Koito Asako

Koito Asako
Japanese Name	浅古 小糸 Asako Koito
Character Designer Primary Artist	Mura Kuroe

Koito Asako (浅古 小糸, Asako Koito) is a minor supporting character appearing in Puella Magi Oriko Magica: Sadness Prayer. She is Komaki Asako's younger sister.

General Info

Physical Features
Age	12-14 (estimated; )
Eye colour	Blue
Hair colour	Black Blue (Magia Exedra) Purple (Sadness Prayer)
Magic
Soul Gem	Five pink circles on the silver diamond in her right chest (new design) Unknown, possibly the oval on her tie or the medium oval on her right glove (previous design)
Weapon	Conductor Baton
Witch Form	Unknown
Powers and Abilities	Lie Detection
Wish	“I want to know everything” (referring to the death of her sister and the other girls in Mitakihara)
Other
Japanese pronoun	Watashi (私)
Known relatives	Unnamed parents, Komaki Asako (older sister)
Origins	Possibly Mitakihara City
School	Shirome Middle School

Personality

Koito is calmer and more friendly than her sister Komaki. She is seen displaying a lot of concern for the welfare of others and her sister.

Story

Koito only appears in Sadness Prayer. After witnessing Komaki sneaking out various times at night, Koito begins to suspect she has a nightlife. Koito tried telling her parents, but Komaki dismissed it as stomach pains. Koito thus relays her suspicions to her friend Akira Namekata, who begins investigating into Komaki's supposed nightlife.

After her sister and Akira's deaths, Koito is overcome with guilt because she feels as though she should have stopped Komaki from going out. She also feels like Akira's death is her fault, as she is the one who asked Akira to watch Komaki. She talks with Oriko, who relieves some of her guilt.

At the very end of Sadness Prayer it's revealed that Koito made a contract with Kyubey and became a magical girl in order to help in the fight against Walpurgisnacht with Mami Tomoe, Kyoko Sakura and Yuma Chitose.

Observations

• Koito attends Shirome Middle School but she is not seen in the uniform until volume 3.

Powers and Abilities

Official sources have confirmed that Koito's power is lie detection, likely stemming from her wish to 'know everything'.

Etmology

• Koito "小糸" means "small thread". This would fit thematically with her sister's name if translated as "small roll of cloth".
• Koito's last name, "浅古", means "shallow and old" or "superficially old".

Trivia

• At the end of Sadness Prayer, it is implied that Koito would get a spin off of her own. However, this is yet to happen.
• Her outfit is based on a bard, as she is "a narrator that thinks about Oriko's bad actions after death".
  • She was designed with feathers as bards used to use them.
  • She was designed to be more gentle than other magical girls, since she only appears in the epilogue.
• Koito's magical girl bard outfit was re-designed and changed in almost everything for Magia Exedra, even her Soul Gem was redesign to have a different and more obvious distinction in the placement of her magical girl outfit.
  • The reasons for her re-design along side other changes in the story of Sadness Prayer and Oriko Magica in Magia Exedra are unknown, as Kuroe Mura refused to explain most of this changes.
  • Probably her redesign was due to problems in animation on her original outfit, but this is just speculation.

Gallery

Official Art

• 
  Color page of Yuma and Koito from Volume 4

Art by the artist

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  Koito's full magical girl outfit and weapon, a conductor baton.

Manga pages

• 
  Koito's casual clothes.
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  Koito in another casual outfit.
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  Koito sees Komaki sneaking out of the house.
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  Koito as a magical girl.
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  Koito's weapon

See also

• Komaki Asako