Name: Mamimi Samejima
Nicks: Native Girl
Age: 17 years old
Status: Drop Out Student, Pyromaniac

Mamimi's role in the OAV's are quite interesting. Although she's not a main character, she's perhaps the most complex and coolest character in the entire series in my opinion.

Mamimi, the Child
Mamimi reminds me of a little child yet she's a seventeen year old. She seems to have an air of innocence surrounding her, perhaps because she's often confused and and easily amused. Such as in episode two, she follows Kanti around (without it knowing) all the way up to the old burned down elementary school, documenting the entire saga by taking pictures with her camera. Upon Kanti lifting off and flying away, her eyes glitter like a kid that loves candy and fresh snow. She then becomes strongly attached and convinced that he's Lord Kanti from a hand-held game she plays. She's also strongly attached to Tasuku, Naota's brother, even though he's away overseas. So she loathes on Naota since she doesn't have very many or even any friends at all. =[

Mamimi, the Deceiver?
One thing to contradict the child in her is her actions. Although smoking is up to the user's own preference, Mamimi seems to smoke quite often when she's depressed or sadden. She also has arsonic or pyromanic tendencies. Six years ago, making her eleven or twelve at the time, she burned down her elementary school. Her motivations can probably be linked to her dislike for school (she plays hookie a lot and hangs around under the bridge) and a game that she plays called "Firestarter." Or perhaps because she has no parental figures or guardians to guide her in the right direction. She also has "revenge list" that she keeps in a book of the people that has wronged her. Instead of merely forgetting about it or letting it go, she accomplishes getting vengence by using Takkun (a "terminal core" robot dog thing that she feeds) to eat their vehicles. Preeetty scary...

Burn Baby!
Mamimi plays a game called "Firestarter" which probably influences some of the ways she thinks and acts such as worshipping Kanti as a diety and of course with her obsession with fire.

The game's plotline or mission is quite cool and I wish it was a real game, but it's not... >_< ANYWAY, it's about you as as servant or agent to Lord Kanti. Your mission is to slowly burn down the city with matches, lighters, whatever you have and allude the firefighters. You can't burn the entire city down or you won't have a place to live and eat. You're mission isn't complete until you receive the divine blessings from Lord Kanti.

I've never been that deeply influenced by video games before. Probably the extent of my obsession with certain games is drawing pictures relating to it and sometimes "play acting" it out. I remember back in the day when GoldenEye was the shizno, I use to invite my friends over and we'd have nerf gun battles with certain guns resembling GoldenEye. Another game called Counter-Strike was pretty neat and I was obsessed with "bunny hopping" when I use to play paintballing.

Drawing with Light
Photography! This is one of the only things that keeps this chick sane. In the series, it doesn't exactly talk about the indepthness (is that a word?) of her love for photography, you can assume it. Wherever she goes, she documents her surrounding. Although she's just snapping shots of whatever intrigues her, it creates an interesting, moment-capturing, impressionistic sense of art. It's like a personal diary of hers. A special way to document her life and how things goes on. Her passion even got her to get published in a magazine and in the end, Naota says she moved on in life with camera at hand.

Live Life
Although Mamimi doesn't have the greatest life of all (she's homeless I think and stays under the bridge most of the time. She also doesn't have very many friends so it seems, but she does befriend a cat she named Takkun too!), she does live life. But...

Maybe I'm over-analyzing this, but we're all living our lives right? Yes, but she pursues something that she wants despite all the obstacles she has faced which I must say is extremely respectable.