School Days/Characters

An obvious work in progress, but long overdue...

Makoto Itou

 * Anything That Moves: Has officially qualified for this trope as of the recent release Cross Days sequel in the game series; lets see what he likes to mate with: pretty girls his age? Check. Their beautiful young mothers? Check. Their thirteen year old sisters?. Double Check. Adorable young BOYS who are just as beautiful if not moreso than his girlfriend(s)? Triple Check. Thank goodness the only things he hasn't shown sexual interest in yet are farm animals, senior citizens and week-old corpses.
 * Please do NOT tempt Studio Overflow. And besides, necrophilia is covered with  in the Anime-Ending.
 * The Atoner : Makoto tries to be this at the end of the Manga
 * He also tries this in the anime.
 * Only in Yuki's route in Cross Days does he change midway instead of at the end though for obvious reasons.
 * Big No: Makoto, at the end of the Valentine Days OVA, when he finds out the huge box of chocolates he received were not from Setsuna but from . Upon discovery, not only does   get surrounded by Bishie Sparkles but.
 * Bishonen
 * Bully Hunter: One of his few qualities. He protects Kotonoha from Otome and her Girl Posse in one game ending,  in Cross Days, and apparently Setsuna fell for him because he used to protect her from bullies.
 * Can't Get Away With Nuthin': Taken to its logical extreme; Makoto is caught every time he tries to secretly nail a girl. Even lampshaded with a bit of Setsuna's reflection, which most people missed.
 * Casanova
 * Chick Magnet: in the OVAs, where he seems mostly oblivious to everyone's attraction to him.
 * : And we mean everyone.
 * Daisuke Hirakawa
 * Did Not Get the Girl: All endings that isn't the true ending concerning Yuki's route.
 * Dull Surprise: He apparently lacks facial expression unless things are getting too stressful.
 * Even Jerks Have Standards: He hates bullying. If he catches you bullying someone, he'll call you out on it.
 * In the true ending of Cross Days, he is disgusted at Taisuke who
 * Everything but The Girl: Failing to get the true ending for Yuki's route results in this because either
 * Fate Worse Than Death: In some Cross Day endings if Yuki continues to pursue him, he starts falling in love with "Yu". However, if Yuki pursueanother girl or, then Yuki can make "Yu" disappear forever. That means the one girl he dedicates himself vanishes without a trace and he's stuck with Kotonoha. Quite satisfying end for him except the one ending where he figures out Yu's identity and doesn't end up with her...then something bad comes up...
 * Handsome Lech: In the anime has few redeeming qualities other than looks.
 * Hidden Eyes: Displayed by him a few times.
 * Hyper Awareness: In the true ending of Yuki's route, he realizes quickly that Kotonoha is not the most stable girl and
 * Idiot Hair: Rather fittingly.
 * In the Blood: Makoto follows his father's footsteps in sexing up as many people as he can; some Overflow games shares the universe with School Days, and Tomaru Sawagoe is in most of them, in fact he started about 4 different big families by himself, and then made some more with his own offsprings...
 * Jerkass: BIG TIME in the anime. Also in the Cross Days manga. Can be in the visual novel depending on the choices the player makes.
 * Kick the Son of A Bitch: In one of the routes, Makoto takes a pause in between all the girl posse and stands up for Kotonoha when he catches Otome and Co. bullying her. Yeah, he thinks with his cock and all, but not even he likes it when Koto is at the mercy of four girls who want to make her suffer.
 * Ladykiller in Love: Concerning Yuki. This does not apply to the female characters because he always bounces back and forth between them no matter what.
 * Love At First Punch: Guess how he first met Yuki? He met the male Yuki first when he punched him in the face for cheating on Kotonoha. He ignores that part but then he meets his alter ego and falls for "her".
 * Loves My Alter Ego: In Cross Days, he's more interested in "Yu" than Yuki no matter what route it is. However, he falls for "her" even more in Yuki's route.
 * A Man Is Not a Virgin: Played brutally straight for all the drama and angst it's worth.
 * Memetic Sex God: A rare in universe example at that, he proceeds to have sex with nearly every girl in his class. The last three do it just because they wonder what all the fuss is about. At the same time. Of their own initiative.
 * It's taken to new heights in Summer Days, where he can have sex with Kokoro, Kotonoha's 13-year old sister (who looks like seven), Sekai's Hot Mom, and Kotonoha's Hot Mom.
 * And now, thanks to Cross Days and the new Gay Option (Yuuki), Makoto is no longer just after every girl, but everything that moves.
 * Ordinary High School Student
 * The Pornomancer: For an otherwise unspectacular person, girls seem magnetically drawn to him. Pretty much the only girl who never shows interest in him is the already-attached Nanami, but
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Yuki's blue.
 * Took a Level In Jerkass
 * Tragic Hero: Manga only.
 * Wingding Eyes: In the ~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan~ OVA, Makoto and Taisuke sport big shiny gold starbursts in their eyes in their ecstatic response to the arrival of the Anonymous Defence Service.
 * Your Cheating Heart: Defines this trope.
 * A Man Is Not a Virgin: Played brutally straight for all the drama and angst it's worth.
 * Memetic Sex God: A rare in universe example at that, he proceeds to have sex with nearly every girl in his class. The last three do it just because they wonder what all the fuss is about. At the same time. Of their own initiative.
 * It's taken to new heights in Summer Days, where he can have sex with Kokoro, Kotonoha's 13-year old sister (who looks like seven), Sekai's Hot Mom, and Kotonoha's Hot Mom.
 * And now, thanks to Cross Days and the new Gay Option (Yuuki), Makoto is no longer just after every girl, but everything that moves.
 * Ordinary High School Student
 * The Pornomancer: For an otherwise unspectacular person, girls seem magnetically drawn to him. Pretty much the only girl who never shows interest in him is the already-attached Nanami, but
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Yuki's blue.
 * Took a Level In Jerkass
 * Tragic Hero: Manga only.
 * Wingding Eyes: In the ~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan~ OVA, Makoto and Taisuke sport big shiny gold starbursts in their eyes in their ecstatic response to the arrival of the Anonymous Defence Service.
 * Your Cheating Heart: Defines this trope.
 * Your Cheating Heart: Defines this trope.
 * Your Cheating Heart: Defines this trope.

Kotonoha Katsura

 * Alliterative Name
 * All of the Other Reindeer: Kotonoha is the victim of bullying from Otome and her Girl Posse from before the series starts, and it only gets worse when Otome learns about her being Makoto's girlfriend.
 * In addition, Kotonoha later reveals that she is often the subject of bullying by girls who are jealous of her beauty.
 * Apologises a Lot
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Do not bully The Ojou of your school. She'll go insane.
 * Big Sister Instinct: In Summer Days, her reaction to  is grabbing her dad's golf club and hitting him upside the head.
 * Big Fancy House: Not including the Nice Boat. Or her huge tracts of land.
 * Break the Cutie: The girl was already a victim of school bullying from before the story started. Then It Got Worse.
 * Class Representative: In the council, but she's not the class rep.
 * Actually, in episode 9 of the Anime Kotonoha tells Taisuke that she continually mans the reception desk for her class' haunted house because she is the class rep and a committee member. This may have been the only time this is mentioned.
 * Despair Event Horizon: Crossed it after.
 * Gainaxing: Few occassions where this happens.
 * Extreme Doormat: Due to her insecurity.
 * Fragile Flower
 * Gang of Bullies: Kotonoha is harassed by no less than five girls!
 * Go Out With a Smile: Cruel twist in the game: Kotonoha smiles madly when
 * Heroic BSOD
 * Hidden Eyes: Displayed often.
 * Lethal Chef: Though she apparently improves. Unless you count the OAV.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the manga, Makoto actually does chose Kotonoha over Sekai in the end, with the latter actually accepting his decision.
 * The Ojou: Just compare her room to Sekai's and/or Makoto's.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Sekai's red to Kotonoha's blue.
 * Shrinking Violet
 * Spoiled Sweet: WAY sweeter and gentler than Otome and her bitch squad.
 * : So much that she provides the page picture.
 * Stalker With a Crush: To some degree.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo : Before going mad.
 * Tears of Remorse : In one of the extended bad endings in the PS 2.
 * Woman in White: In the opening credits of the Anime.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Kotonoha is soft-spoken, sweet, and beautiful.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Spoiled Sweet: WAY sweeter and gentler than Otome and her bitch squad.
 * : So much that she provides the page picture.
 * Stalker With a Crush: To some degree.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo : Before going mad.
 * Tears of Remorse : In one of the extended bad endings in the PS 2.
 * Woman in White: In the opening credits of the Anime.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Kotonoha is soft-spoken, sweet, and beautiful.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Woman in White: In the opening credits of the Anime.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Kotonoha is soft-spoken, sweet, and beautiful.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Kotonoha is soft-spoken, sweet, and beautiful.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Sekai Saionji

 * Alliterative Name
 * : Some people think that Sekai wanted to do this to Makoto...
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Shows herself over and over again to be an extremely sympathetic and self-sacrificing person, although it's not entirely clear
 * Big No: In one of the game endings where she
 * Break the Cutie: Arguable, if you root for her.
 * It's also speculated that
 * Fan Service With a Smile: The waitress uniform for her after school job, which can easily be mistaken as Cosplay. Not only does it leave little to the imagination, it comes complete with Detached Sleeves and some frills.
 * First Kiss: Sekai suddenly takes this from Makoto as her reward for setting him up with Kotonoha. It all goes to hell not long after this.
 * Genki Girl
 * Groin Attack: One episode had Sekai kneeing Makoto for groping her butt. Was viewed as a Crowning Moment of Awesome by most of the fanbase.
 * Hidden Eyes: Displayed often.
 * Idiot Hair: Rather fittingly.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Sekai's initial intentions for Makoto while befriending - and setting him up with - Kotonoha. Then Sekai suddenly takes his First Kiss as a reward.  See Matchmaker Crush below.
 * Laser-Guided Karma: In Cross Days, it's to be noted that no matter what ending there is, she never ends up with Makoto after all she does to keep him in School Days. Yuki calls her out on everything as well, which helps.
 * Love Makes You Crazy: In the anime, she responds to Makoto's persistent womanizing by.
 * Manipulative Bastard : In the manga.
 * Matchmaker Crush : Sekai helps Makoto and Kotonoha hook up... and puts a lot more effort into it than you would expect. And then she gives herself a reward for her efforts by . This does not end well. See I Want My Beloved to Be Happy above.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Sekai's red to Kotonoha's blue.
 * Shiho Kawaragi
 * Shorttank
 * Tsundere: Sekai seems at first to be a Type B...
 * Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Makoto was actually rather normal and faithful to Kotonoha until Sekai seduced him.
 * Woman Scorned: Particularly in the anime.
 * Woman in White: In the opening credits of the Anime.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Sekai's red to Kotonoha's blue.
 * Shiho Kawaragi
 * Shorttank
 * Tsundere: Sekai seems at first to be a Type B...
 * Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Makoto was actually rather normal and faithful to Kotonoha until Sekai seduced him.
 * Woman Scorned: Particularly in the anime.
 * Woman in White: In the opening credits of the Anime.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Setsuna Kiyoura

 * by a post card in the game
 * Class Representative: For her, Makoto, and Sekai's classroom.
 * Dandere
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Idiot Ball: It applies most of all for Setsuna when she
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy:
 * Little Miss Snarker
 * Living Emotional Crutch: For Sekai. Part of her justification for setting Makoto up with Sekai is to get him to fulfill Setsuna's role as this once she leaves.
 * Matchmaker Crush : Setsuna also. She has a crush on Makoto but decides to make sure he stays with Sekai instead, so he can protect her before she goes to live abroad.
 * Pettanko : She's flat-chested, while both her best friend and Makoto's other love interest are VERY busty, so...
 * Rescue Romance: Apparently, she used to be bullied at school and Makoto helped her.
 * Stalker With a Crush: She tried to be more discreet than the others....
 * Token Mini-Moe: Looks very young for her age, and she's very conscious of such a thing.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Hikari Kuroda

 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: Apparently, Hikari is this for Taisuke as well.
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Nanami Kanroji
Sekai's tall, tomboyish, sporty friend.


 * Big No: When she  Could you blame her?
 * Bokukko
 * Chiaki Takahashi
 * Hot Amazon: Very sporty, very pretty, is the girlfriend of a pretty popular sempai. Oh, wait...
 * Huge Schoolgirl
 * Only Sane Woman: It helps that she's the only girl in the series who doesn't get involved with Makoto.
 * Passionate Sports Girl
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * You Go Girl
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * You Go Girl
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Otome Katou

 * Alpha Bitch: Though she's less fashion-obsessed and more tomboyish than the standard.
 * Broken Pedestal:
 * Demoted to Extra: In the manga.
 * Hopeless Suitor
 * Jerkass: Among the biggest ones in the anime.
 * Passionate Sports Girl: The star of the basketball team
 * Shorttank
 * Stalker With a Crush
 * Third Option Love Interest: In the visual novel, it's possible to end up with her.
 * Tsundere : A Type A. Lampshaded in her ending, where her Girl Posse ask her how come she and Makoto can stay together if they keep squabbling all the time, and Otome just shows them a picture of them kissing.
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: To Makoto in the anime. It's possible to avert this trope in the visual novel, where you can end up with her as a Third Option Love Interest.
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Taisuke Sawanaga

 * Bishonen
 * Bromantic Foil: Possible Deconstruction, considering
 * Dogged Nice Guy: Starts like this towards Kotonoha.  Unfortunately, there's more to his character than this...
 * Karma Houdini : Gets clean away with . Particularly egregious seeing that almost everyone else got what they deserved.
 * And in Cross Days
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Stalker With a Crush
 * Wingding Eyes: In the ~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan~ OVA, he (along with Makoto) sports big shiny gold starbursts in their eyes in their ecstatic response to the arrival of the Anonymous Defence Service. Later a  Taisuke's eyes contain big white starbursts for Magical Heart, whom he sees in person for the first time.
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Stalker With a Crush
 * Wingding Eyes: In the ~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan~ OVA, he (along with Makoto) sports big shiny gold starbursts in their eyes in their ecstatic response to the arrival of the Anonymous Defence Service. Later a  Taisuke's eyes contain big white starbursts for Magical Heart, whom he sees in person for the first time.
 * Wingding Eyes: In the ~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan~ OVA, he (along with Makoto) sports big shiny gold starbursts in their eyes in their ecstatic response to the arrival of the Anonymous Defence Service. Later a  Taisuke's eyes contain big white starbursts for Magical Heart, whom he sees in person for the first time.
 * Wingding Eyes: In the ~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan~ OVA, he (along with Makoto) sports big shiny gold starbursts in their eyes in their ecstatic response to the arrival of the Anonymous Defence Service. Later a  Taisuke's eyes contain big white starbursts for Magical Heart, whom he sees in person for the first time.

Kokoro Katsura

 * Alliterative Name
 * Annoying Younger Sibling
 * Big Fancy House
 * Cheerful Child
 * Children Are Innocent (in the anime and manga adaption only)
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Magical Girl: In her own OVA, the infamous ~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan~.
 * Older Than They Look: Wait, is she really thirteen years old?!
 * Token Mini-Moe: In the Summer Days spin-off game, the 13-years-old Kokoro joins Setsuna in the Lolicon parade, and even gets two scenes where Makoto boinks (and in one, outright rapes) her. The Japanese media was NOT amused.

Minami Obuchi, Natsumi Koizumi, Kumi Mouri

 * Hair Decorations: Natsumi uses a yellow headband.
 * For the Evulz
 * Girl Posse: The rare case where their Alpha Bitch is actually more sympathetic than them.
 * Green-Eyed Monster: They harrass Kotonoha following Otome's lead.
 * Jerk Asses
 * Karma Houdini
 * Those Three Bad Girls
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Youko Saionji

 * Hot Mom: and HOW.
 * Parents As People (It's hinted she's been raising Sekai all alone)

Yuuki Ashikaga

 * Adorkable
 * Badass: Is he ever? He punched Makoto for crying out loud!
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Not to the extreme though but don't underestimate him.
 * Bishonen: A more straightforwards example.
 * Bi the Way: Apparently. But if Makoto keeps being a Jerkass in Cross Days, not even his sex scene with Yuuki will get his new Depraved Bisexual ID off him.
 * Luckily, the part about Makoto being an asshole can be subverted... but only in the true ending.
 * Break the Cutie: Taking Makoto's route leads him down the path of destruction
 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: When he
 * Expy: Of Negi from Negima, since he looks a LOT like him.
 * Gay Option
 * Genre Savvy: Very much so but that's only because he's observing from the sidelines. Only if  does he lampshade how much he's falling out of this role.
 * He Cleans Up Nicely
 * Hypocrite: He calls Sekai out for getting between Makoto and Kotonoha, but then does the same thing if he pursues Makoto. Sekai doesn't come back to give him a taste of his own medicine however.
 * Karmic Jackpot: In many of his endings, things always seem to go his way. The only time this doesn't apply is when his good deeds come back to bite him in the ass or if he pursues Makoto.
 * Megane
 * The Messiah: It becomes obvious that he's one when every girl in his harem loves him. Even if he cheats on them (which is unwillingly and unintentional), they won't kill him for cheating. They'll end their friendship but other than that, he fits this as long as he doesn't cheat.
 * Nerds Are Sexy
 * Nice Guy: The major difference between him and Makoto and he's loved for it.
 * No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In many of the bad endings, his main motivation for helping his friend Kotonoha ALWAYS comes back to bite him.
 * Only Sane Man: For obvious reasons. He's the observer of Cross Days and can see what's going on with the love triangle and wonders why the hell no one is doing anything about it.
 * The Quiet One: By appearance and he seems to be like this until he subverts it later when he punches Makoto.
 * Talk to The Fist: What does he do when he first meets Makoto? He punches him in the face which surprises everyone.
 * Third Option Love Interest: The irony is that
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives one to Sekai when he thinks that she's the reason that Makoto is cheating on Kotonoha. He's not far from the truth though.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Makoto's red.
 * Tsundere: He doesn't seem to be one at all unless he takes Makoto's route where it reveals he's a type B but warps into a mild type A when Makoto does something to piss him off...which is often.
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives one to Sekai when he thinks that she's the reason that Makoto is cheating on Kotonoha. He's not far from the truth though.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Makoto's red.
 * Tsundere: He doesn't seem to be one at all unless he takes Makoto's route where it reveals he's a type B but warps into a mild type A when Makoto does something to piss him off...which is often.
 * Tsundere: He doesn't seem to be one at all unless he takes Makoto's route where it reveals he's a type B but warps into a mild type A when Makoto does something to piss him off...which is often.

Manami Katsura

 * Hot Mom
 * The Ojou

Mai Kiyoura

 * Hot Mom

Tomaru Sawagoe/Itou

 * Anything That Moves: Really, Makoto still gotta get on his level; still gotta screw his own daughters to start with.
 * Brother-Sister Incest:
 * Hero of Another Story: He hails from the Summer Radish Vacation!! games.
 * He Who Must Not Be Seen: In the School Days games Tomaru does not appear, he is only mentioned by name.
 * Like Father Like Son: Ain't that right, !?
 * Really Gets Around: and unlike Makoto, he never suffered for it.
 * Tangled Family Tree: Let's just say he is connected to pretty much the entire Overflow universe.