Starting with the teacher!


Becky--erh, i mean, Miss.Miyamoto! ^-^;
Rebecca, also referred to as "Becky" by her class, is the homeroom teacher of class 1-C and a mathematics teacher. She was born to an American father and a Japanese mother, although she keeps her mother's last name. Rebecca enrolled at MIT at the age of nine and graduated at ten with a triple major. She then entered Peach Moon Academy at age eleven as a teacher. Normally lethargic and halfhearted, she dons a cool face to keep her genius reputation. However, when confronted with a frightening or uncomfortable situation, she immediately reverts to her childish state, weeping uncontrollably (called the "hau hau" by the students in episode 21) and often hides behind a curtain. She is extremely popular and a confidant to the students.
After she gets permission to create a personal research lab in the school, she finds much to her surprise that students start coming to her with their problems, looking for counseling. Even after discovering what began this turn of events - a sign posted on the door saying to the effect Becky was offering counseling - and taking off the sign, students still come back several times in the series for help. Her room is also used as a somewhat "home base" for class 1-C beside their own classroom.
In each episode, she dons a different outfit which would seem too "cute" for a teacher but usually fits the style of clothing for a girl her age. Often she is displayed as especially childish, such as wearing pajamas designed to make the wearer look like a cat.

CLASS 1-C

Himeko Katagiri

Himeko is a wastefully energetic girl who often shouts "maho" ("マホ", "maho"?), possibly her ways of saying "what", "cool", etc, while speaking. She frequently annoys the other students in her class with her antics and inability to carry a straight train of thought. Her "ahoge" (the lock of hair on her head) contains a mysterious power that gives Himeko her limitless energy and is capable of movement on its own accord. After the mushroom incident of episode 20, her ahoge shrinks and in order to appear as if nothing has changed, she wears a wig to mask it. Whenever this wig is pulled off, she again loses her energy, though it is returned once the wig is returned to her head. In the English translation, Himeko's ahoge is referred to as a cowlick.
Himeko's catch-phrase is saying that a particular thing is "Omega" (for example, "Omega kawaii!" (オメガかわいい！, "Omega kawaii!"? meaning "Omega cute!")). Himeko possesses the ability to eat as much as she pleases without ever becoming fat, and is particularly fond of crabs. Out of all of the girls, Himeko is by far Becky's biggest fan, much to Becky's chagrin. Out of all female characters, as far as the anime goes, she is the one by far in the most situations that involve hints of lesbianism such as trying to kiss Becky in episode 6.

Rei Tachibana

Rei is a girl with a heart and appearance as cold as ice. Of the girls in class 1-C, Rei is the most mature one. Threatening bodily harm is Rei's way of enforcing order in the classroom with Himeko being her usual target. She's the one to put Becky in her place when she gets out of hand and also the one to lure Becky out from behind the curtain with candy after she's put the fear of God into her. Rei has the second highest GPA in the entire school and works four days per week at a Chinese restaurant. Despite her apparent coldness, Rei is often the one to teach Becky important moral lessons.
She has also shown herself to have a greedy streak as when during the school festival she purposely made it so their classroom was the most popular so that she could reap the profits later, something she was unable to do since all profits went to charity

Ichijo

Ichijo is class 1-C's mysterious class representative, frequently shown drinking green tea. Her activities, at least near the beginning of the series, are normally limited to standing up, sitting down, and announcing that she's "the class representative, Ichijo". She is always calm about everything, but is prone to erratic, questionable behaviour. In later episodes, she often does the seemingly impossible without ever saying more than a word or two about it, including successfully performing an effective rain prayer twice. She has a younger sister who is just as mysterious; her sister relies on drawing on a sketchpad to communicate as she is too young to converse. Aside from Ichijo and her sister, no one else is aware of the aliens keeping watch over Becky.

Miyako Uehara

Miyako is known as a "study-bug", a name which she earned through her perpetual studying and which she detests, though her score is almost average. She will often get mad if she is unable to study due to the crazy antics that she often gets put into, which are also often against her will. Miyako was even handcuffed to Sayaka Suzuki in episode 16 to get her to track down Ichijo.
She also has a very large and very shiny forehead which gets more extreme with each episode. It starts off with a simple sheen in the first episode; in the second episode, it becomes a blinding flash; by the third episode, others are actually able to style their hair in the reflection on her forehead. In a later episode, her forehead becomes so bright that the other characters are forced to don welding masks to be able to look at her. Also, she apparently possesses ESP. In some of the more strenuous events in the series, she always tries to keep a level head, though is not always able to accomplish this with sheer will power alone.
She is not always seen wearing glasses as she does have contact lenses as well. She explained in episode 4 of the anime that after long hours of studying, it's much easier on her eyes to wear glasses than contacts.

Kurumi Momose

Kurumi is girl who is above average in appearance, athletics, and academics, but who nonetheless suffers from being called plain all the time. If there's even a hint that somebody has called her plain, she goes off to sulk alone, often in the rabbit cage with Mesousa. She has been known to fade almost completely out of existence altogether when she gets called plain or ignored too much. Kurumi is a very fast sprinter, and also played varsity basketball. She is the sister of Shu Momose of class 1-A who is known for his cooking skills, something that she herself does not possess. Unlike in most anime and manga where the younger sister will call her brother Onii-chan (兄ちゃん, Onii-chan?), Kurumi refers to her brother as Aniki (兄貴, Aniki?), which is a much more masculine way of addressing an older brother. It might be due to this that, due to her reactions as seen in episode 20, she has a fascination with how some girls in Japan are now using the pronoun boku (僕, boku?), meaning "I", which is usually only said by Japanese males. It is never explained why she enjoyed this so much. From episode 11 on in the anime, she is shown with her hair grown longer. Additionally, from episode 19 on, she ties her hair in twin braids. She cuts her hair back to its original length for episode 26 and it magically grows throughout its progression.
In later episodes, after experiencing much of the unrealistic events in the first half of the series, she starts to see reality in a whole new light and starts little by little to accept giant fighting robots and small talking animals to be normal occurrences in everyday life. Despite this new outlook at how crazy her life really is, the others always seem to overlook her estranged claims. When not in school, she also has a part time job at a moe café though due to her not being considered moe, business is not as good as the owner would want it to be.

Sayaka Suzuki

Sayaka, also known as "Rokugō" (6号, "Rokugō"? meaning "#6"), is a good girl who often gets taken advantage of because of her kindness, although she doesn't seem to mind. Miyuki Igarashi of class 1-A gave her the nickname Rokugō because she was the sixth girl in the school to bear the name Suzuki, though this is never explicitly explained in the anime version. Sayaka's catch-phrase is saying that something is "-of the year", (for example, "teacher of the year"). In certain episodes, Becky refers to Rokugō as "over-sized" or "big ribbon" due to her hairstyle.

Mesousa

Mesousa is a parody of the "cute mascot" type characters often seen in anime, with one huge difference: Mesousa has a severe case of depression. His lack of fingers makes everyday tasks almost impossible, further deepening his depression. Practically useless in every way, Mesōsa serves as the slapstick of the series, being blown up in one episode and having his legs broken in another, all without complaint. His "tastiness" stat is a reference to the mascot character Menchi from the parody anime Excel Saga. Mesousa is not Becky's pet, but, rather, her companion who tries to help her in class such as getting and holding the footstool for her while she stands on it to write on the blackboard. His name derives from the combination of "meso meso," a Japanese psychomime for whimpering, and "usagi" (兎, "usagi"?), which is Japanese for "rabbit".

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