List of Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend characters

The main characters of Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend as seen in the anime. Clockwise from top: Izumi Hashima, Michiru Hyodo, Eriri Spencer Sawamura, Tomoya Aki, Megumi Kato and Utaha Kasumigaoka.

The following is a list of characters from the light novel series Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend.

Blessing Software[]

The main characters are members of a dōjin group named Blessing Software. Their goal is to produce a visual novel whose main heroine is modeled on Megumi.

Tomoya Aki[]

Tomoya Aki (安芸 倫也, Aki Tomoya)

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka^[1]

Tomoya is the viewpoint character in the light novel. He is a student in class 2B of Toyogasaki Academy. As an otaku, he enjoys reading Manga and light novels, watching anime and playing galge. With his childhood friend Eriri and student novelist Utaha, he starts a visual novel project where he recruits Megumi Kato. He serves as the producer, director and programmer for Blessing Software, and manages Michiru's band "Icy Tail".

Megumi Kato[]

Megumi Kato (加藤 恵, Katō Megumi)

Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno^[1]

Megumi is Tomoya's classmate and the title character who, despite being good-looking, is otherwise so ordinary that she does not stand out in class at all. She knows little about otaku culture, but never keeps Tomoya at arm's length. Her attitude toward Tomoya is often described as an ordinary person, but is very close to him.^[1] She is the inspiration and working model for Meguri, one of the main heroines of Blessing Software's game. Later on, she also begins learning and helping out with programming. She later grows her hair long, but cuts it back to a short hairstyle by the end of the series.

Eriri Spencer Sawamura[]

Eriri Spencer Sawamura (澤村・スペンサー・英梨々, Sawamura Supensā Eriri)

Voiced by: Saori Ōnishi^[1]

Tomoya's childhood best friend is a student in class 2G and the most promising painter on the art club.^{LN 1} Born to a British father and a Japanese mother, she has blond hair styled in twin tails. She is very popular at school, acting as a refined lady,^{LN 1} but harbors a secret otaku lifestyle of playing video games shared with Tomoya and making adult-themed manga under the pseudonym Eri Kashiwagi (柏木 エリ, Kashiwagi Eri) in a group called "Egoistic-Lily".^[1] Tomoya recruits her to be the illustrator for the Blessing Software game. Tomoya describes her as an astounding beauty, but upon peeling off her surface personality, she has a cruel, sadistic, passionate, and animalistic nature. She has had a crush on Tomoya since childhood.^{LN 1}

Utaha Kasumigaoka[]

Utaha Kasumigaoka (霞ヶ丘 詩羽, Kasumigaoka Utaha)

Voiced by: Ai Kayano^[1]

Utaha is a student in class 3C, and an up-and-coming young novelist under the pseudonym of Utako Kasumi (霞 詩子, Kasumi Utako).^{LN 1} Her first light novel, Koisuru Metronome, was published under the Fushikawa Fantastic Bunko imprint and had sold over 500,000 copies. She has both intelligence and beauty, and is the brightest student in the school. Most of the students hold her in awe.^{LN 1} Tomoya describes her as having long black-hair with an expressionless and quiet nature that gives her the appearance of a beauty, but harbors a sharp and critical tongue.^{LN 1[1]} She calls Tomoya Rinri-kun (倫理君), translated into English as "Mr. Ethical", after he flatly rejected her suggestion that he read the last volume of Koisuru Metronome before it is published. She develops feelings for Tomoya as the series progresses. She is in charge of writing the scenario for the game by Blessing Software. She shared with Tomoya her first kiss and she said she only wants to live with Tomoya in the future and give her life to him.

Izumi Hashima[]

Izumi Hashima (波島 出海, Hashima Izumi)

Voiced by: Chinatsu Akasaki^[1]

Izumi is a student in class 3A of Honoda Junior High, and is two years younger than Tomoya.^[2] She is an otaku and the member of the dōjin circle "Fancy Wave" (ファンシーウェーブ, Fanshī Wēbu).^[1] It was through Tomoya's influence that she became interested in otaku culture. She is deeply grateful to Tomoya for this. She has loved Little Love Rhapsody (リトルラブ・ラプソディ, Ritoru Rabu Rapusodī), an otome video game series^[1] released by Sonar (a parody of Sony) since Tomoya bought her Little Love Rhapsody 2 and a PlayStation Portable console on her birthday. There is a rivalry between Eriri and Izumi, which led Izumi to decide to compete with Eriri in the next Winter Comiket. Izumi made up her mind to be the illustrator for her brother Iori's dōjin circle "Rouge en rouge".

Michiru Hyodo[]

Michiru Hyodo (氷堂 美智留, Hyōdō Michiru)

Voiced by: Sayuri Yahagi^[1]

Michiru is Tomoya's cousin. She is a student in class 3, in the second year of Tsubaki Girls' Senior High School.^[2] She is a very versatile girl, except for her poor performance in school. She is good at almost everything and doesn't stick to anything for long, but she has been absorbed in singing her favorite songs and playing the guitar in the band "Icy Tail"^[1] (an unintentional pun on the word "Aishiteru" (愛してる/I love you)) for the past year. Michiru had a prejudice against otaku culture and wasn't happy about Tomoya being an otaku until her bandmates revealed that they were all otaku. Michiru composes the music for the Blessing Software game.

Secondary groups[]

Rouge en rogue[]

Rouge en rogue

A well-known dōjin circle that plans to release the game Towa to Setsuna no Évangile (永遠と刹那のエヴァンジル, Towa to Setsuna no Ebanjiru, lit. The Gospel of Eternity and Transience) with illustrations by Izumi at the next Winter Comiket. Its members include Iori Hashima (波島 伊織, Hashima Iori) (Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara), Izumi's older brother and the circle's representative, and Akane Kosaka (紅坂 朱音, Kōsaka Akane) (Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame), the manga artist and founder of the group.

Fushikawa Shoten[]

Fushikawa Shoten (不死川書店)

A publishing company which has its own light novel publishing imprint Fushikawa Fantastic Bunko (不死川ファンタスティック文庫). Sonoko Machida (町田 苑子, Machida Sonoko) (Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima), one of the editors there, is Utaha's editor.

Icy Tail[]

Icy Tail (アイシー・テール, Aishī Tēru)

An all-female band consisting of mostly otaku enthusiasts. Its members include Michiru Hyodo on guitar; Tokino Himekawa (姫川 時乃, Himekawa Tokino), a petite girl who also plays guitar (voiced by Eri Suzuki), Echika Mizuhara (水原 叡智佳, Mizuhara Echika) on bass (voiced by Rui Tanabe), and Ranko Morioka (森丘 藍子, Morioka Ranko) on drums (voiced by Yo Taichi). The band's name is a pun on the Japanese word aishiteru (愛してる).

Cherry Blessing[]

Cherry Blessing (cherry blessing 〜巡る恵みの物語〜, Cherī Buresshingu - Meguru Megumi no Monogatari, lit. Cherry Blessing: The Reincarnation Story of a Blessing) is the name of the visual novel that the Blessing Software group develops.

Seiji Azumi[]

Seiji Azumi (安曇 誠司, Azumi Seiji)

Seiji is the main protagonist. He is a reincarnation of Soma and has vague memories of his ancestors. He is modeled on Tomoya.

Soma Hinoe[]

Soma Hinoe (丙 双真, Hinoe Sōma)

Soma is Seiji's great-grandfather. He inherited the supernatural ability to remember what his ancestors experienced, and so he has vivid memories of distant ancestors of his.

Meguri Kano[]

Meguri Kano (叶 巡璃, Kanō Meguri)

Meguri is one of the two main heroines. She is Seiji's classmate. She is a reincarnation of Ruri and has vague memories of her ancestors. She is modeled on Megumi.

Ruri Hinoe[]

Ruri Hinoe (丙 瑠璃, Hinoe Ruri)

Ruri is one of the two main heroines. She is Meguri's great-grandmother. She is Soma's sister and his fiancée. She loves him deeply. She inherited the supernatural ability to remember what her ancestors experienced, and so she has vivid memories of distant ancestors of hers. Her personality is modeled on Utaha.

Kirari Spider Kawamura (河村・スパイダー・きらり, Kawamura Supaidā Kirari)

Kirari is one of the heroines. She is Seiji's childhood friend. She is modeled on Eriri.

Kaho Hibarigaoka[]

Kaho Hibarigaoka (雲雀ヶ丘 歌穂, Hibarigaoka Kaho)

Kaho is one of the heroines. She calls Seiji Seijitsu-kun^{[note 1]} (誠実君). She is modeled on Utaha.

Miharu Endo[]

Miharu Endo (炎藤 美晴留, Endō Miharu)

Miharu is one of the heroines. She is Seiji's cousin. She is modeled on Michiru.

Other characters[]

Keiichi Kato[]

Keiichi Kato (加藤 圭一, Katō Keiichi)

Voiced by Sōma Saitō

Keiichi is Megumi's cousin. He is a student at Johoku Medical School. Keiichi has short, spiky and quite straight brown hair that reaches to his ears and blue-sea eyes. Keiichi is first seen along with Megumi going to a café where Tomoya works, but Tomoya mistook Keiichi for Megumi's boyfriend. However, Megumi quickly cleared the misunderstanding afterwards.

Sayuri Sawamura[]

Sayuri Sawamura (澤村 小百合, Sawamura Sayuri)

Voiced by Mai Nakahara

Sayuri is Eriri's mother. Sayuri is a very beautiful woman with long, flowing dark purple hair that is tied into two twintails laced with two ribbons on each side (just like her daughter) and brown eyes. Tomoya described Sayuri to be so similar to Eriri that they could be mistaken for twins. Sayuri is a kind, soft spoken and generous young woman. However, it is revealed that she is a fujoshi.

Yoshihiko Kamigo[]

Yoshihiko Kamigo (上郷 喜彦, Kamigō Yoshihiko)^{[note 2]}

Voiced by Yuuma Uchida

Yoshihiko is a friend of Tomoya's.

Japanese terminology and notes[]

Works cited[]

• ^ "LN" is shortened form for light novel and refers to a volume number of the Saekano light novels.
• ^ "Ch." and "Vol." is shortened form for chapter and refers to a chapter number of the Saekano manga.

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