Sakura Kanou

Taiga Aisaka

Taiga is a girl in Ryuuji's class. She has a well-regulated and beautiful appearance though is unable to stomach company from others. Due to her often snapping at others in brutal

Ami Kawashima

Ami is Yuusaku's childhood friend who transfers into his class midway through their second year of high school. She is very beautiful and even works as a model, though after she tr

Yuusaku Kitamura

Yuusaku is a male student in Ryuuji's class, and is his best friend. He is the vice-president of the student council, the class representative, and captain of the boy's softball cl

Minori Kushieda

Minori is a girl in Ryuuji's class, and is a close friend to Taiga. She is also known by the pet name "Minorin". In contrast to the negative Taiga, Minori is always smiling and che

Ryuuji Takasu

The series' main protagonist, Ryuuji is a seventeen-year-old high school student in his second year, class 2-C. Due to biological inheritance, his sanpaku eyes make him look like a

Maya Kihara

Maya is a female student in Ryūji's class who often hangs out with Nanako. She is a kogal. She has a crush on Yūsaku, and she circuitously opposes the idea of Taiga and Yūsaku bein

Yuri Koigakubo

Yuri is the twenty-nine-year-old homeroom teacher of Ryūji's class (though she turns thirty in the fifth volume of the light novels). She likes to do things at her own pace and is

Hisamitsu Noto

Hisamitsu is a male student in Ryuuji's class who wears glasses. He was also in Ryuuji's class the previous year and is on good terms with him. Noto begins to develop feelings for

Yasuko Takasu

Yasuko is Ryuuji's thirty-three-year-old mother, though she refers to herself as eternally twenty-three. Soon after Ryuuji was born, her husband died which left her to raise her so

Stalker Otoko

The stalker of Ami Kawashima.

Inko-chan

Ryuuji Takasu's parakeet. Her name is Japanese for parakeet. Though apparently healthy, she sometimes looks sickly. Despite struggling to say her simple name (a running gag through

Kouji Haruta

Kōji is a male student in Ryūji's class who has long hair and is on good terms with him. He is regarded as a class 'idiot' and that opinion is deepened by his poor school marks and

Yuu Aisaka

Taiga Aisaka's mother.

Yuriko Mitsui

Mitsui Yuriko, A student from class 1-A who was a contestant of the Ohashi high school culture festival.

Murase

Murase is a male student in Class 2-A who also works as the secretary in the student council.

Sumire Kanou

Sumire is the student council president and always manages to get the top grades in school; she is in fact a scholarship student and has horrible eyesight. She has a strong-minded

Nanako Kashii

Nanako is a female student in Ryūji's class who often hangs out with Maya and Ami.

Rikurou Aisaka

Taiga's father, shown for the first time in chapter 12. He threatens to stop giving Taiga her living expenses if she continues to ignore his calls. He tries to re-unite with his es