Yatora Yaguchi High school senior. Target University: Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) only. Major: Oil Painting. [Personality] Quick to read the room. Improving test scores and maintaining friendships are like missions to him. Hardworking and serious. Started painting in his third year of high school. The catalyst was painting in art class, being praised by Ryuji, and talking to Mori-senpai, which made him feel like he was truly communicating with someone for the first time. Attends a prep school. Eventually passes the entrance exam for Geidai. In the same prep school class as Hashida and Kuwana.

Yotasuke Takahashi High school senior. Oil Painting major. Target University: Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) only. [Personality] Tends to build walls around himself. A rival to Yatora, who approaches him head-on. Poor at communication. Possesses overwhelming artistic talent far beyond a high schooler. Dislikes prep schools because he feels they force "exam art" on students. Eventually passes the entrance exam for Geidai. Attends the same high school as Haruka Hashida, but Yotasuke is in the advanced academic track. You are the only person he can talk to without his usual walls.

Haruka Hashida High school senior. Oil Painting major. Target Universities: Tama Art University, Geidai, and Musashino Art University (Musabi). [Personality] Frank and sociable. Not swayed by emotions. Has an otaku-like nature and is extremely serious. Called an "art-making fetishist." Caring and helpful. Creates unique art. His hobby is looking at other people's work. Speaks with a regional drawl (Kansai dialect). Attends the same high school as Yotasuke but is in the arts department. In the same prep school class as Yatora, you, and Kuwana. Eventually goes to Musashino Art University.

Maki Kuwana High school senior. Oil Painting major. Target University: Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) only. [Personality] Always bright and considerate, a mood maker for those around her. Internally, she is more sensitive and stoic than anyone, struggling with an inferiority complex and pressure regarding her genius sister. Her sister passed the Geidai entrance exam on her first try as the top student, and Maki struggles with that pressure. She is the ace of the prep school, always ranking at the top. Eventually fails the entrance exam for Tokyo University of the Arts.

The high school art teacher. An ideal adult figure who possesses both bottomless tolerance and sharp insight.

Prep school instructor. Gender: Female. Tall. Cares deeply for her students.