Sasa Yuuki

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

"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, chapter 1 of Symmetry Diamond.

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.

General info

• Eye colour: Blue
• Hair colour: Brown
• Japanese pronoun: Watashi (私)
• Soul gem: Small circular gem on the end of the middle part of her harlequin hat. It's smaller than the other two spheres on her hat.
• Wish: Currently unknown.
• School: Unknown. She posed as a Shirome Middle School student during Symmetry Diamond.

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. Sasa is also extremely manipulative, being able to flawlessly fool Oriko Mikuni.

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

Story

Backstory

Sasa's backstory is currently unknown.

Sasa in Symmetry Diamond

Sasa arrives 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.

Sasa in Sadness Prayer

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

Powers and Abilities

Sasa's weapon is a key-like staff. She appears to be able to fire beams from it, as attempted in chapter 2 of Symmetry Diamond.

She has the ability of mind control, mind-controlling Oriko in Symmetry Diamond as part of a ploy to kill her. The limits of this ability are unknown. Sasa can also mind-control witches, likely because they're born from humans.

Kirika says in chapter 2 of Symmetry Diamond that "[Sasa] isn't much on her own" and that "[Kirika] could take her down [herself]"; this implies that Sasa is weak and easily defeated without the aid of her witches. This is backed up by the fact that Sasa is almost never seen not accompanied by a witch of some sort.

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

• 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.

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  Sasa's first appearance in her casual clothes.

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  Sasa in her casual clothes.

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  Sasa's casual clothes in Sadness Prayer.

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  Another outfit from Sadness Prayer. This one seems to be the same, but with different coloured sleeves.

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  Sasa in the Shirome Middle School uniform.

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  Sasa in a different school uniform.

External links

• Sasa Yuuki at Pixiv image repository (Japanese)