Character Relationship Map: Love x Doc

Characters

• Asuka Goda (played by Yoh Yoshida) — protagonist

  Asuka Goda is a 40-year-old pastry chef who runs a sweets store. She works alongside the younger Seiya Hanada and Kenichi Gonda, while Seiya’s confession revives painful memories from five years earli...

• Seiya Hanada (played by Shuhei Nomura) — protagonist

  Seiya Hanada is a pastry chef who works with Asuka Goda at her sweets store. He is younger than Asuka and changes the emotional situation by confessing his feelings for her. His confession brings back...

• Shunsuke Nomura (played by Hiroshi Tamaki) — supporting

  Shunsuke Nomura is a gym trainer who was in a relationship with Asuka Goda five years before the main events. His relationship with Asuka existed at the same time as her affair with Junji Awai, making...

• Junji Awai (played by Kotaro Yoshida) — supporting

  Junji Awai is the owner of the store where Asuka Goda was involved in an affair five years earlier. His connection with Asuka forms one part of the romantic history that troubles her after Seiya Hanad...

• Asuka's ex-boyfriend (played by Jundai Yamada) — supporting
• Reiko Fuyuki (played by Hirosue Ryoko) — supporting
• Asuka's ex-colleague (played by Takuma Otoo) — minor
• Miki Sakuragi (played by Ryo Narita) — supporting
• Chigusa Hosoya (played by Kayoko Okubo) — supporting
• Kenichi Gonda (played by Atsushi Shinohara) — supporting

  Kenichi Gonda works with Asuka Goda at her sweets store and wants to become a pastry chef. His role connects him to the store’s working environment alongside Asuka and Seiya Hanada. The plot summary d...

• Misaki Ueda (played by Erika Karata) — supporting
• Table tennis bar manager (played by Kaname Kawabata) — minor