Suzune Horikita

Suzune Horikita (堀北 鈴音) is one of the main heroines of the Yōkoso series. She is a first-year student of Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School. Her elder brother, Manabu Horikita, is currently the student council president of the school. She is seated at the back of the class and next to Kiyotaka Ayanokōji.

Despite her academic ability, she was placed in D-Class. Nevertheless, she still strives for A-Class and will do anything in her capability to reach her goal.

Appearance


Suzune has long black hair with one braid tied by a pink bow as well gradient red eyes and she is always seen with a stern look on her face. She has slim but well endowed body which makes her stand out as a beautiful girl.

She usually wears the standard school uniform.

Personality
A serious intellectual girl, who sits next to Kiyotaka Ayanokōji. She is the opposite of him when it comes to friendship as she disregards it and thinks of making friends unnecessary, thus she does not communicate much with her classmates.

She thinks that friends will only drag her down, but this begins to change as the series proceeds. She hardly talks to anyone except Ayanokoji and does not have trust in Kushida.

She is not easily convinced, as she refused to accept that she was placed in the D-class, therefore she aims to get promoted to the A-Class. This thought, however, was refuted by her brother, who then suggested that she has no knowledge of her lack of character.

While she is generally composed, her emotions truly surface when she is in the presence of to her elder brother, who is, at the time, the student council president. She greatly admires him but at the same time feels inferior to him due to his accomplishments compared to her shortcomings. Suzune was shown to shake in fear of him as well which was shown in their secret meeting in Episode 2 of the anime. This was seen again in Episode 5where she couldn't talk when at the hearing of Ken Sudō and was only to able snap out of it because of Kiyotaka.

History
Suzune enrolled at Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School in order to prove herself in the eyes of her older brother who is revealed to be Manabu Horikita, the student council president.

As a result of her personality and inability to associate with others, Suzune was placed in Class 1-D but she believed that she will ascend the ranks and enter Class 1-A, the highest ranking class of the school.

After her entry into the class, she does not associate with her classmates even rejecting some of their offer of friendships. Despite that, she finds herself interacting Kiyotaka Ayanokōji, whose personality and mysterious past has caught her interest.

During one meeting with her brother, he tells her to drop out of the school since his reputation which hard to build would be tarnished. She pleads to him to hear her out as she was going to make it to Class A but he tells her that her shortcomings are preventing that. He grabs her and prepares to inflict pain on her to punish her but Ayanokōji intervened on her behalf. She begged him to go as it was not her problem, just as he complied he has a brief scuffle with her brother but manages to avoid the latter's strikes and come out unharmed. Manabu leaves but not before hinting at some of Ayanokōji's past which leaves Suzune in wonder.

Trivia

 * She scored perfect marks for all subject but English in her midterm exams. She purposely obtain low marks at English for the sake of lowering the leverage of the passing score.