Imari Kurumi (Earth-3)

Imari Kurumi is a Japanese foreign exchange student from Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan that is currently in Fayetteville Arkansas along with several of her other classmates and fellow students from Japan to expand upon their education.

Early Life:
Imari was born and raised in a district of Tokyo, living for most of her young life next door to her childhood best friend and crush, Taki Minase and his sister. Imari would eventually become a very good cook as she would often sit and watch her parents cook meals at their family's restaurant and also as she grew older, her parents also chose to enroll her in the martial arts as a way of teaching her self-confidence and protection...with the martial arts proving to be a very capable thing in her case as she quickly would end up a black belt in Shorinji Kempo karate of all things!

Over time Imari would discover that her childish feelings of "crushing" on her best friend started to blossom into something much more heady and potent as she started to view herself in her dreams as being Taki's girlfriend and several of their fellow students at the private school that they were being sent to in their junior high and high school years with Imari as being Taki's "defacto girlfriend", but a major change would cause everything to change in their senior year to cause everything in her young life to come crashing to a grinding halt.

"Stranger in a strange land":
Imari had been selected, along with Rika Shiraki, Kaori Saeki, & Miyuki Nonogusa and their "chaperon teacher" in art class teacher Hiroko Takashiro from her school, as one of a set of students to travel to America and study there for a year.

Needless to say that this news crushed Imari since she would be leaving her home country and worst of all-Taki!

However despite her deepest fears and concerns, her first couple of weeks at Fayetteville High School's North Campus wasn't as horrible as she quickly was able to make several new friends including Aliyah Bay and Sarah Newman among others.