Yoichi Saotome 「早乙女 与一, Saotome Yoichi」 is one of the main characters of the manga series. He is a member of the as well as 's squad in the .
Contents[]Appearance
Yoichi is an average-height boy with medium length, brown hair and large, dark green eyes. In the manga, his hair appears spiky, less bouncy and thinner than his anime appearance.
At the beginning of the series, he is shown wearing his school uniform: a gray with light blue design .
He wears the standard JIDA uniform which consists of a long-sleeved black coat with light green details including the which has a brown passing diagonally over his right shoulder and two rows of gold buttons on the front. Along with that, he wears a pair of white gloves and a white web belt with a gold waist-plate. He also wears the uniform trousers and black boots which go over the trouser's leggings. He usually wears the cap and cape as well.
ADVERTISEMENTPersonality
Yoichi has an equilibrium of kindness and altruism, giving him an optimistic and sweet personality. This gives him a strong mental balance against his demon, who takes the form of his sister. He lacked passion to kill vampires and fight and avenge his sister originally, but as he got to know his new "family", he began to see the reason that he was there. Yoichi does dislike conflict amongst friends, but conflict on the battle field doesn't bother him anymore.
Yoichi is usually the peace maker around Shinoa's Squad. Yuichiro and Kimizuki are usually fighting, and Yoichi often ends up in the middle of it. He has developed a love for his "family" that impacted his personality greatly. He used to get very nervous and stutter a lot, but the closer he got to the Squad, the more confident he got.
History
Tomoe telling Yoichi to not come out from under the bed
When the vampires attacked, Yoichi and his sister were in their room. His sister pushed him under the bed and told him not to come out for any reason. Then the vampire opened the door, grabbed his sister, and fed on her until he dropped her corpse on the ground. Yoichi watched from underneath his bed, unable to do anything.
Like his sister, he was one of the children that was being experimented on by the Hyakuya Sect to create a weapon of mass destruction, as part of the 'Seraph of the End' plan in destroying the world. knew of this beforehand, thanks to intel provided by eight years ago.
StorySecond Shibuya High School Arc
Yoichi being bullied
Yoichi wanted to become part of the Moon Demon Squad of the JIDA, claiming his intention is to avenge his sister. He asked help from some students (, , and another student), who claimed one was accepted as a member of the Moon Demon Company. Since he failed the test the first time, he wanted to be able to retest on getting in. They bullied him and made him run errands in order to receive their help, but the students lied about the Moon Demon Company. He is the first student to get close to Yū, and Yū tries to fight the bullies until informs him that harming a civilian will lengthen his sentence. When a vampire breaks loose from a nearby laboratory, Yū attacks it. As the vampire is about to drink from a student she captured, Yoichi tackles her, saving the girl. When Yū is outside later, Yoichi tackles him with a hug, accidentally making him pass out after hugging him so ferociously with a dislocated shoulder. When Yū wake up, Yoichi is at his side with Shinoa. Since Yoichi counts as Yū's first friend, they are both enlisted in a vampire extermination unit and join the Moon Demon Company.
Later on, those same bullies chase down Yoichi, asking him to make them his disciples. They ask him to save Yūji, who entered a class-1 restriction zone and became possessed by a demon. Yu grabs onto the axe Cursed Gear, and Yoichi is there with Shinoa when he comes to.
