Yui (Angel Beats)

About Yui (Angel Beats)

Yui is a student in the afterlife school of Angel Beats!, first seen as the number one fan and roadie of the band Girls Dead Monster. Loud, hyper and incapable of sitting still, she talks at full speed and wants to try everything, because in life she could do almost nothing. When the band's singer moves on, Yui steps up to the microphone, and her farewell episode is one of the series' best loved.

Appearance

Yui is a petite girl with bright pink hair worn in two low twintails, large pink eyes and an almost permanently excited expression. She wears the girls' school uniform with personal touches, including a devil tail accessory and cuff-like bracelets that suit her impish image. On stage with Girls Dead Monster she plays a Gibson SG style guitar and bounces around too much for any choreography to survive contact with her. Her design is the loudest in the main cast by colour alone, all pinks and reds, matching a character who fills every room she enters.

Personality

Yui is hyperactive, cheeky and completely without a filter. She talks fast, volunteers for everything, argues with Hinata on sight and treats the Battlefront's war as the best game ever invented. Under the noise is a girl making up for lost time. Everything Yui does in the afterlife is something her body never let her do in life: run, play guitar on a stage, join a team, dream out loud about love. She is more perceptive than she looks, too, especially about other people's feelings, and her gratitude towards the people who include her is total. When her turn to say goodbye comes, she faces it with a list, a smile and very little fear.

Background & Story

Yui was hit by a car when she was very young and left paralysed, spending her life in bed or a wheelchair under her mother's care. Her world shrank to a bedroom and a television, where she watched everything she could not do: rock concerts, baseball games, wrestling, football. She died still young, with a head full of other people's lives and almost none of her own. In the afterlife, with a body that works, she attached herself to Girls Dead Monster as their biggest fan and helper, idolising lead singer Iwasawa. When Iwasawa passes on, Yui auditions and takes her place as singer and guitarist, living her biggest dream in front of a crowd. Later, working with Otonashi, she works through her list of wishes one by one: a German suplex, a baseball hit, a football goal. The last wish is marriage. It is Hinata, her daily sparring partner, who steps forward and promises her exactly that, in this life or any other, and Yui disappears happy, mid conversation, still talking.

Powers & Abilities

• Singing and guitar: Yui earns the lead singer and rhythm guitarist spot in Girls Dead Monster after Iwasawa's departure, performing the band's songs live in concert diversion missions.
• Boundless energy: In a body that finally works, Yui outruns, outshouts and outlasts most of the cast, and her stamina makes her useful on Battlefront operations despite her inexperience.
• Trying everything: Her self-taught skills range from wrestling moves to baseball swings, all copied from television in her past life and practised with total commitment in this one.

Key Relationships

• Hideki Hinata: Her favourite person to argue with and, in the end, the one who matters most. Hinata's promise to marry her fulfils her final wish and lets her move on.
• Masami Iwasawa: Yui idolised Iwasawa, Girls Dead Monster's first singer, and stepped into her place after she passed on, treating the role as an inheritance to live up to.
• Yuzuru Otonashi: Otonashi takes Yui's list of dreams seriously when nobody else would, and spends real time helping her tick them off, which is why she trusts him with the last one.

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