Hayari Mizuhara

Hayari Mizuhara
Personal info
Japanese name:	瑞原はやり
Nickname:	Whirlwind
Birthday:	July 13th
Family:	Mizuhara (grandmother) Mitsuki Mizuhara (mother)
Faction:	Oomiya Heartbeats
Location:	Shimane Prefecture
School:	Kitahori Elementary Asakumi Girls' High School
Grade:	Alumnae
Media
Debut:	Saki, round 101
Voiced by:	Yukari Tamura
Mahjong
Style:	Speedy wins
Main skill/ability:	-

Hayari Mizuhara is a color commentator for the inter-high and a professional mahjong player. She is paired with an unnamed announcer. She is an active idol and talks in the third person. Her family owns a bakery.

Appearance

She has long dark hair and wears pig tails on the side with cute clips. She wears a frilly dress and has large breasts. Hayari bases her appearance off of childhood idol Mafuka Kasugai.

Personality

Hayari is an idol with a few personality quirks such as talking in the third person, typing out emoticon instead of words and ending some of her sentences  with "Haya". It is revealed in Shinohayu that she didn't always want to become idol and thought they were odd. She is a very smart person and put aside becoming a researcher to be an idol.

Playing Style / Abilities

Speedy winning hands

Plot

Final Eight Arc

She is formally introduced at the conclusion of the second round of the 71st Inter High answering questions with an unnamed announcer. When asked about her impressions, she mentions that she wouldn't want to face Usuzan High School.

Hayari later appears together with Yoshiko Kainou after Sawaya Shishihara says that they plan to knock her down a notch. When Yoshiko asks her what's wrong, Hayari says that she has a bad premontion.

Saki Achiga Hen episode of side A

Introduction Arc

Hayari was first mentioned as having attempted to recruit Harue Akado into her professional mahjong team instead of coaching the Achiga Girls' Academy mahjong club.

Shinohayu the Dawn of Age

Mizuhara Hayari (18)

Hayari texts some of her friends and tells them to meet her at the mahjong bar Blitz storm. When Harue appears both Hayari and Yoshiko are already at the bar. However, when Sukoya Kokaji arrives with Risa Noyori, she says that Hayari's message was vague and that she should figure and write it out like an adult.

She then says that this is like a class reunion but Yoshiko tells her that they went to different schools. After they all sit down, she then asks everyone to play again like they did during their inter-high semifinals match.

Defeat Arc

Hayari appears during the finals of the 10th children's tournament and loudly greets everyone. After soundly defeating everyone, she thanks them for the game.

Introduction Arc

Hayari is briefly shown in pictures, having won the Matsue Children's Mahjong Tournament the previous year against Kanna Ishitobi. She is later shown in an interview before the start of the next children's tournament.

Children's Tournament Arc

She first appears catching a falling Shino Shiratsuki and asks if she is okay. When Kanna makes it known that she is there, Hayari is immediately surrounded by adoring fans. It is later revealed that she has made it to the finals fo the tournament.

During the game she wins the first hand with a ron off of Shino worth 12,000 pts. She then goes back and forth with Kanna for the lead. She then notices that Kanna and Shino get along well with each other. Hayari then goes on to win the game and her second championship in a row. After the game she approaches Shino and tells her how much fun she had playing against her.

Idol Arc

Hayari is set to perform a mini-concert at a festival and runs into Kanna and Shino's group. After conversing with them for a bit, she thinks back to three years before she was an idol.

Here she visits her sick grandmother in the hospital and buys her pudding. She then awakens to the sound of her grandmother coughing and gets the nurses. She then sits in the hallway and curses herself for falling asleep and wondering if her grandma is going to die. Suddenly she is approached by a women with a blank mahjong tile and then flips it to reveal a chun tile. After seeing Hayari's excited face, the woman walks away. Later, Hayari and her grandma leave the hospital and get something to eat. They then begin to talk about the mysterious women at the hospital and how much it cheered her up. After lunch, they stroll by a concert given by Mafuka. Hayari then says that Mafuka acting like that is weird and adults shouldn't be doing stuff like that and then remembers the woman from the hospital and says that she is way cooler.

While on her way to a piano class, Hayari runs upon an angry man getting rough with a man. She then thinks that if she wants to be cool like the lady from the hospital she should try and stop him. Hayari then yells at the man to stop but he then turns his attention to her. However before he reaches her, Mafuka gets between them and stops the man from harming Hayari. When he leaves, Hayari begins to cry and Mafuka uses the same tile trick as the lady from the hospital to calm her down. After removing her hairpins, Hayari then realizes that she is the same lady in the hospital.

Hayari overhears people talking about Mafuka and how she seemed less energetic at the previous days concert before heading home. She gets there to find Ms. Takahasi heading to the hospital because something was left there and Hayari decides that she'll go and pick it up instead. After retrieving the item, she begins to leave only to see Mafuka's Manager and follows her. She arrives at Mafuka's room and begins chatting with her about various things and says that she's going to give her fresh madeleines. The next day is a rainy day so Hayari puts up a teru-teru-bouzu in Mafuka's room after giving the women her baked goods. She tries to visit the following day, however there is a no visitors sign on Mafuka's door and she says that she has a bad feeling about it. Later that night she gets the idea to cheer Mafuka up and starts studing and practicing, all the while trying to visit her. When she is finally able to visit, Hayari asks how she is feeling and then pulls the same tile trick that Mafuka used to cheer her up. Mafuka then brushes Hayari's hair and gives her her hairpins. She then tells Hayari that she is going away for treatment.

Initially stunned, she then says that it was to bad and that she wanted to Mafuka to taste some more of her baking. She was later shown baking for Mafuka but remembered that she had left. At dinner, her mother told her that a letter had come for her and that she opened it already. She then opens the letter to find concert tickets and an email adress for Mafuka. Hayari announces that she would like to go to her concert and that its a perfect chance for her to give Mafuka the sweets she ordered. After her mother says that it might be to far away, Hayari agrees but says that she can go by herself. Her mother tells her that she will pay for the trip and points out that its in Yokohama. Hayari is then shown baking sweets and texting Mafuka that she is coming to her show.  After arriving in Yokohama and fighting through the crowd, Mafuka's manager appears and takes her to Mafuka. Hayari then gives her the sweets and notices the hospitial bed in the room and wonders if she is still sick. While enjoying the show, Hayari realizes that how hard Mafuka works to make people happy and decides that she wants to be just like her.

After the concert, she attempts to call Mafuka but had no luck. She then went backstage and the guard informs her that everyone has already left. Hayari then boards a train to go home. When she gets there she is greeted by her mother and after telling her how amazing the concert was, went to take a bath. The next day her mother calls her down to mind the store and she goes down to find Mafuka. When Mafuka expresses her sadness about dying, Hayari tries to comfort her by saying that she will be the next tile girl and cheer her up and also not to let her illness beat her. They then part ways with Hayari thinking about how Mafuka worked hard despite her illness to make others happy and goes to the place where she first saw the idols concert.

In the present, a girl is lost before the concert and Hayari appears and does the same tile trick Mafuka showed her. This calms the girl down and her mother finds her. She then performs her concert. Later at her house she tells her mother that she has to win a national students mahjong tournament. Her mom then reminds her that if she wants to be the tile girl that she can't be too sexy and Hayari then wonders about her breasts coming in.

Yue's Arc

Hayari is shown at the national elementary championship with her mother and Mafuka's manager. The match wasn't shown but she was defeated by Uta Mihirogi. After a time skip, she is once again shown at the children's mahjong tournament.

She makes to the final match once again against Kanna, Shino, and newcomer Kyouka. During the match she goes back and forth with Kanna for the lead using her quick hands to pull out front. However, Shino tsumo's after a kan to win the match. Hayari graciously accepts defeat and leaves with her manager.

Girls of Yumachi Arc

Some days after the loss, Hayari speaks with her mother and reflects on her previous losses. She then says that Mafuka managed to make it to the finals of the team tournament and she wishes to make it that far as well. She finally decides to master her speed skills.

The girls call Hayari because there wasn't enough players to play. Being only thirty minutes away, Hayari happily came over and began playing mahjong. Shino notices that Hayari has gotten a lot stronger since the tournament and that her breasts have grown. After defeating everyone handily, the girls see Hayari off. She says that she had a wonderful time and thanks them for inviting her.