March Comes In Like a Lion is about a child with nowhere to be, recovering at a dinner table. For Rei, who lived holding his breath inside a stepfamily, supper at the Kawamotos' is the first secure base he has had. No other work draws this carefully the fact that attachment is repaired not by a dramatic event but by warm food, repeated.
This page reads 3 March Comes In Like a Lion characters through three layers: MBTI as the outward personality, attachment style as the hidden side, and a Big Five type. Rather than simply assigning a type, Why this type from what they do in the story and where they came from — that is how this site works.
📊 Attachment styles across the March Comes In Like a Lion cast
The comparison baseline is the attachment split across 42,256 quiz responses: 30.1% secure, 15.5% anxious, 13.7% avoidant, 40.6% fearful-avoidant.
Rei, avoidant, and Hinata, secure, close a circle: the one who was repaired takes his turn at protecting. When Hinata is bullied and Rei moves, saying it is his turn now, that is attachment being handed on.
🧩 Reading the relationships in March Comes In Like a Lion through attachment
March Comes In Like a Lion follows a boy who lost his place and gets one back. Rei lost his family in an accident and grew up holding his breath inside a new one; the shogi board was the only safe ground he had, until he meets the unconditional acceptance of the three Kawamoto sisters. Including Hinata facing down bullying and the way Shimada shows what effort looks like, this work is unusually careful about the people who do the supporting.
📖 Character list (tap to jump)
The artwork is 16 MBTI types × 4 attachment styles = 64 combinations character images. When the same picture appears twice, those two match all the way down to the 64-type level.
♟ Rei Kiriyama: MBTI INFP, attachment avoidant
After losing his family in an accident, he grew up in hiding among his stepfamily. The only place to be is on the shogi board - an avoidant type who has adapted too much to loneliness.
MBTI radar (INFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Rei Kiriyama is INFP × avoidant
Reads several moves ahead in silence — an INFP player who buried himself in shogi with his feelings shut down. After his family died in the accident he lived as the child who was not there inside a stepfamily. When not being a nuisance is the condition for surviving, the distances a person keeps come out avoidant.
🍙 Hinata Kawamoto: MBTI ESFJ, attachment secure
"What I did was absolutely wrong." -- A hero who stands up to bullying and looks good in a rice ball.
MBTI radar (ESFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Hinata Kawamoto is ESFJ × secure
What I did was not wrong — an ESFJ of extraverted feeling (Fe) who stood up to bullying. Shielding a friend made her the target and she still would not bend on what was right. Crying and not breaking is the secure pattern, built on a warm table at the Kawamoto house.
🌾 Kai Shimada: MBTI ISTJ, attachment anxious
A hard-working shogi player from a rural area who always takes stomach medicine. I'll show you how people who aren't geniuses fight.
MBTI radar (ISTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Kai Shimada is ISTJ × anxious
From the provinces, self-taught, stomach medicine always on him — an ISTJ of introverted sensing (Si) who keeps going at the wall of talent with work.
❓ Frequently asked questions
How many March Comes In Like a Lion characters are listed here?
March Comes In Like a Lion currently has 3 characters listed. Each one carries MBTI, attachment style and a Big Five type, with the reasoning for the call. (Rei Kiriyama, Hinata Kawamoto, Kai Shimada and others)
Which attachment style is most common in March Comes In Like a Lion?
The three listed here are spread across attachment styles. Ways of keeping distance do not match even inside one work: MBTI types can be close and the reaction to being approached still comes out differently.
Is this type assignment official?
Not official. This is our editorial reading, based on actions and descriptions in the work. It is not a psychological diagnosis and not the view of the people or studios involved.
Can I find out my own type?
A free 46-question quiz crosses the 16 MBTI types with the 4 attachment styles into 64 types. No sign-up. Reading it against the March Comes In Like a Lion cast makes your own way of keeping distance easier to see.
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