Sunako Nakahara

Sunako Nakahara is the main female protagonist. After being cruelly rejected by her middle school crush, she began to lock herself away in her room and chose to avoid people. She is a lover of solitude, gory movies, murder, anatomical dolls, and objects that reflect the "ugly" side of life as she puts it; her interests resulted in her distorted view of reality and isolation contributed to her low self-esteem. Sunako is a beautiful fair-skinned young woman with waist-length black or dark purple hair that has square bangs hanging over her forehead, lavender purple eyes and full pink lips. She is usually seen wearing a gray sweater with a floral print skirt or red jogging pants. Most of the time, Sunako can be seen in chibi (miniature) form. However, whenever she is in a situation where her inner beauty comes forth, she almost magically transforms into a beautiful young woman, much to the surprise of many onlookers. Sunako's inner beauty frequently emerges whenever her character's viewpoint is challenged, causing her to change her belief system about beauty and humanity in general. When Sunako is not in chibi form, she has long straight black hair and has the figure of a model. She is considered a beautiful girl when she's at her full height, but she doesn't consider herself to be beautiful due to her low-self esteem. The character of Sunako is very self-conscious and she has a fairly bad self-image of herself. She frequently calls herself ugly and never acknowledges herself as a beautiful person. Most of the time, she can be found in dark spaces or areas that are believed to be haunted. At the same time, the author shows that Sunako also has very strong convictions. This ranges anywhere from defending her fellow characters to refusing to do anything she dislikes, such as making a collage of pineapples on her wall. However, it is frequently shown in both the anime and manga that Sunako has no problem compromising some values (e.g., dressing up) in order to further her own ends. Sunako's fascination with all things dark and morbid resembles that of the series' original creator, Tomoko Hayakawa, albeit in a more extreme form. A constant theme of Sunako's personality is her view of beautiful and ugly people. She sees herself as ugly, while viewing characters such as Kyohei Takano or Noi Kasahara as incredibly beautiful. Sunako's belief appears to be that while beautiful people can become ugly, ugly people can never become beautiful. In the manga, Sunako often reacts violently to the presence of beauty, believing that ugly people such as her should stay in the darkness. However, the problem with Sunako's retreat from the world is that it limits her capacity for life, as well as keeping her from objectively viewing all that is around her. It can be suggested that, by Sunako adopting such a stark viewpoint on "ugly" and "beautiful" people, she has become exactly the type of person she despises. One such character similarity can be seen by comparing the person who rejected Sunako at the beginning of the manga and Sunako herself assuming that Kyōhei couldn't understand her due to his beauty. Surprisingly, she is an excellent cook and also very athletic, intelligent, and a skilled pianist. However, Sunako often changes, becoming ugly with dry, cracked skin and pimples in her chibi form. She refers to beautiful people as "creatures of light" and ugly people, such as herself, as "creatures of darkness" in the English translation. Whenever she sees a "creature of light," she gets nosebleeds, which are especially severe when she sees Kyohei. Despite her negative attitude, once she is driven to do something, Sunako is quite capable of doing things that no one expects her to accomplish. There is also a possibility that she may have supernatural abilities (e.g., plants wilting near her, lights going out, and windows shattering by an unseen force). She is also seen to be loyal to her friends, especially towards Noi and Tamao Kikunoi, as she has shown to care about them more than the boys. An example was in Chapter 102 when Kyohei, Yukinojo Toyama, Ranmaru Morii, and Noi accidentally ate mushrooms that changed their personalities. She wasn't interested in getting the antidote for the boys but quickly changed her mind when she saw Noi might do something perverted to Takenaga Oda. Another was in Chapter 111 when both Sunako and Ranmaru were kidnapped and were held for a one billion dollar ransom. The kidnapper planned to cut and torture Ranmaru which excited Sunako, but when Tamao barges in with the ransom money she quickly shows more concern for her safety and urges her to get out while she still can. Also, despite how she acts, Sunako seems to deeply care about her housemates, going so far as trying to kill anyone who messes with them (despite the fact that she tried to kill Kyōhei many times herself).