Ageha Shiroi

"'To love your family. Just that, nothing more… that’s a really fortunate thing.' Ageha to Hibari in Vol. 2"Ageha Shiroi [kanji?] is the main heroine of the series V. B. Rose. She is a junior at the all-girls Nishimiya High School, and a part-time worker at V.B.R.

Appearance
Ageha is a tall, slim girl. She has long, wavy pink-colored hair and brown eyes. She is often seen with her hair tied up in two half-pigtails with the rest of her hair down. Her outfits vary, but they are often fashionable and girly, and she tends to wear frilly mini-skirts. She is also noted to be very cute.

Her school uniform is a white collared shirt underneath a waist-length black jacket with lighter colored trim and a bow. It also has a dark colored, knee-length skirt, black tights, and black formal shoes. She is often seen wearing one of her Ageha-series bags.

Personality
Ageha is a very creative and kind-hearted girl who loves her family dearly. At the beginning of the series she is noted to have a sister complex, idealizing her older sister Hibari and later finding out that Hibari isn't who she thought she was. She loves creating things such as bags and cute toys and she is very skilled at it, which Yukari notes on occasion. and is always happy when her big sister Hibari praises her creations. She cares a lot about her family and can sometimes assume she knows whats best for them, seen with her reaction to when Hibari announces that she is marrying Makoto where she gets very upset because he is "boring." She can be easily angered and impulsive at points which can get her into trouble. Such as when she was at V. B. Rose and got upset at [person] and ended up injuring Mitsuya's hand.

She is sincere and honest about her feelings, not hiding when shes upset or angry. She often expresses her love to her sister and friends. She is a very empathetic girl who feels others problems as her own, which can lead to her trying to help them out when they don't want help. This is seen when she finds out that Shizuya disproves of his brother Mitsuya's career, resulting in her getting angry at him and later trying to mend their relationship. She also saw some of her old self in Shizuya which led her to try and help.

Backstory
Ageha had a pretty happy childhood. She grew up with her mother, father, and older sister Hibari, and they all got along well. Ageha had always had a knack for sewing and creating things, and her family was very supportive of that. She ended up creating purses and bags which Hibari and her best friend Mamoru loved. These bags were aprt of a series called the Ageha series, because all the bags had a small butterfly decal on them, and Ageha means "butterfly" in japanese. She admired Hibari and idealized her, thinking she was a very kind, smart, and organized person because she always asked for lots of pockets on her purses. She wanted to follow Hibari everywhere she went, which Hibari thought was very cute. The two sisters grew up very close, but in her teenage years Ageha felt that Hibari was drifting away, and she blamed this on Hibari's fiance Makoto Oohara. She felt that Makoto was too boring and bland for her perfect sister, and she resented that he was taking her away. When Hibari annouced that she was pregnant and getting married to Makoto, Ageha was very upset and ended up blowing up in anger.

Plot
The first chapter of the manga starts with Ageha finding out that Hibari is getting married to Makoto, and she gets very upset and leaves the room. Later she goes to a few stores with her best friend Mamoru Sakashita to tell her about what happened, and she unknowingly meets Yukari Arisaka when he asks her about her Ageha-series bag. Mamoru unknowingly meets Mitsuya Kuromine in the music shop. After this, Hibari talks to Ageha and says that Ageha should come with her to the bridal shop she is getting her wedding dress from. Ageha agrees, and they go to V.B.R. together. She is very surprised to see that Yukari and Mitsuya work there. She ends up saying something that, to her surprise, offends Yukari so much that he kicks her out of the shop and tells her to never come back again.

Hibari Shiroi
Hibari is Ageha's older sister, and they are very close. Ageha used to idealize her, so much so that others said she had a sister complex. As children, Ageha followed Hibari everywhere she went. They grew a little bit apart for a time, which Ageha blamed on Hibari's fiance Makoto, saying that he was stealing her and her smile. Ageha ended up realizing she didn't really know her sister and had been idealizing her since childhood. After that, they became very close again and this time Ageha knew the real Hibari. Ageha ended up working at V.B.R with Yukari and Mitsuya to help make Hibari's wedding dress, and kept working there after the dress was finished. Ageha cares a lot about Hibari and wants her to be happy. Ageha knew that Hibari wanted cute bunny toys for her wedding, but that she felt that that was too much work for everyone so she didn't mention it. Ageha ended up working very hard to create these bunnies before the wedding so that Hibari would be happy. Hibari was very happy and felt touched by this.

Mamoru Sakashita
Mamoru is Ageha's best friend since childhood.

Yukari Arisaka
Yukari is one of Ageha's coworkers at V.B.R.

Mitsuya Kuromine
Mitsuya is one of Ageha's coworkers at V.B.R.

Shizuya Kuromine and Rei Akiyoshi
Shizuya and Rei are friends of Mamoru's that were introduced to Ageha.

Trivia

 * "Ageha" means "butterfly" in japanese, which is why the bags in the Ageha series have butterfly decals on them.