Yugiri

Yugiri was a high-ranking courtesan from the Meiji era who helped ignite the spark that would later lead Saga to independence after disappearing for several years. She is currently a member of Franchouchou, where she is titled as The Legendary Courtesan. Yugiri has light brown hair, and most of it is worn in a bow shape on her head and two long locks hanging over her shoulders. Her bangs are mostly centered with a curved bit to the right. Yugiri also has light rusty eyes. Despite her age, Yugiri sports a very voluptuous figure that beats even those of Sakura and Tae and is only being beaten by Maimai. Usually, Yugiri wears an outfit similar to a kimono, with a white and orange plaid pattern top, a purple collar, and a forest green skirt. She also sports dark purple leggings and dark gray boots. Her casual clothes consist of a kimono, hakama, stockings, and boots, in the manner of a late 1800s student, but with the hakama cut above the knee like a makeshift skirt to show more of her legs. Like the other zombies, she has blue-gray skin and red eyes; she has a scar around her neck. Her everyday clothing looks disorganized and lifeless. Her idol outfit changes throughout the series: On episodes 1-6, Yugiri wears a pink T-shirt with the word "five" written on it and a red skirt with white ruffles. Using makeup, she and the other zombies make their skin look like an average human. Yugiri also wears contact lenses to achieve her red eyes that she had as a living person. After Saga Rock, her idol outfit changed to a red jacket with a plaid decoration, a red skirt with cotton inside it, and knee-high boots. She was so sought after by Tokyo's wealthy elite that they ended up raising her price through the roof to the point that no one could afford to be with her, making her a dead weight to her employers. A high-ranking government official eventually buys her freedom, but it seems that he took pity on both her and her own company. After the senior government official who bought her freedom passed away, she found herself living in a city where she knew no one and no one knew her. While said official intended for her to live a normal life, it is strongly implied that she does not know how to do it. Despite taking it easy as she normally does, Yugiri felt a bit lonely after moving to Saga. While she went in exchange for her freedom, she moved to a town where no one knew her (except as a legendary courtesan), and she also didn't know the people there. There is also some implication that she did not know how to live a normal life once she came to Saga. How Kiichi makes himself loved by her. He is the first person in Saga to socialize with her for reasons unrelated to oiran. During the events of Saga Jihen, Yugiri proves to have the courage to challenge Itou with her hidden sword in his Shamisen and finally defeat him in a 1 to 1 duel until finally assassinating him, and with the confidence that one day she could be revived, She decides to sacrifice herself for Kiichi so that he can create his new Saga. While it is shown that all of Franchouchou's other deaths were inopportune, accidental, and sudden, and they had no intention of dying at all. Yugiri breaks this trend by saying that her death is a heroic sacrifice that she knew was going to happen. Even when she was about to be executed, she kept her composure and smiled one last time and said goodbye before being beheaded. Jofuku, who was alive in her time, finds a letter written by her before she was executed, telling her that she was probably dead at the time from taking responsibility for the bloodshed and rebellion in Saga, and tells her to tell Kiichi who came out of Saga safely and guide the new Saga that Kiichi would create. Yugiri remains very calm and traditional in various situations, probably due to the period in which she lived and in which she worked. Despite this, she seems to calmly accept and adapt to the changes in modern Japanese society. Yugiri struggles to remain calm in the face of her resurrection, so as not to be overwhelmed by a world a century ahead of her. In reality, she has never been seen to have any questions or ask another of the girls about something, since it seems that she is capable of learning very quickly or is simply one of the people who has no doubts when doing something, despite this characteristic she still looks collaborative with the group doing everything that is said without asking. Although she is not immune to freaking out with others, she is generally able to remain calm and composed in most of her outlandish situations, it is even more impressive because she is the oldest of the group. During the second season of the series, it is briefly implied that when Yugiri is nervous or afraid she uses the comb that Kiichi Momozaki gave her in life, this is demonstrated in the second episode when she wakes up, in the seventh episode in Saga Rock and in his flashback episodes. She shares a role similar to Sakura. She sometimes acts motherly to the other girls, showing concern and acting in the most mature way. This makes sense given that she is the oldest at the time of death, in addition to Tae and Junko (who is the same age, only two months older). In the design sheets it is mentioned that on her own, her personality is quite strong when the case is required and she is able to take center stage when necessary. She is the most mentally mature of the girls taking the time to analyze situations so she is also quite intelligent, that is why she discovered that Kotaro had a relationship with Sakura in the past in episode 10 of the series, realizing the deal that he had Sakura, besides being the first to wake up. Every time she sees someone depressed, she physically hits people to get them out of her mood. The problem is that most of the time they have already recovered when Yugiri slaps them and tells them exactly what they were trying to say. The only time she slaps someone in the middle of her depression is in Episode 12 when Sakura is adamant about giving up. She seems to be the only one that Kotaro won't scold or be a jerk to her, something that even Sakura isn't immune to. Probably because Jofuku would have his head on the wall if he found out that Yugiri was injured in some way.