Shinobu Maehara

Shinobu Maehara, as of the start of the manga, is an extremely shy junior high student (Grade 7) living in Room 201 of the Hinata House. In the anime, she is first introduced as a grieving girl who has run away from home due to domestic turmoil; however, in the manga, she is already at the Hinata Inn when Keitaro arrives, and her parents are still together. Has short dark black hair (blue in the anime), with one strand of hair subtly sticking out. At one point in volume 9, she tells Keitaro of her desire to possibly dye her hair so as to make it "not so black". In the epilogue of volume 14, a...