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| “ | Protecting a man’s pride… is a woman’s duty. | „ |
| ~ Saeko Busujima. |
Saeko Busujima is the secondary female protagonist of the manga series Highschool of the Dead and the main female protagonist of the anime adaptation of the same series. She is a student at Fujimi High School and a member of the survivor group led by Takashi Komuro and is the daughter of Master Busujima. Back in Fujimi High School, she was in her third year and was also captain of the Kendo Club. It is shown that Saeko has intimate feelings toward Takashi. Likewise, Takashi shows a level of attraction to Saeko.
She is voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro in the Japanese version of the anime, who also voiced Ultear Milkovich from the Fairy Tail franchise, Celty from Durara and Sinon from Sword Art Online, and by Taylor Hannah in the English version of the anime.
Appearance[]
Saeko has long, straight and shiny purple hair along with a triangular fringe at the front that barely touches the ridge of her nose, and she is also shown to have blue eyes and sizable breasts. She is quite tall for a Japanese girl. Her relatively long limbs contribute leverage to her powerful sword swings. One of Saeko's physical features which are often shown in the manga is her lips, which have a shiny pink appearance. Over the course of the series, Saeko mostly wears her school uniform; however she has changed her attire more than once in the series. At Shizuka Marikawa's friend's, Rika Minami, house she wears nothing but an apron and a thong, and she also puts her hair up into a single ponytail. After leaving Rika's house, her clothing changes to female battle boots with heels, long lace purple stockings, purple gloves, her school uniform top, a skirt that shows the string of her thong and her entire right thigh, a purple lacey bra, and a special belt to hold her sword.
Later at Saya Takagi's house, Saeko wears a kimono. After reaching the East Police Station, Saeko adds a gun holster with a loaded M9 Vertec strapped to her right leg.
Abilities / Powers[]
In the group, Saeko is considered the most reliable of all fighters, and everyone can count on her combat skills to pull them through a tough spot if need be. Like Rei, Saeko is an athletic fighter and talented combat specialist whose forte is in melee attacks. She is one of the main reasons why the protagonists have managed to survive as far as they have.
Saeko is a close-range specialist. At the beginning of the series, she uses a bokken (wooden sword) that she used to fight "Them" with, but she was later given a sword by Souichiro Takagi to fight "Them". Later on, she was given a M92 Vertec pistol as a secondary weapon, despite her lack of experience with firearms.
Weapons[]
Saeko highly specializes in melee combat and mostly uses close range weapons. She initially uses the Wooden Sword, but she upgrades to a Murata-tou when they get to the Takagi Estate. After the gang raid the Police Station, Saeko takes a M92 Vertec pistol on her thigh as a secondary weapon in spite of the fact that she has yet to learn how to use it.