Kazumi Furukawa

Kazumi Furukawa (JP: 古川 かずみ) is a Japanese-Altruran ESPLAR racer currently racing for Greater Kanto Motorsports in the ESPLAR Premier Regional Series, and later the ESPLAR Lites Series as of 2020. Furukawa is a 5th generation Japanese-Altruran, also known as a Gosei, and openly appreciates her Japanese origins; hence she joined Greater Kanto Motorsports.

Personality & Character
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Gosei of Hatake
Kazumi Furukawa was born on April 23, 2003 to Masahiro Furukawa and Hanan (Ishmikura) Furukawa, in Ishmira, Gaia. Both Masahiro and Hanan were 4th generation Japanese-Altruran Yonsei; their ancestors immigrated from Japan as early as 1872 and are one of the oldest living families among Japanese-Altruran immigrants.

In the years following WW2, the Furukawa family moved from Evanshire to the city of Ishmira in the small island of Gaia, the fears of internment behind them as they moved to start again from scratch. Their home (for 5 decades) was located within the Kunzyl District of Ishmira, and as the family expanded, the Furukawa mansion expanded as well.

In 2000, Kunzyl was designated as a "Sphere borough of technological significance," which tagged the district as a location for futuristic architectural styles. Marumi Furukawa, the then-Mayor of Ishmira, tagged it as such because of a referendum which indicated who is more likely to be willing of a 'change,' and it found most people who want a change in terms of the direction of the city were in Kunzyl. Arktene, which was then a minor player in the Altruras technological industry, partnered with now-Laronia based Anaheim Industries to test new technologies in terms of building styles and improving residential life. Work started prior to Kazumi's birth in 2003.

Kazumi's first trip outside of Altruras was in 2006, just when ESPLAR began to expand globally.

Furukawa often codes in her own time when she is not playing JRPGs. This was made obvious in the ESPLAR Premier Regional Series as she often codes for the purpose of trying to perfect her own AI navigational system, to suit her own needs and racing methods.

Foray Into ESPLAR
It is said that Kazumi became interested in ESPLAR racing after Julia Truong won the 2018 ESPLAR Elite Series championship. She enrolled in ESPLAR's first elite driving program in 2019 which became the basis of the ESPLAR Rise to Race Program with Arktene; she easily passed and started in Tier 3 instead of Tier 4 after destroying her competition.

Currently Kazumi Furukawa leads her teammate Natsumi Aoyagi by 12 points in the 2020 ESPLAR Premier Regional Series as of Race 3/15.

Trivia

 * Furukawa is a fan of both Future GPX Cyber Formula (by Sunrise) and the Tales franchise by Namco-Bandai (especially the 3-game Tales of the World Radiant Mythology spinoff series)
 * Furukawa's primary coding language in her spare time is Python.
 * Furukawa is Lean278's first official ESPLAR OC of Set #2.