Yuri Nakamura

''This article is dedicated to the fan-made continuation of Angel Beats, A Step Closer. For the official page of Yuri Nakamura, click here.'' "In our struggle to survive the present, we push the future farther away. Will I see the future that I had wanted for us in our lifetime? Will I get to see the men and women of the Battlefront free of their pasts that stalk them? I don't think I'll get to see it...but I'll continue pursuing this objective. I will keep fighting until the day I'm no longer needed."

- Yuri Nakamura

Yuri Nakamura (仲村 ゆり Nakamura Yuri) is one of the supporting characters in Angel Beats! A Step Closer and the Afterlife Battlefront's leader.

Appearance
Yuri has multiple sets of appearances in A Step Closer.

One of the features she maintains throughout her uniforms and appearances is she adorns her hair with a hairband that has a yellow/green ribbon dangling on the right side.

In her Afterlife Battlefront civilian uniform, it is similar to a typical sailor fuku uniform. The uniform has a blue collar, skirt and a dark pink ribbon for girls. She also wears black thigh-high socks and black shoes.

Her casual outfit consists of a white shirt, a denim jacket, and either black pants or leggings.

Combat Uniform
Given that Yuri is the leader of the battlefront and also has a lighter body frame than most of her companions, her combat uniform composition tends to be a lot lighter. Just like Otonashi, she prefers a black or black multicam combat uniform and combat pants and wears the battlefront standard uniform: The Striker XT Gen.2 Combat Shirt and Striker XT Gen.2 Combat Pants, both products by UF Pro.

Headgear
She rarely wears helmets, as it often conflicts with her hair despite the safety concerns and wears a cap instead. The color scheme of the cap she wears depends on the mission type, but often opts for black if applicable.

Plate Carrier
The carrier she wears is a black CAGE Plate Carrier that changes with mission type and environment.

Battle Belt
Disliking dual belt systems, she opts the Alonso Defense Group Emmisary Gun Belt.

Weapons
Originally having silver M9 Berettas as her sidearms, she gradually switched over to a single Glock 19 due to the amount of ammo glocks usually carry and the smaller frame compared to a Glock 17. Similarly to Otonashi, she runs an M4 Block II typically with a vertical foregrip and suppressor rather than an angled foregrip. On the back of her battle belt, she has a sheath that's staged horizontally which holds a black KABAR knife to serve as her melee weapon.

Personality
Yuri retains her charismatic leader traits from the afterlife. Being able to stay calm and react to situations quickly, the majority of the battlefront still supports her methods to conducting operations. As they are no longer in the afterlife where they can simply regenerate, she has taken the upmost cautions, showing her care to her fellow members. She also understands that mistakes in the real world can be very costly and affect everyone around them, for they have no chance of coming back alive.

She reveals a bit of her girly side whenever she's alone with Otonashi, becoming upset with him more easily than she does so with other members of the battlefront.

While all the aforementioned traits fell in line with her personality from the afterlife, one of the things she underestimated following her revival was her emotions. Yuri often discredits herself internally for reuniting the battlefront for a multitude of reasons, and is often talking quickly in order to avoid lengthy and hard conversations regarding that. This may hint that she has a deep understanding of her actions, but refuses to face them head-on or to avoid being called out.

Background
Previously known to Yuri, a couple of robbers had entered the Nakamura household, seeking valuable items. As Yuri was the oldest in the house, they threw up an ultimatum that her siblings will be killed if she didn't hand over anything.

Attempting to pick up the most expensive thing she could find (a large vase), she attempted to bring it down the stairs but it fell alongside with her, breaking it into multiple pieces and causing her hand to bleed. Extremely upset and at a loss, she had given up. Grabbing a piece of the vase and hiding it behind her back, she walked up to the robbers and said that she had something. Two of the robbers, somewhat convinced but anxious over the amount of spent time, went over to where she was previously to pillage whatever she found. As they left the room, Yuri attacked the lone robber, stabbing and slashing at his sides before going for his neck. In her rage-filled tears, it was her only objective. The robber shouted in pain as he was caught off guard. Yuri told her siblings to run and hide while still looking at the robber below her dead in the eye, and the two of them returned only to find Yuri erratically stabbing and slashing the body below her.

One the robbers fell over and watched the scene, frozen in fear and unable to move. The other attempted to intervene, and Yuri waved the broken piece of vase in front of her. The intervening robber attempted to keep his distance, however Yuri charged forward going for his legs, rapidly stabbing and slashing them. All the while, Yuri screamed at her opponent. As the robber attempted to keep his balance, she went for his thighs. The previous injuries began to bleed as Yuri went from his thighs to his stomach.

As the robber fell over, he attempted to swat her and push her off. At one point, Yuri attempted to go for his hand and the broken piece of vase broke into two, with one of them embedding in his hand. Yuri began to use the now twice-broken piece of vase to gouge out the eyes of the robber, all the while he attempted to swat and push off where he thought she was.

At some point, the police arrived to a bloodied-and-crazed teenage Yuri continuing to slash a lifeless body, with the body of another robber not too far form her, also bleeding out due to various stabs and slashes, and her parents were notified. The media also got wind of the incident and many news agencies were on the scene trying to get the story. With bad memories associated with the house as well as attention from the media, the Nakamura family moved away with the help of local authorities.

The Nakamura parents, desperate and worried that Yuri would develop major psychological issues, placed her under observation and care to mitigate such issues in hopes to return their lives back to normal. Although, there never seemed to be any glaring issues stemming from the incident, due to her being unable to remember most of it.

Eventually, she was cleared and was able to return back to a seemingly normal life when her younger brother asked her why she forced the entire family to move away. The other siblings began to catch on and connect the dots, berating her for ruining their lives and she eventually ran away from home in order to get some space. Attempting to comprehend why they would do such a thing, she sat on a stairwell crying her eyes out and was unable to stop.

At some point, she returned home to her tearful parents and they defended Yuri, saying it wasn't her fault. They all reconciled, and they tried to move on.

As Yuri grew, the memories of the Afterlife and everyone she had met began to gradually return in a manner similar to Otonashi, where she got a glaring headache and the memories faded in. Renewed by her memories, she pledged to charge forward into life giving it her all. She eventually found someone to love, by the name of Shido Ryuu, a person with similar attributes to Yuri that often pushes her. This leads up to Shido volunteering Yuri to take a practice essay for college applications with a counselor so they could go to the same college, but the given prompts made her think of the events in the Afterlife. The counselor reviews this and sees her as a good leader, which is something that Otonashi told her.

While browsing idlely on the internet, she found the Girls Dead Monster crew in full force, singing and continuing their songs while also retaining their names. This leaves her to believe that the ultimate goal was to reunite the battlefront rather than continue their lives alone empowered by the Afterlife.

Deployments/Operations

 * Operation Medical Watch (completed)
 * Operation Serpent's Guard (ongoing)
 * Operation Tornado

Miscellaneous

 * Investigation of APT51 (Officially identified as APT51-1, target of operation)