A Kiss for the Petals/Characters
This is the characters page for the Girls Love Eroge Visual Novel series Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo.
Nanami and Yuuna
Nanami Oda
A first year high school student who tends to be pretty average. She has a bit of bad luck but still tries hard. Voiced by Fuyuka Toiro.
Tropes associated with Nanami:
- Covert Pervert
- Curtains Match the Window
- Demoted to Extra: Tends not to appear in other games, although Yuuna, Sara, and Kaede routinely play minor roles when they're not headlining.
- Dojikko: Extremely.
- Girlish Pigtails
- Heroic Self-Deprecation
- I Can't Believe A Girl Like You Would Notice Me
- Imagine Spot: Several times in the sixth game.
- Keigo: Always applies keigo forms of speech to Yuuna, even during internal monologue.
- Mistaken for Cheating: In game 6.
- Only Sane Man
- Ordinary High School Student
- Plucky Girl: The reason she was able to enter the school and the Student Council.
- Rose-Haired Girl
- Tsurime Eyes
- Zettai Ryouiki
Yuuna Matsubara
Second year high school student. Yuuna comes from a rich family, is smart, attractive, and popular. She is also fairly nuts and really perverted. Her career path is to become a doctor. Voiced by Pochi Uchino.
Tropes associated with Yuuna:
- Blue Eyes
- Bunny Ears Lawyer
- Casual Kink: Infamously into watersports.
- Caught with Your Pants Down: Nanami finds out about Yuuna's feelings as Yuuna has A Date with Rosie Palms.
- Chivalrous Pervert
- Clingy Jealous Girl
- Cuteness Proximity
- Even the Girls Want Her: Yuuna is easily the most popular girl in school.
- Hair of Gold
- Kawaiiko
- Manipulative Bastard: And she has absolutely zero shame about it.
- Mysterious Protector: In the sixth game.
- Obfuscating Stupidity
- Ojou
- Onee-Sama: Yuuna convinces Nanami to call her this but sometimes when Yuuna gets too perverted, Nanami instead calls her "ero-otome" (perverted maiden).
- Proper Tights with a Skirt
- Supreme Chef
Kaede and Sara
Kaede Kitajima
Kaede is extremely shy and fairly nerdy. Despite this, she actually has quite the protective streak. Voiced by Nazuna Gogyou.
Tropes associated with Kaede:
- Beautiful All Along: She goes through this in the second game.
- Big Breasts, Big Deal: Types 1 and 2. When Sara is complimenting her on them, Kaede thinks to herself that they just get in the way when she's trying to run and are too heavy.
- Curtains Match the Window
- Even the Girls Want Her: Kaede gets a bit of this after her makeover and when the student body realize how chivalrous she can be.
- Huge Schoolgirl
- Generic Cuteness
- The Glasses Gotta Go
- I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: After she realizes just how popular Sara is, Kaede begins to think that Sara deserves someone better. Of course, Sara won't have any of that...
- Meganekko
- Oblivious to Love: Kaede is a bit thick - she doesn't get Sara romantically loves her even when said girl repeatedly proclaims it, has sex with Kaede, or does both at the same time...
- Prince Charming: She chased off bullies for Sara when they were younger and promised to always protect her. Sara even calls her "watashi no ouji-sama" (my prince).
- Shrinking Violet
- Socially Awkward Hero: Textbook example.
Sara Kitajima
Sara is a popular model who after much work overseas, enrolls at St. Michael's School for Girls to be with her cousin. She is highly energetic but also has a propensity to overreact to situations. Voiced by Satsuki Hanesato.
Tropes associated with Sara:
- A-Cup Angst
- Blue Eyes
- Casual Kink: Likes fetish Cosplay and roleplaying, which comes up in the fourth game.
- Cheerful Child
- Clingy Jealous Girl: After her makeover on Kaede starts working too well, she starts worrying that someone will take Kaede away and makes it clear that she will never allow that to happen.
- Cry Cute: "I'm cute even when I cry."
- The Ditz
- Genki Girl
- Kawaiiko
- Not a Morning Person: Although Kaede can snap her out of this.
- Pettanko
- Teen Idol
- Third Person Person
Mai and Reo
Mai Sawaguchi
A very responsible second year high school student who often takes care of her siblings at home. Mai has a streak of tomboy which shows up occasionally. Voiced by Ayaka Izumi.
Tropes associated with Mai:
- Cool Big Sis
- Cuteness Proximity: Mai pounces on Reo whenever the latter acts cute in her eyes.
- Dogged Nice Girl
- Even the Girls Want Her: Reo says that Mai is almost if not just as popular as Yuuna with the girls. This becomes a plot point in the second Yuuna/Nanami game.
- Idiot Hero: According to Reo.
- Mistaken for Cheating: As she tends to be overly friendly with other girls and Reo is possessive.
- Nosebleed: Reo occasionally has this effect on Mai.
- Oblivious to Love: The most donkan member of the entire cast.
- Only Friend: To Reo, before their Relationship Upgrade.
- Purple Eyes
- Rape Is Love: Mai really has trouble understanding that Reo isn't her toy, and tends to constantly violate Reo's personal boundaries, ignore her feelings, and pressure her for sex when she doesn't really want to do it all the time without realizing that she might be doing something wrong.
- Shiny Midnight Black
- Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
Reo Kawamura
A very Tsundere and often anti-social second year high school student. Reo is not one to exercise common sense easily but proves that she can succeed if she applies herself. Voiced by Hana Anzu.
Tropes associated with Reo:
- A-Cup Angst
- Catch Phrase: "Mai, you idiot!"
- Clingy Jealous Girl
- Cute Little Fangs
- Disappeared Dad: Reo lives alone with her mother as her parents got divorced, though they reconcile later.
- Green Eyes
- Hair of Gold
- Hates Being Touched: Mostly because of her abandonment issues; her tolerating Mai is a major sign of trust.
- Hidden Depths: She is apparently an excellent singer but refuses to demonstrate.
- Legal Jailbait: Word of God pegs her as flatter than Runa...yeah.
- Lonely Rich Kid
- Luminescent Blush: Being somewhat childish tsundere, she can't help but show this quite often.
- Mean Character, Nice Actor: Reoppoi Radio, an ongoing internet radio show starring Reo's voice actress, can surprise people who haven't heard her natural voice (or even Reo laughing).
- Older Than They Look: She's 16 or 17, but looks about a good deal younger.
- Parental Neglect: Often gets left home alone due to her mother's work. To her parents' credit, though, they don't like the idea of letting her actually live alone.
- Science Is Bad: Reo believes this at first in the Reo/Mai Diaries, but only because modern cell phones frustrate her.
- Shana Clone: Fits the formula to a T: Reo is a short, underdeveloped high school girl who has long hair with Tsurime Eyes and a Cute Little Fang, wears thigh-socks, and is a type-A Tsundere. At times, her seiyuu even sounds eerily similar to Rie Kugimiya.
- Tsundere: Type A
- Zettai Ryouiki
Runa and Takako
Runa Houraisen
A fifth/sixth grade primary school student who becomes a New Transfer Student at St Michael's. She's extremely smart, mature, and also highly charismatic. Runa also tends to be domineering and self-centered. Voiced by Kouhime Ueda.
Tropes associated with Runa:
- Ahoge: She sports one in the Visual Novels. A particularly weird one in that sometimes it's there, sometimes is not.
- A Lady on Each Arm: She does this in the seventh game.
- Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word
- Blue Eyes
- Captain Ersatz: Twin tails, uncomfortably sexually mature for her age, making advances on her sweet but somewhat naive teacher? Nope, no one's reminded of a girl named Rin from a certain manga we no longer mention at all.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her "casual" clothes.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Her personal magnetism is through the roof. Her entire class and her teacher all become enamored with her at first sight.
- Girlish Pigtails
- Hair of Gold
- It's All About Me
- Jerkass: Though she has some signs of character development here and there.
- Kidanova: And how! Probably learned from her Casanova sister. Deserves special mention because, contrary to the norm for most Kid Anovas, Runa has actual sex (not in the Web novel, though, and only with one person).
- Lonely Rich Kid
- Mistaken for Cheating
- New Transfer Student
- Not a Morning Person
- Ojou
- Rapunzel Hair
- Trademark Favorite Food: Pancakes
- Tsundere: Nowhere near as much as Reo. but she does have her moments.
- Tsurime Eyes
- Wise Beyond Their Years: In the web novel, this trope is used to such a ridiculous degree that she's actually more mature than Takako. However, this trope is toned down somewhat in the Visual Novel adaptation.
Takako Suminoe
Takako is a woman in her early twenties who teaches at St. Michael's School for Girls (elementary division). She lacks confidence and gets easily flustered. Voiced by Yui Azuma.
Tropes associated with Takako:
- Butt Monkey: It is a very rare day that she's able to have nice things.
- Extreme Doormat: Especially at first. This begins to fade in the tenth game as she learns to act much more authoritatively towards Runa.
- First Kiss: She's pretty embarrassed that her first kiss gets taken by a girl half her age.
- Green Eyes
- Hot for Student
- Limited Wardrobe: At least in the seventh game.
- Lolicon: Towards Runa, though Takako isn't the one that acts on it.
- Moe: Runa even lampshades this a few times in-universe.
- Tareme Eyes
- Second Love: Had a crush on Runa's sister but didn't wind up pursuing a relationship.
- Shrinking Violet
Shizuku and Eris
Shizuku Kirishima
Shizuku is a very traditional Japanese girl in her third year of high school. She's very skilled at calligraphy and flower arrangement. Shizuku is the most popular girl in her class, that is until Eris transfers in. Voiced by Miei.
Tropes associated with Shizuku:
- Brown Eyes
- Hime Cut
- Ojou
- Rapunzel Hair
- Shiny Midnight Black
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Unprompted, Shizuku claims that she wasn't crying and it certainly had nothing to do with Eris.
- Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
- Tsundere (Type B)
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Shizuku uses a very traditional "watakushi" when addressing herself.
Eris Shitogi
Eris is born from a Japanese father and a Western mother and is currently in her third year of high school. She transferred to Japan on her own so that she could learn more about Japanese culture. Stereotypically tall and statuesque, she quickly finds herself becoming the most popular girl in her class. Voiced by Mio Oukawa.
Tropes associated with Eris:
- But Not Too Foreign: Eris is half-Japanese.
- Casanova: Eris seems to be quite the shameless flirt although she insists to Shizuku that it's purely accidental.
- Even the Girls Want Her
- Foreign Fanservice
- New Transfer Student
- Phenotype Stereotype: Has the stereotypical Western look of Hair of Gold and Blue Eyes.
- Rapunzel Hair
- Tsurime Eyes
- Spell My Name with an "S": Some sources spell her name "Ellis".
- Wingding Eyes: In the scene where she receives a bento lunch box from Shizuku.
- Zettai Ryouiki
Characters from Hanahira!
Kaori Hanemura
A fairly responsible and take charge girl. She's been long time friends with Amane although she's kind of Tsundere for her. Voiced by Eri Kitamura.
Tropes associated with Kaori:
- Cannot Spit It Out: At the beginning of the game, she's had a crush on Amane for a long time without being able to say anything.
- Cute Little Fangs
- Tsundere Type A
Amane Yuuki
A somewhat ditzy girl with a penchant for video games. As a long time friend of Kaori, Amane often depends on her for help and guidance. She is also Kaori's self-proclaimed wife. Voiced by Yui Sakakibara.
Tropes associated with Amane:
- Cheerful Child
- The Ditz
- Dogged Nice Girl: Towards Kaori
- Hey, It's That Voice!: Is that you, Kylier?
- Otaku Surrogate
- What Is This Feeling?: "Being around Kaori makes me happy! Does that mean that I like her?"
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Koharu Uozumi
The smallest girl of the quartet in Hanahira! She loves to cook and is often found beside Makoto. Voiced by Misa Tokushima.
Tropes associated with Koharu:
Makoto Toudou
A tomboyish girl who's into sports but can very easily get flustered. Makoto is very protective of Koharu. Voiced by Manami Uchida.
Tropes associated with Makoto:
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