Aria Holmes Kanzaki

**Aria Holmes Kanzaki**, also known as **Sherlock Holmes IV** and **Quadra Aria**, is the main female protagonist from the *Aria the Scarlet Ammo* series.

## **Charactah Account**

A diminutive top student of Butei High's prestigious Assault Side. Looking for a fitting partner, her attention falls on Kinji, whom she quickly declares her "slave". She is also the great-granddaughter of the most powerful and intelligent detective in history, Sherlock Holmes.

Aria is a haughty girl who prioritizes herself most of the time. She is a very loud and outspoken person, and always expresses her opinions shamelessly. Unfortunately, this pride is one of many traits she has which prevent her from focusing properly on social interaction and human empathy, which in turn kept her from having true allies until she met Kinji. Indeed, Aria is shown frequently to be socially inept, as she doesn't seem to see anything wrong with a girl staying the night in a boy's dorm room and believes merely being kissed can cause a girl to get pregnant, though she was told the latter by her father.

Aria is often very bossy and immature, such as when she more or less barged into Kinji's dorm room and declared him her slave, though it's later revealed that she was simply too proud to say "partner." She is incredibly short-tempered, often threatening to shoot Kinji or anyone else who annoys her. What makes her angrier than anything else, however, is whenever someone brings up relationships. Aria is a celibate (someone who has no interest in romantic or sexual relations), claiming that relationships are nothing but a waste of time, and even goes so far as to look down on people who think otherwise. Plus, Aria will distance herself from people who have hurt her really badly or betrayed her as shown when she ends her friendship with Reki after she claims Kinji as her husband and sees Kinji as a traitor when he was trying to make peace with Kaname, the person who attacked her and the other Baskerville girls, creating a deconstructing relationship between the two.

## **Appearance**

### **Anime**

* Aria the Scarlet Ammo
* Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA
* Aria the Scarlet Ammo Special

### **Manga**

* Aria the Scarlet Ammo
* Aria the Scarlet Ammo Double A
* Aria-chan the Scarlet Ammo

## **Trivia**

* Aria is named after the musical term aria, which is a solo melody sung in an opera. This is fitting, as she worked alone for a long time before meeting Kinji, which the two discuss.
* Aria shares many similar traits to Taiga Aisaka from *Toradora!*, Louise de la Vallière from *Zero no Tsukaima*, and Shana from *Shakugan no Shana:*
	+ They all have a small stature with very long hair
	+ All of them treat their male companion poorly
	+ They all are very bossy and short-tempered
	+ They all share Rie Kugimiya as their voice actress
	+ They all fall in love with their male companion
	+ They become separated from their male companion for a period of time
* Aria hairstyle is similar to Kotori Itsuka from *Date A Live*, Mine from *Akame ga Kill!,* and Enju Aihara from *Black Bullet*.
* Aria along with Akari's hairstyles, weapons, and uniforms can be purchased in Sega's Phantasy Star Online 2.
* Aria has a fondness for cats.
* Aria makes a cameo in the anime Mayo Chiki.
* Aria is unable to swim.
* In the end credits of the anime, when Aria is making her fingers into a gun and pretending to fire, it is similar to Spike Spiegel final moment in *Cowboy Bebop*.
* Aria H. Kanzaki came in 5th place In the 2017 MF Bunko J's Light Novel Heroine Contest.
* Aria appeared on the three volume covers of the Hidan no Aria AA series, which is the same amount as her amica, Akari Mamiya.
* Aria's guns have a slightly difference of dante's guns (ebony and ivory) In devil May cry series due to his colour and slightly design.