History Characters / HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift

* PunnyName: Of the phrase "Macho ni naru zou!", which means "Let's get macho!"

A schoolmate of Hibiki's at the Koyo Women's Academy who goes to the Silverman Gym at the same time as she does. Shion Soryuin from ''Manga/Kengan Ashura'' is her older sister.

A foreign transfer student from Russia who goes to Koyo Women's Academy. Ivan Karaev from ''Manga/Kengan Ashura'' is her uncle.

* PunchClockVillain: She's a calm, friendly schoolteacher, but as a Kure, she's also a highly trained assassin. Omake material from ''Manga/Kengan Ashura'' explicitly lists her occupation as "Assassin and Teacher".

A schoolmate of Hibiki's at the Koyo Women's Academy who goes to the Silverman Gym at the same time as she does. Shion Soryuin from ''Kengan Ashura'' is her older sister.

A foreign transfer student from Russia who goes to Koyo Women's Academy. Ivan Karaev from ''Kengan Ashura'' is her uncle.

Akemi and Gina's homeroom teacher. She is the mother of Karura Kure from ''Kengan Ashura''.

* PunchClockVillain: She's a calm, friendly schoolteacher, but as a Kure, she's also a highly trained assassin. Omake material from ''Kengan Ashura'' explicitly lists her occupation as "Assassin and Teacher".

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name can be translated as "Gina Boyd", "Zina Boyd", or "Zina Void".
%%* StopBeingStereotypical: Her uncle Ivan isn't too pleased when he learns that Hibiki and co. were expecting him to greet them in the same stereotypical fashion as Gina, and he spends a great deal admonishing her for tainting the great image of Mother Russia.

* WeightWoe; The reason she starts going to Silverman Gym is because she thinks she's too fat to get a boyfriend.

* HasAType: Akemi likes buff men... and buff women, for that matter, if the way she reacts to the idea of Hibiki getting buff is any indication. This is said to [[ItRunsInTheFamily run in the family]].

* InnocentlyInsensitive: It is clear that Machio is unaware of how inhumanly strong he was in the past when he was just an amateur bodybuilder.

* YouAreFat: She kickstarted the events of the series by telling her she gained weight.

* OccidentalOtaku: Aside from her self-proclaimed rivalry with Hibiki, Gina traveled to and eventually stayed in Japan full-time because of her obsession with its pop culture, learning the language from anime, and having dreams of becoming an idol with the rest of the gym girls plus Satomi. Not that her ideas of what is or is not Japanese are particularly accurate; she names both kung fu movies and yoga as Japanese things she likes, and believes that both Hong Kong and Macao are in Japan. The other characters have noted how shallow Gina's knowledge of "Japanese culture" is.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: She uses both a Kansai dialect and a Hiroshima dialect when she speaks. She later reveals that her use of the latter dialect is due to her love of yakuza movies.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: This is her real accent since she's from Kyoto. However, she'll occasionally use a Hiroshima dialect as well.

* OlderThanTheyLook: At 29, she's over 10 years older than her students. However, she doesn't look that much older than them. At one point, she dresses up in a school uniform while at at amusement park, realizing she can [[{{Joshikousei}} still pull this look off]].

* BerserkButton: Satomi doesn't take well to any banter that brings up her age, and she's surrounded by her students once she signs up at the Silverman Gym:

* BerserkButton: Satomi doesn't take well to any banter that brings up [[ChristmasCake her age]], and she's surrounded by her students once she signs up at the Silverman Gym:

* ChristmasCake: A bit of a sour point, but it certainly doesn't help that the friends she makes at the Silverman Gym are her students who are over a decade younger than her.

* BareYourMidriff: She's like this almost all the time due to her being a boxer and having extremely toned abs.

* BareYourMidriff: She often dresses like this due to her being in combat sports.

Akemi and Gina's homeroom teacher. She is the mother of Karla Kure from ''Kengan Ashura''.

* NaginatasAreFeminine: When Karla briefly introduces her "[[BlatantLies very normal family]]" in the omake of Chapter 201 of ''Manga/KenganAshura'', Yakusha is presented as wielding a nanigata and smiling, in contrast to Karla's father and brother, whose faces are framed in shadow and are using more practical assassination weapons.

* ChristmasCake: Like Satomi, she's single.

* WardrobeMalfunction: She and Satomi suffer one when their skirts rip at the same time.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: She has a cultivated tan, which put her in sharp contrast to her brother, who's paler than a sheet. This makes the relationship between the two even more unlikely to observers when standing side by side.

* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Her elder sister Shion is [[spoiler:35]] business woman, giving the sisters an approximately 20-years age gap.

* TheAce: He easily wins the bodybuilding competition, which had competitors from around the world. How? He struck a pose that had so much blinding "macho power" it made the audience feel like their clothes tore off and made all the other competitors kneel to him.

* HasAType: Akemi likes buff men... and buff women, for that matter, if the way she reacts to the idea of Hibiki getting buff is any indication.

* RapunzelHair: Her black hair reaches past her waist.

* HasAType: Hibiki's loud and clear to everyone she talks to that she wants a pretty boy almost every time boyfriends are brought up in a conversation. She's extremely disappointed that Machio is super buff despite his [[{{Bishonen}} good-looking face]] and finds his body off-putting because she finds muscle men bodies gross. [[spoiler:She still ends up falling in love with him.]]

* {{Bishonen}}: He definitely has good looks. While his body seems to be slender, he actually has a HeroicBuild.

* {{Bishonen}}: This is played straight as he fits the mold completely. He's so handsome that the older women in the group start fighting over marrying him, [[{{Chuunibyou}} despite how damn weird he is]].

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has pink hair.

* BeautyMark: Has one below her left eye. [[spoiler:It helps clue Gina in that she is the cosplayer Yulia Riko.]]