Mafuyu Mayuzumi

A plain, unassuming girl who's the definition of normal. Mafuyu doesn't have any special talents and doesn't excel in particular areas, but she works hard towards her goals to make up for it. She's a second-year high school student without many achievements and a rookie at nebul✬ STUDIOS, and she has a deep interest in cute things like mascot characters and such. A member of the idol unit ANTI/SENSE.

She's actually the voice actress of the currently popular radio personality "Yuyu-chan", who made her appearance on radio shows at the beginning of last year. While she's talking as Yuyu-chan, her rather mild personality quickly changes to something much more upbeat, motivational and cutesy.

## Appearance

Mafuyu is a short girl of average appearance and build. She has medium-long brown hair with long bangs tied into two low pigtails, as well as hazel eyes. She's also short-sighted and is usually seen wearing round-framed glasses. While in school, she wears the standard seifuku uniform required of her, and her fashion outside of school tends to be feminine and pastel, if a little plain.

## Personality

Mafuyu is, if you had to use one word to describe her, normal. She’s the type of person that never stands out and doesn’t have any noticeable talents or standout traits - she’s remarkably average in everything she does. A textbook normal high school girl, she’s kind, considerate and often serves as the common sense of her friend group. However, if she’s to have one thing she excels in, it’s her ability to work ridiculously hard towards her goals.

When she’s voicing the popular virtual radio personality “Yuyu-chan”, however, there’s a massive change in her personality. Mafuyu becomes a super-energetic, bubbly girl who’s a master of firing off ten thousand cute-sounding phrases a minute, referring to herself in third person a lot and presenting the image of an uber-cute, genki A.I who’s good at saying endlessly positive and encouraging things.

Mafuyu is aware of the gap between her and Yuyu-chan, and that she’s actually just a very plain girl in real life. She has a complex about it too; there’s no one who looks up to Yuyu-chan more than her - Yuyu-chan is a manifestation of who she wants to be. She aspires to be just as cute as her, even though she thinks it’s a goal that’s near impossible.

## History

Since she was young, Mafuyu could only be described with the word "normal". Even in elementary school, she was the token plain kid - she was clumsy so sports weren’t the best experience, her grades were average, and just about everything else about her was normal. At first, she was fine with it and never bothered to venture out of her comfort zone.

But in middle school, seeing her friends join clubs and excel at things they liked made her rethink that. Everyone else just seemed so bright and talented, and all she had going for her was just...being normal. She tried joining a bunch of clubs but nothing quite worked out - and her insecurities grew. This made her doubt herself more and more, and she gave up trying to stand out, resigning herself to the fate of being truly unremarkable with the "normal" label stuck to her for the rest of her life.

In her first year of high school, though, she caught sight of an advertisement for a virtual radio personality on her way home. She looked into it a little and wondered - wouldn’t it just be her voice that needed to be fitting? Everything else about her could stay anonymous. She didn’t need to stand out in terms of looks, or athletic capability, or anything else - she just needed one thing to really work for her. So she put her head down and worked hard, practicing for hours each day and researching everything she could about the field of voice acting. She worked stupidly hard to attain a voice that, in her mind, could live up to the cute, bubbly and sparkling person she wanted to be - and she got the role, and had a character designed to fit her voice.

Ever since getting the role, Mafuyu has been a lot happier. She's the biggest fan of Yuyu-chan, and started doing her hair and changing her glasses in order to become closer to her ideal self, so that she could become even a little bit cute too. Even if no one knew she was Yuyu-chan, having thousands of people around Japan falling in love with the version of her that she aspired to be, it made her regain courage in herself, and she became determined to work towards being just like Yuyu-chan. She joined Nebula as her employers wanted to ride on the surge in popularity of idols, and have Yuyu-chan perform on stage as well.

## Trivia

* Mafuyu’s first name (真冬) means “True, winter” and her last name (黛) means “blackened eyebrows”.
* She enjoys visiting cafes with her friends from school.
* She’s never gotten an A in her life.