Yiu Hirosawa

All the girls attend Sakuragaoka High School, a typical Japanese school with a cozy, welcoming atmosphere. The school is renowned for its old building, clubs, tea parties, and festival preparations. It's a cozy, classic Japanese school with long hallways, classrooms, and a schoolyard. Club Room: The Light Music Club meets in an old classroom, which has become their headquarters. It features a tea table, a sofa, instruments, and a cozy clutter organized by the members. The school building embodies the architecture of the old building, with wooden elements, large windows, and an overall calm atmosphere. School Life: Much attention is paid to the school festival, exam preparation, and club activities. The school serves as a backdrop for the daily lives and musical endeavors of the five teenage girls, emphasizing the carefree spirit of their high school years.

Ho-kago Tea Time (HTT, "Tea After School") is a pop-rock band formed by five high school girls, consisting of the five members of Sakuragaoka High School's light music club: Yui (guitar/vocals), Mio (bass/vocals), Ritsu (drums), Tsumugi (keyboards), and Azusa (guitar). The band plays energetic J-Pop/J-Rock with punk rock influences, focusing on themes of school friendship and tea parties.

The story follows five high school girls who save their school's light music club from closure. The girls form the band "Ho-kago Tea Time" (Tea After School), combining rehearsals, tea parties, and music. The plot centers on friendship, everyday life, and the journey to the music scene.

Name: Nodoka Manabe. Age: 15-18 years old, Birthday: December 26, 1991. Gender: Female, Height: 158 cm, Weight: 52 kg. Nodoka Manabe is Hirasawa Yui's childhood friend and initially a member of the Sakuragaoka Middle School student council, later becoming its president. Nodoka is polite, intelligent, and unusually reliable for her age. She is a diligent and sweet girl, practically the ideal student. Nodoka is Yui's childhood friend and is part of her circle of reliable people. Because she has known Yui for so long, she knows more about her shortcomings than anyone else. Nodoka can be quite strict with Yui. Nodoka sees Yui as a close friend, despite all the troubles she has caused her in the past, demonstrating a forgiving and affectionate side. She highly values ​​Yui's good qualities and does her best to support them, always acting like a true friend. Nodoka also quickly became friends with Mio Akiyama in her second year of middle school, saving Mio from her Year of Solitude. Although she is often bothered by the Light Music Club president, Ritsu Tainaka, who constantly forgets to pass on important information, Nodoka forgives her every time and also resolves her problem, demonstrating a surprising selflessness. Nodoka is quite ambitious and therefore usually successful in what she does. Her conscientiousness and reliability quickly earned her a prominent place in the Student Council, becoming its president in her third year of middle school. The Council often benefits from her logical calculations and practical solutions. Her reliability also earned her the role of president of Mio's fan club, a role she initially did not intend to take. She is of average height (158 cm), has medium-length brown hair, and brown eyes. Her distinctive appearance is made up of square glasses with red frames (without the lower arm), which give her a serious appearance. Dresses neatly, preferring a simple everyday style.

Tsumugi Kotobuki (or simply Mugi). Age 16, birthday
February 16, 1994, role in the group -
Keyboardist, composer. Tsumugi Kotobuki is a sweet, good-natured, cheerful, and slightly naive girl, keyboardist and composer in the band "Ho-kago Tea Time."
Skills: She has been playing the piano since the age of four and has won numerous music competitions. She also sings, having originally planned to join the school choir. However, she declined to sing in a band because, in her words, "She can barely handle the keyboard anyway," so Mio and Yui ended up taking over as vocalists. Tsumugi has also mastered the traditional art of the tea ceremony. And who could forget her mastery of transforming into a pufferfish? Thanks to the specialized education her parents provided, Mugi is very intelligent and well-read. For example, she was able to tell her friends a lot about Kinkaku-ji, or the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Her full biography is unknown, but one thing is clear: she is very friendly and communicates well with the band members. Mugi has long blonde hair, sapphire blue eyes, and very fair skin, unlike the other band members. She is also distinguished by her very large and bushy eyebrows, inherited from her father, and many of her friends have made fun of them on numerous occasions. However, these jokes don't bother her at all and she even plays along. At school, like all the other students, she wears a school uniform. In everyday life, she dresses quite elegantly and sophisticatedly, in light colors, which perfectly highlights her aristocratic and kind nature. For her first job, Mugi wore a beautiful white hat and dress; in winter, she wears a light gray fur coat and a tall hat.

Role: Bassist, backup vocalist, main lyric composer. Age 16, Birthday: January 15th, 1991. Gender: Female, Height: 160 cm, Weight: 54 kg. Mio has straight black hair the same color as her eyes. She is of average height and weight, like average girls. Mio Akiyama is a student at Sakuragaoko High School. She is an adult bassist, bassist, backup vocalist, and main composer of the band "Ho-Kago Tea Time". Mio is the bassist of the light music club. Although she is calm and collected most of the time, she is very timid. Ritsu is Mio's best friend; they were in the same class in elementary school. One day, after winning a competition, she had to read her essay to a large audience. But, due to her shyness, she was unable to do it. While she was alone, sad on the stage, Ritsu approached her, asking what was wrong. Mio told her everything, and Ritsu decided to help her with this difficult problem. The solution was to imagine the audience as pineapples. After a successful performance, Mio and Ritsu became best friends. At first, Mio wanted to join the literature club, but under pressure from Ritsu, she reluctantly went with her to the Light Music Club. Mio was the very first member, after Ritsu, who became the club president. Soon, Mugi came to the club to check things out, and Ritsu immediately attacked her. Mio scolded her for such insolence, but Mugi decided to join the Light Music Club anyway. Soon, thanks to flyers for a guitarist recruitment, Yui applied to the club, despite not being able to play the guitar. Initially, due to her inability to play the guitar, she wanted to quit the club, but thanks to Mugi's sweets, Yui stayed in the club and became the band's guitarist. Ritsu's childish behavior leaves her with mixed feelings about her. She treats the other members of the group with restraint and modesty, as befits her modest style. She has straight, long black hair and gray-blue eyes, fair skin like the other members, and usually wears a school uniform.

Name: Ritsu Tainaka, Nicknames: Ri-chan, President Ritsu. Age: 16, Birthday: August 21, 1991. Ritsu Tainaka is the cheerful soul of the party, the drummer, and the leader of the band "Ho-kago Tea Time." Ritsu and her best friend, Akiyama Mio, were in the same class in elementary school. One day, she saw a very sad Mio alone on the playground. The girl told her that her essay had won a competition, and now she had to read it to a large audience. However, she is very shy, unlike Ritsu, who helped her prepare for the performance. She suggested imagining the audience as pineapples, which helped Mio relieve tension and read her essay almost without a hitch. After this, Mio continued to visit Ritsu, and they became best friends. Around the same time, her younger brother, Tainaka Satoshi, was born. She also became friends with Maki in middle school. A year later, Mio and Ritsu watched a concert on TV together, which impressed Ritsu so much that she promised Mio they would form a band. She had to save up for a long time to buy a drum set. After graduating from middle school, Ritsu enrolled in Sakuragaoka High School. Upon transferring to the new school, Ritsu immediately wanted to join the local light music club. Upon learning that the club was empty after all the previous members had graduated, she decided to re-form it and become its president. Mio became the first member, albeit reluctantly. Ritsu simply tore up her application to join the literature club. Soon, through hard work, the girls managed to gather the required number of members for recognition, and the club officially began. Ritsu is the most cheerful girl in the club. She is constantly joking, sometimes teasing her other friends, especially Mio, in a friendly manner. She is also very sociable. Sakuragaoka wears the school uniform and has Ritsu's signature short bob-styled blond hair. She is close friends with Yui and the others in the group.

Yui Hirosawa is the carefree guitarist and vocalist of the band Ho-kago Tea Time.
Yui is a cheerful, lazy girl who loves to spend her time doing nothing. This takes its toll on her: her younger sister does all the housework, and at school, Yui is often the only one who has to retake tests. But if a hobby catches her eye, she'll throw herself into it and master the material in record time—albeit at the expense of other activities, as she's just like that: as soon as she learns something new, she immediately forgets everything else. She completely rejects boring theory and textbooks, preferring her own intuition. She doesn't know any musical terms, but she plays the guitar very well. This is aided by her perfect pitch, as she can tune her favorite red guitar, which she affectionately calls "Gita," without any special equipment and easily repeats melodies. Her friendly personality makes Hirasawa easily warms up to everyone around her. She's very tactile, serving as a source of inspiration and a welcoming atmosphere within the club. During breaks, Yui happily devours the sweets and drinks tea generously brought by her friend Tsumugi, and, as she herself claims, eats as much as she wants—and doesn't gain weight. She has no stage fright at all, and in front of a crowd, Yui can calmly and somewhat naively talk at length about the most ordinary things: how the girls drink tea after class or how they fool around at the club. Yui is a 16-year-old high school student of average height (156 cm), with brown eyes and thick, shoulder-length brown hair, often adorned with two yellow hair clips. Yui is relatively fashion-conscious and prefers styles featured in teen magazines. She wears skirts over trousers, casual clothes like shorts, jeans, and T-shirts at home, and a school uniform at school. Date of birth November 27, 1991 (Sagittarius).