Yui Hirasawa

Yui Hirasawa is the main protagonist from the K-On! series.
== Charactah Account ==
Having misunderstood that "light music" equals "easy music" (like whistling), Yui joined the Light Music Club and picked up guitar with absolutely no prior experience. She is the type of person who doesn't read manuals and relies on her own intuition and self-taught approaches.
Yui is the lead guitarist and split vocalist of the Light Music Club who plays a Heritage Cherry Sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard electric guitar that she nicknames "Giita". Before she learned how to play the electric guitar, the only instrument she knew how to play was the castanets. She gets poor grades in school (though when properly coached, she can achieve astounding results), spaces out frequently, and is easily distracted by trivialities (mainly those she deems cute). Yui is a kind and friendly girl who holds no ill-will towards anyone. Yui has shoulder-length, brown hair (a little longer than Ritsu's) which she accessorizes with two yellow hair clips, and brown eyes. She has a huge liking for sweets and consumes them frequently (though she never gains weight, which is greatly envied by Mugi, Mio, and Sawako). She has a younger sister named Ui, who is very mature and acts as the "older sister" of Yui, taking care of her while their parents are away on business trips. Despite her difficulties with distractions, Yui works extremely hard to get better at playing guitar. During performances, Yui plays with amazing energy and joy which usually results in great response from the audience.
As a musician, Yui has absolute pitch—she can tune her guitar perfectly without a tuner, which greatly impresses Azusa, who possesses far more experience with playing guitar than Yui. She has a very easy-going nature, but has incredible focus and retention when she has a clear goal in sight. Yui is still devoted to her band and will always practice hard enough for the club. At school, she has become quite admired for her great voice. However, she has been shown to forget her lyrics mid-performance on at least one occasion and exert herself too much, making her unable to perform sometimes. Mio was the lead vocalist at first, since Yui could not play the guitar and sing at the same time. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* K-On!
* K-On! Movie
* K-On! Specials
* K-On!: Live House!
* K-On!!
* K-On!! Specials
* K-On!!: Plan!
=== Manga ===
* K-On!
* K-On! Anthology Comic
* K-On! College
* K-On! Shuffle
=== Video Games ===
* K-On! After School Live!
* Kirara Fantasia
== Trivia ==
* Yui's guitar is a Gibson Pre-'08 Les Paul Standard '50s in Heritage Cherry Sunburst. She names it Giita, which quite literally means "guitar". In 2008, Gibson gave the "Standard" name to a new design of Les Paul, while the old Standard was renamed the Traditional; worth noting because the manga started in 2007. She uses D'Addario EXL145 strings on it, oddly heavy strings for her and the music she plays. Of course, being Yui, she likely has no idea there are different sizes of strings, as she didn't even know they had to be changed at first. In the manga, its pickup selector switch is always set to the "Treble" position, which means only the Bridge Pickup is being used, which is usually well suited for lead guitar. In the anime, it's always set to the middle position, which uses both pickups, giving a more full sound, well suited for the low, Power Chord-heavy riffs Yui tends to play. Gibson's page for the Les Paul Traditional, the same guitar with a new name.
* Yui's surname is taken from Japanese electropop-artist and P-Model founder Susumu Hirasawa.
* The kanji of Yui's given name has the reading "tada", which is a word meaning "only; merely; just; simply"; as in "She is the only one who can do that".
* Yui has a habit of naming and talking to inanimate objects as if they were people, a trend that gradually spreads to her bandmates and their instruments. She is especially fond of her guitar, which she calls "Giita". Yui later names Mio's bass "Elizabeth" (a pun on the Japanese pronunciation of that name and the word "bass") without permission, which annoys Mio (at first). She also inspires Azusa to name her own guitar "Muttan" (which sounds like Mustang, the name of her guitar). Finally, Yui gives the name "Bukuro-chan" to the gloves Ui gave her for Christmas.
* Yui is apparently allergic to air conditioning, though she can't stand overly hot or cold temperatures in general. Yui also easily gets carsick, but is immune to heat strokes.
* Yui appears to be ticklish under her arms and on her feet.
* Yui, who is unable to write proper lyrics at first, is the one who writes Ho-Kago Tea Time's last song to be officially performed, U&I. The song is dedicated to her sister, Ui, when she realized how precious Ui is to her; Ui had caught a cold and this inspired Yui to write the lyrics. Yui also wrote Gohan wa Okazu with Ui's help.
* Yui can't resist cute dogs. Every time she sees one, she holds its head and calls it cute. Her favorite breed is pugs.
* Yui had to learn to sing and play the guitar simultaneously. She was trained by Sawako to do this, losing her voice in the process, ultimately forcing Mio to sing the lead part at the club's first school fair.
* Yui seems to possess or have perfect pitch. Both in the manga and the anime, Azusa ask Yui of she uses a tuner when tuning her guitar but she doesn't know what even a tuner is and Yui shows to Azusa that she tone her guitar by ear. It also shows in the manga only, that she noticed her guitar tunings dropped by a half tone while tuning her worn-out guitar.
* Yui has the second largest hands out of Ho-Kago Tea Time, after Mio.
* The Light Music Club is the first school club Yui has joined in her life.
* Yui has a habit of hugging people when she feels like it, often without the other person's consent.
* Popular fan theory suggests that Yui is the female counterpart to John Lennon of The Beatles. Much like Lennon, Yui is a musical prodigy despite never learning how to read sheet-music and shares Lennon's eccentric yet kind and idealistic personality. Yui learned how to play the guitar properly from the resident left-handed bassist of her band, Mio, in the same way that Lennon learned to play guitar from Paul McCartney, the left-handed bassist of The Beatles. Lennon and Yui also both share lead vocal duties with their band's bassists. Finally, despite being the lighthearted Yin to Mio/McCartney's disciplined Yang, both Yui and Lennon share a warm respect for their respective bands' lead bassist that is fondly and mutually returned.
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== External Links ==
* Yui Hirasawa at K-ON! Wiki
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