History Characters / Kanon

* HighClassGloves: Part of her dress at the dance festival.

* SheCleansUpNicely: When she wears a dress at the dance festival.

* SwissArmyTears: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]: [[spoiler:Her tears have healing powers, but when she used them to save her mother's life when she was little, after making her briefly famous and revered, she was persecuted and driven out of town for it, causing her and her mother to move to the town where the series is set. The repression of her powers created the demons, and it's only by embracing her powers that she is saved and the demons disappear.]]

* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler:In the past, due to the death of her brother. The game mentions it in more detail. It didn't work.]]

* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: She looks quite frightening when they appear.

* MagicWand: She fights with a shape-changing wand in ''Eternal Fighter Zero''.

* ScarsAreForever: A scar on her wrist is (briefly) visible in episode 14 of the Creator/KyoAni adaptation.
* SilkHidingSteel: A nice girl who uses formal honorfics with her friends. The steel is her loyalty to Mai.

Mai's best friend (with whom she has a fair amount of LesYay), Sayuri is a [[StepfordSmiler seemingly cheerful]] girl with an odd habit of [[ThirdPersonPerson referring to herself in the third person]]. Her family is rather wealthy, and she is a good cook. She and Mai have seemingly diametrically opposed personalities, which causes Yūichi to remark that "they sure do make an odd couple of girls". She is also referred to as being almost like Mai's older sister. Kind, friendly and gentle as she is, though, she has her own sorrows, and these are what drew her and Mai together.

* BrokenBird: Due to her issues with the death of her little brother. She and Mai get along so well because of the shared pain.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mai and Yūichi keep her in the dark about the DemonSlaying. [[spoiler:This unfortunately gets her seriously harmed as she's blissfully unaware to the presence of the demons when trying to surprise Mai on her birthday.]]
* NiceGirl: Sayuri is very sweet and easily gets along with just about anyone given enough time.

* AstralProjection: [[spoiler:The version of her you see throughout is revealed to be this. She is actually in a coma because of a serious accident she suffered seven years ago.]]

* TheDitz: Definitely has shades of this.
* EasyAmnesia: See LaserGuidedAmnesia below.

* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Tries to invoke this. But too much is cut off to the point that it's treated as a TraumaticHaircut. She even wears a hat to hide it. Also serving as a BrickJoke.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: She knows she's looking for something, and she knows it's important, but she can't for the life of her remember what it is. [[spoiler:It's the angel doll Yūichi gave her.]] Also, she doesn't seem to remember that [[spoiler:she's in a coma, and when she finds out the truth, she vanishes, since, after all, she is an AstralProjection.]]

* OutOfFocus: She's completely absent during Makoto's story arc in the anime. Lampshaded in the first episode since the arc, as she mentions to Yūichi that she has not seen him in ages.
** Also appears far less in routes that aren't her own in the visual novel. Towards the end of the other girls' routes, she apparently finds what she was looking for and comes to tell Yūichi goodbye. [[spoiler: This becomes a lot more tragic once you actually play Ayu's route and realize that she was saying goodbye to him before she disappeared permanently.]]

* TokenMiniMoe: The shortest member of the cast.

* IronicEcho: The wake up message on the aforementioned alarm clock? She says this word for word when she tries to get Yūichi out from bed.

* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: She acts VERY similarly to her mother. They even tell the same jokes. Akiko doesn't seem to have the same athletic abilities, or the weird sleep habits, but other than that?

* MumLooksLikeASister: Not only do she and Nayuki look a lot alike, but Akiko doesn't look that much older than her daughter.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The 2006 anime sands down some of Yūichi's rougher edges, dailing back his more cynical and smug moments somewhat, while portraying him as a more emphatic guy from the get-go.

* FatalAttractor: He often joked to attract girls with psychological problems or on the verge of death. The one normal girl in his harem? [[spoiler:Her mother gets hit by a car.]]

* NewTransferStudent: In the beginning of the series.

* OfficialCouple: One half of it, the other being Ayu.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Yūichi in her route and the anime.

* CloudCuckooLander

* MeetCute: Par for the course in this series. She meets Yūichi by [[CrashIntoHello colliding with him head-on]] while running away from an irate taiyaki vendor she accidentally stole from.
* MementoMacGuffin: The red headband, and [[spoiler:the angel doll]], arguably.

* OfficialCouple: With Yūichi, since she's pretty clearly the main heroine.

* OnceAnEpisode: See RunningGag.

* PinkySwear: Seems to be fond of this.
* ThePollyanna: It’s rare to not see her in an optimistic mood.
* PrettyFreeloader: Becomes one after being invited by Akiko to stay at her house.

* TechnicolorEyes

* AllLovingHeroine: In a similar vein to Ayu, she’s a very loving and caring person.

* CloudCuckooLander: Downplayed; it gradually becomes apparent that she's more than a little weird in some ways (like her fixation on cats), though she's quite normal in others, and she might be the least screwed up of the main girls.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: If Ayu could be considered the “main girl” of ''Kanon'', Nayuki could be considered the “second main girl”. She’s an integral part of the story who helps Yūichi settle into the setting and serves as a driving force for him to reclaim his memories. Even official material such as the covers of the Dreamcast, [=PS2=] and PC Standard Edition have her accompany Ayu as a representative of ''Kanon''.

* HeavySleeper: She owns at least a dozen alarm clocks and they STILL don't succeed in waking her up. Her running ability was developed in part to allow her to still be at school on time.

* MeaningfulName: Her name contains the kanji for "snow". Snow is a very common reoccuring motif in the story, and while not as heavily marketed as Ayu she's still an integral part of the story itself.

* FamilyThemeNaming: [[spoiler:Her and Kaori.]]

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Vanilla ice cream. [[CloudCuckoolander She eats it outside in the snow in the middle of winter.]]

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:In the 2002 Toei anime.]]

* EasyAmnesia: See IdentityAmnesia.

* GirlishPigtails: Tsundere twintails, to be precise.
* HeadPet: Piro likes it up there...
* IdentityAmnesia: She doesn't remember who she is at all, just that she has an inexplicable grudge against Yūichi. In fact, it takes her some time to even remember her own name [[spoiler:and it's not even hers]]. As is revealed later, [[spoiler:this is because she's not actually human, and, as a fox, doesn't exactly have an identity in the human sense. Also, the act of becoming human erased her previous memories. She took the name Makoto Sawatari from one of the few things that she did manage to remember, which was Yūichi telling her (while she was still a fox) about an older girl by that name he had a crush on.]]

* NonHumanLoverReveal: [[spoiler:She's actually a fox that Yūichi looked after when he was young.]]

* PrettyFreeloader: At first, she later gets a job.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pork buns.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A, for sure, though more mischievous than violent (though she has her moments).

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler:With Yūichi in her route.]]

* AloofBigSister: How she treated her little brother while he was still alive - she wanted him to grow up to be like her father, a man of high social standing. She felt so guilty about how she treated him afterwards that it (combined with his early death) [[ThirdPersonPerson changed the way she talks.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: Towards Mai.

* CloudCuckooLander: Part of her StepfordSmiler act. She's weird in a cheerful way, and she comes across as kinda clueless a lot of the time.

* NiceGirl: Easily gets along with just about anyone given enough time.
* {{Ojou}}: Of the kind and unassuming type.
* OnlyFriend: Alongside Yūichi, she’s this to Mai.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Following her brother’s death, she spoke like this.

* FamilyThemeNaming: [[spoiler:Her and Shiori.]]

* TomboyishName: As mentioned before, Makoto is a unisex name but more commonly given to boys.

* NewTransferStudent

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Becomes very distraught when Akiko is hit by a car, refusing to leave her room or talk to anyone. Yūichi/Kaori eventually is able to talk her out of it, and she recovers. Really shows how close she is to her mother.]]

* AmbiguouslyBi: She definitely has feelings for Yuichi, but she seems to also have feelings for Sayuri.

* OnlyFriend: Alongside Yuichi, she’s this to Mai.

* AmbigiouslyBi: She definitely has feelings for Yuichi, but she seems to also have feelings for Sayuri.

* OnlyFriend: To Mai, though she’s shown to be friends with Yuichi (and maybe more).

* AllLovingHero

* TheSnarkKnight

%%* TomboyishPonytail

%%* WhenSheSmiles

%%* OnlyFriend: To Mai.

%%* StepfordSmiler
%%* ThirdPersonPerson

%%* StepfordSnarker

%%* ButtMonkey

* TheChewToy

* HumanPackMule: To Kaori.
%%* IdiotHair

* CuteClumsyGirl: Her first scene involves crashing into Yuichi.

* ThePollyanna

%%* BadassAdorable

%%* TheComicallySerious

%%* MagicSkirt

%%* TheQuietOne

* CuteClumsyGirl

* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies

* AllLovingHeroine
* AstralProjection: [[spoiler:The version of her you see throughout is revealed to be this. She is actually in a coma because of an serious accident she suffered seven years ago.]]

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow

* TokenMiniMoe

* WideEyedIdealist

%%* AllLovingHeroine

%%* LongHairIsFeminine
%%* NiceGirl

%%* StepfordSnarker

* DeadpanSnarker: He can be ''very'' sarcastic and is prone to making snarky remarks towards the various heroines. This is especially the case in the 2006 anime, where he's voiced by [[Creator/TomokazuSugita the same voice actor]] as Kyon from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', another notable example of the trope.

!!!Voiced by: Creator/AtsushiKisaichi (JP - Toei anime), Creator/TomokazuSugita (JP - Creator/KyoAni anime), Creator/MiwaYasuda (JP - child), Creator/ChrisPatton (EN, teenager), Creator/ShannonEmerick (EN, child)

!!!Voiced by: Creator/AtsushiKisaichi (JP - Toei anime), Creator/TomokazuSugita (JP - Creator/KyoAni anime), Creator/MiwaYasuda (child), Creator/ChrisPatton (EN, teenager), Creator/ShannonEmerick (EN, child)

!!!Voiced by: Creator/AtsushiKisaichi (JP - Toei anime), Creator/TomokazuSugita (JP - Creator/KyoAni anime), Creator/ChrisPatton (EN)

* {{Bishonen}}: [[http://images4.fanpop.com/image/forum/81000/81261_1301144210056_full.jpg Very]] [[http://images.wikia.com/kanon/images/1/1b/KN2006_Yuuichi.jpg much]]
[[http://i520.photobucket.com/albums/w326/AmiMercury/Anime/vlcsnap-20752.png so]] in the 2006 anime.

=* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He has his moments of seeming rather cynical, loves messing with the girls' heads and occasionally comes across as smug or condescending, but, on the whole, he's a pretty decent, charming sort of guy.

%%* ShesGotLegs

* GrumpyBear: Not that the setting's exactly [[DysfunctionJunction sunshine and rainbows]], but he's more cynical than anyone else in the story, as is common with Key's male protagonists.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He has his moments of seeming rather cynical, loves messing with the girls' heads and occasionally comes across as smug or condescending, but, on the whole, he's a pretty decent, charming sort of guy.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:She dies, but by the next episode, Yūichi goes on like nothing happened]].

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The 2006 anime sands down some of Yūichi's rougher edges, dailing back his more cynical and smug moments somewhats and portraying him as a more emphatic guy from the get-go.

* {{Bishonen}}: [[http://images4.fanpop.com/image/forum/81000/81261_1301144210056_full.jpg Very]] [[http://images.wikia.com/kanon/images/1/1b/KN2006_Yuuichi.jpg much]] [[http://i520.photobucket.com/albums/w326/AmiMercury/Anime/vlcsnap-20752.png so]] in the 2006 anime.

* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Tries to invoke this. But too much is cut off to the point that it's treated as a TraumaticHaircut. She even wears a NiceHat to hide it. Also serving as a BrickJoke.]]

* LethalChef: A variation. Her cooking is mostly excellent, but that [[GargleBlaster jam...]]