Kanna Bismarch (カンナ・ビスマルク Kanna Bisumaruku) is a fictional character in the Shaman King manga and anime series. She is one of Hao's followers and the leader of Team "Hana-Gumi".[1]
After the tournament, Kanna and her fellow team members are hired as waitresses at the Funbari Onsen.
Appearance[]
Kanna's appearance later in the series.
Kanna has blue eyes and waist-long blue hair with three green hair clips in. Kanna has her family crest tattooed on her left arm. She wears a short strapless black top and short blue denim jeans with black gloves and brown boots that both say "Hao" on them. She almost always has a cigarette in her mouth and has a package attached to her belt.
While watching Team "The Ren"'s match against Team "Tsuchi-Gumi", Kanna is seen sporting a more formal attire consisting of a black blouse and skirt, with black heels.[5][6] Years later, after being hired as a waitress at the Funbari Onsen, Kanna began wearing a pink flowered kimono tied with a light blue sash.
Personality[]
Kanna is fairly serious and was easy to anger. She even admits that she hates kids and like many of Hao's followers she despises humanity and she was very loyal to Asakura Hao.
Abilities and Powers[]
Kanna is one of the few shamans capable of producing ectoplasm (エクトプラズム ekutopurazumu), a spiritual energy exhaled as a white smoke. While normally invisible to non-shamans, Kanna's ectoplasm can be seen by normal humans.[7] She can use this smoke to grab and restrain people and objects, as well as to interact with spirits.[8]
Spirit[]
- See More: Ashcroft
Kanna's Guardian Ghost is Ashcroft, the ghost of a medieval knight loyal to the Bismarch family,[9] and his medium is smoke.[10]
History[]
Past[]
Kanna, five years before the Shaman Fight begin.
On October 26, 1977, Kanna was born in Germany to the Bismarch main branch, a distinguished German family. As a baby, she used to vomit ectoplasm because she unconsciously used her body to canalize spirits. Due to this, she spent her whole childhood inside her castle home. Her parents were worried about her safety, so they started calling exorcists, clerics, and priests from all over Europe. None of them were able to find a cure for Kanna, but she was happy just by being loved by her parents. However, she lost them due to a mysterious accident Soon enough, the castle became full of lawyers and relatives. They took all of Kanna's money and legacy, leaving her with nothing. That is when Asakura Hao first appeared before her. He burned the lawyers and the whole castle to the ground, just as she wanted. Thanks to him, Kanna became a shaman and could finally see how the world was outside of the castle walls was like.[11]
After joining Hao, Kanna took to taking care of the much younger Marion Phauna and Matilda Matisse who like her were also orphaned. When Bill Burton was introduced to the group, Kanna introduced herself, Marion, and Matilda and told Bill not to touch any of them, threatening him with death if he did so.[12]
Shaman Fight in Tokyo[]
While sitting on her motorcycle and smoking, Kanna watched the passing of Ragoh, signaling the beginning of the Shaman Fight.[13]
Not much is known about her performance during the preliminary round, but Kanna did win two matches and advanced to the main competition. She and the other qualifying competitors gathered at Mimata Hall. Kanna, Matilda, and Marion watched a monitor showing the final match of the preliminaries, between Asakura Yoh and Tao Ren.[14] After the match, all of the shamans attended the opening ceremony.[15]
Traveling through America[]
Hao and his followers gathered at Yokocha Base
A month later, at Yokocha Base, Kanna and Hao's other followers interrupted Hao, who was playing around with Asakura Yoh and friends, so that they would not miss the Patch Jumbo that would take them to America. Hao and his followers sat together on the plane. All of the shamans were tasked with locating and reaching the Patch Village within three months. While still tens of thousands of feet in the air, the jumbo jet was revealed to be an Over Soul shortly before it was dematerialized, dropping all of its passengers. Hao and his allies rode on the back of the Spirit of Fire and safely descended to the ground.[16]
Weeks later, Hao's surviving followers reunited at the Patch Village,[17] and for the next upcoming tournament, they divided themselves into teams of three, with Kanna, Matilda, and Marion forming Team "Hana-Gumi".[18]
Shaman Fights Second Round[]
The team's first fight was against Team "T-Production".[18] Creeped out by Kaizer-T's dolls of them, the three women brutally attacked him. Although his teammates withdrew,[19] Team "Hana-Gumi" beat them up too.[18]
Kanna, Marion Phauna, and Matilda Matisse fight Tamao Tamamura and Tao Jun while trying to get Redseb and Seyrarm Muntzer's souls. She is the first one to fight and she fights Jun and Lee Pyron. She shows her spirit ally Ashcroft which is in a suit of armor.
Pyron fights and easily breaks the armor. Then it showed that keeping the armor together is ectoplasm. Then Ashcroft makes a giant hole in Pyron while saving Ponchi and Conchi. When Pyron is about to destroy the armor Ashcroft cuts off his arm. Pyron tries to attack Ashcroft but goes through him. Then Ashcroft cuts off his leg. After that, it shows that the true medium is Kanna's cigarette smoke. The Hana-Gumi soundly defeats Jun and Tamao and goes in for the kill.
Then Asakura Mikihisa shows up and gets rid of Ashcroft with only his Furyoku. He proceeds to slap herself, Marion Phauna, and Matilda Matisse. After defeating Matilda and Marion with only words she yells at him. He grabs the cigarette bud off the ground, puts it away and says "Smoking's not good for you especially if you ever want to have children." When they are about to attack Mikihisa, Magna reveals himself and tells them they are still useful, and that they should back out before being defeated.
Invading the Plants[]
She, Matilda Matisse, and Marion Phauna are killed by Peyote Diaz. She is brought back again by Lady Sati and switches sides to Yoh's. The Hana-Gumi help fights off the remainder of Asakura Hao's followers. She was last seen with her team thinking about what they did and they tried to think over their life.
Flowers[]
The Hana-Gumi waitresses
In the seven years after the tournament, Kanna went to high school together with Marion and Matilda and six years later, she works together with her former teammates at the Funbari Onsen. Together they are known as the Hana-Gumi Waitresses.
The three of them are often scolded by the inn's okami, Tamamura Tamao, Kanna for smoking inside. According to Tamao, they often skip work and she usually resorts to threatening them with the use of Dai Tengu.[20]
The waitresses appeared after Alumi Numbirch ended the fight between Asakura Hana and his two cousins from the branch family. When Alumi noticed their presence, Kanna questions if the Flower of Maize was finally starting and notes that they are all still at their peak. Asking if they could finish of Asakura Luca and Yohane, their reputation alone was enough to scare off Luca, who quickly recreates her Over Soul in order to flee.[21]
Days later, the waitresses are awoken by the fight between Tao Men and Black Maiden. Once Black Maiden calls them hags, they all three use their Over Souls to attack, only to be stopped at the last moment by Tamao, who refuses to have any violence at the inn. Tamao then has the waitresses help the wounded Men, with Kanna being told to use Soul Integration with Johann Faust VIII to treat Men's bad injuries.[22] Afterwards, the waitresses listen to the conversation between Tamao and the Muntzer siblings about surrendering before the Flower of Maize can begin. The three are frustrated by Redseb's comments against Hao.[23]
Kanna lends her motorcycle to Alumi so the girl can drive to Satoya-mura.[24]
Anime/Manga Difference[]
In the English version of the 2001 anime series, Kanna does not have a cigarette in her mouth, which is ironic considering that it is her spirit medium.
In the 2001 anime series, she and the rest of Team "Hana-Gumi" are not killed and remain on Hao's side throughout the whole series.
Trivia[]
- In the character popularity polls, Kanna ranked #30 in the second.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shaman King Manga - Chapter 161
- ↑ Ektoplasma is German for "ectoplasm".
- ↑ Shaman King Guidebook - Mentalite (p.58)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Shaman King Manga - Shaman King Character File No.161
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Chapter 114
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Kang Zeng Bang Vol. 11 Extras; Shaman File 150
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - & a garden Chapter 1
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - & a garden Chapters 4-5
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Chapter 155
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Chapter 159
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Kang Zeng Bang Vol. 15 Extras; Shaman File 203
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Zero Chapter 5
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Chapter 26
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Chapter 61
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Chapter 65
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Chapters 78-80
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Chapters 109-110
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Shaman King Manga - Chapter 137
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Remix Track 8
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Flowers Chapter 1
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Flowers Chapter 5
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Flowers Chapter 22
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Flowers Chapter 26
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - The Super Star Chapter 11
External Links[]
- Germany - A Wikipedia article about Kanna's home country.
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