Ushiku Kana

(The following contains spoilers.)

Kana
Manga
Kanji	牛久花和
Romaji	Ushiku Kana
Nickname	"Hanawa"
Voiced by	Haruka Shiraishi
Traits
Birthday	November 11
Gender	Female
Hair Color	Red
Eye Color	Red
Height	160cm (Manga) (5'3") 159cm (Anime) (5'2½")
Blood Type	AB
Background
Class	1-4
Occupation	High School Student (1st Year)
Member of	The Cheer Club
Trivia
Favorite Food	Anything spicy
Favorite Thing	Hizume
First Appearance
Manga	Chapter Nineteen
Anime	Episode One

Kana Ushiku (牛久 花和, Ushiku Kana) is a prominent character in the Anima Yell! series.

Official Description

Kana once performed alongside Hizume in their old cheer team. Having joined the team after Hizume, Kana continues to call her sempai, despite both being first-years.

Appearance

Kana typically wears short, red twintails, which might resemble cow ears from a certain angle. Kohane and the others marvel at the fact that she can fit into Uki's uniform, given that Kana's bust is slightly larger than hers.

Background

Kana is a first-year high-school student and Hizume's former teammate during middle school. She attends the same school as the girls, although Hizume was not aware of her presence at first.

Initially, Kana is seen as being brash, condescending, and very hostile to most of the Cheer Association members. Being fairly skilled in cheerleading herself, and having witnessed the group perform at Akane's soccer game, Kana feels that Hizume's talent is being squandered by surrounding herself with beginners. But after a series of events that led her to temporarily replace Uki during the Basketball Club's prefectural game, Kana decides to join the Cheer Association for Hizume's sake. As the association's fifth member, Kana's membership had allowed the girls to finally form the Cheer Club. With the exception of Uki, everybody in the Cheer Club occasionally mistakes her as "Hanawa", based on a misreading of her first name. In time, Kana slowly begins to tolerate Hizume's new circle of friends.

Since their time together as teammates in their community cheer team, Kana had always admired Hizume from afar. But given Hizume's intense focus on cheer at the time—remembering her former teammates vaguely as all having "potato faces"—Kana was almost never acknowledged by her. After Hizume left the team, Kana followed suit, confessing that there was no reason to be there without Hizume around. Although both girls are in the same grade, Kana continues to fondly call Hizume "sempai". After Kana joins the Cheer Club, Hizume eventually feels regret for having been so distant from Kana, and attempts to remedy the situation by becoming her friend, much to Kana's surprise and excitement.

Because she looks up to Hizume and holds her in very high regard, Kana's dedication to her is seemingly quite intense. She is often very focused and attentive around Hizume, and easily becomes flustered every time Hizume compliments her, sometimes causing her to faint or to flush bright red. Kana is very quick to defend any opinion that was shared by Hizume, even if it borders on the absurd. She can also easily identify Hizume from a random body part in a photograph, and despite refusing to be called Hanawa, Kana is always willing to make an exception for Hizume.

Trivia

• As with the other cheerleaders, Kana's name contains a kanji character representing an animal. In this case, she has the character for cattle or cow (牛, Ushi).
• In the manga, Kana does not make an appearance until Chapter Nineteen, while in the anime, she appears sporadically from the first episode.

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