Yūko Ichihara
Yūko Ichihara is a female anime and manga character who features in xxxHolic.
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Biography
Yūko Ichihara (Japanese: 壱原侑子, Hepburn: Ichihara Yūko)
Yūko was the owner of a mysterious shop in Tokyo where she was a dealer in wishes as she will grant the sincere wish of anyone who was willing to make an appropriate sacrifice in return. However, the price is always equivalent to the weight of the wish, no more, no less. In the case of Watanuki, who sought to be rid of the spirits that plague him, the price was a long period of frequently demeaning servitude. As a result, she now has Watanuki as a sort of "personal assistant" to clean, cook, and perform other tasks she considers beneath her. She keeps Watanuki close and searches for him whenever he was in trouble in order to protect him. This is a connection she shares with Doumeki who's always by his side in the hardest moments due to his ability for exorcism. When it comes to the gastronomical requests, she always challenges Watanuki to prepare the most varied dishes, which the boy makes without much problems unless some complaints, since he is very good in the kitchen. Yūko is apparently one of the few people with the power to send people to multiple worlds, such that she has been aptly named the Dimension Witch. The travelers Syaoran, Fai D. Flourite, and Kurogane, the protagonists of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, are sent to her from their respective home worlds in order to gain this ability. However, to gain the ability to traverse dimensions and the related abilities embodied in a being known as Mokona Modoki, they are required to pay a price that equates the power required to grant the wish. At the shop, Maru and Moro, two child-like beings created with Yuuko's magic, also reside there. Their full names, Marudashi and Morodashi, are translated roughly to mean streaking and flashing, a play on the "xxx" in the title and possibly alluding a raunchy sense of humor on Yuuko's part. According to Yūko, Maru and Moro cannot leave the shop or touch the Mokonas because they have no souls. The two have the function of grounding the shop to its unique location between dimensions. In later chapters, Moro and Maru are seen sleeping, and Yūko comments that they are focusing on keeping the house in place. Apart from this function, the two greet visitors, assist Yūko, and annoy Watanuki.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, tall, Yūko Ichihara was a slender woman with pale skin and black hair down to the back of her knees. She came to be known as the Witch of Dimensions and as the Dimension Witch due to her powers and abilities.
She claimed that nothing in this world was coincidence and that everything was inevitable.
Powers and abilities
When doing magic, Yuko often summoned a magic circle in order to conduct her spells.
Among her other abilities beside granting wishes, traversing dimensions, she can also create gods for other worlds, manipulate time, and speak through Maru and Moro as well through other people's minds. She effortlessly dodges most of his attacks and is seemingly unscathed from a direct hit.
She was the owner of a mysterious shop in Tokyo where she dealt in wishes as she will grant the sincere wish of anyone who was willing to make an appropriate sacrifice in return.
Notes
- Yūko Ichihara was created by Clamp where she featured in the setting of the xxxHolic universe.
In other media
Television
Films
Appearances
- xxxHolic:
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