Hyades
The Hyades is a hypothetical race of beings proposed by Kanna Hijiri and named by Kyubey in Puella Magi Kazumi Magica: The Innocent Malice. Kanna's plans were to destroy the current humanity and replace it with a race of artificial humans who she dubbed the Hyades. The term seems to include all artificially-created human beings, but particularly focuses on the ones created by the Pleiades and Kanna herself.
Known Members
History
When Kanna Hijiri (Niko) made her contract with Kyubey, a "copy" of her was created that would be able to live happily without memories of her childhood trauma. Eventually, she sees Niko fighting a witch, thus discovering that she is a fake human and begins to go mad. Kanna makes a contract with Kyubey soon after, making her wish around her hatred of Niko and giving her the power to Connect to others. Kanna dilutes curses to create Evil Nuts to turn normal women into Pseudo-witches and magical girls into witches and provides them to enemies of the Pleiades Saints.
Around the same time, Michiru had died and the Pleiades began to create clones of her in an attempt to revive Michiru, thereby creating the second set of Hyades and ultimately Kazumi. In total, they create thirteen of the "Kazumi Series".
After Niko turns into a witch, Kanna masquerades as her to the rest of the Pleiades and later on, Satomi kills the first twelve of the Kazumi Series. Eventually, Kanna reveals herself but fails to recruit Kazumi into her cause, after which she begins her plan to create the Hyades and creates Hyades Daybreak out of the soul gems in the Freezer. After this, Kazumi makes a contract with Kyubey to stop her and becomes a "real human being", rescinding her status as a Hyades. While fighting, Kazumi tells her that since they both made contracts with Kyubey, they're both real magical girls, which angers Kanna who goes on an all out attack against them. Ultimately, Kanna kills herself after Kazumi, Umika and Kaoru destroy Hyades Daybreak and show her the error of her ways, therefore ending the Hyades race.
The Kazumi Series
The Kazumi Series was a series of Michiru clones that were created by the Pleiades Saints. In trying various combinations of variables, twelve "Kazumis" were created and eventually went insane. While they were intended to be killed, Saki Asami instead kept them alive due to her love for Michiru. They were created with parts of her DNA and her Witch.
Each one of the Kazumis has different properties like claws, markings, embedded gems and more. They are all seemingly permanently in their Magical Girl forms.
Trivia
- Hyades Daybreak is named after the Hyades by Kyubey, who named it as such to honor Kanna.
- The Hyades is a star cluster about 153 light-years away from our sun. It is said that, when the stars rise alongside the sun, that rain is due to come.
- The Hyades Star Cluster is, in turn, named after the Hyades, a sisterhood of Greek nymphs that cause rain.
- Hyades could also be a combination of the word "human" and "Pleiades".
- The Hyades Star Cluster is, in turn, named after the Hyades, a sisterhood of Greek nymphs that cause rain.