Takahashi Jun

Jun Takahashi (高橋 潤 Takahashi Jun?) is a prominent character in the Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san series. In the anime and manga, Jun wears purple glasses and has long green hair. Her live-action actress resembles her two-dimensional counterparts, except she has black hair. Jun is the representative for Class B and is in the same class as her friends Yuu and Misa, along with Koizumi-san. When she is not at her cram school or out with friends, she can be seen at the school library studying or reading. Jun loves books and her classmates speculate that she reads about one hundred novels during school breaks. She is an only child and lives with a mother who works as an editor in a publishing company. Among her classmates, Jun carries with her an air of being dependable and straight-laced. She is studious and earns top marks on tests, and can be relied upon by her teacher to help others. However, deep below she is an anxiety-prone girl who easily falls into a tizzy whenever she has to deal with uncomfortable or potentially embarrassing situations. Jun used to avoid hot ramen for the reason that it often fogs her glasses, leaving those around her to poke fun and embarrass her. Being around Koizumi-san can also be considered nerve-wracking for Jun, who is perhaps not used to being around seemingly odd people. (Although it was Koizumi-san who eventually led her to enjoy ramen again.) Most of her anxiety, however, lies in wrestling with her own future career goals. Even if she is a hard worker, Jun feels that her own achievements would not lead her to become a novelist or be secured a position in her mother's publishing company. She attends a cram school on weekends and feels so anxious during mock exam sessions that her appetite shuts down for an entire day. Jun confides much of these worries to Koizumi-san, who in contrast is more carefree and secretive about her own future. Nevertheless, when she is among her friends Yuu and Misa, Jun is a little more laid back, and can be seen in the group as the voice of reason.