Benio Adashino

Benio Adashino is the main heroine of Twin Star Exorcists series. She is the next head of the Adashino House, one of 64 most important houses of Tsuchimikado Island. She and Rokuro Enmado are the current Twin Star Exorcists, and is destined to have a child who will be the Miko. In the manga, she got married to Rokuro Enmado and has taken his last name since then. Benio is a beautiful young woman around average height and has green eyes. She has waist-long black hair (dark purple in the anime) that has a set of long bangs that frames her forehead. She is usually seen in her school uniform or exorcist gear. She used to have two pink bobble hair ties (given by her brother Yuto Ijika in anime) on both sides. She later replaced them with a pair of silver Japanese bellflower-shaped hairpins that were given to her by Rokuro Enmado. During their fight against Yuto, she loses her legs and gets a new pair of Impurity legs as replacements, much like Rokuro's right arm. Kamui even states that they are too beautiful to be called impure. Two years later, she is shown to have grown taller, however, her breasts were still relatively underdeveloped. After her transformation into Great Yin, as a humanoid Impurity, she has her kuji-kiri on the stomach, dark skin, golden eyes, and light-colored hair like other Impurities. She has a single horn on her right side and a long mantilla on her hair. The hairpins given by Rokuro are transformed into neck and head decorations. Currently, Benio is in her 20s. She has shortened the front strands of her hair and looks more elegant with a livelier look in her eyes. Her hairpins are in the eyepatch that she uses to hide her Basara Eye. Benio first comes off as an aloof person who dislikes talking and is easily irritated. She has a speech quirk, in which she will momentarily pause in between some sentences. When it comes to exorcism, she is very passionate and can be very talkative. Since she hails from an important family, honor and pride are both very important to her. She is also very competitive, and the trait gets more prominent when it comes to Rokuro. Since she was taught to never back out from her words, she can be quite stubborn and will use any argument to win. A running gag with her exorcism passion usually happens in situations where Rokuro accidentally sees her naked or other awkward situations, in which she responds with a made-up spell to "eradicate" Rokuro's perversion. After opening up to Rokuro, Benio is shown to actually be a very caring person. She also gets embarrassed easily, even to the point of fainting when she experiences it immensely. In the past, she is also shown to be somewhat of a volatile cook; her food ranging from inedible concoctions to consumable meals, the latter which Rokuro tries not to acknowledge as she will cook the food over and over again if he says it’s good. She has an extreme liking for ohagi, something she inherited from her father. In the anime, she even wanted to make an anime adaption of "Ohagi Man," a hand-drawn manga based solely around ohagi. Her liking for ohagi is contagious enough to reach even Rokuro as time went on. After the timeskip, Benio seems to be able to show her feelings more comfortably compared to when she first met Rokuro and seems to show her jealousy more openly and frequently than before. Thanks to the fact that she’s more mature than before, she stops hitting Rokuro each time she feels jealous. When possessed by the Impurity King, Benio shows a more brutal and cold persona. She rarely talks and tends to be affected heavily by the creature.