Mai Sakurajima

**Mai Sakurajima** (桜島 麻衣 *Sakurajima Mai),* also known as **Mai-san**,is the main female protagonist of the *Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai*series, also known as *Bunny Girl Senpai.*She is one of the *tsundere* characters in the series along with her half-sister, Nodoka Toyohama. Her love interest is Sakuta Azusagawa. She is a famous celebrity and is a notable child actress and model.

Her behavior isn't as violent as most tsundere examples. She is actually a very kind person and isn't harsh by default, though she shows tsundere tendencies towards her love interest Sakuta, such as responding to his lewd jokes by pinching him or stepping on his foot, and she also teases him a lot. This makes her qualify as type B Tsundere overall, mixed with Teasedere (also known as Hiyakasudere).

## Appearance

Mai is an attractive individual with fair skin, long straight black hair with bangs, and blue-purple eyes. She has a slender and well-defined body, with a slim waist, long legs, and quite large breasts. She is fairly tall for a Japanese schoolgirl, standing at 165 cm (5'5). Mai wears 2 pink hairpins on one side of her bangs, and a pink bunny-shaped barrette at the back of her hair.

In her bunny costume, she wears bright black high heels and wraps her long slender legs that in translucent black tights. Similar to a black leotard, the outfit highlighted the lines of her body, while the chest made a firm, modest valley. White cuffs accented her wrists and her neck was adorned by a black bowtie.

She is often seen in her school uniform, which consists of a white collared shirt, red tie, a cream vest, brown shoes, and a blue skirt, with light brown blazer on top that she wears unbuttoned. She wears translucent black tights with her uniform as well.

## Personality

Mai is a serious individual, especially around her boyfriend, Sakuta Azusagawa. She can be considered as a type B tsundere: she isn't harsh by default, but she can be easily annoyed and come across as somewhat snappy or violent when Sakuta does or says something lewd. She usually responds to Sakuta's openly lewd remarks about her by pinching him, slapping him, or stepping on his foot, but can also be flustered just as easily and her tsundere act fails. Mai tends to ignore and stuff unpleasant feelings down rather than deal with them. Sakuta often points out that she is "dishonest", often lying about her feelings. She and Sakuta enjoy teasing each other, but despite her snarkiness, she's pure-hearted and even shy around Sakuta's jokes.

Mai is very sensitive, polite, levelheaded, helpful, and kind. She also has a very soft spot for Kaede Azusagawa, Sakuta's younger sister. Mai is also very intelligent, she's implied to have very good grades and even helps Sakuta study at one point. Though Mai can be somewhat harsh and strict towards Sakuta at times, and call him a pervert or an idiot, she is genuinely affectionate and kind to him as well, and often says that she loves him more than he thinks.

Before her invisibility was subdued by Sakuta, she harbored deep anxiety over the possibility that she could be forgotten entirely. She was also quite sensitive over the topic of her hiatus, as she still harbored bitter feelings over the circumstances which caused them; these feelings have now subsided since she starting acting at another agency. Because of her anxiety, she used to be somewhat distrustful and pessimistic, still remaining a very compassionate person.

All in all, although she's emotional and sensitive, Mai is a really nice and kind individual. Notable examples include when Mai denounced the hospitalization incident as false for Sakuta's sake, and when she gave Kaede a dress both as a gift and to at least spark interest in returning to the outside world.

She's also very selfless, sacrificing herself to save Sakuta from being hit by a car, and even becoming Shoko's heart donor. Still, Sakuta manages to get back in time to save her.

Overall, she can be described as very similar to Sakuta: they're both quick-witted individuals with a sarcastic streak, yet very kind and helpful, with an immensely good heart and who always do what's right.

## Trivia

* Her birthday is december 2, meaning that her zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
* Her last name **Sakurajima** means "cherry blossom" **(**桜) (**sakura**) and "island" (島)(**shima/jima**). Therefore, put together, her last name means "cherry blossom island".
* Her first name **Mai** means "hemp, flax, linen" (麻)(**ma)** and "clothing, garment" (衣)(**i)**.