High School Student Council (Kaguya Shinomiya | Miyuki Shirogane | Chika Fujiwara | Yu Ishigami | Miko Iino)
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Shuchi'in Academy High School Student Council
In General
- The Beautiful Elite: Barring Shirogane, who was elected, all of the members of the council are handpicked by the president from the academy's best, with all of them either being at the top of their class or excelling in other areas that make them useful. And all of them are very popular with the opposite sex for their smarts and good looks (except Ishigami who, while not bad-looking by any means, is an ostracized Hero with Bad Publicity and comes across as a gloomy creep).
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The initial members of the student council shown are Shirogane (blond), Kaguya (black), and Fujiwara (pink). Note that this only applies in the anime and live-action movies, since Fujiwara has silver hair in the manga.
- Dislikes the New Guy: The first of Shirogane's student council staff at the start of the story actually has two positions, Auditing, and General Affairs, being filled by two third-year students who came to hate Shirogane's generation of students, so much so that they didn't work alongside his group in the Student Council office, preferring to accomplish their tasks somewhere else.
- The Fellowship Has Ended: By the end of the manga, Shirogane has graduated early and is studying in the US, Kaguya is slated to join him not long after, and Iino declines to invite Fujiwara to her new student council, leaving Ishigami as the only remaining member of the original generation.
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Kaguya is The Cynic (rather pessimistic and with a Dark and Troubled Past), Shirogane is the Realist (the most balanced member), Fujiwara is the Optimist (always cheerful and looking for fun), and Ishigami is the Apathetic (depressed and couldn't care the less about academics). Iino joins later on as the Conflicted.
- Later on, overly strict Iino becomes the Cynic, more selfish and jerkish Fujiwara becomes the Apathetic, gentle and now more cheerful Ishigami becomes the Optimist, more emotionally conflicted Kaguya becomes... Well, the Conflicted, and Shirogane is still the Realist.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Considering Character Development all in all, gentle yet confident and ambitious leader Shirogane is Eclectic, kind yet hard-working and fairly pessimistic Kaguya is Melancholic, initially gloomy and depressed yet later on more cheerful and friendly Nice Guy Ishigami is Phlegmatic, eccentric and playful Cloudcuckoolander Fujiwara is Sanguine, and strict, fairly aggressive yet idealistic and still immature Iino is Choleric.
- Freudian Trio: Before Ishigami and Iino's appearance, the main trio fits here: Fujiwara is the Id (most impulsive and childish member), Kaguya is the Superego (very proud and logical Defrosting Ice Queen) and Shirogane is the Ego (hard-working and levelheaded realist).
- The Ghost: The General Affairs Officer and original Auditing Officer are never seen at any point in the series. According to the Volume 4 extras, they're both third-year students that don't get along well with the rest of the council.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: It's rare for anyone besides Shirogane or sometimes Ishigami to be shown actually doing their jobs among the council.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The only criteria for new members are "able to do the job" and "able to get along with everyone else in the council". That last part means candidates are rare (so rare, in fact, that the council has been understaffed ever since the series' inception) and usually don't know each other before joining. During Shirogane's terms as president, his council consists of himself as a Working-Class Hero amongst a high-class society, a School Idol and (former) Ice Queen, an apparently creepy Otaku, a Ditzy Genius and a prude Moral Guardian.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Their unspoken duty is to make all students feel comfortable in the school. Sometimes this means forcing bigots to accept "Impures", or taking a chance on people everyone else ostracizes. Sometimes it means giving random strangers relationship advice. But they do their best because they really are there to serve.
- Riddle for the Ages: What happened to make the previous Auditing and General Affairs officers hate Shirogane's generation so much?
- Secret-Keeper: Excluding Iino, as she wasn't part of the high school council at that time, all members are aware of Ishigami's past. While they respect Ishigami's wish to not reveal the truth, none of them are really happy that Ishigami is still ostracized and Fujiwara has kept the file they made about Ishigami Hidden in Plain Sight in the student council room for anyone to pick up.
- Shrouded in Myth: The council is a pantheon of divinities or an orgy den, depending on who you ask.Kaguya: Then we were elected. (…) [Shirogane was] in quite the fight. It's already gone down in legend.
- True Companions: Ultimately, Shirogane's council is this. They may bicker with each other sometimes, but if one of them is in trouble, they can depend on the others to help.
- Two Girls to a Team:
- The 66th Student Council, from what we see during their President's graduation party, had two female members (Momo and another unnamed girl).
- The 69th Student Council also has two female members (now president Iino and Tono).
- Averted with Shirogane's second council group, which has three girls (Kaguya, Fujiwara, and Iino) and two boys (himself and Ishigami).
Character-Specific Pages
66th Student Council
Previous Student Council President
For more info about him, see this page.
Momo Ryuju
For more info about her, see this page.
69th Student Council
Taikoku Takano
Taikoku Takano
Debut: Chapter 277
An impure student who serves as the treasurer on the 69th student council.- But Not Too Foreign: It's mentioned that he lived overseas in America for a period of time.
- Contrasting Replacement Character: He's a reverse Shirogane. Both of them are impure students at the top of their class, but while Shirogane is a Nice Guy who hides an inferiority complex, Takano has a full-blown superiority complex and uses his position to boss people around.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Ishigami believes that Takano deserves to be a bully magnet for having such an unpleasant personality.
- Last Episode, New Character: He's introduced in Iino and Ishigami's first epilogue chapter.
- Scholarship Student: He's an impure who was accepted into Shuchiin on the strength of his grades as opposed to any wealth, much like the Shirogane siblings and Kazamatsuri.
Mitama Tono
For more info about her, see this page.
Kogane Kanegae
For more info about him, see this page.
Gomanosuke
For more info about him, see this page.
