Akari Akaza

The protagonist... sort of. Thirteen-year-old Akari is just starting her first year of middle school, and she's excited to be reunited with her one-year-older friends Kyouko and Yui. She wastes no time joining her sempais in their "Amusement Club," and after that Hilarity Ensues — often at her expense.

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• Alliterative Name
• Butt Monkey: It seems the whole world is against the poor girl.
• Crazy-Prepared: Shown to carry band-aids and tissues on her at all times.
• Decoy Protagonist
• Designated Victim: While everyone else gets only one kiss from Chitose's choco-intoxicated kissing spree, Akari gets three.
• Expressive Hair: Her odango buns pop off and reattach when she's surprised.
• Genki Girl
• Goofy Print Underwear: Most notably the missing ones with the big smiling crab on them.
• Idiot Hair
• The Messiah: To the point that in Season 2 Episode 12 the other girls are blinded by her radiance.
• Nice Girl
• Not a Morning Person: Starts the series oversleeping. In Season 1 Episode 12 (the last), she's the only one still in bed by the time everyone's brushing their teeth.
• Oblivious to Love: Couldn't catch onto Chinatsu's feelings for Yui, to the point that she wonders whether it has become normal for girls to want to kiss each other.
• Odango Hair: In one dream sequence she refers to it as her one and only distinguishing characteristic.
• Ordinary Middle School Student/The Generic Girl: Even her best friends say that her most remarkable trait is being unremarkable!
• Out of Focus: Her Running Gag.
• Purple Eyes
• Red Headed Heroine: For a certain value of "protagonist".
• Third-Person Person: Fitting as she is rather childish.
• Unsound Effect: "\Akkari~n/", the sound of a person turning invisible from sheer lack of presence.
• Verbal Tic: A temporary one in Season 2 Episode 6.
• Who Is This Gal Again?

Kyouko Toshinou

Fourteen-year-old Kyouko is a blonde ditz with a crush on Chinatsu and is a constant annoyance to her best friend Yui. Despite her laziness, she proves to be a cram test top-scorer and is also a doujin artist.

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• Always Someone Better: How Ayano sees her, which fuels her one-sided rivalry.
• Brilliant, but Lazy
• Catchphrase: "Kyupi~n", which technically is Mirakurun's catchphrase, but Kyouko uses it a lot more often.
• Chaste Hero
• Fangirl: Of Mirakurun.
• Fragile Flower: When she was younger she was very shy and prone to cry a lot.
• Genki Girl
• Otaku Surrogate: To the point that she drags Yui, Ayano, and Chitose to Comuket in Season 1 Episode 5.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Strongly leaning towards Chinatsu, on account of the latter resembling Mirakurun.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Häagen-Dazs's Rum Raisin ice cream.
• Unknown Rival: To Ayano.

Yui Funami

Fourteen-year-old Yui is Akari's childhood friend, as well as the club's sole voice of reason.

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• Boyish Short Hair
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: For Kyouko.
• Cool Big Sis: She's this to her clubmates, especially for Kyouko during their preschool days.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Upon entering grade school, as a means of making herself look tougher for the sake of Kyouko.
• Gamer Chick: Likes to play RPGs in particular.
• Heh Heh, You Said X: There's nothing remotely erotic about Ayano's puns, but Yui... boy, will she crack up at the slightest hint of it.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: The reason she joins the Amusement Club in the first place.
• Morality Pet: A self-appointed one for Kyouko to keep her from going wild on her fantasies.
• Only Sane Girl: For the most part.
• The Reliable One
• The Stoic: Most of the time...
  • Not So Stoic: ...Unless it's one of Ayano's incredibly lame puns.
• Tomboy: As a kid. As shown in one episode, she still has trouble speaking in a "feminine" style.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: In her younger years.
• Wise Beyond Her Years: Yui already lives on her own in an apartment. Justified in that a relative owns said complex and is presumably keeping an eye on her.

Chinatsu Yoshikawa

Thirteen-year-old Chinatsu originally wanted to go to Tea Club, but ended up in the Amusement Club after the former was disbanded. To her chagrin, her uncanny resemblance to Mirakurun makes her a frequent target of Kyouko's cosplay pursuits.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: A mild example. She's not that bad, but neither is she as innocent and sweet as she first appears (except where Yui is concerned). And then there's Episode 5.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Used to be one as a preschooler.
• Celebrity Resemblance: Chinatsu is a dead ringer for Mirakurun, much to Kyouko's delight and her dismay.
  • Kyouko finally gets her to cosplay — albeit reluctantly — as Mirakurun in Season 1 Episode 6 in order to entertain Mari.
• Cute Little Fang: When she's being mischievous.
• Forgotten Friend, New Foe: Inverted — She doesn't remember being the bully who got into an altercation with Yui, Kyouko and Akari as kids.
• Girlish Pigtails
• Green Eyes
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Just... her drawings. Now poor Akari is traumatized!
  • This apparently applies to everything she makes - the muffler and chocolate she made for Yui in season 2 were so incredibly horryfing that they were censored. However, the chocolate she made for practice and, according to her, didn't put effort into, was completely normal.
• Phrase Catcher: Her unenthusiastic Mirakurun cosplay will inevitably cause children to remark "Life is sour."
• Rose-Haired Girl
• Sempai Kohai/Single-Target Sexuality: With Yui.
• Terrible Artist
• Tsundere: While she remains strongly Yui-sexual, Season 2 Episode 1 shows hints of this trope towards Kyouko.
• Yandere: She's starting to show shades of this come Season 1 Episodes 5-6.

Ayano Sugiura

Fourteen-year-old Vice-President of the Student Council, master of place-name puns, and a tsundere par excellence regarding Kyouko, whom she resents for consistently topping her on tests even with several days' worth of study.

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• Always Second Best: To Kyouko. She doesn't take it well.
• Full Name Basis
  "Toshinou Kyouko!!!"
• Hard Work Hardly Works: Studies day and night ahead of exams... and Kyouko still tops her with barely a single night's study.
• Pungeon Master
• Purple Eyes
• Student Council Vice President
• Those Two Girls: With Chitose.
• Tomboyish Ponytail
• Trademark Favorite Food: Crème caramels.
• Tsundere: A strong Type A for Kyouko.
• You Gotta Have Reddish-Purple Hair

Chitose Ikeda

Fourteen-year-old member of the Student Council who is always seen together with Ayano. While she generally comes of as a rather sweet kid, that belies a rather perverted mind.

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• Audience Surrogate: A major Yuri Fangirl, just like the series' target audience.
• Covert Pervert: When she has her glasses on. When she takes them off, you can drop the "covert" part.
• The Glasses Come Off: ...And the yuri goggles come on.
• Intoxication Ensues: Becomes a hyper kissing machine after eating chocolate.
• Kansai Regional Accent
• Kissing Under the Influence: See Intoxication Ensues above.
• Lovable Sex Maniac
• Meganekko
• Nosebleed: Pretty much any time Ayano and Kyouko are in the same scene.
• Shipper on Deck: For Ayano/Kyouko. Very strongly.
• Smart People Wear Glasses
• Tareme Eyes
• Those Two Girls: With Ayano.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pickled vegetables.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl
• Yuri Fangirl: Nosebleeds at even the tiniest bit of lesbian subtext between her friends. It helps that she has an active imagination.

Himawari Furutani

A thirteen-year-old freshman and candidate for next year's Student Council Vice-Presidency, known for a rather shapely figure (not to mention well-stacked) for an early teen. She is generally a polite, sweet girl — except towards her rival, Sakurako.

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• Belligerent Sexual Tension: with Sakurako.
• Big Breasts, Big Deal: Type III.
• Gag Boobs/Gainaxing
• The Rival: To Sakurako.
• Tsundere: Type B; she's a Nice Girl to everyone except Sakurako.
• Twintails
• Vitriolic Best Friends: With Sakurako. With the amount of arguing they do, some must wonder why they hang out so much.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Takes refuge on top of a desk while Sakurako tries to catch a snake in the student council room.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Sakurako Ohmuro

Another thirteen-year-old candidate for the Student Council Vice-Presidency, naturally setting her up to a clash with Himawari (one that isn't helped by her complex about her flat chest), with whom she has ambiguously lesbian feelings. Really immature to contrast Himawari's dependability.

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• A-Cup Angst: Made worse by the fact that her chief rival for Student Council Vice-Presidency is rather well-stacked.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Himawari.
• Black Sheep: Sakurako's sisters are Wise Beyond Their Years. Compared to them Sakurako would look like a Man Child.
• Brilliant, but Lazy
• Broken Record: The title of her character song "Kirai Janai Mon".
  • She also can't seem to go a single scene without mentioning Himawari's breasts in some way.
• Cry Cute: Season 2 Episode 3, at the tail end of a temper tantrum over Himawari spending more time with Chinatsu than her.
• The Ditz
• Green-Eyed Monster: Becomes the very definition of this when Himawari spends time after school teaching Chinatsu to knit a scarf for Valentine's day instead of tutoring her. She even throws a tantrum alone in her room and begins crying.
• Hero Worshipper: Admires Akari for her helpfulness, to the point of imagining her as a super-powered champion of justice.
• Middle Child Syndrome
• The Rival: To Himawari.
• The Slacker: What sets her apart from her sisters.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Apparently, she's the only one who cares about Akari and her presence, aside from Akane.
• Tsundere: For Himawari.
• Vitriolic Best Friends: With Himawari. Despite all the constant bickering they get into, they spend a lot of time together.
• Why Did It Have to Be Cockroackes?

Rise Matsumoto

The fifteen-year-old Student Council President... and a weirdly silent, barely-present one, at that.

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• Hime Cut
• Last Name Basis: Nishigaki-sensei always refers to her as "Matsumoto".
• The Quiet One: When she does speak, her words are so quiet they almost go unheard.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: ...Or at least take heed to this otherwise nondescript girl.
• She Was Right There All Along: Suffers from an even less presence than Akari, as Chitose notes that she's been around the main cast a few times, much to their surprise.
• She Who Must Not Be Heard: Prior to her formal introduction in Episode 9, a row of ellipses would appear onscreen when she is speaking to Chitose.
• She Who Must Not Be Seen: Prior to her introduction Rise played this role, with only her hands visible at times.
• Student Council President
• Teacher/Student Romance: Of the lesbian variant with Nishigaki-sensei. When asked by Ayano what kind of experiments they do together, her reply is a furious blush.
• The Unintelligible/Intelligible Unintelligible: Nishigaki-sensei (and possibly Chitose) can understand what she says, much to Ayano's surprise.

Akane Akaza

Akari's nineteen-year-old older sister with an unhealthy fascination for her younger sister and everything related to her.

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• Alliterative Name
• Cool Big Sis: Fetish for her younger sister aside, Akane is also shown to be a pretty caring and loving sister.
• Eyes Always Shut: As shown in the manga and Season 2 Episode 7.
• Lovable Sex Maniac
• Orwellian Retcon: Early in the manga, Akane was originally Akari's (unnamed) older brother. He was converted into a girl for the anime, and this change persisted into more recent manga chapters.
• Sister-Sister Incest: Akane is infatuated with her younger sister.
• Schoolgirl Lesbian: As if stalking Akari wasn't enough, she has a relationship with Chinatsu's older sister Tomoko!
• Stalker Shrine: Including an Akari dakimakura (hug pillow) — covered in lipstick kisses.
• You Gotta Have Red Hair
• Zettai Ryouiki

Kaede Furutani

Himawari's younger, six-year-old sister.

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• Big Ol' Eyebrows
• Cuteness Overload: Inspires this upon Sakurako.
• The Cutie
• From the Mouths of Babes: In episode 5 of season 2, while waiting for Himawari, Sakurako makes another A-Cup Angst joke about her. Kaede arrives at the front door, and asks if she hates boobs. Sakurako says she doesn't, and then Kaede innocently says she'll share her boobs with Sakurako. Later, she brings some milk for her in an attempt to increase her bust size. Sakurako holds back hitting her since she doesn't know any better.
• Morality Pet: For Sakurako.
• Nice Girl
• Token Mini Moe: For the Himawari/Sakurako stories.
• Wise Beyond Her Years
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Mari

A relative of Yui who enjoys the Mirakurun Show Within a Show.

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• Broken Pedestal: How she ultimately sees Mirakurun lookalike Chinatsu after overhearing her lapse into her actual personality beneath the costume, causing a major dissonance between expectations and reality.
• Brown Eyes
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Her default expression.
• Fangirl: Of Mirakurun.
• Girlish Pigtails
• Strong Family Resemblance: With Yui.

Chizuru Ikeda

Chitose's twin sister, who's just as perverted as her, but shows it with excessive drooling.

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• Covert Pervert
• Green Eyes
• Kansai Regional Accent
• Meganekko
• Perverted Drooling: Her Character Tic.
• Shipper on Deck: For Ayano/Chitose.
• Stalker with a Crush: The preview of Season 2 Episode 7 shows her room filled with pictures of Kyouko all over the walls. Turns out she put them as a self-inflicted Fan Disservice to keep herself from fantasizing about Chitose and Ayano. Though she could just be extremely Tsundere for Kyouko...
• Theme Twin Naming: Their given names are two kanji characters long, with one character in common (千).
• Tsurime Eyes
• Tsundere: Kyoko calls her this, much to her annoyance.
• Twincest: One of the chocolate-induced Chitose's victims in the final episode. After being kissed by her, Chizuru looks like she enjoyed it.
  • In season 2, episode 3, when Chitose eats her valentine days chocolate at home, she starts furiously kissing her, over and over again, and she doesn't seem to mind at all.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl
• Yuri Fangirl: Just like her sister, though with a different reaction.

Tomoko Yoshikawa

Chinatsu's older sister who has an implied relationship with Akane.

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• Nightmare Fetishist: Same as her sister. She thought the background Chinatsu drew for the school play was beautiful.
• Rose-Haired Girl: Combined with "Curtains Match the Window".
• Schoolgirl Lesbian: Implied to be one with Akane.
• Twintails

Nadeshiko Ohmuro

Sakurako's older, eighteen-year-old sister and a college student.

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• The Ace
• The Comically Serious
• Deadpan Snarker
• Meganekko
• Schoolgirl Lesbian: Has an unnamed girlfriend, with whom she shared a futon once.
• Teen Genius
• Wise Beyond Her Years

Hanako Ohmuro

Sakurako's younger, eight-year-old sister and a grade-school student.

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• The Ace
• Brown Eyes
• Child Prodigy
• Little Miss Snarker: Where her Black Sheep of an immediate older sister is concerned.
• Rapunzel Hair
• Third-Person Person
• Token Mini Moe: For the Ohmuro household stories (especially the Ohmuro-ke web spinoff comics).
• Wise Beyond Her Years

Nana Nishigaki

A science teacher with a fascination both for explosive experiments and Rise.

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• Alliterative Name
• Hot Scientist/Hot Teacher
• Mad Scientist: Of the sorts — she dabbles in various experiments, often with the very willing Rise as her guinea pig.
• Peek-A-Bangs
• Stuff Blowing Up: The usual result of her experiments.
• Teacher/Student Romance: A lesbian variant of the sorts, with Rise.
• Translator Buddy: Serves as this for Rise.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl

Kurumi/Mirakurun

The eponymous protagonist of "Majokko Mirakurun", a popular Magical Girl Show Within a Show and Kyouko and Mari's favorite show.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Apparently, both her mundane and transformed forms are like this according to the fanime of Kyouko's doujin circle.
• Detached Sleeves
• Girlish Pigtails: Both in normal and transformed states.
• Final Speech: Parodied as she keeps reviving to add more to it, going so far as to ask for a sandwich.
• Magical Girl
• Meaningful Name: Her name is a pun on the word "miracle".
  • Steven Ulysses Perhero
• Rose-Haired Girl: Also goes with "Curtains Match the Window".
• Trademark Favorite Food: Cabbage with miso.
• Transformation Name Announcement: "Mirakurun Pretty Change! The Witch of Love and Justice - Mirakurun - has arrived!"
• Zettai Ryouiki

Raika/Rivalun

Mirakurun's, well, rival majokko disguising as Mirakurun's classmate.

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• Dark Magical Girl
• Detached Sleeves
• Living with the Villain: Disguised as Mirakurun's classmate. The latter doesn't wise up until late in their show.
• Meaningful Name: Just like Mirakurun, her name is a pun on "rival".
• Meganekko: As Raika.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Stripperiffic: Her upper clothing is basically nothing more than a bikini top.
• The Rival: To Mirakurun, naturally.
• You Gotta Have Cerulean Hair: Unless Ayano is cosplaying as her.

Ganbo

Rivarun's sidekick.

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• Expy: Bears a passing resemblance to Pac-Man.
• Robot Buddy: Apparently. He was Mirakurun's enemy in the manga.