List of The Wallflower characters
This is a list of the main characters, as well as some supporting characters from The Wallflower (manga), a Japanese manga and anime series, as of 2007, running in Japan.
Primary characters
Sunako Nakahara
Nakahara Sunako (中原 スナコ)
- Height: Differs between sizes
- Weight: Differs between sizes
- Favorite Food: Chocolate
- Strengths: Detailed horror and anatomy knowledge, brilliant housekeeper, monstrous strength, great chef, athletic, extremely intelligent (except for math; though, later she masters the subject)
After she was rejected by her first love, Sunako developed an obsession with darkness and a morbid fascination with blood, horror movies, and similarly dark things. She has an infamous tendency to get nosebleeds when she sees someone attractive and hates excessive light exposure. She has three "friends"; a skeleton called Josephine and two anatomical figures named Hiroshi-kun and Akira-kun. While she suffers from severely low self-esteem, she is actually beautiful and a frighteningly tough fighter. She is portrayed (mostly) throughout the manga in SD (Super-Deformed) form. Somewhat surprisingly, she is a very good cook, very athletic, intelligent (save that she is abysmally bad at math) and a good pianist. She refers to beautiful people as "creatures of light" and "ugly" people, such as herself, as "creatures of darkness", in the translation in America. Whenever she sees a "creature of light", she gets nosebleeds, and they're usually severe when she sees Kyohei.
Her relationship with Kyohei is somewhat unclear, saying that she always wants to kill him, and even goes to the extent of turning into a lady temporarily to get him back. Her reason is that "she's the only person who can kill him." Some people say that she has a crush on him, but it might be that he is too beautiful for her to handle, so she "must get rid of him".
Kyohei Takano
Takano Kyōhei (高野 恭平)
- Height: 5 ft 10 in
- Weight: 125 lbs
- Favorite Foods: Strawberries and Fried Shrimp
- Strengths: Great Fighter, persevering attitude, incredibly handsome
While he says that all he cares about is getting free (or the lowest amount required to be paid) rent, Kyohei has a soft spot for Sunako and empathizes with her more so than the others. He is the most popular of the boys, and always has trouble keeping down a part-time job because his fans will chase after him, or his boss (male or female) will sexually harass him. Kyohei is cocky, short-tempered, and the only one tough enough to fight on the same level as Sunako. His hair is modeled after Tackey of Tackey and Tsubasa. He also tends to succumb to food and money.
Takenaga Oda
Oda Takenaga (織田 武長)
- Height: 5 ft 8 in
- Weight: 110 lb
- Strengths: Incredibly smart (especially in math), good fighter
- Random Fact: Is more spacey than he lets on
The most intellectual of the four, Takenaga is called the "Boss" (a pun on his name in Japanese, which can be read as "Bucho", meaning boss) by his friends and is the least fazed by Sunako's morbid habits. Takenaga was originally from a wealthy family descended from flower masters (ikebana), but when the pressure of being the family heir was too much, he became completely withdrawn and ignored everyone. He was sent to live at the Landlady's mansion in hopes of becoming more "normal". He is described as a caring feminist and is rather shy. He is currently going out with Noi.
Yukinojo "Yuki" Toyama
Tōyama Yukinojo
- Height: 5 ft 8 in
- Weight: 108 lb
- Favorite Food: Anything sweet
- Strengths: Very stylish, can charm animals, looks very good in girl clothes and looks so cute that he gets away with anything
The most androgynous of the four, Yuki is gentle and is initially the most frightened of Sunako. He's the most 'normal' of the four boys; before coming to live at the mansion he had a normal school life with a middle-income family. His mother and the Landlady are old friends and the Landlady has a soft spot for Yuki. He's also the shortest and shyest, with a 'cute' face, and has been called on (very reluctantly) to dress up as a girl on more than one occasion. He has an on-again, off-again girlfriend named Machiko.
Ranmaru Morii
Morii Ranmaru
- Height: 5 ft 10 in
- Weight: 122 lb
- Strengths: Very experienced Casanova, good at sweet talking
- Random Fact: Will break out whenever near an ugly girl, sexually experienced
A ladies' man, Ranmaru is often going out with various beautiful older and often married women. The very sight of Sunako initially has him breaking out in hives, but when her true beauty is revealed, he decides that she has "potential" to become a real lady. Like Takenaga, he comes from a wealthy family (who own a series of hotel chains), but was sent to live with the Landlady because he exploited his wealth and his parents wanted him to become "normal". He is named after the real life Mori Ranmaru, the partner of Oda Nobunaga.
Naie "Noi" Kasahara
Kasahara Naie
- Height: 5 ft 7 in
- Weight: 112 lb
- Strengths: Extremely kind and beautiful
- Random Fact: Is one of the only people to accept Sunako immediately
A very pretty and exceedingly popular girl. Noi is Sunako's closest friend at school, where Sunako is scorned for her terrifying demeanor and association with the boys. Noi admires Sunako's tough attitude and is in love with Oda, though she tends to be insecure about their relationship because Takenaga is too shy to openly admit that he likes her. She is called Noi in both the North American and Singaporean English-language translation.
(Stats taken from V1 of the Wallflower manga)
Supporting characters
The Landlady
- Sunako's aunt, who expects Kyohei, Takenaga, Yuki, and Ranmaru to make Sunako into a lady. She is extremely wealthy and usually travels in unconventional fashion, such as in a fleet of helicopters. The Landlady is rarely around (usually in France with her latest boyfriend or fiancé) and the four males have managed to convince her that Sunako is on the fast track to becoming a lady when really her niece is not. However, the Landlady has also been known to make unexpected visits, which often lead to the boys putting on an act of some sort with Sunako to make her appear more lady-like and, occasionally, raised rent when all does not go as planned.
- The Landlady is actually the younger sister of Sunako's father and, like her niece, requires very little effort to frighten the boys. It is known that her husband is dead and the apparent reason why she keeps getting a new boyfriend is that she is lonely, but she loves none of these men in the same way she loved her husband. While their interaction is relatively limited, Sunako actually admires her aunt a great deal and considers her the most beautiful woman she knows; the Landlady, in turn, simply wants Sunako to be happy and believes that helping her niece become a lady will do so, especially since as a child Sunako always wanted to be like her aunt.
Sunako's parents
- Sunako's parents live abroad, supposedly in Africa, and have left Sunako under the care of her aunt. The boys are not surprised to discover that Sunako's father is physically huge and not particularly attractive and are more worried about his protective streak towards his daughter, who became increasingly distant towards him and refused to let him into her room. He later discovers that his daughter still loves him, she just did not want him to see the inside of her room because it was filled with things that would horrify him. He has a bad back as a result of saving Sunako from a bear as a child.
- Sunako's mother is a very attractive and petite woman, something that the boys did not expect from their knowledge of Sunako and her father's appearences. She is surprisingly strong and is able to lift her husband off the ground effortlessly. She thinks nothing of Sunako's morbid habits as long as they make her happy and she scolds Sunako's father for pleading for Kyohei to change Sunako into a normal girl. A flashback reveals that Sunako's mother is actually younger than most women with a daughter of Sunako's age.
Loli-Goth Girls
- Lassine, Madeline, Roxanne, and Yvone are four girls who are completely obsessed with the main boys of the series. Initially their roles in the storyline were much smaller, but were expanded within the anime to provide comic relief. They usually have a cameo appearance in each episode saying their catch phrase "Goth-Goth, Loli-Loli". Their appearance in the manga was (so far) a one shot of them getting revenge on Sunako and Noi for being so close to the men they loved. A notable aspect to their characters is that instead of actively pursuing their crushes, they instead sat in the background and waited for them to notice them instead. In the manga they were responsible for a number of disturbances, such as replacing the boys' lunches with their (rather horrible) home-made lunches. Their last appearance in the American release of the manga ended with them attempting to harm Noi for her close relationship to Takanaga and the others. This attempt was foiled after they were discovered by a rage-driven Sunako, only to be spared by the boys restraining Sunako. Their appearance is an exaggeration of the Loli-Goth phenomenon, and are very unattractive.
The Boss
- A street gangster who falls for the SD Sunako, much to the surprise of everyone surrounding him. Originally, he wanted to challenge Kyohei to a fight to see who was stronger, but later changed it to a fight for Sunako's affections, believing that Kyohei was Sunako's boyfriend. He can be seen in both the manga and the anime version.