101st Marriage Proposal: The Characters

I was going to do this before I started the summary of the first episode but it was so good...I had to watch another episode. Before I knew it I'd watched the whole thing and I'm behind with the summaries and I didn't post the characters.


Chie's older sister.

She's a professional cellist with the local orchestra. And...she's still mourning the loss of her fiance Makabe after three years.

Junpei's brother. Tatsurou has no luck with women. He's desperate to get married but keeps getting rejected. He's been stepped on all his life so he's used to all the rejections. He's in his 40's and knows he'll never be anything more than a foreman at his job.













Chie is in love with Naoto...Naoto is in love with Kaoru. Kaoru is still in love with Makabe. She becomes friends with Junpei.
















Junpei has a crush on Ryoko, who is a university classmate of his and also a receptionist at Tatsurou's job.
















Kaoru's best friend. She's her voice of reason...she makes Kaoru think. She has Kaoru's best interests at heart. She owns a music (instruments/sheet music) store.















Naoto plays violin in the same orchestra as Kaoru. He proposes to her despite knowing that she's still in love with her dead fiance. He attracts many female admirers but he loves Kaoru, who thinks of him as a little brother.














Ryoko is a receptionist at Tasturo's company. She has a bit of a crush on him and is oblivious to the fact that Junpei is in love with her.
















Tatsuro's new boss. What is his deal?



















I've purposely left our Makabe from this list. He appears in the drama only via Kaoru's memories of him. You never see his face until episode 7. Stay tuned...