An Kohinata

An Kohinata (小日向 杏, Kohinata An) is a supporting character in the Sekai-Ichi Hatsukoi series. She is the childhood friend and ex-fiance of Ritsu Onodera due to the arranged marriage their parents made when the two were kids, but Onodera does not view her as his fiancée. 
== Appearance==
Kohinata is a young Japanese woman of average height with wavy waist-length light brown hair that comes over her shoulder with the fringe almost level with her eyebrows and large light brown-golden eyes with conspicuous eyelashes. 
She tends to wear fitted, stylish clothes.
==History==
Kohinata and Ritsu Onodera were good friends since childhood. Like Ritsu, she came from a wealthy family and their parents are good friends which lead to them arranging for a marriage between their children.
Kohinata took the engagement seriously and fell in love with Ritsu as she confessed to him when he was fifteen. However, Ritsu turned her down since he was in love with someone else and requested that things remain the same between them. Kohinata agreed and the two remained good friends, although Kohinata continued to hope that Ritsu might someday return her affections.
While apart, Kohinata dated other guys, but since she was still in love with Ritsu, none of the relationships lasted.
===Anime===
Kohinata does not appear in the first season, but Ritsu Onodera's fiance is referenced by Takafumi Yokozawa. When Ritsu and Masamune Takano come home from work very late, she is formally introduced while waiting for Ritsu outside his apartment in the cold with gifts from France. She refers to Takano as Ritsu's friend and tells him to take care of Ritsu. She doesn't know that Ritsu and Takano had an argument that involved her after she left.
During Marukawa's New Years' Party, Kohinata's friend was having a wedding at the same hotel where Marukawa was having their party. After Kohinata realizes that Ritsu will be at the hotel, she insists him to meet her at the front lobby. An gets angry at Ritsu, who was late because of the party. She asked if they were still engaged even after he rejected her, telling him that while she dated other people, she realized that Ritsu is the only one she loves. Even though he had rejected her, she still loves him.
Ritsu sadly tells Kohinata that although he loves her too, his feelings aren't romantic. This devastated Kohinata and she asked Ritsu if he loves someone else, and whether it was the same person he loved in middle school. While Kohinata knew that Ritsu had dated other people, his relationships never lasted and she had believed that it was because Ritsu loved her. Kohinata knows now that that wasn't the case, that Ritsu still has feelings for his first love. Ritsu tried to rebuff Kohinata's statement but realized that she may be right. Just as Ritsu wanted to deny being in love with the same person he loved ten years ago, Takano interrupted them to tell him to get back to work. Kohinata finds out that Takano is not just Ritsu's neighbor, but also his boss. Upset, Kohinata leaves the hotel in a hurry. Later that night, Kohinata called Ritsu Onodera's mother only to start crying midway through their conversation. This upset Ritsu's mother, who angrily called Ritsu, demanding to know what happened between Kohinata and Ritsu at the hotel.
===Manga===
Kohinata's first appearances are very much of that in the anime. She calls Ritsu Onodera to tell him that she has come home from France and has brought gifts. She waits for him outside his apartment building to see him and is unaware of the tension she caused between Masamune Takano and Ritsu. She later goes to the Marukawa New Years Party and waits for Ritsu to come see her. When he is unable to come until after the party ends, she is shown still waiting furiously. Ritsu explains how he told her he would be working and unable to show up. 
She then confesses her love for Ritsu, which Takano overhears, who turns her down. When she brings up her theory that he is still in love with the person he loved in high school, he admits that might still be the case. When Takano interrupts the scene, she takes off in tears. 
A few months later, Kohinata calls Ritsu telling him that his mother is at the hospital. When Ritsu expressed his gratitude, Kohinata immediately scolded that Ritsu was the reason why his mother collapsed. Since Ritsu never came home once since his transfer and mostly ignored his mother's calls, his mother was concerned. She expressed Ritsu her fears about not being able to do more; Ritsu comforted Kohinata and apologized for not thinking about her feelings. When Takano arrived at the hospital, Takano witnessed Ritsu comforting Kohinata and left; Ritsu shoved Kohinata away and chased after Takano to explain himself. When he was leaving, Kohinata witnessed Ritsu making a face he never usually make. (It was later noted that the first time she had seen Ritsu making that kind of 'face' or 'expression' was in high school which was when he was 'sort-of' going out/in love with Takano.)
On the way home, Ritsu gave Kohinata a drink and thank her for being there for his mother. Kohinata tells Ritsu that he's so kind which is one of the reason why she fell in love with him. Kohinata once again asked Ritsu if he could make her become her girlfriend, in which Ritsu sadly replied that he can't accept her request. Kohinata confronted Ritsu regarding his relationship with Takano and told him about the 'face' he makes only when he is with Takano. She is suspicious of Ritsu's true relationship with Takano and asked if the two are dating and Ritsu asked if she was crazy and she tells Ritsu that she knew that Ritsu's relationship with Takano was more then that of a friend and boss. Takano was revealed to actually be waiting for Ritsu outside the hospital in order to take Ritsu home and hears the portion of their conversation following when they went outside.
Meanwhile, Takano cuts in to reply to Kohinata's statement and she tells Takano that he better take care of Ritsu as she bids Ritsu well and leaves. A few months later, Ritsu later gets a call from his mother telling him that Kohinata officially canceled her engagement with Ritsu with the explanation that while she loves Ritsu as her friend, she cannot see or love him as her husband.
==Relationships==
===Ritsu Onodera===
Ritsu is Kohinata's childhood friend and ex-fiancé, but Ritsu never agreed to the engagement and repeatedly tried to call it off, to which Kohinata seems to agree with. She had confessed genuine feelings for him in the past, although he turned her down. Kohinata is aware that Ritsu has feelings for Masamune Takano after she realized that their relationship was more than just that of boss/subordinate and neighbors, this being after seeing the 'face' he only makes whenever he is with him. Kohinata is characterized as a very cheerful person, but can be stubborn to Ritsu.
She appears to have something of a good relationship with Ritsu's mother since she was the only one able to finally call off the arranged engagement between her and Ritsu, claiming that while she loves him as her friend, she cannot see him as her husband. During her "engagement" to Ritsu, she stated that she and Ritsu dated other people.
===Masamune Takano===
At first, Kohinata only considered Takano as Ritsu's neighbor and later learned he was also Ritsu's boss after running into him at Marukawa's New Years' Party when hoping to see Ritsu. Takano considered her a rival because of her cute appearance and how she seemed to have a close relationship with Ritsu, therefore fearing that she could easily steal him away.
After an incident with Ritsu Onodera's mother, Kohinata confronts Ritsu about his relationship with Takano, coming to the conclusion that the true nature of his relationship with Takano was more than just platonic. Kohinata then confronts Takano himself about his true relationship with Ritsu and gives her blessing, even brushing off the same-gender status, simply demanding that Takano take care of Ritsu and not to hurt him. She then finally cancelled her and Ritsu's engagement that their parents arranged, declaring that there is no romantic love between them.
==Etymology==
*The name An means "apricot" (杏).
*An's surname Kohinata means "small" (小) (ko) and "sunny place" (日向) (hinata).
==Trivia==
*After finding out about Ritsu Onodera's a romantic relationship with Masamune Takano, she did not judge him. When Ritsu asked her if two men having a relationship was unnatural, Kohinata simply said that she did not believe herself to be in a position to judge anyone for it and only wished for him to be happy. She even urged him to accept himself and that if he was going to be with Takano, then to make sure his feelings were not halfhearted.
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