Ami Kawashima

Ami Kawashima is one of the main characters from the Toradora anime and light novels. Ami is Yuusaku's childhood friend who transfers into his class midway through their second year of high school. She is very beautiful and even works as a model, though after she transfers school, she temporarily stops modeling. However, she still continues to go to the gym readily and maintains a slim figure. She is always kind and generous towards others, though this is merely a deception. In truth, she is arrogant and will not hesitate to use others for her own benefit.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Ami is an attractive teenage girl who is blessed with natural beauty with straight waist-length blue hair that has bangs split on both sides, wide violet eyes and she maintains a slim figure with a relatively large bust, which she likes to show off.
 * 2) After seeing Taiga drive away the stalker, Ami gains enough confidence and she puts the stalker in his place.
 * 3) She gets along with Yuusake, Ryuji, Maya and Nanako.
 * 4) One of the main plot points in the story is how she picks on her friends because she wants them to be sincere with their own feelings, though her approach is markedly confrontational and leads them to assume either too much or too little of what she means by her statements.
 * 5) She makes good valid points considering how careless everyone is with their desires:
 * 6) * When Kitamura goes rogue, she assumes the very same disposition as Sumire does towards him and is altogether not very supportive of him during this time. She is right in telling that he's just doing it to show off, as she argues that he did it very flimsily.
 * 7) * She is about as annoyed with Ryuuji not paying attention to either Taiga or Minori, as she is to the fact that he just doesn't listen or pay attention to her advice.
 * 8) * She gets confrontational with Minori because of her beating around the bush when it came to Ryuuji.
 * 9) Despite their full-on confrontation, Ami and Minori seek comfort in each other after all the trouble they go through and after Ryuuji and Taiga's decision to elope together. Minori ends up crying after seeing both of them off.
 * 10) Her sub and dub voice actors, Eri Kitamura and Erika Harlacher, do a very good job performing her.
 * 11) Character Development: She goes from an arrogant and manipulative bitch to a sympathetic jerk, snarky, vain and very blunt, but a good person who really cares about her friends and is ready to do anything she can to help them. She picks on her friends because she wants them to be sincere with their own feelings, though her approach is markedly confrontational and leads them to assume either too much or too little of what she means by her statements. This earns her the trust of the main group in the end.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Ami can be very unlikeable in the beginning, but she does goes though character development.
 * 2) After the Christmas party, Ami starts antagonizing Ryuuji, because she's annoyed at the fact that he's too dense to realize that she likes him, even when she's spent a considerable amount of time throwing hints at him and the fact that he doesn't listen to her advices about Taiga.
 * 3) Ami gets into a physical fight with Minori during the ski trip because she keeps beating around the bush when it comes to Ryuuji and tries to force the truth out of her to the point where Minori snaps and loses it. This caused a rift between them and neither Ami nor Minori apologized for their actions.

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