Character	Sara
Appearance	I was Wrong
Media	Japanese Manga
Type	Yandere
Love Interest	Furuya

Sara was a school student. Due to her cute looks and demeanor, many of the boys in school had a crush on her. Unfortunately, an accident caused her death, and she later exists as a ghost.

SPOILERS AND PERSONAL OPINION

Sara was a cute girl that many boys in school had a crush on, including Furuya. So when Sara confessed and asked Furuya out, Furuya thought himself to be nothing but the luckiest. Of course, Furuya accepted, but he will soon regret his decision.

Sara would stalk Furuya everywhere, install listening devices around him, install GPS tracker on him, and even threaten him with a knife. Furuya had no privacy or freedom, and the constant monitoring by Sara was causing Furuya severe anxiety.

One day, Sara sought him out again and Furuya could not take it anymore. He tried to break up with her but Sara immediately rejected it. A moment of fear caused Furuya to push Sara away from him, but the steep flight of stairs behind them caused Sara to fall to her death instead. The accident passed and no foul play was found. Although his girlfriend died, Furuya was more relieved that he will no longer be tormented by Sara.

Unfortunately, Sara still came back to haunt him, now as a ghost. Furuya told her to stay away, but Sara refused, claiming that she could not move on due to her unfulfilled wishes before her death. Sara demanded that Furuya help to fulfil her wishes so that she can move on from this world. With no other choice, Furuya agreed to her requests.

Surprisingly different from how she was when alive, Sara acted like a normal girl would. She asked for Furuya to take her out on dates, felt saddened when unable to eat the sweets in the café, but simply enjoyed her time with Furuya. She remained cheerful despite being merely a ghost now, and always reminded Furuya that she never blamed him for her death. Despite Furuya being the direct cause of her death, Sara was still in love with him, and was elated when Furuya agreed to stretch his hand out and pretend that they were a couple holding hands, even when they could not touch each other.

Slowly, Furuya started to see Sara as a normal girl again. He began questioning himself and doubting his initial perception of Sara. He thought that perhaps the vicious and obsessive girl from his past was only his imagination. Perhaps, Sara was simply an innocent, loving girl all along, but was misunderstood by him. This notion began to dig at his conscience, and began to feel guilty over Sara’s death. The fact that Sara never once blamed him, and instead continued to love him caused Furuya to feel much worse. Overtime, Furuya descended into depression, and committed suicide when he could not overcome his guilt.

Now, also a ghost, Furuya apologized to Sara, and hoped that Sara can now move on from this world. However, Furuya did not anticipate that what he just did was entirely in Sara’s plan.

Sara revealed that since she died, she had been waiting for Furuya’s own demise so that he could join her. Unfortunately, Sara was unable to touch objects in the real world, and therefore could not kill him directly. Instead, Sara devised a plan to fill Furuya with guilt over her death, and drove him to commit suicide. Poor Furuya fell for it, and now there is no way back. As ghosts, they will spend an eternity together, just as Sara wished.

I find Sara to fit the yandere trope extremely well. She loved Furuya wholeheartedly, as if her whole life revolved around him. Even in her death, after Furuya pushed her off the stairs by accident, Sara still loved Furuya unwaveringly. As a ghost, her sole focus was on getting Furuya to be with her again. Nothing else mattered, not even when she died.

What I really like about this yandere was that there was little to no violence, gore, or aggression initiated by her. There may have been instances of it off-screen given how Furuya mentioned that she once pointed a knife at him. But due to the circumstances in the majority of the manga (Sara being a ghost that could not touch objects and people), this aspect is largely absent from the story.

Most female yanderes I have read about easily resort to mindless violence and killing to reach their goal. I am not a fan of this. Instead, Sara devised a clever, highly manipulative plan to trap Furuya in her world. This is something I do not usually see in female yanderes, and I like Sara for that.

While Sara looked cute and innocent, her personality was anything but that. With Furuya, her twisted character quickly revealed itself, and her expressions can be truly terrifying in those moments.

Sara is a well-written, well-drawn yandere character. Given how short the manga was, she was still able to leave an impression on me. As a reader, I like her. But she is someone I will stay far far away from if she existed in reality. Nonetheless, I recommend that you give this character and the story a read.