Karin Saku

KARIN SAKU

## Appearance

Karin is very short, of small stature and body size, giving her the appearance of still presenting as a child. This gives her the definite appearance of a teenage loli. Karin looks like she is just finishing up grade school, however, she is in high school, the same grade level as Minami. Karin has a small round face, with almost no chin, and full cheeks. Huge 'anime girl' eyes seem to take up most of her face. They are fawn brown iN color. She has long hair, almost down to her hips, that she wears in the child's style of twin tails. Cat's paw hair clips always are present in her twin tails. Her hair is of a medium-to-darker pink coloration, with dark pink highlights. Long side bangs cover her ears. She has a few small bangs across her forehead, showing a noticeably high forehead, again like a child's. She has thin eyebrows, but pronounced dark eyelashes.

Karin has a small frame of narrow shoulders and an almost flat chest, with 'muffin tops' style breasts that are barely seen. In Chapter 5, it is implied that she wears either a training bra, or a little girl's first bra. She has a thin mid-section, only slightly noticeable hips, but long arms with small hands, and long, slender, attractive legs with small feet.

For high school, Karin wears the female school uniform, consisting of a short sleeve dress shirt with a hugh red bow in front, a beige sweater over the shirt, a blue color combination plaid, pleated mini-skirt, bare legs, white knee socks and white mary-jane shoes. For casual wear, she opts for a button-up-the-front dress shirt and a pleated mini-skirt, or a little girl's styled pretty dresses. When the friends go to the beach, Karin buys and wears her first bikini swimsuit, however, the top is styled with ruffles around the bust, to hide her almost flat chest, and ruffles around the bikini bottom, to hide her small behind.

## Personality

According to the mangaka, they wanted the character of Karin to be a sweet, innocent, pure of heart maiden in love. Karin's personality is all of this and so much more. She is a childhood friend of male Minami, however, that shipping, and Karin's personality, is constantly evolving as she goes through her teen years. Karin's Mom seems to have had the greatest influence on Karin's personality, this all for the good. The good qualities that Mom has were successfully passed on to and implanted into Karin. Good qualities like compassion, friendship, empathy, good work habits, and being true to oneself. Karin's personality is such that she looks out for herself, avoiding situations that may have a bad influence on her. However, she also looks out for others, especially Minami. Karin can feel empathy for what Minami is going through in the quest to transition to their correct gender of female. She offers help and encouragement to Minami, although this may be motivated more by romantic love rather than pure altruistic motives. Karin and Karii/Minami study together, and even have a sleepover together. Karin offers general friendship to all, but intimate friendship especially to Minami/Karii. So much so that Karin can become jealous of what Minami/Karii does in the way of their own personal friendship efforts with others.

Karin is, overall, a 'good girl', but not perfect. She has a major tsundere streak in her personality, that shows up unexpectedly and at the most inappropriate times and situations. And when it does, Karin begins to lose some of her self-control, resulting in her saying and doing things that she may regret later on. She will scold Minami/Karii, whether they need it or not. Sometimes Karin will jump to conclusions, without knowing the whole story or circumstances. This is seen when she sees Minami seemingly on a date with Chiyoko, and (wrongly) assumes that they are secretly and intimately having some sort of affair between them. She also gets 'hot under the collar' when she sees Karii Maki spending time with psudo-boyfriend Naoya. Karin transformes into Pretty Saku-Nyan, and carries most of her personality attributes with her when she becomes an anime girl. Whether as an anime girl, or as an ordinary teenage girl, Karin is true to herself first and foremost, but also has high regard for her family and friends.

## Karin's Story

Karin is a cis-female, teenage girl. Karin does well academically, in fact, she has to tutor Karii / Minami so that they don't fail the mid-term tests. She is a long time childhood friend of Minami. However, as she has been going through puberty and is awaking to the feelings of love, she is becoming more and more romantically interested in Minami. But since Minami is slowly transitioning to that of a typical teenage girl, Karin is slowing coming to grips with the fact that she may end up in love with and be shipping with another girl {Karii Maki}, instead of a boy {Minami}. Although this may be hard to acknowledge and handle, Karin seems to be somewhat accepting of the fact that her romantic interest could go with either gender, therefore she may find out that she is socially bisexual, and can handle a Yuri relationship.

As she deals with that, nevertheless, Karin consents to loan some of her clothes to Karii to try on and wear, and later goes shopping with her for new female outfits. Just before the summer break, Karin and Karii go shopping for new swimsuits. Both girls, after consulting with one another, select and wear bikini swimsuits, both wearing that style for the first time. When Karii wants to study together as two girls, Karin pouts, then reluctantly accepts. As the two girls grow closer and closer together, Karin finds that she can love both Minami and Karii Maki, however difficult that might be emotionally or socially. When Karii Maki finds out that due to a glitch in the software on her iphone, and she can't detransition back to male Minami, it is Karin alone that comes to her aid, offering for Karii to do a sleepover with her. This despite her misgivings about having such a personal, very intimate experience with another girl. But Karin puts her personal feelings aside, and welcomes Karii into her bedroom for the night, and emotional first for Karin. She even proclaims, but stops just short of, doing a Love Confession to Karii, when the two of them find that they can't get to sleep on that faithful night.

Karin always wears her hair in twin tails, with cat's paw hairclips.

## Trivia

In the Japanese language, the first name 'Karin' (spelled 'Karen' in the English language) is feminine, and means a beautiful flower, a lotus, a water lily, one who attracts attention like a pleasant, softly tinkling bell.

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**Commentary and Opinion**

Time for some spoof, satire, and parody about Karin---

ABOVE ALL ELSE, PROTECT YOUR LOLI AT ALL COSTS !!!

Taking a closer look at Karin Saku ( shown above as her anime girl presentation of Pretty Saku-Nyan ) as presented in this manga---

Smaller sized body = Check

Almost no bust development = Check

Certain personality aspects are childlike ( she loves animal plushies and cats / always has cat's paw hair clips / Loves sweets and ice cream ) = Check

Hair in Twin Tails = Check

Shows concern for her friends ( especially her childhood friend, Minami ) = Check

Tsundere personality ( **definitely !!!** ) = Check

Having a certified MOE Factor over 9000 = Check

CONCLUSION---According to the opinion of the Admin, Karin Saki certainly seems to fit the definition, criteria, and profile of a teen loli !!!