An antisocial beauty with a resolute personality. She transfers into Kazuki's class on March 2nd—right before the end of the school year. Immediately upon her arrival, she announces her intent to "break" Kazuki.
Maria is the main female heroine of the Hakomari series. Maria is a box herself. She once met "O" who offered her a box. Her wish was to become a box herself so that she could grant the wishes of other people. Of course her wish could not come free of charge, so every time she uses her box she loses her memories. Her box is able to give people a place where they can be happy, however she knows that this place is only fake, and the happiness is only fake.
Her life first intertwines with Kazuki when she sneaks into Mogi's box that created the recurring classroom. Being a box herself, she is able to keep her memories each recurrence. She spends years searching for the one who has the box and created the recurring classroom. During this time she also spent lots of time obtaining new skills, such as martial arts and how to ride a motorcycle. Eventually, have Kazuki uses the name "Maria," a name she only used in a previous classroom, she determines that Kazuki must own the box because he could remember things. Kazuki however is unsure of whether he owns it himself, and doesn't know how to give the box up even if he wanted to. Maria expresses her intent to break him, and declares war on him. Maria eventually realizes that Kazuki doesn't have the box after Kazuki himself gets run over by the truck and the box doesn't end. She then decides to team up with Kazuki in order to find the real culprit of the box.
After Kazuki "kills" Iroha Shindou to save Maria who was supposedly kidnapped on Oomine's orders, she feels he betrayed her and decides to live not as Maria Otanashi, but as the box Aya Otanashi. She saves Daiya Omine after he gets stabbed by a former follower after he lost his box to Kazuki, but in turn forgets about him and everyone he knows, including Kazuki.
After she watches Kazuki gradually losing his sanity being inside her box, she accepts the death of her sister, Aya Otanashi, and merges with the original zeroth Maria. She takes care of Kazuki after he loses his sanity, until he gradually recovers his mind. They marry each other in the end.
(Source: Baka-Tsuki)
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