Mai Yurino

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## Mai Yurino

* Splash Art
* Sprite

## Characteristics

### Height

* 155cm
* 157cm

## Fangan Info

### Artists

Team Monolab (팀 모노라보)

 —Mai's Character Profile

**Mai Yurino** (유리노 마이 *Yurino Mai*) is a main character featured in **Danganronpa Blowback- The Stage of Repeated Despair and Hope-**, made by **Team MonoLab**. She is the **Super High School Level Researcher** (초고교급 연구원 *lit. Super High School Level Researcher*).

## Profile

> 연구하길 좋아하는 캐릭터. 초고교급 연구원이라고 불리며 그가 연구에 기여한 실적은 너무 많아 본인도 잘 생각나지않는다고한다. 듣기로는 생명공학, 지구과학, 물리학에 골고루 재능이 있는듯하다. 보통 어지간한 과학자들도 반 밖에 외우지않는다는 **'주기율표'**를 전부 외우고있다. 때문에 숫자를 읽을때 원소기호에 대입해 읽기도 하는데 다른 사람들이 못 알아듣는 경우가 허다하다. 연구원 직업병인지 신기한것을보면 비커나 개인비닐에채집해놓는 버릇이있다. 존댓말을 쓰는 어느누구에게나 친절하고 상냥한 성격의 소유자. **- Official Profile**
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## **History**

### **Background**

Very little is currently known about Mai's life before the killing game. She is the child prodigy of a family of scientists. When she was younger Mai was able to fully memorize the periodic table; something which she still remembers now. At some point in her life she was scounted by Hope's Peak Academy as the Super High School Level Researcher.

### **Killing School Life**

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Mai was one of sixteen freshmen students kidnapped to participate in the killing school life. Upon entering the school building Mai passed out and later woke up in one of the classrooms. After waking up she introduced herself to Kazuki Watanabe and the rest of her classmates; after everyone finished introducing themselves to each other everyone tried to theorise about what happened to them. Before they could finish their conversation an anonymous announcement asked everyone to meet in the gymnasium for the opening ceremony. However, after arriving, they instead met their self-proclaimed headmaster, Monokuma, who revealed they were at the school to participate in a killing game, with the only way for any of them to leave to be by murdering another one of their classmates and getting away with it.

Angered by this Chinami Hasami, the Super High School Level Hairstylist, tried to attack Monokuma, but was subsequently shot at and almost killed. At the last second she was saved by Tato Shimagami, who in place got shot in the arm. Following this event the truth of their situation began to set in everyone's minds, learning just how serious the killing game was. One-by-one everyone began to leave the gymnasium to explore the rest of the school building. After doing so everyone regrouped in the dining hall, where they discussed their findings. Later on, Seina Datenashi, Yosaku Fujita, and Kana Ise returned to the dining hall and revealed they found a broadcasting station in the back of the gymnasium. By this time however, everyone began to feel paranoid about their situation, especially after Ryo questioned whether someone was already planning to kill.

### The First Motive

Following the first few days of the killing game nobody had yet murdered, a fact which greatly annoyed Monokuma. To incentivize the participants Monokuma set-up and reavealed the first motive, giving each student a motive video in the form of a DVD. Though the contents of Mai's video aren't currently known, the motive later resulted in Yosaku's murder. During the subsequent investigation Mai theorised that a loose cable that she and Kazuki found was the murder weapon, comparing it against the wounds on Yosaku's neck to come to the conclusion. This was later used as evidence during the class trial and proven to be correct. Later, Seina was found guilty by the rest of her classmates and executed by Monokuma.

### Athletic Competitions

Just a few days after Seina's execution and Yosaku's murder, Monokuma called the surviving participants to the gymnasium, revealing their second motive when they arrived. At their arrival Monokuma also revealed the existence of an escape switch, which they could earn by gaining 'gold coins' through winning the athletic competitions. However, this came with the risk of their secrets being revealed, as the people who placed last would have their past revealed by Monokuma at the end of the day. After deciding to work together with each other everyone returned to the dining hall, where they formed the competitions pairs. Mai was paired up with Misako.

After working together to earn gold coins through the week, the competitions were abruptly put to an end after the class discovered Kana's corpse by the swimming pool. During the investigation Mai was able to perform an autopsy on her corpse, and compared what she found to the Monokuma file. Mai believed Kana had no chance of resisting when her achille's heel was stabbed, and that the pain she went through must have been deliberate. Later in the Class Trial Mai believed she could have been murdered with a small kitchen knife.

## Creation and Development

### Creator's Notes

 —Auxin (옥신)

 —Jinesong Majo (진성마조)

 —Lime Project (상큼한라임)

### Design

Very little is known about Mai's beta designs and design process. Like the rest of the characters her design was teased through a post through Auxin's twitter acount. However, her design was never posted or shown. A small portion of Mai's design can be seen through the original cast lineup; from what is shown her design seems to be generally unchanged.

During production for Danganronpa Blowback, Auxin drew a promotional artwork featuring his OC's 'Mai' and 'Yuri'. In the artwork Mai is depicted to wear a red shirt, a white ruffled ascot, and have green eyes. It is likely this was Mai's original design before it was changed to fit the game.

### Name Etymology

Mai's surname is written with the Kanji 有利野 ('Yurino') which means 'posses, have, exist'. Her first name uses the Kanji 舞 ('Mai'), which means 'dance'.

## **Appearance**

Mai is a short highschooler standing at 157cm with brown hair in a bob cut, pale skin, and yellow eyes.

Her attire consists of a pastel pink dress shirt, a red ribbon with dot patterns, a black vest, a knee-length labcoat with medical vials kept in a chest pocket, a star-shaped silver pin attached to the interior. In addition Mai wears a green skirt with dot patterns, a pair of black leggings, and a pair of white shoes. There is a flask symbol on the back of Mai's labcoat.

## **Personality**

The child prodigy of a family of scientists, Mai is an extremely intelligent person who wishes to use her talent for mankind. Throughout the killing game Mai often used her talent to help the rest of her classmates, performing autopsies on the victims and making educated theorises based on the evidence. On numerous occasions her work was able to aid her friends and often turned out to be true. To most of her classmates Mai comes across as an optimistic and friendly person. Whenever she takes an interest in something Mai will try to research it until there's nothing left to know, with her biggest current interest being in people. Though extremely intelligent Mai has been shown to have moments of uncertainty, especially throughout the class trials; often not knowing where to continue or who the culprits are. To this end, Mai has also been shown to become easily upset by the murders and the loss of her friends.

Due to her curious nature, Mai has been shown to concern her classmates at times; during the first Class Trial Chinami became suspicious of Mai after she talked about her forensics knowledge. Again, after Kana fell into despair Mai made notes about how she regained her hope, using her as a subject for her interest in people, something which concerned Kazuki at the time.

## Talent and Abilities

### Super High School Level Researcher

A child prodigy, Mai comes from a family of scientists. During her childhood Mai was able to perfectly memorize the periodic table, something she still remembers by the time of the killing game. Her scientific knowledge even allows her to identify individuals based on the periodic table, and associates each person with a specific element. When she first met Kazuki, she compared him to Copper (CU), based on his birthday on the 29th. This knowledge extends to every number, as she is able to perfectly list and identify which number belongs to its element and vice versa. Mai claims to love her work as it can serve mankind, in addition to finding it fun.

During her childhood Mai admired Michael Faraday, an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Mai aspires to be able to serve mankind one day, just like Faraday did. To achieve this Mai researches multiple fields; naturally curious, she will research anything so long as it interests her, with her biggest interest being people.

### Intelligence

In addition to being a child prodigy in science, Mai is shown to be an extremely intelligent person. Despite still being a highschool freshman Mai enjoys to read college thesis's to aid her research. To read these Mai spent a month learning English.

### Forensic Knowledge

Befitting her title, Mai has developed some forensics and biological knowledge through her work, which allows her to give insight on how her classmates may have died. During the first murder Mai uses her skills to deduce what the murder weapon may have been, judging it against the scar left behind on Yosaku's neck. Her theory later proved to be true during the class trial. Mai later claims she may have been able to use specialized equipment to help the rest of her classmates, indicating she may have practised forensics at some point in the past.

## Guides

The link below is a full transcript and guide to Mai's Free Time Events, including her preferred MonoMono Machine presents.

## Relationships

### Misako Rokuhana

Although Misako and Mai aren't seen interacting much throughout the killing game, they are shown to have a close sister-like relationship with each other, as later commented by Kazuki. Misako often seemed to care for Mai, especially during the athletics competition, and Mai in turn often helped Misako when she needed it. When the competitions were first announced Mai helped Misako create a way to randomly pick the teams, taking the time to find resources in the school building. Outside of this, little else is currently known about their friendship.

### Kazuki Watanabe

During the events of the killing game Mai often helped Kazuki during the investigations, using her talent to perform autopsies on the victims. Her theories are often brought up during the class trials, and are later used as evidence to help find the culprits. During their Free Time Event's together she and Kazuki form a friendship with each other, with Mai saying later saying Kazuki was someone who brightened everything around him, something she seemed to aspire about him. Kazuki was also one of the first and only people to compliment Mai throughout her life, something which saddened him.

### Kana Ise

After her fall into despair and eventual rebound to hope, Mai took interest in Kana and used her experience as a part of her research. Outside of this however, Mai and Kana aren't seen interacting often afterwards.

### Chinami Hasami

Though Chinami and Mai don't interact much throughout the killing game, Chinami suspected Mai during the first Class Trial due to her foresnsics knowledge. Outside of this, they aren't seen talking afterwards.

## **Trivia**

* Mai ranked fifth in Blowback's popularity poll, taken after the release of the first and second chapters. She received 83 votes.
* Mai is believed to have been the planned third killer, as shown in a leaked screenshot from one of the games producers. It is unknown, however, if this idea was going to appear in the final product, and if so, who she would have killed.
* Mai was created by Auxin before Danganronpa Blowback's production started, but was added to the cast as Auxin had been wanting to put her into a doujin game.

## **References**

1. ↑ Mai's profile originally listed her height as 157cm, but it was later changed to 155cm in her report card.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 **Mai Yurino Profile**
3. ↑ https://dangan.tistory.com/71