Sapphire Kawashima

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Sapphire "Midori" Kawashima
Kanji	川島 "緑" 緑輝
Romaji	Kawashima "Midori" Safaia
Age	15-16
Gender	Female
Height	148 cm (4'10")
Blood type	B
Birthday	November 3 (Scorpio)
Musical profile
Role	Contrabass player(Original Anime and Our Promise) Bass Section Leader (Sound! Euphonium 3)
Instrument	Contrabass
Personal Status
Relative(s)	Kohaku Kawashima (younger sister)
Affiliation
School	Seijou Junior High (former) Kitauji High School
Occupation	High School Student (1st year) (Original Anime) (2nd year) (Our Promise) (3rd year) (Season 3)
First appearance
Novel	Light Novel Volume 1
Manga	Chapter 1
Anime	Episode 1
Portrayal
Voiced by	日本語 Moe Toyota (See more)

Sapphire "Midori" Kawashima (川島 "緑" 緑輝, Kawashima "Midori" Safaia) is one of the main characters of Sound! Euphonium series. She is a student at Kitauji High School, a classmate of Kumiko Oumae and Hazuki Katou who plays double bass in the school's concert band. During her third year, she became the bass section leader.

Appearance

Sapphire is a young teenage girl of below-average height and weight. She has a petite build, and is the shortest of the main characters, if not the whole band. Sapphire has messy and wavy chin-length blond hair. One of her defining physical traits is a strand of her hair sticking up from the back of her head. She has greenish-lime eyes and somewhat thick eyebrows, and wears a turquoise hair bow with light-green polka dots.

Sapphire is usually seen with a normal Kitauji High School uniform for first-year female students.

Personality

Sapphire has a positive personality who always puts her friends before herself. She worries quite a lot, but she is naturally cheerful and happy. She is often timid and quiet due to her lack of self-confidence, and she is also very embarrassed by her own name, preferring to be addressed as Midori (緑). However, she is very kind, caring and polite, and also very supportive of her friends. She is also passionate about music, treasuring her double bass and even giving a name to it, "George". She often continues to play it even though she may have hurt her fingers, which happens quite often.

With the years, she becomes very confident while keeping her cheerfulness and curiosity. She keeps doing her best to mentor her juniors, and knows how to listen and help them, even taming her curiosity when needed. She still strives to do her best.

Background

Sapphire is from a rich family and attended Seijou Junior High, an elite all-girls school, where she learned to play the contrabass. She joined the concert band to continue to play music.

Chronology

On her first day in Kitauji High School, the teacher got Sapphire's name wrong during a roll call, making her explain the proper reading in embarrassment. After that, the teacher said that she won't make the same mistake again. Later, she befriended Kumiko Oumae and Hazuki Katou. They quickly develop a nice dynamic and join the bass section together. She quickly develops some chemistry with Asuka Tanaka as they both have a cheerful and full of jokes personality. She also happens to be very good at double bass, which Asuka likes.

Relationships

Kumiko Oumae

Sapphire gets along with Kumiko very well and they are close friends. Kumiko and Hazuki are Sapphire's first friends upon entering Kitauji. Sapphire and Kumiko support and care for each other, and they can freely talk about various topics and they trust each other.

Hazuki Katou

Sapphire and Hazuki are also great and close friends and they care and trust for each other a lot. Hazuki could openly tell Sapphire and Kumiko about her crush on Shuuichi. The two support each other and Hazuki can open up to Sapphire, like when she cried in front of Sapphire when she got rejected, and Sapphire comforted her. They can also talk about various topics with each other and Hazuki also seems to quite fond of Sapphire's younger sister. They are on good terms and share a close bond.

Motomu Tsukinaga

Sapphire takes Motomu under her wing when he joins her in the bass section. Motomu admires her abilities, and treats her with a great deal of respect. Sapphire whips him into shape, making sure he behaves well and is kind to the other members of his section.

Etymology

• The name Sapphire means "green" (緑輝).
  • Her nickname Midori means "green" (緑).
  • Interestingly, sapphire is generally known as a blue-colored gemstone. This is most likely due to the blue-green distinction in Japanese.
• Sapphire's surname Kawashima means "river, stream" (川) (kawa) and "island" (島) (shima).

Voice Actresses

	Language	TV anime	Chikai	Liz
日本語	Japanese	Moe Toyota
English	English	Kayli Mills		Cassandra Lee Morris
Deutsch	German			Sarah Fuhr
italiano	Italian			Veronica Cuscusa
한국어	Korean	Jang Ye-na
粵語	Cantonese	Amanda Shing Yiu Ying	Ivy Yu

Trivia

• According to the official Sound! Euphonium novel website:
  • Her favorite colors are pink and pastel.
  • Her hobbies are making sweets and collecting stuffed toy animals.
  • Her special skills are cooking and sewing.
  • She has a pet iguana named Macaroon.
  • She hates computers because she doesn't know how to operate one.
• Sapphire has a little sister named Kohaku Kawashima.
• After school, Sapphire often goes to the prize dispenser where she plays for musical instrument charms.
  • It appears that she is looking for a Tuba-kun charm, and is shown disappointed when receiving Sax-kun and Horn-chan.
• Sapphire participates in Colour Guard in the marching band, due to the size of her instrument.
• Kumiko Oumae, Hazuki Katou and Sapphire are all in Year 1, Class 3 in the book series.
• Sapphire's homeroom teacher is Michie Matsumoto.
• Sapphire originally wanted to play the flute before the contrabass.
• Sapphire wants to go to design school.
• Sapphire has a giant Japanese salamander plush she purchased at the Kyoto Aquarium named Kaiser.
• Sapphire's bass guitar is based on Yamaha BB424 model.

Gallery

Main article: Sapphire Kawashima/Gallery

Notes

Native names