Kitchen -surface [characters]

Question 1

kitchen: part 2

Answer 1

moonlight shadow

Question 2

Narrator

Answer 2

Mikage Sakurai

Question 3

what is Mikage Sakurai like?

Answer 3

• loves the kitchen
• sleeps in the kitchen for comfort
• has a spirit different than others which led her to a different path and to eventual happiness

Question 4

what does happiness mean in relation with Mikage ?

Answer 4

she is content with life and what she is doing.

Question 5

Describe Mikage Sakurai

Answer 5

• an orphan
• her parents died when she was young, her grandfather died while she was in high school.
• assumed to be between 18 or 20 when her last living relative, her grandmother, dies.
• she is listless after realizing she is alone
• is at first hesitant to accept Yuichi’s offer for her to love with him and his mother.
• she finds comfort in the kitchen, which to her is the most important part of the house.
• she later leaves the university and becomes an assistant to a popular chef.

Question 6

Describe Yuichi Tanabe

Answer 6

-an aloof sort of guy
-he works part-time at a flower shop which is how he became acquainted with Mikage’s grandmother before her death.
- He is eccentric and a loner
- He is optimistics and buys electronic devices., jus like his mom , Eriko.
- He doesn’t care what others think and invites Mikage to live with him and his mom.
- he has helped Mikage during and after the funeral and cried so much she thought he must have been her grandmother’s lover.
- He goes on drinking binge after Eriko’s death.
- stays at an inn to run
away from everything.
-he wishes not to involve Mikage in his problems..

Question 7

Eriko Tanabe

Answer 7

• A transgendered male to female, father to mother of Yuichi Tanabe.
• considers herself to be an adoptive mother to Mikage.
• Owns a gay club and is transgendered with her former male name being “Yuji”
• Eriko was and still is devoted to his wife and her memory who has passed from cancer.
• he know he will never fall in love with another woman thus decided to become one.
• she lives for the day and to the fullest which makes her character much more beautiful than her plastic surgery shows.
• her charm captures Mikage instantly.
• she dies fighting her stalker after he stabs her
• she kills him with a barbell at the club.

Question 8

The Tanabe’s Kitchen

Answer 8

• full of expensive appliances.
• there is a comfy couch smack dab in front of the kitchen instead of the normal table and chairs one would associate a kitchen with.

Question 9

Sotaro

Answer 9

• Mikage’s former boyfriend.
• loves parks, open spaces or the outdoors.
• they broke up around the time Mikage’s grandmother took a turn for the worse, health-wise.
• he is cheery and calls Mikage while she was at her old apartment for the last time.

Question 10

Chika

Answer 10

• The new owner of Eriko’s gay bar.
• is gentle, sensitive and a transvestite. and proud of who she is.
• she calls and meets with Mikage at a noodle shop by a train station in order to talk about Yuichi.
• Mikage gains Yuchi’s inn address from her and is the one to help push Mikage into realizing that the Human heart is precious, causing her to put the situation into perspective.

Question 11

Sensei, Kuri and Nori

Answer 11

• Sensei is the chef that hired Mikage as one of three assistants since she conducts cooking classes and does a television show.
• Kuri has a “sunny disposition” that makes her cute.
• Nori “was a beauty of the ‘proper young lady’ variety “. best friends and has great fashion sense.

Question 12

Okuno

Answer 12

• a concerned girlfriend of Yuichi although it is hard to discern if she was the girlfriend that was previously mentioned in the beginning when Yuichi invited Mikage to stay at his house since her name isn’t mentioned or if she is a different girl..
• bluntly shouts that Mikage and Yuichi enjoy a sort of relationship that no one in the school has been able to form with him
• has a round disposition to her and red lipstick.