Genshiken

Hato Kenjirou

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Hato is a first year male student and the last to join during Ogiues first membership drive. Although his sexuality is unknown, Hato shares the fujoshi love of yaoi and boys love manga and doujinshi, making him a "fudanshi." Because of this, Hato decided ...

Kasukabe Saki

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Blood Type: ABBirthday: July 19, 1983Age: 18-22Favorite Manga: "Lets Go" Rai Junior High, Royalty in MotionFavorite Anime: NoneFavorite Game: The Game of LifeZodiac Sign: CancerShe is Kousakas girlfriend. Fashionable, violent, confident, occasional smoker...

Kousaka Makoto

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Blood Type: BBirthday: February 2, 1984Age: 18-22Favorite Manga: The Mysterious Adventures of DaDaFavorite Anime: pretty much anythingFavorite Game: Full Armor, Street Master 2, Draculina HunterPen Name: Toshizo (トシゾー, Toshizō?)Zodiac Sign: AquariusRingto...

Madarame Harunobu

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Age: 19-23Birthday: October 25, 1982Zodiac sign: ScorpioBlood type: OThe second president of Genshiken, Madarame is personally chosen by the first Genshiken president to be his successor, though Madarame shows the most leadership and initiative even befor...

Ogiue Chika

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Ogiue is a blunt, self-hating fujoshi and amateur artist whose inner turmoil is the focus of much of the second half of Genshiken. Ogiue hails from the Tohoku region of Japan in the northeast, and as such frequently tries to hide her accent while she att...

Oono Kanako

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Birthday: July 14Zodiac sign: CancerBlood type: OFavorite manga: Chinmoku no KantaiFavorite anime: Gundam with older men in itFavorite video game: Samurai SpiritsRingtone: Gundam Risenshi, Gairs themeKanako is the fourth president of Genshiken. Raised in ...

Sasahara Kanji

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Birthday: January 13Zodiac sign: CapricornBlood type: BPen name: Benjamin TakeyoFavorite manga: Hunter x Hunter, BerserkFavorite anime: Patlabor the MovieFavorite video game: Dragon Quest III, The King of Fighters '95Ringtone: Yen Town Band's "Ai no Uta"T...

Yajima Mirei

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Yajima is a first-year female student who also decided to join Genshiken after seeing Ogiues manga poster drawing demonstration. She too is a fujoshi, though not as blatant about it as Yoshitake. She is of stocky build and tends to wear mens clothing. She...

Yoshitake Rika

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Yoshitake is a first year female student who decided to join Genshiken after seeing Ogiue's poster drawing demonstration and sensing the fujioshi aspects of it and recognizing Ogiue as a fujoshi. She is slender, wears glasses, is bright and cheerful, but ...

Asada Naoko

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Yabusaki's friend and fellow member of the Manga Society who speaks in a highly irregular manner. ...

Burton Angela

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Another of Ohno's American friends, Angela is very much the opposite of Sue in that she is tall, mature, and very friendly. Angela is a very athletic girl and is able to endure posing for cosplay pictures longer than even an experienced cosplayer like Ohn...

Fuji

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Fuji is a giant, considered a freak by everyone around him. One day he was attacked and almost killed but the old man Saizuchi found him and took him in. The gentle, depressed Fuji was in an ideal state for Saizuchi to manipulate his emotions and turn him...

Fukuda

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One of Yoshitakes friends from her high school History Club. Quiet and deadpan, she is the tsukkomi in a boke-tsukkomi dynamic with Sawatari....

Haraguchi

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A "phantom member" of the Genshiken, Haraguchi rarely shows up at the club room, and when he does, it is almost always bad news. He is a member of the Manga Society and Anime Society as well, but has paid his club dues for none of them. Called "Haraguro" ...

Hopkins Susanna

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One of Oonos American friends, Susanna (more frequently known as Susie or Sue), is a petite girl with an avid interest in yaoi. Susanna comes off as somewhat harsh and unsociable, and startles the other Genshiken members by using crude anime and manga quo...

Kaminaga

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Very beautiful and talented, she is admired by Hato for her artistic ability. Hato is easily confused for her, as he wears a wig extremely similar to her hair.She began an affair with the older brother of Hato and will marry him soon....

Kato

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Kato is a mysterious girl in the manga society, who always wears her hair over her face. At some point, she takes an interest in becoming friends with Ogiue, and sets out to do just that in spite of her fellow members' dislike of the girl. In reality, she...

Kimura

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The only male teacher seen regularly in the series, Kimuras open-mouthed expression (as well as his ability to simply appear out of nowhere) tends to creep out most of the female students. While he has shown tendencies to be responsible and kind-hearted (...

Kitagawa Yurie

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Vice President of the school council....

Konno

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She testified Hato seeing the illustrations drawn by Kaminaga and learned that he liked to Boys Love. Hato says he saw the design in the bathroom and there is a misunderstanding. With that, a rumor that he was gay Hato was spread throughout the school.Dur...

Kuchiki Manabu

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Introduced in volume two of the manga, Kuchiki becomes a full-member of Genshiken together with Ogiue in volume four apparently after being kicked out of the Anime Club. Kuchiki is a very abrasive individual, with a loud and obnoxious style of speech and ...

Kugayama Mitsunori

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Blood Type: ABirthday: June 29, 1982Age: 19-23Favorite Manga: Anman DamaFavorite Anime: Fun with the Tarurun Family (before the theme song changed)Favorite Game: ExitgePen Name: KODAMAZodiac Sign: CancerRingtone: Laputa: Castle in the Sky themeThe stutter...

Makita

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The Boyfriend Ougie in high school. When the two began dating be fine, Ougie was deceived by Nakajima to make a book about it yaoi, which made ​​Makita missing classes and go to another school. This event had great influence in the life of Ogiue, creating...

Nakajima Yuuko

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One of Ogiue's friends from her junior high school days, Nakajima worked on writing scripts for yaoi dōjinshi which Ogiue would then draw. When she notices the relationship between Ogiue and Makita, she appears to grow jealous of the two, orchestrating th...

Sasahara Keiko

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Keiko is Kanji's little sister, who leads a kogal lifestyle. She carries a blatant crush on Kousaka, much to Saki's chagrin. She even tries to become an otaku and gets drawn into the otaku world (to a point) when she seems to like some of the dōjinshi Ohn...

Sawatari

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One of Yoshitakes friends from her high school History Club. Outgoing and provocative, she is the boke in a boke-tsukkomi dynamic with Fukuda....

Sawazaki

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Student who temporarily united with the current vision Ken Kuchiki, the machinations of Saki, also challenged in Takasaka fighting game, which gave to becoming a member in torn pieces....

Shigeta Mina

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Another of Ogiue's friends from junior high school, Shigeta (distinguished by her blushing cheeks) was one of the group with whom Ogiue made dōjinshi. While perhaps not directly responsible for the incident involving Ogiue and Makita, she still associates...

Shodai Kaichou

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This character is the first club president, whose name is never revealed. He is eerily quiet and very stealthy, moving from place to place like smoke without anyone noticing (scaring Saki in particular), although he seems largely harmless on the surface. ...

Takayanagi

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A member of the Manga Society, Takayanagi is on friendly terms with the Genshiken members and is seen conversing with them from time to time on various matters. In one notable instance, he finds himself in the unenviable position in the middle of the batt...

Tanaka Souichiro

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Birthday: December 22Blood type: ABFavorite Manga: The Seven Star StoriesFavorite Anime: Ryunos: the castle in the Sky, Conan the boy from the FutureFavorite Games: Yuujiro Tactic, The Story of Mr.StupidGame Character: Dr.HaywoodRingtone: FFX - HurryOf th...

Yabusaki Kumiko

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One of the girls in the Manga Society at the time Ogiue attempted to join, she seems to harbor strong feelings of resentment towards Ogiue. Criticizing Ogiue for slipping into her Tohoku dialect when she doesn't speak formally, Yabusaki herself speaks in ...

Yoshitake Risa

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The sister two years younger than Rika. She is very tall and is often mistaken for a man. Risa has problems with her ​​height because she is often invited to play basketball, despite not knowing. She is a shotacon....