Tokimeki Memorial/Characters/1

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The cast of the main Tokimeki Memorial 1 game.[1]

This sub-division of the Tokimeki Memorial Character Sheet is dedicated to characters having appeared in the Classic Kirameki Saga of the franchise (i.e. Tokimeki Memorial 1 and its spin-off games and drama CDs).

Tokimeki Memorial 1 characters

Main Protagonist/Naoto Takami

Voiced by: Masaya Onosaka (radio drama and drama CDs), Masaki Kawanabe (Nijiiro No Seishun Original Drama Soundtrack)

The Player Avatar of the Classic Kirameki Saga.

A teenager with average abilities, who managed somehow to enter the rather high-ranked Private High School Kirameki. He did this mainly because he's in love with his enstranged childhood friend Shiori Fujisaki, and sets himself on a quest of improving himself so Shiori will think higher of him and thus win her heart and get her confession under the famed Legendary Tree, said to grant eternal love to couples bonding on Graduation Day through the love confession of the girl.

The main character's canon regarding his quest for love varies depending of the various games of the Classic Kirameki Saga: while the original Tokimeki Memorial game and its porting adaptations set him with Shiori as main goal (but can change his mind and go for another of the girls he meets during the course of the game), the Drama Series see him give up on her and have his true love in Saki Nijino for the first one, Ayako Katagiri for the second one, and Miharu Tatebayashi (if you decide not to go the Shiori route) in the third one.

His activities also vary depending of the games' canon: while they’re not set in the original game, the Drama Series see him as a Forward Striker in the Soccer Club, or a guitarist in the "Irodori" Band Club.

The Main Protagonist has no set name in all the games of the saga, but most of the drama CDs give him "Naoto Takami" (高見公人) as a Canon Name.

  • Blinding Bangs: Due to being a Player Avatar. However, the drama CDs illustrations (which are quite rare) show him with eyes and a full face.
  • Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: With his best friend Yoshio. This is visible in Irodori no Love Song as, should Yuko be late for the contest, the player (Naoto) will then go on with Yoshio.
  • Corner of Woe: Does this in Tokimeki Memorial 1 's Bad Ending.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Especially in regards of his best bud Yoshio's antics. He also makes hilarious comments when correcting spelling mistakes in the articles written for the Graduation Album in Tabidachi no Uta.
  • Determinator: Is this in the Drama Series, and lampshaded by Shiori in Tabidachi no Uta: she mentions that he has a "hate losing" and "never give up" mentality ever since he was a little child. However, that doesn't make him immune from getting a...
  • Featureless Protagonist
  • Girls Have Cooties: Part of the reason why he and Shiori got estranged, according to Tabidachi no Uta, is the following: in their childhood, days after the main protagonist offered a ring to Shiori, she was so pleased with it and with his attention for her, she wanted to offer him a robot toy in return. Unfortunately, as she held out the present box to him, bad kids from the neighbourhood teased the main protagonist for playing with a girl, and embarrassed, he refused her present and hastily left, leaving her alone all sad with her present in her arms.
  • Heroic BSOD: He gets a few of them in the Drama Series games, the most notables being found in Nijiiro no Seishun and Tabidachi no Uta: two massive ones at the beginning and near the end of both games. He gets better from each of them, however, except in the end game Tabidachi no Uta one, where if he doesn't persevere, leads to the Bad End.
  • Heroic Mime: A variant actually: he does speaks a lot with others characters, but he's the only one of the characters who's not voiced, as part of the Player Avatar thing.
  • Oblivious to Love: Poor Suzune in Irodori no Love Song.
  • Unlucky Childhood Friend: The fate the main protagonist is likely to meet, as Shiori is a Nintendo Hard character to get the ending of. But it can become a Victorious Childhood Friend case if you actively target her and play well.
    • In the Motto! Tokimeki Memorial radio drama series, Victorious Childhood Friend is in effect.
    • And as of Tokimeki Memorial 4 a.k.a. the Modern Kirameki Saga, which occurs 15 years later, Victorious Childhood Friend is the assumed trope, as Yuu Satsuki, Shiori's relative and Expy, strongly implicitly tells that him and Shiori got together. It should be known that in Tokimemo verse, anything that's strongly hinted at, effectively counts as true and canon.
    • Given how just about everything seems to points towards Shiori, Victorious seems more likely than Unlucky. If she is Nintendo Hard, then it simply means that he is just that good.

Shiori Fujisaki

Voiced by: Mami Kingetsu

The main heroine of the Classic Kirameki Saga.

A talented, beautiful and sociable young girl who excels at both studies and sports, so much that’s she dubbed "the Superstar of Kirameki High" (and is as such the closest thing the Tokimeki Memorial series has for a Canon Sue). There's however a thing she's clumsy at, and that's love: she has very high standards and expects her ideal boy to be just as perfect as her, and her heart will always waver when the guy of her dreams (hopefully your Player Avatar) will slowly drill his way to her heart.

She's the poster girl of the series, with at least a minimal presence even in the games she's not the star (to the point of managing to make a few cameos outside the Classic Kirameki Saga!), and is the co-heroine (with Miharu Tatebayashi) of the 3rd Drama Series Tabidachi no Uta. An extremely popular character among the fans who churns out a lot of merchandise, and who even got her exclusive game, Tokimeki Memorial Selection: Fujisaki Shiori.

Saki Nijino

Voiced by: Sachiko Sugawara

A kind, cheerful and very sociable girl, skilled at cooking, who holds family values in high regard, and loves to take care of her friends, be their energy, and cheer them up. She's so well-loved for this, she's known as the "Idol of the Sports Club of Kirameki High" among the boys. She's always on the lookout for potential good sportsmen, and this is one of the ways the main protagonist can meet her. Believing that doing one's best in everything is more important than winning, her ideal type are perseverant sportsmen, even though she's not herself that athletic.

She's the manager of either the Soccer Club or the Baseball Club, leading to a conflicting canon as to which of the two clubs she is in: the Drama Series games and the radio and CD dramas make her the manager of the Soccer Club, while Tokimeki no Houkago and Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories: Leaping School Festival put her as the manager of the Baseball Club.

Due to her kind character and her very high versatility in tastes, she's one of the most popular characters in the entire series among fans, to the point she has often beaten extremely well-loved Shiori in official and game magazines character polls. This popularity was recognized by the series' creators, who made her the heroine of the first Drama Series game Nijiiro no Seishun.

  • Apologetic Attacker: In both Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle and Tokkae Dama, she apologizes to the opponent in her winning speeches.
  • Biting the Handkerchief: Saki does this when she's defeated in Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle Dama.
  • Catch Phrase: She loves to cheer up people by screaming "Gambatte!" ("Do you best!").
  • Cute Sports Club Manager: The Dating Sim Ur Example.
  • Everything's Better with Rainbows: On the symbolical level: rainbow is one of the two main elements (along with a soccer ball) in the cover, title screen, and ending of Nijiiro no Seishun. No wonder, as Saki's family name "Nijino" means "Field of Rainbow" in Japanese.
  • Extreme Doormat: To a degree. One way to bring her to "enraptured" state is to play hard to get by not asking her out on dates and turning her down when she asks you out (but don't take it too far so as to make her "bomb" you). Because of this, it's possible to accidentally win her while trying to go after another girl.
  • Ill Girl: Two instances in the Classic Kirameki Saga. The first is in the original game, if you choose to go with her on the school trip. She falls ill on the third day and you must take care of her, so you get to skip out on the battle minigame that normally happens here; the second one occurs in Nijiiro no Seishun, after she waited all the day under the rain for the protagonist, believing that he would definitely come to the shrine despite him wanting to give up soccer after the misunderstanding between them. He indeed came, and she slumped against him, down with a fever. The protagonist takes her to her home, and stays at her bedside for a while, where, in her delirium, she eventually starts (but doesn’t finish) confessing her feelings for him.
  • Kiss of Life: In her Summer Event at the Pool in the original game, Saki will nearly drown, needing a Kiss of Life. Just as the protagonist is about to start it, she comes back to her senses. When he tells her later about it, she panics, asking if he performed it; and when she learns the truth, she's somewhere between relieved and disappointed, uttering "if only I stayed unconscious a little bit longer...". And then she confusely tries to divert the topic all while blushing furiously, when the protagonist ask her what she just said.
  • Multitasked Conversation: What caused the whole "Misunderstanding" Event in Nijiiro no Seishun.
  • Nice Hat: Her Autumn Date clothes include a nice cap.
  • Pinky Swear: With the protagonist: it's a driving force of Nijiiro no Seishun 's plot.
  • Real Life Writes the Plot: In an interview inside one of Nijiiro no Seishun’s official guidebook, Saki's Seiyuu, Sachiko Sugawara, revealed that she caught a cold coincidentally at the time of recording the scene where Saki went down with a fever after waiting for the main protagonist under the rain the whole day, and talks with him while she’s bedridden. Her voice was low and rough, and it was difficult for her to act, so the voicing session was hell for her. However, she was extremely happy to hear from lots of people who played the game that they found her performance in this scene extremely realistic and fantastic.
  • Supreme Chef: Her bento are so delicious, they are nicknamed "NijiBen" (Portmanteau of "Nijino" and "Bento") and are considered, according to Yoshio, one of the girls’ 3 most valuable items in Kirameki High, along with Shiori's hairband and Mira's earrings. She considers her cooking skills as her only talent, and thus she plans to go to a school specialzed in teaching cooking, instead of going to an university, in order to hone them.
    • But despite this status, she's one of the girls who can botch the dinner at the Club's Summer Camp. Due to this, she's one of the most apologetic characters for this incident.
  • Team Mom: She's this for the Club she's the manager of.
  • Tears of Joy: Does this in the original game's aptly named Special Event "Tears Of Joy", which occurs if both you and Saki are members of the Baseball Club, and you win the Koshien (the National Inter-high Baseball Championship). She also shed those in the ending of the Nijiiro no Sotsugyoushiki scenario of Tabidachi no Uta (i.e. the True Epilogue of Nijiiro no Seishun).
  • Through His Stomach: One of her dating tactics towards the main protagonist, when she's in love with him. Both in the original game and Nijiiro no Seishun, she'll treat him with her famous "NijiBen".
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: Family tradition is a priority.


Ayako Katagiri

Voiced by: Masayo Kawaguchi

A fun-loving girl who loves speaking with English sentences mixed in her speech. She has two main passions: art and singing. She loves to draw pictures, and is talented at it . She enjoys looking at paintings a lot, and is a big fan of Grotesque painter Gergi (a Shout-Out to H.R. Giger, who's the designer of Alien). Also, she will go study art in an Arts school in France once she graduates.

And as far as singing goes, not only she's so good at it, each karaoke session with her is a Crowning Moment of Awesome, but she's also the singer of the band club "Irodori", in the second Drama Series game Irodori no Love Song, a game where she's the heroine, thanks to being the fourth most popular character among fans in Tokimeki Memorial 1.


Miharu Tatebayashi

Voiced by: Shiho Kikuchi

An extremely shy girl who fell in love at first sight for the main protagonist on School Entrance Day, but can't muster the courage to tell her feelings to him. Instead, she tries to make him notice of her by doing such things as crashing "accidentally" onto him, appearing in date spot and claiming she mistook him for someone else, or calling him at his home and telling she made a wrong number.

She's fond of koalas; she even puts her hair in koala ear-shape, and goes as far as wearing a koala costume to sometimes be able to follow the main protagonist when he has dates at the Amusement Park.

Miharu is, in the original game, a secret character the player couldn't date, and was made by the creators as a consolation character for the players who haven't managed to get the confession of any other character (even though there's a chance you can miss her as well). Despite all this, she became very popular among fans of the series, to the point she was made the co-heroine with Shiori in the third Drama Series game Tabidachi no Uta, and even has a special guest ending in Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories: Memories Ringing On.


Yoshio Saotome

Voiced by: Yuji Ueda

A classmate of the main protagonist. He accosts him on the first day of school, and they become instant friends. Just like the main protagonist, he's on a quest for love, and has the tools to reach this end, as he's the "info man" of the school: he can get the data from all the girls: phone number, blood type, size, hobbies, and even 3-sizes, as well as giving good date spots hints. He thus will help his friend by giving him this data and moral support.

Yoshio is deep down a good guy who cares for his friend (and this is especially shown in the Drama Series), but he's very noisy, over-the-top, and prone to jump to conclusions, leading to give some headaches to the protagonist. However, being well-meaning and enthusiast, he often gets away with this among the girls, who thinks he's funny, and is Easily Forgiven by the protagonist.


Yumi Saotome

Voiced by: Yoshiki Kurin

Yoshio's little sister. She's one year younger than the rest of the cast, and thus makes her entrance in the original game at the start of the main protagonist's second year of High School.

She desperately wants to be seen as an adult, but her cute looks, childish attitudes and hobbies (she likes video games, anime and pro-wrestling), make it impossible for others to see her as so. If the player plans to win her heart, he must make sure to treat her as a woman and not as a cute girl.

In early promotional arts and merchandise, she was planned as one of the poster characters, along with Shiori, Yoshio and Rei; her character didn't caught on to fans compared to Saki, Ayako or Miharu, however.


  • Berserk Button: If you don't wanna eat a painful Yumi Bomber, do not say she's "cute".
  • Calling Your Attacks: With her Yumi Bomber.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: In the original game, not only she has one of the highest love progression and the highest Bombing rate among the girls, she also have a Event which only activates if a certain Saki Event occurred (see Lethal Chef below)!
  • Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs: Just like Shiori, she loves wearing ribbons, and she alternates colors.
  • Gamer Chick: She's the embodiment of this trope. For the note, her favourite type of video games are shooters.
  • Genki Girl: So much, she gets the Sunflower as her symbolic flower.
  • Kawaiiko
  • Lethal Chef: After being jealous of Saki sharing her lunch with you, she'll decide to cook for you. Be afraid... very afraid.
    • However, her scenario in Tabidachi no Uta revolves around helping her improving her cooking skills so she can give her brother Yoshio a delicious meal, and actually succeeds in doing so in the end.
  • Third Person Person: She likes addressing herself by her name.
  • Wrestler in All of Us: Being a wrestling fan, Yumi has her own Finishing Move (which she refined by using it against her brother and the protagonist as well in Nijiiro no Seishun, the "Yumi Bomber", a lariat/grappling-like move.

Rei Ijuin

Voiced by: Narumi Tsunoda

A classmate of the main protagonist. Just like Yoshio, appears on the first day of school. Grand-son of Kirameki High's school headmaster, and heir of the ultra-rich Ijuin Family, which runs lots of wealthy local and international businesses. Flamboyant, arrogant and caustic, Rei never misses an opportunity to mock the protagonist and Yoshio. In contrast, he's extremely popular with the girls, and he's fully aware of it.

She's actually a girl: the reason why she dresses as a boy is a family custom she has to following until her coming of age.


Mio Kisaragi

Voiced by: Akiko Sekine

A shy and gentle Meganekko bookworm girl with a weak body, suffering from anemia, and thus often passing out. Because of this, she also can't do sports (not like she likes sports to start with), or have violent emotions (and thus prefer going out to calm and peaceful places on dates).

She loves reading books so much, she's able to read four of them per day, her favourite author being Goethe. Like Shiori, she also loves classical music and love romance movies. Her ideal type of boy would be kind, intelligent and studious ones.

In Drama Series games and radio drama canon, she's portrayed as Saki’s best friend, and in radio drama canon becomes Yoshio's girlfriend.


  • Cute Bookworm
  • Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs: The mini-ribbons she wears with her pigtails are, along with her glasses, pretty iconic of Mio.
  • The Glasses Gotta Go: In a date at the cinema, after she removed her glasses so she could wipe her teary eyes due to a romantic scene, you get the option to tell her she looks pretty without her glasses, which will prompt her to change to contacts at the end. This is optional though, as you can also tell her she's fine with them, and she'll wear them in the end.
  • Ill Girl: Who's prone to Fainting.
  • Meganekko: In Nijiiro no Seishun, she explains she became one because she loves books and read them since she was little, to the point that back then, at night, she often put herself under her blankets and used a lamptorch so she could fool her parents in believing she was sleeping and thus be able to continue reading.
  • Shrinking Violet


Megumi Mikihara

Voiced by: Mikiko Kurihara

Shiori's best friend. A very shy girl who has a deep love for animals. She eventually falls in love with the protagonist during the course of the game if he has good grades, but she's so timid, she asks Shiori to introduce her to him. She has a pet Yorkshire named Muku, who's rather aggressive towards strangers (this includes the protagonist, of course).

Yuko Asahina

Voiced by: Yoko Teppouzuka

A fun-loving girl from a rich family who's on the lookout for the latest trend, and hates studies with a passion. She's not above cheating at exams, is regularly Late for School, and shrugs off any reprimands made by school principles. Likes games and lively places a lot, is a fan of karaoke, and a champ at dancing.

She knows and is a (resigned) friend of Yoshio since Middle School, and is best friends with Yukari Koshiki and Maho Shirayuki of Tokimeki Memorial 2.


Yukari Koshiki

Voiced by: Ayako Kurosaki

Daughter of a rich businessman owner of the wealthy "Koshiki Real Estate" company. She was brought up as a lady, and thus speaks with very polite Japanese and has attitudes of such. She's notable for having a veeeeeeery slow speech pattern, and for being a massive Cloudcuckoolander. Member of the Tennis Club, her ideal boy would be a sportsman. Her hobby is knitting, and she's particulary good at it.

She's best friends with her polar opposite Yuko, and since both of them are from filthy rich families, she's also childhood friends with Rei. Thanks to this, she's the sole character (aside from, briefly, Yoshio) in Kirameki High School to know that Rei is actually a girl.

  • Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: With her best friend Yuko.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: One of the oldest examples.
  • Daddy's Girl
  • Happily Married: Her parents were students at Kirameki High, and confessed their feelings under the Legendary Tree.
  • Nice Hat: Wears two of them, on Spring and Winter.
  • Ojou
  • Overprotective Dad: To the point that, in battle mode, her special attack, which invokes her father, who proceeds to slice the enemies with his katana, is arguably the most damaging in the game; also, Yukari's ending mention that the main character is a bit afraid and ill at ease with her father due to his overprotectiveness of her daughter.
  • Parental Abandonment: Utterly averted. She's one of the rare characters in the Classic Kirameki Saga to have both her parents well-established in canon, she has a close relationship with both of them (and she's her father's treasure), and she's basically the fruit and living proof of the legend of the Legendary Tree (see Happily Married above).
  • Pimped-Out Dress: She wears one on the Christmas Party, and wears a Pimped Out Kimono on New Year's Day.
  • Rose-Haired Girl
  • Yakuza: What her father looks like when summoned in the battlefield: he wears a kimono and wields a katana.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: It was her upbringing; attitude, clothing and cultural heritage. See the above entry.


Nozomi Kiyokawa

Voiced by: Ayako Sasaki

Kirameki High's ace swimmer. Highly athletic, she runs for 50 kilometers each morning as part of her training, and is of pro-level (to the point that the career she seeks to pursue is to enter the National Olympic Swimming Team); she, however, has poor abilities at studies.

Has a masculine speech pattern and some masculine attitudes, but has deep down the heart of a girl. Her big other passion besides swimming are flowers, her favourite ones being cyclamen.


  • Bokukko
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: During the winter season of the final year, if you are sure of winning her, skimping out on dates with her until confesssion day arrives will result in her growing her hair longer (maybe because she misses you).
  • Huge Schoolgirl
  • Innocent Flower Girl: What she'd like to be.
  • Indirect Kiss: If the protagonist meets her for the first time as she does her daily 50 kilometers run, she'll offer him some of her juice. As she'll leave her, the protagonist will realize and gleefully mention to himself he had an indirect kiss this way.
  • The Klutz: Despite her athleticism, she's quite clumsy, and can be a walking disaster area on certain dates (watch out during dates at the Museum and the Bowling Alley).
  • Odd Friendship: She's good friends with Ayako, who's renowned for her fear of water; this is often played with in the Classic Kirameki canon, and Nozomi often gives a reluctant Ayako swimming lessons so she can overcome this fear.
  • Shrinking Violet: When she's in "enraptured" state, she becomes very shy when she bumps into you after school (she'll stutter, then run away; not to be mistaken for a "bomb" warning, where she's angry and scolding you before running away).
  • Tears of Joy: In her Ending.
  • Tomboy
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She fears lightning which gets revealed in her special event where she and the protagonist, on a date at the beach, swim to an island where they get stranded by a storm and take shelter in a cave, and, as she screams in fear, the protagonist holds her close.

Mira Kagami

Voiced by: Rei Igarashi

Kirameki High's resident Rich Bitch Alpha Bitch, she's known as "the Madone of Kirameki High". Has a fanclub dedicated to her, who follows her everywhere she goes in the school. She judges by looks and will ignore boys who don't meet her expectations: thus, the protagonist must have a very high Appearance stat to be able to court her. She's very conscious of her beauty, and even plans to become a model once she graduates. She succeeds in this route, as in Tokimeki Memorial Substories: Memories Ringing On, she's seen in a bikini photo session with Maho Shirakuyi of Tokimeki Memorial 2.

By this description, looks like we have a winner for a haughty All Guys Want Cheerleaders Brainless Beauty… Except that she actually has Hidden Depths. This personality is actually a facade she carefully constructed: in Junior High, she was a sweet girl who had her heart broken countless times by guys, and she swore revenge in High School by working hard on her appearance so she could get boys to fawn over her, play with their feelings for some time, and then cruelly dump them down. However, while this Evil Plan was exciting at the beginning, she grew sick of it, and deep in her heart, wishes to find the one boy who would see the real her hidden deep under this hard carapace, love her for what she really is, and thus allow her to muster the courage to turn back to the old herself.

On top of that, while she poses as a Rich Bitch in school, she actually lives in a very poor household, where her father is implied to be dead and has 6 brothers she has to take care of. This explains why she hasn't joined any clubs (must take care of the kids), cancels dates with the protagonist at times (when one of her brothers is ill), where comes her skills at sewing (helps her mom with housework), and why she's so adamant at refusing anyone to go with her to home after school (so they won't know the truth about her).


Yuina Himoo

Voiced by: Tomoko Naka

Kirameki High's resident Mad Scientist. A girl whose ambition is to Take Over the World, and is conducing various electronics and computer experiments, including and especially the construction of an Humongous Mecha, to achieve this end.

In Tokimeki Memorial Substories: Dancing Summer Vacation, she barges in the Dance Dance Revolution Tournament with her new Humongous Mecha, the "Neo-World Conquerer Robo", and her disciple Mei Ijuin of Tokimeki Memorial 2 in tow.



Yukinojou Sotoi

Voiced by: Yuji Ueda

Rei Ijuin's personal butler. Also serves as a bouncer to the family's Big Fancy House, and, in Nijiiro no Seishun, to the family's newly built sports center's pool as well. Owns a private beach at the family's summer residence. Has a thing for muscular men and invariably goes into lyrical flights of fancy when seeing one.


Banchou

Voiced by: Actor unknown (assumed to be one of the game's production staff members)

The leader of the local gang of Delinquents. The player will run against him in 3rd year of the original game after defeating his Mooks.


Tokimeki Memorial 1 spin-off games characters

Minori Akiho

Voiced by: Sakura Tange

One of the Soccer Club managers along with Saki Nijino. Appearing for the first time in Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series 1: Nijiiro no Seishun, she's the first main character of the Classic Kirameki Saga girl characters who weren't in the original game to enter the series' canon.

A 1st year-student Genki Girl, she's totally head-over-heels for her senpai Saki. As such, she sees the main protagonist (who's, in this game's canon, a forward striker in the Soccer Club) as her rival for Saki's heart, and will even give her the cold shoulder until he succeeds a hard soccer exercise which will show her his perseverance and love of soccer, and makes him redeem through her eyes (but she'll still consider him a love rival).


  • Character Development: Probably one of the characters benefitting of this the most in the Classic Kirameki Saga. She goes from a loud, possessive and somewhat agressive brat in Nijiiro no Seishun, to a friendly, posed and mature girl (but still a Motor Mouth) ready to listen and help the others, which both Saki and the protagonist feel the Soccer Club will be in good hands with her at its lead after they'll graduate, by the end of Tabidachi no Uta.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Full-stop. It's even worse before the aforemented exercice succeeded event.
  • Cute Sports Club Manager: Becomes one when Saki graduates. Until then, she's her trusted assistant.
  • Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs: The cross-shaped decs in her hair are a gift from Saki, and thus Minori treasures them.
  • Graceful Loser: If you manage to succeed the exercise mentioned above, she'll conceide her defeat for Saki's heart to you in Nijiiro no Seishun's Best Ending.
  • Hot for Student: Averted (see the Second Love entry above).
  • If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: She pulls this line to the protagonist as part of her Graceful Loser tirade in Nijiiro no Seishun's Best Ending.
  • Motor Mouth
  • My Name Is Not Durwood: In Nijiiro no Seishun canon, when talking about the main protagonist, she calls him "Juu-roku ban no Senpai" (= N°16-senpai), referring to his shirt's number in the Soccer Club. Serves as a clever way of going around the Hello, Insert Name Here problem, as well as an indicator of her relationship towards the protagonist: the nickname has a derogative connotation at first, then after she came to like him, it becomes an affectionate nickname.
  • Schoolgirl Lesbians: Unrequited. Saki thinks of Minori only as a nice kohai.
  • Second Love: It doesn't seem like it at first glance, but Saki really is her second love. She reveals during her discussions with the protagonist, that her first love was one of his teachers in Junior High, but he only thought of her as a cute student, and married one of her other teachers.

Suzune Misaki

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima

A shy girl who's the keyboard member of the School's Band Group "Irodori", introduced for the first time in Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series 2: Irodori no Love Song. A 1st year-student like Yumi and Minori, she's in love with the main protagonist (who's, in this game's canon, the band's guitarist), but has a hard time spitting it out. And when she does, all hell breaks loose, as the protagonist has only eyes for Ayako, yet stalls in clearing the Love Triangle as he doesn’t want to hurt Suzune. They all get better though.


Takumi Oosawa

Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu

The electric guitar base member of the band club "Irodori". Has Bishounen looks and is quite popular with the ladies.

  • All Love Is Unrequited: For all the girls who fawn over him, he has eyes only for a single one: Suzune. Who herself has an unrequited love for the protagonist, who himself loves Ayako...
  • Chick Magnet
  • What the Hell, Hero?: He gives such a speech to the protagonist when seeing how much the Love Triangle situation strains Suzune, and the protagonist's unwillingness to put an end to the mess.

Kouji Tamura

Voiced by: Ryo Horikawa

The drummer member of the band club "Irodori". Is more or less the leader of the band, and someone you can always rely on.

Coach

Voiced by: Masaya Onosaka

Kirameki's Soccer Club coach. A Stern Teacher who was a former pro-soccer player, but had to put an end to his career due to an injury, and switched to coach for High School Soccer Clubs. It's his decision to not make the protagonist a regular at the forward striker post and give it to 1st year Sawatari which sets in motion the events of Nijiiro no Seishun. Values hard work over everything else, and this is why, if you level-up enough in the soccer mini-game, he'll choose the protagonist as a regular when one of the regulars will be out due to an injury, at the end of the game.

Tooru Sawatari

Voiced by: Shinichiro Miki

A 1st-year student at Kirameki High, member of the Soccer Club. Is a talented forward and considered a genius; his talent allows him to get a place among the regulars, to the detriment of the protagonist who's rather pissed off (part of because the protagonist worked hard to get his place and hasn't seen his efforts recompensed, part of because Sawatari got through the Sempai-Kohai logic). Has a thing for Minori Akiho, but she considers him merely as a classmate.


Tomomi

Voiced by: Ryoka Yuzuki

A manager of the Soccer Club, along with Saki and Minori. One of the latest entries in the Classic Kirameki Saga cast, she appears only in Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series 3: Tabidachi no Uta.

A Kohai of Minori by a year (meaning she's a Kohai by two years of Saki and the protagonist), she entered the club solely because she's in love with Kirameki Soccer Club Ace Sawatari, and thus doesn't enjoy at first the chores and responsibilities behind the job of club manager. However, thanks to Minori's patient guiding, she later develops a genuine interest in soccer and in her job as a manager.

  • Only One Name: She's the major exception regarding all characters getting full names, in the whole series (barring minor characters such as the Coach, and Tsukushi of Girl's Side who shares the Protagonist's surname).
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Only appeared in Tabidachi no Uta (the very last Kirameki Saga game released, before the franchise went on the Hibikino Saga), and was never mentioned elsewhere in the whole franchise.

Mie Kuribayashi

Voiced by: Mie Kuribayashi

The fictional representation in the Tokimemo verse of a real-life idol of the time, under the Konami-launched marketing program "Tokimeki Teens". She’s a secret sub-character in all the Drama Series games, who's an idol and seiyuu-in-training.

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Patricia McGrath

Voiced by: Masayo Kurata

One of the three Tokimeki Memorial Pocket (a One Game for the Price of Two adaptation of the original game on Game Boy Color) exclusive characters, one of the latest entries in the Classic Kirameki Saga cast, and the first fully-fledged foreigner character to grace the entire series. She comes to Kirameki High as an International Student, and is at first, due to the language barrier, without friends. Thanks to her contacts with the protagonist (if he first has an high enough Literature stat; otherwise, he can't date her at all), her Japanese improves with time.

She has a cheerful personality, but gets lonely easily, and misses her home country. Being a very kind person by nature, it's hard to anger her, but when she does get angry, she's terrifying. She loves cycling and watching BMX related stuff.

Along with Yukari, she's one of the rare characters in the Tokimemo series whose whole family is established in canon: her father is a former martial artist turned foreign diplomat, her mother is an ex-model, and her big brother is a racing driver.


Kyoko Izumi

Voiced by: Saki Nakajima

One of the three Tokimeki Memorial Pocket exclusive characters, she's a perseverant Genki Girl with a strong sense of justice, who wishes to fight in its name, and thus attempts to foil Yuina's plans of Taking Over The World. However, much like Miyuki of Tokimeki Memorial 2, she seems to be born under an unlucky star, and is known to always pull out "Daikyou" (Worst Luck) mikuji.

Despite having the same family name, down to the same kanji combination, she's not related to Hotaru Izumi of Tokimeki Memorial 3.


Naomi Munakata

Voiced by: Yui Horie

One of the three Tokimeki Memorial Pocket exclusive characters, she's the first non-main High School (a.k.a. Kirameki, Hibikino, Moegino, Habataki or Hanegasaki) character in the entire series. Indeed, she's a student of Kirameki's rival High School Suega High (which Soccer Team's is depicted in Nijiiro no Seishun as one of the strongest in the National Inter High Circuit). She comes to Kirameki High from to time to time as the two schools are preparing in cooperation a concert, and she's in charge of the wind instruments section of the orchestra.

She's an active and gutsy girl who loves challenges, but is so confident of her abilities, at the horn, she tends to take attitudes, driving people away from her, and thus she feels lonely.

  • Animals Hate Her: And she hates them equally. Koalas especially are her worst enemies.
  • What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: When taking her to a date at the Stadium (for watching a base-ball match) twice, she cheers for the teams by playing the trumpet.

Tokimeki Memorial 1 radio drama and drama CDs characters

Katsuma Serizawa

Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi

The protagonist of the CD drama stories, not to be confused with the original game's main protagonist/Naoto Takami, as they are two different characters (best proof is that Katsuma will, during the course of the radio dramas, help Naoto and Shiori in their relationship).

He has lost both his parents in a fire, and lives alone. He's talented at both studies and sports, but doesn't have the will to participate, and spends his days in idleness. In Junior High, he was his Basketball Club's ace, and is a member of Kirameki's Basketball club.

  • The Cameo: In Tokimeki Memorial 4, along with his childhood friend Natsue, his name is written in a document record listing the participants to the 3-Legged Race which occurred 15 years before the events of this game, making them both officially...
  • Canon Immigrant: ...as this list also mentions Yoshio and Yumi Saotome participating in this race.
  • Memento MacGuffin: The crystal pendant he got from his parents and wears at his neck. It plays a vital role during Natsue's Love Confession to him (see her Victorious Childhood Friend entry below).
  • Not a Morning Person: Natsue has to regulary come to his house and take him out of bed, so he doesn't arrive late at school. Subverted due to part of the reason being his Heroic BSOD, but ultimately played straight, as shown in the Epilogue where he has recovered.
  • Orphan's Ordeal

Natsue Marikawa

Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa

Childhood friend of Katsuma. She's in love with him, and tries her best to help him in the difficult times he's going through, but is at a loss of how to help him recover.

She's a member of the Basketball club, and being popular with her classmates is her one greatest wish and worry. She joins Katsuma in supporting Naoto and Shiori's relationship.

Megumi Juuichiya

Voiced by: Mariko Kouda

Natsue's best friend. She looks cute, quiet and the type who doesn't attract attention, but don't let this fool you: she has quite the tempestuous personality. She's very into fortune-telling and supernatural phenomenons, and is the manager of the Basketball Club.

Jun Ebisutani

Voiced by: Megumi Ogata

Katsuma's best friend. Is a playboy who's very popular with the girls. Saying this, he wouldn't look like this, but he's actually a nice guy who's very reliable. He's oblivious of Megumi Juuichiya's love for him and only considers her as a cute little sister. He becomes quite close of Shiori, and briefly starts dating Ayako in radio dramas.


  • Bishounen
  • Chick Magnet
  • Hidden Depths
  • Oblivious to Love: Or is he? After all, near the end of the radio drama, when he gets news of Megumi admitted to the hospital for a fall as he was going to meet Ayako for their first date, he rushes to Megumi's side without warning Ayako first and stands her up. Ayako is pissed off, and breaks ties with Ebisutani without letting him explain himself.
  1. ↑ From left to right, and from rear row to front row. 1st row: Rei Ijuin, Mira Kagami, Yuina Himoo, Yoshio Saotome, and Yumi Saotome. 2nd row: Ayako Katagiri, Mio Kisaragi, Shiori Fujisaki, Saki Nijino, and Nozomi Kiyokawa. 3rd row: Yukari Koshiki, Miharu Tatebayashi, Megumi Mikihara, and Yuko Asahina.
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