Tanaka/Relationship

## Family

### Rino Tanaka

Rino is Tanaka's younger sister. Tanaka cares for her and sees her as independent and self-sufficient, unlike himself. His sister, in turn, has an obsession with her brother to the point of having a brother complex. She loves him dearly and is extremely jealous of Ohta being able to spend time with Tanaka. Tanaka at one point believes he is useless as a brother because he feels that due to his listlessness he cannot protect his sister but Saya assures him how much Rino loves him, as she often brags about him. Despite this, Rino is still capable of being annoyed at Tanaka, as shown when she sent him on an errand to get pipe cleaner but because he forgot what he was supposed to buy he ended up buying a bunch of groceries with the letter "p" in Episode 5. She will sometimes lecture Tanaka on his listlessness, but enjoys taking care of him.

## Friends

### Oota

Ohta is shown to be a close friend and classmate of Tanaka. He helps Tanaka a lot, so their relationship seems more like one far more intimate than normal friends. Ohta carries Tanaka around when the latter gets too tired to walk himself, helps him out with his food if Tanaka has a problem with it, helps him out with grocery shopping and other such tasks. Ohta also carries out errands and looks out for him in a way that emulates a bigger brother, a wife or a mother. This leads to comparisons made by even the characters in the series such as Ohta himself and Shiraishi that Ohta is like Tanaka's spouse. Tanaka also claims that he fully intends to marry Ohta when they get older, something the latter told him not to joke about.

### Miyano

At the very beginning of their relationship (read: her first appearance), Miyano appeared with bad timing enough that one may have thought that Tanaka did not take to her very well. However, as time goes on, it is clear that Tanaka does not consider Miyano as bothersome.

The two get along on an interesting level, although it is unclear what exactly Tanaka thinks of Miyano as someone who considers him her "master". Nonetheless, he sees and respects her as an individual and cares little for the impact her quirkiness and hyperactivity has on his listless life. He admires her hardworking persona and Miyano strives to be his apprentice in listlessness so she could learn to become more like an adult woman. She admits at one point that she doesn't see him as a man but more like a God, though it is clear she respects him and sees him as a friend, often talking with him and trying to copy his listlessness. Tanaka may see her as a friend as well as he has no problem associating with her.

### Shiraishi

Shiraishi is Tanaka's classmate and friend. Shiraishi has a crush on him, and is under the impression that he can recognize her for her true self. In Chapter 78 of the manga, Shiraishi and Tanaka had to run together for the three-legged race during the sports festival. Shiraishi was extremely flustered by being close to Tanaka. They were able to win the race slowly and steadily by matching each other's breathing and staying in-sync, unlike the other paired contestants. Afterwards, it was revealed that Tanaka was slightly flustered by being so close to her, although he hid it from her.

Shiraishi once cut her bangs in a proper shape when she had cut it messily because it got in her way, and Tanaka blushed a little later on his own, thinking that she smelled nice. Although their relationship is unclear, they were not confirmed to be a couple.

### Echizen

Tanaka had initially known nothing of Echizen before their face-to-face meeting, which makes sense since it seems they're not even in the same class. From their initial meeting, Tanaka may have seen Echizen as a threat to his listlessness and uneventful life but was quite tolerant of her during that first encounter. However, their relationship grew to become one of friendship after learning that Echizen was childhood friends with Ohta and close friends with Miyano. Their relationship seems to have grown even deeper after the incident with Miyano when Tanaka spoke his mind on their argument. There was also a point of misunderstanding when Tanaka caught a cold and was not able to speak, so he attempted to communicate with Echizen through writing his thoughts into words on a pad of paper. Due to his innate laziness and Echizen's surprising interpretation of his words, she had assumed that either Tanaka or Ohta liked her as a woman and she had begun to see the two as men. It is unclear whether or not this incident has any weight on their relationship from that point onward however, no indication of such a change seems to have occurred.

Even after becoming acquaintances, Tanaka shows little interest in her problems, such as when he walked straight past her when she had her big fight with Miyano, and when he continued to walk away from her even after seeing her in a maid outfit and acting out of character for the culture festival.

Echizen is constantly getting irritated at Tanaka's behavior towards people because she herself is full of passion while Tanaka is full of laziness. Example of which is when she scolds him while thinking he was being a bother to Shiraishi and hits him over the head when he asks her to give a sick Ohta a worksheet a day he was not in school. She does in fact care of what he thinks of her, shown when she gets embarrassed as he sees her being praised for doing good deeds, or when he catches her in a maid outfit and she throws a fit and tries to attack him. But this is more of a defense for her "delinquent" image.

### Saya Oota

Their first meeting was at a WacDonald's when Saya had mistaken Tanaka's booth to be empty and sat down, but in truth, Tanaka was laying down on the seat, giving the impression that the booth was free. He was surprised to learn she is Ohta's sister and she was to learn that he is Rino's brother.

Her first impression of Tanaka was somewhat of admiration due to her thinking he was "prince-like", but as time passes, she begins to see him as more of a caring older brother type once seeing him ponder if he is a good older brother for Rino.

Tanaka mainly sees her as "Rino's best friend" and "Ohta's little sister", but respects her nonetheless, considering she has a close connection with two important figures in his life. He is also shown to be rather considerate when he attempts to reunite Saya and Ohta after their argument, by showing Saya what it'd be like if Tanaka were her older brother instead of Ohta.

### Sora Miyano

When they first met, Sora immediately made Tanaka his master after being rejected by a girl, who happened to be Rino. He made Tanaka his master because he looked awfully similar to his crush. Tanaka just gave a little advice to him to get closer to his crush, while being unaware that Sora's crush was his sister. He didn't know that Sora was Miyano's younger brother until he spotted both of them at a convenience store during New Year's, and until then, had called him Yano-san because he misheard Sora when he first introduced himself.