Mitsurugi Ryoko

Ryoko is the character that the story revolves around. Her father, Mitsurugi Jotaro, is an archaeologist and is often overseas on excavation trips, so she lives with her aunt, Mitsurugi Madoka. She's the top fighter at her school, something like a celebrity, known sometimes as "The Samurai Idol." Indeed, she tries to follow the ways of the old samurai as closely as she can. She is almost and unbeatable fighter and usually calm and confident in a battle, but can also be a bit vain sometimes. (She has a complex about her height.) When the Drama Club has a samurai role in a play, she'll often help out. Ryoko's love interest is Tatsuya, which leads to conflicts with Kiribayashi Azumi. Ryoko and Azumi have a love/hate relationship; they are something like friends half the time, and fight over Tatsuya or the top fighter position the rest of the time. Ryoko's best friend is Hitomi; Hitomi is her counterpart just as Daisaku is to Shizuma. Ryoko vows to become a great woman by being strong and determined and following the path she believes in, and that is mainly what Real Bout High School is about.