Yuko Kazama

Yuko is a character in Breathe Deeply being treated for an illness and enjoying her time with Sei and Oishi.

Personality
Yuko maintains a positive outlook on events. She is comfortable around Sei and Oishi and enjoys their company. She appeared unsettled by the possibility of having a transplant considering it like waiting for someone’s death. Yuko voiced that if the day comes when she cannot breathe on her own, is unable to think or speak and cannot see the world or Sei’s face then she wants to disappear like the snow.

Appearance
She has long dark dark hair reaching over her shoulders. Yuki’s fringe partially covers her thin eyebrows and she has large eyes. She is seen wearing a white long sleeved shirt as well as a crucifix on a chain worn around her neck.

History
Yuko is remembered by Sei, where she heard that people and plastic are all made of the same building blocks in terms of the combinations of elements. Closing the book she was reading she tells Sei that it is alright. Being ready she does not want him to sorry about her, she still has lots of time left. Taking Sei’s hand, Yuko appears happy to think that they are made of the same thing.

Oishi joins them in her room and Yuko asks him what is wrong. Realising that it is Sei, she introduces him as her friend that she has known since forever.

Later she comes across Sei and Oishi, with her tests over Yuko takes a hold of both their arms and takes them outside. Since she came to this coastal area her irregular pulse has gotten better. Yuko explains that the hospital director is a friend of her dads and she hopes the experimental treatments they are trying can cure her.

Leaning out the hospital room window she cheerfully waves goodbye to them both before being overcome with exhaustion.

She enjoys herself with Sei and Oishi sightseeing in various locations. Later she lies open eyed in bed unresponsive to a nurse performing CPR on her.

One winter, it is recalled that Yuko happened upon Sei and asked him to walk her home. Holding his hand Yuko tells him she has to go to America for some tests with a transplant being considered. After stating her desires should her condition ever deteriorate, Yuko awaits Sei to kiss her. When her dad shows up she candidly states that Sei was just trying to kiss her and departing Yuko waves goodbye to Sei.

Yuko was kept alive on a respirator but her wishes were kept in mind by Sei who passed them onto her father. Yuko passed away and was cremated in Kobe.