Age: 15

Blood type: O

Birthdate: 31st December

Height: 158 cm

Weight: 44 kg

Life philosophy: “Do a good deed every day”

Sawako is a shy yet honest girl who is in search of friendship, but her resemblance to horror film character Sadako and Sawako’s tendency to shy away from correcting people of misconceptions prevent her from doing so. Thanks to Kazehaya’s kind and open nature, she is able to gradually make friends, open up to her classmates, and talk to different people. She is grateful (and at first, worships) Kazehaya for giving her the opportunities to make close friends, which come to include Yano, Yoshida, Kazehaya and Ryu. Yano and Yoshida admits that Sawako’s ‘like’ to Kazehaya might be even more than Yano and Yoshida themselves. She is rather short, in part because her father is as well (he is only 160cm tall) and is surprisingly fast, revealed during a soccer match at the school’s sports festival. During Chizuru and Ayane’s first visit to Sawako’s house, Chizuru notes that Sawako’s lips look like her mother’s and most of Sawako’s other features resemble her father’s.

Blood type: O

Birthdate: 15th May

Height: 175 cm

Weight: 60 kg

Life philosophy: “Believe and pursue the truth”

Kazehaya is Sawako’s outgoing and friendly classmate. He is so popular that during middle school, so many girls liked him that they formed a “Kazehaya is Everyone’s” Alliance in order to maintain some level of peace among his admirers and more than half of these girls now attend the same high school. Kazehaya has held a long standing interest in Sawako and admits (though not to Sawako) that he likes her, unaware that she feels the same for him ^[6]. During their second year of high school, he begins to wonder if she actually likes him after she does not give him chocolates on Valentine’s Day, not knowing that she had been too nervous to give him any. He seemingly becomes calmer and shows a depressed and expressionless face more often. However, after being confronted by Ryuu (influenced by Chizuru) and Pin, Kazehaya goes to Sawako as his friends jokingly remark that he likes Sawako; however, Kazehaya takes the remark seriously and agrees, subsequently confessing directly to Sawako.

Blood type: AB

Birthdate: 3rd March

Sign: Pisces

Height: 161 cm

Weight: 47 kg

Life philosophy: “Beautiful”

Ayane is a close friend of Sawako. She is the arguably the most mature of the group and she has a boyfriend in college. In Kurumi’s fake rumours, it is said that Ayane has played more with more than 100 guys in middle school. In their current high school, it is being said that Yano and Yoshida have pretty much authority in the year group. Perceptive and intelligent, a trait of Ayane’s personality is that she gives just enough information to leave others wondering, thus forcing them to move forward. Although she is usually calm and collected, she is easily infuriated if someone hurts Sawako and does not hesitate to attack the one responsible she believes is responsible (frequently Kazehaya) with kicks and sharp words.

Blood type: B

Birthdate: 2nd December

Sign: Sagittarius

Height: 179 cm

Weight: 75 kg

Life philosophy: “Work silently”

Ryuu is also member of Sawako’s group of friends. He is quiet most of the time and rarely talks, but still can communicate well with Sawako, as they both don’t talk much anyways. He is a close childhood friend with Chizuru and does not deny having feelings for her, such as simply smiling when Sawako asks if he and Chizuru are dating. He later confirms his love when he confesses that he likes Chizuru to Sawako. Ryu and Kazehaya became friends when they were on the baseball team during middle school.

Blood type: A

Birthdate: 1st June

Sign: Gemini

Height: 167 cm

Weight: 53 kg

Life philosophy: “Eat until 80% full”

Yoshida is another close friend of Sawako. She is the tomboy of the group, and she even admits this when Ryu calls them brothers, where she argues about who is the older rather than that she is not a ‘brother’. She has a soft spot for innocent mannered people, so she takes a near instant liking to Sawako. In Kurumi’s fake rumours it was passed around that she was a former Yankee, though Chizuru just takes the rumor as a means of scaring people off or as a joke for her friends. Chizuru is mostly only the slower side of things; she did not realise that Kazehaya liked Sawako (even though she and Ayane planned many events for them) until late in the series, after they started their second year of high school. She is a close childhood friend with Ryu Sanada, who is also the son of her favorite ramen shop’s owner, and went to the same middle school as Kazehaya. She has a crush on Ryu’s brother, Toru.

A girl who appears friendly and sweet to everyone around her, she has had a huge crush on Kazehaya since their first year of middle school. She dislikes her given name, Ume, because it sounds old-fashioned and prefers to be called her nickname, “Kurumi.” She is extremely jealous of Sawako, which led her to spread fake rumours of Sawako’s only friends at the time, Yoshida and Yano, using Sawako’s name. Kurumi does not attend the same class as Sawako or Kazehaya. She eventually confesses her love to Kazehaya, but receives an expected rejection. Because she is always surprised with Sawako’s naiveté, Kurumi is able to become friends with her, as well as a rival for Kazehaya’s affection. Following Kazehaya’s rejection, she becomes colder to her classmates, but is able to finally express her true feelings and personality.

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