List of Genshiken Characters - Second Generation Main Characters

Second Generation Main Characters

These characters were introduced in the Genshiken Nidaime manga, which is the continuation of Genshiken. The first volume of this manga is being numbered as volume 10, continuing the volume numbering left off when Genshiken ended its first run. There are four new members of Genshiken in the manga's relaunch, including Susanna Hopkins, one of Ohno's American friends.

Rika Yoshitake (吉武 莉華, Yoshitake Rika?)

Yoshitake is a first year female student who decided to join Genshiken after seeing Ogiue's poster drawing demonstration and sensing the fujioshi aspects of it and recognizing Ogiue as a fujoshi. She is slender, wears glasses, is bright and cheerful, but is also a bit manipulative as seen when she got everyone to cosplay, a feat even Ohno could not accomplish. Yoshitake became one of Ogiue's paid assistants when Ogiue needed help getting her professional manga ready by the deadline.

Merei Yajima (矢島 美怜, Yajima Merei?)

Yajima is a first year female student who also decided to join Genshiken after seeing Ogiue's manga poster drawing demonstration. She too is a fujoshi, though not as blatant about it as Yoshitake. She is of stocky build and tends to wear men's clothing. She has a very hard time accepting Hato's cross-dressing even though she knows the whole story behind it and routinely tells him to stop it. Yajima is also one of Ogiue's paid assistants on Ogiue's professional manga, doing the erasing of pencil lines and general page cleanup.

Kenjiro Hato (波戸 賢二郎, Hato Kenjirou?)

Hato is a first year male student and the last to join during Ogiue's first membership drive. Although he is heterosexual, Hato shares the fujoshi love of yaoi and boy's love manga and doujinshi, making him a "fudanshi." Because of this, Hato decided to adopt a female persona, complete with a near perfect female voice, and only attends Genshiken meetings as a girl, though he attends classes as a guy. Even after the members of Genshiken learn his secret, Hato continues to cross-dress for the meetings, leading Genshiken to draft former member Madarame into letting Hato change at his apartment.

As a girl, Hato looks and sounds the part so well, guys on campus begin trying to learn more about this "mysterious beauty" who only shows up after classes are over for the day. Indeed, Yajima had a hard time believing someone that looked so beautiful as a girl could really be a guy, but she saw the evidence first hand when Yoshitake and Hato came to her apartment and the trio got drunk. Hato doesn't believe that people see him as very beautiful when he dresses as a girl. Like Sue, Yoshitake, and Yajima, Hato is also one of Ogiue's paid assistants for her professional manga. Being gifted at drawing, Hato helps with the background imagery.