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| Japanese Name | 日向 華々莉 |
| Age | Unknown |
| Weapon | Sword; chakrams |
(Note: As all chapters post-volume 1 are currently only available in Japanese, most of the post-volume 1 info below comes from rough translation and interpretation of events. Thus, some of the information may be incorrect, so please do not treat anything as 100% accurate.)
Kagari Hinata (日向 華々莉 Hinata Kagari) is one of the main characters in Puella Magi Suzune Magica. She is the main antagonist and mastermind of the events of the story.
General info
- Eye colour: Red
- Hair colour: Dark purple
- Japanese pronoun: Watashi (私)
- Soul gem: Tyrian purple gem in the center of a butterfly on her chest.
- Wish: Currently unknown.
Personality
Kagari is a girl with a playfully cruel nature, taking delight in teasing and tormenting her victims. She is also downright callous, showing no remorse when torturing or murdering her victims, nor for any of the deaths she is indirectly responsible for. Kagari is a force to be reckoned with when she turns angry, often lashing out violently; she is also capable of holding extreme grudges, like the one she holds towards Suzune Amano for killing her caretaker, Tsubaki Mikoto, and will do anything she can to get revenge — even turning herself into a witch.
In the past, Kagari is seen as more serious and easily irritated; this might come from having to take care of her sister, Matsuri Hinata, who was blind at the time. In the present, Kagari appears to have a soft spot for her, choosing to knock her unconscious and carry her to her bedroom rather than kill her like she did with Arisa; however, Kagari doesn't hesitate to try and kill Matsuri when she gets in the way of her goals.
Story
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Kagari during Suzune Magica
Powers and Abilities
Kagari's magic appears to be illusionary-themed. She also has mind-manipulation powers, but no outright mind control.
With her illusion magic, she can change her appearance (as she used this to torment Suzune with an image of Tsubaki), turn invisible, and she can confuse others by using her magic to appear as someone else (as she confused Matsuri by covering Suzune with an illusion of herself).
She is also capable of altering people's memories: she used this ability to turn Suzune into a magical girl killer and erase Matsuri's memories of becoming friends with Suzune; however, the person's real memories seem to eventually come back over time, as with Matsuri just before Kagari returns, after Kyubey shows her a vision of Suzune's past, involving Tsubaki.
Kagari can also show other people visions; she used this power to show Suzune her backstory, her wish and the reason why she became a magical girl, and the start of her revenge gambit.
Kagari also appears to have some kind of super-speed power (given she was able to stab Arisa — who was using her own super-speed magic — in the back, and arrive quick enough to kill her before she killed Suzune). She also appears to be able to speed up the corruption of her soul gem somehow; she uses this ability to turn herself into a witch as a last-ditch attempt to kill Suzune and Matsuri.
She can also knock someone unconscious temporarily, an ability she once used on Matsuri.
Observations
- Kagari has a definite butterfly motif: the back of her hairstyle vaguely resembles a butterfly, the surrounding decoration of her soul gem is a butterfly, her grief seed has butterflies on it, and the symbol that appears when Suzune briefly shows the magic she absorbed to Matsuri is a butterfly.
- Kagari's butterfly motif might refer to the phenomenon known as the "butterfly effect", referring to how a small change in time leads to large consequences; Kagari in fact invokes the butterfly effect by altering Suzune's memories slightly and erasing Matsuri's of Suzune, changing their paths in life significantly and with disastrous consequences.
- In Japanese folklore, butterflies are souls — note that Kagari's soul gem is in the center of a butterfly's body. In another country's folklore, butterflies are the souls of witches.
- Present Kagari is never seen outside of her magical girl form.
- Kagari's powers could be described as "plot convenient" powers. She is the one who kicked off the whole story; the memory-altering spells she put on Matsuri faded away almost immediately when she arrived; she was somehow able to instantly appear in the middle of Suzune's and Arisa's fight and kill the powered-up Arisa; she conjured flashback sequences explaining her backstory with her magic; and she was able to turn herself into a witch when the battle between her, Suzune and Matsuri reached a stalemate.
- The book familiars of Kagari's witch (one of which ate Matsuri) have covers that resemble Tsubaki. The tentacle-like familiars that grab and eat people are also the same ones that tried to restrain Suzune from reaching Tsubaki in her dream in volume 2.
- The outfit of the outer body of Kagari's witch resembles younger Kagari's outfit. The body also seems to be coming out of a book resembling the picture book about a witch that Tsubaki was seen reading to the twins.
Trivia
- The first and third kanji for Kagari's name mean "flower", "flashy", or "glamorous" (華) and "jasmine" (莉). The second (々) is a character indicating that the previous kanji and sound (sometimes voiced) should be repeated.
- "Kagari" could also mean a cross-stitch (縢) or a basket made of bamboo (篝); more obscurely, it could be read as "deer hunter" (鹿狩) or "god hunter" (神狩).
- Kagari being named after a flower matches Matsuri and Tsubaki, who are also named after flowers.
- According to tweets from GAN:
- Kagari is the only major Suzune character without a character profile.
Gallery
Official art
From 「twitterまとめ」 by GAN.
Volume 3 cover and bonus Kagari image.
Manga pages
Kagari, while stabbing Arisa.
Kagari's sword. There isn't a very clear shot of it.
Kagari's chakrams.
Kagari's witch. Note how it resembles a harlequin coming from a book.
The inside of the body of Kagari's witch. The outer body seems to be a puppet of sorts, with this silhouette of Kagari being the core or true body.
Kagari's grief seed. Note the butterflies.
Kagari's first appearance. Note how her face above the nose and her twintails are not seen.
Kagari reveals herself to Matsuri in her second appearance.
Kagari murdering Arisa.
Kagari toying with Suzune.
Kagari blocking one of Matsuri's attacks.
Suzune holding Kagari at sword-point.
Suzune killing a fake Kagari...
...which changes into a fake Tsubaki to torment Suzune.
Young Kagari.
Young Kagari with her hair down.
Kagari bowing.
External links
- Kagari Hinata at Pixiv image repository (Japanese). Note that Kagari's tag on pixiv uses her katakana first name (カガリ).
- Kagari Hinata at Danbooru image repository (NSFW)