Tsumugi Kotobuki

Tsumugi Kotobuki, also known as Mugi and Mistress, is one of the main characters from the K-On! series.
== Charactah Account ==
Tsumugi, often referred to as 'Mugi' by her friends, is a wealthy girl with a gentle and sweet personality who plays a Korg Triton Extreme 76-key keyboard, though she is also seen playing a Korg RK-100 keytar in the closing credits of the first season. She originally intended to join the choir club, but joins the light music club instead after receiving an invitation and encouragement from both Mio and Ritsu. Tsumugi is considered a piano prodigy since she has been playing the piano since she was four and has experience in winning various piano contests. Mugi has long, pale blonde hair, blue eyes, unusually large eyebrows, which apparently run in her family and a fair complexion that the other characters do not have, but she does not get sunburned. She is the daughter of a company president, and her family has several villas in various places around Japan (and even one in Finland). Since her father also owns a maid café, she often brings confectionery and an assortment of sweets and pastries to the club room, and she diligently makes tea with a tea set which is kept in their club room. Despite her wealth, she is fascinated by and finds joy in "normal" activities, such as ordering fast food, sharing french fries with her club mates, holding down part-time jobs and haggling over prices. Tsumugi displays a rebellious streak occasionally, diverting from her normally well-behaved and mature demeanor to the surprise of the others. She also displays a childlike eagerness from time to time, and possesses unusually high strength, being able to effortlessly carry around her own keyboard, Ritsu's drums, amplifiers, and at one point beating an arm-wrestling game in an arcade.
Tsumugi is often entranced by the sight of two girls interacting closely together, sometimes imagining something more risqué in her head. The series sometimes indicates that Mugi has a crush on their teacher, Sawako Yamanaka. While a lot of things do not bother her, she is fairly conscious about her weight (just like Mio), and she gets a bit anxious when her family's staff start spoiling her friends during villa visits. She later begins learning how to play the guitar from Azusa. Tsumugi has a childhood friend several years younger than her named Sumire Saitou who is a daughter of the family that serves the Kotobuki household. Tsumugi grew up home schooled, and therefore spent very little time in the outside world. Because of their close friendship Sumire would purchase everyday items like manga for Tsumugi that she was not normally allowed to see. Tsumugi was rather taken by some of the yuri manga she received which may have influenced her later perceptions about relationships. When Sumire started high school, Tsumugi wanted her to experience the light music club on her own, but due to Sumire's shyness Tsumugi came up with the excuse to send her to the club room to pick up the tea sets that had been left there and told Sawako when Sumire did join that it was okay to leave the tea sets there.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* K-On!
* K-On! Movie
* K-On! Specials
* K-On!: Live House!
* K-On!!
* K-On!! Specials
* K-On!!: Plan!
=== Manga ===
* K-On!
* K-On! Anthology Comic
* K-On! College
* K-On! Highschool
* K-On! Shuffle
=== Video Games ===
* K-On! After School Live!
* Kirara Fantasia
== Trivia ==
* Tsumugi's keyboard is a 76-Key version of the Korg Triton Extreme, which is now discontinued. It is a very heavy instrument, as noted below.
* Tsumugi's surname is taken from former P-Model keyboardist Hikaru Kotobuki. Tsumugi's last name also has the same pronuciation as her voice actor Minako Kotobuki, but is written with different kanji.
* The kanji of Tsumugi's given name refers to pongee - soft, thin cloth woven from raw silk.
* Although Tsumugi does not like to flaunt the fact that her family is wealthy, it becomes rather obvious at certain points, and always to the shock of her friends. Her butler answers the phone when Ritsu calls her at home once and informs her that Tsumugi is on an overseas trip in Finland. Tsumugi's father owns the music shop that she and her friends frequently visit, so the workers there are always very courteous to her, and greet her using her proper title of "Lady Tsumugi". As a result, they offer her and her friends large discounts or free service. However, upon entering university, Tsumugi decided that she wouldn't depend on her wealth anymore and told her parents that the only thing she needed them to pay for would be her tuition.
* At one point, Akira bluntly points out that the girls of HTT might be friends with Tsumugi because they're after her money, making Tsumugi cry. Yui and Mio later reassure her that they're friends regardless of money, and then immediately afterwards show excitement over some sweets she brought for them. Mio remarks that they're not after her money, but her sweets.
* Tsumugi sometimes has to use the sweets and beverages she brings to manipulate the others (especially Yui) into doing club activities they would normally be too lazy to do.
* Tsumugi treasures her friends greatly: Upon seeing Yui, Mio and Ritsu again after not meeting for several days, Tsumugi cries that she hasn't seen them in precisely "57 1/2 hours".
* Tsumugi is apparently very strong, as in the anime she is seen carrying loads of heavy equipment without breaking a sweat, including her Triton Extreme, which weighs 16.9kg / 37.26 pounds. She also knocked Akira over with a "light strike".
* Tsumugi can speak in Kansai dialect perfectly. This may be why Minako Kotobuki was chosen to voice her, since she can speak Kansai dialect.
* Yui states that Tsumugi's eyebrows resemble pickled radishes due to their thickness. She further emphasizes it in the Ura-On! specials as well as dream sequences. In these exaggerated dreams, Tsumugi's eyebrows serve as an anchor that prevent her from dissolving. When Yui and Ritsu ate her eye brows (assumed to be radishes) on one occasion, she started to melt. Oddly, protractors served as makeshift anchors in the dream.
* Though Tsumugi initially intended to join the choir club, she rarely actually sings. In the anime itself, she only sings in the final episode to Tenshi ni Fureta yo Although it is said that she does the vocals to Honey Sweet Tea Time, she does not perform it during the anime, rather, only on the album. She also has vocal parts in other songs such as Tsubasa wo Kudasai and Ho-kago Tea Time, as well as on her character songs for season 1 and season 2.
* Tsumugi seems to like yuri, since in Volume 1 of the manga, she had fantasies of both Yui/Mio and Ritsu/Mio. Additionally, Tsumugi initially showed signs of affection for Sawako-sensei, much to the surprise of Mio and Ritsu, indicated by her staring at Sawako through makeshift binoculars consisting of two rolled-up magazines.
* In chapter 16 of volume 6, it is revealed that Tsumugi was home-schooled when she was young (as this maybe the reason why she is curious about the outside world). She has a childhood friend named Sumire Saito. Her interest in "yuri" came from when Sumire would buy manga, which Tsumugi was not allowed to see, for her.
* In chapter 19, it is revealed that Tsumugi could be really scary when she is angry. This can be seen by the way she scolded a servant when he interrupted Tsumugi when she was talking with Mio on the phone.
* In the first episode of the anime, Tsumugi makes a big deal out of mixing her fries with those of the other two girls. In Japanese culture, sharing your food with the group is a sign that you accept the group as your own, so Tsumugi was both being formal and very sweet in one go.
* Tsumugi can be regarded as the female counterpart to George Harrison of The Beatles. Much like Harrison, who is famous for being the strange, sensitive "Quiet Beatle", Tsumugi is a gentle, eccentric and kind girl of few words, but makes what she says matter when she does speak. She also started as the single most talented member of her band, and is a prodigy famous for being successful in spite of refusing to confirm to restrictive social norms. Both are famous for their enthusiasm to try anything and everything new, and maintain equally close if sometimes distant friendships with their respective band-mates. Also much like Harrison, Tsumugi is the closest to the resident fellow eccentric Yui (much like how Harrison was close to Lennon).
* In the episode Yet Another School Festival!, it is revealed Tsumugi can get emotional and has a habit of throwing a tantrum and said she didn't want the band to end, and gets into a sudden outburst of tears.
* Tsumugi's voice actress shares her last name with her: Kotobuki.
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== External Links ==
* Tsumugi Kotobuki at K-ON! Wiki
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