Mai Wakahara

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Mai Wakahara is one of the female students who attends Akademi. She is pursuing what she refers to as an "anime aesthetic" - in short, she wants to look like more like an "anime character" than a real person. To achieve this goal, she has never cut her hair, wears special contact lenses that cycle through a variety of colors, and adopts cutesy mannerisms that are commonly seen in anime. Some of her peers think it is "cringe" that she is deliberately trying to make herself look like an anime character, while other students think that she ranks among the most beautiful girls in school. A few students have begun to refer to her by a cutesy nickname - "Mai Waifu" - rather than her real name. Some of them say it as a compliment, while others use this nickname in a mocking way. Because she is obsessed with anime and video games, it was only natural that she chose to join the school's unofficial Gaming Club. When informed that every member of the club was required to wear a red bandana, she chose to fashion the bandana into something resembling a hair ribbon, and wear it on the back of her head. The Gaming Club leader begrudgingly admitted, "Eh, I guess that counts..." She spends most of her time playing an augmented reality gacha game that she is addicted to - the Magical Girl Pretty Miyuki mobile game. She considers herself to be good friends with Midori, Pippi, and Ryuto, and she is often seen together with them. She also plays an MMORPG with "daily boss raids" that she participates in with the rest of the Gaming Club.