~Hinako's Description~

Name: Takaishi Hinako (Maeda Atsuko)

Nickname: Hina-chan from Hinako (A nickname that Kamiya created)

Age: 17, 18 in the Graduation Special, 19 in the Movie

Height: 5'3" (160 cm)

Eyes: Dark Brown

Hair: Dark Brown (shoulder-length), long and curled in the Graduation special and Movie

Personality: Very careful, silent, very strong, calm, sometimes cold, bright, strong-willed, mature, intelligent (like Izumi), somewhat dense, very good adviser and listener

Role: The 1st female leader of Akadou High's 3-D

~Family~

Takaishi Hiroki (Uchi Hiroki) (Brother, Deceased)

Unnamed Father (Deceased)

Unnamed Mother (Deceased)

Ogata Yamato (Friend/Boyfriend/Husband)

Ogata Hiroto (Son)

Ogata Yumiko (Daughter)

School: Kuro Saigai (formerly) Akadou (current)

Class: 3-D (Akadou)

Uniform: Hinako is wearing her old school uniform from Kuro Saigai All-Girls Private High School. She wears a short gray skirt, a collared white shirt, a navy blazer, and knee-high socks. She also wore a pair of gold lace-up hightops, and a gold chain necklace with a rectangular pendant. Hinako also wore two bracelets on her wrist, one pink and one blue. These bracelets held a deep meaning to her. They were given to Hinako by her older brother Hiroki right before he died. Outside of school, she wears a pair of thinly rimmed glasses due to bad eyesight and when she goes to school, she changed from glasses to contact lenses.

Likes: People living their lives with serious, people who fight for a good reason, fighting, sleeping, cooking, studying, cute babies and kids, shellfish sushi, loves playing pool and darts, sleeping, bargain hunting, baking, home economics, being with her friends (Izumi, Yamato, Ren, Honjo, Ichi, Kura, and Kamiya)

Dislikes: Bullies, people not taking or living their lives with serious, biology, people who fight without a reason, cheaters, spicy food, boys looking under her skirt when the wind blows it up, seeing her friends giving hurt

Weaknesses: Seeing a lot of blood caused Hinako to remember the day that her brother Hiroki was killed

Cellphone: It looks like Yamato's cellphone expect it will be the color gold (just like her gold high tops she wears) with a red heart sticker on the front of it

About: Hinako is an independent girl who barely cries and never shows her feelings of loneliness to anyone; besides it gets to her limits. Also, she tries to advise and listen to other people who also are having difficult lives of their own. Hinako looked up to her older brother Hiroki very dearly. Hiroki encouraged his younger sister to live life seriously. After Hiroki was killed by a group of yankees, Hinako blamed herself for her brother's death. A year after Hiroki's death, Hinako became a student at Kuro Saigai All-Girls School, where she met her best friend and right-hand man Izumi. At first, Izumi targeted Hinako, considering the other girl to be a rival she had to defeat. When the two fought, Hinako was the clear victor of the match. They started their partnership and friendship out of common respect for each other. Hinako soon got to the top of Kuro Saigai along with Izumi. Since Hiroki's death, Hinako has lived by herself in a small apartment, and pays for the apartment rent as well as her needs by working part-time as a maid waiter at a maid cafe.

~Author's Notes~

I got most of the ideas from Atsuko Maeda's character in the series Majisuka Gakuen. Including her catchphrase: 'In this world, there is nothing but serious'. Anytime we someone said the word 'serious' it flips a switch within herself. I also got the glasses from Majisuka Gakuen as well. But she only wears when she's home at her apartment. I've also gotten ideas from Yankee-Kun to Megane-Chan as well as Kenka Bancho Otome Love's Battle Royale, that's where I got the name 'Hinako'.

~Cultural Notes~

Hinako means 'Child of harmanious days' in Japanese because I thought Hinako's name was similar to Atsuko's name. Atsuko means 'child of profound emotions'. Hinako's Japanese surname Takaishi means "tall stone".

Since the beginning of AKB48, she, along with Team A captain Takahashi Minami, have been in the forefront of the group.