A married high school student who holds down several jobs to settle her husband's debts. Her name originates from "okusama-nami" (奥様な身, meaning "a married person").
It comes to light in episode 5 of Zan that her spouse is unfaithful, and she is conscious of his infidelity.
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A somewhat strange and exceedingly optimistic student who always sees everything in the single most positive light possible: the polar opposite of Nozomu, who sees only the dark side of things and is constantly in despair. She often has bizarre, childishl...
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Birthday: November 4The main character, a high school teacher and the youngest son of the Itoshiki family. He always wears a hakama and kimono abroad, preferring flippant casual western clothing in his hometown. When his name is written horizontally it re...
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Birthday: 11 October (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)Another friend of Kino and Haga who is nearly, but not quite, as negative as Nozomu. In the manga, Aoyama was also given the responsibility to become the substitute Mr. Despair which he keeps up for a couple chapte...
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The student counselor. If one supplies an alternate reading for the first kanji in her surname, her name is read "Niichie", a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche. She has an excellent figure and a large bust, which is admired by the local people during the s...
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A fan of yaoi and cat ears, and the classroom's resident illustrator. She has an innate coupling instinct, imagining slash pairings between all sorts of (male) characters, her favorite couple being Pine × Napple; she has also imagined pairings between Noz...
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Birthday: March 31 (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)A girl whose only trait is that she is completely ordinary (relative to her classmates); however, she takes offense at being called "normal," which she considers boring and undesirable. Her name derives from the Japa...
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A former male student of Class 2 - He transferred to another school. Apparently nobody remaining in the class knew who he was....
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Birthday: 11 October (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)The self-proclaimed "old friend" of Nozomu Itoshiki, who, like Nozomu, likes old things. It is later found out that they werent old friends but rather "one day friends" in elementary school. His name is a reference...
