Yayoi Kanbara

Yayoi Kanbara
Kanji	神原 弥生
Rōmaji	Kanbara Yayoi
Also known as	Yacchan
Description
Race	Spirit World Warrior
Gender	Female
Sign	Pisces
Birthday	March 13th
Age	Ageless
Blood Type	B
Height	160 cm (5' 3")
Professional Status
Personal Status
Relatives	Koji Kanbara (husband;deceased) Akihito Kanbara (son)
Debut
Anime	Episode 02 (hologram) and Mirai-hen (Akihito's room and final scene)
Voice Actors
Japanese	Hiromi Konno
English	Luci Christian

Yayoi Kanbara (神原 弥生 Kanbara Yayoi) is a secondary character in the Kyoukai no Kanata series. She is a Spirit World Warrior and the mother of Akihito Kanbara.

Appearance

Yayoi at first appears to be a young woman with neck-length beige hair and yellow eyes with cat pupils.

She often wears cat-like clothing which consists of a strapless black dress secured with a blue belt, knee-length black boots and a red bow around her neck; the most notable feature of her outfit is the black cat ears on her head and a cat tail with a red ribbon. Her forearms have a gradient shading, which gives them the appearance of cat paws, and she has a blue cat paw tattoo on her left thigh. Later, she appears in other ridiculous outfits from a hamster costume to a huge set of knight armor. 

Her normal attire consists of a beige jacket, pinkish-white hoodie with a star, blue jean shorts, red socks and brown boots.

Personality

Yayoi Kanbara

Yayoi is an energetic young woman with an optimistic personality. Ayaka Shindō describes her as a big-busted mother with "a few screws loose" somewhere between crazy and genius. However, Yayoi also shows a serious side when warning her son about the Calm.

During the last episodes, she becomes more serious and mysterious. In Episode 11, Akihito asks her why she knows where Mirai Kuriyama is and she answers: "Don't you know your mother is Kanbara Yayoi?"

In spite of her unique personality, she is honest about her feelings with respect to her son and whenever he is in danger, she's not afraid to do whatever it takes to keep him safe. It is also shown that she has taken care of her son very well even though she has not always been there for him.

She doesn't believe that the differences between Warriors or Youmu, regardless of who they are, but to simply care about those that you love and be by them even though she herself has not done so. She truly knows that as long as people have love, they can triumph over hate.

History

Most of Yayoi's history is unknown, except for the fact that, at some point in her life, she had conceived Akihito Kanbara with Koji Kanbara.

In the movie, Mirai-hen implies that she's a Youmu and the gatekeeper between the two worlds.

Story

Ultramarine

Yayoi appears as a hologram on a postcard to warn her son, Akihito, to stay away from an extremely dangerous and powerful Youmu called the Hollow Shadow that is approaching the town he resides in.

Mirai-hen

Yayoi appears in Akihito's room and prepares a rice omelet with ketchup. In a flashback scene, she appears to be friends with Mirai Kuriyama's mother and promises to turn her body into a ring after she dies. Yayoi says that she's a gatekeeper between their worlds before later taking it back by saying that "Would you believe me if I said that?"

Abilities

Self-Puppetry

Yayoi is able to create realistic puppets of herself to fool others, as shown when Izumi Nase stabs her - her puppet explodes and Yayoi reappears at the window, unharmed.

Her abilities are unknown in the anime or movie, but she is implied to be very powerful.

Etymology

• The name Yayoi means "spring" (弥生).
• Yayoi's surname Kanbara means "god" (神) (kan) and "field, plain" (原) (hara/bara), which literally means "fields of the gods" altogether.

Trivia

• Akihito Kanbara seems to resemble Yayoi more than her husband.
• Yayoi has implied to be the gatekeeper between the normal world and the Spirit world.
  • However, it's possible she is not telling the truth, as she asks Hiroomi Nase if he'd really believe her if she told him.
• It's unclear if Yayoi's husband is alive or deceased. Though many clips imply that he might be the latter as Yayoi seems to have raised Akihito on her own.