Tomoki Kuroki (黒木 智貴 Kuroki Tomoki?) is Tomoko's younger brother. He often does not understand his sister and is bewildered and irritated by her odd behavior. Tomoko occasionally comes to him for advice. He later enters the same high school as Tomoko.
Personality[]
Tomoki is very reserved and distant, even with his family and friends. Despite this, he appears popular in his class and admired by several girls.
Appearance[]
Tomoki has messy black hair and dark bags under his eyes like his sister. However, unlike Tomoko, he is considered attractive by his female classmates and by Kotomi as well. For much of the series, Tomoki has typical expressions. Early on, when upset with his sister, he takes the sort of Generic Early WataMote Expression™ where eyes are overshadowed and he grits his teeth, as did Emiri before her characteristic emoji expressions became established. In the Cultural Festival Arc, Tomoki has acquired a few more as shown in the Gallery. For ease, WataMote Wiki has created these designations:
"I'm in PAIN!" Face[]
As much as WataMote Wiki will justly object to the craven slur "edgelord" emitted by various Fanboys, he does have his moments of, perhaps, "emo?" First seen in Chapter 213-2 when Sachi mistakes him stating that he wants to "do" Sayaka as wanting to have sex with her rather than kill her[1]
The Joker Face[2][]
Unfortunately, this is currently a "one-off" expression, but it is rather extraordinary. It appears to result from his public attempt to contain his rage when Sayaka volunteers him and Akari as the leads for their class' romantic play.
GHOST Face[]
This is an extreme version of anger and embarrassment first seen throughout Chapter 218. His face becomes blank, tight, with his entire eyes hidden in shadow. Emiri notices it; Sachi chides him over it. Will it become a common face for Tomoki? Stay tuned! Arg!
Anime[]
Manga[]
- Volume 1 Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 8,
9 - Volume 2: Chapters 10, 11, 13,
14, 18, 18.5, 18.75 - Volume 3: Chapters 22, 25
- Volume 4: Chapters 28, 30, 32, 32.5, 33, 35
- Volume 5: Chapters 38, 41, 43, 45
- Volume 6: Chapters 47, 48,
52.5, 53,54 - Volume 7: Chapters 56,
57, 58,60, 63, 66, 66.5 - Volume 8: Chapters 68, 70.5, 75
- Volume 9: Chapters 81, 83, 84, 86, 88
- Volume 10: Chapters 89.5, 91, 93, 94, 95,
Omake - Volume 11: Chapters 100, 102, 104, 106, 108,
109 - Volume 12: Chapters 111, 112, 113,
115, 116,120, 121 - Volume 13: Chapters 123,
124 - Volume 14: Chapters 133, 134, 141, 142
- Volume 15: Chapters 143, 145, 146, 153, Omake
- Volume 16: Chapters
155, 156 - Volume 17: Chapters
159, 160, 163, 164, 168 - Volume 18: Chapters 169,
173, 176 - Volume 19: Chapter 180
- Volume 20: Chapter 192-2, Special Edition
- Volume 21: Chapters 194,
195,199-3 - Volume 22: Chapters 204-1, 204-3, 205, Comiket Special
- Volume 23: Chapters
208,209-2, 210-1, 210-3,211.5 - Volume 24: Chapters 213-1, 213-2, 213-3, 214-1, 214-2, 214-3
- Volume 25: Chapters 217-1, 217-2, 217-3, 218, 219, 220-1,
220-2,220-3 - TBA: Chapters 221, 222-2, 222-3, 223, 224-1, 224-2, 224-2.5, 224-3, 224-3.5, 226-1, 226-2
(Strikethrough episodes or chapters indicate the character was mentioned but did not make a physical appearance)
Relationships[]
Tomoko Kuroki[]
Tomoki once thought quite fondly of his sister and looked up to her quite affectionately. He considered her to be a very kind and caring person as she had helped him when he was in need and for playing with him.
As children during their summers they would catch cicadas together. They built up a collection of them which Tomoki forgets about but later rediscovers. He finds to his embarrassment a piece he wrote at the time where he explains why he loves his sister so much. He is also embarrassed by home movies their mother took of them as young children playing together.
As they grew older they began to drift apart. Part of that can be explains by both becoming teenagers; however, Tomoko specifically began to lord over him winning games to Tomoki's irritation. Despite this, he cares deeply for her well being and demonstrates this by being there for her in her worst moments or at least pretending not to be aware of what may have been said or happened as to lighten the emotional impact. Examples of this can be noticed during the first episode (Chapter 4), when he pretends to not notice her while his friends persist, and then later that night finds her on a swing set and asks to walk her home.
Tomoki's irritation with his sister persists through much of the series. However, when he sees a number of other girls when retrieving his lunch Tomoko brought for him, he starts to conclude the she is not as odd as he thought. By Chapter 160 he seems irritated when Tomoko joins him on his walk to school during her suspension but grudgingly wishes her well on her suspension when she wishes him well in his club activities.
Kotomi Komiyama[]
Generally, Tomoki pays little attention to Kotomi despite her crush on him. In the manga, he first meets the middle school aged Kotomi when Tomoko misinterprets her desire to give him a gift as an introduction by saying Kotomi wants his "cock". It seems Kotomi retreats into embarrassed silence until she reaches high school.
In high school, Tomoki continues to appear oblivious to Kotomi. In Chapter 108, Tomoki approaches Tomoko to ask about Kotomi. Tomoko naturally replies that she is "a raging pervert.". Later, when Tomoki sees Kotomi and Akari talking together, he approaches Akari alone to ask what type of person Kotomi is. Despite Akari wanting to remove Kotomi as a romantic rival, she instead decides to be honest and says that Kotomi is, "a very pure person." Tomoki then sees Kotomi talking with his sister who is demanding to know why her brother was asking about her, suggesting with her questions that Kotomi attempted something lewd, and leaving Tomoki to wonder if Kotomi is "a very pure pervert."
He experiences Kotomi's jealousy in Chapter 134 when she sees him with Yoshida. In apologizing to Yoshida for overreacting, she claims she has always looked upon him as a "little brother" to his inward irritation. He further finds the conflict she starts with Yoshida irritating.
Masaki Yoshida[]
Until Chapter 133, Tomoki does not have much of a relationship with or even know Yoshida. When he first sees Yoshida dragging his sister to meet Megumi Imae, he wonders if Tomoko is being bullied. Yoshida notices him looking at her and demands to know what he is looking at. He inwardly concludes that she is a delinquent. He later sees her smiling while looking at pictures of an amusement park that WataMote Wiki stresses is not, in anyway, based on Tokyo Disney. He finds this strange, and Yoshida smiles at him and playfully recalls him as the "punk/kid" she met. In Chapter 133 the two are surprised to find themselves sharing the same water dispenser in the cafeteria. Yoshida once again playfully calls him a "kid" and he cleverly replies. She then puts her arm around his shoulder and asks his name. This earns the jealous rage of Kotomi. In the process of their conflict, she learns his name, and she gives him the nickname "Tomo," while claiming that he can call her whatever he wants. She gives him her first name "Masaki" and insists that he does not use the honorific "san." Unfortunately, when he tries to restrain her when Kotomi reignites her attack, he grabs her by her left breast. Chapter 145 reveals that other class members noticed this.
For a number of chapters there is no indication that the two have any further interaction. After a very involved Chapter 155, Tomoko invites Yoshida to "fuck my brother" as gratitude for driving her home. Yoshida takes this as another twisted Tomoko joke, but then remarks, "you have a brother?"
She recognizes him on the soccer field and makes a note of him being part of the Soccer Club. She next meets him directly when he walks in on her leaving the shower. However, as of the time of this editing, the two have not had a meaningful discussion. In Chapter 194, Masaki sits next to him outside during lunch but is blushingly embarrassed that he does not really talk to her or give her any reaction. a apparent lack of interest persists. During the Overnight Trip to the Spa before the Cultural Festival, Masaki asks why he will not interact with her. She shows visible irritation and jealousy when she sees Sachi talk with him. Her crush is noticed by her friends, with Reina teasingly addressing him as "Masaki's Boy," to Masaki's embarrassment and anger. This becomes more obvious in the school festival arc, when Chapter-217 Sayaka announces that there will be a romantic ecene between Akari and him where along with Komiyama and Sachi, they are seen with jealousy. in Chapter-217.2 she is the one who encourages Tomoko to see her younger brother acting but other reason is because the thing that Sayaka said in the other chapter, Reina continues with the jokes that "his man" is going to have s*x in public and end it telling her that she gonna kill her.
On Chapter 217.3 is more looked that she's is indeed in a deaply crush in Tomoki, she was paying at a lot of her attetion in the act, she was sitting with Mako and Tomoko, when he made his presence in the scenario, possibly Reina shout in the audience "here come's Masaki Fella" to make her embarrassed and angry at the same time, in the scene where he and Akari are looking to the audience and he is in the role as the prince, he tell's to her that he would like to take her as his princess, she looked jelous for that and Mako only looks her, Sachi only slightly laugh sarcastically and Minami gets confused by that, when they were going to pass in the kiss scene, she gets anger because of jelous like Chapter-217, its gets even worse for her because the public was shouting on him to kiss Akari, finally gets even more worse because of Reina who was also in favor of get that happening, but everiting gets more obviously because Sayaka's failed attempt, when she wanted to push Tomoki from behind because she knows that the two will pretend the kiss, but she ended up tripping and Sayaka ended up tripping and kissing his in accident to the shock of the directors of the work, Akari and the entire public maked a great uproar for this last scene, at the end of this chapter she looked absolutely broken from Tomoki and Sayaka's kiss.
Akari Iguchi[]
Akari is one of the girls who has a crush on him. She first appears in Chapter 25, adapted in Episode 3, when she blushingly brings homework to his house when he is sick. As with most WataGirls™ who have a crush on him, it remains currently unrequitted. After a comic misunderstanding in Chapter 91, Akari confesses to Tomoki in front of Kotomi and Tomoko that she, too, wants "to see his dick!" to her eternal mortification. However, due to Sayaka's machinations, she and he are chosen to play the leads in their class Cultural Festival. While Akari apologizes to him and suggests that they can withdraw, he brushes this off. His reaction to Sayaka, however. . . .
Yuri Tamura[]
For much of the series, the two do not have any interaction. Yuri knows who he is, and in her competition with Hina, she will remind Hina that she did not know Tomoko has a brother. She first meets him for the first time when he picks up lunch from class 3-5, and the second meeting is when she stays at Tomoko's home to study during a typhoon. While she is reticent to have dinner with them, Tomoko's Mum insists, and Yuri actually enjoys the interaction. She talks with Tomoki at the table. After that, they have no interaction until they meet at a bookstore looking for guides on acting. The two have a pleasant talk with Mako at a café on the subject. Sachi will later confront Yuri with the suggestion that the two have dated. For her part, Yuri has no feelings for Tomoki and rejects the suggestion, but since that is as of the time of this edit, stay tuned!
Sayaka Yoda[]
Sayaka accompanies Akari during her visit with their class homework in both the manga and anime adaption. Over the series, she will stick up for Akari and encourage her crush with often embarrassing results. She organizes a "Study Date" at Tomoki's home that only serves to irritate him. She volunteers Tomoki and Akari as the lead roles in their class' play for the Cultural Festival to Akari's profound embarrassment. Unable to read the room, she bubbles in excitement while Akari tries to apologize to Tomoki. For his part, he looks at Sayaka and forces a smile that WataMote Wiki could adequately describe, other than to currently deem it his "Joker Face." In Chapter 213-2, he expresses fantasies about killing Sayaka. This currently culminates with their first performance/dress rehearsal where he ad libs stomping on her left foot, kicking her left shine, and emptying his wine glass into her face. Winning The Show Must Go One Cubic Zirconium Bowl Award<ref>Citation Needed – Ed.</ref>, Sayaka maintains character. While Tomoki's thoughts are played for comedy, his actions are not. He does wish to hurt her. Due to her suggestions, the ending of their play is changed to him having to kiss Disney Princess Akari[-chan – Ed.] to revive her. It becomes clear to the trio that Evil Step-Sister™ Sayaka, as she rushes the pair, intends to push Prince Tomoki on Disney Princess Akari[-chan – Ed.] to make any kiss "real." Prince Tomoki assures Disney Princess Akari[-chan – Ed.] that he will deliver "the finishing blow (トドメ・todome)," to her shock, and he stands and tries to punch Evil Step-Sister™ Sayaka in her face. Due to his previously delivered trauma, her left leg gives way, his punch misses as she falls on him, with the result than she lays on top of him with her lips planted on his, and her face shocked and deeply blushing.
Whilst WataMote Wiki confesses a modicum of glee teasing Fanboys with "Tomoki X Sayaka: MAKE IT HAPPEN!" asides, the next chapter reveals that he internally debates which was the more horrific experience: kissing Sayaka or his sister when they were young children. Click on the linkypoo to learn his decision . . . Arg!
Sachi Mima[]
For much of the series the two have little, if any, interaction. After Sachi destroys her group, she finds herself alone. She seeks secluded places to eat lunch where she will not be seen eating alone. She happens to choose the place Tomoki uses to avoid people during lunchtime. She suspects that he is a loner and gloomy, but she is impressed that he does seem bothered sitting near an older girl. They converse, and when she asks him if he knows any girls from her years, he replies that he does. She asks if they are members of his club; he flatly replies that they have been to his home.
With this, Sachi wonders if he is a "playboy (ヤリチン・yarichin)" and suspects that he is hitting on her. However, she also admits that she finds the quiet types who do not just call out to girls attractive. The two will continue to end up having lunch at the same spot. As of this writing, that is where their relationship stands. However, the recent Chapter 205 reveals that Sachi is jealous of the idea that he may have a relationship with other girls. Chapter 218 reveals that he does make good his agreement to ride the "coffee cup" ride with her,[3] but she asks him if he will continue to sulk over the fact he kissed a girl publicly on stage. This breaks him from his GHOST Face, to his "I'm in PAIN" Face, then to a more natural face. He has a very brief moment of normal conversation where he admits he has kissed a girl in the past – thinking of his sister! – until she legitimately becomes dizzy and leans against him for support, and he sees his sister. As they walk together in the school corridors, she stops him and asks him if the one he alluded to kissing in the past could be "the Gloomer!"
As always, "stay tuned!"
Quotes[]
- "Ahh! What the!? Who's this ugly freak!?! Oh man...it's just you Tomoko." - (Episode 1)
- "GAH, DON'T GO DIGGING THROUGH MY STUFF. DIE!!!!!" - (Episode 1)
- "If you were my brother, I'd punch you in the face." (Episode 1)
- "She apologized? I don't know why, but she is pissing me off." - (Episode 6)
- "Maybe she's brain damaged... yep, definitely. Definitely brain damaged." - (Episode 6)
- "What the hell is she talking about now?!"
- "Why would I have this kind of sister?"
- "A-a." – to Sayaka
Etymology[]
- The name Tomoki means "wisdom, intellect" (智) (tomo) and "valuable" (貴) (ki).
- Tomoki's surname Kuroki means "black" (黒) (kuro) and "tree, wood" (木) (ki).
Trivia[]
- The most common thing Tomoki says is: "Get the hell out." This is nearly always used toward Tomoko Kuroki.
- When he was a child he loved Tomoko.
- Tomoki doesn`t seem interested in romance, which is probably that his first kiss was with Sayaka in chapter-217.3, after she tripped and fell on top of him by accident.
- he has 4 girls in love with him, those are Kotomi Komiyama, Sachi Mima, Akari Iguchi and Masaki Yoshida (With this last one, it becomes obvious in the arc of the cultural festival).
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