Mafuyu Asahina. | MafuEna.

Mafuyu is quite emotionless, she keeps to herself, she can secret draw well and has passion for writing lyrics.

Mafuyu during the main story: Mafuyu is first shown in the opening, where she sends Kanade the lyrics she worked on and questions if she even slept at all, displaying both her diligence and caring nature for others. On another day she logs into nightcord during the afternoon to find everyone currently working on their own part of the song. Mafuyu is shown to be actively engaged in their activities, listening to what Kanade composed, ready to give her feedback and interacting with the other members, showing their wholesome dynamic, despite them not even knowing eachother in person. Mafuyu then continues to work on her part. After a long working session Mafuyu logs off. The next day, we get a small glimpse into her life, when she interacts with her mom, displaying her gratitude for the breakfast and heading to school, stating that she'll be back at the usual time. During a working session at nightcord Ena mentions OWN, a music creator that rose to popularity in the last days, which Mafuyu hasn't heard about up until now. After Ena compares her illustrations to OWNs music Mafuyu encourages Ena, telling her how much she appreciates her artwork. Mafuyu and Kanade decide to listen to one of OWN's songs for the first time. The style the music is done reminds Kanade a lot of Mafuyu's style, leading to her questioning Mafuyu if she created this music. Mafuyu is fluttered by this, telling her that she wouldn't be able to create such music. The two of them then talk about how they met, where Mafuyu states that she joined because Kanade's music saved her. After logging off, Mafuyu scrolls through the comments of OWN's MV, disappointed with the result, as if she was looking for something specific. We then get shown a normal day in Mafuyu's life. At school we get to see both her academic, as well as her social intelligence, shown by her being immediately able to decipher what her classmates want from her. She offers her help with pleasure, stating the happiness of others makes her happy too. After helping her classmates with home, she returns home and logs into nightcord to find Mizuki who coincidentally had a change in work shift, leading to the two of them to talk with eachother. During their conversation Mafuyu's mom comes into her room and while she only wanted to tell Mafuyu that she's going to buy groceries, she also commented on Mafuyu's friends at school, telling her to also make sure to spend time with people that can challenge her for her own self improvement. After she's gone, Mizuki comments on the way Mafuyus mother talked about her friends in an almost degrading way. Mafuyu tells Mizuki her point of view, that her mother probably meant it more in a way that Mafuyu could improve herself by spending time with a wider variety of people. Despite Mizukis worries about Mafuyus mom forcing her will on Mafuyu, she believes Mafuyus way in seeing things and they stop talking to get back to their work. Once Mafuyu decided to finish working for now, her mother calls her for dinner. Mafuyu logs off and goes to the dinner table. While eating, her parents are questioning her about her preparations for college and give her some documents to use as reference she can use for deciding her dream school. Her mother tells her to be careful in her choice father is confident that Mafuyu can make a proper decision by herself. Once she gets back into her room, her mood changes, which gets showns through her more serious look and monotone voice. After letting todays events go through her mind she appears clueless at the thought of her own desires, not being able to think of anything she wants to do by her own decision. Miku reaches out to Mafuyu to which she expresses the wish to stay in SEKAI forever if it'd be possible. She then goes into SEKAI to write song lyrics. She tells Miku on how she feels unable to understand feelings like liking or hating things, before resuming her work again silently. Miku then accidentally catches Mafuyus attention. Miku states that she knew this song, ever since this SEKAI was created. Miku is glad at the thought that there is something that interests Mafuyu to an extent. After her last appereance with Mizuki, she was absent for a whole week, without giving any information. This clearly wrorries the other Niigo members. While looking through the chat to find any informations about her, they stumble at a file called untitled. After clicking it, they get transported to Mafuyus SEKAI for the first time. The three of them meet eachother for the first time in reality and after Miku explains the situation to them, they see Mafuyu for the first time. But she seems like a completely different person than what she acted like on Nightcord, being cold to the others and telling them to leave, because she wants to be alone in her SEKAI and will stop to create music with Niigo. Kanade then confronts her about OWN, leading to Mafuyu revealing her identity as OWN. Mafuyu says that Kanades songs only helped her to an extent and it wont be enough to work with Niigo, which is why she wants to compose music alone as OWN to 'save herself' and asks Miku to get the others out. Miku questions her actions, to which Mafuyu responds with, that this is all she has left and if even that wont help her, she'd just disappear (which is basically the pjsk equivalent of saying you want to die but to be honest I will still use the term disappear because it's the way pjsk phrases it and makes everything more consistent) After Mizuki calls her behaviour strange, Mafuyu confronts all of them, stating that they too want to disappear but wont admit it. This statement catches everyone by surprise. Mizuki tries to deny it, to which Mafuyu basically says that her joyful nature is just a facade in front of her true self. Mafuyu is starting to get upset at them and tells Miku, the others aren't needed in her SEKAI, which leads to Miku sending them back to the real world. Miku then looks through the music sheets, picking one up from the hround and singing it. Mafuyu is surprised by the hopeful tone the song has. Miku tells her, that this hope may have been a feeling, that Mafuyu subconsciously put into her music. Mafuyu then asks Miku to sing a song she has sung previously, to which Miku says that this song is special for Mafuyu. After that, Mafuyu continues to compose music as OWN. But despite those efforts she can't seem to find her true self, which she is desperatly searching for. We get to take a look inside Mafuyus past, at a time where she most likely wasn't stuggeling as much as she does now. We see her adjusting herself to the expectations of others, making her lose her own sense of self, which causes her to lose her sense of self. Food doesn't taste like anything for her anymore and she isn't even able to tell if she likes or dislikes something, due to her emotional numbness. Back in the present, she decides she can't take it anymore and goes to SEKAI where she tells Miku that she doesn't want to do anything anymore, rejecting Mikus offers to help. Miku still tries to at least keep Mafuyu company, while she is laying on the ground. She releases all the songs she wrote for OWN at once, in the hope that it will make her find what she's searcing for. Mafuyu tries to return to her typical life but is stuggeling to keep her 'good girl' personality up, leading to her being brutally honest to her classmate on accident. Back home her mother found her synthesizer and is planning on throwing it away due to Mafuyu not needing or using it, from her point of view. She found a tutor specialising in the medical area to meet with Mafuyu, something that she reluctantly agrees to. Alone at home, Mafuyu decides that she can't take it anymore and goes to SEKAI to tell Miku that she will disappear after all her efforts failed. Luckily Mizuki and Kanade arrive at that time. Mafuyu orders Miku to kick them out again but Miku insists that she listens to the song that Kanade spent all that time, just for her. This causes Mafuyu to lash out at them, complaining that they don't know anything about her. Kanade then tells Mafuyu about her past, where she was unable to save her father which is why she needs to continue to compose until she manages to save anyone. Mafuyu belittles Kanade's past, calling it nothing more than a curse and a cheap excuse why she hasn't disappeared yet. Kanade still is convinced that her song can save Mafuyu but the latter views it soley as a temporary cure, which wont help her at all in the long run. Ena then also enters SEKAI to give Mafuyu a piece of her mind. She complains to Mafuyu on how she has everything that Ena is actively trying to achieve. Ena calls her selfish for not using the talent she has to continue making music. Ena orders Mafuyu to continue creating music to make up for the talentless people. Mafuyu says that she isn't composing for any praise or acknowledgement but she composes to find her true self. Mizuki also contributes to this conversation, talking about how hard everyone can have it, regardless of who they are. Mizuki then talks about the feeling of not caring about what happens anymore, a feeling only few people experience. This leads to Mafuyu freaking out, claiming she doesn't want to feel the feeling that there's still a chance for her because it takes her all her energy, clinging to a dim hope that everything could work out. Kanade then tells her, that she will continue to compose until she can compose something that'll allow Mafuyu to find herself, no matter how long it takes her. This is what convinces Mafuyu to keep on searching for herself, as long as Kanade continues to compose. Miku then tells Mafuyu that she has found her true feelings, which will take the form of a song. Mafuyu is sceptic about that at first but Miku convinces her through the existence of the SEKAI and her song. All of Niigo then perform the song 'composing the future'. After singing the song made from her feelings, Mafuyu realises that deep down, she wanted to be saved. They end up in their rooms again and after Mizukis idea, they all meet up together in real life for the first time at a cafe. Once all of them arrived, each of them introduces themself properly. Mafuyu acts kind off arkward around them, still unsure what she wants, but at least she has a place where she doesn't have to fake her personality. They all order their food and make a toast. Later that day, Mafuyu DMs Kanade, telling her, that she listened to her song and expressing her gratitude to her. On another day, Mafuyu visits Miku in SEKAI to give her a song she wrote. Miku comments on how her song sounds less lonely than the previos ones. Suddenly the rest of Niigo appear in SEKAI. Turns out, they were looking for Mafuyu, worried because she was offline. Miku tells them about the song Mafuyu wrote and suggests they all sing it together. While Ena and Mafuyu are a bit hesitant, they convince eachother and sing the song together

Mafuyu is an ideal honor student, being the only one in her circle who regularly attends school during the day, and is often seen as a "perfect" person with no flaws. She is expected by everyone around her to excel in both academic and sports matters, and is especially pressured by her mother into becoming a doctor. However, not all is what it seemed; as she continued working under these high expectations, Mafuyu began losing her sense of self, and currently has no idea what she likes or wants, hence her emotional detachment.

Mafuyu has dark purple hair, and eyes that start at purple and fade to light blue, from top to bottom, in a gradient. Her hair is wavy, long, and kept up in a ponytail that falls over her right shoulder. Mafuyu's fringe is fairly long as well, with the middle section falling past her eyes, and while it is usually tucked to the right, during the final chapters of the 25-ji, Nightcord de. story, it is left down to almost shadow her eyes. She has an ahoge that swoops to the right above her fringe, and her face is framed by short, curly strands on each side.

Relationships:

Kanade: Mafuyu and Kanade are deeply rooted characters. Both of them want to disappear but can't due to the existence of the other. Mafuyu can't disappear because she promised to look further for what she's missing, and Kanade can't disappear because she promised to create a song that can save Mafuyu. They depend on eachother and the time they spend together gives them joy

Mizuki: Mizuki is the type of person that tries to get along with everyone, which includes Mafuyu. Mizuki displays her caring nature for Mafuyu in the most straightforward way. When Mafuyu got overwhelmed at the doll exhibit, she was the one that offered to escord her first. She also sees her connections with Mafuyu. Mafuyu views Mizuki as a joyful person of the front, but a depressed person on the inside.

Ena: Ena and Mafuyu have a rather complicated dynamic. Ena is jealous of Mafuyus talent, upset that she want to trow everything away, despite havin everything that she worked hard for. Despite that, Ena doesn't want Mafuyu to disappear, even if her communication is more direct

Mafumom: Mafuyu has a very oppresive relationship with her mother. While her mother may not realise it, she is actively supressing Mafuyus desires if don't align wwith her own. This led to to Mafuyu becoming like a marionette, feeling under her mothers control, not being able to decide anything for herself