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Sara (沙羅 Sara) is one of the main supporting characters in the anime and manga of Mermaid Melody. Her onscreen debut is marked in Episode 9.

History[]

Pichi Pichi Pitch[]

Seven years ago, Sara met and later fell in love with Tarou Mitsuki. He made her very happy, and she would often sing while he played on a piano located on a balcony close to the Indian Ocean. However, one day, when Tarou found out Sara's true identity as the Indian Ocean Mermaid Princess, he left Sara without even saying goodbye. Coco tried to comfort Sara to overcome with her feelings, but Sara let her pearl's power spiral out of control, destroying her kingdom, Coco's kingdom, and also killing Kaito's parents in the process. When her orange heart fades into an icy black, her hair does the same. Filled with pain and grief, Sara joins Gaito's team and falls in love with him. She later learns the truth about Tarou's reasoning for leaving her without saying goodbye, and subsequently reforms in Episode 51. In the end of the first series she dies along with Gaito.

Pure[]

Sara has already died along with Gaito, but still appears as a spirit informing Lucia of the future Orange Pearl Mermaid Princess (Seira) that will soon be born in the Indian Ocean and offering her assistance wherever she can such as Episode 67 when Lucia was captured in Mikeru's dimension. She appeared in Episode 91 as a human in her idol form.

Personality[]

Sara has a cold personality when she switched to the side of evil, but actually has a kind heart. Early on, she developed a very close romantic relationship with Tarou Mitsuki. However, when Tarou realized her mermaid identity, he left her without even saying goodbye to avoid troubling her. Ironically, his abrupt departure from her is what started to trouble Sara. She became upset over his sudden and apparent betrayal, and quickly turned very bitter and cold towards humans. Hanon noted that because she had bet everything on her love with Tarou, it explained why her hatred was so deep.

For a long time afterwards, Sara shared this similar feelings of loneliness with Gaito, leading her to fall in love with Gaito instead. However, as time went on, Sara would begin to think about Tarou periodically, as shown when she attended his concert and remembered his kind-hearted eyes she loved to see in the past. Through her flashbacks of her past happiness, her hatred would temporarily turn into sorrow, which steadily contributed to her path in returning to her old self. However, it would take a bold act of sacrificial protection from Hanon and a heartfelt explanation from Tarou himself before Sara would finally understand the true reasoning behind Tarou's abrupt departure. Subsequently, her cold feelings melted, and her hair color returned to orange, symbolizing her forgiveness. After reforming, she used her knowledge about Gaito to lead her fellow mermaid princesses, and later contributed to drain Gaito of his powers. However, all the romantic times Sara had spent with Gaito had a deep impact on her, which is shown when she gave up her first lover and her status as a Mermaid Princess to join Gaito in his death.

In the second season, she returned sporadically as a spirit to offer advice and assistance to Lucia whenever she could. Usually, this would happen when Lucia was struggling to escape danger or when she would update Lucia with information about her successor. After her successor was absorbed by Mikeru, Sara was shown to understand why Lucia could not save her successor, but nonetheless begged her to bring her successor back after providing her with a compact.

Sara's eyes remain orange in all of her forms. She is seen wearing a seashell pendant that contains her orange pearl. However, when Sara's heart was broken, her pearl turned black. During this time in the manga, Sara could transform into Black Pearl Voice.

Forms and Aspects[]

Unlike other mermaids, Sara has seven forms which are her Mermaid Form, Black Mermaid Form, Human Form, Idol Form (unused in the anime), Super Idol Form, Black Idol Form, and Spirit Form.

Human Form[]

In her human form, Sara is shown to wear a floor-length white dress completed with a simple black sash and a long orange string hanging on the side. She also wore a black choker. She wears her shell pendent containing her orange pearl like the other mermaid princesses. Before her heart returned to the good side, her hair and pearl were an ebony black color, representing her evil feelings of betrayal. She also covered her hair with a white cloth while she was on the side of evil.

Mermaid Form[]

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Mermaid Form

Her ordinary mermaid forms follow the trend of all the other mermaid princesses, with two pearl bracelets around her right wrist and tail. Sara's mermaid form has long orange hair, orange eyes. She was sometimes shown wearing an orange choker as well.

Black Mermaid Form[]

Sara's black mermaid form is very similar to her original mermaid form, but the color of her hair, mermaid tail, and choker all turned black, which represented her hatred to Taro's betrayal.

Black Idol Form[]

In the manga, while she was on the side of evil, Sara could transform into Black Pearl Voice. In her Black Pearl Voice form, her dress is shown to be long and completely black, with a black rose ribbon around her neck. Her mic and pearl are also completely black.

Idol Form[]

Lastly, there is her true idol form, her Orange Pearl Voice. Her outfit is a long orange strapless dress with a slit on the right side that stops between the knees and mid thigh. Her front hair is bundled with yellow bands. Her shoes are orange with yellow-orange trim on the front and have a small heel, though they somewhat resemble slippers. Sara is never seen singing in this form in the anime, however.

Super Idol Form[]

Sara's Super Idol Form follows most of the other mermaids' trends. In this form, Sara's dress now has yellow ruffles on the side and a yellow bow on the back. Her gloves are now double layered. The first layer is the same orange color from her first Idol form; however, the second layer is a lighter shade of orange. Her shoes also gain a second layer of yellow-orange trim. She retains her yellow bands in front of her hair. In the anime, she has the least number of transformations among all the mermaid princesses, having only transformed once.

Spirit Form[]

Sara's spirit form retains her human form clothing. The only difference is that she is shown glowing in an orange light, while appearing to be more transparent.

Powers[]

Among the Mermaid Princesses, Sara is known to be exceptionally powerful due to the combined power of her hatred and status as a Mermaid Princess. She also appears to be the oldest mermaid princesses. In addition, Sara has the power of telekinesis, as shown in Episode 47 when her body glowed orange and her feelings of hatred towards Tarou Mitsuki was so strong that it shattered the windows around her.

In her idol form, like Lucia and the others, Sara can use her singing voice to get rid of enemies. However, while she was an antagonist, she could also use it to attack the other princesses. Sara can sing powerfully without the need to transform into her idol form. In the anime, she had the singing power to conjure up a powerful orange beam to stop a powerful tsunami which no other mermaid princess could do. She is also much more powerful than all the other mermaid princesses. When all six mermaid princesses sang against her, she felt no pain. In return, Sara was able to inflict severe pain when she sang back.

Despite her incredible power, it is possible to somewhat resist Sara's singing, albeit with difficulty. In the first season's penultimate episode, when Sara tried to inflict pain onto her former lover, Hanon boldly stepped in to protect him, even telling Sara to hurt her instead. Although Sara obliged and dished out more intense pain on her, Hanon was eventually able to resist her power using willpower, love, and determination. Her boldness, honesty, and sacrificial love would ultimately set the stage for Sara's reformation.

List of songs sung by Sara[]

Transformations[]

In the anime and manga, Sara shouts "Orange Pearl Voice!" to transform into her idol form. In the manga while she was still evil, she could transform into Black Pearl Voice. In this form, her hair, clothes, and microphone are completely black in color./

Voice Actresses[]

  • Taiwanese: 汪世瑋
  • French: Nour Rijély (Speaking), Claude Lombard (Singing)
  • Greek: Αφροδίτη Αντωνάκη / Afrodíti Antonáki (Speaking), Bάσια Ζαχαροπούλου / Vassia Zacharopoulou
  • Italian: Debora Magnaghi (Speaking), Valeria Caponnetto (Singing)
  • Japanese: Kana Ueda
  • Korean: 임영미 / Ju-Hyeon Im
  • English: Cassandra Lee Morris
  • Portuguese: Ana Vieira
  • Serbian: Мариана Аранђеловић / Mariana Aranđelović (Speaking) , Александра Бијелић Алексијевић / Aleksandra Bijelić Aleksijević (Singing)
  • Spanish: Ana Isabel Hernando (Speaking), Cani González (Singing)
  • Malaysian: N/A
  • Singaporean: N/A
  • Hebrew: שירלי לילו / Shirley Lilo
  • Cantonese: 朱妙蘭 (Season 1), 黃玉娟 / Wong Yuk Kuen (Season 2)
  • Tagalog: Klariz Magboo

Etymology[]

  • The name Sara is a variation of the Hebrew name Sarah, which means "princess" or, alternatively, "lady" or "noblewoman" in the said language.
    • In Japanese, the name Sara means "sand" (沙) (sa) and "lightweight fabric, gauze, thin silk, Rome" (羅) (ra).

Trivia[]

  • Sara is the only mermaid princess who takes on the role of a villain.
    • She is also the only villain to reform.
  • Sara and her Indian Ocean kingdom represent the color orange in the rainbow.
  • All Indian Ocean mermaids – Sara included – are born on a Sunday. Being the oldest of the princesses, the two years before Coco's birth in which November 22 falls on a Sunday are 1970 and 1981. Given that the only following year the aforementioned date falls on a Sunday – 1987 – is too late, and bolstered by the fact that Sara is not that old in the flashbacks with Tarou to suggest that she would be around her thirties at the time of the series, it means her birth year is 1981, which makes her around twenty-two.
  • Sara's blood type is AB, the same as her best friend, Coco.
  • Sara sang a solo version of Legend of Mermaid in Episode 52.
  • She and Hanon are the only two mermaids to have more than one love interest in the series.
  • Sara, along with Hanon and Caren, are three of the eight mermaids Taro ever saw.
  • Sara is one of two mermaid princesses that was never shown singing in her idol form in the anime, the other being Seira, her successor.
Anime Characters
Mermaid Princesses Lucia NanamiHanon HōshōRina TōinCarenNoelCocoSeiraSara
Supporting Characters Aqua ReginaKaito DōmotoHippoNikora NanamiMadame Taki
Tarō MitsukiRihito AmagiMichal AmagiNagisa ShiraiMasahiro Hamasaki
Season 1 Villains GaitoIzuruEriruYuriMariaShesheMimi
Season 2 Villains MichelShesheMimiLady BatLanhuaAlalaFukuThe Great One
Minor Villains Beyrich's Slit ShellBubble CrabGaleosGiant JellyfishIce Fairy
LionfishMehikariNapoleon FishSardines
Sea CucumberSea SnakeTachi BrothersTropical FishWater Dragons
Minor Characters AuriAyakaCoral SpiritJennifer Houston
KashiwagiKōsuke SakiyaMakotoMamiMeruMeru's MotherMaki
MinkeMomoPipiKura-chanRichardRyoSaoriSomegorōSubaru
YukieYuya Ishibashi
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