Hikari Kohinata

Hikari Kohinata, nicknamed "Pikari" is the main protagonist of the Amanchu! series. She is a diver, a Yumegaoka High School student in the same class as Futaba Ooki and the granddaughter of Kino Kohinata. Hikari is an athletic pale-skinned teenage girl with chin-length green hair, vibrant yellow eyes and she stands below average at a height of 148 cm as a 15 year old girl. In her super-deformed form, she is drawn with eyes similar to Sgt. Frog and a wide semi-circular mouth. Hikari is a optimistic girl, to the point of being hyperactive who is rarely negative or depressed. She is prone to being very impulsive, sometimes putting herself in physical danger due to acting on her impulse, such as jumping from great heights, or getting into trouble in class, such as playing with her stationary or distracting Futaba Ooki. This impulsive nature is usually prompted by trying to find the fun in an everyday or boring situation. She says "うぴょ!" (u-pyo! meaning "whoop!") extremely often, sometimes as an exclamation on its own but often in a sentence. When nervous, Hikari blows a marching beat into her Diver's whistle, which she carries with her everywhere, sometimes even trying to communicate through it instead of speaking her sentences out loud. She is at her most calm when seeing beautiful natural sights, such as the annual blooming of hydrangeas or the sakura blossoming and she is willing to travel long distances just to see them. She is incredibly passionate about diving, and finds peace in the ocean. Hikari likes to give characters nicknames when she makes friends with them, sometimes nicknames that are obvious, like Cha ("because he always says it!"), or sometimes more obtuse nicknames, like Teko (because her eyebrows look like dakuten). She is loyal to her friends, and goes out of her way to try and make them smile again when they're feeling low, usually in a creative way they wouldn't have anticipated, and is prone to cheering her friends on in tough situations with "Fight!". She is close to her grandmother, who makes her favorite food, tonjiru.