Yassan/Relationships

Hidenori
While trying to bring the romantic encounter in her novel to reality, Yassan first sees Hidenori on the riverbank and chooses the unwitting boy to be the protagonist. Much to her delight, he utters a line about the wind, which fits well with her protagonist’s wind-controlling abilities. This sparks an enduring infatuation for him in Yassan, despite this first meeting going comically awry later on. She frequently visits the bank and even sits there alone for long periods in order to meet him, causing him to be wary of the riverbank.

Yassan remains ever-hopeful regarding Hidenori’s affections. She thinks a note he leaves for her on the bank is a love letter, only to find out it’s a request asking for his coat back. Later, when Hidenori spies her walking with Takahiro and turns away, she runs after him. Yassan chases him halfway across town to clear up ‘his misunderstanding’ that she was dating Takahiro, when he hadn’t been suspecting anything in the first place. In another instance, her friend is responsible for driving Hidenori away from the bank, for which she chases her in a rage. She once tries to help Hidenori after he accidentally trips and passes out but ends up running away from the scene because of a misunderstanding with Yoshitake.

(Anime-only) After their graduation, Yassan finally gets to enjoy a poetic conversation with Hidenori on the riverbank, and ends up holding hands with him.

In the manga, they run into one another a few more times, and Hidenori continues running away from her advances. The closest she gets to a satisfactory outcome is their last seen meeting at the riverbank when Hidenori smiles at her warmly for not ignoring him like Yanagin does, which makes her blush in shock. She almost succeeds in catching him in the epilogue, only to have him escape by the skin of his teeth.

Both Hidenori and Yassan share the unique trait of actively trying to make their lives more like fairy-tales or works of fiction. In addition, the wind dialogue that Hidenori and Yassan invent during their first meeting seems to have stuck with them to a great degree. Hidenori instinctively uses it whenever a stranger sits next to him on the bank, and when he laughs with Takahiro’s friend about how funny and absurd it is, Yassan gets incredibly hurt and chases them away.

Other
Aside from her classmate Takahiro, and his friend, Yassan is shown to be acquainted with the overly self-conscious girl. She is also good friends with Ikushima (and perhaps Habara), as seen by them greeting one another at the joint school festival.