Maho Yumeno

Maho Yumeno (夢乃 マホ Yumeno Maho) is a second year at Takatoobara Middle School who is best friends with Hiroko Murohashi and junior to Nodoka Haramura and Yuuki Kataoka.

Appearance
Maho has short purple hair with a red ribbon tied on the left side and dark eyes. In most of her appearances she wears the standard Takatoobara Middle School uniform.

Personality
Maho has been shown to be a ditzy girl and usually talks in the third person. She greatly admires Nodoka Haramura and will come to her defense if someone talks bad about her or she will get extremely sad if scolded by her.

Prefectural Tournament Arc
In the anime, Maho and Hiroko Murohashi try to travel to the playing hall but have difficulty getting there. They manage to get there in time to watch Nodoka Haramura's match before they go visit Nodoka and Yuuki Kataoka afterwards. When Yuuki then asks her why didn't she watch her match, Maho tells her that she slept in causing Yuuki to get mad and chase her. She is later seen with Hiroko commenting on the captains match. However in the manga, Maho watches the matches on television with her parents.

Training Camp Arc
Maho and Hiroko Murohashi are invited to the training camp by Hisa Takei. Hisa studied her play records from the intermiddle tournament, and figures that her copying abilities would put fear into Saki and help Mako Someya to learn how to deal with an eternal beginner. Together they have a match with Nodoka and Saki Miyanaga. Maho opens up by copying Yuuki Kataoka's "Taco Power", winning a haneman while first dealer. She then proceeds to copy Nodoka Haramura, playing at extreme speed and defending. Hisa suspects that this is the end of her copying, but is surprised when Maho wins after choosing a bad wait, copying Hisa's ability. Maho then shocks Saki by copying her ability and winning with a Rinshan Kaihou. After this Maho's play becomes weak and she ends up losing the game and the next two as well. Afterwards Nodoka reprimands her for not trying to get better, but Hiroko reveals that she has been studying lots of professionals and is going home late because she is training in the club room.

National Tournament Arc
Maho is shown with Hiroko Murohashi watching the news after the second round matches are complete.

Final Eight Arc
Maho is with Hiroko Murohashi viewing the semi-finals.

Playing Style/Abilities
Maho's ability is to mimic other mahjong player's playing styles, but she can only mimic a specific ability once a day and she otherwise makes a lot of amateur mistakes and a major error at least once per game.

Etymology

 * Maho's surname Yumeno means "dream, vision" (夢) (yume) and "from" (乃) (no).

Trivia

 * Nodoka Haramura is Maho's idol and she has started playing internet mahjong under the name "Super Mahocchi" because of this, but she is really weak.