Mashiro Shiina

Mashiro Shiina (椎名 ましろ, Shiina Mashiro) is the main female protagonist of The Pet Girl Of Sakurasou and resides in Room 202 of the Sakura Dormitory. Mashiro is a world famous artist who transferred into Suiko as a second-year to learn how to draw. She aims to drawing manga.

Why She Rocks

 * 1) Mashiro may not be smart enough to do chores, get dressed for school, or do things on her own, but she is very talented in arts, making a lot of well drawn pictures and manga.
 * 2) And it's not just drawing manga she's good at, she can paint in portraits and landscapes, making an impressive piece of her own dorm and her friends.
 * 3) Since she hardly cares about fame and money, the only thing she wants to do is to paint, and do things she want to do for a living.
 * 4) Even at a single glance, she had beautiful blond hair and cute eyes, and she also has a very slim physique.
 * 5) Her prodigious talent has driven friends and associates away from her, leaving her with little to no true friends at the beginning of the series. Not that she cares because doing art was always the only thing in her mind.
 * 6) Because most of her friends back in England are mostly female, Mashiro only saw Sorata as her first male friend and used him as drawing references for her manga, but as the story progresses, she developed real feelings for him.
 * 7) Unable to pay attention during classes, Mashiro can still get a perfect 100% on her exams during retakes, only just by looking at her wrong answers on her previous exams.
 * 8) Since she rarely shows emotions, Mashiro allows it to control her actions. This tends to be the case due to lacking any otherwise logical thinking. Such as when Mashiro wanted to learn to cook to show affection towards Sorata rather than finishing up her manga chapter.
 * 9) "Sorata no baka."
 * 10) "Let's start annihilating her by Plan C."

The Only Bad Qualities

 * 1) Mashiro spouts out random things on what she did with Sorata without thinking, making others feel very awkward and uncomfortable, only to correct herself afterwards, which causes Sorata to always yell at her to say those things first instead of spouting nonsense. It gets old really first.
 * 2) Mashiro doesn't seem to know how to clothe herself decently on her own, nor does she have much common sense. She needs to be told or given what to wear. Lack thereof can find her braless, pantiles, or completely nude.

Trivia

 * Her voice actress, Ai Kayano, had also voice Shiro/Schwi Dola from the the No Game No Life series, Alice Zuberg from the Sword Art Online series, and Darkness from KonoSuba.
 * The name Mashiro means "Broad-minded" or "Pure White", and Mashiro's surname Shina means "Virtue, Good".