| 1 | ''Literature/{{Haganai}}'' revolves around the daily lives of the seven members -- six students, one (child) adviser -- of the Neighbors Club, a school club within St. Chronica Academy whose ostensible goal is to help its members learn social skills and open up to society. |
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| 5 | !!Neighbors Club |
| 6 | [[folder:Kodaka Hasegawa]] |
| 7 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hasegawa_kodaka.png]] |
| 8 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyoheiKimura (teenager), Akiko Seri (child) (Japanese) and Creator/JerryJewell (English) |
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| 10 | The main protagonist and a second-year transferee to St. Chronica after he and his younger sister Kobato decide to stay behind when their father Hayato went to America to work. Unfortunately, his naturally blond hair (inherited from their deceased English mother Airi) earned him an unwanted reputation as some delinquent. He, together with fellow loner Yozora, is a co-founder of the Neighbors Club. |
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| 12 | * AccidentalPervert: ''Constantly.'' Twice towards Sena -- completely naked during his visit to the Kashiwazakis' mansion in Season 1 Episode 8, and then topless during the BeachEpisode. Subverted with Kobato (his little sister, of course), whom he doesn't care about seeing naked ([[InnocentFanserviceGirl and neither does Kobato]]). He also stumbles in on Kate in the shower, but since it was clearly an accident and he apologizes immediately she doesn't care. It got so bad every girl in the Neighbors Club brings up a time when he's seen her naked, except for Rika, which is not accidental as Rika later makes him look at her body in Volume 9. He had also seen the student council members in their undies as he accidentally walked in their clubroom. |
| 13 | * AffectionateNickname: His childhood friend called him "Taka". Yozora immediately recognized him on his first day at school. |
| 14 | * ArrangedMarriage: With Sena, as an agreement between their fathers in the past. |
| 15 | * AttractiveBentGender: In the short ImagineSpot of Season 1 Episode 3. |
| 16 | * BerserkButton: Hayato may be an absentee parent (justifiable with his career as an archaeologist), but Kodaka doesn't take too kindly to his father being called "trash". Even if that was just a light-hearted quip from Pegasus. |
| 17 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Towards his younger sister, Kobato, and later on towards Maria. |
| 18 | * ButNotTooForeign: He is born of a Japanese father and a British mother. |
| 19 | * CannotTellAJoke: The guy is really bad when it comes to jokes, which makes him stand out from the rest of his clubmates. One of the few things Yozora and Sena will readily agree on is that he sucks at comedy. |
| 20 | * CatchPhrase: "Eh? What was that?" whenever one of the girls mutters romantic interest toward him. It could just be passed off as actually not hearing them at first, but when their interest becomes more overt, he continues spouting the same line. |
| 21 | * CelibateHero: Kodaka states many times that he isn't interested in dating because he believes he should focus on making friends first. He also doesn't want to risk any of his relationships in the Neighbors Club changing if he pursues romance. This becomes increasingly problematic as the series goes on because the girls are becoming more and more openly attracted to him and Kodaka's attempts to avoid romance almost tear the group apart. |
| 22 | * ChickMagnet: He's rather popular with girls that favor [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys seemingly tough guys]] without being actually dangerous. |
| 23 | * ChildhoodFriends: The OnlyFriend he ever had was a boy he called "Sora", but Kodaka had to move away and never saw him again. Later on, he realizes that "boy" was actually Yozora. While Kodaka is surprised, he isn't as excited Yozora expected him to be. He does care for Yozora and regrets he left her without saying goodbye, but he doesn't value the time they shared in the past as much as Yozora does. Once she starts to understand they don't share a special bond after all, Yozora starts to fall into depression. |
| 24 | * CluelessChickMagnet: At least within the Neighbor's Club. Ultimately subverted, however -- he's just [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretending to be clueless]]. |
| 25 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Sena hands off a galge to him, he spends the entire playthrough hanging out with the BromanticFoil rather than talking to the girls and is completely satisfied even when he gets a DownerEnding because it means he still has that friend. |
| 26 | * DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: |
| 27 | ** In ''NEXT'' Episode 2, Kodaka runs into Rika in the clubroom without her glasses. She tells him her vision is actually perfect, then asks him what he thinks of her. He has a brief ImagineSpot where he says she's like a wildflower blooming on a hill, and right in his strike zone. In the English dub, he frankly states that "As for whether I'd hit that or not, I'd have to say: Hells yeah." Rika's face then [[HighPressureEmotion turns red]], and he earns himself some slight scorn from [[ClingyJealousGirl Yozora, Sena, and Yukimura]]. |
| 28 | ** Kodaka pulls this off ''again'' 5 episodes later, when he comments that Rika would look better with cute clothing, as opposed to the school uniform which she seemed to wear all the time. Once again, Rika's face turns red and none of the other girls are too pleased about hearing that. |
| 29 | * {{Dismotivation}}: His SelectiveObliviousness takes some effort to maintain, preferring the friendly Neighbor's Club to actually getting into any sort of relationship. |
| 30 | * TheDitherer: The wishy-washy type. His biggest flaw is his habit of avoiding or outright ignoring things he doesn't like or make him uncomfortable. At first, it's subtle, such as him deliberately turning a blind eye to the harem elements around him and trying to play dense towards Yozora's and Sena's feelings for him. However, it's terrible when he's faced by something he can't avoid. [[spoiler:When Sena abruptly confesses to him and doesn't let him play dumb, Kodaka runs away and doesn't return to the club for over a week. It takes Rika confronting him for Kodaka to finally accept he must answer the girls' feelings.]] |
| 31 | * DontYouDarePityMe: He first met "Sora" when she intervened on some bullies ganging up on a "weakling" like him. He immediately turns his aggression toward her for calling him a weakling. |
| 32 | * EpiphanyTherapy: At the end of Season 1 Episode 11, seeing Yozora with her hair cut short on their first day of school after summer break finally made him realize that "Sora", his ForgottenChildhoodFriend, is her all along. |
| 33 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Defied. As he explains to Sena in Season 1 Episode 11, he refuses to dye his naturally-blond hair because this is his only reminder of his late mother Airi, an Englishwoman -- [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer even if it turns him into an outcast]]. |
| 34 | * {{Expy}}: A misunderstood NiceGuy with the FaceOfAThug and TheUnsmile who is into housekeeping, pursued by a vicious {{Tsundere}} with [[NoSocialSkills lots of hang-ups]], an [[GenkiGirl energetic]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and a [[MsFanservice gorgeous]] LovableAlphaBitch? Sounds like [[Literature/ToraDora Ryuuji Takasu]]. |
| 35 | * FaceOfAThug: He inherited his father's tough facial expression and his mother's blond hair. Because of his appearance and a few misunderstandings on his first day at the academy, his classmates are under the impression he's a JapaneseDelinquent and always run away without giving Kodaka the chance to explain himself. Those who do get to know him better understand Kodaka is a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold who just wishes to make friends. |
| 36 | * FamilyEyeResemblance: He got the angry-looking TsurimeEyes from his father, which he hates. |
| 37 | * FirstNameBasis: Yozora and Sena instantly demand that he call them by their first names. Normally he'd be much more polite and reserved. |
| 38 | * FirstPersonSmartass: More so in the light novels than the anime, where his reactions are more low-key and he has a tendency to snark. |
| 39 | * FriendshipMoment: With [[spoiler:Yozora in his childhood and Rika in Volume 8 of the novels]]. |
| 40 | * MadeOfIron: Kodaka can take a huge amount of punishment from Rika's [[BulletHell balls]] which are strong enough to [[EverythingIsSmashableArea dent concrete]]. |
| 41 | * MistakenForDyed: He has naturally blond hair thanks to his [[ButNotTooForeign English ancestry]]. This alienates him from his peers, who all mistake him for a delinquent on sight because of this. |
| 42 | * MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: His schoolmates assume he's a vicious delinquent, on account of his blond hair which contrasts with his Japanese face (a result of [[ButNotTooForeign mixed-race parentage]]), as well as a very bad first-day-at-school impression, when he comes in looking haggard, barely making it to school in time, then staggering in fatigue towards his teacher with his arms forward and fingers curled ([[NotWhatItLooksLike making his classmates assume he is about to attack their teacher]]) after introducing himself. It doesn't help that [[FaceOfAThug he almost always looks like he's pissed off or annoyed.]] |
| 43 | * NeverGotToSayGoodbye: He didn't have the chance to say goodbye to his childhood friend Sora before he moved away because Sora didn't show up the day Kodaka intended to announce he was leaving. Turns out Sora was Yozora, who was too embarrassed to see him since she was wearing a skirt that day. Both deeply regretted not saying goodbye to each other back then. |
| 44 | * NewTransferStudent: Changes schools in his second year due to him and Kobato choosing to stay in Japan while their father goes abroad. |
| 45 | * NiceGuy: Contrary to his classmates' instant assumptions, he's a genuinely good-natured, affable guy who prefers a good company. |
| 46 | * NoGuyWantsToBeChased: The poor guy is put off by Rika's [[LovableSexManiac promiscuously open advances]] and fails to realize any genuine interest in him she may have. This is notwithstanding the fact that he has shown some signs of attraction towards Rika when she's not being perverted, though he's yet to display any explicit romantic intentions. |
| 47 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Turns out he is not so clueless -- he is just pretending that he is. |
| 48 | * ObliviousToLove: Appears to be a straight case of this in the beginning, but ultimately subverted when it turns out he's deliberately eluding every attempt by the girls to catch his heart. |
| 49 | * OnlySaneMan: Kodaka seems like the one sane and normal member of the group, if a bit dense. However, like Kobato, he actually holds people at arm's length, refusing to get close or acknowledge things he doesn't want to. |
| 50 | * ParentalAbandonment: His and Kobato's mother Airi is dead, and their father Hayato works abroad. |
| 51 | * PromotionToParent: He has to raise Kobato, cook meals for her, and put up with her vampire-loli fantasies. |
| 52 | * RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Yozora and Sena's red. |
| 53 | * SecondYearProtagonist: He's in his second high school year which means he doesn't have to deal with college exams yet and the cast can have both seniors and junior freshmen. |
| 54 | * SelectiveObliviousness: When his failure to recognize the girls around him grows too strong, Rika begins to suspect that he's going out of his way to never, ever notice how they feel. Further events make it plain that he knows and is deliberately ignoring the issue. [[spoiler:This culminated with Rika confronting him at the end of Volume 8, after he made it clear he'd rather ignore their feelings. Rika was willing to pretend it never happened, but warned him that sooner or later some other girl ''will'' take a shot, and he really needed to be ready for that. He wasn't: Sena openly confessed and he ran away.]] |
| 55 | * SeriousBusiness: With takoyaki. |
| 56 | * ShroudedInMyth: Has the unfortunate reputation of being a JapaneseDelinquent thanks to his blond hair and an intimidating facial expression (especially when angry). It also doesn't help that he goes to school with the lower ends of his pants folded up to below his knees and wears loafers. Then the rumors [[GossipEvolution keep growing]]. From the second novel: |
| 57 | -->"There's all kinds of rumors like how I supposedly raped Yozora and Sena, forced Yukimura to be my errand boy, raped Rika too, made a move on a sister, and even that I make a little girl walk around school in goth loli clothes..." |
| 58 | * SupremeChef: His food is good according to Maria and Kobato, and in Episode 10 he laments that of all the club members, he's the only one that can cook. |
| 59 | * TsurimeEyes: {{Subverted|Trope}}. His eyes are small and sharp, which is why people tend to mistake him for an angry and violent delinquent. In reality, Kodaka is a NiceGuy and hates how the eyes he got from his father cause him so much trouble. |
| 60 | * UnreliableNarrator: In the light novels, we're led to believe that he's ObliviousToLove, but he's actually deliberately trying to turn a blind eye to the girls' feelings for him. |
| 61 | * TheUnsmile: His smile comes across as menacing. |
| 62 | * UnwantedHarem: Kodaka refuses to pick one of the girls in the club to date, despite the obvious fact that every single one of them is in love with him. |
| 63 | * WrongGenreSavvy: For a moment at the start of the story, Kodaka thinks he might be the hero in a supernatural ShonenDemographic show. Nope, he's the main character in a HaremAnime with socially-challenged hot girls in the mix. Following this, he refuses to recognize that he's in a harem anime rather than pure SliceOfLife. |
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| 66 | [[folder:Yozora Mikazuki]] |
| 67 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mikazuki_yozora.png]] |
| 68 | [[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see her post-haircut]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yozora_shorthair.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 69 | %%[[caption-width-right:206:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yozora_shorthair.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see her post-haircut]] |
| 70 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarinaInoue (teenager), Creator/AyaneSakura (child) (Japanese) and Creator/WhitneyRodgers (English) |
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| 72 | An abrasive loner with a strange hobby of talking to an "air friend" named "Tomo". After a small talk with Kodaka who caught her "talking" to "Tomo", she becomes a co-founder of the Neighbors Club. |
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| 74 | * ACupAngst: She frequently derides Sena's "cow udders", which are the source of her nickname "Meat". One of their early arguments had her insisting that she's "not that small" when Sena snarks at the "washboard's" jabs, and then threatening to kill every girl with a larger bust so that she'd be the most well-endowed by default. |
| 75 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: When playing an otome game, Yozora avoided all the love interests except for the aloof JerkWithAHeartOfGold delinquent. Everyone seemed to pick up why Yozora would like that type of guy, expect for Kodaka [[ObliviousToLove of course]]. |
| 76 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: A deconstruction. She's distant from her classmates and her looks are appreciated at least, but then it turns out she's so distant because she's a complete {{Jerkass}} who ''can't'' socialize with others. |
| 77 | * BerserkButton: Being compared to bullies is a sure-fire way to get her ''genuinely'' angry. |
| 78 | * {{Bifauxnen}}: After cutting her hair short, everyone in the club (minus Kodaka and Sena) confuse her for a pretty boy. When Rika dresses her up in a male school uniform, even Sena [[StupidSexyFlanders can't resist her androgynous charm]]. |
| 79 | * BigSisterBully: To Maria, in a surrogate way. Yozora behaves like a mean older sister who bullies her bratty little sister to put her in her place. |
| 80 | * BigSisterInstinct: Oddly enough, she has a bit of this towards both Maria and Kobato, particularly the latter. |
| 81 | * BoyishShortHair: When she was a child, she had short hair and liked to dress like a boy. This made it hard for Kodaka to tell she was a girl. Later on, she cuts it short again, suiting her aggressive personality. |
| 82 | * BreakTheHaughty: When Sena point-blank tells her that she's not going to win Kodaka's heart just by being his ChildhoodFriend and she, Sena, is actually engaged to him, Yozora doesn't take it well at all. |
| 83 | * BrutalHonesty: When asked why she plagiarized the movie script, she says it was because she figured the club was full of idiots who wouldn't realize what she had done. |
| 84 | * TheBully: Even though she hates being compared to bullies, [[HypocriticalHumor she herself is]] quite the vicious emotional bully. |
| 85 | * ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: At the end of the second season, Yozora leaves Kodaka and the others. Ultimately subverted (as per a blink-and-you-miss-it scene), because she actually contacted Kobato to let her hide away in ''the Hasegawas' residence''.]] |
| 86 | * ByronicHeroine: Aloof, unsociable, manipulative and ultimately, a girl hiding multiple emotional scars. |
| 87 | * CannotSpitItOut: She instantly recognized Kodaka as "Taka", but couldn't bring herself to say anything due to frustration over the fact that he doesn't seem to remember her. Though, to Kodaka's defense, not only was her hair much shorter back then, but he also thought she was a boy. It isn't until he sees her after she [[ImportantHairCut cuts her hair short]] that he realizes that she was "Sora". |
| 88 | * CharacterDevelopment: It takes very long, but it finally happens. [[spoiler:By the end of the novels, she decided to finally let go of her obsession with Kodaka, start anew, and finally come out into the open and accept Sena as the best friend she always wanted.]] |
| 89 | * CharacterTics: Twirling strands of her hair. |
| 90 | * ChildhoodFriends: She was "Sora", Kodaka's OnlyFriend when they were children until he had to move away. Yozora never forgot about him and once she met him again, founded the Neighbors Club just to be close to him. Yozora actually wants a ChildhoodFriendRomance and assumes Kodaka must feel the same way, but he doesn't seem interested in her that way even after he recognizes her. When she realizes that, in real life, childhood friendship isn't an instant romance button, she has one big HeroicBSOD. |
| 91 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Will often hit Kodaka if he stares too long at one of the other girls, or makes a comment that suggests he's interested in them. She also stopped Sena and Kodaka from kissing in a king's game, claiming it was indecent, despite having been the one who wrote that order. [[note]]In a king's game, players draw lots/cards, and whoever is the king can order the other players, based on their numbers, to do things. In this case, Yozora wrote a note stating number 3 and the king would have to kiss, but it backfired on her when Sena became the king with Kodaka was number 3, and drew the note with the kiss.[[/note]] |
| 92 | * ClubPresident: Of the Neighbors Club. Yozora was the one who came up with the idea of the club and is in charge of organizing all their activities. |
| 93 | * ConsummateLiar: The other club members, save Kodaka and Rika, are pretty much at her mercy. |
| 94 | * CoolBigSis: A surrogate example towards Kobato, whom she frequently protects from Sena's advances. |
| 95 | * CosmicMotifs: Her family name translates as "crescent moon", and there's crescent moon imagery sprinkled throughout her wardrobe. Her given name means "night sky", enforcing this even further. |
| 96 | * CutenessProximity: Cats. |
| 97 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter 1 of the ''Shobon!'' spinoff manga, where she snarks at the situation of the Club but is nevertheless willing to put up with them as long as Kodaka is happy (and so is she)... and develops a {{fetish}} for having her armpits touched. |
| 98 | * DialogueReversal: The first time Yozora gets cut down to size by ''Sena'', she angrily storms out of the room crying. |
| 99 | -->"''Stupid Sena Kashiwazaki!''" |
| 100 | * EntitledToHaveYou: Perhaps due to her clear social cluelessness, Yozora simply assumes that being Kodaka's childhood friend means that [[FirstGirlWins him loving her back is inevitable]] regardless of anything else that happens. |
| 101 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: After Kodaka accidentally burning her hair with a firework near the end of summer break, Yozora returns to school with her hair cut short. At this very moment Kodaka finally recognizes her as "Sora", [[OneOfTheBoys the "boy"]] who used to be his only childhood friend. This also marks the point where she starts to show her [[{{Tsundere}} deredere]]. |
| 102 | * EvilSoundsDeep: "Evil" is a stretch, but she is quite the bully (despite her staunch denial of the label) and Inoue provides her the deepest voice amongst the main cast. |
| 103 | * FemaleMisogynist: She shows signs of this, particularly hating girls who attract many guys like Sena and Hinata. Yozora claims she just can't stand popular girls. [[spoiler:Actually, Yozora came to hate women in general due to the circumstances of her parents' divorce and her mother's abuse, which led to her dressing, talking and acting like a boy.]] |
| 104 | * {{Fetish}}: Develops one in the ''Shobon!'' spinoff for having her armpits touched. |
| 105 | * FirstGirlWins: She assumes this as an indisputable fact. She was the first girl in the club to interact with Kodaka, as well as his long-forgotten childhood friend. She's only able to mostly control her envy of the other haremettes by constantly telling herself that they stand no chance, because she met Kodaka first. When she discovers that Kodaka met Sena when they were toddlers, Yozora falls into utter despair. [[spoiler:The trope is ultimately {{averted|trope}} at the end of the novels; Kodaka rejects Yozora and she moves on by accepting Sena as her new BestFriend.]] |
| 106 | * FoeRomanceSubtext: Her constant squabbles with Sena imply something beyond their name-calling and the occasional catfight, a fact that wasn't lost on Kodaka. [[spoiler:This goes even further at the end, when she and Sena finally accept each other as best friends.]] |
| 107 | * ForgottenFirstMeeting: She was [[OneOfTheBoys the "boy"]] who once saved Kodaka from, and then joined him in fighting, a bunch of bullies when they were children. They quickly became friends, but then Kodaka had to move just when Yozora was confident enough to dress up as a girl in front of him. |
| 108 | * FreudianExcuse: There's a reason behind her strong hatred towards popular, attractive girls and bias towards same-sex friendships. [[spoiler:Her mother's best friend stole her husband away. Yozora took her mother's side, but the woman was left so emotionally unstable by the betrayal that she became abusive towards Yozora.]] |
| 109 | * FriendToAllChildren: Season 1 Episode 12 reveals that she actually has a soft spot for children, going so far as to put up with Maria's bratty attitude while she tried to politely ask for her permission to lend her favorite naptime room to the Club before finally losing her patience. She's also shown to be protective of Kobato, and is often the first to try to keep Sena in check. |
| 110 | * FriendshipMoment: She has at least two. One occurs early on when she says she won't tell Kodaka her nickname, because nicknames are something only friends give to each after. Not long after, she gives Sena the nickname "Meat". Insulting, but still a nickname. Later, in Volume 6 of the novels, she shows genuine remorse over hurting Sena's feelings, unlike when they seem to be mostly playing around. She's apparently pretty happy when Sena's mood improves thanks to Kobato. [[spoiler:And come Volume 10, she and Sena finally find the courage to admit to each other that all this time they liked each other better than their words conveyed.]] |
| 111 | * GiverOfLameNames: "Tomo-chan" means "Friendy", more or less. |
| 112 | * GreenEyedMonster: While on a roller-coaster ride with the rest of the Club, she starts blurting out some of her resentment towards Sena, blaming her for things going wrong in her life and Kodaka not paying enough attention to her. Nobody hears any of that part instead of the creepy chanting about cursing and killing she starts after that in her panic. |
| 113 | * GuileHero: Easily plays tricks on Sena and Maria (not that it's difficult), but where she really shows her stuff is when she utterly demolishes Yusa Aoi in a battle of rules lawyering. She gives about 4 valid counter-arguments for every point that Yusa makes, this completely breaks Yusa and sends the girl running away in tears. |
| 114 | * HateAtFirstSight: She despises Sena immediately and is consistently horrible to her, though there are occasional hints that she is as much of a friend as she's currently capable of being. |
| 115 | * HatesWearingDresses: Ever since childhood, she has found wearing skirts embarrassing. When she doesn't wear her school uniform, she either goes around in pants or shorts. |
| 116 | * HeroicBSOD: |
| 117 | ** She almost completely shuts down when Kodaka and Sena are revealed to be engaged through an ArrangedMarriage since kindergarten. Particularly because this takes away her "privilege" as the childhood friend. Not even Sena hitting her with a flyswatter could snap her out of it. |
| 118 | ** She enters an even bigger one after [[spoiler:Sena confesses to Kodaka. It gets so bad that she runs off to Kodaka's house and refuses to return to school for days.]] |
| 119 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: Gleefully builds her success and happiness on the pain, insecurity and tears of others without a sliver of remorse. |
| 120 | * HoistByHerOwnPetard: |
| 121 | ** Yozora's main reason for creating the club was to be reacquainted with Kodaka, then Sena joined the club. [[SpringtimeForHitler And that's just the beginning.]] |
| 122 | ** She had Yukimura wear a [[RealMenWearPink maid's uniform]] [[ItAmusedMe for her own amusement]]. It wasn't so funny for her when Yukimura was eventually revealed to be a girl. |
| 123 | ** Gets scared by her own scary story in Episode 10. |
| 124 | * HumanizingTears: At the end of Season 1 Episode 11, even a total hardass like Yozora cannot hold back her TearsOfJoy after Kodaka finally recognizes her -- with her hair cut short -- as his [[ForgottenFirstMeeting forgotten childhood friend]] "Sora". |
| 125 | * ImaginaryFriend: Used to have one, named "Tomo-chan". |
| 126 | * ImNotHereToMakeFriends: The only reason she formed the Club in the first place was to get closer to Kodaka. |
| 127 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: A fly swatter. |
| 128 | * InsultOfEndearment: Despite being given the insulting nickname of "Meat", Sena confessed to Kodaka that she's secretly happy with it because she has never been given a nickname before. |
| 129 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Extremely self-centered to sociopathic levels, easily upset when things don't go her way, to the point of throwing a tantrum, and holds extreme hatred against "popular" people, no matter whether they deserve it or not. |
| 130 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Leaning more on the {{Jerkass}} side, with a few hints of her HiddenHeartOfGold occasionally slipping through. She's self-centered and a bitch, true, but she isn't without redeeming qualities. She has a soft spot for [[FriendToAllChildren kids]] and [[KindheartedCatLover cats]], and has shown genuine remorse for her actions and pranks on occasion. |
| 131 | * KindheartedCatLover: Though not exactly kindhearted, she ''does'' love cats and is positively ''delighted'' when Kodaka takes her to a cat cafe. |
| 132 | * LackOfEmpathy: Subverted, she does show some remorse sometimes when a joke goes too far. |
| 133 | * LoveHungry: She feels entitled to Kodaka since she's known him the longest. Her usual methods are RelationshipSabotage and being a ManipulativeBitch. That's about as far as she's willing to go though since she doesn't outright hate the rest of the group. |
| 134 | * LovingAShadow: Her obsession with Kodaka is more about getting back the boy who was her friend ten years ago instead of actually liking who he is now. When outright asked by Kodaka himself, Yozora affirms she values his past self over his current self. [[spoiler:It took the entire span of the novels for her to finally let go and start anew with Sena.]] |
| 135 | * ManipulativeBitch: She tricked Maria into providing their current Club Room using made-up Scriptures, and regularly makes a fool out of Sena for amusement. |
| 136 | * NeverBeHurtAgain: She implies she never tried to make friends after Kodaka moved away because it hurt too much that her OnlyFriend left her without saying goodbye. |
| 137 | * NoSocialSkills: As the series goes on, Yozora's awkwardness and hang-ups become more and more obvious. |
| 138 | * OldTimeyBathingSuit: She wears a full-body striped swimsuit (complete with a horse mask) because she refuses to show skin in public. |
| 139 | * OneOfTheBoys: As a kid, her OnlyFriend was a boy who actually thought she was a boy too because of the way she dressed and acted. |
| 140 | * PerpetualFrowner: Lampshaded by Kodaka. |
| 141 | * PetTheDog: Special mention goes to ''NEXT'' Episode 11, when she cancels their films because Rika got sick saying it wouldn't be fair if all seven of them couldn't watch it. |
| 142 | * RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Sena's red, and the red (together with Sena) to Kodaka's blue. |
| 143 | * SitcomArchNemesis: With Sena. She openly states that seeing making Sena cry is her greatest pastime. |
| 144 | * SourOutsideSadInside: There's a lot of emotional scars hidden beneath her rotten, uncaring facade... and it all began when [[spoiler:her father cheated on her mother]]. |
| 145 | * SourPrudes: Lampshaded by Rika, who couldn't care less for Yozora's uptight rebukes (unlike poor Sena). |
| 146 | * StepfordSnarker: Talking to an ImaginaryFriend and acting like a total {{Jerkass}} towards everybody else (especially Sena) may indicate some issues beneath her snarkiness. [[spoiler:May or may not have something to do with her broken family.]] |
| 147 | * TallPoppySyndrome: She prefers to sabotage everyone else rather than put forward any effort regarding Kodaka herself if she ever feels someone is doing or looking better than her. This frequently backfires on her. This syndrome also serves as the basis of her disdain for "popular" people, as she'd rather make death wishes to them rather than improve her own image. |
| 148 | * TokenWholesome: Yozora absolutely hates the idea of showing her skin to anyone. She goes as far as to wear a full body swimsuit for the BeachEpisode. |
| 149 | * TomboyishBaseballCap: She wore a baseball cap when she was a kid and was quite the tomboy. |
| 150 | * TraumaticHaircut: She has one at the end of episode 11 in the first season due to her hair getting singed by Kodaka with a firework and doused with water used to put out fireworks near the end of summer break. As a result, Kodaka is able to recognize his ChildhoodFriend Sora, who was Yozora with shorter hair. |
| 151 | * {{Tsundere}}: A vicious Harsh Type -- utterly abusive to everybody (especially towards Sena), but occasionally shows a softer side towards Kodaka. |
| 152 | * UsedToBeATomboy: When she was a child, she dressed like a boy, got into fights and even her OnlyFriend thought she was a boy. In the present, she isn't exactly girly, but she dresses more femininely and has long hair, which is why Kodaka doesn't recognize her until she cuts it. [[spoiler:Yozora later explains she deliberately passed herself as a boy because she had started hating women after her parents' divorce.]] |
| 153 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Sena. According to her, only true friends can give each other nicknames, so even if she gave Sena the insulting nickname of "Meat", it's telling something about their relationship. |
| 154 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Apparently finds inter-gender relations a confusing, somewhat disturbing mess, and would prefer being JustFriends. In fact, her dislike of Sena's eroges stems not so much from their sexual content as they are about romance. It just so happens that Sena is [[SeriousBusiness very protective of her games and the characters therein]]. Hence, she finds herself more comfortable watching a BL movie recommended by Rika, keeps insisting that the relationship between its male characters are "pure camaraderie" despite the movie's not-so-subtle homoeroticism. This seems to change as the series goes on; in Volume 7 she even [[spoiler: propositions Kodaka for sex, although he doesn't hear her and may not have been meant to]]. |
| 155 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Dislikes parlors. Being a girl who values privacy, she dislikes how people there keep babbling about things best left private, such as romance, careers, etc., so she takes care of her hair all by herself. Part of her dislike of crowds. She also can't handle holding knives owing to an incident when [[spoiler: her abusive mother ''stabbed her'' because she took her daughter's attempts to cook as a passive aggressive insult.]] |
| 156 | * WouldHurtAChild: Viciously slaps ten-year-old Maria ''twice'' as a part of extorting ownership of the clubroom from her. In Season 1 Episode 12, it is revealed that her harsh treatment of Maria is [[BreakTheHaughty not totally unjustified]] and is, in fact, largely instrumental in the kid's CharacterDevelopment. |
| 157 | * WrongGenreSavvy: Yozora is under the impression that she's the female lead in a ChildhoodFriendRomance series with the Neighbors Club being an excuse for her and Kodaka to get together. She soon realizes she's in a harem series, but still thought of herself as the main love interest. While Kodaka was surprised to know she was "Sora", that doesn't make him reciprocate her feelings. Also, Yozora's love rivals don't think of her and Kodaka being ChildhoodFriends as something special. Yozora falls deep into depression when she learns Sena was [[ArrangedMarriage engaged to Kodaka]] long before she ever knew him [[spoiler:and Sena confesses her love for him first]]. Finally, [[spoiler:the light novels end with Kodaka rejecting Yozora's LoveConfession, making her realize the true purpose of her character was to let go of her childhood crush.]] |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Sena Kashiwazaki]] |
| 161 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kashiwazaki_sena.png]] |
| 162 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaeIto (Japanese) and Creator/JadSaxton (English) |
| 163 | |
| 164 | Daughter of Pegasus Kashiwazaki, headmaster of St. Chronica Academy. Her connections, wealth and beauty -- alongside a huge pair of knockers -- has boys fawning all over her, and likewise girls casting many an envious eye on her. Despite being constantly surrounded by boys, all she wants are true friends, driving her to become the third member of the Neighbors Club. |
| 165 | ---- |
| 166 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: She absolutely adores Kobato to the point of [[PervertedDrooling drooling]] at the sight of her, but Kobato is almost terrified of her. |
| 167 | * AcademicAthlete: She's said to have outstanding academic and athletic performance. |
| 168 | * AmbiguouslyBi: She's enamored with Kodaka and relishes the [[DudeMagnet attention she gets from boys]]. However, at the same time, she's shown to like dating sims and H-games that are clearly aimed at straight men (though she claims it's because these kinds of games allow her to make friends with female characters, since other girls dislike her in real life), gets a noticeable amount of FoeRomanceSubtext with Yozora, and has a rather [[ComedicLolicon creepy fixation]] on Kobato. |
| 169 | * ArmorPiercingResponse: When she finally cuts Yozora down to size by telling her that her ChildhoodFriendRomance with Kodaka means nothing in the end and that he doesn't love her back, it makes Yozora cry. |
| 170 | * ArrangedMarriage: With Kodaka, as an agreement between their fathers in the past. |
| 171 | * BerserkButton: ''Never ever'' insult her games and/or the characters therein. |
| 172 | * BigBreastPride: She's aware of the appeal of her large bust, and makes fun of Yozora for having a "washboard figure". |
| 173 | * BookSmart: Despite her ditzy behavior, she's said to have top grades in school. |
| 174 | * BreakTheHaughty: Sena's mind-boggling arrogance ran unchecked... until she met [[TheBully Yozora.]] |
| 175 | * BrokenAce: She's academically and athletically talented, beautiful, and well-endowed. There's nothing she can't do, except making friends because other girls develop some [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] and therefore isolate her as well as spread rumors about her to make her look bad and probably make themselves feel better. Kodaka points this out in the first episode when she introduces herself formally. |
| 176 | * ButtMonkey: Much of the series' humor stems from Yozora [[BreakTheHaughty breaking her high-class aura]] as hard as possible until she breaks down crying. |
| 177 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: She has a sizable chest, which makes her popular with the boys, and even Kodaka finds himself staring at her chest a few times. The [[ACupAngst flat-chested Yozora is also incredibly envious of her due to this]], but she tries to hide it by SlutShaming Sena, referring to her breasts as "cow udders" or nicknaming her "Meat". |
| 178 | * CatchphraseInsult: She frequently yells "Stupid Yozora!", and variations thereof, usually before or while storming off in tears because Yozora is being a jerk to her. |
| 179 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler:She and Kodaka discover that not only their parents had them meet each other when they were toddlers, they were arranged to be married before they were even able to walk. This reveal leaves Yozora in a state of shock because she thought the only advantage she had over other girls was her childhood friendship with Kodaka and it turns out Sena long beat her to it.]] |
| 180 | * ClingyJealousGirl: While not as overt as Yozora is, she doesn't like it when Kodaka pays more attention to the other girls, or compliments them in a way that suggests he likes them. |
| 181 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She has some rather strange thought processes. |
| 182 | * ComedicLolicon: Her obsession with the middle schooler Kobato's cuteness is largely PlayedForLaughs, but her behavior becomes increasingly creepier as the series goes on, much to poor Kobato's horror. Sena claims she simply wants Kobato to be her little sister, but then she plays an eroge with a LittleSisterHeroine that looks suspiciously identical to Kobato... |
| 183 | * CoolBigSis: {{Subverted|Trope}}. She ''tries'' to get Kobato to see her as an older sister, but she comes on so strong that Kobato just finds her creepy. |
| 184 | * CovertPervert: |
| 185 | ** When she's caught playing an eroge, she insists that [[ItsNotPornItsArt the H-scene is beautiful and artful]]. Then Yozora gets her to read it aloud...and naturally, it's ''extremely'' raunchy. |
| 186 | ** ''NEXT'' Episode 2 shows that she's also [[spoiler:an eroge fan to such a degree that shocks even [[LovableSexManiac Rika]]]]. |
| 187 | * CuteLittleFangs: Sports a single fang to emphasize her mischievous nature (especially towards Kobato). |
| 188 | * CutenessProximity: She's always reduced to cooing over how cute Kobato is when she's near her. Kobato finds this incredibly creepy. |
| 189 | * DitzyGenius: Her spoiled nature and lack of common sense for ordinary matters make it easy for Yozora to trick Sena into making a fool of herself repeatedly, but it's stated that she excels academically and she's also shown to be an InstantExpert when it comes to picking up new skills. |
| 190 | * DudeMagnet: One of the reasons most girls in St. Chronica hate her is that she attracts a lot of boys without even trying to. |
| 191 | * DumbBlonde: Downplayed. While she falls for Yozora's lies and makes herself look like an idiot as a result, she isn't dumb as much as she's gullible, clueless, and lacking in common sense because of her spoiled background. It's also mentioned that she's BookSmart although that's an InformedAbility in her case. |
| 192 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: Sena is blonde, curvy and busty. These traits make her the most attractive and desirable girl in the school in the eyes of the male students. |
| 193 | * FetishizedAbuser: {{Invoked|Trope}}. She thinks stepping on someone is a kind of reward since her fanboys approve of it and fails to understand Kodaka's dismay at the idea, though she largely ceases making such offers as time goes on. |
| 194 | * FoeRomanceSubtext: Her ceiling is covered with pictures of Yozora and she smells a wig she got from Yozora in order to revitalize her vengeance on her. At the end of ''Next'' Episode 1, she's shown with wig in hand and her other hand suggestively between her legs. In Volume 4 of the novels, even she can't resist [[StupidSexyFlanders commenting on how post-haircut Yozora looked so hot]] [[{{Bifauxnen}} in a male school uniform]]. |
| 195 | * ForgottenFirstMeeting: In Volume 7/''NEXT'' Episode, it turns out that Kodaka and Sena have known each other ever since kindergarten age, joining Yozora as one of Kodaka's childhood friends. Moreover, their fathers have also arranged for the two to marry each other when they grow up. |
| 196 | * FreudianSlip: In Volume 8 and Episode 11 of season 2, she inadvertently [[spoiler: proposes to Kodaka]] while playing a galge, setting in motion the series' WhamEpisode. |
| 197 | * FriendshipMoment: [[spoiler:With Yozora at the very end of the novels, finally coming out into the open that she likes Yozora better than their frequent squabbles would suggest.]] |
| 198 | * GamerChick: Specifically, galge, citing VideoGameCaringPotential as her reason. |
| 199 | ** In Season 1 Episode 2, during a Friday meeting, Yozora asks Kodaka and Sena to bring [=PSPs=] with the VideoGame/MonsterHunter-esque game to next Monday's meet. Come Monday, Sena claims she barely touched the game. Kodaka mentions he's still a Level 1, while Yozora boasts she's at Level 3, but somehow Sena is already at Level 6, the highest class/level in that game. Yozora immediately yanks her PSP, and discovers that Sena's gameplay time was at ''53 hours'', and that Sena had some bags under her eyes, meaning she spent the entire weekend playing the game extensively with little sleep. |
| 200 | ** She also actively plays {{Eroge}} which are typically aimed at men - ''NEXT'' Episode 2 has her play a game with a LittleSisterHeroine the game's protagonist has sex with. Said heroine looks exactly like Kobato to boot. |
| 201 | * GoGetterGirl: Sena always tries her best at everything, and is willing to go to great lengths to do something perfectly. |
| 202 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: As in female friends. This is the reason she's [[GamerChick hooked to galge]], even if the girls there are virtual. |
| 203 | * IfItsYouItsOkay: She loves cute girls from dating sims, [[ComedicLolicon fawns over Kobato]] and seems to have a thing for Yozora. Despite being popular among the opposite sex, she's indifferent to men with the sole exception of Kodaka. |
| 204 | * ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Whenever she's around Kobato, Sena would like to adopt the cute girl as her little sister. At one point, she takes a half-asleep Kobato to take a bath with her. Understandably, Kobato thinks Sena is a major creep for this. |
| 205 | * InformedAbility: Despite doing a lot better than many supposed Aces in anime, at times it's quite easy to forget that Sena is supposed to be an academic genius and a star athlete, what with her constantly making a fool of herself by acting completely clueless, repeatedly falling for Yozora's incredibly obvious tricks and clumsily fumbling around like a cow for the sake of some focus on her chest. |
| 206 | * InSeriesNickname: "Meat", given to her by Yozora on account of her large breasts. |
| 207 | * InstantExpert: Despite her quirks, she's rather smart and can pick up on things fairly quickly. In Season 1 Episode 3, Kodaka was amazed at how she managed to become a proficient swimmer after only an afternoon's worth of lessons, and in ''Next'' Episode 1, she defeated him rather easily several times in a fighting game despite being a complete novice compared to Kodaka, who's played the game with Kobato many times. |
| 208 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Her ego is as big as her rack. |
| 209 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Sena has quite the ego about [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her connections]] and can be quite arrogant, but she is still a good person and joined the club because she wanted actual friends. |
| 210 | * [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Father, Like Daughter]]: {{Subverted|Trope}}. [[spoiler:While her eventual marriage to Kodaka was arranged by the two's fathers, she [[actually [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage truly loves Kodaka]] for [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan who he is]].]] |
| 211 | * LonelyRichKid: Her father is rich enough to get her anything she wants, except friends. |
| 212 | * LovableAlphaBitch: She would've been a straight-A AlphaBitch, except for the fact that she's pretty dorky, socially clueless, not all that bad, and often at "[[CharacterCatchphrase stupid Yozora]]'s" mercy. |
| 213 | * LoveConfession: [[spoiler:Right after sending Aoi away, Sena openly confesses to Kodaka in front of everyone. He tries to pass it off and ignore it, and she does it again. Lacking any way to maintain the status quo, Kodaka [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere runs away]].]] |
| 214 | * MsFanservice: She has the biggest bust in the cast and has been shown naked in front of Kodaka several times. |
| 215 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Whenever Kobato is nearby, Sena is getting uncomfortably close to her and trying to pamper her. She even took a sleeping Kobato to take a bath with her, causing the little girl to run away crying. |
| 216 | * ObliviousToHatred: Sena is under the delusion that she and Kobato love each other like sisters. The reality is Kobato thinks of Sena as a creep she wants to stay the hell away from because Sena behaves like a ComedicLolicon around Kobato. |
| 217 | * {{Ojou}}: Complete with a family of well-known background and a BigFancyHouse. |
| 218 | * OtakuSurrogate: She enjoys dating sims, but specifically gal games (that is, dating sims with female love interests that are aimed at a straight male demographic). She claims it's because this is the only way she can become friends with other girls, since in real life other girls don't think very highly of her due to her arrogant attitude. |
| 219 | * ParodySue: She's beautiful and is good at almost everything except making friends and is very gullible. |
| 220 | * PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler:Despite it being {{arranged|Marriage}} by her and Kodaka's fathers, she actually does have a crush on Kodaka.]] |
| 221 | * ProneToTears: PlayedForLaughs as a RunningGag. She tends to childishly storm out of the clubroom in tears. It happens every time her confident aura gets [[BreakTheHaughty shattered spectacularly]] (usually courtesy of [[TheBully Yozora]]). |
| 222 | * RedOniBlueOni: The red to Yozora and Kodaka's blue. |
| 223 | * RejectionAffection: Kobato's rejections to let Sena pamper her only make Sena adore her all the more. |
| 224 | * ReluctantFanserviceGirl: She's utterly embarrassed in the scenes where she exposes her naked body while not realizing Kodaka can see her until it's too late. Kodaka tries to pretend he saw nothing to spare her feelings, but it doesn't help much. |
| 225 | * RichBitch: She grew up spoiled and arrogant. Then Yozora came into her life and put her into her place. |
| 226 | * RunningGag: Her [[SuperGullible gullibility]] is frequently exploited for comedic scenes. |
| 227 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Being the headmaster's daughter really helps. [[spoiler:When Aoi points out the fact that Maria is not an official teacher/nun in order to delegitimize the club, she manages to turn the tables with just a brief phone call to her dad, who decides to make Maria a special part-time lecturer. When Aoi tries to call her out on this, Sena forces the latter to back down by threatening to use again her connections to have her kicked out.]] |
| 228 | * SeriousBusiness: Her games. How serious? A character in one of her games wanted to go swimming... which was her sole reason for asking Kodaka to teach her. ''She didn't want to embarrass herself in front of said character by not being able to swim''. |
| 229 | * SignatureHeadgear: She almost always wears her iconic blue butterfly hair clip. |
| 230 | * SitcomArchNemesis: With Yozora, though her hostility is usually just in retaliation to Yozora's. |
| 231 | * SoBeautifulItsACurse: Sena is good-looking, well-stacked and seemingly popular with the boys. However, her beauty and popularity kept her from forming true friendships because guys act like her toady followers and girls shun her out of jealousy. |
| 232 | * SpannerInTheWorks: She is this to [[ManipulativeBitch Yozora]], and Yozora hates her for that. |
| 233 | * StalkerShrine: The ceiling of her bedroom is covered with Yozora pics. Kodaka is worried that Sena is behaving like a stalker creep. |
| 234 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Played with. [[spoiler:While she looks very similar to her half sister Stella, it's apparently pure coincidence, as their blonde hair and blue eyes are inherited from different mothers rather than their shared father. It's not even that Pegasus HasAType, as his marriage to Sena's mother is [[ArrangedMarriage an arranged one]].]] |
| 235 | * SuperDrowningSkills: Claims to lack basic swimming knowledge, blaming her primary school's lack of such an education for it. She asks Kodaka, who's a decent swimmer, for help. Later subverted as, to Kodaka's surprise, she's a quick learner. |
| 236 | * SuperGullible: She's easily duped by Yozora many times because she doesn't have the common sense to see through even the most ridiculous lies. |
| 237 | * {{Tsundere}}: Harsh Type, which doesn't help her reputation among girls. She's nicer to the club members though so long as she doesn't get carried away. Which happens a lot. In the eighth novel she gives a classic 'I didn't do it for you' line, but it's noted that she really means it. Helping [[spoiler:Maria become a special lecturer]] was just a byproduct. |
| 238 | * VitriolicBestBuds: She has a bitter rivalry with Yozora that gradually develops into a friendship where they constantly mess with each other. [[spoiler:At the end of the novels, they finally come out in the open and admit that they actually like each other.]] |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Yukimura Kusunoki]] |
| 242 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kusunoki_yukimura.png]] |
| 243 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NozomiYamamoto (Japanese) and Ashleigh Domangue (English) |
| 244 | |
| 245 | A freshman who idolizes Kodaka, deeming Kodaka to be a "man among men", and joined the Neighbors Club due to his presence there, hoping to learn how to become more manly from Kodaka. |
| 246 | ---- |
| 247 | * AffectionateNickname: "Yukki" from Aoi after the two become friends. |
| 248 | * AmbiguousGenderIdentity: There's a lot of questions regarding Yukimura's gender identity. Yukimura introduces themself as a boy. They didn't even know they were assigned female at birth until ''after'' the club members found out. While Yukimura was a bit aware that their anatomy was off, they believed they would grow a penis after "maturing". While shocked at the reveal, Yukimura proclaims being a true man transcends the concept of biological sex and still wishes to become manlier. |
| 249 | * AttractiveBentGender: No matter if it's in boy's clothes or girl's clothes, Yukimura always looks adorable. |
| 250 | * BadBadActing: Apparently has a problem changing the usual deadpan tone when acting in a movie made by the Neighbors Club. |
| 251 | * BerserkButton: If you say Yukimura's desire to be a true man is weird, Yukimura is going to flip out on you. |
| 252 | * {{Bifauxnen}}: After the GenderReveal, Yozora puts Yukimura in a butler outfit so they won't be attractive to Kodaka. It doesn't work because Yukimura looks as good as they did in their maid uniform. |
| 253 | * BoyishShortHair: Yukimura grew up thinking they were male and is obsessed with their ideal of manliness. Fitting their wish to be manly, Yukimura keeps their hair short. |
| 254 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: |
| 255 | ** All the guys feel too uncomfortable to change in the same room as Yukimura. Yukimura thinks they must hate a girly boy for not being manly enough. [[StupidSexyFlanders Kodaka guesses there's a different reason behind it.]] |
| 256 | ** Taken to an extreme where it isn't that funny with the reveal Yukimura is assigned female at birth. They blamed their lack of a penis on being a "late bloomer". There ''were'' guys who tried to tell Yukimura about it before, but Yukimura brushed it off as bullying. |
| 257 | * CovertPervert: Overwhelmed with joy that [[spoiler:Kodaka is returning to the club]], Yukimura declares that they wish they were a big, strong man so they could overpower Kodaka and plunge their 'raging passion into his Yaoi Hole'. Yup, Rika was the one to give TheTalk to Yukimura. |
| 258 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: Yukimura is introduced as a girly-looking boy who gets treated like a girl by everyone, which causes Yukimura to feel ostracized. Then it gets {{subverted|trope}} with the reveal that Yukimura ''is'' assigned female at birth and didn't know it. |
| 259 | * {{Expy}}: Shares a [[UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura historical namesake]] and formal pattern of speaking with Hideyoshi Kinoshita from ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'', another character with gender issues. |
| 260 | * FlowersOfFemininity: Yukimura always wears a pink flower hair clip. This is initially meant to be ironic because Yukimura was thought to be a girly-looking boy... until it's revealed Yukimura was always assigned female and didn't know it due to inaccurate knowledge about anatomy. In any case, the flower accentuates Yukimura's beauty and gentleness. |
| 261 | * FriendToAllChildren: Makes meals for Maria and is shown playing with Kobato in the BeachEpisode. |
| 262 | * GayOption: PlayedWith. At first, it seems Yukimura is a cute effeminate boy who is part of Kodaka's harem. Then it turns out Yukimura was assigned female and didn't know it themself until much later in the series. Yukimura is still adamant about wishing to be seen as a man and stays in love with Kodaka despite of this. |
| 263 | * GenderBlenderName: Yukimura is historically a boys' name, which works well in disguise but doesn't make sense outside of it. |
| 264 | * GirlyRun: Especially noticeable when stalking Kodaka in the fourth episode. |
| 265 | * HeroWorshipper: To Kodaka, for all the wrong reasons. They think Kodaka is a paragon of manliness and decides to treat him like a boss. |
| 266 | * IWantToBeARealMan: Yukimura is obsessed with becoming manly and strong like a samurai. Their efforts fail because of their weird concept of masculinity and the reveal Yukimura wasn't born a boy to begin with. |
| 267 | * ImNotHereToMakeFriends: Only cares about serving at Kodaka's side; joining the Neighbors Club is an excuse to do that. |
| 268 | * InnocentFanserviceGirl: Yukimura is supposed to be a boy and therefore doesn't see any problem with changing and bathing with other guys, not getting how awkward it is for them to do so with someone who looks so much like a girl. Then it turns out Yukimura ''is'' assigned female and just didn't know it. No wonder the guys were so shocked when Yukimura stripped in front of them. |
| 269 | * LovingAShadow: Yukimura idolizes Kodaka as the incarnation of the perfect virile samurai. Not only does Kodaka's true personality have nothing to do with Yukimura's idea of him, he hates his reputation as a violent delinquent. Eventually, Yukimura admits they have long realized their "Aniki" isn't the manly thug they initially thought him to be, but they still adore him. |
| 270 | * {{Meido}}: Yozora tricks Yukimura into working for the club as a maid. Yozora later changes the maid uniform for a butler outfit after Yukimura is revealed to be assigned female at birth. |
| 271 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Named after the samurai of the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod, UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura, in hopes Yukimura would grow up to be a great Japanese man like him. The parents must have been in serious denial about Yukimura being born a girl. |
| 272 | * NiceGuy: The nicest member of the Neighbors Club. Yukimura always treats Kodaka with utmost respect, and never insults nor hits him. |
| 273 | * NoSell: When visiting an amusement park, everyone gets on the roller-coaster at the same time. Everyone else is utterly terrified, Rika lapses into an epic rant... and Yukimura just calmly recites a passage from [[{{UsefulNotes/Buddhism}} The Heart Sutra]]. |
| 274 | * NoSocialSkills: Yukimura grew up almost without any social interaction, which factors into their inability to adapt to society. |
| 275 | * OddFriendship: Yukimura ends up getting along unexpectedly well with Aoi. |
| 276 | * TheQuietOne: Yukimura doesn't speak a lot, and even the little they speak is [[DeadpanSnarker some kind of snark.]] |
| 277 | * RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: Apparently. The only explanation Yukimura gives for believing to be a boy is that it is due to "family circumstances". Sena points out they should be given a better answer than that. |
| 278 | * RecursiveCrossdressing: Yozora makes Yukimura dress as a {{Meido}} and put on a girl's swimsuit as part of a "training" to become manlier, but she was simply toying with the girly boy. She stops finding it funny when she finds out Yukimura is assigned female at birth. |
| 279 | * StalkerWithACrush: First introduced following Kodaka around and watching him from the shadows. Yukimura only stopped when they were offered to join the Neighbors Club so they could spend time with Kodaka as much as possible. |
| 280 | * TheStoic: Rarely gets fazed by anything, and speaks in a low-key, almost deadpan tone. |
| 281 | * StupidSexyFlanders: So cute and girly that all the guys avoid Yukimura in the changing room. Kodaka was also supremely confused when changing and later bathing in the same room as Yukimura. Particularly after he saw Yukimura ''isn't'' a boy in the bathroom. |
| 282 | * SubordinateExcuse: Yukimura calls themself Kodaka's underling and is very eager to serve him. When Kodaka asks why they keep doing it even after realizing Kodaka isn't the virile thug Yukimura thought him to be, Yukimura openly admits they are by his side because they ''want'' to. |
| 283 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: While very calm, serious and inexpressive, Yukimura is very nice and eagerly devoted to Kodaka. |
| 284 | * SuperGullible: Yukimura takes all of Yozora's "advice" at face value, including wearing girl's clothes in order to somehow "prove their manliness". |
| 285 | * SupremeChef: Although nowhere near as good as Kodaka. |
| 286 | * UndyingLoyalty: Claims to have one towards Kodaka. The latter plays along, knowing how emotionally fragile Yukimura is. |
| 287 | * UnsettlingGenderReveal: Kodaka got to see Yukimura lacks an important male organ when they bath together. Rika further confirms it by giving a lewd CrotchGrabSexCheck. |
| 288 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: Yukimura wears the boys' school uniform, but in their case, they weren't aware they were assigned female at birth until halfway through the series. They only wear men's clothing from then on, intending to try and become a "true man" even if their body is female. |
| 289 | * YamatoNadeshiko: Leaving aside their obsession with manliness and samurai, Yukimura is this, ironically. They are excessively polite, demure, serviceable and extremely devoted to the man they love. When Yukimura's assigned sex comes to light, Yozora lampshades Yukimura has all the traits of an ideal Japanese lady, [[ClingyJealousGirl which isn't good for her]]. |
| 290 | [[/folder]] |
| 291 | |
| 292 | [[folder:Rika Shiguma]] |
| 293 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shiguma_rika.png]] |
| 294 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MisatoFukuen (Japanese) and Creator/AlexisTipton (English) |
| 295 | |
| 296 | A freshman and scientific genius whose presence at St. Chronica was designed to increase its prestige. Otherwise she's a loner whose classroom is a laboratory the school made for her. After Kodaka saves her from a mishap involving sleeping gas, she joins the Neighbors Club to get close to him... while revealing an extremely perverted side with an unhealthy passion for mecha-on-mecha H-doujins. |
| 297 | ---- |
| 298 | * ACupAngst: For all her forwardness, she's actually quite insecure about her body. When Sena upsets her about the difference in their bust sizes, she angrily swears to invent a gene tonic that can expand women's breasts to make her obsolete. |
| 299 | * AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Despite her scientific knowledge, when it comes to boys what she 'knows' mostly comes out of BoysLove games and manga. As such she doesn't realize that boys don't actually have a separate 'Yaoi Hole' for intercourse, unlike what she's read about. |
| 300 | * ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Rika thinks she owes Kodaka at least ''that'' for rescuing her. Kodaka [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased passes]]. |
| 301 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: After her conflict with Kodaka over [[spoiler:his SelectiveObliviousness toward the other girls' attraction to him]] dies down, Kodaka asks if they can properly become friends, to which she sarcastically responds with his usual "Eh? What was that?" before pointing out that they’re already friends. Kodaka realizes how annoying it is when someone else says it. |
| 302 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Sena mentions her father built the science lab at school solely to have Rika attend there so she could do more research. She's also mentioned helping various companies out as well, hence why she has access to prototype products they're developing, as well as having them acquire manga and games for her from Comiket so she doesn't have to go herself. |
| 303 | * CargoShip: InUniverse, she's a fan of mecha-on-mecha pairings. |
| 304 | * CharacterFilibuster: Revels in these a lot, combined with TheImmodestOrgasm. |
| 305 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Her perverted mind is introduced early on when she portrays a HumongousMecha battle in a comic as hentai. Her screaming erotic fantasies while riding the Black Dragon rollercoaster was so bizarre that Kodaka fears that she "broke". |
| 306 | * CrotchGrabSexCheck: She confirms Yukimura is assigned female at birth by inserting her hand under Yukimura's skirt and ''fingering'' them. |
| 307 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 308 | ** She’s just as appalled as everyone else when Sena actually falls for Yozora’s provocations to read her Eroge’s dialogue out loud in ''NEXT'' Episode 2 |
| 309 | ** During the King's Game in ''NEXT'' Episode 3, she writes a command requiring the recipient to narrate someone's climax, yet is appalled when she observes the command for the recipient to expose their chest in a game where all but one participant is female. |
| 310 | * ExtremeOmnisexual: Used to adhere to a non-sexual version, in that she finds mecha and arthropods attractive. Then she [[LovableSexManiac tries to go for more sexual advances]] towards Kodaka. |
| 311 | * ForScience: Though we don't actually see her doing much of it, what we do see doesn't seem to have much purpose other than "just because". |
| 312 | * GadgeteerGenius: Sena mentions she's invented a lot of things, and we get to see one such product in Season 1 Episode 5. |
| 313 | * GeekPhysiques: [[spoiler:While berating Kodaka for running away from the Club's romantic issues, she pummels him with several remote-controlled marbles, explaining that her punches wouldn't be strong enough to properly reprimand him.]] |
| 314 | * GenkiGirl: Of all the seven members of the Neighbors Club, she is perhaps the biggest ball of cheerful energy of the lot. |
| 315 | * GirlNextDoor: Kodaka keeps getting this feeling from her... when she's not talking about her perversions. |
| 316 | * TheGlassesComeOff: Before ''NEXT'' and up to halfway through Volume 4, Rika wears her glasses. During this time, she's largely comic relief. She takes them off just as she begins to seriously try to get Kodaka's attention and to understand his behavior, gradually becoming a much more serious character. |
| 317 | * TheImmodestOrgasm: She gets easily "excited" in public and she's ''not'' shy about showing it. |
| 318 | * ItsWhatIDo: Don't even bother to lampshade her perversions. She knows it and for her, it's nothing to be ashamed of. |
| 319 | * LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: She's almost never seen without her labcoat, completing her MadScientist character. |
| 320 | * LargeHam: Almost no scene featuring her passes by without her going over-the-top, be it with her experiments or her perversions. |
| 321 | * LovableSexManiac: Probably the most perverted Creator/MisatoFukuen role since [[Manga/RosarioPlusVampire Kurumu Kurono]]. |
| 322 | * MadScientist: Of the feminine, cute kind. She even wears a labcoat over her school uniform, and even a swimsuit. |
| 323 | -->'''Kodaka:''' [[LampshadeHanging You will just wear a lab coat over it, like you always do.]] |
| 324 | * MeaningfulName: Just as she states in her introduction, "Rika" literally means "science". |
| 325 | * {{Nerdgasm}}: CombiningMecha turn her on. Especially if the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything combination sequence looks like sex]]. |
| 326 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Delivers one to [[spoiler:Kodaka, demanding he face the girls rather than run from their feelings]]. |
| 327 | * ObfuscatingInsanity: While genuinely quirky, she plays up the attitude a great deal and seems to be more friendly, well adjusted and perceptive than the rest of the club. [[spoiler:And it's not Sena or Yozora that catch on to Kodaka's distant attitude, it's ''Rika''.]] |
| 328 | * OtakuSurrogate: She's a proud otaku, and is a reliable source for many of the series' [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]]. |
| 329 | * PurelyAestheticGlasses: She claims her glasses are just meant to emphasize her role as scientist, and that her eyesight is actually pretty normal. |
| 330 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: |
| 331 | ** She gives one to Kodaka when she confronts him about [[spoiler:running away from the club after Sena confessed to him and]] his SelectiveObliviousness in general. |
| 332 | --> "You tried to pretend to be a thick-headed bystander! And when that failed, you ran away! What's the point of protecting something you hold dear if you're not going to be there?! If it's so cheap that some crappy selflessness can keep it going, I don't want it, you idiot!" |
| 333 | ** Later gives one to [[spoiler:Yozora (over voicemail) for also running away from her problems when she realizes that her ChildhoodFriendRomance with Kodaka just isn't happening, berating her for just hoping all her issues will just resolve themselves without any effort on her part. Yozora admits that she couldn't argue with any of it.]] |
| 334 | --> [[spoiler:Cut this shit out! Are you an idiot or something?! Do you think if you keep running away time after time, that happiness will just somehow fall into your lap?! Only being jealous about other people and resenting reality, but never doing anything about it yourself! Hell if Rika cares anymore! If you're going to just be like a dog with its tail between its legs and choose to go on a journey on your own, why don't you just choose to die on the side of the road like an idiot as well, you idiot?!!]] |
| 335 | * RescueRomance: One-sided on her part, anyways -- she "falls" for Kodaka after he saves her from a lab experiment gone awry. |
| 336 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Has no issues with trying to seduce Kodaka. |
| 337 | * SheCleansUpNicely: When she lets her hair down and removes her glasses, she's quite the ''stunner''. |
| 338 | * SirSwearsALot: She's not an angry or spiteful girl by any stretch, but her ''absolute'' frankness in usage of sexual vocabulary (e.g., "Rape me", "Care for a fuck", "I'm so horny", etc.) in '''public''' would make any conversation with her a very harrowing experience. |
| 339 | ** During the rollercoaster ride in Volume 5/Episode 4 of ''NEXT'' her mouth [[ClusterFBomb goes berserk on her]] and she pretends to have no memory of the event afterwards. To Quote: |
| 340 | --->"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuckkkkkkkkk! God damn gravity you piece of shit...! You don't care who it is as long as you can pull down on them, do you, you little bitch!! Gravity, you piggy bitch slut! Holy fucking shit what a god damn whore you are...! Hah, you're Earth's greedy little slut, you damn bitch in heat! Fuck you universal gravitation, you're just Newtonian Mechanics' dirty little whore! You're just the crusty semen left over in that slutty apple's pussy after that son of a bitch Isaac fucked its rotten juices! Special theory of relativity, you impotent phimosis piece of shit! Einstein, you old limp dick fuck! What, got something to say!? Then move that tiny little twig of yours faster! Cum faster than the speed of light! A pig that can't fly through space-time is just a piece of shit that reeks of semen and can't even last 5 seconds in his wet dreams! Fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking UNIVERRRRRRRRRSSSEE!!" |
| 341 | --> '''Kodaka''': Rika's broken! |
| 342 | * SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Invoked. Kodaka runs into her in the clubroom without the glasses and she tells him her vision is perfect. [[PurelyAestheticGlasses She only wears the glasses to fit the image]]. |
| 343 | * TheTease: Speaks almost entirely in {{Double Entendre}}s and has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace. |
| 344 | * TeenGenius: An OmnidisciplinaryScientist who programs games and makes drugs, among others. The only reason she's even in St. Chronica is because Tenma, Sena's father and school headmaster, personally had her enrolled in order to boost St. Chronica's reputation. |
| 345 | * ThirdPersonPerson: She always refers to herself as "Rika". |
| 346 | * TooKinkyToTorture: There's a good reason [[TheBully Yozora]] stopped trolling her -- any attempt to do so [[InsultBackfire backfires spectacularly on her]] with an additional erotic context that leaves her exhausted. She decided that simply following along anything Rika says and/or does would be less of a stretch. |
| 347 | * TranquilFury: Indeed. When Sena first attempts to spoil Yozora's first play of a ReverseHarem game, Rika is nothing short of ''frightening.'' [[spoiler: In the last episode of Haganai NEXT, during her NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of Kodaka, she calmly states her problems with him while pummeling him with telekinetic spheres.]] |
| 348 | * UnlimitedWardrobe: A variation. In season 2 (volume 4 onward, in the light novels), she begins to regularly change her hairstyle and accessories. |
| 349 | * UnusualEuphemism: Master of it. |
| 350 | -->Episode 4: "'''[[Anime/TurnAGundam Universe!!!]]'''" (while [[TheImmodestOrgasm climaxing]] as she reads aloud a Gundam x Evangelion H-doujin)\ |
| 351 | Episode 8: "'''Pride!'''" (while imagining herself in BarelyThereSwimwear)\ |
| 352 | Episode 10: "'''Excalibur!!!'''" (after imagining Kodaka and Yukimura as a couple) |
| 353 | * WhatTheHellHero: At the end of Volume 8/season 2 of the anime, [[spoiler:Rika straight-up attacks Kodaka with floating metal balls after he runs away from Sena's LoveConfession. While Rika understands Sena caught him off guard, that doesn't excuse him avoiding the entire club for a week and going to work with the Student Council like nothing ever happened. Rika also calls him out on how he keeps "raising flags" with the girls of the club like a generic harem protagonist and then plays dumb to avoid having to answer their feelings.]] |
| 354 | * YaoiFangirl: She's a huge fan of yaoi, but she seems to lack a basic understanding of actual male anatomy such as informing Yukimura of the existence of a 'yaoi hole' separate from the anus. |
| 355 | [[/folder]] |
| 356 | |
| 357 | [[folder:Kobato Hasegawa]] |
| 358 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hasegawa_kobato.png]] |
| 359 | %%[[quoteright:236:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hasegawa_kobato.jpg]] |
| 360 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese) and Creator/AlisonViktorin (English) |
| 361 | |
| 362 | Kodaka's thirteen-year-old little sister and a second-year junior high transferee to St. Chronica, who claims to be a centuries-old vampire named "Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi". She becomes the sixth member of the Neighbors Club (with Yozora's approval) despite her juniority. |
| 363 | ---- |
| 364 | * ACupAngst: She gets upset when she realizes her elementary school clothes still fit her -- a fact made worse by having a chest even smaller (for a thirteen-year-old, even) than Maria's. And no, Maria is no bustier than an average ten-year-old. Then she gets even more upset after seeing Kate's body. |
| 365 | * AccentSlipUp: Her Reisys accent goes out the window and her normal Kyushu tongue comes out when she gets flustered. |
| 366 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Kodaka thinks Kobato's {{Chuunibyou}} antics are silly, but he rolls with it and shows a lot of concern for her. |
| 367 | * AntiquatedLinguistics: As part of her Reisys cosplay, she regularly uses archaic haughty speech patterns (such as the pronoun "ware" and addressing Kodaka as "her kindred"), but slips out of it in her more vulnerable moments. |
| 368 | * BeneathTheMask: Her "haughty vampire" persona is an act she likes putting up in front of the people she trusts. When interacting with anyone outside the main cast, Kobato is very shy. |
| 369 | * BigBrotherWorship: Her big brother Kodaka is her favorite person in the world, which leads to her rivalry with Maria, who also adores him as a big brother. |
| 370 | * ButNotTooForeign: Like Kodaka, she is of mixed British-Japanese lineage. |
| 371 | * CatchphraseInsult: "Aho!" ("Stupid!") |
| 372 | * {{Chuunibyou}}: Kobato likes to pretend she's the protagonist of her favorite anime "Kurogane no Necromancer"; an [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld over-a-thousand-year-old]] vampire named Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi. She's rarely seen in anything other than her VampireLolitaArchetype cosplay, wears a red eye contact to make herself look cool, claims to drink blood that's really tomato juice and speaks in a dignified archaic Japanese dialect. Driving it further home is how "chuunibyou" literally means "second-year middle school syndrome", and Kobato herself ''is'' in her second year of middle school. |
| 373 | * ClingyJealousGirl: She doesn't like it whenever Kodaka's attention gets diverted from her, let alone courtesy of Maria. |
| 374 | * CosplayOtakuGirl: It's a pretty rare sight for Kobato to appear without her goth-loli cosplay. |
| 375 | * CuteLittleFangs: She shows a pair of fangs to emphasize her childish nature. They're also part of her cute vampire cosplay. |
| 376 | * DoNotCallMePaul: She'd rather be "Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi" than be called by her real name, including by her brother. |
| 377 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: Unlike her brother, her blonde hair makes her look more like a foreigner rather than [[MistakenForDyed someone that did a halfassed job of dyeing their hair]], so people think she's adorable rather than scary, ''especially'' thanks to her VampireLolitaArchetype cosplay making her resemble a life-sized doll. |
| 378 | * EvilLaugh: {{Invoked|Trope}} with her "ku ku ku". |
| 379 | * ExpositoryPronoun: When in her vampire persona, Kobato uses the archaic "ware" when referring to herself. However, when she reverts back to her normal personality, she uses "uchi" (a feminine first-person pronoun in the Kansai dialect) to refer to herself. |
| 380 | * {{Expy}}: She looks like ''Literature/{{Oreimo}}'''s Kuroneko with [[{{Dissimile}} blonde hair, heterochromia, twintails, less snark, and more cuteness]] -- complete with the [[Creator/KanaHanazawa same voice actress]]. Like Kobato, Kuroneko likes cosplaying after the main character of her favorite anime series (in the same VampireLolitaArchetype fashion), and shares the same cryptic speech pattern when talking to her friends. |
| 381 | * FamilyThemeNaming: Doubling as AnimalThemeNaming. Her brother Kodaka's name is translated as "Small Hawk", while Kobato's name means "Small Dove". |
| 382 | * FartsOnFire: One of her old hobbies [[AdaptationDistillation left out in the anime]] was setting her farts on fire with a lighter. |
| 383 | * GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She carries around a patchwork stuffed rabbit. |
| 384 | * GirlishPigtails: She ties her hair up into twintails, attributing to her cute looks. They also make her look a bit younger than she actually is. |
| 385 | * AGlassOfChianti: Invoked. She plays up her vampire act by pretending to drink "a virgin's blood" in a glass of wine. Then Kodaka reminds her it's just tomato juice. |
| 386 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Like her brother, she inherited their mother's blonde hair. Adding to it, she's sweet and pure-hearted. |
| 387 | * HateAtFirstSight: Sena instantly gets on her bad side by being all over Kobato, who obviously prefers a level of distance. |
| 388 | * HatesBeingTouched: She doesn't really like getting touchy-feely with anyone but her brother. One of the reasons why she dislikes Sena so much is because the latter is always trying to hug her and get in the bath with her. |
| 389 | * InnocentFanserviceGirl: Because of her young age, she doesn't mind being naked around her older brother, who likewise doesn't mind. She runs into him nude twice -- in Season 1 Episode 3, upon realizing her bathwater has gone cold; and again in Episode 9, while being chased by an equally naked Sena apparently trying to go frisky on her in the bath. Also, she makes Kodaka watch her "transform" (as in undressing and changing into another outfit) in Episode 8. |
| 390 | * LimitedWardrobe: Subverted starting Episode 8 -- due to their house's air conditioner breaking down and with a replacement three days away, she, with Kodaka's prodding and inspiration from the same anime from which she took her current style, starts dressing up in normal, less stuffy outfits. Even when she returns to her usual style, her subsequent wardrobes are at least reasonably comfortable for any kind of weather. |
| 391 | * MisplacedAccent: When in-character she speaks with an accent that is so alien from her native Kyushu tongue that she has trouble with a lot of words, though this could be attributed to her age as well. |
| 392 | * MythicalMotifs: She has a vampire motif because her hobby is cosplaying as a [[VampireLolitaArchetype vampire loli]]. |
| 393 | * OlderThanSheLooks: She looks like three years too young for her thirteen years of age. |
| 394 | * OminousPipeOrgan: Whenever she decides to ham it up using her vampire persona. |
| 395 | * ShrinkingViolet: She's not good with strangers when not using her vampire persona. The only people she feels comfortable to be around are her brother and later, Maria. |
| 396 | * SignatureLaugh: She likes to go "kukuku", based on the Reisys character in her favorite anime show. |
| 397 | * SitcomArchNemesis: She frequently gets into quarrels with Maria, though to a lesser extent than that between Yozora and Sena. |
| 398 | * SituationalSociability: Kobato doesn't have any friends at school even though she's popular among her classmates because she's too shy to even make a conversation with anyone. Around her brother and some members of the Neighbors Club, she's way more talkative, can act like her arrogant vampire persona, and forms a VitriolicBestBuds dynamic with Maria. |
| 399 | * SoBeautifulItsACurse: Her massive cuteness attracts a lot of unwanted attention from her classmates and [[AbhorrentAdmirer Sena]], which makes Kobato uncomfortable and she would like her admirers to just leave her alone. |
| 400 | * TokenMiniMoe: She shares the "cute loli" spot with Maria, on account of her short stature. |
| 401 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: She likes to drink tomato juice while pretending it's blood. |
| 402 | * VampireLolitaArchetype: An AffectionateParody of the archetype, since she deliberately [[InvokedTrope invokes]] it as part of her {{Chuunibyou}} behavior. She's a 13-year-old normal human blonde girl who is a very big fan of an [[ShowWithinAShow anime]] that stars a legitimate example of the archetype. Kobato loves the character so much that she always wears gothic lolita cosplay and pretends to be a very powerful true ancestor vampire who has lived for 10,000 years. |
| 403 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Maria, eventually. Their relationship starts with them fighting over Kodaka's attention and brotherly affection. Later on, it's obvious they have become friends, even though they only express their closeness through insults and childish fights. |
| 404 | [[/folder]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[folder:Maria Takayama]] |
| 407 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takayama_maria.png]] |
| 408 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaIguchi (Japanese) and Creator/KristiKang (English) |
| 409 | |
| 410 | A ten-year-old resident nun at St. Chronica whom Yozora tricked into lending her favorite naptime quarters to the Neighbors Club and, through coercion, becoming its moderator. |
| 411 | ---- |
| 412 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair is described as silver in the novels, but looks a light shade of lavender in the anime, despite Kate's hair actually remaining silver. |
| 413 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: She pisses off her older sister [[NunTooHoly Kate]] by calling her a "poopy old hag" and being her regular bratty self. |
| 414 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: She's the youngest member of the Neighbors Club. While she's nominally the supervising teacher, her real role is being the bratty kid of the group and acts as a second younger sister to Kodaka. |
| 415 | * BigBrotherWorship: Maria loves Kodaka-[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology onii-chan]] and his lunchboxes. Ironically, she doesn't worship her actual older sister Kate in the same way, instead being an AnnoyingYoungerSibling towards her. |
| 416 | * BigEater: She often talks about or is seen eating lots of food. |
| 417 | * BrattyHalfPint: Shows this side in Season 1 Episode 12, during a flashback when she refuses Yozora's polite requests to lend her favorite naptime room for the Club's use, peppering her with insults in between. Yozora, normally a FriendToAllChildren, had to endure more of her insults before she finally snaps and [[BreakTheHaughty slaps some humility into her]]. |
| 418 | * BreakTheHaughty: At the hands of Yozora. |
| 419 | * ButtMonkey: Almost no episode ends without her getting on the short end of Yozora's cruel pranks or another squabble with Kobato. |
| 420 | * CheerfulChild: Especially when Kodaka is around. Her sister Kate mentions that she was the opposite before meeting him. |
| 421 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: |
| 422 | ** Has absolutely no idea how sex works until [[LovableSexManiac Rika]] tells her. |
| 423 | ** She also goes into the bath with Kodaka and Yukimura while they are visiting the theme park. [[spoiler: She sees Kodaka's male package hanging down there, and then inadvertently reveals Yukimura's [[UnsettlingGenderReveal true gender]] when she wonders why the latter doesn't have the same thing Kodaka does.]] |
| 424 | ** In ''NEXT'' Episode 3, she reads a couple of otherwise erotic lines innocently, not really understanding what she was saying. |
| 425 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Most members of the Club show shades of this, but she definitely lives and breathes this trope. |
| 426 | * CuteLittleFangs: Shows a pair of these to show her energetic, cheerful personality. |
| 427 | * DitzyGenius: Intelligent and well-educated enough to qualify as a teacher, but as gullible and clueless as many other kids her age. [[spoiler:It turns out that she never actually qualified as a teacher, however.]] |
| 428 | * DullEyesOfUnhappiness: When she gets ''really'' upset. |
| 429 | * {{Expy}}: She's essentially [[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex Index]] with lavender hair (the same silver color in the novels), a navy blue habit, less {{tsundere}} and more ditzy, down to the [[Creator/YukaIguchi same voice actress]]. |
| 430 | * GradeSkipper: Her sister Kate mentions Maria was so smart that she skipped some grades, which only fed into her InsufferableGenius attitude. |
| 431 | * ImprobableAge: She's a nun ''and'' a teacher at ''ten years old''. [[spoiler:Maria finds out in Volume 8 (''NEXT'' Episode 11) that she is ''not'' officially a nun or a teacher, and only Kate is, which does give a valid explanation about her age, but raises more questions about her sister.]] |
| 432 | * InnocentProdigy: Maria is so academically gifted that she skipped several grades and calls herself a teacher, but she's still rather naive and clueless even for a ten-year-old. |
| 433 | * InsufferableGenius: Before she joined the Neighbors Club, she was an arrogant brat who thought she was better than everyone because she was academically gifted enough to skip several grades. She gets a bit better thanks to being around people who can outsmart her like Yozora, but can still act like a brat often. |
| 434 | * NunsAreFunny: For a nun, she shows that she's still, deep down, just a child who's yet to mature. |
| 435 | * NunsAreMikos: She's a ten-year-old nun whose family's women don the habit as part of a long-standing tradition, which is much more analogous to {{Miko}} than real nuns. |
| 436 | * SenseiChan: Exaggerated, since she's only ten years old (with the immaturity to match) and yet somehow she's a teacher at a high school. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out she's not a qualified teacher at all. There was nobody to take care of Maria at home, resulting in Kate taking Maria to school with her and Maria just began calling herself a teacher. Then double subverted when, in a ploy to save the Neighbors Club from Aoi, Sena calls her father to have her officially declared as one.]] |
| 437 | * SignatureHeadgear: Her nun outfit has a cornette with a heart decoration on the left side. |
| 438 | * SitcomArchNemesis: She frequently gets into quarrels with Kobato, though to a lesser extent than between Yozora and Sena. |
| 439 | * StepfordSmiler: Shows shades of this occasionally, either during or before flipping to being a CheerfulChild. |
| 440 | * SuperGullible: Manipulating her is way too easy. |
| 441 | * ThroughHerStomach: One way to get on Maria's good side. |
| 442 | * ToiletHumour: She's rather fascinated with poo (and things that look like poo). |
| 443 | * TokenMiniMoe: She shares the "cute loli" spot with Kobato, on account of being an actual child. |
| 444 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Potato chips. |
| 445 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Kobato, eventually. Maria calls Kobato a "poopy vampire" and has a rivalry with her because Maria wants Kodaka to be her older brother too. As time goes on, it becomes clear both are having fun with their squabbles because neither of them has had a friend close in age before. |
| 446 | [[/folder]] |
| 447 | |
| 448 | !!St. Chronica's Academy |
| 449 | |
| 450 | [[folder:Kate Takayama]] |
| 451 | [[quoteright:185:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takayama_kate.png]] |
| 452 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EmiriKatou (Japanese) and Creator/BrinaPalencia (English) |
| 453 | |
| 454 | Maria's fifteen-year-old sister. While she's slightly younger than Kodaka, she maintains the manner of a HardDrinkingPartyGirl crossed with a DirtyOldMan. Contrary to her slightly gruff attitude towards her little sister, she seems to be a rather doting sister. |
| 455 | ---- |
| 456 | * AloofBigSister: She cares for Maria, but never shows it in public. |
| 457 | * BigSisterInstinct: Kodaka suspects she has a sister complex because of how overprotective she's of her little sister. When Maria is having a sleepover at Kodaka's house, Kate calls every hour to check what Maria ate and ask if she brushed her teeth. |
| 458 | * CuteLittleFangs: Like her younger sister. |
| 459 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Before being properly introduced in Episode 2 of the second season, she appears briefly in Episode 8 of the first season, even though her face is not shown. |
| 460 | * {{Gasshole}}: She has a habit of belching in public. She even farted in the very first chapter/episode she was introduced. |
| 461 | * GodivaHair: When being seen naked by Kodaka in his bathroom. |
| 462 | * ImprobableAge: She's a nun/teacher at '' fifteen years old'', the same age as freshmen students. |
| 463 | * InconsistentSpelling: In the official English translation of the manga, she is called "Keito" instead of Kate [[BlindIdiotTranslation for some reason]]. The anime correctly spells her name as "Kate". |
| 464 | * TheLadette: She has even worse manners than her little sister. She openly farts, belches and scratches her butt in public with little to no shame about it. She also enjoys telling dirty jokes and rides a motorbike (at least in the light novel and manga) . |
| 465 | * MaamShock: She gets pissed when Maria calls her "old hag", demanding to be called "OneeSama" instead. |
| 466 | * MaleGaze: In the third episode in Season 2, we're treated to a very brief shot of Kate wearing a tank top showing ample cleavage. Kodaka also accidentally walks in on her while she's showering, and the scene lingers on her for a few moments in episode 7. |
| 467 | * NunsAreFunny: Perhaps to an even greater extent than her little sister. |
| 468 | * NunsAreMikos: Just like her sister, being a nun is a long-standing tradition of the Takayamas, and her duties tend to be much more similar to a miko's than a nun. |
| 469 | * NunTooHoly: For a nun, her attitude is... less than holy. For one, she doesn't even have qualms farting in public. |
| 470 | * SignatureHeadgear: Kate's cornette has a heart decoration on the right side, as opposed to Maria whose heart decoration is on the left side of her own cornette. |
| 471 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: She looks like her little sister Maria, but older. |
| 472 | * YoungerThanSheLooks: She looks and acts a little bit older than her fifteen years of age. |
| 473 | [[/folder]] |
| 474 | |
| 475 | [[folder:Aoi Yusa]] |
| 476 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yusa_aoi.png]] |
| 477 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MariyaIse (Japanese) and Creator/FeleciaAngelle (English) |
| 478 | |
| 479 | Sena's classmate and Student Council Treasurer, who harbors an intense rivalry with Sena due to being perpetually just behind the latter in exams. She also sees Kodaka as a "cool guy", unlike many other students who are afraid of him. |
| 480 | ---- |
| 481 | * AffectionateNickname: Yukimura calls her "Yusa-Yusa" once they become friends. |
| 482 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Attracted to Kodaka's "delinquent" characteristics instead of being afraid of them. |
| 483 | * AlwaysSecondBest: To Sena in exam grades. |
| 484 | * CuteLittleFangs: Has these to emphasize her childish appearance. |
| 485 | * FieryRedhead: Extremely passionate about defeating Sena. |
| 486 | * GreenEyedMonster: Her motivation for trying to break up the Neighbors Club, since she believes Sena has everything, such as intelligence and good looks, and wanted to bring her down a notch. |
| 487 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: Tries to find any rule violations within the Neighbors Club to serve as an excuse to shut it down, just for the sake of upending Sena. |
| 488 | * OddFriendship: Surprisingly, she becomes good friends with Yukimura despite them having nothing in common. |
| 489 | * OhCrap: Her reaction when she realized [[spoiler:Sena exploited her status as daughter of the school chairman to legitimize Maria as teacher and threaten her with expulsion unless she backs down]]. |
| 490 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Looks much younger than her classmate Sena. |
| 491 | * UnknownRival: Sena does not even remember her as a classmate. |
| 492 | [[/folder]] |
| 493 | |
| 494 | [[folder:Hinata Hidaka]] |
| 495 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hidaka_hinata.png]] |
| 496 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YokoHikasa (Japanese) and Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (English) |
| 497 | |
| 498 | The student council President of St. Chronica Academy, who's incredibly athletic and popular among the students. |
| 499 | ---- |
| 500 | * TheAce: She's the StudentCouncilPresident, and she's basically Sena without the arrogance and inability to make friends. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out [[BookDumb she has very poor grades]] and has to be held back a year.]] |
| 501 | * AlliterativeName: ''Hi''nata ''Hi''daka. |
| 502 | * BookDumb: Despite being a model student otherwise, Hinata has such poor grades that she worries if she'll be able to graduate at all. [[spoiler:She does end up repeating her senior year because she doesn't pass the finals exam.]] |
| 503 | * {{Foil}}: To Sena and Yozora. She's beautiful, intelligent and at the same time is very popular. She's also very nice to everyone, even if she doesn't care about their shallow opinions. |
| 504 | * HeldBackInSchool: [[spoiler:She fails her finals exam and must repeat her final high school year.]] |
| 505 | * IdenticalStranger: She's what Yozora could look like if she was older and kinder. [[spoiler:Thus the revelation that they are actually half-sisters makes even more sense.]] |
| 506 | * LastEpisodeNewCharacter: In the anime, while she's seen in earlier episodes and the opening title for Season 2, she doesn't have a speaking role until Episode 12 of Season 2. |
| 507 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She won't turn down any request despite her huge workload. |
| 508 | * StudentCouncilPresident: The current one, for St. Chronica. |
| 509 | [[/folder]] |
| 510 | |
| 511 | !!Kashiwazaki Household |
| 512 | |
| 513 | [[folder:Pegasus Kashiwazaki]] |
| 514 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pegasus_kashiwazaki_7880.jpg]] |
| 515 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (Japanese) and Creator/BrandonPotter (English) |
| 516 | |
| 517 | Sena's father and current Headmaster of St. Chronica Academy, as well as an old friend of Hayato Hasegawa, Kodaka and Kobato's father. |
| 518 | ---- |
| 519 | * AlternateCharacterReading: His first name is written as 天馬 and usually read as ''Tenma'', "ten" as in ''sky'' and "ma" as in ''horse''. Except in this case, his name is actually Pegasus and the kanji is just its literal translation into Japanese. |
| 520 | * AmbiguouslyBi: He has a wife [[spoiler:and slept with a woman with whom he fathered Stella]]. However, the way he talks about Hayato seems more akin to someone with a huge crush rather than a BestFriend. |
| 521 | * BerserkButton: Calling him by his first name "Pegasus" makes him angry enough to yell. |
| 522 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: Two glasses of red wine already drives him tipsy. |
| 523 | * DoNotCallMePaul: He ''hates'' being called by the GratuitousEnglish reading of his first name because "Pegasus" doesn't sound like a proper name. |
| 524 | * EmbarrassingFirstName: The characters for his name are read as Pegasus, much to his embarrassment. |
| 525 | * OddNameNormalNickname: His first name can be read as "Tenma", a name he'd rather use. The correct reading and pronunciation in its original English is "{{Pegasus}}", and [[DoNotCallMePaul he does not like being called that]]. |
| 526 | * OlderThanHeLooks: Yes, one cannot tell he's the father to an eleventh-grader by his looks. |
| 527 | * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Uses his power to admit the Hasegawa siblings due to Hayato's overseas work. [[spoiler:He also repeats this (at Sena's request) to legitimize Maria as teacher and save the Neighbors Club from Aoi.]] |
| 528 | * ShipperWithAnAgenda: He does not mind Kodaka marrying Sena. In fact, he encourages it. It's implied the reason is that Kodaka and Sena marrying would make him and Hayato BestFriendsInLaw. |
| 529 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Hayato, if his quip about him being "trash" for abandoning his children is any indication. |
| 530 | [[/folder]] |
| 531 | |
| 532 | [[folder:Stella Redfield]] |
| 533 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stella_redfield_5049.jpg]] |
| 534 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyokaYuzuki (Japanese) and Creator/CaitlinGlass (English) |
| 535 | |
| 536 | Pegasus' stewardess. |
| 537 | ---- |
| 538 | * AdoptAServant: [[spoiler:Stella is Pegasus's illegitimate daughter from an affair he had in high school. Not wanting to cause an uproar for his current family, she asked to be made work as a servant at his mansion so she could be close to her biological father and half-sister. Pegasus hired her as a steward in his mansion, but does care for her as a father away from others' eyes.]] |
| 539 | * {{Bifauxnen}}: The only way to tell her she's a female is her bust and feminine voice. |
| 540 | * TheComicallySerious: Even when Kodaka caught Kobato and Sena naked, all she can muster is to flatly call him out on being an AccidentalPervert. |
| 541 | * GradeSkipper: She graduated university at the mere age of 14. |
| 542 | * ServileSnarker: Be it towards her master, his daughter, or her friends, Stella will respond with completely straight-faced snark. |
| 543 | * SleepsInTheNude: She claims to sleep naked. It's unknown whether she's telling the truth or just told a lie to make Kodaka back down when he tries to protest to Kobato sleeping with her to keep her out of Sena's clutches. |
| 544 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Played with. [[spoiler: While she looks very similar to her half sister Sena, it's apparently pure coincidence, as their blonde hair and blue eyes are inherited from different mothers rather than their shared father. It's not even that Pegasus HasAType, as his marriage to Sena's mother is [[ArrangedMarriage an arranged one]].]] |
| 545 | [[/folder]] |
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