Kusara

Kusara is the femslash ship between Sara Chidouin and Kugie Kizuchi from the Your Turn To Die fandom.

Canon
Sara and Kugie are two of the three high school girls trapped in the Death Game. They never got a chance to meet, due to Kugie's death in her First Trial. Sara and Kugie had the same First Trial, and in the manga, their Trial rooms are right next to each other, connected by a big window. Sara witnesses Kugie looking at her, reaching out in fear, and her subsequently getting crushed. Later, as prompted by Mishima, Sara acts as Kanna's older sister, in the place of Kugie, in order to comfort her. Kanna begins to compare Sara to Kugie and see a lot of similarities between the two, on multiple occasions referring to Sara as "sister" accidentally. Kanna comments that Sara is just like her sister, with her strength and kindness. Kanna thinks that Sara saying weird things like "I was nice from the start, so guess I win" is just like Kugie as well.

Sara and Kugie are both high school girls with a brusque manner of speech. Both stand in the same position, with similar-looking uniforms. They both wear a collared shirt with a blazer and tie of some sort. They both wear a short pink skirt, thigh-high socks, and brown shoes.

Fanon
Kusara sailed due to the two girls being highschoolers and sharing many similarities, including their appearances and them acting as sister figures to Kanna. However, since they are so similar, some think that Kugie and Sara wouldn't be good together, or that they wouldn't have much of a dynamic or be boring. However, a lot about Kugie's character is up to interpretation, so how she interacts with Sara's character can have a lot of flexibility and possibilities. In terms of how they might look together, while having similar stances, Kugie is more rigid and tense, while Sara is softer and more relaxed, which may give further insight into how their personalities could go together.

Since Kanna regards both as her sisters, some feel more comfortable shipping Sara and Kugie as friends rather than romantically. Though on the other hand, some like the idea of Kanna getting Sara as a sister via a relationship with Kugie. In Kanna's first fondness event in Your Time To Shine, with the reveal that Kugie is attracted to women, femslash shipping with Kugie became more popular. In the particular event, Kanna explains that Kugie was asked out by a "kind, mature woman", some of whom interpret to possibly mean Sara. Although, in the original Japanese, it is much clearer that the woman in question is older than Sara, so this event only fuels the ship for fans who played the English translation.

Fans were happy to get a small bit of interaction between the two in the manga, even if it lasted a very short amount of time. Some think about a scenario where Sara and Kugie could have known each other outside the Death Game, or were even friends, but just forgot each other, whether it be due to ASU-NARO's memory-suppressing technology or otherwise. As Kugie is a character with little screentime, Kusara is not very popular. It rivals Joesara and Ransara, as well as Anzugie.

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Variations

 * High School Sweethearts refers to the ship between Kugie, Sara, Anzu Kinashi, Joe Tazuna, Ranmaru Kageyama, and Ryoko Hirose
 * Kusaranzu refers to the ship between Kugie, Sara, and Anzu Kinashi
 * Ryosaranzugie refers to the ship between Kugie, Sara, Ryoko Hirose, and Anzu Kinashi