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Kirara Hazama is a third-year student in Class 3-E at Kunugigaoka Junior High School, known by the attendance number eighteen. She is a girl of average height with a slender build, black hair styled in distinctive waves, and sharp eyes that contribute to her unsettling presence. Her birthday is May 6, she is fifteen years old, and her blood type is A.
Her personality is profoundly gloomy and cynical, with a deep-seated interest in the darker aspects of human nature, which has earned her the nickname "Darkness of Class E" from her classmate Yuzuki Fuwa. She takes an unusual pleasure in scaring others, a trait she has possessed since childhood when she was known as "Miss Test of Courage, Japan Representative". This love for fear extends to her hobbies, which include reading horror novels, practicing curses, and raising a pet tarantula. Her preferred literature leans towards the macabre, and she once recommended the revenge story "The Count of Monte Cristo" to a fellow student. Kirara is also an accomplished writer, though her scripts, such as her dark adaptation of the Momotaro folktale for a school play, are notably grim and depressing, designed to leave a strong, unsettling impression on the audience.
Despite her intimidating aura and sharp tongue, Kirara is not entirely unfriendly. She has demonstrated a capacity to care for her classmates, such as encouraging Masayoshi Kimura, who also struggles with an unusual name. Her personality is heavily influenced by a stressful home life, particularly her relationship with her mother, whom she describes as having a fairy-tale obsession and being prone to hysterical outbursts. This tension at home led her to believe she could not grow up to be a bright person, despite her name "Kirara" meaning "shining" or "brilliant". In contrast to her mother’s light-colored decor, Kirara has painted her own room entirely black.
Kirara is most often associated with the "Terasaka Group," a collection of students who were initially rebellious and resistant to the idea of assassinating their teacher, Koro-sensei. She considers herself the "tamer" of this "circus," and her friendship with Ryoma Terasaka, Takuya Muramatsu, and Taisei Yoshida began after she ran away from home and they helped her. Her relationship with the overly cheerful Hinano Kurahashi is a unique one; she has admitted that if she stays around Kurahashi for too long, her own "darkness" evaporates to the point where she feels she might starve. She is also known to be logical and holds her own in conversations, often delivering sharp-tongued retorts to her friends' antics.
Her role in the story begins as part of the group resistant to Koro-sensei, but her attitude softens as the teacher actively works to improve the environment and prospects of Class 3-E. During the class's internal "Civil War" over whether to kill or save Koro-sensei, Kirara sided with the "kill" faction. Using her ability to blend into shadows, she moved with a spider-like creepiness to eliminate other students before being taken out by Yuma Isogai. She has shown practical skills, such as achieving the highest score in the school on the first-term home economics exam and ranking third among the girls in a marksmanship test. Her academic strengths lie in literary subjects, where she has placed first in her class, while physical education is a noted weakness.
Ultimately, Kirara experiences quiet but tangible development, gradually opening up to her classmates more as the school year progresses. Her primary motivation remains consistent: a love for books and a desire to be surrounded by them. In the epilogue, set seven years after the main events, she achieves her stated future goal of becoming a librarian, and her overall demeanor has become noticeably warmer and more benevolent.
Her personality is profoundly gloomy and cynical, with a deep-seated interest in the darker aspects of human nature, which has earned her the nickname "Darkness of Class E" from her classmate Yuzuki Fuwa. She takes an unusual pleasure in scaring others, a trait she has possessed since childhood when she was known as "Miss Test of Courage, Japan Representative". This love for fear extends to her hobbies, which include reading horror novels, practicing curses, and raising a pet tarantula. Her preferred literature leans towards the macabre, and she once recommended the revenge story "The Count of Monte Cristo" to a fellow student. Kirara is also an accomplished writer, though her scripts, such as her dark adaptation of the Momotaro folktale for a school play, are notably grim and depressing, designed to leave a strong, unsettling impression on the audience.
Despite her intimidating aura and sharp tongue, Kirara is not entirely unfriendly. She has demonstrated a capacity to care for her classmates, such as encouraging Masayoshi Kimura, who also struggles with an unusual name. Her personality is heavily influenced by a stressful home life, particularly her relationship with her mother, whom she describes as having a fairy-tale obsession and being prone to hysterical outbursts. This tension at home led her to believe she could not grow up to be a bright person, despite her name "Kirara" meaning "shining" or "brilliant". In contrast to her mother’s light-colored decor, Kirara has painted her own room entirely black.
Kirara is most often associated with the "Terasaka Group," a collection of students who were initially rebellious and resistant to the idea of assassinating their teacher, Koro-sensei. She considers herself the "tamer" of this "circus," and her friendship with Ryoma Terasaka, Takuya Muramatsu, and Taisei Yoshida began after she ran away from home and they helped her. Her relationship with the overly cheerful Hinano Kurahashi is a unique one; she has admitted that if she stays around Kurahashi for too long, her own "darkness" evaporates to the point where she feels she might starve. She is also known to be logical and holds her own in conversations, often delivering sharp-tongued retorts to her friends' antics.
Her role in the story begins as part of the group resistant to Koro-sensei, but her attitude softens as the teacher actively works to improve the environment and prospects of Class 3-E. During the class's internal "Civil War" over whether to kill or save Koro-sensei, Kirara sided with the "kill" faction. Using her ability to blend into shadows, she moved with a spider-like creepiness to eliminate other students before being taken out by Yuma Isogai. She has shown practical skills, such as achieving the highest score in the school on the first-term home economics exam and ranking third among the girls in a marksmanship test. Her academic strengths lie in literary subjects, where she has placed first in her class, while physical education is a noted weakness.
Ultimately, Kirara experiences quiet but tangible development, gradually opening up to her classmates more as the school year progresses. Her primary motivation remains consistent: a love for books and a desire to be surrounded by them. In the epilogue, set seven years after the main events, she achieves her stated future goal of becoming a librarian, and her overall demeanor has become noticeably warmer and more benevolent.