Air

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Contents 1 Details 2 Plot Summary 3 Characters 3.1 Main Characters 3.2 Secondary Characters 3.3 Feudal Era Characters 4 Theme Songs 5 CrunchyRoll Links 6 References

[edit] Details

Japanese Name: Air TV
Genres: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Original Run: August 28, 2005 – September 4, 2005 (Complete)
Number of Episodes: 13
Licensed by: ADV Films

[edit] Plot Summary

Yukito Kunisaki is on a journey, seeking a girl with wings who flies in the sky, as mentioned in a childhood tale. During this journey, he settles down in a small town, trying to make some money. There, he meets a strange girl named Misuzu. Misuzu quickly makes Yukito her friend and invites him to stay with her. Yukito decides to stay in the small town, and continue searching for the winged girl his mother had searched for in her life.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main Characters

Yukito Kunisaki
Seiyu: Daisuke Ono

Yukito is a traveling wanderer searching for the 'girl in the sky'. This goal has been passed down his family for from generation to generation for the past thousand years. He is the male protagonist of the series. Having met a strange girl named Misuzu, he decides to stay in town for a little while.

Misuzu Kamio
Seiyu: Tomoko Kawakami

Misuzu is the first of the three girls featured in Air that meets Yukito Kunisaki. She befriends Yukito, and invites him to stay at her home. She is a cheerful, slightly clumsy girl, and often utters the pseudo-dinosauric phrase 'Gao' when she feels troubled. Misuzu has a great love of dinosaurs, finding the story of their glory and extinction "romantic." When she was young, she believed that baby chicks were young dinosaurs.

Kano Kirishima
Seiyu: Asami Okamoto
Kano is the second of the three girls to meet Yukito. She is usually energetic and playful, and often says strange, nonsensical things. Kano is friends with a stray dog named Potato that follows her around and is able to communicate in his strange manner of speech. She always wears a yellow ribbon tied around her right-hand wrist, believing that when she grows up and takes off the ribbon, she will be able to use magic.

Minagi Tohno
Seiyu: Ryoka Yuzuki
Minagi is the last of the main girls to meet Yukito. A top student in the school, Minagi is very shy and quiet, which isolates her from others. Until she met Yukito, her only friend was Michiru, with whom she often blows bubbles at the old train station.

[edit] Secondary Characters

Haruko Kamio
Seiyu: Aya Hisakawa
Haruko is the foster mother and aunt of Misuzu. Haruko loves Misuzu as her own child, but tries to distance herself from Misuzu because she fears that one day Misuzu will be taken from her. She is very outgoing and enjoys a drink after work as well as riding her motorcycle, which she parks by crashing into the garage nightly

Hijiri Kirishima
Seiyu: Yukari Tamura
Hijiri is Kano's older sister and the town's local medical doctor. She has taken care of her sister ever since their parents died. Hijiri was the one who originally tied the ribbon around Kano's wrist. She is also Yukito's employer - he does odd jobs at her clinic.

Michiru
Seiyu: Yukari Tamura
Michiru is a young girl who does not seem to have a place to live; Michiru is nevertheless a spirited, energetic young child. Having befriended Minagi at an early age, Michiru does not seem to have any other friends. She plays an important role in Minagi's storyline. She enjoys playfully attacking Yukito Kunisaki and has fondness for bubbles

Sora
Seiyu: Daisuke Ono
Sora is a crow Misuzu befriends as a pet before she meets Yukito Kunisaki on the same day. Though Sora mostly appears as a minor character it has some important appearances, such as discovering Yukito's missing puppet or pulling Misuzu's toy dinosaur to the shrine. Sora's true nature is revealed at the very end of the series.

[edit] Feudal Era Characters

Kanna
Seiyu: Chinami Nishimura
Kanna is a young girl also known as Kannabi no Mikoto, since '-bi no mikoto' is the formal suffix given to winged beings. She is one of the last winged beings in history. Kanna is deified out of fear for the awesome power inherent in her kind, so from birth, Kanna has been kept in isolated areas away from the general populace. Not long after meeting Ryūya and Uraha, she escapes with them to find her mother, the only other winged being left.

Ryūya
Seiyu: Yukari Tamura
Ryūya is a skilled, yet low-ranked samurai charged with Kanna's protection. Ryūya quickly befriends Kanna and eventually they fall in love. Unfortunately, after creating a diversion for Ryūya and Uraha, Kanna is cursed by Buddhist monks to live an endless cycle of reincarnation, suffering, and death. Ryūya dedicates the remainder of his life to finding a way to lift the curse, and though he never does, he has a child by Uraha in the hopes that their kin would eventually find a way to break the curse.

Uraha
Seiyu: Kikuko Inoue
Uraha is one of the many servants in charge of Kanna's care. She also befriends Kanna and Ryūya and ends up escaping with them during their journey to find Kanna's mother. Though unknown to the other two at the time, Uraha possesses powerful magical abilities that would come in handy later during their quest.

[edit] Theme Songs

Opening Songs

1. "Tori no Uta" by Lia

Ending Songs:

1. "Farewell Song" by Lia

Insert Songs

1. "Aozora" by Lia (in episode 12)

[edit] CrunchyRoll Links

Air TV

[edit] References

Wikipedia
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