Ranka Lee

Height: 156 cm 51 Known as the SuperDimension Cinderella Ranka is a petite lively and cheerful teenage girl with green hair. She suffers from posttraumatic stress syndrome as a result from witnessing the destruction of the 117th Long Distance Research Fleet in which her biological family perished. She is onequarter Zentradi which gives her the ability to have her hair move on its own according to her feelings as well as an aboveaverage resistance to the vacuum of space. As the adopted younger sister of S.M.S. ace Ozma Lee she initially attends an allgirls high school at the urging of her brother while working parttime at the Chinese restaurant NyanNyan. She later transfers to the Mihoshi Academy to facilitate her singing career after being discovered at the Miss Macross contest and the Bird Human movie where she plays the role of Mao Nome. Ranka starts off as a huge fan of Sheryl Nome as she has loved singing since childhood and had dreamt of becoming a singer. She develops a crush on Alto Saotome especially after being rescued by him when the Vajra first attacked the Macross Frontier fleet. It is revealed that she has a deep connection to the Vajra as her songs confuse them and she feels severe pain whenever large amounts of Vajra are killed in her vicinity the exact nature of this ability is explained as the result of her mothers exposure to the VType infection during pregnancy. As such Ranka is referred to as the Little Queen by Grace OConnor suggesting that her relation to the Vajra may be more than it seems. Ranka shares many characteristics with Lynn Minmay of the original Macross series. Both characters started out working in a Chinese restaurant and both participated in a local beauty pageant with the exception that Minmay won the Miss Macross pageant while Ranka finished as a runnerup in the Miss Macross Frontier pageant.