Mahiru Koizumi

Skin

Mahiru has fair skin with light freckles flecked across her cheeks.

Hair

She has vivid red hair cut in a short, smooth bob, with choppy bangs.

Eye Color

Her eyes are a rather dark olive green.

Camera

As Hope’s Peak Academy’s Ultimate Photographer, she brings her black digital camera around everywhere she goes to capture memories and the time she spends with others. In any kind of situation, Mahiru doesn't mind snapping photos. She believes that photos depict everything, whether it's beautiful or horrible and it's the duty of a photographer to keep taking photos.

Age

18

Clothes

She wears a white uniform dress shirt with short sleeves and a chest pocket, with a red-and-white plaid tie at her collar. On top of this, she wears an olive green school jumper with a pleated skirt.

Legwear

Her legwear consists of a darker olive knee-high socks with lighter colored lines running around the cuff, with olive-black flat sneakers with white laces and soles.

Previous School

Her former school's symbol can be found on her shirt's sleeves, her jumper's chest, and her socks' cuffs.

Personality

Mahiru is a sensible and optimistic girl who is generally rather calm and unafraid to speak her mind. She comes off as confident, but keeps her self esteem issues a secret. Mahiru wants to help as many people as she can, but it'd be a mistake to call her a pushover. She doesn't hesitate to scold those who are rude to her and is also really good at taking care of people although never failing to complain about it. Mahiru hates people who lack manners. Because Mahiru is a reliable person who thinks of her friends and is prone to taking care of people, she has many friends outside of her own class as well. She's also a highly empathetic person even caring about those who treated her poorly.

Parents

Mahiru compares her photographs to those of her mother, a famous war photographer whose career led her to be absent from home for much of her life. Her father was a very poor parent, leaving the responsibility of the housework entirely to her.

Double Standard

Mahiru is very caring and almost motherly to other girls around her, showing nothing but tolerance and patience. On the other hand, she has high expectations of Men and is quick to be abrasive towards them, frequently scolding them like they were being reprimanded by a parent.

Secrets

Mahiru believes her title is stupid compared to her classmates. She also hates selfies.

Preferences

Even though she is specialized in multiple photography categories, Mahiru's favorite involves taking pictures of smiling people. She could take a perfect shot of someone's smile and according to Hajime, he never saw someone smile so bright and heartwarming until he saw Mahiru's photos. Despite that, she expressed her dislike towards boys by not taking many pictures of them. She started to like taking shots of people's smiles since she was a kid. Her mother always shows the pictures of smiling people to Mahiru, which she liked so much and made her eager to take pictures the same as her mother's wonderful shots.

Location

Her character is set on Jabberwock island, an island all 12 students in her class (including you) have been trapped on with the promise of escaping only if you kill someone. All students have their own small houses to call their own, each labeled with an image of themselves along with their name. Every student seemed to just wake up there with no memory of how they arrived, so it’s safe for Mahiru to assume you got there the same way she did.

Sexism

She’s… kind of sexist. She tends to hold girls in high regard and view men as slobs until proven otherwise. She tends to take many more photos of women, appreciating their elegance and beauty more than any man.