Sasameki Koto - Characters

Characters

Sumika Murasame (村雨 純夏, Murasame Sumika?)

Voiced by: Ayahi Takagaki

The main character of the story, Sumika is intelligent and athletically gifted, tall with long black hair. Her family runs a karate dojo, so she practiced martial arts since she was little, quickly becoming very strong, even being considered a karate "genius". However, after realizing she was in love with Ushio she decided to quit in order to try to become "cuter". Due to her abilities she's popular at school and, despite her personality not being violent at all, she's sometimes nicknamed "Violent Murasame". She secretly loves Ushio, but the fact that Ushio doesn't return her feelings at all makes her suffer. Often she tries acting cuter, but the results aren't great and Ushio remains oblivious of Sumika's emotions.

Ushio Kazama (風間 汐, Kazama Ushio?)

Voiced by: Megumi Takamoto

Sumika's best friend and classmate who lives alone with her brother, Ushio is a naive girl madly in love with cute girls. She often gets crushes but they are all one-sided. She considers Sumika as a very precious friend, but she's completely unaware of her feelings and often remarks her for being "cool", "not cute" and "not her type", without knowing Sumika's inner reaction at these words. She herself garners feelings for Sumika, but is afraid to act on them based on a bad experience with one of her old friends. She later learns from Tomoe that Sumika is in love with her too, and slowly starts to give Sumika hints.

Tomoe Hachisuka (蓮賀 朋絵, Hachisuka Tomoe?)

Voiced by: Hitomi Harada

A classmate of Sumika and Ushio who is also a lesbian. She has a relationship with another classmate, Miyako Taema. She is 18 years old, having taken two years off from school to save her family's corporation from bankruptcy (a feat publicly attributed to her father). Due to this age difference, she has a more mature outlook on life then the other characters. The Hachisuka family is very wealthy and traditional, but they have no choice but to accept Tomoe's habits. She claims that "high school is all about being in clubs", so she tries to set up a "Girls' Club" for all the "girl-loving girls who had no choice but to enter a co-ed school". It is rejected, but they later reform it into a karate club. She has a driver's license but is a dangerously bad driver.

Miyako Taema (当麻 みやこ, Taema Miyako?)

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō

Tomoe's girlfriend. While she looks like an innocent and clumsy girl, and is popular with boys (who nickname her "Princess"), her true self is quite different, having a devilish, bad-mannered personality, and is always prone to bad-mouth or tease other people. Tomoe is the only one able to "control" her; they are always together, and for this reason they had no friends before knowing Sumika and the others. Miyako is a daughter of Hachisuka family's driver, a fact that doesn't sit well with the rest of Tomoe's household but as with other things, they cannot go against her.

Azusa Aoi (蒼井 あずさ, Aoi Azusa?)

Voiced by: Mayuki Makaguchi

A classmate of the main characters, she is introduced in volume 2. Aoi is a yuri fan, in particular she loves the works of the female shōjo novelist Orino Masaka, unaware that she's actually Ushio's brother, Norio, using a pen name. Sumika knows this but she doesn't want to disappoint her, so she keeps it secret. Aoi thinks that love between girls must be something completely pure and fragile, hidden away from people's eyes; for this reason she doesn't like Tomoe and Miyako's relationship, considering them way too blatant. She likes attending yuri-only events and writing yuri dōjinshi, and she wishes to do that together with Sumika.

Masaki Akemiya (朱宮 正樹, Akemiya Masaki?)

Voiced by: Ayaka Shimizu

A shy boy, classmate of the main characters. He likes Sumika, but when he notices that she likes Ushio he tries to cross-dress in order to catch her attention. His younger sister however finds out about it and sends some pictures of him to a magazine. He is hired against his will and the pictures start appearing on magazines under the alias of Akemi Yamasaki (山崎 アケミ, Yamasaki Akemi?), where Ushio sees them and gets a crush for "her", wanting to meet "her". Akemi's career ends when her 'manhood' is accidentally revealed during a fashion show, but the company keeps Masaki's identity a secret.

Charlotte Münchhausen (シャルロッテ・ミュンヒハウゼン, Sharurotte Myunhihauzen?)

A German girl, nicknamed Lotte, introduced in volume three. She's short and she has a very childish appearance; her silky blonde hair and blue eyes make her seem like a doll. Ushio falls at first sight for her cuteness, and she calls her an "angel". Despite her appearance, Lotte's personality isn't feminine at all: she has a harsh way of speaking, she practices karate and wants to become cool and strong like Sumika. She also acts innocently and naively, and at first she's easily tricked by Ushio into wearing cute dresses. When at school she wears a gakuran, a boy's school uniform, in order to preserve the "Japanese spirit".

Kiyori Torioi (鳥追 きより, Torioi Kiyori?)

Voiced by: Emiri Katō

A classmate and friend of Sumika and Ushio, they often eat lunch between the three of them. She has a happy personality and she loves eating a lot, particularly curry bread. According to Sumika, she's straight, and she politely rejects any involvement in dubious activities proposed by Ushio and Tomoe.

Mayu Semimaru (蝉丸 まゆ, Semimaru Mayu?)

A first year student who joins the karate club after Sumika and the others enter their second year of high school. She is an admirer of Sumika's fighting ability and is rather vocal when she does not live to her expectations. Contrary to her stoic appearance, she tends to not be very level headed. She later harbors feelings for Sumika herself, finding herself jealous whenever she sees her with Ushio.

Koino Matsubara (松原 恋乃, Matsubara Koino?)

Another first year student, Mayu's best friend, who also joins the karate club. Like Mayu, contrary to Koino's cheerful appearance and attitude, she is the more level headed of the two. She comes from a family where he mother constantly changes partners. She is the only one to know of Mayu's crush on Sumika, and soon starts to develop feelings for Mayu herself.

Norio Kazama (風間 規夫, Kazama Norio?)

Voiced by: Wataru Hatano

Ushio's older brother, they live alone in a messy house. He is a writer who publishes shōjo yuri novels under the pen name of Orino Masaka (written in kana, it is almost exactly "Kazama Norio" when written backwards). His true identity is not known to his audience, so he is believed to be a mysterious female writer.

Manaka Akemiya (朱宮 万奈歌, Akemiya Manaka?)

Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu

Masaki's younger sister, and the one responsible for throwing him into the modeling business. Although rather teasing in this aspect, she does try to help her brother in her own ways, proven when she tries to concoct a scheme to get him together with Sumika.