History Characters / KodomoNoOmocha

* SerialRomeo: It becomes a plot point about how he easily falls for different girls, as seen in BeacuseYouWereNiceToMe. Early in the series he's madly in love with Sana but after it's revealed Aya has a crush on him, he suddenly decides he loves her back and they start dating. With him and Aya being SickeninglySweethearts, his initial crush on Sana is more or less forgotten.

* {{Adorkable}}

* BewareTheNiceOnes: ''Hoo Boy!:

* HotBlooded

* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: He's pretty low on the bishonen-ness scale, but his smile is enough to make Sana go "wow" for a moment. They don't even show it directly on the manga - and only for a split-second on the anime.

* UndyingLoyalty: To Sana and her family. It's necessary to mention that in ''Deep Clear'', ten or odd years after the original manga's ending, he is still working as her manager.

A rare creature mixed from a rabbit and a bat (hence their name, "Babbit"), Babbit serves as both the [[FourthWallObserver narrator]] and StraightMan of the anime series. They also have an entire family and friends who appear in later episodes of the anime.

* CanonForeigner: Exist only in the anime.
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An exhuberant and cheerful girl who is a child star (or child idol, Chidol, in Japan) and who sees the world in such a positive light withc childish eyes... until the moment she starts to get know of her classmate, Akito Hayama, who she used to hate. At the start of the series she works in a TV Show called "Kodomo no Omocha" and after a while she starts accepting roles that will increase her career.
She is the adoptive daughter of famous writer, Misako Kurata, who found her in a park when she was barely born. [[spoiler:Her biological mother, Keiko, abandoned her after giving birth, at only 13 years old]]. She found out about being adopted when she was just 5 years old, but oculdn't openly speak about it until she had 'grown up'.
Sana lives at the Kurata household with her mom, Rei Sagami (her manager), Shimura-san (their maid), and their many dogs.

[[spoiler: In a special crossover for Miho Obana's 20th anniversary of career, Deep Clear, we find out that Sana, now 26, is still working as an actress. Now as an adult, she is also married to Akito and is pregnant, but due to certain circumstances, her pregnancy was giving trouble to her marriage until Shuri Otokawa (an ESP user and detective, the main character of Obana's last manga, Honey Bitter) is hired as an 'inspiration' for her newest role and tries to help her]].

* ObliviousToLove: After Akito kissed her three times, she still fails to realize his love for her.
** This trope is actually played with - Sana's oblivious to love, but not to its effects. She can't stop thinking about Hayama and, as explained below, gets jealous and brokenhearted when Akito starts dating Fuuka. She simply cannot explain why she feels like that. [[spoiler: And when Sana finally realizes she's in love with Akito it's kind of a big deal]].
** Even more... even if she thought that Rei was her 'boyfriend' for quite the time, she thinks that maybe what she felt for him was actually a love crush, and not thought of him as a 'toy'.

* BettyAndVeronica: The Archie to Naozumi's Betty and Akito's Veronica.

* {{Determinator}}[=/=]PluckyGirl: In spades.

* IdiotHero: Rare female example.

* LargeHam: Indeed.

* MoodSwinger: ''So much''.

* MotorMouth: Big Time.
* NiceGirl: Despite being slightly crazy, she's a goodhearted person who really means well.

* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Naozumi's Betty for Sana's Archie.

* {{Badass}}
* BerserkButton: Akito CANNOT stand being called a demon. His sister used to call him this way since their mom died.
** Also, do NOT insult his friends, especially if you're calling them a MommasBoy.

* DeadpanSnarker

* FreudianExcuse: Koharu died when giving birth to him, which leads to his older sister Natsumi resenting him, frequently becoming angry with Akito and calling him "devil boy." In addition, Akito has a distant relationship with his father Fuyuki, who works long hours.
** This is something that is also played with in [[spoiler:Deep Clear, when married to Sana and she is pregnant, he doesn't want to lose her because what happened to his mother]].
* GeniusBruiser: He's physically very strong, and surprisingly gets good grades.

* OddFriendship: With Tsuyoshi and Sana.
* ParentalNeglect: See FreudianExcuse.

* TheQuietOne

* TheStoic

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Tsuyoshi and Sana.

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%%* GreekChorus
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An exhuberant and cheerful girl who is a child star (or child idol, Chidol, in Japan) and who sees the world in such a positive light withc childish eyes... until the moment she starts to get know of her classmate, Akito Hayama, who she used to hate. At the start of the series she works in a TV Show called 'Kodomo no Omocha' and after a while she starts accepting roles that will increase her career.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Rei. She was 6 or 7 years old when she found a homeless Rei, who was a College student when drop out.

Rei is Sana's manager (and former "boyfriend"). He is always cheering up Sana and taking his job seriously, since he only wants to see her succeed in her career.

However, there's more than meets the eye. Years ago, just after a series of twists (being dumped by his girlfriend, getting dropped out of college, his parents also died in an accident, basically leaving him without a penny), he hits bottom and becomes a homeless person.

While begging on the streets, Misako Kurata and her daughter passed on, which brought Sana's attention. And one day, she brings him out to their house as if he was an abandoned puppy. Misako decides to keep him around, it becoming his first established home in a while, and has lived in there since then, working as a manager for Sana. At the beginning, in fact, Sana looked at him as if he was her boyfriend (more exactly, a 'pimp', after reading a part of her mother's book), but after being called of Akito, Rei knew he couldn't keep the charade for a long time now, either. Sana gets devastated... especially when Rei's girlfriend appears in their lives and he realizes that those feelings for her haven't dissapeared either.

* {{Bishonen}}
* ButtMonkey: Especially, [[UptoEleven upped to the max]] in the anime. [[spoiler:For example, when Sana gets her FirstKiss with Akito, Rei gets trapped in the middle of a traffic accident which was ''probably'' the result of her reaction towards that kiss.]]
* CoolShades: To hide his lovely eyes.
* CrazyJealousGuy: When it comes to Asako.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: This only applied to the anime series, though. He seems to be the opposite in the manga.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Sana, he is like 10 years older than her.
* IOweYouMyLife: After the full twists of bad luck that Rei had after the breakup with Asako, Sana appeared in his life. She 'saved' him from being a [[{{Hobos}} hobo]], and later, undoubtly wanted to work for her own sake.

* TheMenInBlack: Subverted since Rei is a big softy. The glasses are worn at Sana's behest because she thinks his "beautiful eyes" should remain hidden.
* NiceGuy: Behind these glasses, there's a really kind heart.
* OverprotectiveDad: After Sana stopped seeing Rei as her ''boyfriend'', he starts acting like a ''dad'' for her. To the extreme of being a bit overprotective to her.
* PapaWolf: Towards Sana.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Sana.

A rare creature mixed from a rabbit and a bat (hence its name, Babbit) is quite the narrator and FourthWallObserver of the anime series, quite being ignored by the characters themselves (and sometimes, they do realize it is there, for their annoyance...).

Babbit is in sorts the mascot of the series given his anime-in-universe presence and in real world's items especially the toys.

* CanonForeigner
** ContinuityCameo
* DeadpanSnarker
* GreekChorus
* {{Narrator}}
* PluckyComicRelief: One word...hilarious!
* TalkingAnimal

* EverythingsNuttierWithSquirrels: Maro-chan, who lives on her head.
* HeadPet: Again, Maro.

She is a good gymnast and a quite good student, too.

* AcademicAthlete
* TheAce: She's athletic, smart and popular.

* BrainyBrunette

* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces

* RomanticFalseLead
* {{Tsundere}}

* InnocentBlueEyes: [[spoiler: ''A painfully beautiful blue'']]

** [[spoiler:DevotedToYou: In the special 'Misty Blue', Shuri (the protagonist of Honey Bitter) finds out that after more than 10 years, Naozumi was WAY too devoted to Sana, that he didn't really loved any girl again, hence why he feels "happy" in an ambiguous homosexual relationship.]]
** [[spoiler:BiTheWay: More as a physcial interpretation, given that he can't be with Sana, and besides not ever falling in love of a girl again as he did with her, he finds nice to be alongside a guy... because not being hurt of those feelings of being reminded of his first love]].

Rei is Sana's manager (and former 'boyfriend'). He is there always cheering up Sana and taking his job seriously, since he only wants to see her succesful in her career.

However, there's more than meets the eyes. Years ago, just after a series of twists (being dumped by his girlfriend, getting dropped out of college, his parents also died in an accident, basically leaving him without a penny), he hits bottom and becomes a homeless person.

While begging on the streets, Misako Kurata and her daughter passed on, which brought her attention. And one day, Sana brings him out to their house as if he was an abandoned puppy. Misako decides to keep him around, it becoming his first established home in a while, and has lived in there since then, working as a manager for Sana. At the beginning, in fact, Sana looked at him as if he was her boyfriend (more exactly, a 'pimp', after reading a part of her mother's book), but after being called of Akito, Rei knew he couldn't keep the charade for a long time now, either. Sana gets devastated... especially when Rei's girlfriend appears in their lives and he realizes that those feelings for her hasn't dissapeared either.

Even after the 'heartbreak', Sana considers him as her first love crush, and remain as friends.

* ButtMonkey

* {{Expy}}: In-universe: when he believed that Sana and Naozumi were together, Akito dated Fuuka because, for a strange coincidence, she resembled Sana in both looks and personality.
** This is lampshaded by Fuuka herself in the manga when she talks to Sana about how similar both were. And then it's something she highlights to Akito, when she wanted to understand him at the end.
* GenkiGirl

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: To Akito, who went to kindergarten with her and was her FirstKiss.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: To Sana, all the way back when both were babies.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother

* BewareTheNiceOnes

* ButtMonkey: Sometimes, giving how innocent he is.

* MommasBoy: He just really loves his mom as Aya explained.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}

* DudeMagnet

* EverybodyHatesMathematics

* GenkiGirl

* HairTriggerTemper

* TheHeart

* LargeHam

* ManicPixieDreamGirl

* MoralityChain: To Akito.
* MotorMouth

* TheComicallySerious

* DefrostingIceKing

* JerkassFacade

* MissingMom

* PerpetualFrowner

* MommasBoy
* NiceGuy

* ThePollyanna

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Akito.

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan

* CoolShades

* PluckyComicRelief

* HeelFaceTurn
* MissingMom

* HappilyAdopted

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}

* IdiotHero

* BrutalHonesty

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

* SugarAndIcePersonality

* TroubledButCute

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Obana, she wanted to make Tsuyoshi a psychic of sorts. Of course, she dumped the idea, but that doesn't mean she could play with the concept later (if Honey Bitter is such an indication).

* OnlySaneWoman

* SatelliteCharacter

->'''Voiced by:''' Tatsuya Nakazaki (JP), JerryJewell (EN)

->'''Voiced by:''' Hana Kino (JP), ColleenClinkenbeard (EN)

->'''Voiced by:''' Mayumi Misawa (JP), GregAyres (EN)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyoNaitou (JP), John Burgmeier (EN)

->'''Voiced by:''' RyoNaitou (JP), John Burgmeier (EN)

* HotMom: By adoption, but she still considers Sana her kid and thous she counts. Even other characters remarked that if she wore her hair normally she'd be submerged by marriage proposals.

His family is also a little complicated. When Akito was born, his mother [[spoiler: died for childbirth]], resulting that his older sister (Natsumi) had this resent feeling towards him. Additionally, he didn't have the best relationship with his father due to him always working. As a result, he eventually developed a bad behavior around his classmates and disrespect on adults and his teachers. But, even with that, he is a good student with good grades.
It's thanks to Sana that he started to open his heart. Although, only a little, when a hard road eventually develops for both of them.

* FreudianExcuse: His mother died when giving birth to him, which leads to his older sister Natsumi resenting him, frequently becoming angry with Akito and calling him "devil boy." In addition, Akito has a distant relationship with his father, who works long hours.

[[spoiler:As an actor, he travels too much, so it's not surprising he left the country to advance in his career... however, as proved in the follow-up to Deep Clear, ''Misty Blue'', Shuri Ohkawa finds this now adult Naozumi pretty interestingbut confusing because his devoted love for Sana hasn't dissapeared for so many years, to the point of not falling in love with another girl again because of her]].

* HotMom: Subverted. She would be one for Sana (even other characters remarked that if she wore her hair normally she'd be submerged by marriage proposals), if she hadn't adopted her.

While begging on the streets, Misako Kurata and her daughter passed on, which brought her attention. And one day, Sana brings him out to their house as if he was an abandoned puppy.
Misako decides to keep him around, it becoming his first established home in a while, and has lived in there since then, working as a manager for Sana. At the beginning, in fact, Sana looked at him as if he was her boyfriend (more exactly, a 'pimp', after reading a part of her mother's book), but after being called of Akito, Rei knew he couldn't keep the charade for a long time now, either. Sana gets devastated... especially when Rei's girlfriend appears in their lives and he realizes that those feelings for her hasn't dissapeared either.

* NiceGuy

* BrokenBird

* BumblingDad: A rare dramatic example. Akito's issues steam from Fuyuki's inability to raise him as a single parent without blaming him for the death of his wife.

* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: "Hayama-chichi"

* DeathByChildbirth

* NiceGirl: Despite being slightly crazy, she's a goodhearted person who really means well, despite her flaws.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: with Rei. She was 6 or 7 years old when she found a homeless Rei, who was a College student when drop out.

** This trope is actually played with - Sana's oblivious to love, but not to its effects. She can't stop thinking about Hayama and, as explained below, gets jealous and brokenhearted when Akito starts dating Fuka. She simply cannot explain why she feels like that. [[spoiler: And when Sana finally realizes she's in love with Akito it's kind of a big deal]].

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/OmiMinami (JP), ChrisPatton (EN)