"My sister loved roses... I'm afraid of them... They're beautiful but... My hands bleed when touching them."
MATSUMOTO KAGAMI
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Kagami is a newcomer at Tamahara town. She is working as an assistant florist at a certain flower shop, the place where Kokoro often bought the flowers for her mother's grave. While seemed like a shy girl at first glance, she actually hide a pretty big secret from everyone--which is the fact that she's an Angel Gamer.
Current Story
Kagami may be a newcomer to Tamahara town, but she quickly got along with everyone with her kindness and gentle personality. However, it didn't take too long until Kagami started looking suspicious--and that is whenever Angel Game is mentioned; and how she refuse to talk about her past life before moving to Tamahara. In the end, Kagami had to reveal the fact that she's an Angel Gamer because of certain desperation.
She also hide the fact that she owns a phobia with Angel Game, as such--being attacked by a Gamer or participating in one will make her panic or distressed. Though, later after her secret was found out, Kagami admitted that she actually wanted to recover from her phobia, and the only solution she could go with is by participating in one.
In order to cure her phobia, Kagami decides to fight the biggest fear that was created from her own regrets; and choose to entrust Kokoro as well as the others to help her overcoming all her past traumas, and become a better person who's not tied to her past anymore. Surprisingly, Kagami seems to be very knowledgeable in Angel Game; although she's more smarter about it in theory and facts--but not in practice...
Personality
- Kagami owns a personality where she is usually shy and too polite towards people that she isn't familiar with, though it usually doesn't take a while to make her open up to someone. Her demeanor is enough to make her well-liked among children and elders, that they would visit the flower shop just to greet her.
- She can also be motherly and caring to close friends. She's portrayed as another parental figure to Kokoro and Sakane for being the second oldest. Sometimes Kokoro would stay at the flower shop just to seek opinions or advice from Kagami, even if Kagami is not experienced in giving advice--her thoughts and words somehow always manage to calm others down. (Despite the irony that Kagami is someone who easily gets panic).
- While she can also be very suspicious for her secretive nature...Kagami is the type that can't hide secrets, as an obvious reaction can be seen from her face when she lies. Even someone like Kokoro or Kozue could detect if Kagami were lying as her gestures or speech style would change, as if she's panicking in the inside.
- Despite her phobia, she is surprisingly the most knowledgeable about Angel Game among her friends, and sometimes blurt out every single facts and rules of Angel Gaming without realizing. This is because Kagami have a habit of studying on a topic thoroughly before participating in it. She's only smart at researching something rather than actually trying it out, however.
- Her calm persona can also easily break once she started panicking and lost her control. Especially if it's something that brought up her trauma, it could even lead to her collapsing out of sudden. Kagami is fully aware that this is her biggest flaw, which is why she tried to prepare as much before the day she could "face" an Angel Game battle.
Stats for "Howling Forest"
Howling Forest stats is almost well-rounded, with some few advantages and disadvantages. Being able to create flowers, plants and seeds, Kagami can use her "Heart" for both battles and self-defense, though her powers are shown to be leaning towards the defensive type. With a faster CHARGE rate, Kagami mostly defend herself using a wall of vines and the likes.
As stated, Kagami can use her "Heart" during attacks, though the damage that Howling Forest does is considered quite weak when compared to actual ATK-based "Hearts". With the small RANGE stats, Kagami's area of attack or defense is quite limited and most likely face disadvantages during multiplayer battles as she can only use her powers exclusively for herself and only one opponent. Having the balanced stat for S.C., this pretty much explains that her stamina consumption relies on how large/strong the energy she created--stronger powers will consume almost the same amount of stamina from it's user, which is pretty self-explanatory. |
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Appellation by Kagami |
Kokoro is one of Kagami's regular customer, hence they already talked a lot prior to their adventures. Though, Kagami definitely did not expect that Kokoro would accept her once she finally revealed her secrets, let alone helping her on recovering from her phobia. In return, Kagami helped a lot on Kokoro when it comes to facts and history about Angel Game, despite how much she refused to participate in the Game no matter how much Kokoro persuaded her. |
"Hidamari-san" |
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Both of them shares the trait of being the main planner of the group, though with the difference is that they have their ways in strategic versus tactic type of planning (and the fact that Kagami is only good at planning, but does not actually battle as often unlike Sakane). Kagami is always reminded by Sakane to act less serious/strict to Kozue and Kokoro as they wouldn't understand any complex instructions by Kagami. |
"Mikano-san" |
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When it comes to talking about Kozue, Kagami often wonders how come a person could be very experienced, yet also very clueless at the same time. That does not change the fact that they're close friends and often seen as the guardians towards Sakane and Kokoro, despite how much Kozue's attempts on reassuring Kagami does trouble Kagami at times. |
"Higurashi-san" |
As Kagami tries to hide the fact she's an Angel Gamer, she also tried to hide her background at the same time--not answering any questions regarding her life before she moved to Tamahara. She did accidentally revealed that she had an older twin sister, who's already deceased (and could possibly be a misfortune of hers).
Kagami and Kyouko; the only twins of Matsumoto family had to quit school due to lessen the burden caused by their family's bankruptcy. They had to help them with two things: first, find a job; and second, one of them needs to marry a man that their parents have chose. Kyouko; her twin sister was decided to engage the man for being the elder twin. Until one unfortunate day, Kyouko suddenly became an Angel Gamer - and they had to cancel their engagement and wedding plans, forcing Kyouko's fiancee to marry Kagami instead--as they wanted to avoid any forms of misfortunes in their family. Kagami's engagement made Kyouko committed suicide because of jealousy. After Kyouko's suicide, Kagami suddenly gain a phobia of Angel Game, and her life became unfortunate as she received a "Heart" from the Angels, and her town banned her from living in their town due to what happened to her twin sister. During this incident...all Kagami thought was her "Heart" was actually a curse from her deceased sister.
- "My sister and I are twins, except, we're completely opposite...like a mirror."
- "I'm not an Angel Gamer. Nor a good person. I'm just a monster."
- "Few days after my sister died, she appeared in my dream once...telling me that I will die. Soon as I woke up, I became an Angel Gamer..."
Trivia
- Initially inspired off Teruma Kamioka from Crash B-Daman, she was supposed to have a split personality instead of a twin.
- Kagami is the only main character that doesn't wear any jackets.
- Kagami's fashion style is often inspired from the mori-kei fashion, though it mostly applies to her casual outfit.
Significant changes:
- She have different color schemes and slightly different hairstyle in her previous designs.
Etymology:
- Her last name is rather a common surname, which literally translates to "base/book of pine tree".
- Her first name uses the kanji for "mirror; beauty". Similarly, her twin sister Kyouko, uses the kanji for "mirror; child".