Kana Etou

Kana Etou (江藤 香奈) is a side character of Sound! Euphonium. She is a new first-year at Kitauji High School who joins the band as a flautist in Kumiko Oumae's second year.

Personality
Kana is an experienced flautist from Minami Junior High School who admires Nozomi Kasaki from the same section.

Etymology

 * The name Kana means "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (ka) and "Nara, what" (奈) (na).
 * Kana's surname Etou means "bay, inlet" (江) (e) and "wisteria" (藤) (tou).

Trivia

 * In Liz and the Blue Bird, Kana was asked out on a date by a classmate, which became a hot topic among the flute section.
 * Kana borrowed Tsubomi Nakano's dress for the date where other members of her section joked by saying she wouldn't fit into it.
 * On the date, they visited the aquarium where Kana's date said she resembled a blowfish, in which the rest of the section found this amusing that they began calling her "Blowfish-chan".