Ain

Ain (あいん ) is the main character of the planned anime series Despera.

She is a young Japanese girl with scientific skills that go beyond the knowledge and capabilities of her time. She also displays an uncanny ability to generate electricity from her hands.

Story
Ain is a 12-year-old Japanese girl who resides in her workshop inside the basement of the Ryōunkaku in Asakusa, Tokyo. She is a technical genius with no prior scientific knowledge, she is able to create electronic devices far beyond the capabilities of the current era. Some of the devices created include early versions of a modern computer, complete with typewriter keyboards and cathode ray tube display monitors. In the novel version, one of her ongoing works is a mysterious robot which she refers to as Father.

Personality
Despite being 12 years old, she often displays a mature expression of an adult.

Appearance
Ain is a small Japanese girl with light skin, brown hair and brown eyes.

She has short mussed hair with a specific strand of hair longer than the rest on the left side of her face.

She is usually seen in the artworks wearing an apron above a floral dress but she also has been seen wearing a school uniform, a white dress with purple cloth covering her shoulders and also kimonos. On her hair, she always have a black bow.

Barbara Andrei
Ain is particularly uncomfortable of Barbara's presence as she is frightened of her pale white complexion, presumably having never seen a Russian before.

Takeshita
Both Ain and Takeshita work in the Ryōunkaku basement, they are both associate. Ain created computer monitors able to predict the future and her associate, Takeshita, sells these "prophecies", to the Japanese military and the aristocracy to fund for Ain's inventions.

As Takeshita is older than Ain, who is not an adult yet, Takeshita plays as a father figure for Ain to whom he shows a deep affection.

Kimiyasu Fuenokōji
It is unknown what relationship Kimiyasu has with Ain, but Kimiyasu is interested in her inventions.

Lain Iwakura
Ain shares a lot of similarities with Lain (玲音 ) from the anime series Serial Experiments Lain which Despera is the spiritual sequel.

Physically they have the exact same traits. Even the haircut, which slightly different as Ain have more wavy hair, can be see as the same.

Some difference can be found, as Ain seems to have a brighter personality, as we can seen in the artworks. On the other side, Lain is known for her submissive and introvert nature, despite having more aggressive incarnations.

Trivia

 * While working on the concept art for Ain, Yoshitoshi ABe first wanted a version of Lain during the Taisho era. Then he liked the idea of giving her "black cat ears" with the black bow