Anne Anetani

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## Family

**Anne Anetani** (姉谷 アン, *Anetani An*) is one of the supporting characters of the *Murenase! Seton Gakuen* series.

## Background

Before the events of the story, Anne was always alone. One day, she was approached by Mam and bonded with her due to their species both going extinct at the hands of modern humans. She joined her on her mission to eradicate humans and helped assemble other like-minded students to form Team EX.

## Appearance

Anne is a young girl with short red hair, blue eyes and pale skin. Being a Neanderthal, she is very human-like in appearance, as such there is almost no immediate difference between her and human females.

## Personality

Anne seems to be a serious person and doesn’t usually show much emotion. However she does hold a grudge against modern humans, as they played a large part in the extinction of her species. As such, she views them as barbaric, egocentric creatures and wishes for them to die out as well

To aid her goal, she is shown to be deceptive as well as manipulative. This is demonstrated when she pretended to be a human in order to get closer to Jin Mazama and Hitomi Hino, as well as when she tried to convince Ranka Ookami that humans were cruel beings and that she should leave Jin.

## Abilities

As a neanderthal, she is a physically strong person capable of knocking out people with a single strike. She is also shown to to be proficient with a stone spear, using it for various purposes such as hunting and fighting off other animals. However, because of her natural physique, her biology requires her to consume large amounts of food, mainly meat, otherwise she will faint.

She also demonstrates the ability to create and use fire, a skill shared only by humans and chimpanzees. This ability is used primarily to prepare her hunt for consumption.

## History

Anne visited Seton Academy under the guise of a potential new student. While talking with the staff, she learned that there were two human students who were also part of the Cooking Club.

Being granted permission to observe, she began searching for the cooking club room when she saw Jin Mazama and Ranka Ookami running away from several male canine students. As they ran past her, she suspected Jin to be the human male. She then brought out a spear to face the dog stampede.

At the cooking club, she explained that she was touring the campus and wanted to observe them. She mainly focused on Hitomi Hino, noting her as the human female. When asked about her species, Anne said that she was a human, shocking the club, though Hitomi was excited to meet another human girl. She asked if there were other members and was told that Jin and Ranka were currently running away from several male dogs due to the latter’s heat cycle. Anne figured that the Jin was indeed the human male and reassured the club that they didn’t need to worry, as the dogs had been taken out.

Anne was asked to taste several dishes for the Cultural Festival and quickly ate it all, her only critique being that there wasn’t enough. Just then, Jin entered the room and was introduced to Anne, giving her a friendly welcome (due to her being “human”). As they left the club room, Anne called to Jin, saying that she had taken interest in him. Unfortunately for her, Jin misunderstood her and thought that she liked him. He turned her down and left, leaving Anne embarrassed.

Later, Hitomi asked Anne if she wanted to spend more time together. Anne accepted her offer and went to the springs with her. When Hitomi asked about her interests and favorite food, she suddenly remembered that she didn’t eat enough, collapsing from hunger shortly after. She was then taken to Hitomi’s room to eat and recover, and was invited to stay for the night. Anne was confused with Hitomi’s kindness and asked why she would be nice to someone she barely knew, to which Hitomi replied that she wished for the two of them to be friends.

While Hitomi was asleep, she went into the school’s forest to roast some meat, luring in Ranka. She talked to Anne about a recent falling out with Jin. Hoping to break up Jin’s group, she tried to convince Ranka that humans are cruel liars and suggested that she leave him. Ranka was not convinced, however, believing Jin to be much different than what Anne said, instead deciding to talk to Jin directly and left before Anne could try to convince her further. Still, Anne hoped that they would argue and split afterwards.

The next day, Anne watched from outside as Ranka and Jin discussed what happened the prior afternoon. While initially believing that they would split, she was disappointed when the two made amends. Anne was later spotted by the club and invited her to join their pack, though she left for her own academy.

At Darwin Academy, she met up with five other students, revealing her to be part of the group known as Team EX. When asked by the mammoth leader if she found a way to drive the humans extinct, Anne responds that there may be chance.

## Trivia

* Though Neanderthals did have red hair, Anne's hair color is greatly exaggerated, as Neanderthal's in real life were likely lighter colored. In addition, red hair is theorized to have been a recessive trait in Neanderthals, making it somewhat rare among them.