Kana Hoshina

**Kana Hoshina**(星名 夏菜, *Hoshina Kana*) is the main protagonist of Bakugan: Victory Road. She is a member of the Bakugan Guardians, a team dedicated to protecting Bakugan from the forces of evil. She is secretly not human, and is in fact the Gundalian daughter of Malevolence.

Her Guardian is a Pyrus Titamashi, a hot-blooded but noble warrior.

## Appearance

Kana is a tall teenage girl. She has orange hair. She wears a red jacket and tight shorts.

## Personality

Most of the time, Kana is sheepish and shy around other people. She hides behind other people to avoid engaging with others. Her shy personality is the result of her not having made friends before. When alone, she enjoys cooking and cleaning her team's Bakugan.

However, her personality undergoes a massive change when entering a battle. She becomes cocky, hot-blooded, and snarky. It is later revealed that this is actually her original personality resurfacing.

After learning the truth about who she is, her two sides begin to overlap (she becomes more confident outside of battle and becomes more level-headed when in a brawl).

## Biography

In the past, Kana was the Gundalian daughter of Malevolence named **Riot**. She gleefully assisted her father in capturing countless Bakugan from Vestroia and sealing them inside of a chest. Hiding these Bakugan in some woods on Earth, the two prepared to leave the planet when Malevolence asked her to stay behind as a sleeper agent to prepare for a coming invasion.

During a thunderstorm, Riot assisted in kidnapping a teenage girl named Kana Hoshina and assumed her identity while Malevolence took the real Kana back to their ship. On her way to Kana's house, Riot was struck by lightning and knocked unconscious. Local police officers found her and returned her to her parents. While her Gundalian physiology allowed her to survive, she believed herself to actually be Kana Hoshina thanks to amnesia.

A few summers later, Kana attends a local summer camp and meets a group of friends. While wandering through the nearby woods, Kana discovers the chest of Bakugan and helps her companions to spread the game among the campers. She personally picks a Pyrus Titamashi as her guardian, and quickly becomes well respected.

Over the next few weeks, strange things start to happen. Several people at the camp begin to turn evil at random, only to be back to normal after losing a brawl. Kana's friends notice that she undergoes a major personality shift when she brawls and wonder if she has multiple personalities. Also, Kana begins to have strange dreams that always end with a pair of purple eyes.

After finally figuring out that someone is hypnotizing people in order to specifically target Kana, the group explores the woods once more. This time, they find an alien spaceship that Kana recognizes from her dreams. The biggest surprise of all comes when they visit the cells on board, and find another Kana that looks exactly like her. A fight breaks out between the two, and Kana reverts back to her true Gundalian form.

## Bakugan

* Pyrus Titamashi
* Pyrus *Knockout*

## Etymology

**Kana** is a Japanese female given name that can be written using various kanji. The ones used here translate to "summer greens". The ka sound is photonically similar to a reading of the Japanese kanji for fire(火), which is also Kana's elemental attribute as a Pyrus brawler.

## Trivia

* Kana's surname is written with the kanji for star, foreshadowing the reveal of her Gundalian biology.