Birthday: February 14   Daughter of a famous violinist, she communicates by writing on a notepad. Megumi doesn't like to speak because she wants to protect her voice and only use it when singing. Instead, she writes on a sketchbook to communicate. Throughout the whole course of the anime and manga, she rarely speaks.    ~!After pretending to like Yahiro to make sure he would not disturb Akira and her new boyfriend, Tadashi, she eventually develops feelings for Yahiro, and sings to him. This is the first time that she is seen singing well. In the anime, after this, Yahiro and her begin to date, and they end up together.  In the manga, after this happens, she dates Yahiro for a while, but on New Years, when she admits her feelings for him, he turns her down. Megumi is aware that this is because he likes Akira.  Even when not dating her, Yahiro encouaged Megumi to sing, and helped her. He even tells her that he enjoys her singing. When hearing this Megumi began to cry, since simply hearing the words "I like" made her think of her feelings, and be upset. When Yahiro asked why she was crying, she tells him, and then runs away out of embarresment, afraid of his answer. Thanks to Yahiro, Megumi eventually ends up getting a singing contract, and things go well for her. Though he tells her that he does not return her feelings.  In the last chapter of the manga, he sees that Megumi was going to ask him on a date, but chickened out, and so he asked her out.!~  (Source: Wikipedia)

Hikari Hanazono has always been second to Kei Takishima. When they were six years old, their pro-wrestling loving fathers introduced them to each other. Assuming that she was the best in wrestling, young Hikari challenged Kei to a wrestling match only to be thoroughly defeated by him. 
Ever since that fateful incident, Hikari swore to beat Kei in school grades, sporting events - anything. To do this, she has enrolled in the same school as Kei since elementary. Now she attends Hakusenkan, an ultra elite school, that costs her carpenter father a lot of money. 
Hikari and Kei are the top two students in the school, with Kei holding firmly to that number one position. While Hikari considers Kei to be a rival and important friend, she is completely unaware that Kei loves her. The story primarily focuses on Hikari and her constant attempts to defeat her one and only rival, Kei, and how she finds love in their rivalry.

**Height:** 151.6 cm

[Official Website](https://www.takagakiayahi.com/) | [Music Ray'n profile](https://musicrayn.com/takagaki_ayahi) | [Official Blog](https://ameblo.jp/takagakiayahi-blog/)

Ayahi Takagaki graduated from a Tokyo music college majoring in operatic singing. Her professionally trained operatic voice can be heard in songs like "Life", "Inori" or "Justice".

One of the members of Seiyuu Group, [Sphere](https://anilist.co/staff/103636).

**Non-anime roles:**
- Aloy - Genshin Impact

Mi Sook Jeong, joined KBS Voice Acting Division in 1984. One of her well known voice acting is Kagome Higurashi.  Although unrelated to anime, she played the voice of Reith in the PS2 game, Magna Carta the Tears of Blood.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/mermaidhawk) | [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/mermaidhawk/) | [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/c/LeslieGil/videos)

Leslie Gil is a Mexican voice actress.

**Non-Anime Roles:**
- Seraphine (League of Legends)

Her whole life, Hikari Hanazono has been consumed with the desire to win against her school rival, Kei Takishima--at anything. He always comes out on top no matter what he does, and Hikari is determined to do whatever it takes to beat this guy...somehow!
 
At age 6 Hikari lost to Kei in an impromptu wrestling match. Now, at 15, Hikari joins "Special A," a group of the top seven students at a private academy, for the opportunity to trounce the guy who made her suffer her first defeat.
 
(Source: Viz Media)
 

Included one-shots: 
Volume 1: Mikansei Chorus 
Volume 11: Shoku no Miyako (Food Paradise) 
Included specials: 
- Vol.8 Special Short; The Hana to Yume 2006-09 
The short is about what Kei was like as a child, and when he and Hikari first met. 
- Vol.9 Special Short; The Hana to Yume 2007-01 
The short is about when Yuhiro meets Sakura. 
- Vol.16 Special Chapter; The Hana to Yume 2008-05 
The chapter is about Hikari and Kei's middle school days.

Megumi Yamamoto