List of Tramps Like Us characters

This is a list of characters from Tramps Like Us (Kimi wa Petto).

Main characters

Sumire Iwaya (巌谷澄麗, Iwaya Sumire) Drama role by:Koyuki

Sumire Iwaya is a hard-working and highly successful journalist, who is demoted to the lifestyle section after punching her boss when he sexually harasses her. Ogawa feels that Sumire's "stubborn" personality at the beginning stems from Ogawa's own experience as a new manga artist.^[1] Sumire enjoys both her job and her romance with Hasumi, unlike depictions of female characters in the 1980s and 1990s. At the end of the manga, she notices that she has fallen in love with Momo and in the last chapter, she marries him.^[2]

Momo (モモ), or Takeshi Gouda (合田武志, Gōda Takeshi) Drama role by:Jun Matsumoto. Film role by:Jang Keun-suk

A young dancer who Sumire finds and takes in as her pet. Initially, Ogawa had intended to make him much more animal-like in his mannerisms.^[1] He is said to represent a "comfortable, cooperative, and compatible" sort of a man.^[2]

Shigehito Hasumi (蓮實滋人, Hasumi Shigehito) Drama role by:Seiichi Tanabe

Hasumi is a successful journalist who went to university with Sumire. He is said to represent the "three highs" (tall, high income, well-educated) kind of a man that Japanese women have stereotypically desired.^[2]

Other characters

Yuri Shirotae (白妙ユリ, Shirotae Yuri) Drama role by:Sarina Suzuki

Sumire's childhood friend, a housewife to a pilot and mother of Ran.

Rumi Shibusawa (澁澤ルミ, Shibusawa Rumi) Drama role by: Satomi Ishihara

Momo's ex-girlfriend, a dancer

Shiori Fukushima (福島紫織, Fukushima Shiroi) Drama role by:Wakana Sakai

A dental assistant (manga)/office worker (drama) determined to seduce and marry Hasumi-senpai.

Emma Owen and Hugh Oswald

Two American journalists who work under Sumire.

Satoshi Asano

A company therapist in the TV series. He owns a long-haired chihuahua and talks with Sumire about pets a lot. He changes the dog's name every day. Drama role by: Kyozo Nagatsuka

Junpei Horibei

Takeshi (Momo)'s friend who also does ballet. In the TV series he has an unrequited love for Rumi. Drama role by: Eita

Mayumi Haruki

One of Sumire's co-workers. Drama role by: Misa Uehara

Yuuta Ishida

One of Sumire's co-workers. Drama role by: Sato Riyuuta

Ooishi Minori

Sumire's landlord in the TV drama, he is a very cheery person.

Mrs Kusunoki

One of Sumire's neighbours in the TV drama. Very noisy.

Edmond Sukenari

One of Sumire's co-workers. He is an otaku who collects figurines. His mother was American, but she died when he was young. He wears glasses, and everyone is transfixed by how attractive he is when he takes them off. He doesn't realise this. He admires Sumire. (Vol. 10-)

Shinobu

Sumire's older sister. She is very conventional and supportive of her grandfather. She practices a tough love on her younger sisters. She is married with children.

Akane

Sumire's younger sister. She is rebellious, smokes, and founded a biker gang.

References

^ ^a ^b Ogawa, Yayoi. Tramps Like Us. Vol. 14.
^ ^a ^b ^c Saeki, Junko (2008). "Beyond the geisha stereotype - Changing images of 'new women' in Japanese popular culture". In Segers, Rien T. (ed.). A new Japan for the twenty-first century: an inside overview of current fundamental changes and problems. Routledge contemporary Japan series. Vol. 21. Routledge. pp. 163–165. ISBN 978-0-415-45311-0.

[lastvol-1] Ogawa, Yayoi. Tramps Like Us. Vol. 14.

[Saeki-2] Saeki, Junko (2008). "Beyond the geisha stereotype - Changing images of 'new women' in Japanese popular culture". In Segers, Rien T. (ed.). A new Japan for the twenty-first century: an inside overview of current fundamental changes and problems. Routledge contemporary Japan series. Vol. 21. Routledge. pp. 163–165. ISBN 978-0-415-45311-0.

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