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Minato Okouchi
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Minato and the protagonist, thanks to the combination of his arrogant alpha male behavior and his active enjoyment of picking on her until he gets a reaction, and her willingness to sass back.
- Calling the Old Man Out: By proxy during Minato's route. Minato delivers a stern dressing-down to Senator Igarashi on behalf of Kazuyuki for giving him up to an orphanage in a misguided attempt to protect him from catching fallout from the then-current affair scandal, arguing that given the choice he'd much rather have grown up with his parents.
- Friendless Background: According to Shusei, Minato had to move repeatedly as a child and transferred from school to school, leaving him with a lot of difficulty opening up to others or making friends. It didn't help that the friends he had managed to make in previous schools never stayed in touch despite promising to do so.
- Heel Realization: Downplayed in Minato's sequel when the protagonist explains to him that Wataru's behavior toward her is a lot like the things Minato himself did early in their relationship. Minato, seeing his own past actions in the context of someone else treating the protagonist that way, comes to the dismayed realization that he was actually kind of awful.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In Shusei's route towards him and the protagonist
- What Is This Feeling?: In Minato's sequel, Minato finds himself completely unable to fathom why he gets so worked up over Wataru and the protagonist going out shopping together and taking an unusually long time to come back. He's quite surprised when the protagonist explains to him some chapters later that it was jealousy he was feeling; he'd never experienced the emotion before.
Kaoru Kirishima
- Beautiful Dreamer: Kaoru spends a lot of his spare time napping on the porch, and within the first few chapters of his route the protagonist realizes that she's developed a habit of peeking at his face while he sleeps because he looks so cute.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Kaoru is terrible at expressing himself. Much of the conflict of both his route and his epilogue springs primarily from his inability to communicate his feelings, compounded by the protagonist's tendency to hold in her own feelings rather sharing them with him.
- Everyone Can See It: Everybody except the protagonist has Kaoru's feelings pegged by about halfway through his route, and the other guys take no end of delight in teasing him about it.
- Gentle Giant: Is in reality rather shy.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Kaoru, whose affection for his cat is the earliest sign that, despite his trouble communicating, he's not unfeeling.
- The Lost Lenore: His previous girlfriend was killed in a traffic accident. He saw it happen but wasn't able to do anything to prevent it, and the grief and guilt have left him reluctant to get too close to other people because he's afraid of losing anyone else he cares about.
- Master of the Mixed Message: Kaoru's long silences and difficulty with communicating his emotions has led the protagonist to believe he's not interested in her romantically and/or sexually. This is so bad that it continues even after they start dating, although he does make himself clear once he realizes how confused the protagonist is.
- Never Be Hurt Again: Because of this Kaoru is reluctant to let himself care about anyone for fear of having to suffer the pain of losing them.
- One Head Taller: Kaoru is described as very tall, and the artwork shows this trope to be in effect for him and the protagonist. Outside of the complicated logistics of kissing, the protagonist quite likes his height — she can always find him in a crowd, after all.
- The Quiet One: Speaks no more than he can help most of the time.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Exactly what says on the tin.
Shusei Hayakawa
- Closet Geek: Is an avid video gamer.
- Nice Guy: Minato describes him as "everyone's happy-smiley pal".
- Trash of the Titans: Shusei's room is as likely as not to be a disaster area, depending on how engrossed he's been in work and/or a video game recently.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Loyal childhood friend Minato happily informs the protagonist that Shusei is scared of bugs — particularly cockroaches. Later on, the protagonist motivates Shusei to clean his room by innocently wondering if there may be bugs lurking in the piles of clothes strewn about.
Chiaki Yuasa
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Chiaki is described at first as "gentlemanly" and having a "sweet face," and he exerts himself to come across as pleasant and cheerful to his co-workers. His true self, however, is something less pleasant.
- Establishing Character Moment: One of the first things we see Chiaki do in the prologue is cheerfully accept a gift of homemade cookies from one of his female co-workers... and then dump the cookies in the trash as soon as he thinks no one's looking.
- Freudian Excuse: After a couple of bad experiences, Chiaki has become distrustful of women in general, and goes to an effort to avoid making himself vulnerable to them lest he be taken advantage of.
- Stepford Smiler: Described in Kaoru's route as having a "nihilist smile".
Akiyoshi Zaizen
- Da Editor: Akiyoshi is Chief Editor and thus the boss of the rest of the main cast. He's strict and stern enough in this position that the protagonist has nicknamed him "the Growler."
- Tender Tears: The Growler cries during animal documentations, much to the protagonist's amusement.
