Shiori Hatanaka (畑中志保利, Hatanaka Shiori), previously known as Shiori Minamino (南野志保利, Minamino Shiori), is the human mother of Shuichi Minamino, aka Kurama.
History[]
During the events of the manga, it is shown that, as a young boy, Kurama (Shuichi) falls from a stepstool and Shiori rescues him from crashing to the floor, cutting open her arms on some broken plates as a result. The enduring scars left on Shiori's arms from this awaken Kurama's realization of Shiori's maternal love and he becomes unable to leave her.
Synopsis[]
Spirit Detective Saga[]
Shiori is a very loving mother towards her son, as evidenced by Kurama growing attached enough to her emotionally to go to great lengths to ensure her health and safety, such as wishing for her to recover from a serious terminal illness on the Forlorn Hope even though he knew it would take his own life as a price.
Three Kings Saga[]
During the first few days of his stay in Demon World, Kurama mentions that Shiori had remarried sometime in July of that year (she was actually on a month-long honeymoon for all of August when Kurama had made his trip to Demon World), both he and Kuwabara were in attendance, and gained a step-brother named Shuichi, the son of her new husband, a man named Kazuya Hatanaka, who was the president of the small company she works for.
After Yomi had finally killed the assassin who had failed to kill him (at Kurama's behest) all those years ago, he threatened to kill Shiori by crashing her flight on her honeymoon. This was only an attempt to make Kurama work for Yomi at his full disposal.
Epilogue[]
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Shuichi Minamino with his two parents.
During this mission of Team Urameshi, Yusuke informs everyone to evacuate and the rest of the team go to Sarayashiki city in the Human World to do the same. Here, both Kazuya and Shiori Hatanaka made a cameo when Kurama helps them to seek refuge. At the end, fortunately, Yusuke ended up pushing the blue button, which ended up being the correct one. As a result, the mission was successful and both Spirit World and Human World were sound and safe once more.
Etymology[]
- The name Shiori means "will, purpose" (志) (shi), "protect, guarantee" (保) (o) and "benefit, advantage" (利) (ri).
- Shiori's surname Minamino means "south" (南) (minami) and "field, wilderness" (野) (no).
- Her second married name Hatanaka means "field" (畑) (hata) and "middle" (中) (naka).