Manabu Horikita

Manabu Horikita (堀北 学) is a student of Class 3-A and the current president of Advanced Nurturing High School's Student Council. It is later revealed that he is the elder brother of Suzune Horikita.

Appearance
Manabu is a young man of average height with a short gray hair and violet colored eyes. He wears the standard school uniform along with a pair of glasses.

Personality
Manabu is a serious man who is very dedicated to his duty as student council president. He has much attachment to the role as he believes his reputation would be tarnished if it was discovered that his younger sister was in Class D, the lowest class.

He does not tolerate excuses as he couldn't believe nor accept his sister's words that her placement in the class wasn't her own fault. He almost went as far as trying to assault his own sister, showcasing his violent side, before Kiyotaka Ayanokōji intervened. He quickly tried to take his fury out on him but his strikes were easily brushed off by the latter.

He appears to hold respect to those who interest him which is seen with Ayanokōji who he believes is hiding more than he is letting on. He was even willing to let Ayanokōji become part of the student council as he seems to admire his talents.

History
Not much is known about Manabu, besides the fact that he entered Advanced Nurturing High School where he would rise through the ranks and become one of its most respected and well known students. At some point, he became the student council president gaining him even more respect from the student body.

Manabu's younger sister Suzune Horikita who had always admired his academic prowess would enroll in his school but her inability to associate with others nor change her ways would cause her to placed in Class D. Manabu was greatly angered by this as his sister's failure would jeopardized the reputation he worked so hard to build.

He is first seen giving a speech to the first years telling them to prepare for the new year in school.

Manabu is next seen talking with his sister who he is irritated that came to see him. Suzune attempts to plea to her brother about she changed but he doesn't accept it as her placement will ruin his stature. He denounces her view of isolation as independence saying if she is unable to accept her shortcomings, she would be lost. He demands that she leave the school to avoid further disgrace to his name but she refuses stating she will make it to class A. Hearing this, Manabu pushes her to a wall and is about to attack her when Kiyotaka intervenes having witnessed everything.

Suzune begged him to stop as it wasn't his concern, when Kiyotaka complied Manabu attacked him but he nimbly avoided Manabu's other strikes. Manabu was impressed by this asking Kiyokata if he studied martial arts as the latter gives him a vague answer. Manabu soon recognizes him as the student who scored fifties on his entrance exams. He inquired on this even hinting that he is hiding his intelligence on purpose but the latter shrugs this off.

Trivia

 * He has some skill in fighting as shown in Episode 2.