Lee, Ranka

ランカ・リー

Known as the "Super-Dimension Cinderella", Ranka is a petite, lively, and cheerful teenage girl with green hair. She suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome due to witnessing the destruction of the 117th Long Distance Research Fleet, in which her biological family perished.
She is one-quarter Zentradi, a heritage that grants her the ability to move her hair autonomously according to her feelings, as well as above-average resistance to the vacuum of space.
As the adopted younger sister of S.M.S. ace Ozma Lee, she initially attends an all-girls high school at her brother's urging while working part-time at the Chinese restaurant "Nyan-Nyan". She later transfers to Mihoshi Academy to facilitate her singing career after being discovered at the Miss Macross contest and in the "Bird Human" movie, where she plays the role of Mao Nome.
Ranka begins as a huge fan of Sheryl Nome, having loved singing since childhood and dreamed of becoming a singer. She develops a crush on Alto Saotome, particularly after he rescues her when the Vajra first attack the Macross Frontier fleet. It is revealed that she has a deep connection to the Vajra: her songs confuse them, and she feels severe pain whenever large numbers of Vajra are killed in her vicinity. The exact nature of this ability is explained as the result of her mother's exposure to the "V-Type" infection during pregnancy. Consequently, Ranka is referred to as the "Little Queen" by Grace O'Connor, 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 runner-up in the Miss Macross Frontier pageant).