Ikuyo Kita

Ikuyo Kita is one of the main characters in the manga and anime series, Bocchi the Rock!. She is in the first year of Shuka High School and is in charge of the guitar and vocals of the band, Kessoku Band. She has great admiration for Ryo Yamada, after seeing her street concert. Kita has red hair with grown-out bangs and yellow eyes. In her uniform, she wears a white chocolate sailor uniform with long sleeves, six yellow buttons at the side and red ribbon ties, a short gray pleated skirt, white socks, and maroon shoes. Kita is a "cheerful character" and "party people", who is sociable and has many friends, as if she calls herself "I love to interact with people", and actively uses social networking service. She has good motor skills and can study safely, but she also thinks she is a mediocre person with no special excellence compared to Ryo. She hates her first name and would strongly prefers to be called by her last name. Her name actually sounds the same as "Came" and "Let's go"/"I'm going"/"I'm coming". While living a daily life that felt fun but mediocre, when she saw Ryo at a concert performance on the street of the band she used to belong to, she admired her, saying, "I'm jealous of walking on an unusual road." Although she applied as a guitarist to add to the initial members of Kessoku Band, she escaped from the band just before her first concert because she couldn't play the guitar. She later reconciled herself by reuniting with Ryo and revealing her truth. When Hitori persuaded her, she joined Kessoku Band again. Although she has little experience in playing and is technically immature, as a result of practicing under the guidance of Hitori at the school festival concert, she showed that she had grown up to connect time with ad-lib for Hitori who had a problem with the equipment. Initially, she addressed Hitori as "Gotoh-san", but at the school festival concert, she started using "Hitori-chan" instead. While Kita is very optimistic and can come across as a bit of a scatterbrain, she's actually far from thoughtless, very well-aware of others and is especially emotionally intelligent. Being genuinely kind and selfless, she tries to support others in the best way she can, especially Bocchi, helping her (along with Nijika) overcoming her massive social anxiety.