Yuki Kusakabe

Yuki Kusakabe
Kanji	日下部 雪（くさかべ ゆき）
Species	Snow Woman
Gender	Female
Birthday	December 21
Age	15
Status	Alive
Occupation	Student
Class	Year 1 Class A
Manga	Chapter 1
Japanese	Shiina Natsukawa
English	Sarah Wiedenheft

Yuki Kusakabe (日下部 雪, Kusakabe Yuki) is a deuteragonist in Demi-chan wa Kataritai.

She is a Yuki Onna (Snow Woman) by nature, resulting in her ability to lower the ambient temperature, which is most apparent when she is experiencing strong negative emotions.

Appearance

Yuki resembles a Snow Woman, like fair white skin, short turquoise hair. Her body is colder than a normal human, she also has gold colored eyes which produce icy tears if caused by a negative feeling, same with the feet but produces cold air. She feels weak in an hot area that can cause her to Faint. She has very few sweat glands causing her to sweat rarely.

Personality

Yuki is a kind, shy, timid and loving young woman with a quiet taste for the crude and silly, but she gets along very well with any that open up to her.

Despite the rather unpleasant folklore attached to her species, she is not malevolent in any shape or form; instead she is shy and very considerate. In fact, she is constantly worried if her physiology may hurt others, with little to no ability to directly control it. In reality however, the extent of her "powers" is limited to an ability to solidify her own tears and sweat, and creating a small localized area with slightly below average temperature, posing no danger to those around her.

She holds a likening for Tetsuo Takahashi as he demonstrates genuine concern for her and helps her in realizing her genuinely harmless nature, something that had been the source of a socially-crippling fear of hers; that she might flash-freeze and kill anyone she became emotionally attached to, as per the legends of her kind.

Hikari Takanashi becomes interested into her due to her skin being cold (the vampire naturally finds high levels of heat to be uncomfortable), and often clings to her. Yuki tries to avoid her at first, but after realizing her demi-traits are harmless, she is okay with it, even letting Hikari nibble her shoulder through her clothes.

Tetsuo also noted that Hikari has a kind of “attraction” to Yuki, as she sublimates the lack of a romantic experience with the guys and the fear of them in the “safe” desire to drink Yuki's blood.

Relationships

Tetsuo Takahashi

Yuki cares for her teacher as he helped her so much, she enjoys hugs from him and visits him in his office regularly

Hikari Takanashi

At first Yuki tried to distance herself from everyone, this didn't fly with Hikari though as Hikari loved hugging Yuki due to Yuki having Ice cold Skin and Hikari needing to cool her skin as she is weak to sunlight, Yuki eventually came clean and told Hikari that she distanced herself as she didn't want to hurt people, but thanks to Tetsuo she found out that her powers were safe to be around, she then allowed Hikari to hug her as much as she wanted and nibble her if her fangs itched

Kyouko Machi

Like with Hikari, Yuki avoided Machi, but after finding out that her powers were safe to be around she became best friends with Machi

Etymology

• The name Yuki means "snow" (雪).
• Yuki's surname Kusakabe means "sun, day" (日) (kusa), "under, below" (下) (ka) and "part, department, category" (部) (be).

Trivia

• Yuki gives off a cold aura when she's feeling despair or embarrassment.
• Yuki is the only character who's part in the opening titles is changed; after the episode where she learns about her harmless abilities, her portion changes from a sad look to joyfully waving, which causes her background to change to spring to symbolize her new cheeriness.
• Yuki's love of manga embarrasses her.
• Overexertion causes Yuki to overheat and faint.

Gallery

Yuki is happier after bonding with her fellow demis

Repressing her amusement; Yuki tends to not let what she finds funny be known

Even if she's a Snow Woman, Yuki can still get cold

Yuki's yukata for the summer festival