Yuna's birthday, March 21, is the first day of spring. She also helps write a note of encouragement for Itsuki, saying "Let's go eat cake once the test is over!". [13] A manga titled Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha-bu Shozoku (結城友奈は勇者部所属, lit. She is wounded and fatigued, but with Togo and Itsuki's help, she survives. Yuna Yuki (結城 友奈 Yūki Yūna) is the protagonist and titular character of the Yuki Yuna is a Hero anime series. [25], A third anime season titled The Great Full Blossom Arc (大満開の章, Dai-Mankai no Shō) has been announced. She soon finds Togo and, in spite of the risk to her soul and body, frees her and takes on the full extent of the curse. She tries to tell Fu in private, but after she does, Fu is hit by a car. When she is given the power of Dai-Mankai, she has been presumed to have the theme of a Green Sakura variation. She is also very physically fit and active, having learned martial arts from her father. They indicate a pure and gentle heart. A second anime season project, consisting of an adaptation of a prequel light novel and a sequel series, ran between March 2017 and January 2018. Yuna's best friend, classmate and fellow club member. 1 on the mini-theater rankings when it was released, outselling the first film.[44]. From that point onward, they became next-door neighbors and best friends. Yuna is visited by the Aki-Sensei, who tells her that the Shinju's lifespan is nearing its end, and the world will be destroyed. She continues arguing with them over what should be done, but fears that the curse is spreading and runs away. Yuna Yuki is an ordinary second-year middle school student. One day in their regular daily lives, the Hero Club members are suddenly caught in an explosion of light and transported to a strange forest, where they encounter mysterious monsters known as Vertex which seek to destroy the Shinju (神樹, "Divine Tree"), the guardian deity which protects and blesses humanity. [37][38][39] Volume five charted at No. In it, Yuna reveals that during the last Vertex attack, her body was completely destroyed and her soul was consumed by the Vertex's core. Now transformed, Yuna helps Fu and Itsuki perform the sealing ritual in order to expose the Vertex's core. When gaining the burden from the sky gods, she had a strange, sun-like symbol seemingly burned onto her skin, located on the left side of her chest. It follows Sonoko Nogi's ancestor, Wakaba Nogi as its protagonist and the first Shikoku hero team consisting of her, Hinata Uesato, Yūna Takashima, Chikage Kōri, Tamako Doi and Anzu Iyojima. The ending theme for episode four (acoustic version) and episode nine is "Inori no Uta" (祈りの歌, Song of Prayer) by Tomoyo Kurosawa. Click here to … [22] Both parts were simulcast in North America by Anime Strike. Like her friends, Yuna is also quite surprised when Miyoshi Karin enters the Jukai and singlehandedly eliminates a Vertex. The story takes place on the Japanese island Shikoku in the fictional city of Sanshu, based on the real-life city of Kan'onji in Kagawa Prefecture,[3] in the 300th year of the Era of the Gods (神世紀, Shinseiki). Distraught, Yuna runs away. As a result of using her Mankai in Episode 5, Yuna loses her sense of taste, while her usage of it in Episode 12 cost her the use of her legs. A fellow Hero, and as of Sonoko After Yuna's classmate and fellow club member. She then summons a tremendous amount of willpower to deliver the final blow and touch the Vertex core. It is then revealed that Yuna is suffering from a Curse of the Gods, and will spread the curse if she writes or tells others about it. [42], The first film ranked No. Two visual novels for Windows, developed by Minato Soft and featuring scenarios written by Takahiro and Osamu Murata, are bundled with the first and sixth DVD and Blu-ray Disc volumes of the anime series released on December 17, 2014 and May 20, 2015, respectively. Yuna's second fairy, Kasha, allows her to gather energy in her foot and release it in a fiery explosion, a technique which she dubs the "Hero Kick.". When Fu becomes enraged and tries to attack the Taisha, Yuna, Karin and Itsuki stop her from fighting. Yuna tells Fu the information they learned from Sonoko, and in turn they are asked not to share the information with Itsuki and Karin yet. She does not tell the others about the curse, which has now begun to create burn marks on her body. She has amaranth-red eyes and shoulder-length hair of different hues: in civilian form, her hair appears amaranth-red in color; in Hero form, her hair now appears pinker in color. In her Mankai form, she wears a long, pink, flowing kimono-like dress with flowing, partially-detached sleeves and has a golden ring above her head, which are attached to two gigantic, mechanical armored fists.