Kurea Ooba

Kurea Ooba (大場 久怜亜, Ōba Kurea) is a character in Hang On! Climbing Girls. She serves as one of Konomi Kasahara's main rivals.

Appearance
Kurea is a young girl with medium long pink hair that has curly ends.

Personality
Kurea comes as a bit of a perfectionist and somewhat aggressive. Due to har past with Konomi, in which the latter outshone the former on ballet school during their childhood, Kurea has made it her goal to defeat Konomi in climbing where she has more experience.

Soon after the two met, Kurea experienced a major crisis as Konomi's analytic climbing had made her a far more powerful competitor than Kurea was at the time. Although proud in nature, Kurea could get behind the fact that Konomi was superior, and train herself both mentally and physically to defeat Konomi.

When Konomi had difficult with Speed Climbing, Kurea pulled in punches in lobbying out provocative comments leaving Konomi crying in frustration, for which she felt bad about, although she slapped Konomi when she was depressed as a means to encourage her. All in all, while Kurea tends to act outwardly nasty towards Konomi, this is because she approves of her as a worthy rival.

Plot
At Kanto Bouldering Championship, Kurea sees Konomi Kasahara and recognizes her from the ballet school they used to go together. Hearing that she started recently, she tells Konomi that while she may have been better at ballet, Kurea is better at climbing.

She manages to pass the prelims and feels good when Konomi barely passes as the last 20th place. However, in the semifinals Konomi climbs the walls in one attempt, while attempting Kurea finds how hard are they to climb and can't believe that Konomi managed to climb them. Failing over and over, she finally admits that Konomi is better than her and releases a cry and decide to only reach the zone in the final fourth wall in order to be still in use for her team.

Abilities
Kurea is nicknamed as the "Ballerina of Rock" due to her excellent sense of balance. Kurea earned her abilities through her past as a former ballerina, which is useful since ballet and climbing have certain aspects in common. For Kurea, this means she can capitalize on precise leg movements, and use of her hips.

Etymology

 * The name Kurea means "long time" (久) (ku), "wise" (怜) (re) and "second, Asia" (亜) (a).
 * Kurea's surname Ooba means "big, great" (大) (o) and "field, place" (場) (ba).