Ranko Nakiri

Ranko Nakiri' (百鬼 藍子 Nakiri Ranko'') is a second-year high school student at Koudo Academy in Shizuoka Prefecture.Ranko is the top ranked player in Shizuoka Prefecture. Although Koudo fails to qualify for the 71st Inter High's team tournament, she enters in the individual tournament.

Appearance
Ranko has short brown hair, brown eyes, and tinted glasses. In her only appearance thus far, she wore a sleeveless purple shirt and white pants

Final Eight Arc
Ranko is an acquaintance of Kei Arakawa, who enlists her help in helping Achiga Girls' Academy prepare for its Inter High semi-final. Afterwards she wishes the Achiga team luck

National Championship Arc
Ranko watches the game with Kei Arakawa and praises her for stopping Teru Miyanaga from her ninth dealer repeat. Kei says she couldn't do it alone and when times are tough, people want to support each other.

After the vanguard match, Ranko says that Teru isn't human and asked Kei if the power is really that different. Kei explains that Teru is beyond normal humans and they are very different. She then says she hopes to shorten that distance this year.

Playing Style/Abilities
Not fully shown, but Ranko's abilities have something to do with her voice.

Etymology

 * The name Ranko means "indigo" (藍) (ran) and "child" (子) (ko).
 * Ranko's surname Nakiri means "hundred" (百) (na) and "demon" (鬼) (kiri).