Mangetsu Kohinata

Mangetsu Kohinata (小日向 満月 *Kohinata Mangetsu)* is the main protagonist of GRANBELM.

## Personality & Character

Mangetsu is a very kind and cheerful girl. Lacking any outstanding athletic or academic abilities, she goes out of her way to help the people around her and tries her best, hoping to be noticed. She has a strong conviction that she has nothing and wants to do something only she can, which drives her to participate in the GRANBELM after she was drawn in on the night of a full moon.

## Skill & Abilities

She can resist any mental attack.

Her Armanox is **White Lily** (ホワイトリリー, *Howaito Rirī*), a white mecha with a sword as its primary armament, through she also has some ranged attacks. Though untrained, as a being made by Magiaconatus, she possessess enormous magical readings and can sometimes enter a state of extreme concentration, during which she is capable of overpowering her opponents through brute force. Shingetsu also teaches her how to summon her own familiar, Orca, a whale-like magical spirit that aids her in battle.

Her given name literally means "full moon," mirroring Shingetsu.

## History

A seemingly normal high school student who suddenly finds herself caught in the middle of the Granbelm. She has no particular talents or aspirations, so she tries to be as helpful and friendly as possible to make up for it. Beneath this facade, however, she is very insecure about her being "empty." After meeting Shingetsu and becoming friends with her, she slowly begins to open up and decides to help make her wish come true. She is eventually revealed to actually be an artificial being created by the Magiaconatus to help Shingetsu win the Granbelm.

## Relationships

* **Kibō Kohinata**

Kibō is Mangetsu's younger sister. While she always seems annoyed at Mangetsu and feels she is irresponsible and oblivious, she does seem to genuinely care about Mangetsu. Even after she forgets about Mangetsu, she happily accepts her as a new friend on the camping trip.

* **Shingetsu Ernesta Fukami**

When Mangetsu first enters Magiaconatus' realm, Shingetsu is the only one to hear her out and see her as someone to help rather than a target. Mangetsu quickly becomes attached to Shingetsu, asks her to explain everything about mages and magic, and while she refuses to allow Shingetsu to remove her from GRANBELM, she trusts Shingetsu even when others insinuate she shouldn't. Mangetsu becomes Shingetsu's greatest ally and works to grant her wish even when it first threatens Mangetsu's own wish (to be special as a mage) and eventually her life (as Mangetsu discovers Magiaconatus created her and destroying magic will erase her). There is heavy subtext that Mangetsu is in love with Shingetsu, and the ending implies that she may have somehow cheated death to reunite with her.

* **Nene Rin**

After Mangetsu defeats Nene, eliminating her from GRANBELM, Nene appears to her, curious to know about the mage who beat her. Nene becomes an ally of Mangetsu and her friends, using a combination of magic and technology to monitor their battles and communicate with Mangetsu in the field. She also figures out that Magiaconatus is erasing mages' lives and offers Mangetsu a place to stay once the Kohinata family forgets her.

* **Kuon Tsuchimikado**

Kuon allies with Mangetsu and Shingetsu once she joins GRANBELM. Mangetsu happily accepts the help and becomes her friend, and she is horrified at Kuon's eventual fate.

* **Suishō Hakamada**

Suishō begins to antagonize Mangetsu during the Shingetsu/Anna battle, where she taunts her over the discrepancy between her actions and words in prioritizing protecting Shingetsu. Later, she pressures Mangetsu to join her instead because she "has nothing." It turns out that Mangetsu and Suishō were both created by Magiaconatus as "dolls." Mangetsu rejects that she is anything like Suishō, and even after she disappears, she returns to merge with Shingetsu to defeat Suishō.