Sana Sakakibara

Birthday(Age)

January 4th(15)

Hair Color

Dark Grey

Eye Color

Green

Height

4′ 10′′ (147cm)

Job

Bartender at Sara’s Bar

Hobby

Gaming

Likes

Winter, Omurice, Horror movies

Dislikes

Spaghetti, Socialization

Family

Sara Sakakibara (Mother), Father, Brother

Background

Sana was born the second child of a single mother, Sara Sakakibara. Soon after her birth, her mother discovered her father's infidelity, leaving Sara to raise Sana and her older brother alone. Growing up, Sana was much more talkative and outgoing than she later became. In particular, she was close to her older brother, spending hours playing video games together. However, at some unspecified point, her brother was stabbed to death on the way home, leaving both her and her mother with an emotional scar that they struggle to cope with. Apparently, around this time, she met Ayane, whom Sana took a liking to due to Ayane's naturally charismatic personality. The two girls eventually entered Kumon-Mi High School and began leaving the school dormitory together. At another unspecified point, Sana began working part-time at the family bar, replacing her late brother.

Characteristics

Sana is a very shy and quiet girl. She rarely approaches other people, struggles to start or hold conversations with them and gets easily flustered or intimidated, which can end in her crying or shouting if pushed too far. When she does talk with someone, she’s timid and pauses multiple times mid-sentence. As she spends more time with Sensei and her friends, she gets more sociable, can keep a conversation going and is able to talk with Kaori and Yuki, two people she wouldn’t have been able to talk to due to their circumstances and strong personalities. Her shy nature stays mostly unchanged, but Sensei assumes that certain aspects of her, like her pauses, are just part of her personality. He summed up her fully developed self as unremarkable and exceedingly average. Sana isn’t comfortable with romance and intimacy, usually trying to change the subject when it comes up, especially if it involves her, or fleeing out of embarrassment. This includes smaller things like holding hands. Sensei sees her as completely innocent and is convinced that she’s incapable of those feelings, whereas some of her classmates assume that she is capable of those feelings and only suppresses them, like Uta and Nodoka, while those close to her, i.e. Sara and Ayane, are aware of or even know that she has those feelings and that she has particularly strong ones for Sensei. Due to her small size and personality, she’s often described as incredibly cute.

Relationship: Sensei

Sana only started spending time with Sensei after he started visiting her regularly at work and in her dorm room. Sensei decided to help her with her communication problems, and although she was hesitant at first, she gradually made progress. She sees him as a great teacher who helps her overcome her shortcomings and has grown closer to him to the point where she enjoys his company and sees him as a friend. Although Sana claims that Sensei is just a friend to her, she shows signs of deeper feelings for him. She is jealous that other girls are closer to him, especially her mother and Ayane, and wants to spend more time with him, even inviting him to her dorm room at night during "Inside the Triangle" knowing that Ayane was not there. . However, most of her direct actions appear to be subconscious, as she either does not perceive her actions as a sign of affection, which Ayane has described as a gap between her heart and mind, or insists that her actions mean nothing.

Relationship: Ayane

Despite being polar opposites in personality, Ayane is Sana's closest friend. Sana told Sensei in Summer and Winter that she met her during a very dark period in her life and sees her as a family member. They also live in the same dorm room and are often seen together. She is also aware of Ayane's relationship with Sensei, and although she is happy for her, in Winter and Summer it is shown to be eating her up inside to some extent, although this can only be seen when Sensei decided to spend the night in their dorm room.

Relationship: Sara

Sana’s mother. While she loves her mother, she doesn’t like her affectionate and talkative behavior at times, because she either ends up embarrassing her or tries to get closer with Sensei, something she doesn’t want her to do. If Sensei decides to date Sara, it’s shows how much it would hurt her during "Melatonin", where she found something that made her suspicious and she snapped until Sensei managed to calm her down, but not without promising that he isn’t seeing his mother or would stay away from everyone if he lied.

Relationship: Sana's Brother

Sana had a good relation with her brother and thinks of him fondly. Unlike her mother, she accepted his passing, partly because she had to prevent her mother from going insane. She still hasn’t moved on enough to bring him up in any conversation, though she told Sensei how he died in "Mine (Yours)". She has a lock of hair from him in a box on her dorm room shelf and wears his uniform during her shifts at the bar.