Satsuki Tawaraya

Satsuki Tawaraya
Age	15
Class	1-D
Gender	Female
Hair	Black
Eyes	Black
First Appearance (Anime)	Season 2 Episode 08
Seiyuu	Ise Mariya
English	Cherami Leigh

Satsuki Tawaraya (俵屋 さつき, Tawaraya Satsuki) is known to have a crush on Hiroyoshi Aso, and she enjoys and excels at basketball despite her height. She is a very determined player when it comes to sports and tends to be a fierce competitor in general. Working with Sagano, she recruits enough friends to form a girl's basketball team, which she helps to coach and is one of the players who remains on the team after the basketball arc ends. She makes her first appearance in the anime in Episode 8 of Season 2. For a small girl, she can eat a lot. She can devour 3 giant combo plates in the Chinese restaurant, and in the chili eating contest was shown to be the winner - sitting in the back rows, much to the chagrin of Harima who literally burnt himself out trying to beat Hanai.

Athletics

During the basketball arc of School Rumble Second Semester, Satsuki is shown to have taken an interest in playing basketball right after seeing Tenma imitating characters from the show Bam Star Basketball Game. Soon after, she quickly formed a girls' basketball club supervised by Tae Anegasaki. In forming the basketball club, Satsuki convinced Megumi, Tsumugi, Mikoto, Lala, Karen, and also Tenma to be members of the club. While practicing basketball, she had a crush on Aso and was unable to concentrate on basketball since Aso was their basketball coach. During the first half of their practice match against The Outlaws, Satsuki was discouraged about basketball and did not show up for the game. But with the help from Lala, Satsuki composed herself and came back to the team. During the second half, she is shown to have the incredible skills of a basketball player rivaling those of Megumi and Aso. As a result, she helped her team catch up to The Outlaws from the missed points they suffered in the first half of the game. Her team closed the score to within 1 point but lost in the final seconds. In the end, they triumphed, however, because the outlaws self-dissolved their team.

Relationships

Love Interests

Hiroyoshi Aso

Satsuki looks up to Aso, her senior and fellow basketball player. When Aso asks what Satsuki thinks of him as a coach, Satsuki misunderstands the question and flat out confesses that she loves him. Throughout Aso's tenure as coach of the girls' team, Satsuki becomes jealous whenever he pays special attention to Mikoto.

Best Friends

Lala Gonzalez

After Lala joins the newly-formed girls' basketball team, Satsuki helps her hone her skills. Lala senses that Satsuki's feelings for Aso, their coach, are interfering with her ability to play basketball, and she reaches out to her, helping her to separate the two areas of her life and focus on the game. Later, Lala encourages Satsuki to go after him.

Family

Satsuki lives with both of her parents, although neither has appeared or otherwise played any role in the story.

Etymology

• Satsuki's surname Tawaraya means "bale, straw bag, bag" (俵) (tawara) and "roof, house, shop, dealer, seller" (屋) (ya).

Trivia

• Satsuki heavily resembles Tatsuki Arisawa from Bleach, down to having similar sounding names. Funnily enough, School Rumble and Bleach began airing on the same date, October 5.