Maria Sarushima

Maria Sarushima
Kanji	猿島マリア
Characteristics
Gender	Female
Birthday	October 26
Blood Type	B
Professional Status
Class	2-F
Affiliation	Witch (Former) Cheerleading Team (OAD only)
Ability	Premonition

Maria Sarushima (猿島マリア Sarushima Maria) is one of the seven witches in Yamada-kun to Nananin no Majo.

Appearance

Maria is tall and has a slender build with big breasts. She has long, pink hair that she always wears in a ponytail and, like almost all female characters in the series, exposed ears with long locks in front of them.

In her initial appearances away from school, she is usually seen wearing tanktops and shorts, but when she returns to Suzaku High, she wears the standard school uniform.

Other than that, she wears hoop earrings.

Personality

Maria is generally very friendly and easygoing, very rarely shown to be in a bad mood and easily able to talk to anyone. She is physically affectionate towards her friends as she likes to kiss and hug them. She is also shown to have a flirtatious streak, especially towards Yamada as she comes with a few suggestive comments around him and even uses her tongue to kiss him. Due to her flirtatious and friendly personality along with her attractive look, Maria is a relatively popular student. While mostly a positive character, Maria has shown some subtle negative traits: she gave up trying to prevent the fire from occuring at the school and simply shut herself away at home and doesn't ask anyone for help, partly because she didn't think that anyone would believe that she can see the future. Prior to meeting Ryu, Maria has only been shown to use her power for herself only.  

Maria abusing her power for self gain.

Had she never meet Ryu and understanding the negative side of her power, she is likely to be the witch who abuses her power for self gain the most, as shown during the time that her memories of Ryu were erased: she clearly uses her power to gain high score in the exam and alike. By meeting with Ryu, she understands that sometimes the future aren't meant to be see, both in good futures and bad futures, and only use her power to help Ryu and his friends when needed.

History

Sometimes before the story, Maria returned from studying oversea to Suzaki Highschool. She was chosen to be among the six "smartest girls" to be one of the seven witches, in her case, the Premonition Witch. Due to her often kissing her friends and alike for greeting, Maria quickly acknowledged her power and uses it for day by day personal gain: predicting future exam, free period and alike.

However, one day Maria forsaw a terrible tragedy of the old school building being burned down after kissing Kentaro Tsubaki, and that she is blamed as the perpreter alongside Ryu Yamada, an outcast student, with no one believes her words at all. Fearing for this, Maria stopped going to school in order to prevent the event from happening but to no success.

Plot

Futuristic Arc

Many months later, Maria is visited by Ryu Yamada and Toranosuke Miyamura who come to confirm about the fact that she is a witch from Meiko Otsuka, another witch in the same class as her. Although initially only asking them to help her cleanup her house, Maria eventually decides to tell Ryu of the problem after seeing that their meeting must be destined even though she tried to avoid him before. Hearing this, Ryu agrees to help her and ask to kiss her to copy her power. Although a bit shocked, Maria feels very happy and wishs that she can go to school again.

Later, after studying her power and its effect carefully with the help of Meiko, the group come to conclusion that Kentaro Tsubaki is behind the accident at the old school building, with his failed love confession toward Urara being the cause. With Maria being at risk of being expelled, Ryu decides to confront Kentaro to stop him but to no avail. The group decides to stall Kentaro instead by having Ryu in Urara's body lures him far away from the school until the time that the fire breaks out with Maria using her power on Miyabi to see if the future is changed or not. During this time, Maria forsees the worst future with Urara being blamed for arson instead of her or Ryu. Fortunately, Ryu is able to swap body with Kentaro in time to prevent the accident. 

Although happy and grateful to Ryu's help, Maria learns a valuable lesson from this accident to not abuse her power: the future that she sees cannot be controlled and sometimes both good and bad futures aren't meant to be know of.

Winter Break Arc

Maria finds Ryu around the halls, having thought of visiting him. She shows him that she had won a modeling contest, she then leaves with two of her friends, Ryu says that he is impressed with her.

Second Witch War Arc

Maria was asked to help the Student Council experiment on the new witch power they obtained. However she gently refused as she has a photo-shoot for her modeling career.

Former Abilities

Premonition: Maria's witch abilities is Premonition, when Maria kisses another person she can foresee a brief scene in the future. It is noted that the scenes she sees are from the point of view of the person she kissed. However, she cannot control what she could see in the future, for both good and bad one, and that the future itself cannot be changed unless there is another witch power involved in the equation. She lost this power after Yamada wished for all witch powers to disappear from the school.

Appearances in Other Media

OVAs

Second Coming of the Suzaka Fest: A Hot Springs Resort! Everyone Gather Up!

Maria along with the cheerleaders are practicing their cheer as Urara, Ryu and Miyabi are running behind them towards the Supernatural Studies Club room. Later at the School Clubhouse she and the Cheerleading Team decide to use it for their training spot. She then asks them if they're ready to practice their pyramid routine, which they all answers with a yes. Back at Suzaka High while the cheerleaders are practicing, Ryu and Toranosuke ask her if she could help them with their dance for the festival, calling them awesome for doing so. As Toranosuke asks her, she thinks about it until one of her teamates call her, which she responds that she's coming. She apologizes that she can't, as their cheer practice is still going on and that she can't do both. She then says goodbye as she heads to her team. Later the club members are called to the Student Council Office to determine what order the teams will perform in, with Maria selected to pick for her team.

Relationship

Yamada

In Chapter 34, Maria blush when Yamada said to kiss him, and after they kissed, so it seems that she might have a crush on Yamada.

Trivia

• Her name Maria. while a japanese name, is also a western name that means "wished-for child", "beloved", "love", and "star of the sea", referring to her being friendly and popular. While her surname Sarushima means "Island of Monkey", referring to her playful personality.