Character

Yasuraoka Hanabi

Hanabi Yasuraoka (安楽岡 花火) is the female lead in Scum's Wish. Though a freshman when she first met Mugi, she is 17 years old and a second-year in high school in the story's time continuum. Hanabi is shown to be tremendously intelligent since she gets excellent grades, which is one of the things in her that makes others admire her. When she's with her closest friend, Sanae Ebato, she's outgoing and regularly cheerful, in contrast to when she's in the presence of Narumi Kanai, her love interest, whom she feels more timid with and can come off as hostile. But when around Mugi Awaya, she feels more at ease and lets her guard down because she trusts him a lot; he's the only one who understands her worries and who she can share her deepest troubles with. She's often sarcastic and brutally honest to the point others may perceive it as arrogance. This is one of the reasons why Mugi calls her "horrible" when she blatantly told Noriko Kamomebata that she finds her a nuisance. Regardless, Mugi doesn't seem to mind her honesty, and even states that he likes her as a whole. She's also observant and analytical, shown when she figured out that there's more to Akane Minagawa than just her clumsy, gentle side, even comparing her to herself.