Karakter & Staf — Strawberry Marshmallow

Miu Matsuoka

Utama

Female · Umur 12 · Gol. darah B

Miu is another twelve-year-old girl who is depicted in the story as having a problem-child personality. A childhood friend of Chika, she lives next door to the Ito house and attends the same class as Chika. Miu likes to say random things out of the blue and often plays pranks on Matsuri and Ana, but is most of the time interrupted by Nobue (and sometimes by Chika), ending up lying face-down on the floor. She has the least common sense or manners of the girls, and is rarely taken seriously because of her weird ideas and comments. She seems to harbor some sort of jealousy of Ana and Matsuri, because Nobue finds them cuter.

Fumiko Orikasa

Chika Itou

Utama

Female · Umur 12 · Gol. darah A

Chika is a 12 year old girl going to the same class as Miu, who lives right next to her. Chika is a cheerful girl and her understanding for common sense is greater than the ones of the other girls. She is quite skilled in cooking as well as baking cookies. Being the little sister of Nobue, she is often nicknamed Chi or Chi-chan.

Saeko Chiba

Nobue Itou

Utama

Female · Umur 16 (Manga); 20 (Anime) · Gol. darah A

A nicotine addict and an appreciator of moe. Chika's sister and the oldest character in the series. She largely serves as a role model for the younger children - albeit while borrowing money from her younger sister for cigarettes. Often hangs out with the kids in Chika's room.

Hitomi Nabatame

Matsuri Sakuragi

Utama

Female · Umur 11 · Gol. darah O

Matsuri, nicknamed "Mats" in the manga, is an eleven-year-old glasses-wearing girl with a pet ferret named John, and is depicted as having a very timid personality in the story. She is often the subject of Miu's teasing and can resort to crying and hiding behind Nobue. She is one grade below Chika and Miu, in the same class as Ana, with whom she quickly became friends. Matsuri discovers that Ana can speak Japanese fluently and helps her hide both her Japanese language skills from the rest of their class and her lack of English language skills. While she has gray hair in the anime, her hair is white in the manga.

Ayako Kawasumi

Ana Coppola

Utama

Female · Umur 11 · Gol. darah AB

Ana is an eleven-year-old girl who originally came from Cornwall, England, five years before the series, but seems to have forgotten how to speak English. She first pretends that she speaks only English, but it is not long before she is discovered by Matsuri while speaking very polite Japanese. Matsuri tries to help her re-learn English. Ana is often teased by Miu because of her name, Ana Coppola, which can be written in kanji to mean "hole", "bone", and "cave" (穴骨洞, "hole", "bone", and "cave"?). Miu nicknamed her "Coppola-chan", much to her grief. Ana's "proper Japanese" personality is reflected by her very traditionally feminine and polite speaking style.