List of The Wallflower characters
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This is a list of fictional characters, main characters as well as some supporting characters from The Wallflower, a Japanese manga and anime series.
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[edit] Primary characters
[edit] Sunako Nakahara
- Sunako Nakahara (中原 スナコ Nakahara Sunako?)
Voiced by: Yukiko Takaguchi (Japanese), Hannah Alcorn (English)
After she was rejected by her first love, Sunako developed an obsession with darkness and a morbid fascination with blood, horror movies, and similarly dark things. She hates excessive light exposure. She has three "friends"; a skeleton called Josephine and two anatomical figures named Hiroshi-kun and Akira-kun. While she suffers from severely low self-esteem, she is actually beautiful and a frighteningly tough fighter. She is portrayed (mostly) throughout the manga in Super deformed form or chibi. Somewhat surprisingly, she is a very good cook, very athletic, intelligent (save that she is abysmally bad at math) and a good pianist. She refers to beautiful people as "creatures of light" and "ugly" people, such as herself, as "creatures of darkness", in the translation in America. Whenever she sees a "creature of light", she gets nosebleeds, and they're usually severe when she sees Kyohei.
Her relationship with Kyohei is somewhat unclear, saying that she always wants to kill him, and even goes to the extent of turning into a lady temporarily to get him back. Her reason is that "she's the only person who can kill him". Some people say that she has a crush on him, but it might be that he is too beautiful for her to handle, so she "must get rid of him". Recent chapters have seen her forget her first crush and she is now more open to other people.
[edit] Kyohei Takano
- Kyohei Takano (高野 恭平 Takano Kyōhei?)
Voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo (Japanese), Josh Grelle (English)
While he says that all he cares about is getting free (or the lowest amount required to be paid) rent, Kyohei has a soft spot for Sunako and empathizes with her more so than the others. He is the most popular of the boys, and always has trouble keeping down a part-time job because his fans will chase after him, or his boss (male or female) will sexually harass him. Kyohei is cocky, short-tempered, and the only one tough enough to fight on the same level as Sunako. His hair is modeled after Tackey of Tackey and Tsubasa. He also tends to succumb to food and money. In recent chapters there is more of an obvious attraction towards Sunako and the two have shared a kiss. However Kyohei states that it wouldn't work shortly after as Sunako has a massive nose bleed and faints
[edit] Takenaga Oda
- Takenaga Oda (織田 武長 Oda Takenaga?)
Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Vic Mignogna (English)
The most intellectual of the four, Takenaga is called the "Boss" (a pun on his personal name in Japanese, which can be read as bucho, meaning "boss") by his friends and is the least fazed by Sunako's morbid habits. When the quartet dress Sunako up, Takenaga is usually responsible for doing Sunako's hair. Takenaga was originally from a wealthy family descended from flower masters (ikebana), but when the pressure of being the family heir was too much, he became completely withdrawn and ignored everyone. He was sent to live at the Landlady's mansion in hopes of becoming more "normal". He is described as a caring feminist and is rather shy. He is currently going out with Noi, whom he affectionately calls "Noi-chi".
[edit] Yukinojo "Yuki" Toyama
- Yukinojo Toyama (遠山 雪之丞 Tōyama Yukinojo?)
Voiced by: Yamauchi Yuuya (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)
The most androgynous of the four, "Yuki" is gentle and is initially the most frightened of Sunako. He's the most "normal" of the four boys; before coming to live at the mansion he had a normal school life with a middle-class family. His mother and the Landlady are old friends and the Landlady, and Sunako at times, has a soft spot for Yuki. He's also the shortest and shyest, with a "cute" face, and has been called on (very reluctantly) to dress up as a girl on more than one occasion. He is usually responsible for choosing what sort of clothes Sunako wears when she is forced to dress up and has a good sense of fashion. Yuki has an on-again, off-again girlfriend named Machiko, who attends the all-girl high school next to his (she is based on and is often drawn by the mangaka Machiko Sakurai, one of Hayakawa's colleagues).
[edit] Ranmaru Morii
- Ranmaru Morii (森井 蘭丸 Morii Ranmaru?)
Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima (Japanese), Chris Patton (English)
A ladies' man, Ranmaru is often going out with various beautiful older (and often married) women. The very sight of Sunako initially has him breaking out in hives, but when her true beauty is revealed, he decides that she has "potential" to become a real lady. Like Takenaga, he comes from a wealthy family (who own a series of hotel chains), but was sent to live with the Landlady because he exploited his wealth and his parents wanted him to become "normal". Surprisingly, Ranmaru is actually better at kendo than Takenaga, who comes from a traditional family. He apparently is the strongest advocate of making Sunako into a lady and is usually responsible for doing her make-up whenever she has to dress up. He is named after the real life Mori Ranmaru, the partner of Oda Nobunaga.
[edit] Naie "Noi" Kasahara
- Naie "Noi" Kasahara (笠原 乃依 Kasahara Naie?)
Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Japanese), Jessica Boone (English)
A very pretty and exceedingly popular girl. She loves being called beautiful by the others, especially Sunako. Noi is Sunako's closest friend at school, where Sunako is scorned for her terrifying demeanor and association with the boys. She admires Sunako's tough attitude and also believes that Sunako and Kyohei are compatible as a couple. Noi is in love with Takenaga, though she tends to be insecure about their relationship because Takenaga is too shy to openly admit that he likes her. She is called "Noi" in both the North American and Singaporean English-language translation. As stated in recent chapters, she's a fan of shoujo manga.
[edit] Supporting characters
- The Landlady
Voiced by: Yuka Komatsu (Japanese), Tiffany Grant (English)
- Sunako's aunt (who likes to be called Oba-san "Auntie"), who expects Kyohei, Takenaga, Yuki, and Ranmaru to make Sunako into a lady. Called the "infamous Marie Antoinette of the East", Miss Nakahara is extremely wealthy and usually travels in unconventional fashion, such as in a fleet of helicopters. The Landlady is rarely around (usually in France with her latest boyfriend or fiancé) and the four males have managed to convince her that Sunako is on the fast track to becoming a lady when really her niece is not. However, the Landlady has also been known to make unexpected visits, which often lead to the boys putting on an act of some sort with Sunako to make her appear more lady-like and, occasionally, raised rent when all does not go as planned.
- The Landlady is actually the younger sister of Sunako's father and, like her niece, requires very little effort to frighten the boys. It is known that her husband is dead and the apparent reason why she keeps getting a new boyfriend is that she is lonely, but she loves none of these men in the same way she loved her husband. While their interaction is relatively limited, Sunako actually admires her aunt a great deal and considers her the most beautiful woman she knows; the Landlady, in turn, simply wants Sunako to be happy and believes that helping her niece become a lady will do so, especially since as a child Sunako always wanted to be like her aunt.
- Sunako's parents
- Sunako's parents live abroad, supposedly in Africa, and have left Sunako under the care of her aunt. The boys are not surprised to discover that Sunako's father is physically huge and not particularly attractive and are more worried about his protective streak towards his daughter, who became increasingly distant towards him and refused to let him into her room. He later discovers that his daughter still loves him, she just did not want him to see the inside of her room because it was filled with things that would horrify him. He has a bad back as a result of saving Sunako from a bear as a child.
- Sunako's mother is a very attractive and petite woman, something that the boys did not expect from their knowledge of Sunako and her father's appearances. She is surprisingly strong and is able to lift her husband off the ground effortlessly. She thinks nothing of Sunako's morbid habits as long as they make her happy and she scolds Sunako's father for pleading for Kyohei to change Sunako into a normal girl. A flashback reveals that Sunako's mother is actually younger than most women with a daughter of Sunako's age.
- Tamao Kikunoe
- Also known in the manga as "Princess", she is the fiancee of Ranmaru because of an arranged marriage by both their parents. She is extremely wealthy and studies at an all girls' school. Her character is a perfect example of a "lady" as she foils Noi's loud mouth and Sunako's un-ladylike nature. Despite Ranmaru's playboy qualities, she has fallen in love with him, to the extent of admitting her feelings. His rejection of her does not faze her, hoping that eventually, he would come to feel the same way and tell her.
- Sunako's Classmates
- Sunako's classmates initially both fear her terrifying demeanor and scorn her association with the four boys. However, after she wins an athletic competition for their class, they come to respect and admire her, though they remain somewhat frightened of her more morbid habits. In addition, Sunako becomes popular with the cooking club for her domestic abilities and they frequently ask her to join them when they are trying new recipes. Her classmates include a trio of girls named Nana, Nene, and Nono who are friendliest with her.
- Goth-Loli Sisters (ゴスロリ シスターズ Gosu-Rori Shisutāzu?)
Yvonne: Voiced by: Niina Kumagaya (Japanese), Kira Vincent-Davis (English), Laseine: Voiced by: Hiromi Konno (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English), Madeleine: Voiced by: Kimiko Koyama (Japanese), Tiffany Terrell (English), Roxane: Voiced by: Erika (Japanese), Monica Passley (English)
- Lassine (ラセーヌ Rasēnu?), Madeline (マドレーヌ Madorēnu?), Roxanne (ロクサーヌ Rokusānu?), and Yvonne (イヴォンヌ Ivonnu?) are four girls who are completely obsessed with the main boys of the series. Initially their roles in the storyline were much smaller, but were expanded within the anime to provide comic relief. They usually have a cameo appearance in each episode saying their catch phrase "Goth-Goth, Loli-Loli" while crossing their own fingers. Their appearance in the manga was (so far) a one shot of them getting revenge on Sunako and Noi for being so close to the men they loved. A notable aspect to their characters is that instead of actively pursuing their crushes, they instead sat in the background and waited for them to notice them instead. In the manga they were responsible for a number of disturbances, such as replacing the boys' lunches with their (rather horrible) home-made lunches. Their last appearance in the American release of the manga ended with them attempting to harm Noi for her close relationship to Takanaga and the others. This attempt was foiled after they were discovered by a rage-driven Sunako, only to be spared by the boys restraining Sunako. Their appearance is an exaggeration of the Gothic Lolita phenomenon, and are very unattractive. Their names are given as Ierie, Machapi, Maririn and Mintan in the Singaporean English-language translation.
- The Boss
- A street gangster who falls for the SD Sunako, much to the surprise of everyone surrounding him. Originally, he wanted to challenge Kyohei to a fight to see who was stronger, but later changed it to a fight for Sunako's affections, believing that Kyohei was Sunako's boyfriend. He can be seen in both the manga and the anime version. In the anime, his name is given as Hanayashiki Hiromi.
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