Kohana Mai

Kohana Amaririsu Mai is the primary protagonist of the series. In Season Three, she becomes the new South Area B-Master of Crestland. Her current B-Daman is the Hybrid Type Ember Aries, an upgrade from her previous Flaming Aries.

With the Ruby of Flames, Kohana can transform to become the Angel Goddess of Fire. She also plays the group leader of the Angel Goddesses of the 9th Generation."'Bring in the wild fires, Ember Aries!' - Kohana, when Ember Aries' Emblem Charge is ready." "'Burst out like roaring flames, Blazing Ruby!' - Kohana, after transforming into Blazing Ruby."

Appearance
Kohana is a young girl of average height with fair skin, long brown hair, and bright blue eyes. In Season Three, she cuts her hair, now reaching her shoulders, with two matching locks on either side of her face. She's a;ways seen wearing a necklace with the Ruby of Flames attached.

In Season One, Part 1, Kohana wears a purple blazer with rolled sleeves over a dark red tank top, a green skirt (gray in official artwork) with a brown pouch belt. She also wears a pair of gray leggings, orange flats, and a pink-colored friendship bracelet on her left wrist.

In Season One, Part 2 and Season Two onward, Kohana casually wears a purple short-sleeved cropped hoodie, accompanied with a pair of gray pants with a brown pouch belt and a pair of red boots with white accents. For accessories, she now wears two friendships on her left wrist.

In Season 3, now at the age of 15, Kohana now wears a red coat with rolled-up sleeves over a purple collared shirt, a blue skirt with a floral design, a brown belt with a gold buckle wrapped around her skirt, and purple heels with ankle straps. She also wears a pair of heart earrings and a silver ring on her left ring finger. Later in the season, she switches her earrings and bracelets for a pair of rose-shaped earrings and a matching bracelet.

As Blazing Ruby, her eyes become purple with diamond-shaped pupils. Her hair grows long with a red ombre at the bottom and styled with a ponytail on the right. She also gains a pair of fire wings on her back. In her first form, She wears a red off-shoulder top with elbow-length sleeves and yellow accents. She also wears a purple skirt with a thigh-length tail, a pair of black leggings, and a pair of brown boots. Her accessories include a pair black fingerless gloves, her friendship bracelet, and a blue bow with a pink brooch on her ponytail.

In her Second Form, Kohana wears a red sleeveless crop top with wide arm sleeves. She now wears a purple short skirt with her black leggings replaced with gray stockings

In her third form, Kohana gains some changes from her second form. Her top now has one strap that runs over her left shoulder with a fire pattern trim and her arm sleeves being slightly longer and wider. Around her skirt, is a ring of fire around her waist. Her gray stockings are now asymmetrical, the right reaches below her knee and the left reaches around her thigh. She retains her brown boots.

As Phoenix Ruby, her hair lengthens and becomes bright red. She wears a white dress with red feathers and details, and the Phoenix Stone in the center. A layer of white feathers goes around the back of her dress, extending pass her dress skirt. She also wears a pair of white opera-length gloves and long boots with a gold trim, and gains a pair of fire wings and tail that resembles a phoenix.

Official Bio
A B-Shot of the East Block with her B-Daman, the Rapid-Fire and Control Type Flaming Aries. Her B-Daman's also a Power Type, but has yet to be mastered. Her partner was soon upgraded to Ember Aries with the Emblem Charge System, now having all three types: Power, Rapid-Fire, and Control.

Kohana is known as Blazing Ruby, the 9th Generation, Angel Goddess of Fire, and current holder of the Ruby of Flames. Her predecessor is Emberly, the 8th Generation, Angel Goddess of Fire.

Despite her innocent appearance and kind attitude, Kohana also has a rebellious and competitive side, especially in Crossfire Competitions. She also considers her close friends to be rivals in Crossfire.

Personality
Kohana is a kind and bubbly young girl who works hard to accomplish her dream goals while focusing on what's important in her life. Aside from her kindness spirit, she has a rebellious and competitive spirit beyond her appearance. However, she can underestimate certain situations which leads her to do reckless things. She can be rather overprotective over others. In Season Two and Three, she gains more confidence and determination in order to become stronger with herself and her skills as a B-Shot. She also becomes more carefree than she was before. She also shows a responsible attitude around others to find her sense of justice and duty.

As Blazing Ruby, she shows a serious and mature side to her personality, especially when she faces off against her enemies and saving the day. She never let her guard down. But despite her recklessness, she doesn't give up and will try everything to protect everyone, even if those situations can be risky for her to do.

Background
Kohana is the daughter of Sayuri and Hachiro Mai. Her mother works as an archaeologist while her father works as a businessman in Crestland, South Area. Despite not being home a lot, Hachiro would often visit Kohana and her mother, when he is on break for a week or two. However, there would be times that Kohana would be staying with her father in Crestland because of her mother's job. During her visits in Crestland, she became friends with Kamon, Aona and Roma.

On her 5th birthday, Kohana receives Flaming Aries from Hachiro, while she receives a necklace, with the Ruby of Flames, from Sayuri. As Kohana wears the necklace, the Ruby of Flames suddenly starts lighting up. This indicates Kohana's destined fate of becoming an Angel Goddess for the new generation.

After she turned the age of 5 years old, Kohana joins Sayuri during her travels around the world and uncovering hidden mysteries. Around that time, Kohana meets her mother's friend and colleague, Gennosuke Shigami, and his son, Samuru, who is around the same age as her. Sayuri and Gennosuke decided to work together, in finding ancient ruins around the world, while Kohana and Samuru kept each other company and playing together. Kohana learns how to play with B-Daman from Samuru, while she shows her powers to him. One night, Kohana and Samuru encounters a human-owl hybrid named Elvire, who is after the Ruby of Flames, but Kohana and Samuru stops her from stealing Kohana's necklace. Eventually, they went into good terms with each other and promises that they would meet each other, in the future.

A year and a half has passed, Kohana and Sayuri moves to North City to live with her uncle and her mother's brother, Jeffery Amaririsu, and his wife, Asuki. During her stay in North City, Kohana has been training and mastering her skills and elemental powers to get better control and concentration. Around that time, Kohana decides on her dream goal, which is becoming a music artist with her admiration for the famous music artist, Valerie Harlow.

Relationships

 * Sayuri Mai - Kohana's mother. She works as an archaeologist and is good friends with Gennosuke Shigami and Himiko Day. Kohana has a strong bond with her mother since she's always there for her, while her father was away in Crestland. They also enjoy mother-daughter bonding activities.
 * Hachiro Mai - Kohana's father. He works as a businessman for a company in Crestland and is good friends with Gennosuke Shigami. Hachiro calls Kohana "Sweet Pea" and she gets along with her father.
 * Samuru Shigami - Samuru and Kohana have been best friends when they were kids. Both share an interest for B-Daman and played with them together, when they were traveling with their parents. After seeing each other again, they slowly begin to have affectionate feelings for each other. At the end of Season One, Kohana and Samuru confessed to one another and are now in a relationship, as of Season Two.
 * Kamon Day - Kamon is Kohana's best friend. Like Samuru, they both share an interest in B-Daman and their partners are both Fire Type B-Daman. In Season Two, after Kamon and Garuburn regained their memories, Kohana grows closer as best friends and rivals.
 * Flaming/Ember Aries - Aries is Kohana's B-Daman, receiving him on her 5th birthday from her father. They made a promise that they want to become stronger. They tend to tease each other, but they have high respect for one another.
 * Shiro Hama - Kohana and Shiro are good friends. They hang out and work well together, but they also see each other as rivals in Crossfire. The two also formed a band called the "Gems of Revolution."
 * Valerie Harlow - Kohana idolizes Valerie and dreams of becoming a music artist, like her. At the end of Season One, Kohana had a performance with Valerie during her West City concert and later became good friends. Valerie also knows about Kohana being an Angel Goddess.
 * Miku Asuga -Kohana and Miku get along well and often helping her with training on her skills. She was shocked to learn that Miku was created by Clarice Darkalia, but later accepts her existence as a human spirit and trains her up to become an Angel Goddess.
 * Hanami Kaiya - Kohana meets Hanami in the events of Season Four.
 * Emberly - The Angel Goddess of Fire of the 8th Generation and Kohana's predecessor. Kohana meets Emberly in her dreams and gifted her the Garnet of Inferno.
 * Chiharu Masuyo - The Angel Goddess of Fire of the 5th Generation and Kohana's 4th great-grandmother. Kohana meets Chiharu when she needed help to save Shiro from the effects of Dark Corruption.

Blazing Ruby
"'Burst out like Roaring Flames, Blazing Ruby!'"

Blazing Ruby is the 9th generation's Angel Goddess of Fire and Kohana's alias. In order to transform, she needs the Ruby of Flames in the form of an accessory, like her necklace.

In her Angel Goddess form, Kohana is able to use her B-Daman with the use of her special move, in order to purify the Darkalia on its weak spot. In the 9th generation, she can cast and perform convergence spells. Her main weapon to make is a fire handgun. With the Garnet of Inferno, Kohana is capable of performing the spell called "Devouring Blaze". Kohana learned the spells from 8th generation to the 2nd generation, but has yet to learn any of the spells from the 1st generation.

Phoenix Ruby
In Season Two, Kohana and Shiro were gifted the Phoenix Stones from Spike Phoenix. During her battle against Neptune, she is granted a new form and stronger powers. She wears a white dress with red feathers and details, along with white boots and white gloves, her hair lengthens and becomes bright red, and she gets fire Phoenix wings and tail. With this Phoenix form, she is able to use the attack "Phoenix Fire". Her spells become stronger from her Angel Goddess form.

Transformation (as of Season Three)
The transformation starts with Kohana showing the Ruby of Flames on her necklace and a ring of fire appears. She holds her hands to the sides and states, "Ruby of Flames, here my call!" before shouting "Metamorphose!" and brings her hands together as the fire engulfs her. The magic energy changes into her dress and her hair clips disappear into thin air. Flames burst out the top of her dress and changes into her cropped top, then a trail of fire follows her arms and transforms into her sleeves. More fire burst out from the skirt and changes to purple, changing into her skirt with a band of fire around her waist. She flies up to the top before falling backwards, where she hits her feet together and fires comes up, changing into her boots, followed by her stockings. She goes right side up and closes her eyes as the fire covers her hair. Her hair lengthens and creates a red ombre with some of it styled in a small ponytail. She opens her eyes, becoming purple with diamond-shaped pupils, and gives a smirk as she snaps her fingers and fire bursts out of her back, which forms into a pair of wings. With the transformation complete, Ruby flies to the top and breaks out of the realm. She does a front flip and drops down, landing on her feet and does a pirouette. She introduces herself before striking her final pose.

Trivia

 * Kohana's family name means "Dance" while her given name means "Little Flower," which compliments her dream goal of becoming a famous artist. Amaririsu, her middle name, means "Shy."
 * Kohana's birthday is on April 10, making her zodiac sign Aries.
 * Her zodiac sign is also the given name of her B-Daman, Flaming/Ember Aries.
 * Her zodiac sign is associated with the element of fire, which are Kohana's elemental powers as an Angel Goddess.
 * In the first "Ask the TNBS Cast," Kohana's favorite animal are pandas. Her least favorite are cats/
 * Her reason for not liking cats is because she is allergic to them, where she starts sneezing when a black cat enters her bedroom during the side story "Girls' Sleepover Time!"


 * Currently, there were three attempts on her life. In Season One, Kohana fought against the Master of Darkalias and took an immediate fall, where she failed to defend herself and got hit, receiving a deep cut on her right shoulder and went unconscious. However, she regains consciousness and survives. In Season Two, Kohana fought against Darkalia Neptune and gets trampled by his attacks. Kohana survives the attack, but receives another cut on her right shoulder, but she's able to recover after the Phoenix Stone activated. In Season Three, Kohana gets the same cut on the same spot. However, she endures through the pain until it heals.
 * Kohana is the second character that had an attempt on their life, the first was Samuru Shigami.
 * However, she is the first character to have more than one attempt on her life.
 * Kohana is the first character to be revealed to have a descendant to have been an Angel Goddess. Kohana is related to Chiharu Masuyo, the Angel Goddess of Fire of the 5th Generation.
 * Kohana is the first female B-Shot to become a B-Master.
 * Kohana is the first Angel Goddess to have more than one form:
 * She gains her second form during Season One, Part 2 and Season Two.
 * She receives more changes to her second form during the side story, "Tournament for the South Area!"
 * Kohana's favorite hobby is reading and her favorite series is the "Two Souls in Life" series, with two characters named Michiko Aya and Katashi Takeo. During the events of Seasons One and Two, she has read both first and second books.
 * As of the writing for Season Three, Kohana hasn't mentioned anything about her book series.
 * In Chapter 22, Kohana reveals that she finished reading the second book, after stating she misses reading.