Yukari Sakuragi

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

Personality
Sakuragi is shown to have a shy personality. When Kouichi first asks her about Mei, she became horrified but later refused to 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. While in the manga, she has straight black hair. 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.

Plot
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 she where she died blaming Kouichi saying that it is his fault.

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.

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.
 * 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.