Ayame Kajou

* Anime
* Manga
* Light Novel

**Ayame Kajou** (華城 綾女, *Kajō Ayame*) is the secondary protagonist of the *Shimoneta* series. She is the vice-president of the Student Council and the founder of SOX, a rebel organization dedicated to ending the strict censorship laws.

After her father's arrest, Ayame realized that since she couldn't change her obsession for dirty jokes, she was determined to change the world instead.

## Appearance

Ayame has black hair that goes down to her waist and golden eyes. She possesses a slim and curvy build with long legs.

At Tokioka, Ayame wears a normal Japanese school uniform, which consists of a grey blazer, with a red tie, and a contrasting navy blue skirt as well as red and white standard issue dress shoes. She also wears a fake pair of black glasses with false lenses. Her hairstyle is the tuxedo braid.

When outside of school, she hikes up her skirt to reveal that she wears thigh-high stockings with a small portion of her thighs slightly exposed.

When Ayame acts as her alter-ego, Blue Snow, she wears a white cloak coat that covers most of her body. She also wears her white panties as a mask.

## Personality

Ayame takes on an "erodere" personality. One of her most defining traits is that she loves to tell dirty jokes, and does so almost all the time. She is also quite perverted as she also loves to look at porn, and has even had thoughts about getting a vibrator when she was younger. Her yaoi fetish led to her and Otome creating a manga dedicated to shipping Tanukichi and Gouriki. Because of her love of dirty things, Ayame created an alter-ego named Blue Snow and formed the terrorist organization, SOX, in order to protest the morality laws. She was willing to hijack a school assembly to show and narrate footage of bugs having sex, and even take on an entire group of Decency Squad officers in order to get a stash of porno magazines. At Tokioka Academy, Ayame is noticeably much more serious than she acts outside. As Anna said, "once you get to know her, you'll realize that she's a big softie inside."

However, despite her perverted personality, she is surprisingly naïve when it comes to sexual situations. After Ayame walks in on Anna raping Tanukichi, she is shocked and disgusted. To make things worse, Ayame saw Tanukichi's penis and screamed in horror. In Episode 10, when Kosuri points out that Takuma's penis is showing, Ayame quickly looks away. In Episode 12, when Ayame and Tanukichi walk down the hallway to retrieve their clothes, Ayame is noticeably embarrassed as the two were wearing nothing but black lingerie. Tanukichi points out the irony of her embarrassment.

## Background

During her childhood, Ayame was raised by her father, Masashi Endo, a politician who actively fought against the morale laws. However, in 2020, Ayame's life took a bad turn when Masashi was arrested for allegedly "shtuping" a high-school girl. Ayame knows that her father was framed by the PMs because, as she put it, "daddy loved G-MILFs". Right before his arrest, Masashi gave Ayame a flip phone which would turn off PM surveillance for up to three minutes. Soon after, Ayame became very upset that she couldn't crack any dirty jokes. This is when she met Anna Nishikinomiya, and the duo soon became good friends. This friendship continued into their teenager years, when they graduated into Tokioka Academy. Sometime during these events, Ayame's frustration with the morale laws continued. Eventually, Ayame's opposition of the morale laws led to the creation of her ero-terrorist alter-ego, Blue Snow.

In 2030, Ayame met Tanukichi Okuma and invited him to the Student Council on behalf of Anna. At first, Ayame was very excited to meet Tanukichi as a result of him being the son of another ero-terrorist, Zenjuro Okuma. Tanukichi, though, insisted that he was not like his father at all. Ayame had no choice but to tie him to a chair and force him to join her terrorist organization, SOX. After some blackmailing on Ayame's part, Tanukichi reluctantly joined the group. Since then, Otome Saotome and Kosuri Onigashira have also joined the organization.

## Abilities

* **Fighting**: Ayame is a very skilled fighter. In Episode 11, she was able to take down White Peak with just one kick and help from Anna. She also successfully fought off several Gathered Fabric members.

* **Stealth**: Ayame is also extremely stealthy. Several times throughout the series, Ayame fearlessly faces Decency Squad officers and escapes them without getting arrested.

## Relationships

### Tanukichi Okuma

At first, Ayame was very happy to meet Tanukichi since he was the son of a dirty-joke terrorist. However, when she realized that Tanukichi had actually wanted to become pure, she had no choice but to blackmail him into joining her terrorist organization, SOX. Afterward, Ayame continued to manipulate Tanukichi to do whatever she wanted, whether it be spreading filthy images around the school or dress up as Blue Snow. She also loved to tease Tanukichi by misinterpreting his sentences as dirty phrases. For much of the first portion of the series, Ayame saw Tanukichi as nothing more than a friend. However, in the light novel series, Ayame begins to grow romantic feelings for Tanukichi. After the duo defeated Takuma Ichinose at Zoshigaoka Academy, Ayame finally confessed that she loves Tanukichi just as much as she loves dirty jokes. From there, though, their relationship goes back to friends, even after the morale laws are finally lifted.

**Status: Best friends**

### Anna Nishikinomiya

Ten years prior to the series, Anna met Ayame when the latter was upset about the morale laws against dirty jokes. The duo quickly became best friends, a friendship that would even last into high school. However, when Ayame began to commit terrorist attacks as Blue Snow, Anna unknowingly also became her arch-rival. Ayame noted how innocent Anna was and has even admitted that she is scared to see how Anna will act if she "snaps". After Anna grew unhealthy and strange feelings for Tanukichi, Ayame would even be creeped out by how perverted she had become. In chapter 4 of the manga series, after Anna reveals that she had put her "love nectar" inside his cookie, Ayame faints in disgust. To make matters worse, Anna even holds a pair of scissors to Ayame's neck out of jealousy. Since then, Anna and Ayame's friendship seemed to fade away.

**Status: Neutral/Arch-rivals**

## Etymology

The name, **Ayame**, includes 2 kanjis:

* 綾 (**aya**) is a kind of traditional fabrics.
* 女 (**me**) means woman.

## Trivia

* Ayame has a unique design on her PM, which resembles a pair of panties. She is one of 4 characters who has a unique PM, the others being Hyouka Fuwa, Anna Nishikinomiya, and Anna's mother, Sophia Nishikinomiya.
	+ Ayame's design is ironic because PMs are used to prevent dirty jokes.
* Ayame can be seen in many of the promotional material for the series.
* The name of Ayame's terrorist alter-ego, Blue Snow, is a play on words. "Blue" is a word that means lewd, and snow falls to the ground. Metaphorically, Ayame "snows" lewd images and photos.
* Ayame has a fetish for yaoi, which was revealed in Episode 7.
* Ayame was featured on the September 2015 issue of Megami Magazine and Megami Magazine Special.
* In October 2015, Ayame, Anna, and Otome were featured in an issue of NyanType.

## References

1. ↑ https://the-dere-types.fandom.com/wiki/Erodere
2. ↑ https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1672650
3. ↑ https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fridge/Shimoneta
4. ↑ https://haruhichan.com/ayame-kajou-is-on-a-streak-this-week/
5. ↑ https://haruhichan.com/anna-and-binkan-chan-show-affection-for-each-other-in-this-new-visual/