Puppy Love/Characters

Hatsu Watanabe
Hatsu is 13-year-old cram school student who is desperately trying to get into Tokyo High because of a promise he had made fifteen years earlier to his first love. This promise, that if two people who love each other and have a wedding together they will live happily ever after, is what keeps Hatsu focused and determined, even though he can not remember the name or face of the girl with whom he made the promise to. He is raised by his aunt and the people around his small town because of his father's disappearance. Hatsu is a second year student who has been kicked out from home by his parents for entering to enter Tokyo High. He heads to a mansion, an inn owned by his Aunt Ren, in order to find a place to live and study for his books. After a misunderstanding, Hatsu is shocked to find that mansion has a servant, and because of this he cannot stay there. During the series, he develops a deep romantic interest in Kirie. In the final chapter, they got married and had a child named Aoi.

Kirie Alexandria Xenia Kichida II
Kirie is Hatsu's 14-year-old next door neighbor, classmate, and childhood friend who takes care of him from time to time since. As a child, the young Hatsu made a promise with a girl, based on a story the children overheard that two people who love each other will live "happily ever after". Kirie is secretly a mage in-training and maid of the Watanabe Family Mansion. He is the daughter of Asuna Xenia Kichida, known as the legendary "Golden Master". However, she has an extremely fiery temper and has a tendency to inflict violent physical punishment (mostly on Hatsu). As Hatsu's childhood friend, it seems that Kirie harbours some romantic feelings for him, but she is too proud to admit it. As the focus of much of his stupidity, she is quite happy to put him back into place with her fists. Although she can be hot headed, Kirie is a good friend and cares for those close to her. Despite initially taking a (literally) violent dislike to Hatsu, she comes to develop very strong feelings for him. The main part of her character arc is that she has great difficulty in admitting these feelings, both to herself, to the childish Hatsu and to the world in general. In the final chapter, they got married and had a child named Aoi.