Ayako Katagiri (片桐 彩子 Katagiri Ayako) is very interested in the arts, primarily visual arts. She admires the work of "Gergi" (a reference to H.R. Giger) and loves to pepper her sentences with seemingly random English phrases. Ayako does not know how to swim and even goes so far as to skip swimming lessons in gym class to avoid the embarrassment. In the Tokimeki Memorial anime, she asks Nozomi Kiyokawa to give her private swimming lessons. After she graduates, she plans on going to France to study.