Josee

Josee, real name Kumiko is the titular protagonist in Josee, the Tiger and the Fish.

Appearance
Josee has a slender figure. She is fair skinned with some blush on her cheeks. Her eyes are large, their irises a pink-purple, which rather thick upper eyelashes, three more prominent ones protruding slightly to either side.

Her hair is wavy, its color a light brown. It is usually seen loose, but sometimes she has a different style such as half of it pulled up. She also has short, squarish bangs.

Josee is seen wearing a variety of outfits throughout the movie.

Trivia

 * Josee is played by Chizuru Ikewaki in the live-action movie.
 * Josee and Tsuneo Suzukawa are a couple at the end of the movie.
 * Josee appears to have a very stuck-up, mean and defensive demeanour, even towards people she loves, as seen through her treatment of Tsuneo, as a means to not show any signs of further vulnerability, more than she already has as a disabled person, implying that she had to adapt to the harsh treatment of the society towards her disposition as a paraplegic, growing up. Despite the cold, ruthless front she puts up, she is actually a young woman exploding with dreams and strong emotions of love and empathy inside, which she decides to hold back from acting on, as she used to think her condition would not allow her to be able to fulfill any of her desires, such as experiencing the outside world.
 * Josee, self-admittedly, is a 'terrible' storyteller, as seen in her storytelling session with children at the library, stemming from her lifelong social anxiety and fear of strangers who she visualized as 'tigers' in her head. However, she improves a lot in her second attempt.
 * Josee claimed to Tsuneo that she had dated five boys at the same time, however, Tsuneo was able to immediately realize, much to his amusement, that she had no experience whatsoever in love (let alone with normal friendships, given that she found it hard even talking to girls such as Kana the librarian when she first met her), and was simply lying out of embarrassment, as she felt quite bashful conversing so nonchalantly with him in one of their daily trips outside, implying that she had felt like the atmosphere felt like they were lovers on a date, thus making her make a bold, flamboyant statement to exert fake confidence in order to suppress her growing feelings towards him.