Phantom Medusa

ファントム・メデューサ

• Misa ミサ
• played by Nakayama Erina
• First appearance: Episode 1

Directly charged by Wiseman to create new Phantoms. She has the ability to spot humans who are Gates. She oversees other Phantoms who she tasks to drive those Gates to despair.

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Abilities

Has the ability to spot Gates among normal humans.

Normally her eyes are in the darkness, but when they flash, they will turn her opponents to stone. When turned to stone, her foes are still are still alive.

Personality

Medusa is stoic and completely businesslike. She seems completely focused on fulfilling Wiseman's mission to her.

On occasion she will think of a cunning plan and smile broadly.

Trivia

In Japanese, misa means "mass", like a ceremony or rite. It's also a fitting name since there was a series of Japanese schoolgirl witchcraft movies named "Misa the Dark Angel".

History

When Cait Sidhe was being lazy, Misa was observing him to make sure he was doing his job. During the observation, she noticed that Koyomi was able to see through Cait Sidhe's human form and identity him as a Phantom. She confronted Koyomi to know how she was able to detect Phantoms and binds her with her snakes. She was able to figure out that she was a shell of a human that needs magic to run and drains her magic.

She encounters Haruto for the first time when she was trying to figure out Matsuki's support mechanism and manages to defeat him with ease but leaves him alive.

Sora tells Medusa about how Phoenix was going against Wiseman's agenda which made her ask Wiseman what to do with Phoenix. She was ordered to stop him even meant taking his life since she was the only one who could pull it off. Medusa finds Phoenix which they fight and ends with Medusa turning Phoenix into stone. At this point Phoenix breaks the stone enchantment and left Medusa in shock that he could break her stone prison. She runs away afterwards. After Phoenix was defeated by Wizard, she accepted Sora's offer as her new helper.

Her Phantom form has the ability to use her snakes to bind opponents and drain any magic from them. She can fight with a staff coil with snakes call the Arrogant. It can create a mass of giant rock to fling at her opponent. She can turn people into stone including Phantoms. It was believed that she could have stop Phoenix with her pertification power but he has become too powerful for it.

In human form, Misa wears a colorful green and purple dress with a scarf. She wears an armlet on her left arm that matches Yuugo's one on his right. She tends to say "Found you." quite a bit.

It is revealed in episode 26 that her full name is Inamori Misa 稲森美紗 and that she has a twin sister named Mayu. From the kanji, we learn that Misa means "beautiful gossamer", which makes sense since that could be used to describe the colorful shawl that she tends to wear.

Inamori Misa

稲森美紗