Yoshiyuki Arai

Shouta Kazehaya

Kazehaya is Sawako's outgoing classmate and friend. He is so popular that during middle school, so many girls liked him that they formed a "Kazehaya is Everyone's" Alliance in orde

Sawako Kuronuma

Sawako is a shy and honest high school girl who in search of friendship, though her resemblance to Sadako from _The Ring_ makes this difficult. Sawako tends to take things too lite

Ryuu Sanada

Sanada Ryuu is also one of Sawako's new group. He is quiet most of the time, but can still communicate well with Sawako (as they both don't talk much anyways). He is a close childh

Ayane Yano

Ayane is a close friend of Sawako. She is the arguably the most mature of the group and she has a boyfriend in college as well as having her ears pierced multiple times. Initially

Chizuru Yoshida

Yoshida Chizuru is another close friend of Sawako. She is the energetic girl of the group.

Suname

A girl from class C. She declared her love for Ryuu during the school trip, but he rejected it, saying that he liked another girl. She ended up believing that this girl is Chizu, b

Mr. Kuronuma

Sawako's father.

Mr. Yoshida

Chizuru's father.

Ume Kurumizawa

Kazuichi Arai

Arai Kazuichi is the temporary homeroom teacher for the gang's class. He is nicknamed Pin and always is called that way (except Sawako who obeys the formalities and still calls him

Kento Miura

A student in Sawako's class during second year who sits next to her. When Sawako befriends Miura, Kazehaya becomes jealous of him as a potential rival for Sawako. He is interested

Tomoko Endou

Mogi Motoki

A boy from class B. He asked Yano out just before the school trip and after she accepted, they dated for a short time during the trip.

Eriko Hirano

A classmate of Sawako. After Sawako begins to open up, Hirano becomes one of her first friends. Her nickname is "Ekko". (Source: Wikipedia)

Mrs. Sanada

Ryuu's mother.

Souichi Jounouchi

One of Sawako's classmates, easily swayed by other people. He generally appears in the background. Jounouchi is very attached to Kazehaya, which usually results in him unwitti

Genji Sanada

Ryuu's father.

Shino

The only link to Sawako's past, Shino was her middle school classmate and the only person who Sawako talks to as the series begins. Shino cares about Sawako and whether she is