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Maka is bright, cheerful, direct, confident, smart, and hardworking, in stark contrast to her partner Soul Eater, who is very laid-back, more likely to act on impulse, and impatient in comparison early on. She frequently studies and prefers to stay in her house and read or study, emphasized by her lack of ability to play games such as basketball despite her athleticism, and she is ignorant of its various rules.[19] Maka is also caring and compassionate, willing to easily help a friend when in need with no personal gain in the end and help a newcomer such as Tsugumi Harudori on her first day.[20] She is also known to follow the rules of the DWMA and rarely breaks them, even going so far as to not kill Gopher despite his attempt on her life.[21] and scolded Crona on their first meeting, telling them to save their "excuses" for Death himself.[22] Maka also is capable to having great compassion and understanding, enough to not only befriend Crona despite their crimes[23] but even put forth effort in helping them when they were seemingly forgone into madness.[24] A self-motivated invidual, she is regarded as having barely anything stopping her once she starts.[25]

Despite this, Maka herself possesses flaws and insecurities. She has been noted by her partner to be stubborn, reckless, and gloomy and is sometimes prone to make decisions without regarding others' feelings if she feels justified enough.[26] She also views the typical male sex negatively, finding them to be nothing more than "pigs" looking only at the sex appeal of females,[27] a notion in which may have manifested thanks to her father's lecherous actions and cheating on her mother. She also can be said to have temper issues, occasionally striking out those who annoy her with her Maka Chop and is not above striking her teachers such as Sid Barrett. She is also not above breaking the rules, such as taking advantage of her father's status to check out a book beyond her rank though did so to try to help Crona, but ended up checking out the Book of Eibon's Manuscript and knew it was not only a bad idea but felt guilty about it so ended up leaving "M" as her signature.[28] Having taken immediate interests in the revelation of possessing a Grigori Soul, Maka was described by Soul as "obsessed" with the "angel stuff" until she found her new-found mindset hindering her ability to fight a fellow possessor of the Grigori, Gopher.[29][30]

One of the her main insecurities seen early on was her fear of her partner, Soul, beliving himto have "carried" her throughout her battles and resolved to get stronger to the point of ignoring her partner's perspective and blamed herself for Soul's grevious injury during her fight with Crona and Ragnarok in their first battle.[31] When under the effects of the Sloth chapter in the Book of Eibon, an aspect of her revealed a struggle with Soul's popularity as a death scythe, projecting that she believed her own effort and work was unnoticed and useless, was envious of Liz's capability of understanding musics and having similar interest to Soul, and also Patty's fighting prowess exceeding hers in unarmed combat.[32]

According to Soul, her hobbies includes reading books and doing puzzles.[26] Her favorite book is The Dark Side of the Moon by the author, Lorda Donsany.[28] She also stated she always wished to go inside a book, having been able to do so when she traveled into the Book of Eibon.[28] In addition, Maka doesn't like raw fish.[33]

Maka is a flat-chested, teenage young woman with green eyes, light ash blonde hair which she keeps in pigtails, although there are certain times she may stylize them into buns or wear them straight down. Maka's primary outfit is a typical schoolgirl outfit consisting of a white blouse with a yellow sweater vest, a green striped tie, a red plaid skirt, and black boots with white buckles. When using Soul, she usually wears white gloves. Maka also wears a trench coat with a cloak-like end. In her initial appearance in the first chapter, her trench coat was so long that, when buttoned up, it seemed that she was not wearing a skirt.[13][49]

When Maka joins Spartoi, her outfit changes, though it still shows similarities to her previous attire. Maka's Spartoi uniform is very similar to that of a Japanese schoolgirl's sailor uniform with the colouring of the classic Spartoi uniform: a white blouse attached with a blue sailor-style collar with a red necktie that has a pink coiled tip and a short, blue, pleated skirt. Alongside this uniform, Maka wears black tights and the classic white Spartoi shoes, but stops wearing tights a few chapters later. Like her previous outfit, Maka wears a long trench coat, though it is white instead of black and has the Spartoi logo on the left shoulder as well as the fact that the cloak end splits in two. Her pigtails are fashioned using skull hairbands similar to Shinigami's mask. She also still wears white gloves.

Maka's soul, when viewed by Stein, has an orange-like colour and has her signature pigtails.[50] Some comments from Ragnarok and Maka herself suggest that Maka's soul is quite small, especially when compared to those of others, such as Black☆Star's (although, like others, her soul grows in size considerably after she grows more powerful). When resonating with Soul, these "ponytails" turn into wings, revealing her soul to be a Grigori Soul, and her Soul Wavelength takes on the form of feathers.