Kaoru Seta

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Kaoru Seta is one of the main characters from the BanG Dream! anime and games.

The guitarist for HHW. A theater performer, Kaoru is always engaging in verbal theatrics both on and off the theater stage, making fans (whom she dubs her "little kittens") swoon for her. It's not always clear how much Kaoru understands what she's saying, and whether or not she can actually "turn off" her theater persona. Despite her flamboyance, however, she's a surprisingly reliable friend and senpai to the others.

In the AWA fics, Kaoru appears in the AWA Stories.

Appearance
Kaoru is a tall girl with angular facial features, slanted crimson eyes and long purple hair worn in a ponytail. She has chest length forelocks and bangs that frame her face with a single lock that hangs loose between her eyes.

Her casual attire is normally boyish and formal.

Personality
A flamboyant actress, Kaoru has an extravagant personality. She is rather pretentious and bombastic, having a tendency to use impressive sounding words to the point of sounding foreign and hard to understand. She sees herself as a prince, and sees other girls as the princess while quoting Shakespeare or other philosophers (sometimes incorrectly). She appears highly flirtatious, and is very popular among other girls, not only for her passionate mannerisms, but because she is also surprisingly reliable. If she is aware someone may be in a bad mood or feels sad, she will try to encourage them or help them feel better.

When by herself, her "quirks" seem to lessen, if not vanish entirely at times. She appears to be aware of how she can come off to others; sometimes she struggles to have time to herself due to having so many fans, and is aware that she likes certain things that don't fit her "character". She is even able to increase her actress personality if she feels it is necessary.

Though she appears very intelligent, she can often be just as airheaded as Kokoro and Hagumi - such as mistakenly assuming the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a woman, or repeatedly attempting to push on a door that can only be opened by pulling. Her catchphrase is "fleeting" - though when Hagumi or Kokoro questioned her about what it meant, Kaoru could not answer.

Trivia

 * She, together with Tomoe, are known as the two most popular girls in Haneoka.
 * Kaoru is part of her high school drama club with Maya, and has been acting in theater productions since middle school.
 * Kaoru used to call Chisato "Chi-chan" when they were younger and is actually really embarrassed about that.
 * In return, Chisato calls her "Kao-chan". Kaoru gets flustered whenever Chisato calls her by that nickname.
 * She is both the tallest member of Hello, Happy World! and tallest of all the 25 girls.
 * Kaoru is scared of both heights and scary things.
 * Kaoru has mentioned that she is quite athletic, and that her favorite sports are fencing and horseback riding. She has been shown to be quite skilled in the latter.
 * It was revealed that her grandfather is the one who owns the horses and one of them is called Silver, while another one is called White.
 * Kaoru's theatrical, princely, and flirty personality is a rather open parody of the anime otokoyaku, that is, the anime and manga heroines, inspired by playing male characters actresses from the all-female Takarazuka Theater. It is also emphasized by her close friendship with the very feminine Chisato, who can be compared to musumeyaku, actresses who perform female roles in the same theater.
 * This also justifies her popularity with other girls, because Otokoyaku is embodied by the metaphorical image of the "ideal man" who can be simultaneously considered as a charming handsome prince and a reliable female friend who understands women's experiences.
 * Although Kaoru herself hardly uses the word in this sense, in the original Japanese version, “kittens” are a rather obvious pun, as this word is used in Japanese queer slang to refer to the "passive" side in a lesbian relationship.
 * Kaoru is the only character in the game who has been seen with more than one guitar. Her cards, as well as their chibis in the game show her posing with at least 3 different guitars.