Kasumi Momosaki

**Kasumi** **Momosaki** (桃咲 霞, *Momosaki Kasumi*) is a supporting character in *The Island of Giant Insects* and *The Even Bigger Island of Giant Insects*.

## Appearance

Kasumi is an elegant light skinned young woman with thick slightly dark hair that cascades down into loose ringlets and slightly dark eyes. Her thick lashes, petite limbs, slender figure and unblemished skin all says she lives a very pampered life-style.

She wears a slightly dark long sleeved blouse, a dark mini skirt, and dark ankle high heel boots, as well as a slightly dark sun hat she loses after escaping the giant tiger beetle larvae.

## Personality

Due to her wealthy upbringing, Kasumi is extremely spoiled and lazy, often complaining about trivial issues and at one point asking Takeshi Minowa to carry her just because she's tired. She's a major coward and will freeze in place and refuse to move, forcing the others to practically carry her. She's also pretty ungrateful, never thanking her classmates and often snapping at them for taking to long to help her.

After reaching Tatsuno Kami Island, she's gotten braver and more resilient, as shown when she endures being sexually tortured and dropped into a crate full of giant earthworms instead of selling out her friends. She also no longer complains about anything.

## Background

Nothing is known about Kasumi's paste except that she is a 2nd year Houshou Private High School student and her father is extremely wealthy and has strong ties to the school.

## Chronology

### *Kyochuu Rettou*

After washing up on Little East Island after the plane crash, Kasumi met up with Marika Chuujou, Nozomi Aoyama, Emiko Miyazono, Kayo Suzuki, Takeshi, Ryou Usui, and Ms. Nozawa, though Ms. Nozawa would disappear, with Nozomi and Marika claiming she had been killed by an insect.

When Emiko and Kayo returned with Mutsumi Oribe and her group, Kasumi asked if they had brought back any food; Atsushi Kamijo insults Ryou, and Kasumi questions how an idiot like him was still alive. When Marika forces the group to untie Atsushi and Misuzu Jinno, Kasumi asks what they're gonna do with no food, to which Atsushi takes Kazuhiko Kai's backpack and gives it to them. The groups get into an argument over whether or not to go back to the clinic, which is resolved when Atsushi volunteers to scout the path, volunteering Mutsumi and Misuzu as well, with Chitose Naruse joining as well. Marika makes Emiko and Takeshi go with and tells Kasumi to go as well; she questions why, and Marika twists her words to make it seem like she was concerned for Atsushi's safety. During the walk, Kasumi complains about being tired and tells Takeshi to carry her, which he refuses; Misuzu calls her dumb for coming along, and Kasumi says she'll get her dad to expel Misuzu when they get back and Misuzu quips 'if' they get back, which sparks an argument between the two. Chitose and Emiko try to break them up and Misuzu pushes Emiko which attracts the attention of a nest of giant tiger beetle larvae.

One of the larvae grabs Emiko and drags her into its hole. Kasumi freezes from fear and drops to her knees in the middle of the clearing. Chitose is able to carve her way through the larvae and reach Kasumi, who yells at her for not saving her sooner. Chitose then saves Misuzu and the girls make it to the bamboo forest; after two hours, the larvae retreat into their holes, allowing the students to get back to the private house. After a back-and-forth between Mutsumia and Marika, the groups leave for the shrine, which is the highest point on the island.

During the walk, Mutsumi is almost raped by Ryou but is saved by Chitose and Kazuhiko. Kasumi doesn't participate in the subsequent argument; when Ryou gets killed by the giant firefly larvae, Kasumi freezes and thus stays with Mutsumi, Chitose, and Kazuhiko. Mutsumi surrounds herself and the others with Ethyl acetate; the larvae leave, but Mutsumi realizes they're dispersing to hunt other prey, namely their classmates.

Chitose expresses her desire to save the others, which both Kazuhiko and Kasumi refuse. Chitose is able to convince Kazuhiko, but Kasumi refuses to move; Kazuhiko reminds her that the larvae hunt people who are alone and gestures to Ryou's corpse, scaring her into moving as half of the skin on his face had been eaten. While searching for Mami Miura and Ayumi Matsuoka, the quartet are joined by Atsushi, Misuzu and Takeshi, but gets surrounded; Mutsumi is able to trick the larvae into thinking there's danger nearby by mimicking their flashes and creates a circle of ethyl acetate for Kasumi and Mami to stand in while the others fight the larva. When Ayumi dies saving Mami, Kasumi is saddened but doesn't mourn.

Kasumi doesn't do anything noteworthy until the group reaches the shrine, where she makes it to the building when Marika and Mutsumi are captured by the giant atypus karschi; when Chitose tries to rally the others to save Mutsumi, Kasumi refuses because she's tired. When Atsushi starts abusing his power, he orders Kasumi to strip naked and expose her belly or he'll throw her to the insects; when she naturally refuses, Atsushi forces Mami and Kayo to strip her. Before he can do anything to her, the shrine is swarmed by giant anomala cuprea's, one of which digs its mandibles into her back. Following Chitose's instructions, Kasumi washes her body, since the beetles are after the minerals in her sweat. Mutsumi and Kazuhiko are able to ward off the beetles by burning akamatsu, and Kazuhiko reveals there's a ship on the horizon; Kasumi jumps on him in excitement, forgetting she's still naked until he says she and the others should get dressed.

Kasumi doesn't do anything noteworthy until Mutsumi comes up with a plan to lure the giant scolopendria subspinipes away from the Mino so they can use the lifeboat to escape, where she goes with the rest of the girls minus Kayo and Ryoko Shikimori to gather centipedes to burn. Nozomi attempts to kill Mutsumi by knocking her into a pile of giant millipedes, but her plan backfires completely, forcing Mami and Misuzu to take her to the river to dilute the cyanide. Kasumi tells Mutsumi and Chitose that the giant centipede had left, but before the girls can head towards the mountain, a second centipede appears, cornering them. Mutsumi comes up with a plan to lure the centipedes into a crevice, which succeeds. Kasumi doesn't do anything noteworthy until the group successfully escapes the island, where she says she wants to take a shower and questions if instant noodles are better than ramen when Mutsumi says she wants to eat some. Kasumi is saddened when Chitose forlornly reminisces on all their friends who didn't make it off the island. When Pops gets killed by a giant dragonfly, Kasumi panics and tries to run back to the boat, but gets stopped by Chitose.

## Etymology

* The name **Kasumi** means "mist" (霞)
* Kasumi's surname **Momosaki** means "peach" (桃) (**momo**) and "blossom, bloom" (咲) (**saki**)

## Trivia

* Kasumi is one of five students who has yet to appear in the anime. The others are Miki Shirakawa, Nozomi Aoyama, Ryou Usui, and Takeshi Minowa.