Yukari Sakuragi

"Don't ever mention that name in Class 3!"

- Yukari reaction when Kouichi mention about Mei.

Yukari Sakuragi was one of the class officers, the other being Kazami, of Yomiyama North Middle School's 9th Grade Class 3 in 1998.

Personality
Sakuragi is shown to have a shy personality. She is also quiet and kind. When Kouichi first asks her about Mei, she became horrified but later claimed to not know anything about her. She is in good terms with Izumi Akazawa, noted to be her best friend.



Appearance
In the anime, she has brown curly hair, and part of her hair is tied with a ribbon and same colored eyes, while in the manga, she has straight black hair and black eyes. Yukari wears circular lens in the anime, while in the manga, her lens are kind of elliptical. She wears the normal school uniform which consists of a black coat and red ribbon.

Story
In Episode 1, she went to visit Kouichi when he was sick in the hospital. In Episode 3, when it was raining, Sakuragi and Kouichi were sharing the same umbrella. In the last part of the episode, Sakuragi slips on the stairs where her neck is impaled by the sharp end of her umbrella. One week later, a memento of flowers was left at the place where she fell. Yukari and her mother were the "Deaths of May''". '' Later, in Episode 9, Yukari appears in Kouichi's guilt driven dream standing with her freshly bloodstained umbrella and her face covered with blood. She was standing at the place where she died blaming Kouichi saying that it was his fault. In the novel it is explained that On rainy days, Yomikita students don’t change their shoes when they walk outside, meaning the floors are wet (and possibly slippery). Also, Sakuragi was still recovering from her sprained ankle. The news of her mother (and aunt’s) car accident along with the fear of running into Mei and Kouichi in the hallway, she rushed to use the opposite set of stairs, slipped and unfortunately landed on her umbrella. Her neck is impaled by the point of her umbrella and after several seconds she dies.

This could also be partly be because of the curse, she turns when she sees Mei and Kouichi, this potentialy could have shifted her attention to Mei, by the class rules your not allowed to believe that the "non-existing" person exist therfore marking her for death. An example of this can be seen in the anime when Kouichi asks Ikuo Takabayashi if Mei exists.

Sakuragi dies on the way to the hospital. Also, her mother died in the hospital after a car accident, while her aunt was badly injured.

Izumi Akazawa
Yukari and Izumi was shown to be good friends and in the manga, a picture of her and Izumi is shown on Izumi's desk. In the later chapter, Izumi was seen in her room, crying for Yukari to save her as she does not want to die.

Tomohiko Kazami
It is hinted in episode 12 that he may have liked her, since he blamed Kouichi for her death specifically while trying to kill him. However, while Yukari was alive they were shown being nothing more than classmates.

Galley
Main article: Yukari Sakuragi/Image Gallery

Trivia

 * She is ranked A+ in Another character ranking.
 * Her home address is 6-20 Tobiicho Yomiyama City.Another 89.jpg
 * Her first name,Yukari, means "affinity".
 * Her last name, Sakuragi, means "cherry tree".
 * Because she died in Episode 3, she didn't appear in the opening of Episode 4. Despite this, she still appears in the ED of each episode.
 * In the novel, her death is one of the most detailed deaths.
 * Yukari died on May 26th.