Ginko Sora

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Ginko Sora
Anime Light Novel Manga
Information
Kanji	空 銀子
Rōmaji	Sora Ginko
Characteristics
Age	14 (beginning) 15 (volume 5) 16 (volume 12)
Birthdate	September 9, 2002
Zodiac Sign	Virgo♍
Birthplace	Osaka City
Gender	Female
Height	154cm
Personal Status
Status	Alive
Occupation	Student
Relationships	Yaichi Kuzuryuu (Ototodeshi; Lover [since Volume 11]) Kousuke Kiyotaki (master)
First Appearance
Anime	Episode 1
Voice Actors
Japanese	Hisako Kanemoto
Gallery

Ginko Sora (空　銀子(そら ぎんこ) Sora Ginko) is one of the main characters of the series. She is a middle schooler and 2-dan shogi-player.

Appearance

Ginko's full appearance

Ginko is a 14 years old however she can be very strong in shogi. She has a short, light blue hair with a headband on her head and black choker. She has blue eyes, however, once she gets serious, her eyes will change colours.

She is seen primarily wearing her school uniform.

Personality

Ginko is a sharp-tongued, brash, and unconcerned about anything besides shogi. But despite her attitude, Ginko still maintains a better popularity than Yaichi. In her match with Ai, she was like a disadvantaged beast crouching down, storing enough energy, and preparing for the last hit. She kept harassing, waiting for the chance to counterattack. Ginko isn't the type of person to ease up when faced with overwhelming criticism. At the stage, Ginko had no intention of ending the match, and eliminated all of Ai's attacking pieces or the wandering pieces. She didn't give her opponent a chance to surrender, and stomped hard on the fingers that were barely grabbing the ledge.

History

Ginko is a female shogi player who started moving shogi pieces at the age of 2, became Kiyotaki’s disciple at the age of 4, and owns two of the six titles attainable by female shogi players since she was 11. Her undefeated record against female pros is the source of her nickname, “The Snow White of Naniwa”. 47 matches, 47 wins, that is Ginko's record against female pros. She never lost. The 'white' in the 'Snow White of Naniwa' doesn't refer to her skin or hair. The real reason people called her the Snow White was because of the spotless record of being undefeated. She is an accomplished professional shogi player and her popularity is on a completely another level.

Relationships

Yaichi Kuzuryuu

Ginko and Yaichi see each other as brother and sister as Yaichi call Ginko "sis" a lot that they are described to have a brother-sister style relationship with each other, but they're not blood related. It is shown that Ginko has a crush on Yaichi even though she doesn't show it in front of him as she will just call him lolicon and slap him multiple times, kind of showing a little bit of the tsundere side.

Yaichi also says that Ginko is like the other half of him while playing shogi, which means that they have the same style and tactics but it was to be expected as they have played around 50,000+ matches against each other.

In volume 11 of the Light Novel, Yaichi brings her back to his hometown then confesses his love for Ginko whereas she kindly reciprocates his feelings and became lovers then seals it off with a kiss albeit with a condition that they should keep it to themselves and seals off their feelings for the time being so that they could focus on their battles ahead.

Etymology

• The name Ginko means "silver" (銀) (gin) and "child" (子) (ko).
• Ginko's surname Sora means "sky" (空).