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* MethodActing: Maya's M.O. for learning most roles. Play a blind-deaf girl? Live several days with bound eyes and plugged ears. Play a wolf? Drive your roommate insane by only walking on all fours and communicating with animal noises.[[invoked]]
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* GrassIsGreener: Envies Ayumi for her loving parents and having had ample opportunity from a young age onward to expand and improve her acting skills.
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* GrassIsGreener: Envies Maya for having real friends that love and support her, and believes that Maya entering the acting world late and with natural talent meant she was much more free than Ayumi ever considered herself, who keeps worrying about her family's reputations following her.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her childhood shows that she was a streetrat and took to thievery to survive, until Ichiren Ozaki found and took her in. She ended up catching the eye of Eisuke Hayami, who began to use his connections to keep her theater group from performing when she spurned his advances. She ended up separated from Ichiren and found him, only for him to commit suicide shortly after. When she kept performing the Crimson Goddess for his sake, the accident occured that ended her injury.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her childhood shows that she was a streetrat and took to thievery to survive, until Ichiren Ozaki found and took her in. She ended up catching the eye of Eisuke Hayami, who began to use his connections to keep her theater group from performing when she spurned his advances. She ended up separated from Ichiren and found him, only for him to commit suicide shortly after. suicide. When she kept performing the Crimson Goddess for his sake, the accident occured that ended her injury.career.
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!!Chigusa Tsukikage
-->'''Voiced by''': Taeko Nakanishi (original TV series), Creator/KeikoToda (OAV's), Creator/ToshikoFujita (2005 series)
The original Crimson Goddess and, despite having left the stage years ago, still a well-known actress. She left the stage after a spotlight fell and hit her face, badly burning half of it. She's looking for an actress who is remarkable and can take over her role as the Crimson Goddess.
-->'''Voiced by''': Taeko Nakanishi (original TV series), Creator/KeikoToda (OAV's), Creator/ToshikoFujita (2005 series)
The original Crimson Goddess and, despite having left the stage years ago, still a well-known actress. She left the stage after a spotlight fell and hit her face, badly burning half of it. She's looking for an actress who is remarkable and can take over her role as the Crimson Goddess.
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Tsukikage was a well-known actress, with her most famous role being the mysterious Crimson Goddess
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She found Maya acting for some children in a park and became interested in her, only piqued when she realized that the girl knew the entire script and attitude for every character in ''The Camellia Lady'', despite having seen it performed only once. Tsukikage offered her a place at her acting school as a scholarship student.\\
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When the school ended up being taken away from her, she was thinking of giving up, but several of her students insisted on remaining by her side. Her plan is to find a student that had the potential to portray the Crimson
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Tsukikage has a weak heart and other health issues, leading her to choose to move to the remote village where the character of the Crimson Goddess was initially born. She instructs Maya and Ayumi there on the Crimson Goddess and is testing them to see how each of them interprets her.
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* CareerEndingInjury: During a performance of the Crimson Goddess, a spotlight fell onto her face, burning half of it badly (or, in the OAV's [[BowdleRize causing her an unseen stab-like wound]]. She stopped going on stage ever since. She does go back on stage as Queen Dowager Haldora in ''The Two Princesses'', a minor role.
* DownerBeginning: TheNineties OAV series starts with the accident that took Tsukikage's acting career away.
* HotForTeacher: She was in love with her acting-mentor and adoptive-father Ichiren Ozaki.
* [[IllGirl Ill Woman]]: Apparently has heavy heart issues, which often require her to have surgery and remain bed-ridden for longer periods of time.
* MeaningfulName: Her first big role as an actress was the moon goddess Diana. Ichiren likely derived her stage-name from that: Tsukikage is written with the kanji for Moon and Shadow.
* MeaningfulRename: Her real name was Chizu, though when she entered the acting world, Ichiren suggested her stage-name of 'Chigusa Tsukikage'. She has gone by that name ever since.
* PeekABangs: Her hair covers the right side of her face. For good reason, it hides the half of her face that was horribly burnt during an accident on stage.
* RagsToRiches: She used to be a poor thief girl named Chizu, but thanks to Ichiren taking her in, she got a decent home and ended up becoming a well-off, well-known actress. Due to the war going on and other events, she seems to have lost her wealth, though, since she asked Aoyagi for funding to open her theater school.
* SadistTeacher: She slaps her students with rolled-up scripts when they aren't doing something right, slams her fist into Maya's stomach to teach her how to properly breathe and speak for stage-acting, and locks her disciples away into a freezer, to make them learn how to properly act their roles.
* DownerBeginning: TheNineties OAV series starts with the accident that took Tsukikage's acting career away.
* HotForTeacher: She was in love with her acting-mentor and adoptive-father Ichiren Ozaki.
* [[IllGirl Ill Woman]]: Apparently has heavy heart issues, which often require her to have surgery and remain bed-ridden for longer periods of time.
* MeaningfulName: Her first big role as an actress was the moon goddess Diana. Ichiren likely derived her stage-name from that: Tsukikage is written with the kanji for Moon and Shadow.
* MeaningfulRename: Her real name was Chizu, though when she entered the acting world, Ichiren suggested her stage-name of 'Chigusa Tsukikage'. She has gone by that name ever since.
* PeekABangs: Her hair covers the right side of her face. For good reason, it hides the half of her face that was horribly burnt during an accident on stage.
* RagsToRiches: She used to be a poor thief girl named Chizu, but thanks to Ichiren taking her in, she got a decent home and ended up becoming a well-off, well-known actress. Due to the war going on and other events, she seems to have lost her wealth, though, since she asked Aoyagi for funding to open her theater school.
* SadistTeacher: She slaps her students with rolled-up scripts when they aren't doing something right, slams her fist into Maya's stomach to teach her how to properly breathe and speak for stage-acting, and locks her disciples away into a freezer, to make them learn how to properly act their roles.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: The OVA altered the injury she sustained from the falling spotlight. Instead of her face being burned by the hot glass, it caused her a stab wound that is never actually shown.
* CareerEndingInjury: During a performance of the Crimson Goddess, a spotlight fell onto herface, burning half of face and burned it, leaving it badly (or, in heavily scarred. She left the OAV's [[BowdleRize causing her an unseen stab-like wound]]. She stopped going on stage ever since. She does go back on stage as Queen Dowager Haldora a performer, though still took on a minor role in ''The Two Princesses'', Princesses''.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her childhood shows that she was aminor role.
streetrat and took to thievery to survive, until Ichiren Ozaki found and took her in. She ended up catching the eye of Eisuke Hayami, who began to use his connections to keep her theater group from performing when she spurned his advances. She ended up separated from Ichiren and found him, only for him to commit suicide shortly after. When she kept performing the Crimson Goddess for his sake, the accident occured that ended her injury.
* DownerBeginning:TheNineties OAV series starts The OVA opens up with the accident that took caused Tsukikage's acting career away.
to end.
* HotForTeacher:She was Was in love with her acting-mentor acting teacher, and adoptive-father adoptive father, Ichiren Ozaki.
*[[IllGirl Ill Woman]]: Apparently has IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Since she was basically an adoptive daughter to Ichiren and he was happily married, she kept her romantic feelings for him in check. When his wife and child died during the second world war, Tsukikage eventually confessed to Ichiren.
* IllGirl: Has heavy heart issues, which often require her to have surgery and remain bed-ridden forlonger long periods of time.
* InterruptedSuicide: Wanted to kill herself after Ichiren died, but Genzo stopped her, reminding her that she was the inheritor of The Crimson Goddess playrights. Tsukikage stayed alive and played the goddess, intent on keeping Ichiren's will alive and the play out of Eisuke Hayami's hands.
* LastNameBasis: Most people refer to her as Tsukikage, with her first name rarely ever mentioned.
* MeaningfulName: Herfirst big role as an actress was the moon goddess Diana. Ichiren likely derived her stage-name from that: Tsukikage last name is written with the kanji for Moon and Shadow.
Shadow. Ichiren chose it, deriding it from her first, big role as the moon goddess Diana.
* MeaningfulRename: Her real name was Chizu, though when sheentered the acting world, started acting, Ichiren suggested her stage-name of 'Chigusa Tsukikage'. She has gone by that name ever since.
picked a stage name.
* PeekABangs:Her Purposefully keeps her hair covers styled to hide the right burnt side of her face. For good reason, it hides the half of her face that was horribly burnt during an accident on stage.
face.
* RagsToRiches:She used Played with, as she's initially shown to be have been a poor thief girl named Chizu, but thanks to Ichiren taking her in, streetrat that got taken in by Ichiren. Through his care and mentoring, she got became a decent home and ended up becoming a well-off, well-known and well-off actress. Due to the war going on and other events, she seems to have lost her wealth, though, since she asked Aoyagi for funding to open her theater school.
* SadistTeacher: Her teaching methods are brutal. Sheslaps her has slapped students with rolled-up scripts when they aren't for not doing something right, slams her fist and locked them into Maya's stomach to teach her how freezers to properly breathe and speak for stage-acting, and locks her disciples away into a freezer, to make teach them learn just how to cold the country in ''The Two Princesses'' is, so they can properly act portray their roles.
characters. On the other hand, she subjects herself to brutal conditions as well while teaching them, like performing for hours during a winterstorm to figure out how to best portray a character.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Convinced that she's dying soon because of her weak heart. She hopes that whatever time she has left will at least allow her to name a successor for the Crimson Goddess.
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* CareerEndingInjury: During a performance of the Crimson Goddess, a spotlight fell onto her
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her childhood shows that she was a
* DownerBeginning:
* HotForTeacher:
*
* IllGirl: Has heavy heart issues, which often require her to have surgery and remain bed-ridden for
* InterruptedSuicide: Wanted to kill herself after Ichiren died, but Genzo stopped her, reminding her that she was the inheritor of The Crimson Goddess playrights. Tsukikage stayed alive and played the goddess, intent on keeping Ichiren's will alive and the play out of Eisuke Hayami's hands.
* LastNameBasis: Most people refer to her as Tsukikage, with her first name rarely ever mentioned.
* MeaningfulName: Her
* MeaningfulRename: Her real name was Chizu, though when she
* PeekABangs:
* RagsToRiches:
* SadistTeacher: Her teaching methods are brutal. She
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Convinced that she's dying soon because of her weak heart. She hopes that whatever time she has left will at least allow her to name a successor for the Crimson Goddess.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: [[invoked]] Her standard method to learn how to play a role is to become the character. This includes things such as heading off into the wild mountains and trying to live off of whatever she can scavenge to survive, to better learn how to act instinctual as the wolf-raised Jane.
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* DyingForYourArt: [[invoked]] Starved herself to look the part of the imprisoned, malnourshed Princess Origeld.
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* DyingForYourArt: DyeingForYourArt: [[invoked]] Starved herself to look the part of the imprisoned, malnourshed Princess Origeld.
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!!Haru Kitajima
-->'''Voiced by''': Haruko Kitahama (original TV series), Tomoko Munakata (2005 series)
Maya's mother. She works in a noodle restaurant, where her daughter helped out at times, too. Haru was against Maya learning to act and wanted to force her to come back home after she ran away, but eventually gave her okay to stay. Haru eventually falls ill with tuberculosis and ends up in a hospital, being taken care of, while being left in the dark of her daughter's success.
-->'''Voiced by''': Haruko Kitahama (original TV series), Tomoko Munakata (2005 series)
Maya's mother. She works in a noodle restaurant, where her daughter helped out at times, too. Haru was against Maya learning to act and wanted to force her to come back home after she ran away, but eventually gave her okay to stay. Haru eventually falls ill with tuberculosis and ends up in a hospital, being taken care of, while being left in the dark of her daughter's success.
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!!! '''Voiced by''' Creator/MinoriMatsushima (TV series),
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Ayumi is a young actress and part of the Ondine Theater company. Her mother is an actress and her father a director, leading to people believing that her success in show business came from familial connections. However, Ayumi refuses to let those interfere with her career.\\
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* AngerBornOfWorry: She's harsh with her words, but overall means well. Her anger when she finds Maya at Tsukikage's theater stems from the fact that Maya ran away from home, in the middle of the night, with barely a note left behind.
* FantasyForbiddingMother: Laughs at Maya being an actress and forbids her to attend acting classes. This leads to Maya becoming TheRunaway.
* [[IllGirl Ill Woman]]: Coughing, tuberculosis, all part of her character arc.
* IHaveNoDaughter: Disowns Maya when she refuses to return home.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Haru. It *is* actual tuberculosis, and she likely could have been healed if only she had the money to afford *real* treatment (instead of just being locked away in a country house by Hayami), and didn't go hitchhiking in the rain searching for Maya. Somewhat subverted, since in the end the main cause of death was [[spoiler:being hit by a car]]. Also, played straight by Tsukikage.
** In the manga she was in an actual hospital, not locked away in a country house. Hayami just paid the doctors there to keep them from leaking information about Haru's whereabouts to the press or them saying anything about Maya to Haru. Whatever her sickness was, it can be assumed she did receive treatment for it in her time at the hospital, but it was likely too late to actually do lots.
* TheLostLenore: Her death was a major hit to her daughter.
* RasputinianDeath: Spends hours walking in the rain and getting drenched, leading to hypothermia, which causes her tuberculosis to have a relapse, she gets a fever, gets hit by a car and eventually succumbs to an internal hemorrhage from the preceding car-accident.
!!Ayumi Himekawa
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MinoriMatsushima (original TV series), Creator/NaokoMatsui (OAV's), Creator/AkikoYajima (2005 series)
The daughter of a famous actress and director, Ayumi has everything in life and more. She's an amazing actress and wishes to surpass even her mother. Ayumi eventually catches Tsukikage's attention as a potential candidate for the inheritance of the Crimson Goddess.
* FantasyForbiddingMother: Laughs at Maya being an actress and forbids her to attend acting classes. This leads to Maya becoming TheRunaway.
* [[IllGirl Ill Woman]]: Coughing, tuberculosis, all part of her character arc.
* IHaveNoDaughter: Disowns Maya when she refuses to return home.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Haru. It *is* actual tuberculosis, and she likely could have been healed if only she had the money to afford *real* treatment (instead of just being locked away in a country house by Hayami), and didn't go hitchhiking in the rain searching for Maya. Somewhat subverted, since in the end the main cause of death was [[spoiler:being hit by a car]]. Also, played straight by Tsukikage.
** In the manga she was in an actual hospital, not locked away in a country house. Hayami just paid the doctors there to keep them from leaking information about Haru's whereabouts to the press or them saying anything about Maya to Haru. Whatever her sickness was, it can be assumed she did receive treatment for it in her time at the hospital, but it was likely too late to actually do lots.
* TheLostLenore: Her death was a major hit to her daughter.
* RasputinianDeath: Spends hours walking in the rain and getting drenched, leading to hypothermia, which causes her tuberculosis to have a relapse, she gets a fever, gets hit by a car and eventually succumbs to an internal hemorrhage from the preceding car-accident.
!!Ayumi Himekawa
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MinoriMatsushima (original TV series), Creator/NaokoMatsui (OAV's), Creator/AkikoYajima (2005 series)
The daughter of a famous actress and director, Ayumi has everything in life and more. She's an amazing actress and wishes to surpass even her mother. Ayumi eventually catches Tsukikage's attention as a potential candidate for the inheritance of the Crimson Goddess.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: She's harsh TheAce: Has worked herself to the bone to become one. She has been studying like crazy to get good grades, spent hours practicing the piano, her acting skills, and anything else that she could do because she wanted to escape the preconceived idea of being nothing but the child of celebrities.
* BerserkButton: Calling her a prodigy. She spent hours working on improving herself in many ways, meaning everything was a result of hard work. This is also why she doesn't tolerate people that brush off their own misgivings because they lack the drive she had to really do something they could improve.
* CharacterDevelopment: Started out as a slightly spoiled rival that had everything Maya could dream of, but Ayumi kept getting annoyed by her. Then Ayumi got older and focused on improving and expanding her acting career, mellowing out as a person and seeing Maya as a worthy rival, while also envying her for her different upbringing that Ayumi thinks makes Maya more free.
* ChildProdigy: Started out as one as a child, but she actually hates being called a prodigy. While she had her share of natural talent, all of her acting skills and accomplishments come from hard work.
* ClassTrip: Inverted, with Ayumi commenting that she regrets missing out on it because of herwords, career.
* {{Determinator}}: Performs magnificent things to improve her career. This included practicing pantomime for hours, to the point that she is drenched in sweat, and [[spoiler:when she gets hit by a stage light and suffers from temporary blindness, learns to perform blindly on stage through mere feeling and touch]].
* DyingForYourArt: [[invoked]] Starved herself to look the part of the imprisoned, malnourshed Princess Origeld.
* {{Foil}}: To Maya. Ayumi has a loving, stable family and seems to have never had to worry about anything. Her acting is also based on hard work and practice, learning how to perform a role, contrary to Maya using method acting of 'being' and 'living' the character, not just a role.
* ImportantHaircut: Was typecast as the princess character, butoverall means well. Her anger Ayumi got sick of it. When she plays the prince and the pauper in ''The Prince and the Pauper'', she cuts her hair very short to play the role, and as a way to show her determination to prove herself worthy of playing the Crimson Goddess. It's noticable that she lets her hair grow longer again, but has lost the OjouRinglets in it, symbolizing her growing as a character.
* LonelyRichKid: Has a lot of peers that tell her how great she is, but has no true friends. She admits to being jealous of ordinary Maya, not only because of her natural talent at acting, but also that she has real friend by her side that encourage her.
* {{Nepotism}}: Detests the idea and part of her goal of becoming a first-class actress is to prove that nepotism was never a part of it. She even refuses to act in her father's plays and treats her mother as a regular, fellow actress when sharing the stage because of wanting to avoid this image.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Gives a bone-chilling laugh in her role as Princess Origeld.
* TheOjou: Became a deconstruction of this trope.
* OjouRinglets: Used to have them when shefinds Maya at Tsukikage's theater stems from the fact that Maya ran away from home, in the middle of the night, with barely a note left behind.
* FantasyForbiddingMother: Laughs at Maya being an actresswas younger, but after cutting her hair and forbids her to attend acting classes. This leads to Maya becoming TheRunaway.
* [[IllGirl Ill Woman]]: Coughing, tuberculosis, allletting it regrow, it became looser and more wavey. Also symbolized as part of her character arc.
development.
*IHaveNoDaughter: Disowns Maya when she refuses TheRival: Sees herself as one to return home.
Maya.
*IncurableCoughOfDeath: Haru. It *is* actual tuberculosis, and she likely could have been healed if only she had the money to afford *real* treatment (instead of just being locked away in a country house by Hayami), and didn't go hitchhiking in the rain searching for Maya. Somewhat subverted, since in the end the main cause of death was [[spoiler:being TemporaryBlindness: [[spoiler:Gets hit by a car]]. Also, played straight by Tsukikage.
** Infalling spotlight during a practice session, with her vision becoming blurry and threat of permanent blindness occuring. Ayumi keeps practicing, using her massacred vision to learn how to act blindly on stage.]]
* TrainingFromHell: Usually does this to herself, insisting on practicing for hours. She even chose to starve herself and live in a cold, underground basement to perpare herself for her role as themanga ostracized Princess Origeld.
* UnusualEyebrows: Her eyesbrows are drawn thicker and with details.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She saw Maya heading across a delapitated bridge and thought of not warning her, thinking that if Maya fell and got injured or even disappeared, she'd get the Crimson Goddess role by default. But when Maya almost falls and screams, Ayumi rushes to her help. Ayumi is horrified what she almost let happen, citing that she wasin an actual hospital, not locked away in a country house. Hayami just paid as bad as the doctors there type of actor she has always hated. However, it does give her a renewed fire to keep properly fight for the coveted role.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Her parents are often busy with their respective careers, leaving Ayumi alone a lot with a nanny as she grew up. But Ayumi doesn't resent themfrom leaking information about Haru's whereabouts to the press or them saying anything about Maya to Haru. Whatever her sickness was, it can be assumed she did receive treatment for it it, knowing they all love each other and, being in her time at the hospital, but it was likely too late show business herself, how important their careers are to actually do lots.
* TheLostLenore: Her death was a major hit to her daughter.
* RasputinianDeath: Spends hours walking in the rain and getting drenched, leading to hypothermia, which causes her tuberculosis to have a relapse, she gets a fever, gets hit by a car and eventually succumbs to an internal hemorrhage from the preceding car-accident.
!!Ayumi Himekawa
them.
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!!Chigusa Tsukikage
-->'''Voiced by''':Creator/MinoriMatsushima Taeko Nakanishi (original TV series), Creator/NaokoMatsui Creator/KeikoToda (OAV's), Creator/AkikoYajima Creator/ToshikoFujita (2005 series)
Thedaughter of original Crimson Goddess and, despite having left the stage years ago, still a famous actress well-known actress. She left the stage after a spotlight fell and director, Ayumi has everything in life and more. hit her face, badly burning half of it. She's looking for an amazing actress who is remarkable and wishes to surpass even can take over her mother. Ayumi eventually catches Tsukikage's attention role as a potential candidate for the inheritance of the Crimson Goddess.
* BerserkButton: Calling her a prodigy. She spent hours working on improving herself in many ways, meaning everything was a result of hard work. This is also why she doesn't tolerate people that brush off their own misgivings because they lack the drive she had to really do something they could improve.
* CharacterDevelopment: Started out as a slightly spoiled rival that had everything Maya could dream of, but Ayumi kept getting annoyed by her. Then Ayumi got older and focused on improving and expanding her acting career, mellowing out as a person and seeing Maya as a worthy rival, while also envying her for her different upbringing that Ayumi thinks makes Maya more free.
* ChildProdigy: Started out as one as a child, but she actually hates being called a prodigy. While she had her share of natural talent, all of her acting skills and accomplishments come from hard work.
* ClassTrip: Inverted, with Ayumi commenting that she regrets missing out on it because of her
* {{Determinator}}: Performs magnificent things to improve her career. This included practicing pantomime for hours, to the point that she is drenched in sweat, and [[spoiler:when she gets hit by a stage light and suffers from temporary blindness, learns to perform blindly on stage through mere feeling and touch]].
* DyingForYourArt: [[invoked]] Starved herself to look the part of the imprisoned, malnourshed Princess Origeld.
* {{Foil}}: To Maya. Ayumi has a loving, stable family and seems to have never had to worry about anything. Her acting is also based on hard work and practice, learning how to perform a role, contrary to Maya using method acting of 'being' and 'living' the character, not just a role.
* ImportantHaircut: Was typecast as the princess character, but
* LonelyRichKid: Has a lot of peers that tell her how great she is, but has no true friends. She admits to being jealous of ordinary Maya, not only because of her natural talent at acting, but also that she has real friend by her side that encourage her.
* {{Nepotism}}: Detests the idea and part of her goal of becoming a first-class actress is to prove that nepotism was never a part of it. She even refuses to act in her father's plays and treats her mother as a regular, fellow actress when sharing the stage because of wanting to avoid this image.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Gives a bone-chilling laugh in her role as Princess Origeld.
* TheOjou: Became a deconstruction of this trope.
* OjouRinglets: Used to have them when she
* FantasyForbiddingMother: Laughs at Maya being an actress
* [[IllGirl Ill Woman]]: Coughing, tuberculosis, all
*
*
** In
* TrainingFromHell: Usually does this to herself, insisting on practicing for hours. She even chose to starve herself and live in a cold, underground basement to perpare herself for her role as the
* UnusualEyebrows: Her eyesbrows are drawn thicker and with details.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She saw Maya heading across a delapitated bridge and thought of not warning her, thinking that if Maya fell and got injured or even disappeared, she'd get the Crimson Goddess role by default. But when Maya almost falls and screams, Ayumi rushes to her help. Ayumi is horrified what she almost let happen, citing that she was
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Her parents are often busy with their respective careers, leaving Ayumi alone a lot with a nanny as she grew up. But Ayumi doesn't resent them
* TheLostLenore: Her death was a major hit to her daughter.
* RasputinianDeath: Spends hours walking in the rain and getting drenched, leading to hypothermia, which causes her tuberculosis to have a relapse, she gets a fever, gets hit by a car and eventually succumbs to an internal hemorrhage from the preceding car-accident.
!!Ayumi Himekawa
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!!Chigusa Tsukikage
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* TheAce: And, despite what some people may think, she has worked herself to the bone to be one. Since childhood, she's been studying like crazy and spending hours practicing piano, her acting and anything else, just so people would stop thinking [[{{Nepotism}} she's nothing but a child of celebrities that can get by on anything]].
* ChildProdigy: Starts out at one and then grows into TheAce, and [[BerserkButton she hates being called as a prodigy]].
* ClassTrip: Inverted, in a way. Ayumi specifically comments on regretting being too busy with her career to go on it.
* {{Foil}}: In contrast to Maya's method acting, Ayumi acts by practicing the scripts and actions instead of imagining herself as the character.
* ImportantHaircut: Ayumi is typecast as the [[{{Ojou}} Princess]] early on. When she plays the prince and the pauper in the titular play, she cuts her hair short to look the part ''and'' as a way to show her determination to give it her all and change to become worthy of playing the Crimson Goddess. Also, played with in the designs for the new series: compare Ayumi's original OjouRinglets hairstyle with the more simple wavy hair she's given for the 2005 TV series.
* LonelyRichKid: As the rich daughter of two successful actors and is set on the path to follow in their footsteps, Ayumi has a lot of peers around telling her how great she is, but no real true friends. It's revealed later on that she was jealous of ordinary Maya Kitajima, not only because of her being naturally good at acting, but because she had true friends by her side encouraging her, while Ayumi had nothing but pressure to live up to her family's legacy, which made her feel alone.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Seeing Maya's earth goddess performance, she got dejected enough to quit. Then she see Maya attempting to cross over a very unstable bridge, she initially decides to keep quiet and hope to see Maya fall down. But Maya did fall and she ended up saving Maya, realizing that as much as she tries to be wise as an actress, she has a limit that would push her to commit atrocious acts to achieve her goals]].
* {{Nepotism}}: One of Ayumi's biggest goals is to ''avert'' it, winning her own stardom '''without''' the help of her parents and silencing critics that would say she can't do it on her own.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Ayumi does a bone-chilling laugh in her role as [[spoiler: Princess Origeld.]]
* TheOjou: She's a deconstructed version of the trope.
* OjouRinglets: Used to have them when she was younger, but they began to grow out as she got older [[CharacterDevelopment and she became more of a friendly rival to Maya]].
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Ayumi feels this way towards Maya, going so far as to [[spoiler: avenge Maya when Norie aka Suzuko frames Maya for a scandal and then steals Maya's roles]].
* TheRival: Sees herself as this to Maya.
* TemporaryBlindness: She gets hit by a falling spotlight during a practice session, the resulting blow leaving her eye-sight to be blurry for some time, with threat of permanent blindness. Ayumi keeps practicing, using her blurry vision to learn to act ''blindly'' on stage.
* TrainingFromHell: Almost as bad as Maya, sometimes attempted by herself like offering Maya to swap lives just to learn about their characters better.
* UnusualEyebrows: While most of the cast only gets lines as eyebrows, hers are thicker and detailed drawn.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Her parents are often very busy with their respective careers, which left Ayumi alone a lot as she grew up. But she doesn't resent them, knowing how important their careers are and it's quite obvious that they all love each other a lot.
!!Chigusa Tsukikage
-->'''Voiced by''': Taeko Nakanishi (original TV series), Creator/KeikoToda (OAV's), Creator/ToshikoFujita (2005 series)
The original Crimson Goddess and, despite having left the stage years ago, still a well-known actress. She left the stage after a spotlight fell and hit her face, badly burning half of it. She's looking for an actress who is remarkable and can take over her role as the Crimson Goddess.
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* ChildProdigy: Starts out at one and then grows into TheAce, and [[BerserkButton she hates being called as a prodigy]].
* ClassTrip: Inverted, in a way. Ayumi specifically comments on regretting being too busy with her career to go on it.
* {{Foil}}: In contrast to Maya's method acting, Ayumi acts by practicing the scripts and actions instead of imagining herself as the character.
* ImportantHaircut: Ayumi is typecast as the [[{{Ojou}} Princess]] early on. When she plays the prince and the pauper in the titular play, she cuts her hair short to look the part ''and'' as a way to show her determination to give it her all and change to become worthy of playing the Crimson Goddess. Also, played with in the designs for the new series: compare Ayumi's original OjouRinglets hairstyle with the more simple wavy hair she's given for the 2005 TV series.
* LonelyRichKid: As the rich daughter of two successful actors and is set on the path to follow in their footsteps, Ayumi has a lot of peers around telling her how great she is, but no real true friends. It's revealed later on that she was jealous of ordinary Maya Kitajima, not only because of her being naturally good at acting, but because she had true friends by her side encouraging her, while Ayumi had nothing but pressure to live up to her family's legacy, which made her feel alone.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Seeing Maya's earth goddess performance, she got dejected enough to quit. Then she see Maya attempting to cross over a very unstable bridge, she initially decides to keep quiet and hope to see Maya fall down. But Maya did fall and she ended up saving Maya, realizing that as much as she tries to be wise as an actress, she has a limit that would push her to commit atrocious acts to achieve her goals]].
* {{Nepotism}}: One of Ayumi's biggest goals is to ''avert'' it, winning her own stardom '''without''' the help of her parents and silencing critics that would say she can't do it on her own.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Ayumi does a bone-chilling laugh in her role as [[spoiler: Princess Origeld.]]
* TheOjou: She's a deconstructed version of the trope.
* OjouRinglets: Used to have them when she was younger, but they began to grow out as she got older [[CharacterDevelopment and she became more of a friendly rival to Maya]].
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Ayumi feels this way towards Maya, going so far as to [[spoiler: avenge Maya when Norie aka Suzuko frames Maya for a scandal and then steals Maya's roles]].
* TheRival: Sees herself as this to Maya.
* TemporaryBlindness: She gets hit by a falling spotlight during a practice session, the resulting blow leaving her eye-sight to be blurry for some time, with threat of permanent blindness. Ayumi keeps practicing, using her blurry vision to learn to act ''blindly'' on stage.
* TrainingFromHell: Almost as bad as Maya, sometimes attempted by herself like offering Maya to swap lives just to learn about their characters better.
* UnusualEyebrows: While most of the cast only gets lines as eyebrows, hers are thicker and detailed drawn.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Her parents are often very busy with their respective careers, which left Ayumi alone a lot as she grew up. But she doesn't resent them, knowing how important their careers are and it's quite obvious that they all love each other a lot.
!!Chigusa Tsukikage
-->'''Voiced by''': Taeko Nakanishi (original TV series), Creator/KeikoToda (OAV's), Creator/ToshikoFujita (2005 series)
The original Crimson Goddess and, despite having left the stage years ago, still a well-known actress. She left the stage after a spotlight fell and hit her face, badly burning half of it. She's looking for an actress who is remarkable and can take over her role as the Crimson Goddess.
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!!Yuu Sakurakouji
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YujiMitsuya (original TV series), Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (OAV's), Creator/JunFukuyama (2005 series)
Part of the Ondine theater, Sakurakouji is a nice guy who quickly becomes friends with Maya. He has feelings for her and wants to date her, but tries his best to not force her too much. He is a talented actor, who got recognition and is one of the candidates to play the sculptor in the Crimson Goddess play.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YujiMitsuya (original TV series), Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (OAV's), Creator/JunFukuyama (2005 series)
Part of the Ondine theater, Sakurakouji is a nice guy who quickly becomes friends with Maya. He has feelings for her and wants to date her, but tries his best to not force her too much. He is a talented actor, who got recognition and is one of the candidates to play the sculptor in the Crimson Goddess play.
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!!Haru Kitajima
-->'''Voiced by''':
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* AngerBornOfWorry: She's harsh with her words, but overall means well. Her anger when she finds Maya at Tsukikage's theater stems from the fact that Maya ran away from home, in the middle of the night, with barely a note left behind.
* FantasyForbiddingMother: Laughs at Maya being an actress and forbids her to attend acting classes. This leads to Maya becoming TheRunaway.
* [[IllGirl Ill Woman]]: Coughing, tuberculosis, all part of her character arc.
* IHaveNoDaughter: Disowns Maya when she refuses to return home.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Haru. It *is* actual tuberculosis, and she likely could have been healed if only she had the money to afford *real* treatment (instead of just being locked away in a country house by Hayami), and didn't go hitchhiking in the rain searching for Maya. Somewhat subverted, since in the end the main cause of death was [[spoiler:being hit by a car]]. Also, played straight by Tsukikage.
** In the manga she was in an actual hospital, not locked away in a country house. Hayami just paid the doctors there to keep them from leaking information about Haru's whereabouts to the press or them saying anything about Maya to Haru. Whatever her sickness was, it can be assumed she did receive treatment for it in her time at the hospital, but it was likely too late to actually do lots.
* TheLostLenore: Her death was a major hit to her daughter.
* RasputinianDeath: Spends hours walking in the rain and getting drenched, leading to hypothermia, which causes her tuberculosis to have a relapse, she gets a fever, gets hit by a car and eventually succumbs to an internal hemorrhage from the preceding car-accident.
!!Yuu Sakurakouji
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YujiMitsuya (original TV series), Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (OAV's), Creator/JunFukuyama (2005 series)
Part of the Ondine theater, Sakurakouji is a nice guy who quickly becomes friends with Maya. He has feelings for her and wants to date her, but tries his best to not force her too much. He is a talented actor, who got recognition and is one of the candidates to play the sculptor in the Crimson Goddess play.
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* FantasyForbiddingMother: Laughs at Maya being an actress and forbids her to attend acting classes. This leads to Maya becoming TheRunaway.
* [[IllGirl Ill Woman]]: Coughing, tuberculosis, all part of her character arc.
* IHaveNoDaughter: Disowns Maya when she refuses to return home.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Haru. It *is* actual tuberculosis, and she likely could have been healed if only she had the money to afford *real* treatment (instead of just being locked away in a country house by Hayami), and didn't go hitchhiking in the rain searching for Maya. Somewhat subverted, since in the end the main cause of death was [[spoiler:being hit by a car]]. Also, played straight by Tsukikage.
** In the manga she was in an actual hospital, not locked away in a country house. Hayami just paid the doctors there to keep them from leaking information about Haru's whereabouts to the press or them saying anything about Maya to Haru. Whatever her sickness was, it can be assumed she did receive treatment for it in her time at the hospital, but it was likely too late to actually do lots.
* TheLostLenore: Her death was a major hit to her daughter.
* RasputinianDeath: Spends hours walking in the rain and getting drenched, leading to hypothermia, which causes her tuberculosis to have a relapse, she gets a fever, gets hit by a car and eventually succumbs to an internal hemorrhage from the preceding car-accident.
!!Yuu Sakurakouji
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YujiMitsuya (original TV series), Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (OAV's), Creator/JunFukuyama (2005 series)
Part of the Ondine theater, Sakurakouji is a nice guy who quickly becomes friends with Maya. He has feelings for her and wants to date her, but tries his best to not force her too much. He is a talented actor, who got recognition and is one of the candidates to play the sculptor in the Crimson Goddess play.
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!!Maya Kitajima
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MasakoKatsuki (original TV series), Creator/MegumiOgata (OAV's), Creator/SanaeKobayashi (2005 series)
A young girl who loves watching dramas on TV and learns of her intense passion for acting, when she gets a minor role in a school play. Her passion inflamed, Maya chooses to become a professional actress under the tutelage of Tsukikage.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MasakoKatsuki (original TV series), Creator/MegumiOgata (OAV's), Creator/SanaeKobayashi (2005 series)
A young girl who loves watching dramas on TV and learns of her intense passion for acting, when she gets a minor role in a school play. Her passion inflamed, Maya chooses to become a professional actress under the tutelage of Tsukikage.
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!!! '''Voiced by''' Creator/MasakoKatsuki
A young girl who
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But Maya isn't one for giving up and worked as an underdog in minor things, eventually removing the image of the scandal from her name and earned the Best Actress Award. She is one of the actresses Tsukikage has picked to have the potential to inherit the Crimson Goddess role.
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* ActionGirl: Mio, Maya's role in White Jungle, is an energetic girl who swings around on vines and fights man-eating plants. Jane from the "Forgotten Wilderness" also show her running a lot around stage when she thinks she's a wold.
* AwfulTruth: Being an actress isn't like lying in a bed of roses, dear Maya.
** To be fair, Maya never expected it to be. She just fell into acting without many expectations. And in volume 5, her colleagues even observe that the more unfortunate circumstances get, the more energy Maya seems to have to counteract them.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With Hayami. All the time.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Justified. Sometimes applies to Maya on stage, thanks to a combination of makeup artists and attitude.
* BookDumb: Her grades were average, if lower at times. She's not stupid, but lack of interest in things like math and similar makes it difficult for her to study.
* CameBackStrong: She got blacklisted as an actress, which meant the end of her career. While doing her best to become a professional again, she acquires skills in pantomime, rhythmic movement and entrancing the audience.
* AwfulTruth: Being an actress isn't like lying in a bed of roses, dear Maya.
** To be fair, Maya never expected it to be. She just fell into acting without many expectations. And in volume 5, her colleagues even observe that the more unfortunate circumstances get, the more energy Maya seems to have to counteract them.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With Hayami. All the time.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Justified. Sometimes applies to Maya on stage, thanks to a combination of makeup artists and attitude.
* BookDumb: Her grades were average, if lower at times. She's not stupid, but lack of interest in things like math and similar makes it difficult for her to study.
* CameBackStrong: She got blacklisted as an actress, which meant the end of her career. While doing her best to become a professional again, she acquires skills in pantomime, rhythmic movement and entrancing the audience.
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* ActionGirl: Mio, Maya's TenMinuteRetirement: Meant to retire from acting [[spoiler:when she learned that Hayami kept her mother's location and treatment a secret from her]], since she had lost her love for acting and became incapable of keeping her 'mask' on while on-stage. Then she played the role in White Jungle, is an energetic of a village girl in a pivotal scene of a play and rediscovered her passion.
* ActionGirl
** Her role as Mio in ''White Jungle'', who energetically swings around on vines and fights man-eatingplants. plants in hopes of finding the eponymous jungle her father's notes spoke about.
** Her role as Janefrom the "Forgotten Wilderness" in ''Forgotten Wilderness'' also show her running a lot runs around stage a lot when she thinks she's a wold.
* AwfulTruth: Being an actress isn't like lying in a bed of roses, dear Maya.
** To be fair, Maya never expected it to be. She just fell intostill acting without many expectations. And in volume 5, her colleagues even observe that the more unfortunate circumstances get, the more energy Maya seems to have to counteract them.
like a wolf.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther:With Several scenes with Hayami. All the time.
They bicker and butt heads, but keep ending up proving that they do care for each other.
* BeautifulAllAlong:Justified. Sometimes applies Many people consider her to Maya on stage, thanks to a combination of be beautiful, particularly when she's acting. For on-stage productions it's justified, as it involves makeup artists and a different attitude.
* BookDumb: Her gradeswere average, if lower at times. are average. She's not stupid, but lack of interest in things like math and similar makes it difficult for her to study.
* CameBackStrong:She got Got blacklisted as an actress, which meant but still wanted to return to the end of her career. While doing her best to become a professional again, she acquires world of acting. She acquired skills in pantomime, pantomime and rhythmic movement movements, and entrancing ended up wowing audiences.
* CannotSpitItOut: Eventually realizes that she's in love with Hayami, but cannot get herself to tell him. One reason being that he's engaged to someone else. [[spoiler:They confess their mutual attraction later on, trying to figure out how to manage their situations with this new perspective.]]
* CelebrityIsOverrated: Deconstructed, as she loves acting but ends up completely unprepared for theaudience.resulting fame. She's naturally shy off-stage, so she is partially protected by the fact that people don't think she looks or acts like she does in her roles.
* ClearMyName: Averted, since Maya isn't the one that ends up clearing her name. When Maya gets set up for a scandal by [[spoiler:Norie Otobe]], she simply presses forward and lets the scandal lie. It ends up being Ayumi that reveals the frame.
* ActionGirl
** Her role as Mio in ''White Jungle'', who energetically swings around on vines and fights man-eating
** Her role as Jane
* AwfulTruth: Being an actress isn't like lying in a bed of roses, dear Maya.
** To be fair, Maya never expected it to be. She just fell into
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther:
* BeautifulAllAlong:
* BookDumb: Her grades
* CameBackStrong:
* CannotSpitItOut: Eventually realizes that she's in love with Hayami, but cannot get herself to tell him. One reason being that he's engaged to someone else. [[spoiler:They confess their mutual attraction later on, trying to figure out how to manage their situations with this new perspective.]]
* CelebrityIsOverrated: Deconstructed, as she loves acting but ends up completely unprepared for the
* ClearMyName: Averted, since Maya isn't the one that ends up clearing her name. When Maya gets set up for a scandal by [[spoiler:Norie Otobe]], she simply presses forward and lets the scandal lie. It ends up being Ayumi that reveals the frame.
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* DramaticWind: Maya, while playing Puck in ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', fakes this so well the audience is fooled.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: Deconstructed. Maya loves acting, but isn't in it for the fame. In fact, she's completely unprepared for it, being naturally somewhat shy, at least when she isn't on stage. She never actually gives up fame, but is partially protected by the simple fact that most people think she looks -- and certainly behaves -- completely different in person than she does when she's in character.
* ClearMyName: Averted. After Maya is framed for a scandal [[spoiler: by Suzuko aka Norie]], she's blackballed from the entertainment industry. Rather than attempt to reveal the frame, Maya simply presses forward and finds a way to start back in theater. [[spoiler: The one who actually reveals the frame is ''Ayumi''.]]
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Maya learns knitting and how to play the piano fairly early in the manga to play Beth. But later in the manga it is stated that she is horrid at home econimics and can't play any instrument. What happened to those skills?
* GeniusDitz: Maya is BookDumb, but could memorize lines from a theater play just by watching it once.
* HeroicBSOD: Suffers from one after her mother has been found dead. Stops acting, refuses to eat and merely holds her mother's urn full of ashes for some time.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Maya thinks she's a good-for-nothing girl and the only thing she's actually good at is acting, though she thinks Ayumi is better than her in that, too.
* InstantExpert: Averted. She is considered a prodigy for having a great instinct, becoming the characters she plays and being able to recite a whole play after seeing it once. But her acting skills start out at amateur level, and she just needs to learn everything from pantomime to rhythmic movement. She fails terribly at imitating Ayumi's "Juliet" simply because of Ayumi's skill level being higher.
* InWithTheInCrowd: [[spoiler:After Maya ends up working with Daito Entertainment against her will, her new manager cuts off her contact with her old friends in a way that is designed to make them think this has happened]].
* JumpedAtTheCall: An acting theater, where she can learn for free as a scholarship-student? Maya jumps at the chance, including running away from home.
* MissingMom: Her mother counts as this, when Maya learns that she left her old home and job due to illness and there's no trace of her. Eventually, her mother turns up... dead.
* NiceGirl: She's nice to everyone except Masumi Hayami.
* ObliviousToLove: She cares for Sakurakouji, but doesn't realize she's actually fallen in love with Shigeru, until someone else finally points it out to her. [[spoiler: It takes her ''even longer'' to finally realize she loves Masumi.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: Her widowed and very stressed mother was very harsh with her words a lot and is one of the reasons why Maya thinks she's not very good at doing lots of things.
* PerfectHealth: Lampshade hanging. Maya gets cast as Beth in ''Literature/LittleWomen'', but has difficulty with the final scene since she's never been sick. She then goes out of her way to get sick so she can play it right. Her timing on this isn't that great, leaving her playing the role with a 40℃ temperature.
* PlayingATree: Tsukikage eventually casts Maya as a doll in a play, to teach her to not steal the spotlight from everyone, something she inadvertently does.
* PluckyGirl: Once Maya has decided to do something, she ''will'' do it!
* RaisedByWolves: Her character, Jane, and her sister from ''The Forgotten Wilderness'' were raised by wolves, after having been abandoned in the forest as children. The play revolves around Jane being taught proper, human behavior again.
* TheRunaway: Of the Circus variety. She ran away from her home, after her mother refused to let her learn acting. Her mother eventually, grudgingly, lets her stay at Tsukikage's theater.
* TrainingFromHell: She gets hit and locked away a lot to improve her acting. One time, in a freezing chamber cold enough to kill a person.
* UnknownRival: Unbeknownst to her, [[TheRival Ayumi sees her as "the" rival]] and is surprised to learn of this.
* UnskilledButStrong: She never learnt acting before the start of the story, but poses great talent which impresses many people long before she becomes a professional actress.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: Deconstructed. Maya loves acting, but isn't in it for the fame. In fact, she's completely unprepared for it, being naturally somewhat shy, at least when she isn't on stage. She never actually gives up fame, but is partially protected by the simple fact that most people think she looks -- and certainly behaves -- completely different in person than she does when she's in character.
* ClearMyName: Averted. After Maya is framed for a scandal [[spoiler: by Suzuko aka Norie]], she's blackballed from the entertainment industry. Rather than attempt to reveal the frame, Maya simply presses forward and finds a way to start back in theater. [[spoiler: The one who actually reveals the frame is ''Ayumi''.]]
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Maya learns knitting and how to play the piano fairly early in the manga to play Beth. But later in the manga it is stated that she is horrid at home econimics and can't play any instrument. What happened to those skills?
* GeniusDitz: Maya is BookDumb, but could memorize lines from a theater play just by watching it once.
* HeroicBSOD: Suffers from one after her mother has been found dead. Stops acting, refuses to eat and merely holds her mother's urn full of ashes for some time.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Maya thinks she's a good-for-nothing girl and the only thing she's actually good at is acting, though she thinks Ayumi is better than her in that, too.
* InstantExpert: Averted. She is considered a prodigy for having a great instinct, becoming the characters she plays and being able to recite a whole play after seeing it once. But her acting skills start out at amateur level, and she just needs to learn everything from pantomime to rhythmic movement. She fails terribly at imitating Ayumi's "Juliet" simply because of Ayumi's skill level being higher.
* InWithTheInCrowd: [[spoiler:After Maya ends up working with Daito Entertainment against her will, her new manager cuts off her contact with her old friends in a way that is designed to make them think this has happened]].
* JumpedAtTheCall: An acting theater, where she can learn for free as a scholarship-student? Maya jumps at the chance, including running away from home.
* MissingMom: Her mother counts as this, when Maya learns that she left her old home and job due to illness and there's no trace of her. Eventually, her mother turns up... dead.
* NiceGirl: She's nice to everyone except Masumi Hayami.
* ObliviousToLove: She cares for Sakurakouji, but doesn't realize she's actually fallen in love with Shigeru, until someone else finally points it out to her. [[spoiler: It takes her ''even longer'' to finally realize she loves Masumi.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: Her widowed and very stressed mother was very harsh with her words a lot and is one of the reasons why Maya thinks she's not very good at doing lots of things.
* PerfectHealth: Lampshade hanging. Maya gets cast as Beth in ''Literature/LittleWomen'', but has difficulty with the final scene since she's never been sick. She then goes out of her way to get sick so she can play it right. Her timing on this isn't that great, leaving her playing the role with a 40℃ temperature.
* PlayingATree: Tsukikage eventually casts Maya as a doll in a play, to teach her to not steal the spotlight from everyone, something she inadvertently does.
* PluckyGirl: Once Maya has decided to do something, she ''will'' do it!
* RaisedByWolves: Her character, Jane, and her sister from ''The Forgotten Wilderness'' were raised by wolves, after having been abandoned in the forest as children. The play revolves around Jane being taught proper, human behavior again.
* TheRunaway: Of the Circus variety. She ran away from her home, after her mother refused to let her learn acting. Her mother eventually, grudgingly, lets her stay at Tsukikage's theater.
* TrainingFromHell: She gets hit and locked away a lot to improve her acting. One time, in a freezing chamber cold enough to kill a person.
* UnknownRival: Unbeknownst to her, [[TheRival Ayumi sees her as "the" rival]] and is surprised to learn of this.
* UnskilledButStrong: She never learnt acting before the start of the story, but poses great talent which impresses many people long before she becomes a professional actress.
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* DramaticWind: Maya, while playing While performing as Puck in ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', fakes she faked this so well the audience is fooled.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: Deconstructed. Maya loves acting, but isn't in it for the fame. In fact, she's completely unprepared for it, being naturally somewhat shy, at least when she isn't on stage. She never actually gives up fame, but is partially protected by the simple factthat most people think audiences were fooled and thought she looks -- and certainly behaves -- completely different in person than she does when she's in character.
* ClearMyName: Averted. After Maya is framed for a scandal [[spoiler: by Suzuko aka Norie]], she's blackballed fromcould control the entertainment industry. Rather than attempt to reveal the frame, Maya simply presses forward and finds a way to start back in theater. [[spoiler: The one who actually reveals the frame is ''Ayumi''.]]
wind.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers:Maya learns knitting and Learns how to knit and play the piano fairly early in the manga to play Beth. But Beth from ''Literature/LittleWomen'', but later in the manga it on is stated that she is horrid to be horrible at home econimics economics and can't play any instrument. What happened to those skills?
incapable of playing an instrument.
* GeniusDitz:Maya is BookDumb, but could Manages to memorize lines every line from a theater play just by watching ''The Camellia Lady'' after seeing it once.
* HeroicBSOD: Suffersfrom a bad one after when her mother has been is found dead. Stops She stops acting, refuses to eat eat, and merely holds sits in a corner while holding her mother's urn full of ashes for some time.
urn.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation:Maya thinks she's Considers herself to be a good-for-nothing girl and that acting is the only thing she's actually good at is acting, though she capable of doing. But thinks Ayumi is better than her in that, too.
* InstantExpert:Averted. She is Averted, despite being considered a prodigy for having a in acting. She can memorize lines very quickly and has great instinct, becoming the characters she plays and being able instinct on how to recite a whole play after seeing it once. But her acting skills start out at amateur level, and she just needs to learn a character, but everything from pantomime beyond that needs to rhythmic movement. She fails terribly at imitating be properly taught. When she tries to imitate Ayumi's "Juliet" simply solo-performance of [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Juliet]], she fails miserably because of Ayumi's skill level being higher.
their skills are at different levels.
* InWithTheInCrowd:[[spoiler:After When Maya ends up working under contract with Daito Entertainment against her will, Enterainment, her new manager cuts off her contact with her old friends in a way that is designed to make and withholds letters, letting them think this has happened]].
is happening to Maya.
* JumpedAtTheCall:An acting theater, where she can learn for free as a scholarship-student? Maya jumps at the chance, including running Ran away from home.
home when Tsukikage told her that she could learn professional acting at her school as a scholarship student.
* MissingMom: Hermother counts as this, mother's whereabouts are unknown when Maya learns hears that she left her old home and job due to illness and there's no trace because of her. an illness. Eventually, her mother turns up... up dead.
* NiceGirl:She's nice to everyone To everyone, except for Masumi Hayami.
Hayami. And she improves her attitude towards him.
* ObliviousToLove:She cares Cares for Sakurakouji, but doesn't even realize that she's actually fallen in love with Shigeru, Shigeru until someone else finally points it out to her. [[spoiler: It takes her ''even longer'' even longer to finally realize she loves Masumi.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: Her widowed and very stressed mother was very harsh with her words a lot and is one of the reasons why Maya thinks she's not very good at doing lots of things.
Hayami.
* PerfectHealth:Lampshade hanging. Lampshaded when Maya gets is cast as Beth in ''Literature/LittleWomen'', but has difficulty with portraying the final scene since she's where Beth has fallen ill. Since Maya has never been sick. She then sick before, she goes out of her way to purposefully get sick so she can play it right. to know what it's like. Her timing on this isn't that great, leaving her is off and she ends up playing the role with while having a 40℃ temperature.
temperature of 40°C.
* PlayingATree: Tsukikageeventually casts Maya as a doll in a play, to teach her to not steal the spotlight from everyone, other actors, something she inadvertently does.
inadvertendly does with her passionate acting. It also comes into play when needing to portray the Crimson Goddess, who is the spirit of a plum tree.
* PluckyGirl:Once Maya has decided When she decides to do something, she ''will'' will do it!
it.
* RaisedByWolves:Her character, Jane, Done by her character Jane in ''Forgotten Wilderness'', who was raised by wolves after she and her sister from ''The Forgotten Wilderness'' were raised by wolves, after having been abandoned in the forest as children. babies. The play revolves around Jane being taught proper, human behavior again.
learning how to be human.
* TheRunaway:Of the Circus variety. She ran Ran away from her home, home after her mother refused to let her learn acting. Her mother eventually, grudgingly, lets her stay at Tsukikage's theater.
study acting.
* TrainingFromHell:She Repeatedly gets hit and locked away a lot subjected to improve it. When she ends up working with Kuronuma, his harsh teaching methods don't bother her acting. One time, in a freezing chamber cold enough because they are similar to kill a person.
Tsukikage's ways.
* UnknownRival:Unbeknownst to her, [[TheRival Learns that Ayumi sees her as "the" rival]] and is surprised a rival, much to learn of this.
her surprise.
* UnskilledButStrong:She never learnt Never learned any acting before the start of the story, prior to enrolling in Tsukikage's school, but poses great has an inate talent which impresses many that ends up impressing people long before she becomes a professional actress.
professional.
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* CelebrityIsOverrated: Deconstructed. Maya loves acting, but isn't in it for the fame. In fact, she's completely unprepared for it, being naturally somewhat shy, at least when she isn't on stage. She never actually gives up fame, but is partially protected by the simple fact
* ClearMyName: Averted. After Maya is framed for a scandal [[spoiler: by Suzuko aka Norie]], she's blackballed from
* ForgotAboutHisPowers:
* GeniusDitz:
* HeroicBSOD: Suffers
* HeroicSelfDeprecation:
* InstantExpert:
* InWithTheInCrowd:
* JumpedAtTheCall:
* MissingMom: Her
* NiceGirl:
* ObliviousToLove:
* ParentsAsPeople: Her widowed and very stressed mother was very harsh with her words a lot and is one of the reasons why Maya thinks she's not very good at doing lots of things.
* PerfectHealth:
* PlayingATree: Tsukikage
* PluckyGirl:
* RaisedByWolves:
* TheRunaway:
* TrainingFromHell:
* UnknownRival:
* UnskilledButStrong:
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* ActionGirl: Mio, Maya's role in White Jungle, is an energetic girl who swings around on vines and fights man-eating plants. Jane from the "Forgotten Wilderness" also show her running a lot around stage when she thinks she's a wold.
* AwfulTruth: Being an actress isn't like lying in a bed of roses, dear Maya.
** To be fair, Maya never expected it to be. She just fell into acting without many expectations. And in volume 5, her colleagues even observe that the more unfortunate circumstances get, the more energy Maya seems to have to counteract them.
* AwfulTruth: Being an actress isn't like lying in a bed of roses, dear Maya.
** To be fair, Maya never expected it to be. She just fell into acting without many expectations. And in volume 5, her colleagues even observe that the more unfortunate circumstances get, the more energy Maya seems to have to counteract them.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Justified. Sometimes applies to Maya on stage, thanks to a combination of makeup artists and attitude.
* DramaticWind: Maya, while playing Puck in ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', fakes this so well the audience is fooled.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: Deconstructed. Maya loves acting, but isn't in it for the fame. In fact, she's completely unprepared for it, being naturally somewhat shy, at least when she isn't on stage. She never actually gives up fame, but is partially protected by the simple fact that most people think she looks -- and certainly behaves -- completely different in person than she does when she's in character.
* ClearMyName: Averted. After Maya is framed for a scandal [[spoiler: by Suzuko aka Norie]], she's blackballed from the entertainment industry. Rather than attempt to reveal the frame, Maya simply presses forward and finds a way to start back in theater. [[spoiler: The one who actually reveals the frame is ''Ayumi''.]]
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Maya learns knitting and how to play the piano fairly early in the manga to play Beth. But later in the manga it is stated that she is horrid at home econimics and can't play any instrument. What happened to those skills?
* GeniusDitz: Maya is BookDumb, but could memorize lines from a theater play just by watching it once.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: Deconstructed. Maya loves acting, but isn't in it for the fame. In fact, she's completely unprepared for it, being naturally somewhat shy, at least when she isn't on stage. She never actually gives up fame, but is partially protected by the simple fact that most people think she looks -- and certainly behaves -- completely different in person than she does when she's in character.
* ClearMyName: Averted. After Maya is framed for a scandal [[spoiler: by Suzuko aka Norie]], she's blackballed from the entertainment industry. Rather than attempt to reveal the frame, Maya simply presses forward and finds a way to start back in theater. [[spoiler: The one who actually reveals the frame is ''Ayumi''.]]
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Maya learns knitting and how to play the piano fairly early in the manga to play Beth. But later in the manga it is stated that she is horrid at home econimics and can't play any instrument. What happened to those skills?
* GeniusDitz: Maya is BookDumb, but could memorize lines from a theater play just by watching it once.
* InWithTheInCrowd: [[spoiler:After Maya ends up working with Daito Entertainment against her will, her new manager cuts off her contact with her old friends in a way that is designed to make them think this has happened]].
* PerfectHealth: Lampshade hanging. Maya gets cast as Beth in ''Literature/LittleWomen'', but has difficulty with the final scene since she's never been sick. She then goes out of her way to get sick so she can play it right. Her timing on this isn't that great, leaving her playing the role with a 40℃ temperature.
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* UnknownRival: Unbeknownst to her, [[TheRival Ayumi sees her as the rival]] and is surprised to learn of this.
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Haru starts getting coughing fits, but it quickly turns into tuberculosis. [[spoiler: It gets better, but a relapse occurs after she spends several hours walking in rain.]]
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Haru starts getting coughing fits, Haru. It *is* actual tuberculosis, and she likely could have been healed if only she had the money to afford *real* treatment (instead of just being locked away in a country house by Hayami), and didn't go hitchhiking in the rain searching for Maya. Somewhat subverted, since in the end the main cause of death was [[spoiler:being hit by a car]]. Also, played straight by Tsukikage.
** In the manga she was in an actual hospital, not locked away in a country house. Hayami just paid the doctors there to keep them from leaking information about Haru's whereabouts to the press or them saying anything about Maya to Haru. Whatever her sickness was, it can be assumed she did receive treatment for it in her time at the hospital, but itquickly turns into tuberculosis. [[spoiler: It gets better, but a relapse occurs after she spends several hours walking in rain.]]was likely too late to actually do lots.
** In the manga she was in an actual hospital, not locked away in a country house. Hayami just paid the doctors there to keep them from leaking information about Haru's whereabouts to the press or them saying anything about Maya to Haru. Whatever her sickness was, it can be assumed she did receive treatment for it in her time at the hospital, but it
* ClassTrip: Inverted, in a way. Ayumi specifically comments on regretting being too busy with her career to go on it.
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* ImportantHaircut: When she plays the prince and the pauper in the titular play, she cuts her hair short to look the part ''and'' as a way to show her determination to give it her all and change to become worthy of playing the Crimson Goddess.
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* ImportantHaircut: Ayumi is typecast as the [[{{Ojou}} Princess]] early on. When she plays the prince and the pauper in the titular play, she cuts her hair short to look the part ''and'' as a way to show her determination to give it her all and change to become worthy of playing the Crimson Goddess.Goddess. Also, played with in the designs for the new series: compare Ayumi's original OjouRinglets hairstyle with the more simple wavy hair she's given for the 2005 TV series.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Seeing Maya's earth goddess performance, she got dejected enough to quit. Then she see Maya attempting to cross over a very unstable bridge, she initially decides to keep quiet and hope to see Maya fall down. But Maya did fall and she ended up saving Maya, realizing that as much as she tries to be wise as an actress, she has a limit that would push her to commit atrocious acts to achieve her goals]].
* NoblewomansLaugh: Ayumi does a bone-chilling laugh in her role as [[spoiler: Princess Origeld.]]
* TrainingFromHell: Almost as bad as Maya, sometimes attempted by herself like offering Maya to swap lives just to learn about their characters better.
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* AnonymousBenefactor: As "Purple Rose"
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* AnonymousBenefactor: As "Purple Rose"Rose", the mysterious fan who showers Maya with purple roses and financial support. [[spoiler: Later Maya herself found out]].
* BastardUnderstudy: How Masumi got his start.
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* HappilyAdopted: Averted. It seems like this at first with him being the heir of his adoptive father's successful buisness and living in luxury. Once we learn more about his past it is revealed that his life since his adoption was not happy at all.
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* HappilyAdopted: Averted. It seems like this at first with him being the heir of his adoptive father's successful buisness and living in luxury. Once we learn more about his past it is revealed that his life since his adoption was not happy at all.CannotSpitItOut: Hayami, to Maya.
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* RaisedByWolves: Her character, Jane, and her sister from ''The Forgotten Wilderness'' were raised by wolves, after having been abandoned in the forest as children. The place revolves around Jane being taught proper, human behavior again.
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* RaisedByWolves: Her character, Jane, and her sister from ''The Forgotten Wilderness'' were raised by wolves, after having been abandoned in the forest as children. The place play revolves around Jane being taught proper, human behavior again.
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* TrainingFromHell: She gets hit and locked away a lot to improve her acting. One time in a freezing chamber cold enough to kill a person.
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* TrainingFromHell: She gets hit and locked away a lot to improve her acting. One time time, in a freezing chamber cold enough to kill a person.
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* TheRunaway: She ran away from her home, after her mother refused to let her learn acting. Her mother eventually, grudgingly, lets her stay at Tsukikage's theater.
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* TheRunaway: Of the Circus variety. She ran away from her home, after her mother refused to let her learn acting. Her mother eventually, grudgingly, lets her stay at Tsukikage's theater.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Prone to getting into character by going to extremes no run-of-the-mill actor would, one time even going out into the wilderness to prepare for the role of Jane.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Prone to getting into character by going to extremes no run-of-the-mill actor would, one time even going out into the wilderness to prepare for the role of Jane.
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* IHaveNoDaughter: Diowns Maya when she refuses to return home.
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* IHaveNoDaughter: Diowns Disowns Maya when she refuses to return home.
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* RasputinianDeath: Spends hours walking in the rain and getting drenched, leading to hypothermia, which causes her tuberculosis to have a relapse, she gets a fever, gets hit by a car and eventually succumbs to an internal hemorrhage from the preceeding car-accident.
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* RasputinianDeath: Spends hours walking in the rain and getting drenched, leading to hypothermia, which causes her tuberculosis to have a relapse, she gets a fever, gets hit by a car and eventually succumbs to an internal hemorrhage from the preceeding preceding car-accident.
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* {{Foil}}: In contrast to Maya's method acting, Ayumi acts by practicing the scripts and actions instead of imaginging herself as the character.
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* {{Foil}}: In contrast to Maya's method acting, Ayumi acts by practicing the scripts and actions instead of imaginging imagining herself as the character.
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* CareerEndingInjury: During a performance of the Crimson Goddess, a spotlight fell onto her face, burning half of it badly. She stopped going on stage ever since. She does go back on stage as Queen Dowager Haldora in ''The Two Princesses'', a minor role.
* DownerBeginning: The 2005 series starts with the accident that took Tsukikage's acting career away.
* DownerBeginning: The 2005 series starts with the accident that took Tsukikage's acting career away.
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* CareerEndingInjury: During a performance of the Crimson Goddess, a spotlight fell onto her face, burning half of it badly.badly (or, in the OAV's [[BowdleRize causing her an unseen stab-like wound]]. She stopped going on stage ever since. She does go back on stage as Queen Dowager Haldora in ''The Two Princesses'', a minor role.
* DownerBeginning:The 2005 TheNineties OAV series starts with the accident that took Tsukikage's acting career away.
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* MeaningfulName: Her first big role as an actress was the moon goddess Diana. Ichiren likely derived her stage-name from that. Tsukikage is written with the kanji for Moon and Shadow.
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* MeaningfulName: Her first big role as an actress was the moon goddess Diana. Ichiren likely derived her stage-name from that. that: Tsukikage is written with the kanji for Moon and Shadow.
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* RagsToRiches: She used to be a poor thief, but thanks to Ichiren taking her in, she got a decent home and ended up becoming a well-off, well-known actress. Due to the war going on and other events, she seems to have lost her wealth, though, since she asked Aoyagi for funding to open her theater school.
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* RagsToRiches: She used to be a poor thief, thief girl named Chizu, but thanks to Ichiren taking her in, she got a decent home and ended up becoming a well-off, well-known actress. Due to the war going on and other events, she seems to have lost her wealth, though, since she asked Aoyagi for funding to open her theater school.
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The creator of the Crimson Goddess play. He was a well-known stage-director and took Tsukikage in, when she was caught stealing from him. As Daito prevented Ichiren from getting any more plays or work to be done, he fell into a horrible depression and ended up committing suicide, leaving Tsukikage the rights to the Crimson Goddess play.
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The creator of the Crimson Goddess play. He was a well-known stage-director and took Chizu aka the future Tsukikage in, when she was caught stealing from him. As Daito prevented Ichiren from getting any more plays or work to be done, he fell into a horrible depression and ended up committing suicide, leaving Tsukikage the rights to the Crimson Goddess play.
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An idol-singer. She starred in a movie where she plays a high school tennis player, who is told that she only has six months left to live.
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A famous actress and former pupil of Tsukikage. She's also Ayumi's mother. Utako is an amazing actress and has wished for years to be able to play the Crimson Goddess some time.
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A famous actress and former pupil of Tsukikage. She's also Tsukikage, and Ayumi's mother. Utako is an amazing actress and has wished for years to be able to play the Crimson Goddess some time.
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* CameBackStrong: She got blacklisted as an actress which meant the end of her career. While doing her best to become a professional again she acquires skills in pantomime, rhythmic movement and entrancing the audience.
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* CameBackStrong: She got blacklisted as an actress actress, which meant the end of her career. While doing her best to become a professional again again, she acquires skills in pantomime, rhythmic movement and entrancing the audience.
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A producer from the Ondine Theater and a friend of Masumi Hayami's. He uses deals and other means possible, in order to strike out competition for his theater, and helps Masumi in getting the rights for the Crimson Goddess. He is one of the potential producers for the staging of the Crimson Goddess.
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A producer from the Ondine Theater and a friend of Masumi Hayami's. He uses deals and any other means possible, in order to strike out competition for his theater, and helps Masumi in getting the rights for the Crimson Goddess. He is one of the potential producers for the staging of the Crimson Goddess.
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* Karma Houdini: Despite being a huge jerk who doesn't mind ruining a whole troupe, he never gets and retriubtion. His plays are very popular and he is apparently skilled enough [[spoiler: to be a canidate for directing The Crimson Goddess.]]
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* Karma Houdini: KarmaHoudini: Despite being a huge jerk who doesn't mind ruining a whole troupe, he never gets and retriubtion. any retribution for it. His plays are very popular and he is apparently skilled enough [[spoiler: to be a canidate candidate for directing The Crimson Goddess.]]
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A producer whose hot head and intense ideas have often gotten him into trouble with production companies. He searches for an actress, who can portray the complex emotions of a girl that turns from wolf-raised-savage to a girl integrated into human society again. Kuronuma is one of the potential producers chosen for the Crimson Goddess.
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A producer whose hot head and intense ideas have often gotten him into trouble with production companies. He searches for an actress, actress who can portray the complex emotions of a girl that turns from wolf-raised-savage to a girl integrated into human society again. Kuronuma is one of the potential producers chosen for the Crimson Goddess.
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* CameBackStrong: She got blacklisted as an actress which meant the end of her career. While doing her best to become a professional again she aquires skills in pantomime, rythmic movement and entracing the audience.
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* CameBackStrong: She got blacklisted as an actress which meant the end of her career. While doing her best to become a professional again she aquires acquires skills in pantomime, rythmic rhythmic movement and entracing entrancing the audience.
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* InstantExpert: Averted. She is considered a progidy for having a great instinct, becoming the characters she plays and being able to recite a whole play after seeing it once. But her acting skills start out on amateur level and she just needs to learn everything from pantomime to rythmic movement. She fails terribly at imitating Ayumi's "Juliet" simply because of Ayumi's skill level being higher.
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* InstantExpert: Averted. She is considered a progidy prodigy for having a great instinct, becoming the characters she plays and being able to recite a whole play after seeing it once. But her acting skills start out on at amateur level level, and she just needs to learn everything from pantomime to rythmic rhythmic movement. She fails terribly at imitating Ayumi's "Juliet" simply because of Ayumi's skill level being higher.
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* PlayingATree: Tsukikage eventually casts Maya as a doll in a play, to teach her to not steal the spotlight from everyone, something she inadvertedly does.
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* TheRunaway: She ran away from her home, after her mother refused to let her learn acting. Her mother eventually, grudingly, lets her stay at Tsukikage's theater.
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* TheRunaway: She ran away from her home, after her mother refused to let her learn acting. Her mother eventually, grudingly, grudgingly, lets her stay at Tsukikage's theater.
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* UnknownRival: Unbeknowst to her, [[TheRival Ayumi sees her as the rival]] and is surprised to learn of this.
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* UnknownRival: Unbeknowst Unbeknownst to her, [[TheRival Ayumi sees her as the rival]] and is surprised to learn of this.
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* TemporaryBlindness: She gets hit by a falling spotlight during a practice session, the resulting blow leaving her eye-sight to be blurry for some time, with threat of permanent blindness. Ayumi keeps praciting, using her blurry vision to learn to act ''blindly'' on stage.
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* TemporaryBlindness: She gets hit by a falling spotlight during a practice session, the resulting blow leaving her eye-sight to be blurry for some time, with threat of permanent blindness. Ayumi keeps praciting, practicing, using her blurry vision to learn to act ''blindly'' on stage.
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* CareerEndingInjury: During a performance of the Crimson Goddess, a spotlight fell onto her face, burning half off it badly. She stopped going on stage ever since. She does go back on stage as Queen Dowager Haldora in ''The Two Princesses'', a minor role.
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* CareerEndingInjury: During a performance of the Crimson Goddess, a spotlight fell onto her face, burning half off of it badly. She stopped going on stage ever since. She does go back on stage as Queen Dowager Haldora in ''The Two Princesses'', a minor role.
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* SadistTeacher: She slaps her students with rolled-up scripts when they aren't doing something right, slams her fist into Maya's stomach, to teach her how to properly breathe and speak for stage-acting, and locks her disciples away into a freezer, to make them learn how to properly act their roles.
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* SadistTeacher: She slaps her students with rolled-up scripts when they aren't doing something right, slams her fist into Maya's stomach, stomach to teach her how to properly breathe and speak for stage-acting, and locks her disciples away into a freezer, to make them learn how to properly act their roles.
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The current vice-president of Daito. He's a cold, level-headed business man who will do whatever he can to get Daito the rights to the Crimson Goddess play. He eventually eases up on things and learns to appreciate and love Maya's acting, becoming a huge, secret fan of hers.
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The current vice-president of Daito. He's a cold, level-headed business man businessman who will do whatever he can to get Daito the rights to the Crimson Goddess play. He eventually eases up on things and learns to appreciate and love Maya's acting, becoming a huge, secret fan of hers.
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* MyGreatestFailure: He blames himself for Haru Kitajima's death, thinking his greed in prolonging their separation and Haru's eventual departure from the hospital, was what led to her dying.
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* MyGreatestFailure: He blames himself for Haru Kitajima's death, thinking his greed in prolonging their separation separation, and Haru's eventual departure from the hospital, was what led to her dying.
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* GirlishPigtails: Sayaka usually keeps her hair in two, low pigtails.
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* GirlishPigtails: Sayaka usually keeps her hair in two, two low pigtails.
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* Jerkass: Ruined a lot of lives and drove at least one person to suicide. Even Masumi was treated horribly until he proved his usefulness.
* RetiredMonster: Used a lot "unorthodox methods", as he calls it, to become successful and while trying to gain the rights for The Crimson Goddess. He doesn't even show remose upon causing a suicide.
* RetiredMonster: Used a lot "unorthodox methods", as he calls it, to become successful and while trying to gain the rights for The Crimson Goddess. He doesn't even show remose upon causing a suicide.
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* Jerkass: {{Jerkass}}: Ruined a lot of lives and drove at least one person to suicide. Even Masumi was treated horribly until he proved his usefulness.
* RetiredMonster: Used a lot of "unorthodox methods", as he calls it, to become successful and while trying to gain the rights for The Crimson Goddess. He doesn't even showremose remorse upon causing a suicide.
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* MethodActing: Her M.O. for learning most roles. Play a blind-deaf girl? Live several days with bound eyes and plugged ears. Play a wolf? Drive your roommate insane by only walking on all fours and communicating with animal noises.
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* RaisedByWolves: Her character, Jane, and her sister from ''The Forgotten Wilderness'' were raised by wolves, after having been abandoned in the forest as children. The place revolves around Jane being taught proper, human behavior again.
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* ChildProgidy: Starts out at one and then grows into TheAce.
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* ChildProgidy: ChildProdigy: Starts out at one and then grows into TheAce.TheAce, and [[BerserkButton she hates being called as a prodigy]].
* {{Foil}}: In contrast to Maya's method acting, Ayumi acts by practicing the scripts and actions instead of imaginging herself as the character.
* {{Foil}}: In contrast to Maya's method acting, Ayumi acts by practicing the scripts and actions instead of imaginging herself as the character.
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* UnusualEyebrows: While most of the cast only gets lines as eyebrows, hers are thicker and detailed drawn.
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* Child progidy: ChildProgidy: Starts out at one and then grows into TheAce.
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* InformedAbility: Averted. She gets praised all the time but during the Miracle Worker arc we see it is completley justified.
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* DotingParent: He's known as Spartan director, but he immediatly softens up when Ayumi is around. The first time he shows up in the manga Ayumi mentions he bought a new white piano for her.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With Hayami. All the time.
* CameBackStrong: She got blacklisted as an actress which meant the end of her career. While doing her best to become a professional again she aquires skills in pantomime, rythmic movement and entracing the audience.
* InstantExpert: Averted. She is considered a progidy for having a great instinct, becoming the characters she plays and being able to recite a whole play after seeing it once. But her acting skills start out on amateur level and she just needs to learn everything from pantomime to rythmic movement. She fails terribly at imitating Ayumi's "Juliet" simply because of Ayumi's skill level being higher.
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* TrainingFromHell: She gets hit and locked away a lot to improve her acting. One time in a freezing chamber cold enough to kill a person.
* UnskilledButStrong: She never learnt acting before the start of the story, but poses great talent which impresses many people long before she becomes a professional actress.
* UnskilledButStrong: She never learnt acting before the start of the story, but poses great talent which impresses many people long before she becomes a professional actress.
* FantasyForbiddingMother: Laughs at Maya being an actress and forbids her to attend acting classes. This leads to Maya becoming TheRunaway.
* IHaveNoDaughter: Diowns Maya when she refuses to return home.
* Child progidy: Starts out at one and then grows into TheAce.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With Maya. Granted he provokes many fights on purpose.
* AnonymousBenefactor: As "Purple Rose"
* AnonymousBenefactor: As "Purple Rose"
* HappilyAdopted: Averted. It seems like this at first with him being the heir of his adoptive father's successful buisness and living in luxury. Once we learn more about his past it is revealed that his life since his adoption was not happy at all.
* DefiantCaptive: Stabbed one of his kidnappers and and escaped when he was only 10.
* DefiantCaptive: Stabbed one of his kidnappers and and escaped when he was only 10.
* ImpossiblyCoolWealth: On a more realistic scale the most, but he DOES finance half of Maya's life and even renovates a theater for her without batting an eye.
* DisposableFiance: Averted. She clings very hard to Masumi and Hayami Senior is very intent on marrying the two.
* Jerkass: Ruined a lot of lives and drove at least one person to suicide. Even Masumi was treated horribly until he proved his usefulness.
* RetiredMonster: Used a lot "unorthodox methods", as he calls it, to become successful and while trying to gain the rights for The Crimson Goddess. He doesn't even show remose upon causing a suicide.
* RetiredMonster: Used a lot "unorthodox methods", as he calls it, to become successful and while trying to gain the rights for The Crimson Goddess. He doesn't even show remose upon causing a suicide.
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* YouCanKeepHer: Denies paying ransom and simply hangs up when Masumi is being kidnapped.
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* Karma Houdini: Despite being a huge jerk who doesn't mind ruining a whole troupe, he never gets and retriubtion. His plays are very popular and he is apparently skilled enough [[spoiler: to be a canidate for directing The Crimson Goddess.]]
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* FirstLove: For Maya.
* OffscreenBreakup: He breaks up with Maya because his agency told him to, but we never see him do it.
* OffscreenBreakup: He breaks up with Maya because his agency told him to, but we never see him do it.
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* MethodActing: Her M.O. for learning most roles. Play a blind-deaf girl? Live several days with bound eyes and plugged ears. Play a wolf? Drive your roommate insane by only walking on all fours and communicating with animal noises.
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* NiceGirl: She's nice to everyone except Masumi Hayami.
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A young girl who loves watching dramas on TV and learns of her intense passion for acting, when she gets a minor role in a school play. Her passion inflamed, Maya chooses to become a professional actress under the tutelage of Tsukikage.
A young girl who loves watching dramas on TV and learns of her intense passion for acting, when she gets a minor role in a school play. Her passion inflamed, Maya chooses to become a professional actress under the tutelage of Tsukikage.
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Maya's mother. She works in a noodle restaurant, where her daughter helped out at times, too. Haru was against Maya learning to act and wanted to force her to come back home after she ran away, but eventually gave her okay to stay. Haru eventually falls ill with tuberculosis and ends up in a hospital, being taken care of, while being left in the dark of her daughter's success.
Maya's mother. She works in a noodle restaurant, where her daughter helped out at times, too. Haru was against Maya learning to act and wanted to force her to come back home after she ran away, but eventually gave her okay to stay. Haru eventually falls ill with tuberculosis and ends up in a hospital, being taken care of, while being left in the dark of her daughter's success.
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The daughter of a famous actress and director, Ayumi has everything in life and more. She's an amazing actress and wishes to surpass even her mother. Ayumi eventually catches Tsukikage's attention as a potential candidate for the inheritance of the Crimson Goddess.
The daughter of a famous actress and director, Ayumi has everything in life and more. She's an amazing actress and wishes to surpass even her mother. Ayumi eventually catches Tsukikage's attention as a potential candidate for the inheritance of the Crimson Goddess.
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The original Crimson Goddess and, despite having left the stage years ago, still a well-known actress. She left the stage after a spotlight fell and hit her face, badly burning half of it. She's looking for an actress who is remarkable and can take over her role as the Crimson Goddess.
The original Crimson Goddess and, despite having left the stage years ago, still a well-known actress. She left the stage after a spotlight fell and hit her face, badly burning half of it. She's looking for an actress who is remarkable and can take over her role as the Crimson Goddess.
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The current vice-president of Daito. He's a cold, level-headed business man who will do whatever he can to get Daito the rights to the Crimson Goddess play. He eventually eases up on things and learns to appreciate and love Maya's acting, becoming a huge, secret fan of hers.
The current vice-president of Daito. He's a cold, level-headed business man who will do whatever he can to get Daito the rights to the Crimson Goddess play. He eventually eases up on things and learns to appreciate and love Maya's acting, becoming a huge, secret fan of hers.
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Part of the Ondine theater, Sakurakouji is a nice guy who quickly becomes friends with Maya. He has feelings for her and wants to date her, but tries his best to not force her too much. He is a talented actor, who got recognition and is one of the candidates to play the sculptor in the Crimson Goddess play.
Part of the Ondine theater, Sakurakouji is a nice guy who quickly becomes friends with Maya. He has feelings for her and wants to date her, but tries his best to not force her too much. He is a talented actor, who got recognition and is one of the candidates to play the sculptor in the Crimson Goddess play.
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!!Rei Aoki
One of the students at the Tsukikage theater.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KeikoToda (original TV series), Creator/UraraTakano (OAV's), Ayumi Kinoshita (2005 series)
One of the students at the Tsukikage theater.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KeikoToda (original TV series), Creator/UraraTakano (OAV's), Ayumi Kinoshita (2005 series)
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One of the students at the
-->'''Voiced
-->'''Rei is Voiced by''': Creator/KeikoToda (original TV series), Creator/UraraTakano (OAV's), Ayumi Kinoshita (2005 series)
-->'''Sayaka is Voiced by''': Creator/MayumiIizuka (OAV's), Creator/FumikoOrikasa (2005 series)
-->'''Mina is Voiced by''': Creator/YokoHonna (2005 series)
Four girls who have stuck with Tsukikage, after the theatre was closed down and wanted to remain with their teacher. Each have a few years worth of acting experience and begin to perform together with the Ikkakuju group a lot, starting with the ''A Stone's Smile'' play.
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* {{Bifauxnen}}: She's usually mistaken to be a guy and is often cast for male roles. She dislike it, but seems to eventually accept it.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Got a lot of fangirls because she was mistaken as a boy. Even after they learn that Rei is a girl, the fans ''still'' love her.
* TheRunaway: She left her family, an apparently rich one, because they didn't want her to become an actress.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Got a lot of fangirls because she was mistaken as a boy. Even after they learn that Rei is a girl, the fans ''still'' love her.
* TheRunaway: She left her family, an apparently rich one, because they didn't want her to become an actress.
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* {{Bifauxnen}}: She's Rei is usually mistaken to be a guy and is often cast for male roles. She dislike dislikes it, but seems to eventually accept it.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer:Got Rei got a lot of fangirls because she was mistaken as a boy. Even after they learn that Rei is a girl, the fans ''still'' love her.
* TheGenericGuy: Taiko's a friendly character, but there's not a lot known about her.
* GirlishPigtails: Sayaka usually keeps her hair in two, low pigtails.
* TheRunaway:She Rei left her family, an apparently rich one, because they didn't want her to become an actress.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer:
* TheGenericGuy: Taiko's a friendly character, but there's not a lot known about her.
* GirlishPigtails: Sayaka usually keeps her hair in two, low pigtails.
* TheRunaway:
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* WholesomeCrossdresser: Most of her fans thought she was 'in drag' when playing a female character. Her male roles, though, play this straight.
!!Sayaka Minazuki
One of the students at the Tsukikage theater.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MayumiIizuka (OAV's), Creator/FumikoOrikasa (2005 series)
!!Sayaka Minazuki
One of the students at the Tsukikage theater.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MayumiIizuka (OAV's), Creator/FumikoOrikasa (2005 series)
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* TookALevelInKindness: Sayaka originally was portrayed as being jealous of Maya getting attention and tried to take the role of Beth away from her in ''Little Women''. Eventually recognized Maya's talent and became much kinder.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Mina eventually falls in love with the leader of the Ikkakuju group. Everyone's surprised at the blossoming love, no idea why it's even starting.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Most ofher Rei's fans thought she was 'in drag' when playing a female character. Her male roles, though, play this straight.
!!Sayaka Minazuki
One!!The Ikkakuju Group
A group of actors and actresses that try their acting by using as little scenery as possible, having their group members act out as various inanimate objects to replace thestudents at scenery. They took second in best performance during the National Theater Performances. They help out and act alongside the Tsukikage theater.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MayumiIizuka (OAV's), Creator/FumikoOrikasa (2005 series)theater off and on.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Mina eventually falls in love with the leader of the Ikkakuju group. Everyone's surprised at the blossoming love, no idea why it's even starting.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Most of
One
A group of actors and actresses that try their acting by using as little scenery as possible, having their group members act out as various inanimate objects to replace the
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MayumiIizuka (OAV's), Creator/FumikoOrikasa (2005 series)
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* GirlishPigtails: Usually keeps her hair in two, low pigtails.
* TookALevelInKindness: She was portrayed as a bit of a sneaky bitch, especially towards Maya, at first. But after realizing what talent Maya has, she's become a good friend and lost some of her haughtyness.
!!Mina Saruwatari
One of the students at the Tsukikage theater.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YokoHonna (2005 series)
* TookALevelInKindness: She was portrayed as a bit of a sneaky bitch, especially towards Maya, at first. But after realizing what talent Maya has, she's become a good friend and lost some of her haughtyness.
!!Mina Saruwatari
One of the students at the Tsukikage theater.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YokoHonna (2005 series)
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* GirlishPigtails: Usually keeps BeautyMark: Keiko has one on the left side of her hair in two, low pigtails.
mouth.
*TookALevelInKindness: She {{Bifauxnen}}: Keiko is a handsome woman, but often mistaken as a guy, similar to Rei.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: They performed ''Romeo & Juliet'' with this accent. [[NoodleIncident It wasportrayed as apparently hilarious]].
* PerpetualPoverty: They barely have any money, so they try to save by foregoing things like taking busses or buying much for their plays, preferring to build a bit ofa sneaky bitch, especially towards Maya, at first. But after realizing what talent Maya has, she's become a good friend and lost some of her haughtyness.
!!Mina Saruwatari
One ofscenery on their own.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hajime played thestudents at the Tsukikage theater.
queen of Amazons when they performed ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
!!Shiori Takamiya
-->'''Voiced by''':Creator/YokoHonna Creator/MayaOkamoto (2005 series)series)
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glass_shiori.png Masumi's Omiai-partner and eventual fiancée. She's a refined lady and belongs to the important Takamiya company. Shiori eventually realizes that Masumi loves Maya.
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* KansaiRegionalAccent: They performed ''Romeo & Juliet'' with this accent. [[NoodleIncident It was
* PerpetualPoverty: They barely have any money, so they try to save by foregoing things like taking busses or buying much for their plays, preferring to build a bit of
!!Mina Saruwatari
One of
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hajime played the
!!Shiori Takamiya
-->'''Voiced by''':
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glass_shiori.png Masumi's Omiai-partner and eventual fiancée. She's a refined lady and belongs to the important Takamiya company. Shiori eventually realizes that Masumi loves Maya.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: She eventually falls in love with the leader of the Ikkakuju group. Everyone's surprised at the blossoming love, no idea why it's even starting.
!!Taiko Kasuga
One of the students of the Tsukikage theater.
!!Taiko Kasuga
One of the students of the Tsukikage theater.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: She eventually falls BitchInSheepsClothing: Shows this, after learning that Masumi loves Maya. She's rude and mean to Maya, blames her for things that she had no real part in love with and plays up the leader of drama.
* {{Fainting}}: Happens a few times, mostly theIkkakuju group. Everyone's surprised Anemic variety. [[spoiler: Though, given her true colors, she might just be ''really good'' at acting this out at just the appropriate time.]]
* HairDecorations: Shiori tends to wear some [[MeaningfulName white]] hairclips, to hold her hair back.
* IllGirl: Anemic since childhood and easily susceptible to fainting spells and getting colds.
* ObstructiveLoveInterest: Begins to play up her frail side and 'emotional uncertainness' about Masumi's feelings up a lot later on.
!!Saeko Mizuki
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SaekoShimazu (OAV's), Creator/ReiSakuma (2005 series)
Masumi's secretary and takes over as Maya's manager, when Maya becomes an actress under contract of Daito. She's a no-nonesense woman who tends to keep a level head, even at theblossoming love, no idea why it's even starting.
!!Taiko Kasuga
Oneworst of the students of the Tsukikage theater.times.
* {{Fainting}}: Happens a few times, mostly the
* HairDecorations: Shiori tends to wear some [[MeaningfulName white]] hairclips, to hold her hair back.
* IllGirl: Anemic since childhood and easily susceptible to fainting spells and getting colds.
* ObstructiveLoveInterest: Begins to play up her frail side and 'emotional uncertainness' about Masumi's feelings up a lot later on.
!!Saeko Mizuki
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SaekoShimazu (OAV's), Creator/ReiSakuma (2005 series)
Masumi's secretary and takes over as Maya's manager, when Maya becomes an actress under contract of Daito. She's a no-nonesense woman who tends to keep a level head, even at the
!!Taiko Kasuga
One
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* TheGenericGuy: She's a friendly character, but there's not a lot known about her.
!!The Ikkakuju Group
A group of actors and actresses that try their acting by using as little scenery as possible, having their group members act out as various inanimate objects to replace the scenery. They took second in best performance during the National Theater Performances. They help out and act alongside the Tsukikage theater off and on.
!!The Ikkakuju Group
A group of actors and actresses that try their acting by using as little scenery as possible, having their group members act out as various inanimate objects to replace the scenery. They took second in best performance during the National Theater Performances. They help out and act alongside the Tsukikage theater off and on.
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* TheGenericGuy: She's CoolShades: She is generally drawn wearing large, drooping tinted glasses.
* TheStoic: She doesn't show emotions in her facial expressions afriendly character, but there's lot, and what emotion she does show is not a lot known about her.
!!The Ikkakuju Group
A group of actors and actressesdone very intenely.
** NotSoStoic: Though when pushed or honestly horrified, she ''does'' show you exactly what she feels. She looks shocked when learning thattry their acting by using as little scenery as possible, having their group members act out as various inanimate objects to replace Maya's missing mother has turned up dead and yells at Masumi [[spoiler: for indirectly being responsible for her death]].
!!Ichiren Oosaki
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (OAV's), Creator/HirokiTochi (2005 series)
The creator of thescenery. They Crimson Goddess play. He was a well-known stage-director and took second in best performance during the National Theater Performances. They help out and act alongside the Tsukikage theater off in, when she was caught stealing from him. As Daito prevented Ichiren from getting any more plays or work to be done, he fell into a horrible depression and on.ended up committing suicide, leaving Tsukikage the rights to the Crimson Goddess play.
* TheStoic: She doesn't show emotions in her facial expressions a
!!The Ikkakuju Group
A group of actors and actresses
** NotSoStoic: Though when pushed or honestly horrified, she ''does'' show you exactly what she feels. She looks shocked when learning that
!!Ichiren Oosaki
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (OAV's), Creator/HirokiTochi (2005 series)
The creator of the
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* BeautyMark: Keiko has one on the left side of her mouth.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Keiko is a handsome woman, but often mistaken as a guy, similar to Rei.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: They performed ''Romeo & Juliet'' with this accent. [[NoodleIncident It was apparently hilarious]].
* PerpetualPoverty: They barely have any money, so they try to save by foregoing things like taking busses or buying much for their plays, preferring to build a bit of scenery on their own.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hajime played the queen of Amazons when they performed ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
!!Shiori Takamiya
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glass_shiori.png Masumi's Omiai-partner and eventual fiancée. She's a refined lady and belongs to the important Takamiya company. Shiori eventually realizes that Masumi loves Maya.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MayaOkamoto (2005 series)
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Keiko is a handsome woman, but often mistaken as a guy, similar to Rei.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: They performed ''Romeo & Juliet'' with this accent. [[NoodleIncident It was apparently hilarious]].
* PerpetualPoverty: They barely have any money, so they try to save by foregoing things like taking busses or buying much for their plays, preferring to build a bit of scenery on their own.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hajime played the queen of Amazons when they performed ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
!!Shiori Takamiya
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glass_shiori.png Masumi's Omiai-partner and eventual fiancée. She's a refined lady and belongs to the important Takamiya company. Shiori eventually realizes that Masumi loves Maya.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MayaOkamoto (2005 series)
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* BeautyMark: Keiko has one on DrivenToSuicide: Unable to perform any more plays, getting any work done and his dream of staging the left side of her mouth.
Crimson Goddess ruined, Ichiren hangs himself.
*{{Bifauxnen}}: Keiko is HappilyMarried: He was happily married to his wife, and was even a handsome woman, father, but often mistaken as a guy, similar to Rei.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: They performed ''Romeo & Juliet'' with this accent. [[NoodleIncident It wasapparently hilarious]].
* PerpetualPoverty: They barely have any money, so they try to save by foregoing things like taking busses or buying much for their plays, preferring to build a bit of scenery on their own.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hajime playedlost the queen two of Amazons them during the second World War.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: He was this to Tsukikage from childhood onward, though she didn't admit it until years later.
* SadistTeacher: Where do you think Tsukikage got it from? He's described as having been ''very'' strict with his actors, which made it all the more special whenthey performed ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
!!Shiori Takamiya
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glass_shiori.png Masumi's Omiai-partner and eventual fiancée. She's a refined lady and belongs to the important Takamiya company. Shiori eventually realizes that Masumi loves Maya.
he did praise someone.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His last name. Oozaki or Oosaki?
!!Eisuke Hayami
-->'''Voiced by''':Creator/MayaOkamoto Creator/IemasaKayumi (2005 series)series)
Masumi's adoptive father and the founder and current president of Daito Productions. He's been a fan of Tsukikage's for years and dreams of seeing her perform the Crimson Goddess again, intent on getting the playrights from her. Eisuke is stuck in a wheelchair most of the time, though he can be seen walking with a crutch and some other means of support. He begins to strike up an acquaintance with Maya, curious to see the Crimson Goddess candidate.
*
* KansaiRegionalAccent: They performed ''Romeo & Juliet'' with this accent. [[NoodleIncident It was
* PerpetualPoverty: They barely have any money, so they try to save by foregoing things like taking busses or buying much for their plays, preferring to build a bit of scenery on their own.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hajime played
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: He was this to Tsukikage from childhood onward, though she didn't admit it until years later.
* SadistTeacher: Where do you think Tsukikage got it from? He's described as having been ''very'' strict with his actors, which made it all the more special when
!!Shiori Takamiya
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glass_shiori.png Masumi's Omiai-partner and eventual fiancée. She's a refined lady and belongs to the important Takamiya company. Shiori eventually realizes that Masumi loves Maya.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His last name. Oozaki or Oosaki?
!!Eisuke Hayami
-->'''Voiced by''':
Masumi's adoptive father and the founder and current president of Daito Productions. He's been a fan of Tsukikage's for years and dreams of seeing her perform the Crimson Goddess again, intent on getting the playrights from her. Eisuke is stuck in a wheelchair most of the time, though he can be seen walking with a crutch and some other means of support. He begins to strike up an acquaintance with Maya, curious to see the Crimson Goddess candidate.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Shows this, after learning that Masumi loves Maya. She's rude and mean to Maya, blames her for things that she had no real part in and plays up the drama.
* {{Fainting}}: Happens a few times, mostly the Anemic variety. [[spoiler: Though, given her true colors, she might just be ''really good'' at acting this out at just the appropriate time.]]
* HairDecorations: Shiori tends to wear some [[MeaningfulName white]] hairclips, to hold her hair back.
* IllGirl: Anemic since childhood and easily susceptible to fainting spells and getting colds.
* ObstructiveLoveInterest: Begins to play up her frail side and 'emotional uncertainness' about Masumi's feelings up a lot later on.
!!Saeko Mizuki
Masumi's secretary and takes over as Maya's manager, when Maya becomes an actress under contract of Daito. She's a no-nonesense woman who tends to keep a level head, even at the worst of times.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SaekoShimazu (OAV's), Creator/ReiSakuma (2005 series)
* {{Fainting}}: Happens a few times, mostly the Anemic variety. [[spoiler: Though, given her true colors, she might just be ''really good'' at acting this out at just the appropriate time.]]
* HairDecorations: Shiori tends to wear some [[MeaningfulName white]] hairclips, to hold her hair back.
* IllGirl: Anemic since childhood and easily susceptible to fainting spells and getting colds.
* ObstructiveLoveInterest: Begins to play up her frail side and 'emotional uncertainness' about Masumi's feelings up a lot later on.
!!Saeko Mizuki
Masumi's secretary and takes over as Maya's manager, when Maya becomes an actress under contract of Daito. She's a no-nonesense woman who tends to keep a level head, even at the worst of times.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SaekoShimazu (OAV's), Creator/ReiSakuma (2005 series)
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Shows this, after learning that EvilIsSterile: The most 'evil' character of the cast, considering his behavior in the past. He was rendered sterile through illness decades ago.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: When his siblings suggested he pick one of their children as his heir, he told them to get the pond cleaned of mud. They failed and he asked Masumiloves Maya. She's rude if he could do it, managing to get it clean by enlisting the help of the employees of the house.
* StalkerWithACrush: He's been one for Tsukikage for over twenty years. He sent her gifts, they were returned andmean he eventually made it difficult to Maya, blames her for things that she had no real part in and get Oosaki to stage any plays up the drama.
* {{Fainting}}: Happens a few times, mostly the Anemic variety. [[spoiler: Though, given her true colors, she might just be ''really good'' at acting this out at just the appropriate time.]]
* HairDecorations: Shiori tendsanymore, all to wear some [[MeaningfulName white]] hairclips, get Tsukikage to hold her hair back.
* IllGirl: Anemic since childhood and easily susceptible to fainting spells and getting colds.
* ObstructiveLoveInterest: Begins to play up her frail side and 'emotional uncertainness' about Masumi's feelings up a lot later on.
!!Saeko Mizuki
Masumi's secretary and takes over as Maya's manager, when Maya becomessign an actress under exclusive contract of Daito. She's a no-nonesense woman who tends to keep a level head, even at with his productions and 'having' her and the worst Crimson Goddess.
!!Hajime Onodera
A producer from the Ondine Theater and a friend oftimes.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SaekoShimazu (OAV's), Creator/ReiSakuma (2005 series)Masumi Hayami's. He uses deals and other means possible, in order to strike out competition for his theater, and helps Masumi in getting the rights for the Crimson Goddess. He is one of the potential producers for the staging of the Crimson Goddess.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: When his siblings suggested he pick one of their children as his heir, he told them to get the pond cleaned of mud. They failed and he asked Masumi
* StalkerWithACrush: He's been one for Tsukikage for over twenty years. He sent her gifts, they were returned and
* {{Fainting}}: Happens a few times, mostly the Anemic variety. [[spoiler: Though, given her true colors, she might just be ''really good'' at acting this out at just the appropriate time.]]
* HairDecorations: Shiori tends
* IllGirl: Anemic since childhood and easily susceptible to fainting spells and getting colds.
* ObstructiveLoveInterest: Begins to play up her frail side and 'emotional uncertainness' about Masumi's feelings up a lot later on.
!!Saeko Mizuki
Masumi's secretary and takes over as Maya's manager, when Maya becomes
!!Hajime Onodera
A producer from the Ondine Theater and a friend of
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SaekoShimazu (OAV's), Creator/ReiSakuma (2005 series)
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* CoolShades: She is generally drawn wearing large, drooping tinted glasses.
* TheStoic: She doesn't show emotions in her facial expressions a lot, and what emotion she does show is not done very intenely.
** NotSoStoic: Though when pushed or honestly horrified, she ''does'' show you exactly what she feels. She looks shocked when learning that Maya's missing mother has turned up dead and yells at Masumi [[spoiler: for indirectly being responsible for her death]].
!!Ichiren Oosaki
The creator of the Crimson Goddess play. He was a well-known stage-director and took Tsukikage in, when she was caught stealing from him. As Daito prevented Ichiren from getting any more plays or work to be done, he fell into a horrible depression and ended up committing suicide, leaving Tsukikage the rights to the Crimson Goddess play.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (OAV's), Creator/HirokiTochi (2005 series)
* TheStoic: She doesn't show emotions in her facial expressions a lot, and what emotion she does show is not done very intenely.
** NotSoStoic: Though when pushed or honestly horrified, she ''does'' show you exactly what she feels. She looks shocked when learning that Maya's missing mother has turned up dead and yells at Masumi [[spoiler: for indirectly being responsible for her death]].
!!Ichiren Oosaki
The creator of the Crimson Goddess play. He was a well-known stage-director and took Tsukikage in, when she was caught stealing from him. As Daito prevented Ichiren from getting any more plays or work to be done, he fell into a horrible depression and ended up committing suicide, leaving Tsukikage the rights to the Crimson Goddess play.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (OAV's), Creator/HirokiTochi (2005 series)
to:
* CoolShades: She is generally drawn wearing large, drooping tinted glasses.
* TheStoic: She doesn't show emotions in her facial expressions a lot,{{Jerkass}}: He mocks people, insults them and the less we say about what emotion she does show is not done very intenely.
** NotSoStoic: Though when pushed or honestly horrified, shehe ''does'' show you exactly what she feels. She looks shocked when learning that Maya's missing mother has turned up dead and yells at Masumi [[spoiler: for indirectly being responsible for her death]].
!!Ichiren Oosaki
The creator ofto achieve his goals, the Crimson Goddess play. He was a well-known stage-director and took Tsukikage in, when she was caught stealing from him. As Daito prevented Ichiren from getting any more plays or work to be done, he fell into a horrible depression and ended up committing suicide, leaving Tsukikage the rights to the Crimson Goddess play.
better.
!!Ryuuzou Kuronuma
-->'''Voiced by''':Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (OAV's), Creator/HirokiTochi Creator/KiyoyukiYanada (2005 series)
series)
A producer whose hot head and intense ideas have often gotten him into trouble with production companies. He searches for an actress, who can portray the complex emotions of a girl that turns from wolf-raised-savage to a girl intergrated into human society again. Kuronuma is one of the potential producers chosen for the Crimson Goddess.
* TheStoic: She doesn't show emotions in her facial expressions a lot,
** NotSoStoic: Though when pushed or honestly horrified, she
!!Ichiren Oosaki
The creator of
!!Ryuuzou Kuronuma
-->'''Voiced by''':
A producer whose hot head and intense ideas have often gotten him into trouble with production companies. He searches for an actress, who can portray the complex emotions of a girl that turns from wolf-raised-savage to a girl intergrated into human society again. Kuronuma is one of the potential producers chosen for the Crimson Goddess.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Unable to perform any more plays, getting any work done and his dream of staging the Crimson Goddess ruined, Ichiren hangs himself.
* HappilyMarried: He was happily married to his wife, and was even a father, but apparently lost the two of them during the second World War.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: He was this to Tsukikage from childhood onward, though she didn't admit it until years later.
* SadistTeacher: Where do you think Tsukikage got it from? He's described as having been ''very'' strict with his actors, which made it all the more special when he did praise someone.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His last name. Oozaki or Oosaki?
!!Eisuke Hayami
Masumi's adoptive father and the founder and current president of Daito Productions. He's been a fan of Tsukikage's for years and dreams of seeing her perform the Crimson Goddess again, intent on getting the playrights from her. Eisuke is stuck in a wheelchair most of the time, though he can be seen walking with a crutch and some other means of support. He begins to strike up an acquaintance with Maya, curious to see the Crimson Goddess candidate.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/IemasaKayumi (2005 series)
* HappilyMarried: He was happily married to his wife, and was even a father, but apparently lost the two of them during the second World War.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: He was this to Tsukikage from childhood onward, though she didn't admit it until years later.
* SadistTeacher: Where do you think Tsukikage got it from? He's described as having been ''very'' strict with his actors, which made it all the more special when he did praise someone.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His last name. Oozaki or Oosaki?
!!Eisuke Hayami
Masumi's adoptive father and the founder and current president of Daito Productions. He's been a fan of Tsukikage's for years and dreams of seeing her perform the Crimson Goddess again, intent on getting the playrights from her. Eisuke is stuck in a wheelchair most of the time, though he can be seen walking with a crutch and some other means of support. He begins to strike up an acquaintance with Maya, curious to see the Crimson Goddess candidate.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/IemasaKayumi (2005 series)
to:
* DrivenToSuicide: Unable HairTriggerTemper: He can blow up and get into fights with people pretty fast, especially when it comes to perform any more his plays, getting any work done and which he's sensitive about.
* HenpeckedHusband: His looks close to having a heart-attack when hisdream of staging wife calls the Crimson Goddess ruined, Ichiren hangs himself.
* HappilyMarried: He was happily married to his wife, and was even a father, but apparently lost the two of them during the second World War.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: He was this to Tsukikage from childhood onward, though she didn't admit it until years later.
theater he's working at.
* SadistTeacher:Where do you think Tsukikage got it from? He's described as having been ''very'' strict with Kuronuma isn't above slapping his actors, actors for doing things improperly. He also yells a lot, which made it all has the more special when he did praise someone.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His last name. Oozaki or Oosaki?
!!Eisuke Hayami
Masumi's adoptive father and the founder and current presidentunfortunate effect that a lot of Daito Productions. He's been a fan of Tsukikage's for years and dreams of seeing her perform the Crimson Goddess again, intent on getting the playrights from her. Eisuke is stuck in a wheelchair most of the time, though he can be seen walking actors ''can't'' work with him over a crutch and some other means long period of support. He begins to strike up an acquaintance with Maya, curious to see the Crimson Goddess candidate.
time.
!!Emi Tabuchi
-->'''Voiced by''':Creator/IemasaKayumi Creator/AtsukoEnomoto (2005 series)series)
An idol-singer. She starred in a movie where she plays a high school tennis player, who is told that she only has six months left to live.
* HenpeckedHusband: His looks close to having a heart-attack when his
* HappilyMarried: He was happily married to his wife, and was even a father, but apparently lost the two of them during the second World War.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: He was this to Tsukikage from childhood onward, though she didn't admit it until years later.
* SadistTeacher:
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His last name. Oozaki or Oosaki?
!!Eisuke Hayami
Masumi's adoptive father and the founder and current president
!!Emi Tabuchi
-->'''Voiced by''':
An idol-singer. She starred in a movie where she plays a high school tennis player, who is told that she only has six months left to live.
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* EvilIsSterile: The most 'evil' character of the cast, considering his behavior in the past. He was rendered sterile through illness decades ago.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: When his siblings suggested he pick one of their children as his heir, he told them to get the pond cleaned of mud. They failed and he asked Masumi if he could do it, managing to get it clean by enlisting the help of the employees of the house.
* StalkerWithACrush: He's been one for Tsukikage for over twenty years. He sent her gifts, they were returned and he eventually made it difficult to get Oosaki to stage any plays anymore, all to get Tsukikage to sign an exclusive contract with his productions and 'having' her and the Crimson Goddess.
!!Hajime Onodera
A producer from the Ondine Theater and a friend of Masumi Hayami's. He uses deals and other means possible, in order to strike out competition for his theater, and helps Masumi in getting the rights for the Crimson Goddess. He is one of the potential producers for the staging of the Crimson Goddess.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: When his siblings suggested he pick one of their children as his heir, he told them to get the pond cleaned of mud. They failed and he asked Masumi if he could do it, managing to get it clean by enlisting the help of the employees of the house.
* StalkerWithACrush: He's been one for Tsukikage for over twenty years. He sent her gifts, they were returned and he eventually made it difficult to get Oosaki to stage any plays anymore, all to get Tsukikage to sign an exclusive contract with his productions and 'having' her and the Crimson Goddess.
!!Hajime Onodera
A producer from the Ondine Theater and a friend of Masumi Hayami's. He uses deals and other means possible, in order to strike out competition for his theater, and helps Masumi in getting the rights for the Crimson Goddess. He is one of the potential producers for the staging of the Crimson Goddess.
to:
* EvilIsSterile: The most 'evil' BadBadActing: Her acting is atrocious! Rei even comments that she thought this was the kind of acting one only ever ''reads'' about!
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: We're never told ''what'' illness her characterof the cast, considering his behavior in the past. He was rendered sterile through illness decades ago.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: When his siblings suggested he pick one of their children as his heir, he told them to get the pond cleaned of mud. They failedis supposedly dying of.
!!Utako Himekawa
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MasakoKatsuki (2005 series)
A famous actress andhe asked Masumi if he could do it, managing to get it clean by enlisting the help former pupil of the employees of the house.
* StalkerWithACrush: He's been oneTsukikage. She's also Ayumi's mother. Utako is an amazing actress and has wished for Tsukikage for over twenty years. He sent her gifts, they were returned and he eventually made it difficult years to get Oosaki be able to stage any plays anymore, all to get Tsukikage to sign an exclusive contract with his productions and 'having' her and play the Crimson Goddess.
!!Hajime Onodera
A producer from the Ondine Theater and a friend of Masumi Hayami's. He uses deals and other means possible, in order to strike out competition for his theater, and helps Masumi in getting the rights for the Crimson Goddess. He is one of the potential producers for the staging of the Crimson Goddess.Goddess some time.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: We're never told ''what'' illness her character
* SecretTestOfCharacter: When his siblings suggested he pick one of their children as his heir, he told them to get the pond cleaned of mud. They failed
!!Utako Himekawa
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MasakoKatsuki (2005 series)
A famous actress and
* StalkerWithACrush: He's been one
!!Hajime Onodera
A producer from the Ondine Theater and a friend of Masumi Hayami's. He uses deals and other means possible, in order to strike out competition for his theater, and helps Masumi in getting the rights for the Crimson Goddess. He is one of the potential producers for the staging of the Crimson Goddess.
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* {{Jerkass}}: He mocks people, insults them and the less we say about what he ''does'' to achieve his goals, the better.
!!Ryuuzou Kuronuma
A producer whose hot head and intense ideas have often gotten him into trouble with production companies. He searches for an actress, who can portray the complex emotions of a girl that turns from wolf-raised-savage to a girl intergrated into human society again. Kuronuma is one of the potential producers chosen for the Crimson Goddess.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KiyoyukiYanada (2005 series)
!!Ryuuzou Kuronuma
A producer whose hot head and intense ideas have often gotten him into trouble with production companies. He searches for an actress, who can portray the complex emotions of a girl that turns from wolf-raised-savage to a girl intergrated into human society again. Kuronuma is one of the potential producers chosen for the Crimson Goddess.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KiyoyukiYanada (2005 series)
to:
* {{Jerkass}}: He mocks people, insults them and BeautyInversion: People say Utako was made very plain compared to her usual appearance for her role as Annie Sullivan in ''The Miracle Worker''.
* HappilyMarried: To her husband Mitsugu. When Ayumi brings her theless we say about what he ''does'' to achieve his goals, the better.
!!Ryuuzou Kuronuma
A producer whose hot head and intense ideas have often gotten him into trouble with production companies. He searches for an actress, who can portray the complex emotions of a girlmessage that turns from wolf-raised-savage her father loves her a lot, she knows that and wants to a girl intergrated into human society again. Kuronuma is one of return the potential producers chosen for the Crimson Goddess.
message.
!!Mitsugu Himekawa
-->'''Voiced by''':Creator/KiyoyukiYanada Creator/RyuseiNakao (2005 series)series)
Ayumi's father and a famous producer. He often stays in apartments he rents in various cities, so he can commute from there to work when needed. He is a perfectionist, when it comes to his work.
* HappilyMarried: To her husband Mitsugu. When Ayumi brings her the
!!Ryuuzou Kuronuma
A producer whose hot head and intense ideas have often gotten him into trouble with production companies. He searches for an actress, who can portray the complex emotions of a girl
!!Mitsugu Himekawa
-->'''Voiced by''':
Ayumi's father and a famous producer. He often stays in apartments he rents in various cities, so he can commute from there to work when needed. He is a perfectionist, when it comes to his work.
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* HairTriggerTemper: He can blow up and get into fights with people pretty fast, especially when it comes to his plays, which he's sensitive about.
* HenpeckedHusband: His looks close to having a heart-attack when his wife calls the theater he's working at.
* SadistTeacher: Kuronuma isn't above slapping his actors for doing things improperly. He also yells a lot, which has the unfortunate effect that a lot of actors ''can't'' work with him over a long period of time.
!!Emi Tabuchi
An idol-singer. She starred in a movie where she plays a high school tennis player, who is told that she only has six months left to live.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AtsukoEnomoto (2005 series)
* HenpeckedHusband: His looks close to having a heart-attack when his wife calls the theater he's working at.
* SadistTeacher: Kuronuma isn't above slapping his actors for doing things improperly. He also yells a lot, which has the unfortunate effect that a lot of actors ''can't'' work with him over a long period of time.
!!Emi Tabuchi
An idol-singer. She starred in a movie where she plays a high school tennis player, who is told that she only has six months left to live.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AtsukoEnomoto (2005 series)
to:
* HairTriggerTemper: He can blow up and get into fights with people pretty fast, especially when it comes to his plays, which he's sensitive about.
* HenpeckedHusband: His looks close to having a heart-attack whenHappilyMarried: To his wife calls the theater he's working at.
Utako. He asks Ayumi to bring her mother a message about how much he loves her.
*SadistTeacher: Kuronuma isn't above slapping his actors for doing {{Workaholic}}: Often works through days and nights to get things improperly. He also yells a lot, which has right, preferring to stay near his work, so he can cut down on the unfortunate effect that a lot of actors ''can't'' work with him over a long period of time.
!!Emi Tabuchi
An idol-singer. She starred in a movie where she plays a high school tennis player, who is told that she only has six months lefttime it takes to live.
commute. Sometimes, he even forgets to eat.
!!Norie Otobe (aka Suzuko Tashirou)
-->'''Voiced by''':Creator/AtsukoEnomoto Creator/ShizukaIto (2005 series)series)
A bubbly, easily-excited girl that is one of Maya's fans. She started helping Maya at times and watches her perfomances. Norie's real name is actually Suzuko [[spoiler: and she's waiting for an opportunity to throw Maya off her pedestal and steal her roles from her. She succeeds when Maya's mother dies and Norie manages to take the leading role of ''Shangri-La'' away from her, including her role in ''The Glittering Sky'' and others. Eventually, she's revealed to be a sub-par actress when Ayumi plays alongside her and ''wipes the floor with her''.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: His looks close to having a heart-attack when
*
!!Emi Tabuchi
An idol-singer. She starred in a movie where she plays a high school tennis player, who is told that she only has six months left
!!Norie Otobe (aka Suzuko Tashirou)
-->'''Voiced by''':
A bubbly, easily-excited girl that is one of Maya's fans. She started helping Maya at times and watches her perfomances. Norie's real name is actually Suzuko [[spoiler: and she's waiting for an opportunity to throw Maya off her pedestal and steal her roles from her. She succeeds when Maya's mother dies and Norie manages to take the leading role of ''Shangri-La'' away from her, including her role in ''The Glittering Sky'' and others. Eventually, she's revealed to be a sub-par actress when Ayumi plays alongside her and ''wipes the floor with her''.]]
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* BadBadActing: Her acting is atrocious! Rei even comments that she thought this was the kind of acting one only ever ''reads'' about!
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: We're never told ''what'' illness her character is supposedly dying of.
!!Utako Himekawa
A famous actress and former pupil of Tsukikage. She's also Ayumi's mother. Utako is an amazing actress and has wished for years to be able to play the Crimson Goddess some time.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MasakoKatsuki (2005 series)
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: We're never told ''what'' illness her character is supposedly dying of.
!!Utako Himekawa
A famous actress and former pupil of Tsukikage. She's also Ayumi's mother. Utako is an amazing actress and has wished for years to be able to play the Crimson Goddess some time.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MasakoKatsuki (2005 series)
to:
* BadBadActing: BeautifulAllAlong: After [[BlindingBangs moving her bangs]] and [[LettingHerHairDown opening her braid]], Norie is actually revealed to be a beauty.
* BlindingBangs: Heracting is atrocious! Rei even comments that hair covers her eyes and frames half her face.
* FashionDissonance: Her rolled-up socks, long skirt and unflattering long sweater are mentioned making her look like shethought came from the 1940s.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: She speaks in thiswas the kind accent as a part of acting one only ever ''reads'' about!
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: We're never told ''what'' illnessher character is supposedly dying of.
!!Utako Himekawa
A famousObfuscatingStupidity act
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Ayumi proves to Norie what a worthless actress she is compared to Maya, Norie has this reaction for what she did to Maya.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Plays up her energetic, bubbly self a lot, when she's actually a coniving little manipulator.
* TheRunaway: She ran away from home andformer pupil of Tsukikage. She's also Ayumi's mother. Utako is an amazing actress took on a different name, because her family was against her acting. [[spoiler: All faked.]]
* YouthfulFreckles: Sports a few on her cheeks andhas wished for years to be able to play the Crimson Goddess some time.
nose. [[spoiler: They're painted on.]]
!!Shigeru Satomi
-->'''Voiced by''':Creator/MasakoKatsuki Creator/ShinichiroMiki (2005 series)series)
A young actor, who played the villain role in ''The Glittering Sky''. He is Maya's first love and the two end up dating for some time. They are forced to break up, though, [[spoiler: when Maya's scandal threatens to soil Shigeru's image]]. He still regrest it, though.
* BlindingBangs: Her
* FashionDissonance: Her rolled-up socks, long skirt and unflattering long sweater are mentioned making her look like she
* KansaiRegionalAccent: She speaks in this
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: We're never told ''what'' illness
!!Utako Himekawa
A famous
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Ayumi proves to Norie what a worthless actress she is compared to Maya, Norie has this reaction for what she did to Maya.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Plays up her energetic, bubbly self a lot, when she's actually a coniving little manipulator.
* TheRunaway: She ran away from home and
* YouthfulFreckles: Sports a few on her cheeks and
!!Shigeru Satomi
-->'''Voiced by''':
A young actor, who played the villain role in ''The Glittering Sky''. He is Maya's first love and the two end up dating for some time. They are forced to break up, though, [[spoiler: when Maya's scandal threatens to soil Shigeru's image]]. He still regrest it, though.
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* BeautyInversion: People say Utako was made very plain compared to her usual appearance for her role as Annie Sullivan in ''The Miracle Worker''.
* HappilyMarried: To her husband Mitsugu. When Ayumi brings her the message that her father loves her a lot, she knows that and wants to return the message.
!!Mitsugu Himekawa
Ayumi's father and a famous producer. He often stays in apartments he rents in various cities, so he can commute from there to work when needed. He is a perfectionist, when it comes to his work.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RyuseiNakao (2005 series)
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* HappilyMarried: To his wife Utako. He asks Ayumi to bring her mother a message about how much he loves her.
* {{Workaholic}}: Often works through days and nights to get things right, preferring to stay near his work, so he can cut down on the time it takes to commute. Sometimes, he even forgets to eat.
!!Norie Otobe (aka Suzuko Tashirou)
A bubbly, easily-excited girl that is one of Maya's fans. She started helping Maya at times and watches her perfomances. Norie's real name is actually Suzuko [[spoiler: and she's waiting for an opportunity to throw Maya off her pedestal and steal her roles from her. She succeeds when Maya's mother dies and Norie manages to take the leading role of ''Shangri-La'' away from her, including her role in ''The Glittering Sky'' and others. Eventually, she's revealed to be a sub-par actress when Ayumi plays alongside her and ''wipes the floor with her''.]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ShizukaIto (2005 series)
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* BeautifulAllAlong: After [[BlindingBangs moving her bangs]] and [[LettingHerHairDown opening her braid]], Norie is actually revealed to be a beauty.
* BlindingBangs: Her hair covers her eyes and frames half her face.
* FashionDissonance: Her rolled-up socks, long skirt and unflattering long sweater are mentioned making her look like she came from the 1940s.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: She speaks in this accent as a part of her ObfuscatingStupidity act
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Ayumi proves to Norie what a worthless actress she is compared to Maya, Norie has this reaction for what she did to Maya.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Plays up her energetic, bubbly self a lot, when she's actually a coniving little manipulator.
* TheRunaway: She ran away from home and took on a different name, because her family was against her acting. [[spoiler: All faked.]]
* YouthfulFreckles: Sports a few on her cheeks and nose. [[spoiler: They're painted on.]]
!!Shigeru Satomi
A young actor, who played the villain role in ''The Glittering Sky''. He is Maya's first love and the two end up dating for some time. They are forced to break up, though, [[spoiler: when Maya's scandal threatens to soil Shigeru's image]]. He still regrest it, though.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ShinichiroMiki (2005 series)
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* HappilyMarried: To her husband Mitsugu. When Ayumi brings her the message that her father loves her a lot, she knows that and wants to return the message.
!!Mitsugu Himekawa
Ayumi's father and a famous producer. He often stays in apartments he rents in various cities, so he can commute from there to work when needed. He is a perfectionist, when it comes to his work.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RyuseiNakao (2005 series)
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* HappilyMarried: To his wife Utako. He asks Ayumi to bring her mother a message about how much he loves her.
* {{Workaholic}}: Often works through days and nights to get things right, preferring to stay near his work, so he can cut down on the time it takes to commute. Sometimes, he even forgets to eat.
!!Norie Otobe (aka Suzuko Tashirou)
A bubbly, easily-excited girl that is one of Maya's fans. She started helping Maya at times and watches her perfomances. Norie's real name is actually Suzuko [[spoiler: and she's waiting for an opportunity to throw Maya off her pedestal and steal her roles from her. She succeeds when Maya's mother dies and Norie manages to take the leading role of ''Shangri-La'' away from her, including her role in ''The Glittering Sky'' and others. Eventually, she's revealed to be a sub-par actress when Ayumi plays alongside her and ''wipes the floor with her''.]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ShizukaIto (2005 series)
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* BeautifulAllAlong: After [[BlindingBangs moving her bangs]] and [[LettingHerHairDown opening her braid]], Norie is actually revealed to be a beauty.
* BlindingBangs: Her hair covers her eyes and frames half her face.
* FashionDissonance: Her rolled-up socks, long skirt and unflattering long sweater are mentioned making her look like she came from the 1940s.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: She speaks in this accent as a part of her ObfuscatingStupidity act
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Ayumi proves to Norie what a worthless actress she is compared to Maya, Norie has this reaction for what she did to Maya.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Plays up her energetic, bubbly self a lot, when she's actually a coniving little manipulator.
* TheRunaway: She ran away from home and took on a different name, because her family was against her acting. [[spoiler: All faked.]]
* YouthfulFreckles: Sports a few on her cheeks and nose. [[spoiler: They're painted on.]]
!!Shigeru Satomi
A young actor, who played the villain role in ''The Glittering Sky''. He is Maya's first love and the two end up dating for some time. They are forced to break up, though, [[spoiler: when Maya's scandal threatens to soil Shigeru's image]]. He still regrest it, though.
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ShinichiroMiki (2005 series)
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* AbusiveParents: While not an extreme case, her mother was very harsh with her words a lot and is one of the reasons why Maya thinks she's not very good at doing lots of things.
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* TheDeterminator: Once Maya has decided to do something, she ''will'' do it!
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* ParentsAsPeople: Her widowed and very stressed mother was very harsh with her words a lot and is one of the reasons why Maya thinks she's not very good at doing lots of things.
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* PluckyGirl: Once Maya has decided to do something, she ''will'' do it!
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* LonelyRichKid: As the rich daughter of two successful actors and is set on the path to follow in their footsteps, Ayumi has a lot of peers around telling her how great she is, but no real true friends. It's revealed later on that she was jealous of ordinary Maya Kitajima, not only because of her being naturally good at acting, but because she had true friends by her side encouraging her, while Ayumi had nothing but pressure to live up to her family's legacy, which made her feel alone.
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* KansaiRegionalAccent: She speaks in this accent as a part of her ObfuscatingStupidity act
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-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ShinichiroMiki (2005 series)
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The Character Sheet for ''GlassMask''!
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* PlayingATree: Tsukikage eventually casts Maya as a doll in a play, to teach her to not steal the spotlight from everyone, something she inadvertedly does.
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* YouAreATreeCharlieBrown: Tsukikage eventually casts Maya as a doll in a play, to teach her to not steal the spotlight from everyone, something she inadvertedly does.
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