Osawa Yuu

Yuu Osawa (大澤 悠 Ōsawa Yū?) is a prominent character in the Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san series. In the anime and manga, Yuu has short dull blue hair. In the drama she has darker hair and is noticeably more petite in size. Yuu is a 16 year-old, first-year high school student. She is in the same class as Koizumi-san, and is best friends with Misa and Jun, who are both first-years as well. Yuu lives in an apartment with her parents and older brother, Shuu. She also has an older cousin, Ayane, who very much resembles Yuu in appearance and personality. For as long as her friends can remember, Yuu has always had a penchant for girls who looked cute. When she met Koizumi-san, Yuu was fully determined to try to become friends with her. This would involve wanting to tag along with Koizumi-san on her ramen trips, even when uninvited. Her persistence rubs off on Koizumi-san as being obsessive, if not stalker-like. She has a knack for making homemade Japanese meals for her friends and family. Yuu can be described as being a friendly and sociable girl, and is often seen together with her close friends Misa and Jun. She also cares for her brother Shuu, so much that she keeps close tabs with him on the phone to see whether he's okay, or if she needs to make lunch made for him. Because she enjoys the sight of cute girls, she naturally develops the urge to make friends with Koizumi-san. Yuu will often ask Koizumi-san to join her and her friends after school, but such offers are usually rejected. Whenever that happens, Yuu will occasionally take the initiative to secretly follow Koizumi-san to a ramen shop, and spy on her from across the street (often recording her observations in a secret journal). Yuu even once asked her teacher if she could obtain her home address, to which her teacher denied giving away confidential information. On other occasions, she will simply beg and plead to be with Koizumi-san for the day. Yuu can become extremely jealous when her friends get close to her, or if Koizumi-san ever became romantically involved with someone.