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Ai Ohto (大戸 アイ, Ōto Ai?) is the main protagonist of Wonder Egg Priority. She is a self-described shut-in who does not go to school due to severe bullying for her heterochromia and likely other things.
Appearance
Ai is a young girl of average height and petite figure whose most distinguishing feature is her heterochromia, which causes her right eye to be a yellowish-amber and her left eye to be a slightly darker shade of ocean blue. She has dark blue hair which she wears in a fluffy bob cut with a long ahoge swooping towards her left side. Above her right eye is a yellow triangular hair clip while her left eye is naturally covered up by her bangs.
Ai is often seen wearing a bright yellow hoodie with a sunflower design near the pockets of her hoodie and volleyball shorts when outside. She wears a striped light-pink and light-purple tank top at home. When attending school, she wears the school uniform; a dark navy jumper and green tie. Her shoes of choice are white and blue platform sneakers.
Ai is generally seen with a calm and/or blank expression on her face, but has been shown to get quite emotional and expressive when in high-pressure situations. Ai also seems to come out of her shell with her friends, and often wears a small smile around them.
Gallery
Ai in her school uniform.
Ai in her first casual wear.
Ai in her second casual wear.
Personality
Ai is a generally introverted girl who spends most of her time alone. She dislikes being around people who have hurt her friends and is extremely brave and protective towards people that she cares about. Initially, she did not think having friends was important and put in little effort to make them. However, she eventually made friends with a transfer student named Koito Nagase, who was similarly ostracized by her peers.
Being a victim of bullying, Ai is extremely self-deprecating. When Koito committed suicide, Ai blamed herself, and committed herself to saving her. After rescuing Kurumi Saijo from the Seeno Evils and her Wonder Killer,[3] a strong sense of determination and perseverance begins to show in Ai as she declares that she will continue saving people until she can bring Koito back to life.
Ai is often seen reminiscing about the loss of Koito, and suffers from the crushing feeling of guilt from it. She is shown to have grown from it, becoming set on bringing her friend back. Indirectly, she also spawns a sense of helpfulness and kindness, seen when she helps Minami Suzuhara in confronting her inner fears and worries. This side of her is also seen in the real world with Neiru Aonuma, offering to be her friend to overcome both of their loneliness.
Background
Ai used to be an lonely girl without any friends. She was bullied often for having heterochromia by her other peers in school. Soon, a girl named Koito Nagase transferred to Ai's class. Koito immediately became interested in Ai, even going out of her way to follow Ai home. The two quickly bonded and Koito became Ai's first and only friend.
Koito and Ai believed that Koito was getting bullied out of jealousy. Ai tried her best to help out and show proof of the bullying by recording it while it happened, but she was too frightened to move when it happened and failed. Koito eventually killed herself, likely as a result of this bullying. Koito's suicide is what lead Ai to become a shut-in, avoiding school and refusing to speak to her teacher when he visits her home. It is for Koito's sake that Ai begins using the Wonder Eggs.
Abilities
Ai's pen transforming into a mace.
Weapons: Ai wields a multi-colored ballpoint pen, which can transform into a massive elaborate weapon functionally similar to a mace. Her proficiency in the weapon is relatively underdeveloped, but the weapon itself delivers powerful blows and has allowed her to defeat multiple monsters.
Ai has also created other weapons out of objects provided to her, such as a whip from Minami’s gymnastics ribbon. As seen when she stand off against Minami’s coach, she crafts the ribbon into a long, whip-like item that can stretch and retract. The weapon can also slice things, and when she was thrown around the ribbon sliced through the solid stone pillars of the gymnasium.
She was able to utilize pen-lights lent to her by Mako and Miko, which expanded into sabers approximately two-thirds of her height. Ai also managed to get ahold of prayer beads belonging to Yae Yoshida, enabling her to see Yae's Wonder Killer.
Pomander: Ai currently has a pomander given to her by Acca and Ura-Acca. When hatched, a creature that resembles a chameleon comes out of it. She named her wonder animal Leon.[4]
Etymology
When read aloud, her name is homophonous with the phrase odd eye (オッドアイ, oddoai?), which is a term used in Japan to refer to heterochromia.
- The name
Ai (1) is written in katakana (サキ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (愛 or 藍), it could possibly mean:
- 愛 - "love, affection".
- 藍 - "indigo".
- Ai is rendered with katakana characters, not kanji. Katakana are used when writing foreign words in Japanese. Therefore, it is a transcription of the English word eye (ア = a and イ = i).
- Ai's surname Ohto means "big, great" (大) (oh) and "door" (戸) (to).
- However, despite the fact it is written with kanji, her surname is pronounced the way odd would be if it were transcribed in katakana (オ = o and ド = do).
Trivia
- Ai's house number is 4-303.[5]
- All of Ai's nicknames were given by Rika Kawai.
- The nickname given to her by Rika, Ai-Ai (アイアイ, Aiai?), is also the username of Ai when they went bowling.[5]
- Ai loves omelet rice and sukiyaki.[4]
- Ai's flower is a carnation (innocence).[6]
- Ai's dominant hand is her right hand.[1]
- Ai's hobby is watching movies.[1]
Quotes
- (To herself) “Crosswalks are still scary even when you move with the crowd. I'm done pretending not to see! Now I'm mad!”[3]
- (To herself) “Hey, If I protect a bunch more people, will Koito come back to life? She will, right?!”[3]
- (To Minami) “You just want attention! What you really mean is that you want someone to find you and love you! So, I won't leave you alone! I can't leave you alone!”[7]
- (To herself) “I'm done with the me that craved attention. I'm going to believe! If I don't, I can't protect anyone! Can't love anyone!”[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wonder Egg Priority Anime: Blu-ray & DVD Volume 1
- ↑ Official Wonder Egg Priority Anime Website
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Wonder Egg Priority Anime: Episode 1
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wonder Egg Priority Anime: Episode 6
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wonder Egg Priority Anime: Episode 5
- ↑ TV anime "Wonder Egg Priority" Retrospective Special
- ↑ Wonder Egg Priority Anime: Episode 2
- ↑ Wonder Egg Priority Anime: Episode 12
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