Momo Kashiwabara

Momo Kashiwabara is a supporting character. She is a member of the Literature Club and a friend of Rui Tachibana. Momo fits the 'Genki' female archetype in manga as she is constantly a energetic girl with a bubbly personality who is also incredibly eccentric and overly friendly to some people as shown when she gave Rui Tachibana a nickname and one of the dolls from her bag upon their first meeting. As noted by the girls in her class, Momo is also very flirtatious towards boys, flirtations that are rumored have evolved into relations on more than one occasion. She also exhibits a childish side, as shown by her nicknames like "Rui-Rui" and calling it "making love-love". As of Chapter 10, she has a massive crush on Natsuo Fujii, which has often gone to clinging to his arm and feeding him boxed lunches she made without his knowledge. However, beneath her flirtatious and bubbly nature lies deep vulnerability and a possible self-loathing. As revealed in Chapter 16, her parents have a very bad relationship and the are almost always working, which leaves Momo by herself for nearly whole days on end. As a result of this and her poor relationships with her peers, she once began self-harming. One of the reasons she loves Natsuo is due to the fact that despite knowing about her self-harming and her attitudes towards boys, he is still nice to her. It is shown that Momo is actually very smart despite her childish nature. In Chapter 20, Miu Ashihara notes that she knew Momo's name because she often sees her name in the top-ten school rankings. In Chapter 23, she mentions that she doesn't need to write notes in class. The reason her test scores drops on occasion are because she was in a relationship during that period. During the School Festival, she was able to see through Saki Kusumoto's lies where she deduces her relationship and grudge with Reiji Kiriya.