Kiryuu Shino

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## Kiryuu Shino

* Anime
* Manga

## Personal Status

### Affiliation

* Mukai Naoya (Boyfriend)
* Saki Saki (Best friend)

## Debut

### Manga

Chapter 20 (passively shown)
Chapter 25 (actively shown)
Chapter 27 (name revealed)

## Portrayal

### English

* Elizabeth Maxwell
* Corey Pettit (season 2, temporary)

**Kiryuu Shino**「桐き生りゅう 紫し乃の?」is a classmate of Saki Saki and Mukai Naoya, and the former's best friend. Initially stancing against Naoya's morally-challenging relationships with his two girlfriends, Shino involves herself with their daily life together, as well as a deterrent to Hoshizaki Rika's attempt at her own plan with Naoya. As time goes on, however, Shino's feelings for Naoya grow, and ultimately with her best friend's approval, join in Naoya's relationship as his third girlfriend.

## Appearance

Shino has white hair, tied in a bun behind her head and with a purple ribbon, with two sort bangs not tied with the rest of her hair. She has purple eyes. She has smaller stature than Saki.

In school uniform, she wears a purple bowtie and black control-top tights.

## Personality

Shino is a serious person, excelling in academics as if it is normal for her.

Shino is a very considerate girl, being considerate of her friend Saki Saki and dislikes the kind of relationship Naoya has (with two-timing) for it is morally wrong. It is later confirmed that Shino does have feelings for Naoya, although she keeps it a secret.

After Shino confessed her hidden feelings to Saki and Naoya, she started to become less strict/conservative and instead more openly, especially towards Naoya. She openly flirts with Naoya and competes with the other girls for his affections.

## Background

Shino is a naturally gifted person, she was transferred to Saki Saki's grade school where she met her for the first time. Saki felt a similarity with Shino, asking her to be friends everyday because Saki believes that "all the girls with small breasts have to support each other." Shino tried to reject her, yet Saki persevered with determination. After some time, they eventually became friends.

One day when she was walking home along Saki, Naoya confessed to Saki and got rejected as usual, Shino was surprised by his persistence, so she adviced him to try a different approach which Naoya refused because he didn't want to worry Saki, so instead, she decided to help him. They collaborated a few times, for example, chosing a birthday present for Saki, which turned out very nicely. That day, Naoya gave Shino the purple ribbon she always wears.

When Saki finally accepts Naoya as her boyfriend, Shino was already aware of her own affection towards him, but decided to forget about everything and told Naoya to pretend they never collaborated for the sake of Saki.

After learning they both were on a two-time relationship with Nagisa, she decided to expose their relationship and later to end it, in order to help Saki and to reaffirm that Naoya is only Saki's boyfriend. Consequently, the attempt ended drastically in a comedic failure, resulting with her own romantic feelings towards him growing even more intensively.

After being requested to help Nagisa to study, she starts living with them for the summer in order to destroy the two-time relationship. Yet, she's unable to hide her true feellings, and even tries to seduce Naoya a few times, until Mirika finally exposes her and make her to be her accomplice during the beach trip. Before leaving, she convinces her dad to lend them her house in Okinawa, showing she is from a rich family.

In Okinawa she cooperates with Rika to interrupt any romantic situation, and ends up being dragged to a desert island with Naoya, there she kisses him and faints before confessing. Naoya carries her to the coast where Saki finds them and kiss Naoya in front of her.

After recovering, she tells her mom that she will transfer to a nearby school and will never see Saki again because it's too painful, Saki doesn't understand and tries to have her explain. As a result Shino runs away and after Mirika finds her, she finally confesses to Naoya and from that point foward shows her determination to be his girlfriend.

## Relationships

* **Saki Saki**: They met each other during grade school. At first Saki annoyed her, and although Shino tried to convince her being her friend would be a waste of time, Saki didn't get it and, by persistence, they stick together. At first Shino respected Saki's feelings for Naoya, but after taking a closer look at their two-time relationship, she started to have second thoughts. After she kissed Naoya, she felt so guilty that she attempted to transfer schools. However due to the intervention from Mirika, Naoya, and Saki herself she admitted to having feelings for Naoya. Saki although shocked was relieved as she thought Shino had feelings for her. In the end, they reconciled and became rivals in love. Later however Saki expresses her desire to personally date Shino as well and changes their dynamic from love rivals to mutual lovers, much to Shino's surprise.

* **Mukai Naoya**: Shino met him while Naoya confessed to and was rejected by Saki during grade school, advising him about better ways to confess his feelings. She took a liking to him after witnessing his persistence, but chose to hide her feelings on behalf of her best friend. Her decision conflicts with Naoya's decision of affirming his feelings for another girl and dating both, being the reason why she wants to end the two-time relationship between them in order to help her best friend. She also gave him his 2nd kiss, following Rika. She eventually gave in to her feelings and kissed Naoya being the second of the heroines to do so. After reconciling with Saki, she decided to continue to pursue for Naoya’s affections. Later on, when Saki was having a hard time coming to grips with their relationship, both Shino and Nagisa decided to leave the two alone. When things were patched up, Naoya confessed that he loves Shino and accepted her as his third girlfriend.

* **Hoshizaki Rika**: "Mirika" was the first person to realize that Shino was in love with Naoya so she cooperated with her in order to have a chance. Once Shino confessed her feelings for Naoya she stated that now they are rivals which Mirika understood and accepted.

## Trivia

* A running gag in the series is that Shino slips and falls on Naoya causing some article of her clothing to fall off. Unconventionally and unintentionally, it always ends up with her sitting on top of Naoya while being completely nude.
* Another running gag in the series is that whenever Shino falls/sits on top of Naoya while naked, SakiSaki always comments on how “*it*’s completely inside!!!”, with Shino replying “NO, *it* is NOT!!!”.
* In chapter 45, it was revealed that the purple ribbon that Shino is always seen wearing was given to her as a present from Naoya.
* In chapter 81, Shino, being the second of the heroines to do so, kissed Naoya.
* As of chapter 115, Shino has been seen naked by Naoya 4 times.
* In chapter 131, Shino officially became Naoya’s third girlfriend and gave him her second kiss.

## Etymology

* **Kiryuu** means "paulownia" (桐) (**kir**) and "life, living" (生) (**yuu**).
* **Shino** means "purple, violet" (紫) (**shi**) and "from" (乃) (**no**).

## References

1. ↑ Volume 4
2. ↑ Chapter 131
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 132
4. ↑ Chapter 42
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 36
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Chapter 32
7. ↑ Chapter 44
8. ↑ Chapter 62