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Characters from ''[[K-On!]]''▼
When in doubt, ''every'' character on this page possess the following tropes:
* [[Adorkable]]
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* [[Sweet Tooth]]: The ''other'' solution to all of life's problems... except getting fat in the case of [[Weight Woe|Mio and Mugi]].
* [[True Companions]]
▲Characters from ''[[K-On!]]'' include:
== Band Members ==
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:'''Voiced by:''' [[Aki Toyosaki]] (Japanese) and [[Stephanie Sheh]] (English)
First character introduced and stays the primary viewpoint character throughout the series. She's the lead guitarist as well as the main vocalist.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Yui include:}}
* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: She is implied to have a mild form of this ability, picking up guitar and really any other instrument far faster than should be possible.
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: taken literally in Episode 8 when she proves immune to nerves after finding a 100 yen coin on the stage.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The red to Azusa and Nodoka's blue.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]
* [[Star-Making Role]]: Though [[Aki Toyosaki]] seems to have avoided the typecasting that typically comes with successful roles; presently{{when}} she has a tendency of taking perverted and sultry seductresses who are ''nowhere'' as sweet and innocent as Yui is.
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Which gets abused relentlessly to seduce her into joining the club. And even after that, Mugi seems to be [[Crazy Prepared|keeping a lot of sweets handy]] for whenever the band needs Yui to do something. (Mugi seems to believe that [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|sweets are the solution to all problems]].)
** The scary thing is, [[Truth in Television|she's often right]].
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Sawako notes that it's no fun forcing Yui to wear a [[Sexy Santa Dress]] because [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|"she has no sense of embarrassment."]]
=== Ritsu Tainaka ===
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:'''Voiced by:''' [[Satomi Sato]] (Japanese) and [[Cassandra Lee]] (English)
Club president (who has has problems carrying out her responsibilities) and drummer (who has has problems staying on beat).
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Ritsu include:}}
* [[A-Cup Angst]]
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Although to a lesser extent than Yui.
* [[Blinding Bangs]]: On the rare occasions when [[Show the Forehead|she's not wearing her hairband]]. The first time she lets her hair down in the manga, Mio doesn't recognize her -- heck, she can be [http://www.mangareader.net/k-on/53/4 even indistinguishable from Yui].
** [[Unkempt Beauty|Many fans believe]] [[Bifauxnen|she looks better like this.]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100826041614/http://danbooru.donmai.us/post?tags=tainaka_ritsu+hair_down The sheer amount of fanart] '''[[Not Safe for Work|(LINK NSFW)]]''' [[Letting Her Hair Down|showing Ritsu's hair down]]
** However, this was before the "NO, Thank You!" ending sequence, which allows us to see her with her hair down in all of the remaining episodes.
** There's a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bctn7tRdD6o video dedicated to it]{{Dead link}}.
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** [[Berserk Button]]: Don't ever accuse her of being unfeminine to her face, though.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Of sorts with Mio.
=== Mio Akiyama ===
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:'''Voiced by:''' [[Youko Hikasa]] (Japanese) and [[Cristina Valenzuela]] (English)
The extremely shy bassist and backup vocalist whenever Yui can't sing.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Mio include:}}
* [[Character Tics]]: Before beginning a performance, she always holds her guitar pick in her mouth and flips her hair back over her shoulder.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Her fears and anxieties get milked for all they're worth, especially by Ritsu and Sawako. Sometimes she could really use a hug.
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* [[Going to See the Elephant]]: Mio is unexpectedly the most excited about going to Summer Fest out of all the members in the club.
* [[Gray Eyes]]
* [[Hidden Buxom]]: More obviously in the manga than the anime. In the ''K-On! college'' [sic] collection, Ayame grabs Mio unannounced, then comments, "She was hiding melons under that grandma shirt!"
* [[Hime Cut]]
* [[Lead Bassist]]: Type A, B ''and'' C.
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* [[The Southpaw]]: Mio writes and plays bass with her left hand, and is keenly interested in other left-handed musicians and instruments.
** [[Author Avatar]]: To a degree. While not much is known about Kakifly, he did publish a photo of his instrument collection in the first manga volume, showing off several left-handed bass guitars.
* [[Star-Making Role]]: For Youko Hikasa. The creepiest part is the resulting roles seem to [[Infinite Stratos|all]] [[Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?|have]] [[Seitokai Yakuindomo|that]] [[Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin|hair]].
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: She tries to be mature and above the childishness of her friends, with the emphasis on "try." [[Cry Cute|But when she fails...]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Like ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]''{{'}}s Sakaki, she [[Subverted Trope|subverts]] the usual stereotype.
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** The anime [[Character Exaggeration|exaggerates]] these, and then adds on some more -- she also earned a fear of barnacles and even the mere ''thought'' of crayfish in the bathtub.
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: The opinion Ritsu (usually) and the other girls in the band (less frequently) have of some of Mio's lyrics.
=== Tsumugi "Mugi" Kotobuki ===
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:'''Voiced by:''' [[Minako Kotobuki]] (Japanese) and Shelby Lindley (English)
The soft-spoken keyboardist who frequently provides tea and sweets in the middle of band practice. Mugi is quiet, polite and elegant in a very understated way. From the way she reacts to doing the most common of things one gets the impression that she was raised in a lavishly furnished box, and has only recently been released into the world at large.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Mugi include:}}
* [[The Ace]]: Tends to be competent in most of the new things she tries, although this is usually treated as a background event. Case in point: the awesome sand castles she builds in S1's [[Beach Episode]].
** [[Instant Expert]]
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* [[Hit Me Dammit]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTO6297FkUc&feature=related Asks Ritsu to hit her.]{{Dead link}}
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Despite -- or possibly, because of -- being incredibly rich, she gets much enjoyment out of doing [[media:k-on_mugi_dagashi_171.jpg|mundane]] things, such as [[media:k-on_yakisoba_1310.jpg|eating fast food]] or having [[Pillow Fight|pillow fights]].
* [[Informed Ability]]: When the girls discuss having to talk English abroad, she says that her conversational skills are good, but she doesn't show them. Considering how her [[Gratuitous English]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qggN2PlqOYA sounded]{{Dead link}}, it might be a case of [[Minako Kotobuki]] not being as good at English as Mugi's supposed to be.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Yui gave her the nickname "Mugi" -- one that pretty much stuck amongst the [[Nakama]].
* [[Mukokuseki]]: Played with, if not outright [[Defied Trope|defied]]. Although ethnically Japanese, Mugi is ''explicitly'' blonde and blue-eyed in-universe despite this -- and no one seems to think it's odd, even though for two seasons of the anime and six volumes of the manga she is the ''only'' natural blonde to appear in the series.
* [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]]
* [[Ojou]]: Mugi's initially the only one with any decent musical talent, and her incredibly spacious beach house is mentioned to be her ''smallest'' one. Also, visitors to her ''family home'' need ''official appointments''. Not too common even by anime standards.
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:'''Voiced by:''' [[Ayana Taketatsu]] (Japanese) and [[Christine Marie Cabanos]] (English)
The Light Music Club's newest member in the TV series, who joins in her freshman year (with the rest in their second year). She's also the secondary guitarist.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Azusa include:}}
* [[A-Cup Angst]]
* [[All Just a Dream]]/[[Daydream Surprise]]: ''All of them'' in episode 13.
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* [[Verbal Tic]]: She says "desu" quite often, but doesn't put quite as much emphasis on it as [[Rozen Maiden|Suiseiseki]]. She actually tends to use politer Japanese in general than the other girls.
** In the restarted manga, she begins speaking in a much more casual (less polite) manner than she did before.
== Supporting Characters ==
=== Ui Hirasawa ===
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:'''Voiced by:''' Madoka Yonezawa (Japanese) and Xanthe Huynh (English)
Yui's more responsible younger sister. {{spoiler|She joins Azusa and Jun in the Light Music Club after Mio, Yui, Mugi and Ritsu graduate.}}
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Ui include:}}
* [[The Ace]]: Which causes Nao to search for her weak spot.
* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: Even more so than her sister. She learned guitar after only a few days of her sister letting her strum away while practicing at home and hit a home run at a batting center after overhearing some tips from a neighboring player.
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** In the manga, {{spoiler|they're first tipped off by the fact that she keeps timing better than her sister. The slips of the tongue are the clinchers.}}
* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]: Seen above.
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: She's mature, responsible, does the household chores, and is
=== Sawako Yamanaka ===
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:'''Voiced by:''' [[Asami Sanada]] (Japanese) and [[Karen Strassman]] (English)
The Wind Instruments Club advisor, who was eventually blackmailed by Ritsu into also becoming the Light Music Club
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Sawa-sensei include:}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: NEVER EVER SAY THAT DEATH DEVIL IS CUTE!
* [[Christmas Cake]]: She was a member of a previous incarnation of the Light Music Club. In the Kyoto trip episode, she shows that she ''does'' desperately hope to get married, and suffers from keeping her professional side in control over her fun-loving side.
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* [[Tsurime Eyes]]: When she goes into her "wild" personality.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Ghosts?]]
=== Nodoka Manabe ===
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:'''Voiced by:''' Chika Fujitou (Japanese) and [[Laura Bailey]] (English)
Yui's friend and classmate before she joined the band. She ends up becoming the high school's Student Council President.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Nodoka include:}}
* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]
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* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The blue to Yui's red.
* [[Student Council President]]: the rare type who's a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]].
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: In a way. She was Yui's best friend since kindergarten, but by their last year in high school, Yui has become much closer to her bandmates than she'll ever be with Nodoka. Subverted in that she has since become a friend to the rest of the band, and Yui still remembers how important she is in her life enough to {{spoiler|ask her to walk home together on their last day of school, knowing that by going to different universities, they probably won't be able to do so again}}.
=== Jun Suzuki ===
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:'''Voiced by:''' Yoriko Nagata (Japanese) and Michelle Ann Dunphy (English)
Azusa and Ui's friend and classmate, as well as a member of the Jazz Club. {{spoiler|She joins Azusa and Ui in the Light Music Club after Mio, Yui, Mugi and Ritsu graduate.}}
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Jun include:}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: She was a satellite character in the first season, but come second season she's a part of Ui's variant [[Power Trio]] (together with Azusa, "variant" because nobody plays drums) and even appeared in said season's opening. In the 2011 restart she becomes the third senior at the Light Music Club, along with Azusa and Ui.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: However, she's embarrassed to wear them around her family, so she [[Letting Her Hair Down|lets her hair down]] at home.
* [[Grass Is Greener]]: Her envy at all the fun things the Light Music Club gets to do becomes a [[Running Gag]].
* [[Imagine Spot]]: She does this a lot, mostly involving the four seniors of the Light Music Club.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in season 2 episode 5. She buys a dozen donuts in assorted flavors, takes ''one bite'' out of each, rolls across the floor and unintentionally headbutts Azusa. She also refuses to join the Light Music Club, but seeing how much fun Azusa is having in the club made her regret her decision, and ultimately decides to join Azusa and Ui in the club in their third year.
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** She even states that she can predict the weather depending on how messy it is.
* [[Purple Eyes]]
=== Megumi Sokabe ===
:'''Voiced by:''' Asumi Kodama (Japanese) and Amanda C. Miller (English)
The former Student Council Class Representative during Yui, Ritsu, Mio and Mugi's second year and founder of the Mio Fan Club. She eventually becomes their dormmate come their college years.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Sokabe include:}}
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: Through some whiff of coincidence, upon hitting college Yui, Ritsu, Mio and Mugi -- who made it their pledge to stay together -- end up sharing the same dorm as Megumi.
* [[Fan Girl]]: Of Mio. She was even the founder of the [[Instant Fanclub|Mio Fan Club]].
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* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: How she acted towards Mio when they first met.
* [[Student Council President]]
== Characters Introduced in the 2011 Restart ==
=== Sumire Saitou ===
A blonde freshman who eventually joins Azusa, Ui and Jun's reformed Light Music Club.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Sumire include:}}
* [[Blinding Bangs]]
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Though of the [[Nice Girl]] kind.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: While strange at first given her incredibly generic Japanese name and surname, {{spoiler|it is eventually revealed in chapter 3 of Volume 6 that Sumire's family actually came from
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Everybody's starting to call her "SuMIIre", as if her name was pronounced the way an English speaker would say it.
* [[Meido]]: She has worked as a maid for the Kotobuki household and tries to hide that by pretending to be a [[Dojikko]] instead.
* [[Mukokuseki]]: As with Mugi, played with if not defied. Another explicitly blonde-and-blue-eyed character with a Japanese name, she actually turns out to be {{spoiler|Anglo-Australian}} -- but no one realizes she ''isn't'' ethnically Japanese until she reveals this.
* [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]]
* [[Ostentatious Secret]]: Sumire makes it very obvious that she doesn't want anybody at school to know she's Mugi's maid.
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** Subverted, as it was all part of {{spoiler|Mugi's plan to get Sumire to join the Light Music Club. Mugi really had no intention of taking back the tea set, until at least Sumire graduates}}.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To Mugi, including her tea-making skills, sans the [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]].
=== Nao Okuda ===
Another freshman who becomes the fifth member of Azusa's new Light Music Club. Unlike the others, she can neither sing nor play an instrument -- but she is an exceptional songwriter, and with her technical skills she becomes the band's producer.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Nao include:}}
* [[Bob Haircut]]
* [[Dojikko]]
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=== Akira Wada ===
Yui, Ritsu, Mio, Mugi and Megumi's dorm-mate, leader of three-girl band "OnNaGumi" with fellow dorm-mates Sachi and Ayame during their High School days, and a new member of the university Light Music Club. Like Yui, she's majoring in education.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Akira include:}}
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: She joined her high school's Light Music Club because she had a crush on a boy named Maeda, who thinks her band only gets by on their looks. Implied to be averted.
* [[Death Glare]]
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* [[Those Two Guys|Those Three Girls]]: With Sachi and Ayame, bandmates in the OnNaGumi.
* [[Tomboy]]
=== Sachi Hayashi ===
A member of the OnNaGumi with Akira and Ayame (and eventually of the university Light Music Club), as well as dorm-mate of Yui, Ritsu, Mio, Mugi and Megumi. She's in the same department as Mio.
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* [[Hime Cut]]
* [[Huge Schoolgirl]]: Even taller than Mio and it bothers her.
** [[Values Dissonance]]: She's only about 169 cm (5' 6.5") tall, which is tall for a Japanese girl but not for a North American girl. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]
* [[Those Two Guys|Those Three Girls]]: With Akira and Ayame.
=== Ayame Yoshida ===
The third OnNaGumi member who, along with Akira and Sachi, joins the university Light Music Club. She's also dorm-mates with Yui, Ritsu, Mio, Mugi and Megumi. She's also in the same department as Ritsu.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Ayame include:}}
* [[A-Cup Angst]]
* [[The Fashionista]]
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* [[Skinship Grope]]
* [[Those Two Guys|Those Three Girls]]: With Akira and Sachi.
=== Kana Yoshii ===
The current club president of the University Light Music Club.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Yoshii include:}}
* [[Bob Haircut]]
* [[Christmas Cake]]: Not yet confirmed, but by the way she reminisces what the younger ladies can wear, she may as well be one.
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* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Mentioned by name in the flyer the first chapter of Volume 5. Introduced in Chapter 3, but her role wasn't formally confirmed until Chapter 5, and [[No Name Given|her name ]]until Volume 5, Chapter 11.
* [[Hime Cut]]
* [[Retired Badass]]: Although the band she formed with her partner Chiyo Hirose [[Spell My Name with an "S"|(pronunciation unconfirmed)]]{{verify}} was said to be pro-level, they've become too busy with academics to perform publicly, not to mention Chiyo feeling embarrassed about Kana's insistence on playing in their old school uniforms.
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