Alliterative Name: Shoichi Sugunama; Bishounen: Shouichi Suganuma, more or less.Unlike your average VN H-Game protagonist he is actually given a face even in his POV and in most C Gs. Nearly everyone in the story lampshades his handsomeness, including Riho's classmates, her teacher who is an avid fan of Shouichi, some other females, and any of the girls in their routes.
Riho is an honest woman with sharp perception, able to move hearts with the ”soul” born from her talent and her devoted stance towards hard work. Though she acts important, high-handed, snappy, and aloof towards people when meeting them for the first time, let alone those she considers a rival (such as Riho), but behind the mask she’s just a plain girl and a pushover who can’t keep up her princess act.However, her passion and spirit towards rock ’n roll and the guitar are well beyond average, and both Yayoi herself and others will admit this. To her, the guitar is a part of herself, and the effort she puts towards it is almost pious.Even if the guitar belongs to someone else, she considers neglecting it or compromising one’s performance as blasphemous to her creed, and will punish them on behalf of God.Also, because of her intense love of guitars, Yayoi’s considered a ”freak” who will check every inch and corner when she sees a rare custom guitar, feeling up its design in ecstasy.She wants to jump out of the cage of common sense through rock. But what will tomorrow hold for her? Ever since she was a little girl, Rimu’s real father, a pro musician, taught her to play the drums, and the talent in her blood grew markedly, so as a result, she wields the techniques of a veteran drummer even at her young age.Though one would never imagine it from her small and compact appearance, her ability to perform is menacing.However, because she grew up listening to professional drumming, Rimu was sent to a special school for gifted children as a result. Thanks to the high skill she developed, she is unable to find satisfaction in performing with those her own age, lost her passion, and doesn’t know what to do with her skill anymore.She also suffers from abandonment issues after her real father left their family when she was young and her mother began approaching a new marriage.Amidst all of that, she meets Shoichi and the others, regaining her passion for the drums when she learns that she can produce her ideal music by performing with these friends.
However, she’s extremely whimsical, doesn’t listen to others, forgets promises, and her wild nature causing everyone around her to worry combined with her bed head lead many to liken her to a cat. A regular at Live House 696, Gonda is a fairly well known bassist amongst the bands in the neighborhood.What they know of is his skill with the bass, his rough temperament that easily leads to trouble, that he fought with several bands in the past and withdrew from them all, and that there’s some reason behind why he’s quit participating in bands.However, he frequently visits the studio at 696, and the spirit he puts into practice and his passion for music are extraordinary. Even so, he always acts as a lone wolf, and his background is shrouded in mystery.
Judging from his overweight build and his appearance, he’s in his 30s, but all the rumors about him are bad, saying things like he always gets in fights when he goes on stage, that he’s had several brushes with the law, and that he once killed a man.He holds a philosophy towards rock and the bass, occasionally talking about it and showing his manly side, but when he speaks a lot, one can see he’s also a fool to some degree.