Sae

Sae is an upperclassman (later graduate) of Yamabuki High School, the tenant of Hidamari Apartments Room 102, and one of the series's original four cast members. Sae has boyish-looking short hair of a purple hue with matching eyes, which are unique comparably to most other girls as they are tsurime style. She is noticeably taller than the rest of the main six. She wears rectangular glasses that she clearly needs due to an exaggerated poor sight. Her combination of physical traits effectively gives her a more "masculine" look compared to the others, and is a source of (playful) teasing by Miyako. Sae is not especially comfortable with her appearance and has frequently been known to wish for a larger bust and "more feminine" proportions. Sae is known to be athletic as well and is an adept swimmer and runner. Sae's artistic specialties focuses more on photography than traditional drawing (although she is also adept in that field). She prefers working with film over using a digital camera, and at one point obtained a used Polaroid camera (knowing that the film for it would be very difficult to obtain). She chose Plane as her elective. Sae's more noticeable skill lies within writing, where she can be seen in most scenes busy at her desk. She intends to try and make a living off of her works, and currently writes for Kiara Monthly, a magazine that hosts fiction writing aimed at teenage girls. She is paid for her writing, but not enough to be completely self-supporting. She claims she only draws to help illustrate the pictures for the stories the way she envisions them to be, which is why she is enrolled at Yamabuki High School. Her college choice was driven by the need to finally choose one or the other to focus on, and she ended up enrolling at an unnamed liberal arts school that happens to be a short distance from the campus of Ama Art University.