Yuzuriha Ogawa

Yuzuriha Ogawa
Biographical Information
Japanese Name	小川杠
Rōmaji Name	Ogawa Yuzuriha
Personal Description
Race	Human
Age	15 (Chapter 1) 17 (Chapter 99) 3700+ (Chronologically)
Gender	Female
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Brown
Status
Status	Alive
Petrification Date(s)	Year 2019 (Petrified by Unknown) Year 5739 (Revived) Year 5741 (Petrified by Kirisame) Year 5741 (Revived by Senku)
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Tailor
Affiliation	Kingdom of Science
First Apppearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 1
Anime Debut	Episode 1
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Kana Ichinose
English Voice	Brittany Lauda

Yuzuriha Ogawa (小川杠, Ogawa Yuzuriha) is the love interest of Taiju Oki and a friend of Senku Ishigami. She was depetrified in 5739 AD.

Yuzuriha is in charge of making clothes for the Kingdom of Science, along with reassembling petrified humans for revival.

Appearance

Yuzuriha is a young woman with brown hair, brown eyes, and a slim build. She has two noticeable petrification scars, both in the shape of spirals, located on her shoulder and neck.

Before her petrification, Yuzuriha wore a standard high school uniform. After her depetrification, she wears a white cloth dress that's split at her sides and matching cloth shoes. Noticeably, Yuzuriha wears a white hairband that's vaguely shaped like wrap-around headphones, both before and after her petrification.

Following an encounter with Tsukasa, her long hair is cut to a shoulder-length bob.

After her second revival, her scars disappeared. She soon adorned war paint in reflection of her stone markings, during Tsukasa's revival.

Personality

Yuzuriha is a kind individual who tries to aid her friends and strangers alike in whatever ways she can. She usually uses her extensive crafting skills to help Senku carry out his inventions or reassemble destroyed petrified humans. Like Taiju, she is fiercely loyal to Senku. As childhood friends, she understands Senku's abilities and potential and was even willing to sacrifice herself when she was being used as a hostage by Tsukasa to allow Senku to escape. While not explicitly stated, she seems to return Taiju's feelings, but is waiting for him to make his official confession.

She seems quiet and while not overly shy, is usually reserved. She tends to get nervous in dangerous or unpredictable situations, but knows to keep her mind at the task at hand. In chapter 73, Senku refers to her as someone who wouldn't abandon what she was doing to make her own moves and when given a task, puts 100% of her attention and motivation towards it. She is rather patient, showing great skill in carefully gathering the stone fragments of the statues Tsukasa destroyed and painstakingly putting them back together in the hopes of fixing the statues and giving the people a chance at revival. She is also used to listening to Senku's lectures on science (at one point managing to endure a 5 hour lecture on science from him). She seems to be, at the very least, smarter than Taiju because when Senku claimed to Nikki in an effort to get her to switch sides, through the telephone, that American forces were going to rescue them, while Taiju believed it, Yuzuriha was quick to understand the situation and that Senku was lying.

She loves fashion and becomes intense when crafting clothes.

Abilities and Skills

Master Tailoring

Yuzuriha has extraordinary sewing capabilities, as well as excellent handiwork, as she is seen re-assembling the smashed stone statues with a form of primeval glue. She also makes fine leatherwork, which is then used as the flag for the Kingdom of Science. Later, she was able to create high-quality clothes and opened Yuzuriha's Department Store after Senku and the gang manage to discover cloth.

She's been described as a "wild beast" when crafting, as she quickly and fiercely puts together whatever she's working on at astonishing speed.

History

She grew up alongside Senku and Taiju.

Plot

Stone Formula Arc

Yuzuriha is first seen on the school grounds, when Taiju was about to confess his love for her when suddenly a light flashed all over the world and turned every human and swallow to stone.

Vs. Tsukasa Arc

After 3700 years passed, she finally turned back to normal thanks to the Stone Formula that was made by Senku and Taiju.

She aids the two with her home economic skills.

She is taken hostage by Tsukasa.

She realizes Senku's plan to escape.

She and Taiju join Tsukasa's Empire of Might, as per Senku's plan.

Communications Arc

Using a phone Senku made, they talk to him for the first time in a year.

Age of Exploration Arc

After hearing a suggestion from Gen, she opens up a clothes store.

Treasure Island Arc

She is repetrified by Ibara and his men. She is later recovered and depetrified and uses her sewing skills to fix the broken petrified humans so they can be revived.

Trivia

• Yuzuriha's name is composed of "yuzuriha" (杠, lever) and her surname Ogawa is composed of "o" (小, little; small) and "gawa" (川, stream; river) to create Ogawa (Small River).
  • Yuzuriha shares a motif with Taiju and Senku in that her name contains "gawa" (川, stream; river) in her name, which correlates to the theme of "land, sea, and sky".