Aoi Yukimura (雪村あおい, Yukimura Aoi) is the protagonist of the manga and anime series Encouragement of Climb (ヤマノススメ).
Profile
| Age | 15 (first year high school student) (as of the first season of the story) |
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| Birth date | 19 February (Aquarius) |
| Blood type | B |
| Height | 152 cm |
| Weight | 43 kg |
| Breast size | A |
| Voice Actress | Yuka Iguchi |
Perspnality
The protagonist is an indoor-oriented person who is not good at socialising.
Even in high school, she did not interact much with others and did sewing and knitting by herself.
However, after reuniting with her childhood friend Hinata at high school, she is pulled into mountaineering and gradually becomes fascinated by the mountains.
Nowadays, she enjoys mountaineering so much that she climbs various mountains on her own.
Her first attempt at climbing Mt Fuji was abandoned due to altitude sickness, but she later decided to try again.
Although she is shy and has a shy side, she is also surprisingly competitive, and at first she swore at Hinata when she met her again.
She is excel at cooking and sewing and is mindful of her life skills.
Her father is Makoto Yukimura. Her mother is Megumi Yukimura.
Biography
She has a memory of climbing a mountain with Hinata in her childhood, seeing the sunrise and promising to go back to that mountain together.
She had forgotten about it until she met Hinata again, but after that she remembers it as an important memory.
Since falling off the jungle gym, she has been afraid of heights.
After meeting Hinata again, she became aware of the joys of mountaineering and gradually became addicted to the pursuit, including searching for it on the internet out of interest.
Also, after she started climbing in earnest, her mother Megumi introduced her to a part-time job at the confectionery shop Susuki (the manager knew her from the neighbourhood meeting), and she started working part-time to earn money for climbing gear and equipment.
Friendships
To her childhood friend Hinata, she is sometimes fed up with her forceful pull, and they occasionally fight, but deep down they are each other's best friends and care for each other dearly.
Also, as she gets to know Hinata, she realises that her seemingly forceful nature has a lot to do with the way she treats and behaves.
In her childhood, she and Hinata lived next door to each other, and they interacted as a family until Hinata's family moved away.
However, she also seems to have a rivalry with Hinata, and sometimes 'Hinata agitating Aoi' appears in Aoi's imagination.
For example, when she decided to try coffee when climbing a mountain and made black coffee at home as a practice, the imaginary Hinata encouraged her, saying "You can't drink coffee without sugar ('cause Aoi is a child)" (in reality, Hinata also had to have sugar and milk).
Since separating from Hinata, she has become introverted and shy, and has difficulty making new friends.
Yet, through her mountaineering connections, she made friends with Kaede and Kokona, both mountaineers.
Later, she meets and becomes close to Honoka as well. She also becomes friends with her classmates Mio, Yuri and Kasumi.
At her part-time job, she is adored by Hikari Onozuka, an upperclassman at her workplace.
Hobbies and Tastes
As mentioned above, after falling off a jungle gym in her childhood and developing a fear of heights, she began to take up hobbies and games that she could do alone. This made her introverted.
As a result, she preferred sewing and knitting, while she shunned mountaineering because of the 'high altitude' involved.
Even after she had developed a liking for mountaineering, she continued these solitary hobbies, knitting hats and gloves when she had time.
She has also become an excel at cooking, as it is a hobby she does alone. For Kokona's birthday, she learnt how to make pound cake from her part-time job and baked it.
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