Tae Sekihara

Sekihara Tae is the young manager of the beef hot pot (gyūnabe, or sukiyaki) restaurant, the Akabeko. In the anime and the manga, she tried to push forward the relationship between Kenshin and Kaoru since it wasn't moving along fast enough for her taste. Tae is an attractive young woman with short brown hair tied in a bun at the nape of her neck and covered with a handkerchief, though her bangs curl out over the sides of her brow and are accompanied by two thin strands of hair at the sides of her face. In the manga, Tae is nearly always depicted with her eyes closed, as are all the other membe...