Mitsuba Okita

Mitsuba Okita was the older sister of Okita Sougo and the former main love interest of Hijikata Toushirou. She loved to add spice to all the food she ate, having a fanaticism on par with Hijikata and his mayonnaise. Mitsuba suffered from a lung disease which would ultimately become her demise, as seen in Episode 87. Her appearance was strikingly similar to that of her brother, Sougo, with short, sandy brown hair and reddish-brown eyes. She was usually wearing a light brown/green yukata.

Although her younger brother resembled her a lot when it came to appearance, character-wise they were the exact opposite. Mitsuba was the archetypal virtuous female character, termed yamato nadeshiko aka traditional feminine virtues of olden Japan, as well as the stereotypical figure of bijin hakume...