Suruga Kanbaru

Suruga Kanbaru is one of the main characters from the Monogatari anime and light novels.

Suruga is Koyomi Araragi's underclassman, star player of the school's basketball team and one of Hitagi Senjougahara's acquaintances from junior high school. She is often seen having her left arm covered with bandages. Many people do not know that Kanbaru hides an oddityin the form of a "sentient" left arm.

It's revealed in Nisemonogatari by Deishuu Kaiki (and thought by Koyomi) that her mother's maiden name was Gaen. It's also revealed in Koimonogatari that her mother's name is Tooe Gaen. In Nekomonogatari White, it is also revealed that she used to be called Suruga Gaen.

Appearance
Suruga is a girl with brown eyes and short dark bluish hair. Because of her club activities as a basketball varsity player, she boasts an athletic physique, although she admits that her breasts might not be ample enough for Araragi to notice.

Her clothing style reflects her boyish personality. When she is not in the uniform of Naoetsu Private High School, she often wears sleeveless clothing and shorts. Whichever clothes she wear, she is regularly seen wearing cycling shorts, which she considers to be her underwear, much to Araragi's shock upon hearing it straight from her (as it implies that she does not wear panties).

Personality
She considers herself a lesbian, fujoshi, and masochist. Her hobbies include reading yaoi literature and playing basketball. According to Tsubasa, this aspect of Suruga's character is unsettling, describing her as "polite but inconsiderate". Despite her commonly immature nature, she shows a level-headed personality during serious situations.

Hidden to many is her tendency to be jealous of others to the point of subconsciously wanting to harm to them. This would eventually fuel her killing intent as the Rainy Devil.

Abilities
When the rainy devil attempts to fulfill her wish, it takes control of her body and acts on her darkest desires, becoming so fast, strong and savage that she rips Koyomi apart in seconds.

Trivia

 * Her first name is a reference to the former Japanese province of Suruga, now the central of Shizuoka Prefecture, and literally means "fast-flowing river".
 * Her surname means "plains of the gods".
 * Kaiki refers to her as "Legacy of Gaen" in the Suruga Devil.
 * Artwork for the English cover of Bakemonogatari Volume 2 notably shows naked human fingers on Kanbaru's wrapped arm. This appears to be an error, as past depictions showed the cast covering the entire arm, and the human fingers seem to contradict with monkey's paw she is supposed to be hiding.