Koko ni Iru yo!/Characters

The characters of the manga series Koko ni Iru yo!:

Hikage Sumino
A girl with zero presence, Shrinking Violet Hikage seriously desires to make friends.


 * Blue Eyes
 * Character Development
 * Shrinking Violet -> Plucky Girl
 * Extreme Doormat
 * Friendless Background
 * Heroic Self-Deprecation
 * I Just Want to Have Friends

Hinata Mutou
One of the most popular guys in school who is the first to notice Hikage and reveals that he's been watching her all this time.


 * Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Black Rabbit's Betty,
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Dogged Nice Guy
 * Green-Eyed Monster: Gets jealous of Black Rabbit, Hikage's first friend,
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Teru.
 * Keet
 * Nice Guy
 * School Idol
 * Shrinking Violet: As a child.
 * School Idol
 * Shrinking Violet: As a child.

Teru Mikami
Hinata's best friend and an equally popular guy in school. Teru is more serious than Hinata, but he somewhat tries to help Hikage.


 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Hair Decorations: A male example. Teru wears two X-shaped clips on each side of his head.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Hair of Gold
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Hinata.
 * Jerkass Facade: The reason for his Kick the Dog moments towards Hikage were actually to protect her,
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Keet
 * Mysterious Protector: Is somewhat one to Hikage, but he wavers between protecting her and letting her fight her own battles.
 * Name's the Same: This Teru Mikami has nothing to do with Death Note.
 * School Idol
 * Troubled but Cute
 * Tsundere: Often goes back and forth between helping Hikage and acting like a jerk to her. He was also a bit of one towards Hinata when they were children, insulting him and then complimenting him afterwards.
 * The Unfavorite: Teru towards his parents during their divorce -- his mother even telling Teru that without him, their marriage would have been easier -- which led him to believe that their divorce was his fault.
 * Name's the Same: This Teru Mikami has nothing to do with Death Note.
 * School Idol
 * Troubled but Cute
 * Tsundere: Often goes back and forth between helping Hikage and acting like a jerk to her. He was also a bit of one towards Hinata when they were children, insulting him and then complimenting him afterwards.
 * The Unfavorite: Teru towards his parents during their divorce -- his mother even telling Teru that without him, their marriage would have been easier -- which led him to believe that their divorce was his fault.
 * The Unfavorite: Teru towards his parents during their divorce -- his mother even telling Teru that without him, their marriage would have been easier -- which led him to believe that their divorce was his fault.

Black Rabbit () and MegaPIG (Aoi Nanjō)
Hikage's two online friends who have always supported her.


 * Betty and Veronica: Black Rabbit is the Betty to Hinata's Veronica,
 * A Darker Me/GIFT: MegaPIG. He acts aggressive and rude online, but is really in real life.
 * Animal Motifs
 * Jerkass Facade: MegaPIG. See A Darker Me/GIFT.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Both of them.
 * Mysterious Protector
 * The Reveal:
 * The Shepherd
 * Tsundere: Both of them towards Hikage -- Black Rabbit by giving Hikage tough love advice which is ultimately for her benefit, and MegaPIG by his apparent rudeness and interpretative niceness.
 * Tsundere: Both of them towards Hikage -- Black Rabbit by giving Hikage tough love advice which is ultimately for her benefit, and MegaPIG by his apparent rudeness and interpretative niceness.
 * Tsundere: Both of them towards Hikage -- Black Rabbit by giving Hikage tough love advice which is ultimately for her benefit, and MegaPIG by his apparent rudeness and interpretative niceness.

Arisa Takani
A classmate of Hikage's that she befriends.


 * Genki Girl
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Hair of Gold
 * Pink Eyes

Aya
A girl who often bullies Hikage in an attempt to get her away from Hinata.


 * Alpha Bitch
 * Blondes Are Evil: Subverted.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl
 * Freudian Excuse:
 * Green-Eyed Monster
 * Hair of Gold
 * Kick the Dog: Is a constant offender to Hikage via Malicious Slander.
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * Relationship Sabotage
 * Woman Scorned
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * Relationship Sabotage
 * Woman Scorned