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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RyoheiKimura (Japanese), Creator/JoshGrelle (English)

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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RyoheiKimura (Japanese), Creator/JoshGrelle Creator/JessieJamesGrelle (English)
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* SenpaiKohai: [[spoiler:The kohai to Yoake's senpai, as she's his junior at work. Her WhamLine, revealing who she is, comes when she calls him as such, as they're supposed to be equals as high school students.]]
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* UnknowinglyInLove: Just as how he can't pick up on others' feelings, he's equally clueless to his own, especially since [[LoveYouAndEverybody he thinks he just likes everyone]].

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* UnknowinglyInLove: Just as how he can't pick up on others' feelings, he's equally clueless to his own, especially since [[LoveYouAndEverybody he thinks he just likes everyone]].
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* SempaiKohai: [[spoiler:The kohai to Yoake's senpai, as she's his junior at work. Her WhamLine, revealing who she is, comes when she calls him as such, as they're supposed to be equals as high school students.]]

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* SempaiKohai: SenpaiKohai: [[spoiler:The kohai to Yoake's senpai, as she's his junior at work. Her WhamLine, revealing who she is, comes when she calls him as such, as they're supposed to be equals as high school students.]]
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* NiceGirl: Her social skills may be poor, but at heart she's a very kind and exceptionally honest girl, and also reasonably polite despite her InnocentlyInsensitive moments.
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* HotScientist: In the epilogue, [[spoiler:she joins [=ReLIFE=]'s laboratory, and is canonically a beauty as an adult]].

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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Usually does this to comfort somebody in pain

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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Usually does this to comfort somebody in painpain. It's a bit of a plot point when he stops doing it regularly to Hishiro, as it's a sign that he no longer sees her as a child but as a romantic interest.
* BadLiar: He's not the best at hiding at the fact that he's secretly an adult and arguably gets away with it only because [[RefugeInAudacity normal people would never think that an adult would be posing as a teenager]]. [[spoiler:This allows Hishiro, who does know about [=ReLIFE=], to figure him out pretty easily.]]



* TheCasanova: Subverted. Ohga ''thinks'' Kaizaki's incredibly experienced with women, due to how comfortable he is over interacting with them, but it has nothing to do with being a womanizer and more to do with Kaizaki being a decade older than the girls he's talking to. Unfortunately for Kaizaki, this leaves him to frantically dispel this image whenever Ohga brings it up.



* TheConfidant: Kariu ends up venting her insecurities to Kaizaki in the first arc, although he spills some of them to Hishiro later. [[BaitAndSwitch Kariu chides him for this... before thanking him, since it allowed her and Hishiro to become friends]].



* FeelingTheirAge: While Kaizaki's not ''that'' old at 27-28, he's still past his fresh youth and tends to suffer over high school athletics on account of not being as flexible anymore, e.g. being surprised to find that he actually needs to stretch before sports, which he ignored as a teenager.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:When he stood up for his senior at work, it only made the bullying towards her worse, and he's haunted by the idea that it may have directly contributed to her eventual suicide.]]



* RedOniBlueOni: The loud, sociable Red Oni to Hishiro's stoic, nigh robotic Blue Oni.



* HotScientist: In the epilogue, [[spoiler:she joins [=ReLIFE=]'s laboratory, and is canonically a beauty as an adult]].



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Her poorly handled attempt to intervene in a bullying situation made it worse, which caused her to withdraw even further.]]
* TheNicknamer: She's not good at remembering names, so she's not above just calling people by identifiers at first.



* RedOniBlueOni: The [[EmotionlessGirl Blue Oni]] to Kaizaki's [[BlitheSpirit Red Oni]].
* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Kaizaki's completely unaware that Hishiro knows he's a [=ReLIFE=] subject for the latter half of the series.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Hishiro is a blunt girl who is at times rude and, by her own admission, uninterested in other people, but when she warms to someone, she can be quite sweet and affectionate in her own way.
* {{Tsundere}}: A mild case towards Kaizaki, as she openly asks to be friends with him but doesn't hesitate to call him stupid, especially when she's embarrassed. She's generally less insulting towards everyone else aside from Onoya.



* TheConfidant: As Kaizaki's handler, he's the person whom Kaizaki spills his thoughts and secrets to. [[spoiler:He's also one for Hishiro until Onoya takes over this role.]]



* {{Hypocrite}}: While Yoake often criticizes Onoya [[spoiler:for interfering too much with the subjects]], he tends to be just as guilty of this, if even more egregiously so (albeit in a different fashion). Unlike usual cases of this, however, it's seen as a positive thing.
* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for Subject No. 001's failure, feeling that it was due to his inadequate support -- though arguably, he was doomed from the start. [[TheScapegoat It doesn't help that his superiors at work also placed all the blame at his feet.]]



* RedOniBlueOni: The aloof, logical Blue Oni to Onoya's excitable, emotional Red Oni.




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* TripleShifter: Kaizaki's baffled over when Yoake has time to rest, considering that Yoake has to juggle being a student and his full-time job as Kaizaki's handler [[spoiler:and, unbeknownst to Kaizaki, Hishiro's for the first term]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: Yoake drives Kaizaki nuts, but once in a while Kaizaki will put that aside and show genuine concern for him, such as inviting Yoake to eat lunch with him. More often than not, the two of them consider it unusual when they're being sincere with the other.



* CommonalityConnection: She bonds with Kaizaki over being transfer students who also bombed their tests.
* TheConfidant:
** As Onoya's the only other person aware of [[spoiler:Hishiro and Kaizaki's situation, as well as having witnessed Yoake's burnout the previous year, she's the one person whom Yoake can express any of his personal thoughts to -- albeit with Yoake's usual restraint, considering his [[StepfordSmiler attitude]] and role as her work senior]].
** She also becomes this to [[spoiler:Hishiro, as her handler as of the second term]].



* InSeriesNickname: Due to Hishiro's dislike of her, Hishiro just calls her the "braids and glasses girl" at first. Amusingly, one chapter-end image shows Hishiro a little confused when Onoya shows up without her iconic glasses and braids, since the nickname no longer fits.



* RedOniBlueOni: The Red Oni to Yoake's Blue Oni, with them also on the opposite ends of the EmotionsVsStoicism spectrum on [[spoiler:how to handle their jobs as members of the Support Division]].



* VitriolicBestBuds: She eventually forms this dynamic with Hishiro with the vitriol on Hishiro's side, not unlike Yoake's friendship with Kaizaki.

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* VitriolicBestBuds: She TenderTears: [[spoiler:As Onoya's deeply invested in Hishiro and Kaizaki's happiness, she often ends up bursting into tears over the reminder that their relationship is doomed to disappear at the end of their experiment.]]
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** Onoya
eventually forms this dynamic with Hishiro with the vitriol on Hishiro's side, not unlike Yoake's friendship with Kaizaki.Kaizaki. With that said, she invokes a lot of exasperation from Kaizaki as well, though he's more willing to freely acknowledge her as a friend despite this.
** Her dynamic with Yoake consists of Onoya sniping at him at every opportunity, and in turn she's one of the few people whom Yoake is comfortable enough around to openly show annoyance; Kaizaki even comments on how he can't tell if they hate each other or like each other. On the flip side, [[spoiler:Onoya views Yoake as her saviour of sorts, respects him deeply, and wishes him happiness, and Yoake likewise serves as Onoya's rock when things get rough]].




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* UnknownRival: It's a low blow to her to know that even though she views Honoka and Hishiro as her rivals, they don't really feel the same way, to the point that Hishiro doesn't even remember her name at first.



* AffectionateNickname: Tama to her childhood friends.



* ChildhoodFriends: With fellow Aoba students Asaji and Inukai. They're close enough that she refers to them as ''Aki-chan'' and ''Nobu-chan,'' respectively, even to people who might be unfamiliar with the names.

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* BrokenAce: Eventually revealed to be this, as she became disillusioned with being the top of every sport to the degree that she deliberately tried to be WillfullyWeak upon entering Aoba, before Kariu called her out and encouraged her to embrace a rivalry between them.
* ChildhoodFriends: With fellow Aoba students Asaji and Inukai. They're close enough that she refers to them as ''Aki-chan'' ''Nobu-chan'' and ''Nobu-chan,'' ''Aki-chan'', respectively, even to people who might be unfamiliar with the names.names.
* FamedInStory: She's well-known in the school athletic circuit and entered Aoba specifically in hopes that no one would recognize her. For better or for worse, Kariu still did.



* AffectionateNickname: Nobu to his childhood friends.



* ObliviousToLove: Unlike Inukai, who's aware of the hidden interpersonal dynamics of their trio, Asaji doesn't seem to realize that Tamarai likes him.



* AllLoveIsUnrequited

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* AllLoveIsUnrequitedAffectionateNickname: Aki to his childhood friends.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: See Tamarai's section.

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* ImpliedLoveInterest: To Yoake. Other characters bring up the possibility of them being an item and they're not without ShipTease, but unlike the OfficialCouple(s) of the series, they're never seen hooking up and [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend deny any relationship to the very end]]. [[spoiler:At least until the epilogue chapter, where they finally do get together.]]

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* ImpliedLoveInterest: To Yoake. Other characters bring up the possibility of them being an item and they're not without ShipTease, but unlike the OfficialCouple(s) of the series, they're never seen hooking up and [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend deny any relationship to the very end]]. [[spoiler:At
** PrintBonus materials make it more explicit, as she admits in a volume omake to liking Yoake, though Yoake's feelings are much more ambiguous [[spoiler:at
least until the epilogue chapter, where they finally do get together.]]together]].



* {{Bishonen}}: Kaizaki freely admits that Ohga's a very attractive man. Combined with his personality, the series tends to joke that he's a "disappointment of an ikemen".



* PrettyBoy: Kaizaki freely admits that Ohga's a very attractive man. Combined with his personality, the series tends to joke that he's a "disappointment of an ikemen".




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* UnknowinglyInLove: Just as how he can't pick up on others' feelings, he's equally clueless to his own, especially since [[LoveYouAndEverybody he thinks he just likes everyone]].


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* FirstFriend: She's the first friend Hishiro makes outside of Kaizaki, cementing Hishiro's social progress.


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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although Kariu is straightforward and somewhat rude by nature, and her insecurities often get the better of her, she's a loyal friend who goes out of her way to defend and/or support those she cares about.


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* HeyYou: Expect Inukai to address everyone outside of Tamarai and Asaji this way.

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* KarmicJackpot: The TimeSkip epilogue, set several years after the ending to the series shows that [[spoiler:Ogha would go on to work for [=ReLIFE=], being inspired to after Arata was able to successfully rehabilitate his older brother. Ogha ends up re-befriending Arata and invites him to his wedding with Kairu. It's also implied that Ogha, and by extension the others, will be regaining their old memories of Arata and Chizuru thanks to reconnecting with them in the present.]]

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* KarmicJackpot: The TimeSkip epilogue, set several years after the ending to the series shows that [[spoiler:Ogha [[spoiler:Ohga would go on to work for [=ReLIFE=], being inspired to after Arata was able to successfully rehabilitate his older brother. Ogha Ohga ends up re-befriending Arata and invites him to his wedding with Kairu. It's also implied that Ogha, Ohga, and by extension the others, will be regaining their old memories of Arata and Chizuru thanks to reconnecting with them in the present.]]




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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Hishiro does this to Ogha in Chapter 170.

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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Hishiro does this to Ogha Ohga in Chapter 170.



* BookSmart: She's at the top of the grade in an academically focused school, which is no small feat.



* CannotKeepASecret: Hishiro tends to [[SayingTooMuch accidentally mention things she shouldn't]] and is terrible at backpedaling. [[spoiler:Though there is one secret she's very good at keeping, and it's that she's an adult woman doing the [=ReLIFE=] experiment.]]



* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Her goal is to get better at making friends, albeit less out of genuine loneliness at this point and more because she realizes that spending her life in her own bubble is holding her back.



* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: despite falling increasingly hard in love, Hishiro is still disconnected enough from her own feelings not to understand them, or to understand them only haltingly. She's probably been in love for over a hundred chapters by the time she actually comes to the conclusion herself! Hishiro's approach to understanding her feelings is direct, as usual: if people in love enjoy being touched by they person they're in love with, ''just ask to be touched'' and see what happens!

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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: despite Despite falling increasingly hard in love, Hishiro is still disconnected enough from her own feelings not to understand them, or to understand them only haltingly. She's probably been in love for over a hundred chapters by the time she actually comes to the conclusion herself! Hishiro's approach to understanding her feelings is direct, as usual: if people in love enjoy being touched by they person they're in love with, ''just ask to be touched'' and see what happens!




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* BrokenAce: Onoya admits that she looks up to Yoake and sees him as someone who's good at everything he does, which belies the fact that he doesn't have things nearly as together as he acts.



* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: His job, or at least his intention, is effectively to counsel others over their problems and help them find happiness, while he himself is one of the most emotionally damaged characters in the series.



* NeverGetsDrunk: He holds his liquor ''very'' well and can walk off a night of heavy drinking like it's nothing, when even Kaizaki -- who's no slouch in this department either -- is sick the next morning.



* TheSocialExpert: People skills come with the job, as Yoake's purpose is to understand his subject's psychology and help them [[spoiler:and, to an extent, his work junior Onoya]] navigate their circumstances.




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* BirdsOfAFeather: Onoya and Yoake are both perpetually smiling individuals who like to tease others, with Kaizaki even commenting that they're perfect for each other.
* BookDumb: Subverted. She gets even worse grades at Kaizaki, but only because she's deliberately trying to fail. Once she stops with the act, she's perfectly fine with academics.



* RescueRomance: Downplayed, but [[spoiler:she's been in love with Yoake ever since she was matched with him through [=ReLIFE=]'s anonymous help line and he pulled her out of her funk.]]




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* VitriolicBestBuds: She eventually forms this dynamic with Hishiro with the vitriol on Hishiro's side, not unlike Yoake's friendship with Kaizaki.
* WalkingSpoiler: To a degree, it's difficult to talk about Onoya's character without hinting that [[spoiler:she's an adult and part of [=ReLIFE=]'s support division, as it's her primary role in the story and the series' earliest twist -- the fact that she's presented as Yoake's LoveInterest already gives it away]].




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* BookSmart: Like Hishiro, Ohga ranks at the top of his grade.



* HappilyMarried: With Kariu in the epilogue.




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* HappilyMarried: With Ohga in the epilogue.




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* PseudoRomanticFriendship: She ''really'' adores Kariu, complete with constant physical affection and, during a conversation about romantic love, her bringing up her relationship with Kariu as an example (even if in a platonic sense; she admits later to being in love with one of her ChildhoodFriends).




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* NoSenseOfDirection: The reason Asaji and Inukai have to walk her home every day is because she'll get lost if they don't. This continues even to after their graduation, as they have to help show her how to get to their university.
-->'''Asaji''': How many days have we been doing this now...?
-->'''Inukai''': Ten.
* PseudoRomanticFriendship: She ''really'' adores Kariu, complete with constant physical affection and, during a conversation about romantic love, her bringing up her relationship with Kariu as an example (even if in a platonic sense; she admits later to being in love with one of her ChildhoodFriends).




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