Anko Uehara (上原 杏子, Uehara Anko) is a student of Holy Forest Academy and its Class 3-4.
Date of birth: March 24th. Mentioned somewhere in middle of series.
Appearance[]
Anko has long brown hair and brown eyes. Anko's hair is styled loose with the flanks held in twin tails with red hair ties. She is of average height for girls her age.
Personality[]
Anko is a brash and rude kid. She is a bully, often threatening and hazing Yoshikawa. She is also shown to be a spoiled kid, abusing her parent's positions to get away from trouble.
She mellows down as the story went on, even reporting Aizawa's plot. In Episode 39, it was revealed that Anko was once a bully victim who was bullied by her own brother Yuichi when they were children in the past and was the one who witnessed her father who strictly scolds her brother for his lackluster grades, leading her brother to bully her by snapping her doll's neck as a way for blaming her for his troubles. Her brother's bullying had led her to become a bully.
As the manga progresses, she has seemingly dropped her brash attitude, most definitely when Yoshikawa is around.
History[]
Anko is the daughter of the PTA president. She also has an older brother, Yuichi Uehara.
Her hatred towards weak boys was caused by her brother's bullying when she was younger. He went as far as destroying Anko's doll even though she had not done anything against Yuichi, making her wonder why her brother hates her.
In the present day, Anko demonstrates her hatred towards weak boys when she bullies Noboru Yoshikawa along with two of her friends which made Noboru try to commit suicide twice. Yoshikawa was saved by Onizuka twice and they are disciplined by him when they are about to celebrate by singing karaoke. However in Episode 6 when her mother wanted Onizuka to dismissed with the rest of the PTA members, she supports her in secret until Yoshito Kikuchi exposed their ruse by hearing their conversations from being recorded despite Yoshikawa had showed the evidence of her bullying and hazing. She angrily blames her mother for her work in the PTA after exposing her ruse and her actions of bullying only to be scolded by Onizuka. She would later help Onizuka who was later framed by Miyabi Aizawa from the money embezzlement. In Episodes 37 through 41 where she and her friends remain hostile to Yoshikawa but she soon gains a crush towards him after he saves her during one of Onizuka's activities in their trip to Okinawa. She was last seen in Episode 42 when they remember about their former homeroom teacher last year.
Relationships[]
Eikichi Onizuka[]
Anko is one of the first who tries to get Onizuka actually getting just a few steps away from succeeding in that. When Onizuka finds out that Noboru was bullied by Anko's trio he states that no one should be bullied in school and whoever perform such an act should be bullied. He therefore sets up a plan in order to get revenge for Noboru with Noboru. Anko targeted Noboru a second time (though in the manga she is seen bullying Noboru only once meaning that there is no ruling out that there might have been other occasions in which it occurred) because she had seen him in a good mood since Onizuka took class 3-4 homeroom teacher position and deducing that it was because of him, she beat Noboru, got him undress, took picture of him and made him swear that he would not tag along Onizuka anymore or else his pictures would be distributed throughout the city. Eventually while Anko was celebrating at a karaoke of how they treated Noboru, Onizuka went inside their karaoke room, tied them up and pulled off their skirts and underwear leaving their butts completely naked (in the anime he left their underwear on). Afterwards he wrote apologetic words on their butts and made Kikuchi take pictures of them.
Eventually however, after failing to get Onizuka fired due to Kikuchi and Noboru's hard work she was given a life lesson by Onizuka who told her that she should not incriminate anyone else from herself for what happened. Since then Anko has been giving her verbal support to anyone who wanted to harm Onizuka but has not acted against him. Eventually she gets close enough to Onizuka to offer him a million yen in order to save him from getting fired another time, although he utterly rejects the money.[1]
She is then advised by Onizuka about what she should do regarding the feelings that she has for Noboru, and although Anko at first tries to deny them, Onizuka eventually manages to get her to admit that she likes Noboru, this really helped Anko as she was spiritually able to progress since then and develop what she felt for Noboru.
Noboru Yoshikawa[]
At the beginning of the manga, Anko bullied Noboru non-stop since she viewed him as a weak person and student; this was particularly because Anko hated weak people. Eventually, Eikichi Onizuka found out what was going on and avenged Noboru, allowing the latter to co-operate with him. Anko labelled Noboru a coward as he relied on the homeroom teacher.
However, her attitude toward Noboru dramatically changes during the Okinawa trip. After falling off a cliff, she is saved by Noboru multiple times in an escape from a dangerous cavern. This makes her realize that Noboru might have been something else than the weak boy she always thought he was. When she finally starts to understand that she has feelings for him, she is shocked and tries to deny them as people would laugh at her if they knew she liked Noboru. Thanks to Onizuka's help, however, she is able to cross over this barrier and admit to herself that she is infatuated with the boy, so much that she would be ready to fight for his pride.
The love she feels for Noboru however is puts her into a hard situation, as a girl like her, with her reputation and beauty, would be able to get a cooler and much more attractive boy than Noboru. Her difficulties are noticed when she and Noboru meet her childhood friend Rinka and her boyfriend Mah at a summer festival, who laugh at Noboru for not being at Anko's level. However, Noboru's confidence and strong character allowed them to prove to Rinka and Mah that Noboru is more than what he looks, allowing Anko to finally acknowledge him.
Other classmates[]
Anko seems to be fairly well respected among the class, due to her reputation and family.
Family[]
At first, Anko did not seem to really treasure the bond that she shared with her mother. This gave Anko a reason to use her for her own benefits and showing a totally fake side of her, leading her mother to think that is she was a dutiful daughter.
Anime & Manga Differences[]
Anime[]
- Anko stated that she had family problems.
- Anko and Noboru Yoshikawa get found by Eikichi Onizuka and Urumi Kanzaki in the chapel, after they had been swimming in the underwater tunnel, in the dark underwater caves.
- Anko has a dream a being alone together with Noboru on the beach under the starry night and Noboru confessing his feelings to her. In the manga, she dreams of letting Noboru stay inside their hotel room not having him sleep outside so he doesn't get sick being sweet to him and becomes panicked when Noboru approaches her while she's trying to sleep attempting to get into her bed with her before waking up.
Manga[]
- It is not true that Anko is having family problems
- Anko has a Diner Club International card (which expired in April 1999), in the anime she has a totally different card.
- Anko and Noboru Yoshikawa stand and leave by their own feet out of the cave to do a fire on the outside. They are later found there by Fuyutsuki sensei and the whole class in an awkward position, after Anko had a jumpscare hugging Noboru because of finding beetles in her clothes.
- Anko was never caught while shopping for love items in Okinawa by Fukuroda-sensei.
Quotes[]
- "What if I do?! I'm not ashamed to like him"
- "He may be shorter than me and maybe he's not the coolest looking guy in the world! And maybe he is a video game nerd and maybe he isn't good at school! And maybe he looks like a clown with his big feet and bowl-cut 'do. And maybe all he ever does is watching cartoons and get picked on by big girls. Yeah, maybe, but you know what?! I like him anyway a LOT!"
- "I like him! I like him! I like him! I like him so much it's making my body shake. You got a problem with that?!"
- "It doesn't matter if he's shorter than me. It's only a single step worth of difference between us. All I have to do is take that one, little step...and move five centimeters...to the other side"
Etymology[]
- The name Anko means "apricot" (杏) (an) and "child" (子) (ko).
- Anko's surname Uehara means "above, top, upper" (上) (ue) and "field, plain" (原) (hara).
Trivia[]
- Anko is one of the few girls strong enough to fight a guy and she herself stated that she had to grow up having to beat up a few guys.
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- ↑ Great Teacher Onizuka Ch. 85