Kodomo no Omocha

Characters
  • Akito Hayama (羽山 秋人)

    Hayama Akito

    Main

    Age: 11 (at the beginning of the series)Birthday: October 12Blood type: B Likes: SushiFear: acrophobia (fear of heights)Akito is characterized as a lone-wolf because he is quiet, reserved, and likes to keep himself at a distance from everyone. He carries ...

  • Sana Kurata (倉田紗南)

    Kurata Sana

    Main

    Age: 11 (at the beginning of the series)Birthday: March 7Blood type: OSana Kurata is an 11-year-old child actress in the 6th grade that is the main star of the hit TV show "Childs Toy." Sana is a natural born leader who is very curious, stubborn, and love...

  • Misako Kurata

    Kurata Misako

    Main

    Misako is Sana's mother. She is an award-winning author and a single mom. The peculiar thing about Misako is that she wears elaborate hats tailored as playgrounds for her pet chipmunk, Maro, to live in. These hats incorporate everything from a moving Ferr...

  • Fuuka Matsui (松井風花)

    Matsui Fuuka

    Main

    Fuuka moves back to Tokyo from Osaka when Sana and Hayama start junior high school. When she and Sana meet (in the school bathroom, of course), they realize they're very similar in both looks and personality.Fuuka is very honest and possesses a strong wil...

  • Tsuyoshi Ohki (大木剛)

    Ohki Tsuyoshi

    Main

    Tsuyoshi is Akito's best friend. The two are an odd combination because Tsuyoshi is very cheerful, honest and nice, which is exactly the opposite of how everyone perceives Akito, and Tsuyoshi hardly ever participates in the antics of Akito's henchmen. How...

  • Sumirei Ando

    Ando Sumirei

    Supporting

    She wears contemporary horn-rimmed glasses, and a considerable amount of makeup. She is considered the school's bossiest teacher and frequently gets angry at the children. When she gets mad (like if some one calls her old) her makeup cracks off her face p...

  • Shinichi Gomi

    Gomi Shinichi

    Supporting

    A boy in Sana's 6th grade class. He had long hair, but his father makes him shave it all off when he starts middle school. When Akito decides not to terrorize the teachers anymore, Gomi decides he will be the leader, but gets beat down by Akito (with Sana...

  • Fuyuki Hayama

    Hayama Fuyuki

    Supporting

    Akito's father is a business executive who works long hours and is seldom home. Although it seems in the beginning that he is a bad father, Mr. Hayama turns out to be a good father who was simply unaware of the bad relationship between his children becaus...

  • Natsumi Hayama (羽山夏美)

    Hayama Natsumi

    Supporting

    Natsumi is Akito's older sister. In the first few episodes she is very mean to her younger brother and blames him for the death of their mother. Later a movie is released with a story quite similar to the Hayama household which is a wake-up call for Natsu...

  • Koharu Hayama

    Hayama Koharu

    Supporting

    Akito's mother. Koharu died giving birth to Akito, an event which had a serious negative effect on the relationship between Akito, Natsumi, and Fuyuki. Although she has been dead for more than 10 years by the beginning of the series: she "appears" sporadi...

  • Hisae Kamayai

    Kamayai Hisae

    Supporting

    Hisae is one of Sana and Aya's school friends who stays throughout the series. When Sana forgets to attend her birthday party, she becomes very angry and tries to ostracize Sana, but forgives her later. She is linked with Gomi because they fight a lot but...

  • Naozumi Kamura (加村 直澄)

    Kamura Naozumi

    Supporting

    Naozumi is a child actor, just like Sana-chan and he even has the same past as her! Naozumi has been stalking Sana since she was 5 years old and has huge photo albums of everything about herfrom newspaper and magazine clippings and pictures to inte...

  • Asako Kurumi

    Kurumi Asako

    Supporting

    Asako is a popular actress. She was also Rei's girlfriend who dumped him to concentrate on her acting career, which partly triggered his downward spiral to homeless bum. She did not know that Rei would end up homeless. When she finds Rei again, she wants ...

  • Mr. Onda

    Mr. Onda

    Supporting

    Misako's editor, she drives him crazy by not handing her books by their deadlines.(Source: Wikipedia)...

  • Naru Naru (なるなる校長)

    Naru Naru

    Supporting

    The principal of Jinbo Elementary School. Narunaru is popular, easy-going, and always says "Everything will be all right." The only time he's ever gotten mad is when he learned that Akito once made Miss Mitsuya cry. It was Principal Narunaru who suggests ...

  • Aono Ohki

    Ohki Aono

    Supporting

    Tsuyoshi's adorable little sister. She is a fan of Sana. Aono carries around a store-bought egg in the hope that one day it will hatch into a chicken.One day, Sana buys a chick, and swaps it with Aono's egg when she isn't looking. Akito calls Sana an idio...

  • Rei Sagami

    Sagami Rei

    Supporting

    Rei is Sana's manager.After being dumped by his girlfriend, dropping out of college, and his parents' death, he hits bottom and becomes a homeless person. While begging on the streets, Sana finds him and brings him home much like she does with stray dogs ...

  • Keiko Sakai

    Sakai Keiko

    Supporting

    A very shy and insecure young woman.She gave birth to Sana when she was only 14. In the manga it is revealed that her uncle made her pregnant, and she gave birth in a bathtub. Keiko says that she was very much in love with Sana's birth father, but that he...

  • Mariko Sakai

    Sakai Mariko

    Supporting

    Sana's little sister, who is Keiko's daughter. She appears in a total of four pages, but also on the cover of the final book. She is a fan of Sana, not knowing that Sana is her older sister. After meeting Keiko, Sana spends one day having fun at a theme p...

  • Mami Suzuki

    Suzuki Mami

    Supporting

    Mami is one of Sana's friends. She is a quiet girl, with short black hair kept back by a hairband. During Akito's troublemaker days, she calls Akito a "monster," "demon," or "devil" (depends on the language), which is a particularly hurtful word for Akito...

  • Yuta Takaishi

    Takaishi Yuta

    Supporting

    The boy that Fuka loved in Osaka. However, when he heard that Fuka had already had her first kiss from Akito (during kindergarten), he thought that it meant Fuka already had a boyfriend, so he began avoiding her. However, Fuka took this to mean that Takai...

  • Mayu Tobita (飛田 まゆ)

    Tobita Mayu

    Supporting

    A young singer, about the same age as Sana herself. She appears only briefly in both the manga and the anime, but is often considered an important character regardless (she even appears in the intro of the second series of the anime, despite not even bein...