Rio Kojima

Rio Kojima (小嶋 里緒 Kojima Rio) is a minor character in the Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi series. She is a Touto University student majoring in fashion and a close friend of Kou Yukina.
==Plot==
After missing a date, Shouta Kisa intends to catch Kou Yukina after work, but finds Yukina meeting up with Rio. Unnoticed, Kisa follows them far enough to see them walk into the hotel district, known to be mainly for lovers, which leads Kisa to believe that Yukina is seeing her. Yukina later explains that Rio is a friend from University, and that in exchange for teaching him how to cook, he took her to a movie. The theater happened to be in that area.
She is later seen in front of Yukina's front door as she rings on the door bell.
==Relationship==
===Kou Yukina===
Yukina is Rio's good friend who is unaware of Yukina dating Shouta Kisa. She also doesn't know that some of Yukina and Kisa's fights involve her. Rio taught Yukina how to cook decent meals in exchange for him going to slasher marathons with her. Yukina stated that the two of them had tried dating before, however it ended in a mutual breakup. Instead they both preferred to just stay friends.
According to Kisa in Love is Blind, he commented on how "She was really cute, and you two made a great couple." after he saw Yukina and Rio together at the end of Love and envy make a man pine.
== Etymology ==
* The name Rio means "village" (里) (ri) and "thread" (緒) (o).
* Rio's surname Kojima means "small" (小) (ko) and "island" (嶋) (shima/jima).
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