Arisa Takamizawa

**Arisa Takamizawa** (高見沢 アリサ, *Takamizawa Arisa*) is a character featured in *Confession Executive Committee* and a major character in the Class 1-1 plots of the *Love Series*. She is introduced as a first year student in Sakuragaoka High School, a friend of Kotaro Enomoto and Hina Setoguchi and the love interest of Ken Shibasaki.

## Appearance

Arisa is a short girl with long black hair, styled into two pigtails and short, arched blunt bangs, intentionally similar to the way Sena Narumi wears her hair. Unlike Narumi, Arisa's pigtails are sat higher up on her head. In middle school, her hair is worn down, showing that it comes down to her back.
Outside of school, Arisa's sense of style heavily leans towards girly clothing. Her date ensemble includes long dresses, frilled shirts, and warm colors (predominantly purples and pinks). When she is acting as a miko, she wears her uniform traditionally, with a long-sleeved white kimono and a red hakama.
## Personality and Actions

In middle school, Arisa was shown to be somewhat submissive until the bullying incident, going along with what the rest of the class says or does even if she was uncomfortable with it. It was a big weak point for her, given how compassionate she is otherwise, but she is one to own up to her feelings if given a proper push.
She is a very courageous and outgoing girl following the incident, however. She's willing to stick up for her friends, offers them her protection, and also tries to talk with them more. She still has problems with communicating though, given that she feels insecure about the incident and she hates the feeling of being alone.
Her more positive interactions with Ken paint her as easily flustered. She is weak to Ken's forwardness and at times pushes back when he gets too affectionate with him, but she's ultimately receptive to his advances. Ken tends to find Arisa's personality cute, and often tries to rile her up. He however is much more surprised when Arisa occasionally makes moves on him.
## Relationships

### Ken Shibasaki

Ken and Arisa didn't get along at first, given that she disliked how he carried himself, his lax attitude towards life and towards girls, and how Ken kept flirting with her. Part of her did want him to better himself, and told him off at any possibility. Eventually along the way she does fall for him and does enjoy his company somewhat, but she hides it whenever he's around.
When Ken confesses to her, she rebuffs him as always, but her disappointed and hurt reaction to seeing him talk with other girls shows that she does indeed have genuine feelings for him, but thinks he's still playing around due to listening in to his conversation out of context. She does eventually open up to Ken and spends more time with him, finally properly becoming friends with him but insisting they take their relationship slowly. This culminates in her confessing to him at her shrine, which Ken happily accepts.
Due to Ken's poor family situation and his own hidden insecurities, he sees his relationship with Arisa as one of the most important ones in his life.
### Karen Miura

A girl that Arisa knew in middle school. Arisa offers to talk with her when they first interact, due to her being isolated from her peers, but she stops when the class makes her give into pressure. But when she finds her resolve again, Arisa tells the girl that she doesn't have to stand for her treatment, and the girl is grateful that Arisa talked to her and supported her. Following Arisa's bullying however, the girl begins to ignore her and doesn't interact with her for the rest of middle school. Arisa is still somewhat sore about the experience, but later reveals she never held it against Karen or developed a dislike of the girl.
She sees Karen again by accident, while Arisa was spending time with Hina and company at a fast food restaurant. While she doesn't get to interact with Karen, remembering her experience with the girl upsets Arisa. When they are able to properly meet again sometime in Arisa's second year of high school, Karen properly apologizes for the incident, and both girls are able to catch up on the last few years and start over as proper friends.
### Hina Setoguchi

As Arisa was still getting used to high school, Hina was one of the first girls who got her to open up when they finally met and conversed, and the two have been friends ever since. Arisa roots for her in her budding relationship with Kotaro, but briefly made Hina think of her as a love rival for Koyuki Ayase due to intentionally coming between them. In actuality, Arisa only did this to make Hina interact with Kotaro more.
### Kotaro Enomoto

In middle school, Kotaro helped ease the harm of her bullying by cleaning off her desk when it was written on and talking to her occasionally. Because he was one of the first people to help her through her bullying days, Arisa quickly strikes a friendship with him, offering her companionship and protection.
High school had her act as wingman to him, trying to set up situations so that he can spend time with Hina, his crush. It is implied that she may have feelings beyond gratitude though.

### Sena Narumi

Narumi is one of Arisa's role models in life, admiring her beauty and her attitude. After seeing her on television talking about how she doesn't want to give in to people's opinions, Arisa changes her hairstyle to match hers.
They both go to Sakuragaoka following Arisa's first year in high school. As both her underclassman and as her fan, Arisa is absolutely starstruck meeting her.
### Koyuki Ayase

In middle school, Arisa acted as an obstruction to any perceived development in Koyuki and Hina Setoguchi's relationship, doing so on Kotaro Enomoto's behalf. At the time, she was made aware of Hina's crush on Koyuki and attempted to intercept her whenever Hina tried to approach him. Koyuki knows her by the time they reach high school, but they don't become more than acquaintances.
### Kodai Yamamoto

They're in the same friend group, but they don't talk much to each other.

### Aizo Shibasaki

Ken's little brother. Aizo was skeptical of Arisa's relationship with Ken at first, thinking she'd end up as another one of Ken's flings, but was surprised to see Ken taking their relationship seriously for once. He has also met Arisa, with her recognizing that Aizo does love his brother underneath his complaining.

## Etymology

* The name **Arisa** is written in katakana (アリサ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (有沙 or 有紗), it could possibly mean:
	+ 有沙 - "exist" (有) (**ari**) and "sand" (沙) (**sa**).
	+ 有紗 - "exist" (有) (**ari**) and "thread, silk" (紗) (**sa**).
* Arisa's surname **Takamizawa** means "height, elevated place" (高見) (**takami**) and "marsh" (沢) (**zawa**).