Kanna (Air)

Kanna, also known as Kannabi no Mikoto, is one of the main characters from the Air series.
== Charactah Account ==
Kanna is a young girl and is one of the last winged beings in history. Kanna was deified out of fear for the awesome power inherent in all of her kind, so from birth, Kanna had been kept in isolated areas away from the general populace.
Not long after meeting Ryuuya and Uraha, Kanna escaped with them in order to find her mother, the only other winged being left. While not knowing much about the outside world, Kanna adamantly took up learning how to juggle in the hope that she would one day be able to show her mother upon their reunion.
As she traveled with her guardians, Kanna began to develop feelings for Ryuuya, and when the party became surrounded by guards, she took to the sky as a diversion after surrounding Ryuuya and Uraha with a protective shield. While in the air, Buddhist monks cast a spell that bound her into a cycle of eternal reincarnation and suffering that Ryuuya fought to break until his death, leaving it up to his descendants to find a way to free Kanna, a cycle which culminated in his descendant, Yukito, and the girl, Misuzu.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Air
* Air in Summer
* Air: The Motion Picture
* Kaginado
* Kaginado Season 2
=== Manga ===
* Air
=== Video Games ===
* Air
== Trivia ==
* In Air: The Movie, the name of Kanna's mother is Yao Bikuni, who according to Japanese folklore, was a woman who accidentally ate the flesh of a mermaid, gaining eternal youth and beauty as the result. "Yao" refers to the fact that she lived for 800 years, and "Bikuni" implies that she was a nun.
* Kanna doesn't like her wings as she has been imprisoned for almost all her life because of them.
* Kanna had never been able to reach but the bottom most tree branches, until the day she died, when she flew up into the sky and tried to protect Uraha and Ryuuya.
* Kanna lived in a shrine deep in the forest until she escaped with Uraha and Ryuya.
* Kanna had never seen the ocean, having been living from shrine to shrine, time after time, never being allowed to leave the grounds of her current residence.
* On the day that Kanna died, Uraha and Ryuya told Kanna their wish for the future, which was to live in a small residence, on an ocean in western Japan. Misuzu Kamio (Kanna's reincarnation) lived by the sea, and her past reincarnation (before Misuzu), that Mrs. Kunisaki (Yukito Kunisaki's mother) knew, always said that she had "wanted to see the ocean".
* In Air: The Movie, Kanna lived in a shrine, which Misuzu and Yukito visited for Misuzu's summer project.
* Kanna never had the chance to grow up, along with all of her reincarnations.
** This is why Misuzu acts rather childish.
* Kanna's curse, passed on by touching her mother, entails that she and the person she becomes attached to will fall ill, neither one surviving.
* Kanna's last order for Ryuya was to "live a long time and be happy".
* "Kannabi" means "Princess Kanna" and "no-Mikoto" is an honorific meaning that the person is worshiped and is applied to heavenly beings (gods).
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kannabi-no-Mikoto at Air Wiki
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