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Airi Kashii
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Name in Japanese 香椎 愛莉
Romaji Translation Kashii Airi
Nickname/s Airin
Prismatic Bud
Voice Actor (Japanese) Rina Hidaka
Personal Info
Gender Female
Birthday 5 April (Aries)
Class 6-C
Class Job Bulletin Placement
Team/s Keishin Girls
Number 7
Position Center
Height 168cm (5' 6")
Blood Type A
Media Appearances
Anime Debut Here Comes an Elementary School Student! Yay! Yay! Yay!

Airi Kashii (香椎 愛莉 Kashii Airi?) , also called Airin [1], is the tallest and oldest girl (born in April) in the team who is also the quietest one among the "inner five".

Character Overview[]

Appearance[]

Airi is an extremely tall and well-endowed girl for her age who even surpasses Aoi Ogiyama, who is already a high school student. She has shoulder-length brownish-orange hair that has bangs hanging over her eyebrows and brownish-orange irises.

Personality[]

Against her rather "bulky" physique, Airi is a shy and reserved girl who can be very sensitive, even over-reactive should her height becomes the topic. Apart from the physical complex, she's also afraid of water.

Airi also develops feelings to Subaru like her teammates, and Subaru's accidental "confessions", combining with her shy nature, complicated the matter.

Abilities[]

Airi's primary talent is her unusual body length, making her the most suitable player in the team. As Tomoka Minato states to Subaru Hasegawa, Airi can do so many things with her height [2]. Her height complex, however, prevents her from playing at her full potential.

Airi is a formidable force to be reckoned with because her height enables her to easily make rebounds, block shots, and shoot the ball from near the basket. This was used to the girls' advantage against the boys team since the latter doesn't have any big players to match her.

After overcoming her height complex thanks to the hard training with Aoi Ogiyama, she became the most important piece of Keishin's "One Center, Four Shooter" offense. Airi would draw 2 players to herself, freeing a teammate for an uncontested jump shot. Subaru states that the "One Center, Four Shooter" offense requires a strong Center player like Airi.

In Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS, Airi has fully developed into a face-up type (i.e. face up towards the basket) Center player. Normally, a post-up game (or behind-the-basket, i.e. back behind the basket) is best suited for her due of her size. But because of her gentle personality and her training with an undersized Center such as Aoi, a face-up game suits her much better.

Trivia[]

  • The name Airi means "love, affection" (愛) (ai) and "white jasmine" (莉) (ri).
  • Airi's surname Kashii means "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (ka) and "oak, mallet" (椎) (shii).
  • Airi has a overprotective elder brother named Banri Kashii, who is a renowned local amateur basketball player.
  • Airi ranked fourth in the light novel's favorite characters poll.
  • Due to Airi's timidity, extreme shyness and well-endowed figure, Touko Hatano nicknames her "Prismatic Bud" (プリズマティック・バド Purizumatikku bado, lit. "The bud that radiating colorful lights").
  • Airi's figure runs in the family:
    • Her father and brother are both tall and muscular.
    • Her mother is very voluptuous, as well as slightly taller than an average woman.
  • Airi's height is never revealed in any media adaptions because she was recovering from cold when her classmates were having physical examinations, subsequently (and "convinentaly") missed measuring her body length.
    • However, judging from a picture of all team members standing together, her height should be close to Subaru's, if not taller.
  • Airi suffers an aquaphobia (an irrational fear of water) that is brought by a traumatic experience at a very young age.
  • It is revealed Airi's family runs a gym/sport club.

Gallery[]

See Airi Kashii/Gallery.

References[]

  1. 12m30s episode 7 by Maho
  2. Episode 3 by Tomoka

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