Consequently, Mugi offers to be her real boyfriend, to which she accepts, though only if they get rejected. She doesn't see any hope for her love and doubts it will blossom. Later on, Hanabi starts feeling weird and more self-conscious around Mugi than before and comes to the realization that to her, he's not a mere replacement anymore - which is shown when she sees Mugi as himself when he touches her. They attempt to fill the emptiness inside their hearts with physical intimacy, with Hanabi viewing Mugi as Narumi Kanai and Mugi viewing Hanabi as Akane Minagawa. In spite of this, they understand one another and often mutually share their worries. Since Hanabi's love is unrequited, she seek for someone who could understand her, and after finding Mugi and acknowledging his situation, that is the same as hers, they immediately grew closer and came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be bad to soothe their loneliness using each other as substitutes for their love interests. Despite showing signs that they are clearly in a relationship and having assumed so, they are just using each other as replacements for the ones they truly love. However, that's not entirely true - they share a secret nobody else knows. In the eyes of many, they're a flawless match and their relationship is healthy and romantic. Hanabi and Mugi are considered and known as the perfect couple at school where they are both individually popular and when together, admired by others. In the final chapter of this series, Hanabi and Mugi meet each other at a concert and accept each other's love and hold hands, signifying the possibility of a genuine relationship beginning between the two. Instead, they talked things out in the storage room and decided that despite the feelings they have for each other, they are going to search for real love.Īs of Scum's Wish Decor, both Mugi and Hanabi haven't moved on from each other and think about the other often. Although both of them got rejected in the end, they did not start dating. Hanabi gets rejected, and Mugi does too even though he did get to hook up with Akane a few times. Hanabi and Mugi continue their relationship of passion alone until they decided that they will officially start dating if they get rejected. Even more angered now, Hanabi tries to make all the men that are obsessed with Akane to fall in love with her as demonstrated with Atsuya Kirishima, which unfortunately fails. This causes Hanabi to confront Akane for taking away the person she desired the most and Akane later tells her about her love of making people jealous and getting attention from men. This sort of unhealthy relationship continues to go on for a while until Mugi hooks up with Akane Minagawa later on where things start to change after Hanabi witnesses Narumi Kanai confessing his love to Akane in the music room, which was a setup that Akane had planned. 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.ĭepicted in both the anime and the manga, Hanabi starts off kissing Mugi Awaya because they are both replacements for the ones they truly love. That's when Hanabi started to get more jealous Hanabi is jealous whenever some friends of Mugi approach him. Regardless, Mugi doesn't seem to mind her honesty and even states that he likes her as a whole. This is one of the reasons why Mugi calls her "horrible" when she blatantly told Noriko Kamomebata that she finds her a nuisance. She's often sarcastic and brutally honest to the point others may perceive it as arrogance.
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. When she's with Sanae Ebato (Hanabi's closest friend), Hanabi is an outgoing and regularly cheerful girl, in contrast to when she's in the presence of Narumi Kanai (Hanabi's love interest), whom she feels timider with and can come off as hostile. She also wears black knee-high socks and school shoes, sometimes wearing the red gym shoes as well. She is usually shown wearing her school uniform, which is a red ribbon, a short-sleeved white collared shirt underneath a dark blueish purple vest and a slightly green grey skirt. Hanabi is a very beautiful and attractive young girl (that causes many of the boys in her class to confess their feelings to her) with chin-length black hair that has purple tint with bangs hanging over her eyebrows and her eye color is an ombré of purple and blue where it sometimes appear green (in the anime).