Shiraki, Yoko

白木葉子

Yoko Shiraki is a young woman born into the Shiraki family, a very wealthy clan known for their involvement in the boxing world. She serves as the main female protagonist in Ashita no Joe.
She is extremely polite, graceful, and kind toward others, consistently behaving exactly as expected of a daughter from a high-ranking family, and she donates to charities from time to time. Consequently, she clashes with most of the other characters in both appearance and personality, as they know nothing but poverty and hardship.
One of those characters is Joe, who is the first to remark that her so-called 'kindness' is completely fake, implying that her sympathy for the poor is merely a way to make herself feel superior to those who have nothing to eat. She is often very shocked by his actions, but as time goes on, she becomes the one who understands him best.
Joe dislikes her as an 'evil woman' who tries to control his life by always having something to do with most of the situations he finds himself in later in the series.

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