Momoyo Kawakami

Momoyo Kawakami (川神 百代) is one of the main heroines in Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai! series. She is also one of the main love interests to Yamato Naoe in the Majikoi!, and one of the main characters in the anime and the manga being published by Comp Ace.

She represents Honesty (誠, Makoto), one of the seven virtues of martial arts.

Appearance wise, Momoyo has waist-length black-brown hair, red eyes and a "megalopolis-style" bust in Gakuto Shimazu and Takuya Morooka's description.

She is normally seen wearing the winter uniform of the Kawakami Academy with her jacket covering her shoulders in a cape-like style. She wears a black vest-like garment within and black boots. Though later on, she began to wear her uniform properly as a sign of maturity.

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I won't lie, but to be honest, i'm going to follow my heart and live. Momoyo answers her way of life

Momoyo Kawakami (川神 百代) is one of the main heroines in Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai! series. She is also one of the main love interests to Yamato Naoe in the Majikoi!, and one of the main characters in the anime and the manga being published by Comp Ace.

She represents Honesty (誠, Makoto), one of the seven virtues of martial arts.

Appearance wise, Momoyo has waist-length black-brown hair, red eyes and a "megalopolis-style" bust in Gakuto Shimazu and Takuya Morooka's description.

She is normally seen wearing the winter uniform of the Kawakami Academy with her jacket covering her shoulders in a cape-like style. She wears a black vest-like garment within and black boots. Though later on, she began to wear her uniform properly as a sign of maturity.

Personality wise, Momoyo's the world's strongest battle maniac and a dangerous person who can't function without a good fight. She's a violent girl who doesn't see men as men, eats a lot, and likes girls. She's also beautiful and sociable. She's popular and everyone loves her. She can make friends with anyone quickly! Matsukaze in his description of Momoyo

Momoyo has a tomboyish, tough-going and confident personality who hardly blushes or stutters and she is completely up front with people. This, along with her prowess, her love of fighting, and her straight-up honesty, made her the most wonderful and admirable woman to her girl fans, while making her the most beautiful but intimidating woman to her male fans which makes them too scared to talk to her.

Momoyo has a great love for fighting and for just having fun in general. Her love for fighting however, has proven to be outlined since she is so skilled in martial arts, she constantly defeats her opponents without exertion and real effort, which leads to her frustrations. This sort of behavior did not go unnoticed by her relatives, friends and acquaintances: Tesshin Kawakami, Lu Yi, Souri, Margit Eberbach, Ageha Kuki and Yamato Naoe. Winning a fight that makes her use her full effort though, will always put her in a good mood and make her more relaxed afterwards. Even Momoyo realized at one point that she may develop a problem in the future, she still explains that fighting is ingranied into her and she just can't bring herself to better her mind as she has no interest to do so. Both Tesshin and Yi constantly preach to Momoyo to find other interests besides fighting or to go training in the mountains to train her mind, but Momoyo in turn brushes them off, saying she does not want or need to go to the mountains as long as she has her friends. This comment as well as her overconfidence, tends to make both Tesshin and Yi feel that the answer to her problem is among her friends. In truth, Momoyo constantly seeks out Yamato out of all her friends because her being with him constantly makes her feel 'refreshed' and helps to clear her mind.

Momoyo shows a side that is completely softer to her friends in the Kazama Family, and is not as tough around them. However, she still displays her aura of confidence and strength, and proudly helps Shouichi Kazama makes decisions as the second-in-command of the Kazama Family.

Ever since they made their promise, Momoyo and Yamato have been attached to each other. Momoyo has always shown a more caring, softer side to Yamato that she shows to no one else. But she still roughs him up from time to time, feeling he can be used as a stress relief. These sort of acts tend to range from hugs, massages, pouncing on top of him, holding his arm and pressing her breasts against him, putting him in a headlock. She is also a real tease to Yamato, and tends to show off sexy poses and exposes part of her underwear and cleavage and even slyly mentions her sexual interests in him. Momoyo feels that Yamato is the only person in the world she can do this to as doing it to anyone else would be useless and never have the same effect. She claims this is because Yamato is her underling, but usually she makes hints that she is more interested in him than that.

Momoyo is terrible when it comes to money conduct, as she always spends it carelessly or loses it while gambling. Whenever she is in a pinch, her immediate action is to go to Yamato, who sometimes help out with her bill. But for the most part, he scolds her for it and tells her to get a job. She also borrows money from the Kazama Family, and if need be, from her fans and other students at Kawakami Academy. Momoyo always pay back what she owes in the end, but ends up having little money for herself afterwards, which leads her to borrow more money again.

Back when she was a child, Momoyo got along with Gyoubu Shakadou, former assistant instructor who was as strong as Assistant Instructor Lu Yi. Gyoubu personally felt that might was always right and he himself was a bit of a battle maniac, fighting for the sheer fun of it. This would have an influential effect on Momoyo, as well as her tendency to dominate and will-crushing her opponent, despite the fact that Gyoubu was exiled from the Kawakami Temple because of these reckless values. Due to Gyoubu's influence on Momoyo, Yi has taken it upon himself to personally oversee Kazuko's training so she won’t follow a similar path.

Despite being flirtatious towards females only, Momoyo claims only flirt with girls as there are no males that catch her attention. Due to her confidence, her strength, and continuously defeating strong males, Momoyo has developed a strong standard on which she would acknowledge any male as an actual man or interest in general. While saying that she does not know what she exactly looks for in a man, she also says that if a man wanted to catch her attention, then he would have to be a man who was serious about his promises and talks of ambitions, meaning he had to at least work hard to try and achieve them. When Yamato confessed, Momoyo claimed that it was partly because she could not see him as a man that lead to her rejection of him, while the other part was his lack of seriousness to uphold his promise to her to become someone who could move the country as well as become her equal with his mind. However, Momoyo also admits that she might of accepted Yamato if he had confessed earlier, regardless of her standards.

Momoyo tends to acknowledge someone as a man when they have managed to best her or leave her with a sense of defeat in one way or another, meaning defeated her physically or mentally. When Momoyo acknowledges someone as a man she is more respectful to them and sees them different from everyone else. Due to Momoyo's standards, she feels like to acknowledge someone as a man first before consider going out with them. However, even acknowledging a man does not guarantee her liking and love toward them as one at all. Despite acknowledging Shouichi as a man, Momoyo has never shown any interest in him and even flirts with girls in his presence, showing that he doesn’t catch her attention despite her acknowledgement of him. This proves that there is a distinct difference between Momoyo liking or loving someone as a man and acknowledging them as one. This is further elaborated in Yamato's case as even before he was acknowledged by Momoyo as a man. When Yamato was able to make Momoyo acknowledge him as a man, their relationship instantly got stronger with Momoyo becoming more attached to him, constantly calling him and looking for him to be around him a lot more than she did before. With Shouichi on the other hand, when he fell for Momoyo he got instantly rejected and was soon knocked out by Momoyo when he persisted.

Despite her strength and valor, she is terrified of ghosts and spirits, as she feels that nothing she can do will affect them. She admits she would rather be shot at by a thousand of missiles instead of confronting a spirit.

Momoyo finds that flirting and teasing other girls is fun and helps her to relax at times. She is constantly flirting with them but is never serious about it. She claims to do so since there are no guys around who catch her attention, with the majority of them being too intimidated to talk to her, too childish, or just not on her level. This has lead to many people thinking she was a lesbian, even though she admits she's straight. When she starts getting closer to Yamato though, she feels hanging out with girls was annoying and even mentions giving it up. Momoyo even teases the girls of the Kazama Family such as Miyako who plays along, but this tends to make other people such as Chris uncomfortable. She doesn’t tease her sister Kazuko though, and even tries to protect Kazuko's innocence from sexual materials.

Momoyo sincerely adores her adopted sister Kazuko who in turns admires and loves Momoyo. The two get along just like real sisters, and tend to show off the same habits and personality traits, such as their eating methods and their dislike of studying. The two tend to train with each other in exercises, but they don't spar against one another due to their gap of powers. Momoyo deeply wishes for Kazuko to achieve her dream of becoming a Kawakami Temple's Assistant Instructor, but tends to have doubts as she feels that natural talent is sometimes necessary to achieve such a goal, talent that she feels Kazuko doesn't have, and that hard work and training will only get a person so far. Despite this, Momoyo still encourages Kazuko to do her best, and strongly hopes for Kazuko to achieve her goal.

Many people consider her and Yamato's relationship as something deeper and even describe it as interesting and special. As such, girl fans of Momoyo get envious of the time and affection she shows Yamato, while others prompt Yamato to take a chance and ask her out. She is deeply affectionate, in her own way, towards Yamato as she considers him someone very important to her and is extremely possessive of him to the point that she gets jealous when other girls pay Yamato too much attention. She always feels relaxed around Yamato, and will only do the things she does to him only because she feels it's useless to do them to anyone else. She takes the promise Yamato made to be her underling seriously as well as Yamato's promise to become her equal and to stay with her forever. She realizes that she is in love with Yamato, but is unable to admit it to anyone, not even herself, until Yamato proves to her that he is becoming the man she is waiting for him to be by showing his seriousness to their promise and by making her acknowledge him as a man.

Momoyo is shown to be a decent student academically, but only when she puts her mind to it. For the most part, she gets very low grades, but ends up making up for it by earning a decent passing grade if things get too close. When it comes to studying, Momoyo rarely does so and even during the exams when the rest of the Kazama Family is studying, both Momoyo and Shouichi don't even bother, leaving them on their side of the hideout which ends up being boring for the both of them.

Momoyo is completely honest and straightforward, and is not hesitant to say things that are on her mind or what she feels needs to be said when confronted, not bothering to downplay her words as long as she feels it's necessary. However she does tease her words up now and then and sometimes mentions childish thoughts with a serious face. Her honesty is further shown when Yamato took her on a date in Nanahama, when she said that while she was having fun and felt refreshed, she wanted to see Yamato's manliness so she could fall for him. Even though Yamato felt Momoyo was being too honest with him, Momoyo stated that she was always honest and that she would be 'Momo' for Yamato which simply made him more nervous. When Yamato mentioned this the males of the Kazama Family and Tadakatsu Minamoto wondered if the two were really just friends since most girls would try to make guys keep guessing about what it would take to make them fall in love instead of telling them upfrontly what they want.