Mai Kawasumi
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Mai Kawasumi (Seiyuu: Yukari Tamura), born in January 29 1981, aged 17-18. Height is 167cm (5'6"). Weight is 49kg (108lbs). Measurements are 89cm - 58cm - 86cm (35" - 23" - 34"). Hair and eye color is dark blue and green respectively. Her mother is voiced by Makiko Mizogami.
Mai Kawasumi (舞 川澄) is a third-year student of the same high school that Yuuichi Aizawa goes to. He met her standing alone in the school building at night, with a sword in her hand. She apparently takes it upon herself to fight and defeat demons at night while the school is deserted. Due to this, she is constantly blamed for accidents because she never denies them, being too sincere to say anything and knowing that no one will believe that there are demons in the school. Her best friend is Sayuri Kurata, the only person besides Yuuichi that does not believe that Mai is a dangerous delinquent. Yuuichi eventually starts bringing her dinner at the school while she is fighting and during these times Mai begins to warm up to Yuuichi.Mai's idiosyncrasy is her unwillingness to carry on conversation or even to merely utter the meekest of responses when addressed. Due to this, and her reputation as someone who causes trouble, she is most often avoided when at school, and is talked to behind her back. This cold side of her is shown to stem from having very little insight on other people's emotions.
Before Mai met Yuuichi or even lived in the town
where the story takes place, Mai was living in another town with her mother who
was admitted into the hospital with a serious illness. It did not look good for
her mother's condition and with her father already gone, Mai would be alone if
anything happened to her mother. Mai's mother (The picture on the left) did not want to see her daughter
cry or be unhappy, so she tried to fight the illness as well as she could but
knew that she was losing to it. Mai loves animals, and her mother told her that
after she got out of the hospital that they could go to the zoo. One day, Mai's
mother lies to Mai and tells her that she is feeling much better today and that
they can go to the zoo if she wants to. Mai is reluctant to listen to what she
is saying, but eventually goes along with it, believing at such a young age that
her mother would not lie to her. They do not get far from the hospital before
Mai's mother has to rest however, and as Mai's mother falls asleep on a bench
outside, Mai starts making a large amount of snow bunnies which are snow balls
formed in the shape of an oval with some leaves attached to the top for ears and
two rocks or berries as eyes. Mai sets these in front of the bench and when
Mai's mother finally awakens, she tells her mother that there is no need to go
all the way to the zoo since they have their own private zoo here to enjoy.
Perhaps due to this small outing, Mai's mother's condition becomes worse and she
is expected to die soon. Mai at the point starts to pray that her mother will be
all right and starts to cry on her mother's hand. Miraculously, Mai's mother
recovers somewhat by the morning and is soon cured of her sickness.
The explanation of this stems for a magical power Mai has within herself. When
she cries, her tears carry incredible healing powers which even has the power to
bring things back from the dead. Soon after, the media finds out about this
power she beholds and Mai appears on television programs showing how her power
works. Before long, Mai starts to get bullied and terrorized from people in town
as being a freak, and Mai's mother decides that it would be best if they moved
away. The town they move to is the town where the story takes place.
Ten years ago, Yuuichi was visiting his aunt
Akiko Minase's house and was living with her and his cousin Nayuki Minase for
the summer break from school. When playing in a field of barley by himself,
Yuuichi comes upon Mai laying down alone in a small clearing the field. For the
rest of the break, Yuuichi and Mai play together in the field, playing hide and
seek which initially gave Mai the advantage because she was shorter than the
barley around her. So as to make it more fair, Yuuichi gets a pair of costume bunny
ears and places them on Mai's head, which makes it all but impossible for her to
hide effectively, but Mai does not mind. When the summer break is coming to a
close and Yuuichi has to go back home, Mai becomes very distraught due to losing
a very close friend only just after meeting with him. Mai makes up the story
that demons has started attacking the field of barley and that she needs his
help to fight them off. Yuuichi tells her that he is sorry but he has no choice
but to go back home. She is indeed not lying to him as she refers the
construction vehicles that has came to demolish the field of barley as monsters.
The place where she and Yuuichi soon disappear, used as land for development.
Yuuichi reunites with Mai again when hei goes to retrieve some notes that he forgot that belonged to Nayuki. He
was coming out of the classroom and spotted Mai in the hallway holding a sword,
though when he tried to ask her what she was doing here, she did not say
anything. After a demon passes by and Mai tries to slay it, it quickly gets away
and when Mai is about to leave, Yuuichi stops her and tries to get something out
of her. Mai finally replies that she is a demon hunter and leaves after that.
When Yuuichi finds her at school the next day, he tries talking with her more
about last night, though she does not say anything. Soon, Sayuri Kurata shows up
whom asks Yuuichi to join them for lunch. Afterwards, it is decided that Yuuichi
will eat lunch with them.
Before long, Yuuichi discovers that Mai
has a bad reputation at school due to the events involving the demons. When she
is fighting them, many windows get broken, which Mai gets blamed for because she
does not deny being involved. This usually leads her to get yelled at a lot by
the principal, though not much is ever done about it. Yuuichi, wanting Mai's
reputation to get better, sees that a ballroom dance is coming up and tells Mai
that they should go to it. Sayuri agrees and manages to borrow some expensive
dresses for herself and Mai while at the same time lending Yuuichi a tuxedo for
the event. When the dance begins, everything is going fine and it seems people
are getting a new look at Mai but soon a demon starts to attack the dance,
destroying many of the windows and dance area. After Sayuri is hurt by the
demon, Mai cannot control her anger and goes to get her sword. She comes back
and starts to fight the monster in front of everyone at the dance. The demon
eventually disappears and Mai's reputation becomes even worse than it was
before. After this, the student council president Kuze tried to get Mai expelled
from school, but after some quick thinking by Jun Kitagawa, she got off the
hook.
A few days later, Sayuri tells Yuuichi that Mai's birthday is coming up and they
decide that a small party between them, including Mai's mother, would be just
fine. After buying some presents and getting the food ready, for Mai's birthday, Sayuri phones the Minase house but finds that
Yuuichi is not there. Knowing that
they might be at school, Sayuri goes there to find them but gets attacked by one
of the demons. After Sayuri is taken to the hospital, Mai tries to commit
suicide but Yuuichi stops her just in time and tells her that if she wants to
end this, that they should go back to the school and destroy the rest of the
monsters. Mai agrees and they go back that same night to finish the job.
Yuuichi soon finds out that Mai has been getting hurt with each successive kill
of the demons in the form of strange black marks appearing on her body. After an
intense battle with the last remaining demons, Yuuichi and Mai manage to destroy
them all and as an act of celebration, Mai asks Yuuichi to go to buy some beef
bowls for them to eat. When he comes back, he discovers
that Mai is no where to be found and suspects that Mai must have wanted him to
leave because there was one more demon left to kill. Upon running into the hall
to find her, Yuuichi is confronted by this demon, though he ultimately sees that
it is not a demon but rather a part of Mai's own power that shows him what
happened before he met with Mai and what happened after they met ten years ago.
Due to Mai's incredible power to heal things, an adverse affect that she created
from this power were the "demons" that she said were attacking the field of
barley ten years ago when Yuuichi was about to leave the town. The reason
that she was getting hurt after destroying them is because she was killing off
parts of her own self. Yuuichi tells her that he came back a year later and went
to the barley field, but couldn't find her. Eventually the high school where
Yuuichi attends was built where that field of barley once was, which is why Mai fought the
demons there. After Yuuichi tries to tell her that it is all over now, Mai stabs
herself with the sword and is about to die.
Just then, a fragment of Mai's own power materializes before Yuuichi in the form
of a young Mai and he reassures her that he will not leave Mai again. Mai's own
power saves her and closes the wound she had just inflicted which saves Mai's
life. Mai's power believes that now she will be able to accept this power that
she has. Before Mai's power leaves sight, she asks Yuuichi to call her by the
name "Hope" (希望). Mai is later taken to the hospital where she shares a
room with Sayuri and tells Yuuichi that she will have to stay out of school until
the spring. When spring comes, Mai is able to graduate high school with Sayuri.
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