Minami Kaburagi

Height: 143 cm (4'7")

She serves as the Medical Officer aboard the Harekaze and is known by those around her as a "mad scientist."

She has a fondness for kango (Sino-Japanese idioms)—much like intellectual types from the East often favor classical Chinese terms, just as their Western counterparts favor Latin—and frequently incorporates four-character idioms and classical sayings into her conversation. However, she does not unconditionally love Chinese culture; for instance, she dislikes mapo tofu.

She prefers to add salt to her cocoa.

In reality, she is a genius whose intellect far surpasses ordinary human limits; she displayed scientific talent before even entering elementary school, skipped grades to advance through the Maritime Medical University—completing her undergraduate studies in two years and graduate school in three—and even earned a doctorate. However, because of this accelerated path, she had not yet completed the maritime training credits required for her professional qualification. Consequently, she was hired by Yokosuka Girls' Marine High School as a school nurse (not a student) and assigned to the Harekaze; this explains why her uniform differs slightly from that of the other students.

A downside of her extreme grade-skipping was that she had no close friends. Initially, she viewed the ship merely as a means to earn credits—thinking, "It could be a raft or anything else for all I care"—but a sense of camaraderie gradually developed. By the time of the Equator Festival, she remarked, "I’m the only one who hasn't done anything [for everyone]," and requested a choral performance of "Ware wa Umi no Ko" (I Am a Child of the Sea)—a song that, while a children's folk song, is also a Navy anthem whose lyrics were once ordered deleted by the GHQ.