Saori Ohtori

* Anime (Normal)
* Anime (Zombified)

**Saori Ohtori** (鳳 沙織, **Ōtori Saori**?) is a character in *Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead*. She was Akira Tendou's crush and the subject of the first item on his Bucket List who worked in accounting at his former company.

## Appearance

Saori was a young woman of average height and well-endowed figure with sleek mid-back length black hair that has bangs hanging on the right side with chest-length hair strands hanging on either side, a pair of charming red eyes and she is often seen with red lipstick during working hours. She was described to be beautiful and this is testimony to how Akira Tendou has a crush on her.

Her office outfit consists of a form-fitting, red-violet sweater, a dark pencil skirt, a pair of opaque brown tights, and cream-colored pumps for footwear.

### Zombie

When Saori became zombified, her hair is rumpled and messy, her eyes turned wide and crazed and her skin turned a sickly pale gray with numerous visible veins seen on her face, her torso and her limbs while her mouth hangs open with yellowed teeth and sick-looking purple tongue with traces of blood and saliva inside.

She wears nothing but white lingerie and pale blue panties that already clues you into that she was having sex moments before her unfortunate fate.

## Personality

Saori was a friendly and compassionate young woman, to whom Akira Tendou developed an attraction at first sight, and during the years he miserably worked in the exploitative company he is in, also described her as "the only good thing in this hellhole".

At some point she became her boss's mistress who often had sex with him to get better conditions in the company.

## Story

When Akira Tendou was a new worker at the production company he now previously worked in, he collided with Saori causing the books she carried in her person to fall and scatter on the floor, mortified, Akira helps her pick them up while apologizing, with Saori saying it's alright. After taking a good look at her face, Akira gains a newfound attraction to her, i.e., he developed a crush, and after successfully retrieving the fallen books, Saori told him that anything he doesn't understand about work, he is welcome to come to her and ask her about it, pointing where her cubicle is, and then bids him good luck on his first day.

During a seemingly after-work get-together with his various superiors in an izakaya, Akira gets a glimpse of Saori who catches his gaze, smiles at him and makes a friendly gesture, to which Akira nods and exclaims in his mind that she sure is cute and definitely is his type, which motivates him enough to exclaim internally how he's going to work hard to make good impressions on her.

After a year has passed and its Akira's second year. While taking out a box full of and labeled "garbage", Saori appears with a bag of purchased goods from the convenience store, telling Akira he worked through lunch again, and he needs to eat, which Akira thanks her for, and remarks internally that she's "the only person that keeps him sane in this company". Before he got out his thanks, Saori's boss pops out of the back door and asks her if she has a minute, Saori affirms and bid him a "see you later", telling him to hang in there. After the door closed, Akira remarked in his thoughts how Saori is also the CEO's mistress.

Later on, when the outbreak started, Akira went to Saori’s place, but by the time he came there, it was too late as she got zombified along with the CEO. After Akira pushes the CEO off the building, the zombified Saori attempted to go after him, but he bravely confessed his love to her before he ran away with her chasing him.

Much later on when Shizuka Mikazuki got bitten by a zombie, Akira recalls Saori as a reminder of losing one woman he loved to infection.

When Akira and Shizuka were being chased by Zombies, as Shizuka wondered if confessing to woman he loved was on the bucket list, Akira mentions Saori as he said he already confessed to the woman he loved on his bucket list.

## Relationships

### Akira Tendou

Saori was very friendly to Akira compared to the likes of Gonzou Kosugi and Akira has a crush on her, though it is unknown if she felt the same about him back or how she felt about him as she was zombified before she can react to Akira’s feelings towards her.

Her zombification would have some impact on Akira later on reminding him losing one woman he loved to the Zombie Virus.

## Etymology

* The name **Saori** means "sand" (沙) (**sa**) and "weave, weaving" (織) (**ori**).
* Saori's surname **Ohtori** means "big, great" (大) (**o**) and "bird, poultry, fowl" (鳥) (**tori**).