Kentou Kanami

About
Kanami is a loyal ninja serving directly under Lia, who saved her life when she was little. While seemingly apathetic from the outside, Kanami is actually very concerned with her ability as a ninja. It's implied that she is always training by herself to hone her skills. She longs to be a normal girl, but that's an impossible dream. Lia ordered her to keep tabs on Rance, job that she hates since she hates him.

She is originally from Edo, JAPAN, and once belonged to Fuuma ninja unit that serves the Houjou family. She got lost during their trip to the continent, and that's just when Lia found her.

Kanami is one of ten girls who is fated for Rance. Although Kanami seems to hate Rance to the core, it appears that she is actually hoping and trying her best so that Rance can admit her strength as a reliable ninja, in which Rance usually makes fun of.

Abilities
Level: 28/40

Skills: Ninja LV1

Personal history
Kanami was born in the year GI1001 in Edo in the country of JAPAN in a normal middle class household. She's a second daughter, which means she has an unknown older sister. In the year GI1007 when she was 6 years old, she goes hiking in the mountains with her family but was separated from them after getting lost while chasing a dragonfly.

Children disappearing from spirits or monsters is a daily occurrence in JAPAN, so her family only looked for her for a short while before giving up. Since JAPANese families have a lot of kids, losing one is not a big deal(despite how cold it sounds).

Kanami, who was alone in the mountains, is found by the Fuuma ninjas right before she starves to death. She's taken to their village and starts receiving a ninja training. She didn't get the kunoichi curse. Three years later she takes the Genin Exam to become a low-ranked ninja and fails splendidly. She challenges the exam again in the following year and manages to pass. She receives her ninja name Kentou, although she's still called Kanami by everyone around her. Her Kentou name is later mistaken as her surname and sticks as her official name.

In the year GI1012 she gets lost(again) on a training trip with the Fuuma Ninjas to the main Continent. She tries to find her group but she eventually collapses and is found right before she starves to death(again) by the princess of Leazas, Lia Parapara Leazas. The princess is excited to see a ninja, since they are very rare outside of JAPAN, and takes her to the Leazas Castle. She becomes a direct subordinate of her and becomes the Personal ninja of the Leazas Royal Family.

In the year GI1015 she starts taking missions from Lia to kidnap innocent girls to become Lia's playthings to satisfy her sadism. She's aware it's not the right thing to do but she doesn't go against her master's orders. She gets to meet a town guard named Menad Shisei and they become friends. Menad is actually chasing the kidnapper, but she doesn't know that it's Kanami.

Daiakuji
There is a character named Kentou Kanami (見当 かなみ) in Daiakuji, a game set as another parallel world (and other to Rance World). She is the guest at Haku Minka's restaurant along with her friends.

Rance I / Rance 01


Her task in here is to kidnap the girls as Lia ordered her to.

Kanami first appeared as a nameless troubled girl who is asking for Rance to help find her wallet. While Rance is not looking, she stole his wallet and threatened him to not investigate the issue any further before disappearing.

She once again appears when Rance found Hikari, tying him with a chain to assassinate him. Fortunately, Sill barged in and successfully knocked her away, saving Rance in the process.

In the pursuit of Lia, Rance is again confronted by Kanami, who seems to be more prepared for a battle. After she is defeated, she keeps insisting that she won't tell Rance about Lia's escape route. Though it doesn't last long since Rance just keep 'assault'-ing her till she points to the secret door and the direction Lia went during her escape.

Rance II / Rance 02
Kanami only appears in the last part of story, more precisely in a scene with Lia and Maris. However, it's not possible to interact with her.

Rance III / Rance 03
Upon witnessing Helman's invasion, Lia entrusted the Holy Shield to Kanami in order to bring it to the Man, and pass on that she awaited his rescue. Kanami goes to Rance to get him to save the country, and as part of his compensation, she loses her virginity. Along the way, she has to serve Rance at night, she gets molested by Return Devils in order to pass through the Devils Passage, who send her into illusionary dimensions where she's bullied by   Rance.

At Lia   ’s coronation ceremony, some nobles plan to use a Leazas-made guardian to commit a coup d'état, but Kanami,   Menad, and some others work together to take down the ringleader and prevent it.

Rance IV
Kanami went to the Floating City, Ylapu, along with Maria, Shizuka, Rick, Leila, and Julia as the "Rance Rescue Party" in order to find and save Rance,  who’s been transported to the floating city Ylapu,  while personally carrying a secret mission from Lia to assassinate Sill. There, she gets swallowed by a giant puryo, gets trapped inside Atlanta’s mirror. She  tried to assasinate Sill but turned back in the last minute because she couldn't bring herself to kill Sill. She was punished by   Rance after that.

She later t akes a mission from Lia  to observe Rance’s actions periodically.

Travels the world after being ordered to find the missing Rance. At the time, Rance had wandered into Genbu Castle in another dimension. (Rance 5D Extra Delicious Foods of the World: Ninja Traveler’s Journal)

Kichikuou Rance
She is the first spy Rance can use in battle to see the number of enemies. Abused by the enemy if captured during a mission. She will also randomly inflict damage on enemy troop leaders if Menado is participating in the battle.

Rance 6
She got caught by Zeth officers for crossing the border illegally and was rescued by Rance when he breaks into the female prison just to rescue girls from being mistreated.

Mamanyonyo
She was being summoned to Mamanyonyo as one of heroines.

Sengoku Rance


She came to help Rance as a foreign ally from Leazas, commanding a ninja unit.

In one of her events, she told Rance about her past as part of Fuuma clan before serving Lia. She is afraid to return to her clan due to her status as a runaway-ninja, it's considered a serious crime with death penalty as its punishment. In order to avoid it, she asked Rance to not send her to places like Edo or Kazusa, in which Rance gladly accepts under one 'condition' that Kanami refused in an instant.

While scouting either Edo or Kazusa, she got caught and brought to Fuuma's headquarter to be tortured and executed. In her despair, she murmured Rance's name several times unconsciously, asking for his help. Suddenly, Rance appears along with Suzume to save Kanami. Rance stated that he and Suzume were actually planning to investigate Fuuma Organization by sneaking in since the very start. That this was all for Kanami, to get rid of her fear.

Kanami is very provoked when Rance compared her with Suzume. To prove her worth, Kanami challenged Suzume to a duel, in which she lost miserably, causing her to lose her confidence and pride as a ninja. Feeling inferior to Suzume and JAPAN's ninjas, Kanami decided to return to Leazas to end her constant embarrassment as a hindrance. Fortunately, Rance stopped her, asking for her to stay since he needs her, and on top of that, he doesn't want to let go of such an amusing (and weak) ninja. Feeling annoyed, Kanami vowed that she will be the strongest, strong enough to assassinate Rance once and for all, though Rance doesn't seem to take it seriously, much to Kanami's anger.

Rance Quest
She is instructed by Ria to be Rance's bodyguard, and as such, the rooftop of wherever Rance is living becomes her regular habitat. It stays this way for the entirety of the game, however throughout the course of the game she is trained by Suzume to get her basic ninja skills stronger, and regains her lost Beheading Sword. Typical of her character, various bizarre misfortunes befall her along the way.

Rance IX
She is following Rance under Lia's orders and is forced to join him in the Helman Revolution after reading a letter from Lia.

Later in the game she finally accepts her feelings towards Rance. She's given a new subordinate, Freya, a helman assassin leader of a renown group of assassins. Thanks to Suzume's training she can tell from first sight that Freya is way stronger than her, which troubles her a lot. Still, it is pointed out that despite still being weaker than Freya, she's improved her ninja skills a lot.

Trivia

 * She's one of the most prominent characters in the series, appearing in every game in the series with the exception of Rance 5D.
 * According to TADA & Orion, the Fire Bowl Jutsu thing was Lia just giving her the scroll and telling her to “use this for your ninja studies” and she worked out the scroll on her own somehow. It became an original Kanami technique after she completely misinterpreted “Fire Bomb.”


 * According to Chiroku, in the year LP0004, she begins training to avoid being teased by Rance and her physical ability starts improving. And from the time when she had to wait until her limit to go to the bathroom, she gains enough dashing power to set a new world record.
 * According to Yoidore Dragon, her eyesight power is 2.5, and jumping capability is 7m in length, though once in Rance 6 she managed to jump 10m.


 * One of her interests is shojo manga.
 * In one special ending in Rance IX Kanami bears Rance's child and lives with him in Rance's castle, being no longer under Queen Lia's command. Lia has also given birth to Rance's child as well in this ending.
 * In the popularity polls she got: 2nd(Rance III) >>> 3rd(Kichikuou Rance) >>> 5th(Rance VI) >>> 13th(Sengoku Rance) >>> 3rd(Rance Quest) >>> 2nd(Rance 01 ) >>> 4th(Rance IX) >>> 2nd(Rance 03)..