Matsuri Hinata

Matsuri Hinata is one of the main characters of the Puella Magi Suzune Magica manga.

In the AWA fics, Matsuri is a student at the AWA Academy.

Appearance
Matsuri has a short stature with dark-green hair tied in long braids and two buns on both side of her head and had green eyes. She is currently wearing green sleeveless dress with white collar, green ribbon tie and white designs, dark thigh-high boots with green line and heels, and large black gauntlets with green highlights.

Personality
Matsuri is a very cheerful and optimistic girl, often thinking positively and trying to make friends with others; she also always attempts to talk things out with people rather than fight them, and often attempts to dissuade her friends from fighting with others; for example, stopping Arisa from beating up people and attempting to stop her from challenging Suzune to a duel to the death.

Matsuri is also very forgiving, as seen with Suzune — who killed many magical girls to prevent the births of witches — and Kagari — who crafted a revenge gambit to make Suzune's life miserable, and was indirectly responsible for the deaths of all the magical girls Suzune killed.

Abilities
Matsuri's magic is light-elemental and sight-themed, stemming from her wish to see.

Her gauntlets can shine or shoot bright lights at her opponents; she also possesses the ability to search for others, though she states that this ability is best used as support in battle. Matsuri can use this ability to detect invisible people or see through illusions, as used in the battle with Kagari.

Matsuri also appears to have healing powers; the strength of this ability is unknown.

Trivia

 * Matsuri has a charm of a rabbit head named "Bunny-chan".


 * Matsuri's first name is spelt with the kanji for "jasmine", a type of flower. "Matsuri" can also mean a festival or celebration.


 * Matsuri's last name, Hinata, means "sunny place".
 * Matsuri has a telephone motif. Her hair buns are the handsets, her braids are the code, and the round button on the stomach of her dress is the dial.
 * She has gauntlets as weapons because GAN wanted to put in the "Shining Finger" move from Gundam, but having it performed against humans would leave a pretty nasty impression (it's intended to crush the head of targets, after all), so they dropped the idea.
 * Matsuri is supposed to be the character the audience can either identify with or support/root for the most in volume 3. This likely refers to how Suzune is anti-heroic and Kagari is the antagonist, with Matsuri being the most traditionally heroic of the three.
 * Matsuri speaks in third person in the Japanese text, and is the only Suzune character to do so.