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Revision as of 18:16, 25 December 2017
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Uchi (内 うち?), better known in the English translation as Ucchi, is Tomoko's second year classmate. Because she could not form a group of five with her friends for the school trip to Kyōto, she along with Yoshida and Tamura are put in Tomoko's group.
Overview
Ucchi is first seen in Chapter 59 during Tomoko's second year of high school. She and Tomoko end up sitting next to each other on the bus to a baseball game but do not interact at all. Ucchi spends the whole ride chatting with her friends who are sitting behind them. This is a parallel to her actions in the future where end up in Tomoko's group for the school field trip (Chapter 69).
During this trip, Ucchi spends most of her time with her friends in Group Two and leaves the trio to their own devices. Occasionally she would come back to their room to gather her things or to check up on them but, at every visit, they were either hostile towards her or were doing something she considered weird, making her decide to stay away from them as much as possible. This feeling of avoidance applied especially toward Tomoko and even continued during school after the trip was over.
Personality
She spends most of her time in Chapter 69 chatting with her friends, for she does not want to associate with her field trip group, especially Tomoko. Due to a few comic misunderstandings and Tomoko's attempts to seem mature and experienced, Ucchi believes Tomoko is a "pervert" and even attracted to her. Ucchi is not completely innocent, however. Like Tomoko, she has curiosity about sexuality, but she inwardly dismisses such thoughts as "disgusting!" In Chapter 77 when she finds the other members of her assigned group all asleep in the room during dinner time she figures she should at least wake them. When she attempts to wake the difficult to arose Yoshida for dinner, she pauses and then takes the opportunity to touch her. The sleeping Yoshida dreams it is Tomoko "pinching" her "nipples": "乳首つまんでごめなさい. . ." again, and she viciously elbows Ucchi in the stomach. A very hurt and angry Ucchi leaves and takes revenge by marking her entire group as present at dinner. Subsequently, Ucchi concludes Tomoko is a lesbian, inwardly declares her "disgusting," yet seems to take a bit of odd pride in her imagined interest from Tomoko. She become angered whenever she observes Tomoko interact with other girls. In later chapters Ucchi's apparent disgust with her belief that Tomoko is attracted to girls mixes with her own apparent desire to be with her. Whether this is just jealousy, curiosity, or actual feelings has not been defined.
Appearance
Ucchi loses her "Emoji Face."
She is blonde with a hairstyle that looks exactly like Yū's. Unlike other characters, her face looks like an emoticon with dots for eyes, a similarity that Tomoko notes with irritation, referring to her as "Emoji Face." A few times, her face is drawn more conventionally when she becomes incensed, such as when she thinks Tomoko has been staring at her only to see she has been staring at some other girl.
Anime
- None
Manga
(Strikethrough episodes or chapters indicate the character was mentioned but did not make a physical appearance)
Relationships
Tomoko Kuroki
Ucchi has a complicated relationship with Tomoko. Due to several misunderstandings, Ucchi initially believes that Tomoko is attracted to her, which she repeatedly deems "disgusting" to herself. Nevertheless, she grows jealous whenever she mistakes Tomoko having an interest in another girl. She secretly watches Tomoko and makes bizarre assumptions such as concluding that Tomoko is turned on by the sound of urination when she finds her in a bathroom in Chapter 84. In Chapter 93, she sees Tomoko at a mall with Yū who bears a striking resemblance to her. Ucchi assumes the worst when she notices Tomoko buying underwear similar to the one Tomoko stole from her during the Kyōto trip. When she sees Yuri Tamura staring at Tomoko, she asks Yuri if Tomoko has done something perverted to her, such as stare at Yuri while she was naked or try to look at her panties. Yuri remains skeptical as Ucchi loses her "emoticon face," smiles, sweats, and claims that Tomoko did those things to her, and insists she is Tomoko's "fetish fuel." When Tomoko turns to look at them, Ucchi flees imagining that Tomoko is "molesting" her "with her eyes." This event summarizes the ambiguous nature of Ucchi's feelings. On one extreme Ucchi may want Tomoko's attraction but remains uncomfortable with such feelings, while on the other extreme someone finding her "cute" satisfies her vanity. More likely, Ucchi's feelings are simply developing; however, her attention remains focused on Tomoko. From behind a tree in Chapter 116, she secretly watches Megumi Imae hug Tomoko believing Tomoko has "made a pass" at Imae. In recent chapters, Ucchi appears obsessed with Tomoko. She creepily lies in wait behind her locker for Tomoko to put chocolate in her locker and, in Chapter 117, she goes so far as to travel on a train hoping to be near Tomoko having heard that Tomoko was pressed against another girl when the train was crowded. She purposely sits next to her at the barbecue restaurant in Chapter 120 and cooks meat she then sneaks onto Tomoko's plate. When she discovers she is not in Tomoko's class, she becomes hysterical, rolling on the ground. Separated from her group visiting Disney World in Chapter 126, she sits next to Tomoko on a roller coaster. As they all scream, Tomoko's hand clutches Ucchi's on the railing, and her hair blows into Ucchi's face. Ucchi immediately wants to ride the roller coaster again, but she becomes disappointed when it is Yuri Tamura who sits next to her instead of Tomoko. When Tomoko and Nemoto sit together on another ride in front of her, Ucchi inwardly seethes that the two are "flirting" in public. Her true feelings towards Tomoko remain currently unresolved and may be developing.
Unnamed Emoji-Faced Girl
In the midst of her tantrum over learning she is not assigned to Tomoko's class, Ucchi hears this girl remark that she is in that classroom and becomes jealous. Like Ucchi, her face is drawn like an emoticon, and she has blond hair gathered into two "twin tails." Ucchi appears to know who she is, but currently the character remains unnamed and no further information regarding her is known. Looking for his sister, Tomoki sees her near the shoe lockers and tries to gain her attention, but he stops when he notices her stretching alone in full splits.
Trivia
- Her last name is shown in kanji in Chapter 114 as 内 or うち in hirigana. This should be "Uchi" in English, but most fan translations render her name as "Ucchi," and the Japanese Wikipedia lists her character name as うっちー／内（うち）. This suggests that "Ucchi" is a diminutive or nickname for her last name. The English translations that give her last name as "Sasaki" for some reason add that name to two lists from the Field Trip. In the original manga her name is either cut off or covered by a speech balloon. This seems to fit with Tomoko's complete lack of interest in learning her name.
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