Aoi Hana - Characters

Characters

Fumi Manjōme (万城目 ふみ, Manjōme Fumi?)

Voiced by: Ai Takabe

Fumi is a first-year student at Matsuoka Girl's High School, and is a tall, shy girl prone to crying. Fumi comes back to the town she grew up in and she meets, without realizing it, her childhood friend Akira Okudaira. When they were much younger, Akira had been Fumi's bodyguard, keeping her out of harm and consoling her when she cried. Fumi is a lesbian and had her first romantic relationship with her older female cousin Chizu Hanashiro (花城 千津, Hanashiro Chizu?, Voiced by: Fuyuka Ōura), with whom she had sex with. Soon after Fumi moves back to Kamakura, she finds out Chizu will soon get married to a man she has never met. Not long after meeting Yasuko Sugimoto in the literature club, Fumi develops a crush on Yasuko, who later asks her out.

Akira Okudaira (奥平 あきら, Okudaira Akira?)

Voiced by: Yūko Gibu

Akira, known as Ah-chan to some of her friends, is an innocent and cheerful girl in her first-year at Fujigaya Girls Academy. She is the childhood friend of Fumi and after meeting her again after ten years is friends again. She acts as a main source of advice for Fumi. Akira joins the drama club because her friend Kyōko Ikumi is a member of it. She often talks about food as well as give advice. Akira is uncomfortable around scary stories or things that test her courage. Unexpectedly and unintentionally, Akira usually spills secrets about her friends to other people when they ask her questions about them. Her intentions though are pure without any vice, and only says so to help her friends out. Akira has an older brother, Shinobu (忍?, Voiced by: Shinji Kawada), who attends college. He is constantly worried about his sister, and often takes her places in his car, though Akira often gets very annoyed at how protective her brother is towards her.

Yasuko Sugimoto (杉本 恭己, Sugimoto Yasuko?)

Voiced by: Chiemi Ishimatsu

Yasuko is a popular third-year senior at Matsuoka Girl's High School. She is a cool upperclassman and the captain of the basketball team, though Fumi mistakes her for being in the literature club when they first meet. After visiting Fujigaya Girls Academy and rejecting Kyōko's confession, she asks Fumi out, who accepts. Yasuko developed romantic feelings for a teacher when she was attending Fujigaya, Masanori Kagami (各務 正則, Kagami Masanori?, Voiced by: Kenji Hamada), who also acts as the adviser for the drama club.

Yasuko has three older sisters who all attended Fujigaya. The eldest is Shinako (姿子?, Voiced by: Mamiko Noto) who likes to joke and tease Yasuko; she attended Fujigaya at the same time as Hinako. The second eldest is Kazusa (和佐?, Voiced by: Yukari Fukui) who for a short time worked as an art teacher at Fujigaya after graduating. While there, she met her future husband Masanori Kagami, also a teacher. She has a kind personality. The third eldest sister is Kuri (公理?, Voiced by: Mai Nakahara) who, similar to Yasuko, was very popular when attending Fujigaya. Also like Yasuko, she too fell in love with Masanori Kagami, but never told him her feelings. She wields a blunt personality and smokes.

Kyōko Ikumi (井汲 京子, Ikumi Kyōko?)

Voiced by: Yui Horie

Kyōko is a reckless girl who has eyes only for Yasuko. She is in the same class as Akira and is a member of the drama club. She has been dubbed as Princess for her charm, and is also skilled in sewing, art, tennis and acting. Kyōko is engaged (in name only) to Kō Sawanoi (澤乃井 康, Sawanoi Kō?, Voiced by: Shintarō Asanuma) who attends college. They have known each other since childhood and Kō has a great concern and disposition of Kyōko, but knows that she is in love with someone else.

Misako Yasuda (安田 美沙子, Yasuda Misako?), Yōko Hon'atsugi (本厚木 洋子, Hon'atsugi Yōko?), and Miwa Motegi (茂木 美和, Motegi Miwa?)

Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi (Misako), Sayuri Yahagi (Yōko), and Aki Toyosaki (Miwa)

Misako, Yōko, and Miwa are three girls in Fumi's class who are close friends and the sole members of the drama club. Each has a nickname: Yassan for Misako, Pon for Yōko, and Mogii for Miwa. Misako has thick eyebrows and boyish-short, frizzy hair. She likes to test people's courage or scaring them by either participating in a game of "test of courage" or telling ghost stories. Yōko has a bright, frank personality and wears her hair in a shoulder-length bob cut. She is a bit on the clumsy side and has a hard time competing against Kyōko in tennis. Miwa has a gentle personality and wear her hair in a shoulder-length wavy style. She is the only one of her friends to be put into a separate class in their second year. Miwa becomes interested in Akira's brother Shinobu and the two start dating around the end of her first year of high school.

Haruka Ōno (大野 春花, Ōno Haruka?)

Haruka is a girl who joins Fujigaya as a student one year below Akira and becomes a new member of the drama club. She has an endearing personality that makes it easy for her to become friendly with anyone, though is prone to making silly mistakes. Haruka has an older sister, Orie (織江?), who is in a romantic relationship with Hinako Yamashina (山科 日向子, Yamashina Hinako?), a science teacher at Fujigaya, and the homeroom teacher of Akira's second year class. Orie and Hinako have known each other since high school, and Haruka refers to her as Hina.

Ryōko Ueda (上田 良子, Ueda Ryōko?)

Ryōko is a tall girl in Akira's class in their second year. She has a gentle and quiet personality, and enjoys reading; she becomes a library aide at Fujigaya.