Aira Shiratori

**Aira Shiratori** (白鳥 愛羅, *Shiratori Aira*?) is one of the main characters of the manga series *Dandadan*.

She is a former popular student at the same high school as Momo Ayase and Okarun who serves as one of their main allies whenever the two are faced with the paranormal.

## Appearance

Aira is a young girl with short purple hair that mostly frames the left side of her face and grayish brown color eyes. She is recognized as being very attractive by the boys at her school, which she is aware of and greatly takes great pride in.

Her common attire is her school uniform; a dark buttoned up blazer with her school emblem located around the left breast, a collared shirt, a bow, a dark short skirt, long socks, and sandals. She also wears a long sleeve sweater that varies underneath her blazer.

### Gallery

Aira in her school uniform during the Acrobatic Silky Arc.Aira in her school uniform during the Serpo Arc.Aira in her school uniform during the Kaiju Arc.
## Personality

Because of her beauty, Aira acts arrogant inside her head and puts on a facade for the boys at her school by acting sweet and innocent, while also being perceived as a dunce. She relishes at the sight of the boys falling for her charms whenever she walks through the halls and believes that her mere presence is enough to make them live another day. Aira is also shown to be vicious, as she tried spreading a nasty rumor anonymously around her school about Momo after their first confrontation.

Initially, Aira developed a chuunibyou-like personality after discovering one of Okarun's kintama. She was convinced that her ability to see the supernatural after coming into contact with the ball that she believed was sent down from heaven and her beauty (which she viewed as being the most important aspect) was a sign that she was chosen to protect the world from evil. She accused Momo of being a demon and her enemy after seeing her use her psychic powers, which she called her "demon wings", to drop a tub on her head and made it her mission to defeat her. This personality of hers was soon lost by the time she agreed to help keep Jiji from swapping places with the Evil Eye.

When it comes to romance, Aira admits that she has a hard time understanding how to go about expressing her feelings towards someone she likes. After developing feelings for Okarun, Aira turned towards reading her father's "magazines" in order to confess to him, only to fail after she tried to forcefully kiss him.

## Abilities and Powers

### Supernatural Abilities

After being transferred Acrobatic Silky's aura, Aira subsequently inherited the yokai's powers as a result. When choosing to access Acrobatic Silky's powers, Aira enters a form where her hair increases in volume and gains a mask that resembles the yokai's face; covering all the way down to her neck while leaving her left eye exposed.

Such feats Aira can achieve in this state include running along walls and making flips. With this ability, Aira has proven herself to be an opponent that is difficult to hit. After awakening this power, Aira could effortlessly dodge every one of Mr. Mantis Shrimp's strong punches and was even quick on her feet to jump out of the way of a Serpo's invisible psychokinetic attack (though only after being hit by it once). Against the Music Room Portraits, Aira was capable of evading every single explosive musical note aimed towards her while having less traction running on an illusionary terrain casted by the tulpas. According to the Turbo-Granny's rhythm analysis, the renown speedy yokai determined that Aira can perform four different actions in a single beat with her speed, which is comparable to that of the Evil Eye's.

The hair is very strong and prehensile, as it can lift people or heavy objects, such as cars, and bind targets. What range limit, if any, there may be for her elongated hair is not known.

Aira uses this power for combat. While relying on her enhanced leg strength to execute strong kicks that are coupled with her acrobatic movement, Aira uses the malleability of her hair to reinforce this fighting style and to grab her enemies. Once entangled by her hair, Aira can choose to pull her opponents towards her to close the distance and attack or pull herself towards them to build up enough force behind her kicks. Other purposes include restraining or blinding her enemies, hurling objects at them, or to cover ground by latching onto large constructs and swinging herself to a desire location. All these capabilities make Aira out to be a formidable hand-to-hand combatant.
If choosing to retreat after being at a disadvantage, Aira uses her hair as a diversion by covering herself and her surrounding area, concealing her plan to escape and leave the battlefield unnoticed, along with any nearby allies.

After being informed about the Power of Words and Spiral Power from Momo and Okarun, Aira began utilizing these two abilities in conjunction with her yokai powers to improve her offense. Using Spiral Power, Aira shapes her hair into drills around her legs to pierce through her opponents and penetrate tough material, such as suits of armor. The hair drill legs also help to give her further reach. With the Power of Words, Aira is able to execute even stronger attacks with her hair manipulation.

## Etymology

* The name **Aira** means "love, affection" (愛) (**ai**) and "lightweight fabric, gauze, thin silk, Rome" (羅) (**ra**).
* Aira's surname **Shiratori** means "swan" (白鳥).