Akane Uchimura

Akane Uchimura (内村 茜, Uchimura Akane) is a character of Hang On! Climbing Girls.

Appearance
Akane is a young short girl with slightly wavy shoulder-length orange hair that has a braid on the right side where it is tied by a pink ribbon with bangs hanging on the left side and orange eyes.

Personality
Akane is a mischievous, scheming and petty girl, after having her talent eclipsed by Jun Uehara on their childhood, who was more inexperienced than herself, Akane has made it her goal to crush climbing novices, which she does by approaching them with a friendly demeanor only to trick them with false tips to make them fail. Jun believes her a disgrace for climbing.

Interestingly she is also both arrogant and entitled, but her ego is nonetheless shown to be quite shallow as she easily angers at the sight of others more capable than her despite being newcomers. In truth she's quite rude and doesn't typically show any respect to others, making Chinari Iwamine to drag her and reprimand her so severely it left Akane terrified of her.

For all her misconduct, she's shown to be fairly competitive and is a firm believer that effort is meaningless if it doesn't ensure victory.

Plot
Akane sees Konomi Kasahara and realizes she is new. She introduce herself and guesses Konomi was wondering how will she overcome the core on the wall. She explains what moves other people use and that they are a must. Akane tells Konomi that many girls feel pressured and quit, but don't want she to do it and wants to climb the wall together.

Konomi turns come and she attempts to climb the wall, but following Akane's advice, she gets tired fast and fails at the middle of the climb. Akane then laughs for how stupid Konomi is for listening to her advice and falling in her trap.

Etymology

 * The name Akane means "deep red, dye from the rubia plant" (茜).
 * Akane's surname Uchimura means "inside, within" (内) (uchi) and "town, village" (村) (mura).

Trivia

 * Akane speaks like a cat on her sentences.