Katsumi Katayami

* Civilian
* Casual
* Magical Outfit

Katsumi is the main character of the PRISM series. She is a student who works part-time as a Magical Girl for PRISM Corps.

## Appearance

### Civilian

Katsumi has warm brown eyes and mid-length sandy blonde hair. Her face is rounded and her features are shaped to resemble a cat, which her character was originally based on. Her body type is also drawn to be more muscular compared to her friends.

For casual clothes, Katsumi wears a baggy peach and beige sweater which puffs out at the sleeves, changing to brown fabric at the forearms. A white turtleneck can be seen layered underneath. She wears stone-washed flared jeans with yellow fabric threaded through the belt loops and tied in a bow. She also wears yellow canvas shoes. She keeps her hair in the same style as she does in school, except her plaid bow is replaced with a yellow headband with a circular design. Her style takes notes from various 70s trends.

#### School Uniform

She wears a blue plaid bow in her hair, which she uses to pull part of it into a braid, leaving the rest loose. Katsumi's school uniform is composed of a white dress shirt with a dark brown vest on top and a little brown plaid tie. She also wears a brown plaid skirt, with white quarter socks and brown loafers.

### Magical Girl

Katsumi in her magical girl form has much longer, lighter hair. The top part of her hair is styled into drill buns to resemble cat ears and the remaining hair is put into a messy braid to resemble a cat's tail. Bangs fall around her eyes, which transformed into a light grey color, and her pupils become white with a sideways hourglass shape. Katsumi's armor consists of a heart shaped top that flowers out into four petals on her white cupcake skirt, and a mesh that extends from her neck over her top in two pieces. The bottom of her skirt is filled with lights and colors, each color a representation of each member of her magical team. It is said that Katsumi gains a color every time she gains a teammate- and the inside of her gloves and her corset behave in a similar manner. Her white and grey heeled boots both have a bow each as well as her gloves. The ones on her shoes are pink and blue to represent Hokoto and Yū, while her gloves bow’s are yellow and green for Eimi and Azumi. Katsumi also has 2 white bows on the front and back of her corset. The look is complete by three bands, one for both arms and one on her right leg.

## Personality

Katsumi is a fairly reserved and introverted girl, characterised as being hardworking and responsible. Due to this, it usually relegates her to the role of mom friend for others, taking things more seriously and trying her hardest to keep everyone out of trouble. This is especially seen in her relationship with Yū, who she helps look after alongside Kiyoshi.

Because of her perfectionist nature, Katsumi has been said to harbour a lot of deep-seated self worth issues.

## History

Not much is known about Kat’s past so far, but June has confirmed that her family is gone for unknown reasons. After loosing her family and home, she met Neneko, who gave her a place to stay.

Before finding her magical team, Katsumi teamed up with her roommate Neneko, who stayed seemingly until Yū joined the team.

Somewhere around this time Katsumi also met Yū. June has said that Katsumi met her by chance and walked her home one day. Realising that they needed help, Katsumi took it upon herself to help look after Yū by keeping her company, making dinner or bringing groceries.

## Relationships

#### Neneko Aino

Neneko is Katsumi’s best friend and roommate, and is a high school graduate by a few years. They both met very close to when Kat’s family and home was lost, and became friends after Neneko offered her a place to stay. In addition to this, Neneko teamed up with Katsumi until her full magical team was formed.

#### Yū Uyeda

Katsumi met Yū by chance and walked her home one day, and has since helped look after her alongside Yū’s father, Kiyoshi. Yū idolises Katsumi, imitating a lot of what she does and looking up to her as an almost motherly figure. She most likely became a magical girl for this reason, to the horror of Katsumi. Now more then ever, Katsumi tries her hardest to protect her.

#### Eimi Tenko

Eimi and Katsumi are said to be friendly before teaming up, but not close enough to be considered friends. In contrast to Katsumi, they are very confident and outgoing, which Katsumi seems to admire. It also causes her a lot of stress trying to keep them out of trouble though.

#### Azumi Urumi

Similarly to Eimi, Katsumi and Azumi were friendly but not close previous to teaming up. Not much else is known about their relationship thus far. Her constant fighting with Eimi seems to get on Katsumi’s nerves though.

#### Hokoto Kusanagi

Not much is know about their dynamic right now, but Hokoto and Katsumi seem to get along. Unlike Azumi or Eimi, the two are similar in that they are more introverted and reserved, as well as having issues with self worth. Due to Neneko and Hokoto being old school friends, it’s possible they may have known each other previous to teaming up.

#### Kiyoshi Uyeda

Kiyoshi and Katsumi seem to get along, but they only seem to see each other when looking after Yū. For this reason, they don’t have that much of a relationship, due to always being focused on Yū when in each others presence.

## Trivia

* Katsumi's prism is called Tsumugi.
* While Katsumi's name was made to be a pun of the name Kasumi(霞) and the english word cat. The name Katsumi is a real Japanese name (though pronounced differently). It's not confirmed which spelling is used but 克美 might be the closest as it translates to "overcome, subdue, conquer." and "beauty, beautiful, pretty."
* Her and Neneko Aino have a cat named Hito, which roughly translates to "person" or "man" in Japanese. The two named their cat this because they thought an animal being referred to as a human was comedic.
* It is impossible to see the underside of her skirt, similarly to Madoka Kaname's from the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
* Originally, before June redesigned the Prism girls on their Youtube channel, Kastumi's main color was orange.

## Gallery

Reference sheetChibi Katsumi w/ PRISM companionKatpilationKatty ShotKat's ClosetKatsumi & Neneko when they were a pairFake Kat and Eimi screenshotFake Kat and Yu screenshotThe Starting Image For The Art Telephone GameBeta Katsumi with other BetasKatsumi in June's new art styleKatsumi's Updated Civilian Form