Yuji Katakura

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**Yuji Katakura** (片倉 優二, *Katakura Yūji*?) is a side character in the *Nijiiro Days* series. He is a math teacher at Seiryou High School and the older brother of Keiichi Katakura.

## Appearance

Yuji is a very tall man with short, straight brown hair that has bangs framing his face on either side, brown eyes that are of a lighter color than his hair, black rectangular glasses and a slim frame.

## Personality

For the most part, Yuji is genuinely a kind, considerate and responsible teacher who cares a lot about his students and he is very serious regarding their future, in which he can be a bit scolding at times. He is also considered very scary when angry or provoked, and behind closed doors, he is an extreme sadist and is very dominant and commanding. He also carries around a whip and sometimes gets into fights with Keiichi Katakura.

## Background

Yuji is the oldest of two brothers and it has been stated that Yuji has been a sadist for a while, but he doesn't like to show this side of his in public. Yuji later became a teacher math at Seityou High School, the same school as Keiichi Katakura attends. He also developed a "friendship" with a fellow teacher named Satomi.

## Plot

Yuji is a teacher at Seiryou High School as well as the homeroom teacher of Class 3 where he is seen being serious in school regarding his students' future and their studies and he becomes quite worried and at the same time scolding when the fail their tests, as in the case of Keiichi Katakura, Natsuki Hashiba and Tomoya Matsunaga. After Natsuki had seen Anna Kobayakawa sleeping at Yuji's room in the school, he got the impression that they were dating. However, Yuji let Anna sleep there because she often got sleepy due to side effects of medicines, and she later cleared out that they were *not* dating.

## Relationships

### Keiichi Katakura

Keiichi is Yuji's younger brother who get into fights with their whips very often and are always at odds. Yuji is also quite strict with Keiichi and doesn't want him to call him "older brother" at school. Yuji can also be dominant, scolding and commanding towards Keiichi and sees himself as the superior one as he is older, which irritates Keiichi. Despite that, Yuji really cares for Keiichi and wants the best for ― and doesn't want him to get involved with the wrong types. He also looks after Keiichi and doesn't want to hand over him to the types as Satomi-sensei.

### Satomi

Satomi is a colleague of Yuji. Initially, they seemed to be on friendly terms who seemed to know each other well. However, in reality, although they do know each other well as they both are sadists and colleagues, Yuji considers her a "bitchy woman" who is nasty and dislikes her to a degree, likewise with Satomi. Yuji also didn't want Keiichi Katakura to get involved with Satomi since he knew her real personality, and both states that they aren't each other's type. Despite that, they agree to take care of each other as colleagues even though they are frequently annoyed by each other.

## Etymology

* The name **Yuji** means "excellence, superiority, gentleness" (優) (**yu**) and "two" (二) (**ji**).
* Yuji's surname **Katakura** means "single, piece" (片) (**kata**) and "warehouse, storehouse, barn, treasury, granary, cellar, magazine, godown, depository, elevator, storage place, repository, supply shed, grain elevator, stockpile, arsenal" (倉) (**kura**).

## Trivia

* Like Keiichi Katakura, Yuji is also an extreme sadist, but he is even more of a sadist than Keiichi.