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Seiran General Art Institute
A school introduced in #2 Transition. Impressed by the performance of Starlight put on at the 100th Seisho Festival, they initiate an “exchange program” with the 99th class of Seisho, which is actually a front for their true intention: to claim Starlight for their own.They are the protagonists of the spin-off play, Blue Glitter.
From the bottom, clockwise: Hisame Honami, Koharu Yanagi, Suzu Minase, and the Seiran stage department teacher Kyouko Yakumo
In General
- The Ace: Each of the students excels in a particular field. Koharu is The Leader and talented at performing on stage, Suzu is athletic and takes part in some of #2's most intense action scenes, Hisame is a songstress with a powerful voice. They are also, according to Hisame, probably the only students at their school capable of performing Starlight.
- Alternate Character Reading: The school's name utilizes the kanji for "blue" and "storm". Claudine, for some reason, pronounces it as "Ao Arashi" despite hearing the correct reading of "Seiran" multiple times earlier on.
- Breakout Character: Because of their popularity, they get to have a spin-off stage play of their own in 2020 with an original story featuring them as the leads this time instead of the 99th Class of Seisho. They've also been confirmed to appear in -Re LIVE- as well.
- Canon Immigrant: They officially made their debut in -Re LIVE's Japanese servers on December 2020.
- Clothing Reflects Personality: Koharu and Hisame are both neatly dressed, establishing them as well-mannered (one panel in the manga adaptation has Koharu fixing up Hisame's uniform). Suzu's uniform jacket is left open, her tie loose, and shirt not fully buttoned up, implying a comparative lack of regard for how she looks. Their teacher Yakumo-sensei is always seen wearing a long suit jacket.
- Color Motifs: Koharu is associated with red, Suzu with green, and Hisame with yellow. To a smaller extent, Yakumo-sensei is associated with blue.
- Foil: To Seisho. Where the first stage play was about the Seisho students becoming Fire-Forged Friends, the Seiran students' introductory scene is of them exchanging banter, showing their closeness. The bond between Koharu, Suzu, and Hisame is also the reason why Yakumo-sensei thinks they are ill-suited to do Starlight: because none of them wants to deprive either of her friends of a lead role.
- Like Maya, top of the 99th class, Koharu is the top student from Seiran. Yet the ways they interact with Claudine, the other participant of the Shunrai revue, are completely different — Maya and Claudine's preexisting rivalry, plus Maya becoming a Fake Defector, results in heightened antagonism between them; Koharu gains Claudine's respect in Shunrai and her Dropping the Bombshell during the Nijiiro sequence sparks off the reconciliation between Claudine and Maya.
- Koharu is also a foil to Junna: they both serve as Class Representative for their class, and are placed high among their peers for their level of performance. Junna took up theater against her parents' wishes, while Koharu has been honing her craft since childhood; Junna works hard to make up for her lack of natural talent, while Koharu is known as a genius yet continues to work hard to improve.
- In middle school, Suzu admired Mahiru, similar to how Mahiru admires Karen in high school. But where Mahiru eventually lost confidence in herself and came to see Karen as her Living Emotional Crutch, Suzu's admiration of Mahiru grew over time, and it spurred her on to catch up.
- Hisame's forceful attitude during her initial scenes contrasts against Nana's generally personable demeanor. While they both feel guilt towards each other, Nana eventually manages to move on from their troubled history, and that allows her to overcome Hisame, who still has hangups over it.
- Ink-Suit Actor: An unusual case in that the Seiran characters appeared onstage in live action first, and unlike the Seisho characters, without illustrations cast on viewing screens to show the audience their designs in 2D. Their appearances in official and fan-created artwork were therefore based on their respective actresses.
- New Old Flame: Koharu is the only character from Seiran to not have some sort of past involvement with her Seishou counterpart. Suzu and Hisame were former schoolmates of Mahiru and Nana respectively, while Yakumo-sensei was Souda-sensei's junior as a Seishou student who fought the Korosu alongside Souda-sensei. In the present day, Mahiru and Suzu both posit that Mahiru had wanted to forget about Suzu, and Nana is unsettled by Hisame's presence reminding her of her Friendless Background.
Koharu Yanagi
Koharu Yanagi
Portrayed by: Kanon Nanaki
The “Genius of Seiran,” a stage girl whose reputation and capabilities are acknowledged even by Seisho’s Maya Tendou.- The Ace: Her reputation as Seiran's top student precedes her. The audience soon sees from "Aoi Arashi" that she fully deserves the reputation.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: The manga adaptation of #2 Transition gave her olive eyes before her official design in -Re LIVE- had her eye color be turquoise instead. Curiously, the colored cover of the manga adaptation of Blue Glitter gives her scarlet eyes instead.
- Aloof Big Sister: As revealed in the spin-off play, Blue Glitter, she's one to her younger sister Sakura.
- Cooperation Gambit: Maya ropes Koharu into one, first hinted at during a scene showing them meeting up prior to the revues of Transition.
- Ditzy Genius: Famed genius, able to recognize a Shakespeare quote unprompted, a good hand with a blade, and socially awkward to an extreme. Fan
-created works have taken this ditziness even further thanks to Nanaki's soft-spoken and somewhat dorky self off-stage, such as an oft-repeated anecdote of her holding a rice ball in one hand, chocolate cornet in the other, then happily eating both at the same time without seeing any issue with doing so. - Emotionless Girl: Her former classmates accused her of this behind her back. Koharu does actually feel emotion, but she refrains from expressing it.
- Family Theme Naming: She and her younger sister Sakura are both thematically named after the season of spring.
- No Social Skills: The first scene Koharu appears in has her grumbling at Hisame and Suzu, her best friends, for being too noisy. When guesting on Radio Starlight,
Nanaki also mentioned that although Koharu meant to properly make her greetings when introduced to the Seishou students, she inadvertently let slip the topic of the Starlight performance at the recent Seishou Festival, then Suzu and Hisame went on from there, resulting in Junna feeling as if they were ignoring her. - The Perfectionist: She would settle for nothing less than perfection when it comes to performing. This is treated as a primary flaw of hers, as when it's combined with her terrible social skills and aloofness, causes friction between her and her friends.
- The Power of Friendship: Suzu and Hisame understand Koharu in a way that none of her other peers ever would, which is likely what stopped her from ending up a Broken Ace in high school.
- Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Isolation from those around her whenever she spoke her mind led to Koharu's preference to minimize interaction with other people. Her “education” was such that she was not to feel bad for people being unable to do the things she could, and it was a matter of fact she was able to do those things.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Unlike her cheery and optimistic younger sister, Sakura, she's stoic, no-nonsense, and can be easily broody during heavy, dramatic moments involving her.
- Talented, but Trained: Implied with her lines in "Aoi Arashi".If the difference is in the amount of effortAll I need to do is surpass that.
- Unknown Rival: To Maya — who was so absorbed in her visualization exercise for Koharu's presence to register, despite Koharu sitting right next to her — in middle school. Koharu is an unusual case because while she has taken note of Maya since the time she first saw her, and they share common goals, neither is particularly invested in any competition between them and more focus is given to the other themes of their respective storylines.
Suzu Minase
Suzu Minase
Portrayed by: Minami Tsukui
A stage girl who attended the same middle school as Seisho’s Mahiru Tsuyuzaki. Suzu was the ace of the cheerleading squad just as Mahiru was the ace of the baton twirling team. Inspired by Mahiru's skills at a baton twirling meet, she requested to incorporate baton twirling into cheerleading routines. However, during a joint practice session in the summer of their third year, Suzu realized how, for all her efforts, the gap between herself and Mahiru was still insurmountable. Her dream is to stand on the same stage as Mahiru and see the view from it together with her.- Adaptation Dye-Job: She originally had green eyes in the manga adaptation of #2 Transition. Her official design in -Re LIVE- gave her purple eyes instead.
- Boisterous Bruiser: The first thing Suzu does when reunited with Mahiru is to dash right across the room towards her. Flashbacks show that Suzu was always excitable and bubbly even in middle school.
- Book Dumb: She has trouble reading kanji so she mispronounces how certain words are actually read most of the time.
- Determinator: In middle school, she overworked herself in her attempts to improve and reach Mahiru's level, to the point where it took a visible toll on her. Her lines in "Aoi Arashi" show that two years later, with the "competition" between them unresolved, Suzu remains fixated on making her dream come true... whatever it takes.
- Genki Girl: She has the energy of an excitable puppy, especially whenever she's around Mahiru.
- The Nicknamer: She calls Nana "Bananan", Maya "Maya Tenten", and Futaba "Ishiugoki", which is another way of reading Futaba's family name: Isurugi. In -Re LIVE-, she calls Tamao "Lady Tomoe" note .
- Protectorate: Mahiru's.Mahiru: I won't let you be hurt again!
- Taught by Experience: Suzu's fighting style includes acrobatic moves such as somersaults, as expected of a cheerleader's skill set. The way she rotates her sword in her hands is also reminiscent of how Mahiru spins her mace like she would a baton.
Hisame Honami
Hisame Honami
Portrayed by: Yoko Kadoyama
A stage girl who attended the same middle school as Seisho’s Nana Daiba. While part of the school choir, she would help out at the drama club, which Nana blames herself for even now, since she feels that it hurt Hisame's relationships with the other choir members. On Hisame's end, she has tried to convince herself that Nana resents her to cope with the guilt of her "betraying" Nana and leaving her all alone.- Adaptation Dye-Job: Like her two friends before her, the manga adaptation of #2 Transition gave her green eyes before her debut in -Re LIVE- revealed she actually has blue eyes instead.
- Alliterative Name: Hisame Honami.
- Beautiful Singing Voice: Her strength is her singing as remarked upon in universe by her peers.
- Emotional Bruiser: The initial run of #2 Transition and the corresponding scene in the manga adaptation implied Hisame was so moved by the 99th class' performance of Starlight that it brought her to tears. However, chapter 6 of the adaptation, which delves into Hisame's backstory and was Kadoyama's reference for her more anguished portrayal of Hisame in #2 revival, shows that it was also brought on by Hisame seeing how Nana's friends from the 99th class were there to perform together with her when she had "abandoned" Nana to go onstage alone in the past.If I did not tell myself you resented me, I could not even be able to stand before you.
- Meaningful Name: Hisame's name is literally "ice rain". The title of her revue with Nana and Junna, Hatsuyuki, harks back to the winter when she and Nana parted ways. "Shiro no Sekai", a number performed by all three Seiran students but most fitting to Hisame's characterization, includes lines such as "freeze my heart over". However, it is also an Ironic Name because Hisame's personality, for all that she tries, is far from icy.
- Only Sane Woman: Between the overly stoic Koharu and the overeager and energetic Suzu, she's this.
- Shoo the Dog: Hisame's real reason for leaving Nana was that she thought she was holding Nana back. Nana refuses to have any of it, though, and still hopes to someday take the stage together with Hisame.
- Tall Poppy Syndrome: Hisame's strength lies in singing, and her distinctive voice was what made Nana take notice of her even before they first met. But standing out in a choir, she points out, is not a good thing when the emphasis is on harmony. The other choir members telling Hisame that her voice and Nana's are not harmonizing well, which she already knew yet refused to admit, coupled with her realization that Nana's singing has an "individuality" she lacks, prompted Hisame to quit the show she was working on with Nana. Ironically, unbeknownst to Hisame, Nana would later temper her own ambition and hide the true extent of her ability at Seisho.
