Kamui Kurenai

**Kamui Kurenai** (紅 カムイ *Kurenai Kamui*) is one of the two exclusive characters in the Limited Edition and Steam Version of the Kandagawa Jet Girls game.

## Appearance

Kurenai has thigh-length silver hair that has a usual uneven cut of bangs across her forehead above the eyes where it is cut into a longer knife blade-like shape between her orange eyes and long bangs going down the side of her face where it reaches down to her arms.

### Casual

Like Naraku Mamiya, Kamui does not have a casual attire. In the PS4 video game front cover of Racing Hearts Edition, Kamui was depicted in a red sports bra and black pants as her casual attire.

### Racing

Her racing attire is a black bodysuit with red design with blue 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 right hip and inner thigh, along with her left shoulder, is completely exposed. A red string runs over the top of her hips, implying she's wearing a thong underneath. Her footwear is of thigh high boots matching the colour of her suit. With silver kneepads and matching buckles and joints on the ankles, with a blue light in silver on the front. 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

Like many anime antagonists, Kurenai is wicked, cruel, uncaring and vicious. Regularly having a wicked, sadistic look on her face and glaring. She is cold to bluntness and believes ideas of friendship and hope are pointless. Even cutting off Mamiya when she tries to interject.

She finds joy in jet racing to the point of obsession. When she drives the jet, she focuses on speed instead of anything else. This corrupts her when eventually she reaches a mindset of 'If I can no longer enjoy this, no one else should' and wishes to plunge others into the despair she feels.

Eventually, when she sees the error of her ways, her personality softens a bit. Accepting Naraku Mamiya's confession and accepting her along with the friendship of the other racers.

## Background

Kamui is from the Kagurazaka Technical High School, which she attends together with Naraku Mamiya who is in 3rd year of high school.
However, she and Mamiya are actually 'owned' by a mysterious, unnamed "Organization" and have been 'since birth' according to her own admission. The Organisation 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, Kamui coincidentally discovered Jet Racing and got engrossed, so she remodeled her mining machine into a jet.

## Video game

Kurenai and Naraku Mamiya 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 her life, she embarks on a mission to defeat every other racing team in the hopes to plunge their lives into despair from losing. Mamiya, despite attempts to reason with her teammate, agrees to aid her. Even as she repeatedly states that after jet racing there would be nothing left for her.

To her anger, the losses only make the other race teams more determined to defeat her. 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 her 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. The other teams vow to support them wherever they are.

## Team

* Team: Grindcore
* Jet: Lavcar Mark IV
* Teammate: Naraku Mamiya

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

## Etymology

* The name **Kamui** is written in katakana (カムイ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (可夢偉, 華夢衣, 華夢威, 夏夢生, 加夢意 or 嘉夢威), it could possibly mean:
	+ 可夢偉 - "possible, passable" (可) (**ka**), "dream, vision" (夢) (**mu**) and "admirable, great/greatness, remarkable, conceited, famous, excellent" (偉) (**i**).
	+ 華夢衣 - "flower, petal" (華) (**ka**), "dream, vision" (夢) (**mu**) and "clothing, garment" (衣) (**i**).
	+ 華夢威 - "flower, petal" (華) (**ka**), "dream, vision" (夢) (**mu**) and "prestige, authority, power, dignity, influence, vigor, merit, stature, virtue, pride, dominance, ascendancy/ascendency, ascendance/ascendence, impression, in, domination, mastery, potence/potency, lordship, grasp, control, whip hand, might, force, vis, puissance" (威) (**i**).
	+ 夏夢生 - "summer" (夏) (**ka**), "dream, vision" (夢) (**mu**) and "life, living" (生) (**i**).
	+ 加夢意 - "add, increase" (加) (**ka**), "dream, vision" (夢) (**mu**) and "will, intent, attention, wish, purpose, consideration, notice, regard, desire, thought, volition, aim, liking, vein, cognizance, advertence/advertency, count, taste, relish, addiction, bent, gusto, predisposition, vocation, temptation, predilection, proclivity, leaning, flair, aptitude, habit, tendancy, object" (意) (**i**).
	+ 嘉夢威 - "applaud, praise, esteem, happy, auspicious" (嘉) (**ka**), "dream, vision" (夢) (**mu**) and "prestige, authority, power, dignity, influence, vigor, merit, stature, virtue, pride, dominance, ascendancy/ascendency, ascendance/ascendence, impression, in, domination, mastery, potence/potency, lordship, grasp, control, whip hand, might, force, vis, puissance" (威) (**i**).
* Kamui's surname **Kurenai** means "crimson, deep red" (紅).

## Trivia

* In the videogame, Kamui'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, Kamui and Naraku Mamiya do not have casual attires, making them the only base (non-guest or DLC) characters to only have racing gear as their default costumes.