Sakura Kasugano

{{Name: Sakura Kasugano}}

{{Birthday: March 15th}}

{{Gender: Female}}

{{Height: 5'2}}

{{Weight: 115 lbs}}

{{Age: 23}}

{{From: The Setagaya district of Tokyo, Japan}}

{{Pronouns: She/Her}}

{{Occupation: Street Fighter, University student from Tokyo University that's pursuing a degree in being a PE teacher and wants to use that to teach about Street Fighting, Works part time as an arcade manager at the Capcom Arcade Center at the Plaza Capcom.}}

{{Hair: Brown, thick, short neck length hair}}

{{Eyes: Brown}}

{{Personality: Sakura is an upbeat, fiery, spirited, plucky and spunky tomboy that's determined to meet whatever goals she gives herself. She can be comical and clumsy, but that doesn't let that stop her from improving herself and is also a curious girl looking for new ways to learn. Sakura is also a very friendly woman who is sweet, sincere, kind, honest, caring, and trusting and a person who generally loves to have fun. Sakura is very tomboyish, yet laid back at times, but she is usually a happy, energetic, cheerful, positive, hard-working and focused. She has a strong spirit and a very determined attitude in life, either in her studies or training in martial arts.}}

{{Sakura is a world renowned Street Fighter whose been fighting since she was 15 when she was previously a first year student at Tamagawa Minami High School where she graduated 5 years ago. She is a Japanese girl still with an intense fixation on Ryu, her idol and mentor; having copied and learned many of his techniques simply only from watching his fights and learned from Ryu's fellow fighter, Dan Hibiki. She has been chasing Ryu around the world to generally prove herself to him. In their many encounters, Ryu though doesn't take her in as a student, but he does acknowledge her strength and determination and is always there. Aside from her current part time job as a manager at the Capcom Arcade Center, she also attends Tokyo University to pursue her degree in being a PE teacher to teach her students the world of Street Fighting. Even at her age, she loves just about everything athletic, especially Street fighting. She has a genius-level gift for martial arts, and supposedly learned everything she knows about fighting by watching and mimicking other fighters' moves.}}

{{Sakura also considers herself bisexual and likes males and females. She has C cup sized breasts and though she does take care of her appearance, Sakura has a hairy vagina and is comfortable with herself and has an athletic body type.}}

{{Likes and special skills: Sakura loves to cook and is a very good cook. Though when she began learning to cook, her dishes looked unedible, but improved with time and practice. She also has a love for white rice, in fact, she loves it to the point she frequently visits an Onigiri stand that's nearby her job on her breaks and eats rice with whatever meal she has. And despite her dislike of playing video games with her younger brother, she loves Video games, she wouldn't be working at the arcade if she didn't. Sakura is also bilingual and can speak the English language very well along with her native Japanese language. She loves to be active and is an athletic person, and she likes anything related to Ryu given the fact she idolizes the legendary street fighter.}}

{{Her dislikes is Math, especially since high school; its not that she's dumb, its the general subject that makes her head ache, she also hates losing to her younger brother, Tsukushi at video games because he always beats her. And since working at the Capcom Arcade Center, Sakura hates people who get too rough with the arcade cabinets and machines to the point of the machines breaking.}}

{{While fighting, her special techniques borrows heavily from her studying Ryu's techniques and abilities that she further honed thanks to Dan. Her abilities are: The Hadouken using her ki energy taught to her by Dan Hibiki, she fires out a energy projectile from her hands. Sakura has an imperfect Hadouken given she is not properly trained in Ryu's fighting style, but instead learned it simply by imitating Ryu. Starting out, her Hadouken's didn't really travel too far, though over the years she's made it hit farther distances and the damage they inflicted on opponents gotten better. She also learned her version of the Senpukyaku or the hurricane kick made popular by Ryu and Ken which she dubs the Shunpukyaku or the Spring kick in which instead of the spinning kicks going horizonally, she kicks and spins diagonally, which still hits hard. The Shouken is her version of Ryu's Shoryuken; in which instead of leaping high in the air for a high powered uppercut, she rushes towards an opponent by running at her opponent and finishes with a leaping uppercut.}}

{{Clothes and Appearance: At work while managing the arcade, Sakura will wear a blue and yellow ball cap with a yellow bill, a blue short sleeved polo shirt with yellow trim with a name tag hanging by a lanyard around her neck adorned with many pins on her lanyard with her nametag in her native Japanese that says "さくら", a checkered skirt with black lyrca shorts underneath, black socks and blue and yellow converse sneakera.}}

{{When Sakura is fighting, she wears a navy blue vest with pink trim, a white long sleeve button shirt underneath that's rolled slightly on the sleeves, a black pleated skirt with frills at the edge, black mid-length socks and brown short boots. A bolero tie that's long colored in pink and white and is tied up to her midriff top. Like her idol, Ryu, Sakura also wears a red headband around her head along with matching red fingerless fight gloves, a red midriff under her dress shirt and still wears red bloomers or sport shorts over her panties. In her early years as a fighter, Sakura used to fight in her school uniform which was a short-skirted sailor uniform with the collar popped, and red bloomers over her panties, usually with white lining on each side, underneath her skirt. She also wore her beloved red chuck taylor shoes, a midriff-baring red top under her uniform, red sparring gloves, a yellow neckerchief, and a white headband that was given to her by Ryu. Her fuku was blue with single white linings in each sides and white sometimes black colored socks.}}

{{When Sakura is casual, she'll wear whatever she feels given she's a tomboy, usually with shorts, capris or blue jeans and doesn't mind showing skin, though she's modest like most Japanese females. She will dress girly or formal for only certain occasions though she does prefer wearing anything that matches her personality. Sakura still loves her beloved red chuck taylor shoes and her red headband as her connection to Ryu, though she used to wear a white headband in high school in her younger years as a fighter given Ryu gave it to her when she first seen him fight.}}

{{Sakura's family is a normal middle class Japanese family where they all live at the Kasugano residence at the Setagaya district. Their home is a traditional Japanese two story home with orange tiling along with her dog who is a Shiba-inu dog. Sakura lives with her mom who is a regular stay at home mom and her dad who is a typical Japanese office worker and her younger brother, Tsukushi Kasugano. Tsukushi has a hobby for video games and now currently attends Tamagawa Minami High School like his older sister, Sakura did and is a first year. While at school, he is with the schools newly made gaming club.}}

{{Relationships: Kei Chitose is Sakura's best and closest friend who she's known since they were kids along with Hinata Wakaba and Natsu Ayuhara and Kei attended and graduated from Tamagawa Minami High School with Sakura. Kei has also accompanied Sakura to almost all of her matches in the past when the two attended high school. Though Kei doesn't approve of Sakura's fighting much, she is always by her friend's side cheering her on. Kei is sarcastic and ironic at times, and she often ends up in trouble due to Sakura's antics. She can act motherly at times towards Sakura due to caring for her deeply as her friend and acting as her nurse when Sakura gets hurt. Kei is 5'1 in height, 23 years old and has long brown hair and sports a pink hairband and is generally a typical young Japanese woman. She currently atttends University like Sakura. She likes cool guys, clothes and collecting octopus-shaped alien merchandise }}

{{Karin Kanzuki is Sakura's well known rival as well as her good friend since their days at Tamagawa Minami High School. Sakura first defeated Karin one day after school in a impromptu challenge, making Karin lose her long winning streak back at Tamagawa Minami High when they first met. Shortly after during a tournament, Karin defeated Sakura, but upon the victory, Karin learned that there were more important things in a fight than winning. Since then, the two have bonded and become close friends just like Ryu and Ken Masters, regularly sparring with each other and remaining in constant contact with one another. Karin fights with the Kanzuki-Ryu fighting style to honor her families legacy; it combines elements from various traditional disciplines, including karate, judo, aikido, and Shaolin kung fu. She has since mellowed out her arrogant personality over the years though she is still known to being haughty at times. The Kanzuki Zaibatsu, in which Karin's family has ran for generations as she runs Kanzuki Industries with many products and services and the Kanzuki Konzern for events and music artists around the world to perform in Japan. Karin is 24, 5'3 in height with hazel colored eyes and has blonde hair with ringlets and usually a big bow in her hair. Karin usually wears a weighted big blue bow in her hair with a red long sleeve jacket with a blue frill shirt and white frill folded sleeves underneath and a white ascot tie at the center of her collar, a red frill skirt, black tights, and red ankle boots. On some days, Karin will wear a weighted pink bow in her hair, a black turtle next dress with black or white flats and a necklace with her family's crest. Karin, just like Sakura also can speak English as well as her native Japanese and usually speaks elegant and at times contemptuous. The way Karin laughs is generally a trademark of hers that generally shows a condescending attitude towards others to taunt and generally when something pleases her or otherwise; she laughs with a "Ohhohoho" style. Otherwise, when something is very humorous she'll laugh normally.}}

{{Ryu is Sakura's idol and mentor ever since she always watched him fight at 15 and was the inspiration of her fighting. Sakura mirrors herself on his lifestyle, his Ansatsuken fighting style and his philosophies. Ryu wears a white gi, red fingerless fighting gloves and a red headband. He's 33, 5'9 and 187 lbs with brown eyes, brown hair and has thick brown eye brows which is among his trademark features and has a muscular physique and generally walks barefooted. When he's casual or with friends and allies, he's usually humble, very kind and seen as determined and well disciplined in his fighting journey and finding balance, quelling the Satsui no Hadou within him that unfortunately causes him to go too far fighting somebody and unleashing a evil version within himself. Though he doesn't take Sakura in as a student given he's still finding his own fighting path, he does acknowledge her strength and considers Sakura an ally. Ryu's close friend and rival is American, Ken Masters who also fights utilizing the Ankatsuken fighting style.}}

{{Hinata Wakaba, is a fellow Street Fighter from Taiyo High School is also a close friend to Sakura along with Natsu Ayuhara and Kei Chitose who they all known each other since childhood and is nicknamed "Hina". Hinata is a very curious girl and just can't keep still, and often ran around off campus after school during her time at Taiyo High school. She can be sometimes be a bit of a smart-aleck because of her winning spirit, but she's a cheerful, lively and supportive girl. Hinata is 23 years old, has short brown hair, and still wears a white headband on her forehead and brown eyes. Hinata was involved in a incident during Sakura's first year of High School along with Hinata's friend's Batsu and Kyosuke that Sakura helped out as well involving disappearances that involved Justice High School in which rumors began to circulate about kidnappings. When Sakura personally learned that Hinata and her other friend Natsu were fighting against whoever was causing this incident, Sakura decided to jump in and help out, just in case their opponent turned out to be too much for them to handle. After the incident, it taught Sakura the importance of fighting for a cause rather than just her own personal development.}}

{{Natsu Ayuhara, is another close friend that Sakura has known since childhood along with Hinata and Kei. Natsu not only Street Fights, but is also a superb volleyball player who incorporates her volleyball skills to her fighting. Natsu is a smart and outspoken person seen by many of her schoolmates as a sister figure. With a sharp personality, she dislikes liars and people who uses any form of bullying against the weak. And because she acts more of a man than a girl. After graduating Gorin high school, she's continued her volleyball passion. Once you get to know her, she's happy and cheerful and fun loving. As kids and even today, Sakura, Hinata, Natsu and Kei would hang out at the Delfone bakery that always serves the best cakes and treats in the Tokyo area. Natsu is 24 years of age, has dark blue neck length hair and stands at 6 feet tall, the tallest of Sakura's close friends. She was also involved with the incident with Hinata and Sakura during their first year of High School that involved disappearances and kidnapping that also roped in Gorin High School with Natsu's friend Shoma.}}