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The characters of the manga series Koko ni Iru yo!:

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Hikage Sumino

A girl with zero presence, Shrinking Violet Hikage seriously desires to make friends.

• Blue Eyes
• Character Development
  • Shrinking Violet -> Plucky Girl
• Extreme Doormat
• Friendless Background
• Heroic Self-Deprecation
• I Just Want to Have Friends
• Official Couple: Hinata and Hikage.

Hinata Mutou

One of the most popular guys in school who is the first to notice Hikage and reveals that he's been watching her all this time.

• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Black Rabbit's Betty, but it can be interchangable once Black Rabbit is revealed to be Teru; Hinata can be considered the Betty.
• Curtains Match the Window
• Dogged Nice Guy
• Green-Eyed Monster: Gets jealous of Black Rabbit, Hikage's first friend, who turns out to be Teru.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Teru.
• Keet
• Nice Guy
• Official Couple: Hinata and Hikage.
• Red Herring: Hinata is not Black Rabbit.
• School Idol
• Shrinking Violet: As a child.

Teru Mikami

Hinata's best friend and an equally popular guy in school. Teru is more serious than Hinata, but he somewhat tries to help Hikage.

• Betty and Veronica: Black Rabbit/Teru is the Betty to Hinata's Veronica, but it can be interchangable once Black Rabbit is revealed to be Teru; Black Rabbit/Teru can be considered the Veronica, given Teru's jerk-like personality.
• Curtains Match the Window
• Did Not Get the Girl
• Dogged Nice Guy
• Hair Decorations: A male example. Teru wears two X-shaped clips on each side of his head.
• Eyes of Gold
• First Guy Wins: Played with, but ultimately subverted.
• Hair of Gold
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Hinata.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
• Jerkass Facade: The reason for his Kick the Dog moments towards Hikage were actually to protect her, especially when she tries to fide Black Rabbit, who turns out to be Teru.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Keet
• Mysterious Protector: Is somewhat one to Hikage, but he wavers between protecting her and letting her fight her own battles. He continues to protect her as Black Rabbit as well.
• Name's the Same: This Teru Mikami has nothing to do with Death Note.
• The Reveal: Teru is Black Rabbit.
• School Idol
• Troubled but Cute
• Tsundere: Often goes back and forth between helping Hikage and acting like a jerk to her. He was also a bit of one towards Hinata when they were children, insulting him and then complimenting him afterwards.
• The Unfavorite: Teru towards his parents during their divorce -- his mother even telling Teru that without him, their marriage would have been easier -- which led him to believe that their divorce was his fault.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: Teru and Hikage weren't technically childhood friends, but he knew her longer than Hinata and had been talking to her as Black Rabbit since at least elementary school.

Black Rabbit (Teru Mikami) and MegaPIG (Aoi Nanjō)

Hikage's two online friends who have always supported her.

• Betty and Veronica: Black Rabbit is the Betty to Hinata's Veronica, but it can be interchangable once Black Rabbit is revealed to be Teru; Black Rabbit/Teru can be considered the Veronica, given Teru's jerk-like personality.
• A Darker Me/GIFT: MegaPIG. He acts aggressive and rude online, but is really shy and has difficulty with talking to others in real life.
• Animal Motifs
• Jerkass Facade: MegaPIG. See A Darker Me/GIFT.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Both of them.
• Megane: MegaPIG in real life.
• Mysterious Protector
• The Reveal: Teru is Black Rabbit.
• The Shepherd
• Shrinking Violet: MegaPIG in real life.
• Tsundere: Both of them towards Hikage -- Black Rabbit by giving Hikage tough love advice which is ultimately for her benefit, and MegaPIG by his apparent rudeness and interpretative niceness.

Arisa Takani

A classmate of Hikage's that she befriends.

• Genki Girl
• Girlish Pigtails
• Hair of Gold
• Pink Eyes

Aya

A girl who often bullies Hikage in an attempt to get her away from Hinata.

• Alpha Bitch
• Blondes Are Evil: Subverted. See Freudian Excuse.
• Clingy Jealous Girl
• Freudian Excuse: Aya started out just like Hikage -- alone and desiring friends. When Aya started liking Hinata, many girls befriended her out of their mutual affections for Hinata and made Aya feel like she belonged. And everyone defended Hikage from her, Aya lost both her friends and her reputation -- leading to her Woman Scorned revenge on Hikage. She gets better.
• Friendless Background
• Green-Eyed Monster
• Hair of Gold
• Heel Face Turn: After Hikage gives her a Cooldown Hug and apologizes to her.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Before she made friends out of their mutual affections for Hinata, and then after she is shunned by everyone.
• Kick the Dog: Is a constant offender to Hikage via Malicious Slander. Her last attempts on Hikage involves trying to ruin Hikage's relationships with Hinata, Teru, and their class, and destroying Hikage's sunflower.
• Manipulative Bitch
• Relationship Sabotage
• Woman Scorned