History Characters / ReLIFE

* CryCute: Most arcs involving her will have her burst into tears in the end--although as a tsundere, she'll fiercely deny it afterwards.

* {{Meganekko}}: Invoked by Onoya, who tend to lend Hishiro her PurelyAestheticGlasses for costumes and the like.

* {{Meganekko}}: Invoked by Onoya, who doesn't need to wear glasses but does to look more innocent. [[spoiler:Her previous high school look was unsuitable for a more academics-focused school like Aoba.]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: 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).

* StepfordSmiler: You're far more likely to catch any inner turmoil through his CharacterTic than his expression. Onoya calls him out on it, telling him that people can't tell when they've actually hurt him if he just smiles it off, and Yoake privately admits that he's not good at being honest with others.

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ReinaUeda (Japanese), Kristen [=McGuire=] (English)

At 27 years old, Kaizaki is working part-time at a convenience store while looking for steady work. He maintains the appearance to friends that he still holds a regular, salaried position at a company, unwilling to admit the truth. Cut off by his parents, Kaizaki embraces the opportunity to join the [=ReLIFE=] program, hoping to be hooked up with a job when it's over.

Arata Kaizaki is a kind and compassionate soul. Though he is comparatively BookDumb, he's quick to approach his high-school peers with words of wisdom and guidance, acting like a surrogate parent. Though he jokes about being able to hook up with "legal high-school girls", Kaizaki is very considerate of others, sometimes at the cost of his own happiness.

* ChivalrousPervert: While appreciative of being able to legally hang around high school girls now, he's unnerved and a complete gentleman any time one actually tries to come onto him.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His senpai at his first job [[spoiler:was bullied heavily due to the competitive nature of their company. He tried to stand up for her, but it ended up making the bullying worse to the point that she committed suicide.]] In his rage he quit the company and has been jobless ever since.

* ItsAllMyFault: Blames himself for what happened to his senpai at his first job.
* 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.]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch:

* TearsOfJoy: Chapter 145, from [[spoiler:Kaizaki after Kariu reminds him of all the good he's done for the people in the school, to serve as living proof he made a difference..]]
* TraumaButton: Due to [[spoiler: his old senpai's suicide]], Kaizaki reacts negatively to anyone reaching for his neck, even if done innocently.

A third-year student at Aoba Academy, Chizuru Hishiro is the epitome of a socially isolated BookWorm. She gets top marks in her studies, but is blunt to the point of bludgeoning situations that require tact and a soft touch, and so disinterested in people that she can't remember their names.

When she resolves to learn how to better interact with people, Kaizaki is one of the first to reach out to her. For all her directness, Hishiro is earnest, and unwaveringly loyal, and the last thing she wants is to upset people or push them away. Her curiosity is insatiable, especially when she begins to develop strong feelings for someone--feelings she isn't equipped to understand.

Yoake is Kaizaki's handler in the [=ReLIFE=] program, joining Kaizaki in this second chance at high school life to observe him. Cool and collected, Yoake feels no compunction about needling Kaizaki about his relationships with the other students, or anything else that comes to mind.

Beneath this gadfly exterior, Yoake is deeply committed and invested in seeing Kaizaki complete a successful [=ReLIFE=]. Unbeknownst to Kaizaki, Yoake has worked as a support before, and that subject failed miserably. Yoake will work himself to the bone to make sure that doesn't happen again.

A transfer student in Kaizaki's class, Onoya joins Kaizaki and Ohga's study group, having bombed the preliminary exams harder than even Kaizaki had. She joins Kaizaki in gossiping about and teasing Ohga for his obliviousness regarding Kariu.

Onoya's innocuous facade hides a merciless gadfly, tease, and matchmaker. When she's not teasing or matchmaking, Onoya is a compassionate person who only wants the best for people. Her goals are sincere, even if her methods make some peoples' lives more eventful than they'd like.

Kariu was the female class representative in her class before third year, when she's pitted against Hishiro. Losing the honor of being class rep--and being at Ohga's side--prompts great jealousy from Kariu, and Hishiro's clueless attempts to befriend her only exacerbate the situation. Still, Kaizaki is able to influence both of them, and the two defuse the situation. Indeed, Kariu becomes Hishiro's first female friend.

Prone to bouts of great insecurity, Kariu will nevertheless defend her friends to the end. She can be very intense and competitive, on top of being 100% {{Tsundere}}.

%%* NiceGirl

* {{Adorkable}}: In spades. Hishiro's social cluelessness has her resort to search engines to find out what to do with people, and her efforts usually come off as unusual but adorably earnest. Folding a 1000 yen bill to make a portrait is just one of these weird and endearing things.

* InSeriesNickname: ''Hishiron,'' from Tamarai.

* {{Meganekko}}: Subverted with Onoya, who may or may not even need glasses.

->'''Voiced by''': Yuma Uchida (Japanese), Creator/BlakeShepard (English)

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When it's his turn for the ball toss, he suddenly whirls around and throws it straight at the face of a student who'd been badmouthing him.[[labelnote:In the anime...]]Alternatively, at Kaizaki's feet, as he hadn't been paying attention.[[/labelnote]] This quite succinctly tells you how Inukai tends to handle things.

* 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]].

* 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.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kaizaki. His senpai at his first job [[spoiler:was bullied heavily due to the competitive nature of their company. He tried to stand up for her, but it ended up making the bullying worse to the point that she committed suicide.]] In his rage he quit the company and has been jobless ever since.

* MagneticHero: In contrast to Kaiziki being BookDumb, he's actually quite the people person and finds it relatively easily to fit in with his classmates despite the age gap.

* CreepyGood: His DissonantSerenity and Gadfly tendencies can make him come off as weird, but he's ultimately a compassionate man who wants to see Arata [[spoiler: and Chizuru]] make the most of Re LIFE.

* ConflictingLoyalty: [[spoiler: In Chapter 181, Onoya has a case of this when Hishiro admits that she's shutting down her feelings for Kaiziki due to the ReLIFE program. That and she mistakenly believes she's been burdening Kaiziki. Onoya can only struggle to maintain her composure, feeling guilty.]]

* EatingLunchAlone: Due to spending most of his final year eating lunch with Kaizaki [[spoiler: & Onoya (both of them being in the ReLife program), his memory will be altered to become this.]]

Arata Kaizaki is a kind and compassionate soul. Though he is comparatively BookDumb, he's quick to approach his high-school peers with words of wisdom and guidance, acting like a surrogate parent. Despite his initial resolution to stay detached, Kaizaki can't help but try to help those around him. Over the course of the series, Kaizaki grows increasingly fond of his high-school circle of friends, struggling with the concept that he will eventually disappear from their lives and memories. Though he jokes about being able to hook up with "legal high-school girls," Kaizaki is very considerate of others, sometimes at the cost of his own happiness.

A third-year student at Aoba Academy, Chizuru Hishiro is the epitome of a socially isolated BookWorm. She gets top marks in her studies, but she struggles with basic social interactions. She is a friendless loner, blunt to the point of bludgeoning situations that require tact and a soft touch, and so disinterested in people that she can't remember their names.

Dissatisfied with her situation, Hishiro resolves to learn to better interact with people. Kaizaki is one of the first to reach out to her, and she responds in kind. For all her directness, Hishiro is a cool, determined, earnest, and unwaveringly loyal. She may not intuitively grasp how to interact with the people around her, but the last thing she wants is to upset them or push them away. Her curiosity is insatiable, especially when she begins to develop strong feelings for someone--feelings she isn't equipped to understand.

In later chapters, Hishiro's backstory is explored, revealing the reason for her friendless background and that [[spoiler:she, like Kaizaki, is a subject in the [=ReLife=] experiment.]]

* BrutalHonesty/CannotKeepASecret: Hishiro has a very poor filter for what she says.

Onoya's innocuous facade hides a merciless gadfly, tease, and matchmaker. She would come on to Kaizaki merely to test his resolve, and as Kaizaki begins to realize (and deny) his feelings for another student, Onoya works overtime to push him closer to that person, and to tease him relentlessly for it. She does much the same for Hishiro in turn: despite having positioned herself as competition at one point, Onoya becomes a source of love and fashion advice for Hishiro.

Onoya's interest in such matters is more than casual, though: [[spoiler:she works with Yoake in the [=ReLIFE=] support division, and in the second term, she takes over as Hishrio's handler]].

When she's not teasing or matchmaking, Onoya is a compassionate person who only wants the best for people. Her goals are sincere, even if her methods make some peoples' lives more eventful than they'd like.

Kariu's best friend and captain of Aoba's girls' volleyball team, Tamarai eats lunch with Kariu and Hishiro regularly, and the three form a close circle of friends. Though she gives off a kinder and more gentle air than Kariu, Tamarai is very protective of her friends: as a child, she started a fight to protect a friend from false accusations, and she would do the same in the present. Even so, Tamarai is a sensitive person who chose Aoba Volleyball to escape the pressure of a competitive environment, even though she has the talent to attend top-tier schools. As Kariu and Hishiro deal with romance in their lives, Tamarai offers a steadying perspective and insight what's going on around them.

* NiceGirl

* TraumaButton: Due to [[spoiler: his old Senapi's suicide]], Kaizaki reacts negatively to anyone reaching for his neck, even if done innocently.

* GreenEyedMonster: Though she is too good-hearted to lash out about it, Hishiro nevertheless acts quite cold toward Onoya, believing her to be a romantic rival. She refers to Onoya as ''the braid-and-glassess girl'' rather than use Onoya's name, even after she's become much better at remembering names, and she responds coolly when Onoya takes Kaizaki by the arm one morning. She asks if Kaizaki ever hugged Onoya the way he hugged her, and his denial makes her feel entirely too satisfied.

A transfer student in Kaizaki's class, Onoya joins Kaizaki and Ohga's study group, having bombed the preliminary exams harder than even Kaizaki had. She joins Kaizaki in gossping about and teasing Ohga for his obliviousness regarding Kariu.

The male class representative in Kaizaki's class at Aoba, Ohga befriends Kaizaki in part to make sure Kaizaki won't be stuck in an endless cycle of makeup tests. Ohga is considerate and easy to get along with. His one flaw is that he is ObliviousToLove--Rena Kariu has been crushing on him for two years, yet he hasn't picked up the hint, and he unwittingly aggrivates her at times because of that, much to Kaizaki and Onoya's consternation.

* BookDumb: If there is a test, chances are Kaizaki fails it at least once.

* CreepyGood: His DissonantSerenity and Gadfly tendencies can make him come off as weird, but he's ultimately a compassionate man who wants to see Arata [[spoiler: and Chizuru]] make the most of ReLIFE.

* ObliviousToLove: He and Kariu have been wearing matching earrings for ''two years'' and he didn't get the hint.

* StalkerWithoutACrush: As Yoake is in charge of looking after Kaizaki for the experiment, his job basically dictates being a stalker.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: His senpai at his first job [[spoiler: killed herself]].

* LoveEpiphany: Kaizaki's advice helps Ohga realize his feelings for [[spoiler:Rena Kariu]], and that very same advice helps Kaizaki realize his own feelings.

* LoveEpiphany: Kaizaki's speech, along with seeing another man touch Kariu (even if just to keep her from falling), seals the deal.

* AlwaysSecondBest: To Hishiro in academics, to Tamarai in volleyball.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: His sempai at his first job [[spoiler: killed herself]].

* ItsAllMyFault: Blames himself for what happened to his sempai at his first job.

* BlitheSpirit: Kaizaki is emtionally in-tune with people, recognizing other people's problems and worries. His advice often propels them to resolve their issues.

* Adorkable: In spades. Hishiro's social cluelessness has her resort to search engines to find out what to do with people, and her efforts usually come off as unusual but adorably earnest. Folding a 1000 yen bill to make a portrait is just one of these weird and endaring things.

* {{Trigger}}: Due to [[spoiler: his old Senapi's suicide]], Kaizaki reacts negatively to anyone reaching for his neck, even if done innocently.

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AiKayano (Japanese), Jeannie Tirado (English)

* RomanticFalseLead: Onoya leans into this, playing up her relationship with Kaizaki to tweak Hishiro. She latches on to him while walking to school, she stays close to him during the fireworks festival, and she continues to eat lunch with him. All of this is not just a game to her, either: [[spoiler:it's a deliberate plan to set up her handling of Hishiro in the second term]].