In Ocean Waves, what is the name of the female transfer student?

In Ocean Waves, the female transfer student is Rikako Muto.

Rikako transfers to a high school in Kōchi after moving from Tokyo. She is academically gifted, athletic, and strikingly confident, but her difficult personality quickly creates tension with classmates. Yutaka Matsuno is initially asked to show her around, which introduces her to his close friend Taku Morisaki and begins the film’s central love triangle.

Rikako’s transfer is more than a simple plot device. Her Tokyo background, family problems, and uneasy adjustment to a new school shape the story’s themes of adolescence, friendship, jealousy, and emotional distance. She is also deliberately portrayed as complicated rather than conventionally agreeable: other students often dislike her, while Taku gradually sees the vulnerability beneath her arrogance.

A common mix-up is confusing Rikako with Yumi Kohama, one of her classmates and later a friend. Yutaka Matsuno and Taku Morisaki are the two boys at the center of the story, not transfer students. Ocean Waves was first broadcast on Japanese television in 1993 and was directed by Tomomi Mochizuki.