Stardust Wink/Characters
The characters of the manga series Stardust Wink:
Apartment Residents
Anna Koshiro
Voiced by: Mariya Ise (vomic)
Anna is a fourteen-year-old Genki Girl who believes she will never fall in love with her childhood friends, Sou and Hinata. She lives in room 302 of their apartment complex.
- Book Dumb
- Curtains Match the Window
- Dogged Nice Girl
- The Ditz/Dumb Blond
- Green-Eyed Epiphany: Anna doesn't truly realize her feelings for Hinata until she discovers that Mochizuki has a crush on Hinata and is planning on confessing to him. It only worsens when Anna discovers that Hinata has a crush on Mari-sensei.
- Hair of Gold
- Nice Girl
- Oblivious to Love: Anna doesn't notice Sou has feelings for her until he flat-out tells her, and even that she initially believes he's lying. They briefly date only because Sou was able to kiss her (and Anna believes if Sou can kiss her, then it must mean she likes him back), but she really has no idea what's going on when they're going out, and they break up and stay friends. It also takes Mashiro to remind her that her first love is Hinata, and she's in denial of it until she gets jealous when she discovers Mochizuki has a crush on Hinata.
- Platonic Life Partners: This is initially what Anna thinks of her friendship with Sou and Hinata until Sou is revealed to have feelings for Anna and Anna develops feelings for Hinata.
- Precocious Crush: Anna's first love is Mashiro, but he reveals to her that her real first love is actually Hinata.
- Shallow Love Interest: To Enomoto and Sou.
- Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: Has a fleeting crush on Enomoto, briefly dates Sou but has no romantic feelings for him, and her first love is Hinata, who she redevelops feelings for.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: To Mashiro, but it turns out he's not really her "first love." It's really Hinata, whom she later becomes a Victorious Childhood Friend for.
Sou Nagase
Voiced by: Shinnosuke Tachibana (vomic)
Sou lives in room 303 and is one of the most popular boys in school. While gifted in academics and sports, he's also short-tempered. He frequently dates other girls, but pines for Anna.
- The Ace
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Sou's older sister, Rin, thinks of him as this.
- Curtains Match the Window
- Dogged Nice Guy: Towards Anna, though in a Jerk with a Heart of Gold way.
- Heterosexual Life Partners
- Hot-Blooded
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sou can also be a Jerkass.
- Ladykiller in Love
- Parental Abandonment: Sou's parents are never at home due to work. His sister also lives with her boyfriend half of the time. Forget Parental Abandonment, how about "Family Abandonment"?
- Red Oni
- School Idol
- Tsundere
- Unlucky Childhood Friend
Hinata Tokura
Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (vomic)
Hinata is another childhood friend of Anna and Sou, and lives in room 301. He is one of the most popular boys in school, though he isn't aware of it. He is fond of animals, particularly Anna's pet squirrel Coco, and is in the Art Club.
- All There in the Manual: Hinata's character biography states that he dyed his hair a light chestnut brown color in order to look older.
- Blue Oni
- Cuteness Proximity: Has one for squirrels and chipmunks.
- Disappeared Dad: Hinata does have a father and he is mentioned a couple of times, but he's never seen outright in person.
- The Heart: He's usually the one who patches up the fights between Sou and Anna.
- Heterosexual Life Partners: With Sou.
- Hot for Teacher: Although this actually turns out to be fake!
- Oblivious to Love: Is oblivious to Anna and Mochizuki.
- Put on a Bus: Hinata moves to Tokyo during the high school arc, although he regularly keeps in contact with Sou and Anna.
- School Idol
- Sleepyhead
- The Stoic
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Anna has made it clear that she likes Hinata, yet despite Hinata's apparent crush on Mari, he begins showing hints that maybe he's only channeling possible feelings for Anna onto her just to respect Sou, who he knows likes Anna. When Sou begins to distance himself from Anna, Hinata becomes interested in winning Anna over, gives her a kiss, asks her out on a date, — basically things one would normally not possibly do with someone who is Just Friends with another.
- Victorious Childhood Friend
Beni Ichihara
Beni is an elementary school student who lives on the fifth floor of the same apartment complex as Anna, Sou, and Hinata. She has an unrequited crush on Sou.
- Annoying Younger Sibling
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Has a big crush on Sou and is jealous whenever she finds Anna and Sou together.
- Green-Eyed Monster
- Hair of Gold
- Precocious Crush: Sou is only three years older than Beni, but he treats her like a kid whenever she tries to flirt with him.
- School Idol
- Sibling Yin-Yang
- Unlucky Childhood Friend
Mashiro Ichihara
Mashiro is Beni's older brother and a twenty-year-old pre-med student. He is Anna's first love.
- Aloof Older Brother: Towards Beni.
- Big Brother Mentor: Towards Anna.
- The Casanova: Mashiro swept tons of girls off their feet in middle school!
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Gave off a suspicious vibe in his first appearance, but it turns out to be a Red Herring.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold to almost everyone, but mostly a Jerkass to Beni.
- Ladykiller in Love: In middle school, Mashiro was popular with the girls but resolved to not have a girlfriend. He made a Bet with his friends to make Childhood Friend and resident Tall, Dark and Bishoujo Ice Queen Rin Nagase fall in love with him since she Does Not Like Men. Needless to say, he fell in love with her, and she reveals to him she liked him since they were young — but everything goes sour once she finds out about the bet from Beni.
- Megane
- Sibling Yin-Yang
- Shipper on Deck: Mashiro often encourages Anna to get closer to Hinata.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend
Junior High Classmates and Teachers
Enomoto
Anna's senpai and middle school crush in Chapter 1.
Kurumi Mochizuki
A girl in the art club who Anna befriends. Has a crush on Hinata.
- Heterosexual Life Partners: With Mari.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Mochizuki reveals to Anna that she learned right away that Anna has a crush on Hinata, who Mochizuki also likes, and knows that Anna doesn't like it when they're together, and lets Anna be the one to visit Hinata when he gets ill from overexerting himself.
- Meganekko
- Nice Girl
- Shrinking Violet
Mari Kobayashi
The art club teacher who is friendly with Hinata and Mochizuki.
- Heterosexual Life Partners: With Mochizuki.
- Hot Teacher
High School Classmates
Nanoka Saeki
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
- Brutal Honesty
- Clingy Jealous Girl
- Genki Girl
- Manipulative Bitch: She eventually changed away from this for the most part, but she still hates "Shithead Nagase" AKA Sou and likes messing with him.
- Yandere
Ayane Asou
Ayane is the beautiful childhood friend of Nanoka. She and Sou used to date.
Hinata Kazami
Childhood friend of Ayane and Nanoka who coincidentally shares the same phonetic name as Hinata Tokura. He is secretly a manga artist.