Character: sasami

Sasami Masaki Jurai, 柾木砂沙美樹雷, Masaki Sasami Jurai, Sasami Masaki, Masaki Sasami, Magical Girl Pretty Sammy, Pretty Sammy

A fictional character from the anime series Tenchi Muyo! and its subsequent spinoffs. Human in appearance, Sasami is actually a member of a race of powerful beings known as the Jurai and is a princess of her people along with her older sister Ayeka. Sasamii has teal-colored hair usually tied in long pigtails with melon pink eyes. In the Tenchi continuities, Sasami also has a upside down triangle birthmarked on her forehead, as a symbol of her status as Juraian royalty. While adolescent in appearance, chronologically Sasami is over 700 years old, she was kept in a suspended animation during her sister's long search for Lord Yosho.

Sasami is an amazing cook and generally takes on the role of "mother" for other characters in the series, often caring for them and doing the majority of housework (especially the cooking). Sasami is generous, sweet, caring, and always willing to put aside her needs for the needs of others.

Sasami holds a dark secret within her, in the fact that as a small child she was actually killed in an attack (by Ryoko) on the Royal Palace of Jurai. There she was assimilated by the Goddess Tsunami (one of the three creator beings of the Universe). Though the two are separate beings, they share the same life-force and are therefore bound integrally to each other. This assimilation gives Sasami the ability to command the greatest ship in the Juraian Fleet, the flagship Tsunami-fune which is an aspect or representation of the Goddess Tsunami herself.

In the Magical Girl continuity Sasami adopts the persona of a human girl, Sasami Kawai, who is granted special powers by Tsunami, the Queen of Juraihelm, so that she may act as her representative on Earth. With the blessings from Tsunami, Sasami is able to transform herself into Magical Girl Pretty Sammy who can use a variety of magical attacks and skills, a key factor of this power is the emotion of love.