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== The Main Characters ==

=== Yuuichi Aizawa ===

 

Our protagonist. At the beginning of the story, he has just returned to the town where he used to spend his vacations as a kid for the first time in seven years in order to stay with his aunt, Akiko, while his parents are out of the country. However, he has practically no memory of the time he spent there all those years ago. As time goes by, he gradually learns why that is, but he may have been better off not knowing. Little does he know that he has [[Earn Your Happy Ending|a long,]] [[Utsuge|painful]] journey ahead of him... {{spoiler|It turns out he knows all of the main girls except Shiori from childhood, though, due to the traumatic events that occurred back then, [[Repressed Memories|he doesn't remember]]. More details about each are provided below.}}

 

=== Ayu Tsukimiya ===

 

A [[Genki Girl|cheerful girl]] well-known both within and outside the story for her [[Verbal Tic]] and for her [[Trademark Favorite Food|bordering-on-unreasonable love of taiyaki]], Yuuichi meets her early on after she [[Crash Into Hello|collides with him head first.]] They quickly become good friends, and this quickly [[Running Gag|becomes a running joke]] (though it's later toned down to her simply [[The Glomp|glomping him]]). {{spoiler|It turns out he knows her from seven years ago, and they were very close back then}}. She is very short and behaves rather childishly, in spite of being the [[Older Than They Look|same age as Yuuichi.]] She is looking for something important to her, [[Easy Amnesia|but she can't remember what it is.]] She is the most prominent of the girls in the story and Yuuichi's kanon (pardon the bad pun) love interest. {{spoiler|turns out she suffered a serious accident seven years ago that left her in a coma, and the version of her you see throughout is an [[Astral Projection]]. She gets better at the end of both anime versions and her route in the game though, and, using [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|her belief]] in the power of a wish she made over an angel doll (her lost item) as a child, she helps the rest of the girls recover as well.}}

* [[Tomato Surprise]]: Two in rapid succession. {{spoiler|The first being her accident (and thus, the fact that the Ayu we've seen all along is an [[Astral Projection]]) and the second being the fact that no, she's not dead, just in a coma.}}

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Taiyaki, of course. So much so that she accidentally steals it twice. It ''does'' look delicious.

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: {{spoiler|She seemingly is well on her way to a full recovery by the end of the story, once she awakens from her coma. You can call it a miracle, which, it turns out, is exactly what it is, of course.}}

* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Uguu-!"

 

=== Nayuki Minase ===

 

Yuuichi's cousin who sleeps under the same roof as him (obvious really, considering that Yuuichi is staying with his aunt and Nayuki's mother, Akiko). He remembers her vaguely from seven years ago. [[Kissing Cousins|She has a fairly obvious crush on him,]] [[All Love Is Unrequited|which he doesn't return]]. [[Heavy Sleeper|She also has a serious problem getting up in the morning, and is prone to falling asleep again repeatedly throughout the day.]] Loves anything with strawberries, especially strawberry sundaes, and can easily be bribed with them (which is useful for Yuuichi). She is hardworking, upbeat and very athletic, being the captain of the school's track team because to her running ability, gained from years of having to run to school to be on time due to her sleep habits. {{spoiler|Turns out she has unhappy memories of Yuuichi basically rejecting her confession of love to him all those years ago.}}

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=== Shiori Misaka ===

 

A [[Ill Girl|sickly girl]] that Yuuichi and Ayu run into early on, and who is frequently seen hanging around outside the school during classes, apparently waiting for "someone important to her" {{spoiler|either Yuuichi or her sister, depending on how one chooses to view it}}. She's quiet, peaceful and pretty pleasant and normal (though she does have a somewhat odd sense of humor and an odd fondness for eating ice cream in below-freezing weather, not to mention her almost complete terribleness at arcade games), other than being {{spoiler|terminally}} ill, of course. {{spoiler|She is the only one of the main girls Yuuichi did not meet seven years ago.}} She also has some troubles at home that are vaguely alluded to. {{spoiler|Turns out she is Kaori's sister, and that the two were very close until Kaori began distancing herself from her sister to avoid the pain of losing her. She attended school for exactly one day before she fainted in class and was sent home to recover, and does not return until late in the story. During this time, she hangs out with Yuuichi and has a birthday party thrown for her, during which she and her sister begin to repair their relationships to one another. She recovers completely at the tail end of the story thanks to [[World-Healing Wave|Ayu's miracle]].}}

 

=== Makoto Sawatari ===

 

Makoto is a mischievous, [[Fiery Redhead|red-haired]] [[Tsundere]] who accosts Yuuichi in the market the day after he arrives and claims to be holding a grudge against him. [[Easy Amnesia|However, she doesn't remember why]], and, in fact, [[Identity Amnesia|she doesn't remember very much at all, not even her own name.]] She accepts Akiko's offer to live at her house until she remembers, becoming a [[Pretty Freeloader]] in the process. She also develops a fondness for pork buns and romance manga. All the while, she attempts to remember who she is, but it turns out she may have been better off not knowing. {{spoiler|She turns out to have been a young fox that Yuuichi rescued seven years ago when she was injured, and that she wants revenge on him because he abandoned her after she had recovered when he had to leave town to return home. As time goes on, she starts to forget (she ultimately loses the ability to speak and can only say her [[Verbal Tic]]) and gradually fades away, eventually [[Tear Jerker|disappearing altogether]]. Shortly before this happens, she and Yuuichi get [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|"married"]].}}

 

=== Mai Kawasumi ===

 

Mai is a [[The Stoic|calm]], [[Not So Stoic|seemingly]] [[Emotionless Girl]] who comes to the school at night to fight demons. Because she has been seen there at night and because windows have been inexplicably broken, she is perceived as being responsible, and has been branded a [[Japanese Delinquents|delinquent]] by most of the students and the staff at the school. She is excellent with a sword, and she seems to know things about the strange goings-on around the town, giving Yuuichi cryptic advice on several occasions. Her best friend [[Les Yay|(and possibly more)]] is Sayuri Kurata, and she aspires to be a veterinarian. {{spoiler|Yuuichi knew Mai when they were younger, when he visited the town during summer break. They used to play in the wheat fields where the school is now, and he became her only friend (she was new in town, due to being driven out of the previous town town with her mother because of her powers). When he eventually has to leave to return home, she tries to get him to stay by claiming demons are attacking the field (which is being demolished to make way for the school), but it doesn't work, and she feels abandoned. The demons become real as a result of the repression of her powers. In the present, the demons attack Sayuri, her only friend, causing her to go berserk and to have to be talked down by Yuuichi. She tries to kill herself when the truth about the demons is revealed, but her powers save her.}}

== Secondary Characters ==

=== Akiko Minase ===

 

Akiko Minase is Nayuki's ([[Generation Xerox|nearly identical]]) mother and Yuuichi's aunt, whom he is staying with while he's in town. She lets Makoto and, later, Ayu, [[Open-Minded Parent|stay there as long as they like and pretty much gives them free reign of the house]]. She also seems to have a pretty good idea what's going on even when Yuuichi doesn't. [[The Messiah|She is a very kind and caring person]], and is very [[Hot Mom|maternal]]. {{spoiler|She is hit by a car near the end of the series, and this causes Nayuki to have a [[Heroic BSOD|complete breakdown]]. [[Running Gag|She gets better]] surprisingly quickly, due to Ayu's wish. She also knew about Ayu's condition from the beginning, but refrained from saying anything, assuming that she had recovered from her coma.}}

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=== Sayuri Kurata ===

 

Mai's best friend (with whom she has a fair amount of [[Les Yay]]), Sayuri is a [[Stepford Smiler|seemingly cheerful]] girl with an odd habit of [[Third Person Person|referring to herself in the third person]]. Her family is rather wealthy, and she is a good cook. She and Mai have seemingly diametrically opposed personalities, which causes Yuuichi to remark that "they sure do make an odd couple of girls". She is also referred to as being almost like Mai's older sister. Kind, friendly and gentle as she is, though, she has her own sorrows, and these are what drew her and Mai together.

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=== Kaori Misaka ===

 

Kaori Misaka is Nayuki's best friend and the object of Kitagawa's unrequited romantic interest ([[Butt Monkey|she mostly laughs at him, ignores him or makes him do heavy lifting for her]]). She seems to be fairly well-adjusted (if somewhat [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky]] and maybe a bit no-nonsense), but she has some fairly serious family issues that eventually come up. She's also the [[Class Representative|rep]] for Nayuki and Yuuichi's class at school. She is sometimes seen staring wistfully out the window of the school. {{spoiler|She is Shiori's sister, but she refuses to acknowledge to herself or anyone else that she has a sister, in order to avoid the pain of having to deal with Shiori's death. Eventually, Yuuichi is able to get her to acknowledge her sister's existence again, and she later helps Nayuki out of her [[Heroic BSOD]].}}

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=== Jun Kitagawa ===

 

The resident [[Butt Monkey]] and [[The Chew Toy|chew toy]] at Yuuichi's school, and a friend (of sorts) of Yuuichi's. Also has an (unrequited) interest in Kaori, who mostly takes advantage of it to make him do things for her. Is a bit of a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]], has a fondness for ridiculous clothes, as seen at the ball, and thinks he's a ladies man as well (he isn't). {{spoiler|He helps Yuuichi and Nayuki out when they're looking for Ayu's lost item, proving that he isn't a complete ass. Also, he succeeds with Kaori in the Toei version, though not (for sure) in the [[Kyo Ani]] anime or the [[Visual Novel]], where his interest is never explicitly stated.}}

 

=== Mishio Amano ===

 

An antisocial girl sometimes seen around the school, {{spoiler|who turns out have experienced the same thing Yuuichi did with Makoto, in that she once had a friend who had been a fox but had assumed human form to be with her before fading away}}. She provides Yuuichi with [[Mr. Exposition|exposition]] and comfort at the end of the Makoto arc, and she helps Makoto try to remember after {{spoiler|she begins to fade}}. She and Yuuichi reminisce about their experiences afterwards, and she is later seen hanging around with some girls, suggesting that she gets over her isolation and unhappiness and makes friends.

 

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=== Kuze ===

 

The [[Jerkass]] Student Council President, who is apparently intent on expelling Mai (and possibly Sayuri as well, if she continues to associate herself with Mai) from the school. {{spoiler|Mai is able to threaten him into leaving Sayuri out of it, and he fails to prove that she's responsible for anything that's happened.}}

* [[Student Council President]]

 

 

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