Saku Hanako

Saku Hanako's school photo. Drawn by timidweeb.

> *"Besides masturbating, getting high with you guys is the best experience I have ever had." **-Saku***
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## **Overview**

Saku is a high school student who is a first year. She is described as being witty, curious, and carefree. She is very unpopular and she tries to gain attention by her quick, creative humour and questions. She is always curious about things and is always asking questions.

## **Appearance**

Saku appears in her school uniform. She is always wearing it and never really seen without it. She had green eyes and light brown hair. She is age 15 and she is a first year. She is always shown with very messy hair because she never brushes it. She is a relatively small figure standing at about 4'7". She is the shortest out of the group. She first shows in Volume 1. ep 2: "High Place" when she randomly walks up to Aika and starts talking to her. She is shown last in the finale: Volume 3.

Saku seems to struggle with personal hygiene and self care, as she is shown wearing the same school clothes even when out of school and also has very messy and unclean hair. She lacks wardobe as well since she comes from a poor household and she is always wearing her school issued uniform. She theorizes that this is probably one of the reasons why no one is friends with her.

## **Personality**

Saku is known to make jokes and other comedic or odd remarks, like lewd comments. She talks freely without acknowledging their effect on others and also usually talks without thinking. She can be very impulsive at times as well; she sometimes is not able to control what she says. Usually this happens when she is excited about something.

Saku is, respectfully, unintelligent, and has the mind of a child. She says later in the series that her personality is probably why she is so unpopular, everyone wants to be friends with "realistic" people rather than the odd people, like her. She seems to like anyone and everything and is willing to meet new people and try new things. She usually fails to see if she is annoying someone or making someone uncomfortable due to her peculiar comments or actions. She is very friendly towards those who she calls her friends and later in the series shown to be very supporting in other people. She struggles to feel empathy for others, but she is willing to be there for them to make them feel better.

Saku is very outgoing despite being very unpopular, and she always wants to strike up a conversation with someone and learn new things. Saku does not have any fear of expressing herself and will do so even when uncalled for like saying random things or trying to gain attention from her friends. She always ignores the fact that she is trying to be avoided and accepts it as a accident or it is unintentional that she is being ignored by her friends.

She feels highly for Okamoto and sees him as basically a father-figure despite them only having a three-year age gap. She sees him as a teacher or a guider and she looks up to him. She does not feel any romantic or sexual feelings for him, however, because she respects him but does not love him.

Throughout the series, Saku seems to think a lot of sex and sexual activities. She brings up sex a lot which causes her to commonly make Aika uncomfortable. She is very lewd and constantly has lewd thoughts in her head. This is another reason why she believes she is so unpopular.

Saku seems to have a great fear for her future. She does not like to think of where she will be in the future because it stresses her out. Her childish manner is one cause for this stress of the future.

## **Background**

Not much is known from Saku's past. Saku first met Okamoto at the end of Vol. 2 when she was late to her first day at school. She was running and ran into Okamoto, who was still emotionally unsettled from Lyla's situation, as he was walking back to his house to commit suicide. Saku started joking about being late which made Okamoto feel better and walk Saku to school.

Saku is a new high school student at the school, starting on April 1, 2014 (Vol. 2). Due to her being new at the school, it makes her very unpopular. Also due to her perverted nature, she is unpopular. Saku meets Aika after she asks her where Okamoto is. Saku jokes about Okamoto being Aika's boyfriend which makes her get offended. Afterwards, Saku joins them for lunch after Aika forgives her.

## **Trivia**

* Saku is described as the comedic relief of the series, since she the main source of comedy through the series and the series mainly focuses is dark themes and depressing topics.