Yukari Nishimoto

Yukari Nishimoto (西本ゆかり, Nishimoto Yukari) is a kindergarten teacher. She's Sanae Ozora's best friend and used to be a student in Nankatsu.

Description[]

She is a minor recurring character in Captain Tsubasa. She lives in the city of Nankatsu, Shizuoka, but used to live in Nagasaki. She used to go to Nankatsu school with her close friends Sanae Ozora and Ryo Ishizaki.

Appearance[]

She is a tall young lady, slimmer and taller than Sanae and Kumi, plus with a slightly more adult appearance. She wears a ponytail in the manga and the 2018 anime, but in the in the 1983 anime and in the 1994 OVA she has two pigtails.

Yukari has dark brown hair in the 1983 anime and black-blue hair in the 1994 film. In the 2018 anime series, her eyes and hair are both dark brown.

Personality[]

In the 1983 TV series, she is very supportive to Sanae for confessing to Tsubasa. She likes to joke around and has an easy-going personality, noted to be rather outspoken compared to other girls. She's also rather mature and emotionally stable when it's needed.

Biography[]

Yukari Nishimoto used to be the third manager of Nankatsu along with Sanae Nakazawa and Kumi Sugimoto. Yukari is the cousin of Hiroshi Jito, who protected her when both were in their elementary school in Nagasaki. She's also familiar with Koshi Kanda, a boy who also has interest in Sanae.

Captain Tsubasa arc[]

For three years, Yukari was appointed as the 2nd assistant manager of Nankatsu Middle School football club. She eagerly helped Sanae in her chores, as well as noticing the deep love her friend felt for Tsubasa Ozora. She later on also supported her kouhai Sugimoto since both Sanae and Kumi were truly in love with Nankatsu's captain and champion, and expected to see who was to confess to him first just after the end of the Jr. World Youth in France.

Pre Battle of World Youth arc[]

Holland Youth Special

After Nankatsu lost 1:2 against Toho in the finals, Nishimoto left the football club as assistant but appeared together with Sanae and Kumi as supporters for Japan Youth friendly matches against Netherlands Youth, with a special (and comic-relief) cheering to Ryo Ishizaki.

Battle of World Youth arc[]

After failing the junior college tests, Yukari enrolled to work in a Kindergarten (幼稚園 yōchien). She supports Sanae in her depresion for not being able to see Tsubasa for a 3-year time period, encouraging her to go to Brazil to visit Tsubasa for a short while. She and Ishizaki share some held gazes from time to time, hinting at their feelings being more or less mutual.

In the Brazil Youth vs. Japan Youth finals, she's extremely worried for Ishizaki when he gets severely hurt trying to stop Santana and must be taken out of the field. As she takes care of him, he catches her holding on his hands and she pulls away, blushing and then calling him a fool. Ishizaki tells her that he knows he won't be able to play for too long since he must take over the family's business; he asks Yukari if she'll still go out with him despite this, and she says she will.

Rising Sun arc[]

Yukari helped Sanae Ozora with her pregancy — as she was expecting twins — together with Natsuko Ozora in the Ozora's house in Nankatsu City, since Tsubasa was captain for Olympic Japan in the Madrid Olympics.

Relationships[]

She's the love interest of Ishizaki, since they had some funny teasing to each other in the Holland Youth Special and shared some gazes in World Youth. However, at the end of World Youth, after Ishizaki suffered a heavy injury from Santana to his face, he was sent to the infirmary and Yukari stayed with him. As said above, Ishizaki took the chance to confess to Yukari that he had actually fallen for her; Yukari accepted said confession and soon afterwards they started a romantic relationship.

Etymology[]

The name Yukari means "connection, related" (ゆかり) in Hiragana.
Yukari's surname Nishimoto means "west" (西) (nishi) and "base, root, origin, source" (本) (moto).

Trivia[]

Yukari is also known as Anabel in Latin America (coming from her Mexican voice actress, Ana Isabel "Anabel" Méndez) and Evelyn Davidson in Europe.
While Yukari does not formally appear in the Road to 2002 anime, a brief shot features a girl in Tsubasa's junior high class who looks near exactly like her.