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Character name: Mafuyu Kurosaki
Age: 16
Canon: Oresama Teacher
Canonpoint: chapter 113
Background: There is a wikia for this series, but it has very incomplete summaries, so!
The series opens with Mafuyu Kurosaki, an ordinary girl who is just starting her first year of high school. Making her high school debut, Mafuyu is set on making a good first impression and being the ultra-shiny, most-popular high school girl.
Or at least, that is what she would like to have everyone believe. In reality, Mafuyu is a former gang leader (which are called 'banchou' in this series. That term will be coming up a lot in this app, by the way.) who got expelled from her first high school for fighting, and this is actually her second attempt at starting high school. Since her mother has made it very clear that she will be disowned from the family if she gets expelled again, it is in her best interests to be nothing short of the best student she can be.
Unfortunately, because of her record, most high schools won't take Mafuyu in. The one school that does is Midori Ga Oka Academy, a private high school with such a terrible reputation that they will take any student, so long as they can pay the tuition fee. Because of that, this school is full of delinquents and trouble-makers, which is just screaming for Mafuyu to get in trouble again. But surprisingly, she manages to avoid trouble at first, and nobody even suspects that she is anything but a kind, friendly girl.
That lasts for maybe a day tops. See, Mafuyu's homeroom teacher is Takaomi Saeki, Mafuyu's former nextdoor neighbor and a former delinquent himself. He shaped up just enough to make it through college and become a teacher, but a lot of his old bad habits still remain, and he instantly latches on to Mafuyu, making her his lackey. He ends up dragging her into his personal affairs, one of which is a bet with the high school principal: In three years, he will double the enrollment numbers for Midori Ga Oka Academy, or else he will forfeit five years of his salary.
And he ends up roping Mafuyu into helping him with this, because of course he does.
Over the first 40 or so chapters, Mafuyu makes friends with some of her classmates, and she starts working on helping to improve the school's reputation. First off, she and her classmate Hayasaka end up forming the Disciplinary Committee, with Takaomi as their teacher advisor. Normally members of the Disciplinary Committee do things like hall monitor duty and such, but this Disciplinary Committee is really just a front for Takaomi's plans. Their first task is to break up one big gang of troublemakers, which Mafuyu accomplishes by wearing a disguise and defeating their leader, who is referred to as the 'Banchou'. This in turn makes Mafuyu's alter ego the new Banchou, and the first thing she does is order the group to go to class and stop causing trouble. Then she befriends the old Banchou and he becomes an ally of sorts to the Disciplinary Committee (he does join eventually, but not until much, much later).
After the summer break, Mafuyu comes back to find that the student council has joined this fight, siding with the school principal. That is also where Takaomi finally tells her the truth about his bet: see, the school sits on some very valuable land, and the principal is purposefully letting the delinquent students run amok to drive out the students and drive down the price of the land, so that he can make an inside deal with a company and get filthy rich from selling the land. Takaomi's grandfather was the founder of the school, and because of this he has a sentimental attachment to it, so he doesn't want to see it get sold and torn down. The real prize isn't the five years' salary, but actually the rights to the school itself. If the student population doubles, Takaomi becomes the new owner of the school. If the student population does not double, the school will be sold.
From there, the series becomes an 'enemy of the week' manga, with each story arc covering how the Disciplinary Committee overcomes an obstacle set by the student council. With each defeat, Mafuyu ends up befriending the member of the student council she was fighting against, and ever so slowly she starts winning people over with her A+ personality. For example, one member of the student council spreads rumors to another school that drive the kids at that school to come to Midori Ga Oka looking for a fight, right when an important cultural festival is happening. Mafuyu and her friends save the day there by discreetly beating up the invading students and kicking them out of the school. Then another member of the student council threatens to have their club shut down during club registration week, and the group has to spend countless hours making sure all of their records and paperwork are pristine so that she has no reason to reject them. Then there's another one who tries to get the Disciplinary Committee beat up off of school property by tricking them into an ambush, but they manage to escape that too. Another attempt involves espionage and blackmail. Each challenge tests not only Mafuyu's limits, but also her bonds with her friends.
Also, while all of this is going on, Mafuyu has to constantly fight in disguises or sneak around to avoid being caught. See, she's already been expelled from one school, and that black mark on her record means that if she's involved in any trouble-making then she will be kicked out of Midori Ga Oka as well. And seeing as how she's one of the strongest fighters in the group, as well as one of the best at actually puzzling together what the student council is up to, the Disciplinary Committee would be in a lot of trouble if she were to be expelled.
As of chapter 113, the Disciplinary Committee has defeated every member of the student council except for the president.
Personality: In order to understand who Mafuyu is, you first have to understand that she is extremely contradictory. She has this idea of how a proper high school girl should act, and she tries to act just like that. In her mind, high school girls are always kind, soft-spoken, use only the gentlest language, and literally sparkle.
Yes, she gets her ideas of how high school girls should act from shoujo manga. This is actually a thing that is shown in canon.
And to be fair, Mafuyu does a pretty good job of acting like this ultra-shiny high school girl, when she is thinking about it. She has managed to fool all of her 'normal' classmates (IE the ones not involved in the Disciplinary Committee or the student council, or the fights between the two groups), and if someone was to ask any of them their opinions of her, they would say "she's nice, but a little weird."
See, the problem is that Mafuyu is only a good actor when she is thinking about it. When she is not thinking about it, she goes back to her usual, rough-talking, not-at-all-girly self. (In the original version, the author shows this difference by having her use 'watashi' (a polite way of saying 'I') when she is trying to be girly, and 'ore' (a very rough and masculine way of saying 'I') when she is acting normal. In the scans I read, they used a special curly font for girly-speak, and then the regular font for her normal speak.) This Mafuyu is very dense, and is sometimes difficult to approach just because her face looks a little scary. It is part of what helped build up her reputation at her previous school: the 'tough guys' thought she looked tough, so they tried to beat her up, and after she beat them up instead they swore their loyalty to her.
Make no mistake, Mafuyu is definitely a tough teenager. She has been fighting since she was little, and if anyone threatens her or her friends she will be the first to jump in and teach them a lesson. However, the mistake a lot of people make over the course of the series is in assuming that Mafuyu is a threat. Mafuyu may be tough, but she is the type to use her strength to defend, rather than attack. She doesn't actually want to fight most of the time, and she usually only beats people up because they attacked first or because she has to fight to solve some problem. And even then, when she does fight, she tries to do the least amount of damage she can, trying instead to end the fight quickly without permanently hurting anyone. This is noted by at least two separate people, both of whom became allies of hers afterward.
Even though Mafuyu is tough and will clean your clock if it's required, she is the type who will figure out why you are looking for a fight with her, and instead try to fix your problems, rather than fight. And even if a fight happens, she will still try to fix whatever problem there is. See, she understands that people are rarely as one-dimensional as they seem, and that there is always a reason for their actions. When she was betrayed by a close friend, she figured out there had to be a reason for it, so instead of being angry at him she begged him to tell her why he did that, and asked him to come back and be friends again. (The situation was complicated, but basically it was that someone he was indebted to had ordered him to betray everyone, so he had.) In her mind, there are reasons for every action, so if she can figure out the reasoning behind those actions then she can take care of any trouble at the source, hopefully fixing the problem she has as well in the process.
And even if the problem isn't an easy one to solve, or if it doesn't directly benefit her, Mafuyu will still try to help. Mafuyu has a streak of kindness in her wider than a four-lane highway. She has, on several occasions, gone out of her way to help someone that she has no reason to help. A perfect example of this is when one of the student council members starts spreading rumors about the boys from a nearby high school causing trouble for the girls from Midori Ga Oka. The Banchou of that school doesn't take kindly to the rumors, so he kidnaps the student council member. Seeing as how the Disciplinary Committee just needs the student council out of their way, and that this girl being kidnapped would have actually helped Mafuyu (especially since, not even two chapters prior, this girl had done some pretty awful things to Mafuyu-disguised-as-Natsuo, and thinking "she got what she deserved" would have been understandable). But no, as soon as she hears that this girl is in trouble, Mafuyu immediately jumps in to action, going to the other school and fighting off waves and waves of attackers (with the help of some friends, of course) to go and rescue this girl. That's just the kind of person Mafuyu is: if someone is in danger, even if they are an enemy, she will do everything she can to help them.
That said, Mafuyu doesn't exactly go about the whole 'being kind' and 'helping others' thing in a conventional way. Even though she is kind and wants to help, she's still Mafuyu, and Mafuyu can be irritable at times. It's part of what helped her get her reputation in the first place. She can be happy and have fun and be normal, but the moment someone starts pressing her buttons, she gets snappy and starts with the whole 'yelling and comedic violence' routine that is often present in certain kinds of manga. She might try her best to be good, but she still won't take shit from anyone.
Well, if she recognizes that people are giving her shit, at least. Mafuyu is…lacking in some areas, to put it gently. She's spent years as a banchou, and most of her school life has been spent being a delinquent, which means goofing off during school and doing vaguely-rule-breaking things. To say Mafuyu hasn't had a normal childhood would be an understatement. She doesn't really know much about being a normal high school student, having gleaned everything she knows from manga, so she definitely misses out on social cues at times. Rough language and punching, she understands; passive-aggressive comments disguised as compliments, she does not. She's also a bit too forward with the whole NORMAL FRIEND-MAKING EXPERIENCES YAY thing, and can creep people out at times because of it. She doesn't mean ill, it's just that she is an awkwardturtle who is a bit too enthusiastic.
Sometimes people misunderstand her, too. It's more of a running gag, but frequently Mafuyu will be feeling one thing but others will see her facial expression and assume something else. Like in the second chapter, Mafuyu's legs are falling asleep in her chair and it's making her uncomfortable, but Hayasaka (the boy who sits next to her, who is also a delinquent and one of the toughest kids in school) feels the irritation radiating off of her and assumes it's because she hates school and wants to beat someone up. Later on, when Mafuyu and Hayasaka go to fight Midori Ga Oka's banchou, she sees all of the other delinquents backing him up, and she is moved to tears by their display of friendship. But everyone else thinks she is crying because she's scared, and they try to cheer her up and make her feel better. Mafuyu wears her heart on her sleeve, so anyone can see how she's feeling. It's just that sometimes those feelings are misinterpreted by those around her.
Mafuyu is also lacking in the whole 'school smarts' area. She is an absolute failure of a student, and even though she is trying to be better, years of slacking off have given her horrible study skills. She doesn't focus well during class, her notes are awful (she keeps notes for all six of her subjects in one notebook) , and she has trouble retaining any of the knowledge taught in class. One story arc is focused entirely on trying to find a way to get her to pass exams, as she has to get a high enough score not to be kicked off of the Disciplinary Committee for academic reasons. Her head is basically empty of any actual school knowledge, and any attempts to fill that void are about as futile as Sisyphus' attempts to push that rock up that hill.
There are more important parts to high school life than actually learning anything, though. Like hanging out with friends, or going to arcades, or doing fun activities, things like that. Instead of focusing on the negative, Mafuyu spends all her effort trying to do things she does enjoy, even if it's as simple as eating lunch with a friend. And because she focuses on the good things, no matter how small they are, Mafuyu is perpetually in a good mood. As long as she has friends, and as long as she can do things with those friends, Mafuyu will never be upset for long. Having fun is what she lives for.
Mafuyu is tough, kind, and a bit goofy too. She jumps from happy to upset to angry to happy again so quickly that sometimes it is difficult to take her seriously. But Mafuyu only means the best, and all she wants to do is enjoy her last few years of childhood, and hopefully make a few friends along the way.
Wish: "I want to be stronger, so that I can save my friends."
Being an avid reader of shoujo manga, Mafuyu will quickly fill in the blanks after getting the basic gist of things from Kyuubey. And of course she will accept a contract right away, because hello world she finally gets to live out her dream of being an ultra-shiny high school magical girl student.
Mafuyu's wish is because of her doubts about her immediate future. With only the student council president left, the 'final fight' in her canon is within sight. The past year and a half of her life has been very trying, and a few times her and her friends almost failed. Most importantly, she has just almost lost Hayasaka, who is her first and most-important friend. Even though she acts like she is fine, deep down she is really worried. What if the next battle with the student council gets someone expelled for good? What if someone gets seriously hurt? The other members of the disciplinary committee are strong, sure, but Mafuyu would feel a lot better about the whole thing if she personally had the strength to protect everyone and save the day. So the 'I want to be stronger' part of her wish is because she wants to be the one to do the fighting specifically. She already gets into a lot of fights, so she figures improving on what she can already do will help with that. Active language = taking an active part in the saving.
As for how this actually happens, I would say that Kyuubey could promise to send a copy of Mafuyu back to her world to take care of canon events for her. Of course, being Kyuubey, this might or might not actually happen. Either way, Mafuyu would take Kyuubey for his word and think that everything turned out fine. Hell, Kyuubey could even say 'okay, your friends are being taken care of' and Mafuyu would believe it. Gullible is her middle name.
Passive ability: Since she wished to be stronger, her passive ability improves on how tough she is. She can take more hits before she is seriously injured, and she can keep fighting for longer than what would have been possible for her with some other kind of wish. Basically, general toughness and stamina have increased.
Active ability: As her active ability, Mafuyu's attacks (mostly punches, because of her weapon, but may include kicks and such) are now stronger. She can punch through sturdy materials, and can even launch objects as a result of punching them. In addition, her punches have a concussive force behind them, so that if she punches the air then she can send force through the air to hit something further away, though that kind of hit would not be as strong as actually being punched by her fist.
Weapon: A pair of fingerless fighting gloves, though they are in a color that better matches her magical girl outfit.
Sample: The situation was easy enough to understand. Fight to save the world, and you get a wish out of it. It seemed like a pretty sweet deal, and it was made all the sweeter by the fact that Mafuyu would become a real-life magical-fucking-girl in the process.
Not that Mafuyu had always dreamed of becoming one or anything. She was entertained by stories of magical girls and their adventures, and every now and then she had thought "wow, it would be fun to be like that", but it wasn't like she had been wishing for that for her whole life or anything. That said, when the chance was offered, she had known from the moment 'magical girl' had been spoken that she would say yes. Because who wouldn't jump at the chance to actually be a magical girl?
She did feel bad about leaving her friends behind, though. Kyuubey had said that he would take care of them, but she still wished that she could have stayed with them and fought nightmares there, or even have brought them here. Hayasaka in particular probably would have enjoyed being a magical girl. Maybe Yui, even. Though the thought of either of them in magical girl dresses was enough to make her snicker.
Mafuyu would have to be strong and deal with it, for their sake. While Kyuubey had not specified the length of time she would be in Nyoi-cho fighting, she figured it couldn't be that long. Fight the nightmares, save the day, and once everything was safe she could go home. It seemed reasonable to her, and she figured that Kyuubey would have specified if she was to be there for a long time.
So, Mafuyu remained strong. And, just like always, she did her best to act like an ultra-shiny high school girl. Which in this case meant introducing herself to her class, what with her being the new student and all. "Hello there," she said, her voice practically dripping with the sugary-sweet tone she took every time she tried to act like what she thought a high school girl should act like, "My name is Mafuyu Kurosaki, and I'm new here! I hope we can all get along and become the best of friends."
With her introduction said, Mafuyu walked quickly over to her desk. She might have been walking a bit too quickly, actually, since she completely missed the bag that another student had left on the floor. One misplaced step, and she was left tumbling over it, screaming out "SHIT!" as she fell flat on her face.
Within moments she realized her mistake, though, and she jumped to her feet and tried her best to act embarrassed. "Oh gosh, I'm soooo sorry! I didn't mean to do that."
That time, her 'ultra-shiny' voice was a lot less shiny, and by the time she was in her seat she was practically dripping with despair. This was her only chance to make a good first impression, and she had blown it. This wasn't supposed to happen to magical girls!
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Character name: Mafuyu Kurosaki
Age: 16
Canon: Oresama Teacher
Canonpoint: chapter 113
Background: There is a wikia for this series, but it has very incomplete summaries, so!
The series opens with Mafuyu Kurosaki, an ordinary girl who is just starting her first year of high school. Making her high school debut, Mafuyu is set on making a good first impression and being the ultra-shiny, most-popular high school girl.
Or at least, that is what she would like to have everyone believe. In reality, Mafuyu is a former gang leader (which are called 'banchou' in this series. That term will be coming up a lot in this app, by the way.) who got expelled from her first high school for fighting, and this is actually her second attempt at starting high school. Since her mother has made it very clear that she will be disowned from the family if she gets expelled again, it is in her best interests to be nothing short of the best student she can be.
Unfortunately, because of her record, most high schools won't take Mafuyu in. The one school that does is Midori Ga Oka Academy, a private high school with such a terrible reputation that they will take any student, so long as they can pay the tuition fee. Because of that, this school is full of delinquents and trouble-makers, which is just screaming for Mafuyu to get in trouble again. But surprisingly, she manages to avoid trouble at first, and nobody even suspects that she is anything but a kind, friendly girl.
That lasts for maybe a day tops. See, Mafuyu's homeroom teacher is Takaomi Saeki, Mafuyu's former nextdoor neighbor and a former delinquent himself. He shaped up just enough to make it through college and become a teacher, but a lot of his old bad habits still remain, and he instantly latches on to Mafuyu, making her his lackey. He ends up dragging her into his personal affairs, one of which is a bet with the high school principal: In three years, he will double the enrollment numbers for Midori Ga Oka Academy, or else he will forfeit five years of his salary.
And he ends up roping Mafuyu into helping him with this, because of course he does.
Over the first 40 or so chapters, Mafuyu makes friends with some of her classmates, and she starts working on helping to improve the school's reputation. First off, she and her classmate Hayasaka end up forming the Disciplinary Committee, with Takaomi as their teacher advisor. Normally members of the Disciplinary Committee do things like hall monitor duty and such, but this Disciplinary Committee is really just a front for Takaomi's plans. Their first task is to break up one big gang of troublemakers, which Mafuyu accomplishes by wearing a disguise and defeating their leader, who is referred to as the 'Banchou'. This in turn makes Mafuyu's alter ego the new Banchou, and the first thing she does is order the group to go to class and stop causing trouble. Then she befriends the old Banchou and he becomes an ally of sorts to the Disciplinary Committee (he does join eventually, but not until much, much later).
After the summer break, Mafuyu comes back to find that the student council has joined this fight, siding with the school principal. That is also where Takaomi finally tells her the truth about his bet: see, the school sits on some very valuable land, and the principal is purposefully letting the delinquent students run amok to drive out the students and drive down the price of the land, so that he can make an inside deal with a company and get filthy rich from selling the land. Takaomi's grandfather was the founder of the school, and because of this he has a sentimental attachment to it, so he doesn't want to see it get sold and torn down. The real prize isn't the five years' salary, but actually the rights to the school itself. If the student population doubles, Takaomi becomes the new owner of the school. If the student population does not double, the school will be sold.
From there, the series becomes an 'enemy of the week' manga, with each story arc covering how the Disciplinary Committee overcomes an obstacle set by the student council. With each defeat, Mafuyu ends up befriending the member of the student council she was fighting against, and ever so slowly she starts winning people over with her A+ personality. For example, one member of the student council spreads rumors to another school that drive the kids at that school to come to Midori Ga Oka looking for a fight, right when an important cultural festival is happening. Mafuyu and her friends save the day there by discreetly beating up the invading students and kicking them out of the school. Then another member of the student council threatens to have their club shut down during club registration week, and the group has to spend countless hours making sure all of their records and paperwork are pristine so that she has no reason to reject them. Then there's another one who tries to get the Disciplinary Committee beat up off of school property by tricking them into an ambush, but they manage to escape that too. Another attempt involves espionage and blackmail. Each challenge tests not only Mafuyu's limits, but also her bonds with her friends.
Also, while all of this is going on, Mafuyu has to constantly fight in disguises or sneak around to avoid being caught. See, she's already been expelled from one school, and that black mark on her record means that if she's involved in any trouble-making then she will be kicked out of Midori Ga Oka as well. And seeing as how she's one of the strongest fighters in the group, as well as one of the best at actually puzzling together what the student council is up to, the Disciplinary Committee would be in a lot of trouble if she were to be expelled.
As of chapter 113, the Disciplinary Committee has defeated every member of the student council except for the president.
Personality: In order to understand who Mafuyu is, you first have to understand that she is extremely contradictory. She has this idea of how a proper high school girl should act, and she tries to act just like that. In her mind, high school girls are always kind, soft-spoken, use only the gentlest language, and literally sparkle.
Yes, she gets her ideas of how high school girls should act from shoujo manga. This is actually a thing that is shown in canon.
And to be fair, Mafuyu does a pretty good job of acting like this ultra-shiny high school girl, when she is thinking about it. She has managed to fool all of her 'normal' classmates (IE the ones not involved in the Disciplinary Committee or the student council, or the fights between the two groups), and if someone was to ask any of them their opinions of her, they would say "she's nice, but a little weird."
See, the problem is that Mafuyu is only a good actor when she is thinking about it. When she is not thinking about it, she goes back to her usual, rough-talking, not-at-all-girly self. (In the original version, the author shows this difference by having her use 'watashi' (a polite way of saying 'I') when she is trying to be girly, and 'ore' (a very rough and masculine way of saying 'I') when she is acting normal. In the scans I read, they used a special curly font for girly-speak, and then the regular font for her normal speak.) This Mafuyu is very dense, and is sometimes difficult to approach just because her face looks a little scary. It is part of what helped build up her reputation at her previous school: the 'tough guys' thought she looked tough, so they tried to beat her up, and after she beat them up instead they swore their loyalty to her.
Make no mistake, Mafuyu is definitely a tough teenager. She has been fighting since she was little, and if anyone threatens her or her friends she will be the first to jump in and teach them a lesson. However, the mistake a lot of people make over the course of the series is in assuming that Mafuyu is a threat. Mafuyu may be tough, but she is the type to use her strength to defend, rather than attack. She doesn't actually want to fight most of the time, and she usually only beats people up because they attacked first or because she has to fight to solve some problem. And even then, when she does fight, she tries to do the least amount of damage she can, trying instead to end the fight quickly without permanently hurting anyone. This is noted by at least two separate people, both of whom became allies of hers afterward.
Even though Mafuyu is tough and will clean your clock if it's required, she is the type who will figure out why you are looking for a fight with her, and instead try to fix your problems, rather than fight. And even if a fight happens, she will still try to fix whatever problem there is. See, she understands that people are rarely as one-dimensional as they seem, and that there is always a reason for their actions. When she was betrayed by a close friend, she figured out there had to be a reason for it, so instead of being angry at him she begged him to tell her why he did that, and asked him to come back and be friends again. (The situation was complicated, but basically it was that someone he was indebted to had ordered him to betray everyone, so he had.) In her mind, there are reasons for every action, so if she can figure out the reasoning behind those actions then she can take care of any trouble at the source, hopefully fixing the problem she has as well in the process.
And even if the problem isn't an easy one to solve, or if it doesn't directly benefit her, Mafuyu will still try to help. Mafuyu has a streak of kindness in her wider than a four-lane highway. She has, on several occasions, gone out of her way to help someone that she has no reason to help. A perfect example of this is when one of the student council members starts spreading rumors about the boys from a nearby high school causing trouble for the girls from Midori Ga Oka. The Banchou of that school doesn't take kindly to the rumors, so he kidnaps the student council member. Seeing as how the Disciplinary Committee just needs the student council out of their way, and that this girl being kidnapped would have actually helped Mafuyu (especially since, not even two chapters prior, this girl had done some pretty awful things to Mafuyu-disguised-as-Natsuo, and thinking "she got what she deserved" would have been understandable). But no, as soon as she hears that this girl is in trouble, Mafuyu immediately jumps in to action, going to the other school and fighting off waves and waves of attackers (with the help of some friends, of course) to go and rescue this girl. That's just the kind of person Mafuyu is: if someone is in danger, even if they are an enemy, she will do everything she can to help them.
That said, Mafuyu doesn't exactly go about the whole 'being kind' and 'helping others' thing in a conventional way. Even though she is kind and wants to help, she's still Mafuyu, and Mafuyu can be irritable at times. It's part of what helped her get her reputation in the first place. She can be happy and have fun and be normal, but the moment someone starts pressing her buttons, she gets snappy and starts with the whole 'yelling and comedic violence' routine that is often present in certain kinds of manga. She might try her best to be good, but she still won't take shit from anyone.
Well, if she recognizes that people are giving her shit, at least. Mafuyu is…lacking in some areas, to put it gently. She's spent years as a banchou, and most of her school life has been spent being a delinquent, which means goofing off during school and doing vaguely-rule-breaking things. To say Mafuyu hasn't had a normal childhood would be an understatement. She doesn't really know much about being a normal high school student, having gleaned everything she knows from manga, so she definitely misses out on social cues at times. Rough language and punching, she understands; passive-aggressive comments disguised as compliments, she does not. She's also a bit too forward with the whole NORMAL FRIEND-MAKING EXPERIENCES YAY thing, and can creep people out at times because of it. She doesn't mean ill, it's just that she is an awkwardturtle who is a bit too enthusiastic.
Sometimes people misunderstand her, too. It's more of a running gag, but frequently Mafuyu will be feeling one thing but others will see her facial expression and assume something else. Like in the second chapter, Mafuyu's legs are falling asleep in her chair and it's making her uncomfortable, but Hayasaka (the boy who sits next to her, who is also a delinquent and one of the toughest kids in school) feels the irritation radiating off of her and assumes it's because she hates school and wants to beat someone up. Later on, when Mafuyu and Hayasaka go to fight Midori Ga Oka's banchou, she sees all of the other delinquents backing him up, and she is moved to tears by their display of friendship. But everyone else thinks she is crying because she's scared, and they try to cheer her up and make her feel better. Mafuyu wears her heart on her sleeve, so anyone can see how she's feeling. It's just that sometimes those feelings are misinterpreted by those around her.
Mafuyu is also lacking in the whole 'school smarts' area. She is an absolute failure of a student, and even though she is trying to be better, years of slacking off have given her horrible study skills. She doesn't focus well during class, her notes are awful (she keeps notes for all six of her subjects in one notebook) , and she has trouble retaining any of the knowledge taught in class. One story arc is focused entirely on trying to find a way to get her to pass exams, as she has to get a high enough score not to be kicked off of the Disciplinary Committee for academic reasons. Her head is basically empty of any actual school knowledge, and any attempts to fill that void are about as futile as Sisyphus' attempts to push that rock up that hill.
There are more important parts to high school life than actually learning anything, though. Like hanging out with friends, or going to arcades, or doing fun activities, things like that. Instead of focusing on the negative, Mafuyu spends all her effort trying to do things she does enjoy, even if it's as simple as eating lunch with a friend. And because she focuses on the good things, no matter how small they are, Mafuyu is perpetually in a good mood. As long as she has friends, and as long as she can do things with those friends, Mafuyu will never be upset for long. Having fun is what she lives for.
Mafuyu is tough, kind, and a bit goofy too. She jumps from happy to upset to angry to happy again so quickly that sometimes it is difficult to take her seriously. But Mafuyu only means the best, and all she wants to do is enjoy her last few years of childhood, and hopefully make a few friends along the way.
Wish: "I want to be stronger, so that I can save my friends."
Being an avid reader of shoujo manga, Mafuyu will quickly fill in the blanks after getting the basic gist of things from Kyuubey. And of course she will accept a contract right away, because hello world she finally gets to live out her dream of being an ultra-shiny high school magical girl student.
Mafuyu's wish is because of her doubts about her immediate future. With only the student council president left, the 'final fight' in her canon is within sight. The past year and a half of her life has been very trying, and a few times her and her friends almost failed. Most importantly, she has just almost lost Hayasaka, who is her first and most-important friend. Even though she acts like she is fine, deep down she is really worried. What if the next battle with the student council gets someone expelled for good? What if someone gets seriously hurt? The other members of the disciplinary committee are strong, sure, but Mafuyu would feel a lot better about the whole thing if she personally had the strength to protect everyone and save the day. So the 'I want to be stronger' part of her wish is because she wants to be the one to do the fighting specifically. She already gets into a lot of fights, so she figures improving on what she can already do will help with that. Active language = taking an active part in the saving.
As for how this actually happens, I would say that Kyuubey could promise to send a copy of Mafuyu back to her world to take care of canon events for her. Of course, being Kyuubey, this might or might not actually happen. Either way, Mafuyu would take Kyuubey for his word and think that everything turned out fine. Hell, Kyuubey could even say 'okay, your friends are being taken care of' and Mafuyu would believe it. Gullible is her middle name.
Passive ability: Since she wished to be stronger, her passive ability improves on how tough she is. She can take more hits before she is seriously injured, and she can keep fighting for longer than what would have been possible for her with some other kind of wish. Basically, general toughness and stamina have increased.
Active ability: As her active ability, Mafuyu's attacks (mostly punches, because of her weapon, but may include kicks and such) are now stronger. She can punch through sturdy materials, and can even launch objects as a result of punching them. In addition, her punches have a concussive force behind them, so that if she punches the air then she can send force through the air to hit something further away, though that kind of hit would not be as strong as actually being punched by her fist.
Weapon: A pair of fingerless fighting gloves, though they are in a color that better matches her magical girl outfit.
Sample: The situation was easy enough to understand. Fight to save the world, and you get a wish out of it. It seemed like a pretty sweet deal, and it was made all the sweeter by the fact that Mafuyu would become a real-life magical-fucking-girl in the process.
Not that Mafuyu had always dreamed of becoming one or anything. She was entertained by stories of magical girls and their adventures, and every now and then she had thought "wow, it would be fun to be like that", but it wasn't like she had been wishing for that for her whole life or anything. That said, when the chance was offered, she had known from the moment 'magical girl' had been spoken that she would say yes. Because who wouldn't jump at the chance to actually be a magical girl?
She did feel bad about leaving her friends behind, though. Kyuubey had said that he would take care of them, but she still wished that she could have stayed with them and fought nightmares there, or even have brought them here. Hayasaka in particular probably would have enjoyed being a magical girl. Maybe Yui, even. Though the thought of either of them in magical girl dresses was enough to make her snicker.
Mafuyu would have to be strong and deal with it, for their sake. While Kyuubey had not specified the length of time she would be in Nyoi-cho fighting, she figured it couldn't be that long. Fight the nightmares, save the day, and once everything was safe she could go home. It seemed reasonable to her, and she figured that Kyuubey would have specified if she was to be there for a long time.
So, Mafuyu remained strong. And, just like always, she did her best to act like an ultra-shiny high school girl. Which in this case meant introducing herself to her class, what with her being the new student and all. "Hello there," she said, her voice practically dripping with the sugary-sweet tone she took every time she tried to act like what she thought a high school girl should act like, "My name is Mafuyu Kurosaki, and I'm new here! I hope we can all get along and become the best of friends."
With her introduction said, Mafuyu walked quickly over to her desk. She might have been walking a bit too quickly, actually, since she completely missed the bag that another student had left on the floor. One misplaced step, and she was left tumbling over it, screaming out "SHIT!" as she fell flat on her face.
Within moments she realized her mistake, though, and she jumped to her feet and tried her best to act embarrassed. "Oh gosh, I'm soooo sorry! I didn't mean to do that."
That time, her 'ultra-shiny' voice was a lot less shiny, and by the time she was in her seat she was practically dripping with despair. This was her only chance to make a good first impression, and she had blown it. This wasn't supposed to happen to magical girls!
