She is a highly intelligent 1st-year student from a middle-class family, though considered "poor" and "common" by the wealthy elite members attending Ouran Academy. As she is required to remain first in her class to keep her scholarship, her studies are vital to her. Due to a freak accident, she is enlisted by the Ouran Host Club to play a Host, entertaining the mostly female clientele who come to Music Room 3 for tea, snacks and conversing with charming boys.