Kaya Mizuki

Kaya Mizuki (カヤ), real name Maya Iida, is a minor character of the manga series Grand Blue. She is a voice actress and the older sister of Kanako Iida who voices Rarako (Kouhei Imamura's favorite character).

Family:

 * Kanako Iida: Kanako is Kaya's younger sister.

Friends:

 * Azusa Hamaoka:

Etymology

 * The name Kaya (1) is written in katakana (カヤ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (香耶 or 果耶), it could possibly mean:
 * 香耶 - "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (ka) and "question mark" (耶) (ya).
 * 果耶 - "fruit, reward, carry out, achieve, complete, end, finish, succeed" (果) (ka) and "question mark" (耶) (ya).
 * Kaya's surname Mizuki means "water" (水) (mizu) and "tree" (樹) (ki).

Real Name

 * The name Maya means "chafe, rub, polish, grind, scrape" (摩) (ma) and "question mark" (耶) (ya).
 * Maya's surname Iida means "food, meals" (飯) (ii) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (ta/da), which literally means "paddy :of cooked rice" altogether.
 * Perhaps the original meaning of the name Iida was "good rice paddy".
 * The name Iida is also found on Okinawa Island.