Mahiru Koizumi

* Captured by the Future Foundation and sent to Jabberwock Island to participate in the Neo World Program
* Murdered by Peko Pekoyama in the virtual world and became catatonic in the real world
* Regained consciousness and resides with Class 77-B

## Personal Status

### Previous Affiliation

* Light Forest Institute
* Hope's Peak Academy
* Ultimate Despair

**Mahiru Koizumi** (小泉 真昼), is a student of Hope's Peak Academy's Class 77-B, and a participant of the Killing School Trip featured in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Her title is the **Ultimate Photographer** (超高校級の「写真家」 lit. Super High School Level Photographer).

She, along with Class 77-B, return in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School to explore their school life leading up to The Tragedy.

## Appearance

Mahiru has dark red hair in a bob cut, olive green eyes, and a pale face with light freckles across her cheeks.

Mahiru's outfit consists of an olive-green school jumper with a plaid white-and-orange tie, which she knots around the collar of her uniform shirt. She wears dark green knee-high socks, and her shoes are a dark shade of forest green. Directly below the opening of the socks, there is a small orange symbol.

During her time at Hope's Peak Academy, she wore the standard uniform with black knee length socks and the same shoes.

As a member of the Ultimate Despair, she wore a short-sleeve t-shirt, short shorts, and stockings that went above her knees, and had a satchel strapped over her right shoulder.

## Personality

Mahiru is an optimistic and sensible girl who is generally rather calm and unafraid to speak her mind. She initially comes off as confident but is later revealed to have self-esteem issues. Mahiru compares her photographs to those of her mother, a famous war photographer whose career led her to be absent from home for much of Mahiru's life. Her father was a very poor parent, leaving the responsibility of the housework entirely to her. When Hajime Hinata was being scolded by Mahiru, he likened it to being yelled at by his mom.

Mahiru has high expectations of men and is quick to be abrasive towards them. She is much more tolerant and friendly to girls. In the original Japanese, she refers the girls in her class with their first name and "-chan" honorifics, while she refers the guys casually with their last name only. The subjects of her photos are usually of girls and explains that she easily gets bored of photographing guys. She loves taking photos of people's smiles, and it's revealed in her Free Time Events that she recorded everything in Jabberwock Island so that they won't forget, except for the guys which she only recorded once every three days. Despite her love for photography, Mahiru believes her title is stupid compared to her classmates. She has been shown to dislike selfies.

Mahiru wants to help as many people as she can, but it'd be a mistake to call her a pushover. She doesn't hesitate to scold those who are rude to her and is also really good at taking care of people although never failing to complain about it. Mahiru is introduced as hating people who lack manners, though she later develops a very close friendship with Hiyoko Saionji. Because Mahiru is a reliable person who thinks of her friends and is prone to taking care of people, she has many friends outside of her own class as well.

## Talents & Abilities

### Ultimate Photographer

From a young age, Mahiru was inspired to become a photographer just like her mother who was a famous war photographer. Despite being young, she won numerous photographer awards and became famous for her skill at taking pictures of people.

Even though she is specialized in any photography category, Mahiru's most favorite picture object is taking pictures of smiling people. She could take a perfect shot of someone's smiles and according to Hajime, he never saw someone smile so bright and heartwarming until he saw Mahiru's photos. Despite that, she always shows her dislike towards boys as she doesn't take many pictures of them.

She started to like taking shots of people's smiles since she was a kid. Her mother always shows the pictures of smiling people to Mahiru, which she liked so much and made her eager to take pictures the same as her mother's wonderful shot.

Compared to her mother's work theme, Mahiru's theme is too conventional and many people don't really care to judge it and expected her to take different objects, as they believe that she could produce amazing results.

Mahiru's dream is to visit different countries to take many pictures of people smiling from different backgrounds.

In any kind of situation, Mahiru doesn't mind to keep snapping photos. She believes that photos depict everything, whether it's beautiful or horrible and it's the duty of a photographer to keep taking photos.

## Quotes

* MTU
* TMH

*Monokuma Theater Universe*

**TBD Timeline:**

*Trigger Meme Havoc Universe*