Kirari Aokigahara

* Normal
* Suicide Girl

**Kirari Aokigahara** is the protagonist of the **Suicide Girl** manga; she is a highschool student that wished to kill herself but instead became a Suicide Girl.

## Appearance

Kirari is a short girl with shoulder-length pink hair that she usually wears in braided pigtails with dark bows and green eyes. In her normal appearance, she is normally seen wearing brightly colored dresses and skirts.

In her Suicide Girl outfit, **Neck-Hanging Maiden**, Kirari wears a large noose around her neck with a bright red bow. Her hair becomes significantly longer. Her clothes change to a pink, maid-like outfit with frills, along with white gloves and thigh high socks.

## Personality

Kirari is an extremely positive, energetic and upbeat person, having vowed to always keep a smile on her face. She is constantly happy, jumpy and very excited, constantly moving around and smiling. Even when she had decided to commit suicide, she was constantly smiling and was even happy to end her life, hoping to join her dead fiancé in the afterlife. She seems to struggle with crowds, as seen when she blushed and stuttered while doing a livestream for Manten’s followers.

However, she can become very frustrated or angry in certain situations, such as when several of her suicide attempts failed after becoming a Suicide Girl or when she becomes very emotional when fighting Phobias. Kirari also shows that she was scared of dying, and didn't want to die despite how much joy she expressed when trying to make her suicide attempts, though now has much courage to face death, and wants to "live for those who are suffering from phobia" and wants to make suicide disappear from the world forever, so that nobody has to go through that ever again, and is looking for "the joy of life".

Kirari is also shown to be rather insecure about having happiness for herself, feeling that that her friends had went through all that trouble because of her, and shows guilt for not saving Soru, her true love, and believes that she does not deserve to have any happiness for herself because of it, which almost had led to her becoming a Phobia due to her guilt. However, Manten and Akane quickly reassure her, telling her how they changed their lives and say that she does deserve happiness for herself and now wants to continue living with this feeling of happiness.

## Abilities

### Suicide Girl Transformation

By hanging herself with her Noose, Kirari transforms into her Suicide Girl Costume: **Neck-Hanging Maiden**. In this form, she gains increased strength and agility, as well as durability. In this form she can take several blows from a raging Phobia or jump several stories high by accident, this strength allows her to use her Noose to kill phobias.

### Suicide Tool: Noose

Kirari uses her Noose to fight in her Suicide Girl form. She can use the rope to restrain enemies, hang them by the neck or for mobility.

Moves

* **Death Hex - Twinkle Hanger**: Kirari sends out her noose to create a "web" of rope around the target, where the noose itself attaches to their neck and hangs them. This can instantly kill a normal Phobia, but stronger ones can survive it.
* **Death Hex - Hanged Flash**: Kirari speeds past a target and places the noose on their neck, hanging them by pulling on the rope at great speeds.

* **Death Hex - Meteor Blaze**: Kirari focuses all the rope of her noose into a single, huge rope which she brings down on a target, crushing them. It is her strongest technique shown thus far.

## Plot

Kirari used to have a boyfriend named Taiyou. He was her childhood friend and they had always liked each other; in their second year of highschool, Soru proposed to Kirari which she happily accepted. However, the next day, Soru jumped off a building to his death. This left Kirari deeply sad about the loss of the love of her life and angry at herself for not being able to do more to save him. This is when she vowed to always keep a smile on her face.

Some time later, she found the website for the Suicide Cafe, and decided that this was the best place to kill herself and join Soru in the afterlife. At the Suicide Cafe, she and another three people are greeted by the Manager, who asks them to give their last wishes and wills so as not to be legally responsible for helping them commit suicide. The other customers give angry replies, expressing hatred to those that wronged them and sadness at their own lives, but Kirari simply replies that she's very excited to be here.

The Manager takes the four of them to the back of the Cafe to a small van, when a charcoal briquette is waiting inside. They climb in as he turns it on and they swallow pills, bidding farewell to the world. Kirari has a dream, where she sees a highschool girl jump in front of a train, as well as a strange, seven-pointed star. Some time later, Kirari awakens and initially thinks she died and went to heaven, but as she steps out to see the other customers thanking the manager for his help, and saying how after inhaling the smoke they suddenly felt full of a desire to live, thinking their suicide attempts were stupid. Kirari approaches him, confused as to why she isn't dead and accuses the manager of being a sham, to which he replies it didn't work on her.

Saddened, Kirari heads home to kill herself but every attempt supernaturally fails: she hangs herself but even after several minutes she can breathe fine, the knife she tries to stab herself with shatters and when she tries to self-immolate the flames move away from her. Frustrated, she jumps off the roof of her apartment building, but just before she hits the ground, she starts floating and is let down onto the floor.

Suddenly, the manager of the Suicide Cafe appears and congratulates her, saying she can no longer die on her own, she is now a Suicide Girl. He reminds her of the dream she had and that that death can still be prevented: saving that girl is her new mission.

## Trivia

* Kirari's last name, Aokigahara, is a reference to the Aokigahara Forest, more commonly known as the Suicide Forest, in the Yamanashi Prefecture of Japan.