Kurumi Tokisaki

Kurumi Tokisaki, also known as Nightmare, Worst Spirit, Spirit of Time and Kurumin, is one of the main characters from the Date A Live series.
== Charactah Account ==
Kurumi is the third Spirit to be encountered in the series and is the most dangerous and lethal Spirit. She is heavily obsessed with Shidou and has the ability to manipulate time. Her codename is Nightmare. She has a split personality: that of a gentle, mysterious high school girl with a slow talking pattern, and that of a psychopathic killer. Kurumi is very aggressive in her actions which makes it harder for Shidou to capture her.
Kurumi can be described a person whose personality is hard to read, possessing a well-polished dislike of humanity that borders on mistrust, something she shared with many Spirits in their debut. She is a skilled actress, capable of putting on the façade of an innocent, curious young girl when she needs to, shown when she registered as a student at the Raizen High School, even speaking in a very polite manner; however, under that mask lies a psychotic woman, prone to fits of insane laughter that possesses no regard for human life, regarding them as a food source to restore her own time, and thus, a disposable commodity. There is a twisted justice behind her methods, however, as the people that she brutally murdered were would-be rapists and animal abusers.
In hindsight, Kurumi possesses some degree of innocence that her psychotic behavior have not entirely ruined; she has a soft spot for small animals and other creatures. She once slaughtered four humans not because she needed to replenish her time, but because they were trying to kill a kitten, this is the closest to a humanizing emotion that she has.
Mana reported that Kurumi is the most dangerous spirit known, who has personally killed over 10,000 people which does not include the spacequake's victims within that statistics. Kurumi used unstated and unexplained methods to personally transfer into Shidou Itsuka's high school and classroom so she can get closer to him. Her purposes and reasons in this transfer are simple; consume Shidou Itsuka, in doing so gain their memories, goals, fears and obsessions. In some non-canon stories, the clone Shido seduced shows some "independent" attitude, almost rebellious, and openly acts lovey-dovey with Shido, which causes troubles to the "main" Kurumi and even leads to confrontation with her.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet
* Date A Bullet: Nightmare or Queen
* Date A Live
* Date A Live II
* Date A Live II: Kurumi Star Festival
* Date A Live III
* Date A Live IV
* Date A Live Movie: Mayuri Judgment
=== Light Novels ===
* Date A Live
* Date A Live Fragments: Date A Bullet
* Date A Live: Encore
=== Manga ===
* Date A Live
* Date A Origami
* Date A Party
=== Video Games ===
* Date A Live Twin Edition: Rio Reincarnation
* Date A Live: Arusu Install
* Date A Live: Ren Dystopia
* Date A Live: Rinne Utopia
* Date A Live: Spirit Pledge
== Trivia ==
* Kurumi has the character "three" in her first name, referring to the third Sephira on Kabbalah's Tree of Life, "Understanding."
* Zafkiel's (Kurumi's Angel) bullet names are derived from Gematria, a system that uses letters from the Hebrew Alphabet to represent numbers. For example, Aleph, the first bullet (from 1 o'clock) represents the first letter. The bullets are numbered from 1 to 12 in this system
* Elohim means "God" in Hebrew.
* Zafkiel's name refers to an archangel. The angel is sometimes equated with Zophiel/Jophiel, but other times considered to be a different angel. Zaphkiel is the "chief of the order of thrones", one of the 9 angels that rule Heaven and also one of, the 7 archangels.
* In the anime, Kurumi appeared in episode 05 as a cameo as a girl holding a red umbrella.
* Kurumi's last name contains the Kanji for "Time" (Toki) and "Coastal Cape" (Saki).
* Kurumi was the first character to be conceptualized, with the initial outline for her character created before even the series.
* The four troublesome Kurumi clones are collectively referred to as the Big Four (Shiten'nou) Kurumi. 
* One of the Big Four Kurumi refers to the group (plus the original) as the Gotoubun no Tokisaki, a reference to the manga Gotoubun no Hanayome. 
* Atlach-Nacha is a spider god from the Cthulhu Mythos.
* Her favorite things are animals, and her least favorite are humans. 
* Tachibana has observed a tendency for her name to be misread as “Kyouzou".
* In the early drafts, Zafkiel was a fork and knife-type Angel to fit Kurumi's theme of eating people.
* As an anthropomorphic disaster, Kurumi represents a mysterious disappearance from being spirited away.
* Kurumi's birthday June 10th is the Anniversary of Time (toki no kinenbi) in Japan. While not a national holiday, it commemorates how the first water clock was set and started working in Japan on June 10, 671.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kurumu Tokisaki at Date A Live Wiki
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