Yumi

**Yumi** (雪泉) is a playable character in the *Senran Kagura* series who made her debut in *Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus*.

A third-year student and the leader of the Gessen Girls' Academy elite shinobi. Her grandfather Kurokage was a rival to the legendary ninja Hanzō. She lost her parents when she was young, so Kurokage raised her along with the other Gessen girls. After Kurokage's death, she was left in charge.

## Profile

### Appearance

Normal Yumi

Awakened Yumi (Ice Queen)

#### Normal

Yumi is a fairly tall girl with pale skin, light blue eyes, medium dark gray hair and an overall average complexion. She uses to adorn her hair with a wide white ribbon tie with blue stripes on ends.

  In her shinobi clothes, she wears a solid white furisode kimono that hangs off her shoulders and exposes a large amount of her chest. The outfit has a blue double-lined trim with a blue obi on the back. Yumi also wears white socks but no shoes, or lavender flip flops since Estival Versus.

#### Ice Queen Mode

In her Ice Queen mode, Yumi loses her hair tie and allowing her hair to become longer in length in addition to becoming a light blue color and her eyes becoming red in hue.

### Personality

Yumi is a calm and serious girl, taking her responsibility of leader of the Gessen elites, also recognized as stubborn for sticking to her goals and ideals, and their applications. She can still be naive as when Shiki achieve to have her do pointless fitness exercises.

Yet, she can be judgmental and pretentious, demonstrated during Hanzō Academy's story in *Shinovi Versus* where she deemed Asuka unworthy of facing her and made her fight Gessen's lower-ranked shinobi as an alternative, when Asuka presented what Yumi believed to be incompetence as a shinobi. By opposition, she can recognize Yozakura as far stronger than her despite the latter's contradictions. She can consider thinking seriously and review her ideals as of the Gessen Arc of *Shinovi Versus* when Yumi confronted Asuka and accepted her views.

Her leadership is revealed in Estival Versus and the Shinovi Masters anime as pretty lax despite an intent to be firm yet gentle, as she is rarely obeyed to, and often assisted by Yozakura. She is said by Shiki to be caring to her comrades by wanting the best of them and pushing them to the point of forgetting to relax sometimes. Trying to be more lenient and considerate of her comrades' feelings, she leaves Yozakura to discipline and yell at the others in her place when things get out of hand.

Yumi's major ideal is the "Justice of the Moon", according to which Justice is the help to those who needed it, as well as cuteness. It is her equivalent as Asuka's sword and shield.

## Background

At eight years old, Yumi's parents died on a mission for unknown reasons; most likely killed by evil shinobi while on the job. At the funeral, no one would tell her the reason why her parents were dead, only that they were very admirable shinobi which she could care less about, as all that praise would not bring her parents back.

On that very day, Yumi was approached by a man with a scarred face who asked her if she wanted to know the reason for her parents' death. When Yumi responded positively he stated that he would make her ninja if she truly wished to know the reason. Strangely without fear, Yumi accepted his proposal. This pleased the old man as he assigned her the shinobi name “Yumi.” When she asked who he was he revealed himself to be Kurokage, the grandfather she had never known.

Yumi went to live with Kurokage in a depopulated area in the deep in the mountains where she began her training. She underwent strict life-threatening training under him, her strong resolve stemming from the desire to become a shinobi like her parents before her and find those responsible for their deaths so she could exact revenge.

She learned at an alarming rate and was soon able to do the same Secret Ninja Art as Kurokage in a year's time. Kurokage took note that she was rushing and getting ahead of herself so he stopped her training and taught her other things as an alternative. She learned how to make grain or barley, the name of constellations in the sky, Japanese history, and various other subjects which found to be equally fun. However, she was dissatisfied due to still wanting to train.

One day as the two of them sat around and enjoyed a cup of shaved ice, Kurokage stated that they were both very much alike, as she believed that that power could resolve everything. Yumi agreed, stating that if she became strong enough then she surely could do anything. In response to this Kurokage stated that power alone is not enough to solve everything. He then performed his Secret Ninja Art “Black Ice” which amazed Yumi at the massive difference in power between her version and his. After this, he stated that power is not technically right and even with all the power he had he still couldn't meet her as Yumi's mother never talked about her father before. Kurokage told Yumi that was the reason why he taught her the meaning of power.

After that day, she resumed her strict training. She became even stronger and much to her own marvel, her mind was strangely calm in the process. She began to wonder why she was becoming stronger and soon realized that power was not to be used for personal grudges, but rather to recognize a great dream. This prompted her to ask what the use of power was.

This is when Kurokage told her his life story. His training as a good ninja and half his life as a rogue ninja. When she had listened to everything he had to say, she had made her mind up. She was going to realize her grandfather's dream and create a world without evil.

Eventually, her grandfather took in several other orphaned children who had lost their parents as she had. They were Murakumo, Shiki, Yozakura, and Minori. Together they all trained with the desire to become strong so that they could create Kurokage's dream world. Yumi and the others easily passed the entrance exam to the prestigious Gessen Academy thanks to Kurokage's strict training and all became the academy's elite shinobi, with Yumi as their leader.

## Trivia

* The kimono Yumi wears was given to her by Kurokage.
	+ It is revealed during Ryōbi's character story in *Shinovi Versus* that the only reason why Yumi wears her furisode kimono in such a fashion is because her breasts are too large to wear it in the proper fashion. She wishes she had a smaller pair so she could properly wrap her kimono.
* Yumi's hand fans are specifically Tessen: A type of Japanese war fans designed to look like normal, harmless folding fans or solid clubs shaped to look like a closed fan.
* Yumi's fighting style incorporates a variation of traditional Japanese Noh dance.
	+ Yumi's Aerial Rave techniques Takasago, Kiyotsune, Obasute, Utou, Sesshōseki are all the names of traditional Noh plays.
* Her character seems to be based on the Yuki-onna, a snow spirit from Japanese lore as she possesses many similar traits based on legends, further supported by her Ice Queen Mode.
	+ The characteristics include the association with winter and snowstorms, whereas Yumi's techniques incorporate the usage of both wind and ice; floating across the snow and leaving no footprints whereas Yumi floats in her dashing animations instead of running; and finally her desire to become a bride.
* Yumi has placed first in every official character poll she's been in since her debut. Her current position to date is the most popular character in *Senran Kagura* series.
* Yumi takes classical Japanese dance lessons in her spare time.
	+ By talking to Yumi after completing the Gessen arc in *Shinovi Versus*, it is revealed that she personally prefers classical Western music to traditional Japanese music, and believes that combined with the solemnity of Japanese dance coupled with Western dynamism is a heavenly experience.
* Yumi bears a strong resemblance to the character Shiki Ryougi from the Type-Moon series.
* Yumi shares the same first name as her Japanese Voice Actress, Yumi Hara.
* Kurokage gave her the name "Yumi" at age 8, implying that she had another name to be referred by before then. To this day, Yumi's birth name has never been mentioned or revealed just yet.
* She appeared in Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle.