Profile: Kakeru Manabe

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Kakeru Manabe (真鍋 翔 Manabe Kakeru?), aged 16–17, is vice president of the student council during Yuki Sohma’s presidency. He is depicted as alternately lazy and charismatically energetic, strongly reminding Yuki of his older brother, Ayame;, who he refers to as sensei. Yuki also compares Manabe’s ability to make friends to Kyo’s. Manabe sometimes claims the student council is a super-sentai–style “School Defense Force”, and once tries to get the rest of the student council to pick their team colors. He is Machi Kuragi’s older half-brother by their mutual father’s mistress, and protective of her because she is still affected by their mothers' fight, now ended, to have their own child named heir. He has a girlfriend named Komaki Nakao (whom he calls “Meat☆Angel” because of her love of meat), whose father drove the car that hit and killed Kyoko Honda, also killing himself. Manabe believed that Tohru thought that she was the only one affected by the accident and confronted Tohru on Komaki’s behalf, saying that she was annoying. However, Komaki was angry at him because he had disrespected Tohru’s feelings. He realized that his feelings and Komaki’s were not the same and vowed to understand other people better, and later apologizes to Tohru for his hurtful behavior.