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High School Student Council (Kaguya Shinomiya | Miyuki Shirogane | Chika Fujiwara | Yu Ishigami | Miko Iino)
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Chika Fujiwara

Voiced by: Konomi Kohara (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English), Elizabeth Infante (Latin American Spanish), Amanda Tavares (Brazilian Portuguese)
Played by: Nana Asakawa (live-action movie)

Debut: Chapter 1 (Manga), Episode 1 (Anime)

The secretary of the Shuchi'in Academy High School Student Council. A (mostly) nice, upbeat, and cheerful girl from a family of politicians, she is very close friends with Kaguya (though sometimes it is debatable if the feeling is completely mutual) and also highly respects Shirogane. She is apparently completely oblivious to the "high-stakes war" being waged in the minds between Kaguya and Shirogane.

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• Achievements in Ignorance:
  • Fujiwara frequently derails the carefully-planned schemes of Kaguya and/or Shirogane in their Duel of Seduction, all without knowing that there's scheming going on in the first place.
  • Over the course of the manga, she manages to impress the entire ramen community of Tokyo, even managing to outperform the Four Ramen Emperors, for whom eating ramen is Serious Business. The thing is, Fujiwara has no idea that such a community even exists, and is repeatedly baffled whenever one of them congratulates her on her "accomplishments".
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair has a noticeably pinkish tint in the anime, while the original manga has it more silvery.
• Adaptational Intelligence: When Ishigami first hints that he has a crush on Tsubame in the manga, she seems completely clueless about what he's saying. The anime on the other hand has her pick up on it instantly.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed. The anime doesn't ever draw attention to the fact that her treatment of Iino is very similar to that of an abusive lover.
• A Dog Named "Perro": Her dog's name, Pes, is Czech for "dog".
• Adopt the Food: Fujiwara procures a fish in Chapter 49 to help Shirogane overcome his fear of touching them so he won't embarrass himself when they make fillets in Home Economics. However, constantly taking care of it leads her to view it as a pet.
  Fujiwara: This is my baby! You can't eat him!
• All-Loving Hero: Fujiwara may tease her friends a lot (especially Ishigami), but she loves them all and sees the best in everyone. She's also a rare example of this trope applying to a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, as she isn't always the nicest or most considerate to others despite seeing the best in everyone.
• All Your Powers Combined: Played for laughs. During her "face-off" against the final Ramen Emperor, she ends up using the techniques of the previous three all without actually meaning to.
• All Work vs. All Play: Single-person example. She used to be an honor student who never had any time to play due to spending every waking moment practicing the piano. After Kaguya convinced her to quit, she decided to make up for lost time and became The Hedonist.
• Anti-Hero: Easily the most selfish Student Council member. She loves her friends and ultimately means well, but her egotistical tendencies and unpredictability often cause trouble to others, and furthermore she is constantly mad at Ishigami for having no issue remarking on her negative traits, instead of learning from said remarks.
• Arch-Enemy: Played for laughs. She is one for Ishigami because he is very quick at finding her underhanded tactics and thus makes her look bad. Ishigami in turn finds her tremendously untrustworthy and doesn't let her indulge in her own narratives; still, this doesn't mean that they dislike each other.
• Attention Whore: Downplayed. She loves being the center of attention, and temporarily defects to Iino's side during the election arc for that reason, but she doesn't usually (see Jerk with a Heart of Gold) force people to give it to her.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • In Chapter 77, Fujiwara describes her romantic interest without naming the person. The catch is that she actually doesn't have a romantic interest currently and just used near-truths describing Kaguya (whom she does love non-romantically), so Kaguya and Iino could spill some secrets during their girl talk. During the conversation, Fujiwara admits that if she had to pull a Heroic Sacrifice to protect her beloved, she would. At the end of the chapter, Kaguya affirms that Fujiwara is someone she treasures and wants by her side.
  • In Chapter 224, she realizes that for all of the hell Shirogane put her through in overcoming his faults, she really is proud of the person he's become over the past year, and accepts his and Kaguya's relationship.
• Batman Gambit: She's just as apt to pull them off as she's to fall for them.
  • The Banned Word Game in Chapter 18/Episode 4 is an excellent example of the former. The game consists of Shirogane, Kaguya, and Fujiwara each having a forbidden word that only the other two know and one loses when they are tricked into saying it. Fujiwara takes advantage of one of Kaguya's biggest gripes with her — namely Fujiwara's inability to read a room — and presents it as something Fujiwara is supposedly insecure about in order to coax Kaguya's Hidden Heart of Gold to reassure her and say she likes her despite her flaws, which turns out to be Kaguya's banned word. Fujiwara then blatantly indulges in Unsportsmanlike Gloating, something that of course pisses Shirogane off and prompts him to announce he will play seriously from now on, which instead causes him to immediately lose because "serious" is his banned word. This is a notable example because, out of all the many psychological schemes in the series, this is one of the very few that goes off without a hitch from start to finish.
  • For the latter, during the Culture Festival, Fujiwara is tricked into keeping out of Shirogane and Kaguya's way when she's presented with something she just can't ignore: a mystery game that would let her feed her ego forevermore if she solves it. Shirogane plays for keeps by anonymously presenting himself as a Phantom Thief challenging people to catch him by solving a puzzle without a solution that will keep her busy with a Wild Goose Chase.
  • For a similar but simpler example, in Chapter 178 Ishigami makes sure to schedule his date with Tsubame-senpai during the sophomores' school trip to Kyoto just so Fujiwara won't be able to play Date Peepers on him.
  • Chapter 180 has Ishigami telling Iino about a masterful, large-scale Batman Gambit that Fujiwara pulled off on their entire grade... that ultimately screwed over Fujiwara herself. Unlike most schools, the funds for the second-year students' school trip are managed by the student council and they're usually a huge strain on the yearly budget, but proposing a cheaper local destination is bound to be met with backslash from the student body. Fujiwara proposed the alternative of putting the trip's destination to a vote, knowing that people wanting to travel overseas would be too divided in their preferences for any of them to get a decisive majority and that out of the three local options — namely Hokkaido, Kyoto, and Okinawa — the cheapest one was likely to win because Hokkaido is too cold in January and this year's sophomores already visited Okinawa in middle school. What Fujiwara didn't consider in her exercise of giving people a false sense of free will through democracy to silence protests before they can even be voiced is that she didn't want to go to plain old Kyoto herself, but she was in such a power trip at the time and when she came down from it, the damage was already done. Ishigami both praises and mocks her at the same time by saying Fujiwara is nearly as talented a politician as she thinks she is, but she's also an idiot at heart.
• Beneath the Mask: Actually, a notable aversion, because unlike any of the other council members or important side characters like Hayasaka, she doesn't have a Dark and Troubled Past nor a facade that she hides behind. The author intentionally made her a somewhat static character, who does not have thought bubbles because there is nothing to hide. She's a cheerful and (more or less) innocent teenager, and that is all. Played straight when she was still an active pianist. Back then, she wore the mask of an honor student, trying to fulfill the expectations others set for her. Behind it was a girl who was being burdened by the pressure of trying to meet other people's expectations. It got to the point where she was very close to crossing her Despair Event Horizon if it hadn't been for Kaguya's rude, but well-timed advice to just quit playing if she doesn't enjoy it anymore.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Given that she's normally presented as a clueless goofball, it can be very easy to forget that she's the scion of one of the most powerful political families in the history of Japan, so her doing things like gathering a veritable treasure trove of info on the Shinomiya family behind everyone's backs tends to catch the rest of the cast and the audience off guard.
• Big Eater: Not as much as Iino, but she likes to pretend she's on a diet and then stuff herself with ramen, sweets, or bubble tea. On that note, don't call her fat.
• Big Sister Mentor: She is Shirogane's (reluctant) teacher in mostly art-related subjects, and cries Tears of Joy, like a mother being so proud of her son, whenever he eventually succeeds. In Chapter 176, she tries to be this to Ishigami, too, and teach him volleyball, but he repeatedly declines because Kaguya is his mentor.
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Her father bans her from reading shoujo manga because it has romance in it, and has also forbidden her from getting a boyfriend.
• Breakout Character: Easily the most recognizable character in the anime, especially to audiences outside the show.
• Break Them by Talking: She'll stoop down to appeal to their friends' sympathy in order to win something as petty as a game. When she does it to Kaguya, Shirogane is aghast at how merciless she is in doing that to someone she considers a close friend.
• Broken Pedestal: Later in the series after so many events where Fujiwara went through hell to teach Shirogane how to improve on something he previously sucked at, she outright tells him that her once untainted good opinion of him has fallen quite a bit. This reaches the point where, when she finally learns about Kaguya and Shirogane's romance, she tries to nuke it from orbit, due to a combination of wanting Kaguya for herself and believing Shirogane doesn't deserve her. Fortunately, she changes her mind towards the end of the story.
• Brutal Honesty: She tends to say what's on her mind, even if it can be rather mean, though due to her oblivious nature, it usually comes across as Innocently Insensitive.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a well-endowed chest, which is part of why she's considered a Dude Magnet at school. Ironically, the character who seems to fixate on her chest the most is Kaguya, due to her A-Cup Angst which is the source of many a Boob-Based Gag, such as Kaguya insulting Fujiwara's chest whenever she curses at her under her breath or thinking she must have a "big-chested gene" in her family tree. This is somewhat proven by Fujiwara's sisters sharing her large bust size (including, to Kaguya's jealousy, her middle-school-attending younger sister), but gets kicked into hilarity when their mother is revealed to be flat as a board, leaving Kaguya to unsettling realize that the genes for their large chest sizes may have come from their father.
• Casual Kink: She likes the idea of being forced "just a little", much to Kaguya's shock.
• Celibate Hero: Inverted, she does want a boyfriend but her father forbade her from getting one. There's also the fact that the boys that like her and approach her romantically are pretty loopy. She's also the only member of the Student Council who ends the series without a definitive Love Interest.
• Characterization Marches On: In the earlier chapters, Fujiwara was portrayed as the ditzy and impulsive secretary that contrasted with the more calculative and outwardly intelligent Kaguya and Shirogane. As the chapters went on, however, she began showing a more fickle and manipulative side, leaning more and more towards the "jerk" part of Jerk with a Heart of Gold. By the time Kaguya and Shirogane get together, Fujiwara's characterization has shifted more towards being a Lovable Alpha Bitch who still cares about the council but thinks she's better than all of them sans Kaguya, and would trick Shirogane into moving to a different district than he initially wanted to just so her social status is still higher than his.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: If there is a competition between the student council, she'll usually cheat to win only for someone to find out. Then Ishigami scolds her for cheating. Chapter 117 has Ishigami even recording her because he knows she'll cheat. The virtue of this is that Fujiwara largely cheats for inconsequential stakes and nothing particularly serious.
• Cheery Pink: Starting with Volume 8, her pink hair became more pronounced, going along with her bright and bubbly personality.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: She can and will turn on people at the drop of a hat if it would suit her needs. She is from a family of politicians after all.
  Wow, you really are a natural-born traitor.
• Chubby Chaser: In her final chapter she announces that her goal is to get married to a sumo wrestler. It's unclear just how serious she was being as while she has shown to be a fan of sumo several times in the past, she also spent most of the chapter trolling Kaguya.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • In the oddest non-romantic way possible. Fujiwara hates being the one getting stuck teaching Shirogane stuff he sucks badly at time and time again — in fact, she has something of a trauma about it — yet she's jealously protective of that role. In Chapter 84, she gives up on trying to teach him Soran Bushi dancing for the sports festival, but she really doesn't like it when she comes back and finds Kaguya teaching him instead. Fujiwara gets Dull Eyes of Unhappiness, laughs mirthlessly, and becomes a rather nasty Passive-Aggressive Caustic Critic. She even gets into an argument with Kaguya over her way of teaching, which somehow devolves into both girls subjecting Shirogane to a Lover Tug of War.
  • In Chapter 223, Fujiwara briefly disapproves of Kaguya and Shirogane's relationship, wanting her best friend all to herself and rejecting the notion of the latter having a boyfriend or dating someone else that isn't her. She eventually realizes her selfishness and later gives her full approval.
• Cloudcuckoolander: One of the aspects that add to her unpredictability. Sometimes she comes with completely off-the-wall non-sequiturs, like sending Kaguya pictures she took of herself while having a sky burial with chickens, or trying to bribe Shirogane for club fund allocation with a soda.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: She correctly deduces the plot twists and secrets of the Hoshino Family during the special Oshi no Ko promotion done by the cast of Kaguya-sama. She easily figures out that Aqua is Ai's son for one when she realizes that he and Ai have the same eyes and even goes as far as to somehow correctly piece out that Aqua was the reincarnation of a doctor in his previous life simply by observing how adult-like his actions were during the movie he starred in with Kana as a child, something only he and one other character knows and keeps a secret in his series.
• Compressed Hair: She's somehow able to fit all her hair (which goes down to her shoulders) underneath a bald cap without a visible bulge.
• The Confidant: She's pretty familiar with Shirogane's weaker points (much to her chagrin), and is in fact the only one besides his family who knows about them.
• Cool Big Sis: For Kei, with the two even sharing special friendship poses, though Kei doesn't harbor nearly as much admiration toward her as she does for Kaguya.
• Cute Indignant Girl Stance: She performs an open-handed variation whenever Shirogane pushes her to her breaking point during their training sessions.
• The Cutie: While she's a more jerkish example, Fujiwara is a cheerful, cute girl who wears a large bow on her hair. Every time she speaks, there are flower effects around her speech bubbles.
• Damned by Faint Praise: When she complains about everyone on the student council being mean to her in Chapter 164, the only thing Iino can say to cheer her up is that she hasn't lost respect for her yet. The official English localization instead has Iino say "I still respect you, Fujiwara," which doesn't cheer Fujiwara up as much as Iino hoped, but doesn't fall into this trope.
• Deadpan Snarker: Develops quite the mean streak as the series progresses once her friction with Ishigami gains more focus and her opinion of Shirogane falls a bit after so much suffering she went through to teach him assorted things.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Static Character. Instead of growing nicer and working out her flaws as the manga progresses, Fujiwara gets meaner instead, and never learns her lesson when karma strikes, which causes her to get left out whenever things get serious since nobody wants to deal with her. And because Fujiwara never grows as a person, when Kaguya and Shirogane's relationship is revealed, she refuses them her blessing and declares war on Shirogane for trying to "steal" Kaguya from her, while the rest of the Student Council can only roll their eyes at her for continuing to be so ignorant and self-centered even after so long.
• Ditzy Genius: It becomes clear that she's more flaky than stupid, which isn't helped by her "best friends" sabotaging her test scores by tricking her into not studying. She's a musical prodigy, can speak five languages, design functional games, elaborate scams, and still scores slightly better than average on tests in a very difficult school despite almost never studying.
• Does Not Like Spam: According to Chapter 171, she doesn't like tomatoes. Oddly, this didn't keep her from attending La Tomatina, the largest tomato fight on the planet.
• Domestic Abuse: Her treatment of Iino bears a lot of resemblance to that of an emotionally abusive lover, complete with Gaslighting. Shirogane and Ishigami are quick to lampshade this.
• The Dreaded: She's Kaguya and Hayasaka's bane because they find her unpredictable and nigh-unstoppable:
  Narrator: An extreme threat to Hayasaka... she... could not be predicted. Her thoughts could not be read. A NATURAL DISASTER who unconsciously threw everything into chaos by simply being present!
• Dude Magnet: Fujiwara's popularity amongst the student body is often mentioned, though it's hardly ever shown outside of rare exceptions like chapter 87.
• Dumbass Has a Point: While the way she says things can come off as rude or stupid at first glance, she's surprisingly astute where it counts. For example, during the shipping roundtable with Kaguya and Osaragi, she proclaims that Ishigami is just a normal hormonal teenager and would fall for anybody that was especially nice to him and has a pretty face; he starts properly acknowledging his feelings for Iino when she starts being openly nicer to him, and he later admits that he was acting shallow and would have wanted anyone who would take him as he is now.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In the first few chapters, her breasts weren't as obviously big as they are now and her signature bow was much smaller.
• Elegant Classical Musician: She's a skilled pianist, to the point that a guidance counselor asked if she was considering attending a conservatory when she graduates. She prefers to view it as a hobby though. In middle school, Fujiwara was fixated on her piano talents and tried to be a model student, but at Kaguya's suggestion eventually chose to quit and enjoy life more.
• Elephant in the Living Room: Invoked. She comes to the startling realization that she sees Shirogane as an individual that fills all her standards for the kind of man she'd like to date if she thinks about it for long enough. Frightened, she quickly represses the idea and changes the topic.
• Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Inverted. Ironically, she spent so much time speaking foreign languages as a child that her fluency in Japanese actually degraded from disuse. The official fan book even lists the Japanese Language as her worst subject.
• Empty Eyes:
  • When really mad, her eyes go blank as seen in Chapters 76 and 84.
  • Also at the beginning of Chapter 164 she complains about being mistreated by fellow student council members, even though this one is a part of her The Gadfly habit.
  • She has this expression in Chapter 223 when she retracts the blessing she gave Kaguya and Shirogane.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her very first scene does a very good job of showing off her primary character traits. She displays complete obliviousness to the mind games Kaguya and Shirogane are engaging in, throws Kaguya's carefully crafted plan into disarray by complete accident, and eats a steamed bun that Kaguya and Shirogane were clearly already reaching for.
• Empty Nest: She came down with a platonic example of this towards Kaguya and Shirogane, feeling left out when they were each able to find happiness and success without her.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • It's implied that she is somewhat aware of Kaguya's occasional resentment and coldness towards her, but she never responds because she loves Kaguya and treasures her beyond all the petty stuff.
  • It's shown that she helps Shirogane every time he wants to learn something because she cannot bear the thought that a person who commands as much respect as he does could be so awful at something, and cannot forgive herself if she doesn't do everything she can to fix the problem.
  • While Fujiwara has made many a mean-spirited joke before, she always tries her best to ensure that they remain (relatively) tasteful. As such, when she makes a comment on Ishigami's love life and gets Iino to sob her heart out mid-sentence, Fujiwara immediately stops and apologizes before any permanent damage occurs.
• Failed a Spot Check: Although she can tell that the council room "reeks of lovesickness", she has no idea that Kaguya and Shirogane are the cause of it, having been flirting under her nose for over a year. (Kashiwagi, a total stranger, realized this fact in under an hour.)
  • The spinoff implies that this is because she doesn't want to think of Kaguya loving someone (i.e, a boyfriend) more than her. Karen realizes that Kaguya made oyster rice because Shirogane likes it, and Iino says that the dish was clearly made with love, but Fujiwara doesn't want to hear the obvious conclusion.
    Fujiwara: If it's her feelings for me, her best friend who is also a judge, then I agree.
  • This gets even worse for her in Chapter 223, when it turns out that she was the only one in the student council who had no idea that Kaguya and Shirogane were in a Secret Relationship until Kaguya told her point blank the previous chapter.
• Fear of Thunder: Not only is she afraid of the sound of thunder, but she also believes the legend that the thunder god will steal your belly button if you don't cover it. And she can't cover both of her ears and her belly button at the same time...
• Flowery Insults: Her criticisms of Shirogane's weak skills can get quite extravagant. For example, when she hears him sing, she describes his voice as "disgusting like a sea cucumber's intestines."
• Foil: According to Akasaka, she was created to foil Shirogane and Kaguya's genius, but also their dark and troubled backgrounds, with her cheerful silliness. However, it's clear that she's far more intelligent than she looks, and is just lazy, hedonistic and often selfish, while the main protagonists are far more hard-working, levelheaded, proud and selfless.
  • Of course she's also a foil to Ishigami, given that she's a cheerful Genki Girl while he's a depressed geek, and yet both are lazy in their own way (though Ishigami changes this later on) and they were even born on the same day (March 3).
• Food as Bribe:
  • One chapter has her and Kaguya reprimanding Shirogane for trying to eat instant ramen in the student council office. She quickly joins his side when he gives her one.
  • Another chapter has her giving Shirogane a soda as a bribe to increase her club's funding. Shirogane isn't fooled for a second and instantly calls her out on it.
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The optimist, as expected by a bubbly Genki Girl. Although it's more of an attitude towards the world, rather than being particularly morally upstanding since she's pretty selfish at times. For this, and for her becoming more and more jerkish and egotistical, she becomes the apathetic.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine, of course, as she's definitely the most cheerful, outgoing, carefree and playful Council member.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Downplayed in that none of the student council particularly dislike her, but Fujiwara tends to rub them the wrong way with her antics. Kaguya considers Fujiwara her first true friend but is ready to break it off at the mere possibility of Fujiwara stealing Shirogane from her. Over time, Shirogane and Ishigami start losing patience in regard to her manipulative personality. All three are shocked when Iino claims to look up to Fujiwara as a model student. Even then, Iino's borderline hero worship cools off considerably the more time they spend together.
• Friend to Bugs: Has no trouble handling a cockroach in Chapter 15, and she was even able to identify the species at a glance.
• The Gadfly: She has a tendency to mess with her friends for fun. Chapter 27 has her attempting to get Shirogane to unknowingly say innuendos to get Kaguya to laugh. Fortunately for Kaguya, Shirogane doesn't take the bait, though his reaction ends up humiliating her all the same.
• Gamer Chick: She's a member of the Tabletop Games Club. She doesn't play video games, but that's only because her father forbids her from having them (and even then, she secretly has Pokémon GO on her smartphone).
• Gender Flip: Kuramochi no Miko, her literary counterpart in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, was male.
• Genki Girl: Is typically enthusiastic and full of positive energy. Nothing gets her down for long.
• Guile Hero: Fujiwara is shown to be very adept at manipulating both Kaguya and Shirogane through mind games and wordplay, as seen when she utterly defeats both of them in the Banned Word Game in Chapter 18.
• Guy on Guy Is Hot: Was forced to excuse herself to the bathroom during her sleepover with Kaguya when she got a nosebleed at the thought of Shirogane being in love with Hayasaka's male butler persona. She also shows interest in Shirogane and Ishigami's interactions in the light novel, where the former comments on the latter's butt and they have a bonding moment.

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• Hard Work Hardly Works: Fujiwara is horrified when "Kaguya-chan" admits to liking Shirogane and Ishigami more than her because she's known Kaguya for much longer and worked a lot harder to defrost her. ^note There's some outcome bias in this; the boys could only befriend Kaguya because Fujiwara had taught her to trust people previously.
• Has a Type:
  • Played for Laughs. She once realized that Shirogane meets all of her standards, and immediately forced herself to dismiss the notion. Later she amends her type to sharing hobbies like video games, and Shirogane realizes that Mikado meets those standards, only for Kaguya to veto it and promise to draw up a suitable list so she can find a boyfriend.
  • After she turns down a young pianist's invitation to move with him to Vienna, Fujiwara reveals that he isn't her type and wants to fall in love like Shirogane and Kaguya. What is her ideal mate? A sumo wrestler. It's unclear if she was being serious or not.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Despite her appearance as The Cutie, Fujiwara can lose her temper at the drop of a hat, especially if it's something involving Shirogane or Ishigami.
• The Hedonist: Fujiwara is someone who's all about having fun, eating food, and turning everything into a game because she's trying to make up for all the time she lost when she was focused on being a piano player.
• Heroic BSoD: After teaching Shirogane multiple subjects he sucks at, such as volleyball, musical rhythm, vocal pitching, and rapping, and getting him to a passable level, she dreads just remembering the training sessions because of how much effort she had to put in. In Chapter 176, Ishigami faces a similar volleyball problem and Fujiwara, noticing the Déjà Vu moment from Chapter 23, re-experiences the trauma she went through and is left in a half-catatonic state for a moment.
• Hero of Another Story: The early series joked that she would be the heroine of the story under different circumstances, with Kaguya worrying that the girl would take her spot.
• Hesitation Equals Dishonesty: In Chapter 275, she pauses for a long time before making the bald-faced lie that she chose to be campaign speaker for Iino's opponent in order to test her.
• Heterosexual Life-Partner: She adores Kaguya with all her heart, and being Kaguya's friend is a significant source of pride for her. Chapter 223 reveals that she's outright possessive of her, and doesn't want her to have a romantic relationship even if it wasn't Shirogane.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Has a dog, Pes.^note "Pes" is Czech for "dog"
• Hidden Depths: While she acts like a Kindhearted Simpleton most of the time, she most definitely is not dumb.
  • Her mother used to be a diplomat, so Fujiwara has been able to speak several different languages since childhood. Unfortunately, it came at the cost of her fluency in her native language. This is lampshaded by how her dog, Pes, has a Czech name.
  • She is also able to easily identify a certain type of cockroach in the storage room, and nonchalantly release it out the window, using her bare hands.
  • She is very good at keeping secrets. It's the reason why she was Kaguya's Only Friend in middle school (since Kaguya would always test potential friends by telling them juicy gossip and having Hayasaka see if they leaked it to the rest of their social circle).
  • There's also Chapter 34, where she tries to cheat in a card game. After Shirogane caught her, she cheated again using a different trick.
  • She already knows Kaguya looks down on her, as revealed in Chapter 77, but states that she loves her regardless.
  • As we learn from Iino, she was a very good pianist in the past.
  • She fully intends to follow in her grandfather, father, and uncle's footsteps in becoming a politician after high school. Rather, she wants to be prime minister. Considering her reputation amongst everyone else on campus, the reactions were appropriately concerned.
  • Fujiwara is for some reason a natural-born Ramen connoisseur with a very minute and detailed method of eating.
  • It's implied that she likes Shirogane as a man a great deal more than she thinks.
  • She's actually quite fit and even bench presses in her routines.
  • Her IQ is over 130.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: When Kaguya gets sick in Chapter 34, the student council members play a game to decide who gets to visit Kaguya. Fujiwara cheats by using the pattern of the card back, but messes up one time, giving Shirogane the next turn. He sees through her trick and uses her card set up for himself to win the game.
• Hyperspace Holmes Hat: While we are told where she got her "Love Detective" hat (from the Drama Club), her habit of just pulling it out of nowhere goes completely unexplained.
• Hypocrite: Frequently used for humor. It's usually Ishigami, the narrator, and occasionally Kaguya who call her out on her hypocrisy.
  • For instance, when Kaguya offers takoyaki to everyone, Fujiwara pulls out chopsticks because she is mindful of the environment, but immediately drops the act when Kaguya gives her a pick with a flag on it.
  • She loves to make fun of Ishigami's lack of experience in romance, even Virgin-Shaming him at one point, even though she has no experience in love, either.
  • In Chapter 110, she criticizes anime for an abundance of wide-eyed, baby-faced, large-breasted female characters with unnaturally high-pitched voices and random hair accessories. Everyone else in the room recognizes this applies to her, but she doesn't.
  • She claims that she wants to lose weight, but refuses to change her habits and takes things very easy. She keeps eating ramen, ice-cream, and drinks bubble tea, and doesn't really do any activity that would help her lose weight.
  • In general, she likes to tease other characters, only to get offended when she's the one being teased.
  • The whole game in Chapter 164 happened because Fujiwara accused the boys of being mean to her, although Shirogane pointed out that they were just responding to her insane antics. Fujiwara later declares that Kaguya is the only person to have been nice to her, while the narrator points out that Kaguya had been anything but that.
  • She argues with Kaguya and Osaragi that they should consider Iino's feelings for Ishigami and that Ishigami at the end of the day is just a Hormone-Addled Teenager who will date any cute girl. All this despite the fact that she is well aware that no other girls except Iino's circle of friends would ever approach Ishigami due to his status as a pariah. The icing on the cake is that she proclaims that she likes seeing Ishigami and Iino arguing, a huge 180 turn of her initial claim in ensuring Iino's happiness.
  • Chapter 200 is pretty much an entire chapter of this, with Fujiwara complaining that people need to be more considerate to her on her birthday...while inconsiderately whining about having to share it with Ishigami and grousing about the quality of the presents Shirogane and Iino gave her. The real kicker comes at the end, when Ishigami gives her a very considerate present (a foreign board game), while her present to him is a piggy bank. Everyone has the sense to call her out on it.
  • In chapter 214, Fujiwara planned on living far away from her sisters once she entered college as she acknowledged them for being freaks and that she'd become one as well. Kaguya nonchalantly pointed out that Fujiwara is already not very different from her aforementioned sisters.
• Iconic Item: Her hair ribbon. You could probably count the number of panels where she isn't wearing it on one hand.
• Implausible Deniability: And she may even believe her own lies. After being told by Ishigami and Kaguya (Ice) that the things she's eating are actually high in carbs and sugar, she tries to come up with excuses for how wrong they are, despite clear evidence that she's gaining weight. For instance, her argument why drinking bubble tea is fine is because calories are a unit to measure heat, so anything that she perceives as cool must have zero calories. She also thinks eating ramen is fine, so long as it's spicy and she's sweating enough due to sweat being a sign of exercise. The fact that on top of the noodles, she countered the spiciness by eating fatty ice cream afterward went right past her head. Not to mention, she then bought a bubble tea to prevent stress, as stress also supposedly causes someone to gain weight.
• Improbably Low I.Q.: In Chapter 15, Kaguya has an Imagine Spot where Fujiwara says that her IQ is 3. This isn't her actual IQ (which Word of God says is over 130), but a clear sign that Kaguya just has a very low opinion of her best friend.
• Inappropriate Role Model: Iino looks up to her, much to the bafflement of the rest of the student council.
• Informed Attractiveness: Fujiwara is beautiful enough for Kaguya to consider her a serious barrier between herself and Shirogane. However, due to Shirogane having a Single-Target Sexuality for Kaguya, this is never really an issue. It's later implied that she does get asked out regularly but dismisses the boys who approach her with pseudo-intellectual diatribes.
• Informed Attribute: She is supposedly really popular outside of the student council, but the only other characters she's ever really shown to interact with are her fellow Tabletop Games Club members and the Mass Media Club duo (the latter of whom view her as The Dreaded). Her friendship with Kaguya is also reported to be deep and long-lasting (going since middle school), but they rarely hang out in series, with Kaguya turning to Kashiwagi for emotional support and advice instead. The final volume's profile for Fujiwara finally clarifies what "heroine" meant—that she actually serves as The Heart of the Student Council and provides support and interaction for everyone there, allowing her to be "everyone's heroine".
• Innocent Blue Eyes: In the manga and anime she is depicted with blue eyes, though her "innocence" is questionable at best.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: In Chapter 96 when judging Kaguya and Ishigami's fried rice, she keeps trying to say they used high-grade ingredients only for both of them to say it was just normal food.
• In the Blood: Played for Laughs. She's a member of the Fujiwara family, one of the most prominent families in the history of Japanese politics, and this often expresses itself with her less noble attributes.
  Kaguya: It runs in the family, doesn't it? She has the tainted blood of a politician in her veins.
• Intoxication Ensues: She ends up getting drunk in Chapter 9 of Official Doujinshi when she binges on some alcoholic chocolate.
• In-Universe Factoid Failure: She has a baffling lack of media knowledge, as shown when she thinks Pretty Cure is a video game. Also earlier in chapter 96, she assumed that Kaguya and Ishigami cook their dishes with high-grade ingredients, ignoring the fact that they are in school, which would've made it impossible to obtain said ingredients.
  Ishigami: Your knowledge of otaku culture is astoundingly shallow.
• It Amused Me: She messes with her friends because it's fun. This is also the same reason why she ships Ishigami and Iino. She finds their arguments amusing and emphasizes this by making them play games against each other.
• It's All About Me: Downplayed example. She's kind and loving but she can be too focused on her desires instead of others.
  • In Chapter 40, when Shirogane plans a trip with the rest of the student council, she tries to stop the others from going to a festival because she can't go with them, even though the reason she can't go is to attend another festival.
  • In Chapter 51, she is also upset that she shares her birthday with Ishigami because she doesn't want to share her special day with anyone else. This is proven in Chapter 200 when she goes ballistic by calling on the student council for not giving her party a separate day while whining that Shirogane's (and Iino)'s gifts to her are bland, despite her gift to Ishigami being incredibly generic.
  • On the subject of birthdays, the only reason she wanted to throw Kaguya a surprise birthday party in Chapter 163 was to make sure that Kaguya would get something good for her when her own birthday came around.
  • In Chapter 197, Shirogane plans to move with his family to the Minato ward, the same ward where Kaguya lives. Fujiwara suggests Ryougoku to him instead, though not because it's cheaper (which it is, using this as an excuse), but because it's considered a lower ward in Tokyo's caste system, and she doesn't want him to live in a ward that is considered to be a socially higher ward than Shibuya where she lives. Ishigami calls her out on this, as Shirogane's family would be saving nothing with the relatively cheaper rent because the long commute to school is similar to or even worse than from where they live.
  • In Chapter 213, when she learns that Shirogane and Iino had befriended one another, she tries to make it a competition about who Iino likes more... And gets offended when Iino, despite saying she likes Fujiwara more, sits next to Shirogane and then complains to Kaguya about him stealing Iino away from her.
  • There are hints of Fujiwara wanting Kaguya all to herself in the story and rejecting the notion of her friend dating someone else. After learning that Shirogane had been dating Kaguya for 4 months, she briefly went full Shipping Torpedo and accused their date as a Netorare.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She retracts her previous rejection of Kaguya and Shirogane's relationship when she realizes that she only did it because she feels her friends are moving on without her, and that she shouldn't care if she's less involved in their growth than she used to be as long as they're happy.
• Jack of All Trades: Despite not being as awesomely brilliant as her friends, Fujiwara is far from stupid. She actually turns out to be a lot more knowledgeable than Kaguya (who is incredibly sheltered and didn't even know about the term 'first time') or Shirogane (who is good only in studies and barely anything else). She's also a polyglot, musician, minor athlete, and a bit of a social butterfly. There are even times when she outplays the protagonists by accident.
• Jerkass Ball: Her Shipping Torpedo attitude towards Shirogane and Kaguya lasts all of two chapters before she concedes that Shirogane has grown enough to be worth Kaguya's attention.
• Jerkass Realization: In Chapter 224, she realizes that the reason she didn't support Kaguya and Shirogane's relationship was that they've both grown so much as people that they can be happy without her around all the time, and this made her feel lonely. She rescinds her Shipping Torpedo attitude and accepts Shirogane for who he is.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Teasing, manipulative, and cheats at almost every game she plays, but she still loves her friends.
• Kick the Dog: She has a knack for belittling Ishigami, as he's very good at pointing out her bullshit and making her feel bad as a result. As such, there's no lost love between them.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Fujiwara is boisterous about her detective skills and knowledge, but as everyone in the student council knows, she is usually talking tall when she tries to impress them.
• Lady in a Power Suit: As a politician, this becomes her outfit of choice as an adult, though she still wears her bow.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • After discovering that her little sister Moeha has a crush on Shirogane, she tries to humiliate him in front of her by exposing his disastrous dexterity with an assortment of children's toys. Shirogane turns out to be extremely skilled at all of them, prompting Moeha to love him even more.
  • In Chapter 188, she makes Ishigami and Iino play a game of shiritori, where the loser has to admit that they are an idiot. As Iino gains a huge early lead, Fujiwara begins to mock Ishigami, who makes her promise that she also has to receive the punishment if Iino loses. After Fujiwara laughingly accepts, Ishigami makes a comeback and wins. He then records Fujiwara's confession and gives her a name tag titled "big fat idiot". To add salt to the wound, he doesn't force Iino to go through with the punishment.
• Like a Son to Me: A Played for Laughs example. Since she helps Shirogane with a variety of subjects such as sports, music, cooking and even folding balloons, she's called him her son when emotional; her stupid, hopelessly annoying son who can't do anything right, destroying her image of him. But despite even gaining trauma when it comes to helping him, she just can't help but teach him when he's failing, even once getting jealous when Kaguya started teaching him.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • She was the only one in the student council who didn't know that Ishigami was going on a date with Tsubame while the second years were off on their class trip, not finding out until after the fact.
  • She doesn't know that Shirogane and Kaguya are dating, when Kashiwagi, Onodera, Maki, and even Iino are aware of it. At least until Kaguya finally tells her in Chapter 222.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Later chapters show that Fujiwara revels in her high ranking on the social hierarchy, and likes picking on people she considers lower than her. She's somewhat aware that she's The Friend Nobody Likes among the student council and can't stand it, apparently oblivious as to why she has that status in the first place, and in Chapter 197, she tries to talk Shirogane into moving to the Ryougoku district instead of Minato because he'd be higher than her on the Tokyo Caste System if he chose the latter. Due to her otherwise loving nature, her friends are more than willing to help her if needed.
• Love Freak: Despite never being in a relationship, she considers herself an expert in love, and often spouts inspiring speeches of love, passion, and determination.
• Love Makes You Dumb: Platonic example. Fujiwara seems to ignore the fact that Kaguya frequently acts meanly toward her.
  Fujiwara: You're the only one who's nice to me anymore, Kaguya-san!
  Narrator: No, she isn't.
• Mama Bear: Fujiwara isn't even a mother, but she has the instinct of one. This is most often shown towards Shirogane and training him. Even when she doesn't want to teach him, just seeing Shirogane struggling and no one giving him support causes her to go into trainer mode. Kashiwagi states that Fujiwara sounds like her mother when declaring that a child's self-esteem needs nurturing and care for them to become better people.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Fujiwara's constant attempts to befriend Kaguya since middle school and wanting to see her laugh seems like a typical girl of this trope, but it's subverted. What kicked in the latter's defrosting was seeing Shirogane's genuine kindness without trying to use Fujiwara's Genki Girl approach.
• Meaningful Name: The kanji for her first name translates to "thousand flowers", befitting her bright and sunny personality.
• Mistaken for Gay: Erika thinks that she's in a relationship with Hayasaka due to having witnessed their Forceful Kiss without any context.
• Moment Killer: Leave it to her to break the tension by suddenly appearing out of nowhere. She's done it so often that, in Chapter 165, Shirogane expects her to show up to break the awkward silence between him and Iino.
• Ms. Fanservice: Even if it's just an Imagine Spot, she gets a bikini scene as early as Chapter 7, and both the manga and the anime are prone to dressing her in clothing designed to accentuate her figure. She's also one of the main focuses of the chapter/OVA parodying fanservice getting the most of the Male Gaze shots and even a gratuitous Sexy Surfacing Shot scene.
• Must Make Amends: Chapter 175 has Fujiwara pampering Iino, after she revealed in the previous chapter that she abuses Iino's Kindness Button and Iino was standing behind her.
  Ishigami: I see you're blatantly trying to make up for what you said the other day.
  Fujiwara: [with Empty Eyes] Be quiet, Ishigami-kun.
• Must Make Her Laugh: Fujiwara mentions in Chapter 27 that it's been a long-time dream of hers to make Kaguya roll on the floor laughing. When she finds a word that makes Kaguya roar with laughter, she proceeds to say it again... and again... and again.
• My New Gift Is Lame: She spends most of her birthday party complaining about her gifts, either because their identical to (Shirogane) or of lesser quality (Iino) than the ones Ishigami got. It's only after seeing the presents that Kaguya and Ishigami got her that she completely changes her tune and cheerfully cries about how much she loves everything she has. This ends up turning straight into Hypocritical Humor when everyone sees what she got for Ishigami, since he took the time to carefully pick out a board game she'd like while she just got him a piggy bank.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: When she learns that Moeha has a crush on Shirogane, she goes out of her way to dissuade Moeha from falling for him thanks to her traumatizing experiences of training him. She even pushes him out of the room far, far away from Moeha just before the chapter ends. Fortunately for her, Shirogane has no interest in Moeha as a girlfriend, though even after learning who he chose to date it took Fujiwara a few moments to accept it.
• Never Bareheaded: You could probably count the number of times that Fujiwara is shown without her bow on one hand. She even keeps it on when she's wearing a bald cap, or when she has a towel wrapped around her head after getting out of the bath.
• Never Gets Fat: She doesn't look any different outwardly despite her hedonistic lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits.
• Noble Bigot: It's only her personal rap that reveals she's not sure how to treat gay people. In all other situations, her natural kindness leads her. Even in Chapter 152, she states that doesn't hold any prejudice towards the LGBTQ community.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Because Kaguya-chan will let her, Fujiwara always takes the opportunity to forcibly cuddle her.
• Not So Innocent Whistling: She tries to whistle after giving Shirogane an incredibly obvious bribe to increase the funds for the Tabletop Games Club in episode 7. Unfortunately, she doesn't know how to whistle and it just makes her even more obvious.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: She usually comes across as a somewhat ditzy Cloudcuckoolander (and she's genuinely a Know-Nothing Know-It-All when it comes to her supposed skills as a detective), but there are more than a few instances where it's shown that she's smarter than she lets on. Chapter 222 reveals that she puts up a carefree front so people won't expect great things from her anymore.
• Oblivious Mockery: Is on the receiving end of this when Kaguya and Shirogane come clean about their relationship to the rest of the student council, with Ishigami and Iino saying that any competent member of the student council would have already noticed beforehand.
• Odd Couple: Although she endlessly bickers with Ishigami, she cares about him and was adamant that the council should save him from having his reputation smeared.
• Omniglot: As mentioned in Hidden Depths, she is fluent in five languages due to her mother being a diplomat (the exact languages other than Japanese and French are never specified, though one of them is probably German due to her love of German board games). Ironically, she sucks when it comes to her native Japanese (the official fan book even lists it as her worst subject) since she spent so much time speaking other languages as a child that her fluency atrophied.
• Only Friend: Discounting Hayasaka (who is more of a sibling), she was Kaguya's sole friend during middle school. Kaguya actually didn't want any friends at all, but Fujiwara's sheer persistence eventually won her over.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Despite her Cloudcuckoolander and Gadfly attitude, in Chapter 163 she is genuinely shaken up when Iino doesn't react well to her joke about dating Ishigami and decides to stop the joke right there to prevent unwanted damage.
• Precision F-Strike:
  • When rapping, Fujiwara drops f-bombs.
  • When Shirogane conveys his thoughts about the Ishigami ship war through mantra, she can only reply...
  "Wh-What the fuck are you talking about?"
• Rebuilt Pedestal:
  • Whenever Fujiwara does something that damages Iino's opinion of her, she's very quick to butter her up with sweet talk to get her to forgive her. Shirogane and Ishigami are both disturbed by their relationship, comparing Iino to an abused lover.
  • In Chapter 224, when Shirogane gets the hang of ballroom dancing much faster than she anticipated, she realizes how much Shirogane has grown over the past year and realizes that he no longer needs her dedicated guidance, and she gives him and Kaguya her blessing, confident in Shirogane's ability to improve on his own.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: On both sides with much of the cast.
  • Normally, she's the carefree and lazy blue to Shirogane's studious and Workaholic red, but as soon as she has to teach him something Fujiwara becomes the exasperated red to his clueless blue.
  • She's primarily the airheaded red to Kaguya's cold and calculating blue, though it's clear that Kaguya's the amicable blue to her selfish red.
  • Typically, Fujiwara is the approachable and energetic red to Ishigami's introverted and lethargic blue. However, Ishigami is far more trustworthy and kindhearted while Fujiwara is both selfish and occasionally unscrupulous, inverting their dynamics.
  • Fujiwara is the easygoing blue to Iino's hard-lining red. Underneath that, however, Iino is the upstanding and supportive blue to her disruptive and backwinding red.
  • While Hayasaka is usually the calm and collected blue to her airheaded and bubbly red, it's the other way around when it comes to romance; Fujiwara is generally content with being single in the end, while Hayasaka does indeed have finding a boyfriend as one of her end-goals.
• Resigned to the Call: She coached Shirogane on various things often enough to the point that she already expects to be teaching him the moment he's tasked to do or perform something.
  Fujiwara: (on teaching Shirogane ballroom dancing) It's strange... the moment I heard the word "dance", I had already mentally prepared myself. Right now, my heart is as calm as the morning breeze, as tranquil as a quiet morning in Karuizawa...
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: During the balloon thief incident, she claims that the thief meant it as a personal challenge to her. While it's just her ego talking, Shirogane did throw the whole thing together to distract her specifically.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: While the officially colored manga portrays her with silver hair, several of the covers (as well as the anime and live action adaptations) give her pink hair to reflect her bright and cheery personality. Downplayed as she becomes more jerkish later on.

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• Secret-Keeper:
  • A reluctant one for Shirogane concerning his lack of athletic coordination, non-existent dancing skills, and inability to sing. As she knows that Shirogane has an image to uphold, she cannot bring herself not to help him both out of pity and her own self-respect, which always comes at a great toll on her because he's an awful, awful learner.
  • She also turns out to be one for Kaguya, as Kaguya tests potential friends to find out if they would spill her secrets to other people. Fujiwara managed to pass, which is why she is one of the few actual friends Kaguya has.
  • Sort of inverted with Ishigami. Like all older council members, Fujiwara is aware of Ishigami's past but keeps it secret to respect Ishigami's own wishes. As a way of protest, she left the file book about Ishigami's past in the open in the student council room, so that someone may one day find the file and the truth about Ishigami. As revealed in Chapter 178, that someone turned out to be Osaragi.
• Secretly Selfish: Behind all her sweetness and friendliness lies a girl who wants to have the cake and eat it too:
  • When Kaguya catches a cold, she twice tries to rig a card game with Shirogane and Ishigami in order to be the one who visits Kaguya at home, notwithstanding that she's had the privilege of having visited Kaguya before.
  • During the planning of their summer vacation, the student council throws ideas to the wall that she rejects because she'll not be able to attend because she'll be busy either traveling or studying. When they convene to go to the summer festival, Fujiwara immediately protests because she'll be at La Tomatina when the festival happens, but Ishigami calls her out on this, as she's going to have fun in Spain all while not wanting them to have fun without her.
  • When she learns Ishigami's birthday is on the same day as hers she is livid because if their friends have to celebrate both their birthdays she feels it takes away her "specialness".
• Selective Obliviousness: As seen in Chapter 214, Fujiwara is well aware that her sisters are weirdos in their own way and that staying with them for too long would turn her into one. When Kaguya points out that Fujiwara isn't really different from her sisters, she is quick to exclude herself from the matter.
• Shadow Archetype: Like Shirogane, Fujiwara was hailed as a prodigy and pressured to excel at her particular area of expertise, in her case the piano. Both of them were miserable with their circumstances but pushed on to please others, but were convinced by Kaguya to cut themselves some slack. However, while Shirogane simply lightened his workload to only what was necessary and respects Kaguya as her own person, Fujiwara quit entirely, becoming lazy out of the desire to make up for the time she lost, and becomes possessive of Kaguya, wanting to be the most important person in her life no matter what. Their contrasting attitudes are reflected in their respective Senpai-Kohai relationships with Iino; Shirogane supports her feelings for Ishigami genuinely and shows her nothing but respect, while Fujiwara supports her crush because she likes seeing them argue, and exploits her naïve sense of morality to push her around. In essence, Fujiwara is who Shirogane would be if he succumbed to hedonism to escape his insecurities.
• Shipper with an Agenda: She ships Ishigami/Iino because she likes watching them argue.
• Shipping Torpedo:
  • She tries to dissuade Moeha from having a crush on Shirogane due to all her time training him having given her PTSD. Fortunately for Fujiwara, (at least in regards to that problem) Shirogane has no interest in dating Moeha and doesn't even find out about her crush on him.
  • Happens again in Chapter 223 as she can't fathom the idea of Kaguya dating Shirogane after the two confided their relationship. Whereas Ishigami and Iino were pretty much welcoming to this, her trauma of training Shirogane was so unbearable that she compared the two's relationship to NTR.
• Signature Headgear: Her ever-present "super black" hair ribbon. She even has it on when she's wearing a bald cap and trying to fool everyone into thinking she shaved her head.
• Significant Birth Date: She is very proud to have been born on March 3, celebrated in Japan as Hinamatsuri (Girls' or Dolls' Day), but not so much at the fact that Ishigami also shares the same birthday.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: She and Ishigami are constantly at each other's throats and any semblance of a dignified discussion usually goes out of the window whenever they fight. She intensely dislikes him because he doesn't hesitate to call out her Alpha Bitch tendencies.
• Sleazy Politician: She's basically what happens when this trope is filtered through a school setting. While she normally acts like The Cutie, she gleefully admits that campaign promises don't mean anything, has given and accepted bribes, and betrays her friends at the drop of a hat if it suits her purposes.
• Smarter Than You Look: At first glance, Fujiwara may seem to be a ditzy, immature airhead, but considering how easily she outplayed Kaguya and Shirogane in the Banned Word Game, she actually has more emotional intelligence (and common sense) than the both of them combined. She also speaks multiple languages, is proficient in various subjects, and managed to train Shirogane from "traumatizingly incompetent" to "decent" in sports, singing, and dancing. In addition, narration during the first exams arc reveals that the only reason Fujiwara has middling grades is that both Kaguya and Shirogane manipulate her into not taking the exams seriously lest she get in the way of their duel for academic excellence.
• So Proud of You: Whenever Shirogane develops adequate skill in something, she is gushingly proud of him, much like a mother would of her son.
• Sore Loser: Apart from the fact that she likes to cheat at games, Fujiwara is not very dignified when she's found out either.
• Spanner in the Works: Many situations would have been a clear victory for one side, only for Fujiwara to say or do something unexpected, resulting in the tables being turned or forcing a mutual defeat. She did this enough times to spawn a long-running fan theory that she's aware of the situation and secretly manipulating them both, although chapter 222 confirms that she really was ignorant about it. Also, she apparently ruins Hayasaka's missions enough that she's referred to as "Subject F".
• Stern Teacher: Her Training from Hell sessions with Shirogane have her running him and herself ragged, often sporting her iconic "demon" headband while barking instructions.
• Stupid Sexy Friend: When Chapter 73 has Shirogane prompt Ishigami to consider the student council girls as possible romantic prospects, Ishigami actually quietly considers Fujiwara for a bit and blushes. Then he recoils in horror at the realization that if he lets his guard down, he could easily fall for her.
• Super-Hearing: As a musician of great merit, she has a keen ear. Even though Shirogane had memorized the school's anthem and so could flawlessly mouth it during an assembly, she could still discern that he wasn't actually singing because she could hear his silence amidst his classmates.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: In Chapter 275, Iino proposes that the real reason why Fujiwara chose to give a campaign speech for one of Iino's opponents for Student Council President was for Iino's sake, specifically to test whether Iino was up to the job. Fujiwara goes silent, and after a Beat Panel, says, "Yup!" prompting Osaragi, who's narrating, to remark, "Yeah, no way."
• Sweet on Polly Oliver: Fujiwara finds Hayasaka's male butler disguise very attractive, gaining a bit of a crush on her while the latter waits on her.
• Tears of Joy: Whenever she sees Shirogane succeed at something after she helps him. The second time it happens goes straight into Inelegant Blubbering territory.
• Technician Versus Performer: Brought up in Chapter 84, when Fujiwara and Kaguya attempt to teach Shirogane the Souran dance. While Kaguya thinks it's fine to just perfectly copy the moves, Fujiwara is horrified and argues that true quality stems from conveying one's feelings and using one's heart to dance. Ultimately, she is right, as understanding the feelings of a rope being pulled is what helps Shirogane learn the dance.
• Terrible Artist: Fujiwara normally excels in the arts, having displayed a great deal of talent in piano playing, singing, acting, freestyle rap, and balloon art. Despite this, her drawing of Hayasaka when they're paired up together in art class is hilariously bad.
• This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!: Played for laughs. She finds Shirogane's lack of coordination so offensive against common sense that she cannot avoid helping him, because she'd be doing a service to the world by ridding it of something so awful. Also, she deems that his position as president and a model for all students would be marred otherwise.
• Took a Level in Jerkass:
  • Her nastier qualities become more prevalent after Iino joins the council, as she becomes more manipulative, more disrespectful, and generally treats everyone but Kaguya like trash. The crowner comes when she makes a list of qualities she dislikes about Ishigami, which as Shirogane points out, consists almost entirely of things he does in response to her own bad habits.
  • She takes another level when she learns that Kaguya and Shirogane are dating. She goes full Shipping Torpedo, declares Shirogane unworthy of Kaguya, and leaves the Council room to find ways to test their relationship. Though it only takes her one chapter to accept their relationship.
• Trademark Favorite Food: She's a big fan of ramen, to the point that she has been recognized by several of the Ramen Emperors for her skill in eating it. She even sings about it in the second verse of her Dancing Theme. Although, the final Ramen Emperor chapter reveals that it isn't her favorite food, and if she had to pick a hypothetical last meal it would be sushi or yakiniku. She also likes drinking bubble tea and desperately tries to argue against Ishigami, who notes how many calories this drink has, with Insane Troll Logic.
• Trauma Button: The memory of all the times she taught Shirogane is apparently so horrible that merely bringing it up causes her to go straight to a Thousand-Yard Stare.
• Troubled Backstory Flashback: Chapter 222 reveals that she used to wear the mask of an honor student and was extremely close to crossing the Despair Event Horizon back in middle school due to the expectations and pressure that came with being hailed as a piano prodigy. Kaguya's rude, but ultimately well-timed advice for her to quit if she doesn't like it anymore caused her to be liberated, and she hasn't let it bother her since then.
• Tsundere: Hilariously enough, she displays the typical traits when Shirogane needs her to teach him something in later chapters. She makes a big deal about how awful he is, only reluctantly agrees to help him, is very stern throughout the training despite how torturous she finds training him to be, and is very proud of him when he graduates to "decent" in whatever she is teaching him, but not to his face.
• Unknown Rival: Despite being her best friend, Kaguya tends to get really jealous of Fujiwara being able to interact with the President in ways she could never even dream of. Heck, when Kaguya thought of a person other than herself getting with the President, she thought of Fujiwara. For her part, Fujiwara is aware of Kaguya's tendencies but doesn't really know of Kaguya's inner feelings.
  • Fujiwara is this to Hayasaka as well, due to the times where Fujiwara has made her to fail some of her missions because of Fujiwara being unpredictable.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Later in the series, much of the comedy around her involves her showing off her bad side, accidentally or not, and then getting chewed on by the other council members (especially Ishigami).
• Wasted Beauty: Ishigami sees her as this, given that he thinks he could have fallen for her if it wasn't for her ditzy behavior and selfish streak.
• Weight Woe: She starts trying to lose weight over winter break. The fact that she applies very loose logic to her eating habits like "cold foods don't have calories because calories are a measurement of heat" and "eating lots of spicy food is the same thing as exercise because both make you sweat" doesn't really help. She also doesn't really want to work out. She uses an electric bike and tries to make Ishigami stop working out in the student council room, as she is sure someone would point out that she should join him (which Kaguya does).
• Weirdness Magnet: Invoked. Kaguya explains that for a boy to approach Fujiwara with romantic prospects, he'd have to be pretty weird. She came to this conclusion after witnessing Fujiwara rejecting a boy who somehow falls for her dumb counterargument against dating.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • She goes into a rather fundamental wrath every time Shirogane tries and fails to do something he thinks he's doing right, but is obviously doing completely wrong. What bothers her the most is how undeservedly proud he is whenever it happens.
  • She is very upset when she learns in Chapter 188 that she was the only one who didn't know Ishigami had a date with Tsubame (because he knew she would have wanted to date peep). When she calls them Ungrateful Bastards, Ishigami asks her what she ever did for him, making her so mad that she challenges him to another shiritori game. The first word she comes up with is calling him a dick.
• Wild Card: Fujiwara is considered an unpredictable force of nature who can cause even the most meticulous of plans to fall apart by her mere presence. Appropriately, the first season of the anime gave her the Playing Card Motif of the Joker.
• World Half Full: She is happy even about voters' stupidity because usually it works in her favor.
• Yaoi Fangirl: Her response when she mistakenly believes Shirogane and Hayasaka (in a male disguise) are in a gay relationship is to get a massive Nosebleed.
• Younger Mentor, Older Disciple: Downplayed with all the times she trains Shirogane, as the age gap between them is just shy of six months.
• Your Size May Vary: Word of God states that her ribbon changes size based on the humidity of the environment it's in.

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