Maka Tansei (real name: Mana Tanahashi) is one of the female students who currently attends Akademi.
Appearance[]
Maka wears the default school uniform unless customized by the player.
She has long, wavy emerald green hair gathered into a low bun, secured by a dark purple hairband and two markers. She has bright magenta eyes and wears a black beret. Her bust size is 1.
Description[]
“ | A quirky, eccentric girl who doesn't really care what others think of her. She only draws bizarre, abstract artwork that doesn't make sense to anyone but herself. | ” |
— Description from Info-chan.
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Among the personas that are currently implemented in the game, Maka is a Social Butterfly. She will happily pose for a picture if Ayano aims her phone at her. If she sees a corpse or witnesses a murder, she will run to the nearest secluded area and call the police. She cannot participate in physical fights against murderers, even if Efude Nurimono is killed.
According to YandereDev, Maka is ambidextrous. She does not have any interest in mundane things and is only interested in exciting topics such as aliens, time travel, and psychic powers. In that sense, she can be considered similar to the fictional character Haruhi Suzumiya, who also has an interest in the supernatural. When Maka eats, she tries to eat something new that she has not eaten before, as she thinks it's boring to always eat the same food.
YandereDev states that Maka's behavior could be described as chūnibyō (中二病, lit. "middle-second-year syndrome"), a term referring to early teens who have delusions of grandeur. She has no desire to behave normally and only behaves in whatever way is entertaining to herself, regardless of how much she may confuse other people. She does not think of others very often. She thinks that the other members of the art club are boring, and considers the only interesting people at school to be Sakyu Basu, Inkyu Basu, and some of the other club leaders.[2][3][4]
Like Efude, Maka wears whatever clothes she feels comfortable with since she doesn't know how to dress fashionably.[5]
Routine[]
Default[]
At 7:00 AM, Maka enters the school grounds. She walks to her locker at 7:05 AM and changes from her outdoor shoes to her indoor shoes. At 7:15 AM, she walks outside of the Science Club on the third floor and sketches boxes.
At 8:00 AM, she walks to Classroom 1-2 and sits at her desk. She starts her morning classes at 8:30 AM and leaves to go outside of the Art Club to eat her lunch at 1:00 PM.
She walks back to class again at 1:30 PM and participates in cleaning time between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM. Afterward, she heads to the Art Club and stays there painting until the end of the day. On Friday afternoons, she and the other Art Club members will gather behind the cherry tree and paint something related to it. Maka paints an abstract version of the tree with geometric shapes.
If the Art Club is disbanded, she will continue sketching the boxes outside of the Science Club.
Week 1[]
As of the March 22nd, 2021 Build, Maka spends her time conversing with Efude Nurimono during the first week of the Story Mode. She converses with Efude near Classroom 1-1 before 8:00 AM and after 3:30 PM. During lunchtime, she and Efude talk to each other in a hallway near Classroom 3-2, next to stairways. She no longer participates in cleaning time as she will use this time for her conversation.
If Osana is removed from Akademi before Friday, Maka will return to her default routine the next day. However, she and Efude will continue conversing near Classroom 3-2 during lunchtime.
Topics[]
The topics towards Maka are as follows:
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Relationships[]
Sakyu and Inkyu Basu[]
Maka thinks the Basu sisters as the only interesting people in Akademi, along with some club leaders.[2]
Art Club members[]
Maka thinks the other Art Club members are boring.[2]
Bugs[]
- If edited in pose mode, the markers on her hair will change color instead of her hair. This bug has been fixed.
Trivia[]
- She was implemented in the July 1st, 2018 Build.
- Her nickname is a play on the words 'マーカー' (Mākā; marker) and '丹青' (tansei; red and cyan; painting materials).
- As of the July 1st, 2020 build, her real name is Mana Tanahashi.
- Her real name, Mana, means "true, green/vegetables" (ma; 真菜). Her surname, Tanahashi, means "shelf, bridge" (Tanahashi; 棚橋).
- Maka has two siblings, a big brother and a little sister. They are not similar to her and appear more "normal" than her. Maka's room is full of strange objects that she has collected. It probably looks disorganized to most people, but in her eyes, everything is organized.[2]
- If someone confessed to her, she would only accept the confession if she believed that the person was "special" (alien, time traveler, psychic, etc...) in some way.[2]
- She also shares the same personality with Shiromi Torayoshi and Kaga Kusha.