Line #37 Characters/ComicGirls


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2	!!Main Characters
3	[[folder:Kaoruko Moeta]]
4	!!Kaoruko Moeta / Kaos
5	->''Voiced by: Creator/HikaruAkao''
6	A shy OlderThanTheyLook high school girl whose work in a [[ProductDisplacement product-displaced]] ''Manga Time Kirara'' get panned by readers.
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8	* ACupAngst: {{Exaggerated\|trope}}. Moeta is ''sixteen'' and doesn't even have A-cups. She's flat as a board. Its like the poor girl never had puberty at all. Perhaps because of this, she's quite drawn to the larger chests of Ruki and Fuura.
9	* AmbiguouslyLesbian: Her sexuality has never been clearly stated, but she keeps a large number of {{Joshikousei}} figures and she even checks under the skirts of these figures. She was also broken out of her fear of horror mangaka Fuura by noticing how pretty she was and how large her breasts were.
10	* AuthorAppeal: InUniverse, she ends up having her girls wear clothing with cats and English letters, because she thinks those things are cool. Three of her four storyboards (which are loosely based on Koyume, Ruki and Tsubasa's series) have a male character chopping wood as a display of his manliness, a display that reminds Kaos of her father.
11	* BespectacledCutie: Once she gets glasses, it only enhances her already high levels of cuteness.
12	* BetterWithNonHumanCompany: She's more comfortable with animals than with people.
13	* BirdsOfAFeather: With Fuura, since not only do they both have trouble communicating with others (Kaoruko for her negativity and Fuura for her creepiness) but both are from the [[UsefulNotes/TheFortySevenPrefectures Touhoku region]][[note]]Kaoruko is from Fukushima while Fuura is from Aomori[[/note]].
14	* CatapultNightmare: She has one about missing her deadline in Episode 12.
15	* ChronicSelfDeprecation: This happens very frequently because of her negativity, resulting in her negatively comparing herself to the other manga artists. For example, in the third episode she didn't eat not only because of ForgetsToEat, but also think that since she screwed up a storyboard for a gourmet manga in the beginning of that episode, she shouldn't eat.
16	* ClosetGeek: She passes out at her first day at school because she wants to hide her overtly {{otaku}} hobbies, but can't come up with something "normal" enough to answer her classmates.
17	* CuteLittleFangs: Sports one that switches sides.
18	* {{Determinator}}: She has elements of this, as while she gets discouraged and upset very easily, she never actually gives up. She's amassed several bags full of rejected manuscripts from repeatedly trying to get her work published. Koyume notes that while Kaos hasn't gotten published (unlike Ruki and Tsubasa), her persistence is quite impressive, which makes Koyume feel somewhat inadequate.
19	* TheEeyore: She tends to think things very negatively. For example, the fact that messes up a few pages of Tsubasa's manuscript in the first episode already makes her [[DefiedTrope considers]] [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself]].
20	* FriendlessBackground: Her editor suspects she didn't many have many friends when she was growing up, since she struggles to write realistic high school girls. Kaos privately agrees.
21	* FriendToAllLivingThings: She can attract all different kinds of animals, and is more comfortable with them.
22	* GirlishPigtails: As the most childish member of the cast, she ties her hair into twin braids.
23	* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: The Manga that finally gets published [[spoiler:is about her adventures in the dorm, called "Comic Girls".]]
24	* IntrovertedCatPerson: She's one of the shyest protagonists in a ''Kirara'' series. On the other hand, the lack of cats in her environment leads to withdrawal symptoms.
25	* KindHeartedCatLover: She doesn't only like cats, she even has cat withdrawal symptoms because the current apartment doesn't allow pets.
26	* LoserProtagonist: As her mother tells the other dormmates, Kaoruko never excels at anything. Drawing is the ''only'' thing she's somewhat ''at ease'' on, not that she is particularly good at it, either.
27	* MeaningfulName: A SequentialArtist with the surname {{Moe}}[==]ta who takes up the {{moe}} style.[[invoked]]
28	* NiceGirl: A complete and total sweetheart once you get to know her.
29	* OlderThanTheyLook: She is easily mistaken as a grade schooler. In the first episode ''every'' recurring character mistakes her as one. Also doesn't help to note she acts much more childish than her own age.
30	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Nearly nobody in the dorm calls her Kaoruko, preferring her PenName Kaos instead. A rare exception is at school, when Ruki calls Kaos "Kaoruko-chan" while around other students due to not wanting to use her pen name at school, while Nijino-sensei and some of Kaos's classmates call her "Moeta-san" out of politeness. Even Kaos' ''mother'' generally calls her by her pen name.
31	* {{Otaku}}: Her hobbies are stereotypical of {{moe}}[==]-enthusiast otaku: SchoolgirlSeries manga, figurines collection, or seiyuu-watching, and so on.
32	* OtakuSurrogate: Despite being a high school girl, her interests are more similar to that of adult male {{Otaku}}. This is lampshaded when it's pointed out that her desk (which has anime figurines all over it) looks like it belongs to a 25-year-old man.
33	* PenName: Kaos/ Chaos.
34	* PickyEater: Seems to be unused to eating food outside of her hometown. The eighth chapter (animated in the third episode)she in addition to StockYuck such as natto and broccoli, she has a problem handling some more or less normal Japanese foods, such as tomatoes, cold tofu or tofu dengaku (tofu grilled with miso).
35	* PoseOfSupplication: She often goes into one when apologizing for wasting her editor's time.
36	* ProneToTears: Extremely sensitive and cries easily. Out of the 60 frames of the fifteenth chapter, 11 have her crying.
37	* RoseHairedSweetie: {{Inverted\|Trope}}. She has pink hair, but she's sensitive, withdrawn and [[TheEeyore pessimistic]] rather than being outgoing and cheerful.
38	* ShrinkingViolet: She's very shy. A specific indicator would be at the sixth episode, when, several months after being transferred in her current school, she still stuttered when she greets her ''class teacher'', complete with BlankWhiteEyes.
39	* TooKinkyToTorture: In the part of the second episode that adopts the fourteenth chapter, she tells Tsubasa she wants to be scolded by a beautiful teacher.
40	* VerbalTic: "Ababababa," when she's in shock. This comes pretty often.
41	* WriteWhatYouKnow: She finally gets published with a manga called ''[[TitleDrop Comic Girls]]'' about her adventures in the dorm.
42	[[/folder]]
43
44	[[folder:Koyume Koizuka]]
45	!!Koyume Koizuka / Koyume in Love
46	->''Voiced by: Creator/KaedeHondo''
47	A hyperactive girl who draws {{shoujo}} and has two weaknesses: she's too difficult to restrain, and she ''sucks'' at drawing men.
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49	* AlliterativeName: '''Ko'''yume '''Ko'''izuka.
50	* AuthorAppeal: InUniverse, she often draws characters, particularly boys, in a way that strongly resembles Tsubasa.
51	* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: Hanzawa was a {{shoujo}} mangaka[[note]]Drew for ''Magazine/{{Ribon}}''. This is why she's (jokingly) called a "genre traitor" by some ''Kirara'' followers, as she moved from Shoujo to {{Seinen}}[[/note]], and some of Koyume's traits came from Hanzawa's day working on shoujo. The most visible is their common inability in drawing men, and resorting to draw [[{{Bifauxnen}} very boyly-looking girl]] to pass as boys.
52	* {{Expy}}: Of Miyako of the influential ''Kirara'' series ''Manga/HidamariSketch''.
53	* GenkiGirl: She's the most energetic of the ensemble cast, and one of Amizawa's concern is she's too difficult to restrain.
54	* MeaningfulName: A SequentialArtist of the ShoujoDemographic with the word for love (''Koi'') in her surname.
55	* NonUniformUniform: She wears her own sweater vest with her school uniform instead of the school's official vest.
56	* PenName: Hers is "Koyume in Love" (Koizuru Koyume).
57	* SweetTooth: If she's not working, expect her to be eating something sweet. In the dorm she's seen eating doughnuts nearly constantly.
58	* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: The cast defines her as the walking shoujo manga.
59	* ToastOfTardiness: Deliberately {{invoked\|trope}} on the first day of school. She runs off with toast in her mouth and a heart-shaped bit of red (raspberry or strawberry) jam.
60	* WeaksauceWeakness: As a {{shoujo}} mangaka, she can't draw men.
61	* WeightWoe: She starts to be conscious about her weight due to the large number of desserts she eats.
62	[[/folder]]
63
64	[[folder:Ruki Irokawa]]
65	!!Ruki Irokawa/ Big Boobies Himeko
66	-->''Voiced by: Creator/SaoriOnishi''
67	A mangaka who specializes in [[{{Shojo}} Teens Love]][[note]]a subgenre of shojo that can summarizes as "BoysLove, but heterosexual." It is thus more mature than the standard shojo Koyume draws and edges on {{Josei}}, but never goes into R-18 rating.[[/note]] despite originally wanted to draw children's manga.
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69	* ACupAngst: Because she made a name in drawing big boobs, she's very sensitive in her lack in that department.
70	* BecauseImGoodAtIt: She originally wished to be a manga artist for children's manga, since she is fond of drawing animals, but her editors felt that her art style was more appropriate for more mature demographics, and with support from fans, decided to continue.
71	* ChildhoodFriend: She's known Tsubasa since they were young.
72	* ComputerEqualsMonitor: Had this mentality prior to Kaoruko's teaching her otherwise. {{Exaggerated\|Trope}} further when she had thought the "strange box" that the monitor came with was a chair.
73	* CovertPervert: {{Subverted\|trope}}. She tries to keep her perverted {{imagine spot}}s to herself, but the mere fact that she draws for a demographic older than the cast is enough for Koyume and Kaoruko to see her more of a LovableSexManiac.
74	* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has lavender hair and eyes.
75	* HopelessWithTech: It's not completely impossible to teach her to use tech, but it needs a lot of patience. For example, after the computer she ordered for coloring arrives in the fourth episode, [[ComputerEqualsMonitor she mistook the monitor as the computer]] ''itself'' while the tower as a mere chair.
76	* IronicNickname: She's flat-chested, but her editor imposed the PenName of "Big Boobies Himeko" on her. In a slightly {{deconstructed\|trope}} case, this is why she has ACupAngst.
77	* LovableSexManiac: Because her genre is the most mature of the four and she often subconsciously exudes an atmosphere of sexuality, she is seen by Kaoruko and Koyume as this.
78	* MistakenForProstitute: In the second episode, her classmates wonder if she is in a "shady profession" owing from her bouts of being underslept--from drawing manga, of course.
79	* PenName: Big Boobies Himeko.
80	* SecurityBlanket: She can't fall asleep without a certain bunny plush she owns, even after she went on two all-nighters. Kaoruko seems to work as a substitute, though.
81	[[/folder]]
82
83	[[folder:Tsubasa Katsuki]]
84	!!Tsubasa Katsuki / Wing V.
85	-->''Voiced by: Creator/RieTakahashi''
86	A very tomboyish {{shonen}} mangaka with sufficient masculine charm... and occasional {{Chuunibyou}}.
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88	* AffectionateNickname: Ruki calls her "Tsu-chan," but switches to calling her "Tsubasa-san" around her parents for the sake of good manners.
89	* AuthorAvatar: In chapter 37, she realizes Darkness Hero's struggle against the Demon Lord is blatantly just her pouring her feelings about her mother out.
90	* {{Bifauxnen}}: Both Kaoruko and Koyume consider her extremely handsome, to EvenTheGirlsWantHer levels.
91	* BoyishShortHair: Her short hair makes him look like a boy. Ruki notes that it used to be longer, before Tsubasa cut it to more easily get into the mindset best suited to drawing manga. [[spoiler:When she goes back home in the twenty-eighth chapter, animated in the tenth episode, she needs to wear hairpieces to make her hair longer in order to satisfy her FantasyForbiddingMother, as the latter would prefer her to stay as an {{Ojou}}.]]
92	* ChildhoodFriend: She and Ruki have known each other for a long time.
93	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The boy on Koyume's color pages looks a lot like Tsubasa, something that Ruki and Kaos notice almost immediately. Tsubasa, however, wonders why the boy is so feminine.
94	* DualWielding: When faced with a deadline, Tsubasa manages to triple-wield brushes in an attempt to increase her output.
95	* ElegantClassicalMusician: Her parents want her to learn how to play the piano, and have her play for them once she gets home.
96	* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Both Kaoruko and Koyume got charmed by her in the first episode by her boyish charms to the point of LesYay. Tsubasa has also gotten confessions from girls in the past.
97	* GenderBlenderName: Unlike rest of the ensemble cast that have names that contains highly feminine kanji, hers is the gender-neutral word for "wing."
98	* HeroicBSOD: Spending several days at her parents' house drains her energy so much that she's stuck acting like an {{Ojou}} until Kaos forces her to snap out of it.
99	* MoustacheDePlume: While her real name is sexually ambiguous, she wants to project a masculine image as the genre is dominated by male authors. This is why she takes the decidedly masculine name Wing V, which comes from her name that can be literally translated as "'''Wing V'''ictory-tree".
100	* MsImagination: She has a very active imagination and enjoys acting out her characters in order to write their dialogue. Fall short of {{Chuunibyou}} by virtue of the fact that she's actually the most mature of the main quartet most of the time.
101	* NiceGirl: While all of the main characters are fairly pleasant, Tsubasa's kind and helpful nature often shines through, and the others often make note of it. This is especially evident when she proves fairly forgiving after Kaos makes mistakes on a few of her pages.
102	* NonUniformUniform: For her school uniform, she leaves her shirt untucked, doesn't wear a bow tie and wears a blue hoodie.
103	* OhCrap: In the manga, this is her reaction when, after turning in a career survey form with "Manga artist" as her sole choice, she learns that the teacher will refer to those forms when holding parent-teacher meetings.
104	* {{Ojou}}: She actually doesn't have the mindset for it, but she ''can'' act like that, mainly to satisfy her FictionFiveHundred, FantasyForbiddingMother, who would prefer her to be fully under this trope rather than being a SequentialArtist drawing things that [[HotBlooded don't fit the mold]].
105	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Just before her parent-teacher conference, she wears her uniform properly and puts on hair extensions.
106	* ParentalTitleCharacterization: Played with. She calls her parents "Otou-sama" and "Okaa-sama," ("Father" and "Mother"), but this is less indicative of the person she is and more of the person she has to be at home.
107	* TextileWorkIsFeminine: As part of her playing the part of a proper lady, she's seen sewing while staying at her family's home.
108	* WellDoneSonGuy: Secretly wants her mother to approve of her manga, but her mother pretends to look down on it to give Tsubasa more material for her manga.
109	[[/folder]]
110
111	!!Supporting Characters
112	[[folder:Suzu Fuura]]
113	!!Suzu Fuura
114	-->''Voiced by: Creator/ReinaUeda''
115	One year older than the main quartet, Suzu Fuura is a horror mangaka who, unfortunately (or maybe appropriately), looks and acts like a StringyHairedGhostGirl.
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117	* BrokenPedestal: She was fairly close to her roommate, but the other girl left the dorm without telling Fuura or even leaving any contact information.
118	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She looks like a StringyHairedGhostGirl with very pale skin. What's more, she has lower body temperature than the most.
119	* FreezeFrameBonus: After her introduction, there are several scenes where the sharp-eyed can spot her. This includes the photo of the main cast in the opening sequence.
120	* LastNameBasis: The main four call her "Fuura-senpai."
121	* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: A less malicious example than most, but she clearly delights in hearing the sound of terrified screams, which is a major part of the reason for her ghost act. Kaos in particular is a favorite target.
122	* MeaningfulName: The first kanji of her name means "to terrify." She creates horror manga.
123	* NightmareFetishist: She writes horror manga and has a preference to horror-themed items.
124	* NoSocialSkills: Her awkwardness is part of the reason why she's often taken as a ghost despite being totally a human.
125	* StealthHiBye: Befitting her ghostly behaviour, she has a habit of showing up whenever the cast least expects her. The sharp-eyed can actually spot her a few moments before she enters the conversation.
126	* StringyHairedGhostGirl: With long hair and eye obscuring eyes, she looks like this trope. {{Subverted\|trope}} as she's totally a human.
127	[[/folder]]
128
129	[[folder:Mayu Amizawa]]
130	!!Mayu Amizawa
131	-->''Voiced by: Creator/MinamiTsuda''
132	Kaoruko's editor.
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134	* BrutalHonesty: While she's relatively polite about it, she doesn't hesitate to tell Kaos when one of her ideas isn't any good.
135	* CantHoldHerLiquor: She gets drunk the most easily out of all of her friends, and is visibly intoxicated while they're still at the bar.
136	* MeaningfulName: An editor whose surname 編沢 has the first character for the Japanese word for editor (編輯).
137	* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Mean one of the three major adults. She's not completely heartless, but doesn't hold back when criticizing Kaos' work.
138	* OnlySaneMan: {{Subverted\|trope}}. In the beginning she's portrayed the only person of the cast who has a complete lack of oddities, but eventually it turns out she is very similar to Kaoruko.
139	* SoProudOfYou: While she can give fairly harsh criticism, once Kaos does succeed in getting published, Mayu tells her how proud she is of her.
140	* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's fairly strict with Kaos, but nevertheless cares for her and tries to ensure that she doesn't give up.
141	* WasTooHardOnHer: She spends most of Episode 8 angsting about being too harsh in her rejections of Kaos' storyboards, partly out of a justified concern about how easily Kaos gets depressed, and partly because she's just as negative as Kaos.
142	[[/folder]]
143
144	[[folder:Ririka Hanazono]]
145	!!Ririka Hanazono
146	-->''Voiced by: Creator/AyaEndo''
147	Previously a YuriGenre mangaka, she is now housemother of the dormitory.
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149	* AffectionateNickname: Koyume calls her "Ri-chan."
150	* CovertPervert: She took a different position because she prefers "observation" than actually drawing it. So she keeps a large number of observation notes of the girls, which is implied to contain LesYay.
151	* MeaningfulName: Riri sounds like lily, or the flower that the YuriGenre is named after. She was a YuriGenre artist and is still a YuriFan.
152	* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Nice one of the three major adults, being a warm and nurturing dorm mother.
153	* OneHitWonder: [[invoked]] She once produced a bestselling manga volume, but didn't have the motivation to make another one, since she prefers drawing for fun.
154	* PenName: When she was a SequentialArtist, her pen name was "Rika Sonoda."
155	* SequentialArtist: She previously drew YuriGenre manga.
156	* YuriFan: She has been interested in YuriGenre since high school age, and sometimes bickered with the YaoiFangirl Nijino about on pairings.
157	[[/folder]]
158
159	[[folder:Miharu Nijino]]
160	!!Miharu Nijino
161	-->''Voiced by: Creator/AyakaNanase''
162	Ruki, Tsubasa and Kaoruko's class teacher and a former classmate with Amizawa and Hanazono.
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164	* ClosetGeek: Her sternness stems from the fact that she wants to hide her manga hobbies. The sixth episode shows this as a major dilemma for her.
165	* HotTeacher: This is Kaoruko's opinion of her, spilling over to the former's manga storyboards.
166	* LastNameBasis: While most people call the girls by their first names or pen names, she uses their last names and "-san" out of politeness (as well as initially not knowing of their being manga artists), and they call her "Nijino-sensei."
167	* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The In-Between one of the three major adults. She's serious and professional, but isn't quite as brutally honest as Mayu.
168	* OhCrap: She's horrified when Kaoruko manages to find a long-lost manuscript she drew.
169	* OlderThanTheyLook: Without her makeup, she looks no older than the main teenage cast, causing her friends to poke fun at her for having a babyface.
170	* PoseOfSupplication: She goes into this after realizing Tsubasa's identity, to the point of slamming her head on the roof of the school.
171	* SecretKeeper: Since the girls want to keep their status as SequentialArtist a secret, she becomes this as the only teacher who knows that particular fact.
172	* SternTeacher: She's a strict teacher, and only opens up when yaoi is concerned.
173	* YaoiFangirl: She's been this since high school. She even does yaoi pairings out of Tsubasa's {{shonen}} manga.
174	[[/folder]]
175
176	[[folder:Haruko Moeta]]
177	!!Haruko Moeta
178	Kaoruko's mother, who runs a sweets store.
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180	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: She manages to embarrass Kaoruko by handing out her manga at the sweets store.
181	* GoodParents: She's very kind and supportive of her daughter's endeavors.
182	* KimonoIsTraditional: She's usually seen in a kimono.
183	* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: She's mentioned a few times, but only appears in the last episode.
184	* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has Kaoruko's pink hair and also wears braids. In the manga, Kaos' friends and editor even mistake Haruko for Kaos.
185	* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: While she usually calls Kaos by her pen name, Haruko switches to "Kaoruko-chan" when offering to let her come home if she wants.
186	[[/folder]]
187
188	[[folder:The Katsukis]]
189	!!The Katsukis
190	Tsubasa and her brother's parents.
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192	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Tsubasa's mother is generally polite and even somewhat affectionate to her daughter, but Tsubasa's terrified of her mother, likening her to a "demon king."
193	* FantasyForbiddingFather: Downplayed. They're not completely happy about their daughter drawing manga, even if they don't overtly oppose it. Kaos realizes that it's fairly hard for Tsubasa to keep going without her parents' support. Despite that, it eventually turns out that Tsubasa's mother ''does'' read the manga, and the characters believe her dismissive attitude toward Tsubasa's work is meant to goad her to succeed.
194	* HonoraryUncle: A variation, given that in the anime, Ruki addresses them with the terms for "aunt" and "uncle."
195	* SoProudOfYou: She says that she respects Tsubasa's effort, even if she quickly backpedals and complains about her daughter using her as the basis for her manga's villain.
196	* WhamLine: Tsubasa's mother saying that she ''does'' read her daughter's work during the parent-teacher conference.
197	[[/folder]]

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