Himeko Inaba

''“So please can you slightly postpone the deadline? I will find another four.”''

Character Overview
is the Vice-President of the "Student Cultural Society" club. She is exceptionally skilled in gathering information and analyzing the essential details, in fact, so much so that she even knows many private details invovling the other club members. Although she is calm and logical, she has difficulty in handling awkward moments and doesn't like things to get out of her control.

Personality
While mostly depicted as mature and serious, Inaba is not above making crude, snarky comments towards her friends. When dealing with a problem, Inaba typically chooses to take a very straight-forward approach to solve it. She is generally distrustful of others and worries a lot about the detrimental effects each phenomenon will have on her and her friends.

Key problem
She has great difficulty trusting other people to not hurt her, especially her friends. Ever since the body-swapping event began, she is in constant fear that she will one day get blamed for something horrible that another person has done in her body. Despite hating the fact that she can’t trust her friends, she can’t stop herself from imagining so. She desires to have someone she can fully entrust her body and soul to.

Appearance
Inaba has shoulder length brownish blackish hair and brown eyes. Unlike most of the other girls whose uniform shirts are colored yellow, hers is brown. She has a good posture, thin white legs and is seen with her hair down most of the time.

Background History
Inaba originally joins the ‘Computer Club’; however she left due to an argument with the club president at the last day of the club experiencing activity. After getting back her ‘Computer application’ from the teacher, she tries to join the‘Data processing club’; that was detached from the computer club; but was placed in the ‘Literature Study Cultural Club’.

Hito Random
When first faced with the idea of people switching bodies, Inaba is skeptical and tries to figure out a logical explanation to no avail. When Heartseed reveals that the phenomenon is his doing and the StuCS is his entertainment, Inaba is rebellious, unable to deal with being subjected to another's will. Ultimately, Inaba formulates a plan for the StuCS to live as normally as possible despite their situation. Throughout the Hito Random arc, she constantly encourages Taichi and Iori to start a relationship.

Later, Inaba's chronic fear of being betrayed by her friends in the midst of the body-switching phenomenon begins having detrimental effects on her health, causing her to pass out. With the help of Taichi, Inaba is able to express her worries to her friends and to her surprise is accepted and reassured of their trust in her.

When Iori is hospitalized because of Heartseed's intervention, Inaba harshly criticizes Taichi for wanting to switch bodies with Iori so that he can die in her place. Inaba would later allow Iori use her body to say her final goodbyes to everyone and also give Taichi a farewell kiss. In the end, Iori survives her ordeal and Inaba swears to make Taichi pay for kissing her while Iori was in control.

Family:
Her family has yet to make a significant apperance, however, her brother did make a brief appearance where he mentioned how Inaba typically leaves home without saying a word.

Friends:
Yaegashi Taichi: A male classmate and fellow member of the StuCS club who Inaba dubs a "selfless freak". Inaba did not care much about Taichi at first, however as time goes on, she begins to put a lot of trust in Taichi and eventually develops feelings for him. In the Kizu Random arc, Inaba finally acknowledges that she has feelings for him when confronted by Heartseed. After the class field trip, Inaba confesses her feelings to Taichi but gets turned down by him as he's in love with Iori at the time. However, Inaba declares that she refuses to give up on Taichi even if he was in love with Iori and manages to steal a kiss from him. After the Michi Random arc ended, Inaba and Taichi begin dating.

Nagase Iori: A female classmate and the president of the StuCS club. Despite being total opposites of each other, Inaba considers Iori as one of her closest friends and even knew about Iori's family problem before anyone else. When Iori discovers that Inaba is in love with Taichi, she encourages Inaba to admit her feelings and the two become rivals for Taichi's love.

Aoki Yoshifumi: A male StuCS club member. Inaba often punishes him for his silly behavior.

Kiriyama Yui: A female StuCS club member. Inaba knew about Yui's androphobia before everyone else in the club, because she was the first person that Yui confided with.

Fujishima Maiko: Inaba’s class representative. Inaba sometimes forms suspicious deals with her.

Others:
As she is normally cold and distrustful. It seems that she doesn't talk to anyone else but the members of the Cultural Research Club.

Trivia

 * Her hobby is collecting and analyzing data. As a result, Inaba knows a lot about her fellow club members' personal problems.
 * Iori affectionatly nicknames her "Inaban".
 * Inaba has a habit of chewing her nails when she's frustrated.