Saori Ohtori

Saori Ohtori (鳳 沙織) is a character in Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead. She was working in accounting at Akira Tendou's former company. She was Akira's crush and was the subject of the first item on his Bucket List.

Appearance
Saori was a young woman of average height and well-endowed figure. She has sleek, long black hair that reaches her mid-back, and a pair of charming red eyes, often seen with red lipstick during working hours. Her office outfit consists of a form-fitting, red-violet sweater, a dark pencil skirt, a pair of opaque brown tights, and cream-colored pumps for footwear. She is described to be beautiful, and testimony to this is how Akira Tendou has a crush on her.

When she became zombified, her hair is rumpled and messy, and she wears nothing but white lingerie and pale blue panties that already clue you into what she was doing moments before her unfortunate fate. Her eyes turned wide and crazed, her skin turned a sickly pale gray, with numerous visible veins seen on her face, her torso, and her limbs. Her mouth hangs open with yellowed teeth, and sick-looking purple tongue, with traces of blood and saliva inside.

Personality
She was a friendly and compassionate young woman, to who Akira developed an attraction at first sight, and during the years he miserably worked in the exploitative company he is in, also described her as "the only good thing in this hellhole".

Although unclear whether she was willing or not, at some point, she became her boss's mistress who often "did it" with her to get better conditions in the company.

Story
When Akira was a new worker at the production company he now previously worked in, he collided with Saori causing the books she carried in her person to fall and scatter on the floor, mortified, Akira helps her pick them up while apologizing, with Saori saying it's alright. After taking a good look at her face, Akira gains a newfound attraction to her, i.e., he developed a crush, and after successfully retrieving the fallen books, Saori told him that anything he doesn't understand about work, he is welcome to come to her and ask her about it, pointing where her cubicle is, and then bids him good luck on his first day.

During a seemingly after-work get-together with his various superiors in an izakaya, Akira gets a glimpse of Saori, who catches his gaze, smiles at him, and makes a friendly gesture, who Akira nods and exclaims in his mind that she sure is cute and definitely is his type, which motivates him enough to exclaim internally how he's going to work hard to make good impressions on her.

After a year has passed, and its Akira's second year, while taking out a box full of and labeled "garbage", Saori appears with a bag of purchased goods from the convenience store, telling Akira he worked through lunch again, and he needs to eat, which Akira thanks her for, and remarks internally that she's "the only person that keeps him sane in this company". Before he got out his thanks, Saori's boss pops out of the back door and asks her if she has a minute, Saori affirms and bid him a "see you later", telling him to hang in there. After the door closed, Akira remarked in his thoughts how Saori is also the CEO's mistress.

Later on when the outbreak started Akira went to Saori’s place but by the time he came there it was too late and she along with the CEO got zombified. After Akira pushes the CEO off the building the zombified Saori attempted to go after him but he bravely confessed his love to her before he ran away with her chasing him.

Much later on when Shizuka Mikazuki got bitten by a zombie, Akira recalls Saori as a reminder of losing one woman he loved to infection.

When Akira and Shizuka were being chased by Zombies, as Shizuka wondered if confessing to woman he loved was on the bucket list, Akira mentions Saori as he said he already confessed to the woman he loved on his bucket list.

Chairman
She had an affair with her boss.

Akira Tendou
She was very friendly to him compared to the likes of Gonzou Kosugi and Akira has a crush on her. Though it is unknown if she felt the same about him back or how she felt about him as she was zombified before she can react to Akira’s feelings towards her.

Her zombification would have some impact on Akira later on reminding him losing one woman he loved to the Zombie Virus.

Etymology

 * The name Saori means "sand" (沙) (sa) and "weave, weaving" (織) (ori).
 * Saori's surname Ohtori means "big, great" (大) (o) and "bird, poultry, fowl" (鳥) (tori).