Yukino Yukinoshita

Yukino Yukinoshita is the first main heroine from the Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru anime and light novels.

Yukino is the student of Class 2J of Sobu High School and also the president of the school's Service Club. She was the lone member until Hachiman Hikigaya joined her.

Yukino is quite popular even for her cold personality. Because of her look and skills in various fields, even Hachiman, who doesn't talk to anyone and doesn't even know his own classmate (Yui Yuigahama), recognized Yukino at the very instant he met her in the club room.

Appearance
Yukino is a beautiful girl with waist-length black hair which is tied with two red ribbons by each shoulder and angular blue eyes. She changed her hairstyle into twin tails when she went out with Hachiman and Komachi Hikigaya (but ended up with just Yukino and Hachiman) to buy a birthday present for Yui. She is seen as flat-chested compared to most of the other female characters, but remains just as beautiful.

Yukino is mostly seen wearing her school uniform, which consists of a black blazer with a white shirt underneath it, a red ribbon tie, a plaid skirt and black stockings up to her knees.

Personality
Yukino is a smart and beautiful who comes from a wealthy family, but she has a tendency to be blunt and often points out faults in other people where normally it would be very hard to do so. Yukino believes that it is the duty of the "exceptional" (a.k.a. herself) to help the less fortunate, which Hachiman refers to as her twisted nobility. She also has a very cold and unfriendly demeanor for which Hachiman nicknames her the "Ice Queen".

Her personality can be seen as exceedingly haughty to some people, including Hachiman. Despite this she is still capable of understanding other people and being kind and compassionate in her own way. According to Hachiman she is peerless in skills and personality.

On a more personal level, she hates to be pointed out to have a smaller chest than other female characters. She always tries to maintain an elegant and dignified appearance, which is strongly evident when she covered her laughter after Hachiman had presented his cultural festival slogan containing heavy criticism of the committee members for slacking off on their duties.

She is a competitive person, willing to win any competition officially and unofficially to prove herself and refuses to lose. There is a number of examples for this in the series, such as when she accepted Shizuka's challenge when asked if she was afraid of losing. Her main driving force is her wish to surpass her sister, going as far as doing what her sister had done in order to show that she could do it just as well.

Despite all this, she sometimes shows her girly side and clumsiness as well later in the series, mostly to Hachiman when they are alone. She seems to like Pan-san, a stuffed panda brand. She even has the real manuscript of the story and its stuffed toy, which Hachiman finds surprising.

She also showed her cold face when Yumiko expressed her idea of Pan-san not being cute. She also asked her friends to be quiet in time of Pan-san bamboo fight. Her obsession for Pan-san is known by both Yui and Hachiman. Yukino is almost always attracted to spots were Pan-san is displayed.

Yukino is also fond of cats and anything cat-related. This is shown throughout the anime series and was focused greatly in the Light novels. She even meowed with Hachiman's cat, Kamakura, causing him to ask her about it in a tone that suggested that he was dubious of her sanity. In Drama CD, it was mentioned by Haruno that Yukino has a hobby of hugging her Pan-san doll and watches cat video on her computer.

According to Hachiman she attracts airheads (Yui and Komachi) and almost all normal boys. Even though she doesn't lie, she sometimes beats around the bush of the topics.

Despite her calm and reserved demeanor, she has a frighteningly darker side. Hachiman describes that she emits an evil aura when she is seriously angry and expressing her loathing about a certain individual. This can be seen when she told her opinion on chain messages senders and the belief that they should be ''eliminated. ''It should be noted that she made certain individuals like Sagawa and Shimoda expelled from during her middle school due to chain messages harassment directed to her. She even claimed that she would crush her enemies face-to-face.

Another incident was when Hachiman asked her for meowing with Kamakura session, she admonished Hachiman in a way that made Hachiman felt if he spoke another word, she would kill him on the spot. At Chiba Village summer camp, she had a serious argument with Yumiko which reduced the latter to tears.The same was witnessed by Yui and Hachiman when Iroha questions of the rumors of Hayama and Yukino.

She sometimes blushes in front of Hachiman, who occasionally sees her excited over little things like going to Destiny Land, etc. In spite of all this she is incredibly bad at directions as mentioned many times in Light novel.

Abilities
She is also good at sports but has no confidence in her stamina (refer to episode 3 of the anime). She also can see through people's personality (refer to episode 4of the anime) and is always honest with her words, though they are often harsh. In addition, she is a good leader as seen when she successfully handled the festival committee in Sagami's stead.

Her athletic skills are showcased in Episode 13. She is also good in academic and extra-curricular activities.Volume 4 mentions that she stands first in all subjects throughout the school. She secured first place in Japanese language, followed by Hayama in second place and Hachiman in third place, an order to which Hachiman referred to as unchanging.

She also won a single match in judo competition as a substitute for Hayato Hayama in Hachiman team using her acrobatics skills. She can also sing and play guitar which is shown in Episode 12. Despite the fact that she doesn't like to stand in front of others.

She is good at cooking and is capable of teaching others cooking, as is shown in episode 1 when she taught Yui how to make cookies, in the OVA when she cooked paella or when she taught others to make chocolate and cookies in episode 12 of season 2.

Yukino is also good in musical instrument and capable of singing infront of a crowd which she normally hate to stand infront of. In Episode 12 (adaptation of Volume 6) Yukino was shown to play a base and singing. In Drama CD, it was mentioned that by Haruno that Yukino loves to play piano.

Trivia

 * Yukino's given name is also in present in her family name. The four other characters that share this characteristic are Yui (Yuigahama), Saki (Kawasaki), Rumi (Tsurumi) and Meguri (Shiromeguri).
 * Yukino is the first and only person in the series to whom Hachiman officially tried to befriend, twice.
 * Part of her name "Yuki" in Japanese means "snow", which probably shows her cold personality.
 * Her full name literally translates into 'the snow beneath the snow'.


 * She tasted her first ramen with Hachiman and Shizuka in Kyoto.


 * She is scared of dogs.
 * She loves the character Pan-san to the extent of having an in-depth knowledge of the item and a year passport for the place where the item is usually bought.
 * She drinks tea in the volunteers club in a fancy porcelain cup with its own dish.
 * In many ways, both Hachiman and Yukino are similar:
 * Both of them were ostracized by their classmates.
 * Both of them have experienced harassment of some sort.
 * Both of them at one point gave harsh criticism to someone (Sagami for Hachiman/Yumiko for Yukino), causing both of them to break down.
 * Both of them prefer to distance themselves from society, and have their own perception on them.


 * She is a cat-lover. She takes in things which are mostly related to cats which also include coloring books, picture book, etc.She is often seen reading a book with a black cat on its cover
 * Yukino Yukinoshita has won an award as Best Female Character Award at the 2015 NewType Awards held in Japan last October 10, 2015. However, her voice actress, Saori Hayami wa only nominated as Best Voice Actress.
 * It is widely theorized by fans that Hayato's "Yu" is her. At the summer camp, Hayato tried to talk with Hachiman about someone whose name started with Yu before being interrupted. Furthermore, he also mentioned that an anonymous "she" is keeping an aye on Hachiman. It should be noted that they were once close friends.