The Scent of Sandalwood...
Episode 01
☥ She is introduced, being called "Kaoru-no-Kimi".
☥ It was rumored that she left or simply might leave.
☥ Nanako Misonoo notes about Udaisho Kaoru-no-Kimi .
☥ She is a freshman at Sieran High School.
☥ She participates in a club activity, but is not stated what club yet.
☥ Mariko Shinobu states her name is Kaoru Orihara and she is in section B as well.
☥ She is a year older than them, so she is either sixteen or seventeen.
☥ She was away due to illness for a long time, but seems very healthy.
☥ Kaoru is certainly a person who is listened to.
☥ Mariko states that everyone adores three beautiful ladies there; Kaoru is one of them.
☥ It is shown later that she is amazing at basketball.
Episode 02
☥ Kaoru leads her class.
☥ Girls swoon over her even when she is scolding them; she is "so pretty when (she is) angry".
☥ She seems to have foreign language (English) for her first class on Monday.
☥ She appears to sit in the front row, second column from the door.
☥ She and Rei seem to be friends and react like two boys giving potshots at one another.
☥ Rei borrowed a book from Kaoru and throws it at her; Kaoru uses her right hand to catch it, so might be right handed.
☥ It is determined that she is in the basketball club.
☥ Something goes on between Fukiko and Rei; Kaoru seems to be well aware of the hostility.
☥ She was chosen to be a Sorority candidate; she declines.
☥ She is opposed to the very existence of the Sorority.
☥ She used the excuse of her poor health to not join since her previous excuse is not "politically correct".
☥ Kaoru will automatically take action when a fight occurs; she stops one between Mariko and a girl named Aya Misaki.
Episode 03
☥ She seems well informed of what is to occur in school, like upcoming exams.
☥ If something is morally wrong or causes injustice, she will do something about it.
☥ When Nanako returns to class, everyone notices and Kaoru even turns around for a brief scene.
☥ This is the second episode she is seen playing basketball; this is the first one for mere practicing and is on a Sunday.
☥ She dribbles mainly with her right hand.
☥ Information on Udaishou Kaoru-no-Kimi is that he was in "The Tale of Genji" and was born with a beautiful aura; Kaoru is said to have a beautiful aura as well.
☥ Her illness is revealed a bit for the first time when she collapses in mid jump and ends in clutching her right breast.
Episode 04
☥ Kaoru watches the scene unfold about a faulty call made by Aya to Nanako.
☥ She sees Fukiko as arrogant and tends to be one to play around with the hopes of the freshman students.
☥ She talks to Rei, so the belief that they are indeed friends is strengthened.
☥ She seems to be left handed, as it shows her writing in this episode; perhaps she is ambidextrous?
☥ If a person in charge (their teacher at the time) will not take command when necessary, she will.
☥ She is not afraid to throw a girl at a teacher, apparently.
☥ She is strong, easily lifting a girl in each arm.
☥ Mariko finds her "so marvelous".
☥ She has cooking for a morning class.
☥ She cannot separate the yoke from the white of an egg and considers it "too much like a circus trick".
☥ She cannot crack an egg either.
☥ She can whistle.
☥ When Aya hurts Nanako, Kaoru runs after her to give words of wisdom and an implication that she cares for the other enough despite they do not know each other well yet.
Episode 05
☥ She is aware of Rei's drug abuse and physically shows her opposition by slapping Rei with her right hand after slapping the pills out with her left.
☥ Rei is not afraid to slap Kaoru back.
☥ Rei seems to know more about Kaoru's illness than others would.
☥ Kaoru seems to know there is a deeper meaning to the gold bracelet Rei wears as well as there being something going on between Rei and Fukiko.
☥ She knows Rei's phone number.
Episode 06
☥ Her kindness is shown when she lends her athletics clothes to Nanako when hers is stolen.
☥ She has to leave school early to check in with the hospital for some follow-up tests done.
☥ On her way out, her chest bothers her again.
☥ Her gym clothes have a certain "sweet and clean smell with the crisp touch of Byakudan" from what Nanako finds; "Byakudan" translates as "White Sandalwood" and is made of fine Indian Sandalwood.
Episode 07
☥ This is the first time she is seen in the library, and it is assumedly after school is out.
☥ She knows well about Rei's popularity.
☥ She informs Nanako that all freshman in three months check out books regarding St. Juste and The French Revolution.
☥ She is well familiar with the library's set up and obviously thinks highly of people reading.
☥ If anything by now, one can determine she reaches for things with her right hand and seems to do most hand motions with her left.
☥ She is not afraid to scold others who are causing some form of trouble.
☥ She does not strike people to be the reading type due to her athletic ways; Rei and Nanako had thought such about her.
☥ She met Rei in Junior High.
☥ She has been attending Seiran before high school, perhaps she has gone there all of her life.
☥ She is well aware of Paul Marie Verlaine, a popular French poet.
☥ "As rain falls..." is what she quotes.
☥ She recruited Rei for the basketball team.
☥ She admits what made Rei stand out to her was the other having something inhuman about her nature.