>>29044835 Ritsu has shoulder-length, brown hair, with her bangs pulled back with a yellow hairband, and gold-colored eyes. She wears her school jacket open. She says she chose to play the drums because they are "cool", but later admits that she has trouble playing instruments which involve intricate finger movements, such as the bass, guitar and keyboard.[2][16][27]
She is Mio's childhood friend and will often take the opportunity to tease her whenever Mio is cowering from something.[18] She is also known to become easily jealous of Mio's other high school friends, even going as far as spying on Mio when on outings with them. Ritsu is always on the go and will stop at nothing for the success of the light music club. Despite her rough mannerisms and speech, she gets cast as Juliet by the majority of her classmates in their class play rendition of Romeo and Juliet and, in the end, manages to act like a proper girl.[23] In the anime, she states her favorite drummer is Keith Moon of The Who.[27] She is skilled at cooking.
