Matsuri Kazamaki

Matsuri Kazamaki (風巻祭里, Kazamaki Matsuri) is a main male protagonist of Ayakashi Triangle. He is descendant of ninja exorcists family. While protecting Suzu Kanade from Shirogane, he was turned into a girl.

Appearance
In his original form, Matsuri is a boy with scarlet eyes and scarlet messy hair. He wears a black ninja armor consisting of gauntlets finishing of fingerless gloves, a sort of golden ring between his left shoulder and elbow, pants, red sandals with black socks and the rest covers his torso but not his arms and finishes with a piece of cloth going down to around his pelvis and has a sort of decorative shuriken under the collar with a red stone at its center. Finally, he also has a little red four-bladed windmill that can be used in combat and to turn him into his ninja exorcist outfit as well as a katana with a golden pommel and tsuba and a black hilt.

In his genderbent form, the eyes stay the same but the hair becomes a sort of blond with bluish and pinkish highlights tied in a sort of spiky ponytail.

Personality
Matsuri is a kind person and considerate of others, an attitude that was shown since his childhood when he played with Suzu and the ayakashi. Matsuri doesn't usually care what others say and he tries to help his loved ones, this being more evident with Suzu. Due to his work as an exorcist ninja, he has developed a protective attitude, so she feels obligated to protect his loved ones, be they friends, family, or ayakashi.

Powers & Abilities
The Kazamaki family specializes in wind jutsu, and as a ninja exorcist, Matsuri posses both ninja and exorcists skills.


 * Substitution Jutsu: Matsuri is able to teleport elsewhere, while leaving a wood log behind.
 * Exorcist Ninja Art: Wind Kunai: He generates wind around the sword and launch it in the form of kunai.
 * Kazamaki-style Exorcist Ninja Art: Scattering Whirlwind Bloom: Using his pinwheel he generates wind in his right hand launching it downward tearing his enemies apart.
 * Exorcists Ninja Art: Heavy Wind Blast: using his pinwheel he generates wind launching it at his enemies blowing them away.

Relationships

 * Suzu Kanade: Suzu is Matsuri's childhood friend, they both played with the ayakashi since they could both see them, after Matsuri began working as an exorcist ninja the friendship between the two diminished as Matsuri tried to keep the ayakashis away from Suzu, something that bothered Suzu. After the truth about Matsuri's attitude was discovered, they both became friends again, with the passage of time Matsuri realized that he was in love with Suzu, managing to confess his feelings to her later.


 * Shirogane: At first, Matsuri wanted to exorcise Shirogane since he wanted to eat Suzu, Shirogane would transform him into a woman and Matsuri would prevent Shirogane from obtaining his old form, creating a rivalry between the two. With the passage of time both get along better.


 * Seigen Kazamaki: Matsuri has always lived with his grandfather due to his mother's work, Matsuri has great affection and respect for his grandfather since he was the one who would teach him all about his skills as an exorcist ninja.


 * Matoi Kazamaki: Matsuri and her mother don't see each other much because her mother lives in Tokyo working as an Exorcist Ninja.


 * Soga Ninokuru: Soga and Matsuri are rivals and also best friends as both have practiced their skills since they met, Matsuri often tells Soga everything like his crush on Suzu. Although for Matsuri, Soga has a strange behavior when they are together, he still has great affection for him.


 * Reo Korogi: Reo is Matsuri's engineer and his partner, Matsuri trusted her even though she didn't have much experience which Reo appreciates very much.

Etymology

 * The name Matsuri means "Festival, Ritual, Offer prayers, Celebrate, Deify, Enshrine/Enshrining, Worship".
 * His name comes from "festival"(祭) (matsu) and "village" (里) (ri).
 * Matsuri's surname Kazamaki means "wind, breeze, way, manner, blaster, gale, gust, sirocco, method" (風) (kaza) and "volume, roll, reel, book" (巻) (maki).

Trivia

 * Matsuri has normal grades in school.
 * Muga Ninokuru thought in seeing him him that he looked a lot like his mother (Matoi) (in his feminine form).