Mayura Otomi (
Later, she becomes the tenth head of the Amawaka House under the name, Mayura Amawaka (天若 繭良 Amawaka Mayura?). She is also the Byakko of the Twelve Guardians, after being admitted by Byakko and later officially succeeded. This makes her the youngest member after Shimon Ikaruga.
Appearance[]
Mayura appears to be of equal height with Rokuro and Benio, and shares a slender figure. However, unlike Benio, she is extremely well-endowed and has F cup breasts, which makes Benio to ask about that (inherited, as both Yukari and Yuzuru are of G cup) and elicit some comedic envy. Mayura's hair fades from blonde to pastel green and she possesses blue eyes. Typically depicted in her school uniform, she later swaps them out for more casual wear. She most resembles her mother, Yukari.
Her appearance does not change after the time skip except she has gotten taller.
Her exorcist costume at Tsuchimikado Island is designed by her relative Yuzuru, which include a skirt with a cape similar to Seigen's.
Four years later, her hair has grown longer, not unlike her father's but untied, and she has become taller but still the same height as Benio.
Background[]
Both lines of Mayura's parents consists powerful exorcists - her father's line is the Amawaka House of Twelve Guardians, and her father Seigen was the third powerful of the Guardians - the highest level of exorcists, while her maternal uncle Satoshi had the qualification to battle with Ikagura House, and grandfather Zenkichi is an executive of Mainland exorcists. Zenkichi's father and grandfather were also exorcists protecting the town.[1] However, like her mother, Mayura did not practice exorcism.
Mayura was conceived in Tsuchimikado Island but born and raised in Mainland. After Rokuro was found by Seigen in Magano, and Seigen was distributed to Mainland to watch Rokuro, she would sometimes come to Hiinatsuki Dormitory with Seigen. After the tragedy, she comforted Rokuro and came to Ryogo to talk about Rokuro.
Personality[]
Mayura is a kind and caring person, as shown when she was afraid of Rokuro becoming an exorcist again for she knew how much he detested it.
Despite being a usually happy person, on the outside, she tends to keep her true feelings bottled up. She also tends to easily get down on herself and negatively compare herself to others. As noted by Rokuro, Benio and her father, Mayura has a habit of saying strange expressions or insults, such as calling Rokuro "Puberty Top Runner" or "Natural Born Cradle Robber". When this habit was mentioned to her, Mayura claims to have no control over it, which surprised Benio who believed she put thought into it.
Mayura is very timid as said by Seigen, her father. Due to her being timid, she is unable to become a "good" exorcist. She was also unable to bring herself to slay Impurities when she first became an exorcist.
However, when she stopped being timid due to Sayo being saved, she became much stronger and braver. As shown she decided to join her father in order to protect Rokuro and Benio.
She is Rokuro's childhood friend and the daughter of his master, Seigen Amawaka and maternal granddaughter of one of his caretakers Zenkichi Otomi. She has had a crush on Rokuro ever since but he was completely unaware of them, mostly due to his past and he considered Mayura as his sibling. She and Rokuro were good friends in the past, as she was the one who supported him after Yuuto Ijika's actions.
Plot[]
At first she is against Rokuro becoming an exorcist again, having seen how broken he was after the incident, she yells at him saying that she does not want to see him in such a sad state ever again. This leads to an argument between Benio Adashino and her concerning Rokuro's safety. He ends the argument between the two when they ask him what he wanted, to which he responds, "If there is something I can protect, I want to protect it." He adds in that even if he died while fighting if it were an atonement to everyone who died, he would be fine with that.
Angry and sad, Mayura leaves the two alone. She, however, left behind her charm, which Benio recognizes its usage to keep impurities from sensing high levels of enchanted powers. Mayura is captured by an impurity but is saved by Rokuro. Afterward, she eventually realizes Exorcism and fighting Impurities is where he belongsAs she is walking home from school, she meets up with her father and they go to a restaurant. After asking about her mother, Seigen asks her how long is she going to call him 'dad' as he is hardly ever around. This prompts her to say that both she and her mom knows the work that Seigen is doing, and she is shown to respect that. Soon, Seigen leaves her with a warning to not get involved with Rokuro anymore as he is "fundamentally different from us".
Powers and Abilities[]
Mayura gains Byakko's powers.
- Spell Power: As both of her parents' line consist powerful exorcists, even untrained she had possibly stronger power than 23-year-old Ryogo Nagitsuji trained since childhood.
- Controls: Her father, Amawaka Seigen, praised her for memorizing long spell enchantments. She can use three enchantments after only two years of training. She has mastered Matoi Kajiri for roughly a week.
- Enchanted Gear: Barriers and spells tend to be what she is best at, to the point that even a Basara level impurity has trouble doing actual damage to her. In addition, she is shown to be capable of casting curses as well, as shown in her fight with Higano.
- Curses: Mayura can resort to curses as a last resort.
- Yatsume no Arakoshizume no Tokoi (八つ目の荒籠鎮めの呪詛 Yatsume no Arakoshizume no Tokoi?, Eight-Stitch Basket Curse): By placing a curse upon an object, the curse will pass to anyone who touches it. The victim would writhe in agony for seven days and seven nights until they cough blood and die. Mayura placed the curse on herself to inflict the curse on Higano when he would touch her.[2]
- Barriers: Mayura can create a variety of barriers for protection or entrapment.
- Spirit Guardian: She gains the spirit of the Byakko from her father and with it a powerful fighting form. Guardian Byakko showed himself when Mayura was fighting against Higano, the 9th Basara and in the process grants her Byakuren Koho (白蓮虎砲 Byakuren Kohō?, "White Lotus, Tiger Cannon"). Here, she gains huge claw-like weapons that covers her entire arm, and attacks by making large slashing attacks, which is capable of slicing apart rocks and the ground itself. Her speed itself seemed to have been boosted as well. However, prior to her training with Shimon Ikaruga, her strength is so weak that she was easily defeated by the strongest male in the Amakawa House, even with the use of the enchanted gear of the white tiger.
Mayura using Matoi Kajiri
- Kozan - Kagutsuchi (虎斬・軻遇突智 Kozan - Kagutsuchi?, "Tiger Slash - Kagutsuchi")[5]
- Kobyaku - Susanoo (虎闢・須佐之男 Kobyaku - Susanoo?, "Tiger Release - Susanoo"): Used when she was battling Subaru Mitejima. Based on the stance, it seems to be slightly similar to Koku Kurikara, her father's one hit kill move. It might be the same attack, except with Mayura's own adjustments to it.[6]
- Koso - Ninigi (虎槍・瓊瓊杵 Kosō - Ninigi?, "Tiger Spear - Jeweled Pestle"): Mayura performs a series of forward thrusts..[7]
- Byakuren Koho Matoi Kajiri (白蓮虎砲 纏神呪 Byakuren Kohō Matoi Kajiri?, "White Lotus Tiger Cannon Mystic Spell Equip"): With Byakko Meikyō-fu (白虎明鏡符? "White Tiger, Clear Mirror-Charm"), Mayura was able to increase her power immensely. Unlike other Twelve Guardians who can maintain Matoi Kajiri for five minutes or longer, she can only maintain it for one minute for now. [8] Her entire body is wrapped in a white exoskeleton with electric-blue veins and grows feline ears on her head. Her arms are smaller than the regular equip, but her claws are even sharper. After the time-skip, she grew to be on equal terms with the other guardians and maintain the enchantment for five minutes or less.
Relationships[]
Seigen Amawaka[]
Seigen is Mayura's father, who left her and her mother behind when she was just a child, and is quite cold to her. Despite this, Mayura still loves him and calls him "Dad" by teasingly stating that she knows he likes being called that, much to his annoyance. Mayura firmly stated to him that she and her mother know the reason that he left in the first place was to protect them from danger and to try not to get them involved in exorcism. Seigen was surprised by her views and could barely say anything to this.
After Seigen leaves the Twelve Guardians, he lives with Mayura and his ex-father-in-law, and after bugging and begging him, teaches Mayura exorcism.
Rokuro Enmado[]
Mayura is Rokuro's childhood friend. She had a crush on him but he was unaware to it. She is very worried at first about Rokuro being an exorcist again but soon accepts it. She also seems to accept Benio's and Rokuro's relationship and them both staying in the same house.
In later chapters, when she sees Rokuro and Benio together always fighting and becoming stronger she feels left behind hopelessly and starts training with Rokuro and Benio in their house on weekends and saying that she won't let Rokuro and Benio have, as she coins often, "illicit sexual relationships". Determined not to get left behind by the them and saddened by her "low resolve", she becomes one of the Twelve Heavenly Commanders while fighting a Basara, seemingly "inheriting" her father's post.
Rokuro sees her as a family-member-like person, as they grew up together, and Mayura is related to Zenkichi and Seigen. He would care for her safety when she became a fallen impurity,
Benio Adashino[]
When Benio turned into her impurity form for her first time, Mayura was shocked and recalled the times, the human Benio was together with her
Mayura first met her as a new classmate sitting nearby, and later accidentally spotted her in her and Rokuro's new house. After she learned about the truth, the two had a heated discussion about Rokuro being an exorcist again. Despite this and the fact that they both like Rokuro, it doesn't get in the way of their newly developed friendship. Later when Mayura was turned into a fallen impurity, Benio, like Rokuro, was determined to save her.
During the two-year time skip, Benio, alongside with Rokuro, helped her with the training to become an exorcist.
In the fight with Hijirimaru and Higano, Mayura gained her power as a Guardian, for the sake of protecting her, Sayo and others. After she was exhausted, Sayo did the identification ceremony to awaken Benio's power. Being the only one who witnessed Benio's impurity form, she was shocked but still thought she was a human.
At the airport, when she and Rokuro were heading to the Tsuchimikado Island, Benio told her she would be strive to regain her power. She seemed pleased and told Benio that this would make her more motivated.
In anime, Mayura was fond of Benio from the very beginning and was the first person Benio opened up to and was her first friend. They share a very strong bond and trust each other completely. Mayura is constantly worried about Benio's well-being whilst she is in Magano and admires her courage.
Shimon Ikaruga[]
Although Shimon displays slightly less interest in Mayura in the manga compared to the anime, their relationship is much more developed. Shimon and Mayura began to realize possible feelings for one another. When they were shipwrecked on an island, the two trained together and even slept next to each other. At one point, Mayura asks if he likes someone. He first says no, but later admits that there might be someone. They are also drawn holding hands and talking to each other on the beach one night in the island. The two seem very friendly, as Shimon encourages Mayura before her battle with Subaru. He also calls her by her first name.
After Mayura's battle, when Subaru finished announcing that Mayura would become her new disciple, Shimon's brother says, "That was close. Is that the girl you like so much?" in which Shimon replies, "Yes, ... it is." After that, his brother notices that it looked like Shimon was feeling down and thought it was because Shimon expected Mayura to win the fight. Very soon, Keiji meets Mayura outside the latter's hospital room and notices they seem eager to talk and leaves out teasing them while Mayura notes on their contrasting attitudes.
Anime[]
Shimon and Mayura's first meeting wasn't the best, as they first met when Mayura walked in on Shimon naked after taking a shower, who then strictly told her to "close the door already." In addition, when Mayura was training alone, he walked in on her unzipping her shirt. She then calls him a "peeping closet pervert."
After he helped her realize why she truly wanted to become an exorcist, he agrees to train with her and teaches her new and fundamental skills, like the Air Fissure Bullet. He is told by Mayura that he has the same teaching style as Seigen, which makes him quite flattered, and Mayura reminds Shimon of himself when he first begged Seigen to teach him.
Shimon seems to be generally interested in Mayura, from the way he behaves to her actions. He also greatly cares about her safety and well-being, as shown in episode 27 when he saves Mayura from an A level serpent impurity, unintentionally carrying her in a princess hold that he himself doesn't notice but Mayura does. This is also shown when he tells her not to strain herself when she casts a charm on her friend to ease the pain. After these events, Shimon asks Mayura to refer to him as simply "Shimon," since it's slightly stifling when she refers to him as "Ikagura-san." Seeing the two working together, Seigen says that they "seemed to be awfully close."
Later, the close relationship between Shimon and Mayura also seemed to be noticed by other characters. In anime episode 33, Rokuro said they seemed "kinda close." After training again, Mayura calls Shimon a "cool red demon drill sergeant" and Haruka said that "the two seem to go well together." After that, Seigen was a little bit upset when he heard what Haruka said. However, it is still unclear if Mayura and Shimon possess such feelings towards each other. In episode 35, Mayura was proudly telling Benio about why Shimon was flying and how amazing he was when he started out as the Twelve Guardians. Benio told Mayura that she knows Shimon pretty well and Mayura blushed while denying it. Also, in episode 37 after training of Rokuro and Benio, Mayura thought in her mind" Almost feels like I'm jealous of the mind and soul sharing newlyweds over here...".
Shizuru Ioroi[]
Shizuru is Mayura's roommate at school. Despite Shizuru's views of mainland exorcists, she is very friendly to Mayura and is usually willing to train with her.
Trivia[]
- In the PS Vita game, Mayura is one of the Candidates for the Twin Star Exorcists.
References[]
- ↑ Tenen Jakko
- ↑ Twin Stars Exorcists Manga; Chapter 27, page 15-16.
- ↑ Twin Stars Exorcists Manga; Chapter 27, page 17-18.
- ↑ Twin Stars Exorcists Manga; Chapter 121, page 42.
- ↑ Twin Stars Exorcists Manga; Chapter 42, page 25.
- ↑ Twin Stars Exorcists Manga; Chapter 42, page 24.
- ↑ Twin Stars Exorcists Manga; Chapter 112, page 23.
- ↑ Shiga Kenbyaku