Saya Kisaragi is the main heroine of manga and anime Blood-C.
Appearance[]
Saya is a tall and slender light-skinned girl teenager who is often referred to as being beautiful with long black hair that is usually kept up in low twin-tails by two red ribbons wrapped around them at the back of her head with bangs hanging on the right side while she has shoulder-length hair strands hanging on either side, blue-grey eyes (sometimes turning bright red) under black oval-shaped glasses with white thin temples and the rest of it being rimless.
Saya is usually seen wearing either her shrine maiden outfit or high school uniform.
Her school uniform is a dark grey short sleeved shirt with a Peter Pan collar. It also has red highlights on it. On her right arm, there is an armband that is connected to her right sleeve. She wore a double red tie with a dark grey line around the bottom of it. Near the top of the tie, there is a chain connected on each side of her collar, which has a red lining on the collar. She wears a red pleated skirt that goes just past mid-thigh length with some small black lace on the bottom of it. She also wears black socks cut just below the knee and red and brown shoes in a school model.
In Blood-C: The Last Dark, her outfit is a dark navy blue sailor uniform with white lining on the collar and ends of sleeves as well as a red bow.
Despite her youthful appearance, Saya is hinted to be much older.
Personality[]
Fake Personality[]
At the beginning of the series, Saya was originally portrayed as a kind and cheerful teenager who is known around the village for being helpful. She gets along with her friends and admired her father. She was also very friendly, almost to the point of coming off as naïve. Notorious for being clumsy and a bit air-headed, Saya has a bad habit of tripping and falling on her face. She was also often late for school due to being distracted on the way.
Saya is incredibly devoted in her role as the Shrine Maiden and her duty to fight against the Elder Bairn. She shows immense bravery when facing them and expressed deep sadness whenever she fails to protect other people against them.
Actual Personality[]
However, by the end of the series, it was revealed that Saya's "normal life" and "happy personality" were all fabricated due to an experiment designed by Fumito Nanahara.
Saya's true and original personality is cold and distant who is said to always cause trouble wherever she goes, to the point that she's considered as a bad omen. According to Fumito, Saya does not care for human lives and only wishes to be able to drink their blood, but is unable to due to a contract made with an unknown person. She has a very deep hatred towards Fumito and sought revenge for what he did in the Ukishima Experiment.
Although distant, Saya doesn't seem to be completely heartless as she has grown to care for the members of SIRRUT, especially towards Mana Hiiragi. She also has a mutual understanding and "fellowship" with the shop owner who grants wishes.
Plot[]
Saya is the only daughter of the priest at the local shrine, whose duty it is to slay the Elder Bairns, creatures who drink the blood of humans. It is what her mother did before she died, and now Saya is the only one who can slay them. By day she seems to live a normal life of a high school girl, though Saya does seem to be rather clumsy, and completely oblivious to many remarks that are made around her, especially concerning boys that seem to like her. Since neither she nor her father are capable cooks, she eats breakfast every morning at Guimauve, the café next to the shrine.
The owner Fumito Nanahara gives her a sweet called Guimauve, named after the café, as well as preparing her lunch. When she fights, her abilities are human or slightly above normal human abilities, until her eyes glow red. She then seems to become more serious, and much stronger and faster. Her father, Tadayoshi Kisaragi, provides her with a sword with which she fights. As the series progresses, Elder Bairn attacks become more frequent, even occurring during the day and at the school which Saya attends. As more and more people die or go missing, Saya begins to have strange visions and flashbacks, along with headaches that occur when she tries to remember certain things.
A small cute dog appears, who states (Yes, he talks and it is hinted that he is Kimihiro Watanuki) that he is trying to grant her wish. Saya made a promise to protect everyone, but cannot remember to whom she promised. She realizes she cannot remember her mother's name or appearance. This, and some other things, he tries to get her to realize, but she is still unable to remember anything. Tired of waiting for Saya to remember, Kanako Tsutsutori (along with Nene Motoe, Nono Motoe, and Shinichirou Tokizane) try to force Saya to remember by having her drink the blood of an Elder Bairn. Tsutsutori, however, overdoes it, and Saya becomes inebriated. They tell Saya that they are all "cast members" who were hired to play many roles, in which she is the "lead star".
Several characters who were previously thought to be dead are shown to be alive, namely Tokizane, Nono, and Nene. They are confronted by Yuuka Amino and Itsuki Tomofusa, who question why they tried to ruin the project. Fumito Nanahara joins them, and it is revealed that he is the one who arranged for Saya to be brought there. He has been controlling the Elder Bairns by using Saya's blood, and has a Cerberus bairn kill Tokizane, Nono and Nene for trying to make Saya remember. Saya remembers drinking the blood of the Elder Bairns that she defeated. Every time, Fumito would make Saya forget again. Kanako runs to Tadayoshi, who embraces her before killing her and drinking her blood. Tadayoshi is half human, half Elder Bairn. Saya begins to remember her past self, and of the terms to the wager which she and Fumito had agreed; By erasing Saya's memories and planting fake ones, would she change? Or would she revert to her old, murderous self?
Saya cannot kill humans, and agreed to protect them, but it is not revealed with whom she made this contract, or who made the stipulation that she couldn't harm humans. Saya said she wouldn't change, but Fumito said he would arrange it so she could attack humans if she won the wager. He does not say what he gets if he won the wager. Saya defeats Tadayoshi, crying as he dies and calling him "Father". As Saya chases after Fumito, he leaves a strange bunny Elder Bairn, which Saya slices in half. It multiplies and slaughters the town full of people, many whom are screaming that it was not part of the contract. While still running after Fumito, Saya kills the original, and the rest of the strange bunny bairns die.
Fumito begins to fly away in a helicopter, and Saya jumps high enough to finally kill him, but he shoots her in the head, apparently blowing half her head off. As she falls into the ocean below, Fumito comments, very calmly, that the ingredient in Guimauve was the blood of the Elder Bairns, and he had been told that it tasted like human organs. He wonders if she ever will be able to kill humans, as she could have the real thing then.
As the helicopter flies away, Saya remains floating in the lake. She is still alive, and rests on shore waiting for her wounds to heal. After what seems to be a day or two, Saya rips off part of her school uniform skirt and bandages her still bleeding left eye. The dog remarks that, before Saya was captured, she made a wish: "I want to stay myself". He says he has fulfilled this wish of hers, but it is time for her to reach for the next wish.
As the credits begin rolling, her sword breaks in half. She throws it away, and starts running away from the area, presumably to search for Fumito.
Blood-C: The Last Dark[]
Six months after the incident at Ukishima Province, Saya arrives in Tokyo by train. Aboard this train, an Elder Bairn, later revealed to be the father of Mana Hiiragi, attacks. After viciously attacking him, the creature flees after taking Mana Hiiragi hostage. Saya pursues him through the streets of the city before killing him by plunging a katana through his head, shattering her own blade in the process. As members of Fumito's secret police arrive, Saya flees with the members of SIRRUT, ultimately ending in their headquarters.
There, she meets Kuroto Mogari, benefactor to the organization. He expressed the desire for revenge against Fumito and wished for Saya's help with carrying out this plan. Leaving SIRRUT headquarters with Mana following in pursuit, Saya ends up at a shop where she is greeted by Watanuki. He revealed that he was able to communicate with her in Ukishima through the dog to help guide the return of her memories. Leaving the shop with a new katana to replace the one she had shattered in her previous fight, Saya speaks again with Kuroto, who reveals that he and Fumito are cousins. The Mogari and Narahara families were responsible for maintaining the pact between the Elder Bairns and humans, but Fumito broke that pact and killed both of their families for his own personal ambitions.
Through the information acquired by Hiro Tsukiyama, Saya attends a ceremony at Tsuji Private School, where Fumito was scheduled to give a speech in hopes of assassinating the latter. It was revealed to be a trap, as the Fumito attending the event was an illusion designed to lure Saya to the event. An Elder Bairn attacks, and despite being defeated, it had served its purpose to injure and collect her blood.
After the event, Mana resumed her previous skill at computer hacking, revealing Tower's headquarters in a landfill. Infiltrating the facility, Saya battled through Fumito's guards to reach the basement of the compound. There, she encounters Fumito himself before succumbing a drug that she had unknowingly ingested from the coffee at SIRRUT. Kuroto arrives and reveals that he and Fumito had been working together this whole time, using SIRRUT to lure Saya to Tower headquarters. Fumito reveals that Saya's blood is able to break the pact between the Elder Bairns and humans, causing them to run rampant. After stating that everything he had done was for his personal obsession with her, Kuroto angrily stabs him with a katana. In response, Fumito shatters a vial of Saya's blood in Kuroto's eye, causing him to transform into a pod-like Elder Bairn. As she recovers from the effects of the paralysis drug, Fumito merges with the pod which transforms into a colossal Elder Bairn under his control.
Saya battles with the giant, killing it to come face to face with Fumito. Saya hesitates for a while as he takes her katana and stabs it into his own chest, revealing that he had a long ago tried to turn himself into an Elder Bairns, so he could reach her who made a pact with humans. Fumito, however, failed, and realizing her desire to have her own curse broken was also not fulfilled, he accepts he lost their bet. Her winning prize could not be reached as he promised so he kissed Saya, revealing how he tried and really cared about her race and curse, just before fading away. Saya then laments that, after all, Fumito left her all alone again. Afterwards, it is revealed that she never returned to SIRRUT, with the ending scene a glimpse of her walking through the streets of Tokyo by herself, and Mana wishing that they may meet again.
Abilities[]
Despite looking human, Saya has displayed abilities far above natural human capabilities. This is most notable in the fact that she has survived numerous battles with the Elder Bairns.
- Healing Factor: Saya has been shown surviving injuries that would kill a human without question and still be capable of fighting even with said injuries. After having her head blown open by Fumito Nanahara, she simply bandages the injury and leaves the experiment site.
- Enhanced Strength: Despite her petite appearance, Saya was capable of holding her ground against Elder Barin’s much larger than her like Cerberus with either a katana, anything sturdy or empty-handed.
- Enhanced Speed: When facing off against her father, Saya managed to defeat him with several blinding strikes that severed his arms. She was also capable of avoiding gun fire in her fight in Seventh Heaven and dodge a point-blank shot from Kutou.
- Enhanced Endurance: Saya is able to endure a lot of punishments in her fights against the Elder Bairns.
- Intelligence: In battle, Saya is capable of deducing an enemies weakness and fighting style such as with the Eye Elder Barin. When her signature weapon is unavailable she is able to improvise with almost anything sturdy such as a mop handle. In the film, Saya practiced extreme caution around most of the other characters and cautiously refrained from consuming most food and drink which later proved justified.
- Swordsmanship: Saya has shown herself to be a competent swordswoman although the style she uses is unknown. A majority of Elder Bairns slain by Saya were defeated when she was wielding a katana.
Relationships[]
Tadayoshi Kisaragi[]
At the beginning of the series, Tadayoshi is portrayed as the priest of the local shrine who is raising Saya alone after her mother passed away when she was only a child. Throughout the series, he is shown to care for Saya, supporting her after her fights and being concerned when she doesn't feel well. Saya looks up to Tadayoshi, often speaking highly of him and was even willing to learn how to cook for him. In the final episode, Tadayoshi kills and drinks the blood of Kanako Tsutsutori, before fighting Saya. As he dies, Saya holds him and cries, calling him "father", even after learning that they are neither blood-related. Saya regards him as "a kind man" in the film.
Fumito Nanahara[]
When first introduced, Fumito was known as the owner of the café next to the shrine, Guimauve. Fumito played as a family friend towards Saya and would regularly make breakfast and lunch for her since she and Tadayoshi are not capable cooks. Fumito seems to care for Saya a great deal, tending to her when she gets sick, bringing her treats, and once even telling her that she is a special person to him. It was later revealed that Fumito is the person responsible for erasing Saya's memories and hiring the "cast". His motives have something to do with manipulating the Shrovetide, a time when demons are allowed to feast on humans.
Throughout the whole duration of the film, Fumito expressed joy and excitement when seeing Saya again. However, Saya deeply hates Fumito for what he did to her and acted in pure rage when seeing him.
Nene & Nono Motoe[]
The Motoe twin sisters were Saya's friends who were initially shown as a pair of very mischievous but well-meaning girls who often teases Saya. In the end, they are later hinted at being con-artists who only agreed to be part of the "main cast" in return for having their criminal activities removed from their records. They do not care for Saya at all, even seeming to enjoy her anguish when the truth is revealed.
Yūka Amino[]
Yūka played the "big sister" of the main cast. Although she was initially viewed as Saya's friend, she is later revealed to be cold-hearted and apathetic towards Saya who only cared about her reward for "acting" with everyone else, which is to become Governor of Tokyo.
Story of Joining Sora's Team[]
Saya joins Sora's Team in order to hunt down monsters, heard the dark story of Saya Kisaragi's past from Tomofusa as sacrifice people for save her especially Isogai, Class 3-E, Naofumi, Amaki, Kawasumi, Motoyasu, Rokuro Enmado, and all the other heroes revealed that their lives were just as sad just like her especially Class 3-E telling who Korosensei really is as a victim just like that saved by someone, Class 3-E, and Isogai reveals that even though Class 3-E is like Tokizane, Class 3-E is still sane enough to care about the innocent, especially caring about each other as fellow living beings, Korosensei's memories are genuine, making Korosensei understand that Class 3-E protecting Saya Kisaragi like she did, especially Karasuma, and Irina confirming what Class 3-E said as students, both of them, especially Irina, hate Kanako much more, and the main character who has been turned on by what their did to Kisaragi is much horrible than deceiving Class 3-E, Karasuma, and Korosensei heard their working together with Takaoka, and Yanagisawa made Class 3-E, Korosensei, Karasuma, and Irina hate about Motoe, Fumito, and others as main cast except Itsuki Tomofusa because Class 3-E defended Itsuki Tomofusa for his past actions save her before, especially Nene & Nono asked why Class 3-E, and the other Heroes wanted to be friends and invited her, Kisaragi is monster but make Isogai, and Class 3-E angry to Nono, Nene, and other villains that mock Saya Kisaragi as monster then Keith Claes saw that Saya Kisaragi was suffering as much as himself, so Keith saved protected Her from Motoe, and other criminals like Katarina did when she protected him, even the actions of Kanako, the people in her town, and most of her friends in her old life surpass those of Irina, and Kayano, especially Isogai, and the other Heroes despite her life fake but when with Tadayoshi, and Tomofusa it is real so Tomofusa, and Tadayoshi see that Saya Kisaragi has real friends even though She are monsters but Class 3-E, and Isogai doesn't care as monster because Class 3-E already instills Aguri's teachings in Class 3-E heart until Class 3-E sees Kisaragi as Korosensei in the form of Okuda as a savior that always save them.