Naki Kito
From Dandadan
Naki Kito is a supporting character in Dandadan, the iron-willed matriarch of the Kito family, who have run Jiji's hot-spring village for generations while hiding centuries of sacrifices to the giant worm beneath it. She is voiced by Masako Isobe in Japanese and Morgana Ignis in English.
About Naki Kito
Naki Kito is the iron-willed matriarch of the Kito family, who have run Jiji's hot-spring village for generations. Outwardly a strict landlady, she guards the family's terrible secret: centuries of sacrifices to the giant worm beneath the village. Naki will do anything to protect her family's position, including feeding guests to a god, making her a chilling human villain.
Appearance
Naki Kito is an elderly woman with a stern, lined face, iron-grey hair and the bearing of someone who has commanded a household and a village for decades. She dresses traditionally and moves with deliberate authority, landlady, matriarch and judge in one. Her politeness to guests is perfect and perfectly cold, the hospitality of a woman deciding what each visitor is worth to her family's interests.
Personality
Naki is iron-willed, proud and utterly without sentimentality about outsiders. She believes the sacrifices were necessary, the price of her family's survival and status, and she will feed guests to a god with the same calm she uses to serve them tea. Her menace is administrative: she has been doing this so long that horror has become procedure, and she cannot imagine the account ever coming due.
Background & Story
Naki Kito heads the Kito family, who have run the hot-spring village near Jiji's home for generations, and guarded its terrible secret for just as long: the giant worm god beneath the village, fed by centuries of human sacrifices, including the boy who became the Evil Eye. When Jiji's family rents a Kito house and the haunting begins, Naki treats the teenagers, the mediums and even the spirits as pieces in one calculation: protect the family's position at any cost. She makes a chilling villain precisely because she is not supernatural at all, she is a human being who chose her family's power over other people's lives, generation after generation.
Key Relationships
- Evil Eye: The spirit her family's sacrifices created, a debt the Kito have owed for generations and never paid.
- Jin Enjoji: The tenant boy in her family's old house, whose possession by the Evil Eye threatens everything she guards.
- Manjiro: The local priest who knows the Kito family's history and stands against her.
Quick Answers
Who is Naki Kito?
Naki Kito is the matriarch of the Kito family, who have sacrificed people to the giant worm beneath their village for generations to protect their power.
Who voices Naki Kito?
Naki is voiced by Masako Isobe in Japanese and by Morgana Ignis in the English dub.
