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==Personality==
==Personality==
A cheerful and optimistic girl who is classmates with Suzune. She wants to become friends with Suzune, even after finding out that she is a magical girl killer. She has a plush charm of a rabbit head named "Usa-chan", and nicknames Kyubey as "Kyu-chan".
A cheerful and optimistic girl who is classmates with Suzune. She wants to become friends with Suzune, even after finding out that she is a magical girl killer.
 
She has a plush charm of a rabbit head named "Usa-chan", and nicknames Kyubey as "Kyu-chan".


==Story==
==Story==

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Matsuri Hinata
Matsurigan.jpg
Japanese Name 日向 茉莉
Age Unknown
Weapon Gauntlets

Matsuri Hinata (日向 茉莉 Hinata Matsuri) is one of the main characters in Puella Magi Suzune Magica. She is the tertiary protagonist for the first two thirds of the story and the secondary protagonist of the last third.

General info

  • Height: 147.6 cm
  • Weight: 41.3 kg
  • Blood type: O
  • Eye colour: Green
  • Hair colour: Green
  • Japanese pronoun: Matsuri (マツリ)
  • Soul gem: Green oval worn as a hair clip on the left of her forehead.
  • Wish: Matsuri wished for sight, as she was blind. The specific wording is unknown.

Personality

A cheerful and optimistic girl who is classmates with Suzune. She wants to become friends with Suzune, even after finding out that she is a magical girl killer.

She has a plush charm of a rabbit head named "Usa-chan", and nicknames Kyubey as "Kyu-chan".

Story

Backstory

Not much is known of Matsuri's home-life. She had a sister, Kagari Hinata, and a father. Tsubaki Mikoto took care of her and Kagari and often told them stories.

Matsuri during Suzune Magica

Matsuri reveals to Arisa at one point after Haruka's death that she was blind when she was younger, and wished to have sight as a result. Kagari knocks Matsuri out upon arrival so she can deal with Suzune alone, but Matsuri wakes up in time to save Suzune and confront Kagari. Despite Kagari's monstrous deeds and attempts on Matsuri's life, Matsuri never tries to kill her and tries to convince Kagari to stop her revenge. She is eaten by Kagari's witch and supposedly dies, but it turns out to only be an illusion, and manages to survive after Suzune defeats the witch. On Suzune's deathbed, Matsuri promises to never forget her, the Yunagi girls, Kagari and Tsubaki, and that they'll stay friends forever. Afterwards, Matsuri inherits the bell-and-pouch pendant and wears it as a hair tie herself. She is the only survivor of the events of the story.

Powers, Weapons and Abilities

Her magical weapons are robotic gloves that can shine or shoot bright lights at her opponents, and she also possesses the ability to search for others, though she states that this ability is best used as support in battle. Matsuri can use this ability to detect invisible people or see through illusions, as used in the battle with Kagari. She also appears to have healing powers.

Observations

Trivia

  • Matsuri's first name is spelt with the kanji for "jasmine", a type of flower. "Matsuri" can also mean a festival or celebration.
  • Matsuri's last name, Hinata, means "sunny place".
  • According to tweets from GAN, Matsuri has a telephone motif. Her hair buns are the handsets, her braids are the code, and the round button on the stomach of her dress is the dial.[1] She has gauntlets as weapons because GAN wanted to put in the "Shining Finger" move from Gundam, but having it performed against humans would leave a pretty nasty impression (it's intended to crush the head of targets, after all), so they dropped the idea.[2] Matsuri is also supposed to be the character the audience can most identify with in volume 3.[3]

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Fanart

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References