Dengeki Daisy/Characters

The characters of the manga series Dengeki Daisy:

Teru Kurebayashi
A sixteen year old girl in her second year of high school, Teru has been under contact with Daisy, a mysterious person who has watched over Teru since her brother's death. Teru is a stubborn but well-meaning girl, and she becomes the servant of the school janitor Kurosaki after she breaks a window in school.


 * Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: Kurosaki and Teru.
 * Brainy Brunette: Well, she is a Scholarship Student.
 * Cannot Spit It Out
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Dead Older Brother
 * Everyone Can See It: The UST between Kurosaki and Teru.
 * Genki Girl
 * He Is Not My Boyfriend: Says this to her friends several times when it concerns Kurosaki.
 * Innocent Cohabitation: When Teru's apartment gets trashed, Kurosaki offers to let her stay at his place for a while. Soon after meeting Riko, she begins living with her... in the apartment right next to Kurosaki.
 * Locked Out of the Loop: Teru doesn't know that Kurosaki is Daisy
 * Loves My Alter Ego/Two-Person Love Triangle: Ironically, it's the opposite effect. Teru grows to love Kurosaki while thinking of his alter ego Daisy as a brotherly figure, and she has no idea they're one and the same person
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Likes to act like an idiot and is often underestimated but is realy quite smart.
 * Ordinary High School Student
 * Plucky Girl
 * The Pollyanna
 * Scholarship Student
 * Tsundere
 * Unresolved Sexual Tension: Kurosaki and Teru.
 * Volleying Insults: Often yells at Kurosaki to grow bald.
 * Will They Or Won't They: Kurosaki and Teru.

Tasuku Kurosaki
The school janitor who Teru works for. He is considered a jerk and a pervert by Teru, who initially dislikes Kurosaki but soon grows to love him. What Teru doesn't know is that Kurosaki is secretly her precious Daisy.

"Kurosaki: Shut up! Don't call me a lolicon!!!
 * Almighty Janitor
 * The Atoner:
 * Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other
 * Badass
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: Kurosaki and Teru.
 * Berserk Button: Mess with Teru, and you will regret it.
 * Bishounen
 * Blond Guys Are Evil: Not evil. Just a secretly Nice Guy with a Jerkass Facade.
 * Blue Eyes
 * But Not Too Foreign: Chapter 30 goes back and forth on whether Kurosaki's blond hair is natural or not. But later chapters that show him as a child prove that
 * Cannot Spit It Out
 * Delinquent: Resembles one in appearance.
 * Domestic Abuse: Played for laughs.
 * Jerkass/Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Kurosaki purposely makes himself look like a Jerkass in front of Teru so she won't realize he's actually her Mysterious Protector Daisy.
 * I'll Kill You!: One of Kurosaki's many, many threats if provoked.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Kurosaki is in love with Teru, but he is determined to give up on her. So much that he gets worn out by the idea.
 * Lolicon: Lampshaded several times.
 * Lolicon: Lampshaded several times.

Takeda: I didn't even say anything. So you're that conscious of it."

"Master: Wah, how creepy. A Tsundere guy."
 * Mysterious Protector: As Daisy.
 * Not a Morning Person
 * Playful Hacker
 * Rapid-Fire Typing
 * Smoking Is Cool: He smokes Philip Morris brand cigarettes.
 * Tsundere: More so than Teru. Lampshaded in Chapter 13.


 * Unresolved Sexual Tension: Kurosaki and Teru.
 * Vague Age: According to the author, she'll reveal it to the readers as the story progresses.
 * Volleying Insults: Often insults Teru by calling her an idiot of teasing her A-Cup status.
 * Will They Or Won't They: Kurosaki and Teru.

Riko Onizuka
A teacher at Teru's school who knows Kurosaki and was engaged to Teru's older brother Souchirou prior to his death. She looks after Teru and isn't above beating up Kurosaki if he says or does anything insulting.


 * Christmas Cake
 * Women Are Wiser
 * Cool Big Sis: To Teru. She would have been Teru's sister-in-law because she was engaged to Teru's older brother Souchirou prior to his death.
 * Cool Teacher
 * Hot Teacher
 * Muscles Are Meaningless
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo

Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Teru's best friend who was threatened into a scam, Kiyoshi now works as a second servant to Kurosaki, who he idolizes.


 * Adorkable
 * Megane
 * Scholarship Student
 * Shorter Means Smarter

Rena Ichinose
The student council president. Rena initially looks down on Teru, but she later grows to sympathize with her, but is quick to deny it.


 * Alpha Bitch
 * Arranged Marriage: Gets into an arranged marriage because her parents felt she had a bad taste in men.
 * Blondes Are Evil: She gets better eventually.
 * Cool Big Sis: Becomes a bit of one towards Teru.
 * Hair Decorations
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Looking for Love In All The Wrong Places
 * Ojou: Acts like one, anyway.
 * Student Council President
 * Tsundere
 * With Friends Like These...
 * Yandere: At least that's what Kiyoshi thinks. Played for laughs, of course.

Souchirou Kurebayashi
Teru's older brother. His dying gift to Teru was Daisy, so he would have someone to look after her in his stead. Flashbacks reveal that, Souchirou was engaged to Riko prior to his death, and


 * Big Brother Instinct
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Jerkass/Jerk With a Heart of Gold: To a degree. as flashbacks shown that
 * We Hardly Knew Ye
 * We Hardly Knew Ye