Higashigawa High Clubs

Gymnastics Club

Focused on artistic gymnastics. Its girls' side is moderately successful.

Boys

For more than a decade, the Higashigawa High Gymnastics Club has had exactly three boys in it. Every year, a senior graduates, a single freshman joins, and no amount of threats, bribes or promotional gimmicks ever changes this. The origin of the curse is unknown.

3rd Year

Inoue Ryosuke: Handsome and reliable. A good source of advice on form, which he has mastered. Technically the boys' captain, but as with all previous such captains, the minimum competition team size of four leaves him bereft of duties.

2nd Year

Nakamura Keiichi: Handsome and unreliable. Joined the team to impress a girl, then was intoxicated by some early success, then refused to give up a one-sided rivalry with Ryosuke. Outstandingly strong; has been known to carry a full girls' team of four on his shoulders when showing off at competitions.

1st Year

Kinoshita Chiba: Handsome and liable. Rumours differ as to just what it was he was liable for, but his moody and taciturn demeanour do little to suppress them.

Girls

After basketball, one of the major Higashigawa girls sports. The two have a rivalry but also a tacit agreement to sort on height, with the unusually tall gymnast Higashibayashi Yayoi and the short but merciless basketball captain Juumonji Kurenai being the only recent exceptions.

3rd Year

Reizei Rin: The captain. Very serious, but has been known to speak disparagingly of the dropout Yayoi. Hit hard by the poor performance of the last two years.

Yamazaki Haru: Joined in her first year as second-fiddle to her friend and middle school teammate Yayoi, but by now is likely has the edge between the two.

Higashibayashi Yayoi: Technically still a team member. A big hope when she joined in her freshman year after a successful middle school career, but has mostly stopped attending practices after certain rumoured events.

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2nd Year

Ono Kanade: Was pressured into the gymnastics team after she failed to secure enough members to continue the ballet club. She is committed to aesthetics and believes the sport should be about grace and elegance, and is hostile to point-chasing. Opposed to the 2006 scoring reforms. A good source of costume and musical setting suggestions, and vague yet useful advice.

Dotani Sakura: An otaku forced to take up a sport by her parents, who then became hooked on the optimisation problems it presents. Dismissive of aesthetics and focused on point accumulation, but has a similar competition record to her rival Kanade due to a habit of getting distracted by score calculations mid-routine. A good source of training & optimisation tips; queen of Better World Arcade.

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1st Year

Ishikawa Junko: A small star attending Higashigawa for convenience reasons. Good-natured and annoyingly talented. Bafflingly incapable of giving useful advice.

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