Ayano Tateyama

Ayano Tateyama was a classmate and friend of Shintaro Kisaragi, the underclassman of Takane Enomoto and Haruka Kokonose and the daughter of Kenjirou Tateyama and Ayaka Tateyama. Ayano is a girl with long brown hair, with two red clips attached to her left fringe. Her eyes are dark brown, although they sometimes appear grey or black. She is usually seen wearing a long red scarf with both ends draped behind her back. While in middle school and when in the Kagerou Daze, she wears her middle school's black sailor fuku uniform with a white ribbon at its collar, black knee high socks and brown school loafers. In high school, her uniform consists of a white button-up shirt, a pink plaid skirt, black knee high socks, and brown school loafers. In the winter, she wears a yellow blazer along with her uniform, while in the summer she wears a bow underneath her shirt's collar. At the end of Mekakucity Actors, she is seen wearing a white dress that has a red trim around the collar and a red bow above the chest and without her scarf. Ayano was a cheerful girl who was Shintaro Kisaragi's classmate during middle and high school. Although always staying at Shintaro's side, she did not believe in her abilities to put him out of his apathy. She often got rather low grades ever since middle school, as she was seen with only a 56 as a test score once and had to attend supplementary summer classes in her first year of high school. She also states that she forgets things in class a few minutes after learning them, but it is shown that she can do well if she tries her hardest. Even though she called herself stupid, she was always smiling and seemed to be having fun. She occasionally punished Shuuya Kano and Kousuke Seto when they are misbehaved, including pranking. Ayano cares deeply for her family and friends and wants nothing more than for them to be happy, even if everyone couldn't be together. She treated Tsubomi Kido, Kano and Seto equally and always played with them when they were younger. Her sacrifice was the ultimate price she paid for her remaining family and friends to be happy; even though she wanted to have her mother back, she refused to see anyone hurt or dead because of it.