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Kanami Minami (Japanese: 南海カナミ Minami Kanami) is one of the main characters and secondary antagonist that appears in M03. She dreams of being a skilful ballet dancer until she ends up hospitalized after getting hit by a truck, developing her grief of wanting to go back which esculated further when she discovers the powers of Narwail outside of her ward.
She is portrayed and voiced by Minami Hamabe, making her the only character in the film to be voiced by their "real" counterpart.
Appearances[]
- Yo-kai Watch the Movie: The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Nyan!: Secondary antagonist
Physical Traits[]
Kanami is a teenage girl where she has long black hair and sparking hazel eyes, and a white headband topped with a bow tie. In Nate's animated world, she appears in a white dress with silk at the top and white stockings with matching ballet shoes while under Narwail's corrupt power she wears a black dress that appears longer with ribbon at the back. Prior to gaining Narwail's powers in the real world, she wears a hospital patient gown.
She can be seen as an ambitious girl who hopes to achieve her dreams, but gets frustrated if something unexpected were to happen and get into the way of her goal.
Though Kanami is an ordinary human being, she gains new powers after she discovers Narwail such as having the ability to switch between worlds and do ballet in mid-air. She also later takes full control of Narwail's final form, Whaleman making that Yo-kai follow her commands at will.
Relationships[]
Sae Kinoshita[]
Koalanyan[]
Little is known about her actual relationship with the Yo-kai in the film, but Kanami had always cherished the koala plush ever since she was young, taking it to any places she goes.
Narwail/Whaleman[]
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Nate[]
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In the anime[]
Prior Events[]
When Kanami was young, she gained an interest in ballet after watching dance classes at a school and took classes instructed by a teacher named Sae Kinoshita. Kanami gained immense skill at her hobby over the course of several years, and won several awards. She was suddenly hospitalized after getting hit by a truck when crossing the road in the middle of a stormy night, breaking her legs and having her recover in a coma.
The incident made Kanami fall into a deep feeling of frustration and sadness, where she lashes out at anyone who came to see her and assumes that she would be forgotten after not doing any ballet for a long time. Wishing that she wanted things to go back the way it was, she suddenly discovers a storefront with a whale and pen insignia on its sign and unexpectedly gains the ability to connect the real and animated world together.
Kanami soon realized how freer she felt in the animated world and wished to never go back, while also having a desire to get rid of the real world she has originally come from. She practiced her ballet in mid air, in the animated world.
M03[]
Nate, Jibanyan and Whisper meet Kanami on the rooftop of a hospital in the real world, where she exclaims about wanting to go back and how the animated world makes her feel better about being free, using Narwail's powers to turn the world animated again. Kanami tries to get away from Nate and the others while telling that she doesn't need help, but is stopped when Nate can use Koalanyan as their advantage to switching the world to its real state.
Kanami, under being inspirited by Tattletell tells the truth to Nate and everyone else about why she's using the world-switching powers while also revealing her ability to take control of the world via Narwail's powers. Her heart is suddenly filled with darkness, from the grief of her worries and frustration which ended up connecting the two worlds together. She is found by Venoct, whom is one of Nate's Yo-kai friends and all come together to stop her.
Their attacks prove to be no usage towards Narwail, where Kanami regenerates the Yo-kai every time they get hit and even swallows up Darkyubi and Illuminoct. Nate ends up using the Yo-kai Bazooka to successfully defeat Narwail, where the Yo-kai ends up transforming into Whaleman and Kanami takes full control of him. After a series more futile attempts to take down the Yo-kai, Whaleman is finally stopped by Ultimate Robonyan using the powers from a mysterious potion Usapyon from Hailey's drastic experiments.
Finally admitting defeat, Kanami exclaimed that she the real world to be gone forever and preferred doing ballet in the animated world, but Nate tries to change her mind by saying that the feelings and support from Kanami's friends and family as well as her ballet instructor would be gone. She feels worried about everybody forgetting about her ballet, except that Nate learned from Kanami's teacher she is always waiting for her to come back. Kanami bids her farewell to Nate where she goes back to the real world she came from.
In the credits scene, she is shown to have recovered from her injuries and is doing ballet again.
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In the manga[]
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