Yu Kanda
Yu Kanda is a male anime and manga character who features in D.Gray-man.
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Biography
Yu Kanda (Japanese: 神田 ユウ, Hepburn: Kanda Yū) was a male human born on Earth who came to join the ranks of the Black Order as an Exorcist. In that time, he came to synchronise with an Innocence that became his weapon to use against the Akuma. During these years, he paired up with a blonde haired female exorcist where the two fell in love with one another. The two always vowed to find one another in life as they went on a mission to hunt for Akuma. However, the two failed and were fatally injured by the Akuma who left their corpses on the battlefield. His body was recovered by the Black Order and chosen to take part in the Second Exorcist Program (第二セカンド エクソシスト計画, Sekando Ekusoshisuto Keikaku) that was being based out of the Asia Branch. The reason for the project was because the Order suffered numerous losses at the hands of the Akuma and these depleted their manpower as only a few Accommodators were capable of synchronising with Innocence. To circumvent this issue, the Second Exorcist Program took the bodies of fallen exorcists and harvest their brains which were placed in younger artificial bodies with them lacking any memories of their past. Yu Kanda was the second of this new breed of exorcists where he joined the first subject who was a boy named Alma Karma. Karma had a desire to be close to Kanda with the two undergoing various tests as part of the Black Order's experiments.
Afterwards, he came to be an apprentice to Froi Tiedoll who gave him the surname 'Kanda'. For 9 years, Yu served the Order where he laboured until the belief that he had killed his best friend. Unknown to him, Alma was still alive and had been salvaged for a continuation of the exorcist program where his remains were used to make the Third Exorcist Program. Kanda was 10 years old when he travelled the world with his mentor before going to the Black Order which was where he met an 8 year old Lenalee Lee and Marie who became his teammate.
When Allen Walker failed the Gatekeeper's exam, Kanda was one of the many to hear the alarm and the first to respond. He then attacked Allen, commenting when Walker tries to insist that he was human that they will know for sure when he cuts him open. Allen insisted that the Order should have received a letter of recommendation from his General, Cross Marian, which makes Kanda pause. After the letter was found, buried underneath the mess on Komui Lee's desk, Kanda was ordered to stand down, but only obeyed when Lenalee Lee comes out and ordered him to go inside. Allen tried to properly introduce himself to Kanda, but Kanda brushed him off coldy, stating that he did not shake hands with 'cursed people' after which he simply walked away. On the morrow morning, Allen and Kanda clash again, Allen defending a Finder, Buzz, who had attacked Kanda out of rage for a callous comment Kanda made about the worth of non-Exorcist personnel. Allen tells Kanda to talk to people better, to which Kanda simply tells him to let him go, telling Allen when he gets angry over him calling him 'beansprout' that he'll remember his name if he can survive longer than a month.
To Kanda and Allen's exasperation, they are then assigned to a mission together in Mater, Italy. After they board a train illegally with Finder Toma to head out to their mission, Allen asks Kanda a few questions about their job, which Kanda grudgingly answers. As they review their mission booklets, both Kanda and Allen realize the 'Ghost of Mater' they are going after was just a doll, Kanda commenting that the doll had probably been made with the Innocence inside of it. When they arrived in Mater, Kanda informed Allen that he would not be going back for him if he fell behind. Kanda then headed after the doll as Allen heads to fight the Pierrot, Kanda using Mugen to clear the Level 1 Akuma out of the area before extracting the password to the talismans from a dying Finder. After Kanda has secured Lala and Guzol, he informs Allen that he won't be helping him before taking off and leaving Allen behind, something Allen did not have a problem with. As Lala guides Kanda to the underground passageways of Mater to escape the Akuma, he is contacted by Toma, who he orders to secure Timcanpy, Allen's golem, before coming after him. Once underground, Guzol stepped forward and claimed to be the doll, and when Kanda says that he wants to take the Innocence from him then and there to make traveling easier, Lala puts herself between Kanda and Guzol, saying that Kanda would get lost without him. Just then, Toma meets back up with Kanda and gives him Timcanpy, who uses his hologram display to show Kanda how Pierrot's abilities work. When Kanda turns back to Lala and Guzol, he was shocked and angered to see that they slipped away while he had his attention elsewhere, but before he can go after them he and Toma are approached by 'Allen'. Seeing that the features of the 'Allen' mirror the real Allen's, Kanda assumes that the fake 'Allen' was the Akuma and drew Mugen. However, before Kanda's attack can land the real Allen arrived and saved the fake 'Allen'. He showed him that the fake 'Allen' was in fact Toma just as the 'Toma' behind Yu revealed itself to be the Akuma and attacked Kanda from behind.
The Akuma mocks Kanda for not realizing that he had not been Toma all along, then delivers a devastating blow to Kanda's body. As he bleeds out, Kanda mutters to himself about not being able to die before he finds 'that person', only to fall silent a moment later and make the Akuma laugh at him about dying on his feet. Allen arrives and knocks the Akuma aside, then takes Kanda, who he notes is still breathing, and flees with him and Toma. After they meet up with Lala and Guzol, Lala revealing herself to be the real doll and explaining her past with Guzol, Kanda awakens and tells Allen to take Lala's heart from her. When Allen tells him he could not, Kanda throws Allen's jacket, which Allen had rolled up so Kanda could rest his head, back at him, telling him that the uniform is the mark of an Exorcist, not a pillow for the wounded. After telling Allen that sacrifices must be made to save others, Kanda takes his Mugen and approaches Lala to take her heart, only for Allen to intercede and insist on being Lala's sacrifice, assuring Kanda that he will take Lala's heart from her after she and Guzol die on their own terms. Kanda punches Allen, demanding to know if he did not have anything dear to him. Just then, Pierrot returns and rips Lala's heart from her body, mortally wounding Guzol in the process, and when Allen becomes enraged, his Anti-Akuma Weapon arm mutating in response to his anger, Kanda calls out to Allen to wait for his weapon to finish forming before attacking. When Allen's new invocation falls short, Allen having pushed himself too far, Kanda steps in and saves Allen, calling Allen pathetic and saying he hates people who could not keep their promises more than he hates Allen's tender-hearted ways. Kanda and Allen then destroy Pierrot together. Three days later, Kanda calls Komui from a hospital in a town near Mater, reporting to Komui as he discharges himself from the hospital, to the doctor's anger, that Allen is still waiting for Lala, who has been singing to Guzol's corpse for three days, to die. After receiving a cryptic warning from Komui to not miscalculate how much life he has left, Kanda heads back to Mater to inform Allen that he would be moving on to his next mission. Seeing Allen upset over Lala's continued singing, Kanda asks why he did not just end it as the singing Lala isn't the same as the old Lala, and when Allen tells him that Lala and Guzol's promise is something only they can break, Kanda calls Allen 'soft', pointing out that they were not saviors. When Lala suddenly stops singing, Allen goes to her side, and as she collapses, Allen tells Kanda that he wants to be a destroyer who can save.
After the death of General Kevin Yeegar at the hands of the Noah Family, Kanda is sent on a mission with teammates Noise Marie and Daisya Barry to search for their General, Froi Tiedoll. During their search, they encounter many Akuma who try to slow them down, one openly taunting Kanda by saying that he and the others won't be able to reach their General in time. Kanda stabs the Akuma in the face, telling it to shut up as it explodes, then goes to join Marie and Daisya, who joke about their General probably being off drawing something without a care in the world. When Daisya notes to Kanda that they have a strange teacher, Kanda sullenly states that he hates the "geezer" before walking on, Daisya and Marie silently realizing that Tiedoll is the reason behind Kanda's foul mood. Still looking for their General, Kanda is separated from Marie and Daisya in a different town, hiding from the Akuma in an alley and using his golem to get a report from them. After agreeing to meet up where Marie is, Kanda gives them dawn as the meet-up time limit before jumping out of his hiding place to face the Akuma that have surrounded him. As he fights, Kanda hears an odd voice coming from Daisya's conenction to his golem, Kanda and Marie calling out to Daisya and not realizing that they are hearing Daisya's last moments. When Kanda and Marie meet up in the morning, Daisya's golem arrives and the rendezvous point alone. Not long after, Kanda and Marie meet up with General Tiedoll and inform him of the situation, telling him that Daisya is dead and that his Innocence, the Charity Bell, was taken. When Kanda asks Tiedoll to come back to the Black Order with them, Tiedoll, instead, draws a picture of Daisya's hometown and burns it in remembrance, saying he could not go back as his duty to find new Accommodators was now more important than ever. Having not expected less, Kanda and Marie agreed to go with him.
Kanda arrives with Marie and Tiedoll in Edo, Japan as General Cross Marian's unit were fighting for their lives against the Earl of Millennium and the Noah Family. Acting on Tiedoll's orders, Kanda goes to the aid of the weakened Exorcists with Marie, saving Chaozii Han from being killed by Tyki Mikk and engaging the Noah in a short battle before being forced to catch Lenalee when Tyki throws her at him. When Marie captures a Giant Akuma in his Noel Organon's strings, Kanda hands Lenalee over to Lavi before taking off, using Marie's strings as footholds to lunge and slice the Akuma in half. Kanda then told Lavi, who had called him by his given name, that if he ever called him 'Yu' again he'll cut him. The Earl then unleashes a devastating attack that levels Edo, Kanda getting seriously injured but still standing. Kanda is then attacked by Tyki while trying to keep the Noah from getting to Lenalee, and just as the Earl goes after Lenalee, himself, Allen arrived. When Tyki retreats, Kanda goes after him and accidentally attacks Allen, instead, blaming Allen when he realizes who he is, and the two begin to bicker, ending with both of them threatening to cut off the other's hair and sell it before they threaten Lavi when he tries to break up their fight. Tiedoll gathers all of the younger Exorcsits under a nearby bridge and debriefs all of them, Kanda standing guard as he does. When Lenalee is suddenly dragged into a warp that opens in the ground, Kanda is one of the several who reaches after her and gets sucked in, as well. When the group awakens, they are inside of Noah's Ark, something Kanda automatically blames Allen, and then the Earl's golem, Lero for. The Earl then uses Lero to taunt the Exorcists, telling them that the Ark is collapsing and that they will all die inside of it. Tyki arrives shortly after and offers them a key, inviting them to play a 'game' with him before throwing the key, which Kanda catches. Once they have set foot on stable ground, the group makes a pact to escape alive, which Kanda pointedly stays out of, before they use the key to open a door and enter a 'room', where they are met by Skinn Bolic. Recognizing Skinn as the Noah that has been hunting his General, Kanda elects to stay behind and fight him. When the others refuse to leave him alone, Kanda turns on them and first threatens, then attacks them with Mugen, making the others angry enough with him to agree to leave him behind. Before she goes, Lenalee makes Kanda promise her he would catch up with them later, and once the others have left Kanda begins his fight with Skinn.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Yu Kanda was a handsome young Japanese man with long black hair that he tied in a ponytail with bangs hanging over his forehead while there were two medium-length hair strands hanging on either side and dark eyes.
Typically, Kanda was shown as being a cold, stoic and arrogant person who showed little regard to the lives of those around him even his fellow Exorcists.
He was 12 year old when he tried soba for the first time where he became impressed with the taste and began to eat it for all three daily meals.
Powers and abilities
As a candidate of the Second Exorcist Program, Kanda was a Second Exorcist (第二セカンドエクソシスト, Sekando Ekusoshisuto) whose old brain had been harvested and placed within an artificial younger body. As an Artificial Apostle (人造使徒, Jinzō Shito), his form had traits that were more enhanced than a normal human body as it possessed a healing factor. It was this trait that allowed him to repair injuries to his body which healed grievous wounds.
His Innocence (イノセンス, Inosensu) Anti-Akuma Weapon (対アクマ武器 , Tai Akuma Buki, Literally meaning "Versus Akuma Weapon") took the form of a katana named Mugen (六幻ムゲン, Mugen (Six Illusions). It was activated by him running his index and middle finger along the back of the blade whilst saying the words "Mugen Unsheathe, Innocence Activate" whereupon which the sword turned silver.
Among the techniques known to him included:
- First Illusion: Netherworld Insects (界蟲「一幻」, Kaichū: Ichigen; lit. Realm Insects: One Illusion) :
- Double Illusion Sword (二幻刀, Nigentō; lit. Two Illusion Blade) :
- Eight Flower Mantis (八花蟷螂, Hakka Tōrō; lit. Eight Flower Praying Mantis) :
- Ascending Flower (昇華, Shōka; lit. Sublimation) :
He came to be regarded as one of the top exorcists of the Black Order.
Notes
- Allen Walker was created by Katsura Hoshino where he featured in the setting of D.Gray-man.
In other media
Television
Video games
Appearances
- D.Gray-man:
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