Satsuki Yumizuka (弓塚 さつき, Yumiduka Satsuki?), also known as "Sacchin" (さっちん?) (her nickname, a contraction of "Satsuki-chan") is a character from Tsukihime. She is a girl with an unrequited crush on Shiki. Her character image song, as stated in Geccha, is T'EN VA PAS, performed by Harada Tomoyo.
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Background
Satsuki's crush on Shiki began when her sports club was trapped inside a room after-hours in the winter, freezing cold as they had all still been in their gym outfits. When it seemed as though nobody was going to come and rescue them, Shiki suddenly appeared and freed them by cutting the lines of the lock. She developed feelings for him from that moment onward, but he had never really noticed her.
Appearance
Vampire Satsuki
Satsuki's overall appearance is mundane. She wears a school outfit, consisting of a white shirt with a yellow jumper over it, a cute blue bowtie, and a blue miniskirt, along with shoes and socks. She also has heavily twin-tailed brown hair and brown eyes, though they became red eyes after her transformation into a vampire.
Her hair appears short at first, but concept art in Geccha 2 reveals its full length after her hair is no longer tied up. She is described as becoming pretty by Neco-Arc after her transformation into a vampire according to what had been planned for her route.
Personality
She has an unrequited crush on Shiki, who only sees her as another classmate. She plays somewhat different roles in the game and the anime. In the game, she is shy and has somewhat of an inferiority complex while she is more outgoing in the anime. She is also quite popular between her classmates, but she does not seem to care about it.
Due to her lack of a route in the original game, she is often made fun of in comedic segments, and she is especially tormented by Neco-Arc.
Development
Concept art for a 'wild' vampire Satsuki in her planned route.
TYPE-MOON had originally planned for her to be a heroine in the story, as explained in the Tsukihime PLUS-DISC story Geccha and alluded to several times in Kagetsu Tohya. It is hinted that her scenario will be included in the Tsukihime remake.
Kotone of Fate/Zero was to originally be named Satsuki, but it was changed upon remembering it was Yumizuka's name. Gen Urobuchi forgot not only about the name, but that she even had a name.[1]
Role
Tsukihime
One day she finally worked up the courage to walk home with Shiki, and convinced him to promise her that if she is ever in trouble, he will come and help her. When she goes to investigate rumors about Shiki wandering around town late at night, SHIKI appears and bites her, turning her into a vampire. Most people simply die or possibly turn into a weak zombie when bitten, but Satsuki was an extremely rare exception who not only became a vampire, but quickly gained control over her powers as well. Her fate depends on the route.
Arcueid's route
Satsuki has a minor role in Arcueid's route. She is only mentioned to have disappeared from class and is never heard from again. Presumably, she either didn't survive getting bit by SHIKI, or was killed by either Arcueid or Ciel.
In the anime, based on that route, Satsuki plays a more supportive role, and is never bitten by SHIKI. She is portrayed as somewhat more outgoing and a mutual friend of both Shiki and Arihiko Inui, and confesses to Shiki near the end of the series.
In the manga, after the conversation Satsuki had with Shiki as they walked home together, she tells him that she is going with her parents to a certain hotel. It is news of Yumizuka's supposed death during Nrvnqsr Chaos's raid on the same hotel Satsuki went that finally prompts Shiki to action against the vampire. However, she is shown to be fine, because she could not go to the hotel. Like in the anime, she is a mutual friend of Shiki and Arihiko.
Ciel's route
In Ciel's route she only appears when she joins a conversation between Shiki and Arihiko, as they talk about the recent murders in town. Shiki even starts wondering why did she join them, because she is just a classmate. She suffers the same fate as in Arcueid's route.
Akiha's route
Satsuki biting Shiki before she gets stabbed
Shiki sees Arcueid and like in the former routes, he has the urge to kill her, but at that moment, Satsuki appears. As he had been looking for her, knowing that she has been absent from school, he follows her. Shiki then notices that something is wrong with her and follows her to an alley, when he sees four bloodied corpses. Terrified, he runs away to find Satsuki, who starts teasing him and appears to mistake the situation as Shiki killing those people. He notices that her hands are soaked in blood, and Satsuki reveals it was she who had killed those people, but only because she needed their blood to live, although Shiki is unable to understand. She then runs away, promising to become a great vampire and to see Shiki again.
The next day, Shiki goes to look for her at the shopping district, but he ends up at the park. She tells him that she always loved him since high school the first time he talked with her. However, Shiki does not remember it at all. She then asks if he likes her, as he answers that he has no idea, because he never noticed her, but he cannot leave her alone in that state. As soon as he finishes saying it, Satsuki starts coughing blood painfully and bites Shiki's neck, trying to turn him into a vampire to be with her forever. She then reveals that she always knew of his murderous impulses, because she stalked him. That was the reason why she never got the courage to talk to him, but felt attracted to it somehow. However, her bite has no effect on him and she begs him to help her. Remembering his promise to help her, he attacks her and kills her as she tries to bite him again. As she dies, he apologizes to her for not being able to save her as she says that he could never have been with someone like her and she loved him because he is a kind person. With these last words, she turns into ashes and vanishes.
These events would continue to haunt Shiki for the rest of the scenario, and he didn't want Akiha to share the same fate as Satsuki.
Hisui's route
Satsuki after being attacked by Shiki
Hisui tells Shiki that Satsuki called the Tohno house and requests he see her at the park. When he goes there, he sees Satsuki breathing with difficulty as she scratches her throat. He runs towards her, but she stops him. He asks her again if she killed all those people, which she confirms as she taunts him. She then asks if he likes her, but he answers that he never had any special feelings for her. She then proceeds to try to turn him into a vampire, but he is able to overcome it because he cuts the lines of the blood she used. He then has a murderous urge to kill her and does so without a second thought. Before dying, she says that she is happy because that was the first time that Shiki looked at her with serious eyes.
Kohaku's route
Kohaku tells Shiki that Satsuki went to the Tohno house to look for him. Shiki runs off to find her, mostly unsuccessfully. He does catch a glimpse of Satsuki, who now has red eyes due to being vampirized, but she runs away from him. Shiki goes looking for her and he is just about to give up and go home when he hears a noise from a nearby alleyway. He decides to investigate and finds the alley covered in blood and corpses. Satsuki admits that she did it and begs Shiki for help before running off. Later, Hisui receives a phone call from Satsuki, who is waiting for Shiki in the park.
When Shiki arrives, she asks him what he thinks of her, knowing that he never noticed her. When he tells her that he never had any feelings on her, she attacks him, trying to turn him into a vampire so he can never leave her. The ending is the same as Hisui's route.
Kagetsu Tohya
In Kagetsu Tohya, she is a posthumous character. She briefly appears as a ghost in Drinking, Dreaming Moon, alongside SHIKI. Apparently Shiki’s consciousness wasn’t enough for him to see her.
Melty Blood
Satsuki's ending
In Melty Blood ReAct, she appears in the arcade mode, and is a playable character. The scenario suggests that she did indeed become a vampire, but Shiki did not kill her. Nasu mentioned in a doujin anthology about Ciel (月の彼方、永遠の眼鏡 TYPE-MOON作品集) that Melty Blood was written using the events after the "Satsuki Normal End", whereas the manga version of Melty Blood suggests that Shiki did indeed kill her. She seems to have become good friends with fellow tragic vampire Sion, and together forms the "Back Alley Alliance".
In Melty Blood: Actress Again, she notices that Sion had gone somewhere and searches for her, Encountering Roa (who she remembers as a tragic vampire like herself who is forgotten by nearly everyone and tries to befriend) and Riesbyfe along the way, until she finds the Dust of Osiris and defeats her. Afterwards, she is seen roaming the cities with Sion and Riesbyfe (the newest member of the Back Alley Alliance).[2][3]
Kagetsu Tohya
In "The Tohno Family Con Game", the whole cast plays an elaborate game of tag for Kohaku's sake. She particaptes but is successfully by SHIKI who uses his power as her 'parent' vampire to paralyze her.
In "Drinking, Dreaming Moon", she is seen talking with SHIKI in the afterlife, with her thanking SHIKI for his message to Shiki.
Carnival Phantasm
Satsuki in Carnival Phantasm
She makes small appearances in Carnival Phantasm and is mocked mercilessly due to her lack of appearance. Unlike her appearance in the Tsukihime anime, where she appears outgoing and friendly towards the other girls, in Carnival Phantasm she is completely ignored by them, even by her close friends Sion and Riesbyfe and even Shiki himself cannot remember her name.
Other Appearances
She is the main heroine in Back Alley Satsuki. Ultimate Satsuki (アルティメットさつき, Arutimetto Satsuki?) is the final character to beat in the event. Her design and font theme is a shout-out to Gen Urobuchi's other work.
Abilities
Satsuki's exact status remains a mystery, but she had quickly advanced in rank as a vampire, going directly from human to being a Dead Apostle. She has a Reality Marble, Depletion Garden (枯渇庭園, Kokatsu Teien?), which rapidly decreases the mana of the area where the Reality Marble is expanded.[4] It is similar to Akiha Tohno's Plundering ability, but drains and dissipates the mana in the environment rather than absorbing the magical energy of a single target. It is extremely effective against Magi who need mana to attack or Elemental that require it in order to exist, but it has no actual effect on creatures that are cut off from the world, such as humans who don't survive on mana. This is uncommon even for powerful vampires and would rank her close to the Dead Apostle Ancestors as she even possesses the Mystic Eyes of Enchantment. These facts seem to suggest she had an extremely high magical potential to begin with, but the exact details are unknown.
- Sacchin Arm (さっちんアーム, Satchin armu?) is a name attached to all of Satsuki's various throwing skills.[5]
- Let's go~! (行っくよ～！, Ikkuyo~!?)
- (掴んだものを落とすさっちんダンク?)
- Do not disturb ...! (邪魔しないで……！, Jama shinai de......!?)
- Sorry, but just one bite! (一口だけごめんなさいっ！?)
- (ダッシュで空回るさっちんアーム?)
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References
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[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Kotone [Person's name], p.095-096 Kotone [Person's name]
Rin’s classmate, who was kidnapped by Gilles and Uryuu, umm…a girl with a muddled fate.
During the first draft, the name “Satsuki” was picked without thinking, the author forgot about Sacchin’s real name up until the original author’s punishment – he even forgot the fact that Sacchin had a real name.
Yumizuka Satsuki fans all over the world, we must respectfully apologize.
Kinoko: “Fujibuchi, be a little more considerate…”
Gen: “If she (the target of the teasing) is not called Satsuki, she’s not moe.”
Somehow this conversation happened but didn’t happen.コトネ【人名】
凛のクラスメイトで、ジルと龍之介により拉致され、まぁその、ゴニョゴニョな運命を辿る少女。
第一稿においては何の考えもなく「サツキ」という名称が与えられていたが、原作者から鉄拳制裁くらう
まで、筆者はさっちんの本名を忘れていた――つうか、さっちんに本名があることすら失念してますた。
全国の弓塚さつきファンの皆様に謹んでお詫び申し上げまする。
茸「藤淵……もう少し、手心というものを……」
虚「（被虐対象は）サツキでなければ萌えませぬ」
なんて会話があったとかなかったか。 - ↑
[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Satsuki Yumizuka [Person's name], p.048 Satsuki Yumizuka [Person's name]
Shiki's classmate. During the vampire incident one year ago, she was bitten by the vampire Roa and subsequently went missing.
In Re-act, she appears as a dropout vampire who still sides with humanity despite having been turned into a Dead Apostle.
She is a pitiable girl, who had been Shiki's classmate several times since middle school, but never managed to capture his attention. Even now, she is nursing an unrequited one-sided love.
Something of an oddity, she was unremarkable as a human, yet had exceptional talent as a vampire. The fact that she was able to operate as a Dead Apostle less than a day after being bitten is totally unheard of.弓塚さつき【人名】
ゆみづかさつき。志貴のクラスメイト。一年前の吸血鬼事件の際、吸血鬼ロアの牙にかかり、以後は行方不明となった。
Re-actから死徒化したもののなんとか人間サイドに留まっている、という半人前吸血鬼として登場。
中学時代から志貴とは何度かクラスメイトだったのに、肝心の志貴は憶えてさえいなかった、という可哀想な子。今も一途で報われない片思いに奔走中。
人間としては平凡だったが、吸血鬼としてなら優れた才能を持っていたという変わり種。一日たらずで死徒として活動できるようになった、というのは破格の出来事なのである。 - ↑
[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - TSUKIHIME Dictionary: Yumizuka Satsuki [Person's name], p.190 Satsuki Yumizuka [Person's name]
Shiki's classmate. Her nickname is Sacchin.
She is a pitiable girl, who had been Shiki's classmate several times since middle school, but never managed to capture his attention.
She just happened to catch sight of somebody who looked like Shiki walking through town one day, and because of that ended up being bitten by a vampire. Afterward, she stalked the town at night as a half vampire herself, her body and mind crumbling, until she encountered Shiki and met her end.
Basically, your typical tragic heroine. She remained unrewarded to the bitter end, but I'd like to believe she at least received a fleeting salvation in her last moments.
As it happens, she had an exceptional predisposition for being a vampire. The fact that she was able to operate as a Dead Apostle less than a day after being bitten is totally unheard of. That she was only able to discover her talents after death… it's a little ironic, no? Exactly what you'd expect from the shadow heroine Sacchin.
Still, at her core she's a normal girl. Though she might be on the same level as the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors as far as pure suitability is concerned, since her personality is still human it seems that she's doomed to be an eternal dropout.
In Melty Blood Re-act, she participates as a usable character for the first time, allowing players to enjoy situations that were impossible in the original story. Sion is her pen-pal and fellow back-alley dweller. It's a relationship based on the assumption that Satsuki was still alive when Sion first came to Japan.
The reason she doesn't have the corpse-throwing killer move that she demonstrated in Tsukihime is because the Satsuki in Re-act has still never killed anybody. Perhaps if there's ever a "full vampire" version of Satsuki, though, it will make an appearance as well?弓塚さつき【人名】
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[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Depletion Garden [Technique name], p.057 Depletion Garden [Technique name]
Yumizuka Satsuki's Last Arc. A reality marble.
Satsuki's powers blossomed after becoming a vampire, and this is her strongest attack. As the name "depletion" suggests, the magical energy in the deployed space is rapidly dissipated. Though it is similar to Akiha's Origami, the target of Depletion Garden is the world itself. Also, the depleted magical energy does not return to the user, Satsuki, but instead merely vanishes.
It is a field effect that could be considered the natural enemy of magi, who require magical energy to attack, and elementals, who require magical energy just to exist.
On the other hand, against organisms that are cut off from the world (for instance, humans, who don't use the magical energy in the atmosphere much at all) there will not be a pronounced effect.枯渇庭園【技名】
弓塚さつきのラストアーク。固有結界。
吸血鬼化した事で才能を開花したさつきの最大の攻撃。枯渇の名の通り、展開した空間の魔力を急速に減少させていく。秋葉の略奪に似ているが、こちらは世界そのものにかかるもの。また、枯れていった魔力は使用者であるさつきに還元される事はなく、ただ消えゆくのみとなる。
攻撃に魔力を必要とする魔術師、生存に魔力を必要とする精霊などには天敵と言える地形効果。
反面、世界とは切り離されつつある生物（大気の魔力をあまり使用しない人間）には劇的な効果はない。 - ↑
[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Sacchin Arm [Technique name], p.056 Sacchin Arm [Technique name]
A name attached to all of Yumizuka Satsuki's various throwing skills. ("Sacchin" is a pet name for Satsuki.)
"Grasping the Unfinished Dream" is a ground attack. The A version is most effective in combos, while the B version is best used against stunned opponents.
"Chasing the Unreachable Dream" is an anti-air attack. The EX version's hitbox, attack power, and ability to lead into combos are all amazing. I'd even go so far as to say that building up the gauge just to use this move is the proper way of playing Sacchin.
Maybe in the next version of the game we'll add a third kind of throwing skill. How does an air-to-ground attack called "Picking Up the Fallen Dream" sound?さっちんアーム【技名】
弓塚さつきの投げ技各種。さっちんというのはさつきの愛称から。
見果てぬ夢を掴む、が対地。小は連続技に、中は固まっている相手に使うと効果的。
届かない夢を追う、が対空。EX版は判定、威力、その後の連続技等に優れている。ゲージはこちらの為に使用するのが正しいさっちん使いと言えよう。
今後バージョンアップがあるとしたら、第三の投げ技が編み出されるであろう。空対地の落っこちた夢を拾うさっちんアームとかどうだろうか?