School Rumble Eri Sawachika

Watch out for this one. Playfully standing with her arms crossed behind her head, this School Rumble : Eri Sawachika Statue 1:8 scale (over 7-inches tall) plastic statue, features wind-blown hair as well as all of the amazing detail work you’ve come to expect in Japanese imported anime figures, from the ribbons in her hair to the designs on her shoes.

Being a sophomore in high school can’t be easy, especially when you’re the object of every boy’s desire. That is the case for Sawachika Eri of the anime/manga series, School Rumble .

Eri is half British and half Japanese.
She comes from a wealthy family and is very popular with all the boys at her school. She is great friends with Tukamoto Tenma and has to deal with her weird infatuation for Karasumara Oji.

Considering her flawless beauty, she has a hard time speaking Japanese and constantly pronounces words incorrectly. It’s too bad that with all her looks, she still can’t get the boy she likes, Harima Kenji, to notice her. He is too busy trying to get Tenma to like him!

From her introduction onwards, Eri is characterized as having a dual nature. Talented, beautiful, wealthy, and popular, she is admired and envied by her classmates for the glamourous lifestyle that many believe her to lead. In reality, however, Eri uses this image and her outward confidence to mask her inward feelings of loneliness and insecurity.

Her social status makes her unapproachable to many of her classmates and leaves her somewhat isolated from her peers.

Even at home, her parents are away on business more frequently than not. The process by which Eri grows and matures, as she starts to develop deeper friendships and searches for love, forms the backbone of one of the main plotlines in the story.

Born into wealth, Eri is the daughter of a prominent English businessman. Her mother is from Kyoto, Japan. Although Eri was born in Japan, she moved to England for her early schooling before returning to Japan to attend high school. As a result, her knowledge of kanji is limited, causing her to occasionally make humorous linguistic mistakes.

Eri’s most striking features are her amber eyes and long blond hair (which she usually ties into pigtails), which signify her mixed British-Japanese heritage. While she is often admired for her looks, her origin is occasionally the subject of derisive remarks, such as during the class trip to Kyoto.

Harima’s nickname for Eri is “Ojō (お嬢)”, as a somewhat mocking reference to her status. This is not to be confused with “Ojō-sama (お嬢様)” (lit. “lady”/”miss”), which is a formal title used by Nakamura and the rest of the Sawachika family’s household staff to address Eri. “Ojō” is the short form of “Ojō-sama”. Because Harima isn’t trying to be polite, he doesn’t use “sama”. In the English dub, Harima would call her by the name “Rich Girl.”

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