Grade: Second Year (Later Third Year)
Age: 16-17 (November 23rd)
Position: Head of Newspaper Club
Ranko stands out in a cast full of energetic, over-the-top girls—she's got a flat affect and rarely smiles, usually just staring ahead with a neutral expression. When the Student Council once pressured her to smile for a photo, she literally had to tape the corners of her mouth upward. But here's the thing: that deadpan exterior completely masks how wacky and chaotic she actually is. She's hilarious, animated, and weird in a way that catches people off guard.
As head of the Newspaper Club, Ranko takes her job seriously. She's basically always holding her camera—she's called it as essential to her as part of her own body, and she means it. She's got genuine journalist instincts.
The catch is that her ethics are. flexible, at best. She won't fabricate news outright, but tweaking details or doctoring photos to make a story pop? Totally fair game in her book. There's even a running joke that she'd be willing to sell compromising pictures to the highest bidder—like when she casually mentioned she could make bank off photos of the sweaty judo club. Takatoshi genuinely wasn't sure if she was joking.
She also stirs up drama just for laughs or a good scoop. She once convinced Uomi that Kaede was terrified of boys, purely to see what would happen. And if she's got incriminating photos—even if she knows someone's innocent—she'll use them anyway if the story's good enough.
Her favorite target for "mishearing" things in a perverted way? Definitely Takatoshi, though Shino and Kaede get roped in too.
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