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Nanadaba Naota-Naota is a sixth grader attending Mabase Elementary School. He tries to act like an adult, and is resentful towards adults who do not act their age (which is just about every adult he knows). He hangs out with his friends from school, Ninamori Eri, Masashi, and Gaku, or with his brother’s former “girlfriend”, Samejimi Mamimi. Naota, whose name means “Honesty”, attempts to act older than he really is. This would not normally be a problem, except his attitude prevents him from growing up, that is going through adolecence. The process is important, without going through this process Naota becomes overly concerned with how people percieve him. He tries to act the role of a mature, “cool”, adult, all the while denying who he really is. When Haruko arrives, she inevertably forces Naota to enter this stage of growing up. Though reluctant, by the end of the anime he does finally accept this aspect of himself.

Samejimi Mamimi: Seiyuu: Kasagi Izumi Mamimi is the other leading female character in the anime. She is in high school, though you would not know it due to her frequent truancies, but does not have many friends. Actually, besides Naota, who she calls “Ta-Kun”, and the various pets she finds, also named “Ta-Kun”, she has no friends. She apparently used to date Naota’s older brother, though it is my opinion that she was never really dating him, rather she merely hung around Tasuku, who is perhaps the only boy her age who showed any amount of interest (he did save her from the burning elementary school) in her. Tasuku probably did not consider Mamimi his girlfriend, as evident in his lack of writing to Mamimi while in America, as well as getting a new American girlfriend. Mamimi calls just about everyone she is “friends” with in the anime, with the exception of Canti, “Ta-Kun”. At first you are to think that Naota’s nickname of “Ta-Kun” is a shortened version of his name, cutting off the “Nao” part. However, as the anime progresses, we see Mamimi calling everything that she loves/likes/cares for “Ta-Kun”. The cat, the terminal core dog thing, and Naota. Rather than being short for “Naota”, “Ta-Kun” probably refers to Naota’s brother, Tasuku. The cat, the terminal core, and Naota are all replacements for Tasuku, the boy Mamimi really cares about but cannot have.

Haruhara Haruko: Seiyuu: Shintani Mayumi The leading female character in the anime, Haruko appears in the quiet town of Mabase and starts a chain of events which changes everything around Naota. A self-proclaimed alien, and nineteen year-old housemaid for the Nandaba family, Haruko’s true purpose, however, is something far greater. She has invested a great deal of interest in the contents springing from Naota’s head...most of which she tries to destroy with her bass guitar. Haruko arrived on Earth with the intention of opening a N-O Channel through Naota. Through this N-O Channel, Atomsk, who was imprisoned by Medical Mechanica, was supposed to emerge. However, instead two robots appeared instead. Distraught, Haruko stayed with the Nandaba and awaited further orders. Despite seeming to work for a larger organization, Haruko actually has her own plans. She plans on freeing Atomsk, and then merging with him to gain his powers. She ultimately fails, and is forced to chase after Atomsk to some other planet