Aya Toujou

“	Oh? You found my math notes?	”
– Toujou to Junpei Manaka .

Aya Toujou
Name
Rōmaji	Tōjō Aya
Kanji	東城 綾
Characteristics
Birthday	January 14
Height	159 cm
Gender	Female
Blood Type	A
Personal Status
Relatives	Haruka Toujou (Cousin)
Voices
Seiyū	Mamiko Noto
Image Gallery

Aya Toujou (東城 綾 Tōjō Aya) is the middle-school mystery girl with strawberry-print panties that Junpei Manaka seeks at the beginning of the story.

Appearance

Aya has large glasses and an unattractive hairstyle when Junpei Manaka first meets her.

Soon, she starts wearing contact lenses and lets her hair down that the new look and her curvy figure get lots of attention from the boys and Manaka realizes Aya is the mystery girl and becomes attracted to her.

Personality

Aya is a shy, reserved and rather clumsy, but she is also kind, trusting and intelligent.

Plot

When he tells her that he admires the novel she is writing in the math notebook, he found and that he wants to direct films and she quickly develops a crush on him that the crush blossoms into love as they become friends. Aya passes up the prestigious all-girl high school Oumi Academy so she can attend Izumizaka with Manaka. At Izumizaka, Aya joins the Izumizaka Literature Club, wins awards and recognition for her work, and has her first novel published. An important member of the Film Studies Club, Aya writes the scripts each year for the three films Manaka directs and plays the heroine in the last film.

Relationships

Junpei Manaka

Through the first eight volumes, Manaka is Aya's main love interest. As Manaka becomes more interested in Tsukasa Nishino, Aya's gentle affections are no longer returned. When Aya discovers that Manaka and Tsukasa Nishino are going steady again, she finds the courage to tell Manaka she loves him. After Manaka regretfully rejects her, Aya experiences the heartbreak of an unrequited first love. At the end of the story, she understands that her friendship with Manaka has given her inspiration and she has discovered her deepest feelings through her love.

After graduation, she becomes a successful novelist as she cherishes the dream of making an award-winning film from her notebook novel with Manaka.

Trivia

• The name Aya means "color" (彩) or "design" (綾).
• Aya's surname Toujou means "east" (東) (tou) and "castle" (城) (jou), which denotes the eastern cardinal direction.
• Aya's cup size is E.
• Aya's hobbies is reading.
• Aya's glasses unintentionally cause what is called the "Clark Kent effect," where she isn't recognizable as the same person with glasses on (except for those closest to her).
• Aya's favorite food is Crepes
• Aya and Junpei Manaka share the same dreams; to write and film respectively.