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Lira Echigo

Lira Echigo (越後リラ Echigo Rira) is a student at the night school where Nico Hirata teaches. She is known for her lively and cheerful personality. Lira meets Kou Yamori at the night school and quickly develops feelings for him, falling in love at first sight. Her straightforward and affectionate nature leads her to briefly date Kou, though their relationship is short-lived as Kou’s focus remains on his connection with Nazuna Nanakusa.

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Lira Echigo

Appearance

Lira is a cute and unusually tall girl with a doll-like appearance. She has sparkly light brown hair and large dark eyes that change with her emotions—bright and full of life when she’s happy, but dull and unsettling when she’s upset, giving her a yandere-like gaze. Her style is distinctively vintage and feminine; she wears headdresses, patterned dresses adorned with frills, and baggy sleeves. Her socks and shoes are also decorated with old-fashioned designs that complement her outfits. On Halloween, she wore another charming, doll-like dress with a ribbon tied neatly at her collar.

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Personality

Lira is described as having a “fairytale-like aura,” with her thoughts constantly revolving around love. She is emotionally unstable, capable of shifting moods in an instant, and carries deep trauma from being bullied in the past, making her extremely sensitive to being laughed at. While generally friendly, Lira’s immaturity often shows through her behavior. When she falls in love, she becomes completely fixated on her partner—ignoring everyone else, constantly following him around, talking to him endlessly, and showering him with compliments, much to the irritation of others.

A member of the literature club, Lira enjoys reading, though most of her books at home are picture books. She is, however, a genuine admirer of Kyouko Mejiro’s diary and writing style. Lira tends to fall in love instantly, believing it to be fate, but her infatuations burn out quickly as she usually breaks up with her boyfriends after two weeks, admitting that she simply loses interest. Her possessive and jealous nature gives her strong yandere tendencies when she’s in love.

As Lira herself puts it, she is “in love with being in love.” She adores the euphoric feeling romance gives her, but once it fades, she can no longer understand why she was ever drawn to her partner. This self-awareness ultimately leads her to end her relationship with Kou before she stops loving him entirely.

Abilities and Skills


As a normal human, Lira doesn’t have any extraordinary abilities.

Trivia

  • Lira hates her name as, when read out, it can sound like “ecchi gorilla”(えっちゴリラecchigorira?), which is a name people used to bully her with during her childhood. They’d call her a gorilla due to her unusually tall height.
  • Her name has been translated to Rila Echigo in the German localization.
  • Lira’s name may be in reference to the flower lilac, as it’s written the same way in Japanese.
  • According to Nico, most of the boys in class have dated Lira at one point.
  • Lira sometimes refers to herself in third person.