Arata Kohata

Arata Kohata (小幡アラタ Kohata Arata) is one of the characters in the 2012 Black★Rock Shooter anime. Her "other self", is believed to be one of the hooded figures.

Appearance
Arata is a teenage girl with brown eyes and brown hair ending in short pigtails. She wears a red school gym uniform with her name across the chest, and white shoes with blue stripes.

Personality
She is rash to the point of making Mato to sprint at the same level as the other basketball club members when she was only checking the club out. She is fond of draconian training, and supposedly nobody is able to play against her one-on-one.

She appears very hyper, bold, and tomboyish. However, she is insecure. She believes that she shouldn't blame anything bad on others, since that would mean that they would be made responsible of things that she should carry out on her own.

She has a crush on a boy in her school. She is initially reluctant about confessing, at one point blaming it on not having big boobs like Saya Irino.

Her peers tend to call her "Koha'chi". She in turn refers to Yuu Koutari as "Underfoot".

Plot
She is first introduced as the captain of Mato Kuroi's basketball club. When Mato Kuroi shows interest in joining the team, Arata forces her to run just as many laps as the established team members.

Mato eventually joins and Arata, impressed by her basketball talents, decides she should be a semi-regular for the basketball tournament. Later, Mato and Yuu catch her giving a love letter to Takuu.

She hauls Mato into an intensive training camp, despite protests from others, confident that she will do fine even if she doesn't fit the team's niche. Once they return to school, she finds her love letter publicly displayed on the school bulletin and some boys, carrying Takuu in a strongarm, teasing her about it. Her friends try to defend her, but she claims it to be a mistake and walks away hiding her pain.

She goes to Saya's room and tells her that she shouldn't do things she's not good at. Instead of comforting her, Saya tells her that she must be strong to hide her pain like that after being made the laughing stock, effectively planting more doubt and insecurity on Arata.

Some time later, she accidentally trips during basketball practice and twists her ankle. Even though she claims she will be fine, Mato takes her to the infirmary, and says that she'll get a teacher to help. Arata protests at the mention of Saya.

While Mato is walking away, Black★Rock Shooter beheads the hooded figure resembling Arata that Black★Gold Saw had created from her watering pot. Arata clutches her head and screams. Mato runs back to the infirmary, only to find Arata lying prone on the floor.

Arata is later shown to have recovered with nothing more than a sprained ankle. Similar to Kagari Izuriha, the decapitation of her other self has caused her to forget the root of her pain, Takuu. He tries to return her feelings, but she rejects him as she no longer remembers who he is.

After Insane Black★Rock Shooter's defeat, which results in her other self being brought back to life, she starts dating Takuu

Trivia

 * The official website, prior to the anime's start, listed Arata's name as "Arata Obata".