Maho Sawabe

Maho Sawabe is one of the main characters of the K-ON! Shuffle manga.

Character
Maho is together with her old school friend Karin Shimada, a member of the Basketball Club. Knowledgeable about the sport, she serves in a similar role to a coach when she's not playing.

She is classmates with Yukari Sakuma and Kaede Shimizu, sitting in-between the two childhood friends. Due to her proximity to them and acknowledging their presence, she is dragged into joining the Light Music Appreciation Society with them, where she is assigned the guitar.

She is competitive towards Kaede and tends to forget that Yukari is the top student of their year.

Maho often struggles with her confidence as she has a tendency to overthink situations.

As the guitar is the main focus of the band, she expresses doubt about potentially holding the band back before agreeing to stay in the society.

Appearance
A beautiful girl w/ brown hair and light brown eyes. She usually ties her hair in a similar fashion as w/ Riko Sakurauchi of Love Live Sunshine. She wears the standard high school uniform.

Trivia

 * Her surname is taken from the Japanese solo project pop band Skirt band founder Wataru Sawabe (澤部渡)
 * She has a crush on Kaede and sometimes gets aggressive to others. For example she got angry when she thought Kaede and Kano were in a relationship just because they live near each other & visit often. Also when Risa started to change Kaede's hair
 * Her guitar closely resembles a PRS SE Custom 24 QM Limited Edition in Black Cherry, both in looks and price.
 * Likes to leave picked plums for last