Kisumi Ochiai

Kisumi Ochiai (落合キスミ) is a fictional character in The Drillimation Series of video games, first appearing as a minor character in Crystal Island 2: Shards of Integrity. In the games, she is the mother to Kagami Ochiai and Yumi Ochiai.

Appearance
In most games, Kisumi has pinkish-purple hair and dark purple hair on her sideburns. As a child, she had black hair before Kisumi dyed it purple when she was in college. Her first daughter, Kagami, inherited purple hair. Throughout parts of Kagami's life, Kagami dyed her sideburn hair lime green and her top hair red. In addition, she has green eyes that both of her daughters inherited.

Life
Kisumi was born on March 12, 1974. Kisumi attended Minecraftia High School and like her husband, they were both Honoodan students. After graduating from college as the class of 1996, she married Hideo Ochiai who Kisumi had met at that school. In the spring of 1999, Kisumi became pregnant with Kagami, who was later born in December of that year. Later in 2002, Yumi was born as the second daughter to the Ochiai legacy.

Development
Surprisingly, Kisumi was going to be the main character in the first Crystal Island game. She was going to be the same age as Kagami, but was scrapped during development. Also, she had black hair in early sketches during development.

In early concepts for the game, Kisumi was going to be Kagami and Yumi's late mother, having been killed by King Empty Jay when Kagami was nine and Yumi being six. This concept was also scrapped, as Takajima did not want a lot of drama in the game.