Chihiro Shiranami

Appearance
Chihiro is a teenage girl of average height with short blonde hair and bluish violet eyes.

She is often seen wearing the standard school uniform. On one occasion, she was seen wearing a bikini as her stylistic choice while hanging out at the pool.

Personality
Chihiro is infatuated with and openly fawns over Honami Ichinose appearance and personality.She is not afraid to admit it in public as shown when she hugged her, much to the latter's confusion. Chihiro harbours a romantic interest in Honami early on and even wrote a love letter to confess her feelings to her. She was jealous and teared up when she saw her with Kiyotaka Ayanokōji. Although Honami tried to say that he was her boyfriend, Kiyotaka cut in and said that they were just friends, much to her relief.

She can be easily emotional, such as when she was heartbroken and ran off crying after Honami blatantly rejected her confession. Despite that, both girls compromised and promised to go back to being friends the next day.

It appears that she has overcome incident as later on, she hung out with Honami and was able to get along well.

Plot


Chihiro is first seen walking through the school store with Honami Ichinose, as they bump into Kikyō Kushida and Kiyotaka Ayanokōji. Honami waves at Kikyō, as the two walked past them with Chihiro continuing her walk with Honami.

Chihiro is next seen in Class 1-B, speaking with her teacher who was suffering from a hangover and remarks on how she smells like alcohol. The class then received the news from their teacher (who ran out soon) that they passed their recent tests. Chihiro is so excited that she hugs onto Honami stating that she is happy to be in the same class as her while Honami pats her on the head.

Sometime later, Chihiro had wrote a love letter to Honami to confess her feelings for her, placing it in her locker. She went to the designated spot only to be met with surprise when she found Honami with Kiyotaka. After Honami introduces Chihiro to Kiyotaka, she tearfully asked if they were a "couple", as a nervous Honami tried to answer but Kiyotaka answered first by stating they were just friends, to Chihiro's relief. She then watched as Kiyotaka told Honami to be honest with her answer to Chihiro over her confession since it was a lot of strength to build up, before leaving the two girls to talk. Chihiro and Honami spoke with each other until the latter ultimately rejected her feelings as she did not feel the same way but the two promised to go back to being friends. Chihiro then ran off from the area in tears at her feelings being rejected while Kiyotaka looked after her.



Chihiro was later seen going to the pool and hanging out with the majority of her class and D-Class. She played volleyball and had fun, though she was put off by the behaviour of 3 Idiots of D-Class. She later witnessed the speech of Suzune Horikita and was surprised by the development and declaration.

During the survival test, she was made the leader of her class as they set up camp. As a result, her class was ranked in second place, due to her class playing it safe by not naming the other leaders and with D-Class winning the test.

Name Etymology

 * The name Chihiro consists of kanjis that mean "thousand" (千) (chi) and "search, seek" (尋) (hiro).
 * Chihiro's surname Shiranami consists of kanjis that mean "white" (白) (shira) and "wave" (波) (nami).

Trivia

 * At episode 4, after Honami Ichinose rejected Chihiro, the length of her socks seemed to mysteriously shorten from thigh level to below knee level.