Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two./Characters

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Character sheet for ef (A Fairy Tale of the Two, A Tale of Memories, and A Tale of Melodies).

Protagonists

Miyako Miyamura

Voiced by: Hiroko Taguchi (JP), Luci Christian (EN)

A seventeen-year-old student in her second year at Otowa Gakuen, the main heroine of the game's first chapter and one of the main characters of the first anime series. Miyako is zany, cheerful, and never stays on one topic for too long; she's also almost always smiling. At school, she's known as a delinquent who's always skipping class, but actually she's the top student in her grade! Miyako meets Hiro on Christmas Eve, and borrows his bike in order to chase after a thief who stole her purse. When the two of them meet at school a month later, they begin to fall in love.

Despite her outward demeanor, Miyako is actually fairly lonely, and carries emotional scars from the messy, bitter divorce of her parents, followed by them abandoning her to her luck. She tries to live her life so as not to be tied down by anything or anyone, but deep down, she badly needs and wants love.

Miyako's birthday is the eighth of September. She's 162 cm tall, and her three measurements are 88-57-83.

"You mean you're going to draw everything?! No mosaic?!"

Hiro Hirono

Voiced by: Hiro Shimono (JP), Greg Ayres (EN)

A seventeen-year-old student at Otowa Gakuen. He comes from a family of artists, and has loved shoujo manga since he was a kid. Unbeknownst to his classmates, he's actually the author of a serialized shoujo manga. Unfortunately, his job requires more of his attention than he can spare, and he's nearly failing school because of it. He's been friends with Kei since they were very young.

He has severe tendinitis in his right arm, which he cannot treat properly because of his job. Because of this, he is slowly losing use of that arm, the worst fear of every artist.

Hiro is the protagonist of the first chapter of the game, and one of the main characters in the first anime series. His birthday is the ninth of September.

Kei Shindou

Voiced by: Junko Okada (JP), Brittney Karbowski (EN)

A sixteen-year-old student at Otowa Gakuen, and Hiro's childhood friend. She was the one who originally got him into manga, and she's had a crush on him for a while. Despite only being in her first year, Kei is the star of the basketball team, and has incredible athletic skills. She talks like a guy around Hiro, and takes it upon herself to take care of him (read: beat the living crap out of him if he slacks off at school).

Kei finds it very difficult to be honest with herself, probably due to her own Tsundere nature. She has a twin sister named Chihiro, who's also an important character.

Kei is the heroine of the second chapter of the game, and one of the main characters in the first anime. After a failed attempt at wresting Hiro's affections away from Miyako, she winds up in a reluctant romance with Kyousuke; for a long time, she is hesitant to love again because losing Hiro has given her a fear of abandonment. She's 150 cm tall, and her three measurements are 76-55-79. Her birthday is June second.

Kyousuke Tsutsumi

Voiced by: Yuuki Tai (JP), Chris Patton (EN)

A seventeen-year-old student in the same class as Hiro. The two of them are best friends and occasionally best enemies. Kyousuke is a renowned playboy, but finds himself getting stuck on Kei in the second chapter of the game, in which he's the protagonist. Kyousuke also happens to be a devoted member of the school's film club, and has serious aspirations buried under his slacker's appearance.

Over break, he saw Kei in passing and got slightly obsessed with her; eventually he decides to quit the film club and make an amateur film starring her for an upcoming film festival. Along the way, they fall in love. His birthday is November 29.

Chihiro Shindou

Voiced by: Natsumi Yanase (JP), Monica Rial (EN)

Kei's twin sister. Although she's often seen in uniform, she does not attend Otowa Gakuen for health reasons. She's often seen at the train station, reading books; this is where she bumps into Renji for the first time. Yuu (yes, that Yuu) is her primary caretaker. She has lived a very difficult life due to the fact that she has had anterograde amnesia for the past several years, after being hit by a car when she was 13 years old, which caused her brain damage and made her lose an eye.

Renji is the first person she's told about herself for a while, and his presence in her life helps her to move towards her goals again—Chihiro is attempting to write a short story about "the last girl in the world", but has largely given up due to her condition. They develop a relationship, although Chihiro's amnesia is a large obstruction to it. How things end between them differs vastly between the anime and game.

She's the main heroine of the third game, and is said to be the embodiment of the theme "a tale of memories". In the anime, Chihiro is one of the central characters. She's 151 cm tall, and her measurements are 77-53-78.

  • Bad Dreams: Of the accident where she lost her eye and her health problems started.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Her very existence. She's mentioned briefly in passing in the first chapter, and her character develops from there.
  • Dandere: She tends to be cold with strangers because her health makes it difficult to let them in, but she has no problems being social with the people she knows.
  • Different As Night and Day: Oh boy. Aside from their looks, you'd never think she and Kei are sisters.
  • Eyes of Gold
  • Fragile Flower
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: So this is what Fia would sound like doing sex scenes.
  • Image Song: Sora no Yume
  • Ingenue far sweeter and gentler than her sister Kei. Her condition makes her innocent
  • Leitmotif: "Warm color." Her novel also has three themes, none of which appear on the soundtrack for some odd reason.
  • Lethal Chef: Apparently this runs in her family.
  • Picky Eater: Will not eat peas.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Kei's red.
  • Reset Button: In the game, Chihiro gives her diary to Renji and forgets about him, but Renji finds her and begins their relationship all over again, deciding to do it right this time.
  • Shrinking Violet
  • Snow Means Death
  • The Stoic
  • Suicide Is Painless: She discusses this, and admits to having planned to jump off the roof of the school at the end of her date with Renji.
  • Younger Than They Look: Because of her condition, Chihiro will always be thirteen years old mentally.

Renji Asou

Voiced by: Motoki Takagi (JP), Clint Bickham (EN)

A student at Otowa Gakuen who doesn't have many friends due to his family's moving around a great deal. His world is restricted to his class, his crazy mother Sumire, his often-offscreen father, and his cheerful cousin Mizuki—at least until he stops by the town's abandoned train station one day and meets Chihiro there. Although Renji is rather aimless and doesn't know what to do with himself and his life at the beginning of the story, meeting Chihiro and learning to cope with and consider her health in all of their interactions helps him to mature. He decides to become and author, and does his best to support her.

Renji's birthday is the first of November. He is a year younger than Chihiro, but his chapter starts when he's in his junior year of high school.

Mizuki Hayama

Voiced by: Mai Goto (JP), Hilary Haag (EN)

Mizuki is 156 cm tall and her three measurements are 80-58-82. Her birthday is December 22.

  • Badass Adorable
  • Blue Eyes
  • Cat Smile
  • Cure Your Gays
  • Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: To Kuze.
  • For Happiness
  • Girlish Pigtails: Changed to a single side ponytail in the fourth chapter.
  • Happily Adopted
  • Harmful to Minors: Oh, boy. First her mother tried to strangle her, then tried to double-suicide-murder by driving the family car into the ocean. And after that, her friend Yuuko got hit by a car right in front of her when she was still a little kid. It's a subversion, though, as aside from her phobia of the ocean Mizuki doesn't let her childhood trauma adversely affect her behavior—rather, she wants to make people happy because of it.
  • I'm Taking Her Home with Me: To Chihiro.
  • Image Song: Egao no Chikara
  • Imagine Spot
  • Ironic Echo: At the end of chapter seven, when Kuze steps up to play, Mizuki points at him from the audience with her thumb up and her forefinger extended. In Kuze's dreams, he does this to pantomime shooting himself as he remembers his collapse onstage.
  • Leitmotif: Mizuki's chapter contains a number of tracks that are only used in conjunction with her and Kuze, no other characters. Only some of them made it onto the OST, sadly.
  • Les Yay: She just loooooves her Kei-sempai.
  • Love Martyr: Towards Kuze. Though she seems to get fed up with it after the rape attempt.
  • Plucky Girl
  • The Pollyanna
  • May–December Romance: With Kuze.
  • Replacement Goldfish: For the original Mizuki.
  • Stepford Smiler: For a little while towards the end of her chapter after Kuze tries to drive her away by almost raping her. She snaps out of it pretty quickly, though.
  • Verbal Tic: It's very rare for her to have dialogue that doesn't include onomatopoeia of some sort.
  • You ALL Share My Story: She's involved in all the other plotlines before she becomes a main heroine.

Shuichi Kuze

Voiced by: Kenji Hamada (JP), Illich Guardiola (EN)

Yuko Amamiya

Voiced by: Yumiko Nakajima (JP), Carli Mosier (EN)

Yuuko is the main heroine of the overarching story. Her birthday is 6/21 and her three sizes are 82-56-83.

Yu Himura

Voiced by: Kouichi Touchika (JP), David Matranga (EN)

Yu is the hero of the overarching story.

Important Secondary Characters

Sumire Asou

Voiced by: Sayaka Aoki (JP), Tiffany Grant (EN)

Nagi Hirono

Voiced by: Shizuka Ito (JP), Allison Keith (EN)

Akira Amamiya

Voiced by: Tohru Furusawa (JP), Josh Grelle (EN)

Fandisc-Only Characters

Mizuki Hayama (original)

Heroine of one of the what-if stories. Renji's first love; the girl who drowned at the beach as a child in the main continuity.

  • Non-Standard Character Design: Designed by the main artist for *eden rather than Nanao or 2C=Galore. Further research about the artist, this troper found out that its one of the artists for Wind-a breath of heart (also another minori work) named Shouna Mitsuishi. so its neither chikotam who did the art for eden*

Akari Amamiya

Heroine of one of the what-if stories, which examines what life would have been like if the great disaster had never occurred. Amamiya Akira's real younger sister. She is stated to be something of a masochist in promotional materials.

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