Name: Michiru Kaiō
Birthday: March 6th
Sign: Pisces
Bloodtype: O
Fave colour: Marine Blue
Hobby: Collecting make-up
Fave food: Sashimi
Least fave food: Kikurage
Fave subject: Music
Least fave subject: None
Weaknesses: Sea Cucumbers
Special Talent: Violin
Dream: Violinist
Michiru Kaiō is a classmate of Haruka. A young artistic genius, she paints, writes and is also a virtuoso violinist. Although she is the same age as Haruka (late teens), she is a more mature character, acting with great elegance and adding an adult seriousness to the pair’s murderous mission.
Michiru is the Senshi of water and this is represented in her personality which is calm and smooth with a dangerous undercurrent of determination and raw power. This tenacity of spirit is what (in the anime) leads to Haruka joining her quest for the talismans. Also combined in Michiru’s character is a deep sadness born of the need to destroy life in order to save it. Whereas Haruka merely buries the pain and pushes it aside, Michiru bears it and expresses it through her artworks. This juxtaposition between the attitudes of a couple that are supposedly lovers, leads to conversations which make the viewer aware that neither girl is comfortable with their mission. This is a vital realisation as without it the pair may be misjudged as heartless, leading to the dislike of their personalities. It is important that the audience feel some form of sympathy for them in order for the story to carry any kind of emotive factor.
Michiru is one of the few Senshi who gains a strong relationship with Ami. This may be because they reflect one another s intelligence and both have a love of water, Ami being the Senshi of ice. This is a nice twist for Ami, as Michiru boosts her confidence and allows her character to grow instead of stagnating in a pool of self- denial and lack of esteem. It is not her relationships or interactions with other characters which make her popular however. I feel it is her sensual and spiritual air along with the internal battle between constraint and liberty which make her character so fascinating.
In her everyday life, Michiru is the very embodiment of freedom. She stands in pagodas in the moonlight, playing her violin with the wind in her hair. However, she is tied to her mission as a senshi; one which will take her life, the life of her lover and potentially many more. She is shackled to this reality, not even released by her art with which she produces only the appearance of autonomy.
It may therefore be unsurprising that her relationship with Haruka is so close, as together they stand even against the other Senshi, to perform the unforgivable in order to protect everything. Her character shows that even the sensitive can be great in strength and that loving and fighting are never mutually exclusive.
"Only you and I can do this" - Michiru Kaiō
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