Okaa-san Tachibana

"*Oh, my!* " - Okaa-san when she finds a good bargain at the supermarket.

* Manga
* Anime
* Shin Atashin'chi

**Okaa-san Tachibana**; タチバナお母さん lit. Mother Tachibana (立花お母さん in older episodes) is the mother of Yuzuhiko Tachibana and Mikan Tachibana and she is happily married to her husband Otou-san Tachibana. Okaa-san is the deuteragonist in the Manga and Anime Series Atashin'chi and Shin Atashin'chi. Her real name is *unknown* and her profession is being a housewife. She's voiced by Kumiko Watanabe.

Her first appearance in the manga was in No. 1 and in the anime, her first appearance was in Story 001, Dakara soo janakutee.

## **Appearance**

Okaa-san appears as a middle aged woman with brown hair, big lips and a short body. Her clothing when she's in the house consists of a solid color (mostly yellow) T-Shirts paired up with a pinkish skirt and an apron. Her solid color T-Shirts and skirts vary between episode and episode. However, in Shin Atashin'chi, her usual yellow outfit is not as common as it was in Atashin'chi.

She's 165cm (5,4f) tall and is 45 years old. She's usually seen smiling but once she is serious, she is scary, and in some moments outright terrifying.

During her time when she lived in her home town and her first few years as a mother, Okaa-san had long curly hair. As Okaa-san gets older, she more and more resembles her mother.

## **Personality**

Okaa-san is a 165cm (5,4f) 45 year old Housewife living in Tokyo, who's hobby is calligraphy. She loves bargains at supermarkets and despises rainy days. So much so, that she goes to extreme lengths to the point where she kept finding older ingredients and serving them for dinner as seen in one episode. In the older episodes, Okaa-san was a religious person that believed praying will give good luck and was a lot more meaner and more savage. As the show aired on, her personality became softer and her religious side was almost abandoned.

She's a strong and determined woman. She will go beyond great lengths just to do something such as getting on the bus as fast as possible. She doesn't like it when her children, especially Mikan, show laziness and no motivation. She loves her kids to the maximum and loves telling embarrassing stories about them. But if she sees a good bargain at the supermarket, there's no telling what she would do to get the item that's on sale, even if it means fighting.

In both Atashin'chi and Shin Atashin'chi, it is revealed that when people talk about topics that Okaa-san knows nothing about, she agrees and continues with the conversation. In many cases, she ends up creating awkward situations and or embarrassing moments.

She's both caring and can also be terrifying if the moment calls for it and her reaction time is anyone's ideal.

In her time when she was a new mother, she was extremely careful, helpful, and worried about her kids. She almost never used harsh words and or insults. But as she became older, she learned all the parenting tips and tricks and started being more careless and reckless.

## **Background**

Okaa-san was born in the Oita Prefecture and grew up in a village together with her brother, father, and mother. She often played with the insects but also helped out at her family's farm. Okaa-san's mother was quite harsh on her, often beating her over littlest things.

Once she met and married her husband Otou-san Tachibana, they opened up a Onsen business, and had Mikan and Yuzu. After a while things were going well in their home town until Otou-san got a job in Tokyo, which made them then move into the House that we commonly see in almost all Atashin'chi episodes. But no matter how Okaa-san behaves or how weirdly she dresses, Otou-san always supports and loves her.

## **Did you know?**

* Due to her wearing a shirt that indicates she's on the Green team, there's been a misconception that her real name is "Midori" (Japanese word for green). The author confirmed on Twitter that this isn't true and that she didn't plan on for Okaa-san ever having a name.
* During the show, her age went from 43 to 45. She's the only character who's age changed in the series.