Mahiru Koizumi

Mahiru Koizumi, is a student of Hope's Peak Academy's Class 77-B, and a participant of the Killing School Trip featured in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Her title is the Ultimate Photographer. Mahiru is a 20 years old woman. She has fair skin with light freckles flecked across her cheeks. She has vivid red hair cut in a short, smooth bob, with choppy bangs. Her eyes are a rather dark olive green. She wears a white uniform dress shirt with short sleeves and a chest pocket, with a red-and-white plaid tie at her collar. On top of this, she wears an olive green school jumper with a pleated skirt. Her legwear consists of a darker olive knee-high socks with lighter colored lines running around the cuff, with olive-black flat sneakers with white laces and soles. Her former school's symbol can be found on her shirt's sleeves, her jumper's chest, and her socks' cuffs. Mahiru can be seen with a black digital camera, appearing to be modeled after a Canon product, but with no discernable specific brand. It is hung around her body with an orange strap, a thin yellow line running through the center, attached with silver buckles. Mahiru is sensible, optimistic, and unafraid to speak her mind. She does not hesitate to scold those who are rude to her and confront others when their actions misalign with her ideals. She rarely shows any signs of fear when engaging in an argument, even when dealing with someone with a reputation for aggression and violence like Fuyuhiko. She is also quick to act, as seen when she volunteers to drag Kazuichi into their very first morning meeting, organizes a girls-only gathering to ease the tension caused by the first motive, and later invites the girls involved in the second motive to discuss it together with her. She has her own sense of justice and is shown to possess a great amount of empathy, extending it even to men whom she is quick to be abrasive toward. Another core trait of Mahiru is her strong inclination to take care of others, sometimes to a fault. While she often complains about having to look after people, in reality, she is driven more by her own desire to do so, and she does really well at it. Nonetheless, more often than not, her caring attempts manifest as "mom-like" scoldings, as described by Hajime. Men become her primary target of such scoldings due to her frustration with her irresponsible and unemployed dad, who never helps her do the household chores. She even sacrifices her dream of traveling the world to take pictures of people's smiles, as she cannot bear the thought of leaving her dad alone.