Yui Kiriyama

“Teacher! There must be something wrong here! Please can you try soliciting people again? All High school girls like cute stuff, so there shouldn't be any problem there!”

Character Overview
is a classmate of Aoki and a member of the Student Cultural Society. Despite her small build, she has a black belt in karate and was won many tournaments from her years in middle school. Yui has an affinity for cute things and her room is full of dolls and adorable accents. In addition, though she tries to keep it a secret, Yui suffers from androphobia.

Personality
Yui has a spirited personality and expresses her emotions very clearly and honestly. While usually shown to be sweet and kind-hearted, Yui tends to lose her cool when around Aoki, whose perverted antics tries her patience. Though gentle by nature, Yui is also a proud practitioner of karate and is always ready to put her skills to good use, not afraid to get violent if she must.

Key problem
Throughout the series, Yui struggles to overcome her androphobia; a fear of men. Her androphobia was developed after she was nearly raped in junior high.

Though more subtle, another one of Yui's great challenges is learning to rely on her own strength. Many times throughout the series, Yui has to lean on her friends for support during challenging times, often choosing to avoid her problems altogether if she's alone. As the story goes on, Yui progressively becomes more and more strong, not just physically, but mentally as well.

Appearance
Yui is a young woman of small stature and has green eyes. Her long chestnut hair is parted by hair clips and will often wear her uniform's sweater around her waist.

Background History
Yui wanted to join a 'Fancy club' due to her fascination with cute things; however it did not have enough interested members. As a result, the school placed her in the ‘Student Cultural Society' Club.

In junior high, Yui was extremely skilled in karate and regularly defeated her rival and friend, Mihashi along with the boys of her dojo with ease. As a result, Yui was very overconfident about her strength and felt superior to any man. However, during Yui's third year of junior high, a man attempted to sexually assault her and she barely managed to escape, even with her martial art expertise. This traumatic event, compounded by her previous confidence, caused Yui to develop androphobia and lose sight of her ambitions.

Family
Kiriyama Anzu: Yui's younger sister.

Friends
Yaegashi Taichi: A male StuCS club member. Yui starts having a different opinion of boys after Taichi helped her take her first step towards overcoming her androphobia. Though she greatly admires his kindndess, Yui has clarified that their relationship is platonic.

Nagase Iori: The president of the StuCS club. Through the trials of each phenomenon, the two develop a strong friendship and are willing to go to great lengths to help and comfort one another.

Inaba Himeko: The vice-president of the StuCS club. Inaba was the first friend Yui shared her fear of men with. Yui is very close with Inaba and even helped her prepare chocolates on Valentine's day.

Aoki Yoshifumi: A male classmate and fellow StuCS club member. Yui has consistently turned down Aoki's many love confessions, though she gradually warms up to him over the course of the series. It is thanks to Aoki's love and dedication that Yui eventually overcomes her androphobia.

Kurihara Yukina: Yui's friend and classmate.

Others
Mihashi Chinatsu: Yui's old friend and karate rival. In junior high, Yui would regularly defeat Mihashi and they would later promise to one day fight each other in the finals of the national tournament.