Akane Aoi

Akane Aoi (赤根葵) is a first year student at Kamome Academy's High School Division and Nene's best friend. She is mainly used in the plot to introduce supernatural rumors to Nene.

Appearance
Aoi is a cute, petite girl with indigo hair and eyes. She keeps her hair tied up into two circle sections behind her head. Her bangs are loosely parted to frame her face, and there are two thin, wavy locks of hair that fall past her chest.

She wears the regular Kamome Academy uniform.

Kannagi Appearance
As the kannagi, she is shown to wear traditional attire appropriate for the sacrifice by No.6's assistants. She dons two magenta flowers in her hair, a light teal coat, and a black hakama tied with a large bow behind her.

Personality
Aoi is a sweet and cheerful person who is very close with her friend, Nene. Although she claims to dislike scary stories, she continues to delve into them for the sake of cheering Nene up, since she knows that Nene enjoys them. Considering her zealous presentation and continued involvement with the tales, she may actually have some interest in them herself. She is shown to adore romance, as evidenced by her enthusiastic support of Nene's romantic endeavors and enjoyment of discussing crushes. Despite her continued rejections of his advances, she was also rather jealous and upset when her childhood friend, Akane, seemingly began to date someone else.

Aoi is also shown to be good with words and is able to get people to do what she wants just by using a little bit of pressure. She is especially harsh towards Akane, denying every single one of his love confessions all while smiling cheerfully.

If Teru is the king of popularity in Kamome Academy, Aoi is the queen of it. She gets confessed to left and right and easily rejects her suitors.

Her true personality reveals her to be a person who looks down on others, as stated by Akane. She no longer has on a cheerful facade in the later chapters, but still has innately kind intentions when treating Akane (despite cynically saying she didn't want to look at the wound at all).

As revealed in Chapter 64, she's always wanted to go "far away", which is why she agreed to help No.6. Akane claims the reason why she wanted to leave this world was because of the fear that everyone would discover her true, genuine side sooner or later. Although Aoi assumed he was oblivious towards it, Akane admits that Aoi was inclined to look down on people due to her intelligence and popularity status. She refused to confide or get herself intimately involved with others, even if it meant putting on an act around Nene.

Trivia

 * Her favorite snack is raspberry pie.
 * Her recent concern is how Nene seems to be busy as of late.
 * Except for the Hell of Mirrors, Aoi has always been the one to tell Nene about supernatural rumors (in the Picture Perfect Arc, it is her equivalent that tells Nene the rumors).
 * Aoi studies hard on a constant, daily basis.
 * In the previous examination, she ranked #40 out of 224 students, while in the most recent one, she ranked first with 510 out of 500 points.
 * She's scared of lightning, but doesn't want to admit it.