List of Tramps Like Us characters
This is a list of characters from Tramps Like Us.
Sumire Iwaya is a hard-working and highly successful journalist, who is demoted to the lifestyle section after punching her boss when he sexually harasses her. Ogawa feels that Sumire's "stubborn" personality at the beginning stems from Ogawa's own experience as a new manga artist.
Sumire enjoys both her job and her romance with Hasumi, unlike depictions of female characters in the 1980s and 1990s. At the end of the manga, she notices that she has fallen in love with Momo and in the last chapter, she marries him.
A young dancer who Sumire finds and takes in as her pet. Initially, Ogawa had intended to make him much more animal-like in his mannerisms. He is said to represent a "comfortable, cooperative, and compatible" sort of a man.
Hasumi is a successful journalist who went to university with Sumire. He is said to represent the "three highs" kind of a man that Japanese women have stereotypically desired.
Other characters
Yuri Shirotae Rumi Shibusawa Shiori Fukushima Emma Owen and Hugh OswaldSatoshi Asano Junpei Horibei Mayumi Haruki Yuuta Ishida Ooishi MinoriMrs. KusunokiEdmond SukenariShinobu