[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Flo

Ritsu - Smart, yet lazy. Energetic, yet unfocused. Typical Genki girl, also has some traits of a typical class prankster. Tends to use her brains and energy for the wrong purposes, even though her intentions/motives maybe pure or innocent.

Although rare (or maybe unheard of), Ritsu is capable of performing Vocals and Drumming simultaneously (In the Fuwa Fuwa Time insert song - "Tsubasa wo Kudasai", Ritsu is the lead vocal). It's confirmed during the first year pre-school festival (Anime Episode 6/Manga Volume 1 Chapter 8) when Mio begged Ritsu to perform vocals for Fuwa Fuwa Time and Mio will perform both the drums and bass, meaning Mio acknowledged Ritsu that she can sing. But Ritsu shot Mio down and refused to sing for the reason that the lyric already send shivers down her spines (Anime Episode 5/Manga Volume 1 Chapter 7) and most importantly the (highly embarrassing) lyrics doesn't fit her Genki attitude.

It's also hinted that Ritsu had played other instruments such as the Piano or the Guitar (Anime Episode 2/Manga Volume 1 Chapter 2) when Yui asked Ritsu why she's a drummer. Ritsu replied back (dramatically) that it drove her crazy with all the finger movements needed to played those instruments suggested that she tried playing them before she became a full-time drummer.

Ritsu's friendship with Mio in a way, started with pure admiration (Anime Episode 6/Manga Volume 1 Chapter 8), when Ritsu was asked if Mio was as shy during childhood. The flashback during Ritsu and Mio's childhood period gave me the impression of "OMG Mio's hair is so long and pretty and she's left hander! She's so smart and cool! I wanna be friends with her!" Childhood friendship is so pure and innocent at first so Ritsu never thought much about back then, but as they grew older the friendship is no longer as pure and she starts taking advantages of Mio, such as using Mio to get good grades etcs. (Like I said, Ritsu is smart, but she's lazy to put her brain into good use)

If you noticed, she DOES protect Mio from Sawa-chan if the latter goes too far.

Maybe Tsumugi has psychic visions and was right about Mio and Ritsu having a seme-uke relationship that started very far back when Ritsu is still (subconciously) mentally breaking Mio.