Uzuki Yashiro
From The World Ends With You
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| Name | Uzuki Yashiro |
| Age | 17 |
| Classification | Harrier Reaper |
| Nickname | Pinky |
Uzuki Yashiro (八代 卯月 Yashiro Uzuki?) is a character in The World Ends with You and is a Harrier Reaper.
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[edit] Main Information
Uzuki Yashiro is the hotheaded partner-in-erasing of Koki Kariya. She wears a gloved sweater with a white corset and a pair of black shorts along with knee high white boots. The players call her "Pinky" because of her short pink hair and vibrant lipstick (though she's apparently touchy about this, telling Beat to "leave my hair out of this" the first time he uses the nickname to her face). She has been working as a Reaper for two years.
[edit] Personality
Unlike many of her colleagues, Yashiro is completely obsessed with her work. Though she has a low rank among the Reapers, she is a perfectionist in every aspect when it comes to her occupation. When she is restricted from working hard, it drives her crazy. Yashiro, like all of the Harrier Reapers, has a total disregard for the lives of Players. She values each competitor as little as trash or a Noise. This only aids her in her zealous demeanor. She has a close bond with Koki Kariya, who is always trying to get her to calm down and enjoy death. Despite her status, she remains incredibly arrogant and obsessive at all times. However, after confronting Kariya about turning down his promotion, he explains that the life of an officer is far too boring and that she should stop to "smell the concrete roses." After that, she relaxes a little and instead pledges to rise through the ranks to make the game more rewarding for all Reapers, with Kariya's help.
For some reason, even though she calls Kariya by his surname, he calls her by her given name.
[edit] Story
Uzuki has appeared many different times in the story. She first appears to taunt Neku and Shiki at the end of Day 1. On Day 2, she tries to manipulate Neku into killing Shiki, but is stopped by Sanae Hanekoma.
[edit] Abilities
Uzuki uses a gun to fight in battle, but like all Reapers is usually forbidden from directly erasing Players and must create Noise to fight. She can fire pink flower-shaped bullets from her gun that, after the initial hit, split up into multiple bullets and then merge again to do high damage to Players. She can also shoot a light blue flower-shaped bullet which swirls around and cuts the defense of the target upon contact, and is like a locked-on missile that follows you. She uses her wings to restore her HP, so don't leave her alone.
[edit] Trivia
- BJ, a member of Def Märch, has a crush on Yashiro, he calls her from the "Phone Booth of Love" in Molco but is rejected.
- Uzuki has been a Reaper for two years, yet she is called a "spring chicken" by Koki Kariya, indicating that he has been a Reaper a lot longer than Uzuki. This is further supported by how she has never worked two weeks in a row before the events of the game, while Kariya claims to have "a long time ago".
- Uzuki is the polar opposite of Koki Kariya as she is hard-working and determined to get promoted. On the other hand, Kariya wants nothing more than to lay back and let the other reapers do all the work. She also has a short temper, while Kariya never seems to get angry.
- Uzuki always calls Kariya by his last name, while Kariya calls Uzuki by her first name. This further shows the difference between the two, since calling someone by their last name is more formal than calling someone by their first name.
- Uzuki and Kariya are the only two Reapers shown to use a light puck between them, they also have their own Fusion attack. However, they are both capable of fighting by themselves if they choose to do so.
- Uzuki once told Kariya, "I love this town almost as much as you." It is ambiguous whether she means that she loves Kariya or that they both love Shibuya, but the former interpretation would explain her tolerance of him and rejection of BJ.
[edit] Name
The kanji for Ya-shiro U-zuki literally translate to: Eight, substitute, rabbit (Chinese Zodiac), moon.
