Line #57 Characters/HimoutoUmaruChan


1	Characters in ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan''.
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5	[[folder:Umaru Doma]]
6	!!Umaru Doma
7	!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/AimiTanaka (Japanese), Creator/EmilyNeves (English)
8	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/288279.jpg]]
9	[[caption-width-right:225:Outdoor persona]]
10	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/11429257_1673687696187712_1962289625_n.jpg]]
11	[[caption-width-right:225:Indoor persona]]
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13	The titular character, a high school girl who is seemingly perfect in every way, but is actually a ClosetGeek slacker.
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15	* TheAce: Umaru has most people convinced that she's the kindest and most beautiful girl in town, is skilled at everything she does, has perfect scores at school and is beloved by all. As her secret identity U.M.R she's one of the best gamers in Japan. She achieves all this virtually effortlessly.
16	* AmbiguousSituation: It's left vague if her switching between her outdoor and indoor personas is just StylizedForTheViewer or if she's actually a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] who causes a visible physical change in her appearance. There are instances where certain characters seem to have noticed the physical difference in her two faces. Kirie fails to realize they are the same person and believes her inside face is her little sister "Komaru".
17	* AngryCheekPuff: She tends to inflate her cheeks like a balloon when she gets upset or angry, helping with her cute appeal as well as showing her selfish and immature side.
18	* AnimalEaredHeadband: Almost always wears a hamster hood when at home. The second season's opening also shows her wearing several different kinds of animal hoods.
19	* AnimalMotifs: Hamster. And not only when she's indoors—even when outside Umaru sometimes has rodent mannerisms, such as the way she licks ice cream.
20	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: At home, Umaru typically behaves like a SpoiledBrat who makes unreasonable demands to her older brother, Taihei.
21	* ArtShift: Whenever she switches between her outdoors persona and her indoors persona.
22	* BeneathTheMask: Looks to be mature, beautiful and sophisticated when outside her home. At home, however, she's a lazy, annoying, selfish brat.
23	* BigNO: She is given one in the English dub when her cola bottle is about to spill as she tries to grab it. The Japanese version averts this by having her shout “MAKE IT IN TIME!” As she tries to catch it complete with FutileHandReach.
24	* BishieSparkle: Always appears with Umaru in public.
25	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Outside her home, she seems to be kind and sophisticated, when in reality, she is a manipulative, self-centered LazyBum who constantly bosses her older brother around.
26	* BrattyHalfPint: In her chibi form, she acts like a SpoiledBrat who endlessly whines and throws tantrums to get what she wants despite being 16 years old.
27	* BrilliantButLazy: Umaru gets perfect grades and is the top in every class at school, but she spends most of her off time lazing around and indulging in her otaku hobbies.
28	* CharacterTitle: Himouto! '''Umaru'''-chan
29	* ClosetGeek: Umaru is heavily invested in maintaining her outside image as a perfect, refined girl who claims she's not even allowed to read manga, while at home she's a lazy {{Otaku}} who's obsessed with manga, anime and video games.
30	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She has a very wild imagination at times.
31	* DisqualificationInducedVictory: Umaru was going to lose pretty badly in a fighting game competition to Sylphyn in chapter 52/episode 4. She then glances at her brother, prompting Sylphin to also do the same to see what Umaru was looking at. She sees her brother Alex standing next to him, and suddenly gets embarrassed, remembering how she'd been showing off, before running off the stage, giving Umaru the win by default.
32	* DitzyGenius: In her chibi form at home, at least. She [[BookSmart gets perfect grades at school]], but at home she's a lazy, immature slacker who doesn't even know what an Internet router is (which, of course, she finds out the hard way—by spilling cola on it).
33	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Everything you need to know about Umaru is summed up neatly by Taihei in the opening moments of the series; In public, she's an [[TheAce honors student who makes perfect grades and excels at everything she does with virtually zero effort]], yet is incredibly friendly, humble, and adored by nearly everyone around her. But in the privacy of her home, she turns into a lazy, bratty gremlin of a shut-in who would rather just eat junk food, play video games, and sleep all day, with Taihei walking in on her while she's napping with her school clothes and a bunch of snacks piled all over the floor.
34	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She's the BrattyHalfPint, AnnoyingYoungerSibling, SpoiledBrat manipulative and lazy foolish to Taihei's StraightMan calm, level-headed and sensible responsible.
35	* FunSize: When at home, Umaru takes the form of a chibi with a hamster hood.
36	* TheGadfly: Loves messing with Taihei. Including damaging his reputation in her school by attributing her selfish actions to him.
37	* GodlikeGamer: Umaru displays this in her UMR alter-ego where she's one of the top gamers in Japan. At the arcade she frequents, she's able to pull off impossible maneuvers on the arcade machines so that she can get hundreds of prizes in one turn. The arcade staff have [[ThatOnePlayer come to resent her inhuman success and fear she'll risk bankrupting them.]]
38	* HeelRealization: Downplayed. In Chapter 92, Umaru is thrown off when Ebina says Taihei is nice, since he spends a lot of time reprimanding her. When she gets home and thinks it over, she realizes that brother is actually pretty selfless and she constantly takes advantage of it. The realization doesn't lead to anything beyond offering her beanbag chair to him when he gets back from work, though.
39	* InexplicablyAwesome: There's no explanation for why Umaru is the best at everything, despite being a lazy bum who never puts in any effort. Likewise, it is unknown [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished how she can maintain her flawless beauty and perfect figure]], despite her unhealthy lifestyle and consumption of thousands of calories daily in snacks alone. Most baffling of all is how she straight up shape-shifts. One has to simply accept that common sense does not apply to Umaru.
40	* ItsAllAboutMe: Is extremely lazy with housework, and wants to do nothing more than watch anime, eat junk food, and play games all day. She will also often complain until Taihei gives in to her demands, such as having him buy her the latest game.
41	* JackOfAllTrades: While not technically canon, in the Vita game Umaru can end up working as an actress, soccer player, professional swimmer, game developer, model, scientist, chef, member of parliament, office lady, novelist and even a princess.
42	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Manipulative, lazy and annoying. But she cares for her friends and truly cares for her brother.
43	* LazyBum: Basically refuses to help around the apartment.
44	* LivingADoubleLife: Umaru in public is the perfect student, and Umaru in private is a lazy otaku. Could even count as a triple life with her secret UMR elite gamer identity.
45	* MadnessMantra: After watching a commercial for [=NcDonald=], she is unable to stop thinking about hamburgers.
46	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Her "shape shifting" between her "outside" and "inside" forms are either [[StylizedForTheViewer a metaphorical artist's choice]] to reflect her very different behavior in public versus in private, or her physically shrinking and growing in size. There are certain scenes that really make it hard to believe she's supposed to be a fully grown teenage girl while in her chibi state.
47	* {{NEET}}: Umaru's future plan after she graduates is to continue to live off her brother.
48	* NeverGetsFat: She lives on a steady diet of soda, potato chips and various other unhealthy snack foods, but never gains so much as a pound.
49	* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Her indoor persona is drawn in a [[ArtShift completely different art style]] where she reverts to chibi form.
50	* OhCrap: In Episode 2, Umaru can only react with horror when she realizes that Ebina may have seen her turn into her inside self and throw a tantrum at Taihei on their visit to a restaurant.
51	* OrgasmicallyDelicious: She seems to have something of an orgasm when drinking cola.
52	* {{Otaku}}: She is totally obsessed with anime, manga and video games, and hoards a pile of them and any related merchandise at home. She doubles as an OtakuSurrogate, since most of the media she's into is typically aimed at a male audience, such as {{shonen\|Demographic}} manga and FPS games.
53	* PingPongNaivete: She not only acts childish and immature when she's at home but her intelligence tends to take a hit too and she looses a lot of common sense she had outdoors.
54	* ProperLady: Umaru is this way when she's in her outside form: [[TheAce sweet, pretty, smart, polite, and talented at everything]]. She's so prim she sparkles! Of course her Umaru-chan/UMR form is lazy, selfish, despises domestic responsibilities, and is all-around unladylike, and she'll often use this trope to try and manipulate people, primarily Taihei.
55	* ProfessionalVoiceDissonance: While she's only a student, her voice deliberately changes between her "outside" and "inside" personas since [[SlaveToPR she has a reputation to uphold at school]]. She sounds like a mature, proper teenage girl while "outside" in public, but when in private while "inside" her voice is more high-pitched and childish to reflect how immature she really is.
56	* SkewedPriorities: Instead of surviving at home on her own while Taihei is away for business at Hamamatsu for two weeks, she tags along with him just to try out the local eel.
57	* TheSlacker: All she wants to do all day is laze around and indulge in her hobbies.
58	* SlaveToPR: The only thing that can restrain Umaru's laziness and brattiness is her desire to be seen as perfect by everyone except her brother. Taihei tries exploiting this by spending as much time around Ebina as possible, which forces Umaru to behave as a mature, elegant girl instead of the childish, bratty otaku she really is.
59	* SmugSmiler: A lot of Umaru's smiles are these when she's at home because she doesn't have to hide behind a proper persona, and because she likely tantrumed her brother into doing something for her.
60	* SpoiledBrat: Umaru when she's at home and/or wants something, such as the latest game. She'll throw a tantrum until Taihei gives in and gets her whatever she wants.
61	* TeenGenius: She aces in any tests and learns everything easily.
62	* ThatOnePlayer: PlayedForLaughs whenever she goes to the arcade. She often wins prizes with one token. This means the arcade actually loses money, as most people would typically fail at those games, and they wouldn't have to be replenished with new prizes. But since Umaru always wins at them in one try, they don't really make any money off her playing.
63	* ThirdPersonPerson: When not in public, she refers to herself by her own name to reflect how childish she really is.
64	* TookALevelInKindness: While Umaru is still a LazyBum, the later chapters seem to tone down her jerkass tendencies compared to early ones. Most obvious in chapter 60, when Umaru picks a snack specifically for Taihei following his giving a presentation. The Jerkassery is still present, as she got the snack assuming he'd fail and would need a pick-me-up and was genuinely shocked when things went well. But the fact remains she got a present for her brother thinking he'd need it.
65	** It's also noticeable in the theme songs for the two TV series (both sung from Umaru's perspective): In the first she only mentions Taihei once and it's still in a bratty context[[note]]"Big Brother can be so strict, but he just doesn't understand that being selfish is how I show my love"[[/note]], but ''Umaru-chan R'''s theme song has several instances of her singing about how Taihei is kind and reliable and how much she loves him.
66	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: No matter what she's eating, from junk food to ramen to steak, Umaru has to have her cola. She seems particularly fond of potato chips too.
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69	[[folder:Taihei Doma]]
70	!!Taihei Doma
71	!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/KenjiNojima (Japanese), Adam Noble (English)
72	[[quoteright:190:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taihei_doma_74113.jpg]]
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74	Umaru's [[ExtremeDoormat submissive]] older brother.
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76	* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: This essentially sums up his home life; he's the primary caregiver for Umaru while their parents are away, and Umaru constantly puts him through the wringer with her bratty behavior and unreasonable demands.
77	* BerserkButton: Unless you want a good scolding, '''never''' leave a mess around his house.
78	* CassandraTruth: Taihei tells Bomber in episode 7 that the "beautiful woman" walking and shopping with him is just his sister. Bomber doesn't believe it, stating that guys don't go grocery shopping with their sisters. Taihei seems shocked by this revelation.
79	%%%* CoolBigBro: In some episode, he's shown to be this towards Umaru.
80	* ADayInTheLimelight: The last section of episode 5 focuses exclusively on Taihei and what he does at work. Umaru is only seen at the beginning and end of his day.
81	* ExtremeDoormat: Taihei can't say no to Umaru's whims and when he tries she'll nag and throw a tantrum until he concedes.
82	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: He's the StraightMan calm, level-headed and sensible responsible to Umaru's BrattyHalfPint, AnnoyingYoungerSibling, SpoiledBrat lazy and manipulative foolish.
83	* HouseHusband: Looks after the flat.
84	* LoopholeAbuse: In episode 8, shortly after the new year begins, Taihei brings up a promise Umaru made back in late November about giving it her all and cleaning up next year. He then immediately calls her on it, and she attempts to use this trope by saying that she never specified a date or time when she would do those things. [[DefiedTrope He doesn't buy it.]]
85	* MarriedToTheJob: He works overtime all the time and has little to no hobbies outside of cleaning after Umaru. On his one day off, he started zoning out because he had nothing to do.
86	* NiceGuy: While he can be kind of a doormat to Umaru, he does legitimately care about her and is repeatedly demonstrated to be a kind-hearted, friendly, and open-minded person who can get along with just about anyone. All three of Umaru's friends remark on what a nice person he is, triggering her HeelRealization.
87	* PromotionToParent: With their parents absent, he's taken the parental role.
88	* RedBaron: The Demon Taihei, due to the fact he always got a perfect score on his tests.
89	* TheSmartGuy: Always scored 100s on his exams.
90	* TeenGenius: Back in his school days.
91	* TheWorkaholic: Taihei literally has nothing to do when he's not working or cleaning the house. He even begs Umaru to make a mess just so he has something to do.
92	* YamatoNadeshiko: He can be easily seen as a genderflip, being hard-working, quiet, domestically talented, and constantly trying to instill in Umaru and her friends an appreciation for Japanese values and culture. [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter He]] sort of has to be this way with his LazyBum of a sister to take care of.
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95	[[folder:Nana Ebina]]
96	!!Nana Ebina
97	!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/AkariKageyama (Japanese), Creator/SaraOrnelas (English)
98	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/288276.png]]
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100	A classmate and friend of Umaru from the Akita region who lives alone in the ground floor apartment below the Domas.
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102	* AccentSlipUp: Will slip into her natural Akita dialect when excited or flustered, in her own mind if not out loud.
103	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Ebina has feelings for Taihei largely because he was the first person when she arrived in Tokyo to look her in the eyes, rather than focus on [[DCupDistress her large breasts]]. His politeness and friendliness - and the fact he reminded her of her big brother - also helped.
104	* BigEater: Off-screen, but she can pack away large amounts of food without realizing it.
105	* BookDumb: Ebina always seems to get low test scores. Making it worse for her is that she's friends with Umaru, who is often the top ranking student on the tests. [[spoiler: As it turns out in later chapters, she can score high in tests.... It’s just that she gets nervous around other people. And being that she’s in a classroom with other students causes her to lose it and put in wrong answers. She gets better thanks to her friends.]]
106	* BreakoutCharacter: She's popular enough to become the main character of her own prequel manga called ''Akita Imokko Ebina-chan''.
107	* CountryMouse: Hails from the Akita countryside. She studied standard Japanese and bought fashionable clothing in preparation for her move to Tokyo in order to hide her accent and disguise this fact.
108	* DCupDistress: Ebina's large breasts get a lot of unwanted attention. In a flashback during when she first arrived in Tokyo, people kept staring at them, making her very self-conscious as a result.
109	* GirlishPigtails: Of the two side up variety.
110	* GrowlingGut: Ebina's stomach does this in Episode 11 after she brings some rice sent by her parents to Taihei and Umaru.
111	* LastNameBasis: Ebina's first name, Nana, was initially only mentioned in a bonus chapter and a splash page. Even Umaru, her best friend, refers to her as Ebina-chan. Averted in the English dub, however, where everyone calls her by her first name.
112	* LuminescentBlush: Seems to be her default facial expression, to the point that you can't tell if she's really nervous till [[HighPressureEmotion steam starts coming out her head.]]
113	* MoralityChain: Even inside her brother's apartment, Umaru will behave herself as long as Ebina is present.
114	* ShrinkingViolet: Mainly due to so many people [[DCupDistress staring at her chest]].
115	* SuperDrowningSkills: Ebina does not know how to swim and drowns the second she touches the water.
116	* WeightWoe: She seems to be scared of becoming fat, trying her best to exercise and eat less.
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119	[[folder:Sylphynford Tachibana]]
120	!!Sylphynford Tachibana
121	!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/YurinaFurukawa (Japanese), Creator/ChristinaKelly (English)
122	[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tachibana_header.png]]
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124	A classmate of Umaru and Ebina. Very competitive and sees Umaru as a rival in academics and sports.
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126	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: "Sylphynford" isn't a real German name, or even a name at all.
127	* AttentionWhore: Everyone in school passes off her showmanship towards her rivalry with Umaru, saying that she just wants attention (something she seems to have inherited from her mother).
128	* BigBrotherWorship: Thinks ''very'' highly of her older brother, Alex. She calls him "Onii-sama" and gets a breakdown when she thinks she'd made a fool of herself in front of him when she fought against U.M.R in a game tournament.
129	* ButNotTooForeign: She is half-German and half-Japanese.
130	* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Light blue hair and eyes.
131	* CustomUniform: Her school uniform is heavily modified compared to everyone else's. She wears a blue ribbon at her collar, some kind of fluffy material around the edges of her sleeves, a wide ruffled blue skirt and light blue shoes, as opposed to every other female student who wears the standard red ribbon, red pleated skirt and brown shoes. It's unknown how she's able to get away with it.
132	* DefeatMeansFriendship: Her reason for wanting to compete with Umaru so much, since a defeated rival becomes a new ally. Apparently, though, this only applies when she is the victor. She's actually under the impression that this trope is a Japanese tradition.
133	* ExoticEyeDesigns: Sylphyn has flower-shaped pupils, as does her brother Alex when excited. [[FamilyEyeResemblance It apparently runs in the family]], as their mother also shows similar pupils when excited.
134	* FormalCharactersUseKeigo: Her speech is always very formal due to being an {{Ojou}} from a rich family.
135	* GodlikeGamer: Sylphyn surprasses Umaru/U.M.R in this regard, beating her mercisessly on a tournament. The only reason she loses against Umaru is that she gets disqualified due to fleeing upon being embarassed of being watched by her big brother.
136	* InSeriesNickname: Since her given name is a bit of a mouthful, she's usually referred to as "Sylphyn" for short.
137	* MumLooksLikeASister: Umaru noticed how young Sylph's mother looks (she's of totally normal age for a mother of at least one adult son and a 16 year-old daughter, [[BerserkButton but doesn't like to be reminded of that]]).
138	* {{Ojou}}: She comes from a very rich family and always speaks politely, though her huge competitive streak puts a damper on her ladylike image.
139	* PlayfulCatSmile: Her default expression, which fits with her upbeat personality and love of games (even if that ties more into her competitive streak).
140	* SpoiledSweet: Despite being incredibly rich and having a rather intense competitive streak with Umaru, she's a complete sweetheart to pretty much everyone around her--including Umaru.
141	* TokenRichStudent: She's from a rich family, but the school she and the other main characters go to is a public high school with mostly middle-class students.
142	* VerbalTic: She almost always ends her sentences with the very polite and feminine "desu wa" (officially translated as "indeed!")...and sometimes she just says it out of the blue. Or texts it (with U.M.R. responding "Complete sentences, please!")
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145	[[folder:Alex Tachibana]]
146	!!Alex Tachibana
147	!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/TetsuyaKakihara (Japanese), Creator/ScottGibbs (English)
148	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alext.png]]
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150	A workmate of Taihei, and Sylphynford's elder brother.
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152	* ButNotTooForeign: Like his little sister, he is half-German and half-Japanese.
153	* CoolBigBro: To Sylphyn.
154	* {{Hikikomori}}: Was this in his middle school days. He was later inspired by a long-haired girl (hinted to be Kanau in the manga, and confirmed in episode 7 of ''Umaru-chan R'') to relocate to Japan and attend a Japanese school.
155	* {{Otaku}}: Just like Umaru. They become good friends due to their love of anime.
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158	[[folder:Kirie Motoba]]
159	!!Kirie Motoba
160	!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/HarukaShiraishi (Japanese), Creator/JadSaxton (English)
161	[[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/289620.png]]
162
163	A classmate and secret admirer of Umaru.
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165	* AloofOlderBrother: Inverted, she's the little sister while her brother is more outgoing. But she always seems to treat him with scorn despite trying to be a good older brother to her. Though likely this is due to her shy personality, she can't seem to work around adults.
166	* AmbiguouslyGay: She's very interested in Umaru, but it's unclear how much of that is admiration and a PseudoRomanticFriendship and how much of that are genuine feelings of love.
167	* BerserkButton: If you don't want a good beating, '''don't''' enter her room uninvited.
168	* ClarkKenting: Fools ''her own brother'' during a trip to an aquarium by wearing a straw hat.
169	* ClingyJealousGirl: Seems to act this way towards Umaru, often giving anyone paying too much attention to the latter a DeathGlare. The only one that is exempt from this is ironically Taihei, the one who is closest to Umaru, likely because A, he is her brother, and B, she rarely sees him with Umaru, but more with "Komaru", not to mention that Taihei also acts the part of the CoolBigBro with her, once they got past their initial awkward interactions because of Kirie's shyness.
170	* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Dark purple hair and eyes.
171	* CutenessProximity: She's overcome by cuteness at the sight of "Komaru".
172	* DeclarationOfProtection: While she has never actually said it out loud, Kirie has a good many {{Imagine Spot}}s where she declares her intent to protect Umaru.
173	* FaceOfAThug: It really doesn't help she's shy around strangers.
174	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Despite having a scary and creepy appearance, it's clear that she's the responsible one to Bomber's foolish.
175	* FriendToAllChildren: The shy Kirie has a ''much'' easier time with children than her peers and adults. This is why she befriends "Komaru" when she first meets her.
176	* HiddenDepths: She is actually very good at sports and despite being good enough at swimming to get third place in a national tournament she has no plans to go pro, instead wanting to write and draw children's picture books.
177	* MadnessMantra: "I will protect Umaru-san... I will protect Umaru-san... I will protect Umaru-san..."
178	* OddFriendship: Became friends with both forms of Umaru, and both friendships are odd, in different ways.
179	* ShipperOnDeck: For Ebina/Taihei. Soon after she realizes that Ebina has feelings for him, Kirie tells her that she's rooting for her and tries to help bring them together.
180	* ShrinkingViolet: She isn't very good with strangers, but she deals with children better.
181	* SituationalSociability: Kirie has a hard time socializing with others in her class or outside her family. The exception is children, with whom she is much more at ease. She can barely speak to Umaru at school, but is convinced the Umaru she meets at her home is Umaru's little sister, Komaru, and can speak to her much more freely.
182	* WriteWhoYouKnow: In-universe. She wants to draw picture books about "Komaru", but when she takes her book to a publisher, the editor says this is a bad idea because she's not willing to put "Komaru" in any kind of danger and thus there's no suspense in her book.
183	[[/folder]]
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185	[[folder:Takeshi "Bomber" Motoba]]
186	!!Takeshi "Bomber" Motoba
187	!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/HirokiYasumoto (Japanese), Creator/JasonDouglas (English)
188	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/52614.jpg]]
189
190	A workmate of Taihei and the elder brother of Kirie.
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192	* AloofBigBrother: Inverted. Kirie is Bomber's aloof little sister. Bomber keeps trying to get closer to her, but Kirie is having none of it.
193	* AlternateCharacterReading: Bomber's nickname comes from taking his surname, Motoba, changing the "moto" to "hon"[[note]]the kanji here is 本, meaning true or real[[/note]] and modifying the H into a B.
194	* ButtMonkey: He always gets the short end of the stick when it comes to pratfalls in the series, from getting no respect from his sister to constantly being scolded at work. Some of it [[DisproportionateRetribution isn't even warranted]], but he still plows on regardless.
195	* TheDitz: He's...not very bright, to put it simply. In one chapter he's debating what to buy with his bonus money and considers getting an aquarium because he wants to bond with Kirie and knows she likes fish; both Taihei and Umaru approve of the idea. The last panel of the chapter shows that he spent the money on a home exercise kit, having somehow decided that ''that'' would win Kirie's affection.
196	* FailedASpotCheck: He knows Umaru as both "Tanukichi" and U.M.R., but doesn't realize they're the same person. This seems to be because he thinks U.M.R. is a ''boy'', to Umaru's confusion.
197	* FleetingPassionateHobbies: According to Taihei he's been like this since high school, getting into things like model-making, painting, and photography and then dropping the hobby when he gets bored of it.
198	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to Kirie's responsible.
199	* InSeriesNickname: Bomber. Sylphin calls him "Afro-san" and when he joins her and U.M.R.'s gaming group they dub him B.O.M.
200	[[/folder]]
201
202	[[folder:Kanau Kongou]]
203	!!Manager Kanau Kongou
204	!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/AmiKoshimizu (Japanese), Creator/MaggieFlecknoe (English)
205	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/286779.png]]
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207	Taihei, Bomber, and Alex's work supervisor.
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209	* AlliterativeName: '''K'''anau '''K'''ongou
210	* CannotSpitItOut: Towards Taihei.
211	* DoggedNiceGirl: Incredibly kind to Taihei and has been after him since high school, but of course, due to having to bear with Umaru's every whim, he doesn't even realize.
212	* MarriedToTheJob: Perhaps more so than Taihei, since she's the daughter of the company president. She even has a bedroom in the building she works in.
213	* {{Nepotism}}: She's the daughter of Diamond Corporation's owner and thus has a position of power within the company. However, this puts a lot of extra stress on her because she has to live up to his expectations both as an employee and a daughter.
214	* SingleTargetSexuality: Kanau is mentioned by other men as being very beautiful, but she's only interested in Taihei.
215	* SugarAndIcePersonality: Physically scolds Bomber, but is very cordial with Taihei, who she tries to flirt with.
216	[[/folder]]
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218	[[folder:Hikari Kongou]]
219	!!Hikari Kongou
220	!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/InoriMinase (Japanese)
221	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/287722.jpg]]
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223	Kanau's little sister.
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225	* BigBrotherWorship: From the first time she met him, she was infatuated with Taihei, seeing him as her future brother-in-law and latching onto him as if he was her real brother.
226	* BlatantLies: Fails to convince her older sister that she didn't go out on her own while Kanau was away working overtime.
227	* IdiotHair: She sports one.
228	* ImplausibleHairColor: Has white hair despite being a high-schooler.
229	* MeaningfulAppearance: Has diamond-shaped hair decorations (as in the gemstone, not the shape). "Kongou" means diamond.
230	* MirrorCharacter: There's actually a lot of parallels between her and Umaru, with both of them being Himoutos. Both girls present themselves as over achieving [[TheAce geniuses]] in public, but at home are [[TheSlacker slackers]] who lounge around obsessively eating food and being dependant on their older sibling. It's no wonder they gain a rivalry.
231	* TheRival: To Umaru over Taihei.
232	* ShipperOnDeck: She ships Kanau/Taihei, and thus she treats him like her future brother-in-law.
233	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / HimoutoUmaruChan