Chinari Iwamine

**Chinari Iwamine** (岩峰 一愛, *Iwamine Chinari*) is a character of *Hang On! Climbing Girls*. She is Kurikawa High's Ace and climber who ranked 2nd nationwide.

## Appearance

Chinari is a very tall pale-skinned girl with long black hair and wears a hair ribbon with bunny ears. Her eyes are also a starkly blank black which gives her a fairly imposing if also scary appearance.

## Personality

Chinari has a creeping demeanour as she tends to approach others with a frightening glare and chilling disposition, often portrayed as a spider approaching her prey. She's absolutely confident on her abilities which isn't unjustified as she is in fact incredibly skilled. She also delights herself on defeating people and watching them suffer a loss.

She tends to approach those who she deems cute, often with mixed with her iconic sinister laughter, which further scares others. After dragging Akane Uchimura with her to reprimand her, the latter is absolutely terrified of Chinari to the point of running away.

## Plot

Chinari sees Konomi Kasahara and realizes she is a beginner and tells her she wants to teach her lots of things, but that only creeps Konomi out. Nonoka Sugiura then jumps in and tells Chinari to not bully their newbie. Sayo Yotsuba wonders if Chinari made a mistake, as her school participate in different region, bit Chinari explains she is there to see their faces when she falls, but is also fine seeing their happy faces when they complete the wall.

She takes great interest in Konomi after seeing her climbing skill despite being a novice. In the hall Akane Uchimura curses Konomi's success as she climbed higher than her and stumbles upon Chinari who proceeds to grab her from behind as she didn't apologize to her. A surprised Akane doubles down on her rudeness and notices that Chinari is only grabbing her with a handful of fingers, leaving her impressed at her grip strength and unable to set herself free. Chinari, annoyed at Akane's conduct decided he will take her with herself and give her a scolding. Chinari subsequently drags Akane with her, as the latter is left apologizing and protesting while Chinari creepily laughs at it. Chinari subsequently gives her a reprimanding so severe that Akane is left terrified of her afterwards.

## Abilities

Chinari is referred to as the **Climbing Spider** because of her climbing style which takes advantage of her height and reach, allowing her to easily climb over obstacles and even shortcut her way through certain routes. She earns her epithet because the long reach of her limbs along the ease with which she can move, evokes the imagery of a spider closing in her prey.

However, her height can also be a double-edged sword, as it makes it hard to maneuver around tightly put together holds. Chinari also possesses great grip strength as she's able to grab Akane Uchimura from the back of her clothing with only a handful of fingers and prevent her from getting free. She was equally capable of dragging Akane with one arm, while she protested.

## Etymology

* The name **Chinari** means "thousand" (一) (**chi**) and "love, affection" (愛) (**nari**).
* Chinari's surname **Iwamine** means "rock" (岩) (**iwa**) and "peak, ridge" (峰) (**mine**).