Hinako Saijo

Hinako is very achievement oriented -- someone who makes grand plans, and has the ability and drive to achieve them. However, she has similarly high hopes for her friends, which they often fail to meet. Fortunately she tempers this with patience and the ability to keep her cool when things aren’t working out, rather than getting upset with the others. Yayoi explains that getting other people into cycling is one of Hinako’s goals in life, but this is not entirely selfless. The Fleche which she wants to enter requires five people on the team, so if she doesn’t want to join someone else’s team, she has to come up with that many people herself. She is constantly reminding the others that they want to ride in the Fleche, although it is plain that it is Hinako who is the one who is most driven to do so. Hinako always presents her own goals as if they are everyone’s, as in, “you want to get stronger, right”, “you want to ride in the Fleche, right?”. Anime: Long Riders