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"Because the detective agency is where I truly belong. For the first time, I have something I want to be. So I fight even if it means using something lurking inside of me." |
Kyōka Izumi (
Appearance
Kyōka is a short girl with black[note 1] hair that is tied into two low twin-tails with flower pins and blue eyes, in which a notable trait of hers, much like almost every member of the Port Mafia, is that her eyes used to be very dull. However, after meeting Atsushi Nakajima and being together with the Agency, her eyes have been shown to become clearer.
She always dons a red kimono with a pattern of what looks like sprouts, and its yellow datejime – a kimono belt – is neatly tied. She wears long white socks and sandals; while on her arms, she appears to wear yellow and red wrist pads. In addition, Kyōka carries with herself a tiny rabbit doll, together with her cellphone attached to a necklace.
She shortly wears a maid uniform after being dressed up by the agency members. [4]
During Kyōka's first job at the agency to deliver documents to the judge at the district court, she disguises herself as a worker in order to infiltrate the building when they weren't permitted to enter the premises.[5]
After being arrested by the military police, Kyōka wears a white gown and is chained in an airdrone craft.[2] After the cannibalism, Kyōka wears a long blouse and a skirt during the Agency's celebration.[6]
After the Agency is framed as terrorists, she suddenly wears a white hood suit[7] and changes into a riot gear with black boots and black gloves, originally belonging to the military police.[8]
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Others
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Personality
Kyōka's impassiveness as a Mafia assassin.
While with the Port Mafia, Kyōka's personality is similar to that of a doll. She lacks all emotions[9] and is ruthless when she is ordered to perform a duty.[10][11] However, after she joins the Agency, she tries her best to minimize casualties in their line of work. For example, she practices merely knocking out targets[12] rather than killing them like she used to in the Mafia, which she admitted to be quite tricky.[13]
Kyōka being suspected and questioned by the police.
Nonetheless, Kyōka has a shaky sense of morality, admitting that she is willing to become a criminal or dispose her opponents in order to preserve herself and the Agency,[14][1][12] which is similar to the morality of a lot of her colleagues. She can also be quite vengeful as she was not above killing Ryūnosuke Akutagawa to prove to herself that he was wrong about her, indicating her dark nature can easily take over if the situation calls for it.
Kōyō Ozaki specifically noted how Kyōka, then notoriously dubbed as the Thirty-Five Count Murderess (３５
Kyōka decides to sacrifice herself to protect Yokohama.
Much like Atsushi, she used to believe that she was worth very little and that she deserved to die for her crimes.[16] At a certain point in her life, she was filled with so much self-vengeance that she wished to be destroyed along with her ability.[9] Nevertheless, unlike Atsushi, she does not dwell on her mistakes upon joining the Agency and tries her best to be of use to her comrades, even if it means harming others[17][18][9][12] and even going up against the Mafia for their sake.[19][20] She eventually grows to have a sense of duty towards protecting Yokohama, even choosing to sacrifice her life to save the city towards the end of the Guild war.[21]
Kyōka and Atsushi playing with a claw machine.
Amidst these traits, after being exposed to Atsushi and the real world, Kyōka reverts back to a young teenager. She is easily infatuated with small things and has a need to see everything. For instance, she treats the rabbit plush toy Atsushi got her once with endearment, albeit only momentarily, and has a lot of energy to go all around Yokohama for recreation.[16]
Kyōka's fascination towards candy.
Kyōka also has quite an appetite. She is able to down various bowls of tofu from Tachibana Temple upon being treated by Atsushi and Doppo Kunikida and other desserts afterwards, claiming that she has "another stomach" for such. She also becomes intrigued with crêpes and appears to like it ever since Atsushi bought her one;[16][22] he seems to occasionally buy her one, especially whenever she is down to cheer her up.[5] Moreover, Ranpo Edogawa sometimes shows Kyōka some of his sweets and treats which she becomes fascinated with, though Ranpo ends up eating them instead.[15]
Ability
- Main article: Demon Snow
Kyōka's ability, Demon Snow (
After joining the Agency, this problem was fixed by Yukichi Fukuzawa, which enables her to control her own ability and use it normally. In reality, Kyōka is not the original wielder of Demon Snow but her mother. In order to protect Kyōka, in her last moments, Kyōka's mother transferred her ability Demon Snow to Kyōka, but because of the suddenness at the time, control of the demon was transferred to Kyōka's cell phone instead of Kyōka herself.
| Demon Snow ( | ||
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Manga Debut: | Chapter 7 |
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| Anime Debut: | Episode 8 | |
| Ability: | Materialized Guardian | |
Skills
- Acrobatics: Kyōka has shown immense physical capabilities, making superhuman leaps and slicing people with immense force, even without her ability.
- Sword Play: Kyōka is skilled with a sword.
- Infiltration Skills: As an ex-assassin, Kyōka has excellent infiltration skills. This includes lockpicking doors, disabling security systems,[5] and putting on a disguise.[5][23]
- Memorization: Kyōka is able to memorize an entire list of the military police's wanted criminals and another list of clients that the Agency has bodyguard contracts with, which Atsushi noted took him an entire month to do so.[24] She also has all of Yokohama's roads committed to memory.[25] It also expounds that she has memorized maps and building structures, demonstrated when she names several buildings throughout Yokohama accurately when she went out with Atsushi.[26]
- Driving Skills: Kyōka has shown some exceptional driving skills. [27]
- Anatomy Knowledge: Kyōka appears to have knowledge on human anatomy and physiology, specifically when she threatened to sever Demon Snow's third cervical plexus to subdue it for life if it were a human.[24]
- Acupuncture: Though she mostly used the concept for threatening Mushitarō Oguri to cooperate with her and Atsushi, Kyōka might have some knowledge about the methods of acupuncture.[12]
Background
According to Kōyō, before being an orphan, Kyōka supposedly lived happily with her parents. But ultimately, it was Demon Snow itself who killed them.[28] Her father, after resigning from being a government agent, become a freelancer who worked for the assassinations of several important people. Her mother was, like her, an assassin who wielded the slaughtering ability Demon Snow.
Kyōka witnessing her parents' deaths.
One night, while Kyōka was out playing, several assassins came to try and kill both her mother and father. While all the assassins were quickly killed by the pair, an unknown ability user who could use body possession through blood took control of Kyōka's father first and used him to try and kill the young Kyōka. While Kyōka's mother had cut him down with Demon Snow before he could harm Kyōka, soon her mother was put under manipulation as well.
Before her death, Kyōka's mother transferred her ability Demon Snow to Kyōka in order to protect her, using a technique she had learned from an ability user who could manipulate shadows. However, due to the suddenness of the attack, the transfer of the ability was not perfect and so Kyōka's cell phone, given to her by her mother days before her death, became an intermediary for control of the ability.[24] Since then, the Port Mafia took her in[16] and presumably served under Kōyō as her protege.[5]
Kyōka asks Akutagawa to cut down Demon Snow and herself.
Shortly after joining the Mafia, she sought out Akutagawa after hearing rumors that his ability could cut through anything and begged him with desire in her eyes, to cut down Demon Snow to avenge her parents’ deaths and to then kill her.[9] It was presumably this encounter where Akutagawa found sympathy in Kyōka to give her a meaning to live by killing instead of wishing to die.
Battles
- Main article: List of Battles
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Kyōka Izumi vs. Kōyō Ozaki | Lose |
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Atsushi Nakajima and Kyōka Izumi vs. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Lose |
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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and Kyōka Izumi vs. Kōyō Ozaki | Unsettled (escaped) |
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa vs. Kyōka Izumi | Unsettled (escaped) |
Appearances
- Chapter 7 - Kill A Man and Die Thee Too, Part 1
- Chapter 8 - Kill A Man and Die Thee Too, Part 2
- Chapter 9 - Beauty, Hushed Like a Statue
- Chapter 11 - Back in the Day...
- Chapter 12 - Rashomon and the Tiger
- Chapter 13 - The Rupturous Detective Agency
- Chapter 15 - Constantly Pushed to the Past, Part 1
- Chapter 16 - Constantly Pushed to the Past, Part 2
- Chapter 17 - The First Job
- Chapter 18 - Flowers and Autumn Leaves, Snow and Gold
- Chapter 26 - Will of Tycoon
- Chapter 27 - Upon the Shattering Shores
- Chapter 33 - A White Whale, into the Oceans of Heaven
- Chapter 34 - The Last Tycoon
- Chapter 35 - Rashomon, the Tiger and the Last Tycoon
- Chapter 36 - If I May Lay Down This Burden Today
- Chapter 37 - Closing the Party
- Chapter 43 - Cherrirs!
- Chapter 44 - Fitzgerald Rising
- Chapter 47 - Mutual Destruction, Part 1
- Chapter 48 - Mutual Destruction, Part 2
- Chapter 49 - Mutual Destruction, Part 3
- Chapter 50 - Mutual Destruction, Part 4
- Chapter 53 - Echo, Part 3
- Chapter 56 - The Perfect Murder, The Perfect Killer, Part 3 (cameo)
- Chapter 59 - Dogs Hunt Dogs, Part 1
- Chapter 60 - Dogs Hunt Dogs, Part 2
- Chapter 61 - Dogs Hunt Dogs, Part 3
- Chapter 63 - Enemies of Society
- Chapter 64 - You and I, Children of Sin
- Chapter 67 - The Sadness of Those Without Wings, Part 1
- Chapter 69 - The Escape
- Chapter 70 - The Escape, Part 2
- Chapter 71 - Bungo Hound Dogs, Part 1
- Chapter 72 - Bungo Hound Dogs, Part 2
- Chapter 74 - Skyfall, Part 1
- Chapter 77 - Skyfall, Part 4 (image)
- Chapter 78 - To Threaten God, Part 1
- Chapter 79 - To Threaten God, Part 2
- Chapter 81 - The Strongest Man, Part 2
- Chapter 83.5 - Toward the Complete Answer, Part 2 (picture)
- Chapter 84 - Hero vs. Criminal, Part 1 (image)
Vampire Infection Outbreak Arc
- Chapter 89 - Hero War, Gang War (cover)
- Chapter 91 - At the Detective Agency Anew
- Chapter 92 - At the Portway to the Sky, Part 1 (silhouette)
- Episode 8 - Teaching Them to Kill; Then to Die
- Episode 9 - The Beauty Is Quiet Like a Stone Statue
- Episode 10 - Rashomon and the Tiger
- Episode 11 - First, an Unsuitable Profession for Her / Second, an Ecstatic Detective Agency
- Episode 12 - Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Past
- Episode 17 - Three Companies Conflict
- Episode 19 - Will of Tycoon
- Episode 20 - Though the Mind May Be Wrong
- Episode 22 - Part 1: Poe and Rampo; Part 2: Moby Dick, Swimming in the Sky
- Episode 23 - Rashoumon, the Tiger, and the Last Emperor
- Episode 24 - If I May Shed Away My Burden Now
- Episode 31 - Part 1: Herurisu! / Part 2: Portrait of a Father
- Episode 32 - Fitzgerald Rising
- Episode 33 - The Masked Assassin
- Episode 34 - Cannibalism (Part 1)
- Episode 35 - Cannibalism (Part 2)
- Episode 37 - Echo
- Episode 42 - A Perfect Murder and Murderer (Part 2) (cameo)
- Episode 43 - Tragic Sunday
- Chapter 3 - The White Reaper
- Chapter 10 - Plan
- Chapter 11 - [BEAST Chapter 11
Quotes
- (To Yukichi Fukuzawa) "I am incapable of anything but murder. He told me that himself. And that may be the case, but I wish to prove to myself otherwise."[15]
- (To Atsushi Nakajima) "Because the Detective Agency is where I truly belong. For the first time, I have something I want to be. So I fight even if it means using something lurking inside of me."[1]
- (To Atsushi Nakajima) "Up until now, I've lived without a single ray of light. But today, I realized that I, too, have a choice. If I sacrifice my life to save everyone, I am sure I can pass the entrance exam. I can become an agent. Thus, I have no regrets. […] Thank you… I'm sorry."[21]
- (To Mushitarō Oguri) "[…] I will become whatever it takes to save the Agency."[12]
Etymology
- The name Kyōka means "mirror, looking glass" (鏡) (kyō) and "flower, blossom" (花) (ka).
- Kyōka's surname Izumi means "spring, fountain" (泉).
Namesake
- Main article: Real-life References#Kyōka Izumi
Kyōka Izumi (November 4, 1873 – September 7, 1939)
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Trivia
Kyoka's draft design.
- Kyōka's draft design consists of her wearing a full circle skirt over white blouse. She is also seen wearing a ribbon tie, over the calf white socks and Mary Jane shoes. Unlike the original design where she has two low ponytails, she only has one low ponytail sided to her left side.[30]
- Kyōka shares the same English voice actress as Teruko Ōkura.
Notes
- ↑ Studio BONES changed her hair color to dark blue.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 27.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 33.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Volume 4.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga and Anime: Chapter 13 and Episode 11.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 17.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 53.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 59.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 60.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 49.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 7.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 8.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 69.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 61.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 12.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 13.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 9.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 26.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 27.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 47.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 48.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 36.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 11.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 63.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 43.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs: DEAD APPLE (Film).
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Anime: Episode 9.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs: DEAD APPLE (Film).
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 18.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Volume 3, Author Guide.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Rakugaki Note