Shizuma Mayuzumi

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Shizuma Mayuzumi
Name
Kanji	黛 静馬
Romaji	Mayuzumi Shizuma
Profile
Age	18
Gender	Male
Birthday	September 28
Hair Color	Pink
Eye Color	Grey
Height	184 cm
Weight	62 kg
Blood Type	A
Personal Status
Status	Senior in High School
Relatives	Asuma Mayuzumi (younger brother)
Affiliations	Saisei Stride Club
Occupation	Vice-Captain Relationer Idol, performance leader
Team	Saisei High School Stride Team
Voice Actor
Japanese Voice	Daisuke Hirakawa
Media
Visual Novel	April 14th
Light Novel	Volume 1, Chapter 2
Anime	Episode 2

Shizuma Mayuzumi (黛 静馬, Mayuzumi Shizuma) is a third year student in Saisei High School and is the stride team's vice-captain as well as relationer. He is voiced by Daisuke Hirakawa.

Appearance

Shizuma is a tall, slender young man with long pink coloured hair and grey eyes. He usually has his hair tied up in a high ponytail with bangs and some strands hanging out from the back.

He wears a red jersey (with the left arm covered in black, Saisei's emblem on the left and "Valentine Records" written in the middle) with a white t-shirt underneath. He wears it with blue pants and shoes.

His school uniform consists of a buttoned black vest over a white dress shirt and red tie. He wears it with the dark red uniform pants and black dress shoes.

When preforming he wears a sleeveless grey jacket with Galaxy Standard's emblem, a black undershirt underneath and grey pants. He also wears one sparkly fingerless glove, black wristbands and a ring.

Personality

Shizuma is the performance leader for Galaxy Standard. He has a gentle and calm personality, always speaking in keigo (the formal version of Japanese grammar). Because of his emotional sensitivity and his careful countenance, he often serves as the mediator for the Saisei team. He does things very carefully and often picks up on other people's slips in focus. While he is usually very level-headed, he can get worked up when his friends or teammates are at risk of being hurt. Because of this, he is generally seen as Saisei's 'mother hen'.

He holds Reiji to high esteem and takes care of mundane tasks (such as schedules) for him, and to others he can give the impression of being Reiji's secretary - something that he doesn't mind. However, due to him always putting Reiji first, he rarely has time for himself.

Skills

Telepathy - Shizuma is a telepath, but not in the conventional sense of the term. He is able to divine other people's emotions and thoughts with focus, and the ease of it increases with familiarity.

Relationer - helped in part by his telepath skills, as well as familiarity with his teammates, Shizuma is acknowledged as one of the best relationers in Japan.

Background

Shizuma and Asuma's father works as a gardener for the Suwa household, and he is close to Reiji's father. As a result, the Mayuzumu children were raised together with him, with Shizuma being the eldest, then Reiji younger by one year, and lastly Asuma being a year younger than him in turn. The three of them are childhood friends. However, Shizuma is closer to Reiji than Asuma, but the younger sibling didn't mind it as much, and the three are still very close till this day.

When the three of them were in primary school, Reiji and Asuma became interested in Stride and started it in middle school. Shizuma joined them for a while, however due to an incident during that period he became incapable of walking temporarily and became wheelchair-bound. We aren't given details on what this incident exactly is, only that Reiji was implicated and was in part the cause. Due to needing to recuperate from the injury, Shizuma stayed back one year in school and ended up in Reiji's cohort.

As a result, Shizuma changed tracks from being a runner to a relationer, which he then went on to excel at. He is part of the Saisei team's seventh and eighth incarnations, serving as performance leader for the eighth incarnation of Galaxy Standard as well as Vice-Captain for the stride team.

Relationships

Asuma Mayuzumi

Despite being siblings, the two do not interact much on screen. Shizuma mostly tells Asuma off for inappropriate public behaviour, but also watches over him discreetly.

Nana Sakurai

Despite being rivals, Shizuma is very supportive of her, and even calms her down on her competitive debut, especially after seeing her fellow runners were having fun competing against each other.

In the visual novel, he doesn't quite like her at first, as her relationship with Reiji could put both of their responsibilities at risk. As an idol, Reiji is not allowed to date, and he also has extra duties on top of it. He acquiesces to teaching Nana about telepathy during their July training camp, at Reiji's request. During August, he calls Nana out and makes her promise not to meet Reiji again, but Reiji goes ahead and contacts her first, leading to no small amount of frustration on Shizuma's part. However, he does warm up to her after she demonstrates her dedication and kindness to her team. By the epilogue, he has acknowledged her as someone whom he thinks is worthy enough for his best friend.

Trivia

• He can drive, and often serves as Reiji's chaffeur.
• He cannot take spicy food and will start sweating a lot if he eats even just a little bit.