History Characters / RascalDoesNotDreamOfBunnyGirlSenpai

[[caption-width-right:1000:All the main cast from left to right: [[LittleSisterHeroine Kaede Azusagawa]], [[DeadpanSnarker Rio Futaba]], [[TotallyTrustingLoveInterest Mai Sakurajima]], [[GentlemanSnarker Sakuta Azusagawa]], baby Mai a.k.a. the knapsack kid, [[{{Time Travel}}er Shoko Makinohara]], [[HopelessSuitor Tomoe Koga]], [[IdolSinger Nodoka Toyohama]].]]

* ClingyJealousGirl: She gets jealous rather easily, and worries when Sakuta invites female friends at home, but then this is {{subverted}}; as an [[UnderstandingBoyfriend Understanding Girlfriend]], she always gives him a chance to explain himself.

[[caption-width-right:1000:All the main cast from left to right: [[LittleSisterHeroine Kaede Azusagawa]], [[DeadpanSnarker Rio Futaba]], [[TotallyTrustingLoveInterest Mai Sakurajima]], [[GentlemanSnarker Sakuta Azusagawa]], baby Mai a.k.a. the knapsack kid, [[TimeTraveler Shoko Makinohara]], [[HopelessSuitor Tomoe Koga]], [[IdolSinger Nodoka Toyohama]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:849:Centre: [[NiceGirl Mai]] [[RetGone Sakurajima]]. Clockwise from left, the [[ChivalrousPervert so-called rascal]] [[NiceGuy Sakuta]] [[HeroWithBadPublicity Azusagawa]] and all the other girls he helps through the story arcs - [[BigSisterWorship Nodoka]] [[IdolSinger Toyohama]], [[LittleSisterHeroine Kaede]] [[ShrinkingViolet Azusagawa]], [[NiceGirl Shoko]] [[DelicateAndSickly Makinohara]], [[DeadpanSnarker Rio]] [[DCupDistress Futaba]], [[TheIdiotFromOsaka Tomoe]] [[InLoveWithLove Koga]].]]

* {{Tsundere}}: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] actually - except for her bitterness during her hiatus, Mai is a genuinely open-hearted person and doesn't hide her kind intentions and feelings for others. She just has some shades of the trope towards Sakuta, but is not at all harsh by default - it's just part of her [[TheTease teasing]], such as insisting that he must confess his love to her every day for a month before she believes him, and then, at the end of the month, says that the confessions no longer set her heart racing. If you want to apply the trope to her, then she would count as a bit of a type B tsundere overall, as she's sensitive and [[ClingyJealousGirl easily gets jealous]], and when she gets embarrassed and annoyed because of Sakuta's lewd jokes she can be a bit snappy and slap him. Though, again, in the end she doesn't deny her feelings and often tells Sakuta she loves him more than he thinks.

* YamatoNadeshiko: Kind, polite, selfless, beautiful with long black hair, devoted to the guy she loves and also very good at cooking, as well as possessing a strong personality and being capable of being tough when needed. She may be a somewhat snarkier version of the trope, but still she perfectly fits.

* EmotionlessGirl: She never emotes much, leaving a rather cold impression as a result. We see more of her inner feelings and what makes her tick halfway through the season.
* GlassesAreSexy: For sure, they don't make her any less attractive.

* NiceGirl: She may appear stoic, aloof and is very blunt and snarky, but she is a genuinely nice and caring person, who is supportive to Sakuta while solving the Syndrome cases.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: {{Downplayed}}, but she can be a little eccentric at times and get to wrong conclusions - such as fearing Sakuta has become a gigolo.

* MsFanservice: DownplayedTrope. Despite its name, the series isn't exactly centered on {{fanservice}}, and Mai is just a subtle example with a few moments, e.g. the "bunny girl" scene and some LegFocus moments. The other one is the past scene where she was forced by her mother to pose in a two-piece swimsuit: yes, she was a very young girl, about 15, but that didn't make her any less attractive...

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* DefrostingIceQueen: JustifiedTrope and, again, Mai is ''not'' a cold and aloof person by nature, but after her mother betrayed her and her willingness to distance herself from showbusiness, at the time of her hiatus she comes across as a little bitter. Though, said bitterness is pretty much immediately subverted as Sakuta shows genuine interest in helping her.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: [[DeadpanSnarker Snarky]] and [[TheStoic calm]] NiceGuy Sakuta is phlegmatic[[note]]has also some minor melancholic traits at first[[/note]] (and kind, compassionate and quiet Shoko is phlegmatic as well[[spoiler:especially her slightly shy young version; older Shoko mixes it with sanguine as she's more outgoing]]); levelheaded and [[TheTease witty]] yet [[NiceGirl kind]] Mai is eclectic (mostly blends eclectic[[note]]at first, sort of a blend of sanguine and melancholic, as she's playful but also sensitive and sometimes pessimistic); pessimistic; later on, she's more of a phlegmatic-sanguine arguably[[/note]]; [[TheStoic calm]] and [[TheSpock rational]] but [[DCupDistress secretly troubled]] scientist Rio is melancholic, and outgoing, [[IJustWantToHaveFriends too much people-oriented]] Tomoe is sanguine. Saki Kamisato, who isn't one of the main characters, is choleric.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: * FourTemperamentEnsemble: [[DeadpanSnarker Snarky]] and [[TheStoic calm]] NiceGuy Sakuta is phlegmatic[[note]]has also some minor melancholic traits at first[[/note]] (and kind, compassionate and quiet Shoko is phlegmatic as well[[spoiler:especially her slightly shy young version; older Shoko mixes it with sanguine as she's more outgoing]]); levelheaded and [[TheTease witty]] yet [[NiceGirl kind]] Mai is eclectic (mostly blends eclectic[[note]]at first, sort of a blend of sanguine and melancholic, as she's playful but also sensitive and sometimes pessimistic); pessimistic; later on, she's more of a phlegmatic-sanguine arguably[[/note]]; [[TheStoic calm]] and [[TheSpock rational]] but [[DCupDistress secretly troubled]] scientist Rio is melancholic, and outgoing, [[IJustWantToHaveFriends too much people-oriented]] Tomoe is sanguine. Saki Kamisato, who isn't one of the main characters, is choleric.

** PlayedForLaughs when Sakuta tells Yuuma he has a date with a person who's not Mai. When Sakuta's mother arrives, Yuuma tells to himself that Sakuta really likes older women.
* LovableSexManiac: {{Subverted}}. He's a NiceGuy who, despite his lewd remarks towards Mai, Rio and Tomoe, has true feelings only for Mai, and isn't as perverted as he looks.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: * FourTemperamentEnsemble: [[DeadpanSnarker Snarky]] and [[TheStoic calm]] NiceGuy Sakuta is phlegmatic, [[note]]though he can be a bit [[note]]has also some minor melancholic traits at times[[/note]] first[[/note]] (and kind, compassionate and quiet Shoko is phlegmatic as well); well [[spoiler:especially her slightly shy young version; older Shoko mixes it with sanguine as she's more outgoing]]); levelheaded and [[TheTease witty]] yet [[NiceGirl kind]] Mai is eclectic (mostly blends eclectic[[note]]at first, sort of a blend of sanguine and melancholic, as she's playful but also sensitive and sometimes pessimistic); pessimistic; later on, she's more of a phlegmatic-sanguine arguably[[/note]]; [[TheStoic calm]] and [[TheSpock rational]] but [[DCupDistress secretly troubled]] scientist Rio is melancholic, and outgoing, [[IJustWantToHaveFriends too much people-oriented]] Tomoe is sanguine. Saki Kamisato, who isn't one of the main characters, is choleric.

** Rio Futaba may have an aloof exterior, but it's nevertheless shown she's a very kind, loyal and supportive friend. She consistently helps solving the Syndrome cases in the series, and in the movie she ultimately makes sure the others will survive and be safe [[spoiler: thanks to the new timeline, where Shoko is healthy, and Sakuta and Mai decide to travel there at the cost of sacrificing the memories of each other - which fortunately doesn't happen]]).

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Naturally, ther are snark fights between the listed deadpan snarkers. The banters are between Sakuta and Mai, or Sakuta and Rio arguably even more.
* TroubledButCute: Pretty much everyone in the series has issues: Sakuta, Kaede, Mai, Tomoe, Rio, Nodoka, Shouko... But they all have charming qualities to them, ''are'' indeed at least reasonably cute and attractive, and are very kind souls who will always be there for each other no matter what.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: While they aren't by any means unpleasant or mentally ill, the story is about individuals affected by some kind of trouble. We have: a [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold misunderstood]] NiceGuy seen as a violent delinquent, who starts off as almost a loner - with literally only two friends; his little sister, who [[spoiler: is cyberbullied by her schoolmates and becomes a {{hikikomori}}]]; the main girl, who used to be a popular actress, but then was betrayed by her greedy mother [[spoiler: and becomes an {{unperson}}]], besides having a completely FriendlessBackground, a young first year student who falls in love with the main guy - who is already in love with the main girl - and seeks at every cost to be popular and recognized by her peers - [[spoiler: ultimately creating a time loop where she tries to win the protagonist's love at any cost]]; a beautiful and intelligent female friend of the male protagonist who has prematurely developed female attributes and [[spoiler: gets split into two different forms of herself]]; a school idol who wants to be at every cost as good as her older sister - the main girl - [[spoiler: and has a body exchange with her for it]], and a young schoolgirl who [[spoiler:appears also in her older form from the future, has a heart disease in the present, and must be saved in some way in the movie]].

* TroubledButCute: Practically everyone in the series has issues: Sakuta, Kaede, Mai, Tomoe, Rio, Nodoka, Shouko... But who of them is not a NiceGuy?

* AbusiveParents: {{Downplayed}}. Her mom wasn't actively abusive, but she used to be her manager and had no qualms about using her very young daughter for money, the final straw being a swimsuit photoshoot that made the naturally modest Mai very uncomfortable.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A dark version of this. Rio is usually constantly snarky towards Sakuta and half of the time she is not explaining her stuff, she will be insulting him but in TheMovie, [[spoiler: once she finds out Sakuta will have to die in a car accident to save Shoko, she throws away her usual behaviour and tells him she doesn't want this and cries TearsOfJoy once she sees the next day that he survived]]