Kagari Izuriha

Kagari Izuriha (出灰カガリ Izuriha Kagari) is one of the characters in the 2012 Black★Rock Shooter anime. Her " other self" is Chariot.

Appearance
In appearance, Kagari is depicted as wearing a white sleeping gown and has very messy blonde hair that comes down all the way down to her hips. She was also thought permanently bound to a wheelchair, despite the fact that doctors found nothing wrong with her legs. After the death of Chariot, she has started to walk again. She seems to be associated with a particular doll with brown hair curls.

When she started going to school, she wears the school uniform, with her hair tied with a pink ribbon in a side ponytail on the right, with clips in the back of her hair.

Personality
A childhood friend of Yomi. She was thought to be permanently bound to a wheelchair and thus did not attend her school. Yomi seems to be very afraid of her, but continues to communicate with her and allow her into her house.

She is unable to become friends with Mato and hates her. She is also very fond of macarons. Her obsession with Yomi is extremely possessive, and she forbids Yomi from making any friends, declaring that Yomi is "hers", and demanding that Yomi "take responsibility". According to the second episode, she has been devoted like this to Yomi ever since they were small children and was broken when Yomi went overseas for a few years due to her father's job. She is not subtle about her like or dislike of someone, offering Mato what she calls the "dirty colors" of her macarons and giving her an ugly doll. She has her own doll named Mary, which she sometimes talks through. The second episode reveals that she is not actually crippled, but she seems to have caused herself to believe that she is. She also has a fear of the outside world.

After she started to walk again, she became a much more cheerful and sociable person, even to Mato.

History
When she and Yomi were small children, they were close friends, and Kagari was extremely devoted to Yomi. However, Yomi had to move away for a few years overseas due to her father's job, and when they were driving away, Kagari chased them on foot, only to be hit by a car. The doctors were unable to find anything physically wrong with her, but Kagari's legs were disabled, meaning that the trauma was more damaging to her emotional state than her actual physical condition.

Since then, Yomi found it easier to give into her demands than to deal with the fact that she felt responsible for Kagari's pain, and thus became bound to her.

Plot
Kagari first appears in the anime when Yomi arrives home and talks to her through a cup-and-string telephone. Kagari tells her that she must not make friends. She later appears when Mato visits Yomi, and feeds her macarons, force-feeding them to her and giving Mato all of the "dirty colors". Mato attempts to make friends with her, but she scorns her, giving her an ugly doll as a present and speaking through her doll, Mary, telling Mato to "get out". The experience heavily scars Mato.

That night, Yomi talks to her on the cup-and-string telephone, with which Kagari reminds her that she must not make friends, and that Yomi is hers and that she must "take responsibility". The next day, she forbids Yomi from going to the festival, only allowing her to send text messages to Mato saying "I'm sorry" and rationalizes this by saying that because she herself cannot go, Yomi cannot go. She tries to feed Yomi macarons, but Yomi refuses; Kagari then takes a needle, orders Yomi to undress, and, saying that she will carve Yomi's pain out, carves in a heart-shaped scar on her chest. The day after, Mato visits Yomi, and when Yomi is going down to greet her Kagari appears at the top of the stairs and reveals she had been waiting for Yomi. Kagari threatens to jump down the stairs, and says that Yomi will be blamed if Kagari dies, and will be killed too. Kagari emerges with only a twisted wrist; however, she claims her arm is unusable and Yomi will have to do everything for her. However, Mato tries to reach Yomi, and Kagari blows up, yelling at her and Yomi. This causes Yomi to realize that Kagari is only pitiful because Yomi has made her pitiful, and Yomi begs Kagari to come out of the house, befriend her and Mato, go to school, and stop with the wheelchair. Kagari starts to scream, saying that she can't go outside; however, she suddenly stops when Black★Rock Shooter beheads Chariot, and when Mato comes in, she looks at her and smiles at her. She then promptly afterwards falls over, and Mato and Yomi find that she is sleeping. Afterwards, she starts to seem more cheerful to others, and is taking walking exercises.

In school she stood behind Yomi, initially nervous of everyone. When she is asked to introduce herself, she replies with just her name, to which the class responds with saying how cute she is, and later on gains popularity and makes lots of friends.

Kagari later tells Yomi that she will be joining the cooking club and make sweets which surprises Yomi, asking if she will be alright, where several girls from the class then join in saying that Kagari will be fine and take her away from Yomi. Mato is seen washing her face and Kagari hands her a towel, she then asks Mato if she could do anything for Yomi since Yomi took care of her for so long and Kagari was lost without her, Mato then walks up to Kagari and tells her what she can do for Yomi.

Later as Mato runs up the usual spot trying to eat a piece of bread but fails nearly making it fall she spots Kagari waiting as Mato walks up to Kagari, she grasps her arm and says "take me to school". As class starts Yomi rushes in late scolding Kagari and asks her why she wasn't at the usual stop, Kagari's friends then protect her saying what does it matter to Yomi.

Kagari visits Yomi and brings her a gift of cookies. Yomi asks her what they are for and Kagari states that she has very little recollection of them being friends and that the cookies signify them parting. This causes Yomi to drop the cookies and go into an episode of hysteria for the next couple of days. Kagari is seen living her normal days off in school. She is somewhat upset when Yomi cuts her hair in class, but states that she is unsure of why and brushes it off.

After Mato and Yuu enter the Otherworld, both Kagari and Yomi begin to regain memories and Kagari collapses in the classroom, complaining that she "feels pain". Kagari later apologizes to Yomi for ever forgetting her and they become friends once more. Kagari, along with Yuu, Mato, and Yomi are seen visiting Saya for coffee and hanging out on the roof of the school.

Trivia

 * Kagari was originally seen her school uniform design on the official website prior to the anime's start, with her calm demeanor, somewhat implying that she would eventually return to school as she did in Episode 4. Within a few days, the website design changed to the one in her bedclothes.
 * Kagari, even though not in her intentions, causes Yomi to break down, which leads to her forgetting Mato.