Manbagi Rumiko

**Rumiko Manbagi** (万 (まん) 場 (ば) 木 (ぎ)  留 (る) 美 (み) 子 (こ) , *Manbagi Rumiko*?) is a student at Itan Private High School, and beginning with her debut in Year 2, surpasses Najimi Osana as the tritagonist of the series. Manbagi is a cheerful gyaru girl who, like Komi, initially had a hard time making friends, but soon befriended Komi. She is the 28th of Komi’s friends, and is arguably Komi’s best friend aside from their mutual crush, Tadano Hitohito.

## Appearance

Manbagi is a manba-styled gyaru girl with tanned skin, bleached light blonde hair and a very girly fashion sense. She's introduced in ridiculous, heavy makeup, but once that's removed, she is revealed to have a naturally beautiful face. She has shoulder-length, wavy blonde hair, a dark complexion, and a curvy figure. Manbagi had a short, black bob haircut and fair skin when she was in middle school.

In Chapter 204, it was revealed that her height and weight are 158.3 cm and 52.8 kg respectively. After her very short relation with Hitohito, she's got a new "move forward" haircut in chapter 327, now being a short bob cut.

## Personality

Manbagi is a cheerful, friendly girl who easily gets along with people once she becomes friends with them. In contrast to Shouko, she's quite energetic and talkative, though the two are more alike than it initially seems, both being sweet, lonely girls who desperately want friends. She seems somewhat naive and insecure, believing that her heavy makeup is what makes her pretty and thinking she doesn't compare to Komi.

Manbagi has a tsundere-like personality, as she can be harsh on Tadano because she's shy about the feelings she developed for him after he called her cute. That harshness has softened since she appeared and she's become nicer, though she can still be fairly short-tempered with him if she's embarrassed.

During the time that Manbagi shared with Tadano in 2nd year, she developed romantic feelings for him, which ended up in an internal conflict for her since Komi also likes the same person that she likes.

Albeit that Manbagi felt heartbroken for Tadano's rejection. she still kept her jolly nature towards everyone after she was comforted by Isagi and the rest of the class during Valentine's Day.

As a result of her unrequited love with Tadano, she allegedly seems to not to completely move forward from these feelings towards him, which is probably why Manbagi started to have a somewhat passive-aggresive behaviour towards Hitohito, which can be noted after she said that her new haircut was because him, when she mentions that he has a selective like for girls with slanted eyes or claiming that it's too early for Komi and Tadano to be coupling up at school.

Because of this unsolved conflict for her and Taketoshi's love confession after Summer Festival, Manbagi had more insecurities about if she can really be liked by someone else, however, she's yet to think about her feelings and see if she can reciprocate Taketoshi.

## Background

Before joining the Itan Private High School, her life and appearance during primary school was very average, enjoying in sleepovers with her friends and at some point, she had a first crush to her lower secondary school's baseball ace, which didn't succeed.

When Manbagi joined the Itan Private High School, her appearance changed to a manba gyaru style, which caught the attention of Shouko Komi, but didn't interact with her. Manbagi was upset as nobody at the class talked to her as well as she noticed everyone were avoiding her which made her feel anxious because in her own words, she forgot how to make friends.

10 days after the 2nd year started, neither Rumiko nor Shouko made new friends which made Rumiko to become a lonely student by pretending to sleep during breaks, not being able to join her gyaru friends' conversation and having her lunch at the bathroom much for her disgust.

After 5th hour of the class, her desperation of not making friends made Manbagi started to cry, making her heavy makeup to smear during class. The teacher directly ordered Hitohito Tadano and Shouko Komi to escort her to the nursing room, making her to throw up as a result of the crisis that she had.

At the nursing room, Komi helped Manbagi to change clothes and lent her handkerchief, so she could wipe out her smeared makeup. After her change, Rumiko in tears opened to Shouko to talk about her problems after she separated from her friends during this new year, that she didn't want to be alone, but she didn't do anything; and that she only wanted to have lunch with a friend,

Shouko who listened her story, offered her friendship after reminding how a person offered her friendship in the past, this made both to become friends. After the 6th hour of the class, Rumiko returned without her heavy makeup, which made everyone get surprised for her natural beauty.

The next day, Rumiko came back with a different makeup which made everyone avoid her, incluiding Shouko, making her feel her friendship was just compasion. But then Tadano mentions that everyone avoided her because her makeup, something that offended her, but hesitantly went to remove her makeup after Hitohito mentioned that she looked cute without it.

Shortly after the day, Rumiko joined to Shouko Komi's friends, sharing time together during the sport class' skill tests.

## Trivia

* She likes horror movies.
* Her name **Manbagi Rumiko** (万 (まん) 場 (ば) 木 (ぎ)  留 (る) 美 (み) 子 (こ) , *Manbagi Rumiko*?) is a reference to Manba, a fashion trend developed from Ganguro.
* Manbagi placed 4th in the first popularity poll.
* According to Komi, both her and Manbagi share the same style of underwear, but with different colors.