Tamanawa (玉縄) is the newly elected Student Council President of Kaihin Sougou High School. He is a 2nd year.
Appearance
In the anime, Tamanawa is seen wearing the uniform of Kaihin Sougou High School that is composed of a white dress shirt, a light blue sweater with two dark blue lines at the top, and a red tie under a navy blue blazer and pants.
Personality
Tamanawa is a somewhat pompous (affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important) person who often uses complex English words in some of his sentences. Hachiman Hikigaya observed that he uses many similar meaning words (synonyms) in English and Japanese in quick succession.
Hachiman and Yukino Yukinoshita note he just likes to be in charge and lacks any real ideas or convictions.
Hachiman also feels that neither Tamanawa or any other student council members wanted to take full responsibility of the Christmas concert because of a fear of failure. Tamanawa comes across as really indecisive and unable to manage time well.
He seems a little dense or stubborn, when Hachiman tries using Tamanawa's own lingo to progress the Christmas Collaboration meetings he still wouldn't commit to anything. It's not until Yukino directly addresses his inability to act do they start to get things done.
Although Tamanawa won't commit to any one idea for the Christmas Event, he is eager to involve and please as many people as possible. Indicating a rather sociable side as he happily welcomes new members such as Hachiman, Yukino, Yui, and the elementary school students.
Tamanawa is likely a popular figure in his school, since he was elected as president of student council. He also managed to recruit his own friends like Kaori Orimoto to come and help.
By the time Hachiman and Yui Yuigahama approach him regarding Hachiman's mock prom, Tamanawa has mostly matured from his reliance on complex yet meaningless words, taking Hachiman (who has prepared for a conversation filled with complex words) aback.
Abilities
Tamanawa organizing the concert.
Tamanawa isn't a very experienced leader and is very indecisive (a person not having or showing the ability to make decisions quickly and effectively), however, he is able to rally allies to his cause, showing skill in charisma. His friends and fellow council are almost blindly attached to his ideas and rarely disagree with him.
He has an impressive vocabulary of English and Japanese business words that he uses often.
Tamanawa has good communication skills with the exception of his complex words that often confuse others.
Tamanawa was seen capably directing his staff during the Christmas Event's play.
Quotes
Etymology
- Tamanawa means "ball, sphere, bullet, lens, jade, bulb, bead, gem, shot, jewel, shell, coin, bowl, pretty girl" (玉) (tama) and "rope, hemp" (縄) (nawa).
Trivia
- The running gag is every time he speaks, he makes swift, odd hand movements.
- He and the rest of the Kaihin Sogo student council are parodies of Ishiki takai-kei (lit. High-consciousness type), a term used sarcastically to refer people who focus more on self-promotion rather than actually doing anything meaningful. Stereotypes of such people shown in the student council include using lots of sophisticated corporate jargon outside of normal situations and using MacBooks at Starbucks (Tamanawa is shown to have such a computer and a cup from Starbucks).
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