Inda Karane

* Anime
* Manga

## Name

**Inda Karane** (院田 唐音 *Inda Karane*) is a main character and is one of Rentarou's first girlfriends, alongside Hanazono Hakari. She is a 1st year, class 4 student at Ohananomitsu High School, she is sharing a class with Rentarou, Hakari, Shizuka, Nano and Meme.

## Appearance

Karane has orange-blonde hair tied into twin tails. Her school outfit consists of a brown sweater over a white dress shirt, a short skirt, and loose knee-high socks. She is quoted to be beautiful with desirable features.

## Personality

Karane is known for being straightforward and honest about how she feels about a given situation except for two subjects: her feminine figure (or supposed lack of) and her deep love for Aijou Rentarou. Her desperate attempts to hide how she feels about a given situation despite her honest nature often make people think she is going to beat them. She can be described as a tsundere.

At times Karane does use physical violence as supposed to Rentarou being 'pervy' but his is purely accidental or when Rentarou does it for the good sake of Karane. Although on some accounts Karane as apologized in which Rentarou pats her head.

Before chapter 50, Karane possibly hated the fact that she was tsundere and wanted express her feeling to Rentarou. Without Karane's tsundere she is really nice and kind and is able to express her feeling clearly.

The only reason Karane is a tsundere is only because she is born this way.

## Abilities

Karane is currently the strongest of Rentarou's (pure determination) girlfriends even being able to go head-to-head with the leader of the Gorira Alliance. She is also shown be above average in academics even being one place ahead of Rentarou.

## History

Karane's family history is unknown at this point, although they are all tsunderes like her. She is met by Rentarou when he bumped into her and Hanazono Hakari on their first day of high school. The two fall in love with him at first sight and confessed their feelings to him. Rentarou saw this as problematic as both are two of his supposed destined 100 girlfriends and if he chooses only one of them then the rest will all die. So Rentarou decided to date both of them at the same time and despite some reservations about it, Karane and Hakari agreed to it.

## First girlfriend dispute

* It is generally considered that Karane is one of the first two girlfriends of Rentarou, alongside Hanazono Hakari. However, some people consider Hakari as the first girlfriend and Karane as second.[1]
* Arguments supporting the first theory:
	1. Rentarou's acceptance: After deep thoughts regarding the double confession, Rentarou finally decides to accept both at the exact same time.
	2. Dates and kisses: While Rentarou accepts both confessions, he asks both of the two girlfriends out for a date together. In order to avoid any psychological hurdle on the issue of who Rentarou's first kiss was, the three of them decided to kiss at the same time.
	3. Author's intentions: This is in line of the two arguments above. Supporters of this theory believe that the author intentionally introduced two girlfriends at the same time so that neither of them will be 'the absolute first'.[2] This suits the premises and motives of the manga better in comparison, as the theme is to focus on the solution for 'how can we make all heroines happy'.
	4. 'The Twins' Proposition: This argument has been used to question the significance of the minute time difference between the key events used in determining the order of the two girlfriends (described below under 'Arguments supporting the second theory'):
	> "It's like in a set of ten siblings, they would be twins. There is always an older twin, but it never truly matters who is older, because [they] were born together. So when [you count] the children you count the twins together, even if [you acknowledge] one of them as the older." - u/Izzombie [3]
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* Arguments supporting the second theory:
	1. The confession: Hakari is the one who confessed first.
	2. Acceptance of the polygamous relationship: Noting that she'd rather have Rentarou two-timing on her than rejecting her confession and not be in love, Hakari accepts Rentarou's proposal before Karane did.
	3. The initiative: This is in line of the two arguments above. Hakari was always portrayed to be the first one to take the initiative for Rentarou to accept her as his girlfriend. Karane would then passively follow, very soon after.
	4. Conventions: Regardless of which scenario happens to be the case, it is more intuitively acceptable to have all girlfriends numbered in order; in either case Hakari and Karane will always have the girlfriend order of 1 and 2, respectively.[4] Moreover, Hakari would more likely to have been chosen to represent the front cover of the first volume, had the authors decided to have a single girl as its cover.[5]

## Etymology

* **Inda** means "hospital" (院) (**in**) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (**ta**/**da**).
* **Karane** means "Tang, China" (唐) (**kara**) and "sound" (音) (**ne**).
* Her full name is a reference to a most stereotypical tsundere's sentence ending in Japanese. (別にあんたのためにやってな**いんだからね!** *betsu ni anta no tame ni yattena**in dakarane!***) ("It's not like I did it for you or anything!")

## Trivia

* Karane has kissed and been kissed by Rentarou at least 12 times as of Chapter 144.
* Karane has kissed and been kissed by Hakari at least 9 times as of Chapter 110. It quite possibly holds the record for length, given that they made out continuously for several minutes the second and sixth time and for most of the night in chapter 110.
* In chapter 30 Karane almost kisses Hahari due to her smelling like Hakari. This is prevented when Hakari pulls Karane away.
* Karane, alongside with Kurumi are often referred to as the *tsukkomi*/straight man of the group.
* Karane's birthday is on September 9th. This is a reference to the stereotypical tsundere expressions, ending in '**ないん**だからね' (***nain**dakarane*) having the number nine in it.