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Hakari Hanazono

The Love Freak First Girl

Voiced by: Reina Ueda (Japanese, voice drama), Kaede Hondo (Japanese, anime), Sarah Wiedenheft (English, anime)

Debut: Chapter 1 / Episode 1

One of the first two girlfriends alongside Karane. The daughter of a wealthy family, she is absolutely infatuated with Rentarou and wastes no chance to show it to him. Or to seduce him, for that matter.

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• Belligerent Sexual Tension: She and Karane are constantly shown to have a mutual attraction, though both for one reason or another tend to deny it. A bit of a Running Gag for Hakari is that anytime she does something to assert her true love, like take a drug that makes you want to kiss/attack your true love or brag while blindfolded she can tell her true love just by kissing them, she will inevitably end up proving that, unconsciously at least, she considers Karane to be just as much her true love as Rentarou.
• Big-Breast Pride: Very proud. When Rentarou asks around about Meme, Hakari asserts her estimation that Meme is around her own bust size while taunting Karane over it. Which makes it a bitter pill to swallow when it turns out Meme is even larger.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She gets miffed if Karane gets close to anyone outside of Rentarou.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Tries to be this to Hahari, though she rarely succeeds on-panel. Still, the dynamic is well-established enough that in another chapter, Iku's imitation of her is enough to snap Hahari back to her senses.
• Covert Pervert: Likes to show a prim and proper image, but in private, she's very physical in her affection and not ashamed of it. Another notable trait inherited from her mother. The covert part is almost nonexistent later in the series, as her perverted habits become well-known among everyone.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • After debuting in Chapter 1, she gets more attention in Chapters 15 and 16, when her mother holds her prisoner in their home until the conflict is resolved.
  • In Chapter 78, she tries to get Yamame to appreciate how sexy she is.
  • Chapter 103 has Hakari's desires in overdrive after watching a movie with a racy scene in it, and she spends the entire chapter trying to find ways around Rentarou's Celibate Hero mindset.
  • Chapter 143 sees her convincing Mei to let her help her after she exhausts herself looking after Mai, because they're family who grew up together.
• Deadpan Snarker: At either Karane or Hahari's expense. Sometimes insincerely, sometimes blunt like a bat (mostly Hahari.)
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Being closer to Rentarou on their Crash-Into Hello, she is technically the First Girl, and unlike how the first girl tends to be an overly perfect person with little personality, Hakari is one of the most aggressively sexual and devious girls, possibly because she wants to cement her "claim" ahead of the others. At the same time, she's ruled by her feelings to the point that she doesn't understand them, and her mother couldn't help her with that.
• Disappeared Dad: Her father died from a terminal illness shortly before she was born.
• Driven to Suicide: Is willing to jump to her death if she can never see Rentarou again. Fortunately, it doesn't come to that.
• Easily Embarrassed Youngster: Hakari is frequently embarrassed by her mother Hahari's perversions.
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • She flirtatiously pretends to have hurt her leg from the Crash-Into Hello with Rentarou, and later tries to get an Indirect Kiss from Rentarou by making blatant excuses about why she can't drink an entire can of juice. This establishes her as a seductive Covert Pervert.
  • The reason she and Karane are introduced at the same time is to make it clear that most of the annoying harem clichés will be averted, as they both accept the idea of sharing Rentarou instantly, as well as letting other girls in.
• Everyone Has Standards: Hakari is a shameless pervert when it comes to Rentarou, but she does have her limits.
  • She's horrified upon seeing an Imagine Spot with Chiyo tied up, stating that showing a young girl in such a position isn't legal.
  • She's frequently disgusted by her mother's even more perverted antics.
  • She doesn't mind being nude around Rentarou but prefers it to be planned. When her bra suddenly pops off in the middle of the rooftop she's mortified.
  • She doesn't want to go commando because she'd be disturbed by it.
• Expository Pronoun: Watashi, rather than the more casual and feminine atashi.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Played With. Rentarou being who he is, he's affectionate towards Hakari either way. But any attempts she makes to seduce him or just get his attention on her own terms are always doomed to fail. Typically because Rentarou is too clever or too pure to fall for her tricks. She's fully aware that the manga itself would never allow her to win, to the point where she hallucinates beating him in a sumo match and stripping naked to glomp him.
• The Fake Cutie: A benign example, as while Hakari is a nice person overall, she deliberately makes herself seem cute and innocent to make it easier to seduce Rentarou. In truth, she's a schemer with a really high sex drive.
• Flowers of Femininity: One of her key motifs, to the point where her trademark Idea Bulb is a flower doodle. She wears flowers in her hair, and her family name even translates as "flower garden". In fact, she initially bonded with Yamame over advice on how to care better for her flowers.
• Foil:
  • She's all feelings, in contrast to Nano's rational viewpoint.
  • Her tender attitude and cunning nature are a contrast to Karane's rudeness and bashful dishonesty.
  • While Hakari and Hahari are both lustful, Hakari is comparatively more restrained in whom she targets, how many she targets, and what she'll do to them, and takes a dim view of her mother's childish and depraved behavior.
• Forgotten First Meeting: She and her mother met a kindergarten-age Momiji at a moon bounce, and cemented Momiji's love of touching soft things.
• Friendless Background: Implied. From what we've seen of her mother before she met Rentarou, and her mentioning studying up on what boys tend to like, it's suggested that her mother didn't let her meet any boys growing up out of fear of her repeating the mistakes she made in her own life.
• Generation Xerox: While she may demonstrate slightly more restraint than her mother, Hakari is shown to be very much Hahari's daughter in numerous ways. Hakari is someone highly influenced by her emotions to the point she's willing to do reckless things to be with Rentarou, something Hahari knew was a familial trait hence her initially wanting Rentarou to stay away from Hakari out of fear she'd follow in her mother's footsteps, only to drive Hakari to nearly kill herself. Many Hypocritical Humor moments are had over Hakari chastising her mother's blatant perversion, only for Hahari herself to lampshade Hakari's behavior being nearly as bad immediately after. Kusuri invokes this during Chapter 91 by having Hakari tend to Chiyo as a mother would a child, wanting to "awaken Hahari's blood flowing through those veins, yep yep!", and while Hakari said she never wants to end up like her mother, she quickly ends up mimicking Hahari, both Kusuri and Hahari looking on in approval.
• Goroawase Number: Her birthday is June 22nd, which can be read as mu (6) fu (2) fu (2), or in English, "mwehehe".
• Heroic Bastard: It's never commented on or brought up after Hahari's appearance and past, but Hakari's parents were never married despite being in love. Justified since Hahari and "Father-in-law" were only 13^note Meaning they can't legally wed, as the legal marriage age in Japan for a male and female has to be 18 and 16 respectively., with the latter dying from a terminal illness and the former going through an impulsive decision of getting an IVF so they could be a family after his death.
• Heroic BSoD: During the sumo tournament, Hakari takes an aphrodisiac that reduces her to a giggling, drooling mess due to sheer horniness.
• Hypocritical Humor: Hakari sometimes calls Karane a pervert, even though Hakari herself is one of the most perverted characters in the series.
• I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Is not afraid to use her assets to get Rentarou to do what she wants. Hell, she is so sexually aggressive that not only does she not care about Rentarou touching her breasts, but she actively enjoys it.
• Jerkass to One: Hakari is usually polite and kind to everyone, with two exceptions: her mother Hahari, due to Hahari's perverted antics embarrassing or disgusting her, and Karane, whom Hakari frequently teases or insults. She can be pretty vicious to both too, mentally thinking Hahari wearing their school uniform as her "freedom outfit" makes her look like a cheap prostitute while everyone else is touched by the sentiment behind it, and regularly needling Karane's insecurities over her chest and self-loathing of her tsundere traits.
• Leg Focus: Hakari's legs are noticeably thicker than the other girls', especially her thighs, with many shots highlighting them. She deliberately keeps her skirt short to show off her legs as part of her sex appeal. She also has a beauty mark on the back of her right thigh near the top.
• Living Emotional Crutch:
  • Rentarou is this for her as a result of her deep infatuation and being tied to him as his soulmate. When her mother intends to separate them, Hakari is more than willing to end her life there.
  • She was this to her mother Hahari, as her existence saved the latter from the despair caused by the death of her father.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Of a different sort than her mother, but no less intense. She is very pervy and has an insanely high libido, prompting her to constantly try and seduce Rentarou but failing due to his chastity. Chapter 103 in particular demonstrates that, when practically in heat, she is willing to go to extreme lengths to try and get Rentarou to pleasure her, from trying to remove his belt buckle while her head is between his legs, to getting Mei and Mai to lock them in an equipment room while blasting cold air as she strips naked to initiate Intimate Healing. She very nearly considers raping him after he knocks himself out and she sees him with an erection, only to not go through with it and just settle for cuddling him, not wanting to betray Rentarou's honest sincerity. The ending blurb even lampshades this by asking "What would Hakari be if she wasn't horny?"
• Love Freak: Not as bad as Rentarou (which says nothing at all, it's a high bar), but it seems that anything he does will make her swoon over him no matter how over the top.
• Made of Iron: Or at least has a high pain tolerance. She is only slightly injured from getting hit square in the chest with a baseball, and recovers in seconds, despite it going fast and despite getting hit in the chest being almost as painful for girls as getting hit in the balls is for guys.
• Manipulative Bitch: Is not above manipulating people to get what she wants. She loves making plans and schemes to get her way.
• Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration:
  • Referenced. It's repeatedly shown that Hakari's body is... unusually sensitive, which the volume 5 extras attribute to her "daily pursuit of knowledge".
  • She and Momoha bond over learning they both have a lot of experience with "solo stuff".
  • While competing against a gamer in Chapter 121, the narration attributes the dexterity of her fingers to "mwehehe practice".
  • Mei's flashback in Chapter 143 has a younger Hakari explaining that rubbing your groin on the corner of a table gives you fuzzy feelings inside.
• Meaningful Name: "Hakari" is pronounced the same as the Japanese word for calculating or scheming, alluding to her manipulative tendencies.
• Ms. Fanservice:
  • The Shameless Fanservice Girl version; she does not hesitate to use her assets to conquer Rentarou.
  • In the anime, her breasts are remarkably mobile even though she's usually wearing a bra.
• Nice Girl: Don't let her lustful, perverted demeanor fool you; Hakari is still a kind, caring girl who is willing to get along with the other members of Rentaro's harem. One example of this would be offering to let Kusuri take her spot alongside Rentaro in the group photo in Episode 9, even though it was initially her dream.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: As alike as she and her mother are in their feelings towards Rentarou, Hakari regularly gets creeped out at Hahari's questionable fantasies towards both him and the other girlfriends.
• Perverted Sniffing: Hakari engages in this sometimes, such as when she wore Rentarou's jersey after he gave it to her or pretended to trip into him while she was in Uto's body.
• Phrase Catcher: "A perfect plan as always, Hakari!" and variants thereof.
• Pink Is Erotic: Has pink hair and is much more willing to act on her perverted tendencies to attract Rentarou.
• Potty Failure: While it hasn't happened directly, Hakari is wary of this happening when she laughs too hard. The translation dubs it 'ecsta-pee'.
• Proud Beauty: Not only is she proud of her breasts, but she loves it when Rentarou gropes them.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has pink hair with flower decorations on it and is genuinely sweet to Rentarou and the other girls. But uh... It's more of a cultivated image that she uses to achieve her goals. She's more cunning and manipulative than the usual example.
• Schemer: Hakari is always thinking of schemes to get intimate with Rentarou.
• Selective Obliviousness: Hakari thinks she's been keeping up the image of a "pure and innocent lady" all this time, and that Rentarou would be surprised if she dropped the act. Nano, who happens to be with her when she mentions this, is bemused.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She has no issue with Rentarou groping her whatsoever, accidentally or purposefully.
• Shipping Torpedo: During the ending sequence of Episode 11, she can be seen showing disapproval of her mother gushing over Rentarou.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: To Karane, and it's Hakari who instigates it. She gets a kick out of poking fun at Karane's bust size or taking advantage of her Tsundere nature to rile her up.
• Someone to Remember Him By: She was conceived because Hahari wanted to have children with her dying boyfriend.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Her mother subjects her to this trope when she finds out about Rentarou's other girlfriends. It doesn't last long, though.
• Stealth Insult: Usually towards Karane concerning her A-Cup Angst, while still maintaining an innocent and dignified tone.
• The Strategist: Often becomes one in the various goofy competitions the girls get into, with varying amounts of foresight and success.
• Stripperific: Her idea of a "freedom outfit" is a ribbon wound around her body to hide her private parts and melted chocolate hearts painted on her bare skin.
• Threesome Subtext: While she is very close and friendly with the other girlfriends when it comes to her feelings for Karane, they are often shown to be just as strong and sexual in nature as her feelings for Rentarou. You can bet anytime she gets close to or kisses Rentarou she will also inevitably have a similar experience or kiss with Karane. Unlike Rentarou though, Hakari is shown to get jealous if Karane gets close to anyone else.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Karane's Tomboy. She uses her generous figure and cultivated charm to try and seduce Rentarou into letting her have her way with him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Karane - any given ensemble chapter will probably show them snarking or even outright insulting each other.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Downplayed. While she's one of the more lustful girls in the harem, even she has shown disgust at her mother's perverted behavior.
• Weight Woe: Hakari is shown to be rather sensitive about her weight at times. Karane picked up on this and sometimes insults Hakari by making cracks at her weight.
• What You Are in the Dark: In Chapter 103, an especially lustful Hakari has a chance to do whatever she wants to an unconscious Rentarou without anyone finding out, but Hakari respects Rentarou's wish not to do anything sexual and settles for hugging and kissing him instead.

Karane Inda

The Tsundere

Voiced by: Haruka Shiraishi (Japanese, voice drama), Miyu Tomita (Japanese, anime), Ariel Graham (English, anime)

Debut: Chapter 1 / Episode 1

One of the first two girlfriends alongside Hakari, a tsundere at heart due to her feelings of inadequacy but cannot deny how much she's in love with Rentarou.

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• Action Girl: Quite capable in a fight, easily holding the line against the leader of the Gorilla Alliance, a huge and beefy woman.
• A-Cup Angst: Confesses to Rentarou that she worries that he cares more for Hakari or Nano than her because she's flat-chested and they're stacked by comparison. Rentarou assures her that nothing of the sort is the case. It's still a recurring source of anxiety for her afterwards, but it's more about her own self-image than how she thinks Rentarou will take it. Chapter 171 emphasizes the point by revealing about half of the girls have smaller cup sizes than her - this is about how she feels about herself, not about wanting to have bigger boobs than others.
• Alliterative Family: Most everyone in Karane's family has a name beginning with "kara": Karana (her mom), Karahiko (her dad), Karano (her sister), Karato (her brother)...
• Anger Born of Worry: She becomes extremely livid with Hakari after the girl's near-suicide attempt.
• Apologetic Attacker: Usually after hurting Rentarou by accident or based on a misunderstanding, Karane switches to dere-mode and profusely apologizes against his chest as he comforts her. (Usually with blood running down his face.)
• Appearance Angst: Played for drama at first. Karane is insecure enough about her body type that she brings a raincoat to a spa. She even thinks less of herself compared to Shizuka, who has a similar build to her but believes she has a cuteness factor that she doesn't. Rentarou finds her appealing anyway, and she manages to get over it.
• Audience Surrogate: Serves this role through her reactions to the insane events throughout the manga.
• Bad Liar: She might be better at it if she didn't constantly say something along the lines of "It's not like I did this 'cause I care about you or anything!"
• Badass Arm-Fold: Does one after taking the cape off a Gorilla Alliance member.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: She and Hakari are typically at each other's throats, but are shown to be attracted to one another more than they realize or would like to admit.
• Best Friend: It's not clear if it's something she just says in the heat of the moment or not, but when faced with Ahko's old friends dismissing the way they treat her and continuing to say nasty things about her, she declares she's Ahko's BFF now, and Ahko very much appreciates it.
• Bullying a Dragon: Downplayed. Karane makes it clear that she doesn't just assault anybody for no good reason, and only responds to teasing with yelling. It's only when someone gets too physically touchy for her (like Marshmallow Hell for example) to tolerate that she throttles them.
• Bust-Contrast Duo: Forms this with Hakari and Meme, but in different ways.
  • Karane’s A-Cup Angst is contrasted with the former’s Big-Breast Pride.
  • With the latter, however, it’s contrasted with her D-Cup Distress. An extra page in Volume 11 even shows them having a Shared Dream with their bust sizes swapped.
• Butt-Monkey: Hakari and the narrative itself love reminding Karane that she has a flat chest. And the other girlfriends' antics test her sanity and dignity in nearly every chapter.
• Covert Pervert: Far more covert than Hakari or her mother.
  • When the decision has been made to peep on Rentarou in the bath, she immediately caves before they can even try convincing her, claiming she doesn't want to fall behind the others. And definitely not because she was interested in his body or anything.
  • She will vehemently deny any attraction to Hakari, but then blush furiously whenever the other girl gets intimate or anywhere close to her. She also uses A-Cup Angst-style jealousy to hide the fact she has a large breast fetish.
  • When Hakari's desires are out of control, Karane explains that it happened after the two of them and Nano watched a movie with an adult scene in it. It then flashes back to Nano's perspective after said movie, showing that Karane was out of commission in exactly the same way.
• Cursed with Awesome:
  • Her Tsundere-ness causes her no shortage of angst, both comical and non-comical. It's also revealed to be the source of her unusual strength and what makes up her strong will.
  • She oh-so wishes she had massive breasts like Hakari or other girls who're gifted with them, but on the plus side, her slim figure means she's far less likely to succumb to fatigue and cramps like them in more physically active areas, like dancing for idol practice.
• Cute Little Fangs: As befitting her tsundere nature. They're visible whenever she's agitated.
• Cuteness Proximity: Karane usually tries to be serious and the voice of reason, but put a cute enough baby in front of her and she'll quickly start gushing over how cute they are.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • Chapters 48-50 follow what happens after she loses her tsundere nature thanks to one of Kusuri's drugs.
  • In Chapter 92, she discovers what Ahko's old friends put her through, which gets her to declare that Ahko's her friend now.
  • Chapter 114 is a compare-and-contrast with fellow tsunderes Kurumi and Mai on a date with Rentarou.
  • In Chapter 144, she and Rentarou unexpectedly meet her family.
• Deadpan Snarker: If something out of the ordinary happens (Which is ordinary in this series) and Karane is there, expect her to snark at it.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Acting like a tsundere means she has difficulty expressing her feelings properly; the Lie Detector is a notable example of this as she is lying not on whether or not she loves Rentarou but about how much she loves Rentarou. (She then immediately complains that the machine destroyed her self-esteem, which said machine registers as true.) It also makes everyone freak out when she gets angry, as they think she'll slap someone, despite her having more control over her emotions than that. Chapter 144 reveals that she’s also afraid of her child being a tsundere like her, since not only are her parents and grandparents also tsundere, but so are her sister’s children.
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Karane has a hard time controlling her strength, even when she's trying to be affectionate.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Overall Zigzagged, depending on Rule of Funny. While she has something of a Hair-Trigger Temper and can hit Rentarou over tiny misunderstandings, she's also quick to apologize when things are cleared up. On the other hand, one chapter casually mentions she put him in a full-body cast at least once.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In the earlier chapters, Karane had a decently sized bust that made her A-Cup Angst seem unwarranted. Later chapters would make her bust smaller so her angst would be more justified.
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • She flusteredly mimics Hakari's charade of hurting her leg from the Crash-Into Hello with Rentarou, and later fights up gratitude when Rentarou buys her a drink after school. This establishes her as a Tsundere.
  • She shares one with Hakari; their willingness to share Rentarou immediately shows that the girls won't be jealous of one another in this series.
• Expository Pronoun: Watashi, rather than the more casual atashi or the more masculine boku.
• Expressive Accessory: Her hair ties sometimes reflect her mood, drooping when she's upset or sticking straight up when she's excited or mad.
• Foil:
  • Her honesty and directness to Hakari's tenderness and habit of keeping secrets.
  • Her straightforward attitude to Shizuka's shyness.
• Friendless Background: Implied. Considering the fact that everyone in her family is a Tsundere, it’s safe to assume that she was reluctant to make friends before she met Rentarou out of fear of how she’d act around them.
• Goroawase Number: Her birthday is September 9th (i.e. the 9th day of the 9th month), with nine (9) referencing "nainda kara ne" ("It's not like...").
• Heroic Willpower: Or rather "Tsundere factor". Karane's physical strength is tied to her will, as the harem finds out when she takes Kusuri's Tsundere Un-Maker drug. Without the parts that make her a tsundere, she's too weak to even beat Kusuri at sumo or harm Iku. Later on, Rentarou realizes that it takes every ounce of her will just to say "I love you".
• Hidden Depths:
  • Is more well-rounded than most tsunderes. She doesn't physically attack anyone at the drop of a hat without a good reason. Furthermore, she's actually so ashamed of being a tsundere that she takes an "anti-tsundere" drug and protests to reverse the process.
  • Chapter 88 reveals that she has a talent for making cookies.
  • Ironically, she's been shown to be one of the more emotionally perceptive characters and has repeatedly noticed when one of the other girls has been hiding their feelings about something.
• Honorary True Companion: While she had only joined them to use the Loophole Abuse of fighting them under the guise of "training", Karane is still considered an honorary member of the Gorilla Alliance. This doesn't come up too often, but it is acknowledged in Chapter 92, specifically when Ahko's old friends accidentally insult the Gorilla Alliance,^*They were calling Karane "Gorilla Skank" and kicked a can, hitting one of the Alliance's bikes and making them think they were the insult target and the leader is initially willing to let them go when she thinks they're friends with Karane, since she "can't be coming down on the pals of a comrade".
• Insecure Love Interest: It has been demonstrated several times that being a tsundere means Karane has little self-esteem, and Chapter 144 explains that, since her whole family is like that, she worries she would pass the trait on to any children she may have, and as such believes that Rentarou would not want to stay with her (despite him having already established himself as loving every eccentricity of each one of his girlfriends). However, when Rentarou lays out his intention to Marry Them All, to make sure it's what everyone wants, what would make them happiest, Karane decides to get the others talking about their dreams for marriage so Rentarou can confirm what she already knew - all of them would rather have a collective marriage than an individual two-person marriage. She may be insecure when it comes to herself, but if it's the whole harem, then it's another matter.
• It Runs in the Family: Chapter 144 reveals that everyone in her family is a Tsundere. In the span of 2 pages, Rentarou is introduced to four generations of Inda and each and every one of them, from the eldest of elders to the babyest of babies, is greeting Rentarou with some form of "It's not like I'm glad to meet you." They also look very similar, sharing the same sharp eyes.
• Lacerating Love Language: Karane routinely expresses affection by attacking Rentarou in some way, ranging from jamming food into his face to outright slugging him. She mentions at one point that she once put him in a full-body cast in a fit of embarrassment.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase:
  • "It's not like I'm X or anything!"
  • "...the X of a wealthy family."
    • In the official English translation, it's "...rich person's X."
    • In the English dub: "That's a rich person's X alright."
• Muscles Are Meaningless: She's a slender petite young girl, and strong enough to toss people like softballs. Instead her strength comes from her tsundere nature; when she's under the effects of a tsundere unmaker drug she's Brought Down to Normal, and when affected by a body-swapping drug whoever's in her body isn't nearly as strong as she normally is.
• Not So Above It All: She tries to be above the harem's activities, only to cave in at the last minute. Or even before the last minute.
• Only Sane Man: Other than Rentarou, she is most likely to object to wacky hijinks, such as when Hahari encourages the other girls to spy on Rentarou in the bath (which she goes along with anyway).
• Perpetual Frowner: Usually, even in group shots where every other girl is smiling (or at worst flat-faced). Her smiling, much less laughing, is seen as a very rare gem.
• Punny Name: Her full name sounds like the end part of "Suki janai-n dakara ne", a very typical tsundere phrase meaning "It's not like I like you or anything!"
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: While this trope is par for the course for most Tsunderes, it’s shown that she hates herself for being one, and because It Runs in the Family, she fears that any children she has will have to live with being a Tsundere.
• Straight Man: Something that the family and manga itself lampshades and pokes fun about. Even Kurumi admits that she's second to Karane regarding this.
• Stronger Than They Look: Slim as she is, Karane's gone toe-to-toe with the Gorira Alliance's leader (who can stop a truck), nearly broke Rentarou's back with a bear hug, and sent Iku flying hundreds of feet onto a speeding car with a baseball bat. Rentarou believes her strength is tied to her force of will, seeing as she loses it after drinking Kusuri's "tsundere unmaker" drug.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Karane often says, "It's not like I," before saying what she's thinking or doing, which also makes her a Bad Liar.
• Threesome Subtext: While she is friendly with the other girlfriends when it comes to her feelings for Hakari, they are often shown to be just as strong and sexual in nature as her feelings for Rentarou. You can bet anytime she gets close to or kisses Rentarou she will also inevitably have a similar experience or kiss with Hakari.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Hakari's Girly Girl. She shows off incredible strength for her appearance, and her comparatively masculine build causes her immense embarrassment. The English Dub adds to this with her using terms like "Dude" and "Bro".
• Tsundere: Her defining trait. Usually a mild form of tsun in daily life (mostly shown in her honest, rude opinions) but the dere comes out rather easily when Rentarou gets in a serious mood. (The first title sequence has even her writing be tsundere.)
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Hakari - any given ensemble chapter will probably show them snarking or even outright insulting each other.
• What If the Baby Is Like Me: Downplayed in that the baby is currently hypothetical, but Karane worries that Rentarou would think that any child they have together would be tsundere like her and her family, and that would make him re-think marrying or having children with her.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Karane often performs wrestling moves when she attacks someone (usually Rentarou), from real ones like the German suplex to fictional ones like the Kinniku Buster.

Shizuka Yoshimoto

The Cute Mute Bookworm

Voiced by: Manaka Iwami (Japanese, voice drama), Maria Naganawa (Japanese, anime), Sara Ragsdale (English, anime)

Debut: Chapter 3 / Episode 3

A tiny classmate and book lover who becomes Rentarou's 3rd girlfriend after bonding over their shared passion for romance novels.

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• Abusive Parents: Her mother at one point screamed at her because she wouldn't speak aloud, not realizing that she was only pushing her further into her Elective Mute situation.
• Accidental Pervert:
  • She accidentally sees Rentarou naked while trying to stop the other girls from doing so.
  • She notices Meme hiding under Mei's dress and lifts the skirt up to call her out... only for Meme to disappear, leaving her looking at Mei's underwear. They're both very embarrassed about it.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Downplayed. She's introduced at the end of the second episode in the anime while in the manga she's introduced at the beginning of the following chapter.
• Animal Motifs:
  • She has a slight one with rabbits thanks to her innocent cuteness and size. She gains actual bunny ears more than once, courtesy of Kusuri's drugs, and starts thumping her foot like an angry rabbit while Playing Drunk.
  • She has also been compared to a squirrel on more than one occasion. Particularly when she's eating and her cheeks puff up.
• Balloonacy: She doesn't need balloons to float; she's so small and light that she can be swept into the air by holding onto a towel or lifted by a strong enough breeze.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: So beautiful that combining it with Kusuri's super-sensitive-to-cuteness drug causes people to be blown away into Yamcha craters by her singing.
• Big Brother/Sister Instinct: Rentarou's girlfriends and Rentarou himself are extremely protective of Shizuka. When Jurassic High's baseball team makes her cry to secure a win, everyone kicks into high gear to utterly demolish them.
• Competence Zone: Due to her looks, she is often treated like a small child despite being the same age as Rentarou.
• Covert Pervert: While Shizuka was the only member of the group at the time who refused to peep on Rentarou, there are hints that she secretly harbors deeper desires.
  • When Hahari had Nano crossdress as a prince, Shizuka drooled while taking pictures of Nano, something normally done by Hahari.
  • In Chapter 56, where Rentarou's dreams are based on the person whose lap he's sleeping on, he sleeps on Shizuka's lap, only to force himself awake when his dream with her was about to get sexual. The only other people he did this with were Hakari and Hahari, the most aggressively sexual girls in the group.
  • While sumo wrestling with Rentarou, Shizuka tries to put in a serious effort when she realizes she can do "more" with Rentarou if she wins. Granted, she was under the effects of an aphrodisiac at the time.
• Curtains Match the Window: Once her hair color finally stabilized, she ended up with blue hair and eyes.
• Cute Bookworm: Her defining trait. Loves fantasy romance books with a passion, particularly Circlet Love Story.
• Cute Mute: She's not physically mute, as other characters can speak in her body when using the mind-swapping drug, but she has selective mutism.
• The Cutie: Shizuka is one of the sweetest and most innocent members of the family.
• Dark Horse Victory: She's the one who catches the bouquet, due to having been swept into the air by the breeze, and so caught it in the middle of a fight. She's also the only one to walk in on Rentarou in the bath, her reaction to which was immense embarrassment.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • In Chapter 90, she and Rentarou attend a signing with the author of Circlet Love Story.
  • Chapters 134-135 have Rentarou discovering her strained relationship with her mother.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Being almost mute caused most people to find her creepy and not associate with her, such that she had no friends before meeting Rentarou, and social interaction terrifies her, making her even more reluctant to speak, and so on. And considering how her mother treated her, any self-esteem she had would have dissipated long ago. Rentarou and his girlfriends are the first people to be kind to her at all.
• Disappeared Dad: Chapter 135 reveals that Shizuka's father is always working and is almost never in Japan, meaning she was largely raised by her mother.
• The Dragalong: In the literal sense when she tried to stop baby Yamane from climbing a ladder on the roof in chapter 84.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She first appears in Chapter 1 behind Rentarou right before his Crash-Into Hello with Hakari and Karane; Episode 1 substitutes it by having her in Rentarou's high school entrance ceremony.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Her hair color fluctuated in some of the earlier colored illustrations, ranging from green to brown, before settling with a dark blue.
• Elective Mute:
  • Shizuka prefers to let her books do the talking for her; she only uses her own voice when really pushed, or pushing herself to do it, and her soft speech and stutter don't help things. She has no trouble singing, but was reluctant to do it in public until Chapter 38.
  • She seems to have the ability to "speak" with her phone even in circumstances where she physically shouldn't be able to. Asleep, in the middle of being tickled, a brainwashed zombie, etc.
• Expository Pronoun: Watashi when using her own voice, otherwise the pronouns of whatever she's quoting.
• Fairytale Motifs: Invoked. She tends to imagine Rentarou as her knight or prince, and herself as his princess. (Her assigned fairytale in the Fairy Tale Free-for-All, however, is Thumbelina, where the heroine isn't a princess.)
• Forgot I Couldn't Swim: She tries to save Rentarou and Hakari when the duo falls into the Hanazono family pool... and nearly drowns due to being unable to swim, forcing Kusuri to save her.
• Friendless Background: Was afraid of even talking to others, let alone befriending them.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Averted. Rentarou points out she's never expressed any desire to be like everyone else, and given the opportunity to do so, she doesn't bring it up, instead talking about the things she loves as a way of expressing she likes her life as it is now.
• Karmic Jackpot: When a bunch of the other girls are planning to peep on Rentarou in the bath, Shizuka is the only one to try to stop them. She gets tied up in a blanket for her trouble... but somehow manages to roll into the bathroom by accident. She ends up being the only girl to see Rentarou naked, while everyone else gets caught because of her intrusion.
• Kiddie Kid: She's not excessively childish like Kusuri, but despite being 15-years-old, Shizuka has no issue engaging in childish activities like playing with dolls.
• Mad Libs Dialogue: If her books don't have a passage that can convey her thoughts verbatim, she'll splice different passages together (along with names as necessary) to form statements of varying coherency.
• Meaningful Name: Her given name Shizuka means "quiet" (referring to how quiet she is in general), while the characters for her family name translate as "a good book" (due to her being a Cute Bookworm).
• Messy Hair: It looks a bit unkempt, but it's just naturally curly. When Chiyo straightens her hair, Shizuka's attempts to keep it that way quickly turn into something resembling Whack-a-Mole.
• Negatives as a Positive: While on a mission to rescue Hakari, Rentarou and the girls are attacked by the dog of a wealthy family. Shizuka is too tiny and weak to escape with the others, but she's so tiny and weak that the dog falls back on instincts to protect weaker creatures over guarding its own territory. Rentarou and the others cheer her on for being so weak.
• Nice Girl: Shizuka is a helpful sweetheart, something evident even with her trouble with speaking. Even while Playing Drunk, the most belligerent she can manage to be is reading books while lying on her back.
• Older Than They Look: She's a teenager, but her looks, naïveté, and willingness to play a doll game with Kusuri make that easy to forget.
• One of the Kids: Only unlike Kusuri, she doesn't have the brain chemistry of an actual child as an explanation.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In particularly dire situations, Shizuka will talk with her actual voice instead of her phone, such as when she believed she cost the team a baseball game.
• Pathetically Weak: There are quite a number of jokes about how weak Shizuka is, from being so light that a strong gust of wind can blow her away, to being so weak that she gets dragged away by Yamame while the latter was a baby.
• Photographic Memory: Shizuka uses book text to "speak". By Rentarou's observation, this means that she's able to recall the passages of a book so well that she can flip to the page she wants (later scroll to the passage in the app she wants) immediately. However, this memory is only reserved for the books she reads, as she's unable to recite a ramen bowl with an Overly Long Name when she's only given a few seconds to read it.
• Purity Personified:
  • Has little to no vices to speak of whatsoever. Shizuka establishes herself early on as one of the few girls who will not even consider peeping on Rentarou in the bath, and actively tries to stop the others from doing so.
  • Even in the face of her mother's harsh treatment, Shizuka is noticeably not angry with her or scared of her. In her eyes, her mother was strict with her because she was worried about her future (which is true, but even her mother is horrified when she realizes what she's done).
• Relative Button: She's the button. A rival baseball team making her cry royally pissed the harem off and turned the tide of the game very quickly.
• Retcon: Her student ID in the Chapter 3 scanlation lists her birthday as August 8th, but her birthday is established in Chapter 133 as November 1st. Averted in the official manga translation, where her birthday isn't listed in her student ID to begin with.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Because she speaks through book quotes, she has a tendency to use poetic language for mundane situations.
• Shrinking Violet: Unbelievably bad at speaking up and relating to others. It's one of the reasons she uses book excerpts to communicate.
• Signature Laugh:
  • Not in the traditional sense. Her actual laugh isn't heard, but she uses her speech app to narrate her laughter. Even on repeat while being tickled.
    "She laughed aloud".
  • In the official manga and anime translations, it's "She gave a hearty laugh."
• Significant Birth Date: Her birthday is November 1st, Japan's National Authors' Day.
• Silent Snarker: Yes, even Shizuka isn't above snarking at someone's expense at times (most likely Hahari). The nature of the passages that she uses to speak with adds to it.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Sometimes speaks in excerpts from classic novels, and other times from books that say, "No kiddin', man."
• Speech-Impeded Love Interest:
  • Right from the start, it was clear Shizuka has difficulty using her voice, but the exact issues remained ambiguous, only that it's mental rather than physical (Nano has no trouble speaking in Shizuka's body, but Shizuka still relies on her phone in Karane's body), she can manage speaking if she absolutely needs to, and she has no issues with singing. Chapter 135 shows that a big part of it is her stammer - it isn't just that she stammers when shy or stressed, it's that she's had a stammer pretty much since she learned how to talk, and stumbles over most of her words.
  • When Rentarou first meets Shizuka, he helps her with her communication issues by giving her a text-to-speech app on her smartphone to help her communicate more easily, freely admitting that he doesn't know how difficult it is for her to use her voice, but he can tell it is difficult. From then on, he accepts her smartphone as how she usually speaks, such that much later, when she pushes herself to use her voice to thank him for helping her, he reassures her that she can use her smartphone like normal.
• Talking with Signs: Before Rentarou transcribed her books into a text-to-speech app, she would communicate by pointing out excerpts to the people talking to her.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Most people don't notice anything odd about Shizuka using her phone to talk for her. Even Chiyo in her "orientation" chapter is more bothered by Shizuka's messy hair than by her talking with a text-to-speech app, and Himeka considered her near-weightlessness to be more abnormal than her preferred communication method.
• Willfully Weak: One reason Shizuka is Pathetically Weak is she's too gentle to summon any strength. When she ends up in Yamame's body, she's unable to hold back Hahari in Chiyo's body, even though she has two other people helping her.

Nano Eiai

The Emotionless Ace

Voiced by: Emiri Suyama (Japanese, voice drama), Asami Seto (Japanese, anime), Cassie Ewulu (English, anime)

Debut: Chapter 6 / Episode 5

The hyper-rational, intelligent, unfeeling 4th girlfriend, who became moved by Rentarou's sincerity.

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• Academic Athlete: She has shown herself to be extremely capable in many physical activities.
• The Ace: Not only the highest-scoring student in the school but a decent athlete whenever she puts her mind to it, and pretty enough to have won a pageant over Mimimi with zero conscious effort.
• Ambiguous Robots: Her lack of outward emotions, mannerisms centering around efficiency, and being the top performer in the entire school has led to school rumors of her being a robot.
• Badass Bookworm: While it usually doesn't come to the fore even in the manga's few action-centric stories, it's played gleefully straight in the maid-uniform water gun fight, where she uses Awesomeness by Analysis to match Mei's Gun Fu shot-for-shot.
• Bifauxnen: When Hahari has Nano crossdress, she pulls off the look of a Bishōnen man very well.
• Big Sister Instinct: Nano is very protective of Shizuka and will quickly come to her aid if she's ever in danger.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: She views everything in terms of efficiency, from suggesting poison as a faster means of suicide than Seppuku to wanting to poke out the eyes of a friend's pets to incapacitate them.
• Cannot Convey Sarcasm: Zigzagged. Her lack of emotion makes it difficult to tell if her comments that would come off as sarcastic from someone else are actually sarcastic or dead serious.
  Nano: (When Karane jams a piece of shortbread into Rentarou's eye without looking) So this is what "a feast for the eyes" means.
• Characterization Marches On: During the water gun fight in Chapter 32, Nano singles out Shizuka and tries to eliminate her because she would be an easy target. This is a stark contrast to later chapters where Nano is so protective and doting over Shizuka that the very idea of Nano attacking her, even in a game, is unthinkable.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • Her fear of heights is first shown in Chapter 7 and gets exploited in Chapter 26 to stimulate her appetite during an Eating Contest.
  • Her ability to remember an insane number of digits of pi comes in handy in Chapter 83, when she orders the "Jugemu Jugemu Gonzalezurikire Kaijohnnysuigyou-no Suigyoumatsu Unraimatsu Fully-Made-Two Kuunerutokoro-ni Nomutororo Yaburakouji-no Bra-Burglar Paipopaipo Paipo-no Schwarzenegger Shuuringan-no Guten Morgan Guurindai-no Ponpokopii-no Pen Island-no Choukyuumei-no Josuke's Just Great-as-Hell Challenge Ramen" without missing a single word.
• Cold Ham: You know things have gotten wild as hell when Nano foregoes her stoic nature by even a slight amount.
• The Comically Serious: Nano's humorous moments borrow from her lack of visible reaction and blunt, calculating nature toward the events around her.
• Cracks in the Icy Façade: Nano continuously rebuffs Rentarou's attempts to approach her during their first day after she is revealed as one of his soulmates, claiming him to be an insignificant part of her routine. As soon as she gets home, however, she is unable to focus on her studies due to being swamped with thoughts about him. She takes up his offer of a date the following day with the expectation of proving his insignificance to her, but Rentarou instead proves that there is significance in being happy with the people you love by almost burning the photos he took during the date, causing her to snatch the photos from him and break down in tears.
• Cuteness Proximity: Her brain tends to short-circuit when Shizuka is involved, logic and reason disappearing the minute Shizuka gives her puppy dog eyes. Once when Shizuka was made the subject of Mimimi's "beauty-seeking contest", Nano was only able to identify her "cute" features rather than "beautiful" ones.
• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 72 follows what happens when she has to spend a day shrunk to miniscule size thanks to one of Kusuri's drugs, Chapter 113 is an exploration of ethics with Momoha and Mei on a date with Rentarou, Chapter 134 sees her getting Shizuka to tell her what's troubling her, and Chapter 161 has her finally resolving her guilt over snubbing Mimimi when they were in junior high.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Emotionless Girl. She's actually very capable of feeling emotion but has consciously suppressed all feeling because it's illogical, so once she feels romantic love for the first time she doesn't know what to do. At the start, she scorns friendship, and her life seems completely unfulfilling before Rentarou comes along.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: One of her defining traits. Her hyper-efficient approach to life made her realize her love for Rentarou but also told her to reject the relationship as nothing efficient could come of it.
• Dramatic Deadpan: She's prone to this in tense situations, with only the most extreme circumstances pushing her towards Cold Ham.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Her default expression, even after having long accepted her feelings for Rentarou. Her eyes are more vibrant in the anime, although they do become duller in distant shots where she isn't the focus.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She first appears in Chapter 1 behind Rentarou right before his Crash-Into Hello with Hakari and Karane; Episode 1 substitutes it by having her in Rentarou's high school entrance ceremony.
• Emotion Suppression: Does not allow herself to feel anything, and freaks out when this fails.
• Expository Pronoun: Watashi, likely as the default formal pronoun.
• Eye Poke: Nano's preferred method of incapacitating someone is to poke them in the eyes.
• Flat-Earth Atheist:
  • During her date with Rentarou in Chapter 7, while visiting a haunted house attraction, she says ghosts and monsters are unscientific and therefore don't exist.
  • Played for Laughs in Chapter 52, where she claims that it's pointless to honor the souls of the animals that make up her lunch. Cue Chiyo flipping to an earlier chapter to prove that yes, Heaven exists in this setting.
  • Done again in Chapter 136, where she dismisses the existence of unscientific forces and beings when confronted with youkai (although she's right on that particular occasion).
  • In Chapter 161, she quizzes a fortune-teller about the scientific basis of fortune-telling.
• Foil:
  • Her rational attitude is sometimes contrasted with Hakari's (who eschews rationality for her feelings).
  • She is emotionless due to never smiling, while Mei is emotionless due to constantly smiling.
• Friendless Background: By her own choice, as friends are "inefficient".
• Full-Name Basis: How she addresses Rentarou and the other girls.
• Godiva Hair: She loses her clothing in Chapter 72 when the body-shrinking drug wears off, resulting in this trope when she wakes up in the morning.
• Immune To Jumpscares: She isn't fazed in the slightest by going through a haunted house attraction.
• Implausible Hair Color: She has glossy silver-colored hair.
• Inconvenient Attraction: Unlike most of the other girlfriends she rejects her mutual attraction to Rentarou at first, seeing no purpose to it and attempting to end it. She gets over this at the end of their date, when she finds an emotional attachment to photos she took with him at an amusement park.
• Intelligence Equals Isolation: Seemingly exaggerated before she started dating Rentarou. It's already evident that she limited her social interactions in her life out of maximizing efficiency, but the way she reacts to the attractions at the amusement park, you'd think she'd never even heard of amusement parks at all before.
• Jerkass Realization: Having the chance to develop herself through her love for Rentarou enables her to realize how coldly she came off on Mimimi during the beauty pageant years earlier and apologize to her.
• Kuudere: After becoming the fourth girlfriend. She's still robotically stoic, but she's more social and caring than her first appearance.
• Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: First introduced as an Emotionless Girl who sees no value in maintaining relationships, she soon becomes accepting of her own feelings for Rentarou and makes quick friends with many other crazy girls in love with the boy, culminating in her apologizing to Mimimi for snubbing her friendship request back in junior high.
• Ludicrous Precision: One of her Character Tics is spelling out the percentage of something happening or being true.
• Luminescent Blush: All the girls do this, but with Nano it's the only sign that she's feeling positive about something.
• Meaningful Name: Her first name Nano brings nanomachines to mind while her last name Eiai sounds like AI, or artificial intelligence. Both are associated with robots, which suits Nano's stoic, robotic attitude.
• Mouthful of Pi: She recites a ludicrous number of digits of pi to stay focused.
• Mr. Exposition: Sometimes plays this role when a chapter needs to establish an out-there premise in a single panel (Kiraisugi-chou's existence, the Muse-ical Club, etc.).
• My Greatest Failure: After Nano learned how to empathize with others, she regards her cold rejection of Mimimi's offer of friendship to be the biggest mistake of her life. Even after Mimimi accepted her apology, Nano still feels guilty about the event whenever she remembers it, which prompted Mimimi to try to relieve Nano's guilt.
• Not So Above It All: Participates in trying to see a glimpse of Rentarou naked, and she's affected by the drug that makes the drinker want to do nothing but kiss her beloved as much as anyone else.
• Numerological Motif: If you want to get a bit more meta, her hair is silvery white. One of the double-numbered elements on the periodic table is Ruthenium, number 44, which is described as silvery white.
• Perpetual Frowner: She most likely thinks smiling is inefficient. She doesn't so much as smirk even when she's happy. It takes until Chapter 161 for her to finally manage a genuine smile.
• Photographic Memory: She can easily remember minute details, as demonstrated during the first idol training arc and when ordering a ramen dish with a ridiculously long name.
• Plain Palate: Her obsession with efficiency makes her a light eater. To the point where her lunch consists largely of dietary supplements.
• Primal Fear: She's afraid of heights. During the eating competition, she exploits this in order to stimulate her appetite.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has red eyes, and not only is she beautiful and smart^note She perfected every subject during the midterm exam, ranking her 1st in the whole school, she's also got some combat capabilities as seen when she was exchanging shots with Mei in a water gun fight or standing back to back with Mimimi to hold off Hahari's perverted tentacle hair.
• Schedule Fanatic: In Chapter 113, she plans a route through a light display down to the second.
• Significant Birth Date: March 14th, 3/14, a.k.a. Pi Day.
• The Stoic: Will have a neutral expression even when everyone else is freaking out.
• Straw Vulcan: Has suppressed all emotions, including positive ones, because they are allegedly inefficient. She largely grows out of this once joining the group. She's still as logical and calculating as ever, but she values Rentarou and the girls.
• Verbal Tic: Uses "Efficient" or "Inefficient" a lot.
• When She Smiles: Mimimi offering to become Nano's friend in Chapter 161 finally lays to rest her guilt over snubbing Mimimi back in junior high, and Mimimi is the only one to see the brief, beautiful smile that crosses Nano's face when she accepts the offer.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Hahari dresses her in a typical prince outfit to wake up a "sleeping princess" (i.e. Rentarou, unconscious and also crossdressing), and pulls the look off well.

Kusuri Yakuzen

The Mad Scientist's Loli Alterego
^{Click here to see her older self}

Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto (Japanese, voice drama), Ayaka Asai (Japanese, anime), Lindsay Sheppard (English, anime)

Debut: Chapter 10 / Episode 7

The crazy scientist of the group and the 5th girlfriend. Usually, a small hyperactive girl... until the drugs in her body are neutralized and she reverts to her original form, that is.

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• Acquired Poison Immunity: Owing to her Professor Guinea Pig habits, even the Serious Group's Knockout Gas has no effect on her.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: In an Early-Bird Cameo, she's shown working in the lab at the end of Episode 1 as the narration declares Rentarou still has 98 girlfriends to go.
• Aroused by Their Voice: She has a very seductive voice in her older body, though Kusuri tends to ruin any seduction potential by still retaining her childish speech patterns or belatedly remembering a need to change her diaper. The dub retains this trait.
• Berserk Button:
  • Kusuri becomes livid if people mess with her stuff. She tries to make Chiyo cry on purpose when the latter took her bag to reorganize it without telling her first, and she snaps at her beloved grandmother for slamming her phone on the ground.
  • She doesn't take kindly to other people seeing Yaku as their granny.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She doesn't show genuine anger until Chapter 84, and it is terrifying.
• Blind Without 'Em: Kusuri can't see very well without her glasses in her older form.
• Bound and Gagged: Gets tied up and gagged by Nano in Chapter 13.
• Brainy Baby: Made her first new drug at eight months old.
• Calling Your Attacks: Tries to do this with a baseball pitch. Nano points out that that is silly and inefficient, much to Kusuri's confusion.
• Cute Oversized Sleeves: The sleeves on Kusuri's labcoat are big enough to cover her hands, adding to her cute, childish appearance, although she usually keeps them rolled back. Their size is justified because they're also meant to fit Kusuri in her older form.
• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 125 sees her clash with Kishika over revealing they're dating the same guy to their classmates.
• D-Cup Distress: While she's not that resentful of her older form's large breasts, one reason she prefers her younger form is because of how heavy they are in her older form.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype:
  • Represents the kind of Mad Scientist often seen in fetish works of the kind seen in doujinshi or on DeviantArt, and also overly sexualized lolis who are technically okay because they're actually over 18. She vacillates between sexy adult and annoying child due to drug use, and the hilarious side effects of her fetish-enabling inventions actually come with serious consequences. The other characters lampshade her fetish attributes and find them unnerving, especially when she is aged down.
  • She also deconstructs the cute scientist girl who uses her friends as test subjects, ala Lala and Su. Testing her drugs on her friends eventually resulted in them leaving her, so everyone else wisely chose not to get near her.
• Deliberately Cute Child: Kusuri enjoys having people dote over her child form, to the point where she secretly gave everyone her "makes-you-super-sensitive-to-cuteness drug" while they were singing karaoke, in the hopes that they would gush over her.
• Ditzy Genius: Kusuri is a brilliant chemist who can create drugs with all sorts of effects, but she's also very lacking in common sense and foresight. When her Pentarou toy was blown off the roof, she jumped after it and would've fallen to her death if Rentarou hadn't grabbed her leg in time.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: She doesn't seem to make a habit out of having enough neutralizer drug on hand to immediately resolve any issues that could arise from her drugs. At least, not in circumstances when it wouldn't make the situation worse.
• Dual Age Modes: Most of the time she's in her younger form, but she can return to her older form for 10-20 minutes if she takes a neutralization drug. She prefers her younger form for experiments, as her older form has poor eyesight and her hair can get in the way because it's longer.
• Dub Personality Change: The original Japanese version gives Verbal Tics to all of the Yakuzens. In the official manga translation, only Kusuri has one.
• Early Personality Signs: As a baby, she ignored a dollhouse in favor of a distillery, and by eight months old, she'd made her first new drug.
• Easily Forgiven: There are no hard feelings about her almost trapping the other girls in an And I Must Scream state for the rest of their lives. To be fair, it was an accident, and she feels horrible about it.
• Everyone Has Standards: She thinks that Naddy's refusal to "hold back" extends to not bothering with a Jar Potty while watching TV, and is disgusted by such a notion.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: All the names of her drugs are explanations for what they do. Thankfully for Rentarou and the girls, it gives them enough reason to not take the more dangerous ones.
• Expy: More or less a scaled-down version of Washu, complete with red hair.
• Family Business: Chapter 74 reveals that not only are her mother and father drug developers as well, but her family has been in the drug-making business for generations.
• Fangirl: She's a fan of the show "Pepepe no Pentarou", which shows in multiple chapters:
  • She plays with a Pentarou doll with the others in Chapter 29.
  • At the karaoke bar, she sings the show's theme song.
  • In Chapter 91, she's inspired by an episode to pair the girls together as "equipment".
• Fanservice Pack: Her older form's breasts were a bit smaller in her earlier appearances before getting larger later on. The anime starts with her bigger breast size from the get-go.
• Fantastic Drug: Her entire MO consists of producing and using these on a regular basis.
• Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Averted. Many of her clothes in her default "child" form look rather loose, but that means she doesn't need to change clothes when she transforms back to her "older" form. However, said clothes also likely cover less skin than before, revealing her midriff.
• Friendless Background: Sensing a pattern here? The difference is that she actually used to have friends before they finally had enough of her drugs and left, and no-one else wanted to get close.
• Genki Girl: Easily the most hyperactive of the girls. Though it's partly because she's physically a child. She's more relaxed in her 18-year-old form, but even then she can still get cheery.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Gets jealous over Kishika calling Yaku 'Gwanny', protesting "She's my granny, yep yep!", and is wary Kishika is out to take Yaku from her.
• Hammerspace: Zigzagged. She has a wide variety of drugs that she can produce at any time, but she can't do everything imaginable with her drugs, and Chiyo does succeed in confiscating all of her drugs at one point.
• Hero of Another Story: Governments have recognized her and her family’s talent for making miracle cures, and between the Americans offering her a scholarship and the pharmaceutical agent threatening to kill Rentarou if she doesn’t hand over her family’s secrets, it’s clear that in a harem with an up-and-coming diva (Himeka) and a Fiction 500 conglomerate owner (Hahari), she's the most important on an international level.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Gives up the once-in-a-lifetime chance to develop pharmaceuticals in America to help Rentarou rescue Hakari.
  • She's something of a sumo fanatic and has regularly challenged the other girlfriends to square off against her.
  • The reason she invented the immortality drug was so that her grandmother could live forever.
• Identical Granddaughter: Her child form looks almost identical to her grandmother Yaku's child form, although her hair's shorter and messier. Her older form looks pretty close to the brief glimpse of older Yaku we've had, but with glasses and, again, messier hair.
• Idiot Hair: Has a giant one popping from the top of her head in both forms.
• Immortality Seeker: Created a drug that she assumed would stop her family members from dying, though all it did is make them look like children (Yaku more permanently than the others). Chapter 145 reveals she is still working on refining it, so that the whole harem can live until the heat death of the universe.
• Innocently Insensitive: Kusuri has a habit of casually insulting others without actually trying to, probably due to her child brain. Even when she makes accurate descriptions and compliments, the words she uses couldn't be more tactless. Even her dead granddad isn't safe.
• It's All My Fault: This is her reaction after the kissing zombie arc, as it was her drug that caused the problem.
• Kissing Under the Influence: Attempted twice in her introductory arc, but she fails both times. The first time, she serves Rentarou tea spiked with a Love Potion to get him to accept her confession, but he tries to regurgitate the drug when he finds out, and she has to administer a neutralizer when his body becomes overwhelmed by the drug. The second time, she drugs a thermos to get Rentarou to make out with her, but everyone thinks the thermos is for the girls, and the drug turns them into kissing zombies.
• Mad Scientist: Her defining trait. Good at creating potions that have disastrous side effects. In fact, her changing body is because she tested one of her creations on herself, and it's not the only time she tested drugs on herself.
• Magic Antidote: Almost all of her drugs can be negated with a common neutralizer. The most notable exceptions are her prototype immortality drug (where the effect is only temporary), her de-aging and body-shrinking drugs (which would kill the user if consumed too early or at all), her father's bodybuilding drugs (which are actually strengthened by the neutralizer), and the version of the immortality drug used on her grandmother (which can't be negated at all).
• Malaproper: Frequently mixes up words.
• Meaningful Name: Her family name means "medicinal cooking" and her given name is a homophone for medicine or drugs.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Her body also slightly affects her mindset, such as her younger form having the energy befitting of a kid over her older form's slightly calmer disposition, or the latter being embarrassed playing with the Pentarou doll when moments ago she was playing just fine in her child form. It's explained that because her older form is still growing herself, she has this happen to her. Her parents and grandmother don't have this problem.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Has this reaction when she finds out the girls drank from the wrong Thermos. She would have quit making drugs altogether had Rentarou not talked her out of it.
• My Greatest Failure: The event that caused her original friends to leave her.
• Naming Conventions: In the English dub, Kusuri gives her drugs names invoking a mix of Thing-O-Matic and Name-Tron, such as "Human Magnet Medicine-o-tron", "Night Vision Medicine-ator", and "Ventriloquism Drug-o-tron", as well as Advanced Tech 2000, such as the clothes-melting "Hot Hottie Hot Stuff 3000" she gives Hakari.
• Older Than They Look: She is 18 and used to actually look it. Then she took a drug that she thought would make her immortal but just made her look like a kid. In this form, she's shorter than Shizuka!
• One of the Kids: Plays with dolls, doesn't really care about safety procedures, and cares more about looking cool with several baseball bats at once than actually playing the game. Though it's shown that the drug that makes her appear like a child factors into this. She's visibly more ashamed of playing with dolls in her grown-up form.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When she drops her childishness and shows actual concern for someone, that concern is well-placed. So far, this has happened during her Freak Out when she accidentally turns the girls into kissing zombies when she chooses to help save Hakari instead of going to America, and when Iku passes out and has to go to the infirmary.
• Out of Focus: While Kusuri is one of the most prominent characters in the series because of how useful her drugs are to the plot, her older self appears very rarely in comparison. Her older form's lack of screen time is lampshaded sometimes.
• Playful Cat Smile: Her default expression in her younger form, though it shows up most of the time regardless of the form she takes. It fits with her playful and mischievous personality.
• Poor Communication Kills: Thinks that it's obvious which unlabeled Thermos is spiked with a Love Potion — Rentarou is male so the huge one is for him, while the small one is for the girls. Of course, everyone else thinks the big one is for five people and the little one for Rentarou, so when she leaves it unattended the girls drink the wrong one and turn into kissing zombies.
• Professor Guinea Pig: Has a very cavalier attitude to testing her drugs on herself. Or on other people.
• Psychological Projection: Any time someone else leaves to go somewhere, Kusuri tends to jump to the conclusion that they need to pee, due to her own habit of neglecting her bladder to the point of Potty Emergency because she doesn't want to stop her work to go to the bathroom.
• Reed Richards Is Useless: Zigzagged. Her drugs are powerful enough to have applications beyond what Rentarou and his girlfriends use them for, and she has been sought by different companies with a desire for her pharmaceutical skills. But she sees this as a Friend-or-Idol Decision and believes Rentarou and the other girls are more important.
• Rule of Cool: Tries to play baseball with two gloves and three bats, justifying it with the inherent coolness when questioned. In the bonus page, she tries to clean the field with two rakes, again justifying it with the inherent coolness when questioned.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Kusuri has incredible knowledge and skills pertaining to drug-making, capable of making concoctions that seem more like magic than science. In contrast, her common sense is subpar at best. In her introductory arc alone, she assumes it's obvious which thermos goes to Rentarou (the big one, because masculinity); the idea of using her last dose of negation drug on a zombified Nano only occurs after drinking it to sneak past her to make more negation drug; and after using her name and getting caught completely misses why she got out of the rope (she thinks Rentarou somehow made a rope-melting drug rather than her just shrinking when the negation drug wore off).
• Sexier Alter Ego: Kusuri's older form is a gorgeous woman with a well-developed figure. When she and Rentarou were in a closet together, he was panicking over how much her body was pressing against him.
• Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Kusuri's clothes don't change size when she changes forms, although her lab coat's sleeves seem to get smaller in her older form.
• Significant Birth Date: April 18th, Japan's Invention Day.
• Slipping a Mickey: It's happened more than once that she sneaks a drug into food or drinks, usually with the goal of getting Rentarou to show a particular form of affection for her.
• Smug Smiler: Kusuri can make some really smug smiles when she sees someone in an embarrassing situation.
• Strange-Syntax Speaker: In the official translations, she has a habit of dropping articles and suffixes (e.g. saying "finish" rather than "finished").
• Tampering with Food and Drink: She spikes Rentarou's tea with a Love Potion when they first meet.
• Third-Person Person: As part of her Kawaiiko aesthetic. This gives her away on two occasions: first when she tries to subdue Zombie Nano while in her older form, and second when she ends up in Hakari's body due to an unforeseen drug interaction. The scanlation abandons this by the end of Volume 4 (around where it changed teams), but the official translation keeps it going.
• Token Mini-Moe: Parodied. She's two years above Rentarou, and in her normal form, she's a bombshell. Unfortunately, an immortality drug gone wrong caused her to look like a child unless she takes a temporary neutralizer. When Rentarou meets her after she reverted back, he has no idea she's the same woman he felt become his soulmate. And yet she acts the age she looks most of the time.
• Too Much Information: She's prone to letting loose things about the harem she's in, even dirty details. In her debut episode, she admits to Rentarou and the rest of the group that she wears (and uses) diapers, presumably so she can focus all her available time on making drugs.
• TV Genius: Her drugs can pretty much do anything at all, even if they make no sense.
• Unaffected by Spice: Supposedly a side-effect of her drinking so many experimental drugs all the time; it's what allows her to win the Insanely Spicy Mapo Tofu round of the eating contest in Chapter 26. While Kusuri does blush and sweat while eating really spicy food, she doesn't show much reaction otherwise.
• Vapor Wear: It's pretty clear that her older form isn't wearing a bra, which is understandable since it would be unfeasible to get a bra that could fit her at both her ages. This isn't as noticeable in her anime appearance.
• Verbal Tic:
  • Ending her sentences with "Yep yep!".^note In the original Japanese version, it's "nanoda". And sometimes "Nope nope!" depending on the situation. She does it less in her original form, and by then she only says "yep" once.
  • The official English translations for the manga and anime have her say "Aye" at the end of her her sentences. This was done in the manga to preserve the joke where Kusuri's Verbal Tic reminded Rentarou of Nano (I'm Eiai, aye). The Dub uses "Yep yep!" from the fan translations.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Her friendship with Kishika is rather strained. Kusuri sometimes makes fun of Kishika for being a Womanchild, while Kishika frequently calls out Kusuri's recklessness.
• What You Are in the Dark: She's the only one who knows about her drug that makes people able to see infrared, and could easily keep quiet about it so that she can send it to the company she wants to work for. She immediately gives it up to help Rentarou and the others rescue Hakari.
• Womanchild: Justified. She acts like a young child because she's stuck in the body of one. She's more composed in her original form.
• You Remind Me of X: Kusuri's older form reminds Chiyo of her mother, thanks to the glasses she wears.

Hahari Hanazono

The Absurdly Youthful Mother

Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka (Japanese), Corey Pettit (English)

Debut: Chapter 15 / Episode 9

Hakari's mother. Overprotective, cold, and focused... until she and Rentarou meet each other's eyes, at which point she becomes the 6th girlfriend.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: While she openly lusts after all the girls, daughter included, she has become increasingly attached to Kurumi the most, something Kurumi is less than thrilled about.
• Absurdly Youthful Mother: She's 29. That's right, she had her daughter at 13. This is because she was madly in love with a fellow classmate who suffered from a terminal disease, and she, knowing he would not survive the year, got herself artificially inseminated with his sperm so that they could be a family before he died.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: She can be seen in the Season 1 title sequence with her Face Framed in Shadow holding a glass of wine.
• Age-Gap Romance: With her Second Love, Rentarou. Being a 29-year-old widow in a relationship with a high schooler, and the second oldest member of the harem behind Yaku.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Hahari's perverted antics are a frequent source of embarrassment for her daughter Hakari.
• Benevolent Boss: Both as the matriarch of a wealthy family and as the chairwoman of Rentarou's school:
  • Hahari is shown to be very considerate of her maid Mei, showing frequent concern for Mei's well-being and her being one of the few people Hahari displays any restraint towards.
  • After becoming the school's chairwoman, she allows Momoha to live on the school grounds and use the facilities there, even showing concern about how little she looks after herself.
  • One of the Hanazonos' companies, the Flower Mommy Baby Food Factory, is noted by Eira to be impossibly, improbably ethical in its employee treatment.
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Gender-Inverted Trope. Hahari initially disapproved of her daughter dating Rentarou because she can't stand the thought of her remaining family getting her heart broken, and she believed that a five-timer like Rentarou wouldn't be able to keep Hakari happy.
• Break Up Demand: Her immediate reaction to finding out about her daughter dating a boy who has four other girlfriends is to have her transferred to a different school so that Hakari doesn't get her heart broken by an unfaithful five-timer. She only abandons this pursuit when she falls in love with Rentarou herself and he stops Hakari from killing herself.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: As much as her perversions aggravate the objects of her affections, she has shown herself to be quite competent as the school chairwoman when not distracted by anything cute. She's no slouch with managing her family's companies either.
• Camera Fiend: Will unabashedly take photos of anyone in the harem acting or looking cute, whether they're aware of her being there or not.
• Character Tics: Hahari has a habit of placing her hand on her cheek for no particular reason.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: To Mei. While Hahari herself is the furthest thing from a Straight Man, even she thinks the level of Mei's devotion to her is insane and has to tone down her rigid loyalty/sense of duty before it goes too far.
• Comedic Lolicon: Has been Flanderized into this, with her actions (especially involving Kurumi, as well as during the hair chapter) crossing the line from funny to creepy.
• Commonality Connection: Turns out Rentarou is not the only one to have more than one soulmate. The difference is that her previous lover is long dead, but it does mean that he can understand how she feels when she worries that dating Rentarou would betray her earlier boyfriend's memory.
• Cuteness Overload: She absolutely adores cute things, including but not limited to her soulmates and the shorter members of the family; when she first saw Mei, who was collapsed on the street in the snow, she decided to help because she thought she was just too cute.
• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 79 sees her on a date with Rentarou as a fellow high schooler, Chapter 129 sees her, Iku, and Momoha desperately trying to resist their impulses while trying to do over a date with Rentarou, and Chapter 147 follows what happens when she takes Tama in as a pet.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Absurdly Youthful Mother and Mrs. Robinson. To begin with, she's only as attractive as she is because she gave birth at a ridiculously young age, having impulsively decided to get pregnant before her terminally ill boyfriend died. Though she loves her daughter, she made immense sacrifices as a result and is paranoid that Hakari will get pregnant and throw her life away as well, leading to her imprisoning her child in her own home and threatening to kill her boyfriend. Then, the instant she meets said boyfriend, she loses it and proposes to him immediately, despite him being, you know, her daughter's boyfriend, and a teenager. Even a decade and a half later, she still has no self-restraint and can't stop pining over her dead boyfriend. Her character arc basically shows how psychologically damaged a MILF would have to be to actually reciprocate the fantasies of a teenage boy.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Or in this case joining the same harem she didn't want her daughter to be a part of.
• Depraved Bisexual: Played for Laughs because there is always someone to stop her before she goes too far, but she spends most of her time after joining the harem gushing over how cute Rentarou and the girls are. She frequently tries to start activities meant to emphasize that cuteness, and some of them are far too erotic for the girls to accept. Chapter 42 downright states her most basic desire is to grab and stroke anything cute, which of course includes the girls of the harem.
• Early Personality Signs: As more's been revealed about her, it turns out her Lovable Sex Maniac side has always been part of her personality; it started with her frenching her Teddy Baby as an infant, and continued from there. Even her initial attitude towards Rentarou can be attributed to Psychological Projection.
• Easily Forgiven: Once she becomes a soulmate, no one brings up her deplorable prior actions ever again, and as her character is developed they seem more and more out of character.
• Everyone Has Standards: Generally whenever she ponders and tries drawing a moral line, the girls are quick to call her a hypocrite. Nonetheless...
  • Hahari, for all her Depraved Bisexual tendencies, has never so much as asked for a kiss from Mei, because knowing full well that Mei would literally do anything she asks, Hahari saw it as an abuse of power. Once she does, she asks specifically as Mei's friend and not her master.
  • Even with her drugged-up hair playing tentacle with everything in range based solely on her own instincts, the extras show that they only tickled Mei and Shizuka. Once the whole fiasco ends, she is appropriately horrified by what she did and locks herself in her room until Rentarou reveals that not only were there zero injuries from her hair, but that she inadvertantly saved the planet from a new ice age.
  • She also makes it clear that Rentarou should ask Chiyo's parents' permission before dating her at least, and when Rentarou informs her that her father is the one who set them up in the first place, she calls him out.
  • In Chapter 53, when Chiyo begins messing with Kusuri's bag to rearrange the pins on it, Hahari objects to Kusuri's threats to make her cry by taking away her glasses.
  • After smacking Iku's behind once, she makes sure to ask permission before continuing.
  • She expresses concern about Hakari's grades slipping if Hakari keeps getting caught up in delusions about Rentarou.
  • After discovering that Yaku's older than her, she's extremely embarrassed about having gone all Cuteness Overload towards her, thinking she was a little girl, though it doesn't stop her from continuing to think she's cute.
  • She refuses to use her authority as the school's chairwoman to provide special treatment for any of the students or faculty.
• Expository Pronoun: Watashi, basically by default. She needs to be able to at least present formally, as seen in her introduction, but she's not formal or prideful enough to use watakushi.
• Fiction 500:
  • She is enormously rich, enough to live in a Big Fancy House with laser security and a large service staff. Once she joins the harem, she buys out their high school to become the "chairwoman" to spend time with him, despite having no teaching credentials. Many chapters involve her buying something ridiculous and expensive because she thinks it would be fun. She lampshades this in Chapter 58 when asked how she managed to get thirteen custom outfits done for Rentarou's family overnight: "The power of capital is enough to make any ridiculous demand a trivial matter".
  • In chapter 79, her parents are mentioned to have managed a company that sponsored a popular kids show when she was young, holding enough sway over said show that the toys started having closed mouths due to Hahari French kissing her dolls.
  • In the anime, she buys Episode 11's end credits to do her own ending sequence, complete with her own ED.
• Flowers of Femininity: Like her daughter. Only they're all over her hair.
• Friendless Background: After her boyfriend died, she refused to date anyone else out of fear of disrespecting his memory. For the next decade and a half, her only company was her daughter, her maids, and the mansion's guards.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: Gets a Nosebleed watching her daughter making out with Karane.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She goes gooey over the Teddy Babies in Chapter 79 and is excited at the prospect of winning one in a quiz.
• Glamorous Single Mother: Deconstructed. On the one hand, she had no trouble from a financial standpoint with raising Hakari all by herself. On the other hand, her emotional state after her boyfriend died is heavily implied to have shaped at least some of her daughter's lustful nature.
• Hair Color Spoiler: The reason why she's omitted from the anime's promotional material is because her hair color would reveal that she's related to Hakari.
• Heroic BSoD: Temporarily isolates herself in her bedroom after her My God, What Have I Done? reaction to covering the whole world in her hair.
• Hired for Their Looks: Her family's companies have a policy of hiring people if they're cute, no questions asked. At least one of her maids and at least one of the school's teachers owe their jobs to this policy as well.
• Hypocritical Humor: A good chunk of the jokes surrounding her are of this flavor.
• Idle Rich: Implied to have been the case before meeting Rentarou, seeing as she bought out his school on a whim the following day to become the new chairwoman.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Brought up in Chapter 55, where Toruru points out that if word of her perverted behavior went public, she - and the people she pervs on, who are students at her school - would face serious consequences in society.
• Knight Templar Parent: Her daughter has a boyfriend, so what does she do? Imprison said daughter in her own home and threaten to kill the boyfriend. Granted, this was also after finding out that her daughter had become part of a polyamorous harem, but straight-up murder is going too far.
• Lascivious Beauty Mark: Hahari has a beauty mark under her left eye and is a Loveable Sex Maniac, frequently lusting after anyone she finds attractive, male and female alike, including the other girls in the harem, particularly the younger girls and even her own daughter Hakari. None of the girls, especially Hakari, are all that flattered.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: Her personal story shows she's as driven by her feelings as Hakari is (one of the reasons she does not approve of Rentarou at the beginning). Her fear of having her beloved daughter suffer the same things she suffered at her age explains a lot of her initial attitude.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: She openly lusts after the other girlfriends, including her own daughter, nearly, if not more, than she does for Rentarou. The girls are very annoyed, but they mostly tolerate it because they know she means no harm. Some of her antics include:
  • Convincing all the girls except Shizuka to peep on Rentarou while he's taking a bath (with the express purpose of seeing his peepee, as Kusuri delicately puts it).
  • And then, crossdressing Rentarou and Nano just to enjoy the view and die of cuteness.
  • Sneaking underneath Iku's hospital bed to take cute photos of her while asleep. Kurumi is not amused.
• Love Freak: Of the "I'm everyone's mommy" variety. A rather comically depraved variety.
• Love Makes You Crazy: Compare her persona before and after she fell in love with Rentarou. She was something of a pervert even as a baby, but it really starts running wild after Rentarou.
• Maid Corps: She has numerous maids working in her mansion, enough that they can perform an on-the-spot blood transfusion in a matter of minutes. Two of them are among Rentarou's soulmates.
• Mama Bear: She rarely gets the chance to show it, but hearing Hakari's about to jump out of the window in her introductory arc gives her enough strength she manages to make it up to Hakari's room with Karane trying to hold her back the whole way.
• Meaningful Name: Hahari contains "Haha", the Japanese word for Mother.
• A Mother to Her Men: She refuses to let Mei sacrifice herself for her sake.
• The Mourning After: Downplayed, as she does become one of Rentarou's girlfriends, but even so she feels guilty about betraying her first boyfriend's memory.
• Mrs. Robinson: She absolutely adores cute things, like younger men... and Rentarou-chan and Rentarou-chan and Rentarou-chan...
• Ms. Vice Girl: Hahari is ridiculously perverted, but beneath it all she does have a good heart. She braves a seriously cold ice bath to save Mei from freezing, and she gave up Tama despite wanting to dote on her because she knew Tama could only be happy if she got a job.
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: She doesn't look much different than her daughter, especially during close-ups.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Does not take being responsible for covering the entire planet with living hair as a result of her impulsiveness well, to the extent that she locks herself in her room the day after. It takes Rentarou showing her that her hair didn't hurt anyone and that she averted an early Ice Age by refueling the Sun with her hair, saving the planet, to bring her out.
  • She has this reaction when Tama becomes racked with guilt and depression over lazing around in the mansion while all the other girls are either working or studying and thinking she’s powerless to improve herself.
• No Hero to His Valet: Sure, Mei adores her,^note this is not an Inversion because Tropes Are Flexible but her daughter Hakari often finds her behaviors bizarre and disappointing, though she learns to appreciate her more after the girls are accidentally turned into babies.
• Non-Idle Rich: Invoked shortly after joining the harem. She buys out Rentarou's school and becomes the new chairwoman in order to spend time with Rentarou.
• Nosebleed: Hahari often has nosebleeds when she gets turned on, with the most extreme example happening in Chapter 49 while eavesdropping on Hakari and Karane when the latter two are in the bath. Hahari loses so much blood that she needs a blood transfusion, revealing she has a blood transfusion team that often has blood packs in reserve.
• Not with Them for the Money: On the receiving end of this with Hakari's father and Rentarou.
• Ojou Ringlets: Sometimes wears the full twin-set at home, though at school she usually opts for only one on the side, and the rest tied back in a Prim and Proper Bun.
• Old Maid: She and Hakari's father were never married, and she never sought another boyfriend until Rentarou confronted her about her Break Up Demand for her daughter.
• Older Than They Look: At least in a schoolgirl outfit, Hahari can pass off as a third-year student to onlookers. She's basically Hakari but with longer hair.
• Parental Incest: Hakari is not exempt from Hahari's sexual perversions, and it's not anything new; as revealed in Chapter 44, she would often kiss Hakari when she was small, though her daughter doesn't remember it. Ironically enough, it happens again in the present, and she still isn't aware of it, as Hakari was asleep thanks to Kusuri's sleeping drug and Hahari, was blindfolded. The narrator has to tell the reader what happened because none of the characters know.
• Perverted Drooling: Drool leaks from Hahari's mouth nearly every time she sees something cute or sexy. This sometimes reaches Drool Deluge levels where she's drooling a waterfall.
• Pink Is Erotic: Most of the time, her brand of eroticism is in the form of playing mommy and having someone (usually Kishika in baby mode) suck on her breasts, but she's also eager to engage in sexual activities, not that she ever succeeds.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Subverted. After she assumes the position of chairwoman, she was initially barely seen running the school, just hanging out with Rentarou and the girls at recess. She does do administrative work at the school and even tries to take it seriously, but she sometimes makes mistakes because she's distracted by something cute.
• Psychological Projection: Her initial attitude towards Rentarou can be attributed to this, as she thinks he's a careless Love Freak like her.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: She is, quite possibly, the most messed-up character in the whole series, whether as Knight Templar Parent or Depraved Bisexual. Nano comments at one point that it's hard to say her development since her intro has been an improvement.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Ironically, despite her host of issues, she serves as this at times. Most notably, she explicitly refuses to use her position to provide unfair advantages to her friends and family.
• Sacred First Kiss: Her former boyfriend refused to kiss her, claiming he didn't want to take her first kiss when he wouldn't be alive for long. This becomes a short, but important, plot point when she kisses Rentarou.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!:
  • Defied. She refuses to use her authority as the school's chairwoman to pull strings for any of the students or faculty. She will still help where she can, but only in a way that anyone else would be able to. For example, she won't use her power as chairwoman to intervene on Naddy's behalf with a senior teacher she's having issues with, but she will join the rest of the family in appealing to the teacher directly.
  • However, she plays it straight when it comes to cute things; she'll sign off on Custom Uniforms if they're cute, and she'll hire anyone at her companies so long as they're cute, no questions asked.
  • She also plays it straight when granting permission for girlfriends who aren’t students or faculty at the school to visit during lunch or whenever they need to do so (again, being cute helps):
    Karane: So is an outsider [Tama] just allowed to be here, now? Hanging out at school?
    Hahari: Well, she is just... a cat... and so very cute...
    Uto: See, as Rentarou's pet cat, one might consider her part of the family of the entire student body by extension, and irregardless, anyone who is part of "Rentarou's Family" is by definition part of his extended family, and thus no outsider at all.
• Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love: Her initial attitude towards Rentarou came out of her belief that he was an unfaithful five-timer who would break her daughter’s heart and that Hakari was falling into the same trap of her uncontrollable desire that Hahari did in her youth.
• Shipper on Deck: While she mostly wants to get intimate with them herself, she also enjoys any of the girls being intimate with either Rentarou or each other. Her biggest ship by far is Hakari and Karane; she nearly died of a nosebleed after spying the two bathing together, though admittedly the two were borderline having sex at the time.
• Significant Birth Date: May 12th, the date of the first Mother's Day in 1907.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer:
  • She doesn't appear in the anime's promotional visuals or trailer to avoid spoiling the fact that she's one of Rentarou's soulmates, as her appearance would reveal she's related to Hakari, and her name would definitely give the game away. Additionally, she first appears in an antagonistic role, so showing her happily interacting with the rest of the family would spoil that resolution. Even a promotional image showing all of the girlfriends up to Momoha in the background conspicuously leaves out Hahari. ^*The girlfriends in said image are arranged by the order they're introduced, and Hahari's spot places her directly behind Rentarou's head.
  • When she finally appears in the S1 title sequence, enough's shown to connect her to Hakari, but she's presented in an antagonistic fashion (in keeping with her initial role), sitting alone in darkness with her Face Framed in Shadow.
• Smarter Than You Look: Despite her immaturity and Unusual Hiring Practices, Hahari is actually a shrewd businesswoman who's managed to maintain her fortune through business acumen. In one chapter of the light novel where everyone was transported into the world of Circlet Love Story, Hahari was able to build a bustling business empire out of nothing by introducing modern products that don't exist in that world and business savvy.
• Stepford Smiler: Never got over the death of her boyfriend from middle school, and absolutely cannot handle romantic love.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Flashbacks show her to have looked exactly like Hakari when she was that age, except for the long hair.
• Struggling Single Mother: Hahari loves her daughter deeply, but she made it clear that raising her without Hakari's father was incredibly hard, especially since he was absent due to dying, leaving Hahari grieving. She never wanted for money, but she describes it as a task that required her complete devotion and strength.
• Team Mom: She often tries to serve this role by hosting various outings with Rentarou and all the girls. If not for the fact that she's (currently) the second oldest of Rentarou's girlfriends and has an Arbitrarily Large Bank Account, she wouldn't have any hope of succeeding. (Not that she does ever succeed in the other girls' eyes.)
• Teen Pregnancy: She gave birth to Hakari when she was 13 years old.
• Took a Level in Kindness: She pretty much loses her Knight Templar Parent traits the very second she becomes one of Rentarou's girlfriends.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Shark fins.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: Hahari loves dress-up and has a gigantic closet filled with everything from costumes to baby clothes. If she doesn't have something specific, she'll pay for them to be tailored overnight.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: None of the girls to join the harem after her find it at all strange that she, an adult woman, is one of Rentarou's girlfriends (among whom is her daughter.)
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: There are a few occasions where Hahari pulls something out of her cleavage.
• Villainous Breakdown: After the interrogation in Chapter 18 backfires, she falls into a Pose of Supplication before attempting to dismiss the results as the Lie Detector being a machine.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Downplayed. Her daughter's standards are much higher than her mother's, even though Hakari has done her share of attempts at seducing Rentarou into bodily affection.
• Walking Spoiler: There's really no way to talk about her without revealing that she's Hakari's mother and that she's one of Rentarou's soulmates.
• What You Are in the Dark: Shown in her first meeting with Mei. She didn't have to run outside and help a bedraggled, half-frozen urchin, but she did anyway. (Admittedly, it was because she thought Mei was too cute more than anything else, but still, she did help her.)

Kurumi Haraga

The Big Eater

Debut: Chapter 24

A middle school student who is hungry all the time, and the 7th girlfriend, who unfortunately lashes out at people due to hunger.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: She can be seen in the ending montage of Episode 12.
• Balloon Belly:
  • Gains one in Chapter 107 at the end of the successful yakiniku outing.
  • Is seen with one during a flashback in Chapter 153 after eating a lot of junk food.
• Berserk Button: Kurumi hates it when people combine mismatched ingredients with each other. This is best shown in Chapter 66, where she gets so mad at Kusuri for adding gummy candies to a hot pot that the normally carefree Kusuri is left nervously stammering.
• Big Eater: Gets hungry very quickly, and her unusually fast metabolism is the only reason why she isn't obese. (Although not even Kurumi is immune from feeling sick if she eats far too much at once.)
• Character Catchphrase: "It'sh shoooo gewwwwwd!" (Spoken with her mouth full.) This is changed to "Yummmyyyyy!" (again with her mouth full) in the official English translation.
• Character Tics: Can often be seen rubbing the back of her head, especially when she's embarrassed.
• Cute Little Fangs: Possesses a little fang in her mouth.
• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 44 sees her on a date with Rentarou, Chapter 114 is a compare-and-contrast with fellow tsunderes Karane and Mai on a date with Rentarou, and Chapter 155 has her and Momiji find themselves together in a queue for the ultimate fluffy daifuku.
• Deadpan Snarker: Shares this role with Karane.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: She's a Big Eater because of a medical condition, which makes her obsessed with food to the point that it interferes with her day-to-day life.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: To Rentarou at first, though mainly because of her hunger issues. She was also this to the harem, stating upfront that she only intended to be close to Rentarou. Her attitude changed after the eating contest, and she, later on, admits that she enjoys spending time with them.
• Does Not Like Spam: Walnuts. She doesn't hate them, but she's been long sick of eating them every time she heard her own name, which is Japanese for "walnut".
• Expository Pronoun: Atashi, fitting her informal nature.
• Extreme Omnivore: She will even bite into inanimate objects if they remind her of food shaped like the aforementioned objects. She doesn't succeed in swallowing them, though.
• Fangirl: Kurumi is a pretty big fan of Kiki's music, but she has mixed feelings about Himeka herself due to the latter's obsession with wanting to be abnormal.
• Fatal Flaw: Gluttony. She'll even try to eat a baseball because it reminds her of candy.
• Foil:
  • She and Hakari are both slaves to their passions. However, Kurumi doesn't like her food obsession but can do nothing to stop it.
  • Like Karane, she's a tsundere. However, whereas Karane is a "traditional" tsundere, Kurumi has no control over when she's nice and when she's mean. She acts like a bitch when she's hungry and is nice otherwise.
• Food as Bribe: A frequent victim of this trope, befitting her Big Eater status.
• Friendless Background: She had a habit of driving people out of her life due to her near-constant hunger causing her to lash out at others no matter how nice they are to her.
• Headphones Equal Isolation: She wears big headphones and a hood to avoid hearing or seeing anything that would trigger her food obsession.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Since she's not herself when she's hungry (which is all the time) and pushes people away, as a result, she thinks she has zero redeeming qualities.
• Honor Before Reason: When she reveals that she developed a craving for a French kiss in Chapter 44, she admits that she'd rather suffer with the craving than ask Rentarou for one because 1) none of his other girlfriends have gotten one and she refuses to get special treatment, and 2) Rentarou giving all of his girlfriends French kisses wouldn't be family-friendly.
• In the Hood: She's only seen without her hood on when she's not wearing her jacket in the first place.
• Instant Taste Addiction: Exaggerated. She will start craving a food whenever she sees or hears anything that bears the slightest resemblance to it or its name.
• Ironic Name: A rare justified example: Kurumi means "walnut", and walnuts are the one food that she doesn't crave... because her food obsession used to trigger so often from hearing her own name that she's sick of them, though she admits that she still likes them.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Usually a sweet girl, but once she becomes hungry, she becomes aggressive until her hunger is satisfied; she's practically a Morpeko in human form.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Though she does yell too much when they first meet, the fact that a high school boy is taking such an interest in her when she's in middle school would in fact be perceived as stalkerish to someone unaware of the soulmates thing, so it's understandable that she constantly tells him to scram.
• Little Miss Snarker: Frequently mentions that the group is abnormal, and is one of the younger members of the group.
• Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: In her debut chapter, Kurumi would snap at people and make some nasty faces when she was hungry. Even when she wasn't hungry, Kurumi was initially dismissive toward the rest of Rentarou's family. After bonding with them, Kurumi does a better job staying civil when she's hungry and her angry faces became more comical than scary. It helps that the sheer number of people present means she rarely stays hungry for long.
• Meaningful Name: Her last name is a pun on a phrase meaning "I am hungry", and is considered a somewhat rude one at that.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Inverted. She still has uncontrollable food cravings even after getting body-swapped, despite this supposedly being caused by her unusual metabolism.
• Never Gets Fat: Courtesy of her metabolism.
• Nightmare Face: The expressions she makes when she's hungry can be rather unnerving.
• The Nose Knows: Kurumi's sense of smell is so strong that she can detect food through heavy rain, something even police dogs can't do.
• Obsessed with Food: Pretty much anything can remind her of food.
• One-Track-Minded Hunger: When hungry (which is almost always), she will become aggressive and can't help but think about the food she wants.
• Only Sane Man: Whenever the subject is not food, she will point out how insane the rest of the girls' eccentricities are.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: To sell how she's desperate she is to relieve her French kiss craving, she admits that she would let Hahari be the one to do it if it meant her suffering would be relieved a little.
• Orgasmically Delicious: Her reaction when she gets to eat what she's craving.
• Outside-Context Problem: While she was able to control her food cravings before, Chapter 44 has her deal with a craving for a French kiss after watching a movie one day.
• Picky Eater: Downplayed. Once she starts thinking about a particular food, nothing else will satisfy her craving no matter how similar it is.
• Straight Man: She considers herself second to Karane in this department.
• Tsundere: Though she's less of a parody than Karane. She's grumpy and hostile to everyone when she's hungry, but apologetic and demure when fed. She's also more upfront (albeit reluctant) about her feelings than Karane. According to Kusuri, her disposition is the result of the "hangry factor".
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Kurumi has a somewhat rocky friendship with Momiji. Both of them have trouble understanding each other's interests, with Kurumi often getting annoyed at Momiji for groping her. Even so, the two of them still care for each other as seen in Chapter 155, where they both support each other at their own expense.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Kurumi has striking eyes that are shaped differently than everyone else's, and Rentarou finds them beautiful. Hakari has also complimented them, describing them as resembling emeralds when Kurumi is eating.
• Wingding Eyes: Her eyes turn into four-point stars when she's enjoying food.

Mei Meido

The Hyper-competent Maid
^{Click here to see her eyes}

Debut: Chapter 30 / Episode 11 ^note She makes various cameos prior to this, but Chapter 30 is when she makes her official debut as a girlfriend.

Voiced by: Suzuko Mimori (Japanese)

Hahari's trusty maid, who becomes the 8th girlfriend after Rentarou gets her to open her always-shut eyes.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: Downplayed. It’s not entirely clear if it is her in the manga, but in the anime, she’s the maid who informs Hahari of her daughter trying to jump out the window.
• Adopt-a-Servant: Hahari had originally offered to adopt her into the Hanazono family, but Mei turned it down in favor of working as a live-in maid.
• All There in the Manual: Her first meeting with Hahari, and the outline of her background, are covered in volume 4's bonus story. Her background was cut from the main manga for being so heart-rending it clashed too heavily with the tone.
• Ambiguously Bi: Is obviously attracted to Rentarou, but is also so devoted to Hahari that it practically crosses the line into Homoerotic Subtext. The clothing she and Rentarou were picking out as a gift for Hahari made them both gasp at the thought of her wearing them. Even her compliance to (attempt to) kiss Hahari is based on her asking.
• Animal Motifs: Mei is repeatedly compared to a dog, with how eagerly and excitedly she obeys her master's commands. She even gains ears and a wagging tail at times. Rentarou isn't too thrilled to make the comparison when she brings a cherry blossom branch to him at his request. This even comes up when designing an outfit to fit her idea of "Freedom" at Naddy's request, her outfit being a Sanrio Puppy onesie!
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Mei is usually very strict with Mai, but when Mai comes down with a fever, Mei spends the whole day and night looking after her, to the point where she's on the verge of collapsing. When Mai is unable to drink anything, Mei gives it to her through a kiss.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Hahari gave her a purpose in life after she was disowned by her Abusive Parents, leading her to view Hahari as greater than Buddha.
• Berserk Button: If you intend to cause Hahari harm in any fashion (even verbally), you'd better hope she doesn't permit Mei to retaliate. When idol trainer Tina Quali slaps Hahari, Mei's response is to immediately slap Tina right back, to everyone else's shock.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Submissive to her masters she may be, but she doesn't take kindly to underlings who cause trouble for the people she knows.
• Blasphemous Praise: Mei's devotion to Hahari is so deep that she places her above religious figures. During an exercise in Chapter 89 where everyone is supposed to be praising Buddha, Mei keeps praising Hahari instead.
• Blind Driving: She can drive a car while completely blind. And then she repeats the stunt with a helicopter.
• Broken Ace: She's ridiculously good at anything that's feasibly possible and isn't social, by virtue of being practically blind. Driving, water gun fights, trimming Mimimi's hair, etc. Unfortunately, she's lacking in common sense and self-worth.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Understood."
    • In the official English translation, it's "Your wish is my command."
  • "If I may be so bold."
• Chekhov's Gunman: She was a Living Prop for several chapters after Hahari joined the harem, before receiving A Day in the Limelight culminating in her becoming one of the girlfriends too.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her abusive parents were deep in debt and eventually abandoned her. She nearly froze to death before being found by Hahari. Chapter 143 reveals that she didn't even really understand the concept of playing when she first became a maid. When Hakari suggested they play with her dolls, Mei asked what the rules were.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • In Chapter 47, she and Rentarou look for a gift for Hahari to repay Mei's debt to her.
  • Chapter 89 has her and Iku go on an ascetic training course together.
  • Chapter 113 is an exploration of ethics with Nano and Momoha on a date with Rentarou.
  • Chapter 143 explores her relationships with Hakari and Mai.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype:
  • Mei embodies the fantasy of the servant who is utterly devoted to their master, who will obey their every command, who absolutely lives to serve... and as a result, she has nothing she lives for outside of her masters, not even herself. It turns out this is because she didn't value her life in the first place, her abusive childhood having effectively obliterated it.
  • She deconstructs the Eyes Always Shut character, as she is explicitly unable to see despite having functioning eyes, which is played for laughs.
• Denied Food as Punishment: Implied. She mentions in Chapter 89 that the food being served as part of the training would've been a veritable feast for her before she met Hahari.
• Disability Immunity: Because Mei's eyes are always closed, she's completely unaffected by the "steamy-as-hell challenge ramen", which was designed to hurt a person's eyes.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Her first confirmed appearance at the end of Chapter 20,^note while it isn't confirmed, it's possible that she was the maid who informed Hahari of her daughter attempting to jump out the window where she provides Hahari with a coil of rope as she and Hakari head off to peep on Rentarou. In the next chapter, she escorts the girls up to the attic above the bath, and in the chapter after that, she and Hahari see off Rentarou and the girls as they head home to collect their school uniforms.
• Emotionless Girl: To the point where even Nano comments on it. She has no thoughts or desires that don't pertain to serving her master.
• Expository Pronoun: Watakushi, as part of her formal behavior towards everyone.
• Extreme Doormat: She never questions a single order (real or perceived) from Hahari or Rentarou, to the point where she won't hesitate to attempt suicide if she thinks she failed either of them.
• Eyes Always Shut:
  • Mei has kept her eyes shut for so long that she can't open them. Unlike most examples, it's made explicit that Mei can't see like this and she relies on her other senses instead.
  • Chapter 148 suggests that rather than forgetting how to open her eyes, Mei's eyelids are legitimately difficult to open up, since Mei has no trouble opening her eyes in Mai's body while Mimimi can't open her eyes in Mei's body.
• Foil: To several of the other girlfriends.
  • Mei is emotionless due to constantly smiling, while Nano is emotionless due to never smiling.
  • Mei is willing to hurt herself if it means obeying what she thinks are orders from her master, while Iku is willing to hurt herself purely for pleasure.
  • Mei is completely obedient to Hahari (and later Rentarou) to a fault, while Naddy doesn't hesitate to assert herself against Hahari despite the latter being the former's boss.
  • 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.
  • Mei and Momoha were kicked out of their family's homes and eventually found by Hahari, and they both do work for her in exchange for living where they work. But while Mei's parents disowned her due to being crippled by loan shark debts, Momoha was disowned because her parents thought she was doing too much for them.
• Friendless Background: Being disowned by your parents and working as a live-in maid in the years afterward is unlikely to enable much opportunity to make many friends.
• Freudian Excuse: Her parents were crippled with loan shark debts to the point where they disowned her, leaving her believing that her life had no value whatsoever. To the point that she willingly turned down an offer to be adopted into the Hanazono family in favor of working as a live-in maid.
• Frozen Face: Mei has kept her eyes closed for so long that her facial muscles stopped working at will. It takes something happening to either Hahari or Rentarou to get a different reaction out of her.
• Game Face: If Mei's eyes are open while she's smiling, you're gonna have a bad time.
• Gratuitous French: The song she sings at the karaoke bar has French lyrics.
• Grew a Spine: Downplayed. Her second catchphrase "If I may be so bold" is first spoken in Chapter 54. It's a sign that she's learning to be more assertive.
• Handicapped Badass: Mei might effectively be blind, but her other senses are so sharp that she can do anything a person with sight can do, and she's consistently portrayed as one of the most competent members of the family.
• Happiness in Slavery: Not quite slavery, but she turned down an offer to be adopted into the Hanazono family in favor of working as a live-in maid.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Her self-worth is practically non-existent, hence why she dedicates her life to following orders so feverishly. When asked by Momoha how she thinks the harem sees her happiness, Mei ponders before answering "A stone along the roadside?" Thankfully, it's all Played for Laughs and they're all quick to correct her.
• Hired Help as Family: Despite Mei turning down an offer to be adopted by them in favor of working as a live-in maid, the Hanazonos still treat her as though she was part of the family.
• Improbable Piloting Skills: Can fly a helicopter while blind.
• Jerkass to One: The one person Mei is not an Extreme Doormat towards is Mai. Since Mai is working for Hahari and is Mei's subordinate/junior maid, Mei expects her to be on her best behavior so she doesn't reflect poorly on Hahari. Mei will even spank or otherwise hurt Mai if the latter really screws up or misbehaves.
• Love at First Sight: Literally. While all the girls start falling for Rentarou this way, Mei is introduced to him several chapters before she's revealed as one of his soulmates when she makes actual eye contact with him.
• Major Injury Underreaction: She never reacts to any kind of injuries (real or fake) more strongly than in a calm manner.
• Martyr Without a Cause: Due to her nonexistent self-worth, Mei is all too eager to sacrifice herself. Examples include offering to sell her organs and trying to block a flood with her own body.
• Meido: Mei has pretty much made being a maid her identity.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: When Mei found out Hahari formed a blister, she opened her eyes in shock and brought a makeshift ambulance to her location.
• Morality Pet: Serves as one to Hahari, who always keeps her emotions in check around Mei, never giving her an order that would involve Mei getting intimate with Hahari, and when she does ask for a kiss as a friend, she immediately decides against it when Mei starts vomiting blood at the thought of soiling her lips.
• Nightmare Face: As her eyes-open portrait demonstrates. While her eyes are supposedly lovely rainbow-like things, that can't really come across in a black-and-white medium. Combine that with the fact that she can only open those bright eyes when she's shocked or about to wipe the floor with you...
• Ninja Maid: She is unexpectedly agile in her maid uniform, to Karane's shock when she effortlessly dodges out of the way of her squirt gun. She's ultimately the last one standing in that game, only to be disqualified on a technicality. (Not that it matters, because Rentarou kisses everyone anyway as a reward.)
• Oh, Crap!: Invoked by Rentarou. Realizing the humiliating story he told her was about Hahari and not Rentarou is what finally causes her to open those bright eyes. Afterward, it's notable that the only time her eyes open is when she's having a moment like this.
• Old Retainer: The only trait of this trope that she lacks is being of an advanced age. That being the case, she's older than the students at Rentarou's school, and one of the other maids calls her an older sister despite not being her blood relative.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She has also been seen with open eyes when she's donning a Game Face.
• Parental Abandonment: Mei reveals in volume 4's bonus story that her parents, who were deep in debt to loan sharks, abused her, then eventually abandoned her to make her own way on the streets. By the time Hahari first met her, she already put little to no value on her life.
• Perpetual Smiler: Believes a maid should never stop smiling in front of her master. For some reason, this includes having her eyes closed, too.
• Phrase Catcher: "That wasn't an order!"
• Recruited from the Gutter: After Hahari learned Mei had been abandoned to wander the streets by her Abusive Parents, she and Hakari offered to adopt her as part of the family. Mei couldn't accept that, so she instead agreed to become a live-in maid.
• Satellite Character: Deconstructed. Mei is so devoted to Hahari and Rentarou that making her own decisions is alien to her and sees no value in taking care of herself. Rentarou and Hahari make efforts to break this.
• Significant Birth Date: May 10th, Japan's National Maid Day.
• Sprouting Ears: Mei sometimes sprouts dog ears and a tail when she's being especially dog-like in her loyalty.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: Her family name is Meido, and she's a maid (though they're not written the same way in Japanese).
• Suicide as Comedy: Has a bad habit of offering to kill herself if she makes a mistake while serving her mistress. Hahari is very fast to talk her out of it.
• Super-Senses: Due to having her Eyes Always Shut, blindfolds and blinding attacks have no effect on her, and her other senses are heightened to ludicrous levels.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Normally, a character with Eyes Always Shut is just a design choice and they can see perfectly fine. Mei is actually blind because her eyes are always closed.
• Technicolor Eyes: Mei has hypnotic, rainbow-colored eyes.
• Tranquil Fury: Even when Mei does get mad, she never drops her smile or even raises her voice.
• Undying Loyalty: Mei takes this to an extreme; she has no interests outside of serving her masters (Hahari and Rentarou), and she will obey any order given to her no matter how dangerous it may be to her health. She sees no value in taking care of herself because all she values is being of use and worth to her masters. Rentarou gets her to realize that her mere existence is valuable to him.
• Verbal Tic: Mei names pretty much everyone, even fictional characters, with the "Sama" honorific.^note The only person she doesn't address this way is Mai. She also refers to outside groups (and some items, especially foodstuffs) as "the Honored X".
• Workaholic: Chapter 172 reveals that Mei has a hard time not working. Mei states that when she tries to relax, she finds herself working without realizing. On her days off Mei puts all her effort into keeping still in adherence to Hahari's orders that "rest days are meant for resting".
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Her eyes are rainbow-colored, which Hahari comments on. Too bad that she rarely opens them.
• Whole Episode Flashback: Her backstory was relegated to a bonus chapter due to clashing too heavily with the rest of the manga.

Iku Sutou

The Sporty Masochist

Debut: Chapter 33

The 9th girlfriend. She is the only available member of the Girls' Baseball Club and a major masochist.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: She can be seen in the ending montage of Episode 12.
• Boyish Short Hair: Iku has short neck-length hair, befitting her status as a tomboy.
• Bridal Carry: After Rentarou's pushed his body past its limits, she gives him one.
• Challenge Seeker: She's gone out of her way to either make things harder for herself or take on more training than she needs multiple times.
• Character Catchphrase: "It hurts…!❤️" as well as exclamations of pain like "Ouch!❤️"
• Character Tics: She has a habit of scratching her cheek when embarrassed. She also thrusts her butt out when she's about to get hurt.
• Characterization Marches On: A very quick one. In her debut chapter, Iku enjoys pain in general and doesn't have any spots she prefers to be hurt in, as seen when she asks Rentarou to hit her in the stomach. The very next chapter would establish that while Iku loves pain, she enjoys getting hurt on her butt the most.
• Clark Kent Outfit: She's not overly buff and appears to have the average muscle build of a teenage girl, but she has a toned figure underneath her outfit.
• A Day in the Limelight: She gets the primary focus in Chapter 60, as she and Rentarou see a movie together and then go to a batting cage. She later shares one with Mei in Chapter 89, which sees the two of them embark on intense ascetic training. She shares Chapter 129 with Hahari and Momoha, as they desperately try to resist their impulses while trying to do over a date with Rentarou.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Somehow, "sporty girl enthusiastic about her dying club" becomes "masochist obsessed with Training from Hell", determination getting exaggerated into masochism, then looping back round into determination again. She's so determined to train that she collapses due to spending all night swinging, not even her masochism enough to keep her going.
• Determinator:
  • Trains overnight to the point she collapses, in response to how Rentarou and the others helped her.
  • Also parodied: at one point, she declares "If there's something I can't do, then that just means I wasn't trying hard enough!", which is fairly standard determinator-speak... except she's talking about filling in for an entire baseball team by herself.
  • Ironically, this is inverted when it comes to avoiding pain, as Iku is such a masochist that it's very hard for her to resist the urge to hurt herself when the opportunity arises.
• Didn't Think This Through: The reason why her club is about to be disbanded is that the other members went to America to study, with only her behind. Rentarou even calls this surpassing tunnel vision.
• Distinctive Appearances: Iku has striking purple eyes, although it only comes through in color.
• Early Personality Signs: Discovered baseball and masochism in quick succession as a young girl.
• Expository Pronoun: She uses the boku pronoun, and Rentarou mentions her "boyish charm".
• Foil:
  • Iku endures pain out of pure enjoyment, while Mei endures pain if she thinks it's her master's request.
  • Iku is a tomboy masochist, while Rin is an ingenue violence fetishist. Their compatibility as a sadist/masochist partnership was pretty much a Foregone Conclusion.
• Gone Horribly Right: When she was much younger, Iku was a crybaby who would give up on something once it got too tough. Her older brother tried to correct this once she started getting into baseball by telling her that she had to keep at something to improve at it, even if it hurt. Unfortunately, Iku concluded that "if powering through pain = getting better, then pain = a good thing", which awakened her masochism.
• Goroawase Number: Her birthday is January 9th, 1/9, which can be read as i (1) ku (9).
• Heroic RRoD:
  • Spends all night practicing her swing, then immediately passes out once she meets Rentarou and the girls the next day.
  • More comedically, it's later revealed that she does this to herself on purpose so that her muscles are in a constant state of pain. When Momiji forces her into a massage to alleviate it, Iku starts crying in remorse. The effect is compared to a case of Revive Kills Zombie.
• Hidden Depths: She’s shown to be an avid video gamer.
• I Am Not Pretty: Downplayed; she thinks she looks plain compared to the rest of the harem, consisting of beautiful women and cute girls.
• Implausible Deniability: Even though Iku goes out of her way to get hurt and clearly shows pleasure when she feels pain, she always denies being a masochist when someone calls her one.
• Ironic Name: "Sutou Iku" is a pun on "stoic". She is anything but.
• Joke of the Butt: There are a lot of jokes about how much Iku enjoys getting hit in the butt, to the point where just saying the word can get her attention.
• Kinky Spanking:
  • One of her recurring sources of pain is having her backside paddled with a baseball bat.
  • She feels betrayed that Mei could deliver painful spanking at the end of Chapter 102, but Mei obliges her on the matter in the chapter's bonus page.
• Loud Gulp: A frequent reaction to seeing something that could be painful.
• Lovable Jock: She's a baseball player and a hardcore masochist who doesn't have a mean bone in her body. No matter how many times the other girls call out Iku for her masochism or Determinator attitude, she never gets mad or even annoyed by their comments. At most, she just sheepishly denies being a masochist.
• Madness Mantra: Tries to sneak out of the infirmary after passing out from exhaustion, still saying, "Practice... gotta train..."
• Nightmare Fetishist: She loves horror movies because of her masochism. Watching The Bludge gives her heart eyes.
• Oblivious to Her Own Description: She's confused by Mimimi's impression of her enjoyment of pain in Chapter 112.
• Pain to the Ass: Iku enjoys getting hurt on her butt the most.
• Revive Kills Zombie: One of the few things that can upset her is when Momiji massages away her carefully cultivated muscle pain.
• Say It with Hearts: Iku's grunts of pain are always accompanied by a heart symbol to show how much she enjoys it.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Despite her not thinking so, she looks quite nice wearing a skirt.
• Spirited Competitor: Along with Kishika, Iku is ready to make or accept any possible physical challenge given the opportunity. Unlike Kishika, it's as often as not a chance to indulge her masochism. When Kishika joins the family, she challenges Kishika to a kendo match and is distraught when the practice swords they're using don't hurt. When she challenges Eira, she straps her target balloon to her butt. When jogging along with Kishika and Mimimi, both she and Kishika are baffled when Mimimi declines to race with them.
• Tomboy Angst: Iku shows a bit of this in Chapter 60. While she's normally fine being tomboyish when everyone's together, when it's just her and Rentarou, she feels she needs to be more feminine for it to be a proper date. Rentarou assures her at the end of their date that he loves Iku for being her boyish self.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She's as tomboyish as they come, but is perfectly happy to wear a skirt for her movie date with Rentarou.
• Too Kinky to Torture: She's a masochist that gets off to pain, physical or emotional. Even getting her heart broken.
  • According to Momiji, Iku's always in extreme pain due to her workouts causing muscle damage, to the point that Momiji wonders how Iku is able to even walk let alone act normal.
  • She deliberately messes up her concentration in Chapter 89 so that the machine monitoring her keeps smacking her. The Readings Are Off the Scale when the monk overseeing the training returns.
• Trauma Button: She once hit a home run that injured a girl in the audience, and since then standing in the batter's box causes the memory to resurface, and she freezes.
• Understatement: Says she is going to get in a little more practice after everyone leaves... and when they all return to school the next morning, she's done more than 100,000 practice swings, having been there all night without a break. To her, this is perfectly normal.^note And since there are only 86,400 seconds in a day, and she was only there for about eight hours, she must have managed to do about four or five swings per second! Of course, that's assuming her counting wasn't thrown out of whack during that time.
• Verbal Tic: Parodied. Her dialogue balloons have heart symbols when she's experiencing pain.
• When She Smiles: Chapter 36 ends with her giving a huge smile after hitting a walk-off grand slam and kissing Rentarou after he caught it, telling him she loves him.
• Whole Episode Flashback: Volume 5's bonus chapter is Iku's older brother Ikuya explaining how she became a masochist.
• Wingding Eyes: Her pupils turn into hearts whenever she's indulging her masochism.
• Your Answer to Everything: Iku's typical answer for anything is hard work, determination, or getting hit in the butt. When Suu asked Iku for advice that doesn't involve these things, Iku was left completely speechless.
  Suu: So there's literally nothing else in that head of yours?

Mimimi Utsukushisugi

The Narcissist

Debut: Chapter 39

The 10th girlfriend. She is Rentarou's upperclassman by one grade and is obsessed with looking beautiful.

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• Absurd Phobia: She actively avoided foods that are notorious for leaving stains on clothes, visibly trembling when Rentarou offered her a sip of a drink covered with chocolate syrup. By Chapter 83, she realized how absurd her fear was and decided to face her fear head-on by ordering a messy ramen dish.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: She can be seen in the ending montage of Episode 12.
• Attention Whore: She absolutely adores being the center of attention, even using this desire to distract a Camera Fiend trying to snap photos of Meme.
• Beauty Breeds Laziness: Defied. She puts in as much work as possible toward making herself beautiful by earning her own money and learning elocution. She also mentions that her idea of relaxation is doing yoga.
• Character Catchphrase: "Hmm, hmm, Naturally." In Japanese, it's "Utsukushi", which is part of her surname.
• Character Tics: Whenever Mimimi shows off, she points the front of her hand toward her chin, tilts her head up, closes her eyes, and makes a confident smile.
• Chekhov's Skill: Mimimi's running ability from her courier job is what lets the family win the final leg of the relay race.
• Comically Missing the Point: When Meme mentions wishing she could be more like Mimimi, the latter thinks Meme wants to look as beautiful as her, even though Meme was actually talking about having confidence in herself.
• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 112, which explores what happens when the muse-ical club requests she star in their play, Chapter 161, which sees her trying to help Nano get over her guilt for originally snubbing her on a visit to their junior high, and Chapter 174, which sees her offering to let Usa-chan vent her loneliness to her when Rentarou's off sick.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the narcissist obsessed with their own beauty. As far as she's concerned, beauty can't simply be bought, it has to be worked for as well, and she puts a lot of work into making herself beautiful, earning her own money, cutting costs wherever she can, doing facial regimens, and teaching herself elocution. Additionally, she acknowledges that other people can be beautiful as well, and is particularly admiring of Nano's beauty.
• Endearingly Dorky: Mimimi puts on an air of sophistication as another layer of beauty. While she can be genuinely dignified at times, her blatant attempts to stay that way and inability to act modest towards compliments (imagined or not) make her appear more "cute" than just beautiful. Rentarou lampshades as much about the latter on their first date.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Meme has a rather obvious crush on her.
• Expository Pronoun: Uses watakushi as part of presenting herself like an ojou.
• Face Your Fears: She avoided eating foods that are notorious for leaving stains on clothes, but she soon decided to take on a messy dish challenge in Chapter 83 to prove to herself that she could stay beautiful while eating messy foods.
• Fake Aristocrat: Gets called this by a trash-talker in Chapter 121 while she's hanging out with Hakari and Rin. Whereas the other two were born into high society, Mimimi gets called out as an ordinary person who's just faking it. However, her friends are quick to defend her and say that her constant efforts to be a refined and beautiful lady make her more real than the real thing.
• The Fashionista: Takes pride in dressing well and dresses up Rentarou in her style.
• Foil: To Meme. Mimimi constantly works towards being beautiful, while Meme tries to make herself stand out less. Mimimi loves being noticed and admired, while even slight attention being thrown her way causes Meme to make herself disappear.
• Forehead of Doom: Mimimi's hairstyle shows off her prominent forehead, which is sometimes used to pull off the classic Blinded by the Light gag. At one point she gets into a forehead-shoving match with Mai, who also has one.
• Foreshadowing: When she lists off the benefits of tofu onstage in Chapter 112, she's not just playing for time, as Chapter 174 reveals she lives above her family's tofu shop.
• Friendless Background: She secretly signed up Nano for a beauty pageant in junior high in an attempt at becoming friends with her, but the latter snubbed her on the award stage. Her initial interactions with Rentarou in her debut chapter indicate that the incident made her scared of making friends out of fear of them rejecting her, as she doesn't let Rentarou get a word in edgewise when she takes him shopping for new clothes at the mall.
• Goroawase Number: Her birthday is March 3rd, 3/3, which can be read as mi (3) mi (3). Not-so-coincidentally, Mimimi has three syllables.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: She never uses any profanity, no matter how mild.
• The Grace Face Pose: Mimimi frequently places the back of her hand under her chin when she's basking in praise.
• Graceful Loser: Despite the massive pride Mimimi holds in her beauty and talents, she's surprisingly graceful if someone manages to best her.
  • Although Mimimi was disappointed she lost a beauty pageant to Nano, she still congratulated Nano and offered to be friends with her. Nano callously turning her down causes Mimimi to develop a grudge against her until Nano apologizes.
  • After Mimimi and Rentarou both perform in a play, she isn't the least bit upset that Rentarou got more acclaim from his performances than her, as she simply congratulates him and proclaims she'll have to improve herself to keep up.
• Gratuitous French: Mimimi occasionally peppers her speech with French terms, likely to make herself sound classy.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Mimimi's official hair color is blonde, and in a departure to the usual Narcissist she values inner beauty the most and is supportive towards others. At worst she's just condescending without actually being malicious.
• Hidden Depths:
  • She believes that beauty isn't simply bestowed and it has to be created through continuous effort and earns her own money in order to do so. When a guy jeers at her, she ignores it, telling Rentarou that being envied is a consequence beautiful people must accept. She also views beauty as involving more than just external appearances, seeing Rentarou as having a beautiful heart.
  • Besides her beauty, her part-time job as a newspaper courier makes her a VERY fast runner. This comes in handy during the town sports festival.
  • Despite having no acting experience, she turns out to be a good impressionist in Chapter 112, with most of her impressions getting the nod from the family member she's mimicking, though she stumbles a couple of times: she's a bit too slow to perfectly replicate Meme's Stealth Hi/Bye and she needs a second try at Nano due to her timidity at trying to live up to Nano's beauty.
  • For a narcissist, she's capable of remarkable emotional maturity, informing Rentarou he should share his honest feelings rather than go to extremes trying to appease her.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her skin is so smooth that Rentarou is unable to maintain a firm grip on her during the sumo tournament. But it also makes it harder for her to stand barefoot, causing her to lose.
• Large Ham: She's nothing if not flowery in her mannerisms.
• Meaningful Name: Mimimi is "beautiful" repeated three times, and Utsukushisugi means "extremely beautiful".
• Modeling is Glamorous: She has aspirations of becoming a fashion model someday. When Rentarou uses her as a Lap Pillow in Chapter 56, his dream has her winning a Paris Fashion contest and inviting Rentarou onto the runway with her. When Rentarou and the gang set up merchandise stands on the roof in Chapter 87, she serves as a mannequin displaying one of the stand's outfits.
• Narcissist: Lampshaded by Rentarou. To the point where she expresses envy towards him for dating her when they just met. Although she does love Rentarou for his inner beauty. Thankfully, she doesn't have the worst aspects of narcissism like looking down on others or a Lack of Empathy.
• Nice Girl: Despite being a Narcissist, she is kind and caring, and values inner as well as outer beauty.
• Non-Uniform Uniform: She pretty much doesn't wear the uniform at all, instead wearing a bodice over her top and fancy stockings and boots below her skirt. Yet she still designs something completely different when Naddy has the girls dress the way they always wanted to instead of what the school demands of them.^note Given that her "freedom outfit" was three times as tall as herself, it's understandable that her normal outfit is what it is.
• Not Good with Rejection: Downplayed. Nano coldly rejecting her hand at friendship made her sensitive to it, which she admits is what made her act oblivious to Rentarou questioning her upfront proposal to be his girlfriend.
• Of Corsets Sexy: She wears a corset as outerwear on her school uniform, which accentuates her figure.
• The Pratfall: Her skin is so smooth that if she takes her shoes off and the ground under her is smooth, she risks slipping and falling.
• Proud Beauty: Very much so, though it's made clear in her introduction chapter that she's proud because she puts so much work into being beautiful.
• Punny Name: To English speakers, Mimimi happens to sound like "Me, me, me!" which plays into how she comes across as a vain narcissist.
• The Rival: To Nano. In the past Nano had bested Mimimi in a beauty pageant (Which Mimimi orchestrated for Nano to sign up for in the first place) and when Mimimi offered a hand in friendship Nano, already deep into being an emotionless logic-driven being, snubbed her. This causes resentment in Mimimi in the present and she challenges Nano to a beauty seeking contest for Rentarou's affection. They settle the snub, but Mimimi still wants to make up for her original loss and eventually has them take part in another beauty contest to finally settle things - or so it seems. In truth, Mimimi recognized that Nano still felt guilt over rejecting her in the past, and thus attempted to arrange a situation that would allow Nano to finally move past her regrets and realize that Mimimi is thankful for the present and her current relationship with Nano, as well as the person she became as a result of the snub. The two come in first together, and Mimimi once again extends her hand to Nano, which the other girl takes this time.
• Rule of Funny: When exactly her exceedingly smooth skin causes problems for her seems dependent on this. It can be assumed that rough surfaces are easier for her to stand on barefoot than smooth surfaces, and smoother objects are harder to hold than rougher objects.
• Statuesque Stunner: She has a few inches over Rentarou and the rest of the girls (Aside from Shiina and Yamame).
• Stepford Smiler: Parodied. When put in less-than-comfortable situations, like getting cramped in a photo booth with several people or in the middle of a storm, she just smiles to endure.
• Straight Man: Zig-Zagged. On occasion, she snarks at the series' weirdness, though her own narcissism tends to mess it up half the time.
• Super-Reflexes: Mimimi developed the ability to dodge messy things so her clothes wouldn't get dirty.
• Unsound Effect: Even her sound effects are accompanied by the word "Naturally."
• Verbal Tic: Tends to say "naturally" and "of course" a lot, especially when explaining something or receiving (what she thinks is) a compliment.
  • The official English translation has her saying "indeed".
• Workplace-Acquired Abilities: Uses her beautician skills (and a hair brush) to parry Hahari's attacking hair.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: Sees herself as this, as does Rentarou. While she very much admires Nano's beauty, it's not until Chapter 161 that she finally accepts her as her equal.

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