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Tsumugi "Mugi" Kotobuki is one of the main characters from the K-On! anime and manga.
The soft-spoken keyboardist who frequently provides tea and sweets in the middle of band practice. Hailing from a very wealthy family with a large business empire, she takes great delight in the more mundane aspects of middle-class life, being so separated from it normally. Extremely kind, she's always willing to use the resources she's been blessed with to help the club.
In the AWA fics, Tsumugi is a student at the AWA Academy and is part of Class 9.
In the XP4 fics, Tsumugi debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - Welcome to Herowood.
Appearance[]
Mugi has long, wavy blonde hair, sapphire-blue eyes, and a very fair complexion absent from the other girls of HTT. She also has thick yellow-brown eyebrows that remind Yui of pickled radishes. Skirts over pants. High society lady styles, such as elegant one piece dresses.
She wears her Sakuragaoka uniform consists of a navy blue blazer, a solid white buttoned shirt (under the blazer), a colored ribbon (different colors for different student years, Mugi's year is light blue), a light steel blue skirt, stockings or socks (Mugi's are white), and maroon shoes.
Personality[]
Tsumugi, who often goes by "Mugi", is the keyboardist of Ho-kago Tea Time. Mugi is a wealthy girl who has a sweet and gentle personality. She has been considered a piano prodigy since she was four, and has won many piano recital contests. As the daughter of a company president, Mugi and her family own several villas in various places around Japan (and even one in Finland, much to Ritsu, Azusa and Ui's surprise when they tried to contact her at home). She often brings sweets and confectioneries to her friends, which usually ends up distracting them from practicing. The tea set and the tea which they drink often are unusually high in price. Although she is a sweet and gentle girl, she is often entranced by the sight of two girls interacting closely together, sometimes imagining something more risque. She originally intended to join the choir club, but after Ritsu's false flashback of promising to start a band and seeing Ritsu and Mio's silly interaction, she decided to join the Light Music Club instead. Mugi displays a rebellious streak occasionally, due to her wanting to deviate from her wealthy nature, and diverts from a well-behaved and mature demeanor to the surprise of others. She also has a habit of getting a little too enthusiastic about experiencing new things that the others take for granted (such as ordering fast food, eating yakisoba at a festival, and purposely provoking Mio to hit her), since she has little opportunity to experience them with her high status.
Despite being wealthy, she tried her hand at a part-time job at a fast-food restaurant. While a lot of things do not bother her, she is fairly conscious about her weight (just like Mio), and she gets a bit anxious when her family's staff start spoiling her friends during villa visits.
Another characteristic that distinguishes Mugi from most girls her age is her surprisingly prodigious physical strength. Her astounding feats of strength include rapidly carrying various pieces of Ritsu's drum set, one by one, with seemingly little effort and even humming a happy tune throughout; abruptly defeating the arm wrestling machine on maximum setting at the Game Centre, which Ritsu had painfully struggled against; and sending Akira flying into a wall with a "light" slap. Furthermore, she regularly runs a brisk jog with her instrument, the Korg Triton Synthesizer, slung across her shoulder. (The Korg Triton is a hefty piece of equipment: at seventeen kilograms, its weight is comparable to that of a FIM-92 Stinger Missile or FGM-148 Javelin Missile Launcher. Additionally, she did not tire or slow down while dragging thirty kilograms of luggage and carrying her Triton Synthesiser over her shoulder, as the band was running to catch a Taxi to London Heathrow Airport.
XP4 Fanfics[]
Tsumugi is part of the Heroes Coalitions as a trainee. She also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Welcome to Herowood[]
In Chapter 1, Tsumugi, alongside everyone, arrives at the RoosterTeeth Hotel in Herowood. She, alongside Azusa Nakano, Mio Akiyama, Ritsu Tainaka and Yui Hirasawa, met up with New Day Jose and Regan Bladeworks and later witnessed the confrontation between Yui and Robin Rose but are shocked when the two kissed and revealed themselves to be a couple.
In Chapter 12, Tsumugi is amongst the performers in the Royal Musical Gala at the Majestic Dome of Herowood.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Neo-City Diaries[]
In Chapter 61, Tsumugi is amongst the students present inside the music room of the Vanguard Academy.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Date A Live[]
In the Epilogue, Tsumugi is amongst the students present inside the Vanguard Academy.
DreamTheater Intermix: The World Within[]
Tsumugi is a student in the City Saints Academy.
Biography[]
In Chapter 14, Tsumugi, alongside Ushio Makunouchi, Coco Kiryu, Azusa Nakano, Mio Akiyama, Ritsu Tainaka and Yui Hirasawa, are seen inside a bus while waiting to stop at their destination while being creeped out at the same time by the Bus Driver. After the Bus Driver drops them off in front of the City Saints Academy's surface appearance, they came across Sunset Shimmer whom proceeds to explain everything. After getting themselves registered, they entered the building and are greeted by the sight of the school's true appearance, much to their awe and shock.
In Chapter 15, Tsumugi, alongside Ushio Makunouchi, Coco Kiryu, Azusa Nakano, Mio Akiyama, Ritsu Tainaka and Yui Hirasawa, are seen being shown around the City Saint's Academy by Sunset Shimmer while coming across Dan Mandel and Chris Pearson along the way. Later, Tsumugi and the girls then came across Dash Baxter, Chicken, Kwan Phan, Rudolph "Lightning" Jackson, Scott Wallis and Gary Smith and the boys tried to flirt with the new girls, she then witnessed Ushio, Coco and Ritsu attacking the boys.
In Chapter 16, Tsumugi, alongside Azusa Nakano, Mio Akiyama, Sunset Shimmer and Yui Hirasawa, watches Coco Kiryu, Ritsu Tainaka & Ushio Makunouchi beats up Dash Baxter, Chicken, Kwan Phan, Rudolph "Lightning" Jackson, Scott Wallis & Gary Smith when Edd Gould, Tom Ridgewell, Matt Hargreaves, Tenma Daytona Romeoford, Eddward "Edd & Double D" Marion Vicente, Edwin "Ed" Horace Hall, Rolf Von Olsson, Sally Bollywood, Doowee McAdam, Shizuka Kasagi, Eddy Skipper McGee & Cody Emmett Jameson Anderson arrives and after Dash & his goons ran off when they saw Eddy, everyone made their way towards the Sugarcube Corner while getting to know each other at the same time. Upon arriving at the cafe, they saw Dan Mandel, Chris Pearson & Pinkie Pie having a conversation at the counter and they were later shocked when it was revealed that Dan and Eddy are cousins.
In Chapter 17, Tsumugi is present inside the Sugarcube Corner where she witnessed Eddy Skipper McGee and Dan Mandel beating-up each other alongside the two knocking out Tenma Daytona Romeoford. After Pinkie Pie stopped them with Dan & Chris Pearson leaving the cafe, Tsumugi and the rest got themselves some cupcakes and went separate ways. After their tour concluded, Tsumugi and the rest settled themselves inside the Corona House.
In Chapter 21, Tsumugi, alongside Azusa Nakano, Mio Akiyama, Ritsu Tainaka and Yui Hirasawa, are seen joining Doowee McAdam, Eddward "Edd & Double D" Marion Vicente, Edwin "Ed" Horace Hall, Rolf Von Olsson and Sally Bollywood at their table inside the cafeteria of the Corona House. Later, they witnessed Yui Yuigahama leaving the place after realizing that she was assigned to guide the new students, much to their concern and confusion.
In Chapter 22, Tsumugi, alongside Azusa Nakano, Mio Akiyama, Ritsu Tainaka and Yui Hirasawa, were mentioned to have remained in the cafeteria after Doowee McAdam, Eddward "Edd & Double D" Marion Vicente, Edwin "Ed" Horace Hall, Rolf Von Olsson and Sally Bollywood left. Tsumugi and the girls later met up Ushio Makunouchi and Coco Kiryu when they left the cafeteria.
In Chapter 25, Tsumugi, alongside Azusa Nakano, Mio Akiyama, Ritsu Tainaka and Yui Hirasawa, ran out of the Corona House and made their way towards the location of a live event in hope of getting to the front rows.
In Chapter 26, Tsumugi is referred to by Hidenori Tabata.
Abilities[]
AWA Fanfics[]
Tsumugi is an Eccentric and she had the ability to use her keyboard as a weapon.
Trivia[]
- Her keyboard is a 76-Key version of the Korg Triton Extreme, which is now discontinued. It is a very heavy instrument, as noted below.
- Her surname is taken from former P-Model keyboardist Hikaru Kotobuki. Mugi's last name also has the same pronuciation as her voice actor Minako Kotobuki, but is written with different kanji.
- The kanji of Tsumugi's given name refers to pongee - soft, thin cloth woven from raw silk.
- Although Mugi does not like to flaunt the fact that her family is wealthy, it becomes rather obvious at certain points, and always to the shock of her friends. Her butler answers the phone when Ritsu calls her at home once and informs her that Mugi is on an overseas trip in Finland. Mugi's father owns the music shop that she and her friends frequently visit, so the workers there are always very courteous to her, and greet her using her proper title of "Lady Tsumugi". As a result, they offer her and her friends large discounts or free service. However, upon entering university, Mugi decided that she wouldn't depend on her wealth anymore and told her parents that the only thing she needed them to pay for would be her tuition.
- At one point, Akira bluntly points out that the girls of HTT might be friends with Mugi because they're after her money, making Mugi cry. Yui and Mio later reassure her that they're friends regardless of money, and then immediately afterwards show excitement over some sweets she brought for them. Mio remarks that they're not after her money, but her sweets.
- Mugi sometimes has to use the sweets and beverages she brings to manipulate the others (especially Yui) into doing club activities they would normally be lazy to do.
- Mugi is apparently very strong, as in the anime she is seen carrying loads of heavy equipment without breaking a sweat, including her Triton Extreme, which weighs 16.9kg / 37.26 pounds. She also knocked Akira over with a "light strike".
- In the AWA fics, Tsumugi became Ringo from Flash Drive's girlfriend.
- In the AWA fics, Tsumugi is friends with Kaguya Shinomiya and Chika Fujiwara, due to their families being connected to business.
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