Marin Kitagawa

Information

Romaji Kitagawa Marin Nickname Marine (cosplay name) Relatives Masumi Kitagawa (father) Unnamed Mother (deceased) Affiliation Wakana Gojo (Boyfriend) Occupation Student, Reader Model

Biographical information

Age: 16 years old. Born March 5th.

Physical Description

Species: Human Height 164 cm Weight 50 kilograms Eye color: pink with contact lenses. Hair color: Blonde with pink tips. Dark Brown (natural hair color)

Appearance

Marin Kitagawa is a girl of above-average height with a slim waistline and light skin tone. Her eyes are naturally dark brown, although she is almost always seen wearing dark pink colored contacts when she isn't cosplaying. She has long, glittery pink acrylic nails. She has smooth blonde hair with an ombré transition to pinkish-red or citrus orange at the tips, reaching down to her waist in the back; her bangs cover most of her forehead and eyebrows, reaching to her eyelashes; two locks of hair flow over her shoulders and end around chest height. Her hairstyles include long straight hair, a single ponytail, a double ponytail, a double knot on top, a bun, and a single top ponytail. Marin typically wears multiple silver ear piercings, including a captive bead ring through each earlobe, as well as two round studs in her right ear, three round studs in her left ear, and a barbell in an industrial piercing through her left ear. In the manga, she can be seen with a tongue piercing, but this was not included in the anime. Marin's attire varies depending on her location: At school, she wears a white button-down shirt with one chest pocket on her left, a navy-blue tie, a plaid skirt, black socks, and brown shoes. She also tends to wear a stretchy black choker, two bracelets on her left arm, and a ring on both her right pinky and left index finger. Her casual wardrobe includes a variety of outfits, allowing her to choose one appropriate for the occasion.

Cosplay 1: Shizuku Kuroe

Marin wears a shoulder-length wig with a violet tint, her bangs slightly spread out and covering her forehead, extending just above the fake eyelashes. The eyelashes are moderately long but only on the outer corners of the eye to create a droopy eye impression. She wears purple color contacts and her eye shadow is red. Her eyebrows are shaved and new eyebrows are drawn to best mimic the expression. She wears a black mob cap with three red artificial roses on top, the mob cap having an embroidered rose pattern. She dons a black maid gown with frills where the arm meets the torso. The cuffs are extended to cover the hand and widen towards the end like a cone, and the end is ruffled. There is a brown leather choker attached to a metal ring with a chain extending from it. She also wears a tie. Her breast pockets cover the breasts, with two strings tied in a loop-back pattern going from frill to frill. A few NuBra's are stacked beneath the breast pockets to make them look bigger. She is slimmest directly beneath the breasts, where the dress starts. There are at least three layers to the dress, including a crinoline to make the dress look fluffy. The top layer is a rose embroidered pattern with frills at the end, then there's a black layer and a frilled layer beneath. She wears black rose embroidered stockings. There is also a tulle and garter belt. The stockings are connected to the underwear with two strings on each leg. She wears black platform heels. The number 17 is written on her thighs, right beneath the underwear, as a detail of how many times Shizuku had intercourse. The way 17 is written is in Chinese tally marks, so another tally mark is added by each intercourse Shizuku has had. Why it says 17 is unknown; it might be what Marin got in her playthrough of Saint ♡ Slippery's Academy for Girls - The Young Ladies of the Humiliation Club: Debauched Miracle Life 2.

Cosplay 2: Black Lobelia

Marin wears an officer's cap with a fleur-de-lis and an officer's jacket with epaulets and fringes. Underneath, she wears a cap. There's also an imitation jewel on her chest. Her dress is layered and fringed at the edges. Her accessories also include a choker and black gloves. She wears different colored contact lenses symbolizing heterochromia; her left eye is blue and her right eye is red.

Cosplay 3: Prisoner Veronica

Marin wears a platinum blonde wig with a white choker, jagged teeth, a small cloth around her chest that emphasizes her underboob, and short pants. For this cosplay, she wears orange-yellow colored contacts and applies foundation to match Veronica's skin tone. It was finished quickly thanks to its simple design, but Marin didn't use it due to the large amount of exposed skin.

Cosplay 4: Liz-kyun

Marin wears a burgundy red wig with twin tails and even bangs that reach her shoulders; her back hair is tied in pigtails with black, puffy hair bands that have horns. She also wears attachable pointed ears. The top part of her outfit consists of a black, long-sleeved top with a white ruffled yoke that has a white, buttoned collar extending downwards along with a white ribbon. The sleeves are baggy and are cut off by white cuff sleeves with ruffles. Since the back of Liz-kyun's outfit isn't visible in the SuccuIDK manga due to the art style and being covered by Liz's hair, Wakana took creative initiative and made the back of the yoke an upside-down heart shape. The bottom part consists only of underwear, and the outfit is completed with devil wings and a tail with a spade at the end. For this cosplay, her nail color is changed from glittery pink to black, and she wears olive green colored contacts.

Cosplay 6: Arisa Izayoi

Marin wears a high-cut black strapless leotard with a suit jacket, gartered stockings, heels, a detachable collar and bow tie, a rabbit ear headband, and a fluffy tail.

Cosplay 7: Rei Kogami

Marin has short hair with a middle part. Her attire consists of a white suit jacket with a black lapel, a white vest with black buttons, a black button-down shirt with a royal design, white pants, black shoes, a rainbow rose in her chest pocket, and a white tie. The suit is a tight fit and gives her a masculine figure.

Cosplay 8: Sakuya Shiratori

Marin wears a gray wig with bangs styled by Wakana Gojo. For her outfit, she is wearing a ready-made movie version of Sakuya's school uniform. The uniform is a dark-colored gakuran. The top has a standing collar that buttons down from top to bottom.

Cosplay 9: Rose

Marin wears a ready-made nun's habit. She also wears a rosary around her neck. Her hair is black, tied up in a loose bun with bangs swept to the left, although her bun is not visible under the habit. Her makeup has a horror feel to it, with mascara heavily applied to her lower lashes. After the dining scene, her face, hands, and nun's habit are stained with fake blood.

Cosplay 10: Archangel Haniel

The most challenging costume for Wakana Gojo to make, Marin wears a mantle with a white piece worn loosely around the neck. This neck-piece has two sets of laces on the front, though they don't actually tighten the fabric. The remainder of the mantle is dark gray with a gold stripe at the border and hangs to approximately waist length. The front of the mantle is left open, with two long strips dangling to ankle height. These strips come to a triangular point, from which dangles a bead and then a tassel. Two wider triangular strips hang from the rear of the mantle, also coming to a point with a bead and tassel. Under the mantle, voluminous white sleeves drape past the hands. It's unclear if these are attached as an underlayer to the mantle or to the chest piece, which is a corset within a stylized rib cage. The rib cage is the color of bleached bone, and the corset is black at the top, gradually transitioning to white at the bottom. Marin wears a pair of riding pants that extend up under the corset and down into her thigh-high boots. The boots come to a spade-shaped point at the top-front and extend down into heels with a moderately pointed toe and a heel vaguely shaped like a finger bone. In this costume, Marin wears very pale makeup except for thin red lipstick and abundant pink-brown eyeshadow. The costume includes false eyelashes, which are especially long on top. Marin wears light blue contact lenses and a nearly-white wig with hints of pink and gray. The wig has bangs cut just above her eyes (below her brows) and straight chest-length hair elsewhere. She wears no jewelry in this costume and maintains an emotionless appearance, occasionally incorporating Haniel's mirthless smile.

Personality

Marin is boisterous, extravagant, messy, and while quite mature, she's also clumsy. As a cosplayer and huge otaku, Marin is a big fan of magical girl anime and adult video games. She strongly desires to cosplay as certain characters, seeing the notion of dressing up and becoming said characters as the ultimate form of love for them. Marin's love for the characters she likes extends to the point where she won't cosplay as them if she feels she can't accurately portray their appearance, not wanting to spoil their image. She is notably very kind, friendly, cheerful, and outgoing. It is shown that Marin greatly dislikes overly critical people who judge others for their interests, causing her to reject the advances of a boy at the start of the series who made fun of her liking anime. Marin's non-judgmental outlook and friendly nature cause her to greatly admire Wakana, not caring that the boy is seen as awkward and quiet by others. She saw no reason to keep their newfound friendship a secret, openly greeting him in the school hallways and later treating him at a ramen restaurant. Marin holds her own values and can be quite earnest when it comes to them, despite her cheerful and carefree attitude. For example, she easily saw how Wakana Gojo was being taken advantage of by his classmates and told him that he shouldn't put up with it. Also, when Wakana began purposefully avoiding her out of embarrassment because other students found out about their friendship, Marin confronted him herself, telling Wakana to tell her outright if he had a problem being around her.

Personality

While possessing a mature side, Marin can be somewhat scatterbrained on occasion. She poorly knitted a prototype of her first cosplay outfit (Shizuku Kuroe), despite having a guidebook with step-by-step instructions. She is also a procrastinator, often choosing to watch anime over doing work and completely losing track of time as a result. Despite this, she can be surprisingly proactive at times, such as finding out where Wakana lived so they could start their first cosplay project right away rather than waiting over the weekend. Marin claims that when she gets an idea, she doesn't waste time and gets straight to it, revealing a more rash and impulsive side. Marin is shown to be very bold and immodest, as she had no problem allowing Wakana to take her measurements for her first cosplay outfit, and doing so while wearing a bathing suit despite still being early on in their friendship. She has a more teasing side, sometimes making jokes at Wakana's expense and laughing whenever he gets embarrassed and flustered. These moments can be embarrassing for Marin as well, however, particularly when she begins to realize her own feelings for him. Despite being carefree, Marin isn't thoughtless of others, far from it. She is selfless and doesn't want to burden others in any way; instead, she tends to blame herself rather than putting it on others, warmly apologizing for any inconvenience, no matter how small. After seeing that Wakana had exhausted himself to finish and fully sew her Shizuku outfit—a result of her not being clear about when she needed it—she broke down in remorse and tearfully apologized to him after realizing he had worked himself to the bone for her sake, all while juggling his own responsibilities, such as studying for midterm exams, as well as managing his grandfather's Hina doll shop and visiting him when the latter had hurt his back.

Personality

She has a habit of being embarrassed by seemingly insignificant things, while being woefully unaware or uncaring of clearly more humiliating factors. During the cosplay event as Shizuku, when a photographer Suzuka snapped a picture of her as the wind blew up her skirt and showed her boxers, Marin was more concerned that she wasn't looking at the camera rather than the racy photo of her, even when Suzuka apologized and said she'd delete it. When Marin hastily greeted Wakana at her apartment, she was startled and embarrassed to find out that she wasn't wearing her pink colored contacts, rather than the fact that she was still in her nightwear and had most of her upper body exposed. Marin also loves to eat but still manages to maintain her slender figure, until later on in Chapter 64. She's not a very good cook either, as her meals are often greasy and contain large quantities of meat and rice.

History

Marin's mother died when she was very young, leaving her in the care of her father. Although he loves her, Marin's father is often called to work abroad, leaving her to live alone most days. Before the series began, Marin secured a part-time job as an amateur model.

Plot

One day, Marin falls and hits her head on Wakana Gojo's table and apologizes, marking the first, albeit brief, conversation between the two. The next day, Wakana and Marin are both assigned to after-school cleaning, though things remain awkward between them. One day, Wakana was planning to use the school's sewing machine to work on a doll, but coincidentally, Marin comes in and spots him. After admiring Wakana's doll and praising his work, Marin asks if Wakana could help her create cosplays, which Wakana accepts. Thus, a friendship blossoms between the two, and the series begins.

Relationships

Wakana Gojo At the beginning of the series, it is shown that Wakana and Marin are classmates but have rarely ever spoken. Marin, being popular and outgoing, is described by Wakana as being in a completely different world from him and always at the center of attention. The two briefly talk after Marin accidentally bumps into Wakana's desk, but Wakana cuts the conversation short due to nervousness. Later, they are assigned after-school cleaning duties, but things remain awkward and silent. One day, after catching Wakana using the school's sewing machine and learning that he is a hina doll maker, she asks him to make her cosplay clothes and reveals her deep passion for cosplaying. Wakana promises to help her and receives commission fees for his work. She is very vocal about complimenting his costumes and always supports him in everything he does. At the end of Volume 2, Marin realizes she is in love with Wakana, and throughout the series, continually does whatever she can to invite him to places and spend time with him. In Chapter 36, they went to a love hotel during a photoshoot, leaving Marin flustered and her heart racing. After her father demanded that she do her summer homework, she frequently went to Wakana's house for him to help her with her homework and to eat with him. Marin tends to blush around Wakana if he compliments her, and admires his passion for doing what he loves. She can also get frustrated with Wakana when he outright denies any rumor that the two are dating, given that Wakana thinks she would never date someone like him (unbeknownst to her), leaving her upset. It's clear that simply being around him makes her happy, and she has never once denied a rumor or disliked the idea that they are together, while also being happy to hear that Wakana is single and always has been, clearly hinting that she wants more from their friendship.

Relationships

Kaoru Gojo Despite their initial meeting, where Kaoru assumed that she and Wakana had done something inappropriate, Kaoru apologizes for raising his voice and later gets along well with Marin. He becomes concerned for the girl after seeing her regular diet and poor cooking, choosing to invite her for dinner every now and then, showing that he cares for her well-being. Nowa Sugaya Among her group of friends, Marin is often seen hanging out with Nowa outside of her work with Wakana. They are shown to get along well, as they've both had their hair done and eaten together. Daia & Rune Sajuna Inui Marin is a huge fan of Juju's cosplays, finding her immensely adorable. Upon meeting her in person at Wakana Gojo's house, Marin freaks out and fangirls over her to the point of making Sajuna uncomfortable. The two have a stable friendship, and Marin was overjoyed to have cosplayed with her. While Sajuna initially refused to do a collaboration cosplay with her, Marin convinced her by saying she'd split the studio rent. It's clear they both enjoyed their time afterwards.

Shinju Inui Marin was eager to meet Sajuna Inui's younger sister, wanting to learn about Juju's photography. At first, she pictured Shinju as a smaller and cuter version of her older sister, but was quite surprised to find out that Shinju was both taller and older-looking than Sajuna. Regardless, the two quickly became good friends. Marin was also in awe of Shinju's Soma Tengeji cosplay, finding her masculine appearance with a girl's face amazingly cute. When Wakana Gojo revealed that he and Shinju kept the latter's cosplay a secret and that the two worked on it together, Marin showed some signs of jealousy that Wakana worked with another girl on cosplay alone, but she soon shrugged it off. Akira Ogata At first, Akira seemed to dislike Marin and tried to avoid her as much as possible. In Chapter 85, it's revealed that Akira is actually a big fan of Marin since seeing her Black Lobelia cosplay, and avoided getting close to her because she got nervous around her. She considers her her "Princess" and says she bought every issue of the magazines in which Marin appeared. Manabu & Hikaru Masumi Kitagawa (Father) They are on friendly terms, although he wishes she were more hardworking because her laziness is rubbing off on him. Mother She died of an illness when Marin was a child. [5]

Trivia

Prisoner Veronica is a clear reference to Ramlethal Valentine from the Guilty Gear series, specifically the Xrd series. In the anime, the character preview that Marin and Wakana watched is similar to the character trailers for Guilty Gear -Strive-. Despite her elegant demeanor and the fact that she enjoys going to beaches, Marin is apparently unskilled at swimming or even floating.

Personality

Marin Kitagawa is afraid to confess her feelings. Marin Kitagawa loves Satoru Gojo. Marin Kitagawa is afraid of losing her virginity.