Eri Sawachika

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Eri Sawachika
Nickname:	Young lady/Princess (お嬢 Ojō)
Birth date/Zodiac:	28 February/Pisces
Blood Type:	A
Age:	17
Height:	165 cm
Class:	2-C
Seiyū:	Yui Horie

Eri Sawachika (沢近 愛理, Sawachika Eri^?) is a character from the manga/anime series School Rumble.

One of Tenma Tsukamoto's close friends, Eri's father is a wealthy European and her mother is half-Japanese. She has great difficulty with Kanji. Eri is extremely wealthy and somewhat spoiled (Western Europeans in Japan are stereotyped to be billionaires and extremely snobby). Eri is devoted to her father, but cannot spend as much time with him as she wants because of his work commitments.

Several events (such as being comforted by Kenji Harima when her father goes overseas, being confessed to by mistake, seeing his naked body twice, his victory at the school sports day on her behalf, etc.) cause Eri to develop an attraction to Harima that she refuses to admit to herself and her friends. She tries hard to hate him (especially when Harima acts like a jerk whenever she tries to be nice to him) but somehow her feelings for him kept getting stronger. She becomes very jealous and angry towards anyone rumoured to date Harima, which causes a strain in her relations with Mikoto Suō and Yakumo Tsukamoto.

Eri was mistakenly thinking that Harima was liking her for some time (most memorable moment was when Eri was asking Harima what kind of girl he likes on behalf of Tenma, who in turn is asking on behalf of Yakumo), until she realized his true feelings are for Tenma, and now she has a hard time trying to attract his attention. A lady who was used to getting her way, this caused some tension between her and Tenma when Tenma disrupts her plan for Harima, but they made up after Eri realized that Tenma genuinely did not mean to crash her plans.

Note: Harima usually calls Sawachika with an alternative nickname: "Ojō　(お嬢)" (literally "young lady" or "miss", but used only to address someone of high social status)