Magical Girls Explained By Silver~Chan

#57: Kanae Yukino

Hello everyone today we are going to get rock and delinquent-style with another friend of Yachiyo Nanami in the past who sadly passed away, being a minor character of the main story, you should already know who she is, it's Kanae Yukino so let's get started talking about her information.

(General Info)

Kanae Yukino is a 16 year old balance type magical girl, her eye color is purple and her hair is light blonde, she is 159 cm in height.

Kanae's soul gem is a Red crucifix shaped gem with elaborate gold framing located on her right shoulder in her magical girl form as a shoulder accessory, her weapon to attack and fight is an Iron pipe that resembles a Japanese smoking pipe.

Her witch and Doppel form is Gibdaughter, her wish to become a magical girl was to erase a gang from existence and to erase them quickly; "I wished to erase this slimy leech's whole syndicate from reality. Immediately...".

She comes from Sakae Ward in Kamihama City, and attends Sakae General School.

Her Magical girl element is the Dark Element, and her ability is Ignore Armor (Direct damage to the inside by ignoring defense).

(Summary)

Kanae was always quiet and kind since she was a child; however, as she grew older, bad characters flocked to her due to her severe expression. Not one to back down, she found herself in fights every day. After discovering music, she started playing the guitar.

(Gibdaughter Info)

The Doppel of resonance. Its form is a hummingbird. The master of this emotion is fond of her Doppel's body, which reverberates well. The Doppel aligns the pitch of its singing voice to resonate with any physical object until it shatters. It is also likely to use its voice to oscillate the brains of organisms, then use high frequency sound waves to vibrate its beak, with which it pierces the hearts of its victims with great precision.

(Side Story)

Kanae has the face of a thug thus she grew up being harassed by actual thugs and got into fights. She became a Magical Girl because a thug from a local gang targeted her after losing a fight. He took her only friend Kohai as hostage and intended to ravage them as revenge. Kyubey gave the bait and Kanae took it since there was no other way. Her wish was that she wanted the eradication of the thug's gang. He had just joined another one.

She distanced herself from Kohai and chased after the thug when she caught wind of him appearing again. She barged into Kanagi's territory and they got into a fight since Kanagi thought Kanae was a poacher. Their fight led them to Yachiyo's territory and she and Mifuyu intervened. At this time, Kanagi and Yachiyo are not acquaintances. Both sides explained their reasons and accepted mediation from Yachiyo. Kanae passes out from her injuries.

She is nursed back to health at Yachiyo's home. It seems Kanagi left a grief seed to heal Kanae as a form of apology. She was being overly aggressive since her territory has been plagued by poachers recently.

Yachiyo introduced Kanae as a friend who has run away from home. Yachiyo's grandmother is a kind and loving elderly lady who warmed Kanae's heart.

After being nursed to health, Kanae wanted to go back to see Yachiyo's grandmother again but cannot find a reason to. Yachiyo finds her loitering around her place and knowingly invites her home. She also informs her that grandma is worried for her as well. Kanae took the offer after some considerations and thus began her life at Nanami's.

Kanae joined the team of Yachiyo and Mifuyu and bonded together with them. Grandma was always there with a listening ear and Kanae is comfortable spilling all her worries out. Grandma's advice is she should lose the frowning face since it attracts the same company and give more thought on what she wants than how people look at her. Slowly, Kanae changed for the better. She took up music so she could express herself, joining the K-on club and taking rock. She gets along well with the members and has a good time.

Sometime later, she is returning home with two of her bandmates, excited about practicing at a studio and bid each other goodbye. Mifuyu arrives and informs Kanae about a witch nearby when they hear a scream. Mifuyu sees two girls with musical instruments being carried off in a black van, and Kanae chases after it.

She found her friends at the same place where Kohai was once held hostage. It was the same thug, and she knocked her out easily this time round. Mifuyu arrives and notes that the thug was kissed by the witch, and Kanae decides to call the cops to send the girls home and arrest the thug. The girls were no longer afraid of Kanae after this.

Mifuyu informs Kanae that grandma is hospitalized and Yachiyo is there with her. After some thought, Kanae decides to hunt the witch to prevent it from hurting others instead, leaving grandma under Yachiyo's care. Mifuyu joins her and they are able to nail down the witch's location.

However, the witch is too strong and they are having trouble defeating it. Yachiyo arrives just in time, informing the two that grandma is alright and affirmed by the doctor.

They make short work of the witch and rush back to the hospital. Grandma is happy that she is surrounded by the kind girls and hopes that they will be there when it is time for her funeral.

Back in the present, Kanae's ghost apologizes to grandma for going first.

However, Kanae has no regrets since she chose to give her life willingly, and thanked the Nanami's and Mifuyu for giving her the chance to change into a better person.

It ends with Kanae's voiced line: "Nice to see that you are well, Yachiyo".

(Abilities)

Kanae's Ability is a bit hard to understand; it's called "Ignore Armor" it seems from what's known of the ability to transfer damage and Ignoring her defense.

(Etymology)

Her first name "Kanae" means "love, affection" while the last name "Yukino" means "Snow" and "Field"

(3 Facts about Kanae Yukino)

Fact #1: Her illustrator is NOCO

Fact #2: The name of her Doppel is a pun on guitar marker Gibson Brands, Its design is a reference to the very popular model of acoustic guitar, the Gibson Hummingbird.

Fact #3: Her Japanese VA is Nanako Mori who you may known as Akira Kenjō aka Cure Chocolat in KiraKira Precure a la mode, Yukiko Shirato in The Megalobox series and The japanese voice of Arlecchino in Genshin Impact.

She has a English VA who is listed as Abby Trott a famous voice actor for both anime and america cartoon media you may know Abby Trott by these roles; Veronica Liones in The Seven Deadly Sins, Yukina in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, and Ivy in Carmen Sandiego the 2019 series.

(Ending)

And that's Kanae Yukino, Next time we are going to talk about a non-japanese magical girl....not this has nothing to do with Puella Histora or Tart and her crew we are not there to talk about them yet, she was made for the North American Servers of Magia Record before they shut down, but transfer to the Japanese servers so she remains playable that being Ashley Taylor so see you next time~Bye!