Chihiro Watanuki

Chihiro in volume 9 cover.

**Chihiro Watanuki** (綿貫 ちひろ, *Watanuki Chihiro*) is the female protagonist of the Yugami-kun ni wa Tomodachi ga Inai series. She is a transfer student at Kamihoshi who wants to make friends quickly and the first person she meets when she transfers in is Yuuji Yugami, whom she ends up sitting next to in class. Despite being warned by classmates to not associate with him, Chihiro ends up talking to Yuji often. Although she considers him troublesome to deal with at times, Yuji is also often the one who helps her out when she's troubled.

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Chihiro is a transfer student of class 2-A and she barely has classmates to talk to. She became even more isolated and everyone in her class avoids her, believing she is in the same wave as Yugami whom the class finds weird.

Despite the misunderstanding corrected, Chihiro finds herself more comfortable talking to Yugami than any of her other classmates.

## Appearance

Chihiro has long brown hair, reaching her upper back. She has round black eyes and she is very slim.

## Personality

Chihiro was unable to make friends due to her father's several job transfers leading the whole family to move to several neighborhood. This caused her to have trouble in making friends. She is often alienated by the stories she couldn't relate to and whenever she makes friends, it was short-lived as she get separated and losing connection with them.

As she enters a new school at second year, she promised herself that she will make friends.

Chihiro is timid in initiating a conversation with others. Another reason though, was because she often interacts with Yuuji that her classmates treated her the same way as Yuuji.

Due to her willingness to have a lasting friendship with others, she is always helpful and caring to others despite the trouble she could have gone through.

Chihiro is often praised by how she can have a conversation for more than a minute with Yugami as many are weirded out by his ideals and are annoyed by his frankness and rudeness.

## Interests

When Chihiro is not in any club activities, she goes home after classes and during their class breaks, she spends her time in her house, either doing nothing or needle felting.

### Needle Felting

Chihiro has always seen needle felting in her home and when she joined a club. She is also good at it as her finished work seemed too real that it is scary.

## Etymology

* The name **Chihiro** is written in hiragana (ちひろ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (陽菜 or 日菜), it could possibly mean "thousand" (千) (**chi**) and "fathom, armspan" (尋) (**hiro**).
* Chihiro's surname **Watanuki** means "cotton/raw cotton, padding" (綿) (**wata**) and "pierce, 8 1/3lbs, penetrate, brace" (貫) (**nuki**).

## Trivia

* Chihiro's backstory shows that she never had any close friends due to her family moving around so much.
* While the story tends to focus on Yuuji Yugami's life, much of it is told from Chihiro's perspective.

## Chihiro and the Class

After transferring to a new school, Chihiro cannot establish any friendship right away since she cannot start a proper conversation with others. She only felt worse when she thought she was being avoided.

Chihiro is caring for others, in which Yuuji Yugami pointed out, despite not being close to them.

## Chihiro and the Baseball Club

Chihiro supports the Baseball Team along with her friend Rio Fujisawa. She is also acquainted with the other members of the club namely: Haruki Kadota and Wakana Kuzumi.

During her first days in her new school, she was called upon by the senior members of the club for removing their

## Chihiro and the Handicrafts Club

After the School Festival, Chihiro was able to join the Handicrafts club but she later realized that most of the members of the club are seniors and are about to graduate, leaving her the club alone.

## Chihiro and her Part-Time Job

Chihiro, along with Rio Fujisawa, is having a part-time job at a supermarket. Their first days are not good since their managers keep scolding them due to their mistakes and their co-workers are uncooperative.

Though struggling, they work hard as they familiarize themselves in their workplace.

## Chihiro and her Family

Chihiro is an only child and she lives together with her parents. But due to her father's other job transfer, this time in America, it is likely she currently lives with her mother only.

### Kouichi Watanuki

Kouichi's job transfers are the reason why Chihiro has to transfer to different schools. He is caring towards his daughter and wishes to bond together with her.

## Chihiro and her Friends

As Chihiro continues her high school life without making any transfer, she started making friends.

### Yuuji Yugami

Yugami is the first person Chihiro talked to on her first day of school. Though they are not friends, Chihiro finds Yugami easy to talk with despite the weird logic he is living with.

Wakana Kuzumi once pointed out to Chihiro that she is the only person who can talk to Yugami for more than a minute.

Chihiro believes that Yugami is not an arrogant person and he is just as he is.

### Rio Fujisawa

Fujisawa is Chihiro's first friend ever since she transfers to a new school. She became close to her when she gave her comfort after realizing Yuuji Yugami's true character.

Chihiro is the one who cheered her up when she was upset with the mess she encountered with Yuuji Yugami, along with Kadota.

### Wakana Kuzumi

Kuzumi is the first girl in her class to talk to her after the rest of them started avoiding her because of her involvement in Yuuji Yugami.

### Haruki Kadota

Chihiro acquitanced with Kadota because he is the only one who is always seen with Yuuji Yugami. At one point, Kadota mistakenly thought Chihiro as Yugami's girlfriend due to him spotted both of them on a date watching Rakugo together.

## **Chihiro and Yugami**

Chihiro first met Yugami when he helped her park her bike. She was surprised to see her in the class she belongs and greeted her but she was greeted back by a rude expression on his face and the suggestion of her sitting in the aisle since women are conscious of ultraviolet rays from the sun.

She didn't mind herself sitting next to him but she is annoyed with how she was answered by a rude expression.

During class breaks, the other students told her how Yugami is weird and must be avoided. She started to observe him after she noticed how the class, even his fellow members of the club avoids him.

She found Yugami to be the ace of the Baseball Club and smart as he was able to answer the question given by their teacher.

Her classmates warned her to avoid him as possible as she can but due to her worry to her other classmates who are sneezing because of the cold air that was coming from the open window beside Yugami, she could not help but suggest to him to close the window.

She got a firm "No" from him but she insisted and asked him the reason why he is keeping the window open in which he replied he didn't want to lessen the oxygen coming inside the classroom.

She found his answer weird but she let him at least close the window halfway. Yugami agreed to it and positioned the window shield the right half.