Kanda Yuu
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Kanda comes from the manga version of D.Gray-Man. This is likely not going to be an issue, since the anime is pretty much a joke. He's been taken from some random point during the long span he didn't appear in the manga, meaning that the events of the Edo arc haven't happened (obviously, given what happens to him in said arc). Still, they will be mentioned under background to further show his personality, abilities, and relationships, so this wiki will be full of major spoilers for recent D.Gray-Man chapters. If you're reading the manga and don't want to be spoiled for major events regarding Kanda, do not read this wiki. I cannot stress this enough.
Kanda is played by Megan.
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Basics
Name: Kanda Yuu (神田 ユウ)
Age: 18
Height: 5'8
Weight: 134 lbs.
Hair: Black.
Eyes: Dark blue.
Family: None known. Presumably deceased or estranged.
Style: Kanda's ever-present black and white trenchcoat is the big one; members of the Black Order wear such visible uniforms because part of their job description is to be walking targets and draw attention away from civilians. Under that he wears fairly standard, if plain, clothes from late nineteenth-century England: pants, a white shirt, and sometimes a tie. Kanda does not care about clothes whatsoever.
Notable Features: He has a tattoo on the right side of his chest that resembles khanda in Sanskrit. Presumably the language means it refers to the Hindu connotation and not the Sikh one. His hair's also fairly notable, since he wears it ridiculously long. And, well, the fact that he's pretty like a girl. The other characters even use this as ammunition to mock him.
Musical Tastes: Music is for people who have time to waste.
Weapons of Choice: Kanda uses a katana called Mugen, which is detailed in its own section. He also has a double-edged special ability from his tattoo, also outlined in its own section.
Personality
Kanda doesn't like you.
No, really. He doesn't like anyone. Kanda is a loner, partly by circumstance but mostly by his own choice. He'll work with others when it's strictly required of him, but he finds that most people lack his mindset on things and thus they are hard to work with. Kanda is all business, throwing his entire existence into two things: his work killing akuma, and his drive for revenge on someone thus far undisclosed. He believes that mercy, compassion, patience, and hestiance will get you killed, and that being any of these things is hopelessly naive. (Incidentally, this view is illustrated multiple times from more sympathetic characters as well and seems to be endemic within the Black Order; he just takes it to an extreme.) Because of this, he comes across as an unfeeling, even cruel person; still, he's devoted his life to stopping akuma and saving the world, which means there's some sense of duty and obligation to his fellow humans somewhere in his frozen little soul.
Background
Mugen
Mugen (六幻, six illusions), Kanda's anti-akuma weapon, takes the form of a katana. Mugen generally means infinity as it's normally written, but in this case it's written in different kanji. Like all anti-akuma weapons, it's made of the consecrated material Innocence. Kanda uses it both as a normal sword and for its special abilities, which are as follows.
- Kaichuu: Ichigen (界蟲「一幻」, First Illusion: World of Insects). This attack summons a swarm of demonic insects. These oversized flying insects are fairly tough-- able to kill an ordinary human or a weak akuma-- but are fairly easily overcome. For example, Allen Walker was able to fend them off with his own anti-akuma weapon. This attack is Kanda's usual standby, and combined with physically attacking it usually accomplishes most missions Kanda goes on.
- Nigentou (二幻刀, Two Illusion Blades). This attack creates a second phantom sword, allowing Kanda to fight with what are essentially two anti-akuma weapons. While using this second invocation, he can use two additional abilities: Hakka Tourou (八花蟷螂, Eight Flowers Praying Mantis), which is a fast physical attack, and Shouka (昇華, Sublimate), which allows him to tap into the power inherent in his tattoo. He appears to have to use Shouka to be able to invocate his third illusion ability.
- Kinki Sangenshiki (禁忌 「三幻式」, Taboo Third Illusion). This ability is not an attack in and of itself, but instead increases Kanda's physical strength and speed. It appears to also tie into his tattoo, both because of having to activate it before using this ability and because this ability costs some of his remaining life.
There would presumably have been three more attacks if Kanda had lived to use them, given the way Mugen is written. Mugen was, by all appearances, either destroyed or absorbed into Kanda's body as its component Innocence shortly before he (apparently) died.
