Sasa Yuuki

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"All I have to do is show those girls that I'm stronger. It's only natural that the strong take what they want." - Sasa in chapter 1 of Symmetry Diamond.

Sasa Yuuki
File:SDsasa.png
Japanese Name	優木 沙々
Age	Unknown
Weapon	Curved scythe-style staff with 5 jutting points.

Sasa Yuuki (優木 沙々, Yūki Sasa) is a character who first appears in Puella Magi Oriko Magica: Symmetry Diamond and makes a reappearance in later chapters of Sadness Prayer. She is a magical girl with mind-control abilities.

Personality

Sasa is a girl who at first appears bubbly and kind, but her cheerful side masks an incredibly vicious and possibly even vengeful side of her. She has a tendency to laugh madly at times.

Despite her enthusiastic controlling of witches, Sasa turns out to be horrified at the fact that magical girls themselves become witches.

Story

Symmetry Diamond

Sasa is a magical girl who arrived in Mitakihara City to claim its territory. She confronts and knocks out Kirika using a witch, and then mind-controls Oriko, so that Oriko believes Sasa is a fellow friend and classmate she can depend on. After finding Yuma, Oriko leaves Sasa to take care of her so she can go look for Kirika; Sasa then moves into the next phase of her plan and attempts to kill Oriko, but is interrupted by Kirika. Sasa, now angry, attacks the duo using witches.

After the controlled witches are defeated and Sasa's plan is thwarted, Oriko reveals to Sasa the fate of magical girls, that they eventually turn into witches. Sasa, horrified, screams how she doesn't want to become a witch and smashes her soul gem, dying.

Sadness Prayer

Sasa makes a reappearance in Sadness Prayer following Komaki's death.

Powers, Weapons & Abilities

Sasa's weapon is a key-like staff.

She has the ability to control witches. She can also mind-control humans to an extent, mind-controlling Oriko in Symmetry Diamond as part of a ploy to kill her.

Trivia

• In Japanese, her surname "Yuuki" (優木) contains the characters for "gentle" (優) and "tree" (木).
  • "Yuuki" could be read as "勇気", meaning courage.
• The first character of her given name, "Sasa", (沙) means "sand". The second (々) is a character indicating that the previous kanji must be repeated.
  • "Sasa" could be read as "笹", meaning bamboo grass.
• Her magical girl outfit resembles a harlequin's. It also looks like the stereotypical joker's.

Gallery

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  Sasa's first appearance in her casual clothes.

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  Sasa in her casual clothes.

• SasaYuukiColor.jpg

  Colored image of Sasa in her magical girl costume.

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  Sasa on one of the colour pages of Sadness Prayer.

External links

• Sasa Yuuki at Pixiv image repository (Japanese)