Yukari Nishida (西田 優華璃 Nishida Yukari) is the older sister of Yusei Nishida who also makes the Mizusawa High School's Karuta Club T-shirts.
Appearance[]
Yukari is a chubby girl with long blonde hair, her hairstyle is twintail. Her face is similar to her brother Yusei's. She usually uses her pink and white-spotted dress.
Personality[]
She exhibits a typical tsundere personality; she hides her kind and loving side within a mean and irritable exterior. She actually likes to help people out, even if she says otherwise.
She loves from a distance. Komano didn't know she had a crush on him because she didn't approach him, and neither did Kinashi .
She also has a preference for small, slit-like eyes, which is probably the reason she dumped Komano for Kinashi.
History[]
When the Mizusawa team won the second place at the Tokyo tournament and got to the national championship at Omi Jingu for their second year, Yukari made them t-shirts. But, at the top-right there are words 'for the second place' which make Misuzawa choose to wear their original t-shirt instead.
Her relationship with Hiro Kinashi from Hokuo seriously disturbs her brother.
Synopsis[]
Relationships[]
Hiro Kinashi[]
Hiro is Yukari's boyfriend and she does what she can to support him, even spying on her brother's karuta club to make sure Retro-kun's team wins.
Yusei Nishida[]
Yusei is Yukari's little brother. She also supports him as a sister, though not as much as she supports her boyfriend.
Tsutomu Komano[]
Tsutomu is Yukari's former crush who once preferred his ideas for a t-shirt design over the other Mizusawa Karuta Club members'. But when he took off his glasses at her request, the ran off in tears, asking him to forget her.
Etymology[]
- The name Yukari means "excellence, superiority, gentleness" (優) (yu), "flower" (華) (ka) and "glassy, lapis lazuli" (璃) (ri).
- Yukari's surname Nishida means "west" (西) (nishi) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (ta/da).
Trivia[]
- In the Volume 6 omake, Yukari asked Tsutomu Komano to take off his eyeglasses and show her his eyes. After seeing his eyes, she dumps him. In the anime summary episodes, however, she only had a crush on Desktomu and replaced him with Retro-kun as soon as she met him.
- Yukari prefers small, slanted eyes like hers and Hiro Kinashi's.