Kotonoha Katsura

Kotonoha Katsura is one of the two main heroines of School Days and a secondary character in Summer/Shiny Days and Cross Days. Kotonoha is a beautiful girl with pale skin, maroon irises, and silky straight black hair that flows to her waist. Her body is svelte and matured for her age, as seen with her busty chest, second only to Manami Katsura throughout the series. Her outfits vary in different medias. In School Days and Cross Days, Kotonoha is seen mainly wearing uniforms. In Summer/Shiny Days, she mostly wears a red one-piece summer dress and high-heels. She also wears a cyan bikini with white stripes and a white one-piece with a very low cut in School Days and Summer Days, respectively. Because of her gorgeous body, almost all girls (except Sekai Saionji) think negatively of her, due to jealousy, and believe her to be promiscuous and is taking money from Makoto Itou to go on dates. Even Nanami, who is very mature, thinks negatively of her and treats her badly. Generally, Kotonoha is an intelligent, gentle, polite and well-educated young lady with a reserved character. She is so reserved, in fact, there is no mention she has a single friend before she was acquainted with Sekai Saionji and Makoto Itou. Having almost no social life, she becomes incredibly dependent and devoted to Makoto. But this kind of firmness can lead to her to drastic repercussions. If she feels Makoto is leaving her and cannot be won back, such tremendous sorrow and desperation will drive her berserk or "yandere" (expressed by her lusterless eyes), render her to commit suicide, or to murder those she believes is stealing Makoto away from her. Her attachment to Makoto is so great that she refuses to accept that he would ever break up with her. Perhaps linked to her possible murderous side, if Makoto invites her to watch a horror movie, she admits she's a fan of horror and splatter movies but usually keeps quiet about it. Although the reason is not specified, Kotonoha, being very girly and prudish, is afraid of being around guys, especially scared by being touched by the opposite gender, thus making for some awkward moments between her and Makoto at the beginning of their relationship. The situation worsens when Makoto constantly demands excessive physical contact and gets turned down. Finally, Kotonoha acknowledges fulfilling Makoto's sexual appetite is vital in tightening their relationship. Kotonoha will get over her psychological block and offers her body to Makoto in order to lock his heart with her and to drive her rivals away. After this, she suddenly gains the ability to manipulate situations far greater than Sekai, whenever she decides to win back Makoto from Sekai, as seen in endings Bavarois and Lust . How Kotonoha's personality develops is almost entirely dependent on how comfortable she is with sexual activity. Initially she's very shy and quiet around Makoto and others. But depending on the route she can go from being a little more comfortable despite her shyness to becoming sort of sex maniac who is not afraid even using own body to win Makoto back. If things are played right, Kotonoha can even develop bisexual feelings towards Sekai, which allows a three-way relationship between them to develop (as is shown in Two Lovers ending or Cross Days manga). However, when Kotonoha gets greatly hurt emotionally, she goes into Yandere mode. This happens usually when she's abandoned after she sleeps with Makoto, but also occurs when she discovers Makoto cheating on her very late in the game. Like most yanderes, Kotonoha can be cruel as she can manipulate Makoto and guilt trip him and other girls if Makoto chooses to stay with somebody else. Unlike Sekai, she is willing to accept Makoto sleeping around with other girls and having more girlfriends as long as he stays with her as well. She also likes to use sex as a weapon if Makoto tries to break things off. In the anime, she also, along with Makoto, encouraged Sekai to get an abortion and made out with him to hurt Sekai further, and in the Cross Days manga, accuses Yuuki of stealing Makoto away from her by becoming "Yuu" when he wanted to warn her about Makoto's cheating actions. Kotonoha will mostly always forgive Makoto but be heartless around anyone else. Even in the manga when Makoto and Sekai break up and Makoto begs her for forgiveness, she gladly accepts Makoto's apology, but still attempts to kill Sekai right after.