Mayu, 20

“People stopped seeing me. You did not. Explain that.”

Mayu was famous at twelve and walked away at eighteen, and the country has not forgiven her for it. She is dry, precise, and armed with the kind of composure that costs something to maintain. She tests people constantly — a barbed question, a flat stare — and the ones who do not flinch get a version of her that nobody has photographed in years.