Botan Kumegawa

**Botan Kumegawa** (久米川 牡丹, **Kumegawa Botan**?), is the deuteragonist of the *Anne Happy♪* series. She is a fragile girl who gets injured very easily (e.g. a handshake breaks her hand bones) with her misfortune being "poor health".

## Bio

### Appearance

Botan has a pale complexion with large bust and dull, pink-violet eyes hidden behind oval glasses. Her long hair is very pale pink with a darker ombre, worn in low braided twin-tails with her bangs and forelocks framing her face. She can often be found wearing bandages or a sling of some sort.

For school, her skirt appears to be longer than the others and she wears pink and white sneakers with black tights.

In June 28: Visiting Hanako, when her pigtails were undone and her glasses were taken off by Ruri Hibarigaoka and Anne Hanakoizumi, Botan's hair was shown to be wavy thigh-length and Ruri comments on Botan's beauty.

### Personality

Calm and easy-going with a delicate nature, Botan is friendly and considerate of others. She frequently worries for them and becomes very apologetic if she thinks she's hurt them. Despite her weak disposition and constitution, Botan does her best to try and stay cheerful.

However, she is also surrounded by an aura of gloom that appears over the most trivial of things due to her lack of self-worth and confidence. For example, she assumed Anne Hanakoizumi and Ruri Hibarigaoka thought she was creepy upon meeting, then she thanked them for not calling authorities on her. She also thinks she is worthless for only being able to heal herself with her medical knowledge.

## Plot

The girls meet Botan after she is escorted to class with some help, but they quickly learn how frail she is. After she starts patching herself up she quickly hits things off with them and walks home with them after they discover they all live near one-another.

## Background

Botan has always been frail, but because her father is a doctor, he has managed to help her learn how to deal with injury. Unfortunately, she has pointed out that she is still useless - as she could only heal herself.

## Relationships

### Anne Hanakoizumi

Botan and Anne became good friend after Anne expressed concern for accidentally causing her injury. They are quite alike, allowing them to sympathize with each other.

### Ruri Hibarigaoka

Ruri is one of Botan's first friends after she joins the school. She is seen as "weird" by Ruri, but she treasures their friendship. She has no problem with Ruri's feelings for the construction sign and supports it, so Ruri often lends her a hand to help her.

## Etymology

* The name **Botan** means "peony" (牡丹).
	+ It can also mean "bull, male, buck" (牡) (**bo**) and "rust-colored/red/red lead, pills" (丹) (**tan**) separately.
* Botan's surname **Kumegawa** means "long time" (久) (**ku**), "rice, paddy" (米) (**me**) and "river, stream" (川) (**kawa**/**gawa**).

## Trivia

* Botan gets good grades at school .
* According to Botan herself in June 28: Visiting Hanako, she explains on how "I can't redo my own hair once it comes undone, and I can't see anything without my glasses." after Ruri Hibarigaoka and Anne Hanakoizumi styled her hair and took away her glasses.

## References

1. ↑ Anne Happy♪ Manga - Volume 2 - Lucky 10