Mugi Awaya

Hanabi Yasuraoka

**Mugi Awaya** (粟屋 麦 *Awaya Mugi*) is the main male protagonist in *Scum's Wish*. He is a high school student who is in love with Akane Minagawa, his previous home tutor and now a music teacher at his school.

## Appearance

Mugi's full bodyMugi's facial expressionsClose up view of Mugi's eyesMugi is pale-skinned young man who is described to be handsome by others with fluffy blond hair, light-brown eyes and it is shown that he is a bit muscular (**Episode 5**) .

He is mostly seen wearing the school uniform, which consists of a white shirt and grey pants.

## Personality

At the start of the anime, Mugi is a cold and distant boy who barely shows any emotions and expressions. However, this changes throughout the series. In reality, Mugi is actually a very kind, gentle, caring and straightforward person. Mugi considers himself weak and a coward because even though he knew about Akane Minagawa's true self, he tries to disregard it and falls for her anyway. Mugi deeply cares about his friends; which was shown when he ignored his desire for Moka's body and rejected her because he didn't want to "taint" her and the precious friendship they shared.

Mugi is an honorable student, noted by his excellent grades. Besides being a honor student, Mugi is additionally shown to be quite popular at school since his female classmates describe him as being "dreamy" and like a "prince". He also has a superiority complex, demonstrated through his out of control libido, in the past using a senior to fulfill his own desires.

## Relationships

### Hanabi Yasuraoka

Mugi and Hanabi are often idolized as the perfect couple to the point where they were even featured in a couple magazine for teens , but this 'perfect couple' has a secret - both of them have a crush on different people. They just use each other as replacements for their real love interests in order to get rid of their loneliness and emptiness. They are 'substitute lovers'. They consider themselves to be somewhat the same as they both suffer from unrequited love and badly wish to fill up the holes in their hearts since they are well aware their love won't ever be reciprocated. Therefore, they satisfy their own desires with physical intimacy while portraying each other as their love interests. Consequently, they grew rather close and shared their worries with one another.

After some time, both Mugi and Hanabi promised to confess their feelings to the ones they love. Mugi additionally told her that it wouldn't be bad for them to consider becoming a real couple after they both get rejected and Hanabi accepted, which hinted at the fact the pair grew genuine feelings for each other. Therefore, the two of them made a deal to meet up after each of them confessed to Narumi Kanai and Akane Minagawa. When the moment of Mugi's confession came, Akane lied to him by claiming that she felt the same for the boy. Even though Mugi saw through Akane's lies, he proceeded to sleep with her anyway, which had the result of him not showing at the promised date with Hanabi and only texting her a simple "sorry" afterwards. Despite being disappointed and a bit angry at Mugi, Hanabi quickly realized that he probably got tricked by Akane and eventually accepted his decision to be with her. Meanwhile, Mugi seemingly forgot about the other girl when he was with Akane. After Mugi starts grieving over the fact that Akane will never look at him the way he wants to, he starts getting dreams where Hanabi cries because of his decision and usually ends them thinking, "Ah, I made her cry again", implying that he is still fond of her and feels intense guilt for leaving her alone.

At the end of the series, Mugi realizes his feelings for Hanabi, but he lets her go so they can both pursue a genuine relationship they both deserve.

As of **Scum's Wish Decor**, Mugi still hasn't gotten over Hanabi despite having a multitude of sexual encounters with women over the course of their time apart. Eventually, while daydreaming about Hanabi, he declines an invitation to have sex from a woman who approached him at his job, where he comes to the conclusion that Hanabi is the girl he wants. When he finally sees Hanabi again at a concert, he asks God to please let his relationship with her last this time and the two of them hold hands, signifying that the two of them will start the relationship they had wanted.

### Sanae Ebato

Sanae extremely dislikes Mugi because he's the boyfriend of Hanabi, whom she has feelings for. Mugi considers her a beauty but is fully aware that she hates him as she always looks sternly towards him.

### Noriko Kamomebata

Noriko is Mugi's childhood friend who considers him as her prince. She has feelings for him and can sometimes be quite annoying while expressing her love for him, yet Mugi considers her as a precious friend.

### Narumi Kanai

They aren't much of an acquaintance, but Mugi is aware that Hanabi Yasuraoka has deep feelings for Narumi.

### Akane Minagawa

Akane is the person that Mugi has feelings for where she was his home tutor and he's had feelings for her since then.

Mugi knows that her true self is not the one she shows at school; it's simply a mask of a kind, clumsy music teacher. Akane loves having men obsessing over her and has never felt feelings strong enough to call "love" towards someone. She uses men to satisfy her urges of being craved by them and usually gets bored of them after one night. Even though he comes to know all of this, Mugi can't help but yearn for her and have sexual intercourse with her multiple times, which made him forget about Hanabi Yasuraoka during the time he spent with her.

Mugi later realizes that he loved the broken and lost Akane, not the new Akane that was proposed to. He swears he will never forget how she was before, even if it's such a painful memory.

## Etymology

* The name **Mugi** means "wheat" (麦).
* Mugi's surname **Awaya** means "millet" (粟) (**awa**) and "roof, house, shop, dealer, seller" (屋) (**ya**).

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1
2. ↑ Chapter 1
3. ↑ Chapter 1