Yuu Kashima (鹿島 遊 Kashima Yū) is a high school student at Roman Academy. She is Mikoto Mikoshiba's classmate and best friend, and is considered one of the best actors of the Drama Club.
She is the older sister of Rei Kashima.
Appearance[]
Kashima is an attractive, androgynous girl with bright green eyes and short dark blue hair. Her bangs are swept to the left. According to Kashima herself, she used to have long hair when she was younger. She is very tall for a girl of her age, yet has a very smallest bust size that makes her look little more like a boy.
Kashima is commonly seen in the school uniform, which consists of a white blouse with the top button undone with a loose red tie. She wears it with a black jumper that has the school emblem on it. In addition, she wears a navy skirt that ends just above her knees, with a pair of black socks and brown shoes. She wears shorts under her skirt, which provides convenience when changing clothes for club activities.
Personality[]
Kashima has a prince-like personality that makes the girls fawn over her, giving her the nickname "The Prince of the School". In addition to her handsome appearance, she often flirts with the girls and addresses them with the honorific -hime (姫, "princess"). She enjoys it when girls fuss over her and considers all of them beautiful. She has difficulty working hard and often skips out on Drama Club.
Kashima has a firm loyalty towards Masayuki Hori, whom she calls Hori-chan-senpai, and often seeks his attention. She tries to please Hori, but more often than not, misunderstands the situation and ends up getting things very wrong. For example, she mistook Hori's interest in shoujo manga as a desire to dress and act as a girl, and ended up doing embarrassing things to Hori such as leaving skirts in his locker for him to wear.
History[]
According to Kashima, Hori was the reason that she decided to enroll in Roman Academy and join the Drama Club. In her third year of middle school, she attended Roman Academy's cultural festival and saw Hori's superb acting.
Relationships[]
Masayuki Hori[]
Kashima is Hori's underclassman in the Drama Club. She strives to be his number one kouhai, though this often causes Hori to be annoyed with her. Their relationship is very close, to the point where they easily get along and often are the first person the other thinks of. Hori often uses physical force on Kashima when she skips club activities or unintentionally insults him. Despite this, she deeply respects and admires him. His acting was the reason why she enrolled in Roman Academy and joined the Drama Club.
Kashima usually refers to Hori whenever she is asked a question that involves "picturing another person" or an ideal situation to be in. She is easily upset by the idea of not being Hori's favorite kouhai, and will go to extreme lengths to try to secure the position. However, this often backfires in comical ways. A running gag of the series is that Kashima believes that Hori's dream is to play the princess. This is because she once found a heavily bookmarked copy of Let's Fall in Love in his bag after he threw it at her. She constantly tries to fulfill this dream by doing things such as giving him feminine clothing and offering to trade her skirt for his pants.
Kashima and Hori are so close that when they were asked about the previous year's sports festival, they could only recount seeing each other during the time. Kashima tells Chiyo Sakura how Hori was an opponent that she could not beat, because even though he was on the opposing team, whenever he asked her to pass the ball, she would gladly do so. The other characters suspect that Kashima likes Hori and vice versa. Kashima once told Chiyo that she liked Hori, but she said it so lightly that Chiyo wasn't sure what she meant by it. In Chapter 65, Kashima and Hori play the fortune-telling game Kokkuri-san, and Chiyo asks them to ask Kokkuri-san about who their romantic interest has a crush on. Kashima and Hori are shown not allowing the coin to move, so that it cannot spell anything, as they were both trying to spell different things. Kashima wanted to spell out "Ka-shi-ma" and Hori tried to deflect it by spelling out "Ka-ku-ni" (meat stew). Some background characters also suspect that they like each other, as they get excited whenever Hori is upset or Kashima is acting princely towards Hori.
Kashima once revealed to Chiyo that she gave Hori chocolate for Valentine's Day. She said that since Hori will not eat homemade chocolate, she copied the design of storebought chocolate and gave it to him. However, in an extra, the author reveals that Hori would have eaten her homemade chocolates anyway since he knows Kashima well. In Chapter 87, Hori gives Kashima a makeover after seeing Mikoshiba's bad attempt. Another classmate describes the makeover as "Hori's favorite face done in Hori's favorite way", and questions if that is the type he likes the most. Several days later, Hori realizes that Kashima is his ideal girl.
In Chapter 107, Hori expresses his affection for Kashima in an attempt to snap Kashima out of her hypnosis. Later in Chapter 112, it is shown that Nozaki and Kashima have interpreted this event as an indirect romantic confession. However, as a result, Kashima questions all of Hori's actions and asks him if he is doing these things because he likes her. This predictably annoys Hori to no end. As described by Mikoshiba, it seems that Kashima cannot trust Hori's feelings yet.
Mikoto Mikoshiba[]
Mikoshiba and Kashima were originally rivals in their first year of high school, due to both of them being attractive and popular with girls. They eventually became best friends. Kashima confides in Mikoshiba when she is upset and they tend to invite each other to social gatherings. Mikoshiba assumes that Hori and Kashima like each other, and tends to approach their relationship with caution and high expectations. The author states that Kashima likes Mikoshiba because he is "honest and easy to understand".
Chiyo Sakura[]
Kashima and Chiyo are friends and act very warmly towards each other. Though Chiyo is dedicated only to Nozaki, she is sometimes affected by Kashima's charm. Kashima is aware of Chiyo's one-sided love for Nozaki; she finds it cute and mildly supports it.
Yuzuki Seo[]
Due to her tone-deafness, Kashima studies singing under Seo, but with little-to-no improvement. She refers to Seo as sensei (translated as "coach"). The two are close friends because their personalities surprisingly mesh well, and the fact that Seo is approximately the same height as Hori makes Kashima feel at ease. Hori approves of their friendship, stating that he is proud of Kashima for gaining a normal female friend she can get along with.
Hirotaka Wakamatsu[]
Kashima is Wakamatsu's upperclassman. Kashima recognizes Wakamatsu as a close friend of Seo, but thinks that he is somewhat dopey for the actions she has seen from him.
Umetarou Nozaki[]
They are acquaintances. Kashima is aware of Chiyo's crush on Nozaki and recognizes him as a friend of Mikoshiba and Hori, as well as a rival for Hori's attention. Because she doesn't know that he is a manga author, she finds his behavior weird.
Rei Kashima[]
Rei is Kashima's younger sister in middle school. Rei attends an all-girls' academy, which is three train stations away from Roman Academy. The sisters get along well and have similarly cheery dispositions.
Trivia[]
- Kashima's birthday is on Halloween.
- Kashima is known to excel in all school subjects, being at the top of her class, and she is good at all sports. Additionally, her elective subject is Calligraphy. However, she is tone-deaf[1] and tries to hide this fact from everyone. She often avoids going to karaoke with other people. Seo is currently coaching her, but to no avail.
- Kashima likes nishikyou pickles, while she dislike pungent and bitter foods.
- Kashima's hobbies include eating food at restaurants and shopping.
- Kashima is ranked 4th in the character popularity poll, according to the Official Fanbook.
- According to Kashima's character profile in Chapter 40.5, her breast size is barely anything, and she dresses like a "bookish male student". Her voice is usually the same pitch as a normal girl's and only deepens when she is trying to be cool.
- Kashima apparently first met Hori when she was in her second year of middle school, picking up something Hori had dropped near an unknown train station. During this time, she was still shorter than him and her hair was longer than it is now. Hori does not seem to remember this encounter.
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Main |
Nozaki Umetarou | Sakura Chiyo | Mikoshiba Mikoto | Seo Yuzuki | Kashima Yuu | Hori Masayuki | Wakamatsu | Mayu Nozaki |
Supporting |
Yukari Miyako | Ken Miyamae | Maeno Mitsuya | Ryōsuke Seo | Tomoda | Rei Kashima | Nozaki Yumeko | Hina Hisakawa | Kobayashi | Towa Sakura | Misaki | Yoshino |
Let's Fall in Love! |
Saburou Suzuki | Mamiko | Oze | Waka |