Kanami Etou

**Kanami Etō** (衛藤 可奈美, Etō Kanami?) is the main protagonist of the original anime series Toji no Miko and a second-year student in the middle school division of Minoseki Academy.[1]

## Appearance

Kanami is a 13-year-old girl with short brown hair and light brown eyes. She ties a tuft of her hair into a short ponytail. As a student of Minoseki Academy, she is often seen wearing the school's uniform along with black thigh-highs and running shoes.

## Personality

She is a cheerful and positive girl who has many friends. She is a kenjutsu enthusiast, to the point that her eyes sparkle when someone talks about it. She especially loves sword matches and seeing how opponents devise tactics.[1] On the other hand, her love for swordsmanship and sword fights makes her rather impulsive, often getting ahead of herself when she has the opportunity to have a good battle, facing a strong opponent.

Despite her impulsiveness when it comes to sword fights, she has a great sense of morality, and is very kind-hearted and understanding even to her enemies.

She is brave, strong-willed and quite mature. She can realize and admit her mistakes. Under this cheerful and energetic personality, she is very smart, observant, and perceptive.

## Combat Abilities

**Master Swordsmanship**: Kanami is extremely skilled in kenjutsu, enough to make her the Champion of Minoseki Academy, make her way to National Swordsmanship Tournament Final Match, and hold her own against Suzuka Konohana who is a two time runner-up of National Swordsmanship Tournament and Origami Family's Elite Guard Second Seat. She can hold her own against Yume, a Toji prodigy. The second time she faces Suzuka, she can easily hold her ground and utilize Suzuka's kenjutsu secret technique against her. She can even perform her mother superior sword skill that overwhelms Yukari Origami easily, abeit half-conscious as she doesn't remember it. After training many times with her mother, she has become skilled that she can win against Hiyori, who possesses superior strength and speed with pure sword skills.

* **Swordsmanship Style**: **Yagyu Shinkage-Ryu** (柳生新陰流?) - A swordmanship style learned by future shoguns during the Edo period. The style focuses on "reading the opponent's movements and thoughts and attain victory", and excels in clashing power. A technique that "controls the enemy without using a sword" called "Bladeless Takedown" (無刀取り, *Mutou-tori*) is also learned by practitioners.[1]

**Immense Speed**: She is shown to be very fast, being able to keep up with Toji considered to be faster than ordinary Toji, like Sayaka and Yume. She can also perform Jin'i with infinite speed, capable of intercepting Hiyori, stopping her from falling into the netherworld.

**Immense Stamina**: She has a huge amount of stamina, as she is capable of continuously fighting many battles in a short amount of time.

**Superior Instinct**: Countless times of training and fighting allow her to build up an instinctual and subconscious understanding of swordfighting, this also allows her to fight more efficiently without thinking too much. It closed the gap inbetween strength and speed caused by the Aradama-fused form of Hiyori.

**Insight**: Kanami has shown the ability to identify a Toji's sword school by simply looking at the stance a Toji takes and a Toji's swordsmanship style when fighting in the heat of battle.[2]She was able to, albeit barely, see Hiyori perform a powerful Jin'i that is said to slightly surpass supersonic speed whereas Mai could only notice that Hiyori "disappeared".[2]She had even managed to take a glimpse of an aradama's eye under Yukari Origami's hair. She can see through Suzuka's technique after a short amount of time fighting and use it against her. She even managed to predict Hiyori lighting speed strike.

**Kenjutsu Knowledge**: Being a kenjutsu enthusiast, Kanami know a lot about different sword techniques, allowing her to identify different sword stances and sword styles with ease. This also allows her to perform some of their skills.

**Keen Intellect**: She has shown the ability to adjust to her opponent's fighting style and strategy and is able to come up with a counter to it. This was shown when she forces Suzuka to use a secret technique,and in doing so manages to use it against her. She can also stay calm during battle as to analyze the situation better, allowing her to counter Taigitsuhime's Future Predict ability. She has even lured her enemy into dismay or anger in order to make them lose their composure as well as their concentration much like she did to Hiyori in episode 21, increasing her chances of winning.

**Utsushi Proficiency**: Kanami, like Mai, is capable of maintaining Utsushi for the longest duration in her class in Minoseki. She also can reactivate it multiple times with ease.

## Equipment

**Okatana:** **Chidori** (千鳥?) - Kanami's Okatana is called **Chidori**, a rather short blade with a pronounced backward curve. The *tsuba* has a notched-in square shape (*sumi iri kaku gata*) with pink outlines, and the hilt is wrapped in white *samekawa*. When swung, the tip of the sword leaves a white trail as if the path of the blade is heated.[1]She is the current wielder of the blade.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Kanami admires Akame and Zoro due to their amazing swordsmanship skills. She often likes to train with them in order to know their styles. That also includes Tashigi and Leo.