This is a list of fictional characters, main characters as well as some supporting characters from The Wallflower, a Japanese manga that was also adapted into an anime series and a live-action drama. The manga's plot focuses on Sunako Nakahara, a girl who was called ugly by the first boy she had a crush on and isolated herself from life, losing her sociability and care for her physical appearance. Four handsome boys, Kyouhei, Takenaga, Yuki, and Ranmaru must try to turn her into a lady to please her aunt, who is also their landlady, with the promise that they won't have to pay the rent if they succeed. However, their task is not made easy due to Sunako's depressive and gloomy nature and resistance to becoming a lady.
Main characters
Sunako Nakahara
, Portrayed by Aya Ōmasa in live-action drama.
The main female protagonist of the series has an obsession with darkness and a morbid fascination with blood, horror movies, and other similarly dark things. After being rejected by her first love, she decided to abandon her femininity and become isolated from the world. She hates excessive light exposure and does poorly in hot weather, though the latter is because she grew up in northern Japan. She has three "friends"; a skeleton called Josephine (with her husband, sergeant George) and two anatomical figures named Hiroshi-Kun and Akira-Kun. While she suffers from severely low self-esteem, she's quite beautiful (most of her physical imperfections are a result of her self-imposed isolation from the world) and is a frighteningly tough fighter, being able to lift someone twice her size with one hand. She is also surprisingly wise for someone her age and will give good advice to her friends (even if she doesn't realize it). She's shown to be quite blunt, saying what is on her mind with no hesitation; unless she's asking the "radiant beings" for a favor. She is portrayed (mostly) throughout the manga in chibi form as a sort of visual metaphor for how she and others see herself; only becoming full-sized and in proportion with the others when her mood becomes bold or confident. She's a very good cook, very athletic, intelligent, and a good pianist. She is also tall for an average Japanese teenage girl. She refers to beautiful people as "creatures of light" and "ugly" people, such as herself, as "creatures of darkness" in the American translation. Whenever she sees a "creature of light" she gets nosebleeds and they're usually severe when she sees Kyohei (Though recent chapters have shown her having fewer nosebleeds in his presence). Despite her negative attitude, once she is driven to do something, Sunako is quite capable of doing things that no one expects her to complete. There is also a possibility that she may have supernatural abilities. For example, plants wilt and windows shatter when she passes them.
Her relationship with Kyohei is somewhat unclear, as despite saying that she always wants to kill him, she often goes to an extent to protect him from his admirers and treat him well when he is down. In many of the recent chapters, she has not thought of or mentioned killing him, and though protests at first, doesn't greatly mind spending time with Kyohei, even giving him a homemade gift in the chapter "A Present for You" to remind him of the good memories he had with his mother. Recent chapters have also shown her forgetting her first crush and becoming more open to others, including her peers and teachers at school. She also thinks of her other housemates as more than just that, as stated in a previous chapter of the manga that she thought they were "closest friends." She is shown to be very protective of her friends even going to the point of trying to murder or kill the person who hurt them.