List of Da Capo series characters

This is a list of characters from the visual novels "Da Capo" , "Da Capo II" and "Da Capo: Girls Symphony", fandiscs produced based on these games, and adaptations which include anime, manga, novels, and drama CDs.

Da Capo

Da Capo

; (PC), Yui Horie (anime/P.S.):Kotori is the school's idol. Through the power of the magical sakura tree, she can hear other people's thoughts, but she carefully hides this ability. She became close to Jun'ichi because he was the only one in the male student body that did not try to idolize her. In the anime's first season, she is Sakura's classmate. She is also the younger sister of Koyomi Shirakawa, Jun'ichi's homeroom teacher. In the game it was mentioned that she was adopted into the Shirakawa family, and is the cousin of Sayaka Shirakawa from Suika. She is usually the cutest of them all because of all the detail the artists use.

;Nihongo|Moe Mizukoshi|水越 萌|Mizukoshi Moe:anime voices|Himawari Natsuno (PC), Yui Itsuki (anime/P.S.):Moe is a gentle girl who is often seen throughout the series sitting on the roof at lunchtime cooking and eating Japanese steamboat dishes with her younger sister Mako and is very knowledgeable about them. She is very polite but can be dim-witted at times, and can fall asleep anywhere at any time, even when she's walking. In the game this was explained to be due to her constantly takes sleeping pills so that she can keep dreaming to meet a boy she liked but died in a traffic accident long ago through the powers of the magical sakura tree. She is often seen carrying a small xylophone.

;Nihongo|Mako Mizukoshi|水越 眞子|Mizukoshi Mako:anime voices|Minami Nagasaki (PC), Yuki Matsuoka (anime/P.S.):Mako is a close friend of Nemu and is often concerned about her. She can be angered easily. She is often found quarreling with Suginami as he teases her. During lunch, she can often be found on the rooftop with her sister Moe enjoying nabemono. She plays the soprano flute for the music club. She and her sister Moe are daughters of the hospital director, and they have a younger brother.

;Nihongo|Miharu Amakase|天枷 美春|Amakase Miharu:anime voices|Hiyori Haruno (PC/W.S.), Rumiko Sasa (after D.C.P.C.), Akemi Kanda (anime/P.S.):Miharu is a childhood friend of Nemu and Jun'ichi after Sakura left, being one year younger than them. She loves bananas, especially eating them. She adores Nemu, and behaves much like a little puppy around her — in fact, her nickname is Nihongo|Puppy|わんこ|Wanko. In the original game, an android patterned after her was put in place after an accident rendered her unconscious. Having no experience of the real world beyond certain memories copied from the real Miharu, Jun'ichi was tasked by Koyomi to look after her. Like the real Miharu her enthusiasm often overrules her common sense, and Jun'ichi often has to get her out of sight when her circuits start to overload. At the end of the game and the first season her life expectancy runs out and stops functioning, spending her last moments with Jun'ichi.

;Nihongo|Misaki/Yoriko Sagisawa|鷺澤 美咲/頼子|Sagisawa Misaki/Yoriko:anime voices|Junko Kusayanagi (PC), Miyu Matsuki (anime/P.S.):Misaki is a young girl who stays at home, looking out at the world through her room window, and Yoriko is her cat. In the game, the magical sakura tree granted her wish, and she possessed Yoriko's body, which transformed into a copy of her original body, but with cat ears. In the anime, Yoriko jumps out of Misaki's window to see the world in her place, and was transformed into a maid resembling Misaki with cat ears. Yoriko has a fear of people after an incident with some children, and her events detail her settling in as a maid as well as slowly venturing into the outside world.

;Nihongo|Suginami|杉並|:anime voices|Shin Azuma (PC), Daisuke Kishio (anime/P.S.): Suginami is Jun'ichi and Nemu's classmate and the school troublemaker. Although he is an excellent athlete, a top student, and good-looking, his eccentric personality causes most people to keep their distance from him. He enjoys teasing Mako and dragging Jun'ichi into various situations.

;Nihongo|Kanako Saeki|佐伯加 奈子|Saeki Kanako and Nihongo|Tomoko Morikawa|森川 智子|Morikawa Tomoko:anime voices|Minami Hokuto (PC), Ryoko Shiraishi (anime/P.S.) (Kanako):anime voices|Rino Suzuki (PC), Kanako Hattori (anime/P.S.) (Tomoko):Kanako, who is otherwise known as Mikkun (nicknamed after her brother Nihongo|Mikihiko|幹彦 as she feels affection towards him) and Tomoko, who is otherwise known as Tomo, are Kotori's best friends, and are commonly known as "Kotori's advisers". Together with Kotori, they form a band with Kotori on vocals, Kanako on piano, and Tomoko on guitar.

;Nihongo|Koyomi Shirakawa|白河 暦|Shirakawa Koyomi:anime voices|Komugi Nishida (PC), Naoko Matsui (anime/P.S.):Koyomi is Jun'ichi's homeroom teacher, one of the faculty's science teachers, and Kotori's older sister. She is also a researcher at the Amakase Laboratory, and in charge of the Miharu android.

;Nihongo|Utamaru|うたまる:anime voices|Hiyori Haruno (PC/W.S.), Rumiko Sasa (D.C.P.C. onwards), Haruko Momoi (anime/P.S.) : Supposedly a cat. Her appearance is rather unusual, and she often moves by hopping rather than crawling. Sakura claims that she does not own Utamaru.

;Nihongo|Grandma|芳乃のばあちゃん|Yoshino no Baa-chan:anime voices|Minami Hokuto (PC), Miyuki Ono (anime/P.S.):Jun'ichi and Sakura's grandmother. Half Japanese, half British. She was said to have looked young until she was about a hundred years old. She passed away seven years before the storyline of the original, but often appears in Jun'ichi's dreams during Nemu's and Sakura's paths in the game. Also, the magical sakura tree started blooming all year round since her death.

ince Plus Situation

;Nihongo|Tamaki Konomiya|胡ノ宮 環|Konomiya Tamaki:anime voices|Yumiko Sawamura (P.C. onwards), Nami Kurokawa (anime/P.S.):A miko at the local Shinto shrine. She inherited her mother's ability to see into the future. She first appears in Jun'ichi's class in "D.C.P.S." as a transfer student, declaring him to be her fiancé. In "D.C.P.S.", she uses her archery skills to prevent people from getting hurt in foreseen accidents.

;Nihongo|Kanae Kudō|工藤 叶|Kudō Kanae:anime voices|Ayumi Kashima (P.C. onwards), Miyuki Sawashiro (anime/P.S.):Part of a trio with Jun'ichi and Suginami, and a good friend of Kotori. While being a girl, she keeps up a male appearance to attend school under her grandmother's instructions. Only Kotori and several teachers including Koyomi know of her true gender. She is always absent during physical checkups to prevent her gender being found out. Originally only mentioned by last name in the first game as a sub-character with no dialogue.

;Nihongo|Izumiko Murasaki|紫 和泉子|Murasaki Izumiko:anime voices|Kappa Mizuno (P.C. onwards), Natsuko Kuwatani (P.S.), Aya Tachibana (Circusland I/D.C.P.K.):Izumiko is an alien dressed in a pink bear suit which is actually a protective suit. While appearing by projection to most people as a "beautiful, slender girl with long black hair", Jun'ichi could never see this image and only sees her in a pink bear suit. Stranded on earth about 820 light years from home, she works part time (amusingly, as a pink bear mascot) to support herself. Her name is actually only an alias, based on the names of the Japanese poets Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu, and her real name is not known. Izumiko has no dialogue in either anime series but occasionally appears as a passer-by.

;Nihongo|Nanako Saitama|彩珠 ななこ|Saitama Nanako:anime voices|Midori Chiba (P.C. onwards), Masumi Asano (anime/P.S.):Classmate of Jun'ichi, Nanako is a young shōjo manga artist with a serialization published on a weekly shōjo manga magazine under the pen name of Ayako Tamagawa. She has trauma with goats as her drafts drawn overnight get eaten up by Bridge Yagi, a goat introduced since "D.C.P.S.".

;Nihongo|Alice Tsukishiro|月城 アリス|Tsukishiro Arisu:anime voices|Pirosu (P.C. onwards), Emiko Hagiwara (anime/P.S.):Alice is a half Japanese, half northern-European. Having lost her parents at an early age, she lives with her butler, Seba, and several other helpers in a mansion on Hatsunejima. Incapable of speaking for herself or presenting her feelings, she communicates with others through her puppet Nihongo|Philos|ピロス|Pirosu|. Philos gets the ability to speak for Alice through the power of the magical sakura tree). Having spent time in a circus she has exceptional reflexes, but she is unable to swim. She is also good friends with Miharu who is in the same class as her, and Aisia who has came from the same region as she did.

;Nihongo|Kasumi Kiryū|霧羽 香澄|Kiryū Kasumi:anime voices|Aoi Kamitsuki (P.C.), Yumi Kakazu (P.S./F.S.):A mysterious girl who only appears for one night in the game, forced by Suginami to go ghost-hunting with Jun'ichi in Kazami Academy. Like Mako she is a tomboy and also easily frightened. She is looking for the spirit of her younger sister Asumi who supposedly died in a traffic accident. Actually, she is the one who had died in said accident, and finally departs this world after being told so by Asumi. She appears in "D.C.F.S." as a sub-character.

;Nihongo|Asumi Kiryū|霧羽 明日美|Kiryū Asumi:anime voices|Aoi Kamitsuki (P.C.), Misato Fukuen (P.S./F.S.):Kasumi's younger sister and much unlike her, Asumi is a gentle and quiet girl, and attends school in mainland Japan. Born with heart problems, she received a heart transplant from Kasumi when she died in a traffic accident, and has lived healthily since. After hearing of rumors of a the ghost of a female student in Kazami Academy, she goes to Hatsunejima to see if it was related to her elder sister.

;Nihongo|Seba|瀬場:anime voices|Tōru Sakura (P.C. onwards), Shigenori Sōya (anime/P.S.): Butler of the Tsukishiro family, he takes care of Alice. Suginami calls him Sebastian, and is one of the few character he respects hearing that Seba was once in the special forces.

Others

;Nihongo|Tomoya Mizukoshi|水越 智也|Mizukoshi Tomoya|:anime voices|Megumi Kubota (anime) :Moe and Mako's younger brother. He is only mentioned in the game, and only appears once in the anime.

;Nihongo|Aisia|アイシア|Aishia:anime voices|Ui Miyazaki (S.S./F.S./D.C.II. P.S.):Aisia appears in the "D.C.S.G." manga and the "D.C.S.S." anime. A similar character called the Nihongo|"mysterious young girl"|謎の少女|nazo no shōjo appears in "D.C.F.S.", with similar features and the same voice actor as in "D.C.S.S.". Aisia came to Hatsunejima to study magic with Sakura's grandmother, with her hopes crushed upon hearing that she has already passed away. Although she has knowledge of how to use magic, her control of her capabilities and her judgment are, at best, erratic. She firmly believes that magic can and should be used for the good of all, something her own grandmother always practiced. Her presence and antics were mentioned in "D.C.II", making "D.C.S.G./S.S." part of the official timeline. She also appears as a character in "D.C.II. P.S.".

;Nihongo|Akishima|昭島|:anime voices|Tōru Furusato (S.S.):The school physician in "D.C.S.S.", he was an instructor at the nursing school which Nemu attended. He was responsible for the return of Nemu as the apprentice school nurse. While being part of the cause, he played a major advisory role for Jun'ichi when he was squabbling with Nemu. His sister started the rumors of Sakura's return in episode eighteen of "S.S.' as she also had blonde pigtails.

Da Capo II

Main characters

;Nihongo|Yoshiyuki Sakurai|桜内義之|Sakurai Yoshiyuki:anime voices|Mikado Sumeragi (game, regular), Rina Misaki (game, child), Shintaro Asanuma (anime):Yoshiyuki is the protagonist of "Da Capo II". The son Sakura and Jun'ichi never had, brought into existence by the new unwilting sakura tree. His name refers to this as well as it can be taken to mean "Yoshiyuki born from within Sakura". Like Jun'ichi, Yoshiyuki can create wagashi with magic. He also appears to be able to see either the future or peoples desires and dreams when he himself is asleep, as shown when at the beginning of a couple episodes in the anime version where it shows a dream he is sharing with someone and later when the actual event occurs and he recognizes the relation between the reality and his dream. In the anime, Yoshiyuki is depicted to be very caring about people around him. His actions as such frequently results in girls misunderstanding his helpful nature as signs of confession. Yoshiyuki is very insensitive to the people, especially the feelings of girls surrounding him. It is also not clear who he habours feelings for even though he accepted Koko's confession and even dated her in the first season.

;Nihongo|Otome Asakura|朝倉音姫|Asakura Otome:anime voices|Ai Hinaki (game), Ayahi Takagaki (anime):Otome is the main heroine in the game and one of Jun'ichi and Nemu's granddaughters. She is the chairman of the student council. She refers to Yoshiyuki as "otōto-kun", meaning "little brother". Otome inherited her father's magical abilities. Otome seems to be one of the two persons, besides Sakura, to have known that Yoshiyuki was created due to the a wish upon the Sakura tree. It is also not clear whether Otome's feelings for Yoshiyuki are that of a brother or more. In the first season of the anime, Otome is portrayed as a caring elder sister to Yoshiyuki and also a very responsible council member in school, to the extent of falling sick in worries of matters regarding Minatsu. In the second season of the anime, Otome is shown to be very reserved when she was young only to become more open with the help of Yoshiyuki. They then share a promise to be whole-heartedly together. Otome is seen to care very much for Yoshiyuki and his daily affairs. This is shown when Yoshiyuki has an upcoming play where he is to play the main character. She forced Yoshiyuki to practice with her every night just to perfect his skills. Otome describes herself as a 'Magician of Justice' and has overwhelming passion to uphold what is right and what is wrong. However, Otome is shown to be very emotional in her part. This is depicted when she replaces Koko as the female lead in the Puppet show where she cried while acting out her role.

;Nihongo|Yume Asakura|朝倉由夢|Asakura Yume:anime voices|Hijiri Kinomi (game), Yui Horie (anime):Yume is Otome's younger sister, and one of Jun'ichi and Nemu's granddaughters. Her first name literally means "dream." Due to her magician blood, she sees the future in her dreams. In the first season of the anime, Yume's accommodating personality is being portrayed when she easily became friends with Minatsu. Yume is also there to support Minatsu in times of trouble and also show signs of defensiveness towards Minatsu when others found out about the latter being a robot. In the second season of the anime, Yume is depicted to be rather lonely after Minatsu leaves the school. However, she puts on an independent front when in front of others, especially around Yoshiyuki. Yume is also shown to harbor romantic feelings for Yoshiyuki and is shown on a few occasions to convey her feelings indirectly by asking Yoshiyuki out. However, Yoshiyuki does not seem to know about it. When Yoshiyuki first came to stay at the Asakuras' place when he was young, the younger Yume is shown to be very open in her feelings and immediately grab Yoshiyuki's hands to introduce herself.

;Nihongo|Nanaka Shirakawa|白河ななか|Shirakawa Nanaka:anime voices|Myū Nonaka (game), Minori Chihara (anime):Nanaka is the school idol. She likes singing, but not in front of others. Nanaka is the lead singer of the school band together with Koko her childhood and her best friend who places the bass. Like Kotori in the previous game, she has the power to read minds (due to a wish granted by the magical sakura tree), but only when she is touching the person whose mind she wants to read. She starts to fall in love with Yoshiyuki when he starts being genuinely worried about her and helps her when she is picked on by other girls for playing with guys' feelings (even though those are just jealous rumors), but later she finds out he was worried about her not because he liked her, but because he saw her as a good friend.

;Nihongo|Koko Tsukishima|月島小恋|Tsukishima Koko:anime voices|Yoshino Nanjō:Koko is a childhood friend of Yoshiyuki and Nanaka. In the first season of the anime, she confesses her feelings for Yoshiyuki, which he accepts and they start dating, but later on in the first season, she breaks up with Yoshiyuki after coming to light that Yoshiyuki has been spending too much time on others, particularly Minatsu. Koko felt left out as a result and develop feelings of insecurities due to Yoshiyuki's insensitivity to the her feelings of loneliness. Koko is shown to be weak and cries frequently when she was young. Only after much persuasion from Yoshiyuki, does she smiles. Koko also has a forgiving personality as shown when she has a quarrel with Yoshiyuki when they were young but forgives Yoshiyuki after he apologized. In the second season, she develops to become a more confident individual but still holds signs of weakness in her falling sick due to unknown reasons just before the puppet show where she is stated to play the female character.

;Nihongo|Minatsu Amakase|天枷美夏|Amakase Minatsu:anime voices|Sayaka Aoki:Minatsu is a robot who runs on bananas, but claims to hate them. She is upset over the fact that she is a robot but does not have a rocket punch. In the first season of the anime, Minatsu is friends with Yume. She also claims to hate humans in the beginning stages of the anime but starts to fully understand that not all humans are like that. After the school finds out that she is a robot, people became wary of her. Although she acts as if nothing has happened, in reality she is really depressed about the matter. Subsequently, the school became impressed with her courage and determination and the whole school even pleads for the school to not expel her. However, she was expelled but gets to attend a graduation ceremony arranged by the Students' Council. She was touched by the actions of Yoshiyuki and the others and graduates in a high note. In the second season of the anime, it is not known where she went.

;Nihongo|Anzu Yukimura|雪村杏|Yukimura Anzu:anime voices|Tae Okajima:Anzu is one of Yoshiyuki's classmates. Due to a wish granted by the magical sakura tree, she has the power to never forget anything. In the anime, she is best friends with Koko and occasionally hangs out with Yoshiyuki. In the second season, it is revealed that Anzu was abandoned by her parents when she was young and was adopted by a kind woman who she addressed as grandmother. The latter subsequently passed away when Anzu enrolls in middle school. She starts to open more towards Yoshiyuki and seems to trust Yoshiyuki a great deal into revealing her family and personal background. She is shown to not want others, especially Koko, to worry by not telling the others her family background.

;Nihongo|Sakura Yoshino|芳乃さくら|Yoshino Sakura:anime voices|Minami Hokuto (game), Yukari Tamura (anime):Sakura is one of the two returning characters from "Da Capo". She is now the principal of Kazemi, the school Yoshiyuki goes attends, and still maintains her childlike appearance while being in her seventies. In the second season of the anime, Sakura is shown to be unsure of the continuing warmness of the family together with Yume, Otome and Yoshiyuki. She is related to Yoshiyuki in some way and created Yoshiyuki out of a Sakura tree which granted her wish when she was lonely and needed company. The effects of the Sakura tree is seen to worsen as the town they were staying in has more frequencies of fire outbreaks. This greatly worries Sakura and Otome at hand. In the end, Sakura fuses with the magic sakura tree to prevent it from withering and causing Yoshiyuki, her most precious wish, from disappearing.

upporting characters

;Nihongo|Maya Sawai|沢井麻耶|Sawai Maya:anime voices|Kaori Mizuhashi:Maya is the class representative of Yoshiyuki's class. She once hated robots until her younger brother is saved by Minatsu.

;Nihongo|Akane Hanasaki|花咲茜|Hanasaki Akane:anime voices|Natsumi Yanase:Akane is one of Yoshiyuki's classmates.

;Nihongo|Mayuki Kōsaka|高坂まゆき|Kōsaka Mayuki:anime voices|Rina Misaki (game), Shizuka Itō (anime):Mayuki is the vice-chairman of the student council and one of Otome's friends.

;Nihongo|Suginami|杉並:anime voices|Daisuke Kishio:Suginami is one of Yoshiyuki's male friends. He happens to look and act almost exactly like Suginami from "Da Capo".

;Nihongo|Wataru Itabashi|板橋渉|Itabashi Wataru:anime voices|Jun Fukuyama (game), Kappei Yamaguchi (anime):Wataru is one of Yoshiyuki's male friends. He is part of a music band consisting of him, Nanaka, and Koko.

;Nihongo|Maika Mizukoshi|水越舞佳|Mizukoshi Maika:anime voices|Azusa Yuzuki (game), Yu Asakawa (anime):Maika is a teacher in Kazemi, the school Yoshiyuki attends.

;Nihongo|Yuzu Kohinata|小日向ゆず|Kohinata Yuzu:anime voices|Yuzu Miyashiro (game):Yuzu is a young girl Nanaka befriends.

;Nihongo|Shin Kohinata|小日向慎|Kohinata Shin:anime voices|Kentarō Itō (game):Shin is Yuzu's father.

Mu ( _el. μ):anime voices|Sayaka Aoki:Mu is a maid-robot created by Maya's father.

;Nihongo|Jun'ichi Asakura|朝倉純一|Asakura Jun'ichi:anime voices|Daichi Kiryu:Jun'ichi is Otome and Yume's maternal grandfather. He is one of the two returning characters from "Da Capo".

;Nihongo|Harimao|はりまお:anime voices|Sayaka Aoki:Harimao is a dog-like life-form, and Sakura's pet.