| “ | I'm just a regular person. I don't belong in Shana and Sakai's world, do I? | „ |
| ~ Kazumi thinking to herself. |
Kazumi Yoshida is one of the main protagonists of the light novel and anime series Shakugan no Shana. She is a classmate of Yuji Sakai and Shana and has had feelings for Yuji since before the beginning of the series. As a result, she becomes a love rival to Shana for Yuji's affections, though the two eventually become friends.
She is voiced by Ayako Kawasumi in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Chantal Strand and Brina Palencia in the English version of the anime.
Story[]
Kazumi gets involved in the secret war through Khamsin, who recruits her to be part of his Tuning, a ritaul to suppress distortions in a location caused by disappeared humans and the presence of Crimson Denizens. Kazumi is chosen because she has a strong attachment to Misaki City, and had a strong sense of how it should be that Khamsin could use as a foundation for his spell. After the Tuning is taken care of, Kazumi sticks around mainly through her friendship with Yuji and company. Her role in the Tuning comes back into play in Season 3, when Snake of the Festival Yuji uses her to reverse the Tuning and use the distortions to open a tear in reality through which Xanadu can be created. Yuji also later uses her mental concept of Misaki City to restore all humans who have been devoured by Crimson Denizens.
Trivia[]
- Ayako Kawasumi also voices Saber and Aoi Sakuraba.
- Like the other human characters of the series, Kazumi's surname is a homage to Japanese politicians; she is named after Shigeru Yoshida, the former Prime Minister of Japan.
- Kazumi's and Shana's original English voice actresses, Chantal Strand and Tabitha St. Germain, play a similar love triangle relationship role with Lacus Clyne and Flay Allster from Gundam Seed. In that case, however, Strand's character was the winner
- For the Autumn festival, Kazumi draws the part of Juliet. Coincidentally, Brina Palencia, who voices Kazumi in seasons 2 & 3, voiced Juliet Capulet in Romeo X Juliet.