Characters

Akane Yanagi is a strikingly good-looking third-year at Katagiri High who lands in class 3-6 and joins the circle around Kyōko Hori and Izumi Miyamura. Known for soft manners and pink hair, he hides a startling morning temper that makes…

Akinori Sawada is the late older brother of Honoka Sawada. He passed away roughly a year before the events of Horimiya and appears only in flashback, remembered mainly through his sister's lingering attachment to him.

Aoi Kitahara is a student who shares classes with Motoko Iura, first in middle school and again in high school. A gentle, approachable boy, he ranks among her closest friends, though his growing interest in Shuu Iura complicates that bond.

Chika Ichijō is a third-year student at Yasaka High School and the girlfriend of Kōichi Shindō. Reserved by nature, she tends to hover at the edge of Shindō's lively friend group, warming only to the people he is closest to.

Honoka Sawada is a second-year student at Katagiri High and a recurring side character who first appears in Chapter 29. Fiercely attached to Kyōko Hori, she is easily rattled by men and carries the quiet grief of an older brother she lost.

Ichirō Watabe is a 17-year-old in Class 3-1 at Katagiri High and a self-appointed shadow to Izumi Miyamura. His habit of secretly photographing Miyamura is an open secret to the whole class, the target included.

Iori Miyamura is the mother of protagonist Izumi and the wife of Naozumi. She runs the family's bakery, Cake Shop Iori, and presides over the Miyamura household as its matriarch, warm toward almost everyone but noticeably strict with her…

Izumi Miyamura is the male lead of Horimiya, a Class 3-1 student written off by classmates as a gloomy otaku. Away from school he is a pierced, tattooed, and disarmingly gentle young man, a hidden self he ends up sharing with Kyōko Hori as…

Kakeru Sengoku is the charismatic student council president of Katagiri High and a childhood friend of Kyōko Hori. Studious, easily flustered, and quietly self-conscious about his thin frame, he eventually marries his girlfriend Remi…

Kamioka is a minor Katagiri High classmate, remembered as a first-year friend of Kakeru Sengoku who once carried a crush on Remi Ayasaki. A boy fixated on looks, he surfaces in only a single chapter of the story before fading back out of…

Kayo Yashiro is the housekeeper who looks after the Ishikawa household. Tall, brown-haired, and poised, she is a minor figure whose presence in the story centers almost entirely on her work caring for the home.

Kazuya Nakamine is a physics teacher at Katagiri High. A former student of that very school, he now works beside old classmates turned colleagues, carrying the same easygoing, joking manner that defined him back in his own student days.

Kōichi Shindō is a warm, ever-grinning supporting player in Horimiya, best known as Izumi Miyamura's oldest friend and the devoted boyfriend of Chika Ichijō. A student at Yasaka High School, he stays close to Izumi long after the two split…

Kozue Sengoku belongs to the extended supporting cast of Horimiya, surfacing chiefly through her family ties rather than through scenes of her own. She is married to Takeru Sengoku and raised their son Kakeru, and the series later frames…

Kyōhei Miyamura is a next-generation figure in Horimiya, the child born to Izumi Miyamura and Kyōko Hori after the couple marry. He steps into the story late, first appearing in the webcomic's one hundred fortieth chapter as a glimpse of…

Kyōko Hori is the female lead of Horimiya, a Katagiri High student who looks like the picture of a bright, brilliant classmate but keeps a very different self behind closed doors. A chance meeting with Izumi Miyamura draws out the private…

Kyōsuke Hori is the frequently absent father at the head of the Hori household in Horimiya, a man whose work keeps him traveling far more than it keeps him home. He is husband to Yuriko and dad to Kyōko and Sōta, drifting in and out of the…

Makio Tanihara is a Horimiya character who begins as one of Izumi Miyamura's junior-high tormentors and slowly grows into a real friend. A third-year at Kashi High School, his arc turns on guilt, self-examination, and a quiet push to set…

Miki Yoshikawa is a minor Horimiya character introduced as the college-aged older sister of Yuki Yoshikawa. She turns up mainly to nudge her younger sibling along, blending frank advice with a fondness for teasing.

Motoko Iura is the younger sister of Shū Iura and a reserved newcomer to the Horimiya cast. A middle-schooler aiming for a demanding high school, she is quiet, sharp, and a near mirror image of her far more sociable brother.

Naozumi Miyamura is a peripheral figure in Horimiya, named as the head of the Miyamura household and the father of Izumi Miyamura. The story keeps him offstage, noting only that where he is now remains a mystery.

Reiko Terajima teaches chemistry at Katagiri High School and serves as homeroom teacher for Class 3-1 in Horimiya. Warm with her students yet firm when it matters, she is best remembered for a running feud with a fellow member of the…

Remi Ayasaki is a cheerful supporting character in Horimiya, enrolled in Class 3-5 and attached to the Student Council as its unofficial mascot. She is closely bound to her boyfriend Kakeru Sengoku and her friend Sakura Kōno.

Sakura Kōno is a supporting character in Horimiya who runs the Katagiri student council as its vice president. Diligent and kind yet quietly unsure of herself, she shares Class 3-5 with her friend Remi Ayasaki.

Shin Yasuda teaches English to Class 3-1 at Katagiri Senior High and manages the school's Student Council. Charming on the surface, he is notorious for fawning over his teenage female students while treating the boys with open…

Shizuru Sengoku is the small child born to Kakeru Sengoku and Remi Ayasaki, arriving in the story during Chapter 140. She belongs to the extended Sengoku family and carries the red hair that runs through her father's side.

Shū Iura is a boisterous third-year at Katagiri Senior High, enrolled in Class 3-2 and counted among Izumi Miyamura's circle of friends. Loud, prank-happy, and endlessly energetic, he is best known as Tōru Ishikawa's closest companion and…

Sōta Hori is the seven-year-old youngest member of the Hori family, little brother to Kyōko Hori. His chance meeting with Izumi Miyamura, after a dog spooks him on the street, is what first brings Miyamura into the Hori household and sets…

Taiki Mizouchi is an eighteen-year-old student in Class 3-1, sharing a classroom with Kyōko Hori and Izumi Miyamura. Quiet and often scowling, he nurses a private crush on Hori that he never voices, which colors his prickly relationship…

Takeru Sengoku, married to Kozue and father to Kakeru, is a stern man in his mid-thirties who reads as a near mirror image of his own son. A former student council president, he carries a long-running rivalry with the Hori family into the…

Tōru Ishikawa is a Class 3-1 student at Katagiri Senior High and one of Izumi Miyamura's closest friends. Athletic, easygoing, and widely regarded as the level-headed one of the group, he opens the series harboring feelings for Kyōko Hori…

Yoshiro Saotome is a minor acquaintance of Izumi Miyamura in Horimiya, connected to him through the tea ceremony. He is best remembered for a small mix-up in which Kyōko Hori mistook his name for a girl's.

Youji Tanihara is a minor figure in Horimiya, known chiefly through his family tie as the elder sibling of Makio Tanihara. Recognizable by his cyan hair, he first turns up during the manga's sixty-third chapter and later shows up in the…

Yuki Yoshikawa is a Class 3-1 student and one of Kyōko Hori's closest friends, a bright and sociable presence who slots easily into the main group. Behind her constant smile, though, she tends to bury her real feelings and wrestles with a…

Yuriko Hori, born Yuriko Koyanagi, is married to Kyōsuke Hori and works long hours as the mother raising Kyōko and Sōta. Gentle and warm at home yet often away for her job, she leaves much of the daily parenting to her daughter.

Yuuna Okuyama is a kindergarten classmate of Sōta Hori who once picked on him for his attachment to his sister. A kind word from Izumi Miyamura turns things around, and the two children become friends instead.