Together, they form the Special A class, consisting of the seven top-ranked students of their school, along with their childhood friends Akira Toudou, Tadashi Karino, Megumi and Jun Yamamoto, and Ryuu Tsuji.
Stubborn, proud, hard headed, kind, and good-spirited, Hikari never backs down from a challenge, especially one from Kei, and cannot turn away from someone who asks for her help.
Her optimistic personality, straightforwardness, and tendency to always see the good in people prevents her from realizing how harsh and cold the real world can be sometimes.
Voiced by: Tsubasa Yonaga (Japanese); Kirby Brister (English) Jun is ranked 3rd in school and is Megumi's younger twin brother.
Voiced by: Ayahi Takagaki (Japanese); Brittney Karbowski (English) Megumi is ranked 4th in school and is Jun's older twin sister.
Tadashi is smarter than he looks and acts, though is usually the character who is most often comically attacked (frequently by Akira and Kei) because of his careless comments or reckless behavior.
Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame (Japanese); Luci Christian (English) Akira holds the 6th position in school and is the daughter of the owner of an airline company.
Voiced by: Kazuma Horie (Japanese); Chris Patton (English) Ryuu holds the 7th position in school, although his test scores are a poor reflection of his intellectual prowess.
He is in 7th place mainly because of the twins - Megumi tends to fall asleep and Jun becomes bored during the test, which results in Ryuu focusing the majority of his attention on them instead of his own exam.
Ryuu falls in love with a girl named Finn whom hails from a small country and has to hide her gender in order to become ruler one day.
After spending some time with her, it becomes evident that he is falling for her and the two start dating Voiced by: Kisho Taniyama (Japanese); Clint Bickham (English) A carefree young man with a sinister side, Yahiro has known both Kei and Akira since they were children.
Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani (Japanese); Hilary Haag (English) Sakura is the daughter of the head of Ushikubo Medical Manufacturing Group and is Kei's first marriage meeting (or omiai) partner to appear in the series.
Upon meeting Jun, Sakura falls in love with him at first sight, as he fits her ideal of someone who was a "prince", and accepts his split personality.
She initially appears as a reluctant participant in a series of arranged marriage meetings Kei's grandfather sets up for Hikari.
Because Sui feels very inferior to his brother, who is good at everything, he believes that he cannot reach Kei's level and he refuses to take his studies seriously.
Voiced by: Megumi Ogata (Japanese); Clint Bickham (English) Kei and Sui's dad, age 36, who always looks young and baby-faced.
Though he is the CEO of the Takishima company, he likes to escape from work and lets Kei handle his job, usually because people at business meetings tend not to take him seriously as a result of his young appearance.
She and Kei's father met when they were in college; Satoru's attempts to be "cool" failed to impress her but when she saw his true self, she immediately decided she wanted to marry him.
The deceased grandmother of Kei and Sui, and Midori's mother, Izumi appears to have been a gentle and understanding woman well loved by her family.
Voiced by: Atsushi Imaruoka (Japanese); Jason Grundy (English) Hikari's father is a carpenter and lives in the old shopping district of Tokyo.
Alisa, curious to see what the girl Kei loves is like, meets with Hikari in Japan and began to give her lessons on to be a good girlfriend.
He dreams of becoming a beautician, so he works part-time in order to earn money, even if it is against school rules to do so, and lives in one room apartment by himself.
Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese); Shelley Calene-Black (English) Tadashi's mother, age undisclosed, is the director of Private Hakusen Academy.
Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (Japanese); Brittney Karbowski (English) Chitose is the younger brother of Yahiro and is about nine years old.
He initially appears in chaper 13 of the manga, when the S.A go to Hawaii for summer vacation and Ryuu (and by extension, the rest of the SA) is forced to entertain Chitose because he is the son of a client for his family.
Though Yui had done so reluctantly because her family had financial issues that were forcing them to move, she agrees to Yahiro's demand, but she feels that she needs to say goodbye to Akira and almost gets hit by a car in the process.
Voiced by: Yoshinori Fujita (Japanese); Clint Bickham (English) First appearing in chapter five, Hajime Kakei is the Student President at Hakusenkan and holds first place in the class 2-A.
As such, he is aware of details of concerning the Takishima family that others are not, from what kind of food Kei likes to the complete circumstances regarding Izumi's final wishes.
The mother of Megumi and Jun, age 40, Rin is well known as a genius vocalist who frequently travels the world to perform concerts, having just returned from Germany to Japan.
An apparently kindhearted young woman, she loves her younger brother greatly to the extent that she has a room filled with photos of him and regularly writes about his daily activities in her diary.