Read more about Anna Kyoyama at: Wikipedia Official Site: ShonenJump is a fictional character created by manga author Hiroyuki Takei. She appears in Shaman King, Butsu Zone, and Itako no Anna, a one-shot manga series which focuses on Anna. Takei notes in an interview, that she is like his own personal mascot or good luck charm, because Anna appears (albeit usually in cameos) in so many of his works. Her seiyū in the original Japanese Shaman King anime is Megumi Hayashibara and is Tara Jayne in the English anime. In the English anime and English video games, her family name is not revealed. In some Japanese products and in Shaman King: Master of Spirits, her name is spelled Anna Kyohyama. Anna is shown in the anime as relatively thin with shoulder-length blonde hair. Anna also wears a short black dress at all times and a red scarf that if shown to be tied around her head for the first part of the anime, when Yoh and the gang hadn't yet parted for the second round of the Shaman Tournament. Later, meeting up with Yoh, she is shown to wear the same scarf around her neck. Anna also wears traditional red sandals and a necklace of pearls (the 1080 beads) which she uses as an itako. In Shaman King, Anna is the fiancée of Yoh Asakura, and is an itako (spirit medium in the English dub) - a traditional Japanese shaman. Her specialty is channeling, and she can summon a spirit from anywhere, even from heaven where normal shamans can't reach.
Anna Kyoyama has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.
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