Chikai Maki

Chikai Maki (牧 誓) is a minor character in the Hibike! Euphonium series. She is a first-year student in the main series who plays the alto saxophone.

Appearance
Chikai is a young teenage girl with light-brown hair that is usually tied up in pigtails with bangs falling down on each side where it frames her face, cherry-red eyes and a petite build.

She is most often depicted in standard Kitauji High School uniform for female first-year students.

Personality
Maki seems to be a very dedicated girl to music and the concert band who is often depicted helping Haruka Ogasawara (Maki's fellow saxophonist and band president) with work around the club.

Etymology

 * The name Chikai means "oath" (誓).
 * Chikai's surname Maki means "shepherd, tend cattle" (牧).

Trivia

 * Maki made the auditions, despite only being a first-year.
 * Although Maki primarily plays alto saxophone, she has been seen playing baritone saxophone in certain performances, such as in Takarajima and Gakuen Tengoku.
 * Like Sapphire Kawashima, Maki is a hidden Tuba-kun otaku. Both have formed a so-called “Tuba-kun Alliance”.