Dini Nishijima

"They started called me Ghost of St. Gloriana after that night, quite annoying actually."

- Dini, about her nickname "With this last charge, let my determination be heard: I realized once again, Sensha-Do...is really fun!"

- Dini's final charge against St. Gloriana Dini Suherman Nishijima is a second year student of Melati Girls High School. She is the Overall Commander or Komandan of the school's Sensha-Do club, ccommanding an M4A3E8 (76)W Sherman. She is the main character of The Jasmine and the Rose: Saga of Melati Girls High School and the upcoming Blooming Jasmine: a Melati Prequel Story.

Profile and Background
"What? You've never heard of Dini Nishijima?"

- Alisa of Saunders Dini Suherman Nishijima is a second year student of Melati Girls High School. She is the Overall Commander or Komandan of the school's Sensha-Do club. She is an Indonesian-Japanese. She commands an up-armoured M4A3E8(76)W Sherman, nicknamed Illustrious II.

A couple years before starting her Sensha-Do Club, she served as the leader of St. Gloriana Middle School's Covenanter Platoon by the name of Jasmine. On one final match, she and her second-in-command, Scottish Breakfast, won St. Gloriana the match by stealthily crossing a frozen river to secure a bridgehead without authorization, endangering her platoon. This didn't sit right with the Overall Commander, Darjeeling who scolded her and Scottish Breakfast. The whole team also hated them for that. Couldn't take it, she moved to Indonesia. A year ago she moved again to Okinawa and enrolled to Melati High School. Since the fateful final match and her sudden disappearance, Dini also earned the nickname Ghost of St. Gloriana.

Before the 63rd Nationals, she asked her classmate, Harumi Yoshizumi to form a Sensha-Do club together with her. Nishijima needed Yoshizumi's skill of negotiation to convince the students council to approve and fund the new club. Yoshizumi, a graduate from Saunders middle school, agreed with the proposal because she was bored. After days of convincing the council, the student council finally approved the dynamic duo's endeavor, even giving them Fort Rotterdam as the club HQ. However the initial budget allocated for them is really small, only enough for maintaining five or six tanks at best and 20 members at most. Even though Harumi thought the budget wasn't enough to create a decent team, Dini was of the opinion that the budget was enough for a start

Appearance
She is a really short girl with short straight dark brown hair and blue eyes. She wears her uniform very properly.

Personality
"God, I am such a coward."

- Dini, lamenting her awkwardness Dini is known as calculating, quiet, pragmatic, but socially awkward girl. When she talks about something other than Sensha-Do it's usually very awkward. When speaking about Sesha-Do she tends to be cutely overconfident. She usually hides her social awkwardness by acting like she doesn’t care and staying quiet. Her staying quiet makes her peers thinks Dini is a cool girl. Despite that, she really cares about her school and her team, and know great far about everyone in her team.

When commanding a tank Dini is really a military commander. She has a huge commanding presence capable of inspire her girls to do anything. She is an unusual strategist, capable of thinking a good unusual strategy in an unusually short time, albeit her strategy often controversial, dangerous and has a thin line from breaking the rule, such as burning a city down, crossing a frozen river or flooding whole riverbank. Therefore, she believes the win justifies the means. When her match seems lost, she is known to command her remaining team to do a final suicidal charge, doing as much damage as possible to prove her team, even losing, is not to be trifled with.

Trivia

 * Her favorite drink is any kind of coffee. She hates tea, especially jasmine tea.
 * Her favorite tank is an Indonesian variant of German Leopard 2, the Leopard 2RI
 * Her favorite flower is Moon Orchid.
 * Her favorite music is Sundanese traditional music.
 * Her hobby (beside playing strategy games) is drinking coffee while watching sunset or rainfall.
 * She obsesses herself with strategy video games, to a point that she would act like a little kid when playing or when she is about to purchase a game. She has a huge collection of strategy video games in her room.
 * She is annoyed by her nickname, Ghost of St. Gloriana or Ghost.
 * Glengettie of St. Gloriana called her La Fantôme de Sainte-Gloriane. A reference to the famous musical and novel, The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra),
 * Back when she is a part of St. Gloriana, her tea name is Jasmine.
 * Darjeeling and many of St. Gloriana girls still call her Jasmine, even Rosehip and Glengettie who just recently joined St. Gloriana, much to her frustration.
 * Interestingly Jasmine means Melati in Indonesian.
 * She is half-Sundanese half-Japanese.
 * It is implied that she was a good friend of Darjeeling and Assam, back in her St. Gloriana days. Her friendship with Assam seems to run deeper than with Darjeeling
 * Her up-armored Sherman, the Illustrious II is inspired by Creighton Abrams' Sherman, the Thunderboll VII.
 * Illustrious is the name of many British warships, although her Illustrious II is a reference to the second incarnation of the name, a 74-gun third rate ship of the line that participated in British Invasion of Java in 1811, as part of the Napoleonic Wars.
 * Her old Covenanter's call-sign is Illustrious.
 * Her surname, is an allusion to Shigetada Nishijima, member of staff of Admiral Maeda and one of the witnesses of the drafting and the preparation of Indonesian Proclamation of Independence.
 * Dini was born at the same date as, in 1945, the Battle of Surabaya, one of the largest battles during Indonesian Revolutionary War.