Mayuko Shiraki

Do-Gooder
Full Name	Mayuko Shiraki Mayuko Sohma (marriage name)
Alias(es)	Mayu
Origin	Fruits Basket
Occupation	Teacher
Powers / Skills	Intelligence Teaching
Hobby	No information
Goals	No information
Family	Unnamed mother Unnamed father Hatori Sohma (husband) Kinu Sohma (daughter) Unnamed parents-in-law †
Friends / Allies	Kana Sohma (best friend) Tohru Honda (student) Kyo Sohma (student) Yuki Sohma (student) Saki Hanajima (student) Arisa Uotani (student) Shigure Sohma (ex-boyfriend) Ayame Sohma Hatori Sohma (love interest)
Enemies	None
Type of Hero	In Love Teacher

Mayuko Shiraki is one of supporting characters of Fruits Basket series. She is the love interest of Hatori Sohma.

She is voiced by Hitomi Nabatame in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Anastasia Muñoz in the English version of the anime.

Appearance

Mayu is a young adult woman with a tall and slim build, fair skin, and sharp, light brown eyes. Additionally, she has a beauty-mark under her left eye. She has long, straight, light brown hair with free-falling bangs covering most of her forehead, which she wears in different styles. At school, she keeps it tied into a ponytail at the back. When at home or during other occasions, she keeps her hair down, sometimes with a piece of her hair tied into a bun at the back. It is later seen that towards the end of the series, Mayu cuts her hair to about nape-length.

Personality

She is depicted as generally good-humored but sometimes aggressive—when Kyo attempts to leave class on Valentine's Day, she stops him at the door with a folder in his face and threatens to dye his hair black instead of orange, and once breaks up a fight between Haru and Kyo by dumping a bucket of water over them; she once demanded as a joke that.

Biography

Her parents, who worry about Shiraki being unmarried, run a bookstore where she sometimes helps out.

Shiraki is best friends with Kana, Hatori's former fiancée, and through her met Hatori, Shigure, and Ayame Sohma two years before the series begins. While Shiraki was attracted to Hatori, she was glad that Kana and Hatori were happy together. She dated Shigure for a month before breaking up, partly because Shigure was distant and partly because she was only dating him to alleviate her loneliness. She was at a loss when Kana and Hatori broke up, because Hatori had erased Kana's memory of the engagement. Shiraki still has feelings for Hatori, but resents Shigure's continuing interference in her life, even when it brings her closer to Hatori.

In the final chapter, Shiraki and Hatori are shown as a couple, with Hatori inviting her on an Okinawa vacation.

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Trivia

• She doesn't appear in the 2001 Anime.
• Takaya said in an author's note that Shiraki is "possibly sad" that she is a woman and "secretly insecure of how tall she is," but since Hatori Soma is tall too, they "might look pretty good together as a tall couple."
• Her Japanese Voice Actress, Hitomi Nabatame, also voiced Rokumon in Rin-ne, and Saki in Pokémon.
• Her English Voice Actress, Anastasia Muñoz, also voiced Uwabami in My Hero Academia, Minerva Orland and Elfman Strauss (child) in Fairy Tail, Sucy Manbavaran in Little Witch Academia, Tobias in .hack//Quantum.