Kanon
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[🇯🇵] カノン
Synopsis:
Changing schools is something Yuuchi is accustomed to, due to his parent's profession, and with their recent venture to Africa, he is returning to his aunt's home after 7 years. The time that has passed since his last visit has faded his memories of the people he knew, and the ties that bonded them to him, including his cousin Nayuki. Slowly those people, coincidently all being girls, find their way back to him. However, time has passed and things have happened in their own lives that sets the tone for the series. Secrets that are coming to surface, and memories that are returning to not only Yuuichi, but to those surrounding him. A very heartwarming tale that touches upon a spectrum of emotions, mystery, and the supernatural.
(Source: ANN)
Main Characters:
Mai Kawasumi
🇯🇵 川澄 舞
Character ID: 319
About Character and Role:
Birth Date: January 29th, 1981. Horoscope: Aquarius Age: 18 Gender: Female Eye Color: Green Hair Color: Dark Blue Height: 167cm Weight: 49kg Three Sizes: 89-58-86 Blood Type: O Description: Mai Kawasumi, amongst the graduating students of Yuuichi's new high school, is a mysterious girl. Due to her disregard for what's considered "normal behavior", she's viewed as a delinquent by her peers. She holds a very close relationship with her fellow senior, Kurata Sayuri, and can usually be seen with her most of the time. Biography (Spoilers): When Mai was still a young girl, her mother fell ill. During this time of despair, Mai discovered a great inherent power; the ability to heal living creatures at will. This power rose her to child fame; however, the townspeople grew to fear her power as it was unusual. As a result, Mai was ostracized by everyone except her mother, and soon they were forced to move to another town. Mai was told that one day she would meet someone who would be able to put aside her powers and become a great friend, and that friend was Yuuichi. However it wasn't long before Yuuichi had to leave the town and return home. This caused Mai grief, and in her desperation she began to fabricate a story about monsters invading their favorite place to play together: a field of wheat. Later, the school was built on that field, and Mai continued to walk those grounds late at night, sword at the ready, fighting off the demons which manifested from her very own powers. In the present day story, Yuuichi first meets Mai in a school corridor at night. It's after then that Yuuichi begins eating lunch with Sayuri and Mai on a regular basis. With Yuuichi and Sayuri's support Mai avoids expulsion from school, between broken windows from her nightly demon hunting and a battle that completely demolishes the school dance. Eventually, Yuuichi would be at Mai's side in her final stand as she raged against the demons for hurting Sayuri, and defeat the malevolence generated by her past. She attempts to take her own life afterward, but fails and ends up recuperating in a hospital with Sayuri. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Ayu Tsukimiya
🇯🇵 月宮 あゆ
Character ID: 250
About Character and Role:
Birth Date: January 7th, 1982 Horoscope: Capricorn Age: 17 Gender: Female Eye Color: Red Hair Color: Brown Height: 154cm Weight: 41kg Three Sizes: 80-52-79 Blood Type: AB Ayu is a rather short, strange, energetic, and a very mysterious girl who literally bumps into Yuuichi early in the story of Kanon. She is easily recognizable by her winged backpack, and her red hairband. Ayu is left handed and loves to eat taiyaki. Ayu often takes out her frustration by using the word " uguu " Seven years before the story begins, she fell out of a tree and hit her head on the last day Yuichi was going to be in town. At first, he believes she died, but Akiko reveals she is in the hospital and has been in a coma for the past seven years. The Ayu Yuichi has been meeting in town is actually an astral projection of herself. Later on in the series, she breaks out of her coma, and gets her hair inadvertently cut too short when she goes to a barber shop, leading him to comment how much she looks like a boy like he did before. Eventually, she falls in love with Yuuichi, whom she was already somewhat attracted to from their interactions as children, and also shares a kiss with him.
Makoto Sawatari
🇯🇵 沢渡 真琴
Character ID: 318
About Character and Role:
Birth Date: January 6 Horoscope: Capricorn Eye Color: blue Hair Color: orange-brown Height: 159cm Weight: 46kg Three Sizes: 81-55-79 Blood Type: Unknown Makoto is a character from the Japanese visual novel Kanon, voiced by Mayumi Iizuka. She is a young girl who attacked Yuuichi Aizawa out-of-the-blue in the middle of town early on in the story. She was then carried back to Yuuichi and Nayuki Minase's house, where she lived as a guest for the remainder of her story. Despite having lost her memories, she remembered what her name was and is sure of is that she holds a grudge against Yuuichi from the past when he visited the city back when he was younger. Makoto's amnesia, or memory loss, is much more severe than Yuuichi's or Ayu Tsukimiya's, but from an entirely different source. When it comes to her opinion on taking in small animals as pets, she feels sad that pets sometimes are abandoned when their owners cannot take care of them. Due to this attitude, it takes her a while to warm up to a stray cat she finds halfway through her story which she later names Piro. Makoto is shown to love Piro very much and will often carry the cat around on her head. From early on, it becomes obvious that Makoto has a mischievous personality, which leads to her performing various pranks. These are done exclusively on Yuichi because of her strong dislike for him, something she constantly reaffirms. Her persistent attempts at pranks on Yuuichi vary in severity, such as simply dropping food on him or once even throwing lit firecrackers in his room. As time passes and Makoto beings to feel more as a member of the Minase family rather than a stranger, she honestly grows to like Yuuichi, effectively looking beyond her latent distaste for him. Makoto can be clueless about things that people her age should know, such as the fact that she can buy her own meat buns and manga; Yuuichi had commented once how she lacked common sense due to a lack of social experience. Like Ayu, she too has an idiosyncratic expression, "auu~", which she says when she is frustrated or sad; likewise, it has no real meaning. Another unique speech pattern of hers is that she always refers to herself in the third person. Near the end of her story, Makoto starts to wear two bells around her right wrist and enjoys the sound they make. Makoto is in fact not a human being but instead a fox that Yuuichi found ten years prior to the beginning of the Kanon story. Yuuichi first found Makoto, then a young fox, injured on Monomi Hill and he took the fox back and kept it in his room for the rest of the summer. One day, Yuuichi tells the fox about an older girl that he had a crush on named Makoto Sawatari, which is where Makoto's name is derived from when the Kanon story is just beginning. At the end of summer break, Yuuichi takes the fox back to the hill, and he runs away soon after releasing her, leading her to be angry with Yuuichi. With her desire to see Yuuichi being so strong, her wish was granted at the cost of her memories and later her life. The two later reunite after the fox transforms into Makoto near the start of Kanon. Makoto dies after her fake marrying with Yuuichi. (Source: Wikipedia)
Shiori Misaka
🇯🇵 美坂 栞
Character ID: 317
About Character and Role:
Birth Date: February 1st, 1983 Horoscope: Aquarius Age: 16 Gender: Female Eye Color: Blue Black Hair Color: Dark Brown Height: 157cm Weight: 43kg Three Sizes: 79-53-80 Blood Type: AB Shiori is a first-year student at the same school Yuuichi attends. She has suffered from an illness since birth and her affliction has caused her to become very physically weak. Usually Shiori is absent from school because of that. Still, she stands almost everyday outside in the snow of the school grounds, wanting to meet someone dear to her. She also likes ice-cream.
Nayuki Minase
🇯🇵 水瀬 名雪
Character ID: 248
About Character and Role:
Birth Date: December 23th, 1982. Horoscope: Capricorn Age: 17 Gender: Female Eye Color: Dark Blue Hair Color: Dark Blue Height: 164cm Weight: 47kg Three Sizes: 83-57-82 Blood Type: B Description: Nayuki Minase is Yuichi's cousin, with whom he moves in with at the beginning of the story. She has always been in love with him (in Japan, such relationships between first cousins are not only acceptable but common) and must learn how to deal with these feelings, especially with the threat that he may fall for one of the other girls. She adores strawberry sundaes, but the mere mention of her mother's "special" homemade jam makes her sick. Nayuki is a heavy sleeper, which has led her to collect dozens of alarm clocks; they do not work on her, but instead wake Yuichi every morning. Since she has such trouble waking up, she is always running for school and is in fact the school's star runner because of this. Similarly, she became the captain of the school's female track team despite being in her second year. She takes a long time to get up in the morning and will pass out several times during the morning before completely waking up. Despite her attempts to stay conscious, she still tends to fall asleep a lot in class. Nayuki has a fondness for animals and never misses an opportunity to try to pet one, even wild animals, such as cats, dogs, or even the occasional fox if she can help it. Unfortunately for her, she is allergic to cats. One of her defining features is that she tends to talk slower than the rest of the characters. She will often state the obvious to Yuichi, such as when lunch break occurs or when school ends. Nayuki is second to Ayu as the most used character in the series' marketing. Also, in both anime adaptations, her story runs at the same time as Ayu's.
Yuuichi Aizawa
🇯🇵 相沢 祐
Character ID: 316
About Character and Role:
Age: 17
Eye Color: Amber
Hair Color: Light Brown
Height: 173cm
Weight: 64kg
Yuuichi Aizawa is the main protagonist of Kanon. He is friendly and outgoing, and though as nice as of a person he is, he has yet to learn the sensitivity of women. He constantly teases the main cast of girls throughout the story which varies in severity depending on the girl. Despite this, he does have a soft side that likens him to an older brother as noted by Shiori Misaka. He used to visit the city in which the story takes place, but his memories of that time are gone, slowly coming back to him as he interacts with the people he met in the past. As noted by himself, he is afraid of heights. While not aware of it at first, Yuichi slowly begins to take notice in the supernatural events occurring within the city. During these times of revelation when he will discover something outrageous, he stays strong with the girls he has made close friendships with. Since Yuichi is a normal person, he tries to help them anyway he can and will usually go out of his way in order to protect one or more of these girls. Eventually, Yuuichi falls in love with and shares a kiss with Ayu.
In the 2006 version of Kanon Yuuichi is voiced by Miwa Yasuda (Japanese) and Shannon Emerick (English) for scenes whichshow him as a younger boy.
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Started On: 31/1/2002
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