Snow White

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## Snow White / Koyuki Himekawa

* Unmarked
* JOKERS
* ACES & QUEENS
* Black
* White & Red
* Anime
* Manga
* Stage Play

**Snow White** (スノーホワイト, ***Snow White***), also known by her real name **Koyuki Himekawa** (姫河小雪, ***Koyuki Himekawa***), is one of the main protagonists of the *Magical Girl Raising Project* series. She appeared as a Major character in *Magical Girl Raising Project*, *Magical Girl Raising Project: JOKERS*, *Magical Girl Raising Project: ACES*, *Magical Girl Raising Project: QUEENS*, *Magical Girl Raising Project: White* and *Magical Girl Raising Project: Red*. She is also a supporting character in *Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart* and *Magical Girl Raising Project: Black*.

Since she was little, she has been a big fan of Magical Girls, causing her to dream about becoming one herself. However, her ideology undergoes a massive shift after witnessing her fellow Magical Girls killing each other for the sake of their own survival.

 In *Red*, TBA

## Appearance

* Snow White in *Unmarked (Arc 1)*
* Snow White in *JOKERS*
* Snow White in *ACES & QUEENS*
* Snow White in *Black*
* Snow White in *White* and *Red*
* Snow White in *Snow White Raising Project*
* Snow White's human form, Koyuki Himekawa, in *Unmarked (Arc 1)*
* Snow White's human form, Koyuki Himekawa, in *JOKERS*
* Snow White's human form, Koyuki Himekawa, in *Episodes Φ* (left)
* Snow White’s human form, Koyuki Himekawa, in *Black* (right)
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### Human

As a human, Koyuki has short brown hair and brown eyes. She has fringed bangs that are cut right above her eyes and a black bow with white ruffles on the left side of her hair, right above her ear. During the events of *Unmarked*, Koyuki is depicted wearing a brown sailor-styled school uniform with long sleeves. The collar and cuffs of her shirt have black stripes, and there is a small pocket at the top of her uniform. She wears a white bow underneath her collar and her skirt is pleated. She also wears knee-high white socks and is fair skinned.

During the events of *JOKERS,* Koyuki is in high school, and is now wearing a high school uniform. In *Primula Farinosa*, we see she wears a blue blazer over a white button-up. She wears a small, dark grey bow with light grey stripes, and a pleated brown skirt. Koyuki is shown to still wear the black and white hair bow.

After enrolling into Umemizaki at the end of *Black*, Koyuki begins wearing the Umemizaki school uniform, which is dark pink with a white collar and black bow.

### Magical Girl

As a Magical Girl, her hair length remains the same, but the color becomes a very pale pink (described as "Platinum Blonde" in *Unmarked* and *Restart*).

She wears a dark brown hairband with a dark brown ribbon, similar to her human version, and some bloomed cherry blossoms on the right side of her hairband. She has light tan eyes and is also fair skinned. The left side of her headband is adorned with a giant Un bloomed cherry blossom. A recurring gimmick of Snow White's character is that, as the series progresses, this cherry blossom slowly comes into bloom, having fully sprouted by the time of *White*.

She wears a white, schoolgirl uniform with a dark brown ribbon and lines. The sleeves of her costume reach her elbow, and there is a red-colored band on the left sleeve. She wears gloves that go from her elbow to her hand, with white bows on top around her wrist. The cuffs of her sleeves and collar are a light blue with brown stripes on her dress, there is a gold chain. There are also two long ribbons adorned with cherry blossoms on the backside of her costume. She wears a miniskirt which is gray and white in color.

Her shoes are thigh-high and are white in color with dark brown stripes. On the back are bows the same color as her collar and sleeve cuffs, and there is a brown stripe right above the bottom of her shoes. The bottom of her shoes is also brown.

## Personality

### *Unmarked (Arc 1)*

Snow White is an idealistic Magical Girl. Being a fan of Magical Girl shows since she was a little girl, she has a very naive mindset when it comes to Magical Girls and how they should act.

Her ideology as a Magical Girl is based solely around helping people. She believes Magical Girls exist only to help others, and as a result, was very reluctant when the Elimination Games were revealed to be a survival game.

When other Magical Girls resorted to fighting each other, Snow White remained true to her belief of helping others, and in almost all cases, refused to try to get into conflict with other Magical Girls, preferring to focus on helping people in need instead.

Snow White is a very active Magical Girl and finds time in her daily life to do as many Magical Girl activities as she can.

### *After Unmarked (Arc 1)*

After the events of the first Arc, Snow White is no longer the idealistic Magical Girl she used to be and has become jaded with what she has seen. She shows little to no remorse towards any Magical Girl who threatens the lives of people. Her activeness from before is maintained, yet it's now focused on hunting down these Rogue Magical Girls instead, eventually earning her the nickname *Magical Girl Hunter*.

Snow White remains efficient and hides her emotions very well, especially while fighting. While still looking for peaceful solutions to settle disputes, she will now not hesitate to fight if necessary. She also has no patience for the Magical Kingdom's bureaucracy and will often bend or outright break the rules if they interfere with her job.

She has also displayed signs of self-loathing; specifically, towards her former, powerless, self. She often pushes herself too far in her work, implying she is not caring for herself and avoids working together with others for fear of being unable to protect them. She also cannot bring herself to open up to others, in case she may lose them. Until the events of *ACES*, even she herself was convinced she had become a death-seeker.

When not hunting Rogue Magical Girls, she is actually a friendly person and continues to act like how she was before the events of *Unmarked (Arc 1)* during real-life and she is a lot mature now.

## Magic

***Can hear the thoughts of those in need.***

### *Unmarked (Arc 1)*

Snow White's powers allow her to hear the inner voices of people in distress. The cause of distress doesn't matter—only that the person is currently mentally stressed. The range of the ability is also variable and is dependent on the situation and the person's condition. However, it is possible for one to hide their thoughts from Snow White's magic during this stage.

### *After Unmarked (Arc 1)*

Snow White's magic develops further after intense training. Her powers now allow her not only to hear the voices of people in distress, but also to pinpoint a person's location through their distressing thoughts.

In this advanced version, she possesses a form of fear-based mind-reading, wherein the fears, nervousness, and negative thoughts of a person can be heard by Snow White. She can also focus this on one person, being able to find things such as information that they don't wish to share, or weaknesses that she could exploit. This ability also helps her during combat, as Snow White is able to read her opponent's next move before they launch it. This allows her to seemingly move one step ahead of her opponents, as they are now technically thinking their moves aloud to her and creates a feedback loop.

### Special Item(s)

* **Ruler:** A magical item similar to a halberd, it's a weapon with a blade length of 30 centimeters and handles a length of 1 meter. It is completely unbreakable and indestructible. Formerly owned by Swim Swim, who named it *Ruler* after her mentor's death.
* **4-Dimensional Bag:** A magical bag that allows you to store a variety of items, regardless of size. The bag itself is small and portable, but its contents are large.
* **Healing Medicine:** Magical medicine. It strengthens the ability of those who take it.
* ***Commercial Fire Extinguisher:*** A tool that can extinguish a fire. It's dangerous to use it toward people. Although it can be used as a blunt weapon, that's not its original use. Whether it's putting out the fire or to created mist for her to escape, you can trust Snow White's fire extinguisher that will never fail to help her.
* ***Inferno's Scimitar:*** Princess Inferno's unique scimitar that emits a high temperature. The weapon emits heat that can evaporate a large amount of water in an instant and is strong enough to inflict damage to other Magical Girls. After Princess Inferno's death, Snow White possessed it and stored it in the 4-Dimensional Bag.
* **Lucky Rabbit's Foot (Former):** A magical item that grants good luck to the owner when they're in a pinch. However, it's quite unclear as to how it will help her in battle.
* **Invisibility Cloak:** A magical cloak that can erase one's appearance and smell. However, sound and heartbeat cannot be erased.

## Etymology

### Real Name

Snow White's real name, **Koyuki Himekawa**, roughly translates to "*River Princess*" (姫 *Princess* and 河 *River*), and "*Snow*", or "*Light Snow*" (小雪  *Snow*). Using the kanjis in her name that stands for "snow" and "princess" while adding the kanji for "white", we get "Shirayukihime" (白雪姫) which translated to English means "Snow White", the name of a princess from the homonymous fairy tale.

* The name **Koyuki** means "light snow" (小雪).
* Koyuki's surname **Himekawa** means "princess, young lady of noble birth" (姫) (**hime**) and "river, stream" (河) (**kawa**).

## Trivia

* In Fanbook 1, Snow White has the following stats:
***Unmarked (Arc 1):***
Physical Ability: 1/5
Communication Skill: 3/5
Magic Rarity: 3/5
Magic Experience: 1/5
Mental Strength: 2/5
Softheartedness: 5/5
***JOKERS:***
Physical Ability: 4/5
Communication Skill: 4/5
Magic Rarity: 3/5
Magic Experience: 4/5
Mental Strength: 4/5
Softheartedness: 3/5
* Despite her hair being portrayed and described as pink in *JOKERS*, *ACES*, and the Anime adaptation, in *Unmarked (Arc 1)* and *Restart*, her hair color has been described as "Platinum Blonde".
* In the Anime, Snow White is a fan of the in-universe Anime *Cutie Healer*.
* In the First Character Popularity Vote, Snow White ranked #1.
* Snow White has appeared in every book except for *Limited*.
* As a Magical Girl, Snow White is 155cm. As a Human, she is 153cm.
* Despite having a sprite artwork in *Black* alongside the Umemizaki Magical Girls, implying she would be a main character and/or student at the school, she only played a supporting role and did not join the school until the very end of the story.

## Reference

1. ↑ "Magical Girl Raising Project Official Fanbook", "TV アニメ 魔法少女育成計画 才フィシャルファンブック"

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