A page for the ever-expanding cast of Tawawa on Monday.
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Tropes applying to all:
- Age-Gap Romance: Ai-chan, Maegami-chan, Rikei-chan, Jitome-chan, Ouji-sama, and even Ai-chan's mother and Kunoichi-chan all fall under this trope, as all (with the exception of Rikei-chan) have dealt with love interests who were at least over the legal age while they were teenagers.
- Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Made pretty explicit in the original illustration continuity released to Comiket. Ai-chan's in a sexual relationship with Onii-san, Maegami-chan can't keep her hands off her teacher when they get together, and it is also implied that Cheer-chan and her childhood friend also had sex (much to the consternation of the former's manager). Gimai-chan explicitly screws her stepbrother and let's not get started on Jitome-chan and her situation. Or that Rikei eventually did sleep with her now-college student (on Coming-of-Age Day, no less).Nothing explicit is ever shown, just enough to let you know it happened or allow you to draw your own conclusions. The VIII-alpha book outright confirms this, with each main girl getting a look into each other's sex lives. It also reveals that this includes even Sada-chan. The lone exception to any of this is Kouhai-chan, who is oblivious to everyone thinking she and her Senpai are an item and hasn't taken any steps with Senpai at all. This is downplayed or averted in subsequent adaptations.
- Likes Older Men: Considering the Age-Gap Romance between the girls and their male love interests.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Very few of them are ever referred to by their given name or surname in the story. The rare few that are have it done in casual contexts.
- The Tease: Something common to a lot of the girls is their willingness to use their sex appeal to flirt with their men. Maegami, Cheer, and Hokuro at least pre-college exams were some of the biggest examples of the trope for this series.
- The Faceless: Apart from their mouths and noses, the male cast members don't have faces. This is a trait shared with virtually everyone save for a few female supporting cast members, so it's not like this was a huge leap.
- World of Buxom: Downplayed. While there are girls with smaller or flat breasts in Tawawa Prefecture, none of that ever applies to the focus girls. Even the ones that look flat are often revealed to be hiding their gifts from the world, or simply didn't go through puberty yet.
Recurring Cast
Ai-chan
- Voiced by: Sayaka Harada
- Bodyguard Crush: On the salaryman.
- D-Cup Distress: Her huge breasts are the source of much of her woes, since they keep growing. Not helping is Volleyball-chan regularly teasing her about it.
- Height Angst: Ai-chan is shorter than most people and really wishes she could be taller.
- Hidden Depths: In the manga continuity, she claims that she wants to be a nurse after graduation. She likes the idea of helping others and seeing other people happy because of her deeds.
- In-Series Nickname: She refers to herself as Ai-chan due to her cup-size. She briefly gave herself "Jay-chan" after they grow a cup, but she reverts back to Ai-chan.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: It's implied that Ai-chan's mother fell in love with an older man, much like Ai-chan is now.
- Ms. Fanservice: The most notable example, Ai-chan is small, cute, and very well endowed for a high schooler. She's quite aware of the effect she has on men, especially the Salaryman, so in addition to soothing his woes, she'll sometimes tease him too. Other times, it's innocent, too.
- Nice Girl: She's very polite and kind, a trait the Salaryman is very taken in by, in addition to her endowments. At one point, he even thinks she's faking it to trick him out of his money, but unbeknownst to him, that's not the case.
- Proud Beauty: She's well aware that she's a cute, busty girl, and is confident enough that she'd secure a fanbase of men if she were to become an idol.
- Running Gag:
- Due to her large bust, she frequently loses buttons from her tops.
- Due to a combination of her short yet busty stature, physical education is often an exercise in frustration, to the point of Himura Kiseki compiling all the strips of her struggling with this class as of February 2022.
- School Idol: Most boys in school absolutely love her, given her sweet personality and curvy figure. By contrast, the girls hated her for her popularity with the boys and her big breasts, at least until Volleyball-chan started coming to her defense. Nowadays they all like her just fine.
- Series Mascot: She will usually be the frontmost girl in advertisements, and takes the majority of focus in the net anime.
- Sex Dressed: At one point, she answers the door this way with her shirt undone at the top and the bottom, leaving it up to your imagination what exactly she and Onii-san were doing.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: While she is calm and polite, Ai-chan's little sister is a Genki Girl.
- Sore Loser: Ai-chan is super competitive, and has a slight tendency to use her assets (sometimes literally) to one-up the salaryman, be it in card games or air hockey. She also won't be outdone in the looks department, showing up Volleyball-chan when she's made to look cuter by their classmates for no other reason than because she got a lot of attention.
- Sword and Sorcerer: Her brief other-world adventure with Onii-san puts both of them into this role. Ai-chan became a powerful mage with a huge mana supply courtesy of her breasts, while Onii-san was a sword-swinging fighter who gets magic buffs from Ai-chan.
Kouhai-chan
- Voiced by: Ai Kayano
An office lady whose love interest is her older coworker. Likes to get drunk.
- Berserk Button: Never insinuate that her superiors and especially Senpai are scumbags. Due to a series of misunderstandings Rikei-chan thought Kouhai was being sexually exploited in her company and the subject of various fetishes for Senpai, and while Kouhai doesn't do anything on panel her stance and words make it clear those were fighting words for her.
- Can't Hold Her Liquor: She's pretty poor with a bit of alcohol in her system. She doesn't drink much at a company mixer, but she's sloshed by the time she leaves.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: She used to be part of a game circle in college, and used to cosplay a lot for it. She still gets roped into it at present, when Rikei-chan asks her to come with them to Comiket.
- Girlfriend in Canada: She claims to have a boyfriend in the countryside to deter any guys that might take an interest in her.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: She adores Senpai's cat, who she takes care of now and again and has nicknamed "Fumi-chan".
- Office Lady: While there are other one off girls that fit the archetype, Kouhai-chan is the frontmost example of the trope.
- Motherly Side Plait: Kouhai-chan sports one in #301 which turns out to just be her senpai's dream. Himura is quite aware of this trope, as per his commentary:"For the full "married woman" feeling, put your hair in a loose tail on your shoulder. It's the universal symbol for "mom."
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: She and Senpai are very close both as workers and as people. Everyone around them thinks that they're already a couple, but neither of them have made a move and Senpai especially has been pining for her but has never told her. Either way, they both correct the relationship when asked.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She and her younger teenage brother look startlingly similar, to the point where he can even passably crossdress.
Maegami-chan
- Voiced by: Rie Takahashi
- Blackmail: The manga continuity clarifies that Sensei didn't immediately start dating her out of mutually attracted feelings. Instead, Maegami accidentally recorded Sensei forcing himself on her and their whole sexual encounter, and threatened to make it public if he doesn't marry her. She later uses it as a half-joke, half-threat when she wants to make sure Sensei won't cheat on her with one of his students.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She's rather possessive, all things considered. When she thinks that a girl might be interested in her teacher, she tells them in no uncertain terms that the man is hers and hers alone.
- Disappeared Dad: Maegami's mother makes mention of a divorce, and there are no family photos with her father included in her house. His whereabouts are unknown.
- Happily Married: She settles down very quickly once she's gotten her man, and at least two years later she seems perfectly satisfied with her life and child.
- Housewife: After getting married, she doesn't seem to have a job (part time or otherwise) and is often seen in their shared apartment. We do know that she does housework such as cooking and cleaning. In the manga continuity, she at least finishes college before settling down, as part of her agreement with her teacher.
- Insecure Love Interest: In the manga continuity, she is still plenty aggressive and sly, but she has a more pronounced feeling of insecurity regarding the age gap between them. She lets slip multiple times that she wants to become the mature adult woman she believes her teacher deserves, and gets frustrated when he flips between treating her as his girlfriend and as his younger recently-former student.
- Jailbait Wait: She ultimately snags her teacher when she goes over to his house, literally the night after graduation. Before that moment, she wasn't in much of a mood to wait. Deconstructed in the manga continuity, where Maegami's current status as his younger lover and her former status as his student actually make him unsure how to treat her in their coupling.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: Her eventual daughter is a Daddy's Girl who likes to hog his attention, just like how she was fixated on the teacher for all of high school.
- One Sided Rivalry: With Ai-chan. Because the girl is the exact type their teacher prefers in women (bubbly, small, cute and absolutely stacked), Maegami is under the impression that she'll snatch the teacher up. She also becomes a Stalker without a Crush for her, until she realizes she's in a relationship with the Salaryman.
- Single-Target Sexuality: She is never fixated on any other boy—only her teacher, and she makes that fact very clear to him.
- Student Council President: In addition to fantastic grades, she was also the student body president while she was still in school. She can be seen accompanying Volley-bu during a uniform acquisition meeting with Kouhai's company.
Jitome-chan
A steely-eyed miko who's rather soft on the inside. She's engaged to her older cousin.- Affectionate Nickname: Ai-chan and Volleyball call her "Miko-chan", since they met her when she was acting as a miko for her family's shrine.
- Can't Hold Her Liquor: After drinking a single cup of amazake (or possibly even a single sip), she becomes an aggressive drunk, immediately beginning to strip and make advances on her fiancé/cousin.
- Childhood Marriage Promise: One backed by divine blessing, no less.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: She becomes one for Sada-chan, being the one to conscript her as a miko for her shrine, and getting annoyed when she goes off to have sex marathons with her lover
- Face of a Thug: Downplayed with Jitome-chan; even though her default expression resembles a Death Glare, her beauty still draws the boys in her class to ask her out. Her cousin/fiancé is a straighter example, capable of scaring away older men just by glaring at them. The men, while running away, comment that the pair look like a yakuza princess and her bodyguard.
- He Who Must Not Be Heard: Like Sensei, Jitome doesn't say anything in the manga serialization, with all of her lines represented by pictures or otherwise saying nothing. Somewhat downplayed in her focus chapters, as she can be heard/read speaking a number of times, but for the majority most of her dialogue is still inferred from others' reactions/replies.
- Kissing Cousins: Due to her praying to the shrine's god when she was younger, she is engaged to her older cousin.
- Not So Stoic: Usually in matters regarding her fiancé/cousin. When questioning her about how she feels about her engagement, Volleyball-chan come up with the hypothetical scenario of him possibly dumping Jitome-chan for Ai-chan due to the latter having bigger breasts: Jitome-chan breaks out in tears and pleads not to take him from her.
- Pals with Jesus: Or more precisely, she is forced to listen to the running commentary from the Fertility God (with a focus on pregnancy/safe childbirth) her family's shrine is dedicated to.
Sada-chan
She's, well, Sadako, struggling with haunting a boy working in a rental video store. Well, not actually Sadako herself, but the ghost of a Former Child Star that died while filming an in-universe parody of her inspiration in the most ironic way.- Be Careful What You Wish For: Majority of her appearances involve her trying (and failing) to escape his small monitor to get at her man. When he DOES buy a monitor big enough for her to escape, she makes very good on her promise to have sex with him...only to find out the very long and hard way (no pun intended) that her lover is a man with an insane amount of libido that can exhaust even a ghost like her, and who's not satisfied with a single round. That being said, by New Year's Eve 2022, it ultimately does not deter her from wanting some sex again with her man.
- Cute Ghost Girl: Sada is never quite able to pull off the scary ghost aesthetic. She's a naturally cute and clumsy girl.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She does not take kindly to her haunt watching porn (of a Cheer-chan lookalike, no less), and responds by ramping up her seduction efforts.
- Gamer Chick: Sada-chan somehow has several video game consoles in her well that she digs past when looking for bikinis to seduce her man with.
- Miko: After Jitome-chan, having learned of her through Ai-chan, finally gives Sada-chan the break to end their lovemaking marathon, she conscripts the girl to act as one at the local shrine. Special mention goes to the fact that normally, Sada-chan's robes go right-over-left (and require three safety pins to be secure), like how the deceased are robed, though in public, it's oriented normally to avoid tipping people off.
- Progressively Prettier: Sada-chan was drawn more like a traditional Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl in her intro comic, with her huge breasts being the only thing making her become a Cute Ghost Girl. Come entries 287 and 289, and she's arguably the most beautiful (
in addition to the curviest) woman in the cast. Justified, given that she was a very popular Former Child Star. - Right Through the Wall: Her sex marathon with her lover is so loud, Ai-chan and the Salaryman hear it from their flat downstairs. It prompts a hilarious failed attempt by the two to confront the amorous pair.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: As the resident Sadako Expy, she serves this trope well.
- Virtual Celebrity: Thanks to her powers over recorded media, Sada-chan was able to launch a successful career masquerading as a Virtual Youtuber as #287 shows us.
Hokuro-chan
A rather unassuming but very flirty high schooler who posts lewd selfies on Twitter under an older persona.- Best Her to Bed Her: Her focus comic introduces the concept of her encouraging her classmate to become the top ranking student in tests if he wants to date her. Both she and her boy fail, so they both attend a practice school. When they later pass their exams, she drags the guy to a love hotel, unable to wait any longer.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: She cuts her hair following mock exams.
- Homage: Originally, she was created as an homage to Tomoe Sasamori's erotic drawings, which usually featured cool-headed, buxom brunette high school girls (many of whom had glasses as well).
- Lascivious Beauty Mark: She uses this trope as part of her initial gimmick. She originally was a straitlaced and nondescript girl in public, but she'd secretly post erotic pictures of herself online and a classmate discovered her secret because he noticed all her moles match the online persona's. When confronted, Hokuro-chan reveals herself to be a flirtatious tease, as she would sometimes tease the guy about the identity of more moles on her body.
- The Tease: Hokuro is rather dominant in her relationship with her classmate, and in the Volume 8-Alpha doujin her sexual experience also involves looking down on him as she holds his leash.
The Twins
A pair of high school aged sisters who live next to their childhood friend.- Childhood Friend Romance: These two were the kind to have been joined at the hip with their neighbor all throughout their childhood, to the point where they still regularly sleep together at his house. Naturally, they both have developed feelings for him. He is only in love with the twin with the hairpin, but to their knowledge he doesn't know which is which.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: The calm twin recognized that her neighbor is interested in her sister, so she takes him into the gym supply closet to have sex with him during the sister's basketball game. She continues to do frisky things with him after the incident, beneath the sister's notice, but makes sure to tease her over the idea by calling her up in the middle of said frisky business.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: One twin wears a clover hairpin, while the other wears her hair loose. Realistically, it's not a true tell. They switch the hairpin with a game of rock-paper-scissors, so while "the one without a hairpin" is the one he has sex with and "the one with a hairpin" is the one he likes, they both take their turns stealing his attention.
- Love Interest vs. Lust Interest: An arrow straight version of the trope. The girls' neighbor likes the twin with the clover hairpin, but eventually he starts getting seduced by the twin with loose hair and constantly has sex with her. In an interesting variation of the trope, both girls are both tropes, since they regularly take turns pretending to be each other.
- Polar Opposite Twins: One twin is more of a hot-head than the other and wears her emotions on her sleeve, but she by contrast has very girly underwear. The other twin is more sly and mellow but much more open about her preference for her friend, but she wears comparatively boring and modest underwear.
- Retool: Their concept was born from one of the earliest Tawawa images, depicting a pair of twins who are either getting ready for lewd acts or posing for a gravure shoot.
- Twin Switch: They sometimes swap hairstyles (or even underwear) to make their neighbor guess who which one is. Surprisingly, he's pretty hands-on, so if he can remember their bras he can remember the girl. This is also the twist of the 11th Comiket comic; the boy, unbeknownst to himself, is having sex with both girls under the identity of one.
Secondary Girls
Volleyball-chan
- Voiced by: Shizuka Ishigami
- All Gays are Promiscuous: She's the main source of same-sex attraction in the series, and many of her appearances have her either lusting for or attempting to get handsy with Ai-chan.
- Boyish Short Hair: Her short cut marks her as the most tomboyish of all the Tawawa girls, since all but one (Gimai) keep their hair about neck length.
- Butch Lesbian: She's a tomboyish jock with short, cropped hair, her fashion sense is more masculine than her best friend, and the only person she's ever shown having a crush on is female.
- Chivalrous Pervert: She has virtually no restraint with Ai-chan, and acts the part of a lecher whenever she gets the chance, but there's a part of her that won't let other people take advantage of her friend or badmouth her.
- A Day in the Limelight: While most of her screentime is spent around Ai-chan and her family, she gets a few images centering around a high school boy who fancies her.
- Even the Girls Want Her: As the ace of the women's volleyball team, she gets a lot of female admirers in school. This attitude also extends to Ai-chan's little sister, who won't miss any opportunity to fawn over Volleyball once she enters their high school. That's not to say that she doesn't have boys admiring her too; while she's considered One of the Guys, she's gotten attention from model scammers.
- Incompatible Orientation: Ai-chan is 100% straight. Unfortunately, Volleyball-chan is 100% gay (or at least bisexual with a heavy preference for other women) and crushes on her hard. More unfortunate still, Volleyball-chan constantly tries to at least feel up Ai-chan's breasts, imagines sexual scenarios with Ai-chan, and even tries to force Ai-chan into sexual situations, with her actions crossing the line into sexual harassment many times. Ai-chan is annoyed by Volleyball-chan's antics at best, and angered by them at worst, reflecting a rare realistic reaction to unwanted Skinship Grope. However, they remain friends because all the other girls in their school are jealous of Ai-chan and she is only involved in anything because Volleyball-chan is her friend and is popular with girls and boys.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Some of her classmates fix up her hair and give her a sweater to make her look more feminine. Combined with a fabricated shy personality, it makes her look much more vulnerable and cute, which makes Ai jealous and want to outdo her.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Volleyball-chan acts as the sporty meathead to Ai-chan's girly girl.
- Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Played for laughs. A few comics are dedicated to Volleyball and Ai-chan's friendship and how the former protects the latter from envious girls, but the punchline of those flashbacks always seems to be Volleyball gleefully holding this support over Ai-chan's head so the girl will be guilted into letting her cop a feel forever.
Rikei-chan
A hot teacher with students that really really like her for obvious reasons. She's an old college friend of Kouhai-chan.- Retool: She starts off as a teacher character with obvious romantic undertones with one of her struggling students, but unlike every other girl with a love interest her subplot with him is never mentioned again. Later strips keep her in a Best Friend role for Kouhai, as well as an eventual friend for Senpai and a mentor for Maegami.
Cheer-chan
A cheerleader and classmate of Ai-chan who has drawn national attention for her generous assets. Begins working as a gravure model, to the shock of her school and semi-consternation of her childhood friend. Her real name is Chia.- His Name Really Is "Barkeep": In Japanese, her identifier is pronounced the exact same way as her given name (Cheer → チア → Chia).
- Idol Singer: The manga continuity describes her as more than a model, and it's implied that she's a center in an idol group. She continues this well into adulthood.
- Pom-Pom Girl: Her earliest illustrations show her cheering on her school's baseball team, and she keeps at it even while modelling. In the manga continuity, she turned out to be scouted precisely because of her enthusiastic cheering.
- The Tease: A professional one as a gravure idol, but in her personal life she's also well aware that her childhood friend makes use of her pictures and videos, and enjoys toying with him over it.
Gimai-chan
A girl that recently graduated high school, and who now shares the same college (and apartment) as her older stepbrother. She really wants her stepbrother.- Expository Hairstyle Change: Sometime during college, she cuts her hair short.
- Little Sister Heroine: She's not that much younger than her stepbrother, about one to three years younger given that he was already in college when she graduated. She still holds all of the hallmarks of the trope, from her jealousy when he's near other girls, to her possessiveness of him when they're alone.
- Not Blood Siblings: She was gunning for her stepbrother from day one. She at least has her mother's blessing for the time being, but at no point does she ever really treat her brother as anything but a live-in love interest.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Gimai-chan's eyes are drawn without pupils. According to Himura, this frees him up to give her a wide variety of hairstyles without leaving any doubt as to which girl this is.
- Secret Relationship: Downplayed. Gimai and her brother are pretty much openly dating in college, but their parents don't know about it yet. Whenever her stepfather calls, she has to pretend that they're simply cohabiting as brother and sister. By #283 however, Gimai finally decides to make the relationship known to her father, and he reluctantly but quickly accepts.
Country Girl
A clumsy girl who lives in the countryside. Has a crush on her neighbor.- Cute Clumsy Girl: Her second illustration has her tied up in her own ropes by accident.
- Girl Next Door: She's not as earthy as most examples, but she lives right next to the boy she likes and seeks out any opportunity to hang out with him.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Most of the time she wears plain and unassuming clothes, with only her breasts being her standout feature. When she goes swimming with her crush however, she pulls out all the stops and becomes downright gorgeous in a new swimsuit and hairstyle.
Ouji-sama
The most popular girl in an all-girls' school. She becomes interested in the school's groundskeeper.- Even the Girls Want Her: No matter what, girls always flock to her for her cool demeanor and princely behavior. She only shows her feminine side to the groundskeeper.
- Nice to the Waiter: Is very interested in and cordial to a groundskeeper at her school and always looks to him for a conversation.
- Ojou: Like everyone else attending her private school, Ouji-sama is the daughter of a very wealthy family. Outside of school she is expected to be a prim and proper lady, and is also set for an arranged marriage sometime after she finishes her schooling. One of the reasons why she appreciates the Groundskeeper and Ojou-chan so much is because they attempt to give her moments free of the controlling structures she deals with in the rest of her life.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: To her, the groundskeeper is not nearly as materialistic as most of the men in her life, and according to Ojou he is also a very progressive man, disliking restrictive gender roles.
- Start My Own: Her Comiket chapter's epilogue establishes that she eventually starts up a business with Ojou.
- Uptown Girl: Plays this role for the Groundskeeper. Eventually, so does Ojou, and both share him.
Ojou-chan
Ouji-sama's best friend from childhood.- Supporting Protagonist: The Comiket chapter that prominently features her is far more about Ouji-sama and her relationship with the Groundskeeper than it is about her (although her friendship with Ouji is still important). She serves as the narrator of the story.
Esper-chan
A high school girl who developed telekinesis just to levitate her breasts in place of a bra. She gets involved with an Occult Club nerd.- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Rather than being upset, Esper is more confused that the Nerd didn't take advantage of her teleporting mishap when she materialized in school naked. He was much more interested in how she did that in the first place.
Kunoichi-chan
A clumsy kunoichi whose biggest obstacles are her airheaded nature and her curvy body.- Cute Clumsy Girl: She cannot be stealthy to save her life. Her unbound breasts make it impossible to do camouflage, she's easily captured, and she keeps making minor mistakes.
The Boys
Salaryman / "Onii-san"
- Voiced By: Junji Majima
- Age-Gap Romance: He's deep into adulthood while Ai-chan remains a student. This aspect of their relationship is constantly discussed, as the Salaryman is frustrated that he can't be more openly intimate with Ai because of social customs and outright prefers the Sword and Sorcery world because the land they go to in the 13th Comiket compilation has a younger age of consent.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He hates going to work, especially on Mondays where he is sure to get a scolding from his boss for not completing his assignments. Ai-chan's soothing presence help motivate the Salaryman to work harder. Case in point, promising to go to the beach with him and showing a picture of her swimsuit makes him breeze through his workload.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: He clearly has this preference.
- Chivalrous Pervert: He has an obvious attraction to Ai-chan, but never acts on it, for obvious reasons. Well, maybe in the anime continuity. The original Comiket stories make it clear that he and Ai-chan are in a sexual relationship, averting the trope.
- Connected All Along: The manga reveals that he's Volleyball-chan's uncle on her mother's side of the family.
- Jailbait Wait: Completely averted in the original Comiket stories, as its established early in the story strips(via very sexually suggestive implication) that he and Ai-chan are in a sexual relationship. Later, full explicit confirmation is given in subsequent illustration continuity strips that this is indeed the case.
- Oblivious to Love: The Salaryman is clueless to Ai-chan's rather obvious crush on him.
- Promoted to Love Interest: Let's just say season 1 ends with the heavy implication that his relationship with Ai-chan has become sexual. Although that appears to not be canon anymore in season 2. This is only in the anime though. In the original Comiket stories, he and Ai-chan are very much in an romantic, openly sexual relationship, and this is established pretty early on.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: Looking at it objectively, The Salaryman is one of the more immoral partners in the series. He's in a semi-sexual (full on sexual in the Comiket illustration continuity) relationship with a girl in high school, while his contemporaries at least waited until graduation, and he's a bit possessive of his partner. This is best seen by the mini tantrum he throws when he learns that Ai has been doing some modeling, as if he's the only one that should get to look at her.
Senpai
- Voiced by: Yasuaki Takumi
- Insecure Love Interest: Make no mistake, he really loves Kouhai-chan. He just doesn't want to ruin the relationship he has with her, and part of his anxiety stems from office politics (he both has seniority over her and any potential advances on her could be mistaken for sexual harassment).
- She's Not My Girlfriend: While mostly true, he tries to deny any attraction to her. Time will tell when he finally admits to his true feelings.
Sensei
- Voiced by: Junichi Yanagita
- Audience Surrogate: More so than any of the other partners. He has no spoken lines and mostly just grunts. And he doesn't really have any interests outside of being intimate with Maegami, allowing the viewer or reader to project on him all they want.
- Above the Influence: Kind of. He manages to resist all of Maegami-chan's approaches on him in high school until she graduates. Not so much when they're married. He actually slept with her the night she graduated.
- Affectionate Nickname: His wife still prefers to call him 'sensei'.
- He Who Must Not Be Heard: Besides grunts and gasps, he never utters a single word. Not even in the anime adaptation does he get the chance to speak, and in the manga serialization everything he says is either just offscreen or conveyed through pictures.
- I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: Subverted, since before they live together he managed to reject Maegami's approaches and flirts for three years...only to forcefully have his way with with Maegami the moment he realizes his love for her, not that she minds.
- Insatiable Newlyweds: The Salaryman said that Sensei and Maegami are often 'noisy' at night, implying they do it frequently. However in some scenes with Sensei and Maegami also implied that she's the one who usually instigate it rather than him.
- Insecure Love Interest: Many of the guys have their insecurities, but apparently he gets into a lot of depressive episodes even after getting intimate with Maegami. She also insinuates that he's worried not only because he's dating a former student, but also that he might not be the right partner for her; as such, she deliberately pulls on his protective instincts by lying about near-dangerous encounters with lustful men.
- Jailbait Wait: Only lasted till she graduated, though.
- One Degree of Separation: He is neighbors with The Salaryman and later with Ai-chan's family.
- Teacher/Student Romance: He avoided this for three years and only goes through with it when Maegami-chan graduates, making her officially not his student anymore (though she still calls him 'sensei').
Fiance
Jitome-chan's older cousin and arranged fiance. He is also works at their family shrine.- Age Lift: He's nowhere near high school age in the illustration continuity, as he was already in middle school when Jitome was a kid. In the manga continuity, their age gap is less apparent, as he's simply a year or two older than her.
- Chivalrous Pervert: In the manga universe, he can't hide that he's attracted to Jitome, but he tries to be as respectful as he can to her and does not want to take advantage of their engagement just because it makes it more convenient to be with her. His later request to annul the engagement is later revealed to be both a serious assertion that he wants Jitome to live the way he wants rather than be bogged down by tradition; and is secretly because he wants to have sex with her like a normal couple since he knows Jitome likes him now.
- Face of a Thug: His glasses hide it very well, but he has the same frightening glare Jitome does.
- Not Blood Siblings: Unlike Gimai-chan and her brother, played for drama in the manga. After hitting puberty, he started noticing Jitome as a woman but felt guilty about it; he would love to date her, but he realizes that the easiest path would be to let the arranged marriage happen— which means they stick to a tradition both of them hate and keeps them tethered to their shrine.
The rental video store worker
The haunt of Sada-chan. The fact that his monitors are too small for her to escape through forms much of their interactions.- All Men Are Perverts: The man certainly does enjoy the company of the girl with the biggest breasts in the series. Also exploited, since Sada-chan tempts him with the promise of sex if he buys a bigger monitor to escape from. And when he caves, she finds out the hard way that making good on her promise unleashed a libidinous monster, resulting in a sex marathon for them implied to occur over the course of one day.
- No Name Given: Even by the standards of the series, there's no title to refer to him. The name above is just the best description for what he is.
Baseball Player
Cheer-chan's childhood friend. A member of his school's baseball team.- Childhood Friend Romance: He's very obviously into Cheer-chan, and as luck would have it, she likes him back. While Cheer-chan is flirty with him, the manga continuity shows that they don't become a couple, and won't even when they graduate from high school. The illustration continuity, however, implies that their relationship does in fact become more intimate.
- Tragic Dream: The manga version of the guy makes it so that he never goes pro in baseball, and our first glimpse at his adulthood shows that he eventually starts working in a factory.
Groundskeeper
A blue collar maintenance man what works at Ouji-sama and Ojou-chan's school.- Househusband: What appears to have happened in the epilogue. Ouji-sama and Ojou-chan are the breadwinners of the relationship, starting their own business and working as the bosses, while the Groundskeeper stays home and takes care of their two children.
- Never Bareheaded: He is always seen in a backwards-facing baseball cap. Even when he and Ojou storm Ouji-sama's wedding, he is wearing his cap along with a proper suit.
- Polyamory: He ends up marrying Ouji-sama, but he has children by both her and Ojou and the two girls are very eager to make more. He even ends his Comiket chapter with A Lady on Each Arm.
Others
Ai-chan's Family
Ai-chan's Sister
- Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Like any little sister, she likes messing with her older sister.
- Does Not Like Men: The manga reveals that she strongly dislikes how the boys around her ogle her and other girls. Strangely, she is totally fine with Volleyball-chan, who openly talks about how obsessed she is with Ai-chan's boobs and constantly gropes her.
- Settle for Sibling: Volleyball-chan's bonus comic ends with Ai-chan's sister invoking this trope, saying she'll go for Volleyball-chan's kid brother since the former girl is obsessed with Ai-chan.
Ai-chan's Mother
- Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue
- Ambiguous Situation: Whether or not she is currently married to Ai's father or anyone for that matter. If she is, then that character has been left out of the series most likely to avoid any uh, interesting dynamics with the family given the format.
- Big-Breast Pride: She has one of the largest busts in the series and she knows it. Briefly bragging about outgrowing a rather large bra many years ago.
- Mum Looks Like a Sister: She looks young enough to be considered the older sister to her two daughters.
- Teen Pregnancy: Implied to have given birth to Ai-chan when she was "very young".
