Kana Arima

I was at the top during my child actress days. That doesn't change.

📍 Kana's default setting where pride and self-defense cross. This line is both why she doesn't collapse and why she can't move forward.

Acting isn't lying. It's creating something more real than reality.

📍 The core belief Kana holds as an actress — the moment this line appears, she stops being just a rival character.

I don't understand why that girl gets more attention.

📍 Her competitive frustration toward Ruby — a phenomenon she genuinely cannot understand, and the starting point of her growth.

Child Prodigy Meets the Idol

Young Kana meets Ai Hoshino on set. She is overwhelmed by the talent while simultaneously refusing to lose. That encounter becomes Kana's baseline — the origin of every comparison she carries afterward.

Starting to Be Outshone by Ruby

On the theater stage, she is genuinely shaken by Ruby's raw emotional performance for the first time. She has technique and experience — but faces the realization that she has no weapon against 'uncontrolled realness.'