Kanako Kurusu

Kanako Kurusu is the fellow friend/classmate of Kirino Kousaka and Ayase Aragaki. She is voiced by Yukari Tamura. Kanako is a 14-year-old girl with dyed red hair (real hair color black) set in twin tails tied with yellow ribbons. She also has an ahoge ("stupid hair"). She appears somewhat young for her age and she bears a startling resemblance to Meruru (Kirino Kousaka's favorite anime character). She is 148 cm (4'10") and weighs 39 kg. Kanako is able to pose with a stuck-up attitude, but her real self can be very sweet and kind. Nevertheless, when she likes someone, she is able to banter with them in good spirits, as seen when she happily gets along with Kyousuke Kousaka when he is posing as a manager. She enters a lot of idol auditions and is a talented singer, and is able to memorize a song after hearing it only once; her dream is to become an idol. Since she goes to karaoke places frequently, she is capable of remembering any song she's heard at least once perfectly. On stage, she has a great deal of professionalism; despite hating the fact she was dressed up as an anime character, she got into the role and amazed the audience with her singing. She generally finds anime childish and otaku disgusting, though she is on one occasion tricked into cosplaying as Meruru (Kirino Kousaka's favorite anime character) for a contest and wins. Despite winning the contest she is disgusted of what she had gone through, but likes the idea of being praised and the event even helps her career. Though she finds the otaku hobby disgusting, she's willing to get along with otaku and doesn't seem to have much of a problem with them as she stayed friends with Kyousuke and Kirino. She also seemed pretty accepting of the idea of Kyousuke going out with his sister, only being disappointed that he wasn't available. Kanako also tends to prove people wrong. When Kyousuke rejected her confession at the Meruru cosplaying event, she vowed to pursue her career as an idol to make Kyousuke regret his decision. In the PSP game, on her route she was persistent in proving her worth to Kyousuke despite competition between her, Ayase Aragaki and Kuroneko and the disapproval of Daisuke Kousaka.