Characters/Miku Maruyama

Miku Maruyama

Personal Information
Surname Name	Maruyama Miku
Birthday (Age)	June 8th (n/a)
Type of Character	Main
Additional Information
Hair Color	Dark Red
Eye Color	Amber
Height	5′ 0′′ (153cm)
Job(s)	unknown
Hobby(s)	Soccer
Like(s)	Physical education
Dislike(s)	Learning Loud noises
Family	Unnamed Parents †
Affiliation	Soccer Club (Captain, Chap. 1+2) Swimming Club (Chap. 3)
First Appearance	First (?) Day of School (Introduction) A New You (Picture)
Notes	unknown

'Miku has a hard time figuring out when to stop talking. In fact, I don’t think she has figured it out even once. She has far too much energy for her own good and constantly needs to be reminded to either quiet down or stop running in circles around the classroom. She excels in physical education and is arguably the strongest player on the school’s soccer team. When it comes to every other class or subject, however, she needs a significant amount of additional coaching. Thankfully she’s very close with Makoto and seems to care deeply about making her happy.'

— Sensei's notes

Miku Maruyama is part of the Main Cast of in Lessons In Love. She is part of the original ten girls in Sensei's class. She lives in Room 3 with Makoto Miyamura.

Background

Miku’s past is almost completely unknown as Miku doesn’t talk about it. Her refusal to bring up her past is understandable as Miku not only lost her parents in an unknown tragedy, but saw it happen. Her psyche was damaged beyond repair and loud noises seem to send her back to this moment in time, which is why she freaks out and tears out her hair when she hears sudden loud noises or feels uncomfortable when she’s in places with continuous loud noises for too long. Even this is unknown unless the player makes the right choice.

Even her current situation is a mystery as it's unknown where she came under after the incident and who her current guardians are. It’s only knows that she has a close relationship with the Miyamura family, even being seen as a surrogate daughter by Maki, and ended up in Sensei’s class once she attended Kumon-mi High.

Characteristics

Despite her tragic past, Miku has a cheery personality, being rather optimistic and excitable in most situations. She also has a lot of energy which she mostly spends on her training. Despite being usually easy-going, she takes her training and her position as captain of the soccer team very serious and reprimands everyone who slacks off, which includes Kirin. She also has a competitive mindset and enjoys every opportunity to compete with others, but due to the city being locked down, that chance doesn’t come up often.

While Miku excels in physical activities, she struggles with mental tasks and studying. Despite Makoto’s bests efforts to tutor her, she has a hard time understanding simple topics and doesn’t know what words mean at times, which ends with her mixing up words at times. She also doesn’t understand basic innuendos and doesn’t realize when she uses phrases that can be interpreted in a suggestive way, though her lack of understanding can also be a result of her being innocent and lacking experience as her understanding improves over time.

Miku is also insecure about her body. While she doesn’t mind her tomboyish looks and figure most of the time, she still has a complex about her chest, though unlike Ami, who acts passive-aggressive to those more endowed than her or point out her lack of development, Miku gets furious and verbally assaults those who are more blessed than her. She also gets nervous whenever her hairstyle changes and feels uncomfortable in feminine clothes, like dresses.

Relationships

Sensei

Miku has a friendly relationship with Sensei and immediately tries to recruit him as the new coach of the soccer team, eventually forcing him into the position as he refuses to give her an answer. From time to time, she also persuades him into physical activities, like jogging with her.

As they spend more time together, she slowly develops feelings for him, but while she knows that she likes him a lot, she isn’t sure if she loves him. However, as she has no sexual experience, she’s very nervous around Sensei whenever the conversation is heading in this direction and stops Sensei from moving their relationship further in several cases. After a few incidents where he managed to get closer to her, she decided to not let him advance their relationship any further, as she wants to support Makoto in her love for him, and tried to suppress her feelings for him.

While she managed to suppress her feelings for several months, they still came out on rare occasions and after receiving his gift in No Escape, she was unable to contain them any further and kissed Sensei as her resolve fainted. After confessing to Makoto and getting her permission to explore her feelings, she embraces them and gets closer to Sensei, even being okay with certain forms of physical affection.

Makoto

Makoto is Miku's roommate. Although the two girls don't have much in common, they share a deep friendship, with Miku respecting Makoto as a superior in some cases. Makoto is one of the few people who know about her past and is able to help her with her panic attacks or, in some cases, the aftermath of them.

Miku is aware of Makoto’s feelings for Sensei and knows everything they have done together. She supports their relationship wholeheartedly, knowing that Sensei is an important person in her life and that she needs his affection, and was ready to put her own feelings aside for her, even though her support came with a lot of heartache due to her own feelings.

After what happened during the second Christmas party, they become rivals in love, but their friendship is still as strong as ever and they support each other during hard times.

Karin

Karin is Miku's teammate and serves as her co-captain. Thanks to that, she and Miku share an incredibly strong relationship with each other, centering all their conversations around soccer and the team. Karin is also one of the few people who knows about her past and can handle her panic attacks.

Kirin

Miku's relationship with Kirin shows some ups and downs as Miku respects Kirin as her teammate, but occasionally scolds her for not trying hard enough on practices and for her open flirting with Sensei in front of her.

Sana

Sana and Miku seem to have a friendly relationship as they're seen together during multiple class events. She also likes to play video games with her when Makoto isn't paying attention to her.

Trivia

• Miku was the first character who got permanent and significant change of hairstyle and is the only character so far who got her hair cut multiple times.
• Miku is not really fond of coffee. If she had to drink a coffee, it would require 8 tablespoons of sugar as mentioned by Makoto in Walk in the Park.