Akane Yanagi

Akane Yanagi (柳 明音) is a 3rd year at Katagiri High School who is enrolled in class 3-6 and a member of Kyouko Hori and Izumi Miyamura's regular group of friends.

Appearance
Yanagi is an extremely handsome light-skinned young man with light pink hair that has bangs hanging on the right side and pink eyes.

Personality
Yanagi is a gentle and mild mannered boy who never wants to rub anyone the wrong way. However, due to his rather reserved personality and polite manner of speaking, he is sometimes seen as being unapproachable, and therefore wants to be closer to everyone. But despite all of that, he actually wants to be friends with everyone, and goes to great lengths to try being on good terms with them, especially Kakeru Sengoku.

He is very bad with mornings, and as he's still waking up and half-asleep, his personality is the complete opposite. He becomes extremely rude and violent - so much that other characters jokingly wonder if he has a split personality.

Yuki Yoshikawa
Yanagi's first appearance was when he confessed to Yoshikawa. Yoshikawa, believing him to be too good for her, rejected him. (He gains the nickname of "high class ingredients", in reference to how much better looking he is compared to the rest of the characters.) Eventually, he becomes a regular member of Kyouko Hori and Izumi Miyamura's circle of friends. Although not usually mentioned, it is occasionally touched upon that Yanagi still has some lingering feelings for her.

Miki Yoshikawa
After Yanagi visits the Yoshikawa house, Miki believes Yanagi to be Yuki Yoshikawa's boyfriend. Going by the logic of "what's Yuki's is also mine", she also playfully teases him when she sees him. Yanagi is forced to put up with Miki clinging to him, which Yuki always has to apologize for the next day.

Kakeru Sengoku
Out of all of the characters, Yanagi wants to be friends the most with Sengoku (and Sengoku with Yanagi). However, due to Sengoku's lack of expressiveness about his emotions/friendships, along with the way Yanagi feels distant towards others, this is an uphill battle. Both of them admit that they feel the other is their friend, and that they want to be closer, but they haven't been able to reveal it to each other.

Sakura Kouno
Chapter 84 was focused mainly on Kouno and Yanagi suggesting a future couple. However, both characters have hinted that they still have lingering feelings someone else (Yanagi still has feelings for Yuki Yoshikawa and Kouno still has feelings for Tooru Ishikawa) even though they got rejected. Maybe through this they will form a good relationship because they both have had their feelings put down. They both share a common interest in Weekly Shinobi, a manga they both like to read, and both share a polite personality. She even compares him with "Kaoru-san", a female character from that manga. He sees Kouno as very cool with how she deals with situations (but Kouno would like him to call her cute instead of cool).

Etymology

 * The name Akane means "bright" (明) (aka) and "sound" (音) (ne).
 * Akane's surname Yanagi means "willow" (柳).

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