About “A Couple of Cuckoos” in a few words:

“A Couple of Cuckoos” is a romantic comedy manga and anime series created by Miki Yoshikawa. The story revolves around Nagi Amano, a high school girl who falls in love at first sight with Eiichi Nakamura, a serious and hardworking student. However, when Nagi discovers that Eiichi has a twin brother named Makoto Nakazono who is his complete opposite, she finds herself caught in a hilarious love triangle. The series explores the relationships and dynamics between these three characters, as well as their friends and family.

Meet the characters from A Couple of Cuckoos

Hiro Segawa

Oh man, Hiro is that cool, slightly distant type who somehow ends up being the anchor for everyone even though she’ll deny it with a glare. She’s efficient, smart, and a little intimidating — the kind of person who organizes group chats at 2 a.m. and then judges your playlist choices (but secretly has terrible taste in cheesy romance dramas, shh). She can be blunt to the point of bluntness and then do something oddly soft like knitting or leaving sticky notes on your locker; it’s confusing but lovely. Also I’m pretty sure she’s 100% allergic to mornings and 100% into perfect spreadsheets, which is somehow a vibe.

Ai Mochizuki

Ai is pure, chaotic energy in human form and I love her for it — quick to snap, quicker to apologize, basically a walking tsundere trope but with more pizza. She’s loud, opinionated, and will absolutely drag you for your life choices while secretly saving your snacks in her bag for later. Fiercely loyal, doesn’t know how to be subtle about anything, ever, and also surprisingly observant when she wants to be (like she notices the exact color of your last five sweaters). Slightly contradictory detail: she claims to hate romance but will rewatch sappy movies and cry into her hoodie, so yeah.

Erika Amano

Erika gives off pristine, polished, put-together energy — the “I had a 12-step plan before breakfast” kind of person — but then she’ll do something gloriously impulsive and you remember she’s human. Sharp-witted, competitive, and kind of a perfectionist, but also wildly dramatic inprivate, which makes her both intimidating and oddly endearing. She’s the type to rehearse a speech 17 times and then throw confetti because she’s proud of surviving the day; also hoards pens like they’re rare artifacts, don’t ask why. Basically equal parts clasped-gloves elegance and napkin-doodle chaos.

Sachi Umino

Sachi is soft but not a pushover — she’s the warm, steady heart of the group who bakes too much and somehow manages everyone’s moods like it’s a second job. She’s gentle, earnest, a little shy, and has this knack for saying exactly the right quiet thing at the right weird time; also she has a suspiciously encyclopedic knowledge of cute stationery. She’ll support you until she absolutely runs out of spoons, at which point she’ll become quietly fierce and also peak sass (don’t underestimate the baking mom energy). Tiny contradiction: always smiling but once she’s mad she organizes a passive-aggressive chart, and yes, it’s color-coded.

Nagi Umino

Nagi is the stoic-genius type who pretends not to care and actually somehow cares about everything, like a walking contradiction wrapped in a school uniform. Super smart, annoyingly competent, and very controlled on the surface — but then he blinks in a romcom way and you realize he’s secretly romantic and ridiculously awkward about it. He’s pragmatic, responsible, maybe too earnest sometimes, yet also has this small, stubborn streak of childlike weirdness (he cooks oddly specific dinners and hoards old stationery, don’t ask). He looks like he’s got it all sorted and then loses his keys five times in a day; iconic.