Quote:But arguably all the Hanagumi are metahumans to some degree, since not everyone can make the rice cooker mecha move. Sakura can certainly do strange spiritual blast things with her sword...and, well, the whole spiritual energy thing's a big part of the series.
A very good reason to stay is to train Iris...she may be very well the first metahuman on that world. She may have control of her gift, but not the training to use it effectively.
The various villains from the TV series and movie are also clearly metahumans of some variety, since most people dont do things like floating in the air or fighting a Kohbu with their bare hands.
In the TV series, there's this episode where the tech guys set up this big "artificial sealing rock", basically a powerful spiritual energy transmitter. There's some dialogue about how the Hanagumi are shielded inside their Kohbu, but every sensitive in the city's going to get nightmares.
So Iris isn't the first metahuman, it's just an issue of...scale, perhaps? She's more powerful, but there are other people with power. Eh. I suppose it depends on how you define metahuman abilities.
-- Acyl