Kikuri Hiroi

Overview: Kikuri Hiroi (廣ひろ井い きくり Hiroi Kikuri) is a supporting character of the manga and anime series, Bocchi the Rock!, and the protagonist of the spinoff manga Bocchi the Rock! Gaiden: Hiroi Kikuri no Fukazake Nikki. She is the bassist and the vocalist of the band, SICK HACK.

Characteristics: Birthday: September 28

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Height: 158 cm (5'2 ft. tall)

Weight: 43 kg (94 lbs.)

Hair color: Mauve Pink

Eye color: Magenta-purple

Affiliation SICK HACK

Appearance: Kikuri has long mauve pink hair worn in a side braid tied with a dark brown ribbon and magenta-purple eyes. In the manga, she wears a hanafuda card earring depicting a lotus in both ears.

She wears a thin-strapped, simple, loose green dress with a black and white jacket over it and a pair of geta (though sometimes, and especially when drunk, she can be seen only wearing the green dress). The lower half of her dress has numerous lycoris radiata/spider lily flower patterns. Visibly, she does not appear to wear a bra. She is too lazy to do so, so she wears Band-Aids to cover her nipples instead. Well, since she's not very endowed, it's not like a bra does her any favors, right...?

She also wears black nail polish on both her fingernails and toenails and is often shown with sharp teeth. She has a tribal circle-looking tattoo on the back of her right hand ?(particularly, it depicts a sun with eight triangles revolving around it).

She has a thin and petite body type, featuring a flat chest size (around A or B cup) and slender legs. Because of her body type, her dress' straps always seem to be accidentally slipping off her shoulders. Additonally, her teeth are shown to be unnaturally sharp like shark teeth.

Her eyes are always closed when she's drunk, but they can suddenly snap open if need be.

Personality: As a kōhai in the college days of Seika Ijichi, Kikuri is drunk in most of the scenes during the series. For that reason, she is often fined for causing trouble such as breaking the equipment during concerts, and because of that, she drinks more liquor, so although she earns income at her concerts, she is always short of money. She has a somewhat crass, foul mouth as well, and when she's drunk, she often becomes a very public disturbance.

Once when she was drunk in front of the station, she happened to meet Bocchi who was trying to sell tickets. Despite Bocchi's initial resistance due to her altered state, they eventually bonded, and Kikuri made her perform an improvised session live on the spot where she noticed Bocchi's talents. It was then that a more empathic and mature side of her was first shown. At that time, after visiting the performance of Kessoku Band with a ticket purchased from Bocchi, she frequently appeared in STARRY. However, she still proves herself to be an annoying guest due to her frequent drunkenness.

Unlike today, where she behaves freely, Hiroi had a reclusive, gloomy personality until high school. The reason she started drinking was to suppress the tension of concert performances. She sees a lot of qualities that overlap with her former self in Bocchi and occasionally gives advice as a senpai bandsman. Even so, when she does not consume any alcohol for a long period, her gloomy personality gradually returns depending on her alcohol level. Best shown in the gaiden where Kikuri becomes a nervous wreck where she is traumatized in repeating that one awful memory when she and SICK HACK tries to perform for the first time but she fails it because of her incapabilities.

Kikuri's "Happiness Spiral/Cycle": When introduced, the cycle is played for laughs due to being presented with Kikuri's cutesy representation of it, but it's actually quite sad when you think about it.

The cycle starts with Kikuri worrying about all the things in her life that she should be worried about. These things include: "debt, marriage, global warming, taxes, the economy," and other relatively bad things. In order to make the thoughts go away, Kikuri gravitates towards drinking alcohol, and she enters her state of temporary happiness. Then she builds a stronger alcohol tolerance, and when the alcohol stops working, the thoughts that plagued her before come back even stronger, requiring a stronger need for alcohol...yeah. One hell of a cycle.

Relationships: Hitori Gotoh: Kikuri acts as somewhat of a mentor to Bocchi in the music scene. Despite her overwhelmingly irresponsible personality, Kikuri often gives Bocchi surprisingly poignant advice, such as when she attempted to convince Bocchi not to sell her guitar (although Bocchi was lying about selling it regardless), or advising Bocchi to not stress out over her future too much.

Kikuri sees some of herself in Bocchi, as she relates to having had a gloomy personality when she was younger; she also seems to think that Bocchi will become like her at some point in the future, saying in episode 6 that she'll be "super into drinking" when she's older, although Bocchi denies this.

Kikuri consistently acts as one of Bocchi's biggest supporters, attending all of Kessoku Band's performances specifically so that she can cheer on Bocchi, likely noticing that Bocchi needs the support more than the other members of the band.

Kikuri seems to think of herself as an older sister figure to Bocchi, even referring to herself as "Big Sister Kikuri" in episode 11.

Seika Ijichi: Seika was her senior in her college years and is still a close friend, to the point she always heads to Seika's home and STARRY for shower. Despite her reluctance and annoyance due to her behaviour, Seika always let her be and even taken good care of her wellbeing.

Kikuri got into bands because of Seika and her band which she admired, but the band broke up after Kikuri joined the universities light music club.

Shima Iwashita: Shima was her college mate (and they also went to the same high school, but Kikuri wasn't close to her until college), and together they founded SICK HACK. She is the one to apologize on Kikuri's behalf when Kikuri done things that damages the band's image, even giving anyone involved gifts or letters of gratitude. While she is uneasy of her drunken lifestyle and always warns her about it (Kikuri always ignores these warnings though), she remains loyal on Kikuri's side. In addition to the above, Shima always try to get Kikuri sober whenever she can so that she returns to her old, timid self, even going so far to restrain Kikuri from consuming alcohol.

Eliza Shimizu: Eliza Shimizu is considerably younger than Kikuri and Shima, but is pretty casual with all her band member. She does not treat her as harshly as Shima does, but she does care about her alcoholic behavior. However, when it interferes with her otaku schedules, she barely gives her any mercy.

Ryo Yamada: Being bassists on their bands, Kikuri and Yamada instantly shares a kindred spirit where the two loves to cause problems for their respective bands, borrowing money from others (particularly Bocchi), and showing up uninvited to their fellow drummers' house for their antics. Yamada cherished her time with Kikuri and recalled how she loves her concert and the time she stepped on her face. Hilariously, the two always get the short end of the stick because of their money leeching behaviors.

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