Hana Asakura

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Hana Asakura is a male anime and manga character who features in Shaman King.

Biography

Hana Asakura wielding a spirit.

Hana Asakura (Japanese: 麻倉花, Hepburn: Asakura Hana) was born on August 15, 2001 where he was the son of Yoh Asakura and his wife Anna Asakura. As a baby, he and his parents were killed in the Middle East leading to all three of them ending up in the Great Spirit. Once there, his mother Anna used blackmail to force the Shaman King Hao Asakura to revive them. Whilst doing so, Hao implanted Onis into his nephew Hana as a safeguard.

Later on, as a child, Hana was present with Alumi Niumbirch at the Patch Village amidst its destruction by a young Yohsuke Kamogawa. Hana attacked Yohsuke, who merely used an YVS Card to freeze time. However, despite time still being frozen, Hana regained consciousness and killed Yohsuke. Hana then demanded answers out of Yohsuke, but Dong Dehon pointed out that it was impossible since Yohsuke's soul had already moved on. Hana moved to attack Dehon but vomited, and Dehon sympathized with this reaction to killing another person. After introducing himself, Dehon immobilized Hana and retrieved Yohsuke's body, while Shahon erased Hana's memories of the events.

By the time he as 6-year-old, he came under the guardianship of Tamao Tamamura whom he initially believed was his mother. Hana came to work with Ryunosuke Umemiya to search for the Five Elemental Warriors. After meeting with four of the warriors and hearing them talk about the final encounter with Asakura Hao, his father and mother suddenly arrive, with his father saying that everything will work out in the end because that was what they promised him. Hana suddenly attacks his father with a "Welcome Kick". After that, Tamao then scolds Hana for kicking his father in the gut, yet he refuses to apologize.

At age 13, Hana was called to the cemetery by Ichihara Ryuji and his gang who wished to beat him in order to be recognized as the strongest gang in West Tokyo. Hana, who did not understand their reasoning for fighting, nevertheless takes up their challenge and beats them by using Soul Integration with Amidamaru. When he returns home he is scolded by Tamao for using spirits, and she bans him from using them. When he returns to the cemetery the next day, he finds Amidamaru's gravestone had been sliced in two and decides to find the person responsible. He is interrupted by a boy from his school, asking for directions. After Hana insults him, the boy reveals that he can actually see Amidamaru and that he himself possesses the spirit of a swordsman, Oboro Daikyoh. He challenges Hana to a fight, which Hana accepts it as it would end his boredom. After asking his name, the boy reveals himself to be Asakura Yohane, but Hana merely ignores and laughs at his addition of gloves and an eyepatch. Hana performs Soul Integration with Amidamaru and attacks Yohane who defends the same way. After Yohane gains the upper hand against Hana and delivers a hard blow, he reveals his Over Soul and his reasons to kill the heir to the Asakura Family. However, after Hana hears that Yohane is aiming to kill his father as well, he uses his own Over Soul and defends against Yohane's attack. He then changes the shape of his Over Soul and strikes Yohane, defeating him and breaking his arm in the process. Shocked by the result, Hana leaves to bring him first aid. He meets Tamao on his way who he lies to about the fight and later the Hana-Gumi Waitresses at the inn, who almost make him forget about the first aid kit. He later returns with the kit to the cemetery only to find Yohane gone. The same night, he reveals the events of the fight to Ryu who in turn tells him that Tamao left to investigate the boy and his sister.

Later that night, Hana saw a girl across the street that was watching him from behind a street lamp. The young Hana decided to go to see who she was thinking that she was his first 'secret admirer'. However, she came to attack him with two dog spirits and later she revealed herself to be Asakura Luca, the older sister of Yohane. She then forms her Over Soul and mocks Hana's Furyoku level, before attacking him. Hana, however, changes the shape of his Over Soul to better receive the attack and then changes his Over Soul to its offensive form. Luca also changes the shape of her Over Soul, and while Hana is focused on it, he is attacked from behind by Yohane, who manages to impale him through his stomach. Hana is, however, still able to stand and, in panic, Luca not only dissolves his Furyoku with her Over Soul but also combined it with Yohane's to deliver a finishing blow. Hana was saved by the sudden appearance of Alumi Numbirch, and she easily defeats the siblings' Over Soul. When Hana awakes in the hospital, he recounts the night's events and criticizes Alumi, so in retaliation, she punches him in the stomach. While wandering around the hospital, Hana runs across Ryuji and decides to vent his frustation on the older teenager; however, Ryu accidentally gets in the way. Hana drags Ryu outside, and Ryu passes on the warning about the upcoming Flower of Maize. After his recovery, he goes to school only to find Yohane and Alumi have transferred to his class. Hana and Yohane later on ditch school to go to a new mall that was opened up. Alumi follows them and warns Hana to be on guard. Ryuji and Luca later attack Hana at the mall. Hana is defenseless because Luca petrified and stole Amidamaru. Ryuji cracks Hana's skull and Hana passes out. After remembering the time he died as an infant, Hana wakes up in a trance and begins summoning oni. Every time Luca's Over Soul destroys the oni, stronger ones are summoned until Hana unleashes the Yami-Oni. It destroyed Luca's Over Souls, causing her to pass out, and then grabbed Yohane. However, Alumi intervened just in time where she purified the Yami-Oni, saving Yohane and causing Hana to lose consciousness again.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Hana Asakura was a Japanese male with mid-length dirty blond hair that was very similar to his father's hairstyle. The main difference was that Hana's hair was wavy like his mother's. It was shown that he also had amber colored eyes and a light complexion. When Hana Asakura was younger, he dressed in overalls with no shirt. His hair was much longer and wilder looking.

Hana can be described as a socially awkward teenager. Although not ostracized to the extent that Yoh was, Hana keeps to himself and is typically isolated from his normal peers, being more of a loner who feels he doesn't fit with the rest. Hana carries a lot of pent up anger as a result of his parents disappearance for the majority of his life as he has been under the care of Tamao, who is stern, but cares about him and forbids him from using his shamanic powers. This causes Hana inner turmoil as he struggles to find his place in the world, having no objectives, or drive to his life, while feeling denied. His petty fights against Ichihara Ryuji and his gang, thus serve as an outlet to his anger, allowing himself to run wild, although still retraining himself to not injure them significantly or otherwise kill them.

He seemed to show a similar attitude to his mother Anna with him being quick to anger and overly violent at times.

Hana was shown to be very arrogant as well, either looking down on people, regularly mocking his foes, or feeling he doesn't fit with normal people because he is different. He displayed these traits when mocking Yohane for his attire, thinking he was a chuunibyo, believing that Luca was a secret admirer before she attacked him, or ridiculing Tao Men for his unusual hairdo. Hana also doesn't show much respect to his spirits and is generally unfriendly to everyone the first time. Even is less conflictive situations, Hana can be prone to violence, greeting people with his signature "welcome" kick, which he uses on his father, Usui Horokeu and even on Hao himself. Hana also tends to have some bizarre line of thought at times. When attacked by Luca the first time, he decried her attempt at killing him, reasoning they were on a country of laws and that an attempt at his life would technically be considered criminal, even though a Shamanic battle would be impossible to prove in court.

As he's targeted by other Shamans, Hana becomes greatly confused about this set of circumstances in which he has been put without knowing the full extent of affairs, something that also irritates him deeply as he's dragged into affairs he doesn't fully comprehend. At the same time, he relishes at the opportunity to fight these adversaries, as it allows him to use his powers and puts him closer to his objective of defeating his father, which is Hana's primary motivation in life.

The young Asakura also had a signature 'welcome' kick with which he greets most people, including his father Yoh, Usui Horokeu, and even his uncle Hao. This is very reminiscent of his mother who would use her 'famous left' to slap people who were irritating her.

Hana does seem to be very vain as well. He says that he would die of embarrassment if he wore anything like Yohane's eyepatch and accuses him of having Chūnibyō because of the way he talks and dresses. Later when he sees Luca Asakura for the first time, watching him through a window, he immediately believes her to be a secret admirer.

In contrast to his father, he does not show his spirits much respect, he was not as friendly to everyone the first time and does not seem as kind as his father.

During the many instances in which he has been attacked and nearly lost his life, the Onis within him activate by feeding into his boiling negative emotions, resulting in enormous beasts of highly destructive power, who attack everyone indiscriminately, which are in fact a reflection of the darkness within Hana himself. During this trance, Hana views everyone as an enemy, mocking and ridiculing his foes repeatedly, while trying to assert himself as superior. He has virtually no restraint and activelly tries to kill others with almost no control over himself. Even after coming back to his senses, Hana retains a significant amount of anger, and greatly dislikes being reprimanded for his actions, lack of self control, and overall immaturity.

Hana Asakura was the son of Yoh Asakura (麻倉 葉, Asakura Yō) and Anna Asakura (麻倉アンナ, Asakura Anna). He also seems to have resentment for his father as he states, "The only one who will beat Asakura Yoh is me."

Powers and abilities

Hana Asakura was a male shaman born from two powerful parents with him having a greater potential than them. As a shaman, he had the natural talent of seeing ghosts and being able to control spirits. According to Amidamaru, Hana had more potential than his father as a Shaman, both physically and mentally. Ryu had said that Hana had the same strength as his mother and he even has a phantom left kick. At the age of 7, he already had the ability to form an Over Soul.

Being a shaman, he had the ability to summon a Guardian Ghost to aid him. Among the ghosts that worked with Hana included:

• Amidamaru (阿弥陀丸, Amidamaru) : a 600-year-old samurai who Hana had inherited from his father.
• Oni :
• Sakutaro Sakurai (桜井咲太郎, Sakurai Sakutarō) : a second lieutenant with the Imperial Japanese Navy's airborne division during World War II who flew a Zero fighter plane, earning him notoriety as Death Zero (死神の零デスゼロ Desu Zero).

It was shown that Hana came to wield the Futunomitama no Turugi (フツノミタマの剣 Futsunomitama no Tsurugi, 4Kids: "Antiquity") that was stone sword owned by the Asakura Family. Using the Futunomitama no Turugi, he was able to create a single Over Soul with a demonic head that acts as a flexible shield but he can also change it into an armguard with a cleaver like a blade.

Hana had demonstrated the skill to summon Onis like his mother, Anna. It was an ability given to him by his uncle, Hao Asakura, when he revived him as a baby, as a way of preventing him from ever dying again. Doing this also benefited Hao. With Hana having the ability to summon Onis, he would be even more powerful as the leader of Team Hao in the Flower of Maize. Initially, he could only summons small ones, but if they were defeated, he begins to chant "Demons Out" (鬼は外) while summoning larger ones. Eventually, he was able to condense the summoned Onis into forming larger and more powerful Dark Oni.

Hana was a member of the Asakura Family (麻倉家 Asakura-ke) that were one of two great clans of shamans.

Notes

• Hana Asakura was created by Hiroyuki Takei where he featured in the setting of the Shaman King universe.

In other media

Television

Appearances

• Shaman King Flowers:

External Links

• Shaman King Wiki Entry

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