History Characters / KodomoNoOmocha

She is the adoptive daughter of famous writer, Misako Kurata, who found her in a park when she was just a baby [[spoiler:(her biological mother, Keiko, abandoned her after giving birth)]]. Misako told her that she was adopted when she was only 5 years old, but couldn't speak about it properly until she became famous and until she "grew up". Sana lives at the Kurata household with her mom, Rei Sagami (her manager), Shimura-san (their maid), and their many dogs.

* DevotedToYou: [[spoiler:In the special "Misty Blue" one-shot, Shuri (the protagonist of ''Honey Bitter'') finds out that Naozumi is still ''too'' devoted to Sana (even after a decade since he confessed his love to her). His [[BiTheWay relationship with a man]] is the only way he could feel "happy" in a romantic relationship... because if he fell in love with another girl, he wouldn't stop remembering his feelings towards Sana.]]

* ButtMonkey: Especially, [[UptoEleven upped to the max]] in the anime. For example, when [[spoiler: Sana gets her FirstKiss with Akito]], Rei gets trapped in the middle of a traffic accident which was ''probably'' the result of [[spoiler: her afterwards reaction]].

* MissingMom: Unlike Akito, she actually met and remembers her mother, and has brief memories of her... although TheReveal that she was a [[JapaneseDelinquents yanki]] didn't sit well on her.
* ThemeNaming: As with the rest of the Hayama family, seasons. "Natsu" comes from "summer".

* HappilyAdopted: Misako adopted Sana when she was barely a newborn bay. She told her about it when she was just five years old, as a way to make a promise to look for her real mother, once they become famous. But when the moment arrives, Sana declines the biological mother's offer because Misako is her one and only mother.

* MommasBoy: He just really loves his mom as Aya explained in front of their class. [[BerserkButton But if you tease him about it...]]

* {{Troll}}: She really likes to mess with her editor.

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

* MissingMom: Unlike Akito, she actually met and remembers her mother.

* EverybodyHatesMathematics: She is not very good at math.

* HappilyAdopted: Misako adopted Sana, when she was barely a newborn baby, but she told her about it until she was five years old, making the promise of looking for her real mother. And when the moment arrives, Sana declines her offer because Misako is her one and only mother.

* PerpetualFrowner: A common company to his stoic traits. If he smiles or laughs, it's a big deal for anyone who is involved with him.

During the first days of school, she finds out that an old kindergarten classmate of hers was in the same grade and school as her -- Akito Hayama, who was her FirstKiss [[spoiler: (through a shameless bet)]]. As soon as she starts knowing him, she develops an special interest into him... Both of them start dating when Sana was absent filming "Mizu no Yakata", which all started with an innocent DoubleDate with Fuuka's OldFlame. They later break up because [[spoiler: Akito's feelings for Sana never changed, and she was ready to let him go.]].

* TheAce: Athletic, smart and popular, no one has to wonder why so many of her classmates look up to her. Even Sana gets a little jealous of that aspect on Fuuka.

* ControlFreak: During her relationship with Akito, she often scolded him up about how he was wearing their school's uniform.

* LargeHam: Mostly in the anime series.
* NiceGuy: Behind those sunglasses, there's a really kind heart.

* JapaneseDelinquents: In his youth, he used to be part of a gang with his wife, to everyone's surprise.

* {{Salaryman}}: His daily job which is the initial cause of why he was so aloof from his children, expecially after Koharu died. This took a turn for worse when he was [[{{Workaholic}} overdoing it]], and he went to the hospital.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Both he and his son are serious, polite, silent and kind-hearted, but with a violent streak when angry. Of course, the main difference is that Akito is angry all the time, while his father is (almost) never angry.

* JapaneseDelinquents: She and Fuyuki used to be delinquents in their youth. Even when Natsumi was a baby, she retained some of her old teenage habits, especially in the dialect she used to speak... shredding present-Natsumi's memories of her mom to the ground.

* DudeMagnet: As expected of a famous actress, she gets the attention of many men... be it her own cast mates (as Kawai, in the film set of "Mizu no Yakata") or other celebrities (as shown in the anime, with [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Takuya Kimuchi]]).

* TheHeart: She manages to inspire and help anyone in need, just as her friends and her fans.

* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunwoman]]: She was first mentioned in passing after Akito first kissed Sana, when two guys who knew Akito since kindergarten said he had his FirstKiss then (also mentioning that [[spoiler:it was for a bet]]). Of course nobody expected her to actually show up...

* ControlFreak: In her relationship with Akito, she often scolded him up about how he was wearing their school's uniform.

* DevotedToYou: [[spoiler:In the special "Misty Blue" one-shot, Shuri (the protagonist of ''Honey Bitter'') finds out that Naozumi is still ''too'' devoted to Sana (even after a decade since he confessed his love to her). His [[BiTheWay relationship with a man]] is the only way he could feel "happy" in a romantic relationship... because if he fell in love with another girl, he wouldn't stop remembering his feelings towards her.]]

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Naozumi has very feminine features that makes him look "pretty".

* GirlishPigtails: She rids off them as soon as she start maturing. In the anime, however...

* {{Malaproper}}: Sana tends to massacre proverbs.

* MeaningfulName: She is named after her birthday, March (San) 7 ([[SevenIsNana Na]]).

* {{Bishonen}}: Once he gets into middle school, he starts getting fangirls, even though his personality is a whole different story. [[spoiler: As a grown up and certified doctor, he gets the attention of many of the women working with him... no wonder it was assumed initially that he had a love affair.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Obviously Sana is often annoyed with this.
* ChickMagnet: Between Sana and Fuuka, it's implied he'd be literally surrounded by fangirls if his personality wasn't such a turn-off.

* JerkassFacade: He pretends to be indifferent or annoyed but inside he really cares about his friends, his family, and (especially) Sana.

* PerpetualFrowner: If he smiles or laughs, it's a big deal.

* {{Adorkable}}: He means well but is still quite clueless when it comes to girls and romance. Aya likes him anyway, and his kind personality (especially compared to the other guys in his class) is certainly one of the reasons.

* HotBlooded: Especially when you press his BerserkButton, despite being usually nice and soft-spoken.

* ThePollyanna: His family situation may be almost as bad as Akito's, but unlike Akito he is usually friendly, up-beat, and optimistic. Except when angry.

* SerialRomeo: It becomes a plot point about how he easily falls for different girls, as seen in BecauseYouWereNiceToMe. 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.

* BetaCouple: With Tsuyoshi.

* NiceGirl: She is a sweet girl and always a supportive friend to Sana.
* OnlySaneWoman: Amongst Sana's friends and class mates, she is the most normal. Except when she and Tsuyoshi are being SickeninglySweethearts.
* TheQuietOne: Compared to GenkiGirl Sana, she is very meek and quiet.

* SickeninglySweethearts: With Tsuyoshi. Soon as they start dating, the act like a newlywed lovey-dovey couple.

* AccentAdaptation: Done badly in the Italian dub. In the original, she has a Kansai accent, while her Italian voice actress gives her a blatantly fake pseudo-English accent.
* TheAce: Athletic, smart and popular.

* BrainyBrunette: Looks very similar to Sana, but her hair is darker (brown instead of red). She's also less dense than Sana.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Akito, who went to kindergarten with her and was her FirstKiss. Of course it didn't last.
* ControlFreak: In her relationship with Akito.
* {{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.

* RomanticFalseLead: She gets in the way of the Akito/Sana WillTheyOrWontThey relationship, becoming Akito's girlfriend for a while.

[[spoiler:As an actor, he travels too much, and 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 that the adult Naozumi is a very interesting person, who is still devoted to Sana after so many years, to the point of not falling in love with another girl again because of her]].

* ChickMagnet: Naozumi clearly has fangirls around him (even though he only has eyes for Sana) because he is an actor who is kind, and looks very cute and pretty.

* ParentalAbandonment: He was abandoned at Kamura Institution when he was just a baby, but when he grows up, he doesn't show any interest in looking for his biological parents. [[spoiler: And in the anime, he finds them out by accident in the New York arc; his real mother abandoned him to give priority to her acting career in the U.S., and because he was her love child with Gary Hamilton, a famous Broadway producer.]]

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: He grew up in the same orphanage Sana was once in, although she was there for a very brief period of time, and they never met in the orphanage. The result of his confession and Sana's realization of her feelings for Akito varies in the manga (their friendship is broken briefly, and eventually gives her up) and the anime (they start dating after the story arc in New York but he breaks up with her a few episodes later, because he realizes that she didn't get over Akito).

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: In the anime... hoo boy.

* DotingParent: Once the family issues subside, it's evident that he's immensely proud of his children and even tries to pamper them a bit (One of the few things Akito likes is sushi, so Fuyuki brings takeaway every now and then)

* JapaneseDelinquents: He, when he was young, to everyone's surprise.

* {{Salaryman}}

* ThemeNaming: As with the rest of the Hayama family, seasons. "Fuyu" comes from "winter".

* ThemeNaming: As with the rest of the Hayama family, seasons. "Haru" comes from "spring".

* {{Bishonen}}: Once he gets into middle school, he starts getting fangirls, even though his personality is a whole different story. [[spoiler: As a grown up and certified doctor, he gets the attention of many of the women working with him... no wonder it was assumed inittially that he had a love affair.]]

!Sana Kurata

!Akito Hayama

!Tsuyoshi Ohki/[[spoiler:Sasaki]]

!Aya Sugita

!Fuuka Matsui

!Naozumi Kamura

!Misako Kurata

!Rei Sagami

!Babbit

!Natsumi Hayama

!Fuyuki Hayama

!Koharu Hayama

!Asako Kurumi

* OldFlame: Her breakup with Rei happened not so long after she expressed to him that she wanted to pursue an acting career seriously. Many years after this, and after many things that happened, they reunite to clear up some missunderstandings about their breakup, mostly because they still felt something for each other ever since.

* HumanHummingbird: Mix her GenkiGirl personality and her MotorMouth, and she becomes the poster child of this in the anime, where she is almost unstoppable.

%%* BelligerentSexualTension: With Akito.

%%* EveryoneCanSeeIt: With Akito.

%%* LargeHam: Indeed. Justified because of her job.

%%* OddFriendship: With Akito.
%%* PluckyGirl: In spades.

%%* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With both Akito and Naozumi.

%%* {{Tsundere}}: Type B.

%%* BelligerentSexualTension: With Sana.

%%* TroubledButCute: Very, ''very'' popular among fangirls.

%%* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Both Akito and her former boyfriend weren't right for her.
%%* PluckyGirl

* BelligerentSexualTension: With Akito.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: With Akito.

* HairTriggerTemper: She can be fiery.
* HappilyAdopted: Her adoptive mother Misako told Sana about her adoption when she was 5.
* TheHeart: She manages to inspire and help anyone in need.
* HumanHummingbird: ALL THE TIME.

* IdolSinger: Anime exclusive, though, she becomes this alongside other two girls, once Zenjiro's show is cancelled.

* LargeHam: Indeed. Justified because of her job.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: She has a habit of forgetting unpleasant memories (and the people it involves) when she suffers from HeroicBSOD.
* {{Malaproper}}: Sana has a tendence to massacre proverbs.

* ObliviousToLove: Played with -- Sana's oblivious to love, but not to its effects. She can't stop thinking about Akito (that also includes not realizing that he was in love with her even after ''three different timed kisses'') and she gets jealous and brokenhearted when he starts dating Fuuka. She simply cannot explain why she feels like that at those moments. [[spoiler: And when Sana finally realizes she's in love with Akito, it's kind of a big deal]].
* OddFriendship: With Akito.
* PluckyGirl: In spades.
* PrecociousCrush: Even though Rei being her "boyfriend" was only part of a game that went out of control in public, she believes that ''maybe'' he is her first love crush, since she didn't see him as a ''toy''.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With both Akito and Naozumi.

* SheReallyCanAct: In-universe: people knew that she could act, but only Rei and Misako knew ''how well''. Poor Naozumi is charmed to the point he can't speak when, during the shooting of their movie, he sees her in action...
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B.

* BelligerentSexualTension: With Sana.

* CrazyJealousGuy: When Sana is with someone else.

* MissingMom: His mother died giving birth to him.

* TroubledButCute: Very, ''very'' popular among fangirls.

* BetaCouple: With Aya.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: ''Hoo Boy!''

* AccentAdaptation: Done quite badly in the Italian dub. In the original she has a Kansai accent, while her Italian voice actress gives her a blatantly fake pseudo-English accent.

* TheIdiotFromOsaka: Fuuka lived in Osaka for a while, even the Kansai accent is something she still had. She's not really an idiot, though.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Both Akito and her former boyfriend weren't right for her.

* ButNotTooForeign: His fans think he is a foreign prince, although his biological roots are still a mystery. [[spoiler: The anime plays with this as a vital plot-point of the New York arc, since it's discovered that he has a Japanese mother (a failed theater actress), and an American father (a famous Broadway producer).]]
* ChickMagnet: Naozumi clearly has fangirls around him (even though he only has eyes for Sana), he is an actor who is kind, and looks very cute and pretty.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: He grew up in the same orphanage Sana was once in though, as Sana was there for a very brief period of time, they never met in the orphanage. They start dating after the story arc in New York but he breaks up with her a few episodes late, because he realizes that she still has feelings for Hayama.

* PapaWolf: He is the first to act when there is something wrong around Sana, always coming to defend her when the moment needs it.

* CoolBigSis: After the Hayama family's problems are partially resolved by Sana and they start to emotionally heal.

* DeathByChildbirth: Vital to the whole plot.

* MissingMom: She has been absent from her family's life since Akito was born.

* CoolBigSis: How Sana sees her ever since they start filming "Mizu no Yakata" in the mountains.

* {{Bishonen}}: Once he enters middle school, he starts getting fangirls, even though his personality is a whole different story [[spoiler: As a grown up and certified doctor, he gets the attention of many of the women working with him... no wonder it was assumed inittially that he had a love affair.]]

Tsuyoshi is Akito's best friend. He is this soft-spoken and quite smart child, and though he has this gentle personality, you must know to do NOT make him angry! He has several [[BerserkButton berserk buttons]] and throws a whole rage tornado until Akito subdue him and make him calm down.

It was clearly stated that he was the 'rival' to Akito's love for Sana, but after eventually giving her up, he went to Aya, who had a crush on him. Due to certain conditions happening at his house, his parents divorce, and then he starts to cope with the responsability of being much more than an older brother mentor to his little sister, Aono.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He tends to fall in love with any girl who gives him a gift.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards his little sister.

* MommasBoy: He just really loves his mom as Aya explained. [[BerserkButton But if you tease him about it....]]

* SerialRomeo: It becomes a plot point about how he easily falls for different girls, as seen in BecauseYouWereNiceToMe. 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.
* SickeninglySweethearts: With Aya.

* UnstoppableRage: When he gets angry.

->'''Voiced by''': Akiko Kikuchi (JP), MonicaRial (EN)

Aya is one of Sana's close friends at school. She is a very mild-mannered girl who is also quiet and sweet, with a good deal of common sense. She had a crush on Tsuyoshi whom she later confesses on, under the circumstances (little she knew he was quite the one to love at first 'gift'). They start a relationship later without handling these matters, though.

* SickeninglySweethearts: With Tsuyoshi.

Fuuka moves back to Tokyo from Osaka, when Sana and Hayama start junior high school. Although quite handling a bit of the obvious Osaka stereotypes (mostly the whole boke and tsukkomi routine and a little of the Kansai regional accent) she coupled with the class perfectly. She and Sana became best friends fast because both of them share similar looks and also, personality.

But also, it is not Sana the only one she finds out, but actual ex-classmate of hers in kindergarden, Akito Hayama, [[spoiler: who happens to be her first kiss... through a bet that she doesn't know it existed at the first place]] who as Sana, she hated him at first but actuall when starting to know him better, feelings for him also change.

Both of them start dating when Sana was absent filming "Mizu no Yakata", which all started with an innocent DoubleDate with Fuuka's OldFlame. They later break up because [[spoiler: Akito's feelings for Sana never changed, and she was ready to let him go.]].

Naozumi is a child actor whose popularity is in there alongside Sana. He presents himself as a person who "knows her secret" [[spoiler: it's actually the location of also "secret" moles]] and confesses to Sana that they share a bond and that he likes her. They first met when they were babies at a time they both coincided at Kamura Institution, the orphanage he took his last name from.

* NewOldFlame: Her breakup with Rei happened not so long after she expressed to him that she wanted to pursue an acting career seriously. Many years after this, and after many things that happened, they reunite to clear up some missunderstandings about their breakup, mostly because they still felt something for each other ever since.

* ThePollyanna: His family situation may be almost as bad Akito's, but unlike Akito he is usually friendly, up-beat, and optimistic. Except when angry.

* OldFlame: Her breakup with Rei happened not so long after she expressed to him that she wanted to pursue an acting career seriously. Many years after this, and after many things that happened, they reunite to clear up some missunderstandings about their breakup, mostly because they still felt something for each other ever since.

Both of them start dating when Sana was absent filming ''Mizu no Yakata'', due first for 'help', and [[spoiler:later because missunderstandings that happened in between because fo the movie filming and Akito's feelings towards Sana, but not so much after they break up until Fuuka understood his feelings towards Sana]].

They both share a bond that initially took off from the moment he started looking at her, and when he became inspired to follow her same steps into acting. But they weren't meant to be together. Sana, oblivious to his feelings, just sees him as a friend and as a brother of sorts.

She always want to enjoy her life to the maximum (given her weird antics), after receiving the news that she couldn't conceive (it's also one of the reasons she got divorced from her leech ex-husband, too). One day, after taking a walk in a park, she found a newborn baby in a bench, who she would later adopt and name her "Sana".

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

* ThemeNaming: As with the rest of the Hayama family, seasons. Natsu: Summer.

* TheComicallySerious

* ThemeNaming: As with the rest of the Hayama family, seasons. Fuyu: Winter.

* JapaneseDelinquents: Along with his husband.
* MissingMom

* PosthumousCharacter
* ThemeNaming: As with the rest of the Hayama family, seasons. Haru: Spring.

After their reconciliation, she is dating Rei in secret. Mostly because he doesn't want themselves to be involved in any scandal that would harm her or Sana in one way or another.

* LongDistanceRelationship: Her relationship with Rei after they reconcile, since Asako is an actress (who has to move around a lot) and they are supposedly be dating "in secret".

* ButNotTooForeign: His fans think he has a foreign-looking charm, although his biological roots are still a mystery. [[spoiler: The anime plays with this as a vital plot-point of the New York arc, since it's discovered that he has a Japanese mother (a failed theater actress), and an American father (a famous Broadway producer).]]

* NiceGuy: He really cared about Sana. Quite a lot, actually.

She's Sana's adoptive mother. A famous novel's author whose live was quite an interesting one (she got married at 18 years old, divorced just two years after) that she covered in a some of her books and essays ('The Pimp and I' is basically the story of her and her gambler ex-husband).

She tries to enjoy her life to the maximum (given her weird antics) after receiving the news that she couldn't conceive any children (and again, it was one of the reasons she got divorced too). One day, suddenly taking a walk, [[spoiler:she found baby Sana abandoned in a park...]].

Maro-chan, her squirrel, lives in her hair. She also likes to make misserable her editor due to not giving her works at the due date.

Rei's girlfriend. Asako is supposed to be the reason Rei went through a bad luck storm in his life after their break-up, which happened due to her wanting to pursue an acting career in high school. Now an established drama actress, and in the middle of a TV drama film recording, she not only meets Sana, but also reunites with Rei.

After their reconciliation, she is dating Rei in secret. Mostly because he doesn't want to involve themselves in any scandal that would harm her or Sana in one way or another.

* CoolBigSister: How Sana sees her ever since they start filming "Mizu no Yakata" in the mountains.

* LongDistanceRelationship: Her relationship with Rei after they reconcile, since Asako is an actress (and has to move around a lot) and they are supposed to be dating "in secret".

A list that covers the characters from anime and manga series ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha''.

->'''Voiced by:''' Shizue Oda (JP), Creator/LauraBailey (EN)

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

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

->'''Voiced by:''' Akiko Kikuchi (JP), MonicaRial (EN)

->'''Voiced by:''' Harumi Ikoma (JP)

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

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

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

->'''Voiced by:''' Tomoko Hikita (Japanese), Chris Cason (English)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkemiOkamura (Japanese), Creator/CaitlinGlass (English)

->''Voiced by:'' Takashi Matsuyama (Japanese), Randy Tallman (English)

->''Voiced by:'' Creator/OmiMinami (Japanese), Amber Cotton (English)

-> ''Voiced by'': Azusa Nakao (JP), Creator/LuciChristian (EN)

Rei's girlfriend. Asako is supposed to be the reason Rei went through a bad luck storm in his life after their break-up, which happened due to her wanting to pursue an acting career in high school. Now as an established drama actress, and in one of the filimngs of a TV drama film, she not only meets Sana, but also reunites with Rei.

She is dating Rei in secret, mostly because he doesn't want to involve them in any scandal that would harm her or Sana in one way or another.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Initially, towards Sana.

* OddFriendship: With Akito.
* ThePollyanna: He is usually up-beat and optimistic. Except when angry.

* BetterAsFriends: With Sana.

* OverprotectiveDad: After Sana stopped seeing Rei as her ''boyfriend'', he starts acting like a ''dad'' for her. To the extreme of being very overprotective to her.

* RomanticFalseLead: While Sana and Akito were always meant to be the OfficialCouple, he was clearly the most prominent out of Sana's other admirers and, at for a while, an obstacle to Sana's RelationshipUpgrade with Akito. It doesn't help that he and Sana often end up playing on-screen couples due to their job.

%%* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy

%%* RomanticFalseLead

%%* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Purple Hair.

%%* BrainyBrunette

%%* DrivesLikeCrazy

* ObfuscatingStupidity: She's absolutely bonkers, but she's also probably both the wisest and the most GenreSavvy character on the series.

%%* DeadpanSnarker

%%* PluckyComicRelief: One word -- hilarious!
%%* TalkingAnimal

* BigSisterBully: Initially.
* BrainyBrunette

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Naozumi has ver feminine features that makes him very pretty.

* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: "Hayama-chichi" (''Daddy Hayama'')

* ThemeNaming: As with the rest of the Hayama family, seasons. Haru: Spring.

[[spoiler:As an actor, he travels too much, and 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 that the adult Naozumi is a pretty interesting but confusing person, 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]].

* {{Bishonen}}
* ButNotTooForeign
* ChickMagnet

* DevotedToYou: [[spoiler:In the special "Misty Blue" one-shot, Shuri (the protagonist of ''Honey Bitter'') finds out that Naozumi (even after a decade since he confessed his love to her) is still ''too'' devoted to Sana. His [[BiTheWay relationship with a man]] is the only way he could feel "happy" in a romantic relationship... because if he fell in love with another girl, he wouldn't stop remembering his feelings towards her.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards Sana.
* DudeLooksLikeALady
* InnocentBlueEyes: [[spoiler: ''A painfully, beautiful blue''.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy

* ParentalAbandonment
* RomanticFalseLead

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Purple Hair.

* BrainyBrunette

* DrivesLikeCrazy

* {{Womanchild}}

A (former) troublemaker that caused chaos during 6th grade in Sana's group. Quite the stoic in physical, he is also very strong. After Sana started to call him out of all of his 'evil' doing at school, and after an intent of blackmail, she becomes his 'interest' and love obsession.

His family is also a little complicated. When Akito was born, his mother Koharu 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 Fuyuki, 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 ''and'' his family ties started to get mended. Although the first... only a little, when a hard road eventually develops for both of them.

[[spoiler: In Deep Clear, a 26 year old Akito is married to Sana, and practices relaxative medicine in a local hospital. Suspected of having an affair that keeps him away from Sana, in reality is that he has been having trouble with her having their child, because he fears that she would die of childbirth as his own mother did. They eventually reconcile once their child is born.]]

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

* ChickMagnet: Between Sana and Fuka, it's implied he'd be literally surrounded by fangirls if his personality wasn't such a turn-off.

* DefrostingIceKing: He softens up.
* {{Delinquents}}: Initially.
* 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]].

* JerkassFacade: He pretends to be indifferent or annoyed but inside he really cares about his friends, family and Sana.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After all the trouble that Akito goes through his FreudianExcuse, he develops a heart of gold, even if he hasn’t changed lots of his character on the outside.

* ParentalNeglect: His FreudianExcuse.

* ThemeNaming: As with the rest of the Hayama family, seasons. Aki: Autumn. This is discussed in-series: Hayama's mom chose her children's names [[EnforcedTrope precisely for that fact.]]

* BerserkButton: If you insult his mother Or just, make him angry for other sentimental topics of his.

* AccentAdaptation: Done quite badly in the Italian dub. In the original she has a Kansai accent, while her Italian voice actress gives her a blatantly fake pseudo-English accent that makes her sound very annoying.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys

* PluckyGirl

Naozumi is a child actor whose popularity is in there alongside Sana. He presents himself as a person who 'knows her secret [[spoiler: the localization of her 'secret' moles]] and confesses to Sana that they also share a bond and that he quite likes her. In reality, both of them first met when they were babies since both of them coincided in the same Orphanage.

He admired her and looked at her, and became inspired to follow her path as well: acting. And suddenly realized that that bond was in there for both of them being together. But Sana, oblivious to his feelings, just sees him as a friend and as a brother of sorts. He has an undying loyalty to Sana, to the extremes of [[spoiler:warning Akito of taking care of her too much to not let her happen something bad]].

[[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 interesting but 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]].

* BrainyBrunette
* GirlNextDoor
* NiceGirl
* OnlySaneWoman: Amongst Sana's friends and class mates.
* TheQuietOne