Kumi-Kumi

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## Kumi-Kumi / Kumiko Tateno

**Kumi-Kumi** (クミクミ), also known by her real name **Kumiko Tateno** (立野玖美子), is one of the main protagonists of *Magical Girl Raising Project: Black*, *Magical Girl Raising Project: White*, and *Magical Girl Raising Project: Red*.

She is a member of Class 2-F's Group 2 at Umemizaki Middle School and a member of Caspar's Faction.

 Later on, it is revealed that Kumi-Kumi’s original body had secretly been killed during the events of *Black*, after which her mind was transferred into a homunculus clone.

## Appearance

* Kumi-Kumi in *Black*, *White*, and *Red*
* Kumi-Kumi's human form, Kumiko Tateno
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### Human

As a human, Kumiko has very short dark brown hair and wispy bangs. She is described to be tanner than average and was mistaken by Kana as male due to her boyish appearance.

Kumiko has dark eyes, and wears the Umemizaki school uniform. She wears black leggings and wears uwabaki with blue tips.

### Magical Girl

Kumi-Kumi has short blue-grey hair with a purple-pink gradient on the tips that curl in towards her face. She has a fringe bangs. Her eyes are the same color as her hair, with similar gradients. She has a purple eyeshadow on her eyelids. She wears a large hat atop her head with a magenta heart in the middle. Around the heart are small round decorations. She wears large circular red earrings.

Her costume is a black turtleneck dress that reaches above her thighs with puffy sleeves, that of which is decorated with the same small round specks on the sides. The cuffs of her dress are white, as is the bottom. She wears a black studded belt and white gloves. She has tall boots with white at the top, and white and blue at the bottom. She has a blue heart of a similar color on her chest.

Kumi-Kumi wields a pickaxe with many decorations. On the top of the pickaxe itself are words written in kanji, and a white bear underneath. Attached to the back of the pickaxe is a large spiked blue heart. On the front of the pickaxe is a magenta cat mask, and then a beaded white necklace with a magenta Illuminati triangle attached. At the very end of the pickaxe is a heart-shaped magenta nail piercing the wood.

On Kumi-Kumi's back, there is a silver wind-up key in the shape of a heart.

## Personality

Kumi-Kumi is a girl who tends to overthink everything and when she speaks, she takes pauses to choose her words carefully.

## Magic

***Can destroy objects and reassemble them.***

When her pickaxe hit non-living things, it can disassemble them into small cubes. It doesn't work on living things.

Kumi Kumi can combine the destroyed objects to create a new one with the different properties of all the items.

### Special Move(s)

* ***Powered Kumi-Kumi Fortress Mode:*** A piece of armor that stands two meters tall and made from varies leftover components found in the garbage as well as using Classical Lillian's magic. Upon using her magic to rebuilt them, Kumi-Kumi was able to combine them into a wearable suit of armor. However, this armor requires Lillian's magical threads to hold them together. She is able to control and manipulate the joints of the armor as if it's her own. This armor also allows Kumi-Kumi to withstand magical grenades and move flexibly but it isn't invincible.

### Special Item(s)

* ***Kumi-Kumi's Pickaxe:*** Kumi-Kumi's pickaxe that has a magenta heart-shaped needle nailed at the back, a blue heart-shaped with spikes, below it is a magenta cat mask-wearing a necklace with an Illuminati triangle. The top of the pickaxe contains a word written in kanji and a wear bear underneath it.

## Relationships

### Mepis Pheles

Kumi-Kumi and Mepis Pheles are in the same class group. Both of them are also members of the Caspar's Faction.

### Classical Lillian

Kumi-Kumi and Classical Lilian are in the same class group in *Black.* Both of them are also members of the Caspar's Faction.

Despite being members of Group Two, Kumi-Kumi privately looks upon Classical Lillian in an unfavorable manner. Turned off by Chikage's sickly, unkempt appearance, Kumi-Kumi mentally refers to her as a "stage-five clinger", and that her existence is obnoxious. She thinks that if it weren't for them both being in the magical girl class, she'd have never normally befriended somebody like her.

### Thunder General Adelheid

Kumi-Kumi and Thunder General Adelheid are in the same class group.

### Kana

Kumi-Kumi and Kana are in the same class group and Faction. Kumi-Kumi shared her textbook with Kana when the latter did not bring anything to class. Kana mistook Kumi-Kumi for a boy.

### Diko Narakunoin

Kumi-Kumi and Diko Narakunoin are both members of the Caspar's Faction.

## Etymology

### Real Name

* The name **Kumiko** means "beautiful black jewel, nine" (玖) (**ku**), "beautiful" (美) (**mi**) and "child" (子) (**ko**).
* Kumiko's surname **Tateno** means "standing" (立) (**tate**) and "field, wilderness" (野) (**no**).

## Navigation

 Puk's Faction
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 Caspar's Faction
 Members