Yamagishi Asako

"PLEASE, DON'T TELL ANYONE..."

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Yamagishi Asako
Japanese	山岸朝子
Rōmaji	Yamagishi Asako
Also Known As	Ah-chan (あーちゃん)
Relatives	Grandmother Father Older sister
Biographical Information
Marital status	Single
Status	Alive
Hometown	Udekari
Physical Description
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Height	170cm
Eye color	Green-blue
Hair color	Light ash brown (manga) Light brown (anime)
Professional Information
Occupation	Student
Class	2-A
Affiliation	Yamagishi Household Volleyball Club
Portrayal
Japanese VA	Yumiri Hanamori
English VA	Jennifer Losi
Debut
Manga	Chapter 3
Anime	Episode 1

“	Folks from the other world might be scary... But I don't think they're all bad. So... it shouldn't be weird to talk with 'em.	”
—Chapter 15

Yamagishi Asako (山 (やま) 岸 (ぎし) 朝 (あさ) 子 (こ) , Yamagishi Asako^?) is one of the Characters in The Summer Hikaru Died, written and illustrated by Mokumokuren.

Overview

Yuuki has been her closest friend since childhood. She notices something is completely off the mark with Hikaru.

Appearance

Asako is a teenage girl of tall stature. Her eyes are green-blue and her eyebrows are short and slightly thick. She has chin-length, light ash-brown hair that is slightly wavy, and she wears a blue hairpin on the left side. She sometimes wears her hair in different styles such as low pigtails, a small ponytail, or with a braid on one side that Yuuki did for her. She is typically seen wearing her school uniform, which consists of a black knee-length skirt and white seifuku-style shirt. She wears it with short white socks and light green sneakers.

Personality

Asako is a lively, friendly, and caring individual. She appears to dislike being the center of attention, demonstrated by how she is frustrated after beating a popular classmate in arm wrestling in front of all their classmates. She cares deeply about her friends and becomes upset when they keep to themselves without relying on others, becoming particularly saddened and annoyed with Yoshiki for not telling anyone about "Hikaru".

Asako also has a very strong mentality, as she is able to endure "Hikaru"'s attempt to break her mind. Because of her ability to hear things from The Other Side, she demonstrates a higher awareness for safety and frequently helps her friends avoid danger. She dislikes feeling weak or useless to help a situation. Because of this, Asako is brave and proactive, going out of her way to investigate potentially dangerous spirits by herself so she can protect her hometown from the uptick in impurities. She can make quick decisions and act courageously in the face of danger, but she is also prone to act recklessly or without thinking.

History

Since their parents are friends, Asako and Yuuki have been best friends since childhood. They went to different elementary schools but the same middle school. Asako discovered her ability to hear impurities when she was a young child. She realized that not all spirits are malicious when one helped her warn Yuuki of an incoming car, saving Yuuki's life in the process. From then on, Asako came to believe that safely communicating with spirits is possible and in some circumstances, reasonable to do.

Asako lives in Udekari.

Abilities

Hearing Spirits

Asako can sense impurities through hearing. However, she is unable to see them. According to her grandmother, Asako's voice can likely also reach the spirits. This ability is inherited from her family, as multiple members are seeing, hearing, or both.

Relationships

Indou Hikaru & "Hikaru"

Indou Hikaru became friends with Asako during middle school. She at first thought that Hikaru had been possessed by an impurity, but later discovered that "Hikaru" was not the real Hikaru at all. She cared a lot for Hikaru and cried when it was confirmed to her that he was truly dead. Although "Hikaru" attempted to kill her the first time she confronted him about his secret, resulting in deafness in one of her ears, Asako does not hold a grudge. She finds it scary that her friend has been replaced and is saddened by it, but at the same time, she admits that she can't bring herself to hate the new "Hikaru" and is willing to keep his secret.

Tsujinaka Yoshiki

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Etymology

• The kanji of her surname, Yamagishi, are "mountain" (山 yama) and "beach" (岸 gishi).
• The kanji of her given name, Asako, are "morning" (朝 asa) and "child" (子 ko).

Trivia

• She is stronger than Yuuki, Maki, Yoshiki, Hikaru, and Takeshita in arm wrestling.
• She always finishes her summer assignments early and is typically the first out of her friend group to be done.
• If Asako were in Yoshiki's situation, she wouldn't have waited 6 months to ask if "Hikaru" was really Hikaru. She would have asked right away and been killed as a result.