Chiyo Sakura

**Chiyo Sakura** is the main female protagonist from the *Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun* anime and manga.

Chiyo is in love with Nozaki. She tries confessing to him at the beginning of the manga, only to be mistaken by him as a fan of his shoujo manga. Sakura then starts helping Nozaki as his manga assistant. She is in the art club.

An excellent real-life portraitist on her own right, Sakura is considered Nozaki's main assistant, serving various functions in the manga circle, though mainly concentrating on inking.

In the AWA fics, Chiyo is a student at the AWA Academy.

## **Appearance**

Chiyo is a short high school student with bra-strap length orange hair and purple eyes. She is always wearing her signature pair of red bows with white polka dots on both sides of her head. Chiyo is most commonly seen in her school uniform which consists of a white blouse, a ribbon, and a grey blazer on top and a short navy blue skirt with black over-knee socks and brown school loafers.

Even though Chiyo is in her second year and should be wearing a red uniform ribbon, hers is blue instead which is a third year color. Her ribbon is her personal blue ribbon, which is bigger than the usual school ribbons.

## **Personality**

Chiyo is a bright, cheerful and excitable young girl who has been shown to be very easily influenced, often letting her imagination go wild. For example, she became excited when Mikoto Mikoshiba first introduced her to Yuu Kashima and hugely misjudged their relationship. Chiyo has also been shown, for the most part, to be able to get along with others and seems to be the most normal of the main characters.

Although she is often surprised, and sometimes even annoyed, by many of her friends' odd personalities and antics, she is still friendly to them regardless. For instance, even though Yuzuki Seo is often rude to people, she still managed to be friends with her. This may be partly due to her slight naïveté, however, she often cannot tell why people are annoyed by Yuzuki. Outside of school, Chiyo is also passionate about drawing, as she is a member of the Arts club and enjoys helping out Umetarou Nozaki with his manga.

Chiyo constantly struggles to convey her feelings to her crush Nozaki. Usually jovial, Chiyo is often irked and depressed by her failed attempts to improve her relationship with Nozaki. In her first effort to confess to him he mistakenly misinterpreted her confession as declaring herself as one of his fans, much to her dismay. Since helping his mangaka work as an assistant, she has continued her attempts at winning his affection although her endeavors are often fruitless due to a mixture of bad luck and Nozaki's ironic lack of romanticism. Nevertheless, she does not give up and continues to work hard, something that has constantly concerned others about her borderline fixation on Nozaki.

## **Skills**

Chiyo has shown to have a precise skill in drawing portraits and painting. She is part of the art club and also is responsible for the betas in Nozaki's manga. Her art style is very classical and has a lot of detail.

## **Trivia**

* The name **Chiyo**means "thousand" (**chi**) and "generation" or "world" (**yo**).
* Chiyo's surname **Sakura**means "cherry blossom".
	+ It can also mean "blossom" (**saku**) and "good, virtuous, respectable" (**ra**).
* Chiyo's birthday is on Cherry Blossom day.
* Chiyo is the only character within the series that carries a backpack for school.
* Chiyo a light reader and likes shoujo manga but isn't a fan of anybody in particular.
* Towa Sakura (Chiyo's younger brother) was introduced in Chapter 84.5 .
* Chiyo likes cheesecake and sweets while disliking green curry.
* Chiyo has a hobby of collecting small, cute things. She unconsciously collects ribbons and is obsessed with them, regardless of their appearance.
* Chiyo wore flashy ribbons in preschool and small black ones in middle school. She wears her own default ribbon rather than the school's ribbon for her uniform.
* Chiyo's specialty in art is watercolor painting. This is further proven by how she uses a watercolor brush for beta rather than a brush pen (normally used for beta).
* Chiyo's best subject and elective is art while her worst subjects are physics and science. She is also bad at team sports as she often becomes a burden.
* After school, when Chiyo doesn't need to help Umetarou Nozaki with anything, she goes to the art club.
* Chiyo is ranked 3rd in the character popularity poll, according to the official fanbook.
* According to her profile in Chapter 40.5, Chiyo has a regular breast size and overall seems dumb.

## **External Links**

* Chiyo Sakura at Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Wiki