History Characters / MarchComesInLikeALion

* StereotypicalNerd: Rei is a TeenGenius at the game board game shogi, an ExtremeDoormat due to a lack of self-esteem, has NoSocialSkills, and comes from a FriendlessBackground. Appearance-wise, he is almost always wearing NerdGlasses and a plain white button shirt under a [[DorkInASweater sweater]] or sweater-vest.

!Takagi Megumi

* NerdsAreInnocent: He's mostly a bookworm and singularly-focused on shogi, so he doesn't understand any of the implications involved in hanging out at a house entirely populated by young girls, nor why anyone freaks out about it.

!Seijirou

* BigBrotherMentor: For Nikaidou and later Rei.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: It's been commented he looks more around Gotou's age than his own.

* IllBoy: Downplayed. He has chronic stomach pains due to stress. He says that interestingly the pains always go away during a game, until it flares up during the Kyoto game. Seeing the kind of people Shimada had to play against day by day in A-class, Rei says that it's a miracle the nerves only give him stomachache.

This is the character sheet for Chica Umino's ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion''. All character, characterization, and other tropes from character-related indices go here. All names are in Western order. '''Page under construction.'''

** Also true regarding Momo, who thinks Rei is her biological brother at one point. She's even around the same age Chihiro was.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Hina. Despite his meek exterior, Rei consistently acts to protect and console Hina, including getting in the way of boys who try to flirt with her, and following her on a school trip to console her when she's having a hard time. When Misaki questions whether Rei's fiercely protective attitude towards Hina might be romantic, Akari replies that she thinks its this trope due to a familial love towards the entire Kawamoto family that transcends romantic attraction. [[spoiler: Only a handful of chapters later, Akari's theory is proven very, very wrong.]]

* BigSisterWorship: Somewhat downplayed through much of the series but she admires her sister a lot to the point of a slight inferiority complex. Seen early in her shame at having failed to give Takahashi her bento and certainty Akari'd never had such a problem, and later when [[spoiler:her feelings for Rei start to grow stronger and instead of wanting to date him herself she decides to ship him with Akari, describing all the great things about her sister and how she'd definitely make him happy and keep him from leaving, even as tears pour down her face.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: Thinks of himself like TheRival in a hot-blooded shonen manga, even though he's actually in a low-key seinen dramedy.

* [[BigBrotherWorship Big Sister Worship]]: Somewhat downplayed through much of the series but she admires her sister a lot to the point of a slight inferiority complex. Seen early in her shame at having failed to give Takahashi her bento and certainty Akari'd never had such a problem, and later when [[spoiler:her feelings for Rei start to grow stronger and instead of wanting to date him herself she decides to ship him with Akari, describing all the great things about her sister and how she'd definitely make him happy and keep him from leaving, even as tears pour down her face.]]

* YouAreNotMyFather: A variant. [[spoiler:During the sisters' final confrontation with Seijirou, as Akari wavers in her determination to cut off with Seijirou out of concern for Momo (which Seijirou is all too happy to exploit and point out), Hina puts her foot down and affirms that she'll stand by Akari's decision and when the time comes will explain to Momo the kind of person their father really is. This effectively puts an end to Seijirou's attempts to integrate himself into his daughters' life and he has not been heard of since.]]

* HotBlooded: Despite being an IllBoy, he's very energetic about everything he does. He loves Shogi because it's the one place where he can be hot blooded to his heart's content despite his illness.

* IllBoy:
** Despite all of his gusto, Nikaidou is sickly, and takes regular visits to the hospital. His illness is mentioned often by the cast, and it has manifested several times in the story in the form of anemia.
** It's also shown that he has elimination problems manifested in renal disease, accounting for the possibility that he's not fat, but rather that he's excessively retaining fluids.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Thinks of himself like TheRival in a hot-blooded shonen manga.

* SkirtOverSlacks: Hina's casual style of dress mainly consists of dresses she wears over her jeans.

* AmbiguousDisorder: While he's never defined as having any kind of psychological or psychiatric disorders, he's frequently portrayed as a few steps outside the norm. He shows frequent evidence of clinical depression, and a very strong correlation to Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism, with his poor social skills, limited expression (children often called him a "robot"), inability to understand others' feelings, obsession with a singular subject, etc. His biological father is even shown to have had a habit of rocking when he concentrated, a very typical behavior of autism.

* NotSoDifferent: He has been compared to Souya multiple times in the story due to both being shogi prodigies that became pros during middle school, are rather isolated from people and are very introverted. Shimada even states they have similar mindsets to each during one of their workshops.

* JerkassFacade: Downplayed. He tries to act theatrically antagonistic, but [[SpoiledSweet is really bad at it.]]

* SpoiledSweet: Comes from an extremely wealthy family, but is nice and generous to other people to an almost overbearing level. Examples include giving a self-published, lavishly printed children's shogi book to the Kawamoto siblings while teaching them shogi, bringing an expensive futon to Rei's apartment to sleep over and leaving it there as a housewarming gift, and taking a ''helicopter'' to visit Shimada when he wasn't feeling well.

---> Portrayed by: Creator/ShigeruChiba (anime), Gin Maeda (live action, Creator/MarcThompson (anime) (English)

---> Portrayed by: Creator/ShigeruChiba (anime), Gin Maeda (live action, Creator/MikePollock (anime) (English)

---> Portrayed by: Creator/ShigeruChiba (anime), Gin Maeda (live action)