Michiru Matsushima

Michiru Matsushima is a second-year student at Mihama Academy. She is a fake tsundere with bleached blond twin tails. She has a deep interest in tsundere characteristics and tries to act like one. Her silly and energetic personality makes her the moodmaker of the class. She always carries with her a shark-shaped pouch which contains lemonade sweets. Despite having difficulty with sour foods, she still tries to drink 100% pure Vitamin C in order to “improve her intelligence”, as she continuously says. She has encountered a lot of bad luck since her birth, but always manages to get through in one way or another. Michiru has bleached blonde hair which is tied into two ponytails. Her face changes depending on her mood and whenever she is portrayed as a chibi character. Her bust size is second to the smallest, with Makina at the last and Amane at the first among Mihama Academy girls, and although Michiru is of below average height, she is the "average" of the height of all five Mihama Academy girls, being taller than Makina and Sachi but shorter than Yumiko and Amane. Her usual outfit is a white button-up shirt with loosely-fit red shorts and thigh-high socks; paired with a ribbon on her left leg and a distinct pink shark pouch around her waist. She also wears a small choker with a little gold pendant. Even in her school uniform, she wears the pouch. Michiru has two entirely split personalities. When talking about Michiru it's important to distinguish between the personality she has when you meet her, and her "other self" which appears during her route. During the common route, Michiru is an energetic yet erratic person. She speaks a lot in tsundere stock phrases in an attempt to act like one, as she is very interested in them. She often sets herself up to be the brunt end of the joke in order to do things like diffuse tense situations, as well as bring others, such as Yumiko, into the group. She also offers, in equal parts, insightful commentary and ludicrous statements, often to the bewilderment of the rest of the group as to her actual intelligence level. Similarly, she has flashes of empathy and kindness that escape from under her tsundere act, again to the others' bemusement. This haphazard behaviour is actually a facade put up by Michiru. In reality she is a fearful person due to an "other self" that manifests at difficult times. This other self is a nihilistic and defeatist, yet honest and hard-working, personality that speaks with a deeper and darker tone. This personality arises to help Michiru out of tough situations and has full recollection of Michiru's actions, yet Michiru cannot remember the things that this other self does. (In the sequel visual novels and the anime series, Michiru is able to synchronize with her other personality and tends to chat with her after Yuuji helped her understand herself better.)