Mifuyu Azusa

* Casual
* Magical girl

## First Appearance

### Debut

Persona Magica - Chapter 8 (Cameo)Persona Record - Chapter 13 (Short Story #2) (First Appearance)

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**Mifuyu Azusa** is a supporting character in Persona Record Series. She is a young woman who has known Yachiyo for years and she is a veteran magical girl who fought witches as Yachiyo's partner for seven years. After noticing that her magic was weakening, she joined the Wings of the Magius as one of their leaders, hoping to secure happiness for herself. Though kind and gentle, her spirit is weak, which leads her to make bad decisions from time to time.

## Background

As explained in the Magius' presentation, Yachiyo and Mifuyu were partners who worked alongside other girls such as Kanae. During a fairly difficult fight, Kanae's soul gem is left ruptured from a powerful attack. She ends up dying protecting Yachiyo. The duo then discover this, realizing what has become of their souls. Despite this, they continue to cooperate together.

Soon, Tsuruno, Momoko, and Mel join. One day, Tsuruno stays at her family restaurant as the others go hunting. From her card readings, Mel predicts that "today will be lucky." They then find a witch that, when it nearly kills Yachiyo, has Mel use herself as a shield. The witch escapes. With no grief seeds left, the other girls can only watch as her witch emerges. Yachiyo, Mifuyu, and Momoko then learn the truth: magical girls become witches. This eventually results in the entire group splitting.

After separating herself from the others, Mifuyu notes how her power is weakening evermore and gives up, accepting her fate as a witch. As she transforms, Mifuyu instead releases her doppel, causing multiple sugar geese to fly into the air. In the aftermath, she then realizes she's still alive. Touka then introduces herself to her, resulting in Mifuyu's cooperation with the Magius.

## Appearance

Mifuyu is a petite young woman with white bobbed hair. Said hair features a few tufts that resemble cat ears. Her eyes are teal. She is also the same height and age as Yachiyo.

### Magical girl

Mifuyu sports a grey outfit with white and pink segments. Her dress is composed of a white skirt encompassed by a grey coat and corset. Pink ribbon can be seen. Around her soul gem choker is a grey hoodie. The outlining of said dress features white wool. Separated sleeves of the same palette extend over black gloves. Mifuyu also wears black boots. Finally, grey, wool hair accessories can be seen.

### Casual Wear

As Mifuyu is a college student, her normal outfit is not that of a school uniform. Instead, she wears a red sweater that reveals her shoulders and the straps of her tank top, black shorts, black tights, and various jewelry.

## Personality

Mifuyu is considered "sisterly" by other magical girls. This may come from her status as a veteran. She claims to struggle with chores and enjoys having others take care of her. After previous events, Mifuyu notices her powers slowly weakening. This eventually results in her despairing and releasing her doppel for the first time. Afterwards, she joins the Magius.

## Abilities

Because of her wish, Mifuyu has the ability to cast illusions and mirages, creating images of things that are not really there. This could extend to potential hallucinatory effects as Mifuyu seems very proficient in creating illusions after years of experience, primarily due to practicing on herself.

This ability also allows her to manipulate the perception or thoughts and memories of those she affects, as she used her power on herself to make her ignore her magical limits so that she could use more magic all at once than she normally would be able to. Unfortunatly, due to this she is also quite susceptible to turning into her doppel, Hevelius more often than she usually would as she expends her magical reserves too quickly under this delusion.

She possesses great acrobatic skill in battle, easily dodging Iroha's attacks with graceful jumps and flips. She also has the ability to remotely recall, if not finely control, her chakram as she can make her chakram move suddenly towards enemies despite not being anywhere near it.

However, for unclear reasons (possibly due to her aging), her strength in battle began to weaken over time.

When her soul gem turns black, she turns into her doppel, Hevelius. Hevelius has the ability to summon 'Sugar Geese' which are able to induce addiction within enemies to taste more of the 'sweetness' of the 'Sugar Geese' yet this causes more birds to come and inevitably attack them by pecking and poking. Since this renders enemies quite literally paralysed, it's easy for Hevelius to attack them further.

## Doppel Description

"The Doppel of Vocation. The master of this emotion will use all powers at her disposal to stay alive in this reality, including this all-in-one Doppel. Countless bird-shaped minions known as "Sugar Geese" emerge from her shadows on the ground, attacking her foes on command. The mere touch of a Sugar Goose will cause its target to taste such sweetness that it will inspire a maddening addiction. This makes it easy to make targets accept most lies, even with just a few geese. The Doppel sprouts from the tongue and arms, so she cannot speak while using it."

## Relationship

### Yachiyo Nanami

Mifuyu's childhood friend. She worked on the same witch hunt as Yachiyo, until the two uncover all secrets about the magical girl before they parted. Even though she has parted ways, Mifuyu still tries to save her old friend from this terrible fate.

### Iroha Tamaki

Magical girl junior. Mifuyu was often a place to rely on in difficult times for Iroha.

## Trivia

* The kanji in **Azusa** means "Japanese cherry birch."
* In addition to being able to hallucinate other people, she can also hallucinate herself, but the ability is very risky.
* The doppel's description likely refers to a character from the famous Japanese novel *Night on The Galactic Railroad*. The character, simply referred to as the birdcatcher, catches "cranes an' wild geese. An' herons an' swans, too" which somehow become cake or candy. Note that the witches of Iroha and Yachiyo share names with the main characters of *Night on the Galactic Railroad*.

## Gallery

Casual outfitMifuyu and YachiyoMagical girl formMifuyu and TsurunoMifuyu's Doppel (Hevelius)SwimsuitChristmas OutfitMifuyu in High SchoolMifuyu and KanagiMifuyu in Middle School (Young Mifuyu)Young Mifuyu and Young YachiyoYoung Mifuyu in Magical girl formYoung Mifuyu and Yachiyo in Magical girl form