Ayaka Shindō

Ayaka Shindō is one of the secondary characters of the Kyoukai no Kanata series, a Spirit World Warrior introduced as a human in the original light novels and a youmu with a nine-tailed fox form in the anime series. Ayaka is the link that connects Akihito Kanbara to the world of youmu and Spirit World Warriors, and is also the one who reads the postcards his mother sends to him. Ayaka is a beautiful young woman with straight chest-length dark gray hair and green eyes. She always wears a black kimono with a fitting obi and imprints of red flowers at the bottom. Over her kimono, she wears a yellow haori with beige dots on it. Along with this she wears white socks and zōri with a red hanao. Ayaka is a knowledgeable and mysterious woman who always appears calm and level-headed. She has a sense of humor that could almost be called cruel as she did not spare Akihito Kanbara from showing Yayoi Kanbara's (Akihito's mother) embarrassing message to outsiders while casually calling her "big-busted" and "kind of crazy" in one sentence. Ayaka poses as an intellectual and can relatively hide her powers and abilities very well. She teases people around her every chance she gets and is seen to have take pleasure in it. She intentionally lets off some details to see the reaction of Mirai Kuriyama while explaining about a youmu that threw off stinky liquids upon sensing danger. She however, shows her serious side during harsh times, and even so, acting soft and calm to the people around her for the sake of avoiding panic. She is also a money minded woman as shown when she prohibits Akihito to take pictures of Mirai in a bunny outfit before paying her up. Towards Ai Shindō (Ayaka's younger sister), she shows a kind side who calmly allays her to have no fear when their house is surrounded by countless Youmu.