Kotomi Ichinose

Kotomi Ichinose is one of the main heroines from the Clannad anime and games.

Kotomi is a childhood friend of Tomoya Okazaki, but, like Kyou Fujibayashi, she is in the same year and in a separate class from Tomoya. Kotomi is a genius girl who is almost always seen in the library reading books, or cutting up pages of printed media.

Appearance
Kotomi may just be of average height, but she has a large bust size, which is why Kyou Fujibayashi enjoys teasing her, hugging and groping her and complimenting her build. She is considered a beautiful young girl.

She also has straight indigo hair that has an odd length of short and long, with strands of hair that completely cover her ears, and bangs parted in the middle. The short part of Kotomi's hair framing is divided into two sections and tied into two small horsetails with two large pink beads.

Kotomi is flat-chested in the visual novel, with her huge breasts (and the largest bust size out of the female cast) being an aspect of hers in the anime.

Personality
Kotomi Ichinose is a silent girl who has trouble speaking with others. She relies on Tomoya to help her with her social skills. She knows how to play the violin, but she usually ends up sounding horrible. This is a gag used for comedic relief. Kotomi prefers to be called "Kotomi-chan".

Despite her strange antics, Kotomi is always one of the top ten people in all of the subjects at school. She is very intelligent, and she likes to read books, even books in foreign languages. Kotomi is somewhat mature and quite a polite girl.

Trivia

 * Her name is a portmanteau of her parents: Koutarou and Mizue = Ko and mi = Ko to mi = Kotomi.
 * That's why Kotomi's first name use 3 hiragana, not kanji ("to" in hiragana means "and").
 * Kotomi's measurements are 88 (bust), 58 (waist), and 85 (hip).
 * Kotomi has the largest bust size out of all the female Clannad characters.
 * Her bust measures 88 cm, making her cup size is at an E.
 * Due to Kotomi's large bust size, her breasts go in front of her arms when she puts her arms together, but, at times, her breasts do not go in front of her arms when she puts them together, much like the other characters.
 * In the anime, Kotomi is the only one of Tomoya's female friends who actually viewed him as a close friend and not a significant other.
 * Kotomi's violin gags would seem to contradict her practice with the violin as a child. This is because she stopped playing for ten years. When she picked up a violin again in high school, she still had the muscle memory of how to play it, but was so out of practice that the actual playing sounded horrible. However, in her mind she believed it sounded good because she was listening to what she believed she was playing rather than the actual sounds that everyone else heard.
 * Nagisa is the only person other than Tomoya whom Kotomi felt comfortable speaking to immediately.
 * Kotomi is 17 years old at the start of the series.
 * Kotomi has an extremely large bust in the anime, however, in the visual novel, she is nearly flat-chested.
 * The "Koto" in Kotomi is derived from the Japanese musical stringed instrument of the same name.
 * The "Ichinose" in Kotomi's name means first from the rapids.
 * The car that Kotomi drives in the epilogue of After Story seems to be modeled after a modern Volkswagen Beetle.
 * Kotomi repeats the line "Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.", which is a line from The Dandelion Girl, a science fiction novel written by Robert F. Young.
 * Kotomi tends to end her sentences either with "nano" or "no".