Kamui

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Character Profile
Online
Name	Kamui
Gender	Female
Class	Long Arm
Media Information
Japanese Voice	Sakiko Tamagawa
English Voice	Melodee Spevack
First Appearance	.hack//Legend of the Twilight
Offline
Name	Saki Shibayama
Age	??
Gender	Female

"I was given this spear to protect The World and that's just what I'm going to do!"

— Kamui —

Kamui is the leader of the Cobalt Knights and was an admirer of Albireo.

Online

Appearance

Kamui's online avatar was created as an homage to Albireo. Like him, she plays a Long Arm, has short black hair, plate armor, and eyes of two different colors. When acting as a debugger, she adds a face visor and wields a copy of the Spear of Wotan.

Personality

Kamui is devoted to protecting The World. She sees Vagrant AIs as nothing but scraps of filthy data, and will stop at nothing to purge them from the system. She is almost fanatical in her work, and does not tolerate mistakes made by her subordinates.

Offline

Basic Info

Kamui originally worked for CC Corp as an assistant to Kazushi Watarai. His love and desire to protect The World from harm had quite an effect on her personality. After Watarai left CC Corp following the Twilight Incident, Kamui took his place as a System Administrator and Debugger, becoming leader of the newly reformed Cobalt Knights.

The real Kamui

Kamui is quite a mess in the real world. She is a chain smoker, and uses several anti-anxiety and anti-depressents such as Lexapro and Xanax to get through the day. Since smoking isn't allowed within the CC Corp building, she is forced to wear nicotine patches during the day.

Hobbies

Most of Kamui's hobbies are unknown, but she was addicted to The World when she was in college. This seems to have been one of the reasons she joined CC Corp after graduating.

History

.hack//AI Buster

Kamui appears in AI BUSTER as Kazushi Watarai's assistant. Fresh out of college she is still unfamiliar with many aspects of how CC Corp works. Watarai takes some time to explain what CC Corp used to be like when it was still a small company, and how most of the early development of the Japanese Version of The World was due to the eccentric programmer Junichiro Tokuoka. Though Kamui is impressed by his story, she doesn't quite grasp exactly what Watari is trying to tell her, a fact that annoys him to no end. She confesses that The World doesn't hold the same appeal to her that it did when she was in college. However she is still interested in the game, as Watari notices that she's carrying several printouts with fragments of the Epitaph of Twilight on them.

She later appears in the epilogue, hoping to impress her boss with the news that the One Sin was defeated. Though disappointed to find that Watari already heard the news (as he actually witnessed the event) she is impressed with how he seems to keep on top of things that occur in the game. Unknown to her, she also brings him a clue that reveals Hokuto's true identity to him, that of the famous web poet W.B. Yates.

.hack//AI Buster 2

Kamui appears in two of the five short stories that make up AI Buster 2. Again as Watarai's assistant in "Wotan's Spear" and as the leader of the Cobalt Knights in "Kamui".

Wotan's Spear

During Wotan's Spear Kamui helps Watari in his hunt for a strange Vagrant AI that appears as a floating cat (better known as Maha) and the enigmatic character Tsukasa. Using her powers as a system administrator and contacts with the player run guild the Crimson Knights she is able to determine Tsukasa's location, allowing Watari to track him down inside The World as Albireo. After Watari is attacked and rendered unconscious by a Twilight Guardian controlled by Maha. She is the first to find his body, and rides with him to the hospital. Though she believes his collapse was caused by overwork, she still follows his advice to leave Tsukasa alone. Which explains the strange absence of system administrators during the events of SIGN.

Trivia

• In the Legend of Twilight Anime, it is hinted that Balmung and Kamui dated briefly in the real world.
• Tokyopop said that Kamui was male in AI Buster, this is a mistranslation. She is female.
• In the original draft of Legend of the Twilight, Kamui was male, and also a long haired pretty boy like Balmung.