Cherino
Renkawa Cherino is a character from Blue Archive. She is a third-year student at Red Winter Federal Academy and serves as the head of the Red Winter Secretariat, acting as the academy's Student Council President. Despite her child-like appearance and bratty disposition, she possesses an extraordinary obsession with power. Cherino frequently triggers student revolutions through her arbitrary decrees, leading to weekly coups that temporarily oust her from office. However, her relentless tenacity always enables her to reclaim her seat at the top. Strongly believing that true authority emanates from the fake white mustache stuck under her nose, she embodies a quirky yet tyrannical leadership style.
Overview
Renkawa Cherino is a character from Blue Archive. She is a third-year student at Red Winter Federal Academy and serves as the head of the Red Winter Secretariat, acting as the academy's Student Council President. Despite her child-like appearance and bratty disposition, she possesses an extraordinary obsession with power. Cherino frequently triggers student revolutions through her arbitrary decrees, leading to weekly coups that temporarily oust her from office. However, her relentless tenacity always enables her to reclaim her seat at the top. Strongly believing that true authority emanates from the fake white mustache stuck under her nose, she embodies a quirky yet tyrannical leadership style.
Appearance
Cherino has long white hair styled into twintails with hair ribbons and pom-pom ornaments, paired with straight bangs and blue eyes. Above her head floats a gear-shaped halo featuring a light blue to white gradient with conical patterns at the ten and four o'clock positions. Her most prominent feature is a white fake mustache affixed under her nose. Her standard attire consists of a Cossack-style hat, a long-sleeved white coat with a ribbon, white gloves, black tights, long boots, and a randoseru-like backpack. In her hot spring outfit, she wears a white school swimsuit under a tanzen coat with geta footwear while keeping her signature mustache. Her height is listed at 128 cm.
Personality
Cherino speaks with the first-person pronoun 'oira' and addresses Sensei as 'Comrade.' She behaves like an extremely spoiled tyrant, frequently declaring 'purges' over minor grievances or selfish whims. Despite her dramatic declarations, her punishments are surprisingly mild, usually consisting of petty tasks like cleaning restrooms or suspending snack rations. She views her fake mustache as the absolute foundation of her authority, sinking into deep despair whenever it falls off or becomes ruined. She is easily swayed by gourmet desserts, particularly pudding. Nevertheless, she occasionally exhibits surprising political wisdom, recognizing that student protests are a natural reaction to flawed policies rather than suppressing expression outright.
Abilities
Cherino wields a handgun modeled after the Nagant M1895 named 'Chistka,' which also functions as a signal gun during battle. Her EX Skill summons guard soldiers armed with assault rifles to inflict massive Penetration damage across an exceptionally broad circular area. Her Subskill passively increases the team's EX cost recovery speed, gaining additional boosts for each fellow Red Winter student included in the squad. Through her Normal Skill, she marks the enemy with the highest attack power for focused fire while reducing their critical damage resistance. In her Hot Spring variant, she summons and commands a white T-54/55 model tank named 'Purge-kun No. 1,' providing powerful indirect artillery support on the field.
Background
As the top leader of Red Winter Federal Academy, Cherino spends her days managing school affairs while constantly dealing with political unrest. Her self-serving decisions repeatedly provoke student coups that briefly remove her from power, yet she reliably reclaims her presidency with the help of her loyal aides, Sashirom Tomoe and Ikekura Marina, alongside Sensei. She plays central roles in academy events such as the Ivan Kupala festival and the construction of the No. 227 Hot Spring. Beyond Red Winter, she engages in diplomatic visits, including an exchange trip to Shanhaijing Senior High School where she assisted Kisaki in quelling an unexpected uprising. During the Final Chapter, she answered the Federal Student Council's emergency summons and led her royal guard forces to assist allied academies in the Sanctuary of Falsehood campaign.
Relationships
Sashirom Tomoe serves as Cherino's fiercely loyal secretary, managing her daily affairs and orchestrating her political comebacks. Ikekura Marina acts as her Chief of Security; despite being her right-hand commander, Marina frequently leads or joins coups against Cherino out of frustration, only to be assigned disciplinary duty afterward. Cherino calls Sensei 'Comrade' and maintains an overbearing attitude, yet relies heavily on Sensei for problem-solving and sweets. During her visit to Shanhaijing, she formed an alliance with Ryuuka Kisaki of the Genryumon. When Hanuma Makoto of Gehenna Academy visited Red Winter, the two leaders bonded over their shared habit of eating other people's pudding without guilt.
Trivia
Cherino believes her fake mustache is not merely an accessory, but the literal source of her presidential authority. Her personal revolver, 'Chistka,' is modeled after the Russian Nagant M1895, with its name translating to 'Purge' in Russian. The white tank she operates in her Hot Spring version, 'Purge-kun No. 1,' is based on the Soviet T-54/55 main battle tank. The signature Red Winter chocolate she distributes, 'Cheriyonka,' is inspired by the real-world Russian chocolate brand Alyonka. In the Japanese voice cast, Yano Hinaki succeeded Tange Sakura as her voice actor.
