Sumire Kanzaki

Sumire is the only daughter and heir to the fabulously wealthy Kanzaki family, which has built an empire of industry and other holdings throughout Japan. Highly opinionated, Sumire constantly has to be the center of attention, and thinks that her opinion matters above everyone else's. This leaves her constantly butting heads with Kanna, who has made it her hobby to rain on Sumire's parade, and also does not stand "country bumpkin" people(Which leads also her to treat Sakura in a very rude way at first moments). An extremely talented actress, Sumire fiercely defends her assertion of being the "Top Star" of the Flower Division, which the others have come to accept. Even though she comes off at times like a snobbish prima donna, a stereotypical "poor little defenseless rich girl" she is not. Sumire is a master of the Kanzaki Fujin Ryu style on the Naginata, and is one of the Flower Division's most aggressive fighters. In TV series, although not canon, displayed Sumire as more arrogant and even despiscable persona in some moments(Especially when she realizes Sakura has surprassed her, making Sumire feeling humilliated and passed over). This changes in the penultimate episode when she makes peace with her father.
During a chance visit to Kanzaki Heavy Industries to visit her grandfather when she was younger, the company was working on the development of the Koubu. Regrettably, all the test pilots the Imperial Army had provided proved too weak in spiritual power to move the mecha. When Sumire's massive spiritual energy set off the detectors in the room, she volunteered to try and pilot the prototype Koubu. Succeeding beyond the engineers' wildest expectations, Sumire made the project successful and development was able to proceed on the Koubu for the Capital Defense Program. Given that this is the case, Sumire feels a sense of proprietorship over the rest of the Flower Division; because without her, there would probably be no Koubu for the girls to fight with in the first place.
Some time later, mostly especifically after Sakura Wars 4, her spiritual powers dropped down at critical levels, which forced Sumire to sadly retire* from both stages and battlefield. She did a one last show, being applauded by her fans and also her closest friends. Sumire also acknowledges Sakura as her potential and only successor. This can be saw in her special OVA. Ironically, was that retirement who literally SPARED Sumire's life and changed her destiny forever.
Few time later, Sumire witnessed with horror the disappearance of almost all Combat Revues as a sacrifice to use the Imperial Key to seal a powerful enemy known as The Archdemon over a demonic version of Tokyo(Shadow Tokyo), leaving her with a horrible emotional trauma, although she believes absolutely that Sakura and her other old friends will return alive and well.
During that time, Sumire Kanzaki became the new Imperial Flower Combat Troop manager and then 10 years has passed. Her personality drastically changed as she got older. Unlike her younger self, who was arrogant, conceited and sometimes rude, now she's compassionate, kind, wiser, supportive and a very competent leader, even knowing that the Flower Division is in a critical poor levels. Her aggressive mannerisms are only shown towards her and Imperial Troop Flower Division enemies, as shown during the last chapters of Shin Sakura Wars. Although she's not arrogant and conceited anymore, she still holds proudly her legendary status of "The Top Star", and can be sometimes sarcastic and challenging towards other people. She also admires people who learns how treat(Or even flirt) better ladies, as she shows that in the epilogue dialogue with Kamiyama Seijuro. She treats her new troop and friends as her own family, believing them no matter what problem happens, while still strongly believes that her old friends will return to her, wishing to give them a colossal and unprencended welcome hug.
* - Fun fact: Sumire OVA was supposed to be a commemorative episode in homage to her original japanese voice: Michie Tomizawa, who really has almost retired from full-scale voice acting because of her marriage. A even funnier fact is that although "retired", Michie did returned to some stage shows and then even voicing Sumire again, as a older and 'reformed' woman in the new Shin Sakura Wars.
Category:Female
Category:Wealthy
Category:Jerks
Category:Anti-Heroes
Category:Arrogant
Category:Antagonists