Sawako Yamanaka

Sawako Yamanaka, also known as Sawa-chan, Sawa-chan-sensei and Catherine, is a character from the K-On! series.
== Charactah Account ==
The Wind Instruments Club advisor, who was eventually blackmailed by Ritsu into also becoming the Light Music Club teacher on threat of exposing her past as a death metal rocker in a previous incarnation of the club. Normally tries to appear as a mature and collected teacher but she ends up breaking her facade around the club and takes great delight in playfully using the members as canvasses for her costume designs. Beyond that she is lonely and often dumps her lack of a love life on the other club members when she's feeling particularly down.
An alumna of the school and a former member of the Light Music Club, she does not want people to find out that she was formerly a member of the speed metal band Death Devil since she fears it would destroy her gentle image. She tries to cover her past by being mild and gentle towards her coworkers and especially to students.
Though she has a mature and gentle demeanor for the generality, Sawako (affectionately addressed as "Sawa-chan" or "Sawa-chan- the sensei" by both Ritsu Tainaka and Yui Hirasawa) displays a totally different, completely authentic character when she is alone with the light music club or really angered. In reality, she is wild, lazy and quite an irresponsible teacher who enjoys dressing up the light music club in (sometimes embarrassing) cosplay costumes like French maid uniforms, much to the dislike of Mio Akiyama and Azusa Nakano.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* K-On!
* K-On! Movie
* K-On!: Live House!
* K-On!!
* K-On!! Specials
* K-On!!: Plan!
=== Manga ===
* K-On!
* K-On! Anthology Comic
* K-On! Highschool
* K-On! Shuffle
=== Video Games ===
* K-On! After School Live!
* Kirara Fantasia
== Trivia ==
* The name Sawako means "marsh" (sawa) and "child" (ko).
* Sawako's surname Yamanaka means "mountain, hill" (yama) and "middle" (naka).
* Though she often had to be motivated or manipulated first, Sawako actually has been vital to the Light Music Club's success. She personally trained Yui to sing and play the guitar at the same time (which Yui was unable to do before).
* Her surname is taken from The Pillows vocalist/guitarist Sawao Yamanaka.
* The reason she was so wild in her days in the light music club was because the boy she fell in love with said that he liked his women more wild, so she became more wild - wilder and wilder. However, when she went back to him, he said she had overdone it (She really had!).
* Sawako once owned a Gibson SG Standard guitar given by her dad's friend, but she kept it in the music room because she thought it was not in playing condition anymore. Yui later found it, but Sawako told her to sell it, which, unbeknownst to her, sold at a very high price (¥500.000) because of the rarity of its materials.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Sawako Yamanaka at K-On! Wiki
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Category:Females
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