Kyouka Izumi

Kyouka Izumi (泉 鏡花 Izumi Kyōka) is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Doppo Kunikida) of the Bungo Stray Dogs franchise. She is a former assassin of the Port Mafia. After being saved by Atsushi Nakajima from her attempt to commit suicide in the train bombing, she started to redeem herself and give up killing more people. In the aftermath of the Guild War later on, she becomes the newest member of the Armed Detective Agency.
She was voiced by (who voices Emma from The Promised Neverland, Palla Palla/Sailor Pallas from Sailor Moon Eternal, and Hitoka Yachi from Haikyuu!!) in the Japanese version and (who voices Minako Aino/Sailor Venus from Sailor Moon and Asuna Yuuki from Sword Art Online) in the English version. In live-action, she was portrayed by Sakina Kuwae.
==Appearance==
Kyouka Izumi is a 14-year-old girl who has black hair tied with two low twin tails, blue eyes, and pale skin. She wears two flower pins, red kimono with a pattern likely as a sprout with yellow deatejime a kimono belt got nearly tied up, a white stocking, and a Japanese sandal. And she added using the equipment tiny rabbits doll together with a cell phone attached around her neck when her mother gave it to Kyouka.
==History==
Kyouka Izumi once lived a normal life with her parents. Her dad was a former government agent and 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. 
One night, she was playing with a ball by herself, her parents were taking out several assassins that sunk into their home. One of the assassins had the ability to control people with his own blood. They controlled Kyouka's father first and used him to try and kill the young Kyouka. While Kyouka's mother had cut him down with Demon Snow before he could harm Kyouka, soon her mother was put under the same manipulation as well.
Before her death, Kyouka's mother transferred her ability Demon Snow to Kyouka in order to protect her, using a technique she learned from an ability user who can control shadows. However, the attack was sudden, the transfer of Demon Snow was not perfect, so Kyouka's phone is the source to her being able to control her ability.
since that day, the Port Mafia took her in where she met Akutagawa, 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. It was presumably this encounter where Akutagawa found sympathy in Kyouka to give her a meaning to live by killing instead of wishing to die.
A few years later, Kyouka's standing in the street alone, she discovers her target, Osamu Dazai and leave him in Port Mafia's capture Afterward, Kyouka heard Akutagawa say her final mission: to place the bomb on the train. Later on, Kyouka walked around to where the located the train, but she bumped into a boy named Atsushi Nakajima who was carrying Akiko Yosano's shopping bags and ignore him. 
Later on, on the train attacked by Motojirō Kajii, she encounters Atsushi once more, Kyouka attacks Atsushi using Demon Snow and introduces her name to Atsushi and that she likes rabbits and tofu and she dislikes dogs and thunder, she also revealed that she killed 35 people which he is shocked to hear. 
After the battle, he told Kyouka to surrender and tell him where the bomb was, but she said "My name is Kyouka. I killed thirty-five people." again, he noticed the bomb was strapped onto her. She gives Atsushi the detonator to deactivate the bomb, but it is remotely force-activated after Akutagawa notices the button was pushed. Finally breaking from Port Mafia's influence, she attempts to sacrifice herself by jumping off the train with the bomb. Before she jumps, she says "My name is Kyouka. I have killed 35 people. I don't want to kill anymore!". She jumps off the train with the bomb in order sacrifice her life. But suddenly Atsushi jumps and rips off the bomb to save Kyouka from blowing up.
==Personality==
Kyouka is cold, quiet, and emotionless, as she is responsible for killing 35 people during her time in the Port Mafia. Prior to her parents' deaths by Demon Snow, she was a normal girl enjoying a peaceful life with them despite their reputations as assassins behind it. Becoming an orphan with an inherited ability from her mother, Kyouka's moral becomes crooked when she stated herself about deserving to die for committing a terrible crime to kill people. Overcoming the darkness thanks to Atsushi's positive influence, however, she is rather strong-willed and selfless to save others to the point that she is worthy to become part of the Armed Detective Agency. Upon her encounter with Atsushi, Kyouka gradually becomes warmer and leaves her assassin past behind her.
==Gallery==
File:0337 Nakajima Atsushi full.png|Hanging out with Atushi Nakajima
==Trivia==
* She is named after and based around the Japanese author and novelist Kyōka Izumi (1873-1939). Her ability references to his work, “Demon Pond”.
*Like Kouyou Ozaki, her real-life counterpart is masculine. In other words, he's male.
*In reality, Kyōka was the protege of Kōyō Ozaki who admired the latter throughout his entire life, pursuing a career in literature due to Kōyō's Amorous Confessions of Two Nuns. In 1891, Kyōka was taken in as a houseboy in the Ozaki household, where he cleaned the house and performed errands in return for Kōyō's expertise opinions on his manuscripts.
*In the English dub, Kyouka shares the same voice actress as Teruko Okura, a member of the Hunting Dogs. 
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