Sayaka Kanamori

Kanamori Sayaka is one of the main protagonists of Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!, together with her friend Asakusa Midori she joins with Tsubame Mizusaki with the goal of creating an anime. Her role in the Motion Picture Club is producer. She is the tallest amongst her friends and has long brownish-gray hair reaching over her shoulders. Kanamori wears a pair of upper rimmed black glasses, though she only seems to use them in class as they are otherwise resting on her head. Kanamori wears the general school uniform which consists of a white school shirt, a blue blazer, and a navy blue skirt. Additionally, she wears a teal tie, black knee socks, and brown shoes. On some occasions, however, Kanamori ties her hair back into a singular bun. Kanamori has been shown as having a rather deadpan and unamused personality. First seen taking her share of the change after buying Asakusa lunch, she is observed to have a love of money. Kanamori is very ambitious and opportunistic, using whatever is available to her for the purpose of being productive. She gets easily irritated by Asakusa's insistence on things and lack of focus, and she isn't afraid to shout to get her way. Her calculative and manipulative approach to situations proves her to be quite intelligent as she is able to turn an argument against her opposition. She is also not easily swayed by empty words from her teachers or of the student council, and doesn't shy away from calling them out for their hypocrisy. Kanamori thinks pragmatically, especially in gaining what she wants. This is shown when she threatens a teacher to allow them to create anime yet also acknowledges what she said was pure sophistry and the effect will wear off on him. She acts as the clubs producer and often acts as the group's defacto leader. Although she often has to reign in the other members of the group to focus on the task at hand, she is shown to be considerate of their feelings and values their skills and what they bring to the club. While she can sometimes butt heads or lose patience with the more free-spirited members of her club, especially in situations where the overall product would suffer from their perfectionism or lack of focus, she is shown to be willing to compromise and offer alternative solutions to her co-members, and is even willing to let things go for their sake. Much of Kanamori's overall personality was shaped by her childhood experiences of helping her relatives run their store. Helping them taught her the value of money and hard work, but seeing the store close after it loses business (due to the construction of a new road diverting traffic from the area) taught her the importance of marketing and seizing opportunities when they present themselves and gaining the upper hand for the sake of survival. However, Kanamori's resourcefulness and natural business skills seem to have been present even from a young age, as shown by her suggestion to her relatives to open the store during a blizzard when she notices that all the other corner stores had closed. In speech, Kanamori tends to refer to others with the honorific -shi, an intensely formal honorific normally reserved for individuals the speaker is unfamiliar with. Given Kanamori's attitude, it seems she uses it sarcastically.