This is a list of characters from Tramps Like Us (Kimi wa Petto).
Main characters
Sumire Iwaya (巌谷 澄麗, Iwaya Sumire) (Portrayed by: Koyuki, Kim Ha-neul in the 2011 Korean film, Noriko Iriyama in the 2017 remake)
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) (Portrayed by: Jun Matsumoto, Jang Keun-suk in the 2011 Korean film, Jun Shison in the 2017 remake)
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]
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) (Portrayed by: Sarina Suzuki, Kayo Noro in the 2017 remake)
Sumire's childhood friend, a housewife to a pilot and mother of Ran.
Takeshi (Momo)'s friend who also does ballet. In the TV series he has an unrequited love for Rumi.
Mayumi Haruki (Portrayed by: Misa Uehara)
One of Sumire's co-workers.
Yuuta Ishida (Portrayed by: Ryuta Sato)
One of Sumire's co-workers.
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.
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.
^ abcSaeki, 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. ISBN978-0-415-45311-0.
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