The Narita Family
Hatsumi Narita (成田初, Narita Hatsumi?), 16
The main character of the series. She is really close to her older brother, Shinogu. At the beginning of the series she was a second-year student at Takazono High School, a private school. While Akane's fear of being pregnant leads Hatsumi into purchasing a pregnancy test for her, Ryoki accidentally sees her with it, and in exchange for that information's secrecy, Hatsumi becomes Ryoki's personal slave. She'll belive anything you'll say to her. She has a hard time getiing over Azusa to move on when he dumpes her in the beginning but later she starts to feel love again.
Akane Narita (成田茜, Narita Akane?), 14
Hatsumi's younger sister, who is somewhat of a floozy. She dates many boys, but eventually develops a crush on Ryoki's best friend, Subaru. At the beginning of the series, she is a third-year student at a local public junior high school. She easily gets jealous and in the beginning causes her sister problems. At the end she is nice and even gives her sister advice on Ryouki.
Shinogu Narita (成田凌, Narita Shinogu?), 19
Hatsumi's older (adopted) brother, who is in love with her romantically, not in a family manner. He is incredibly kind and helpful. At the beginning of the series, he is a freshman law student at Hitotsubashi University. He isn't home much due to club activities and various part-time jobs. He is pretty much the reason the drama in the series exists. Shinogu was taken in by the Naritas when he was a little kid. But his parents had left big debts behind when they died. Shihoko and Toru Narita are constantly fighting about where they are to get the money to repay their debts from. Thus comes the plot Mr. Tachibana comes up with, that he will pay Toru if he pretends like he is the one having the affair, so if anyone looks into the matter, his name comes up. Thus Miho and Mr. Tachibana have their affair, she dies, and Azusa forms his plan. Hatsumi falls for it, Ryoki saves her, their relationship evolves, putting her family in social jeopardy. The debt they paid off, Shinogu tried to pay them back by moving out and taking multiple part-time jobs instead of following his heart in both the matter of school and Hatsumi.
Hikaru Narita, 4
Hatsumi's younger brother. At the beginning of the series, he is in kindergarten.
Shihoko Narita
The mother. She is very afraid of Mrs. Tachibana, and does whatever she can to please her.
Toru Narita
The father. He takes the blame for Miho Odagiri's death by confirming Azusa's conclusion that he was her lover, but it is later revealed that he was paid in some way by his office superior, Mr. Tachibana, to be Tachibana's scapegoat. He spends much time working away from home. Went to college with both Azusa' and Ryoki's fathers.
[edit] The Tachibana Family
Ryoki Tachibana (橘亮輝, Tachibana Ryoki?), 17
Hatsumi's biggest fear since she was a child, due to him pushing her down the stairs. He turns Hatsumi into his personal slave, but also wants her as his girlfriend. Although he seems to be a complete jerk to her, there are times when he lets his guard down and cares about her and ends up falling in love. At the beginning of the series, he is a second-year student at the prestigious private school, Kaisei Academy. It is revelead that when Hausumi and Ryoki were kids his only friend was Hatsumi. He didn't mean to push her it was an accident and also he used to protect Hatsumi when they were kids from the neighbors. He suffered shock and got sick when he pushed Hatsumi.
Natsue Tachibana
Ryoki's mother and the undisputed "queen" of the company housing complex. Natsue and Shuichiro are in an arranged marriage due to the wishes of their parents.
Shuichiro Tachibana
Ryoki's father, he mostly stays at a hotel near the company so he hardly ever returns to the complex. He has no love for Ryoki or Natsue, because since before he married Natsue, he'd been in love with Miho, Azusa's mother. The reason for his never showing up to meet her when he said he would is unknown as of book 11, which is a paradox, since he claims he asked her to leave her life, but she always chose Azusa and her husband.
[edit] The Odagiri Family
Azusa Odagiri (小田切梓, Odagiri Azusa?), 16
An old friend of Hatsumi (who has somewhat of a crush on him). They were very good friends when they were younger, he always protected her from Ryoki. He is a popular model doing magazine work and TV commercials. He dates Hatsumi for a short period, which ends when he reveals that it's for revenge on Hatsumi's father for supposedly having an affair with his now-deceased mother. He also reveals that the only reason he is modeling is to earn money to hire a private investigator to find out who his mother's lover is, so he can exact his revenge, who turns out to be Hatsumi's dad. He later engages in another investigation with Shinogu because Shinogu doubts it was Hatsumi's father. They eventually find out he was just being payed to be a scapegoat so Ryoki's dad, the real lover, could come out clean. Azusa pretended to love Hatsumi to get revenge on her Dad, so we are left to believe that he never loved her and doesn't feel guilty for his crimes.
Minoru Odagiri
Azusa's father, works mostly overseas so he hardly lives with his son. Divorces Azusa's mother, supposedly because he finds out about her affair. He is about to remarry, but worries about Azusa's opinion of it.
Miho Odagiri
Azusa's mother, She leaves with Azusa when Minoru divorces her. When she does, she waits for the rest of her life for her lover to come and meet her, as he promised he would. Died three years prior to the beginning of the series. She had an affair with another man, which was shunned by everyone in her family and led to bad treatment to both her and Azusa.
[edit] The Yagi Family
Subaru Yagi (八木すばる, Yagi Subaru?), 16
Ryoki's dorky best friend, who is also a friend of Hatsumi. His hobbies are video games and anime (especially Gundam) and also, collecting models and action figures. He develops feelings for Akane, even though she often scares him, coming on too strong with her forward ways. He is finally able to show that he loves her by finding "Rare Bears" for her. At the beginning of the series he is a second-year student at Takazono High School (Class A). At the beginning of the series it is implied that Subaru has a crush on Hatsumi, but later on he comes to reciprocate her sister Akane's feelings.
Asahi Yagi, 19
Subaru's older sister. She graduated from beauty school and is currently working as an intern at a hair salon. She has a secret crush on Shinogu, but fails to tell him because he is "too unattainable". She overhears Shinogu telling Azusa how much he's in love with Hatsumi, and later is the one who blabs to Hatsumi about it.
[edit] Others
Mariko Takatu, 23
The maid for the Tachibana Family. She is in love with Mr. Tachibana. She's one of the few who truly cares about Ryoki, helping Hatsumi see that she is misreading his loneliness, jealousy, and his love for her as him being a cold, aloof tyrant.
Rina Katsuragi
Owner of a modeling agency and Azusa's manager. She has claimed her relationship with Azusa is one of "give and take", which started when she took him in as a runaway.
Shuji Kazama (風間, Kazama Shuji?), 19
Shinogu's friend from work, and roommate. He has a crush on Akane and is constantly flirting with her, fully aware that she is going out with Subaru.
Ruri Saionji
A girl who attends Teitoko Girls Academy and is on the same level --intellectually-- as Ryoki. Mrs. Tachibana is bent on hooking her son up with Ruri after learning of Ryoki and Hatsumi's relationship. She is Ryoki's perfect match: she gets the same grades, has the same logic, shows affection the same way as he does. They would be perfect for each other were it not that he's in love with Hatsumi. He ends up inviting Ruri to sleep with him, to which she agrees. When they're taking off their clothes and fooling around, he can't stop thinking about Hatsumi, so he orders her to leave, saying he's changed his mind.
2007-03-06 11:48:46
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