Kana Shiraumi

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## Family

**Kana Shiraumi** (白海カナ, *Shiraumi Kana*) is one of the supporting characters of the *Murenase! Seton Gakuen* series.

## Background

During the Sea Academy's entrance ceremony, she was among the crowd watching the synchronized swimming team perform. The show had inspired so much that she accidentally spotted water from her blowhole, Ever since then, she wished that she could to one day perform with Ruka Bando and her pod.

## Appearance

Kana is a young girl with short white hair and blue eyes. She also has a white Beluga fluke and wears glasses. Just like other belugas, she always appears to be smiling or laughing even if she is feeling upset or confused.

## Personality

Kana is a very cheerful and friendly person, even to those she barely knows, willing to put on an impromptu (though rather lackluster) performance as a greeting to visiting Seton students.

She greatly admires Ruka Bando and her synchronized swimming team and wishes to perform alongside them. Because of this, she is willing to go to great lengths to master her singing talent.

## Abilities

As a beluga whale, Kana is a natural-born swimmer, though her swimming abilities are not at the same level as those of the dolphins.

Thanks to Jin Mazama and the Cooking Club, she later discovers that her main skill is her ability to produce sounds and sing with the nasal cavity on her forehead, or "melon", and was able to train this newfound skill with their help.

## History

During Seton Academy’s visit to Sea Academy, Kana eagerly greeted the students and put on her own welcome show. While she initially impressed the crowd with her bubbling technique, she quickly exhausted herself and ended the show, disappointing the crowd. Embarrassed, she quickly apologized and swam away in shame.

Soon after, Ranka Ookami and Meimei had come to cheer her up and help her improve her show. Kana thanked them and told them about her dream to join the Sea Academy’s synchronized swimming team. Suddenly, Ruka Bando appeared and confronted Kana about the show she put on earlier. She revealed that Kana was not allowed on the team because a beluga could not keep up with dolphins and would ruin their performance. After Ruka left, Ranka told Kana that she would be better off without the her team, though Kana still wished to join them. She told them about the show the dolphins put on at the entrance ceremony and how they moved her so much that she was inspired to perform alongside them.

Right then, the rest of the Cooking Club had come to see them. Jin told Kana that she could still join the dolphins’ show if she focused on the beluga’s natural singing talent instead of fancy tricks. The rest of the club agreed to do a synchronized swimming act with Kana’s singing, to be presented at the show on the final day of their trip.

Kana and the group began to practice, though her singing started off very rough. Even so, she and Ranka continued training her voice well into the night and improved. Despite her progress, she was still confused with the sudden revelation of her talent and doubted that the dolphins would let her join even if she improved. In response, Ranka told her to have faith in Jin’s advice. Jin then appeared and told Kana to stop her vocal training, shocking her and Ranka, who reminded Jin that it was his idea. He agreed, but then revealed that Kana would need to use her melon instead of her voice. While she had no idea how to use it to sing yet, she was determined to learn and continued to train for the next few days.

On the day of the show, Kana and her group got ready to perform, and even though she was nervous, she was reassured by Ranka. When their performance started, Kana was nowhere to be seen and was thought to have given up, though she soon breached the surface of the water and began to sing with her melon. While she sang, she reached out to Ruka through her song to tell her how she felt, causing her join the act as well the rest of her pod. As Ruka did her routine, Kana continued her song and was able to synchronize with the dolphin’s movement. Kana and Ruka had synchronized together so well that Ruka was able to jump to an great height to finish the show.  After the performance, Kana was officially accepted into the synchronized swim team.

As the Seton Academy students left, Kana thanked the cooking club for their help and they in return invited her to visit their school sometime. She then waved goodbye and hoped they would visit again.