Yugiri

"I found that getting confused doesn’t help much, I’ll just relax and take things as they come."

Yugiri (ゆうぎり,) was a girl from the Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji-jidai). She's also a member of the idol group Franchouchou.

She is titled as The Legendary Courtesan (伝説の花魁, Densetsu no Oiran)

Yugiri
Episode 5 reveals that she is a skilled gymnast. Later on Episode 10, she confirms that she was also trained as a geisha (coming from a period when hearing and geisha were active). However, her search for groceries in the same episode leaves something to be desired, as she cannot tell which mushrooms are poisonous (although it is mentioned that being poisoned is no longer a big deal, as they are all dead)

Like Tae, we don't know much about her life before her death. We know that in addition to being oiran, she was also trained as a geisha, and was present at the time of the Meiji Restoration. The prominent scar around her neck suggests that she was beheaded or hanged. And then there is the fact that it would be a 200 year old corpse. Whichever embalming method her corpse preserved remains to be seen. Episode 11 has Kotaro's (and seemingly immortal) bartender briefly met warning Kotaro never to hurt Yugiri because she owes him so much of the good times.

The group as a whole affectionately refers to her as "Big Sister", and she is especially close to Lily.

The place of birth and her history are unknown. she does not use dialects and speaks in simple language, so it is not clear what she had to do with Saga during her life. In the third episode, she said a line suggesting she was in Shimabara (Kyoto's pleasure district), Yugiri would had a good time with the Saga feudal priests in Kyoto. Also, does the bar master who appeared in episode 11 seem to owe Yugiri a great debt ...?

Human appearance
Yugiri has light brown hair and most of it is worn in a bow shape on her head and two long locks hanging over her shoulders. Her bangs are mostly centered with a curved bit to the right. Yugiri also has rust light eyes. Despite her age, Yugiri sports very voluptuous figure, that overall beats even those of Sakura and Tae.

Normally, Yugiri wears an outfit similar to a kimono; with a white and orange plaid pattern top, a purple collar and a forest green skirt. She also supports dark purple leggings and dark gray boots

Her casual clothes consist of a kimono, hakama, stockings and boots, in the manner of a late 1800s student, but with the hakama cut above the knee like a makeshift skirt, to show more of her legs.

Zombie appearance
Like the other zombies, grayish blue skin. She also has a scar on her neck, which implies that her throat was cut.

Idol appearance
As an idol, Yugiri wears a light red shirt with green dots and the number "5" written on it. She also wears a bright red skirt with white ruffles.

Character concept
It feels like a combination of things that come out of the word "Oiran", it was necessary to consider the times to some extent. They wanted to affirm the fact that Yugiri, alone, could be placed in the position of the protagonist, an idol with a strong personality.

Personality
Yugiri remains very calm and traditional in various situations, probably due to the period in which she lived and in which she worked. Despite this, she seems to calmly accept and adapt to the changes in modern Japanese society.

Every time she sees someone depressed, she physically hits people to get them out of their mood. The problem is that most of the time they have already recovered when Yugiri slaps them and tells them exactly what they were trying to say. The only time she slaps someone in the middle of a funk is on Episode 12 when Sakura is adamant about giving up.

Although she is not immune from freaking out around others, she is generally able to remain calm and composed in most of her outlandish situations. It is even more impressive because she is the oldest of the group.

Share a role similar to Sakura. Sometimes she acts motherly to the other girls, showing concern and acting in the most mature way. This makes sense given that she is the oldest at the time of death, in addition to Tae and Junko (who is the same age, only two months older)

Courtesan (Oiran)
As her title suggests, Yugiri was a courtesan in the Meiji Era while alive, specifically an Oiran. An Oiran, though a type of Yūjo (prostitute) were more so entertainers than physical pleasures. This is probably why Kōtarō resurrected her in the first place as she had experience and skills as an entertainer before.

Yugiri is the biggest of the zombies and one of the hardest to get nervous. She is a talented gymnast, hails from a more violent age, and is familiar with the concept of "testing swords." She is also prone to slapping her teammates to reason, whether they really need to or not.

Shamisen
As evident in episode 2, Yugiri has incredible skill on the instrument called a shamisen, able to play fast and move her fingers around the neck of the instrument with high speed and skill.

Sakura Minamoto
She likes to give her a good slap, at the end of the series she gets Sakura to reason about acting on Arpino's stage

Lily Hoshikawa
A good combination of friends who often perform together if you notice. The reason they are close to each other even though they are the opposite is because Lily wants her to look like her late mother.

Kotaro Tatsumi
He always acts like a jerk around girls but seems to avoid Yugiri in strange ways, there seems to be a deal with the Bar Master there.

Yugiri noticed Kotaro and Sakura's relationship in the mountains and knows that both of them had a relationship in the past because of their courtesan skills.

Etymology

 * The name Yūgiri means "evening mist".
 * Yugiri is the name of a character in The Tale of Genji.

Trivia

 * She died in 1882, at age 19.
 * Chronologically, she is the oldest in Franchouchou.
 * However, it is possible that Tae Yamada might be older than Yūgiri.
 * Along with Tae, Yūgiri is the only zombie whose cause of death hasn't been revealed yet.
 * The scar around her neck suggests that she was beheaded, which was not uncommon for her time period.
 * Yugiri died one month after her nineteenth birthday.
 * Yugiri sports most curvaceous figure in group. Beating even Sakura and Tae by three sizes.
 * The Saga jihen MV, the railway bridge that takes place, was built next to a statue of Jofuku in honor of his arrival in Morodomi town and a cycling route also called Jofuku passes through there, It is speculated that both were related in a loving way


 * She use a language used in the pleasure district of Kyoto (Shimabara) and Tokyo (Yoshiwara), expressions such as "arinsu" are part of the latter's Kuruwa-kotoba
 * "Arinsu" is a corruption of "arimasu", which is a formal way of saying "~ da" in Japanese (premodern and modern), so it is not a difficult "dialect" to emulate

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