Kira Yukimura

Kira Yukimura is a new character in Season 3 of MTV’s Teen Wolf.

The character is portrayed by Arden Cho.

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

She is unaware of her true nature until her supernatural abilities are forced to manifest by an attack.

Derek says she is a "young" Kitsune and unable to mask her nature from the enhanced werewolf vision and flash photography.

Biography
Kira and her family move from New York to Beacon Hills a few weeks before the events of Season 3(b).

Kira's mom is Japanese while her father is Korean. Her mother's family has a connection to Beacon Hills going back generations.

Her father claims Kira hasn't made any friends during her first three weeks in school but she is not shy and boldly inserts herself into a private conversation with Scott and his friends. Kira and Scott are beginning a romantic relationship.

Kira seemed to exhibit a supernatural ability by absorbing dozens of megawatts (estimate) of electricity into her hands. Flash photography and Scott's enhanced werewolf vision reveal the glowing outline of a fox surrounding Kira's entire body.

Season 3
Kira's father embarrasses her with a very public introduction in History class. In the hallway, she seems to sense that Scott can hear her conversation with her father despite being very far away. Later, she overhears the conversation about the hallucinations and other side effects Scott and his friends are suffering and offers a possible explanation for their troubles. (Read More...)

Kira does research on Bardo for Scott and she forgets her papers at home. Her father walks over and hands her the papers claiming that she forgot the papers for the boy she likes, referring to Scott, which embarrasses Kira. Later, she is almost attacked by the Werecoyote but is saved by Scott. (Read more...)

Kira confesses to her father, with Scott listening in, that she is not ready to date or have a boyfriend. Her father invites Scott to dinner and he and Kira bond over chopsticks and sushi - pizza and Pepsi. Kira is kidnapped by William Barrow and escapes by absorbing electricity through an as yet unknown ability. (Read More...)

Kira is desperate to get rid of pictures of herself that are on her phone but the device is in the evidence lockup at the Sheriff's Station. She allows Scott to photograph her revealing what appear to be glowing flames surrounding her body. With the help of Stiles they break in and erase the pictures from her phone. Later, Scott uses his werewolf enhanced vision and sees the outline of a glowing fox surrounding Kira's entire body. (Read More...)

Kira asks Scott to show her his werewolf side which he does. Later, she goes to Scott's house and confesses that she is Kitsune showing him a children's story book about the creature. She is tagged by the Oni, proving that she is not a Nogitsune or dark kitsune. (Read More...).

Kira's foxfire manifests and she breaks a light bulb with it. Derek believes William Barrow may have used her, and her foxfire, to somehow energize the Nogitsune inside Stiles. (Read More...)

Development
Teen Wolf Executive Producer Jeff Davis announced during a panel at San Diego 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."

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

Quotes

 * "I can set myself on fire and be noticed."

- Kira to her father about being noticed in Anchors.


 * "Hi, I'm Kira. You knew that. I knew you knew that. I don't know why I just told you that again."

- Kira to Scott in More Bad Than Good.


 * "That was awesome! I mean terrifying, completely terrifying, but kind of awesome. I've never done anything like that before, have you?"

- Kira to Scott and Stiles about breaking and entering a police station in Illuminated.


 * "Okay, I might have slightly Mommed you."

- Kira to Scott when getting paint off his face in Illuminated.