Kana

"Electric!"

Kana is a purple Japanese high-speed electric engine who lives and works on the Island of Sodor.

Biography
Kana is a high-speed electric engine that lives on Sodor with her friends, including Thomas, Percy, Diesel and Nia.

Kana also has two passenger coaches painted in the same livery as her.

Personality
Kana is an all-new electric high-speed rail train. She crackles with electric speed, lets out a sonic whistle, and often causes the trees and telephone poles to bend in her wake. Kana enjoys going fast and is always up for a game, but she also cares very much for her friends. Although usually up for any challenge, Kana is hesitant to deal with one type of obstacle in particular: Sharp turns. Aside from this, she usually takes whatever challenge she faces with determination and zeal. However, there are some faults that she still has some trouble with, primarily burning her battery levels by regularly speeding and trying to stay still as a statue.

Basis
Like many All Engines Go characters, Kana has no specific basis, however her design was inspired by the high-speed Shinkansen trains (better known as "Bullet Trains") of Japan. Unlike the real Shinkansen units, Kana lacks passenger windows and is powered by batteries rather than an overhead catenary. Said batteries, much like for all electric engines in the reboot, are charged wirelessly, unlike the vast majority of real world examples.

Livery
Kana is painted medium lavender with white and yellow bands around her front and sides. She has yellow wheels and tinted-purple cab windows.

Her colour scheme was inspired by concept renders for the E8 Series Shinkansen, a high-speed train ordered to replace the ageing E3 Series. The first of these units was delivered at the end of January 2023, wearing the same livery as the original concept render.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go

 * Series 1 - A Thomas Promise, Thomas Blasts Off, Rules of the Game, A Quiet Delivery, Kana Goes Slow, Dragon Run, A Wide Delivery, Backwards Day, Chasing Rainbows, Nia's Balloon Blunder, Capture the Flag, Mystery Boxcars, Super Screen Cleaners, Overnight Stop , The Joke is on Thomas , Thomas' Day Off, The Real Number One, Roller Coasting, No Power, No Problem!, The Tiger Train, Calliope Crack-Up, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks, The Super-Long Shortcut, A Light Delivery, The Paint Problem, Nia's Perfect Plan, Something to Remember, Sandy Versus the Storm, An UnbeLEAFable Day, Ghost Train , A Rusty Rescue, More Cowbell, Sir Topham Hatt's Hat, Nia's Surprising Surprise and A New View for Thomas
 * Series 2 - Percy Disappears, Shake, Rattle and Bruno, Fast Friends, Ashima's Amazing Arrival, Tri-and-a-Half-a Lon, Carly's Magnificent Magnet, Carly's Screechy Squeak, Blackout!, Brand New Track, Stink Monster, Christmas Mountain, More Than a Pretty Engine , Thomas in Charge, Kana Recharges, The Big Skunk Funk, Off the Rails , Diesel's Dilemma, Valentine's Hearts, Bring it on Beresford , Sheep Shenanigans, Tunnel Troubles, Speedster Sandy and Salty's Sea Shanty
 * Series 3 - TBA
 * Short Story Adventures - Diesel's Rules, Kana and the Butterflies, Percy's Perfect Place, James and the Dragon, Lighthouse Disco, and Hay, Now!

Specials

 * 2021 - Race for the Sodor Cup
 * 2022 - The Mystery of Lookout Mountain

Songs

 * Series 1 - I'm Gonna Chug, Knights of the Turntable, Chasing Rainbows, If I Was a Super Train , Everyone is Afraid a Little, What Brave Engines Do , Feet, Tailbone, Ribs, and Claws, The Number One Engine , A Gift to Remember, Fall Fun, Celebrate and Song of Sodor
 * Race for the Sodor Cup - When I Go Fast, The Training Song and Look It's Us
 * Series 2 - You Can't Stop Me!, Fast to Go Slow, Welcome to Sodor, A Mistake is What it Takes , Feel the Hush, Peep Peep, We're Counting Sheep and Sandy's Strength
 * The Mystery of Lookout Mountain - Warning: Biggest Adventure Ahead, A Whole New Place and Job to Do
 * Other - All Engines Go Theme Song and Train School Song

Videos
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 * Let's Race - The Egg Race, The Bell Race, The Flag Race and The Obstacle Race
 * Train School - Under the Meadow, The Magic of Patience, The Height of Courage, The Run Down, The Team-Up Cleanup and The Art of Sharing
 * All Aboard! - Detective Bruno, The New Platform, The Can Conflict, Take a Beat and My Eyes Spy
 * Sodor Mystery - Thomas and the Mysterious Delivery
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 * 2022 - Roller Coasting, Nia's Balloon Blunder, and Thomas' Day off
 * 2023 - Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

Books

 * 2021 - All Engines Go
 * 2022 - Thomas and the Rocket, Imagine Ink, Speedy Sticker Scenes, Puzzle Pals, Meet the Engines, and Thomas the Tank Engine Character Encyclopedia
 * 2023 - Thomas and Bruno, Chasing Rainbows, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks, and The Twelve Engines of Christmas

Video Games

 * 2022 - Magical Tracks, Rail Muddle and Musical Tracks

Trivia

 * Kana's original name was Akira. The name was inspired by the 1982 manga of the same name, which originated in Kana's home country of Japan.
 * According to series writer Rick Suvalle, Kana and Kenji were originally intended to be related.
 * This is also why Kana's name begins with a "K".
 * Kana is the first and/or only of a few things:
 * One of the only two members of the new main cast who was not introduced in the original series, the other being Sandy.
 * The first and currently only main character to be powered exclusively by electricity in All Engines Go.
 * The first electric engine to live at Tidmouth Sheds.
 * "Kana" is also the name of a Japanese phonetic writing system.
 * In an early version of the script for A Thomas Promise used for auditions in January 2020, it is revealed that within the series, Kana (then named Akira) is eight years old.
 * In the leaked trailer, she shares a horn with the Yellow Salvage Vessel from the original Thomas & Friends series.
 * Kana can use her electrified sparks to make images above her head.
 * Kana has a extendable front coupling latch hidden within her front skirt.
 * Glee Dango originally auditioned for the role of Kana, but received the role of Sandy instead.
 * Unlike all of the other vehicle characters in the franchise, Kana's horn sound has a synthetic warble effect.