Sumire
Sumire (スミレ, Sumire) est la deuteragoniste de Baoh le Visiteur. Elle une jeune fille avec des pouvoir psychique qui a été kidnappée par l'Organisation Dress. Elle s'échappe avec Ikuro Hashizawa et fuit les assassins que l'organisation déploie à leurs trousses.
Apparence
Sumire est une petite fille de 9 ans. Elle de long cheveux de couleur clair, attaché en une queue de cheval à l'arrière avec une mèche sur le devant. Elle a de grands yeux en noisette avec des cils longs, et des sourcils relativement épais.
Elle porte une chemise sombre ample sous une veste tout aussi ample mais de couleur claire. Elle porte aussi une jupe à poix et des baskets. Summire est tout le temps accompagné d'une sorte d'écureuil nommé Sunny Stefen Nozzo ou juste "Nozzo". Nozzo se tient pour la plupart du temps sur l'épaule de Sumire.
Personnalité
Sumire est une jeune fille intelligent et maligne mais impertinente quelques fois.
Sumire est remarquablement intelligente pour deux raisons. La première est sa débrouillardise naturelle ; par exemple, elle a été capable d'utiliser les objets de sa cellule pour fabriquer un piège élaboré et duper sa gardienne Sophine. Sumire est proactive quand il s'agit de planifier pour qu'Ikuro et elle gagnent de l'argent. La deuxième raison est que ses pouvoirs psychiques lui donnent la capacité de lire dans le coeur des gens et de prévoir des dangers imminents. Ainsi, il lui est très facile de déjouer ses ennemis et de voir qu'est ce qu'il faut faire pour s'en sorte. Par exemple sa grande intuition lui a permis de comprendre qu'on voulait la droguer avec des médicaments dans sa nourriture mais aussi que ressentir qu'Ikuro était un partenaire digne de confiance.
Sumire est également assez grossière et a peu de respect envers l'autorité. Elle est remarquablement impertinente avec les adultes qu'elle n'aime pas, notamment Sophine qui était sa gardienne mais aussi le vieil homme qui les recueille et qu'elle a insulté à plusieurs reprises. Peut-être à cause de sa jeunesse, Sumire se fiche de respecter la loi et n'hésite pas à voler ou à tricher au jeu, se disant que l'urgence de sa situation justifie ses actes. Cependant, Sumire a un cœur tendre et a le coeur brisé lorsqu'une femme et son enfant ont été assassinés par l'un des monstres de Dress.
Sumire fait preuve d'une grande détermination face à Dress. Elle est constamment déviante envers eux et chaque fois qu'elle est capturée, elle met un point d'honneur à s'échapper ou à faire de la vie de ses ravisseurs un enfer, mais elle peut aussi endurer sans pleurer lorsque Dress la soumet à un bruit assourdissant pendant des heures.
Bien qu'elle aime son animal de compagnie Nozzo, elle est également dégoûtée quand Nozzo lui lèche le visage après avoir mangé des insectes.
Sumire semble avoir le béguin pour Ikuro Hashizawa en raison de son bel apparence, mais sachant aussi qu'il a bon cœur. Même sept ans après la disparition d'Ikuro, Sumire attend impatiemment son retour.
Pouvoirs et compétences
Sumire is a remarkable psychic whose powers revolve around divining relevant information. The nature of the information and the method by which she obtains it is irrelevant, but is instinctive and automatic. Sumire has manifested her divining skills in the following ways:
- Instinct: Sumire has a strong instincts and she can usually feel the truth of precise matters. For instance, she automatically trusted Ikuro but also was sure that Ikuro was merely slumbering at the bottom of the sea rather than being dead.
- Automatic Writing: She can write unconsciously to produce words or numbers which can be used to access codes to locking mechanisms.
- Precognition: She occasionally has visions of future events, which allows her and Ikuro to act ahead of time.
- Table Turning: She can gain information with this power using a coin and notepad with numbers and "Yes" and "No" on it.
History
Before Dress captured Sumire, it is explained that she used to live in an orphanage. She openly manifested her psychic powers when she divined the license number of a car involved in a hit-and-run for the police, catching the attention of Dress who took her in and put her on a train to their secret laboratory. Incidentally, a Baoh was being contained in another wagon.
At the beginning of the story, Sumire tries to escape the train. Waiting for her handler Sophine to eventually check on her, Sumire makes a mess to hide a trap. Sophine comes and Sumire asks her to activate the ventilator, which turns and causes a rope to bind Sophine. Sumire exits her room and tries to escape Sophine. She is caught when she reaches a wagon where a special weapon is contained. In the struggle, Sumire turns a valve that causes a failure of the containment system, releasing the Baoh. Sumire exploits the commotion to detach the back cars from the lead cars and get away, but is soon joined by Baoh, in reality a teenage boy named Ikuro Hashizawa.
Afterward, Sumire decides to stick by Ikuro, trusting him and having a crush on him too. When the pair are attacked by a knife wielding assassin, she warns him of the incoming threat and subsequently flees with him on a motorbike. When they arrive to a gas station, Ikuro is ambushed by the same assassin and seemingly killed. Witnessing the murder, Sumire faints from the shock, but Baoh manifests itself and kills the assassin. He returns to normal before Sumire wakes up. Later, Sumire and Ikuro cheat at horse races, using her power to predict which horse will win. The pair take refuge in an abandoned building but are soon attacked by a death squad sent by Dress. She faints again, missing Ikuro's second transformation and massacre of the squad but is woken up by Nozzo, allowing her to see the aftermath of the battle. She then witnesses Baoh's fight against another assassin and his pet monster Martin. When Ikuro gets cornered, she tries to stop the assassin but gets whipped for her trouble and the pain Baoh senses allows him to overpower the assassin's tricks. Ikuro then returns to his human form.
Later, Sumire and Ikuro take refuge at an old couple's house in the countryside. In here, they are attacked by another assassin named Dordo, a cyborg who can also command bats. Dorudo is beaten but he escapes and takes Sumire with him as a hostage and a bait to lure Ikuro to Dress' laboratory. In here, Sumire is tested for her psychic powers but resists. Dr. Kasuminome decides to torture her so that Baoh is lured in by her pain. Sumire is eventually freed by Baoh, but a powerful psychic named Walken intervenes, destroying the floor and sending them down a cavern. In the cavern, Baoh points the way out to Sumire, leaving her to battle Walken. Sumire has no choice but to abandon Baoh.
Years later, it is shown that Sumire was subsequently adopted by the old couple. Sumire impatiently waits for the day Ikuro will awaken from his slumber and get out of the sea.
Chapitres/Episodes
Apparition dans le Manga- Baoh the Visitor Chapter 1: Baoh, the Ultimate Weapon (1ère apparition)
- Baoh the Visitor Chapter 2: The Extermination Order!
- Baoh the Visitor Chapter 3: Baoh, the Invincible Body
- Baoh the Visitor Chapter 4: Evil Beast Martin
- Baoh the Visitor Chapter 5: Grandpa Rokusuke
- Baoh the Visitor Chapter 6: Aroma Bat
- Baoh the Visitor Chapter 7: Come Out, Baoh
- Baoh the Visitor Chapter 8: Cyborg Lieutenant Colonel Dordo
- Baoh the Visitor Chapter 9: Demon Walken
Apparitions dans l'AnimeCitations
Citations- “Hmm... 17 years old... a senior high school student? I'm 9 years old. I'm going to be ten soon, so there's only a seven-year difference... that's not very far apart.”—Sumire, Baoh the Visitor Chapter 2: The Extermination Order!
- “Oh no... Nozzo's eating cockroaches... [...] Bleeeeh! Don't come near me for a while!”—Sumire, Baoh the Visitor Chapter 3: Baoh, the Invincible Body
- “You're heartless! They had nothing to do with this...!”
- “I knew it, that is Ikuro! Dress did something which made him become this crazy form, but he's still that gentle Ikuro! After all, he saved me...”—Sumire, Baoh the Visitor Chapter 4: Evil Beast Martin
- “Y-You people did something to Ikuro...! I won't forgive you for doing something so cruel to the gentle Ikuro who I really like! I'll definitely... never forgive you for that!”—Sumire, Baoh the Visitor Chapter 4: Evil Beast Martin
- “What's your problem?! I'm not scared of that gun! Can you even pull the trigger with those tottering fingers? Try pulling it!”
- “You liar! You followed us here so you could kill us! Go away!!”
- “Ikuro is alive. He's just sleeping... comfortably... After all, I had a vision. A vision of a boy sleeping peacefully at the bottom of the lake in the underground caves. He'll wake up! I'm sure of it... He'll awaken from the water... when I turn seventeen... and we'll meet again... That's my vision. My prediction.”—Sumire, Baoh the Visitor Chapter 9: Demon Walken
Galerie
Baoh Chapter 1 Cover
Baoh Chapter 2 Cover
Baoh Chapter 6 Cover
Fanroad Magazine 1986
Baoh DVD
