Machi Amayadori

Machi Amayadori (雨宿 まち, Amayadori Machi) is the main character of ''Kuma Miko. ''She is 14-year-old Miko (shrine maiden) of a mountain shrine in a remote village and is also a middle school student. She wants to move to the big city for high school because she finds life in the countryside boring, but has never left the village in her entire life, nor ever made a human friend around her age.

Appearance
Machi has long dark hair that meets her waist. She ties it into twin tails that sit loosely by her shoulders with white ribbon. When she is not in her traditional miko attire, she just uses hair bands to keep them in place. Her bangs are cropped short across her forehead and long wefts frame her face, ending by her ears in length.

Her eyes are light brown, if not amber in shade.

Personality
As Machi gets older, her attention diverges to the city and her future. Kumade Village is becoming a dreary to her. She loathes the weather and describes it as something that makes her want to stay inside and sleep all day, getting soft and "fat".

She's at a transitional age right now and is slowly starting to depart from her more childish standards to be content. She wants to grow up and do more maturing, as she is ready to leave the village and experience the city.

She's stubborn when it comes to others telling her that she should stay there in the country because it's all she knows, but she refuses to let that bring her down. She ardently tries to learn more about the city to prepare herself and overcome the obstacles in her path.

Background
Machi was raised alongside the talking bear, Natsu Kumai. She is the shrine maiden of her village, Kumade, where she helps upkeep the peace between humans and bears there.

Etymology

 * Machi's surname Amayadori means "rain" (雨) (ama) and "inn, lodging" (宿) (yadori).

Trivia

 * Machi hates the Legend of the Kumade village and gets flustered when people talk about it