Karen Kujou

Karen Kujou is one of the main characters from the Kiniro Mosaic anime and manga.

Half-British and Half-Japanese, Karen is Alice's childhood friend. The daughter of a well-off family, she follows Alice to Japan when she learns about her friend being enrolled at a school there. She very quickly fits into Alice's new circle of friends, though it takes her a while before she could connect to her own classmates.

Karen herself is a hyperactive and irrepressible ball of energy, fond of peppering her Japanese with English phrases regardless of the context.

Appearance
Karen is a cute fair-skinned girl with long, pale blonde hair that is worn loose with a small amount pulled into a bun on the left side of her head and light purple Tsurime eyes.

She wears the school skirt and top with a dark blue Union Jack design on it, the pink striped bow-tie, and a pair of dark blue socks. She wears her own red sneakers with the Union Jack design. During summer, Karen switches for a sleeve-less parka reminiscent of her jacket.

Her casual attire is fairly normal with a mixture of playful and feminine.

Personality
Karen is a carefree, happy-go-lucky person who tends to get excited or passionate about new things fairly easily. She is never afraid to try something new or risky, but sometimes her imagination gets the best of her. She is very charismatic and is friends with just about everyone in the class to the point that they have began to feed her during class break once she befriends them.

While she can come off a little immature or selfish, she is very affectionate with friends or even some strangers, and she values her friendships with everyone. She is extremely loyal, but enjoys teasing people she is close to. She also tends to be one of the few girls to make a perverted comment or joke.

She usually speaks slightly broken Japanese (presumed to be in purpose) when communicating with her friends, but she can speak fluently sometimes; much to her friends surprise.

Like Alice Cartelet, Karen is very fond of Japanese culture and she usually ends her sentences with "ですよ" (desu yo) wherever applicable.

Karen also comes from a massively rich family, which is her parents and herself. This often surprises her friends apart from Alice, of whom, it is assumed has always known about Karen's wealth. Karen's family wealth is expressed mostly when Karen turns up in a motor-home of grandeur size and explicit quality (the trailer being of house-like design in the interior) to meet her friends, and when Shinobu Ōmiya and Alice go to meet Karen at her place, which turns out to be an entire block of flats. Also, in certain flash-backs, Karen's house in England appears large (like Alice's) and richly decorated on the inside, which also suggests her family's state of wealth.

In the manga, it has been revealed that Karen simply told her father that Alice Cartelet went to Japan and that she wanted to study more of the Japanese culture and her father happily allowed her to live in Japan as well.

Trivia

 * The name Karen means "pretty".
 * Her flower motif is the Anemone.
 * Karen is half-Japanese and half-English.
 * Karen is good at most sports and does really well even if she doesn't know the rules.
 * When Karen is shocked and sullen, she lapses into talking too fast in English.
 * Karen seems to be a homage to Kujo Jotaro from Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, Jotaro's mother is also from England and his father is a Japanese man named Kujo.
 * Karen is also similar to Kobato Hasegawa from Haganai:
 * Both are blonde (in Kobato's case, it's mixed with brown).
 * Both are transfer students.
 * Both are scared because of their blonde hair (in Karen's case, one episode only).
 * Both have their childhood friends are also the main character.
 * Both slowly gather friends (in Karen's case, one episode only).
 * Karen is also similar to Alice Kirkland (Fem.England) From Nyotalia:
 * Both are blonde.
 * Both can speak English (in Kin-iro Mosaic, Karen is half British, so she can speak English).
 * Both have a hair pin in the right side of their hair.
 * Karen has a fast metabolism and can eat a lot of food without gaining weight.
 * As of Season 2, she is often depicted asleep in class.
 * Karen's eye color in the anime is not consistent.
 * Most of the time is is purple, but certain instances make them appear brown.
 * Any Japanese Karen has learned was from reading manga.