History Characters / Danganronpa2FemaleStudents

** Her gut told her that "Junko" ([[WorldsBestWarrior Mukuro]] in disguise as Junko) would be a good fight in ''Ultimate Talent Development Mode''. "Junko" shoots her down, though she still kept following "Junko", trying to get her to fight.

** As much as she loves fighting, she hasn't been trained in any particular style, relying on her overwhelming strength to win. When she meets someone who can match her in power or can outmaneuver her, she's a sitting duck. This was shown in her spar with Nekomaru, where one good hit to the liver took her out. Nekomaru says she has enormous martial arts potential if she trains. Indeed, in ''Ultimate Summer Camp: Development Mode'', she trains with Sakura for 3 years and ''Sakura had to improve her own skills'' to match her.

** Played for laughs but most of the others she deems worthy ends up being one sided with the latter refusing to fight her. The most notable being Mukuro (who's trying to hide her identity as Ultimate Soldier) and Kaito (who straight up refuses to fight a girl). In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', she also wants to fight [[ProfessionalKiller Maki]], though she always refuses.

* MonsterFangirl: Downplayed. She's fascinated by various serial killers like Genocide Jack and Sparkling Justice, but she never interacts with either. In ''Ultimate Talent Development Mode'' and ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', she does get to interact with Genocide Jack, and Jack expresses bewilderment that Sonia's a fan of her. She also doesn't approve of actual murder, is deeply upset whenever someone on the island kills, and feels horribly guilty whenever she herself is involved in a murder (i.e. suggesting Hiyoko use the club's mirror, not knowing that Mikan was setting up Ibuki's body there and would kill Hiyoko for walking in on her), even tangentially.

* TheHeart: She takes Byakuya's murder harder than anyone else and likely would've had similar reactions to the other murders had she not been next in line. Hajime even calls her this trope and every single member of the class feels terrible about her murder, including the one who actually killed her.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Unsurprisingly gets along well with fellow musicians Kaede and Sayaka in ''Ultimate Talent Development Mode'' and ''Ultimate Summer Camp''.

* BeyondTheImpossible: In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', she and Kaede have a collaboration act that they perform together and they go to [[BrokenAce Izuru]] to get his opinion. He notes that they probably already know what needs work on a technical level and also that it was too flashy. When Kaede presses for how [[TheStoic he]] felt about it on a personal level, he notes that it ''made him compose a song''. Naturally Ibuki and Kaede are gobsmacked by this and he notes that their performance together was unpredictable enough ''to give him inspiration to do that''. They're unsurprisingly over the moon about that and enthusiastically want him to play the song.

* ImprobableSelfMaintenance: According to Akane's backstory, she lived in a terrible environment and a poor neighborhood involving countless murder cases, to the extent that she became desentized to it, and was used by perverse guys for their own ends. It got to the point that she took on her gymnast role just for the money. Despite this, she herself doesn't look too bad, having a well-endowed figure and a toned body; it's hard to tell that she lived that way at all.

* ImprobableSelfMaintenance: According to Akane's backstory, she lived in a terrible environment and a poor neighborhood involving countless murder cases, to the extent that she became desentized to it, and was used by perverse guys for their own ends. It got to the point that she took on her gymnast role just for the money. Despite this, she herself doesn't look too bad, having a well-endowed figure and a toned body; it's hard to tell that she lived that way at all.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: One of her Free Time events reveals that she has seven siblings and that she had to work hard to support them because her father was unemployed. The reason that she got into gymnastics was that the prize money was really good, and she's using that money to help her family.
* MeaningfulName: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Akane was originally planned as a rival to Hajime]], and her name shows it. "''Hajime''" means "beginning", while "''Hinata''" is an AlternateCharacterReading of "sunflower" (向日葵). "''Akane''" means "madder" and "''Owari''" means "end".[[invoked]]

* ImprobableSelfMaintenance: According to Akane's backstory, she lived in a terrible environment and a poor neighborhood involving countless murder cases, to the extent that she became desentized to it, and was used by perverse guys for their own ends. It got to the point that she took on her gymnast role just for the money. Despite this, she herself doesn't look too bad, having a well-endowed figure and a toned body; it's hard to tell that she lived that way at all.

* TheAtoner: She ''tried'', anyway. Mahiru went to go talk to Fuyuhiko at the beach house (and invited Hiyoko, Mikan and Ibuki as well, but only Hiyoko ended up agreeing as the other girls had plans with Sonia) because she wanted to make amends for her involvement in his sister's death. Unfortunately, she ended up angering him instead and was killed by Peko. Ironically it is her and Peko's death that leads Fuyuhiko on his own redemption arc, something Mahiru would be pleased to see despite their rivalry and his role in her death. Sadly, some of her last thoughts are of wanting to make amends as seen when you investigate her cottage in Chapter 6.

* BoyishShortHair: Even shorter than the very tomboyish Akane's.
* BreakTheCutie: Spends her final days utterly miserable and broken apart by remorse over Twilight Syndrome, a flashback with Ibuki shows how broken she was on the day Fuyuhiko and Peko took her life, a massive contrast from her usually sunny and optimistic personality

* CameraFiend: Not really in the original game, but in ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', she takes photos everywhere.

-->'''Fuyuhiko:'''(''In Chapter 5'') If Mahiru were here she would have beaten you up.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: She tries to interrogate Fuyuhiko one-on-one by condemning him for his murder of Sato, while he is clearly more irritable than he usually is. The end result is her senseless murder at the hands of Peko, who no one knew was actually his hitman at the time and thought she was following orders from him.
* GoodParents: She loves her mother and father. Her father is a bit lazy, but she loves him nonetheless, and she takes after her mother with her talent in photography. She's one of the few students who don't have any significant parental issues.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While she's needlessly harsh towards the guys, she's notably nicer to towards the kinder boys of the group(Hajime, Nekomaru, to a lesser extent she warms to Togami. She also temporarily warms up to Nagito when he says he's good at cleaning in Chapter 1, calling him "reliable", but her opinion of him naturally plummets when it was revealed he was planning on killing Byakuya.), she's completely correct to call out Teruteru for his creepy behaviour, Soda for his constant whining and Fuyuhiko for his constant use of death threats and misogynistic insults.
* JerkassToOne: Mahiru gets along worse with Fuyuhiko than anyone else, even the other boys. Even before learning about the incident in which he killed her friend, she calls Fuyuhiko out on expressing a willingness to kill, and mocks him for it when he briefly becomes a suspect in the first chapter. This is justified by his extremely horrible behavior towards her(as well as everyone else) and being the most aggressive and violent guy in the group, hence receiving her ire more than say, someone like [[NiceGuy Nekomaru or Hajime]].

* LovedByAll: Although she's feisty and argumentative she makes friends with pretty much everyone on the island (except [[AxCrazy Fuyuhiko]]) even Hiyoko who distrusts everyone else because of her sweet bubbly and honest personality as well as her role as the TeamMom. Her death is mourned by everyone in the group(in particular Hiyoko, Hajime, Mikan, Ibuki and Nekomaru). Darkly humorously and tragically enough this very much includes Peko who still regarded Mahiru as a friend and had zero ill will against her, and Fuyuhiko who came to respect and admire her and realised her words about revenge were completely right. She was so well liked, even her own killers cared about her and wished they never hurt her(nice, but the definition of "too little, too late").

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Hajime is on the way to play Twilight Syndrome, he encounters Mahiru(presumably back from playing it herself), who [[BlatantLies claims she went to take photos of the ocean at night]]. Hajime expresses concern, and Mahiru thanks him, with Hajime finding it odd that she'd react that way when she's normally standoffish.

** Although Fuyuhiko treats Mahiru like shit, she still tried to make things right with him after Twilight Syndrome and felt genuinely awful for her implied role in Natsumi's(who also treated Mahiru like shit) death, [[AxCrazy alas he used that to kill her]].

** Played with, Mahiru should have known better than to antagonize Fuyuhiko when he was worked up about the situation surrounding his sister's death, especially when she knows he's a yakuza member with a short fuse. It's saying something that if Peko hadn't gotten to her, she would have more than likely been dead at his hands(its saying that Fuyuhiko was an abusive psychopath prior to his arc and thus wasn't a good idea to piss him off, although even if she didn't there was still a good chance he would have gone through with it despite his claims that he would have backed out considering how abusive and unstable he was at this point.).