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== Class 2-C ==

 

=== Tenma Tsukamoto ===

The main female character, a ditzy airhead with a crush on Karasuma.

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Expressive Hair]]

* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Hidden Depths]]: She surprises everyone with her mad skiing skills.

* [[The Matchmaker]]: Lampshaded in the manga, saying she is only good at matchmaking.

* [[Joshikousei]]

* [[Lethal Chef]]: She cannot even get ''onigiri'' right.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: She is often mistaken to be younger than her sister.

* [[Pettanko]]

* [[Psychic Powers]]: Is telekinetic and can speak to ghosts (played for laughs).

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Tenma dreamed she was one.

* [[The Unfavorite]]: Majority of the boys at school don't find her attractive

 

=== Kenji Harima ===

The main male character, an aspiring mangaka who's head over heels for Tenma. Has a younger brother named Shuuji.

* [[Accidental Pervert]]: With Eri only.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Harima may not be able to read your name very well, but he can definitely bring a beat-down upon you.

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]

* [[Face of a Thug]]

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Had an entire zoo living in his apartment.

* [[Forgotten Childhood Friend]]: Shown in ''Z'' that he had met the Tsukamotos when they were kids and he may have been the reason Yakumo is the soft-spoken girl she is today.

* [[Guns Akimbo]]: When fighting Hanai in the final battle of the [[Battle Royale]]-style mock war.

* [[He Cleans Up Nicely]]

* [[Hot-Blooded]]

* [[Hurricane Kick]]: Averted, and instead played for [[Punny Name]]. When saving Tenma from a thug, Harima yells out this trope, but he doesn't spin around (just performing [[Dynamic Entry]]). Instead, this is used to take note on 'What if we shorten Harima Kenji', which becomes 'HariKen', which is how the the English word "Hurricane" is pronounced/spelled in Japanese

* [[Laughing Mad]]: When Tenma thought Harima and Eri were a couple.

* [[Love Makes You Dumb]]

* [[Retired Badass]]: His love for Tenma has caused him to abandon his delinquent ways.

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]

* [[Shirtless Scene]]

* [[Slow Motion Fall]]: Everytime Tenma mistakes him having a relationship with someone else.

* [[Speaks Fluent Animal]]: What attracts Yakumo to him in the first place.

* [[Starving Artist]]: It got to the point in ''Z'' where Eri agreed to finance Harima if he married her.

* [[Walking the Earth]]: He disappeared during the [[Time Skip]], earning a living as a traveling musician.

 

=== Oji Karasuma ===

The school's weird, quiet guy who loves curry and is the subject of Tenma's affections.

* [[Creepy Monotone]]

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: He easily dodges Harima's punch in front of the curry restaurant. Also when {{spoiler|he fights Harima pretty much to a standstill in the later chapters of the manga.}}

 

=== Eri Sawachika ===

The wealthy, half-British member of Tenma's clique, who finds herself falling for Harima after he mistakenly proposes to her.

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: She was supposed to marry Shawn but she convinced Harima to propose to her.

 

=== Mikoto Suou ===

A member of Tenma's clique and Hanai's long-time friend.

* [[Action Girl]]

 

=== Akira Takano ===

Last member of Tenma's clique and the quiet one of the group, whose half-sister Motoko is in the hospital.

* [[Action Girl]]: She may or may not be a spy.

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Lampshaded. On her birthday, Tenma asks her to show her smile.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: And ''strangely'' so. She is quick to deduce things, even those that would become misunderstandings (naked-Harima-and-Eri episode, anyone?)

* [[Knife Nut]]: Manga only. She has a knife for everything. She even keeps a spare one.

* [[Kuudere]]: Type 2

* [[School Swimsuit]]: When she and her friends met Nara and his friends.

* [[Trickster Archetype]]

 

=== Haruki Hanai ===

Class Representative of 2-C and childhood friend of Mikoto. [[Serious Business|He treats everything he does seriously]] and has a major crush on Yakumo.

* [[Accidental Pervert]]/[[Covert Pervert]]

* {{spoiler|[[Chick Magnet]]: Heavily implied to be one, with Tsumugi being confirmed as to liking him and Akira being heavily implied by the end.}}

* [[Class Representative]]

* [[Hot-Blooded]]

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Megane]]

* [[Oh God, Did She Just Hear That?]]: Averted. He simply doesn't care if he accidentally speaks his mind out.

* [[Rousing Speech]]: Lampshaded after the survival games arc. Some of the students have no idea what he's talking about yet they feel excited somehow.

* {{spoiler|[[Victorious Childhood Friend]]}}

* [[Weddings in Japan]]: Mikoto & Yakumo both participate in Western-style weddings, both with Hanai as the groom strangely enough.

 

=== Kyousuke Imadori ===

The class's second-ranking pervert.

* [[Bishonen]]: Subverted. He only looks like one when he gets serious. Otherwise, he usually looks like an idiot.

 

=== Karen Ichijou ===

A cute girl with scary strength. Has a younger brother named Kousuke.

 

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Not that she's the only fighting girl in the series, but she pretty much ''defines'' the trope in this series.

* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength|Does Not Know Her Own Strength]]

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Voiced by [[Yuka Nanri]] for season 1, replaced by MAKO for succeeding appearances.

* [[Shrinking Violet]]

 

=== Kentarou Nara ===

An ordinary boy who has a crush on Tenma but is too gutless to ever confess. Hangs around with Nishimoto & Yoshidayama.

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: He had to cross-dress as punishment during a game, and everyone else comments that it's scarily attractive.

 

=== Ganji Nishimoto ===

Class 2-C's number-one pervert.

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]

 

=== Jirou Yoshidayama ===

A delinquent who moved to Yagami in hopes of becoming its number-one thug, only to run into the more fearsome Harima.

* [[Anime Hair]]: May be subverted. He seems to just use a ''lot'' of hair gel since it's normal after he takes a bath.

 

=== Takeichi Fuyuki ===

Class 2-C's number-three pervert.

* [[Camera Fiend]]: Claims to take shots of girls for the yearbook, only to sell them to schoolmates just as perverted as him.

 

=== Hiroyoshi Asou ===

Star player of Yagami High's men's basketball team, who dated Mikoto for a short time.

* [[Bishonen]]

 

=== Ryuuhei Suga ===

Asou's best friend and member of the men's basketball team.

* [[Bromantic Foil]]

 

=== Mai Otsuka ===

Acting substitute Class Representative of Class 2-C in the event Hanai can't perform his duties, in spite of her friend Tsumugi supposedly filling that role.

* [[Class Representative]]: She is one for nine years straight until Hanai came in. Still that doesn't stop her from exercising some authority in class whenever Hanai isn't around.

 

=== Tsumugi Yuki ===

Mai's best friend and the actual substitute Class Representative in the event Hanai, whom she has a crush on, is unavailable.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

 

=== Megumi Sagano ===

A fellow member of the nascent women's basketball team.

* [[Action Girl]]: A basketball player during her junior high days, but has since become the men's basketball team's manager for lack of a female counterpart.

== Class 1-D ==

=== Yakumo Tsukamoto ===

Tenma's younger, far more responsible sister. A sweet, kind and soft-spoken girl who also works part-time at a [[Cosplay Cafe]]. She develops feelings for Harima when she starts helping him with his manga.

* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: How Hanai and Sarah first saw Yakumo.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

* [[Big Little Brother|Big Little Sister]]

** Somewhat subverted when she first meets Harima: she is able to read his mind somehow (because back then, his only true interest was Tenma), but all she sees is an ellipsis.

* [[Daddy's Girl]]: One of the reasons she's attracted to Harima is that he looks like the Tsukamotos' father from behind.

 

=== Sarah Adiemus ===

Yakumo's best friend, a British exchange student and part-time nun.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: She saved Yakumo from a dog, forging their friendship.

 

=== Satsuki Tawaraya ===

A member of the nascent women's basketball team.

* [[Big Eater]]

== Class 2-D ==

=== Harry Mackenzie ===

American exchange student. His name sounds like Harima's when pronounced in Japanese. Actually has quite a bit in common with Harima besides that, too. Popular with the ladies.

* [[Badass Biker]]

 

=== Lara Gonzalez ===

Mexican exchange student and Karen's wrestling rival.

 

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: So much so that Imadori risked getting his ass beat just so he can make her smile.

* [[Rousing Speech]]: She convinced her team to play against the Outlaw basketball team.

* [[Spicy Latina]]

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: But she does try to be more girly from time to time.

 

=== Masakazu Tougo ===

Class Representative of 2-D. He tends to burst into long inspirational speeches. His father is a diplomat, so he brags he's been to the United States. His younger sister Haruna is a friend of Yakumo. Possesses great charisma and can talk people to doing his bidding quite easily.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Like Harry, he is a [[Shout-Out]] to another Gundam villain.

 

=== Noboru Tennouji ===

Delinquent extraordinaire and Harima's nemesis.

* [[Bald of Evil]]

* [[Team Rocket Wins]]: beats Harima once when the latter was in despair after finding out Tenma liked Karasuma.

** [[Victory Is Boring]]: However, because Harima was so out of it, he was unable to enjoy it

 

== Yagami High Faculty ==

=== Itoko Osakabe ===

Harima's cousin and Physics teacher. Considered the hottest chick in school.

* [[Beauty Mark]]

* [[Cool Big Sis|Cool Older Cousin]]

* [[Hot Teacher]]

 

=== Youko Sasakura ===

Art teacher and childhood friend of Itoko.

* [[Hot Teacher]]

 

=== Tae Anegasaki ===

The school nurse and the closest the school had for a women's basketball coach.

* [[Hello, Nurse!]]

 

=== Hayato Tani ===

2-C's Homeroom teacher with a major crush on Anegasaki-sensei.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

 

=== Koorimaru ===

The school's PE teacher.

* [[Animal Motifs]]: The gorilla.

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]