Characters and the specific tropes appearing in There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless…
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Renako Amaori
Renako Amaori
Voiced by: Ayaka Ohashi (PV)
The protagonist of the series. She is a former hikikomori who is desperate to make the most out of her high school years. She is gloomy and negative, but tries her best to appear bright and sociable in front of others.
- Character Catchphrase: "There is no way!". Also counts as a Title Drop.
- Chick Magnet: For someone who supposedly doesn't belong with the popular crowd, she certainly managed to gain the affections of many girls during the story.
- Covert Pervert: After the events of Volume 1, Renako starts noticing how often her mind goes into R-rated territory when her friends say something ambiguous, and is very concerned about it.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: When Mai has a minor freak out after hearing Renako was sharing a room with Ajisai at the inn, Renako tries to calm her down by saying there is nothing lewd about two girls sleeping together, bringing up the time she did it with Satsuki as evidence. Except neither Mai not Ajisai had heard this before, so the number of girls wanting to interrogate Renako rose to two.
- Disappointing Older Sibling: Seen as this by her younger sister, for being a hikikomori during her middle school years and (seemingly) two-timing Mai and Satsuki.
- Friendless Background: Thanks to an incident in middle school where she gave the other girls the impression that she didn't want to hang out with them, leading to her being excluded of the group.
- Gamer Chick: She loves video-games, to the point of nicknaming her console. It's somewhat of a tragic example, as she spent so much time playing games because she lacked friends.
- Oh, Crap!: Renako has an extended one when she realizes Satsuki plans to get revenge on Mai through her.
- Selective Obliviousness: Renako has been hanging out with the most admired girls in school long enough that most students also consider her to be part of the popular crowd and are repeatedly seen commenting on how cute she is. Yet, she refuses to consider herself one of them and is always worried that she looks out of place among her friends, as she is too self-depreciative to think of herself as beloved or popular.
- Transparent Closet: Renako may kiss and get kissed by girls, make passionate speeches about how much she admires her friends, and even share a bath with a significant amount of body contact with more than one girl, but you will never get her to admit out loud she is into girls.
Mai Oduka
Mai Oduka
Voiced by: Azusa Tadokoro (PV)
A world-famous model and daughter of a fashion designer, Mai is extravagantly wealthy, beautiful, and is considered the school's Madonna. She falls in love with Renako and makes a bet with her to make her accept dating, kickstarting the plot.
- The Ace: She is filthy rich, a popular model, has an athletic body figure, gets top grades at school, and usually masters most things she sets on mastering in short time. Other characters repeatedly lampshade (and complain about) how she is pretty much the perfect woman.
- Always Someone Better: To Satsuki, always getting better grades even though Satsuki has been trying to beat her for years. Satsuki finally gets her victory at the end of Volume 2.
- Break the Haughty: Turns out the entire plot of the series, from the climax of Volume 1 to Volume 4, was this for, although she hides it well. Between her failing to get Renako to become her girlfriend, losing a match to Satsuki, and seeing both Satsuki and Ajisai seemingly making more progress with Renako than herself, Mai slowly lost her confidence that she would always win, at one point being reduced to crying over a broken heart when alone with her best friend like any other teenage girl. She only gets better when Renako announces that she wants to go out with both her and Ajisai.
- But Not Too Bi: She claims at one point that she doesn't care about the gender of her future partner, implying she identifies as bi or pansexual. However, she is quick to follow this statement with an explanation about how she is Renako-sexual now, so you won't be seeing her showing any interest in boys. In fact, the closest she ever gets to showing interest in a person that isn't Renako is when she entertains the idea that she might have fallen in love with Ajisai under different circunstances in Volume 4.
- Childhood Friends: Mai and Satsuki first met during fifth grade. Despite Satsuki's apparent enmity towards Mai, that they stuck around each other for so long has ensured Satsuki would join the small list of people Mai considers to be special.
- Chuunibyou: Right in the first chapter, during the talk on the tree, Renako remarks that Mai talks like she has a bad case of chuunibyou, being overly dramatic and romantic.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She gets jealous easily when Renako hangs out with other girls. To the point where she rushes to go back to her even when she is currently in a different country.
- Covert Pervert: At first glance she is always prim and proper, but when Renako asks her to write down what she would like to do with her if they were lovers, she finds herself with a long list of R-rated activities.
- Even the Girls Want Her: She is loved by everyone, regardless of age or gender. The climax of Volume 1 shows that her pretenders can form a huge, mixed-gender crowd that nearly fills the entire lobby of a hotel.
- Innocently Insensitive: She doesnt' fully realize how much Satsuki is bothered by always losing to her. This reaches its zenith when she bluntly tells Satsuki that she thinks the latter hasn't changed since they were children. As Renako had already discovered, Satsuki has been trying to better herself for years to finally defeat Mai, and this comment sounds like a denial of all her hard work.
- It's All About Me: While a Played for Laughs example, the fact is that she is extremely arrogant. She is fully aware of her own status as The Ace and uses it as an argument at every opportunity, to the point where she claims it's sunny the day she goes on a date with Renako because she wants it to be. There is also her idea of courtship.Renako: "Where did you get the idea that I like you?"Mai: "Are you implying that there is a person that doesn’t like me?"
- Lonely at the Top: There are plenty of people that admire and flat-out worship Mai, but she is aware that's very different from having a friend or a lover. This loneness makes her deeply treasure Satsuki and Ajisai for being her friends as equals and leads to her falling in love and confessing to Renako merely one day after a heart-to-heart talk with her.
- No Sense of Personal Space: From the moment she falls in love with Renako, Mai develops an habit of getting really close and personal whenever they are talking.
- Not So Above It All: The usually confident and seductive Mai becomes a lot quieter when visiting Renako's room for the first time. The second time, she admits she was nervous. She later gets entranced into silence by the sight of Renako's panties, to the disbelief of the other girl.
- Peerless Love Interest: A big part of the reason Renako initially refuted Mai is that she has trouble understanding why the most famous and desired girl in school would want her for a girlfriend. Her inner monologues across Volume 1 show that she feels a lot of pressure when she is seen together with Mai. Her status as this is part of the reason she is Lonely at the Top, and why she wants Renako to be her lover so badly.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Renako-sexual. Once Mai falls in love with someone, it has to be that person. She doesn't care how many admirers she has, Renako is the only one who touched her heart, and the only one who can be her lover.
- Stepford Smiler: The climax of Volume 4 reveals that she has been making an effort to look cheerful as always when in front of Renako and Ajisai, even though she became very insecure about herself and afraid Renako won't return her feelings.
Satsuki Koto
Satsuko Koto
The blunt and serious one of the group. While she is a long-time friend of Mai, she also has a goal to make her taste defeat. Despite hanging out with Renako together with their mutual friends, she doesn't appear to like her very much.
- Brutal Honesty: Satsuki always gives her blunt opinion when talking with Renako, which usually results in insults.
- Childhood Friends: You will be hard-pressed to get Satsuki to admit the "friends" part, but anyone who knows her history with Mai quickly notices she is the closest friend Mai ever had.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Her dark hair, cold disposition, and occasional evil smirks cause her to be compared to a villain or a fairy tale witch, the same way Mai is compared to a queen and Ajisai is called an angel by Renako. Nonetheless, she can be quite compassionate and helpful towards her friends.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: At the beginning, she is cold and dismissive towards Renako. Through the events of Volume 2, however, she begins opening up to her, ultimately admitting they are friends.
- Determinator: She has spent years trying to defeat Mai without ever giving up.
- Evil Laugh: Let's out a stereotypical one after seeing Mai falling down to her knees after being told about Satsuki kissing Renako.
- Not So Above It All: Despite being a self-aware Ice Queen, she gets very flustered when she and Renako accidentally kiss, and it doesn't get better when the possibility of her entering a real romantic relationship appears.
- Tsundere: Towards Mai and Renako, whom she treats with cold indifference despite being close friends. The latter even notices how Satsuki's childish insistence that she doesn't like Mai in the slightest only makes it look like she likes her a lot.
Ajisai Sena
Ajisai Sena
Voiced by: Manaka Iwami (PV)
The kindest girl of the group. She is friendly to everyone and her sweet personality has made her the target of Renako's admiration.
- Butt-Monkey: In Volume 2 only. A Running Gag through this volume is Ajisai trying to get closer to Renako and not only failing, but reacting with lots of distress when she notices Satsuki seemingly becoming very close to Renako in short time.
- Cannot Spit It Out: She develops feelings for Renako at the climax of Volume 1, but never musters to courage to admit it, let alone confess. Until the ending of Volume 3.
- Cool Big Sis: Despite her token complaints, it's clear that her younger brothers like her a lot and she takes care of them well.
- Gamer Chick: Not to the same extent as Renako, but she plays video-games with her younger brothers a lot. It becomes the initial reason for them to visit each other's houses.
- The Heart: It's even pointed out by Satsuki. Ajisai's apparently infinite goodwill and kindness made her reach out to all the other girls and paved the way for the quintet to become close friends. She is the only member of the group to always be in good terms with all the other four, regardless of all issues the quintet has to tackle through the series.
- Hypocritical Humor: At one point in Volume 3 she meekly complains that Renako is nice to everyone (and thus, not just to her). Renako is shocked that THE Nice Girl dared to say this about someone else.
- Nice Girl: Ajisai is so kind and polite, she borders on being a parody of this trope. Renako is convinced she can't be a mere human being.
Kaho Koyanagi
Kaho Koyanagi
A very energetic girl, she is the mood maker of the group. Proclaims herself to be a fan of Mai and has even confessed to her in the past.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: As revealed in Volume 4. She explains that, since she isn't good at drawing or writing, she decided cosplay was the best way to express her love for anime and manga.
- Forgotten First Meeting: She recognized Renako as soon as she saw her again in high school, but Renako didn't realize Kaho was the girl she befriended as a child until Volume 4.
- Genki Girl: The most active member of the group, and the one that is always starting conversations and inviting the others to do something fun.
- The Nicknamer: Never calls her friends by their proper names, preferring to use nicknames.
- One Degree of Separation: One of her cosplay friends turns out to be a classmate of Renako's little sister.
- Out of Focus: While Ajisai was already prominent in the first two Volumes and Satsuki had small but important roles in Volumes 1 and 3, Kaho mostly just hang around the group not doing anything important before gaining her Character Focus moment in Volume 4.
- Shipper with an Agenda: She has a moment in Volume 4 that fits this trope, but is Played for Laughs. Upon discovering the Love Triangle Renako found herself in, she tells her to pick Ajisai because that would give Kaho the chance to "console" Mai.
- Smarter Than You Look: She is a Genki Girl to the maximum, the most fun-loving member of the group, and also one of the top 10 students of their grade. Renako was shocked to learn about that last part.
