The Mashida Twins

Yoshiko and Yoshino Mashida are 1st year students at Phoebelandia Private Academy. They are both members of the Beautification Council.

Appearances
Yoshiko and Yoshino look exactly like each other, making them nearly impossible to tell apart. They both wear their hair in a braid bun and wear the Phoebelandia Private Academy issued uniform: A purple blazer with white trim lining the cuffs and collar, a black button up dress shirt with a white string tie, a black skirt and panty hose in a french cut, and the academy’s issued uniform which is brown loafers with black soles.

Yoshiko
Yoshiko appears friendly and cheerful. But once Yoshiko starts gambling, Yoshiko goes into a crazy state where she almost seems insane. Yoshiko is always sure of her win and seeing people trying to win in the gambles they do with her makes Yoshiko very excited. Everytime Yoshiko gambles, at some point during the game, Yoshiko will burst out into manic laughing because she knows that she will win. That is because Yoshiko was brought up as a child being made to win everything. Yoshiko always knew that things would go her way all the time. Yoshiko never leaves anything to imagination in her gambles and always finds some way to win. Yoshiko is very calculating.

Yoshino
Yoshino’s upbringing led her to being one of the most humble people at Phoebelandia Academy. Yoshino was always made to lose to her older sister, no matter how big of an advantage Yoshino had, it always had to be crushed by her parents or any other relative. Yoshiko was given much more credit than needed for the smallest things. Whenever Yoshino did something big, there was little to no credit to her at all. Yoshino learned humility and jealousy through her sister. Yoshino became friends with 2 girls, Minami Takashima and Ayahi Nishikawa because they were also very humble.

Yoshino & Yoshiko got into fights quite a bit. Their disagreements were always because Yoshiko believed that she deserved more than what was really needed whenever an accomplishment was made. As for Yoshino whenever she made a great accomplishment, it was all down the drain.

Year 1
The Mashida girls are first seen walking into the student council room after the election and introducing themselves. They are noticeably trying to stand out amongst the other new students and trying to impress Lozen Waeyrsshida. They Are Afraid of Her Waeyrsshida points this out, which embarrasses the girls.

Sometime at lunch a few weeks later, Yoshiko is seen spilling her ramen cup, in which Amarante “Toshida” has to clean up. Yoshiko grabs a food box and the girls sit next to Miya Yokohamashida. They ask if they can join the Beautification Council, in which Miya accepts.

Year 2
After Aiko Inshida became the new student council president, Yoshiko & Yoshino did their best to have Aiko put her trust in them. Yoshiko, being the new president of the Beautification Council, was the one to try harder because she saw Aiko everyday. It soon becomes apparent that the twins did indeed catch Aiko’s eye. Although their initial plan was to have Aiko put her trust in Yoshiko & Yoshino, instead Aiko was off-put by the twins’ weird antics.

Yoshino played a game of gin rummy against Kaiya Yamashida over propriety because Kaiya, as a 3rd year student, deemed Yoshino as “below her.” There was $10,000,000 on the line. Kaiya won the game and Yoshino could only pay off half the debt. With no other way to save herself from becoming a housekeeper, Yoshino went to the president of the Traditional Culture Research Club, Amarante Toshida, and asked if she could take $10,000,000 out of the culture club’s coffers. Amarante could not take funds out of the club’s coffers right away, so the two played life or death. Yoshino was trying the best she could before her class came and made her a housekeeper on the spot and cut her beautiful hair into shreds. Yoshino won $600,000.

By the time the game was over, people were already searching for Yoshino to turn her into a housekeeper because she was unable to pay off her debt to Kaiya. It took lots of sneaking around corners to find Yoshiko. The Beautification Council was rich and had lots of money made off of bounties. Yoshiko gave Yoshino enough money to pay off the rest of her debt and everything was fine after that.

Trivia

 * Yoshiko is the older twin.
 * Yoshiko means, “good, virtuous, respectable, auspiciousness (吉) (yoshi), child (子) (ko)”.


 * Yoshino means, “good, virtuous, respectable, auspiciousness (吉) (yoshi), ability (能) (no)


 * Yoshiko and Yoshino refer to themselves as “atashi (あたし)” and refer to others as “anta (あんた)”.
 * Yoshiko and Yoshino refer to their parents as “Kaa-san (母さん)” and “Tou-san (父さん)”.
 * Yoshiko and Yoshino say “Sorry” as “Gomennasai (ごめんあさい)”.