Sayo Yotsuba

Sayo Yotsuba (四葉 幸与, Yotsuba Sayo) is a major character of Hang On! Climbing Girls.

Appearance
Sayo is a younger girl with long waist length red hair and blue eyes. She is taller that average and is also more developed than some of her peers. Her main outfits consist of the climbing teams uniform as well as her school uniform.

Personality
Sayo is a very motherly figure to the team. She is very encouraging and doesn’t break her well maintained composure very often. She is very logic driven and that is evident when looking at her climbing. The only time that she has show to be irrational was when she wanted to climb but her finger was still injured. It was unusual to see but it shows how much of a passion she has for climbing. She broke down and started crying in front of Nono but quickly regained her cool, confident composure. She truly cares about her friends as seen when she broke her middle finger during a competition but continued to climb due to the fact that she didn’t want Nono to worry. She rarely lets her emotions get in the way of anything she is doing. Overall she is a good caring friend and a fantastic climber.

Plot
Sayo and Nonoka Sugiura head towards the Climbing Club and Nonoka comments that today the new students enroll and wants to look majestic as first contact matters. They see that a crowd had gathered and Nonoka thinks Jun Uehara is showing her skills again. But to their surprise, a new girl is climbing. Jun is surprised that a beginner with such thin arms could take an intermediate route, but Sayo explains that not only strength matters, but also grip, eyesight and inner sensitivity. As Konomi Kasahara attempts a lunge and fails, she wants to try again, but Sayo tells her to take a rest and after introducing herself, she welcomes her to the Climbing Club.

Abilities
Sayo is an incredibly skilled climber, coming in first out of the girls schools in the prior climbing competition.

So far, she only ever lost a competition due to her withdrawing because of an injury.

Etymology

 * The name Sayo means "happiness, good luck" (幸) (sa) and "bestow, participate in, give, award, impart, provide, cause, gift, godsend" (与) (yo).
 * Sayo's surname Yotsuba means "four" (四) (yotsu) and "leaf" (葉) (ha/ba).