

Confused, Hanamaru quickly dismisses the invitation. In the anime, in the first episode, Hanamaru and Ruby are quickly approached by Chika Takami, who invites them to be school idols. Hanamaru has a distinctive verbal tic and dialect, tending to end her sentences with "zura" ( ずら, "zura"), as well as using "ora" as a first-person pronoun to refer to herself. She also attended the same kindergarten as Yoshiko Tsushima, also one of her friends. Hanamaru is Ruby Kurosawa's best friend, and both are often seen near the other. She lives with her grandparents, and since she does not have a computer, she often reads a lot.

Hanamaru, known as "Maru" for short (by herself and her friends), is a first year student and the daughter of a family who has run a nearby temple for generations.
