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.

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, as 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. She was also rather jealous and upset when her childhood friend, Akane, seemingly began to date someone. This is despite her continued rejection of his advances.

Aoi is also shown to be good with words and is able to get people to do what she wants with just a little 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 popularity. She gets confessed to left and right, and easily declines those confessions.

As revealed in chapter 64, she's always wanted to go "far away", which is why she agreed to help No.6.

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 the supernatural rumors (in the Picture Perfect Arc, it is her equivalent that tells her 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.