Manami Sakae

is a third-year student who is currently attending Yezo Agricultural High School.

Appearance
Manami has an average build and her unique hairstyle of lighter brown highlights in the front and darker brown hair behind, often seen tied up when at club activities.

Personality
Manami is kind and gets easily nervous when riding horses but is otherwise friendly, calm, supportive, easygoing, and outgoing. Out of all of the Equestrian Club members, she is the most supportive of the budding relationship between Yūgo Hachiken and Aki Mikage. She is the person who will most often tease them, eventually in an impatient tone, into furthering their relationship.

At the beginning of the story, Manami is used for the most part for comedic effect. She'll make fun of Hachiken, cause him to think about the mistakes he's made (summer at Mikage farm), or get in the way of him talking to Aki about serious topics (Komaba farm bankruptcy).

Skills & Abilities
Throughout the story she gets more proficient at riding horses, including guiding them through obstacle courses for competitions.

Aki Mikage
While mostly around for comedic effect, she is shown to have a great respect for Aki on top of normal friendship. Even at the beginning of the story when a Vice President is being picked for the Equestrian Club, she believes the most suited is Aki.

Yūgo Hachiken
The initial interactions with Yugo are spent noticing how weak he starts out. Her first dialogue is purely to make fun of him for fainting at the idea of waking up at 4am to take care of the horses. They become better friends through spending a lot of time in the Equestrian Club, and he is also subject to her teasing often about his relationship with Aki.

Miha
Manami is a playful senior student with Mahi and uses her multiple times to continually tease the almost couple. She'll whisper sentences to be repeated into Miha's ear and will send her towards them to antagonize them.

Etymology

 * The name Manami means "real, genuine" (真) (ma), "apple tree" (奈) (na) and "beautiful" (美) (mi).
 * Manami's surname Sakae means "flourish, prosperity, honor, glory, splendor" (栄).