Puella Magi Kazumi Magica/Characters

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Kazumi

The main character. An amnesiac girl who can't remember anything about her life before, including her wish. She is a member of the Pleiades Saints. Actually the thirteenth clone of deceased magical girl Michiru Kazusa, stuffed with witch meat.

  • All Your Powers Combined: Because the Saints are pouring their power to her clone to revive her, she can use their power to an extend from its residue such as Umika's barrier and Kaoru's Instant Armor.
  • Amnesiac Hero: Subverted; being a clone, she actually might not have any memories at all. Umika is making them for her.
  • Artificial Human
  • Bad Powers, Good People: Her magic is apparently based on destruction.
    • Makes sense cause she is made out of witch parts
  • Bare Your Midriff: In her Magical Girl costume.
  • Break the Cutie: As the series progresses.
  • Berserk Button: Don't touch Kazumi's bells.
  • Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Kazumi is Beauty.
  • Body Horror: All the failed clones have some kind of it on their person. Kazumi herself turns similar to them after being exposed to the Evil Nut.
  • Cloning Blues: She's a clone of Michiru Kazusa
  • Creepy Cool Crosses: Kazumi's weapon is shaped like a cross.
  • Cute Little Fangs: They tend to show up during her more angsty moments.
  • Cute Witch: Kazumi's magical girl outfit makes her look like one. Ironic, considering the monsters she fights are called witches and the fact that she's basically a witch stuffed in a human body.
  • Expressive Hair: Kazumi's Idiot Hair changes in response to Witches. The non-standard witches, apparently. It also responds to emotions, like making a heart at the end of chapter 3.
  • Expy: Chapter 10 shows that in the past, Kazumi was a heroic magical girl, and saved the Pleiades Saints from a witch's kiss before they became magical girls. When she loses her memories, Kazumi is Locked Out of the Loop because her friends are trying to protect her from the truth of the magical girl system. She has died before, as well, and her friends are attempting to save her from that fate by reviving her over and over again. Basically, she's Madoka.
  • Feminine Women Can Cook
  • Forgot the Call: Kazumi wasn't aware she was a magical girl until she transformed. Possibly subverted; there was nothing to forget.
  • Girl in a Box: In the first chapter.
  • Healing Factor: By transmuting herself with her dead clones, she can regenerates her severed arm and leg. Satomi calls it 'eating'.
  • The Heart
  • Humanoid Abomination: She's a cloned human body stuffed with witch meat.
  • Idiot Hair: Kazumi has one that, according to her, can detect witches! But it fails to detect typical anime-style witches.
  • Important Haircut: Kazumi's long, flowing hair gets quite a trim from her friends in the second chapter. She decides it fits with the 'new Kazumi'.
    • It turns out though that it's not much different from Michiru's hairstyle.
  • Kawaiiko: Kazumi dresses like an elementary student, and acts quite young and innocent.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: The rest of the Pleiades were hiding from Kazumi the origins of witches, but she discovers the truth in chapter 5.
    • And then we find she's still Locked Out of the Loop when the Pleiades attack a magical girl and sever her connection to her Soul Gem. She discovers that truth in chapters 8 and 9. Then there's her true origins...
  • Loss of Identity: To the point where she even refers to herself as a "new" Kazumi. Because she is.
  • Magical Incantation: "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo," though this was only in the scanlation. The original phrase was "Chichinpurin," another food pun.
  • Meaningful Name: Kazumi can be read as "thirteen". In Chapter 13 we find she's the thirteenth Kazumi clone.
  • Mercy Killing: Performs the final blow on Yuuri's witch form. Interestingly, she also did it to share that burden with her friends.
  • Mini-Dress of Power
  • Morality Pet: For the Pleiades...sort of.
  • Naked First Impression: How Souichirou (and the reader, for that matter) is introduced to Kazumi.
  • No Name Given: Until Chapter 13 which reveals that...she technically never had one.
  • Won't Work On Me: It's vaguely implied that Kazumi's powers let her accomplish this. Consider how she reverses her pseudo-witch transformation in Chapter 6, and unfreezes herself in Chapter 8.
  • Parental Abandonment: Justified, she's a clone.
  • Rapunzel Hair: Before her Important Haircut.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Though the "new" Kazumi isn't sinister.
  • Reality Warper: It seems that Kazumi's bell can change reality; in the first chapter, the bomb that was supposedly a real bomb turned into a harmless toy after Kazumi wishes it.
    • Her magic is strong enough that she can turn a witch into a twisted witch/magical girl hybrid.
    • In Chapter 8 Jubey claims her magic is "breaking religious law"/"sacrilege" but then apparently corrects himself and says it's "destruction" - both are Alternate Character Readings of the same word in Japanese. It's implied that the former is more accurate.
  • Sigil Spam: See that symbol on her earring bells? It's also the shape of her Idiot Hair and the top of her witch's hat in magical girl form. And it appears twice on her Soul Gem.
  • Sinister Scythe: in chapter 14.
  • Skewed Priorities: Kazumi has been kidnapped, is recently amnesiac, and is sitting in the kitchen of a man who plans to blow up a mall. What does she focus on? Food.
  • Tomato in the Mirror
  • Tragic Keepsake: Kazumi takes Yuuri/Airi's spoon after her witch form is defeated.
    • Her earring-bells turn out to be one. For her orginal.
  • Vapor Wear: Apparently. If the cover of the first tankobon is to be believed, Kazumi wears nothing beneath that magical girl outfit. That opens the question of how can she wear panties when not wearing her skirt, though. Perhaps they remain in place until the outfit is formed?
  • You Are Number 13.

Umika Misaki

One of Kazumi's friends and a member of the Pleiades Saints. Her wish was to meet an editor who would recognize her writing talent.

Kaoru Maki

One of Kazumi's friends, and a member of the Pleiades Saints. Her wish was to have a healthy body in order to play soccer. This is a lie. Chapter 12 reveals it was actually to help people who were hurt in a match where she lost the use of her legs.

Saki Asami

A member of the Pleiades Saints. Her wish was for her dead sister's flower to bloom forever. She seems to have teleportation magic.

Mirai Wakaba

A member of the Pleiades Saints. Her wish was to have a big museum to hold all her teddy bears.

Satomi Usagi

A member of the Pleaides Saints. Her wish was to speak to animals. She seems to also have some sort of mind control abilities.

Nico Kanna

A member of the Pleiades Saints. Her wish involved "regeneration." This allows her to use magic that resembles Fullmetal Alchemist-style alchemy.

"Yuuri"/Airi Anri

A mysterious magical girl who has a grudge against the Pleiades for the death of the real Yuuri. Her wish was to become the real Yuuri.

Yuuri Asuka

The real Yuuri. Her wish was to cure Airi's life-threatening illness.

Sumire Akane

A magical girl that was attacked by the Pleiades Saints.

Ayase Souju/Luca Souju

A wandering magical girl that collects Soul Gems. She is actually two souls that share the same body; each with their own Soul Gem and magical girl outfit.

Mami Tomoe

Helped out Kazusa Michiru when a witch attacked her on the day of her Grandmother's death. Her appearance in the series also reinforces the connection between Kazumi Magica with Madoka Magica.

Michiru Kazusa

The original Kazumi. Her wish was to spend one last day with her grandmother. She was the one who brought the Pleiades Saints together. She turned into a witch and was killed. The Pleiades Saints have been cloning her using witch meat.

  • And Then Kazumi Was A Witch
  • Big Damn Hero: For the Pleiades when she first meets them. She rescues them from jumping off a bridge and falling to their deaths while under the affects of a witch's kiss.
  • Cloning Blues: After her death.
  • Creepy Cool Crosses:Has the same weapon as Kazumi.
  • Dead Little Sister: Or grandmother in this case - she learned her cooking skills and received her original earring bells from her.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Passed it when she found out that magical girls turned into witches, and became consumed with guilt over dooming her friends to that fate by talking them into contracting.
  • Feminine Women Can Cook
  • Expy: Resembles Clow Reed. They both wished for their loved ones to open their eyes one more time.
  • The Gunslinger: Although she fights with a cross, it's shown that she had a spell that pulls guns out of her hat which she uses to equip the future Pleiades Saints. She likely knows this spell because the first magical girl she met was Mami Tomoe.
  • In-Series Nickname: Kazumi, of course. Taken from her name in Japanese name order: Kazusa Michiru
  • Parental Abandonment / Conveniently an Orphan: Before she became a magical girl she lived alone with her grandmother when she wasn't studying abroad. Later her grandmother died.
  • Posthumous Character
  • Sink or Swim Mentor: Surprisingly, to the rest of the Saints. She might be saved them from jumping to their death, but she deliberately let them fend off the familiars by themselves when they still ordinary humans to test their desire of staying alive a moment after their attempted suicide.
  • Tragic Keepsake: Her original set of earring bells came from her deceased grandmother. She actually lost them, but received another pair from Saki.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: When she first met the girls who would become the Pleiades Saints, she initially doesn't rescue them from the witch's familiars. When they call her on this she asks them why they don't want to be eaten when they were previously trying to commit suicide, showing that they don't really want to die.

Others

Jubey

The "fairy" that contracted with Kazumi and the Pleiades Saints.

Kyubey

A description of the character goes here.

Souichirou Tachibana

The man who released Kazumi from her suitcase after she became amnesiac, and a talented chef.

Misako Ishijima

A policewoman who set Tachibana up to take the fall for a bombing while under the control of an Evil Nut. She became a police officer in order to investigate magical girls after her school friend, a magical girl herself, disappeared.

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