Maria Inomata

Maria Inomata is a high school student at Morinomiya Academy and the highest achieving student in the Advanced Class with Nezu Chuukichi and Yagi Tomoya. Maria is a beautiful teenage girl with mid-back length dark forest green hair that has bangs hanging on the left side and gray colored eyes. Like in the manga, she maintains her tsundere personality and her face slightly blushes at her cheeks whenever she becomes embarrassed. Maria has a harsh personality and low tolerance for those who come to school for reasons besides studying, which distances her from the other students. She also has a strict policy on following the rules, and gets furious when others do not. Her strong personality also defends her well against gossip. She tries hard in everything she does, be it studying, club activities or playing with the children. Although she is devoted to her studies and does not initially try to get along with her classmates, she feels the strain of being alone and becomes more eager to make friends—being noticeably happy when she first shares contact details with new friends (only having her parents' info before). She is a member of the cooking club, though her skills were somewhat limited (the cookies she baked were too tough to chew). She improves her culinary skills over time, to the point where her classmate Yagi considers her capable of teaching others how to bake cookies. She is quick to flip between being cold or angry to upset or embarrassed, often due to her awkwardness with social situations from studying all the time. She loves the daycare children but does not express it well. She is adored by Kirin who sees her as an older sister figure despite her gruff behaviour. Despite her anxiousness in unfamiliar situations, she is considerate to others especially Ushimaru, and avoids causing trouble for them.