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here are some (rather old) picrews of them (i have not drawn in ages and therefore don't trust myself with a pen yet. bear with me.)

from left to right: yūna nozaki (ridiculously tall and non-chalant oldest daughter), kiku nozaki (neurodivergent lesbian middle child) and shou nozaki (couldn't even bring himself to hurt a fly youngest son)

yūna nozaki ...

– is so tall (thanks to her father) that she sometimes has to duck down to fit through doors and was, very likely, already taller than sakura when she was 10 years old

– has butt long, straight hair (GINGER 🫵)

– is short-sighted and wears glasses in class but contact lenses outside of school

– has inherited BOTH nozaki's and sakura's talent in drawing but genuinely couldn't be any less interested in art whatsoever LOL

nozaki thinking his legacy as a mangaka will live on thanks to his daughter:

yūna, as a toddler with a dead-pan expression, throwing the pencil she was just holding with her chubby fist, on the ground:

nozaki: ... nevermind.

– you know how you inherit about 25% of your dna from your uncles and aunts? yeah, yūna definitely got her laziness from MAYU!

– has a sweet tooth like sakura, really likes the cheesecake her dad occasionally bakes

– was named yūna because the name can mean grapefruit, pomelo, citrus fruit which not only matches her hair color but also with nozaki's first name umetarou ('ume' meaning plum)

– left-handed

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kiku nozaki ...

– is a walking (but bubbly) menace

– has chestnut brown hair which basically looks kind of like the result if you would mix nozaki's and sakura's hair colors together 🤔

– has always admired pretty girls and wanted to kiss them. turns out, she's a lesbian.

– a huge yuri enjoyer (himejoshi type of level)

kiku: suzuki should've been a girl.

nozaki: oh, i've seen this online! a lot of people do something called 'genderbending' with their characters. if you want to see that, i can try drawing suzuki as a girl and mamiko as a boy and -

kiku: no, mamiko should stay a girl.

nozaki who, for some reason, completely forgot the existence of shoujo-ai: huh?

– has audhd

– chronic vocaloid listener, now owns a bunch of miku hatsune figures after getting heavily inspired by mikorin's figure collection

– such a picky eater, prefers fast food and snacks over healthy food and proper meals

– was named kiku because the name means chrysanthemum, a flower, hence matching sakura's name (meaning cherry blossom)

– right-handed

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shou nozaki ...

– is an elementary schooler who doesn't make friends easily (due to shyness) but is such a sweet and friendly boy, anybody who befriends him can consider themselves lucky

– has pretty much the same hair color and texture as nozaki but his facial features resemble sakura's a lot, it's very cute

– is both his sisters' little blessing

– loves sitting on yūna's lap or watching kiku play video games for example

– is a great story teller, enjoys reading, and has a massive imagination (shakespeare should be scared, i'm just saying ☝️)

– ADORES kirby

sakura, seeing anything kirby related in a store, such as a plushie, lunch box, or keychain: shou would love this!

nozaki, nodding with a smile: he would. should we get him this b -

sakura, who has already placed everything kirby related she found in the shopping cart when nozaki wasn't looking: hm? what'd you say?

– is unfortunately somewhat clumsy

– was named shou (also spelled shō) after the name shoubu (meaning: iris, the flower, and therefore matching with sakura, cherry blossom, and kiku, chrysanthemum) but also because i was thinking you can't spell 'shoujo' without 'shou' and his father happens to be a shoujo mangaka so

– right-handed

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some more fun facts because i can't possibly stop talking about them just yet:

– all three of them have first names that contain only 4 letters which i did on purpose so they can match both of their uncles, mayu (nozaki's younger brother) and towa (sakura's younger brother)

– i got inspired by the nozaki siblings' order (umetarou, mayu, and yumeko) when i was working on them, so while they are brother, brother, and sister, yūna, kiku, and shou are sister, sister, and brother

– out of nozachiyo's friends, yūna gets along with hori, kiku with mikorin and seo, and shou with wakamatsu and kashima 🤲

– out of nozaki and sakura's siblings, meanwhile, yūna gets along the most with mayu, kiku with yumeko, and shou with towa

– while yūna looks and acts more like nozaki, kiku and shou resemble sakura more

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memes that remind me of them:

nozaki (saying he's famous, as in, i'm THE yumeko sakiko) and yūna

nozaki texting kiku

kiku and shou

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