Yuko Hyodo

* 1989
* 1994

**Yuko Hyodo** (**兵動 裕子**, *Hyōdō Yūko*) is Eikichi's sister and the top beauty of the high school. She is in charge of purifying Sagako's curse. As a result of being fatally injured in a battle with a Sagako, she had to be substituted by her brother as a member of the Sagako Busters.

She is a character introduced in the Zombie Land Saga Gaiden: The First Zombie spin-off manga.

## Appearance

Yuko is a high school girl, so she wears a high school outfit consisting of a knee-length light blue skirt and a dark blue jacket with a collared shirt underneath. Her hair and eyes are golden, and her hair is quite long and straight.

In terms of her physical appearance, Yuko is quite a weak girl in combat. When she is dressed as Sagako Buster, she wears a white uniform and some additional accessories. Her height was the same as her twin brother, Eikichi, before merging with Sagako. Already fused, she reveals huge antlers of the Sagako Niji-no matsubara, which are then cut with an electric saw.

## Personality

Yuko is a pretty good girl, even winning awards at her school for attendance and having the highest grades. Unlike her brother, who was mediocre at everything, she was the ideal girl both in her school and on the farm.

She tried to protect Saga from the curses and also her brother's life at all costs, even giving her life in exchange for it. She has something altruistic about the selfless actions she takes in trying to protect her and Saga's brother's daily lives at the expense of her own.

Being familiar with the Sagako, she can more easily understand their motives and their emotions at the time of being sealed. Even sealed, she lovingly treats the onions with Sagako inside so that one day her feelings will pass to them, and it will be possible to communicate with Sagako.

When she met Tae, she promised that she would not let any Sagako harm people. Even when she was a child, she showed her bravery by defending Tae from a Sagako. Thanks to this, the two started working together at Karatsu Burger when the place was about to close due to low sales, bringing prosperity and fame to the place. Tae, who only had revenge and grudge in her heart, sees in Yuko the feelings she never thought she felt, which inevitably made her become attached to Yuko.

As the good sister that she is, she cares a lot for her older brother and always encourages him to keep going even though he usually puts himself down. She knows that he has potential and will continually try to help her brother achieve his goals. After being freed from the onion, she reveals that she has seen and heard all the struggles her brother had throughout his journey in Sagako Busters Saga, being grateful and proud of her older brother.

## Abilities

### Skillset

* **Harvesting**—In the day, Yuko was a farmer on her family farm, and she was responsible for the harvests of the onions that grew on them to sell them. Some onions she also kept as a charm.
* **Enhanced Intelligence**—Being the opposite of her brother, she was highly intelligent in school and popular with her class, which subsequently earned her several accolades.

### Unique Abilities

* **Exorcism**—She had a unique ability to permanently exorcise the Sagakos thanks to the use of onions grown on her farm. The Hyodo twins have access to this ability, being able to seal Sagako using the onions from their farm. Yuko specialized in this during her time as Sagako Buster.

## Etymology

* The name **Yuko** means “abundant” (裕) (**yu**) and “child” (子) (**ko**).
* Yuko's surname **Hyodo** means “soldier, warrior” (兵) (**hyo**) and “dynamic, motion, change, confusion” (動) (**do**).

## Trivia

* Tae Yamada says that Yuko does the purification ritual for miko (**巫女 の 禊**). The reason Tae thinks it's ridiculous for a child to do it is that miko (shrine maidens) are traditionally young maidens. It's part of the Shinto tradition, and the overall story is infused with Shinto vibes. In literature, manga, and anime, miko are often portrayed as heroines who fight evil spirits, demons, and ghosts.
* Junko Konno is revealed to be the idol of Yuko Hyodo and the reason why the latter wanted to become idols alongside Tae, as revealed in the thirteenth chapter of the spin-off manga.
* She, alongside Tae, are the only humans to have been fused with Sagako.
	+ In her case, she was unintentionally fused with the Niji-no matsubara Sagako after she sealed it away in an onion whilst sacrificing her own body. After being freed from the onion, it is revealed that she absorbed the Sagako's antlers.
* It is revealed in the last chapter that she is now married and has a daughter, possibly a cast member of the anime.

## References

1. ↑ Zombie Land Saga Gaiden chapter 13, page 27