Kira Yukimura

Kira Yukimura will be a recurring character during Season 3 of MTV’s Teen Wolf''.

The character is of Japanese and Korean descent and is portrayed by Arden Cho

Kira is a student and the daughter of Beacon Hills High School's new History teacher.

According to MTV, the character will quickly find herself involved in the world of the supernatural and has a past connection to Beacon Hills.

Development
Teen Wolf Executive Producer Jeff Davis announced during a panel at San Deigo Comic Con 2013 that Season 3(b) would focus on Japanese folklore.


 * "We're heading into a new mythology based on the Kitsune myth, which some people might know a little bit about," he shared. "It is a very, very fascinating Japanese shapeshifter myth about the were-fox and the trickster spirit."

Cho was cast in the part of Kira in August 2013 and began filming immediately.