Eternal Fighter Zero/Kano Kirishima

Introduction

Kirishima Kano (霧島 佳乃) is a slow but well-ranged fighter, and can use elemental magic to keep the opponent at bay. Her magical rod gives her incredible range even without her magic, and she is also able to gain SP naturally without having to attack the opponent. Because of her range and magic, Kano is well-suited for a keep-away play style.

Kano is one of the heroines of AIR, a visual novel produced by Key in 2000. Kano is a school girl in the town where the story takes place. Both of her parents passed away long ago, and she now lives with her older sister who runs the town's clinic. Kano loves animals, and takes care of the animals at school. She is always with her pet dog, Potato, also known as the "alien fur ball" to Yukito. Kano believes that the ribbon tied to her right wrist will enable her to use magic if she keeps it on until adulthood. During AIR, Yukito learns the reason Kano wants magic, and the purpose of the ribbon...

Stage: Shinto Shrine near the Sky (Day) (空に近い神社(昼))

BGM: Puddle (水たまり)

Character-Specific Notes

• Kano is able to air jump once, and air dash/backstep once.
• Kano has one of the most floaty jumps in the game.
• Kano usually has a "Magic" gauge underneath her life gauge. Kano will not be able to cast any magic until her magic gauge is full. If she does not have a full magic gauge and she tries to cast magic, she will charge uninterrupted until her magic gauge is full, and then cast her magic. In the case that there is no magic gauge, it simply means that the gauge is empty.
• Kano is able to automatically generate SP on her own. Her recovery rate is fastest when she has less than SP level 1, and becomes slower with each level she reaches. However, if Kano stays in the same horizontal position (jumping straight up or attacking is okay) and is not attacked by the opponent for 4 seconds, a blue "30" will appear over her, and she will gain 1/3 of a level of SP.

Normal Moves

The notation for the movelists can be found under Notation.

Move	Hits	Damage	Guard	Move Cancel	Jump Cancel	IC Cancel
5A	1	190	Ground	Yes	Yes	Yes
2A	1	220	Ground	Yes	Yes	Yes
j.A	1	210	High/Low	Yes	Yes	Yes
66A	1	220	Ground	Yes	No	Yes
662A	1	220	Ground	Yes	No	Yes
5B(c)	1	410	Ground	Yes	Yes	Yes
5B(f)	1	450	Ground	Yes	No	Yes
2B	1	480	Low	Yes	Yes	Yes
j.B	1	450	Any	Yes	Yes	Yes
	1	450	High/Low	Yes	Yes	Yes
66B	1	520	Ground	Yes	Hit	Yes
662B	1	400	Low	Yes	No	Yes
5C	1	610	Ground	Yes	Hit	Yes
2C	1	650	Ground	No	No	Yes
j.C	5	600	High/Low	No	Yes	Yes
66C	1	690	Ground	Yes	Hit	Yes
662C	6	840	Ground	Yes	No	Yes
Throw	2	1000	Throw	No	No	Yes
j.Throw	2	1200	Air Throw	No	No	No
Full Swing Rod
6B	1	520	Ground	Yes	No	Yes
Napalm Beat
6C	1	650	Any	Yes	No	Yes
Rod Surfing
j.2A	1	500	Any	No	No	Yes
j.2B	1	500	Any	No	No	Yes
j.2C	1	500	Any	No	No	Yes
Sliding
3C	1	610	Low	Yes	No	Yes

Weak Attacks

5A

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2A

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j.A

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66A

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662A

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Medium Attacks

5B (close)

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5B (far)

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2B

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j.B

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66B

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662B

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Strong Attacks

5C

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2C

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j.C

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66C

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662C

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Throws

Throw

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Air Throw

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Command Normals

Full Swing Rod (フルスイングロッド)

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Napalm Beat (ネイパムビート)

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Rod Surfing (ロッドサーフィン)

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Sliding (スライディング)

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Special Moves

The notation for the movelists can be found under Notation.

Move	Hits	Damage	Guard	IC Cancel
Lightning Bolt
236A	1	450	Any	Yes
236B	3	450*3	Any	Yes
236C	5	450*5	Any	Yes
Fire Bolt
214A	2	680	Any	"Aria"
214B	6	680*3	Any	"Aria"
214C	10	680*5	Any	"Aria"
Cold Bolt
421A	1	450	Any	"Aria"
421B	3	450*3	Any	"Aria"
421C	5	450*5	Any	"Aria"
Aria
S	0	N/A	N/A	No
Fast Aria [RF gauge required]
236S	1	500	Any	No
Fire Ball [SP Level 1]
236236A	6	1800	Any	Yes
Fire Wall [SP Level 2]
236236B	3	900	Any	"Aria"
	n	200*n	Any	"Aria"
Meteor Storm [SP Level 3]
236236C	6	≈4000	Any	No
	2*n	1600*n	Any	No
Frost Diver [SP Level 1]
214214A	1	800	Low	"Aria"
Frost Nova [SP Level 2]
214214B	7	≈2500	Any	"Aria"
Storm Gust [SP Level 3]
214214C	1	500	Ground	No
	≈15	≈5200	Any	No
Thunderstorm [SP Level 1]
641236A	3	≈1400	Any	Yes
Jupiter Thunder [SP Level 2]
641236B	17	≈3600	Any	Yes
Lord of Vermilion [SP Level 3]
641236C	5	≈4800	Any	No
Safety Ward [SP Level 1]
22B	0	N/A	N/A	"Aria"
Soul Strike [SP Level 1-3]
2141236A	3	≈1900	Any	Yes
2141236B	4	≈2900	Any	Yes
2141236C	5	≈3800	Any	Yes
Memory of Shiraho [During recoil guard, 1/3 HP, SP Level 3]
2141236S	2	5000	Throw	No

Specials

Lightning Bolt (ライトニングボルト)

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Fire Bolt (ファイアボルト)

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Cold Bolt (コルドボルト)

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Aria (詠唱)

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Fast Aria (高速詠唱)

• Kano makes a charging pose as a sphere of light briefly surrounds her entire body.
• After this move is performed, Kano will have a full magic gauge. However, she cannot use this move if her magic gauge is already full.
• Fast Aria can actually be used to move cancel-out of Lightning Bolt, Fire Bolt, and Cold Bolt, making it an excellent escape option if the opponent gets too close while you are still casting a spell.

Eterny Specials

Fire Ball (ファイアーボール)

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Fire Wall (ファイアワール)

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Meteor Storm (メテオストーム)

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Frost Diver (フロストダイバー)

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Frost Nova (フロストノヴァ)

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Storm Gust (ストームガスト)

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Thunderstorm (サンダーストーム)

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Jupiter Thunder (ユピテルサンダー)

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Lord of Vermilion (ロードオブヴァーミリオン)

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Safety Wall (セイフティワール)

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Soul Strike (ソウルストライク)

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Final Memory

Memory of Shiraho (白帆の記憶)

• Kano reaches out with her hands. If it hits, she grabs the opponent by the neck and lifts them completely off the ground. After saying the lines "If it must be done, I would rather kill you with my own hands...", she crushes their neck and drops them.
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Strategy, Tactics, and Combos

Tactics

• Wand/staff
  • you can survive with kano in one place simply never using forward or back. simply using the wand's range and the way the attacks flow into each other, and using only up to jump cancel, gaining super is very easy.
  • using a spell first and then using the wand without moving around will usually be enough for the meter boost.
  • a string of ice bolts in the corner on knockdown, is deadly effective, working both to stuff out jump atempts and keep them in the corner at maximum wand range where you can use your best poke/punish game.

• charge cancelling
  • you can do some interesting things with charge cancelling like single lightning bolt > charge cancel > single ice bolt > charge cancel, something interesting to experiment with.
  • because you cancel a weak spell directly into charge, you can immediately follow up with any spell due to the guage being almost instantly full. so for combos it's a good idea to chain weak spells together and follow up with a large spell.
  • doing something like lightning > icebolt > firewall is completely possible (and not to mention does tons of damage in the corner when you follow-up on the firewall) and speeds up your assaults. plus you have the added bonus of standing in one spot and charging super meter quickly (4 seconds to charge 1/9th of the whole bar). comboing into lightning is also fairly simple.

• magic managing
  • plan your asssaults. concentrate on what your magic allows.
  • after a large spell or at the start of the match you have no magic, keep your attacks short and go for quick knockdowns. short charges, cancels, backdashes and the reach of your wand are your main assets. use your wand for quick knockdowns and not damage.
  • with a full magic bar, concentrate on landing spells. hitting with a weak lightning bolt usually sets up for a combo, hitting with an ice spell (ice diver or other) will usually leave the opponent vulnerable enough for a free combo, and fire spells hurt alot. hitting with any spell and immediately charging magic or following with a combo/knockdown will lead to more time and control the flow of battle from afar. staying behind your magic generates magic, and if you play well enough and not jump the gun with counters (lightning vs air, ice vs far, fire vs mid, wand vs near) your super will charge and the damage will come naturally. full magic is your damaging phase.
  • learn to cycle the 2 phases, if you have almost full magic, act the same as if you have no magic. if you have magic, go for the damage.
  • Do NOT use RF solely for the purpose of instant-magic charging and "bombing" out of attacks.

• Multi hit moves
  • kano has plenty of multi-hit moves, like her dash-wand spin, and her aerial wand spin, not to mention her spells. if you use these together with spells, the opponent won't be able to RG through spells (specifically lightning in the air, a situation that leaves you very vulnerable if they get through it).
  • spells usually hit more than once, and can overwhelm the opponent. blockstun is usually very high and you can get very precious seconds in one place off a single spell and generate super. something like a soulstrike can refund it's own super cost even if it's blocked if you don't follow up with melee and rather use spells.

• this is just a thought dump, but if you find something useful in these "tactics" posts, more power to you.
• looking for the old kano combo video, ice spells galore.

Win Quotes

Japanese	English
ちゃちゃっと 朝飯前なんだよぉ！	I eat people like you for breakfast!
どすこーい！ どすこーい！ どす… …アレ？	Dosukooi! Dosukooi! Dosu... ...huh?
うわー… ゴメン ちょっと加減 間違えたかも…	Uwa~... Sorry! It's because of the small mistakes you made...
テン ニ トド ケ ヨ アマタ ノ ネガ　イ ツバサ モツ モノ トワ ノ ソラ ヘ ト	DELIVER TO HEAVEN EVERYONE'S WISHES THOSE WITH WINGS TO THE ENDLESS SKY
かのりん 大勝利だぁ！	Kano-rin's great victory!
(To Sayuri) 魔法が使えたら… うん 悪くないと思うよ 思っていたのと ちょっと違うけどね	(To Sayuri) If you can use magic... Yes. You're probably not evil. But your way of thinking seems different.
(To UNKNOWN) 何も変わらない ってのも 良いんだと思うよ でも 何も変われない ってのは 良くないと思う	(To UNKNOWN) I think it's good if nothing changes. But. I don't think it's good if nothing can be changed.
(To Kano) よーし 君をかのりん影武者隊 一号に任命する！ 折角だからもっと たくさん欲しいねぇ	(To Kano) All right! I hereby appoint you "Kaorin Body Double No. 1"! After all that trouble, I kind of want more...

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In-game References

External References

• The name and look of every single one of Kano's magic spells is taken from the Mage/Wizard class spells, from Ragnarok Online.
• The way that Kano gradually recovers SP, and the fact that she recovers it faster by staying still, is based on the basic gameplay of Ragnarok Online. Even the blue numbers that show up and fade away is exactly like Ragnarok Online.

AIR References

• The shinto shrine in the background is a common recurring location in Kano's scenario.
• The magic that Kano uses is a reference to her dream of becoming a magician in AIR.
• The entire scenario in Kano's "Memory of Shiraho" move is based on an actual event that takes place in the game.