Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You

Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You (君に届け, lit. Reaching You) is a romance shōjo manga by Karuho Shiina. It has been published by Shueisha in Bessatsu Margaret since 2005 and collected in 25 tankōbon volumes as of December 25, 2015. In 2008, it won the Best Shōjo Manga award in the 32nd Annual Kodansha Manga Award.The series was also nominated for the first Manga Taisho awards in 2008. Two anime adaptations of Kimi ni Todoke were aired in Japan, produced by Production I.G. The second season of the anime was announced in Betsuma Magazine, began airing in Japan on January 4, 2011 and lasted for 12 episodes. A live action film adaptation was released in 2010 starring Mikako Tabe and Haruma Miura.


Genre Romantic comedy, Slice of life, Drama




Sawako Kuronuma (黒沼 爽子 Kuronuma Sawako) is the main protagonist of the series Kimi ni Todoke. Sawako is a shy yet honest girl who is in search of friendship, but her resemblance to a certain horror film character (that led to her being nicknamed as Sadako) and Sawako's tendency to shy away from correcting people of misconceptions prevent her from doing so. Thanks to Shota's kind and open nature, she is able to gradually make friends, open up to her classmates, and talk to different people. She is grateful (and at first, worships) Shota for giving her the opportunities to make close friends, which come to include Ayane, Chizuru, Shota and Ryu. Ayane and Chizuru admit that Sawako's 'like' to Shota might be even more than Ayane and Chizuru themselves. Sawako is incredibly fast (to the point where people believe she is teleporting) which is revealed during a soccer match at the school's sports festival. A running gag is that she seems to take what people say seriously as well as over-analyze a situation, which tends to scare the people around her when she is deep in thought.


Shota Kazehaya (風早 翔太 Kazehaya Shōta) is Sawako's outgoing and friendly classmate, as well as her boyfriend. He was so popular in middle school that he ended up with girls constantly wanting to confess to him. So many girls liked him that they in fact ended up forming the "Kazehaya is Everyone's" alliance in order to maintain some level of peace among his admirers. More than half of these girls now attend the same high school as Kazehaya, which has helped make him very popular in high school as well. Kazehaya has held a long standing interest in Sawako and admits (though not to Sawako) that he likes her, unaware that she feels the same for him. He often gets jealous of anyone who has the chance to spend alone time with her.
During their second year of high school, he begins to wonder if she actually likes him at all after she does not give him chocolates on Valentine's Day. He doesn't learn until much later that Sawako had simply been too nervous to give him any. He becomes calmer and shows a depressed, expressionless face more often after he begins to wonder over her feelings for him. However, after being confronted by Ryuu (influenced by Chizuru) and Pin, Kazehaya goes to Sawako as his friends jokingly remark that he likes Sawako. Kazehaya takes the remark seriously and agrees, subsequently confessing directly to Sawako.


Ryu Sanada (真田 龍 Sanada Ryū) is a character in the series Kimi ni Todoke. Ryu is a close childhood friend of Chizuru, having been friends since they were young. His feelings for Chizuru were established early on, and was hinted on several occasions. He does not deny having feelings for her. He later confirms his love when he confesses that he likes Chizuru to Sawako. While his love is unrequited, he is very patient with Chizuru realizing that Chizuru probably won't like him in a romantic sense, at least not right away. He's more than willing to comfort Chizuru if she's depressed, though he would rather have her mad at him as he knows Chizuru can vent out her emotions better. He seems to be fine with their friendship however later on, make it clear to Chizuru that he didn't want to tolerate it anymore and wanted something more. After a certain point, Chizuru started to become increasingly awkward around Ryu, blurting out random insults, stuttering while speaking or being at a complete loss for words.


Ayane Yano (矢野 あやね Yano Ayane) is a character in the series Kimi ni Todoke.
She studies at Kitahiro High School and is one of Sawako Kuronuma's classmates and friends. Ayane constantly supports Sawako with her relationship, and is aware of the mutual feelings between Sawako and Shota Kazehaya. She is known for wearing a lot of make up and having many piercings.

Ayane and Chizuru are already friends since the beginning of the series. They are very close and build each up together. They also both worry much about Sawako. It was revealed that at first they couldn't stand each other, but after a 'confrontation' understood each other well. Ayane has admitted to Pin that she admires Chizuru, knowing Chizuru isn't afraid of fighting back even if she might face pain, unlike her, who has a calculative personality.
When Chizuru was troubled by her feelings for Toru, Ayane had felt tremendous guilt for not being able to help, truly proving her feelings for Chizuru despite teasing her at times.


Ume Kurumizawa (胡桃沢 梅 Kurumizawa Ume) is a character in the series Kimi ni Todoke.
A girl who appears friendly and sweet to everyone around her, she has had a huge crush on Kazehaya since their first year of middle school. She dislikes her given name, Ume, because it sounds old-fashioned and prefers to be called "Kurumi." When she was in middle school, many of the girls hung around her to get attention from other boys who found Kurumi attractive and began to see her as a "boyfriend stealer" since many of the boys they liked would only ask her out.

Kurumi was deeply hurt and saddened by this and one day, while crying alone in the classroom, Kazehaya came and comforted her, leading to her developing feelings for him. It is possible that her fake personality comes from the pain she received from the people who she thought were her "friends", who turned out to only use her and that she feels she can't trust others. She is extremely jealous of Sawako , which led her to spread fake rumors of Sawako's only friends at the time, Yoshida and Yano , using Sawako's name. Kurumi does not attend the same class as Sawako or Kazehaya. She eventually confesses her love to Kazehaya, but receives an expected rejection. Because she is always surprised with Sawako's naivete, Kurumi is able to be her true self in front of Sawako and regards her as a rival for Kazehaya's affection. Following Kazehaya's rejection, she becomes colder to her classmates, but is able to finally express her feelings and personality, which makes them respect her more After Kazehaya and Sawako become a couple, Kurumi disappears from the series for a while until she reappears later, revealing that she wishes to study to become a teacher, which is Sawako's goal as well. She and Sawako thus form more of a friendship as they agree to help each other do the best they can in pursuing their mutual dream.

Chizuru Yoshida (吉田 千鶴 Yoshida Chizuru) is another close friend of Sawako and Ayane Yano
Chizuru is a high school girl with shoulder length brown hair, and black eyes. She is almost always seen wearing a bright smile. She's the tallest of her female friends, and her breasts are almost nonexistent. She is mostly seen wearing either her school uniform, consisting of a white button-up shirt underneath a yellow vest, a blue skirt, and black knee socks, or in a red and white long sleeved shirt, and denim jeans.
 

Chizu and Ryu are both childhood friend. They went to the same school since young till high school. Ryu had always liked Chizu while knowing that Chizu likes Toru, his brother. Both Ryu and Chizu have a good relationship. When Ryu's mother passed away, it is seen that Chizu comfort him. But later on the story, Chizu confessed to Ryu due to some circumstances and both of them kissed (chp 88) and both of them starts their relationship. But Ryu wants to go to a university as someone wants to recruit him for his talent in baseball but Chizu don't. Chizu can no longer support him because she doesn't want him to leave the town.


Kento Miura (三浦 健人 Miura Kento) is a character in the series Kimi ni Todoke.
A student in Sawako's class during second year who sits next to her. When Sawako befriends Miura, Kazehaya becomes jealous of him as a potential rival for Sawako. He is interested in girls, particularly Sawako and tries to persuade her to give up on Kazehaya, suggesting that she is burdening him.
Kento has blond, wavy hair, and is shown to be tall, although his height has not been confirmed. When Sawako met him, when he sat beside her, she imagines him as an American. He has brown/yellow eyes, and is seen usually wearing the usual school uniform.
He sat beside Sawako in the second year which got Shouta jealous and angry, he tries breaking them up but ends up making Shouta confess to Sawako but since both of them never understood what the other person meant they ended up separating and things turn to Kento's way but failed in the end realizing Sawako only sees him as a friend.


Kazuichi Arai (荒井一 市 Arai Kazuichi), commonly called Pin (ピン), is a character in the series Kimi ni Todoke.
Pin works as a teacher in Kitahiro High School. He became the temporary homeroom teacher for Sawako's class, taking over when the previous homeroom teacher became sick during the summer holidays while Sawako was helping him. Arai is nicknamed "Pin" and always is called that way, except Sawako who obeys the formalities and still calls him Arai-sensei. The reason he is called "Pin" is explained in the after-notes of Volume 1. Pin is a great fan of baseball as well as the school baseball team's coach. He used to be part of Kazehaya 's father's league team, so he has known him since when he was young.
He is a good friend of Tooru and is also about the same age as him. Pin is a flirtatious guy, but is always rejected.