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Yachiyo Tsuruhime (鶴姫 やちよ, Tsuruhime Yachiyo) is a character in the Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight franchise, original to Re LIVE. She is a first-year student and one of the distinguished students from the Music Acting Department at Siegfeld Institute of Music with the title of "Frau Perle".

This Stage Girl keeps her intentions hidden and she is rather elusive. Often angers people like Akira Yukishiro and Liu Mei Fan with her mischievous antics. Has a knack for sewing and design, and dreams of becoming a star who takes the stage in costumes of her own make.[2]

Revue Introduction[]

QLeft Forever and ever, I have performed by myself. Polished a lonesome pearl.
Beyond the borders of the stage, beyond the play. That is where true platinum shines.
Frau Perle - Yachiyo Tsuruhime! This world is a stage. Even the king is a player!
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QLeft 千代に八千代に 独演かさね 磨き上げたる 孤独の真珠
舞台の境界 芝居の彼岸 そこで光るは 真実の白金
【フラウ・ペルレ】 鶴姫やちよ! この世は舞台 王すらも役者――ですよ?
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QLeft chiyo ni yachiyo ni dokuen kasane migaki agetaru kodoku no shinju
butai no kyōkai shibai no higan soko de hikaru wa makoto no purachina
"furau perure" Tsuruhime Yachiyo! konoyo wa butai ō sura mo yakusha――desuyo?
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Appearance[]

Yachiyo's curly pink hair is styled asymmetrically, with most of it swept over her right shoulder and two red hair clips on the left side of her head. She has aquamarine eyes.

School Uniform

Yachiyo's school uniform consists of a grey sweater vest over a white dress shirt, a red ribbon tied into a bow, a pleated skirt with a black and grey tartan pattern, red thigh-high socks, and black loafers. She wears the Siegfeld uniform jacket tied around her waist.

Casual Outfit

Her casual outfit consists of a low-cut ribbed beige sweater, a pink skirt with a belt, and black thigh-high leggings. She wears a heart necklace.

Practice Outfit

Yachiyo’s practice outfit consists of a navy blue leotard and white leggings. There is a gold pattern on the left side collar of the leotard. She wears a navy blue choker around her neck.

Revue Outfit

Yachiyo’s Revue outfit consists of a black jacket with gold trims. There are two sets of buttons with a thick gold string connecting them, with one on her chest and one on her stomach. On the left breast she wears a pink medal. Under the jacket is a white dress shirt. She wears a short black skirt with a thigh slit and a gold belt. She wears sheer thigh-high black tights and knee-high black heeled boots. Around her shoulders is a white jacket with a gold trim, a high collar, and a pink lining with gold stripe decals. The jacket has gold epaulettes with fringe, and the jacket lapels are attached to each other with gold ropes.

Personality[]

Yachiyo is a genius, able to absorb and apply information about various things[3][4] at an unrivaled rate,[5] with output that surpasses even professionals.[6] In particular, she has been able to read and perform even the most complex of stories since she was young.[7] At some point in her childhood, she came to see the world itself as a "stage" and people as "characters", and as such she was able to accurately predict the actions and thoughts of the people around her.[8]

Yachiyo places great importance on the dynamic between seniors and juniors, and on behaving appropriately within that structure. She keeps up a facade of naturally deferring to her seniors and tends to downplay her own abilities, even when characters like Akira Yukishiro comment that she should be less modest given her status as an Edel. Because of the way others (especially seniors) feel if she surpasses them,[9] Yachiyo has, prior to Arcana Arcadia, refused to show off her true skill, and holds back for the sake of her "role" as a junior and for the sake of avoiding conflict.[10] This unwillingness to drop her facade has previously given her an air of elusiveness and inscrutability.

After the events of Arcana Arcadia, Yachiyo realizes that being the lead can drive a story to the unexpected endings she's always wanted, and learns to bare her true self to others. With a newfound motivation to become the lead, Yachiyo becomes more open, emotes more, and talks about her acting methods in plainer and more honest terms.

Background[]

WARNING: Spoilers for Fool Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story

Yachiyo explains her past in the form of a story, and facts about her life are deliberately muddled with facts that concern only the fictional Fool. As such, her narrative should be taken with a grain of salt, but most details are at least corroborated by a flashback of Yachiyo's childhood.

She tells of being born to "a poet and a playwright". Due to this background, Yachiyo has been immersed in the world of theater since a young age, and would obsessively read scripts of various plays and act them out repeatedly with her imaginary sister, Chitose. Yachiyo's mother is a higher-up at Siegfeld Institute of Music, and has been shown to be dismissive of Yachiyo's eccentricities, particularly when it came to Chitose.

Yachiyo's imagination, love, and skill for acting clashed with everyone, even her parents. With nobody around to understand her, Yachiyo grew up in self-imposed isolation. She would hid this part of herself out of shame until attending Siegfeld, wherein she finally found someone as "stage-crazy" as her, who assured her that the traits people looked down upon are actually the strengths of a great stage girl.

Relationships[]

WARNING: Spoilers for Fool Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story

Her Mother[]

While Yachiyo's mother never impeded young Yachiyo from pursuing her talents, this appears to be a reluctant resignation to Yachiyo's actions rather than enthusiastic support. Yachiyo's mother also disapproves of Chitose, and refused to entertain what she saw as delusions. Instead, she tries to encourage Yachiyo to find real friends through her dedication to the stage, but this rejection of Chitose became a place of hurt for Yachiyo.

The state of their relationship in the present is unclear.

WARNING: Spoilers for Gemini Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story

Chitose Tsuruhime[]

Chitose is an alter who came into existence at some point in Yachiyo's childhood. Yachiyo holds Chitose in her heart dearly, and has acted out stages with Chitose for much of her early life. Because Yachiyo felt that Chitose was like the stage and that she was the only one who could possibly understand her, a rejection of Chitose's existence was, by extension, a rejection of Yachiyo's feelings and love for the stage. As such, Chitose was a point of conflict between Yachiyo and her mother when Yachiyo was young.

When Yachiyo grew older, she began to lose the connection she had with Chitose. Because Chitose's presence protected her from feeling isolated as a child, Yachiyo started to rely on her less as she made friends in high school. This scared her, and she questioned if it was her fault that the distance from her and Chitose became bigger. Her recovery from her trauma was internally sabotaged because she didn't want to lose the person who cared for her most, even if it meant never really moving on from her pain.

In truth, Chitose was mesmerized by Yachiyo's new brilliance, brought about by the presence of other stage girls willing to be with Yachiyo for the first time. Following this, she moved from Yachiyo's side to the audience seats, ecstatic to see the stage girl she's loved all this time, shining brightly and confidently. She bids Yachiyo farewell on her journey, and this at last pushes Yachiyo to embrace the path of an independent stage girl.[11]

Akira Yukishiro[]

In the earlier stages of their relationship, Yachiyo feels intimidated by Akira's presence.[12] However, when Akira finds out about Yachiyo's imagination, Yachiyo feels more accepted than she ever has before and is shocked at how Akira praises her for it.[13] Akira sees herself in Yachiyo and believes Yachiyo can achieve much more if given the support she was deprived of in years past. Yachiyo is privy to information about Akira that Akira tries to obscure, such as her past in figure skating[14] and her eagerness to try Frontier's Ultra Spicy Curry,[15] much to Akira's annoyance.

Michiru Otori[]

Because Michiru wants to gather information to better plan her strategies and Yachiyo wants to keep her true self hidden, their relationship is one of constantly trying to outwit the other person. Michiru has tried cornering Yachiyo at various times about what was inside her suspicious notebook and about her true motivations, but Yachiyo has managed to throw Michiru off her scent with lies or misdirection.[16] Yachiyo wants to understand Michiru better[17] and admires how much Michiru knows about many different subjects[18]. She frequently notes Michiru's tendency to sneak up on her.[19] In Dying King, Michiru notes that she sees some of Akira's qualities in Yachiyo.

Liu Mei Fan[]

Mei Fan and Yachiyo are friends and rivals, even as Yachiyo teases Mei Fan. Mei Fan is supportive of Yachiyo, and will often cheer her on in her endeavors or help her out directly.[20] Even when Mei Fan admits she can't figure her out,[21] she'll always be by her side. Mei Fan's passion is one of the few things that can ignite the heart of the comparatively much-less proactive Yachiyo and draw out her true strength.[22]

WARNING: Spoilers for Main Story 17: Stage Before Dawn

In the Revue of Succession, Change, and Awakening, Mei Fan admits that while she was always chasing Akira, her growth as a stage girl has come about through her rivalry with Yachiyo. Having glimpsed the depth of Yachiyo's hidden skill, Mei Fan wants Yachiyo to drop her facade and clash with her as true rivals. After the revue, the two strive to continue learning and growing together as fellow Frau Platin candidates.

Shiori Yumeoji[]

Under the veneer of constant teasing, Yachiyo cares for Shiori in her own way. Particularly, she keeps an eye Shiori's tendency to "identify with her role too much," for which she berated Shiori for in Venus & Cupid. She has also reined in Shiori when she was on the edge of overexerting herself during the second act of Arcana Arcadia.

Revues[]

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Etymology[]

  • The name Yachiyo (やちよ) is homophonous with 八千代 (eternity).
    • This is reflected in her revue introduction with the phrase 千代に八千代に (forever and ever).
    • Yachiyo's name is rendered as 八千代 in the Taiwanese version of Re LIVE.
    • The "chi" (千) can also be read as "sen", meaning "1000", and the "yo" (代) can also be read as "shiro" (as in Yukishiro), meaning "age, era."
  • Yachiyo's surname Tsuruhime means "crane, stork" (鶴) (tsuru) and "princess" (姫) (hime). Cranes are holy creatures (another is the phoenix) said to live for 1000 years.
    • "1000 years" is the meaning of the fake name Yachiyo gives for her "sister", Chitose (千歳), while improvising in Main Story 08: The Dying King and the Four Knights. Chitosedori (千歳鳥) is an obscure term for cranes.
    • Another manifestation of this number is in the Legend of 1000 Paper Cranes (千羽鶴 senbazuru), wherein a person would receive a wish after folding a thousand origami cranes.

Trivia[]

  • Yachiyo's favorite gift is a nail polish.
  • She has good eyes, to the point of being able to spot pills of wool from across a room.[23]
    • She can do body measurements by eye, though she claims they are "only approximate measurements".[24]
  • She often sacrifices sleep to make costumes.[25]
  • Despite lying about it, she knows how to walk silently for the purpose of tailing and spying on other people. [26]
  • She is a big fan of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.[27]
  • Stage Girl Yachiyo's trait is translated in the English version as "Exceptional". The original Japanese word, 鬼才 (genius), carries connotations of one being so good, it is difficult or impossible to consider them human.[28]
  • Yachiyo's crossbow is named Perlenpfeil, meaning "pearl arrow" in German.
  • She loves drinking coffee.

Gallery[]

Stage Cards[]

Memoirs[]

Outfits[]

*For Stage Girl Live2D Models, please visit their respective card pages.

Stamps[]

Emblem[]

References[]

  1. From Siegfeld Institute of Music Yachiyo Tsuruhime Climax Act
  2. https://www.en.revuestarlight-relive.com/character/yachiyo/
  3. Fool Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story: I learned lace stitching for the "Celestial Goddess" costume, so for the "Dying King"—
  4. Stage Girl Ichie Otonashi/Bond Story: Ichie: That's the thing! Yachiyo-chan planned it all out herself.
  5. Warrant Officer Coyote Cain Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story: Mei Fan: Ngh... And you're always making such difficult things look so easy to accomplish...
  6. Fool Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story: Secretary: But... Her acting skills, understanding of plays, and costume design is enough to put adults to shame.
  7. Fool Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story: "Tragedy, comedy, romance, revenge tragedy—my young heart was immediately stolen by that world... Read and act, then read and act some more. I did that repeatedly."
  8. Fool Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story: "Actions of mankind, subtleties of emotions... Days gone by and days to come of every stage... I came to understand it all as if it were the back of my hand."
  9. Stage Girl Ichie Otonashi/Bond Story: Ichie: Because Yachiyo-chan's—Siegfeld's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was so perfect, it just got me overthinking.
  10. Fool Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story: Not to mention, the stage also has Akira-senpai and Michiru-senpai... And also Maya-san, Clau-san, Tamao-san, and Shizuha-san... As a first year, I should know my place.
  11. Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight Re LIVE/Story/Main Story 18: Arcana Arcadia
  12. Arsene Lupin Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story#Chapter 2
  13. Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight Re LIVE/Story/Main Story 08: The Dying King and the Four Knights#Part 4-2
  14. Ice Skating Noblesse Oblige/Story Part 1 Akira: Yachiyo. Just where do you always get that kind of information from?
  15. Agent Lady A Akira Yukishiro/Bond Story#Chapter 2
  16. Arsene Lupin Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story
  17. Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Theater Story#Way Home Yachiyo: (Maybe I'll finally be able to get a better read on Michiru-senpai.)
  18. Orihime Michiru Otori/Bond Story Chapter 1
  19. Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Quotes
  20. Nurse Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story
  21. Hermes Liu Mei Fan/Bond Story
  22. The Little Match Girl Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story
  23. Shiori Yumeoji/Quotes#Wind Goddess Shiori Yumeoji
  24. Venus Shizuha Kocho/Bond Story
  25. Doctor Akira Yukishiro/Bond Story
  26. Siegfeld Institute of Music Yachiyo Tsuruhime/Bond Story
  27. Lu Bu Liu Mei Fan/Bond Story
  28. [1]

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