Those are some amazing leaps of logic, and most of all - that fertile imagination.
Koshi to herself, about Kinu
Kinu Tanukikoji (狸小路 絹, Tanukikōji Kinu) is a second-year student and is the secretary of the student council of Hino Minami High School.
She is one of the supporting characters of Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan who made a non-speaking cameo in Chapter 19 of the manga and "Bashame Enrolls" of the anime.
She makes her official debut in Chapter 20 of the manga and "The Deer Club in the Crosshairs" of the anime, alongside the other two student council officers.
Appearance[]
Tanukikoji has shy, albeit expressive pinky-maroon colored eyes, with fine eyelashes contently framing her eyes.
She also has short hair that's in a rounder neat bob-cut that is pale-almond colored with a fade of pink on the top of her head, there is also a curled ahoge.
Additionally, there is two locks of her back hair that fully go down to her chest, stopping at the waist.
She wears the traditional school sailor uniform, with a lime-colored tie finely tied with a black band, navy-blue pleated skirt and collar.
There is also a light-pink cardigan with poet-type sleeves that cover her shoulders to the wrists of her arms. Although, her seifuku collar and lime-colored tie framely overlap the cardigan.
To finish her attire, she wears white stockings that are at calf-length and brown loafers.
Personality[]
Extremely timid and overthinking. Whenever she makes a simple mistake like accidentally getting papers in the wrong order, she goes as far as attempting committing seppuku.
Abilities[]
Skillset[]
- Management - She has the management skills to be elected as the student council secretary.
Trivia[]
- Her name, Kinu, means silk in Japanese - befitting her hair color.
- Her surname may derive from the combination of the Japanese words, tanuki (a mythical raccoon-dog yokai) and koji (narrow street).
- Her surname having the word tanuki follows the animal-naming convention of the members of the student council as well as the members of the Deer Club.
- Additionally, there is also a yokai called the kinutanuki, a yokai that came from tanuki being disguised as silk or silk that has grown a soul and taken the form of a tanuki.
- Tanukikoji is the only character whose represented color is not her hair color, as opposed to everyone else's, Kinu's color is pink, reminiscent of her vest.
- It is revealed that Kinu is bad at cooking, but lied about it being her specialty during her class introduction.
- In "The Deer Club in the Crosshairs", Chiharu reveals that Kinu was the one who invited her to join the student council together.
- The will she writes in the segment where she and Koshi gets locked in the gym storage shed mentions a "Rabu-tan" alongside her parents, with Rabu-tan most likely being a family pet.
- It is revealed in "Summer Deer Festival" that Chiharu and Kinu are childhood friends.
- Unlike the rest of the cast, whose English voice actors were revealed beforehand, Kinu's voice actor, Nickolette Kong, was only revealed after Kinu's debut episode aired in English.
- One of the posts promoting "Goodbye Old Deer, Hello New Deer" on the show's official Twitter is an exclusive picture of the three other student council members dressed as shrine maidens.[1]
- In "Get The Sports Festival Done!", it is revealed she dislikes eating bellpeppers.