Ayumi Oikawa

Ayumi Oikawa (及川 歩 Oikawa Ayumi) is a classmate of Tsutomu Yamaguchi who introduces her to Mikako Kouda as someone who has big empty storage room they needed to work on the huge Akindo display sign for the Flea market. She studies visual design at Yazawa School for the Arts.

Eventually, she becomes a friend to everyone and a member of Akindo.

Biography
Very little is known about Ayumi's biography, but her grandfather was a sculptor and she is known in Visual Art class as someone with good artistic taste. Tsutomu Yamaguchi gets close to her after working together on some group project. She volunteers to help him with the sign and that brings her closer to the Akindo group. She gets impressed more and more by Yuusuke Tashiro especially after seeing him so often after school.

In the future, she works at the same design company as Yuusuke where she is responsible for creating and ideas. In the very distant future, she eventually gets married to him (which now makes her Ayumi Tashiro) at 27 and gets pregnant around the same time as Mikako Kouda.

Physical Appearance
Ayumi is a tall young woman with long dark hair, dark-colored eyes and she wears modest clothes.

Personality and traits
Ayumi has nice personality and looks very mature. Besides being beautiful and intelligent, she's also modest and friendly.

Relationships
Ayumi falls in love with Yuusuke Tashiro when he's still in relationships with Mariko Nakasu. She doesn't want to break their relationship, but also can't help herself as she develops quite strong feelings towards him. He doesn't notice her feelings at first, but her quiet and gentle expression of love that feels distinctly different from heedless and selfish Mariko eventually reaches his recognition.

She later marries Yuusuke (which now makes her Ayumi Tashiro) and she is last seen pregnant with his child.

Appearance
Gokinjo Monogatari
 * Manga
 * The Thing Called Love (First appearance)
 * Anime
 * Who's Ayumi Oikawa?!  (First appearance)

Etymology

 * The name Ayumi means "walk, step" (歩).
 * Ayumi's surname Oikawa means "reach out, exert, exercise, cause" (及) (oi) and "river, stream" (川) (kawa), which could possibly mean "reaching the river" altogether.
 * She shares her surname with Tōru Oikawa, a third-year student at Aoba Johsai High in the Haikyu!! series.
 * Her married name Tashiro means "field, rice paddy" (田) (ta) and "generation" (代) (shiro).