catherine (rakurakutei ramen)

An original character by Rakurakutei Ramen.

Classmate with Tamaryu and Ran, and whose teacher is Shizuki in the new Youkai school that opens up, she appears in the school-related strips. She appears more often as the school becomes a more prominent feature of the series.

"Catherine" is her nickname based upon the fact that she is the mixed-blood daughter of a canine youkai and a fire bird youkai--the kanji for "fire" "bird" "dog" can be pronounced like "Ka-Tori-Inu", or how a Japanese person would say "Catherine". Her actual name is Inukai Suzume.

As a fire-bird-dog, she has an unusual body with large wing-arms, dog-ears, a tail, and apparently a weakness against water.