Haganai/Characters

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Haganai revolves around the daily lives of the seven members -- six students, one advisor -- of the Neighbors Club, a school club within St. Chronica Academy whose ostensible goal is to help its members learn social skills and open up to society.

Kodaka Hasegawa

Voiced by: Ryohei Kimura (teenager) and Akiko Seri (child)

The main protagonist and a second-year transferee to St. Chronica after he and his younger sister Kobato decide to stay behind when their father Hayato went to America to work. Unfortunately, his naturally blond hair (inherited from their deceased English mother Airi) earned him an unwanted reputation as some delinquent. He, together with fellow loner Yozora, is a co-founder of the Neighbors Club.

Tropes exhibited by Kodaka include:

Yozora Mikazuki

Voiced by: Marina Inoue

An abrasive loner with a strange hobby of talking to an "air friend" named "Tomo". After a small talk with Kodaka who caught her "taking" to "Tomo", she becomes a co-founder of the Neighbors Club.

Tropes exhibited by Yozora include:

"It's been a long time, Taka[1]..."

  • Cuteness Proximity: Cats
  • A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 1 of the Shobon! spinoff manga, where she snarks at the situation of the Club but is nevertheless willing to put up with them as long as Kodaka is happy (and so is she)... and develops a Fetish for having her armpits touched.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change/Important Haircut: After accidentally burning her hair with a firework near the end of summer break, Yozora returns to school with her hair cut short. At this very moment Kodaka finally recognizes her as "Sora", the "boy" who used to be his only childhood friend. This also marks the point where she starts to show her deredere side.
  • Forgotten Childhood Friend: She was the "boy" who once saved Kodaka from, and then joined him in fighting, a bunch of bullies when they were children. They quickly became friends, but then Kodaka had to move just when Yozora was confident enough to dress up as girl in front of him.
  • Friend to All Children: Episode 12 reveals that she actually has a soft spot for children, going so far as to put up with Maria's bratty attitude while she tried to politely ask her to lend her room to the Club before finally losing her patience. She is also shown to be protective of Kobato, and is often the first to try to keep Sena in check.
  • Friendship Moment: She has at least two. One occurs early on when she says that she won't tell Kodaka what her nickname is because nicknames are something you give your friends. Not long after, she gives Sena the nickname Meat. Insulting, but still a nickname. Later, in volume 6, she's genuinely remorseful about genuinely hurting Sena's feelings unlike normal when they seem to be mostly playing around. She's apparently pretty happy when Sena's mood improves thanks to Kobato.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: While on a roller coaster with the rest of the Club, she starts blurting out some of her resentment towards Sena, blaming her for things going wrong in her life and Kodaka not paying enough attention to her. Nobody hears any of that part instead of the creepy chanting about cursing and killing she starts after that in her panic.
  • Hair Decorations: The ends of her hair are tied with small ribbons.
  • Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Gleefully builds her success and happiness on the pain, insecurity and tears of others without a sliver of remorse.
  • Hoist by Her Own Petard: Gets scared by her own scary story in Episode 10.
  • Imaginary Friend: Used to have one, named "Tomo-chan".
  • It's All About Me
  • Jerkass/Jerkass Facade: Yozora is mostly the former, but hints abound that her bullying usually means well, in that her usual targets, Sena and Maria, are themselves haughty, spoiled and plain rude, and that her antics are apprently her way of bringing their attitudes down a notch. Whether or not it's what she was trying to do, the positive results are confirmed in the case of Maria, as her older sister Kate notes how Yozora is actually being a good influence in raising Maria.
  • Lack of Empathy
  • Manipulative Bitch
  • No Social Skills: As the series goes on, Yozora's awkwardness and hang-ups become more and more obvious.
  • Old-Timey Bathing Suit
  • One of the Boys: As a kid. She was about to dress up as a girl for Kodaka, when he had to move.
  • Perpetual Frowner: Lampshaded by Kodaka
  • Rapunzel Hair
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Sena's red, and the red (together with Sena) to Kodaka's blue.
  • Second Year Protagonist
  • Sitcom Arch Nemesis/Vitriolic Best Buds: With Sena. According to her, only true friends can give each other nicknames, so even if she gave Sena the insulting nickname of "Meat", it's telling something about their relationship.
  • Sour Prudes: Lampshaded by Rika, who couldn't care less for Yozora's uptight rebukes (unlike poor Sena).
  • Stepford Snarker: Talking to an Imaginary Friend and acting like a total Jerkass towards everybody else (especially Sena) may indicate some issues beneath her snarkiness. May or may not have something to do with her past with Kodaka.
  • Tsundere: A vicious Type A -- utterly abusive to everybody (especially towards Sena), but occasionally shows a softer side towards Kodaka.
  • Weapon of Choice: A fly swatter.
  • What Is This Thing You Call Love?: Apparently finds inter-gender relations a confusing, somewhat disturbing mess, and would prefer being Just Friends. In fact, her dislike of Sena's eroges stems not so much from their sexual content as they are about romance. It just so happens that Sena is very protective of her games and the characters therein.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Dislikes parlors. Being a girl who values privacy, she dislikes how people there keep babbling about things best left private, such as romance, careers, etc., so she takes her of her hair all by herself. Part of her dislike of crowds.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Viciously slaps Maria (a ten year old child) twice as a part of extorting ownership of the club-room from her. In the final episode of the anime, it is revealed that her harsh treatment of Maria is not totally unjustified and largely makes her a better person due to Maria being spoiled rotten.

Sena Kashiwazaki

Voiced by: Kanae Ito

Daughter of Tenma Kashiwazaki, headmaster of St. Chronica Academy. Her connections, wealth and beauty -- not to mention a huge pair of knockers -- has boys fawning all over her, and likewise girls casting an envious eye on her. Despite being constantly surrounded by boys, all she wants are true friends, driving her to become the third member of the Neighbors Club.

Tropes exhibited by Sena include:

(In Episode five): "There's no way your [Kodaka] little sister [Kobato] can be this cute!"

Yukimura Kusunoki

Voiced by: Nozomi Yamamoto

An extremely effeminate freshman who idolizes Kodaka, whom he deems to be a "man among men", and joined the Neighbors Club due to his presence there, hoping he can teach him how to become more manly.

Tropes exhibited by Yukimura include:

Rika Shiguma

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen

A freshman and scientific genius whose presence at St. Chronica was designed to increase its prestige. Otherwise she's a loner whose classroom is a laboratory the school made for her. After Kodaka saves her from a mishap involving sleeping gas, she joins the Neighbors Club to get close to him... while revealing an extremely perverted side with an unhealthy passion for mecha-on-mecha H-doujins.

Tropes exhibited by Rika include:

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuckkkkkkkkk! God damn gravity you piece of shit...! You don't care who it is as long as you can pull down on them, do you, you little bitch!! Gravity, you piggy bitch slut! Holy fucking shit what a god damn whore you are...! Hah, you're Earth's greedy little slut, you damn bitch in heat! Fuck you universal gravitation, you're just Newtonian Mechanics' dirty little whore! You're just the crusty semen left over in that slutty apple's pussy after that son of a bitch Isaac fucked its rotten juices! Special theory of relativity, you impotent phimosis piece of shit! Einstein, you old limp dick fuck! What, got something to say!? Then move that tiny little twig of yours faster! Cum faster than the speed of light! A pig that can't fly through space-time is just a piece of shit that reeks of semen and can't even last 5 seconds in his wet dreams! Fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking UNIVERRRRRRRRRSSSEE!!"

Episode 4: "Universe!!!" (while climaxing as she reads aloud a Gundam x Evangelion H-doujin)

Episode 8: "Pride!" (while imagining herself in Barely-There Swimwear)

Episode 10: "Excalibur!!!" (after imagining Kodaka and Yukimura as a pair of Yaoi Guys)

Kobato Hasegawa

Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa

Kodaka's thirteen-year-old little sister and a second-year junior high transferee to St. Chronica, who claims to be a centuries-old vampire named "Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi". She becomes the sixth member of the Neighbors Club (with Yozora's approval) despite her juniority.

Tropes exhibited by Kobato include:

Maria Takayama

Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi

A ten-year-old resident nun at St. Chronica whom Yozora tricked into lending her favorite naptime quarters to the Neighbors Club and, through coercion, becoming its moderator.

Tropes exhibited by Maria include:

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  1. Her nickname for Kodaka back when they were kids