Rinko Saejima

Rinko Saejima (冴島 凛子) is the first heroine introduced in Paradise Noise.

A mysterious pianist able to play Makoto's duet arrangement with grace alone through sight-reading, Rinko is the student assigned to perform the accompaniments for the even-numbered classes.

Appearance
Rinko is a cold-eyed girl with purple hair and lime eyes. Her high school uniform is unaltered, consisting of the bone white blazer, standard white dress shirt, blue tie, and black-striped yellow skirt.

Personality
Living up to her name, Rinko posseses a bitingly cold tongue. Coupled with her high standard for music, she can be seen as standoffish and demanding. However, her scathing remarks are rarely made out of pure malice.

Background
Rinko was a competitive pianist during her middle school days, attending events all over Japan and earning a reputation of utterly demolishing her competition. She eventually reached a roadblock in her piano journey, disliking the amount of excess noise her performances made. She began to doubt her capabilities, calling herself only average compared to her peers and losing the passion she once had.

She left the competitive scene a year before entering high school. She still chose music as her elective and played the piano at Hanazono-sensei's request, but nothing more.

Musical Ability
Rinko is a prodigious pianist, a genius in multiple styles and genres of performances. She is most familiar with classical music, but seems to enjoy jazz as well. She is able to sight-read, add adjustments or flourishes, and mix scores on the fly.

As a classical pianist, however, she does show a lack of knowledge at the features of a synthesizer, shown in the challenge brought up by Makoto.

Makoto Murase
Rinko's relationship with Makoto can be described as a bantering friendship. She often makes snide remarks regarding his amateur music ability or inappropriate sexual behavior, the latter being entirely unfounded. Makoto does his best to retort, seemingly unhurt by her insults. Her initial impression of Makoto was "a boy filled with malice", due to his duet arrangement of Carmina Burana. The two got off on a rocky start, and although their relationship didn't seem to get better on the surface, they began to take each other's presence in the music room as natural. She admitted to feeling lonely without him when he was absent from the room for four days. Their friendship solidified when Makoto flipped her mentality regarding excess noise on the school rooftop.

Etymology

 * 冴 (さえ)
 * 島 (じま)
 * 凛 (りん)
 * 子 (こ)