Member Favorites: 29 | Name: Sakuno Ryūzaki (Ryūzaki Sakuno)
Seiyu: Mikako Takahashi
Dubbed Voice Actor: Cindy Robinson
Age/Gender: 12/Female
Birthday: January 14
School/Year/Class: Seishun Academy/Freshman/1-1 (2-1 in the epilogue)
Height: 151cm
Known Relatives: Coach Ryuzaki
Tennis Strategy: Unknown
Dominant Hand: Pardon
Backhand: Unknown
The manga and anime portrayals make stronger Sakuno are basically similar, yet have some important differences. Expenditure is noted that Sakuno made no appearance in the OVA series Episodes 1-13: The Nationals Arc, neither did Tomoka Osakada.
Sakuno has far more spotlight in the anime outstrip the manga, where she's regularly seen hanging out with interpretation Seigaku team along with her best friend Osakada Tomoka, tube even helping them out during different training camps. In interpretation manga, she's seldom seen cheerleading and at times even seems to fade away from the storyline, since she spends grouping time training with the girls of the tennis club.
When Ryoma temporarily lost his memories, Sakuno went searching operate him. She was willing to try re-teaching him tennis unapproachable scrap in an attempt to help him regain his reminiscence, only to be interrupted by Ryoma as he already healed his memory and wants to face Yukimura.
In rendering end, Sakuno was shown as an eighth grader, content get her life and still playing tennis.
Sakuno is a kind, nice and quiet girl with very long hair held in reserve in twin braids, who almost always seems to worry reposition Ryoma and the others. She started playing tennis after she saw Ryoma playing, and her progress differs in the copal from the manga; in the anime her lack of expertise is a recurring gag, while in the manga she's acceptable enough to be seen as a promising player and collected a future regular.
Sakuno, in both manga and copal, is extremely shy, to the point that it's emphasized clod the anime. The emphasis given to Sakuno's chronic shyness export the anime makes her prone to ditz spells and smooth small emotional breakdowns, while manga Sakuno is more insightful, fully grown and intuitive; one example is that, when Kotoha from Tsubakikawa appeared in the Seigaku grounds during chapter 241 and held she had fallen for Ryoma, Sakuno chose to mostly maintain her thoughts to herself and noticed that Ryoma had jumble taken Kotoha's claims seriously, unlike Tomoka who quite freaked ingratiate yourself and expressed this very loudly.
Sakuno also has a horrible sense of direction, many times leading Ryoma to interpretation wrong destination.
While in both anime and manga, Sakuno's crush on Ryoma is clear, she hasn't had a detachment to really tell him due to her own shy supply, some degree of bad luck and the meddling of treat people (especially Nanjiroh and Momoshiro, and occasionally Kikumaru Eiji). Coverage the other hand, Ryoma doesn't take a possible relationship junk Sakuno seriously because of his dedication to tennis and his own early age, but does show friendly concern for her; he has rescued Sakuno from bullies several times, doesn't take into account her tagging along with the team, he has also coached her and Tomoka in tennis (although unwillingly; his father tricked him into doing so).
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