Shuichi Nakatsu - Students of The Second Dormitory

Students of The Second Dormitory

Classes that belong to this dormitory are 1-B, 2-C and 3-A.

Mizuki Ashiya (芦屋 瑞稀, Ashiya Mizuki?)

Voiced by: Hōko Kuwashima (drama CD)

Mizuki Ashiya is the female protagonist of the series. She admired Izumi Sano the moment she saw him high jump on TV. She disguises herself as a boy in order to enroll herself into Sano's school, Osaka Gakuen which allows her to get closer with Sano. She loves sweet food and she is a very fast runner, initially causing all the three dorms in Osaka High to desperately recruit her.

Mizuki falls in love with Sano, but is unable to tell him because she thinks that he doesn't know that she's a girl, though unbeknownst to her Sano knows her true gender and feels the same way about her. (It seems another reason she went there is because when she was going to watch him jump at that location, a gang of thugs tried to hurt her but sano saved her. But when he tried to climb over a wired fence, one of them cut him with a knife on his heel.) She wants to be a dog trainer and is very close to Sano's dog, Yūjirō. She has an older half-brother named, Shizuki Claude Ashiya (静稀・C・芦屋, Shizuki Kurōdo Ashiya?) who works as a doctor. He was portrayed by Yoshinori Okada in the Japanese drama adaptation, JJ Lin in the Taiwanese drama adaptation, and Julien Kang in the Korean adaptation.

She was portrayed by Maki Horikita in the Japanese drama adaptation and Ella Chen in the Taiwanese drama adaptation. In the 2011 version of the drama, she is portrayed by Maeda Atsuko. In the Korean drama adaptation, To The Beautiful You, Mizuki is portrayed by Sulli Choi.

Izumi Sano (佐野 泉, Sano Izumi?)

• Voiced by: Atsushi Kisaichi (drama CD)

Izumi Sano is the male protagonist of the series. He hates all sweet things and is an excellent high jumper. Before entering high school, he stopped jumping for personal reasons. He found out Mizuki's true gender due to her clumsiness in an accident early in the series. He didn't tell anyone else about Mizuki being a girl and becomes protective of her because of this.

Before Mizuki's arrival, Sano had been injured in an accident when he saved his team captain from being hit by a car, causing him to quit high jumping for a while because he thought that he couldn't handle the pressure. As the series goes on, Sano is aware of Mizuki's support for his jumping and starts to fall for her, but couldn't tell her because he feared that she would have to leave if she knew that he had found out her secret.

He was portrayed by Shun Oguri in the Japanese drama adaptation and Wu Zun in the Taiwanese drama adaptation. In the 2011 version of the drama, he is portrayed by Nakamura Aoi. In the Korean drama adaptation, To The Beautiful You, Sano is portrayed by Choi Minho.

Shuichi Nakatsu (中津 秀一, Nakatsu Shūichi?)

• Voiced by: Shōtarō Morikubo (drama CD)

Nakatsu is one of the students in living in the second dormitory. He likes Mizuki but he doesn't know that she is really a girl with some of his classmates believe that he is homosexual due to that. At times, he is very jealous of Sano because of how close he is to Mizuki. He entered the school with a soccer scholarship, and is very good at it.

Originally from Ōsaka, he has a thick Kansai accent and frequently uses the Kansai dialect. He has bleached blonde hair. His name is taken from Nakatsu Station, a railway station located in Kita-ku, Osaka.

He was portrayed by Toma Ikuta in the Japanese drama adaptation and Jiro Wang in the Taiwanese drama adaptation. In the 2011 version of the drama, he is portrayed by Miura Shohei. In the Korean drama adaptation, To The Beautiful You, Nakatsu is portrayed by Lee Hyun Woo.

Minami Nanba (難波 南, Nanba Minami?)

• Voiced by: Shinichirō Miki (drama CD)

The head of dormitory for the second dormitory. He is a nephew of Hokuto Umeda, the school's doctor. He is the one year older than Mizuki. He's a "ladies man" although very sensible. He was once in love with his tutor, Kanako Tanabe, but she left him. Umeda claims that this was what caused Nanba to become the "ladies man" he is today. In the last chapter, it is said that he became a model.

He's also a former winner of the Miss Osaka pageant during his first year at Osaka, a fact which he isn't terribly proud of. His name is taken from Namba Station, located in Minami, a region in Chuo-ku, Ōsaka.

He was portrayed by Hiro Mizushima in the Japanese drama adaptation and Danson Tang in the Taiwanese drama adaptation. In the 2011 version of the drama, Nanba is portrayed by Renn Kiriyama and Seo Jun Young in the Korean adaptation.

Taiki Kayashima (萱島 大樹, Kayashima Taiki?)

• Voiced by: Kentarō Itō (drama CD)

Kayashima is Nakatsu's roommate and has the ability to see ghosts and detect auras. When he first comes to Osaka High, he was teased by others due to his ability to see spirits and auras. However, Nakatsu sees him as a good friend. His dream is to meditate on Mount Fuji though he really plans on going to college to study folklore after he graduates from Osaka High. Kayashima was aware of Mizuki's true gender since first meeting her (apparently, girls have pink auras). He didn't say anything because he believed that she had a good reason for pretending to be a boy.

In volume 4, Nakajo noted that Kayashima took his name from the Kayashima Station, a railway station on the Keihan Main Line, located in Neyagawa-shi. He also claimed that many workers were injured during the construction of the station, as a large tree was considered to be cut down. The tree was later preserved, and the station was built around it. Incidentally, "Taiki" means "large tree".

He was portrayed by Yusuke Yamamoto in the Japanese drama adaptation, Hsie He-hsian in the Taiwanese drama adaptation and Infinite's L in the Korean adaptation. In the 2011 version of the drama, Kayashima is portrayed by Yanagishita Tomo

Shinji Noe (野江 伸二, Noe Shinji?)

• Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino (drama CD)

Noe is a part of Mizuki's group of friends and is often seen together with his bi-spectacled friend, Sekime. Unlike most of their friends, the duo are locals. He is the first of the group to get a girlfriend named Erika from St. Blossom.

He also has an extreme fear of ghost and scary creatures and gets scared when Kayashima talks about these things. In the special chapter, he's said to have found a job in an anime production company. Like Kayashima, Noe is a station on the Keihan Main Line.

He was portrayed by Shunji Igarashi in the Japanese drama adaptation and Chen Wen Xiang in the Taiwanese drama adaptation. In the 2011 version of the drama, Noe is portrayed by Suzuki Katsuhiro

Kyogo Sekime (関目 京悟, Sekime Kyōgo?)

Like Noe, he is also a part of Mizuki's group of friends and was often seen together with Shinji Noe. He is the captain of the track team and got married with his high school sweetheart, Rie. They had a child together. Sekime is also a name of a station on the Keihan Main Line.

He was portrayed by Masaki Okada in the Japanese drama adaptation and Xie Zheng Hao in the Taiwanese drama adaptation. In the 2011 version of the drama, Sekime is portrayed by Yamada Shintaro

Senri Nakao (中央 千里, Nakaō Senri?)

• Voiced by: Chiharu Tezuka (drama CD)

A first-year like Mizuki who harbours a serious crush on Nanba. Initially, he was secretive about being in love with Nanba, but eventually became less subtle. Towards the end of the series, he confesses his feelings to Nanba, but he was rejected. He would even attack the girls that tried to flirt with Nanba. Nakao was the school idol before Mizuki arrived and considers himself to be very beautiful. He hates mushrooms, although he ate them when Nanba asked him to. He's also the winner of the Miss Osaka pageant during his first year at Osaka Gakuen.

His name is taken from Senri-Chūō Station, a railway station of Kita-Osaka Kyūkō Line and Osaka Monorail, located in Toyonaka, Ōsaka.

He was portrayed by Ryō Kimura in the Japanese drama adaptation and Yang Hao Wei in the Taiwanese drama adaptation. In the 2011 version of the drama, Nakao is portrayed by Nishii Yukito and Hwang Kwang-hee in the Korean adaptation.