Rumiko Manbagi

Rumiko Manbagi is one of the main characters in the Japanese romantic comedy anime and manga series Komi Can't Communicate.
She's a close friend of both Shouko Komi and Hitohito Tadano. She gains numerous other friends, but those are by far her two closest. She also develops romantic feelings for Tadano not long after meeting him.
==Appearance==
Rumiko Manbagi is a tall girl with tanned skin, large breasts, dark brown eyes, and extremely long, wavy, frilly hair. Her natural hair color is black, but she dyes it so it's usually seen as blond. She visually represents the stereotypical anime image of the Gyaru, or Gal, with her dark skin, showing a bit of cleavage while not so much that she can still leave much of it to others imagination, and a short skirt.
== Personality ==
Manbagi is a cheerful, friendly girl who easily gets along with people once she becomes friends with them. In contrast to Shouko, she is quite energetic and talkative, although the two are more similar than they initially appear, both being sweet, lonely girls who desperately want friends. She seems somewhat naive and insecure, believing that her heavy makeup is what makes her pretty and thinking that she doesn't compare to Komi.
Manbagi has a tsundere-like personality, as she can be harsh with Tadano because she is shy about the feelings she developed for him after he called her cute. This harshness has softened since his appearance and she has become kinder, although she can still get quite angry with him if she is embarrassed.
During the time Manbagi shared with Tadano in 2nd year, she developed romantic feelings for him, which resulted in internal conflict for her since Komi also loves the same person she loves.
Even though Manbagi was heartbroken by Tadano's rejection. she still kept her cheerful nature towards everyone after being comforted by Isagi and the rest of the class during Valentine's Day.
Due to her unrequited love with Tadano, she does not seem to completely let go of these feelings towards him, which is likely why Manbagi began exhibiting somewhat passive-aggressive behavior towards Hitohito, which can be noted after she said that her new haircut was because of him, when she mentions that he has a selective taste for girls with slanted eyes or that it is too early for Komi and Tadano to start dating at the 'school.
Due to this unresolved conflict between her and Wakai Taketoshi's confession of love after the Summer Festival and his avoiding her from confronting his feelings for her, Manbagi had more insecurity about knowing if she could truly be loved by someone else.
However, after gathering her thoughts and sorting out her feelings for Tadano, she initially planned to turn Wakai down since she doesn't know him that much to like him aside from being a classmate. But after Wakai's public proposal to be his forever, she became conflicted over her initial decision to reject him; which makes this her major conflict, like it would be a good idea to date him because she's not sure if she really likes him, so it remains to be seen if she'll eventually develop feelings for Taketoshi or not.
==Trivia==
*Currently in the manga there's two guys that fans want Manbagi to end up with, either Wakai or Kometani, both of whom she's shared several scenes with each. She only appears in the last episode of season 2, then she will be present at the start of season 3 at the start of the second year.
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