Yuzu Aihara

Yuzu Aihara is the main protagonist from the Citrus anime and manga.

Yuzu has a younger stepsister, Mei Aihara, who moved into her house after her mother married Mei's father Shō Aihara.

In the AWA fics, Yuzu made her debut at Chapter 3 of All Worlds Alliance Missions - Maken-ki! fic.

Appearance
Yuzu is a very pretty girl with dyed chestnut blonde hair. She has emerald green eyes and has two piercings in each ear. She is very fashionable and keeps up with the latest trends. Her natural hair color is brown, and during the 17th and 18th chapters of the manga, she temporarily wore a jet black wig.

Personality
Yuzu is a self-proclaimed gyaru. She is a daring, outspoken, and often shameless girl who enjoys dressing up, wearing make up, and customizing her school uniform, which clashes with her school's rules, often leading to problems with the Student Council. She emphasizes what relationships have to be like in order to cover up her own inexperience with them. She attempts to be as girly as possible and detests the academy's no make-up policy. From the beginning of the manga she is portrayed as a "dumb blonde," yet slowly, as the manga progresses, her more domestic and caring attributes are manifested. She is a creative cook and will often cook for herself and Mei when their mother is busy working.

Despite her attitude, with hard work, she is shown to be able to get good grades on tests. Despite Yuzu acting like a child at times, she does her best to make the people she cares about happy. She is considerate, yet clumsy, and brash. She is incredibly bubbly and her optimistic side often manifests itself in her conquests for Mei. She cares not for school rules or upper-class views as she's more interested in what society as a whole thinks of her.

After finding real love she became considerably happy about it wanting to show her affection more. However, she found out the hard way that not everyone will approve of her relationship with Mei, leading her into a state of depression and resulting in failing her exams. It wasn't until she got encouragement from Mei that she snapped out of it.

Trivia

 * According to Suzuran, she's right-handed.
 * Yuzu was the one who made The Great Operation to be Happy Love Love with Mei!! notebook.
 * Yuzu reads Momoiro Shimai.


 * "Yuzu" (?) is the name of a citric fruit, which is possibly the reason why the name of the manga is Citrus.
 * "柚子" can be also be read as "Yuzuko", as "柚" is read as "Yuzu" and 子 is read as "Ko". However, it was confirmed by Saburo Uta on her twitter that the correct reading of her name is indeed "Yuzu".[8] It is also confirmed in each volume/chapter's character list.
 * "Aihara" (?) means "indigo field."
 * "Okogi" (?) is formed by the combination of the kanjis  ( lit. small?),  (lit. here?), and  (lit. tree?). Thus, it can be interpreted as "this small tree."


 * In the AWA fics, Yuzu is the ex-girlfriend of Taisuke Sawanaga.