Character	Majima Yoshiki
Appearance	Butterfly’s Poison; Blood Chains
Media	Otome Game
Type	Yandere
Love Interest	Protagonist/ Yuriko Nomiya

Majima Yoshiki is the gardener of Yuriko’s household, and Yuriko’s first crush. Always kind and gentle, little else is known about his past.

SPOILERS AND PERSONAL OPINION

* Note: This story features love between siblings.

Majima’s route is locked until you have completed the others. In the other routes, the story starts with Yuriko’s interaction with the different love interests, including Majima. Majima is portrayed as a kind and faithful servant, gently tending to Yuriko and helping her out. However, tragedy soon fell upon Yuriko on her birthday party that night. Her father was killed, and her mother became bedridden with illness. Her household continued to suffer from debt, and the best way out seems to be for Yuriko to wed into a rich household. As these routes progresses, Yuriko continues to face more tragedies, with differing endings based on the choices she made.

Majima moved into the Nomiya household a few years ago as their gardener. He is excellent at his job. Kind, gentle, and handsome, many servants in the Nomiya household were smitten with him. Yuriko had a crush on him too. When she first met him, she had already felt a sense of familiarity, and developed a subtle liking to him. Little does she know, this man was actually the cause of all of her misfortune.

In Majima’s route, it was revealed that all these misfortunes had been meticulously planned and executed by him. Majima was a child born from the forbidden romance between Shigeko and her older brother. Cast away as a baby to hide the shame and uphold the family reputation, Majima was later adopted by a pair of kind couple. However, Yuriko’s father, Yasuyuki, found out about Majima’s existence and his wife Shigeko’s affair. Madly in love with Shigeko, Yasuyuki could not accept this fact. He was enraged. After searching, he managed to uncover Majima’s whereabouts. He stormed into kind couple’s residence with the intention to kill the love child, but the couple protected him. Majima survived, but the couple died while shielding him.

From then on, Majima was filled with rage. He wanted to seek revenge on Yasuyuki and his household. He pledged to bring terrible misfortune onto Yasuyuki’s entire family. To survive, Majima got involved in drugs dealing businesses in Shanghai, and slowly rose to high positions there. With enough power, he then disguised himself as a gardener to infiltrate the Nomiya household with the plan of destroying it from the inside.

However, when he first met Yuriko, Majima immediately developed an attraction towards her just as she did, unbeknownst to Majima. He knew his half sister resides in the household, and was only mildly curious about her. He did not expect to develop an attraction towards her at first sight. While plotting his revenge on the household, his feelings for Yuriko grew even more, to the point where he began stalling his plans just to stay by Yuriko’s side a little longer. However, all that changed when Yuriko’s birthday party was to be held as an opportunity to find an eligible suitor for her. To Majima, he would rather destroy everything and execute his revenge before her sister has the chance to marry another man.

In other routes, he proceeded with his plan and caused great harm to Yuriko’s family. Here, Majima’s feelings alternated between the desire to destroy the Nomiya family, and his love for Yuriko. In some endings, Majima would show up to capture her unsuccessfully; his exact intentions unknown. In other endings, Majima would keep a broken Yuriko by his side, after sufficient tragedy had befell her.

In Majima’s route, Yuriko decided to confess her love to Majima right before he executes his plan. The insistence of Yuriko made him waver, and caused him to cancelled his revenge plan. Initially, Majima kept on rejecting Yuriko, using their status difference as an excuse even though the real reason was that they were half-siblings.

In the good end, Yuriko’s perseverance won, and Majima decided to accept her feelings. The two of them decided to elope. With Yuriko’s agreement, Majima brought her away from her family despite their fierce disapproval. From then on, they stayed together and enjoyed each other’s company, with Majima and Yuriko as husband and wife. Yuriko knew nothing of Majima’s drug dealing businesses. She will also never know the truth of their relation. Majima will eliminate anyone that reveals the truth to her. He will do anything to keep Yuriko oblivious and protect their happiness.

Straight away you can tell Majima’s importance in the story given how much introduction he was given in the beginning of the story. With his mysterious past, and hinted attraction towards Yuriko, I was really anticipating his route.

I classified Majima as a yandere and not a minor one because his actions were literally what driven the whole plot of the otome game. The reason he kept on stalling his revenge was because of Yuriko; the reason he finally decided to proceed with his revenge was also because he could not stand the thought of Yuriko ending up with someone else. His actions out of jealousy were significant enough to influence major plotlines of multiple routes. As the story progresses, Majima also often make an appearance, either to continue his destruction of the Nomiya family, or to capture Yuriko (although these were very brief scenes). Even outside of his own route, it is clear that Majima has an unhealthy obsession with Yuriko.

I was expecting a lot more development and yandere scenes in Majima’s route, but I was quite disappointed to find that there weren’t as much of these scenes. After playing multiple other routes, including the detective route to figure out the truth, Majima’s route focuses more on Yuriko’s determination to win Majima’s love. The only exciting part in his route was when Majima finally made the decision to accept Yuriko, stormed into the Nomiya family, and half-revealed his true personality to Yuriko’s parents. From that point on, you can tell that Majima is willing to do anything and everything to keep Yuriko by his side and maintain their happiness.

Although the yandere scenes were lacking, I still enjoyed Majima’s route because the story was well-written and very different from the usual otome game plot. It was also more realistic that the good ending involves Majima hiding the truth from Yuriko forever, since Yuriko probably would not be able to live happily with it in mind. In a sense, it is a sort of morbid happiness that they live in.