Nyaruko: Crawling with Love/Characters

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These are the characters of Haiyore! Nyaruko-san that crawl up to us with a smile!

Nyarko

Voiced by: Kana Asumi

An energetic silver-haired girl who happens to be an anthropomorphized form of the Crawling Chaos, Nyarlathotep.

Nyarko: "It's not a crime if no one finds out."
(Cue Mahiro showing her a video of that exact line on his cellphone)

Mahiro Yasaka

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura

A 17-year-old high school boy with a fascination for the Cthulhu Mythos.

Cuuko

Voiced by: Miyu Matsuki

Nyarko's old friend who also comes down to Earth and the humanized version of Cthugha, the Burning One.

Tamao: "...and she's got a delicious A-Cup that will tickle every nerd's fantasy!"

  • Platonic Life Partners: After she quit trying to kill Mahiro, their relationship has become "like, not love", though only because Mahiro was Genre Savvy enough to exploit her Psycho Lesbian crush on Nyarko to get her off his back and even win her over as a mutual ally.
  • Playing with Fire: Naturally.
  • Psycho Lesbian: She will side with the bad guys for a chance at putting her hands on Nyarko. Mahiro works around this trope to get her off his back and win her over as a mutual ally.
  • Rapunzel Hair
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Connections: Gets an easy pass into the Planetary Defense Force because her uncle happens to be in PR. Nyarko is incensed, since she had to pass an examination to even make it (as well as a few other reasons).
  • Shipper on Deck/Pair the Spares: Wholeheartedly ships Mahiro/Hasta, because it means that she can have Nyarko for herself.
  • Skirt Space: That's where she keeps her funnels when in her school uniform. Later on it is revealed that she keeps a two-handed sword, of all things, down there as well.
  • Sugar and Ice Personality: Mahiro gets the ice, Nyarko gets the sugar. Mahiro doesn't mind, so long as they remain on cordial terms. Not so much with Nyarko, who'd rather get away from her.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: In Episode 7, after Cuuko laments that no game console may replace the Xoth-731, Mahiro comforts her, telling her that someday something that can satisfy her will come. Cuuko thanks him, but thinking he's setting up an Event Flag with her, tells him it won't work. Mahiro plays along.

Mahiro: "Don't worry about that. Even if a flag does come up, I'd end it immediately."

Hasta

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya

A young boy with long blond hair, who happens to be the humanized version of Hastur, the Unspeakable One, godd... deity of wind, depicted here more as the benign deity of shepherds than the Rapine Storm version. He is also the son of the president of Carcosa Computer Entertainment (CCE), a famous video game developer.

  • Adorably Precocious Child: His overall appearance, although he also attends Mahiro's Boryo Municipal High School.
  • Bi the Way: In Volume 7, he admits that he feels warm and fuzzy around Luuhi as much as he does with Mahiro, though he doesn't really understand anything further than that.
  • Blow You Away: Godd... deity of wind.
  • Cross-Dressing Voices: And courtesy of none other than Rie Kugimiya, here using her cutesy tone reserved for her Shana Clones.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: He dresses as a guy, at least.
  • Hair of Gold: An appropriate trope for the "King in Yellow".
  • Hair Antennae: A couple of cowlicks.
  • Humanoid Abomination: His most common Mythos depiction (shown on his lap on the picture above) looks like a masked man, clothed in yellow rags, often with tentacles slipping through its hem.
  • Incompatible Orientation: He likes Mahiro a lot. As in the romantic variety.
  • Moe Anthropomorphism: Of Hastur, the Unspeakable.
  • The Mole: Outright tells Mahiro that he was sent by his father to gather data on Earth's entertainment from his mother Yoriko on behalf of the CCE, but decides to stay instead after the mission is called off.
  • Nice Guy: So sweet, cuddly and good-natured is he that it's hard to believe he is voiced by none other than Rie Kugimiya, queen of Shana Clones. This is probably the only reason he is the only member of Mahiro's harem who hasn't gotten the fork yet.
  • No Sense of Direction
  • Only Sane Man: Between Nyarko and Cuuko's squabbles, back in space grade school, he used to act as their middleman.
  • Pinky Swear: Hasta suggests it to seal Mahiro's promise to consider his love confession again... in 25 million years.
  • Rapunzel Hair: Tied in a long braid.
  • Spoiled Sweet
  • Student Council President: During his, Nyarko and Cuuko's space elementary school days.

Shanta-kun

Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (drama CD and first anime) and Satomi Arai (second anime)

Nyarko's pet, a female shantak (avian with horse's head and bat wings).

Luhy Distone

Voiced by: Mariko Kouda

A green-haired woman and employee of Cthulhu Corporation, a rival video game developer to CCE (run by Hasta's father). She is also a humanized version of none other than Cthulhu, the namesake of an entire mythos based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

Yoriko Yasaka

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (drama CD and first anime) and Aya Hisakawa (second anime)

Mahiro's mother and a professional monster hunter.

  • Admiring the Abomination: To an extent. While her son is somewhat freaked out and disturbed by Nyarko and Cuuko, she is more than happy to call some of their antics adorable, though she also makes it clear she will not hesitate to berate them should they cross her.
  • Alliterative Name
  • Ascended Fangirl: Just like her son, but unlike him she readily welcomes Nyarko, Cuuko and Hasta into their household.
  • Badass: Like her son, she has yet to lose her sanity, even openly acknowledging the existence of several Cthulhu Mythos beings. Bonus points for actually scaring the crap out of Nyarko and Cuuko at the same time using a bunch of forks.
    • Action Mom: Works as a professional demon hunter (her introduction in Episode 4 even makes some Shout Outs to Monster Hunter).
    • Mama Bear: Eased off on this after her initial meeting with Nyarko and Cuuko, especially after they explained themselves, but both are now conscientious enough to keep themselves in her good graces.
  • Cuddle Bug: Frequently embraces her son upon returning from her adventures, supposedly to recharge her "sononium".
  • Gamer Chick: Collector of consoles of all sorts.
  • Hot Mom
  • Improbable Weapon User: Just like her son, she uses forks as her main weapon.
  • It Runs on Nonsensoleum: Whenever she runs low, she hugs her son to "recharge" her "sononium".
  • More Dakka: Mahiro's fork = good. Yoriko's eight forks = better.
  • Older Than They Look: Old enough to have a seventeen year old kid, but doesn't look a year over twenty.
  • Shipper on Deck: Played with. She isn't opposed per se to Nyarko hooking up with her son, but she does want them to know each other as friends first. The poor girl, thinking she just got friendzoned, ended up with a Color Failure before Giving Up the Ghost.

Tamao Kurei

Voiced by: Yuka Ootsubo

A classmate of Mahiro, Nyarko, Cuuko and Hasta, who is always on the prowl for the hottest scoop in school.


Takehiko Yoichi

Voiced by: Wataru Hatano

Mahiro's best friend and confidant.


Nyarue

Voiced by: Sayuri Hara

Another Nyarlathotepian and an old high school friend of Nyarko. Appears in Remember my Love(craft-sensei).

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