Risa Kanzaki

Risa Kanzaki (神崎リサ Kanzaki Risa) is the best friend of Mikako Kouda and a student at Yazagaku. She is from Hokkaido and dreams of designing children's clothes. Mangaka mentioned, that her name came from japanese spelling play with name "Lisa".

Biography
She is a runaway from Hokkaido. She likes to sew kid's clothes and punk style. She came to Tokyo with her boyfriend and enrolled in Yazawa School for the Arts to study fashion design.

Physical appearance
Risa is tall, skinny and pretty. Risa has mullet-style red hair that goes beyond her shoulders and has brown eyes. She is into punk-rock style and wears dark lipstick.

Relationships
Risa's boyfriend is Takeshi Nagase. They both from Hokkaido, they came to Tokyo as a couple of runaways and live together in an apartment. She started dating him when she was 14. Takeshi older than her by 3 years and he is part of a music band. Mikako and others didn't know about Takeshi's existence until Mikako with some company decided to drop by Risa's apartment and accidentally saw Takeshi kissing Risa on his way out. She confessed to Mikako that he is the reason she can hold on to her dreams. Risa was reluctant to tell Mikako that she has a boyfriend and that she relies on him greatly because she was afraid that Mikako would think less of her. Takeshi, just like Risa, has red hair and wears punk-rock style clothes. They both work part-time.

In the last year of high school (around 18 years old) Risa became pregnant.

Behind the scenes
Her future son, Arashi, is a character in another manga Paradise kiss, he is very close with younger sister of Mikako since they are the same age.

Risa reminds Nana a lot, though she is completely different character.

Appearance

 * Gokinjo Monogatari
 * Manga
 * The Yamaguchi Family's Tsutomu-kun
 * Anime

Etymology

 * Risa's surname Kanzaki means "god, deity" (神) (kan) and "cape, peninsula" (崎) (saki/zaki).