Izumi Ishikiri

Izumi Ishikiri
石切 いづみ Ishikiri Izumi
Info
Gender	Female
Age	Unknown
Status	Unknown Possibly Alive
Date of Birth	Unknown
Blood Type	Unknown
Job	Student
Class	2-A
School	Maijima Private High School
Seiyū	Mayuki Makiguchi
Manga Debut	Chapter 1
Anime Debut	Episode 1

Izumi Ishikiri (石切 いづみ, Ishikiri Izumi) is a fellow track and field member of Ayumi Takahara and Miyako Terada who has not had much appearance after the first chapter.

Appearance

Izumi has very short hair and due to her brief appearance, it is unknown what is Izumi's general dress-code. She is shown to wear her school gym clothes for her curriculum. She is usually seen wearing a short-scarf around her neck.

Personality

Izumi is just like any regular track & field girl, teasing her friend Ayumi, but also caring for her when she's hurt.

Character History

Track Girl Arc

The first time Izumi appears, she is along side Ayumi Takahara and Miyako Terada, getting ready to start track. From that day on, she continues to tag along with the two while Keima Katsuragi shows his "affection" to Ayumi. Izumi teases Ayumi about this a few times. But when Ayumi gets injured, Izumi suspects that something was wrong with the hurdles. After this, Izumi disappears from the main story line.

Ayumi 4-koma

Izumi appears again in Ayumi Takahara's 4-koma. In the second 4-koma, after Ayumi complains on why she can't wear spikes indoor, Izumi proposes that Ayumi doesn't run at all. In the third 4-koma, Izumi starts to tease Ayumi that she is a trend-setter, for runners started tying their hair regularly when running.

But after that, she sees that Ayumi has also "trend-setted" the idea of 'faking an injury before a track meet'. In the last 4-koma, Izumi is the first to ask why Ayumi had stopped calling Keima Katsuragi "Otamegane". Along with Miyako Terada, Izumi pushes Ayumi to try calling out to Keima. After Ayumi attempts to call Keima "Otamega", though it fails and becomes "Otamegi", Miyako and Izumi are suspicious of this mixed name calling (Otamegi replaces the last part '-ga' with the last part of Keima name, "Katsuragi", to create 'Otamegi').

Abilities

Being part of the track team, Izumi is a competent runner.

Relationships

Ayumi Takahara & Miyako Terada

Izumi is good friends with the both of them, especially Ayumi. Even so, she does not appear else than the first chapter and the Ayumi 4-koma.

Keima Katsuragi

Just like any other student, Izumi sees Keima as "otamegane".

Quotes

• (To Ayumi Takahara while Keima Katsuragi wasn't present) "Aww, Ayumi you're all lonely and sad." (Chapter 1 , p 45)
• (To Ayumi) "Hey Ayumi, did something happen between you and Otamega?" (Omake - Ayumi After 4)

Etymology

• Izumi's surname Ishikiri means "stone" (石) (ishi) and "off" (切) (kiri).
  • Ishikiri is derived from Ishikiri Station (石切駅, Ishikiri-eki).

Trivia

• Rumors propose that Chihiro Kosaka is the "new and refined version" of Izumi. There are doubts though as there are lots of differences between the characters, even though some parts of them are similar, such as their similar eye-shape and friendly relationship with Ayumi Takahara.
  • Whether or not the anime took advantage of their differences and had Chihiro appear early on to establish that they are completely different characters is up for discussion.
• Izumi only appears in the first chapter, the first omake compilation and Ayumi's 4-koma. It is unknown whether or not she will be reintroduced.
• In the omake, it is stated that Miyako Terada is in the same grade as Keima Katsuragi and Ayumi, but she does not say the same for Izumi.
  • This is later revealed in the anime as she is also part of class 2-A.