Maki Gamou

NICKNAMES:

- Gamo-chan - Gamosuke (by Fujimin)

GENDER:

Female

AGE:

18 years old

BIRTHDAY:

June 15

HEIGHT:

178cm

WEIGHT:

62kg

OCCUPATION:

- Student - Gym trainer (part-time)

CLASS:

1-C (formerly) 2-B (formelry) 3-C (current)

AFFILIATION:

- Kazehaya High School - GAMOU Fighting Gym

Appearance:

Gamo-chan is an attractive, tall, and statuary high schooler with long, fiery orange hair - which she likely bleaches since they turn lighter in a gradient towards the tips - usually scruffy and a little unkempt. She has porcelain skin, although not delicate, and large, expressive orange eyes that perfectly match her hair color. She has removable double piercings on her upper left ear, but those are usually covered by her hairs. She is the tallest out of Nagatoro's friends - almost as tall as Senpai - and is also the bustiest, albeit Yoshi reached her cup size after her summer puberty changes. An amazonian beauty, she has a toned, muscular, flexible, and extremely athletic physique with well-defined abs, a shapely musculature and generous breasts, a feature which is often Nagatoro's envy. Gamo-chan sports almost always a smug sneer and a fascinating eyelid which is higher than the other, also she tends to thin her pupils whenever she grins. She typically wears her school uniform consisting of a white button-up shirt (with sleeves always rolled up and collar never buttoned) and a navy blue skirt completed with a pair of sneakers and dark soccer socks. However, in summer she wears a short-sleeved shirt in her uniform, while in winter she is shown to wear a light brown sweater and occasionally a blue blazer. She is also often seen wearing a circular bracelet on her left wrist and have prominently been shown with her judogi. When not at school she always sports a very stylish, glamorous, elaborate, rock-fashion, and yet feminine choice of clothing.

Personality Part 1:

Gamo-chan appears as an aggressive, harsh, sarcastic, cunning, and bossy girl with a sadistic streak just as evident as Nagatoro's. She's the strongest bully out of the girls' clique and in a profile it's stated that she likes to mock people. An utterly outspoken individual, she's not shy in overstepping the boundaries or being rude to Senpai in both manner and words. However, this is insinuated to be an act, as doing so she causes Nagatoro to go the extra mile in proving he's a worthy guy and ultimately bringing the pair closer together. Proving this, despite being Senpai's most vicious critic, she only insults Senpai when Nagatoro can hear it, while when they're alone and she can't defend him, she acted almost friendly. As time passes, regardless of her constant jokes questioning his sexual drive and manliness on several occasions, Gamo-chan got significantly kinder toward Senpai, treating him like one of her friends and acting very at ease with him, even to the point of easily admitting she finds him someone who's "pretty funny" to be with and eventually calling him "a friend of hers". Despite her general attitude, Gamo-chan is also very calm and level-headed as she never loses her composure and has proven to be quite patient and thoughtful. A "jerk with a heart of gold", though she always keeps a tough facade, Gamo-chan is actually sweeter and more caring toward her friends than she lets on: when she noticed Nagatoro was feeling bad for Senpai not swimming with them while they were at the beach she tried to cheer her up telling her that if he didn't want to they couldn't force him, when Nagatoro sulks at her due to a comment she made on her bust size Gamo-chan felt genuinely bad, explained what she meant by saying that big-breasts were better and pointing out that regardless of that Nagatoro was "cute".

Personality Part 2:

also she gets concerned about how Nagatoro was feeling when almost all the cheers were for Orihara during the judo tournament, worried deeply for her when she got injured and confronted the boy after he made her cry when they had their first fight as a couple. She got really upset when Sakura got stalked, acted almost motherly to Yoshi over her fear of crossing the road, is very patient toward her when she tries to accompany her in singing albeit tone-deaf, took care of her when she gets lost in the crowd - as shown in an extra sketch of Volume 4 - and can't be described as anything less but proud the very first time the girl stood up to her. While progressively taking a liking for Senpai, she also started to show the same level of kindness and caring to him, making a plan to help him defeat the President and keep the art club active, supporting him during the school marathon, preparing him a special dish of her invention at the sushi, reassuring him about Nagatoro's condition after she got the flu, inviting him to hang out with her clique for Christmas Eve, offering him to train with Nagatoro at her family's gym to get ready for the judo tournament, joining his group for the field trip and smiling happily in approval whenever Senpai shows a little backbone or Nagatoro does something that brings them a little closer together. As revealed in the Official Fanbook, she is considered a sort of "big-sister figure" among her friends. Gamo-chan can also be quite chatty when she feels at ease with someone.

Personality Part 3:

She is very good friends with Sakura and Yoshi, who loved to follow her around and repeat what she says and does, while Nagatoro could be considered her best friend, despite their similar and often competitive personalities sometimes putting them at odds in a sort of friendly rivalry. Also, Gamo-chan's love for teasing Nagatoro to fuel her feelings for Senpai sometimes pushes her to cause pranks that led the two to resort to near-physical violence despite they seemingly always making peace rather quickly every time they fight. Being quite relaxed, Gamo-chan generally backs down in most situations, but it should be noted that she's the only character who's not afraid to fight Nagatoro when they disagree. Also, judging by their friends' reactions whenever Gamo-chan and Nagatoro butt heads, it's not wise to make them mad, implying that they both have a temper warranting fear. Nevertheless, the two girls genuinely loves one another and, under their harsh personalities, are very supportive and caring to each other. Although the President and the student council described her and her clique as "a bunch of good-for-nothings" Gamo-chan has proved to be an intelligent and scheming young woman, a natural-born leader as well as an amazingly talented organizer and planner; not only the others - Nagatoro included - follow her lead without questions, but she managed to create a YouTube sensation in less than a day to gather people at Senpai's art display and win the competition against the President at the same Culture Festival where she was already in charge to preparing a haunted house for her class, coordinated the girls in a matter of seconds to form a sort of human cart and transport Senpai during the school marathon, managing to overcome the Prez and has proven to be very responsible while managing her family business.

Personality Part 4:

Moreover, she's a karaoke enthusiast and a talented singer whose passion for rock music is visibly reflected in her casual attire. Also, a hidden depth of hers is her culinary skills which are praised by Senpai and also allowed her to criticize recipes in a quite specific and professional way. Despite her beauty and apparent sexual confidence - never getting embarrassed from showing off her body - it's implied that Gamo-chan is the less experienced with the other sex out of the girls. Likely due to her blunt and scary attitude, she's not as popular among boys as Sakura, Yoshi, and Nagatoro; while the others have been all seen interacting with guys, Gamo-chan has rarely spoken to a boy in the whole series (the only exceptions being Senpai and when asking the games club members to be quieter), in one occasion two boys approached her clique to flirt, yet all of their attentions were for the other three girls, almost completely ignoring her if not to greet. Also, she went to the summer festival with Yoshi, while in Japan is usually attended by couples and, albeit not so uncommon going with a friend, it's mostly done by those who haven't a date. When at the beach, after noticing Senpai's stunned reaction while looking at her body, she seems almost flattered. On Christmas Eve, she got quite upset when her friends dumped her invitation to the karaoke because they had plans with boys, proving to be both saddened and - deep down - a little envious. Despite this, she reacted wholeheartedly at how obvious Nagatoro and Senpai were on wanting to spend time together and felt genuinely bad after trying to interfere with the couple's first date out of misplaced concern.

Personality Part 5:

and felt genuinely bad after trying to interfere with the couple's first date out of misplaced concern. Gamo-chan's claim that her lack of sentimental life is due to having "pretty high standards" and not being interested in "weaklings", thus wanting a man that is at least stronger than her, however this is mostly an excuse she told to herself as it was revealed that she actually has a huge crush on her best friend's brother, Taiga Nagatoro; she acts very bashfully and awkwardly both when interacting with him and when speaking about him, although when asked about it, she promptly denied it saying she simply "respects" him as a great sparring partner. She is also very athletic, loves the beach, and is a fantastic swimmer, managing to race against Nagatoro in a swimming contest, on the school cross country, while skiing down a pro course, and even sharing her same proficiency in the same amount of martial arts styles, despite having a special liking for boxing. Nagatoro herself claims that it's hard to get a clear winner when she's against her in a match and has great respect for her strength. Gamo-chan usually refers to Senpai calling him "Paisen" (パイセン), a play on the term "senpai" usually used in a cutesy, playful, or casual way.

Early life:

Maki was born on June 15 in Hayama, Kanagawa, the eldest child of the Gamou family, she has a younger brother and a younger sister, whom she often take care of, while her parents run the eponymus GAMOU Fighting Gym. Due to her surname, it's implied that her family might originate from today's Shiga Prefecture. She grew up in a house in the suburbs in the same apartment building of Yoshi's family, leading the two to became childhood friends. Due to her family business, she started to study martial arts at a young age, becoming very good and getting acquainted with Taiga Nagatoro, a boy who attended the gym and to whom she eventually develop a huge crush. Later on she also met Taiga's little sister Hayase, who started study martial arts there too, becoming fast friend with her and leading for the latter to befriend Yoshi as well. Despite their quick and close friendship, Gamo-chan has always been a bit unnerved about Nagatoro's attitude towards fights, due to her taking them lightly and resting on her talent. After attending Kazehaya Junior High together, Gamo-chan, Nagatoro and Yoshi enrolled Kazehaya High School and were all placed in the same class, 1-C where they became friend with Sakura, who eventually joined their group. Ever since they reach teenhood, her friend Yoshi tried to be the matchmaker for Gamo-chan, yet she has never had a boyfriend nor any significant relationships with the opposite sex. She joined the same club as Yoshi but it's unclear which one it is. Also she has sometimes joined the track and field clubs practice alongside Nagatoro.