Yuru-Yuri/Characters

Akari Akaza
"Voiced by: Shiori Mikami"

The protagonist... sort of. 13-year-old Akari is just starting her first year of middle school, and she's excited to be reunited with her friends Kyouko and Yui, both a year older than her. She wastes no time joining her sempais in their "Amusement Club," and after that Hilarity Ensues -- often at her expense.


 * Alliterative Name
 * Butt Monkey: It seems the whole world is against the poor girl.
 * Crazy Prepared: Shown to carry band-aids and tissues on her at all times.
 * Decoy Protagonist
 * Expressive Hair: Her odango buns pop off and reattach when she's surprised.
 * Genki Girl
 * Goofy Print Underwear: Most notably the missing ones with the big smiling crab on them.
 * Idiot Hair
 * Not a Morning Person: Starts the show oversleeping. In the last episode, she's the only one still in bed by the time everyone's brushing their teeth.
 * Oblivious to Love: Could not catch onto Chinatsu's feelings for Yui, to the point that she wonders if it's become the norm for girls to want to kiss each other.
 * Odango Hair: In one dream sequence she refers to it as her one and only distinguishing characteristic.
 * Ordinary Middle School Student/The Generic Girl: Even her best friends say that her most remarkable trait is being unremarkable!
 * Out of Focus: Her in-series Running Gag.
 * Purple Eyes
 * Red Headed Heroine: For a certain value of "protagonist".
 * Third Person Person: Fitting as she is rather childish.
 * Unsound Effect: "\Akkari~n/", the sound of a person turning invisible from sheer lack of presence.
 * Who Is This Gal Again?
 * Unsound Effect: "\Akkari~n/", the sound of a person turning invisible from sheer lack of presence.
 * Who Is This Gal Again?

Kyouko Toshinou
"Voiced by: Yuka Ootsubo"

14-year-old Kyouko is a blonde ditz with a crush on Chinatsu and is a constant annoyance to Yui. Despite her laziness, she proves to be a cram test top-scorer and is also a doujin artist.


 * Blue Eyes
 * Brilliant but Lazy
 * Catch Phrase: "Kyupi~n"
 * Chaste Hero
 * Genki Girl
 * Otaku Surrogate: To the point that she drags Yui, Ayano, and Chitose to Comuket in Episode 5.
 * Power Blonde: She's the de facto leader of the club, writes and illustrates a Mirakurun doujinshi, consistently ranks at the top of her class with barely a single night's study, and creates very accurate and detailed cosplay outfits.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Häagen-Dazs's Rum Raisin ice cream.
 * Unknown Rival: To Ayano.
 * Unknown Rival: To Ayano.

Yui Funami
"Voiced by: Minami Tsuda"

14-year-old Yui is Akari's childhood friend, as well as the club's sole voice of reason.


 * Cool Big Sis: She's this to her clubmates.
 * Expository Hairstyle Change: Upon entering grade school, as a means of making herself look tougher.
 * The Stoic
 * Not So Stoic: Unless it's one of Ayano's incredibly lame puns.
 * Heh Heh, You Said "X": There's nothing hardly sexual about Ayano's puns, but Yui... boy, will she crack up at the slightest hint of it.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tomboy: As a kid. As shown in one episode, she still has trouble speaking in a "feminine" style.
 * Wise Beyond Her Years: Yui's only 14, but lives in an apartment on her own. Justified in that a relative owns the apartment complex and is presumably keeping an eye on her.

Chinatsu Yoshikawa
"Voiced by: Rumi Ookubo"

13-year-old Chinatsu originally wanted to go to Tea Club, but ended up in the Entertainment Club. To her chagrin, her uncanny resemblance to Mikarurun makes her a frequent target of Kyouko's cosplay pursuits.


 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: A mild example. She's not that bad, but neither is she as innocent and sweet as she first appears (except where Yui is concerned).
 * Bratty Half-Pint: In a Flash Back, she was pretty bratty as a little kid.
 * Celebrity Resemblance: In-series, Chinatsu is a dead ringer for Mirakurun, much to Kyouko's delight and her dismay.
 * Kyouko finally gets her to Cosplay—albeit reluctantly—as Mirakurun in episode 6 in order to entertain Mari.
 * Cute Little Fang: When she's being mischievous.
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * Sempai-Kohai: With Yui.
 * Terrible Artist
 * Yandere: She's starting to show shades of this come Episodes 5-6.
 * Terrible Artist
 * Yandere: She's starting to show shades of this come Episodes 5-6.

Ayano Sugiura
"Voiced by: Saki Fujita"

14-year-old Vice-President of the Student Council and a Tsundere par excellence.


 * Full-Name Basis: "Toshinou Kyouko!!!"
 * Student Council Vice President
 * Those Two Girls: With Chitose.
 * Tsundere: For Kyouko.
 * You Gotta Have Reddish-Purple Hair

Chitose Ikeda
"Voiced by: Aki Toyosaki"

14-year-old member of the Student Council who is always seen together with Ayano.


 * Blue Eyes
 * Covert Pervert: When she has her glasses on. When she takes them off, you can drop the "covert" part.
 * The Glasses Come Off: The yuri goggles come on.
 * Kansai Regional Accent
 * Meganekko
 * Nosebleed: Pretty much any time Ayano and Kyouko are in the same scene.
 * Shipper on Deck: For Ayano/Kyouko. Very strongly.
 * Smart People Wear Glasses
 * Tareme Eyes
 * Those Two Girls: With Ayano.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Pickled vegetables.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Pickled vegetables.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl

Himawari Furutani
"Voiced by: Suzuko Mimori"

A 13-year-old freshman and candidate for next year's Student Council Vice-Presidency.


 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: with Sakurako.
 * Big Breasts, Big Deal: Type III.
 * The Rival: To Sakurako.
 * Tsundere: For Sakurako.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Sakurako Ohmuro
"Voiced by: Emiri Katou"

Another 13-year-old candidate for the Student Council Vice-Presidency.


 * A-Cup Angst: Made worse by the fact that her chief rival for Student Council Vice-Presidency is rather well-stacked.
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Himawari.
 * Broken Record: The title of her character song "Kirai Janai Mon".
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hero Worshipper: Admires Akari for her helpfulness, to the point of imagining her as a super-powered champion of justice.
 * The Rival: To Himawari.
 * Throw the Dog a Bone: Apparently, she's the only one who cares about Akari and her presence, aside from Akari's siscon sister Akane.
 * But unlike Akane, she treats her as a friend.
 * Tsundere: For Himawari.

Rise Matsumoto
"Voiced by: Saori Goto"

The 15 year old current Student Council President... and a weirdly silent, barely-present one, at that.


 * Hime Cut
 * The Quiet One: When she does speak, her words are so quiet they almost go unheard.
 * She Who Must Not Be Heard: Prior to her formal introduction in Episode 9, a row of ellipses would appear onscreen when she is speaking to Chitose.
 * She Who Must Not Be Seen: Prior to her introduction Rise played this role, with only her hands visible at times.
 * She Was Right There All Along: Suffers from an even less presence than Akari, as Chitose notes that she's been around the main cast a few times, much to their surprise.
 * Last-Name Basis: Nishigaki-sensei always refers to her as "Matsumoto."
 * Student Council President
 * Short, Dark and Bishoujo: Despite being 15 she's shorter than the entire cast.
 * Teacher-Student Romance: Of the Les Yay variant, with Nishigaki-sensei. When asked by Ayano what kind of experiments they do together, her reply is a furious blush.
 * The Unintelligible/Intelligible Unintelligible: Nishigaki-sensei (and possibly Chitose) can understand what she says, much to Ayano's surprise.

Akane Akaza
"Voiced by: Yui Horie"

Akari's older sister.


 * Eyes Always Shut: As shown in the manga.
 * Retcon: In the early chapters of the manga, Akane was Akari's (unnamed) older brother. He was converted to a female character for the anime, and this change persisted into more recent manga.
 * Sister-Sister Incest: Akane is infatuated with her younger sister.
 * For all we know, though, Akari sees her as a Cool Big Sis.
 * Schoolgirl Lesbian: As if stalking her own little sister wasn't enough, she has a relationship with Chinatsu's older sister Tomoko!
 * Stalker Shrine: Including an Akari dakimakura (hugging pillow) covered in lipstick kisses.

Kaede Furutani
"Voiced by: Aya Uchida"

Himawari's younger sister.


 * Cuteness Overload: Inspires this upon Sakurako.
 * Morality Pet: For Sakurako.
 * Wise Beyond Her Years
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Mari
"Voiced by: Maaya Uchida"

A relative of Yui who enjoys the Mirakurun Show Within a Show.


 * Broken Pedestal: How she ultimately sees Mikarurun lookalike Chinatsu after seeing what kind of personality she has beneath the costume.
 * Fan Girl: Of Mikarurun.
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Strong Family Resemblance: With Yui.

Chizuru Ikeda
"Voiced by: Momo Kuraguchi"

Chitose's 14-year-old twin sister.


 * Character Tics: In constrast to Chitose's nosebleeds, Chizuru drools at the sight of potential Les Yay situations.
 * Green Eyes
 * Meganekko
 * Theme Twin Naming: Their given names are two kanji characters long, with one character in common (千).
 * Tsurime Eyes
 * Tsundere: Kyoko calls her this, much to her annoyance.
 * Shipper on Deck: For Ayano/Chitose.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl

Tomoko Yoshikawa
"Voiced by: Ayano Ishikawa"

Chinatsu's older sister who has an implied relationship with Akari's older sister Akane.


 * Schoolgirl Lesbian: Implied to be one with Akane.

Nana Nishigaki
"Voiced by: Ryoko Shiraishi"

A science teacher.


 * Hot Scientist/Hot Teacher
 * Mad Scientist: Of the sorts—she dabbles in various experiments, often with the very willing Rise as her guinea pig.
 * Peek-a-Bangs
 * Stuff Blowing Up: The usual result of her experiments.
 * Teacher-Student Romance: A Les Yay variant of the sorts, with Rise.
 * Translator Buddy: Serves as this for Rise.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl

Voice: Ayana Taketatsu

 * Detached Sleeves
 * Girlish Pigtails: Both in normal and transformed states.
 * Magical Girl
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Voice: Aoi Yuuki

 * Dark Magical Girl
 * Detached Sleeves
 * The Rival: To Mirakurun, naturally.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Unless Ayano is cosplaying as you.

Voice: Hikaru Midorikawa

 * Robot Buddy: Apparently. He was Mirakurun's enemy in the manga.