Shuichi Nakatsu - Other Supporting Characters

Other Supporting Characters

Akiha Hara (原 秋葉, Hara Akiha?)

• Voiced by: Shigeru Nakahara (drama CD)

He is a photographer and Hokuto's junior back during his days at Osaka Gakuen. Akiha likes to be around Umeda, something even Umeda doesn't appreciate. He is bisexual, once claiming that he loves all beautiful people regardless of gender. He was married to Ebi, his model and eventual make up artist, but they divorced because he kept her at arms length, never letting her in and he had a "void" inside of him that, try as she might, she just couldn't fill.

Ebi says that this may have been because he was abandoned by his mother when he was little, giving him severe trust issues. However she does state that they still love each other and are like brother and sister. This is proved later when instead of jumping to her defense, as Mizuki wanted to, when she is verbally abused by a model for accidentally sending off the outfits for the next shoot, Akiha trusts her and lets her handle it herself. He later says he did that because sometimes it's better to respect people and believe in them rather than trying to solve their problems for them. He, like Mizuki loves sweet things, even eating nothing but sweet red beans for breakfast on one of his shoots.

His name is taken from Akihabara, one of the districts in Chiyoda, Tokyo.

Shin Sano (佐野 森, Sano Shin?)

Izumi Sano's younger brother and a high jumper. He and Izumi were close when they were young. As Sano never contacted Shin after leaving the family, Shin felt forgotten and began to resent Izumi. He also used to be a delinquent for a while because of his older brother's leaving but they got into friendly terms again. He is actually not a bad kid, and really admires his older brother. He does not like onions. It is also implied that he may have some sort of feelings for Mizuki, since at the end of Chapter 106, he said that he would be back "after I gain my confidence and able to beat Brother" to tell her. What that is remains unknown, but Izumi feels a chill after Shin has said that.

He is portrayed by Shunsuke Daito in the Japanese adaptation.

Makoto Kagurazaka (神楽坂 真言, Kagurazaka Makoto?)

He attends Tōkyō High School with Sano's younger brother, Shin. He is a high jumper and Sano's rival. He is always teasing Sano and Mizuki.

He is portrayed by Yu Shirota in the Japanese adaptation and Ethan Juan in the Taiwanese drama. In the 2011 version he is portrayed by Yuki Sato and by Kang Ha Neul in the Korean adaptation.

Julia Maxwell (ジュリア・マックスウェル, Jyuria Makkusuweru?)

Julia is Mizuki's best friend from America and came to Japan as an exchange student to study for a month. She finds out that Sano knows that Mizuki's a girl and tried to trick Mizuki's classmates into thinking that she and Mizuki are lovers to gauge Sano's feelings for Mizuki. Nakatsu, jealous that Julia is close to Mizuki, takes a strong dislike in her and vice versa, calling him 'Monkey Boy'.

She was portrayed by Minami Hinase in the Japanese drama adaptation and Nissa Marion in the Taiwanese drama adaptation.

Gilbert Lang (ギルバート・ラング, Girubāto Rangu?)

Mizuki's friend when she ran away from home and is also Mizuki's first love. Mizuki fainted from hunger so he took her home and gave her a place to stay. He was her first love and they almost kissed. As he was born with a hole in his lungs, he cannot do strenuous exercise or go to high altitudes. The operation to cure his birth defect was very risky and refused at the start but he did do the surgery after meeting Mizuki.

After the surgery, he climbs the mountains he loves and later appears in Berkeley while Mizuki is visiting her family. He shows that he might have feelings for Mizuki. He is modeled after Leonardo DiCaprio.