Daiki Mamura

**Daiki Mamura** is one of the main characters of the *Daytime Shooting Star* manga.

Suzume's friend and classmate. His exterior is cool and aloof but he is actually extremely shy when girls make any physical contact and blushes profusely. When Suzume discovers this, she "blackmails" him to become her first friend by threatening to tell other people his secret. Despite his frustration and annoyance, he agrees and thus makes his first female friend.

In the AWA fics, Daiki is set to appear in a future AWA storyline.

## **Appearance**

Mamura has slightly unkempt blond hair and eyes that appear to be a dark reddish color. Mamura dresses casually, not tucking in his uniform's shirt or buttoning it up to the collar.  When outside school, he wears a variety of outfits suited to the weather. He is also often seen listening to music in the morning through earphones or headphones, most noticeably wearing the headphones that, later within the series, Suzume gives him.

## **Personality**

Mamura is normally very quiet and indifferent towards his surroundings. He is cold to other people, especially to girls, though this becomes less prominent later on. He didn't like girls most likely due to his mother, who had an affair with a co-worker and ended up leaving the family. After that, Mamura thought of all women the same, and was disgusted by them. He is also normally perceived as cool and aloof but proves to have a gentle and caring side to him that he rarely shows to others.  He often seems to show it to Suzume. Mamura is also very protective of Suzume, as shown when he tries to save her when she falls into a hole, giving up his jacket for her to use, and grabbing her hand to make sure they don't get separated in a large crowd. Although he cares deeply for Suzume, and says he has thought about "those things," he claims he has no ulterior motive in dating her.

Later on in the story, Mamura is also shown to have a more mature side; he realizes that Suzume's feelings aren't for him, that he didn't want to be or even could be a replacement for Shishio, and tells Suzume to go see him. Despite believing that if he let her go at that moment he would never get her back, he still sends her off, and even after Suzume has left, Mamura has trouble sleeping and wakes up, going outside by the seashore. He begins to think about Suzume, wondering if she got to Tokyo okay and if she was eating well, and whether she properly expressed her feelings to Shishio or not, expressing a "If she is happy, I'm happy" type of personality.

## **Trivia**

* His favorite foods are anything with cheese on them.
* His blood type is A.
* He likes to collect the little toys that come with food.
* He listens to music often.
* His favorite color is blue.
* His preferred season is winter.
* He likes slender-fitting clothing.
* He doesn't have a favorite sport.
* He doesn't have a favorite hairstyle.
* The genre of movie he's seen the most is suspense.
* He owns headphones which were a birthday present given to him by Suzume.
* According to Suzume, he has an elegant palate.
* He smells like soap.
* He often calls Suzume stupid when she embarrasses him.
* He has only ever called Suzume by her name once, at which point he used her full name.
* When he gets embarrassed or nervous, he puts his hand on the back of his neck. It appears to be a habit of his.
* He has an uneasy relationship with Shishio, and sometimes, when angry, calls him a bastard behind his back.
* He was named after a male Shiba Inu living in the mangaka's apartment building.
* According to the mangaka, Mamura is modeled after Kentaro Sakaguchi, who is both an actor and a model for the Japanese fashion magazine *Men's Non-no*, the male counterpart to *Non-on*. Additionally, the magazine is published by Shueisha, which also publishes *Margaret*, the magazine that publishes *Hirunaka no Ryuusei*.
* In a popularity poll versus Shishio held by *Margaret*, he won 3849 to 1893 with a ratio of slightly over 2:1.
* He, like his two brothers, has the character "dai" in his first name.
* The animal in Mamura's name, horse, is the "ma" in "Mamura." Though 馬 is normally read as "uma" when standalone, due to kanji having multiple readings, it is the "ma" in this case.

## **External Links**

* Daiki Mamura at Hirunaka no Ryuusei Wiki