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Sakura (, Cherry blossoms?) is Cherry's miko niece and the Tomobiki High School nurse. She is engaged to Tsubame Ozuno.

Biography[]

When she was a child, she fell ill and couldn't play with other children even though she wanted to. She had a lonely childhood because of this. Cherry took care of her during that time. One day Sakura was hiding inside a closet and that was the first day of her life when she saw spirits. In her middle-school or high-school years, she dated an unnamed boy who used to bike her home every day. But then he lied that he couldn't bike her anymore, even though Sakura later realized that he was dating another girl.[1]

Born with a weak constitution, she suddenly collides with a runaway Ataru Moroboshi outside of a ramen place. She detects evil spirits within him and offers to purify him, but her true intentions were to transfer the evil spirits attached to her illnesses to him. She succeeds and from then on has a healthy body. Soon after she joins the Tomobiki High School staff as school nurse. She still acts as a priestess too as she and Cherry are seen many times trying to exorcise evil spirits.

Ataru keeps flirting her in multiple occasions, getting violently rejected every time due to Sakura's strength and cold attitude. Ataru seems to like her most of the other girls. Ten also developed romantic feelings towards her, but she rejected him as well because he was too young for her.

Appearance[]

In her first appearance, she seems to be a beautiful young lady that happened to have the misfortune of running into Ataru Moroboshi. Unlike her mother and uncle, Sakura is tall and has long black hair. She also seems to have a lot of followers in the school due to this, most of whom purposely hurt themselves so that they can be treated by Sakura.

Personality[]

She looks nothing like her mother or Cherry, whom share the same face. She is very tall, slender, and beautiful, and is the object of affection for the male students of Tomobiki High School as well as Onsen-Mark. The students will even purposely injure themselves just to visit her in the infirmary. However, she is just a gluttonous as her uncle, but no matter how much she eats her body stays the same. Her explanation for this is that she is dieting (yet her proportions don't change and she continues to not gain weight). Also, she has the ability to summon ghosts and spirits through her training. Like Shinobu Miyake, she is capable of superhuman strength when angry.

Powers and Abilities[]

  • Exorcism: She has the unnatural ability to purify all demons and/or spirits that come about in Tomobiki-Cho, as well as summoning spirits on rare occasions.
  • Strength: She has displayed to have good strength as she violently rejects Ataru each time he flirts to her.
  • Perpetual Appetite: She also has an interesting and mysterious ability to eat endless amounts of food without getting any fatter, even after taking diet pills, known as "Beauty Foods" that is supposed to kill consumers appetite. Because of her appetite, she bankrupted a restaurant that had all you can eat event, as well as Mendōs new supermarket holding an eating contest against Fast-Food Fighters. After consuming, she shrugs off her appetite as: "Don't worry I'm going on a diet."

Relationships[]

Cherry

Sakura shares family ties to Cherry, who also helped by raising her as a kid. However Sakura seems to hate some of Cherry's qualities like the way he eats others' food. She once helped Ataru, Lum and others beat up an octopus that was stealing their underwear, thinking that the octopus was actually Cherry.

Still Sakura lets Cherry live in her house and do experiments in her office without getting to use physical force she usually does. In one of Ataru's Mother's repeating dreams, Cherry was an alien spy and Sakura actually wanted to kill him.

Ataru Moroboshi

Sakura met Ataru when he was escaping from angry mob (while having run away from home because of Lum). She got pains and couldn't move so Ataru had to help her to forest, because of angry mob thinking he attacked her. There Ataru tried to flirt with her, but Sakura knocked him out and took him inside an shrine in order to purify him. She was actually just moving all evil spirits she gained as a child, into Ataru.

After this she became the school nurse of Tomobiki high-school, but every boy wanted to meet her because of her good looks. Ataru however was possessed by one of the evil spirits and Sakura needed to help him out. Ataru seems to care about her more than any other girl or woman she has grown an affection towards. However Sakura always violently rejects him, usually punching him on his face.

Sakura knows that Ataru attracts evil spirits, so usually she travels to Moroboshi residence in order to exorcise an spirit there. Sakura also hates Ataru more than she could hate her uncle, even going so far that Ataru would almost fall down from huge building.

Lum

Sakura doesn't share much time with her, though Lum constantly stops Ataru from flirting her by electrocuting him. Sakura once examined an cow-bite in Lum's arm, since Lum feared that an vampire-like effect would occur and she would turn into cow.

Ten

Ten has developed some romantic and motherly feelings toward Sakura. After rejecting him coldly couple of times, she agreed to go on a date with him. It went very well, but in the end Ten wanted him and her to "expose their naked selves". Sakura was sure that Ten didn't know much what he was talking about. She rejected him again, which made Ten heartbroken but he still gave her gift from their first and only date.

After that, Ten has still shown to have some feelings to Sakura as he gets mad to Ataru flirting on her. Ten seems to trust her as much as she trusts Lum, if not even more. When Lum was angry and when he had an egg attached to his diaper, Sakura found him both times and tried to help him out.

Tsubame Ozuno

Tsubame is Sakura's Fiancé, but not a single date of theirs goes by without a big misunderstanding or Ataru and company sticking their noses in the couples business'.

Ryūnosuke Fujinami

To be added

Onsen-Mark

To be added

Speech[]

Despite her attractive outward appearance, she speaks and behaves in a very old-fashioned way. Her exorcism chant is Haratama! Kiyotama! (はらたま! きよたま! , Haratama! Kiyotama!?), which is a way of saying Exorcise! Purify! (祓いたまえ! 清めたまえ!, Harai tamae! Kiyome tamae!?).

Appellations[]

Name What They Call Sakura What Sakura Calls Them
Ataru Moroboshi Sakura-san Moroboshi
Lum Sakura Lum
Shinobu Miyake Sakura-sensei Shinobu
Shūtarō Mendō Sakura-san Mendō
Ryūnosuke Fujinami Unknown Ryūnosuke
Kōsuke Shirai Sakura-sensei Unknown
Ten (Sakura)-neechan Ten
Cherry Sakura Oji-ue (uncle, very formal)
Ataru's Mother Sakura-san Unknown
Onsen-Mark Sakura-sensei Unknown
Principal Unknown Kouchou (Principal)
Ryūnosuke's Father Unknown Oji-san
Ran Sakura-sensei Ran
Tsubame Ozuno Sakura Tsubame
Sakura's Mother Sakura Haha-ja (mother, formal)

Quotes[]

  • "These young girls today, I can't figure out how they think."
  • "Exorcise! Purify!"

Trivia[]

Media Appearances[]

Manga[]

  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 9 (11 in wideban)
  • Chapter 17 (20 in wideban)
  • Chapter 19 (17 in wideban)
  • Chapter 36 (35 in wideban)
  • Chapter 38 (38 in wideban)
  • Chapter 42
  • Chapter 43
  • Chapter 45
  • Chapter 46
  • Chapter 47
  • Chapter 60
  • Chapter 61
  • Chapter 62
  • Chapter 63
  • Chapter 64
  • Chapter 65
  • Chapter 71
  • Chapter 72
  • Chapters 75-77
  • Chapter 78
  • Chapter 83
  • Chapter 86
  • Chapters 87-90
    • Chapter 87
  • Chapter 91
  • Chapters 92-94
    • Chapter 92
  • Chapters 95-96
    • Chapter 96
  • Chapter 97
  • Chapter 99
  • Chapter 100
  • Chapter 103
  • Chapter 111
  • Chapter 112
  • Chapter 118
  • Chapter 119
  • Chapter 124 (129 in wideban)
  • Chapters 125-127 (124-126 in wideban)
    • Chapter 126 (125 in wideban)
    • Chapter 127 (126 in wideban)
  • Chapter 144
  • Chapter 159
  • Chapter 163
  • Chapter 166
  • Chapter 170
  • Chapter 174
  • Chapter 181
  • Chapters 186-190
  • Chapter 192
  • Chapter 195
  • Chapter 198
  • Chapter 204
  • Chapter 206
  • Chapter 211
  • Chapter 213
  • Chapter 214
  • Chapter 216
  • Chapter 220
  • Chapter 221
  • Chapter 223 (227 in wideban)
  • Chapter 230
  • Chapters 235-236 (234-235 in wideban)
    • Chapter 236 (235 in wideban)
  • Chapters 242-243
    • Chapter 243
  • Chapter 247
  • Chapter 249
  • Chapters 257-258 (252-253 in wideban)
  • Chapter 261
  • Chapter 263
  • Chapter 264
  • Chapters 269-271
    • Chapter 270
    • Chapter 271
  • Chapter 274
  • Chapter 275
  • Chapter 276
  • Chapter 278
  • Chapter 280
  • Chapter 283
  • Chapter 285
  • Chapter 288
  • Chapter 294
  • Chapter 295
  • Chapter 298
  • Chapter 299
  • Chapter 305
  • Chapter 306
  • Chapter 311
  • Chapter 313
  • Chapter 319
  • Chapter 320
  • Chapter 326
  • Chapters 329-333 (331-335 in wideban)
    • Chapter 329 (331 in wideban)
    • Chapter 330 (332 in wideban)
    • Chapter 332 (334 in wideban)
    • Chapter 333 (335 in wideban)
  • Chapter 336
  • Chapter 337
  • Chapter 345
  • Chapters 349-350
  • Chapter 351
  • Chapter 352
  • Chapters 356-366
    • Chapter 356
    • Chapter 357
    • Chapter 358
    • Chapter 362
    • Chapter 363
    • Chapter 364
    • Chapter 365
    • Chapter 366

Anime[]

1981
2022

Gallery[]

1981 Anime[]

Movies and OVAs[]

2022 Anime[]

References[]

  1. Episode 102, Chapter 198
  1. Tomobiki-cho, The Urusei Yatsura Website.
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