Rika Tatsuo

"Hi, Rika Tatsuo, right? You're last year's Kuromorimine middle school vice-commander, right? I love what you did to St. Gloriana last year!"

- Aung-San "SEMUA TANK! MAJU JALAN!"

- Rika Tatsuo Rika Tatsuo is a first year student of Melati Girls High School. She is a Vice-commander of the school's Sensha-Do club, ccommanding an M5A1 Stuart. She is the main POV character and a major protagonist of The Jasmine and the Rose: Saga of Melati Girls High School.

Profile and Background
"Huh, didn't know winning wasn't in our plan"

- Rika Tatsuo Rika Tatsuo is a first year student of Melati Girls High School. She is a Vice-commander of the school's Sensha-Do club. She commands a M5A1 Stuart, nicknamed Jan Cox.

She served as a Vice-commander of Kuromorimine Girls Academy Middle School Division's Sensha-Do Team. On one final match, she and her Overall Commander, Inge Aizawa completely annihilated St. Gloriana Middle School team. Although being taken out during the match, she is often given much credit for the victory, even on more than one occasion, being mistaken as Aizawa herself.

After the incident around Kuromorimine in 62nd Nationals, she decided to join Melati instead of Kuromorimine High School.

Appearance
She is a relatively tall and lean girl with long straight black hair and green eyes. Her hairstyle is noted as similar to Shiho Nishizumi.

Personality
"Damn, I wish my tank had a 100mm gun"

- Rika's thought Rika is a kind and polite enough person. She really cares about her team to win a match and is devastated when the team lose, often blaming all for herself. Like Harumi, she has a fondness towards the Komandan, Dini.

Perhaps a trait that she brought over from Kuromorimine, she hates dilettante and happy-go-lucky individuals. She even had condescending thought towards this kind of individuals, although she is polite enough to not voice them. Despite that, she has a soft spot for her gunner, Mina Hessels, who is a very laid-back individual.

She also has a poetic side, as she keeps a diary written in Pantun poetic form, reporting her life chapters in the Sensha-Do club.

Trivia

 * Her favorite drink is any kind of sweet tea, especially jasmine tea, although she prefer less-fancy kind of tea.
 * Her favorite tank is an Indonesian-Turkish Harimau Medium Tank
 * Her favorite flower is Jasmine. in fact, she really loves the scent of jasmine so much that it boosts her mood.
 * She is one of the Melati girls that thinks Dini is a really cool individual.
 * She is called Top by her crewmates.
 * Her Stuart, Jan Cox is named after a Dutch painter of the same name.
 * An M3 Stuart with the same nickname also participated in Indonesian National Revolution on the side of the Dutch.
 * Her old Panzer III L from Kuromorimine is nicknamed Missing Lynx.
 * She is named after Rika Meelhuysen, the alleged first girlfriend of Sukarno and Ichiki Tatsuo, Japanese journalist who defected to Indonesian cause.
 * Rika was born at the same date as, in 1946, the Bandung Sea of Fire event.