Emiko Koumaru

Koumaru-chan

Omanko (By her old school)

Koumaru-chan

Omanko (By her old school)

Megumi Koumaru (Younger Sister)

### Goal

To become an ideal woman (Failed miserably)To be comfortable in her own body (Completed)

### Likes

Cooking Things that are organized

Romance Novels

Music

Quality craftsmanship

## Seiyu Information

### English Actor

Juliet Simmons

**Emiko Koumaru** (香丸 恵美子, *Kōmaru Emiko*) is a first-year student at Karasuno High. She joins partway through the year, becoming one of the boy's volleyball's team managers, as of 2018, she became a successful swimmer.

## Appearance

Emiko is a tall young girl with fair skin, following with a muscular yet curvy figure. she has long strawberry blonde hair that is usually tied in a red bow of a long ponytail when let out, it slightly reaches down to her waist. She has grayish blue eyes that point slightly inwards, which seems to resemble a cat.

## Personality

Emiko is very insecure and ashamed of her physical appeal, and finds herself not to be the ideal woman, her insecurity coming from middle school as she was bullied for her looking more like a man. Though, she tries her best to look more cutesy and feminine but it fails most of the time when she puts on makeup. Besides her being self-conscious about herself, she is overall a polite and outgoing individual. She is passionately concerned with her personal growth, and wants to become more comfortable in her own body, but seems to always fail.

No matter how many times she failed, Emiko doesn't give up and strives to discover who she is and how she can become her best possible self - always going in this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives her imagination forward and she wants the help of others to make the journey possible. Emiko is somewhat absent-minded or doesn't pay attention to what she's doing, mostly paying attention to different objectives to focus on which makes her oblivious to the events around her. Having an uwarranted distraction of attention from the real objective, letting her thoughts go to her.

Her most positive trait is that Emiko has a rather laid-back, optimistic and a fairly easy person. She doesn't seem to go and worry about the little things or tiny details and prefers to go with the flow, whenever this part of her appears, flowers tend to accompany her speech bubbles, showing a way to emphasize about her being an air-head. Though when something social is involved, Emiko tends to freak out about letting other males eyes look at her and starts to become more awkward and introverted. She has a larger heart than others, and holds a sentimental view on love, especially in spite of her experience, evidence or exhortations otherwise. Emiko thinks the best possible thing will happen, and hopes for it even if it's not likely, showing how she's determined to become more confident in herself.

## Background

During her days in junior high, Emiko had this question in mind of "What does it mean to be a woman?". She felt uncomfortable going to school everyday, and always had a familiar black or marker tattooed on her desk, mocking her for nothing more than her height and unusual musculature, mostly mocking her for not being an "ideal woman" and for being "abnormal". Which caused her to become more and more insecure of herself, to the point where she became intolerable to a male staring at her or anyone she finds more attractive than her. At her parents house, she mostly helps her mother take care of things but still wishes to become more comfortable in her own body.