Yukari Hirai

Background
Yukari Hirai- was Yuji's classmate. She had dark-colored hair with two small ponytails tied up either side of her head and she had a very upbeat personality, was kind and quick to help others out, but becomes very melancholy and silent when she is a Torch.
In the anime, she loved Hayato Ike, while in the novel it is suggested that she had a crush on Yuji instead. She dies when Friagne's Rinne Marianne appears on her way home, essentially killing everyone in the vicinity of the attack, except Yuji, who is rescued by Shana. Shana makes a Torch of Yukari, and everyone who was involved, that same day. Unfortunately, her flame burns out on the next day and her existance disappears as a result.
Before she dissappeared however, Yuji attempted to give her the best last day of her life, and persuaded Ike to hang out with her. They took a photo together, but Yukari's image fades from the photo when her flame burns out. Her last moment in her life was when she sat on a hill watching the sunset, apparently her favorite view. The fading of her existence teaches Yuji some very valuable lessons about both the world around him, and his own inability to affect it.
Shana then uses the remains of Yukari's existence to shift the perception of others' identification of Yukari Hirai as herself, so others recognize her as the new Yukari Hirai, as if Shana had been so all along.
Her novel counterpart is a sombre and shy girl, as compared to her anime counterpart, a lively girl, much like Shana. Some fans identify that she has a somewhat similar look to Shana's. The only difference would be the eyes, the pigtails and the hair length.
She is later revived by Yuji, who uses Kazumi Yoshida's memories of Yukari combined with the torch existence of Yukari retrieved from Shana to restore her existence with the spell he received from Lamies.
==Trivia==
*When Shana took her existence, everyone, including her parents, should have pertained Shana as Yukari Hirai (such as when Shana stayed at Oogami Junko's house and interacted with her parents). However, there were no mention of her parents or her living arrangements, and Shana lived in Yuji's house most of the time.
*In the manga, Shana stated that Yukari's parents were also torches and they would probably have disappeared like Yukari.
Category:Characters
Category:Torch
Category:Human Characters