfall. The instant they make eye contact... ZING!!
• Love Makes You Dumb: Mai's adoration of Mei seems to be the main source of her clumsiness. She frequently messes up when she's thinking about Mei, but becomes much more capable if she isn't thinking about her.
• Meaningful Name: Her given name literally means "little sister".
• Meido: Went straight from junior high to live-in maid.
• Metaphorically True: She considers maids who serve the same master to be sisters, though that might just be a rationalization.
• Mood-Swinger: She ranges between 1) admiring Mei, 2) hating/wanting to hate Rentarou, and 3) being hopelessly in love with him. At a breaking point, she'll blurt out literally everything she’s really thinking about Rentarou in detail before backpedaling.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: She despises Rentarou for dating her older colleague Mei, who she views as her older sister. Considering her own romantic feelings for the boy, her protests are never acknowledged.
• "Not So Different" Remark: After her Rage Quit from trying to train the girls as maids, Kurumi and Chiyo explain that they had their own initial trouble getting acclimated to the harem for similar reasons to Mai, who also had her own struggles with her own training as a maid.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted; her family name can be read the same as Mei's, even if they're not written with the same kanji.
• Phrase Catcher: "I have no younger sister" whenever Mei's in earshot. If she isn't, expect an editorial note going "She has no older sister" in the closest margin.
• Playboy Bunny: In Chapter 170, Mai inadvertently signs up to get official certification as a bunny girl, and ends up passing.
• The Pratfall: A recurring gag is Mai falling down, Rentarou catching her, and Mai seething and swooning at the same time.
• Punny Name: Her family name is pronounced "meido" despite using different kanji than Mei's, while "Mai" sounds like "my" in English, highlighting her mildly possessive attitude towards Mei. "Mai" also contains the first three letters of the English word "maid", much like Mei's name shares the first syllable.
• Relationship Sabotage: She attempts this on Rentarou and Mei in Chapter 101 by pouring a layer of salt on the sugar being used to make a cake.
• Rule of Cool: Notices that one of her panels has such a cool pose that she wants to buy a copy of the magazine so she can make a copy of it and put it in a picture frame. The volume release adds a footnote saying she also bought the volume and kept it in mint condition, with shrink wrapping and everything.
• Significant Birth Date: September 6th, Younger Sister's Day.
• Significant Hair Cut: A short comic drawn by Nozawa reveals that Mai used to keep her hair much longer, and cut it to its current length so she and Mei would match. She only realized the next day that Mei actually ties her long hair back, but by that point the damage was done.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Played with. She works as a maid but is by far the most stuck-up person in the cast, acting more like an Ojou than her mistress, Hakari.
• Third-Person Person: Talks like this in the original Japanese, emphasizing her ego and immaturity.
• Threesome Subtext: She's one of Rentarou's girlfriends and clearly head over heels for him despite her protests, but her excessive adoration of Mei definitely reads like she's in love with her too.
• Tsundere: The contrast is arguably even more stark than Karane. On the surface, she treats Rentarou with disdain and envy. On the inside, she's head over heels for him. Chapter 114 outright calls her a tsundere along with Karane and Kurumi.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Chapter 170 suggests she's this for her grandmother, wanting to show her she's improved.
• Whole Episode Flashback: Volume 12's bonus chapter jumps back to when Mai first started working at the Hanazonos' as an apprentice maid under Mei.
• Yandere: A toned-down variant towards Mei. Mai does not appreciate Rentarou cozying up to her declared sister and tries to shake Mei's faith in him, then resorts to ineffective physical violence when that fails.

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