Muramasa Senju

Muramasa Senju or Hana Umezono is a light novel author who is also a devoted fan of Masamune Izumi. Muramasa has black hair (colored purple in the manga) cut short to around her jawline, called a "bob cut." Her eyes are colored lavender. She has a slender figure with large breasts. She is always seen in a kimono or yukata and classical obi sandals. She carries a small satchel tied to her waist on the back that carries her notebook, pencils, and other writing materials. Her fingers on her right hand are constantly bandaged from constantly writing to the point of hurting herself. During her trip to Taiwan, she is wearing a sun-dress and carried around a parasol. As a novelist, she has no interest in trying to please the readers when writing her novels; only herself. So much so that she doesn't even bother naming her novels, leaving that to the editorial department. When an idea pops into her head, she immediately starts writing and blocks out her surroundings until she is done, regardless of place or time. She has no regard for the other novel writers, regardless of who they are, believing them to be boring and not worth remembering. It's suspected that she was invited to travel to places like Taiwan for her work, but she has no recollection of any such invitations. This is most evident with Elf Yamada as she doesn't even remember her name despite meeting her several times and muttered under her breath how Elf's book, "Bakuen no Dark Elf" was boring. The only writer she ever acknowledges is Izumi Masamune. Her dream is to write as many novels as she can that are "the most interesting in the world" and read them herself. Muramasa is a huge fan of Masamune's works and was very upset when she learned he was switching his battle genre to a romantic comedy. On their first meeting, she acted cold and cruel to Masamune's dream, hoping to spur Masamune back to writing battle light novel. After both sides have learned of each other's circumstances, she dropped her cruel act and revealed to not only be in love with his work, but in love with him as a person. Despite being turned down, it seems Muramasa has not given up Masamune. She is constantly at odds with Elf, whom she considers a love rival for Masamune'a affections. Despite her constantly uninterested appearance, she is actually very shy and girly. She doesn't like wearing bikinis, feeling it exposes too much skin. She is very upfront in her desires to get closer to Masamune, being one of the rare few times she will smile at him. Muramasa doesn't trust Elf and is often irritated or angered by Elf's advancements towards him.