Youko Kuronuma

Name
Japanese	黒沼 陽子
Rōmaji	Kuronuma Yōko
Personal Information
Gender	Female
Relatives	Kitao Kuronuma (husband) Sawako Kuronuma (daughter) Shouta Kazehaya (son-in-law)
Professional Status
Occupation	Housewife
Affiliation	Kuronuma Family
First Appearance
Manga	Chapter 00
Anime	Episode 01
Voiced by
Japanese	Sakurako Kishiro
English	Julie Maddalena
French	Amadine Longeac (Black Box)
Latin-American Spanish	Elena Ramirez
Portrayed by
Movie	Yasuko Tomita
TV series	Naho Toda

Youko Kuronuma (黒沼 陽子 Kuronuma Yōko) is the mother of Sawako Kuronuma. She is married to Kitao Kuronuma.

Appearance

Youko has a slender and petite build much like her daughter, Sawako. She has pale skin, small black eyes usually seen as black dots with a single eyelash, and light brown hair styled in a shoulder-length bob with split fringe. She is seen wearing various pastel colored sweaters and t-shirts with slacks and a white apron.

Personality

Youko is a very kind and caring woman that you would consider the ideal mom.

Relationships

Kitao Kuronuma

Kitao is Youko's husband and the father of their only child, Sawako. They are very close and seem deeply in love with each other, but Youko still seems to enjoy watching her husband have meltdowns when Sawako chooses to see her friends over spending holidays with the family.

Sawako Kuronuma

Sawako is Youko's daughter and only child, they have a very close mother-daughter bond. Youko tries to be the good parent between her and her husband, and is often the one to give Sawako permission to see her friends and boyfriend even at the risk of them growing apart.

Trivia

• Her name, Youko, is written with the kanji for "light, sun, male" (陽) and "child" (子). The second kanji of her name 子 is also a common ending for female names.
• Her surname, Kuronuma, means "black swamp"