Naraku Mamiya

**Naraku Mamiya** (間宮 奈落 *Mamiya Naraku*) is one of the two exclusive characters in the Limited Edition and Steam Version of the Kandagawa Jet Girls game.

## Appearance

Mamiya has shoulder-length silver hair that has almost animal-like as it sticks out at the sides and trails with curled in bangs at the sides with long bangs over the forehead and magenta eyes.

### Casual

Like Kamui Kurenai, Naraku does not have a casual attire. In the PS4 video game front cover of Racing Hearts Edition, Naraku was depicted in a blue sports bra and a grey jumpsuit.

### Racing

Her racing attire is a navy blue bodysuit with blue stripes design with green neon lights, several silver clips and fingerless gloves The suit is see through at the front exposing cleavage and her stomach as well as part of her left leg at the hip and inner thigh. Her left hip and inner thigh, along with her right shoulder, is completely exposed. Black straps run over the top of her hips, implying she's wearing a thong underneath. Her footwear is of thigh high boots matching the color of her suit. With silver kneepads and matching buckles and joints on the ankles. The boots appear to form part of the bodysuit but from how they are clipped onto the rest of her attire they could be a separate part.

## Personality

Naraku is an expressionless girl who speaks robotically without emotion, but she rarely says a lot who often gives opponents back-handed nicknames of insults, but seemingly not an any malicious way.

In the anime she constantly feels sleepy and can even fall asleep during a race. Her aim is extremely good, as long as she doesn’t fall asleep. This personality trait is not showcased in the videogame.

She deeply cares for Kamui Kurenai, staying with her even on Kurenai's insane quest to plunge others in despair. Trying her best to convince Kurenai of other options and opinions, asking blunt questions to force Kurenai to think. Staying with her even when Kurenai told her to leave.

## Background

Mamiya is from the Kagurazaka Technical High School, which she attends together with Kamui Kurenai. She is in 2nd year of high school.

However, she and Kurenai are actually 'owned' by a mysterious, unnamed "Organization" and have been "since birth" according to Kurenai's admission. The Organization have sent them across the word in search of 'red orbs' to collect.

The girls travel the world together in search of these mysterious red orbs/pearls. They found it at their current school and transferred there just in order to mine it out. One day, Kurenai coincidentally discovered Jet Racing and got engrossed, so she remodeled her mining machine into a jet. Mamiya joined her as a jet racing teammate.

## Videogame

Mamiya and Kamui Kurenai race as Grindcore. Their story arc begins with the Organization dismissing them, with the implication they would have Grindcore killed in the future. With only jet racing left in Kamui Kurenai's life, Kurenai embarks on a mission to defeat every other racing team in the hopes to plunge their lives into dispair from losing. Mamiya, despite attempts to reason with her teammate, agrees to aid Kurenai.

Along the way, she tries to reason with Kurenai, provoking her teammate to think with blunt questioning. This only serves to further make Kurenai furious, especially when the losses only make the other teams more determined to defeat them. In particular the Kandagawa Jet Girls and Dress who both become the lead rivals to Grindcore even after defeating them both again.

The story continues in the final 'To A Brighter Future' story. Dress finally defeat Grindcore, and Kurenai is forced to see the truths of how fun jet racing is and that there's more to the races than wins and losses. Mamiya also confesses that she deeply cares for Kurenai which is why she stayed with her to carry out the mission. After a showcase race losing to Kandagawa Jet Girls, Kurenai vows to find Grindcore a new home somewhere in the world together. Mamiya stays with her on the new journey and the other teams vow to support them wherever they are.

## Team

* Team: Grindcore
* Jet: Lavcar Mark IV
* Teammate: Kamui Kurenai

Kurenai made the team's jet by herself. It's the only jet without a manufacturer, created by the team's member.

## Etymology

* The name **Naraku** means "abyss, hell, Hades, theater basement" (奈落).
* Naraku's surname **Mamiya** means "while, time, interval, space, pause, chamber, room, apartment, leisure, chance, entr'acte, intervening, as" (間) (**ma**) and "temple, shrine, palace" (宮) (**miya**).

## Trivia

* Naraku likes to do puns.
* In the videogame, Naraku's story as part of Grindcore is unlocked by clearing all the other teams' stories. In turn beating her story unlocks the final story of the game.
* In the videogame, Naraku and Kamui Kurenai do not have casual attires, making them the only base (non-guest or DLC) characters to only have racing gear as their default costumes.