Line #208 Characters/ReLIFE


1	Characters appearing in ''Manga/ReLIFE''. Under construction.
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5	[[folder:Arata Kaizaki]]
6	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KenshoOno (Japanese), Creator/MicahSolusod (English)
7	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/relife_kaizaki.png]]
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9	At 27 years old, Kaizaki is working part-time at a convenience store while looking for steady work. He maintains the appearance to friends that he still holds a regular, salaried position at a company, unwilling to admit the truth. Cut off by his parents, Kaizaki embraces the opportunity to join the [=ReLIFE=] program, hoping to be hooked up with a job when it's over. Though he is comparatively BookDumb, he's quick to approach his high-school peers with words of wisdom and guidance, acting like a surrogate parent. Though he jokes about being able to hook up with "legal high-school girls", Kaizaki is very considerate of others, sometimes at the cost of his own happiness.
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13	* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Usually does this to comfort somebody in pain. It's a bit of a plot point when he stops doing it regularly to Hishiro, as it's a sign that he no longer sees her as a child but as a romantic interest.
14	* BadLiar: He's not the best at hiding at the fact that he's secretly an adult and arguably gets away with it only because [[RefugeInAudacity normal people would never think that an adult would be posing as a teenager]]. [[spoiler:This allows Hishiro, who does know about [=ReLIFE=], to figure him out pretty easily.]]
15	* BlitheSpirit: Kaizaki is emotionally in-tune with people, recognizing other people's problems and worries. His advice often propels them to resolve their issues.
16	* BookDumb: If there is a test, chances are Kaizaki fails it at least once. Though subverted in that he’s not actually dumb, but he’s long forgotten the things he’s learned back in high school.
17	* ButtMonkey: Often gets called an idiot by Hishiro, has zero flexibility, often gets terrible grades, gets mocked for those grades, and the list goes on and on.
18	* TheCasanova: Subverted. Ohga ''thinks'' Kaizaki's incredibly experienced with women, due to how comfortable he is over interacting with them, but it has nothing to do with being a womanizer and more to do with Kaizaki being a decade older than the girls he's talking to. Unfortunately for Kaizaki, this leaves him to frantically dispel this image whenever Ohga brings it up.
19	* CharacterTics: Kaizaki tends to fidget with or scratch his neck when he's uneasy.
20	* ChivalrousPervert: Downplayed. While appreciative of being able to legally hang around high school girls now, he's unnerved and a complete gentleman any time one actually tries to come onto him.
21	* TheConfidant: Kariu ends up venting her insecurities to Kaizaki in the first arc, although he spills some of them to Hishiro later. [[BaitAndSwitch Kariu chides him for this... before thanking him, since it allowed her and Hishiro to become friends]].
22	* DarkAndTroubledPast: His senior at his first job [[spoiler:was bullied heavily due to the competitive nature of their company. He tried to stand up for her, but it ended up making the bullying worse to the point that she committed suicide.]] In his rage he quit the company and has been jobless ever since.
23	* DeathGlare: Kaizaki gives a magnificent one to a couple of jerks who is harassing Hishiro during the festival in Chapter 147.
24	* FeelingTheirAge: While Kaizaki's not ''that'' old at 27-28, he's still past his fresh youth and tends to suffer over high school athletics on account of not being as flexible anymore, e.g. being surprised to find that he actually needs to stretch before sports, which he ignored as a teenager.
25	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Between the truth of who he is (an adult NEET deceiving everyone) and his DarkAndTroubledPast, he struggles to realize how much value he's brought to everyone's lives and often believes that it wouldn't matter if he wasn't around.
26	* InSeriesNickname: Hishiro has trouble with names initially, so Kaizaki is the "Cigarette Guy" for a while, after he brought cigarettes to his first day of class. The nicknames get less flattering from there.
27	* InsistentTerminology: A RunningGag is Yoake calling him a NEET, before Kaizaki tells him that excuse you, he wasn't one! He had a part-time job and was job-hunting!
28	* ItsAllMyFault: Blames himself for what happened to his senior at his first job.
29	* KarmicJackpot: The TimeSkip epilogue, set several years after the ending to the series shows that [[spoiler:Ohga would go on to work for [=ReLIFE=], being inspired to after Arata was able to successfully rehabilitate his older brother. Ohga ends up re-befriending Arata and invites him to his wedding with Kairu. It's also implied that Ohga, and by extension the others, will be regaining their old memories of Arata and Chizuru thanks to reconnecting with them in the present.]]
30	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: He ultimately ends up being one to [[spoiler:Yoake.]]
31	* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:Kaizaki finally confesses to Hishiro in 197.]]
32	* LoveEpiphany: Kaizaki's advice helps Ohga realize his feelings for [[spoiler:Rena Kariu]], and that very same advice helps Kaizaki realize his own feelings towards Hishiro
33	* MagneticHero: In contrast to Kaizaki being BookDumb, he's actually quite the people person and finds it relatively easily to fit in with his classmates despite the age gap.
34	* MyGreatestFailure: He's plagued by guilt over what happened at his job, and it's left him hesitant to interfere too much in others' lives lest history repeat itself.
35	* NiceGuy: His biggest strength. Despite being a down on his luck NEET, he's a fundamentally decent and compassionate person who offers excellent advice to those in need.
36	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:When he stood up for his senior at work, it only made the bullying towards her worse, and he's haunted by the idea that it may have directly contributed to her eventual suicide.]]
37	* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: With Chizuru.]]
38	* OlderAndWiser: It may not seem like it, but his decade of experience above his peers allows him to give great advice when they're down.
39	* ObliviousToLove: Kaizaki is aware of everybody else being in love with each other except for when it comes to someone being in love with him. It helps that he's too considerate to want to fall in love with someone only to be erased from their memory at the end of the experiment. A dose of denial makes it easier that way.
40	* RedOniBlueOni: The loud, sociable Red Oni to Hishiro's stoic, nigh robotic Blue Oni.
41	* ShipperOnDeck: For Ohga and Kariu, for Yoake and Onoya.
42	* TheSocialExpert: It's noted many times that, in contrast to the academically gifted but socially clueless Hishiro, Kaizaki's people skills are excellent and he's a natural leader when he tries. [[spoiler:It's the main reason Hishiro isn't completely convinced he's with the [=ReLIFE=] experiment, as she can't see why he'd need it.]]
43	* SupportingProtagonist: For much of the first half of the series, Kaizaki spends more time being supportive of his classmates rather than actually being the main focus. In fact, it takes a good 80+ chapters for his backstory to get fully elaborated on.
44	* TeamDad: Kaizaki, being OlderAndWiser than the others despite looking their same age, tends to act like a dad to the rest of the students.
45	* TearsOfJoy: Chapter 145, from [[spoiler:Kaizaki after Kariu reminds him of all the good he's done for the people in the school, to serve as living proof he made a difference.]]
46	* TraumaButton: Due to [[spoiler: his old senior's suicide]], Kaizaki reacts negatively to anyone reaching for his neck, even if done innocently.
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50	[[folder:Chizuru Hishiro]]
51	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AiKayano (Japanese), Creator/JeannieTirado (English)
52	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/relife_hishiro.png]]
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54	A third-year student at Aoba Academy, Chizuru Hishiro is the epitome of a socially isolated BookWorm. She gets top marks in her studies, but is blunt to the point of bludgeoning situations that require tact and a soft touch, and so disinterested in people that she can't remember their names. When she resolves to learn how to better interact with people, Kaizaki is one of the first to reach out to her. For all her directness, Hishiro is earnest, and unwaveringly loyal, and the last thing she wants is to upset people or push them away. Her curiosity is insatiable, especially when she begins to develop strong feelings for someone--feelings she isn't equipped to understand.
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58	* TheAce: Top of her class, much to Kariu's consternation. Only uneasiness about her feelings after the fireworks festival can shake her.
59	* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Hishiro does this to Ohga in Chapter 170.
60	* AffectionateNickname: ''Hishiron,'' from Tamarai. Hishiro loves it.
61	* AloofDarkHairedGirl: The only main female character with black hair, and the most stoic among them. [[spoiler:Especially as an adult, where she has the "elegant beauty"-esque look to go with it.]]
62	* BookSmart: She's at the top of the grade in an academically focused school, which is no small feat.
63	* BrutalHonesty: Hishiro has a very poor filter for what she says.
64	* CannotKeepASecret: Hishiro tends to [[SayingTooMuch accidentally mention things she shouldn't]] and is terrible at backpedaling. [[spoiler:Though there is one secret she's very good at keeping, and it's that she's an adult woman doing the [=ReLIFE=] experiment.]]
65	* ClassRepresentative: The female rep of the class.
66	* EatingLunchAlone: It's a point of concern for Kaizaki at first. She actually enjoys it, though--but when Kariu reminds her that she's trying to become more social, she gladly accepts Kariu and Tamarai joining her.
67	* EmotionlessGirl: She can come off as this, between her robotic-like approach to life and muted expressions.
68	* EndearinglyDorky: In spades. Hishiro's social cluelessness has her resort to search engines to find out what to do with people, and her efforts usually come off as unusual but adorably earnest, including to Kaizaki in-universe. Folding a 1000 yen bill to make a portrait is just one of these weird and endearing things.
69	* FirstNameBasis: She has no awkwardness over shifting to people's first names, and calls Yoake and Ohga by such. It leads to some dismay on Kaizaki's part when he realizes that he's the only guy she calls by his last name, simply because he never found the opportunity to tell her to call him Arata. [[spoiler:In Yoake's case, it's {{Foreshadowing}} for who she really is--after all, he also told Kaizaki at the beginning of ''his'' experiment to call him Ryo if he so wished.]]
70	* FriendlessBackground: Hishiro moved around a lot as a child and never made a lot of friends. Later on, [[spoiler:that would affect her ability to work with people in her job, resulting in her firing and eventual turn at [=ReLIFE=]]].
71	* GirlishPigtails: She invokes this, [[spoiler:having changed from a plain ponytail to pigtails for her second chance at [=ReLIFE=], as looking more like a "proper" high school girl was her first step to changing herself]].
72	* GreenEyedMonster: Though she is too good-hearted to lash out about it, Hishiro nevertheless acts quite cold toward Onoya, believing her to be a romantic rival. She refers to Onoya as ''the braid-and-glasses girl'' rather than use Onoya's name, even after she's become much better at remembering names, and she responds coolly when Onoya takes Kaizaki by the arm one morning. She asks if Kaizaki ever hugged Onoya the way he hugged her, and his denial makes her feel entirely too satisfied.
73	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Her goal is to get better at making friends, albeit less out of genuine loneliness at this point and more because she realizes that spending her life in her own bubble is holding her back.
74	* InnocentlyInsensitive: She has zero malice but will almost certainly fail to notice when she's bothering someone with her bluntness and robotic attitude towards work.
75	* NeverMyFault: Hishiro tends to have this as a mantra in regards to her doing the work for others and them complaining. [[spoiler:It's not her fault they were lazy and she did the work for them. However, it's deconstructed in that by doing their work and isolating herself from them, she was fired from all of her companies because the other employees wouldn't work with her and complained.]]
76	* NiceGirl: Her social skills may be poor, but at heart she's a very kind and exceptionally honest girl, and also reasonably polite despite her InnocentlyInsensitive moments.
77	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Her poorly handled attempt to intervene in a bullying situation made it worse, which caused her to withdraw even further.]]
78	* TheNicknamer: She's not good at remembering names, so she's not above just calling people by identifiers at first.
79	* NoSocialSkills: And how, but she's trying to change. The school festival arc puts this in focus, as her usual method of not bothering to cooperate with people starts to drive a wedge between her and the rest of the class. She knows she needs to change; she just doesn't know how.
80	* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: With Arata.]]
81	* RedOniBlueOni: The [[EmotionlessGirl Blue Oni]] to Kaizaki's [[BlitheSpirit Red Oni]].
82	* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Kaizaki's completely unaware that Hishiro knows he's a [=ReLIFE=] subject for the latter half of the series.]]
83	* SugarAndIcePersonality: Hishiro is a blunt girl who is at times rude and, by her own admission, uninterested in other people, but when she warms to someone, she can be quite sweet and affectionate in her own way.
84	* {{Tsundere}}: A mild case towards Kaizaki, as she openly asks to be friends with him but doesn't hesitate to call him stupid, especially when she's embarrassed. She's generally less insulting towards everyone else aside from Onoya.
85	* TheUnSmile: While Hishiro can smile normally subconsciously, her trying to smile voluntarily results in this. Unlike most other examples of this trope, this gives rise to some tension between her and Kariu early on.
86	* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Despite falling increasingly hard in love, Hishiro is still disconnected enough from her own feelings not to understand them, or to understand them only haltingly. She's probably been in love for over a hundred chapters by the time she actually comes to the conclusion herself! Hishiro's approach to understanding her feelings is direct, as usual: if people in love enjoy being touched by they person they're in love with, ''just ask to be touched'' and see what happens!
87	* WhenSheSmiles: When Hishiro smiles genuinely, it's enough to leave Kaizaki stunned. [[TheUnsmile When she tries however...]]
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91	[[folder:Ryou Yoake]]
92	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RyoheiKimura (Japanese), Creator/JessieJamesGrelle (English)
93	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/relife_yoake.png]]
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95	Yoake is Kaizaki's handler in the [=ReLIFE=] program, joining Kaizaki in this second chance at high school life to observe him. Cool and collected, Yoake feels no compunction about needling Kaizaki about his relationships with the other students, or anything else that comes to mind. Beneath this gadfly exterior, Yoake is deeply committed and invested in seeing Kaizaki complete a successful [=ReLIFE=]. Unbeknownst to Kaizaki, Yoake has worked as a support before, and that subject failed miserably. Yoake will work himself to the bone to make sure that doesn't happen again.
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99	* BrokenAce: Onoya admits that she looks up to Yoake and sees him as someone who's good at everything he does, which belies the fact that he doesn't have things nearly as together as he acts.
100	* CharacterTics: Yoake tends to tap his finger when he's troubled.
101	* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: His job, or at least his intention, is effectively to counsel others over their problems and help them find happiness, while he himself is one of the most emotionally damaged characters in the series.
102	* TheConfidant: As Kaizaki's handler, he's the person whom Kaizaki spills his thoughts and secrets to. [[spoiler:He's also one for Hishiro until Onoya takes over this role.]]
103	* CreepyGood: His DissonantSerenity and Gadfly tendencies can make him come off as weird, but he's ultimately a compassionate man who wants to see Arata [[spoiler: and Chizuru]] make the most of [=ReLIFE=].
104	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Yoake's experiences with Subject No. 001 really shook him up. He's determined not to let Kaizaki fail.
105	* DissonantSerenity: The more irritated he is, the more pleasant of a front he puts up.
106	* EatingLunchAlone: To Kaizaki's surprise, Yoake does this, despite appearing well-liked by their classmates. As Yoake explains, he'd rather be alone so that he can focus on observing Kaizaki. When Kaizaki invites him, citing that it feels uncomfortable to see someone he knows by himself, Yoake makes it clear that he can't accept due to professional boundaries.
107	* TheGadfly: Yoake delights in teasing and attempting to manipulate Kaizaki (even if it's for good ends). When Kaizaki and Hishiro have a misunderstanding, Yoake tries to needle him with the biggest bomb imaginable:
108	--> '''Yoake''': At the rate things are going, I might have to take Hishiro-san for myself.
109	* HiddenHeartOfGold: He's an extremely caring person, but prefers to hide it under an indifferent front. It's exemplified in a scene where outwardly, he callously tells Kaizaki that he doesn't ''really'' care about him, as he's only an experimental subject to to Yoake, while at the same time his internal thoughts make it clear that he wants nothing more than for Kaizaki to be happy.
110	* {{Hypocrite}}: While Yoake often criticizes Onoya [[spoiler:for interfering too much with the subjects]], he tends to be just as guilty of this, if even more egregiously so (albeit in a different fashion). Unlike usual cases of this, however, it's seen as a positive thing.
111	* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for Subject No. 001's failure, feeling that it was due to his inadequate support -- though arguably, he was doomed from the start. [[TheScapegoat It doesn't help that his superiors at work also placed all the blame at his feet.]]
112	* MarriedToTheJob: Downplayed, but as the epilogue reveals, [[spoiler:he ignored Onoya's feelings because he wanted to put supporting Kaizaki as his first and foremost priority, and he feared that dating Onoya--when he already got to see her all the time--would distract him]].
113	* MyGreatestFailure: His experience with his first subject, with him almost giving up afterwards. With that said...
114	* MyGreatestSecondChance: What his experience with Kaizaki turns out to be. Yoake notes more than once that he's among the people whose life has improved by Kaizaki's presence. [[spoiler:Hishiro's second year in the experiment also serves as this, and he's finally able to find closure when she declares that she's grateful for her experience, first year of failure and all.]]
115	* NeverGetsDrunk: He holds his liquor ''very'' well and can walk off a night of heavy drinking like it's nothing, when even Kaizaki -- who's no slouch in this department either -- is sick the next morning.
116	* NotAMorningPerson: According to him, he sleeps through his alarms. [[spoiler:Kaizaki suspects that was a lie to deliberately delay their grave trip, though while it's likely Yoake did play it up, he does mention again later to Onoya that he's not good with mornings.]]
117	* RedOniBlueOni: The aloof, logical Blue Oni to Onoya's excitable, emotional Red Oni.
118	* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: Invoked by him; he is perfectly average at athletics and academics, likely to avoid standing out.
119	* RomanticFalseLead: In the manga in particular, several chapters try to suggest Yoake is a love interest for [[spoiler:Chizuru Hishiro]], only for it all to be revealed as clever misdirection. Even so, multiple characters believe it possible, and Yoake uses the perception and potential for jealousy to his advantage.
120	* TheSocialExpert: People skills come with the job, as Yoake's purpose is to understand his subject's psychology and help them [[spoiler:and, to an extent, his work junior Onoya]] navigate their circumstances.
121	* StalkerWithoutACrush: As Yoake is in charge of looking after Kaizaki for the experiment, his job basically dictates being a stalker. Their relationship eventually becomes closer to VitriolicBestBuds (albeit with the vitriol being on Arata's side).
122	* StepfordSmiler: You're far more likely to catch any inner turmoil through his CharacterTics than his expression. Onoya calls him out on it, telling him that people can't tell when they've actually hurt him if he just smiles it off, and Yoake privately admits that he's not good at being honest with others.
123	* TripleShifter: Kaizaki's baffled over when Yoake has time to rest, considering that Yoake has to juggle being a student and his full-time job as Kaizaki's handler [[spoiler:and, unbeknownst to Kaizaki, Hishiro's for the first term]].
124	* VitriolicBestBuds: Yoake drives Kaizaki nuts, but once in a while Kaizaki will put that aside and show genuine concern for him, such as inviting Yoake to eat lunch with him. More often than not, the two of them consider it unusual when they're being sincere with the other.
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128	[[folder:An Onoya]]
129	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ReinaUeda (Japanese), Creator/KristenMcGuire (English)
130	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/relife_onoya.png]]
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132	A transfer student in Kaizaki's class, Onoya joins Kaizaki and Ohga's study group, having bombed the preliminary exams harder than even Kaizaki had. She joins Kaizaki in gossiping about and teasing Ohga for his obliviousness regarding Kariu. Onoya's innocuous facade hides a merciless gadfly, tease, and matchmaker. When she's not teasing or matchmaking, Onoya is a compassionate person who only wants the best for people. Her goals are sincere, even if her methods make some peoples' lives more eventful than they'd like.
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135	* BespectacledCutie: Invoked by Onoya, who doesn't need to wear glasses but does to look more innocent. [[spoiler:Her previous high school look was unsuitable for a more academics-focused school like Aoba.]]
136	* BirdsOfAFeather: Onoya and Yoake are both perpetually smiling individuals who like to tease others, with Kaizaki even commenting that they're perfect for each other.
137	* BookDumb: Subverted. She gets even worse grades at Kaizaki, but only because she's deliberately trying to fail. Once she stops with the act, she's perfectly fine with academics.
138	* CommonalityConnection: She bonds with Kaizaki over being transfer students who also bombed their tests.
139	* TheConfidant:
140	** As Onoya's the only other person aware of [[spoiler:Hishiro and Kaizaki's situation, as well as having witnessed Yoake's burnout the previous year, she's the one person whom Yoake can express any of his personal thoughts to -- albeit with Yoake's usual restraint, considering his [[StepfordSmiler attitude]] and role as her work senior]].
141	** She also becomes this to [[spoiler:Hishiro, as her handler as of the second term]].
142	* ConflictingLoyalty: [[spoiler: In Chapter 181, Onoya has a case of this when Hishiro admits that she's shutting down her feelings for Kaizaki due to the [=ReLIFE=] program. That and she mistakenly believes she's been burdening Kaizaki. Onoya can only struggle to maintain her composure, feeling guilty.]]
143	* TheGadfly: Teases Kaizaki and Hishiro more than Yoake does (after all, Yoake never came onto either of them).
144	* GenkiGirl: She's always running at full energy. When Kaizaki jokes that [[NotAMorningPerson Yoake]] should get her to wake him up, he replies that having to deal with her every morning would be a nightmare.
145	* GirlishPigtails: Sports two small braided pigtails. [[spoiler:Like with her glasses, she chose this look to invoke a more innocent appearance; normally, she wears her hair loose.]]
146	* HypocriticalHumour: In one of the chapter bonus images, she scolds Kaizaki for lecturing Hishiro when she just woke up after collapsing, with Yoake commenting that he knows someone else who did the same... [[spoiler:i.e. Onoya, who also yelled at Yoake right after he collapsed at work.]]
147	* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: Both Hishiro and Kariu are worried that she likes Kaizaki and Ohga, respectively. While she's deliberately playing it up in the former case, the latter is just sheer coincidence, though she does joke that it's kind of fun being an obstacle to others' love life [[spoiler:as an adult poking some fun at kids]].
148	* ImpliedLoveInterest: To Yoake. Other characters bring up the possibility of them being an item and they're not without ShipTease, but unlike the OfficialCouple(s) of the series, they're never seen hooking up and [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend deny any relationship to the very end]].
149	** PrintBonus materials make it more explicit, as she admits in a volume omake to liking Yoake, though Yoake's feelings are much more ambiguous [[spoiler:at least until the epilogue chapter, where they finally do get together]].
150	* InSeriesNickname: Due to Hishiro's dislike of her, Hishiro just calls her the "braids and glasses girl" at first. Amusingly, one chapter-end image shows Hishiro a little confused when Onoya shows up without her iconic glasses and braids, since the nickname no longer fits.
151	* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Rather fond of invading Kaizaki's.
152	* ObfuscatingStupidity: She fails her tests to give her an excuse to stay near Kaizaki.
153	* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Her glasses aren't prescription.
154	* RedOniBlueOni: The Red Oni to Yoake's Blue Oni, with them also on the opposite ends of the EmotionsVsStoicism spectrum on [[spoiler:how to handle their jobs as members of the Support Division]].
155	* RescueRomance: Downplayed, but [[spoiler:she's been in love with Yoake ever since she was matched with him through [=ReLIFE=]'s anonymous help line and he pulled her out of her funk.]]
156	* RomanticFalseLead: Onoya leans into this, playing up her relationship with Kaizaki to tweak Hishiro. She latches on to him while walking to school, she stays close to him during the fireworks festival, and she continues to eat lunch with him. All of this is not just a game to her, either: [[spoiler:it's a deliberate plan to set up her handling of Hishiro in the second term]].
157	* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Onoya's attempt to seduce Kaizaki was to see how he would react to such advances from a high school girl.]] [[TheGadfly Or so she says.]]
158	* ShipperOnDeck: Even moreso than Yoake, [[spoiler:Onoya continuously encourages Hishiro to pursue a romance with Kaizaki.]]
159	* TenderTears: [[spoiler:As Onoya's deeply invested in Hishiro and Kaizaki's happiness, she often ends up bursting into tears over the reminder that their relationship is doomed to disappear at the end of their experiment.]]
160	* VitriolicBestBuds:
161	** Onoya eventually forms this dynamic with Hishiro with the vitriol on Hishiro's side, not unlike Yoake's friendship with Kaizaki. With that said, she invokes a lot of exasperation from Kaizaki as well, though he's more willing to freely acknowledge her as a friend despite this.
162	** Her dynamic with Yoake consists of Onoya sniping at him at every opportunity, and in turn she's one of the few people whom Yoake is comfortable enough around to openly show annoyance; Kaizaki even comments on how he can't tell if they hate each other or like each other. On the flip side, [[spoiler:Onoya views Yoake as her saviour of sorts, respects him deeply, and wishes him happiness, and Yoake likewise serves as Onoya's rock when things get rough]].
163	* WalkingSpoiler: To a degree, it's difficult to talk about Onoya's character without hinting that [[spoiler:she's an adult and part of [=ReLIFE=]'s support division, as it's her primary role in the story and the series' earliest twist -- the fact that she's presented as Yoake's LoveInterest already gives it away]].
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167	[[folder:Kazuomi Ohga]]
168	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YuumaUchida (Japanese), Creator/BlakeShepard (English)
169	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/relife_ohga.png]]
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171	The male class representative in Kaizaki's class at Aoba, Ohga befriends Kaizaki in part to make sure Kaizaki won't be stuck in an endless cycle of makeup tests. Ohga is considerate and easy to get along with. His one flaw is that he is ObliviousToLove--Rena Kariu has been crushing on him for two years, yet he hasn't picked up the hint, and he unwittingly aggravates her at times because of that, much to Kaizaki and Onoya's consternation.
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175	* BigBrotherWorship: [[spoiler:Though he's painfully aware that society looks down on his brother for being a NEET, Ohga is nothing but proud of all that his brother did and sacrificed for the family while growing up, and sees this period as a time to let his brother take it easy.]]
176	* BookSmart: Like Hishiro, Ohga ranks at the top of his grade.
177	* ClassRepresentative: The male rep for Kaizaki's class.
178	* DarkAndTroubledPast: His family situation is not pleasant. [[spoiler:His mother's gone, and his brother is a shut-in, causing Ohga great anxiety about possibly following in his brother's footsteps. Even without that, he's on the hook for trying to help make ends meet.]]
179	* DitzyGenius: He's an academic genius, but cannot read social cues to save his life.
180	* EatingLunchAlone: Due to spending most of his final year eating lunch with Kaizaki [[spoiler: & Onoya (both of them being in the [=ReLIFE=] program), his memory will be altered to become this.]]
181	* HappilyMarried: With Kariu in the epilogue.
182	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Ohga's a genuinely nice guy, but his completely obliviousness to interpersonal dynamics (particularly Kariu's attraction to him) places him in this category.
183	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: In the epilogue, [[spoiler:he ''joins'' the support division of [=ReLIFE=], while Yoake and Kaizaki awkwardly dance around the secret matter of Kaizaki's experience and their past friendship with Ohga]]. With that said, it's suggested that he might one day realize the truth.
184	* LoveEpiphany: Kaizaki's speech, along with seeing another man touch Kariu (even if just to keep her from falling), seals the deal.
185	* ObliviousToLove: He and Kariu have been wearing matching earrings for ''two years'' and he didn't get the hint. Moreover, he's completely blind to everyone else's interpersonal dynamics.
186	* PrettyBoy: Kaizaki freely admits that Ohga's a very attractive man. Combined with his personality, the series tends to joke that he's a "disappointment of an ikemen".
187	* SharedFamilyQuirks: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:His life is playing out very similarly to his brother's--silver pin for three years straight, probably going to go to Aoba University--and he's terrified that the similarities will be complete and he'll end up breaking like his brother did.]]
188	* SmarterThanYouLook: More than one character has mentioned that Ohga does not look as smart as he is.
189	* StrongerThanTheyLook: Inverted. Ohga looks like the sportsy type but isn't at ''all''.
190	* SupremeChef: He's a good enough cook that Kaizaki is impressed by the bento he mistakenly believes Ohga's mom to have made, and is doubly impressed when Ohga reveals that he made it himself.
191	* UnknowinglyInLove: Just as how he can't pick up on others' feelings, he's equally clueless to his own, especially since he thinks he just likes everyone.
192
193	[[/folder]]
194
195	[[folder:Rena Kariu]]
196	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/HarukaTomatsu (Japanese), Creator/AlexisTipton (English)
197	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/relife_kariu.png]]
198
199	Kariu was the female class representative in her class before third year, when she's pitted against Hishiro. Losing the honor of being class rep--and being at Ohga's side--prompts great jealousy from Kariu, and Hishiro's clueless attempts to befriend her only exacerbate the situation. Still, Kaizaki is able to influence both of them, and the two defuse the situation. Indeed, Kariu becomes Hishiro's first female friend. Prone to bouts of great insecurity, Kariu will nevertheless defend her friends to the end. She can be very intense and competitive, on top of being 100% {{Tsundere}}.
200
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202
203	* AcademicAthlete: One of the top students and vice-captain of the volleyball team.
204	* AlwaysSecondBest: Kariu gets top grades and is an excellent athlete, but she remains second to Hishiro in academics and Honoka in sports.
205	* BrutalHonesty: Very blunt. It's actually one of the things she has in common with Hishiro. Ohga jokes that it's why she shouldn't mediate when Hishiro is rubbing shoulders with the rest of the class, as Kariu would inevitably take her side and declare the class incompetent and lazy.
206	* ClassRepresentative: The female rep of her class last year, [[spoiler:and she reclaims the position for one term in the current year]].
207	* CompetitionFreak: Kariu is noted for being very competitive about everything.
208	* FieryRedhead: Kariu is hot-headed and highly competitive, fitting this trope nicely.
209	* FirstFriend: She's the first friend Hishiro makes outside of Kaizaki, cementing Hishiro's social progress.
210	* HappilyMarried: With Ohga in the epilogue.
211	* InnocentlyInsensitive: During an argument with Ohga, she accuses him of being a MommasBoy before [[spoiler:he bluntly tells her that he doesn't have a mother]]. Suffice to say she feels ''awful'' about it afterwards. When patching things up with him later, she admits that because her family situation is normal, it never really occurred to her that others might be different.
212	* InsecureLoveInterest: Kariu ropes Hishiro and Tamarai into watching Ohga--and his attractive female coworker--on the job. Kariu at least has the maturity to admit she thinks she's being unreasonable.
213	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although Kariu is straightforward and somewhat rude by nature, and her insecurities often get the better of her, she's a loyal friend who goes out of her way to defend and/or support those she cares about.
214	* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: [[spoiler:When she gets the silver pin, she's shocked rather than pleased because she knows that she hasn't surpassed Hishiro yet and immediately assumes (correctly) that something was up with Hishiro during the tests.]]
215	* ThePerfectionist: Ohga straight-up describes her as this, and he fears it's why [[spoiler:she'll look at him differently if she knows he comes from an "imperfect" household]] (though, of course, his fears are unfounded).
216	* TheResenter: Thanks to being AlwaysSecondBest. She's aware that it's a flaw and hates herself for it, but she has difficulty putting her jealousy towards Honoka and Hishiro aside.
217	* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Kariu's problem in the first arc. No matter how much she tries, she can't catch up to Hishiro in grades, or Honoka in sports, making her feel like all her effort is pointless.
218	* {{Tsundere}}: She uses her bag as a weapon against Ohga's denseness.
219	* UnknownRival: It's a low blow to her to know that even though she views Honoka and Hishiro as her rivals, they don't really feel the same way, to the point that Hishiro doesn't even remember her name at first.
220
221	[[/folder]]
222
223
224	[[folder:Honoka Tamarai]]
225	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/HimikaAkaneya (Japanese), Creator/BrynApprill (English)
226	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/relife_honoka.png]]
227
228	Kariu's best friend and captain of Aoba's girls' volleyball team, Tamarai eats lunch with Kariu and Hishiro regularly, and the three form a close circle of friends. She's a sensitive person who chose Aoba Volleyball to escape the pressure of a competitive environment, even though she has the talent to attend top-tier schools. As Kariu and Hishiro deal with romance in their lives, Tamarai offers a steadying perspective and insight what's going on around them.
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231
232	* TheAce: Has been the best volleyball player on her teams going back to middle school, to the point that it irritated her seniors. It also forms the basis for her friendship with Kariu, who wanted to be TheRival to her.
233	* AffectionateNickname: Tama to her childhood friends.
234	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: It gets implied near the end of the series that Honoka has a crush on either Nobunaga or Akira but never made a move herself because she didn't want to ruin the dynamic of their friendship. One of the later volume omakes later confirms that she indeed had feelings for Nobunaga, with Akira having unrequited feelings for her.
235	* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's one of the sweetest characters in the series, but is violently defensive of her friends (Inukai in particular, who has a history of being picked on).
236	* BookDumb: She also has to take makeup tests occasionally, which interfere with her volleyball practice.
237	* BrokenAce: Eventually revealed to be this, as she became disillusioned with being the top of every sport to the degree that she deliberately tried to be WillfullyWeak upon entering Aoba, before Kariu called her out and encouraged her to embrace a rivalry between them.
238	* ChildhoodFriends: With fellow Aoba students Asaji and Inukai. They're close enough that she refers to them as ''Nobu-chan'' and ''Aki-chan'', respectively, even to people who might be unfamiliar with the names.
239	* FamedInStory: She's well-known in the school athletic circuit and entered Aoba specifically in hopes that no one would recognize her. For better or for worse, Kariu still did.
240	* GeniusDitz: Extremely athletic, but BookDumb and rather airheaded in general, to the extent that Asaji and Inukai have to walk her home everyday or else she'd get lost.
241	* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: She's decided never to reveal her feelings for Asaji, since she knows they're unrequited and she doesn't want to destroy the dynamic they and Inukai have now.
242	* LonelyAtTheTop: Being leagues above everyone else meant that she never really fit in with her team, as it was a given she'd succeed and therefore nothing she did was ever worth cheering for.
243	* NiceGirl: She's an overall very sweet person.
244	* NoSenseOfDirection: The reason Asaji and Inukai have to walk her home every day is because she'll get lost if they don't. This continues even to after their graduation, as they have to help show her how to get to their university.
245	-->'''Asaji''': How many days have we been doing this now...?
246	-->'''Inukai''': Ten.
247	* PseudoRomanticFriendship: She ''really'' adores Kariu, complete with constant physical affection and, during a conversation about romantic love, her bringing up her relationship with Kariu as an example (even if in a platonic sense; she admits later to being in love with one of her ChildhoodFriends).
248
249	[[/folder]]
250
251	[[folder:Nobunaga Asaji]]
252	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (Japanese), Stephen Sanders (English)
253	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/relife_asaji.png]]
254
255	One of Tamarai's friends since kindergarten. Kind and a member of the health committee, Asaji tends to act as a mother hen to his friends.
256
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258	* AffectionateNickname: Nobu to his childhood friends.
259	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Very warm and friendly, but if the flashback chapter to his, Inukai, and Tamarai's childhood is anything to go by, he's rather scary when in TranquilFury mode.
260	* BornUnlucky: It's a joke that he's cursed, as for eleven years straight, whichever relay team he's on for the school festival has lost. ''He's never won''.
261	* ChildhoodFriends: With Tamarai and Inukai.
262	* GentleGiant: He stands at 185 cm and strong enough to throw a ball over practically double the national average distance, but also one of the nicest people you'll meet.
263	* LikesOlderWomen: Has a crush on Sumire, Inukai's older sister.
264	* ObliviousToLove: Unlike Inukai, who's aware of the hidden interpersonal dynamics of their trio, Asaji doesn't seem to realize that Tamarai likes him.
265	* TeamMom: Kaizaki even thinks of him as an ''okan''[[note]]a Japanese slang for "mother"[[/note]] during the fireworks festival.
266	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Inukai.
267	[[/folder]]
268
269	[[folder:Akira Inukai]]
270	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/NoriakiSugiyama (Japanese), Creator/AlejandroSaab (English)
271	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/relife_inukai.png]]
272
273	One of Tamarai's friends since kindergarten. Unlike Tamarai and Asaji, Inukai tends not to get along with his peers and has a reputation for violence--especially if you look at Tamarai the wrong way.
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276	* AffectionateNickname: Aki to his childhood friends.
277	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: See Tamarai's section.
278	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: He wasn't well-liked as a child due to his gloomy demeanour, which he decided to embrace.
279	* ChildhoodFriends: With Tamarai and Asaji.
280	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When it's his turn for the ball toss, as people badmouth him in the background, he suddenly throws it straight at a student who hadn't been paying attention.[[labelnote:In the anime...]]Alternatively, at Kaizaki's feet.[[/labelnote]] This quite succinctly tells you how Inukai tends to handle things.
281	* HeyYou: Expect Inukai to address everyone outside of Tamarai and Asaji this way.
282	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He likes Tamarai but would rather support her and Asaji together (though things are complicated by the fact that Asaji doesn't return her feelings).
283	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a violent and rude PerpetualFrowner, but also fiercely devoted to his friends.
284	* MatchMakerCrush: Attempts to play one between Nobunaga and Honoka, despite his own blatant feelings for Honoka. Further complicating the issue, Nobunaga has a crush on Akira's older sister.
285	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Asaji.
286	* TookALevelInJerkass: In elementary school, he was a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold, before he deliberately became the "[[ThenLetMeBeEvil bad guy]]" so that people would have a ''real'' reason to dislike him, meaning Tamarai and Asaji wouldn't have to defend him anymore.

Context Characters / ReLIFE