History Characters / JiisanBaasanWakagaeru

Characters appearing in ''Jii-san Baa-san Wakaegeru''.

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!!The Grandparents
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[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rejuvenated_saitou.png]][[caption-width-right:250:Rejuvenated]]

The titular grandparents of the series.
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* ChickMagnet: In his youth, Shouzou was a very handsome man with no shortage of women flocking to him, forcing Ine to scare them off. Even Shouzou's daughter-in-law and granddaughter are smitten by his looks after he regained his youth, along with his female elderly peers swooning.
* DudeMagnet: Like her husband, Ines has her own number of male admirers and suitors in her youth, with Kitamachi being one such example. After regaining her youth, plenty of her male elderly peers are greatly enchanted to the point where their blood pressure rises.
* FountainOfYouth: As a result of a strange dream about a giant hourglass, especially after eating a golden apple in the anime, both Shouzou and Ine regress from elderly to youthful adults. [[spoiler:Though Shouzou later finds out that the hourglass is not infinite, meaning that they'll still die naturally in a couple of years.]]
* GoodParents: They're both kind and supportive parents to their sons, Yoshiaki and Takahiro. Even after their sons are grown up and become fathers of their own children, along with the Saitou couple regaining their youth, this doesn't stop the Shouzou and Ines from doting and looking out for them.
* HappilyMarried: They are greatly in love and held a stable and loving marriage up to their twilight years. What makes it more impressive is that they were ahead of their time compared to how [[ArrangedMarriage marriages were usually conducted]] in Japan.
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[[folder:Shouzou Saitou]]
!!Shouzou Saitou
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinichiroMiki
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shouzou_saitou.png]]

Shouzou wondered about his life with Ine, having been together for fifty years already. Given their busy life and general lack of excess finances, many things couldn't be done.\\
A sudden dream about an hourglass that was turned around led to him turning young again, albeit with his hair remaining as gray as ever.
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* BookDumb: He never received a formal education due to his standing as the second son.
* BroughtDownToBadass: While he temporarily reverted back to his elderly appearance, Shouzou still possesses some of his youthful vigor.
* ButterFace: While Shouzou gained his original bald, elderly appearance upon his age temporarily reverted back to normal, he still has his somewhat youthful muscular build.
* GRatedSex: Implied to leave to masturbate several times. He still frequently requires the bathroom at night because their bodies are 'young' again, and one time, he disappears to the toilet when he gets visibly aroused at the thought of a young-again Ine in a swimsuit.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Shouzou has deep feelings of inferiority regarding his worth as a spouse to Ine due to his humble background and being unable to provide his wife with the luxuries she deserves.
* MundaneLuxury: Regaining a full set of teeth alongside his youth made him happy because he could chew all sorts of foods easily again.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Some of his actions get treated this way, like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandpa_young_again_trimming.png trimming the hedge with a chainsaw]]. Usually when some teenagers complain about tedious tasks and decide that it's pretty cool, after all.
* ShipperOnDeck: Ready and willing to lend Shouta a hand in getting closer to his granddaughter Mino. [[spoiler:He even took Ine out of the room and gave Shouta a thumbs up, so he'd have the chance to ask Mino to the bonfire dance.]]
* ThePowerOfLust: Pretty much mentioned in-universe as to be what gave him the strength to beat his oldest son in an arm-wrestling match because a win meant they'd get a room with an open-air bath for a trip to Atami.
* UnwantedHarem: Played for laughs, he gains quite a following of women -- old friends and even his own granddaughters -- who are clearly infatuated with his younger looks. Though everyone knows they can't get between him and his wife.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: Played with. Shouzou is the jovial and now youthful parent compared to his son, Yoshiaki, a middle-aged man with the expected stern demeanor.
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[[folder:Ine Saitou]]
!!Ine Saitou (née Sasaki)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamikoNoto
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ine_saitou.png]]

Ine was overall happy with her life and only hoped to continue to be able to spend time with Shouzou. A sudden dream about an hourglass that was turned around led to her turning young again, albeit with still-gray hair.
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* BrokenBird: She was this in the past. Following a complicated family situation, Ine became emotionally distant and introverted.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: While she initially had a very privileged life, being the daughter of wealthy parents and going to an all-girls school in Tokyo, that all changed on the day of [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific The Great Tokyo Fire Raid]], which left her homeless and an orphan. In desperation, she moved in with her mother's relatives, but [[SinsOfOurFathers due to her father's arrogance against his wife's rural and poorer in-laws]], she was shunned and due to her Tokyo dialect, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer was ridiculed for it]]. She ended up a BrokenBird on the verge of a total mental breakdown until she met Shouzo.
* DelicateAndSickly: Ines tends to be ill at certain points in her sons' childhood. Then, when Takahiro was an adult studying for his medical exams, Ine developed liver cancer that slowed down due to taking medication. After her youth is restored, the liver cancer has regressed to the point of non-existent.
* EarCleaning: Shown to do this to several people. First to her granddaughter Mino, and Shouzou later, noting that it was a common thing when they were newlyweds. Even Shiori gets an ear-cleaning, albeit in secret.
* EasyAmnesia: [[spoiler:She hits her head in Chapter 83, resulting in her reverting to her younger self, including regaining her black hair, and not remembering anything about Shouzou or her life with him.]]
* MundaneLuxury: She mentions being able to eat a full bowl of rice or having water coming out of the tap to be a luxury she took for granted when industrialization caused her family to lose its standing.
* SilkHidingSteel: She's got quite a tough streak behind her laidback smile, showing that she never quite lost the toughness from her old rebellious youth.
* UptownGirl: She came from a rich and influential family, way too out of Shouzou's league as the son of a farmer family.
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!!The Relatives
[[folder:Yoshiaki Saitou]]
!!Yoshiaki Saitou
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuyukiOkitsu
[[quoteright:190:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yoshiaki_saito.png]]

The firstborn son of Shouzou and Ine Saitou. He's also the husband of Kaede and the father of Mino.
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* WackyParentSeriousChild: Played with. Yoshiaki is a middle-aged man with the expected stern demeanor compared to his now youthful and more jovial father, Shouzou.
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[[folder:Kaede Saitou]]
!!Kaede Saitou
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomoSakurai
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The wife of Yoshiaki and mother of Mino.
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* EyesAlwaysShut: She's rarely seen with her eyes open.
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[[folder:Mino Saitou]]
!!Mino Saitou
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShioriMikami
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mino_saitou.png]]

The daughter of the Saitou couple's first son, Yoshiaki. Mino is a happy-go-lucky girl.
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* CannotSpitItOut: She clearly has an interest in Shouta, but has difficulty making a move on him.
* GenerationXerox: To her grandmother, Ine, regarding her mutual crush with Shouta.
* GenkiGirl: Always a bundle of energy and adores her grandparents.
* SchoolIdol: She's regarded as a trendy girl at her school.
* SiblingYinYang: With her cousin, Shiori.
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[[folder:Takahiro Saitou]]
!!Takahiro Saitou
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasahiroYamanaka
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takahiro_saito.jpg]]

The secondborn son of Shouzou and Ine Saitou. He's a doctor and the father of Shiori.
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* KarmicJackpot: Despite knowing he really hasn't done anything to deserve it, he feels his parent's turning young is this for his entering the medical field, especially as it eliminated his mother's liver cancer.
* MommasBoy: He's very close to his mother, and the knowledge of her having cancer is what drove him to go into the medical field in the first place.
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[[folder:Shiori Saitou]]
!!Shiori Saitou
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NaoTouyama
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shiori_saitou.png]]

The daughter of the Saitou couple's second son, Takahiro. Shiori is an introverted and socially inept girl.
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* {{Tsundere}}: She blurts out her true feelings about caring for her grandparents but quickly tells them to forget she said anything.
* SiblingYinYang: With her cousin, Mino.
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!!Other characters
[[folder:Shōta Igarashi]]
!!Shōta Igarashi
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Junta Terashima
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The second grandson of Kitamachi, and a classmate of Mino.
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* AcademicAthlete: According to Mino, he's great in academics and sports.
* CannotSpitItOut: Shouta has difficulty expressing his interest in Mino.
* GenerationXerox: Despite being the grandson of Ine's previous suitors, Shouta is similar to Mino's grandfather, Shouzou. They're both second-born sons who yearn for a girl who's perceived to be above them in social status and holds deep feelings of inferiority as a worthy partner. They even share similar hairstyles whereas Shouta's older brother resembles their grandfather in his youth.
* InsecureLoveInterest: He has a crush on Mino, but finds her way out of his league despite being just as popular in their school.
* ScaryTeeth: His teeth are drawn to look razor sharp, but he's a good kid.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: While she initially had a very privileged life, being the daughter of wealthy parents and going to an all-girls school in Tokyo, that all changed on the day of [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific The Great Tokyo Fire Raid]], which left her homeless and an orphan. In desperation, she moved in with her mother's relatives, but [[SinsOfOurFathers due to her father's arrogance against his wife's rural and poorer in-laws]], she was shunned and due to her Tokyo dialect, [[AllOfTheOtherRaindeer was ridiculed for it]]. She ended up a BrokenBird on the verge of a total mental breakdown until she met Shouzo.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: While she initially had a very privileged life, being the daughter of wealthy parents and going to an all-girls school in Tokyo, that all changed on the day of [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific The Great Tokyo Fire Raid]], which left her homeless and an orphan. In desperation, she moved in with her mother's relatives, but [[SinsOfOurFathers due to her father's arrogance against his wife's rural and poorer in-laws]], she was shunned and due to her Tokyo dialect, [[AllTheOtherRaindeer was ridiculed for it]]. She ended up a BrokenBird on the verge of a total mental breakdown until she met Shouzo.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: While she initially had a very privileged life, being the daughter of wealthy parents and going to an all-girls school in Tokyo, that all changed on the day of [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific The Great Tokyo Fire Raid]], which left her homeless and an orphan. In desperation, she moved in with her mother's relatives, but [[SinsOfOurFathers due to her father's arrogance against his wife's rural and poorer in-laws]], she was shunned and due to her Tokyo dialect, [[AllTheOtherRaindeer was ridiculed for it]]. She ended up a BrokenBird on the verge of a total mental breakdown until she met Shouzo.

* GenerationXerox: To her grandmother, Ines regarding her mutual crush with Shouta.

* BroughtDownToBadass: While he temporarily reverted back to his elderly appearance, Shouzou still possesses some of his youthful vigor.

* GoodParents: They're both supportive and kind parents to their sons during the latter's childhood. Even after their sons are grown up and become fathers of their own children, this doesn't stop the Saitou couple from looking out for them.
* HappilyMarried: The two of them are greatly in love and held a stable and loving marriage up to their twilight years.

* WackyParentSeriousChild: Played with. Shouzou is the jovial and now youthful parent in contrast to his son, Yoshiaki, a middle-aged man with the expected stern demeanor.

* DelicateAndSickly: Ines tends to be ill at certain points in her sons' childhood. Then, when Takahiro was an adult studying for his medical exams, Ine developed cancer that slowed down due to taking medication. After her youth is restored, the cancer is very likely regressed to the point of non-existent.
* EarCleaning: Shown to do this to several people. First to her granddaughter Mino, and to Shouzou later, noting that it was a common thing when they were newlyweds. Even Shiori gets an ear-cleaning, albeit in secret.

* WackyParentSeriousChild: Played with. Yoshiaki is a middle-aged man with the expected stern demeanor in contrast to his now youthful and more jovial father, Shouzou.

* SchoolIdol: She's regarded as a very popular girl at her school.

* DelicateAndSickly: Ines tends to be ill at certain points in her sons' childhood. Then, when Takahiro Ine developed cancer that slowed down due to taking medication. After her youth is restored, the cancer is very likely regressed to the point of non-existent.

* MommasBoy: He's very close to his mother, and the knowledge of her having cancer is what inspired him to go into the medical field in the first place.

* GenerationXerox: Despite being the grandson of Ine's previous suitors, Shouta is similar to Mino's grandfather, Shouzou. They're both second-born sons with an inferiority complex to a girl who's perceived to be above them in social status.

* FountainOfYouth: As a result of a strange dream about a giant hourglass, both Shouzou and Ine regress from elderly to youthful adults. [[spoiler:Though Shouzou later finds out that the hourglass is not infinite, meaning that they'll still die naturally in a couple of years.]]

* AcademicAthletic: According to Mino, he's great in academics and sports.

* DelicateAndSickly: {{Justified|trope}}. At some point in her second son's childhood, Ine developed cancer that slowed down due to taking medication. After her youth is restored, the cancer is very likely regressed to the point of non-existent.

A classmate of Mino.

!!!'''Voiced by''' Creator/ShinichiroMiki

!!!'''Voiced by''' Creator/MamikoNoto

!!!'''Voiced by''' Creator/KazuyukiOkitsu

!!!'''Voiced by''' Creator/TomoSakurai

!!!'''Voiced by''' Creator/ShioriMikami

The daughter of the Saitou couple's first son, Mino, is a happy-go-lucky girl.

[[folder:Shiori Saitou]]
!!Shiori Saitou
!!!'''Voiced by''' Creator/NaoTouyama
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shiori_saitou.png]]

Daughter of the Saitou couple's second son, Shiori is an introverted and socially inept girl.

* {{Tsundere}}: She blurts out her true feelings about caring for her grandparents but quickly tells them to forget she said anything.
* SiblingYinYang: With her cousin, Mino.

!!!'''Voiced by''' Creator/JuntaTerashima

!!! '''Voiced by''' Creator/ShinichiroMiki

[[folder:Ine Saitou (née Sasaki)]]

!!! '''Voiced by''' Creator/MamikoNoto

[[folder:Mino Saitou]]
!!Mino Saitou
!!!'''Voiced by''' Creator/ShioriMikami
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mino_saitou.png]]

The daughter of the Saitou couple's first son, Mino, is a happy-go-lucky girl.

* CannotSpitItOut: She clearly has an interest in Shouta, but has difficulty making a move on him.
* SiblingYinYang: With her cousin, Shiori.

[[folder:Shiori Saitou]]
!!Shiori Saitou
!!! '''Voiced by''' Creator/NaoTouyama
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shiori_saitou.png]]

Daughter of the Saitou couple's second son, Shiori is an introverted and socially inept girl.

[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandpa_young_again_shouzou_young.png]]
[[caption-width-right:150:[[labelnote:Shouzou Old]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandpa_young_again_shouzou_old.png]][[/labelnote]]

* GRatedSex: Implied to leave to masturbate several times. He still frequently requires the bathroom at night because their bodies are 'young' again, and one time disappears to the toilet when he gets visibly aroused at the thought of a young-again Ine in a swimsuit.

[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandpa_young_again_ine_young.png]]
[[caption-width-right:150:Ine Young]]

!!! '''Voiced by''' Creator/ShioriMikami

[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandpa_young_again_mino.png]]

* GRatedSex: Implied to leave to masturbate several times.. He still frequently requires the bathroom at night because their bodies are 'young' again, and one time disappears to the toilet when he gets visibly aroused at the thought of a young-again Ine in a swimsuit.
* MundaneLuxury: Regaining a full set of teeth alongside his youth made him happy because he was able to chew all sorts of foods easily again.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Some of his actions get treated this way, like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandpa_young_again_trimming.png trimming the hedge with a chainsaw]]. Usually when some teenagers complain about tedious tasks and deciding that it's pretty cool, after all.

* UnwantedHarem: Played for laughs, he gains quite a following of women -- old friends and even his own granddaughters -- that are clearly infatuated with his younger looks. Though everyone knows they can't get between him and his wife.

* MundaneLuxury: She mentions being able to eat a full bowl of rice or having water coming out of the tap to be a luxury she took for granted when the industrialization caused her family to lose its standing.

[[folder: Mino Saitou]]

Daughter of the Saitou couple's first son, Mino is a happy-go-lucky type of girl.

* CannotSpitItOut: Clearly has an interest in Shouta, but has difficulty making a move on him.

[[folder: Shiori Saitou]]

* {{Tsundere}}: She blurts out her true feelings about caring for her grandparents, but quickly tells them to forget she said anything.

* EarCleaning: Shown to do this to severla people. First to her granddaughter Mino, and to Shouzou later, noting that it was a common thing when they were newlyweds. Even Shiori gets an ear-cleaning, albeit in secret.

Characters appearing in ''Jii-san Baa-san Wakageru''.

!!! '''Voiced by''' Creator/NaoToyama

!!! '''Voiced by''' Creator/NaoTooyama

* UnwatedHarem: Played for laughs, he gains quite a following of women -- old friends and even his own granddaughters -- that are clearly infatuated with his younger looks. Though everyone knows they can't get between him and his wife.

[[caption-width-right:150:Shouzou Young]]
[[caption-width-right:150]][[labelnote:See Shouzou Old]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandpa_young_again_shouzou_old.png[[/labelnote]]

[[caption-width-right:150][[labelnote:See Shouzou Old]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandpa_young_again_shouzou_old.png[[/labelnote]]

* ADateWithRosiePalm: Implied. He still frequently requires the bathroom at night because their bodies are 'young' again, and one time disappears to the toilet when he gets visibly aroused at the thought of a young-again Ine in a swimsuit.