Sakura Kōno

Standing a bit taller than average, Sakura frames a pair of green eyes with shoulder-length hair of the same forest shade. Round glasses finish her face, and she pairs the school uniform with black tights and white sneakers laced in green. Both Remi Ayasaki and Kyōko Hori have remarked on her notably full figure.

Balanced, warm, and dependable, Sakura throws herself into the vice president's duties, keeping the council on task and seeing its work through to completion. She is also guarded about her own heart, long refusing to admit even to herself that she likes Tōru Ishikawa before finally owning up to Remi Ayasaki. Beneath the competence runs a vein of self-doubt; she envies Remi's cuteness and measures herself short by comparison. The reassuring shape of her arc is watching that insecurity ease, as she gradually builds confidence and gathers new friends along the way.

Sakura's throughline is a slow climb out of low self-worth, a struggle that colors much of how she relates to those around her and steers the series toward her crush on, and eventual confession to, Tōru Ishikawa. A skilled baker, she often made cookies for him well before she found the nerve to speak. Within her circle she slips naturally into a caretaking role, playing the elder sister toward Kakeru Sengoku and something closer to a sister or even a mother for the childlike Remi. The narrative also drops a hint that she holds Buddhist beliefs.