Chikai Maki

Chikai Maki
Kanji	牧 誓
Romaji	Maki Chikai
Age	15-16
Gender	Female
Musical profile
Role	Alto Saxophone player(Original Anime and Our Promise) Saxophone Section Leader (Sound! Euphonium 3)
Instrument	Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone
Affiliation
School	Kitauji High School
Occupation	High School Student (1st year) (Original Anime) (2nd year) (Oath's Finale)

Chikai Maki (牧 誓, Maki Chikai) is a supporting character in the Sound! Euphonium series. She is a student at Kitauji High School the same year as Kumiko Oumae who plays alto saxophone in the school's concert band. She became the saxophone section leader in her third year.

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, vow, swear, pledge" (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”.

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