Editing Boys Be... (section)

===Main characters===
;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Kyoichi Kanzaki}}|神崎 恭一|Kanzaki Kyōichi}}
:{{Voiced by|[[Kenichi Suzumura]]<ref name="MediaArts"/>|[[Sam Riegel|Sam Regal]]<ref name="EP1-EN">Credits from {{cite episode|title=Cherry Blossoms|series=Boys Be...|number=1|publisher=[[Right Stuf|The Right Stuf International]]|type=DVD 1|publication-date=February 28, 2006|isbn=1-57032-817-X}}</ref>}}
:A typical high school student who, in the opening episode, realizes he has feelings for a childhood friend, a track star named Chiharu Nitta. Their relationship develops slowly in the series, however, it encounters some turbulence when he goes out of the area to do some summer work, and upon coming back, sees Chiharu kissing another guy. Kyochi is broken hearted and has a brief relationship with Shoko Sayama and dealt with loneliness with the help of another schoolmate. His interests are in the visual arts, mainly drawing. In the final episode, he travels to Hokkaido to clear his mind and work on some sketches, and get a new perspective on relationships.
;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Yoshihiko Kenjo}}|剣城 美彦|Kenjō Yoshihiko}}
:{{Voiced by|[[Hideo Ishikawa]]<ref name="MediaArts"/>|[[Patrick Seitz]]<ref name="EP1-EN"/>}}
:Yoshihiko is talented in sports (especially [[baseball]]), but has no interest in it whatsoever. He also seems to have no interest in girls... until he bumped into Aya Kurihara at the library and kisses her. He meets Natsue Horikawa, who inspires him to keep pursuing baseball and, in getting to know her, and more of himself, they become a couple. He also spent a whole day with pop idol Jyunna Morio when she escaped from her studio taping.
;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Makoto Kurumizawa}}|胡桃沢 マコト|Kurumizawa Makoto}}
:{{Voiced by|[[Akira Ishida]]<ref name="MediaArts"/>|[[Liam O'Brien]]<ref name="EP1-EN"/>}}
:Makoto is the epitome of a girl-obsessed guy, keeping an electronic database of the good-looking girls at Otowa-no-Mori with him, and checking with his guide books and magazines for love advice. Early in the series, he was trying to peep at a short-skirted schoolgirl as she was climbing the stairs of an overpass, and his scooter crashed into a mini-truck. He then had a crush on the nurse intern. Later on, he used a computer dating program which paired him up with Erika Kawai. Since he lacked real dating experience, Makoto went on a mock date with Yumi. However, his actual date does not go well, when Erika sees a photo of him together with Yumi, and promptly dumps him. Makoto ends up being comforted by Yumi when she offers him her self-made cookies, and he realizes that they had a good time together during the mock date, and they end up becoming a couple.
;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Chiharu Nitta}}|新田 千春|Nitta Chiharu}}
:{{Voiced by|[[Kazusa Murai]]<ref name="MediaArts"/>|Amy Kincaid<ref name="EP1-EN"/>}}
:Chiharu is Kyoichi's athletic love interest, running for their school's track and field team. She has been Kyoichi's friend since childhood, but she also has difficulty expressing love, eventually making her move at the end of the first episode by holding Kyoichi's hand while they are out. When she goes out to summer training with the track team, she is wooed by a college guy named Okazaki, and struggles with whether she really has a relationship with Kyoichi. Okazaki continued his advances to which they spent a night together at a lookout point, though she says nothing happened between them. She wanted to keep her tryst a secret, but Kyoichi, coming in to visit, saw them kissing, hence a rift formed between them that lasted all summer. Towards the end of the series, as she sees her friends get into relationships, she considers whether to reconcile.
;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Yumi Kazama}}|風間 有美|Kazama Yumi}}
:{{Voiced by|[[Miki Nagasawa]]<ref name="MediaArts"/>|[[Stephanie Sheh|Jennifer Sekiguchi]]<ref name="EP1-EN"/>}}
:Yumi is a glasses girl with a sarcastic attitude on relationships, usually to counter her friend Aki's idealistic sayings. She likes to occasionally dress in odd clothes, such as a sea otter costume at the beach and an [[animal hat]] during New Year's Eve. After accidentally destroying Makoto's laptop, she tries to train Makoto on how to date her friend Erika Kawai, and even goes on a mock date where she holds up X signs and razzes Makoto whenever he makes a mistake. But in the course of the mock date, she realizes she is having a good time, that Makoto has some good qualities, and she ends up falling in love, feeling somewhat lonely that Erika gets to date him for real. However, as fate would have it, Makoto's date with Erika did not go well, and she ends up comforting him with her self-baked cookies, and they ended up being a couple.
;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Aki Mizutani}}|水谷 亜紀|Mizutani Aki}}
:{{Voiced by|[[Yuri Shiratori]]<ref name="MediaArts"/>|[[Michelle Ruff]]<ref name="EP1-EN"/>}}
:Aki has a rather idealistic view of romance. In the opening episode, she talks about how she fell in love with a guy on the train in two minutes. In one of the episodes, she reunites with her former middle-school classmate that she used to spend a bunch of time with on his photography hobby and who was totally clueless that she liked him. Her boyfriend is now working in Hokkaido, and they maintain a long-distance relationship. In the New Year's Eve episode, she gets worried that the world might really end.