Anna Kyoyama

Anna Kyoyama, later known as Anna Asakura after marriage to Yoh, is the lead female character of Shaman King. She is the fiancée and later wife of Yoh Asakura, and is a second generation itako - a traditional Japanese shaman. Her specialty is channeling, and she can summon a spirit from anywhere, even from heaven where normal shamans can't contact spirits. In the English anime she is called a "Spirit Medium".

Appearance
Anna is a medium blonde-haired girl. Her eyes are black in the anime and amber in the manga. She is almost always seen wearing a red bandana. Anna wears a jet black mini dress and around her neck she wears a rosary necklace used for her itako rituals. She wears wooden sandals with red straps and around her right wrist she wears a blue bead bracelet. Anna originally wore her bandana on her head. However, when she left for the Patch Village in America she started wearing the bandana around her neck like a scarf, and sported a pair of black sunglasses.

Personality
Aggressive and decisive, Anna is a pragmatic person who appears cold and harsh. However, she has shown that she genuinely cares for those important to her, especially Yoh. She is extremely dedicated to be "The Ultimate Shaman Queen" and wife to Yoh, the first friend that she ever had. She firmly believes that Yoh is destined to become the Shaman King, and believes her duty as his fiancée is train him extensively for it.

Anna loves Yoh, despite how badly she treats him - she told it to Manta Oyamada, and again to Silva. She became openly upset when it seemed Yoh would be killed by Tokagero. Anna can be extremely possessive of Yoh, beating him up once when she thought that the Oracle Bell he brought home was another woman's pager. On several occasions, Anna shows little or no concern for Yoh when Yoh is participating in a battle, the reason behind this was later revealed to be because she truly loved Yoh and trusted him to succeed.

On the night before Yoh left to America for the Shaman Fight she asked Yoh if she could sleep with him, and Yoh said yes. Only Amidamaru and Len know about this. Also, when asked by Yohken in Hell, "Yoh do you have children too?" Yoh replied, "No...well how can I say that?" hinting that he and Anna had slept together.

Anna and Asakura Hao seem to have an odd relationship of their own - Anna dislikes Hao and even slapped him once. Surprisingly, he was not angry, but actually seemed amused, saying that she was truly suited to become the wife of the Shaman King.

Powers & Abilities
Anna is an itako, a shaman capable of summoning spirits from the afterlife. She was trained by Yoh's grandmother, also an itako. She uses her 1080 beads to enter a trance and then summon the spirits.

Anna is unusually strong physically, something that most people do not suspect from her appearance. She has demonstrated several times that she is not afraid to use violence to subdue anyone, even those she cares about, making her "right hand slap" and "phantom left hand slap" (or "Legendary Left") somewhat infamous among Anna's group of friends, especially Manta and Tamamura Tamao.

Anna's spiritual strength is so immense that she was able to seal and control Hao Asakura's two shikigami Zenki and Kouki, just by reading how to within a few seconds and she was the only person able to significantly damage Hao in battle, by reflecting his curses back at him.