Asahi Kokura

*O-Otherworld... No way, then that mirror really worked... I never thought this would happen... I'm terribly sorry! My name is Kokura Asahi. And this is Risona Okura.*

## Trivia

* Asahi Kokura is the male protagonist of the Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou.　A maid who disguises his gender and identity and serves Luna Sakurakouji, as well study as to study at the Filia Girl's School in Japan, founded by Jean-Pierre Stanley. As an illegitimate child, he is particularly shunned by his father's real wife and brought up in the attic of a house in Manchester, where he is treated almost like house arrest.
* Asahi's real name is Yuusei Okura, he is Risona Okura's younger brother. The name Yuusei refers to (郵政局, Yuusei-kyoku), meaning Japan's postal bureau. His childhood name "Yuucho" is an abbreviation for Yuucho postal savings. Yuusei's family name Okura is a reference to the Ministry of the Treasury (大蔵省, Ōkura-shō).
* Asahi is the second voiced male character in Mist Train Girls, the first being Taimanin's Shizuku Kuroki.
* Asahi and Risona in the novel spent their childhood in Manchester, England. The associated train station is Manchester Piccadilly.

## Counterpart

Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England. Opened as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of Manchester city centre, it hosts long-distance intercity and cross-country services to national destinations including London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Reading, Southampton and Bournemouth; regional services to destinations in Northern England including Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and York; and local commuter services around Greater Manchester. It is one of 19 major stations managed by Network Rail. The station has 14 platforms: 12 terminal and two through platforms (numbers 13 and 14). Piccadilly is also a major interchange with the Metrolink light rail system with two tram platforms in its undercroft.

Piccadilly is the busiest station in the Manchester station group with over 30 million passenger entries and exits between April 2019 and March 2020 (the other major stations in Manchester are Oxford Road and Victoria). As of March 2020, it is the third-busiest station in the United Kingdom outside of London (after Birmingham New Street and Glasgow Central), and is also the fourth-busiest interchange station outside London, with over 2 million passengers changing trains annually. The station hosts services from six train operating companies.

George W. Buck designed the original skew arch bridge over Fairfield Street; it had ten cast iron arch ribs, which formed one part of the brick arch viaduct, and was topped with open stonework parapets. The bridge was subsequently widened and wrought iron plate girders and transverse girders were added to support longitudinal joists with iron arch plates. In the 1960s, in the reconstruction programme, the cast iron arches and spandrels were encased in concrete. Platforms 13 and 14 are situated on top of this bridge.

Many of the original station buildings were demolished during the 1960s to clear the way for a new approach. The main entrance leads to a concourse with ground floor, and since the 2000s, mezzanine levels. The Fairfield Street entrance leads to the Metrolink station in the undercroft and is linked to the rail platforms by escalators. Between 1997 and 2002, a redevelopment programme revised the station's layout and a glass partition wall with ticket barriers separating the concourse from the platforms was constructed. The station's approach leading to the end of Piccadilly was constructed in 1969 along with the "wavy" fronted Gateway House designed by the architect Richard Seifert. Gateway House was modernised during 2003. Wikipedia

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