Ureshiko Asaba

Ureshiko Asaba, also known as Agnes Bell, is the main protagonist from the Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo anime and manga.

On the surface, Ureshiko Asaba appears to be a 26-year-old housewife who helps to run a boarding house. In reality she is a magical girl from the world of Realm. When she transforms into her magical girl persona, Ureshiko is called Agnes Bell, and her job is to protect the Wonderland—an artificial town created by her mother, who protected the town in the same way many years ago.

In the AWA fics, Ureshiko is listed as a purchased prisoner from the Slave Fortress.

Appearance
Ureshiko has a pink, semi-long hair with spiky ends and has green hair.

As Agnes Bell, Ureshiko wears a red frilly headband with star-shaped clips on it, a red-frilled neck choker, a black jagged-cape with bells at the ends and ribbon-brooch over a red sleeveless leotard with white frills, a white show-skirt, a red high-heeled boots with a star logo and red latex gloves with a star logo.

Personality
Both transformed and when she is in her civilian guise, Ureshiko is quite clumsy, and nobody is surprised when she falls down stairs, or walks into light posts. She also becomes overwhelmingly upset over relatively small occurrences such as leaving laundry out in the rain and putting the wrong condiments on her food.

Ureshiko has a complex character that develops throughout the series. At the start she seems to be a mature, confident woman, but as the series progresses she begins to doubt her place as the Manager and as a wife. However, she sincerely hopes that her dream of allowing the Wonderland to flourish on its own will come true, and so excuses herself from giving up the position by saying that she is young at heart. Despite being married, Ureshiko lives with her surrogate grandmother in a boarding house and begins to have romantic feelings for Tatsumi, the young man living there. Ureshiko still cares a great deal for her estranged husband, and thought that he would be the only one for her, and so she feels conflicted in her love for Tatsumi. Thoughts of her husband are one of the few things that can ruin Ureshiko's usually bright mood, and she relies on her friends to help recover her confidence. By the midpoint in the series, Ureshiko is able to ask Tamotsu for a divorce, but he sternly refuses, even when she clearly states that she no longer loves him.

Abilities
As Agnes Bell, Ureshiko is able to use her powers to fly, create protective barriers, heal wounds, and relieve fatigue, and repair any damage done to the Wonderland by the other magical girls. Given her status as the Manager of the Wonderland, Ureshiko is able to create or destroy life while she is within the limits of the city—she displays this to Tatsumi in a later episode by creating a butterfly out of thin air. She is also able to use the Managerial Ring as an alarm when other magical girls are performing spells. Ureshiko also seems to have some magical abilities even when she has not transformed, including levitation of objects, though her precision is not as great. Ureshiko's wand ornaments take the form of the sun and moon, perhaps as a symbol of her need to be vigilant at all times.

Trivia

 * Ureshiko and Tamotsu aren't officially divorced, but they don't live together anymore. Ureshiko comes over to help him clean once in a while. In the end, they presumably do get divorced amicably, since Tamotsu told Kagura to treat her well.
 * If a Magical Girl kisses someone, she will lose all her powers. Whether actual sex has the same effect or not isn't explored. However, Ureshiko is once shown to be naked with her husband, so it's not unreasonable to assume they have had sex.
 * The ending theme song "Jewelry" is sung by Kikuko Inoue, the voice of Ureshiko.
 * Ureshiko is 26-years old.
 * Ureshiko chose a Japanese-style wedding instead of the western-style she really wanted, because the western ceremony requires a kiss.