Ami Kawashima

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**Ami Kawashima** is one of the main characters from the *Toradora* anime and light novels.

Ami is Yuusaku's childhood friend who transfers into his class midway through their second year of high school. She is very beautiful and even works as a model, and although she has temporarily stopped upon her transfer, she still tries to maintain her figure. She is always kind and generous towards others, though this is merely a deception. In truth, she is arrogant and will not hesitate to use others for her own benefit. However, she gets better with her character development, and despite being self-centered and vain, she's actually a good person who really cares for her friends, and wants them to front the truth of the things.

In the AWA fics, Ami is a student at the AWA Academy.

## **Appearance**

Ami is an attractive teenage girl with long, straight, blue hair and wide violet eyes. She is 165 cm tall. She goes to the gym readily, and maintains a slim figure, with a relatively large bust, which she likes to show off. Ami is usually seen wearing Ohashi High School normal uniforms. Otherwise, she wears costumes, which corresponds to her maintaining her model image. Sometimes she is seen wearing less revealing clothing and sunglasses, to try and hide her identity from strangers and avoid attracting attention.

Ami is considered beautiful that she is blessed with natural beauty.

## **Personality**

Ami always wants people to see her as a simple, beautiful and sweet girl where one of whom is always kind and generous towards others, although this is just a scam.

In fact, she is a arrogant girl who will not hesitate to use abusive language towards others and she even tries to make amends if someone sees her true personality, because she is uncertain about her dual personality. Ami is also seen as very wise indeed as she has seen through the romantic attraction of Taiga Aisaka, Ryuuji Takasuand Minori Kushieda to each other. Ami is shown dropping hints and tips on them, trying to indirectly tell them about their situation, without hurting them.

Unfortunately, Ryuuji's generally naive nature, Taiga's stubborn attitude, and Minori's airheaded facade leave her irritated to no end, especially near the conclusion of the series, when it becomes clear that each of them are holding back their feelings out of fear and/or inability to understand it themselves.

This especially applies to Ami's general distaste towards Minori's airheaded facade, towards the love triangle between Ryuuji, Taiga, and herself.

## **Trivia**

* The name **Ami** means "second, Asia" (**a**) and "beautiful" (**mi**).
* Ami's surname **Kawashima** means "river, stream, brook" (**kawa**) and "island" (**shima**).
* Ami and Sumire Kano have both a strong resemblance to each other:
	+ Both have blue hair.
	+ Both are close to Yusaku Kitamura.
	+ Both have a cold personality.
* Ami bears little resemblance to Momoko Kibitsu from Ookami-san and her Seven Companions.
* Ami bears a strong resemblance to Ryoko Asakura from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
* Ami, Taiga Aisaka and Minori Kushieda make a scene in Ookami-san and her Seven Companions.