Runa Shirakawa

**Runa Shirakawa** (白河月愛, *Shirakawa Runa*) is the main female protagonist of the series. She is a *gyaru* who is at the top of the school caste where she can approach anyone without hesitation and she has dated many boys before.

After Ryuuto Kashima confesses to her, she accepts his confession and starts going out with him. Even though she has experience in dating, she still worries that their relationship might not last long.

## Appearance

Runa is considered to be the most beautiful girl in her grade, having blue eyes and mid-back length light blonde hair with dyed light blue streaks, which she wears tied in a side ponytail.

At school, she wears the standard school uniform, which consists of a white blouse, a pink bow, a blue tartan skirt, and with the blazer tied around her waist. She keeps her blouse usually slightly unbuttoned. She also wears black knee socks with the uniform.

## Personality

Runa is a bright, cheerful, and fashionable high school "gal" with a carefree attitude. Despite exaggerated rumors about her, she is very caring and seeks her friends' advice often on how to relate to Ryuuto Kashima better, being a little naive sometimes on applying the advice. While she is a usually cheerful person, she can be prideful whenever she tells Ryuuto about her specifications for dating someone.

With her gal appearance and personality, Runa tends to attract the wrong type of guys, leading her to be somewhat naive in regards with the most romantic parts of a relationship. Runa also carries insecurities from her past experiences. Nevertheless, she is still looking for that "one to love with all her heart" and is a very romantic, honest-to-a-fault kind of girl.

## Background

Considered as one of the school's most beautiful girls, Runa is easygoing and friendly with most people which earns her even more popularity. Bad rumors tend to be said about her due to how many relationships she has been in. Such rumors include how she dates guys for two or three months at best, and how easily she switches from guy to guy at the drop of a hat. However, it is revealed that the guys she dates would eventually break up after a few months with her, while she gives her all in the relationship. She is always dumped by her boyfriends after a short time of dating. If she is single she has no problem with dating anyone who asks her out but will remain faithful if she is in a relationship. She views dating someone as a way to get to know someone better, even if she has no romantic feelings towards her boyfriend, she feels that romantic feelings can develop if she gets to know her boyfriend more while dating. She has never dated someone long enough to develop romantic feelings towards any of her previous boyfriends before though.

Despite her gal appearance, Runa is sincerely devote to whoever she is dating (to the point of being called "Heavy" or "Annoying"). She reaches the point of putting her boyfriend's happiness first or enduring a lot to keep the relationship going. Her views on how relationships work is contorted as she believes its her role as a girlfriend to give her boyfriend whatever they want as soon as possible, including sex. She has stated that she never viewed sex as something that she wanted to do but rather viewed it as her duty as a girlfriend to provide it. This ends up backfiring as guys dump her once they have sex with her as they feel she is overbearing with her efforts for a relationship. She is called as the school year’s number one most beautiful girl. Although being called that, due to guys dumping her once they get tired of her, she has rumors spread about her. Such rumors include leeching money off of her boyfriends during dates and having nicknames such as "slut" or "streak." These rumors are either untrue or are a twisted version of the truth.

## Relationships

### Ryuuto Kashima

Ryuuto is Runa's boyfriend who first interacted when she asked him if she could borrow a pen so she could sign some documents, Ryuuto accepted and she thanked him, A few days later she finds a note in her shoe locker asking to meet behind the gym, she knew that it was going to be a love confession but she had no idea who it was, she was happy to see Ryuuto and when he asked her out she accepted and asked him to walk her home, back at her home she invited Ryuuto inside and up to her room planning to offer herself to him as she thought doing that was the norm but was presently surprised to hear that Ryuuto was a gentleman and told her that they literally just started dating and Love making should be saved for later down the line as they hadn't even gone on a date yet. Their relationship grew greatly and Runa was able to open up to him and reveal her pain to him, she had been used for her body by all her past relationships but Ryuuto held her and told her that he loved her for who she was and not just because she was cute.

### Nikoru Yamana

The two girls are close friends having known each other since middle school. Nikoru is protective of Runa and will try and intimidate guys from dating her, this stems from Runa's past of just dating and sleeping with every guy she dated and was later abandoned so Nikoru now judges any guy as scum until they prove her wrong.

## Etymology

* The name **Runa** means "moon" (月) (**ru**) and "love, affection" (愛) (**na**).
	+ The kanji 月 means “moon” in Japanese, which relates to her name **Luna**.
* Runa's surname **Shirakawa** means "white" (白) (**shira**) and "river, stream" (河) (**kawa**).

## Trivia

* Runa is often referred to as “the school year’s number one most beautiful girl.”
* Runa’s fashion sense is heavily influenced by the “gal” subculture in Japan, which is known for its flashy and flamboyant style.
* Her only red flags for a guy are "guys who grow out their fingernails" and "guys who don't wipe the sweat from their upper lips."
* Runa's name is spelled as Luna in Volume 5 color illustrations English, as such she can be referred to as "Runa" or "Luna."
* Runa is similar to Akari Watanabe from “More than a Married Couple but Not Lovers.” Both are Gals and share Saori Ōnishi as their Japanese voice actress.