Karakter & Staf

Maya Kitajima

Utama

Female · Umur 13-

Height: 155 cm A talented young actress who originally worked as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant alongside her mother. Her father died when she was a little girl and her mother, Haru, is mentally unstable and for a long time she thinks of Maya as useless. She is discovered by the former diva Chigusa Tsukikage and starts a promising, yet thorny acting career under her wing.

Sanae Kobayashi

Ayumi Himekawa

Utama

Female · Umur 13-

Height: 168 cm A daughter of the actress Utako Himekawa and a famous movie director Mr. Himekawa. Maya's biggest rival, the honor-bound and noble Ayumi was born as the daughter of a very famous actress, Utako Himekawa (once the student of Tsukikage,) and a successful director and producer, Mitsugu Himekawa, and has been touted as a prodigy from an early age. Ever since then Ayumi wants to shine on her own and never falls into arrogance, reminded of how she got her first role just because of her family links. Ayumi is aware of Maya's gift for acting when they first meet in a practice, thus placing her as a life-rival. She is also ambitious enough to try to surpass her own mother, who is a widely recognized actress.

Akiko Yajima

Masumi Hayami

Utama

Male · Umur 24-32

Height: 180 cm He is Eisuke Hayami's adoptive son and the vice president of Daito Entertainment(大都芸能). He's drop-dead gorgeous, elegant, ambitious, sly and a workaholic. He is brutally attempting to obtain the performance right of Crimson Goddess from Tsukikage, that ultimately causes her acting school to disband. Hayami first appearance is when Maya got lost in his family Theater, he is the President of the Daito Art Productions, due to his father, He was the one that showed Maya her seat. He's not the type of character that that would have a real smile, he's more of a cold, heartless person (the reason why is proven later in the series). The First time seeing Maya act, changes his world, Ever since, he's stated to tease Maya and playing with roses, and mostly with Purple Roses.

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Chigusa Tsukikage

Pendukung

Female · Umur 54-62

Tsukikage was an actress who was the best "Crimson Goddess" you ever wanted to see. After a light accident, She was unable to act, leaving that role unable to play also, thus it left the play that character was in on a very long hiatus. Moving on to being an acting teacher, she still never have gotten an apprentice to play the Crimson Goddess. When she met Maya, she was the one that convinced her to be an actress, more importantly, put her in her school of acting.

Toshiko Fujita

Yuu Sakurakouji

Pendukung

Male · Umur 16

Height: 175 cm. He's a young actor from Ondine theater, where Ayumi works. He's good-looking, gentle and sweet. He falls in love with Maya after meeting her and tries to approach her heart several times but Maya only thinks of him as a friend. He tries to forget about her and even gets a girlfriend, Mai, a girl from Ondine but it's all in vain. He's Maya's partner in some plays and one of the two candidates for the role of Isshin, the lover of Kurenai Tennyo.

Jun Fukuyama

Rei Aoki

Pendukung

Female · Umur 17

She is originally from Tokyo. She's part of the Tsukikage teather group and works part-time as a waitress, Very close to Maya, thinking Maya as her little sister. She is tall and beautiful, but somewhat boyish, and that's why she is ofen mistaken to be a boy and has lots of female fans.

Ayumi Kinoshita

Saeko Mizuki

Pendukung

Female

Height: 170 cm She's Masumi's secretary, a formal and efficient lady. She's observant and intuitive and she's the first one to realize Masumi's true feelings for Maya (even sooner than him!) She tries to persuade Masumi to reveal his true identity to Maya several times and sometimes she gets scolded for poking her nose into Masumi's business. She becomes Maya's manager when she's working for Daito (Source: Stage Storm)

Rei Sakuma

Karato Hijiri

Pendukung

Male

Height: 175 cm He's a secret agent working for Daito. His work goes from spying rival companies to deliver the purple roses to Maya. He's calm and composed. His father was the president of a company which went bankrupt. He decided to suicide with his family but only he and Karato survived, losing their identity. Masumi's father helped Karato: he paid his school fees and let him work for Daito. He's Masumi's friend and confident and only wishes for his happiness.

Nozomu Sasaki

Shiori Takamiya

Pendukung

Female

She's Masumi's fiancee, beautiful, cultured and rich but she has a weak health. Masumi's father chose her for him since their marriage of convenience would be advantageous for both families. She's in love with Masumi but he doesn't love her back. Little by little she realizes Masumi's feelings for Maya and gets unstable. Her love for him is almost obsessive.

Maya Okamoto

Shigeru Satomi

Pendukung

Male

Maya's first love. He's one of the actors in Ten no Kagayaki where Maya plays Satoko. They start dating although not for too long. He's an idol and some of his fans try to hurt Maya.

Shinichirou Miki

Ryo Majima

Pendukung

Male

A boy that starred with Maya in the play "Wuthering Heights" and slowly during the play started to fall in love with her just like his character 'Heathcliff' in the story. He leaves his girlfriend and confesses to Maya, but got rejected.

Daisuke Namikawa

Utako Himekawa

Pendukung

Female

Ayumi's mother. She's a famous and beautiful actress. Her acting teacher was Chigusa Tsukikage and she wishes to play the role of Kurenai Tennyo. She's married to Mitsugu Himekawa, an important director. She has performed in some plays with her daughter. She couldn't spend much time with her when she was little because of her work but she loves her very much.

Masako Katsuki

Norie Otobe

Pendukung

Female

Her real name is Suzuko Tashiro (田代鈴子) An aspiring actress from Fukuoka who befriends Maya when she's playing Satoko to take her role away. Her real name is Suzuko Tashiro and hides her real looks and intentions under a dorky, child-like facade. She finally manages to almost ruin Maya's reputation, but Ayumi finds out the truth and punishes her with public humiliation.

Shizuka Itou

Narrator

Pendukung

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Shinji Nakae

Mina Sawatari

Pendukung

Female · Umur 16

Mina is from Hokkaido. She's another member of Tsukikage theater and works part-time as a tutor. She's the most feminine girl in Tsukikage's company. Even if there are some misunderstandings between her and Maya, they will still be friends when Maya is not acting with her any longer.

Youko Honna

Sayaka Minazuki

Pendukung

Female · Umur 13-21

Sayaka is from Nagano. She's another member of Tsukikage theater and works/lives at the bakery. She didn't like Maya very much at first since she got the role of Beth in Little Women instead of her but they got along after that.

Fumiko Orikasa

Taiko Kasuga

Pendukung

Female · Umur 16 at the beginning, 23-24 in the last chapters

Taiko is from Fukuoka. She's also a member of Tsukikage theater and works/lives at the bakery with Sayaka. (Source: Stage Storm)

Megumi Toyoguchi

Haru Kitajima

Pendukung

Female

Maya Kitajima's mother, who works in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama. Haru generally believes that her daughter is a good-for-nothing and that she could never succeed at becoming an actress. When Maya runs away from home to attend Tsukikage's school, Haru tries to take her back home, but her daughter refuses. Even though Haru seems to abandon Maya forever, she always thinks of her only child.

Tomoko Munakata

Taichi Hotta

Pendukung

Male

He's the leader of the Ikkakujyu theater from Hokkaido. Later in manga Mina and him fall in love.

Kouichi Sakaguchi

Keiko Minomiya

Pendukung

Female

The only female member of Ikkakujyu theater, she's often mistaken for a boy.

Ayumi Tsunematsu

Mitsugu Himekawa

Pendukung

Male

Ayumi's father. A famous director. He tends to spoil his daughter since he can't spend much time with her due to work

Ryuusei Nakao

Genzou Kobayashi

Pendukung

Male

Genzou is Tsukikage's butler, driver, etc,. He admires her a lot and will follow her come what may. He's also a good actor.

Shinji Nakae

Kikuko Harada

Pendukung

Female

A veteran actress and Chigusa' rival. She works as a teacher and actress at Eishin theater.

Kazue Komiya

Yuki Asae

Pendukung

Female

A girl working at Eishin Theater. Maya takes her role in the play Onna Gawa so she tries to make her fail as an actress.

Risa Hayamizu

Emi Tabuchi

Pendukung

Female

She's a teen idol and singer. She takes part in a movie but turns out that she can't act at all. Emi doesn't take acting serious but watching Maya's trainings she starts to feel dissatisfied with herself and ashamed of her attitude. She mentioned to the reporters after the movie was done: "If i had one more chance to play, i would have done it in a proper way".

Atsuko Enomoto