Mirai Kuriyama

Mirai Kuriyama is the deuteragonist of the Kyoukai no Kanata anime and light novels.

She is a first year student and a member of the school's Literary Club. She comes from a bloodline of Spirit World Warriors who possess blood-manipulation abilities. However, because these abilities are considered heretical among the Spirit World Warrior clans, she is shunned.

Appearance
Mirai is a very cute and beautiful young girl with wavy, peachy hair that styled in a chin-length bob with fringes reaching her eyebrows and golden eyes with a shade of amber and brown.

Mirai is typically seen wearing her school uniform, with a light pink cardigan on top, and black tights, or similar hosiery. Mirai wears her cardigan to conceal a bandaged wound (a gash on the right forearm in the light novels/ a small round wound on the right palm in the anime). The wound serves as a way to transport her blood out of her body whenever she needs to use her ability to manipulate blood. In the light novels, she also wears a set of bracelets to secure the bandages to her wounds. On top of that, she constantly wears a simple golden ring on her pinky finger, which seals her ability.

During summer, she exchanges her cardigan for a sleeve-less sweater, identical to her cardigan in every other aspect, and wears this on top of her summer uniform.

Mirai's most distinguishable accessory is a pair of thick-rimmed, rounded, red spectacles which she adorns at all times. For a short time, she temporarily switched to a pair of square black glasses, but switched back to her red ones as soon as she was able to.

It is later revealed that Mirai's appearance is very similar to that of her mother's, apart from her hair-color and style.

Personality
Clumsy and a bit shy, Mirai rarely stands out in school. In fact, she struggles in life; she has to earn her own money to make ends meet, but her constant fear of actually encountering a Youmu used to prevent her from earning an income by slaying Youmu, which most Spirit World Warriors take on as part of their profession. To make things worse, her hobby of writing blog articles about her much beloved bonsai-trees is often ridiculed on the internet. Her movements in battle demonstrate a certain degree of fighting knowledge, although she lacks actual combat experience due to her issues with Youmu encounters. After bonding with those around her, Mirai begins to feel more confident about defeating Youmu and becomes an experienced Spirit World Warrior. She is fond of saying the words "How unpleasant!" ("Fuyukai desu!") when agitated. Mirai has been shown to be very bad at lying, as the other characters in the show, mainly Akihito Kanbara, immediately notice that whenever she lies she subconsciously cleans her glasses while avoiding eye contact. Mirai has a similar personality as a Dandere, with a little bit of Tsundere. She is also awkward, even though she doesn't mean to be. She tends to withdraw and stay in the background, but does have a voice of her own. Mirai Kuriyama is also self-conscious about her looks, for example when Ai and Mitsuki were talking about how having big breasts is troubling. Mirai tries to avoid interacting with others, but fails. She is very persistent and doesn't enjoy being ridiculed.

Abilities
Hemokinesis Swordsmanship
 * Mirai was born with the ability to manipulate her blood in various ways such as shaping and solidifying it to form constructs, e.g. a sword or shield. This ability is limited by her body's natural blood volume. Her blood also has corrosive properties when injected into or sprayed against an opponent.
 * Mirai displays graceful swordsmanship, defending herself by swinging her sword around her body while cutting through enemy attacks.

Trivia

 * Her given name ' Mirai ' means 'future ' in Japanese.
 * She likes sweets, high-calorie snacks and her bonsai.
 * She is quick to jump to conclusions and is very skeptical of others, such as Ai Shindou when they first met.