This is the character page for the characters that debuted in the Mobile Phone Game, Senran Kagura: New Wave and New Wave G burst. To see the characters that have debuted in the other games and media, see here.
New Hanzo Academy
A group of first-year students at Hanzo academy who look up to their senior classmates.
Related to all New Hanzo shinobi
- Similar Squad: All of them have the exact same quirks as their senior classmates. Except for Seimei, who has no obvious resemblance to Yagyuu at all.
A 1st-year student at Hanzo. A descendant of Fuuma Kotarou, she comes from a historically righteous and good family. She struggles in school and is a frequenter of supplementary lessons, however she is constantly cheerful and positive. Having the same circumstances as Asuka, she feels a sense of affinity with her.
Wielding chains with shuriken attached to them, she excels at long range slashing attacks.
- Animal Motifs: Monkeys.
- Fangirl: Of Asuka's. She even buys and makes Asuka-themed merchandise.
- Fuuma Shuriken: It's pretty obvious that this would be her signature weapon. She is the descendant of Fuuma Kotaro after all.
- Hot-Blooded: Similar to Asuka
- Irony: While their relation in the game isn't really explained, Fūma's ancestor was historically known for being the sworn rival of Asuka's grandfather. The irony comes from the fact that Fūma idolizes Asuka.
- Jack of All Stats: One of the more well-rounded characters in New Wave.
- The Leader: Of the first-year Hanzo group.
- Little Bit Beastly: Some of her artwork in New Wave show her with monkey ears and tail.
- Long-Range Fighter: Contrast to Asuka's skills in close quarters, Fūma tries her best to master attacking from a distance.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Wears one similar to Asuka nonetheless.
Hijikata
- This is a game where, in order to survive, I cannot afford to lose!
A 1st-year at Hanzo. Using an incident in the past as a motive, she confronts her training with the spirit of Jouzai Senjou in her. She wears her armor for the purpose of protecting her comrades. Be they enemy or friend, she does not forgive anyone who doesn't respect life. Wielding a giant hammer, her fighting style uses large swinging attacks.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Her turnover is based off of this.
- Even more so, personality-wise. Hijikata wants to protect her friends, in anyway she can, for the sake of justice.
- Glacier Waif: Subverted. Looking at her large hammer and heavy armor, one might assume that she's a Mighty Glacier. In actuality, she's quicker than she appears.
- Principles Zealot: Just like Ikaruga, Hijikata also has a habit of enforcing the rules.
- Stone Wall
Ayame
A 1st-year at Hanzo, and the store clerk in Shinovi and Estival Versus. Above all else her own desires take precedence, she's a very relaxed, "my pace" sort of girl. At first glance in middle school, she idolized Katsuragi. She's doing well with her 'I want to harass you' appeal. She wants to kill her past self to move on, which is a very negative way to live. Her fighting style is martial arts without weapons, wielding iron gauntlets and iron boots.
- Ascended Extra: Ayame debuted in New Wave, cameoed as the Shopkeeper in Shinovi Versus, cameoed once again in Estival Versus, and then was Promoted to Playable via DLC. She goes on to join the main cast of Hanzo Academy in Peach Beach Splash.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Unlike Katsuragi, she fights with both hands and feet.
- The Cameo: She appears in both Shinovi and Estival Versus, running the online shop for the newer games, but she debuted as part of the New Hanzo team in New Wave.
- Fragile Speedster: A complete contrast to her senior counterpart. Ayame is really good at dishing out the hits at a really fast pace, but lacks the stamina to withstand most of the hits she takes.
- I Hate Past Me
- Improbable Weapon User: One of Ayame's attacks has her tossing a giant coin as if it were a discus.
- Leitmotif: Ayame Says Thank You Very Much!
- Promoted to Playable: She got even bigger promotion by becoming a playable character in Estival Versus through Downloadable Content. In Peach Beach Splash, she's playable from the beginning.
- Skinship Grope: She developed this from Katsuragi.
- Spiritual Antithesis: Katsuragi is a Mighty Glacier whose fighting style specializes in raw power with her grieves. Ayame is a Fragile Speedster who excels in speed and uses more fast paced ninja arts and fighting techniques.
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Unexpected Character: Ayame being the storekeep in the Versus games & a playable character in New Wave was something players were already accustomed to. The unexpected part comes in with her reveal as a playable character in Estival Versus. - Video Game Perversity Potential: The player can grope her breasts while viewing the store menu, much to her chagrin.
Seimei
A 1st-year at Hanzo. Fundamentally, she sleeps a lot. One day she placed her trust in a foretelling dream she had and enrolled at Hanzo Academy to walk the path of a ninja. She hates noisy people. Wielding a giant rocket launcher and simultaneously firing all barrels, she has a very flashy fighting style.
- BFG: Her gigantic rocket launcher.
- Curtains Match the Window: Blue eyes with blue hair.
- Long-Range Fighter: Uses a bazooka to blast her enemies from afar.
- Pajama-Clad Hero: Her shinobi turnover has her wearing pajamas.
- The Runt at the End: Downplayed. Every other member of her squad has some connection or similarity to the original Hanzo team, but there's nothing that really connects Seimei and Yagyuu.
- Sleep Cute: As stated, she has a habit of sleeping whenever◊ she◊ gets◊ the◊ chance◊.
- Sleepyhead: Her main character trait. She's even prone to sleeping mid-sentence.
- Small Girl, Big Gun: So big she can wrap it in a mat and use it like a full-body pillow.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Uses a rocket launcher to do this.
Muramasa
A 1st-year cat-ear wearing, mechanized robot at Hanzo. Abandoned on the side of the street, Hibari picked her up. From then on she's lived in Hanzo Academy. She loves Hibari and wanted to be useful to her, so she became a ninja. She wields massive Vernier on her arms that deliver shocking blows. Using them, she prides herself in aerial movement.
- Born as an Adult: Teenage version, as she was strangely created to look like a teenage girl.
- Composite Character: She's the combination of Hibari's early robot design, and Haruka's early character design.
- Expy: As The Cutie and a Robot Girl with amnesia, she's reminiscent of Chii.
- Fragile Speedster: Her fighting style, as well as deck skills, are mostly based around speed and getting the first hit.
- Genki Girl: Just as high spirited as Hibari.
- Meaningful Name: Her Vernier fists, which are apparently named for technology derived from Pierre Vernier.
- Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: She's a ninja robot.
- Not Quite Flight: Vernier throttles are secondary control mechanisms on aircraft and spacecraft (which use vernier thrusters instead) that are meant to allow for greater precision in the air. Muramasa's Power Fists are apparently based on this concept.
- Riddle for the Ages: Exactly who created Muramasa, and what was the situation before Hibari found her? Was she cast aside for being a defective unit? Did something happen to her creator? What purpose was she originally going to serve? Why does she have cat ears?
- Ridiculously Human Robot: Uses this to her advantage to blend in with other humans.
- Robot Girl: The only shinobi who is outright not an actual human being.
- Shock and Awe: She's able to perform shock damage on her foes.
- Telescoping Robot: Her giant robot arms are almost as large as she is, and she somehow keeps them folded in to normal young lady arms.
- Token Non-Human: While all the other Hanzo students are human, Muramasa... well, isn't.
New Hebijo Academy
The newest additions to Hebijo Academy who, like Hanzo, look up to their senior classmates.
- Psycho Rangers: An obvious riff on the New Hanzo girls who all have admiration as a recurring motif (except for Ashiya, who like Seimei has no obvious connection to her predecessor). This team also deliberately switches up the pattern by having its 3rd member (Ibuki) idolize Haruka (the 5th member of the Crimson Squad) and its 5th member (Bashou) admire Hikage (Crimson Squad's 3rd).
Sōji
- What's the best thing I'm good at? Simple. I can go into a fight looking good and come out of it looking better than you.
A 1st-year Hebijo. Hailing from a distinguished evil ninja family, she was taught from a young age that strength is righteousness. She has a tendency to overestimate her own ability, anyone can see that she is obviously a narcissist. However, she doesn't realize this herself. She wields a chain-like whip with various sized sickles attached to it to slash her opponents.
- Attention Whore: Her cards were made to invoke this kind of effect.
- Berserk Button: Sustaining any amount of physical damage really makes her angry.
- She also doesn't take losing very well either.
- Expy: Zigzagged. Like Homura, she comes from a prominent family, but was never disowned. They both also value power, though Homura craves it because she's a Blood Knight who fights to feel alive while Souji was taught Might Makes Right.
- The Fighting Narcissist: Likes to brag about her abilities during and after a fight. This does lead to her getting a thick head sometimes.
- Jerkass: Even when she isn't being all narcissistic, she still manages to rub people the wrong way with her bad attitude. To further underscore how much of a jerk she is, Sōji doesn't make Homura look nicer by comparison, Homura is nicer by comparison.
- The Leader: Of the New Hebijo Squad.
- Might Makes Right: "Strength is righteousness".
- Narcissist: A big one. A very big one.
- Perpetual Smiler: Almost all of her cards depict her with a smile, mostly the psychotic type.
- Promoted to Playable: Alongside Yuyaki and Leo, Soji is playable in Peach Beach Splash.
- Slasher Smile: She makes this A LOT.
- Suddenly Voiced: Soji is the third New Wave character, in NW history, to be voice acted.
- Tsundere: In her Paradise Episode in Peach Beach Splash, she compliments all of her opponents on their skill after beating them. As she realizes she's being nice to them, she quickly backtracks in classical Tsundere style.
- Unknown Rival: To Homura, who beat her in the class president elections and then in an actual fight. Soji has been seeking revenge ever since. In Peach Beach Splash they meet again. But at that point, Homura has completely forgotten about her.
- Weapon Specialization: She uses a sickle whip.
Chitose
A 1st-year at Hebijo. Originally from the slums, her parents sold her off. She is extremely distrustful of others, comparable to Yomi's past. She considers ninja to be consumable goods and would not balk at throwing away even her own life.
She wields a giant matchlock rifle that shoots evil bullets.
- BFG: Her matchlock rife.
- Casting a Shadow: The bullets she shoots are strangely made of dark energy.
- The Cynic: Her Dark and Troubled Past made her unwilling to trust people at first.
- Death Seeker: Downplayed. Chitose believes that ninja are expendable, herself included.
- Declaration of Protection: She vows to do this for the The Instructor.
- Evil Weapon: Or, well, evil bullets.
- Expy: Again, zigzagged. She hails from the slums like Yomi, but while Yomi's parents died while maintaining a loving relationship with their daughter, Chitose's parents decided to sell her to someone else.
- The Gunslinger: Her weapon is a matchlock rifle.
- Perpetual Poverty: Similar to Yomi's past, Chitose, and her family had very little resources to get by on a daily basis. Unfortunately, this may imply why her parents sold her off out of sheer desperation.
Ibuki
A 1st-year at Hebijo. She adores Haruka and she will do anything to please her. Her strength, appearance, and family are all extremely ordinary, and she claims that she has the most common sense at Hebijo, however when she's with Haruka she expresses her true hidden feelings.
Using large "M" shaped scissors, her fighting style is to cut up opponents.
- Animal Motifs: Dogs. She's earnest, loyal and has ear-like hair flaps that makes her resemble one.
- Combat Sadomasochist: The only character who can give Ryōna a run for her money.
- Hypocritical Humor: A running gag when it comes to her:
- Looks down on Soji and Ashiya for being vain and Basho for being a Reluctant Warrior, insisting she's the only normal one. Yeah, her.
- Mocks Ayame for being so obsessed with Katsuragi. She isn't the one to be talking about obsession.
- In New Link she calls Ryona a "weirdo" for her masochistic tendencies. The Instructor quickly points out she's the same.
Ibuki: Sometimes she says weird stuff about liking pain and wanting to get beaten, but she's a nice girl. I'm the same, you say? I don't think so.... - Genki Girl: Always happy and energetic, especially when her beloved Haruka is involved.
- Master of None: Ibuki's strength is said to be average. In New Link she's horribly aware of this and considers herself to be the weakest of the team.
- Only Sane Man: Or so she thinks.
- Shear Menace: Her weapon of choice are a pair of giant "M" shaped scissors.
- Slave Collar: Considering that she looks up on Haruka, this might be the intention of her collar.
- Suddenly Voiced: Ibuki is the sixth New Wave character, in NW history, to be voice acted.
Ashiya
A 1st-year at Hebijo. The self-proclaimed disciple of an unidentified God with the cardinal number suffix of 666. She adopts a haughty attitude towards whomever she comes into contact with. For that reason she has few friends. She herself is aware of her attitude and although she is using her full strength to better herself, she fails every time and gets even more aggravated.
She wields three chakrams, which she deftly uses to cut up her opponents.
- Blasphemous Boast: She does this a lot.
- Break the Haughty: She does this to herself. She's aware of her attitude problems and uses all her power to try and improve herself... and fails. Always.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Ashiya is usually in a world of her own. She acts as if she is some sort of being from the deepest depths of Hell, while referring to everyone as mere humans.
- Cool Crown
- Evil Redhead
- Expy: She's basically a female version of Gundham Tanaka, but without the hamsters.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Downplayed. While the new Hebis are her friends, she wishes she could have a lot more.
- Number of the Beast: Her god's cardinal number suffix is 666.
- Religious Bruiser: She apparently worships a god who may or may not be Satan.
- Rings of Death: Her chakrams count as these.
- The Runt at the End: Downplayed. Like Seimei, Ashiya lacks any connection to the original Hebis.
- Stone Wall: She has the best defense out of the other New Hebis, but lacks good attack power.
Bashō
A 1st-year at Hebijo. She enjoys reading poems in quiet places. She has a calm and carefree personality and is charmed by Hikage's mysterious atmosphere. When she's nervous, sometimes the tone of her voice goes strange.
Her fighting style involves using a large brush, which conceals a sword to stab enemies, and ink character ninja arts.
- Art Attacker: Not only is her weapon a giant paintbrush, but she also knows art-based attacks.
- Art Initiates Life: Her ability the Ink Ninja Art; with it she paints ink symbols to bind enemies or summon iron griddles for attacking.
- Cowardly Lion: During battles, she's clearly scared shitless the entire time, but she stands her ground.
- Cultural Rebel: Her family is strict and are known for using their paintbrush techniques for Bloody Murder attacks, but Basho is shy and uses her techniques for support instead.
- Fanservice Pack: Gets the treatment in her cards as she's drawn with curves far more comparable to Haruka than her canon measurements.
- Not the Intended Use: The Ink Ninja Art of her family is used to create Bloody Murder attacks by using the fallen blood of their enemies, but Bashō is a Reluctant Warrior that hates hurting others. She does learn how to use it defensively by using the ink symbols to bind enemies.
- In New Link she discovers she can use her ink symbols to summon teppanyaki ingredients, The Instructor has to remind her that she's supposed to deal with yoma and shinobi, not food.
- Reluctant Warrior: Bashō is a sweet, rather meek girl who wants to read poetry and calligraphy. Too bad for her that she naturally possesses the Ink Ninja Art of her family and her Jerkass parents pressured her into joining Hebijo.
- Shrinking Violet: She's just as bad as, if not worse than, Murakumo at this.
- Suddenly Voiced: Bashō is the second New Wave character, in NW history, to be voice acted.
- Sword Cane: Hides a sword inside her large brush.
- Warrior Poet: She likes reading poetry and calligraphy.
Milky Pop
An idol group that live a double life as shinobi.
Related to all Milky Pop shinobi
- Girly Bruiser: Sure, they may be cute and perky, but they're still shinobi that possess lots of skill.
- Heart Symbol: On the belts of their turnovers.
- Idol Singer: The team is comprised of a group of idol shinobi.
- Musical Assassin: All of them.
Mai
A member of the idol group Milky Pop and a 2nd year high school student. She often acts without considering the consequences, she was unexpectedly scouted and became an idol. She's pleased with her current situation in which many people love her, however to continue being a ninja student, her true identity is a kept a secret. Being both a ninja and an idol, she is carrying out a very reckless dream. Wielding a microphone stand model training sword, she carries out slashing attacks.
- Genki Girl: As leader, she thinks it's necessary to be incredibly cheerful at all times. Though this does tend to lead to her acting on impulse sometimes.
- Instrument of Murder / Sword Cane: Her mic stand conceals a training sword inside of it.
- The Face: Effectively for all of New Wave. Mai appears as the model for the series' signature Victoria's Secret Compartment title screen.
- The Leader: As well as the lead singer of Milky Pop.
- Lightning Bruiser
- Musical Assassin
- Out of Focus: Despite being The Face of New Wave, most of the big drama centers on the Zodiac, Tengu, and Senki Shuu factions.
- The Rival: To Tsubaki.
Josui
A member of the idol group Milky Pop and a 2nd year high school student. Her sense of justice and responsibility are strong, dragged along by Mai and Tamaki she became an idol. Worrying about their identities being discovered, she's always bracing herself for that moment. Because of that she's very sensitive to other ninja's presence.
Her fighting style involves knocking down enemies by manipulating her flexible ribbon.
- An Ice Person: Her elemental affinity is ice.
- Clothing Combat: She managed to use her ribbon like an actual whip.
- Improbable Weapon User: A ribbon of all things is her weapon.
- Sensor Character: She's so afraid of being discovered that she's become excellent at sensing other Shinobi.
- Weak, but Skilled: Since Josui can't pull off a lot of high damaging attacks, she instead uses more technical moves with her ribbon.
Kagari
A member of the idol group Milky Pop and a 2nd year high school student. She has a large hearted and warm personality. She thinks of her comrades as her family. In middle-school she was a legendary leader of a gang and there wasn't a single person who didn't know her. Now she's changed, to become a full-fledged ninja she undertakes any kind of training. She's not interested in being an idol, however pulled along by Mai and Tamaki she made her debut in the world of show business.
Her specialty is wielding a tambourine-shaped knife, using it to cut up opponents.
- The Dreaded: She used to be one of the most feared gang leaders back in middle-school. It's quite telling to know that people were more afraid of her then the gang itself!
- Extremity Extremist: She uses only fist fighting skills in combat.
- Instrument of Murder: She uses a tambourine-shaped knives.
- Japanese Delinquents: Kagari, surprisingly, used to be one of these back in middle-school. During high school, she transitioned out of it.
- True Companions: She considers Milky Pop to be her family.
Tamaki
- Now that we're on a mission, I won't have to worry about scary people asking for me for my autograph!
A member of the idol group Milky Pop and a 1st year high school student. She was once a naive and unrefined girl, however now her duties as an idol take precedence. She really enjoys herself, she feels making people happy as a side job is a job worth doing.
Her specialty is wielding an aura-clad hula hoop to cut her enemies up.
- Fragile Speedster: The fastest member of the group, but also the weakest.
- For Happiness: She works really hard to put a smile on people's faces. Not just as an idol, but as a shinobi too.
- Girlish Pigtails
- Improbable Weapon User: Fights with a hula hoop of all things.
- Rings of Death: Her hula hoop could count as this.
- Skilled, but Naive: Downplayed. She can still be a little idealistic, but she's more focus on being a ninja and an idol.
Yugiri
A member of the idol group Milky Pop and a 3rd year high school student. A daughter of a high class family with a calm, optimistic personality. To bid farewell to her life of having felt no excitement she's constantly searching for a new way to live her life, she thinks this is a good way to stave off boredom. However, her independence is lacking and she's the ruin of other people as she drains them of their kind intentions.
She specializes in attacks using her phantasmagoric baton.
- Hime Cut: She has this style.
- Improbable Weapon User: Fights with a stylish looking baton.
- Jumped at the Call: When she saw the opportunity to become an idol and a shinobi, she took both of them without hesitation.
A.R.C. Angels
A rock group full of shinobi that live a double life.
Related to all A.R.C. Angels shinobi
- Musical Assassin: All of them.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ukyo and Sakyo play with this. Due to mutual admiration, each sister decided to copy the other, so Ukyou, a natural Blue Oni, dyed her hair red and acts like an aggressive Genki Girl, while Sakyou, a natural Red Oni, dyed her hair blue and plays it calm and sweet. But when their Turnovers are active, they return to their true personalities.
- The Rock Star: They are a rock group after all.
Tsubaki
A 1st year High School student in the rock band A.R.C.Angels.
She's the only daughter from a family that runs a well established inn.
She is a very independent person, for the sake of living alone she knocked on the door of Saint Venus. Being a ninja and in a band, she thinks that this is a good a means of living alone. Also, she is the type of person who doesn't selectively choose what work to do so occasionally she ends up doing some shady part time work.
She specializes in aural attacks using her special wrist gauntlets in hand-to-hand fighting.
- The Aloner: She thinks this is a good way of justifying her independence in life.
- Ambiguously Evil: Given her motifs can sometimes come off as suspicious, it's implied that Tsubaki might be an evil ninja. Whether she generally is one, however, is yet to be confirmed.
- Hime Cut
- Jerkass: Acts as a stark contrast to Mai's personality.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Her turnover.
- The Leader: Of the A.R.C. Angels.
- Lightning Bruiser
- Power Fist: Her amp gauntlets.
- The Rival: To Mai.
- Tsundere: She's nice towards her team, but harsh towards everyone else.
Karasu
A 2nd year High School student in the rock band 'A.R.C.Angels'. As soon as she meets someone and their eyes meet she can't help but chat, she's the mood maker in charge of creating a lively atmosphere. Amongst her fans, her light Kansai dialect is popular. She thinks that her band and ninja work are enjoyable.
Using her super-alloy guitar, she beats down enemies but this fighting style has its pros and cons.
- Hot-Blooded: This girl gives Katsuragi a run for her money.
- Instrument of Murder: She wields an electric guitar with huge spikes at the end of it.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Tachibana's blue oni.
- Rockers Smash Guitars: This is her fighting style, of all things.
- Rocket-Powered Weapon: Her guitar also has a jet attachment that she can use whenever she wants to pack some extra power in her swing, or if there's a situation where she needs to take flight.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Although she'll indulge in anything that has protein, energy drinks are among her most favorite.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Her fighting potential is there, she just hasn't been able to fully tap into it thanks to her orthodox fighting style. She does make up for it with her raw power though.
Ukyō
A 2nd year High School student in the rock band 'A.R.C.Angels'. She's the identical twin sister of Sakyō. Originally she had a calm and quiet personality, however as a result of her desire of wanting to be bright and cheerful like Sakyō, during the day she behaves excitedly. Among the fans of A.R.C.Angels, she's popular with those that like childish characters. When she "turnovers", her original self comes out and she calmly eliminates obstacles.
She specializes using her bass-shaped machine gun to shoot down enemies.
- Glass Cannon: Although her and Sakyō share the same amount of health, their offensive and defensive properties are flipped from each other's, making her damage output higher at the cost of low defense.
- Instrument of Murder: Her musical weapon is a bass machine gun.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Chapter 11 shows that her and Sakyō are very capable of handling a retrieval mission without much hassle.
- More Dakka
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Inverted. Although her color is red, she's the blue oni to Sakyō's red.
- Underboobs: Ukyō has been seen sporting this style.
Sakyō
A 2nd year High School student in the rock band 'A.R.C.Angels'. She's the identical twin sister of Ukyō. Originally she had a frank, broad-minded personality, however as a result of her desire of wanting to be adult-like like Ukyō, during the day she behaves calmly. Amongst the female fans of A.R.C. Angels, her melancholic atmosphere is popular. When she "turnovers", her original sealed self is released and she's quite brutal.
She specializes in using her bass-shaped shotgun to shoot close targets.
- Hot-Blooded
- Instrument of Murder: Contrast to her sister, she uses a bass shotgun.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Chapter 11 shows that her and Ukyō are very capable of handling a retrieval mission without much hassle.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Inverted. Although her color is blue, she's the red oni to Ukyō's blue.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: Her weapon of choice.
- Stone Wall: Although her and Ukyō share the same amount of health, their offensive and defensive properties are flipped from each other's, giving her the ability to tank more hits at the cost of low offense.
- Underboobs: Sakyō has been known to sport this style.
Tachibana
A 3rd year High School student in the rock band 'A.R.C.Angels'. She hates lies and equivocation. Because she carefully chooses her words she ends up not saying anything. Even in interviews she is silent, so in the time she's considering what to say Karasu often acts as a proxy. Although she seldom speaks, there are fans who are crazy about her for that very reason. Her earnest style of playing the drums has caught the attention of many professional drummers.
She stuns opponents with her drum sticks clad with electricity.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: She's the most quiet member of the group. That doesn't mean she's nonlethal though.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: She'll even dress up like a character from Sengoku Super Wars.
- Fangirl: Just like Mirai and Murakumo, she's also a huge Sengoku Super Wars fangirl.
- Instrument of Murder: Drum sticks packed with electricity.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Karasu's red oni.
- Scarf of Asskicking
- Shock and Awe: Her electric drumsticks allow her to inflict shock damage to her foes.
- Thunder Drum: A variant where her drumsticks are the ones creating electricity instead of her drums.
Municipal Blossoming Arts
A shinobi academy that houses musician ninja.
Related to all Blossoming Arts shinobi
- Musical Assassin: The team is basically a combat marching band.
Kosuzu
- You can feel the ground shaking? Don't worry! It's just an earthquake.
A 2nd year at Shougei municipal. About when she reached the age of discretion, she was able to speak to the energy of the earth. There weren't any ninja that could do that. Until middle school she was able to live like an ordinary person.
It's her specialty to use her recorder's timbre to manipulate the energy of the earth.
- Artistic License – Music: Her signature weapon is said to be a recorder, but it looks much more like a clarinet.
- Dishing Out Dirt: She has a special ability that allows her to manipulate the earth in some of her attacks.
- Idiot Hair: Has a prominent one.
- Instrument of Murder: Her weapon of choice is the recorder.
- The Leader
- Lightning Bruiser
Chiyo
A 1st year at Shougei municipal, a cheerful girl that likes fun things. She likes to cause mischief, until middle school she lived among boys. She dislikes skirts that restrict movement.
Her trumpet acts like a blowgun.
- Blow You Away
- Instrument of Murder: Her weapon is a trumpet that acts like a blow gun.
- One of the Boys: Used to be this in middle school.
- Stone Wall: Her attacks aren't as powerful as the other members of the team. She does make up for it with her decent defense.
Fuga
A 3rd-year at Shougei municipal. In a school where lots of ninja manipulate the atmosphere, Fuga is at the top of her class. A gentle personality, she's popular for her looks. But she has a unique dialect that is at least not irreparable.
By scattering fireworks from the strings on her shamisen, she lets loose a flame attack.
- Berserk Button: An inn worker spilled food on her once. She didn't take it very well.
- Beware the Nice Ones: As sweet as she is, you still wouldn't want to get on her bad side. A bunch of thieves found that out the hard way.
- Instrument of Murder: Her weapon of choice is a shamisen.
- Kill It with Fire: Incorporates fire in her attacks.
- Mighty Glacier: Her offense is higher than any of her other comrades. What sets her back is her slower attack speed.
- Musical Theme Naming: In musical notation, "fuga" indicates a fugue, a piece of music featuring repeating parts and counterpoint.
- Nice Girl: She's one of the sweetest shinobi in the whole series. This is also evident when she gives The Instructor advice about helping others.
- Power Tattoo: She has flames on her chest area during her shinobi turnover.
- Statuesque Stunner: Tallest girl on her team, and she certainly rocks the look.
Kanon
A 2nd year at Shougei municipal, She is a crybaby with a cowardly personality. Having masochistic tendencies, she practices only to get caught in a vicious cycle of failure. She wants to prove to herself she can overcome her crybaby habits.
She lets out powerful indirect attacks through air vibrations with her taiko drum.
- Curtains Match the Window: Blues eyes with blue hair.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Her irises are shaped like musical notes.
- Glass Cannon: Her attacks really do hurt. Unfortunately, she has the lowest health of the Blossoming Arts girls.
- Instrument of Murder: She uses a taiko drum as a mallet.
- Musical Theme Naming: On top of containing the kanji for "sound", "Kanon" sounds like "canon", a piece of music best known from Pachelbel.
- Mighty Glacier: Her attacks really do hurt. Unfortunately, she has low movement speed.
- Prone to Tears: Unfortunately, she's prone to getting sad all the time.
Aria
A 3rd year at Shougei municipal. With an incredibly ecstatic personality, she likes fun things. Uneventfully living in the past, she gazes toward the future. Things like the occult, urban legends, etc tend to be romantic to her.
She crushes her opponents with gigantic cymbals.
- Beware the Silly Ones: She's one of the silliest shinobi in the whole series, but she can still slice you into pieces with those cymbals of hers.
- Confusion Fu: She fights in a crazy and unpredictable manner.
- Fragile Speedster: She's very quick on her feet, but her attacks aren't very powerful.
- Genki Girl: Silly and excitable, fitting for her jester theme.
- Instrument of Murder: Her weapon of choice are huge cymbals. She can even glide on the damn things.
- Musical Theme Naming: It's spelled out through kanji, but an "aria" is normally a piece of music.
- The Trickster: Loves to play pranks on her fellow classmates.
Shinozuka Industrial High
A shinobi school where the students are hobbyist to the extreme.
Related to all Shinozuka School shinobi.
- The Cameo: They all make a cameo appearance at the end of Murakumo's story in Bon Appetit, buying her doujinshi.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: All of them.
Kaede
A 3rd year at Prefectural Shinozuka Industrial High School. She's the tsundere president of the manga research club, however she will never tell anyone about what kind of manga she draws.
If there's a doujinshi event happening, she will skip out on missions and go participate, she hasn't got her priorities in order.
Her fighting style involves throwing the stationary in her messenger bag.
- Art Attacker: Makes paint strokes in mid air.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Don't get the wrong idea! It's not like she can't be an exceptional ninja, she just happens to find her art more important. That's all!
- Improbable Weapon User: She strangely finds paintbrushes to be more adequate than a standard kunai knife.
- The Leader
- Lightning Bruiser
- Skewed Priorities: Sadly, she has the tendency to place more importance in her doujinshi than her training.
- Tsundere
- Yaoi Fangirl: In secret, her specialty just so happens to be the Yaoi genre. As a matter of fact, she was the one who created the gender flipped versions of the Hanzo girls.
Hisui
A 2nd year at Prefectural Shinozuka Industrial High School. She's a cosplayer with intense love for special effects. She longs to be a masked hero, in order to be able to exterminate monsters in the coolest way possible. She diligently trains every day.
Though it looks like a toy, she specializes in using her light saber to beat down enemies.
- Cool Helmet: Part of her turnover.
- Goggles Do Nothing
- Fragile Speedster: She's the one of the quicker speed-based shinobi in the series, but her attacks aren't very powerful.
- Friend to All Children: Hisui is actually shown to be very good with children in some of her cards.
- Hot-Blooded: She gets absolutely fired up when she's fighting, helping children or watching sentai shows.
- Sentai: Her turnover is made to invoke this.
- "Super Sentai" Stance: Some of her cards have her doing this.
Kasumi
- (*_*)...
A 3rd year at Prefectural Shinozuka Industrial High School. Excelling at information gathering, she aims to enter the Intelligence and Analysis team. She is very shy and hardly ever talks.
From her PC, she summons an electric based persona which she indirectly manipulates to attack enemies.
- Emoticon: What most of her quotes consist of.
- Glass Cannon
- Playful Hacker
- Puppet Fighter: She can control her persona from her laptop.
- The Quiet One: The very soft-spoken one of the group.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Who also happens to be smartest one of the group.
- Shout-Out: Her electric-based persona looks like a stand.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Her and, the equally soft spoken and internet savvy, Murasaki playing an MMORPG together? Quite so.
- The Tease: Oddly enough, she likes to be pretty lewd sometimes.
- Techno Wizard: She's pretty much the tech savvy one of the team.
- Tron Lines: Her shinobi turnover has these.
Motochika
A 2nd year at Prefectural Shinozuka Industrial High School. A very cheerful girl that loves trains. She has a strange hobby of forcing a strange voice when making announcements inside the carriage. As her appearance suggests, she has a carefree personality, she doesn't really think she shouldn't be working as a ninja.
Using ninja arts, she summons a mini train which she enjoys fighting together with.
- Beware the Silly Ones: She may be an oddball, but she's still capable of doing serious damage.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Her strange behavior is enough to leave even the likes of Hibari and Minori confused.
- Cool Train: She uses a miniature train to fight.
- Just Whistle: Uses her whistle to conduct her train....and mow people down with it.
- Rail Enthusiast: She's an absolute fangirl of trains. Most of the time she'll either be seen playing with toy trains or exploring different types of metro when she's got nothing better to do. This is especially driven home where her weapon of choice is a miniature train.
Kurōdo
A 1st year at Prefectural Shinozuka Industrial High School. Generally recognized to be a military enthusiast. She habitually wears her mask and is isolated in her class because of it, however when it comes to missions she's extremely professional.
Her fighting style involves using poisonous gas and a knife.
- Combat Pragmatist: Poisons her enemies with gas gun and quickly stabs them with her combat knife in her fighting sequence.
- Cool Mask: Always seen wearing one, although in a couple of images she's seen without it.
- Curtains Match the Window: Purple eyes with purple hair.
- Deadly Gas: Her gas gun shoots this.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Her eyes are designed to resemble Mind-Control Eyes in her turnover state.
- Gun Nut: We're putting this lightly.
- Master Poisoner: She's able to poison her foes with her gas gun.
- The Squadette: The more military influenced one of the group.
Maisen University High School
A unique ninja academy that specializes in housing & training international shinobi.
Related to all Maisen University shinobi
- Multinational Team: The members consist of shinobi from different nationalities. Tsubame is Russian, Ageha is Spanish, Yoshimitsu is American, Matsuri is Native American, and Meimei is Chinese.
Tsubame
- They say it's easy for Russian girls to gain weight. That's just an urban legend.
A 3rd-year at Maisen. Her father hails from Russia. Her septum is strong, so basically she's rebellious. Because she was made fun of for her short stature, she loves Japan because the children are small. She considers her lack of height is because of her mother and so their relationship is delicate as she is in the middle of puberty.
Her fighting style involves dual wielding sabers.
- Badass Biker: A few of her cards depict her on a motorcycle.
- Berserk Button: Doesn't like being called short, or any other word that means small.
- The Captain: Her turnover is made to look like this.
- Chest of Medals: Er...Yes.
- Glorious Mother Russia: She was originally from Russia before moving to Japan and enrolling in Maisen University.
- The Leader
- Lightning Bruiser
- The Napoleon: According to her bio, she has insecurities about her height.
- No Sense of Direction: Not the brightest when it comes to following directions on a map.
- Tsundere
Ageha
A 2nd-year at Maisen. Her mother is Spanish. Due to the influence of her mother's country, compared to other girls she has a very mature atmosphere. Her behavior is also somewhat mature. She loves showy/flashy things, and above all she loves to dance. It seems the reason she chose to pursue the path of a ninja is her father.
Her main fighting style involves rose decorated kunai.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl
- Dance Battler: She manages to combine Salsa & Samba dance moves with her fighting skills.
- Flower Motifs: Roses
- Lady of War: Fights gracefully as she pierces her foes with roses.
- Something about a Rose: She uses rose-like kunai.
- Statuesque Stunner: Same height as Fuga, and just as gorgeous.
- The Tease: She gives Haruka a run for her money in this department.
Yoshimitsu
A 2nd-year at Maisen. Her father is American. Since her youth was spent in America sometimes English slips out when she speaks. Due to the influence of her former master who taught her ninja arts, her style of speech is a little old fashioned. She dreams of becoming a super ninja that plays an active role in the world.
She specializes in attacking enemies with her electrically charged pom-poms.
- Dance Battler: Fights by incorporating cheerleader like moves.
- Eagleland: She was born and raised in America where she trained with her master.
- Elemental Hair Colors: Kind of, since she has blonde hair and fights using electrified pom-poms.
- Shock and Awe: Her pom-poms are able to generate electricity.
Matsuri
A 1st-year at Maisen. Her grandmother was a ninja. Pursuing her beloved grandmother, she eventually arrived in Japan and became a ninja student. She's poor at Japanese, her vocabulary is extremely limited. Her sense of justice is strong, however she is extremely gullible so is easily used by people with evil intentions.
She uses a tomahawk to slash and hit enemies.
- Badass Native: Of the ninja variety.
- Expressive Accessory: Shunmaka, the tiger necklace she wears, always makes random expressions depending on what Matsuri is doing.
- Horny Vikings: Few of her artwork in New Wave shows her donning a Viking-themed costume.
- Horrible Judge of Character: She gets easily manipulated by other people.
Meimei
- I'll keep making bun bombs for the next mission.
A 1st-year at Maisen. She's an exchange student from China. She loves reciting classical Chinese literature out loud, she has a bright and attractive personality. Although her family lives in Japan, she doesn't like to talk about them.
Her fighting style involves throwing steamed bun shaped bombs.
- Anime Chinese Girl
- Hot-Blooded
- Parttime Hero: She works part-time at a restaurant when she isn't involved school, or shinobi-related activities.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: She specializes in using bun shaped bombs in combat.
Hakuoh Girls Academy
A shinobi academy based on order and tactfulness. Unlike other ninja schools, which generally have their shinobi actively avoid dealing with the normal students and teachers on a regular basis, the University's ninja regularly interact the normal school populace. The Public Morals Committee is a special club within the school dedicated to maintaining order among the students, and the five elite students are members of the Committee, with Kochō acting as the Committee president.
Related to all Cherry Blossom shinobi
- Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Their reign of discipline even rules over the teachers.
- Clark Kenting: As Kanzaki explains, the normal Hakuoh students address them by conventional names, as Ōka for Kanzaki and Sakura for Chihaya, so there actual identities won't be exposed.
- Principles Zealot: They are the discipline committee of their school. Making sure everyone abides by moral principles is pretty much there job.
- Red Armband of Leadership: As the Public Morals Committee, they wear these to show that they are the ones who maintain order within the school.
Kochō
A 3rd year at Metropolitan Light Cherry Blossom Female University. A member of the public morals committee at the University, she studies with the normal students during the day but after night falls she secretly gathers with the other talented girls and trains. She strictly enforces the rules and does not compromise.
As the president of the public morals committee, her sincere personality and impartial actions and leadership makes her popular amongst the student body. She is the leader of the "Three public moral princesses".
Conjuring serpents into battle, she specializes in attacking enemies with her whip of love.
- Comedic Spanking: Her answer to Ranmaru's mischievous antics? Giving her a good spanking as punishment.
- Dominatrix: Likes to "punish" those who don't follow the rules and uses a whip to fight.
- The Leader: The strong willed leader of the Cherry Blossom girls.
- Noblewoman's Laugh: Does this from time to time.
- Regal Ringlets: Gigantic ones nonetheless.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The feminine natured girly girl to Kanzaki' tomboy.
- Whip of Dominance: She id the authoritative president of the public morals committee at her university who strictly enforces the rules and has an authoritative and uncompromising demeanor and anyone who doesn't follow the rules will be met with her "Love whip", a cat o' nine tails type whip she uses for both disciplinarian and combat duties. She's implied to be something of a Dominatrix due to her eagerness to deal out "punishments" and her domineering attitude, including her penchant for Noblewoman's Laugh.
Chihaya
A 3rd year at Metropolitan Light Cherry Blossom Female University. She is Kochō's right arm and is one of the "Three public moral princesses". She has an easygoing personality and strangely, she worries about the enemies she defeats. The reason she became a ninja was because she left it to chance, she doesn't really think ninjas are anything special.
She attacks enemies by manipulating crafted candy that has been strengthened with ninja arts.
- Crutch Character: Her card is automatically given to starting players of New Wave until they acquire better ones. She has stronger cards though.
- Glass Cannon
- Kimono Fanservice: Especially with her turnover.
- Lady of War: Fights in a graceful manner.
- Mellow Fellow
Kanzaki
- Those who lack discipline are usually faced with punishment.....By me.
A 2nd year at Metropolitan Light Cherry Blossom Female University. She has a very tough personality and manly appearance, capturing the hearts of the female students she is one of the "Three public moral princesses". For the purpose of helping the weak, together with Kochō she aims to implement their ideal school. She hates crooked things, she has a side of her that isn't versatile.
Her fighting style involves using eye techniques and a straight sword in direct conflict. Whenever she uses her eye technique her pupils will shine bright red.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Thanks to her manly atmosphere.
- Tomboy: She's lives with a more masculine approach in mind. Though she does get curious about her feminine side sometimes.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The more masculine natured tomboy to Kochō's girly girl.
Kisaragi
A 3rd year at Metropolitan Light Cherry Blossom Female University. She's blunt with her words and is a girl of many mysteries. She is always motivated and will execute missions without fail. She has declared her admission into the University is just a stepping stone, she tries her utmost to avoid interacting with the other ninja. Very rarely are her hidden feelings revealed.
Her fighting style involves wielding dual hachiwara and capturing techniques.
- Badass Biker: Similar to Tsubame, some of her cards show her off on a bike.
- Brutal Honesty: She's not afraid to tell people how she really thinks about different subjects.
- Crutch Character: Just like Chihaya, she's given to the player as a starter card. She does have more powerful cards though.
- Scarf of Asskicking
- Spy Catsuit: Her turnover invokes this.
Ranmaru
A 1st year at Metropolitan Light Cherry Blossom Female University. She is the newest member of the public morals committee. The daughter of an inventor, her father gave her the bear model robot butler "Kumapooh" which always accompanies her by her side. She is bad at expressing herself and so because she behaves like a child, she is quite lonely.
As she has just begun being a ninja she commands Kumapooh in battle.
- Bears Are Bad News: Kumapooh is her robot butler that's capable of beating people with a mallet.
- Bratty Half-Pint
- Depending on the Artist: Officially her bust is moderate albeit smaller than almost every other character, but the various artworks of her in New Wave cannot decide if she has moderate breasts or if she is small-chested. Compare to Kafuru, who has smaller chest than Ranmaru but is still depicted with having actual breasts. New Link is more consistent with her breast size, though.
- Glass Cannon: She's more fragile than the other Cherry Blossom girls, but she still manages to do some damage.
- Killer Teddy Bear: Kumapooh.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Since her father is abroad most of the time, she spends a lot of her time in her mansion as a truant.
- Marionette Master: She can control Kumapooh to finish up whatever task she needs doing.
- Puppet Fighter
Tōno Tengu-Shinobi Alliance
A group of exotic elite shinobi with more emphasis on Animal Motifs than the other shinobi factions.
Related to all Tooya Tengu shinobi.
- Animal Motifs: Each girl has a different ninja animal that they're are associated with.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing
- Yūyaki is affiliated with crows.
- Misato is affiliated with tanukis.
- Kumi is affiliated with foxes.
- Ushimaru is affiliated with cows.
- Nachi is affiliated with fish.
- Youkai: Most if not all of the girls have some association with Youkai (it's the Tooya Tengu squad). Yuuyaki is connected to the tengu, Misato the tanuki, Kumi the kyuubi, Ushimaru is likely connected to the Ushi-Oni, and Nachi may or may not be connected to Amabie, a legendary Japanese mermaid who would predict either bountiful harvests or pestilence.
Yūyaki
- As leader, I must....make sure that everyone....is at ease....when working together.
She is the leader of the Tōno Tengu Ninja Squad and a second-year student in high school. She's very much aware of what it is to be a leader, and her strong sense of responsibility leads her to mediate in various troublesome situations.
On the other hand, her personality does a complete 180 into brutality when she's got an unsheathed weapon in her hands. She's fine while she's mediating, but once she loses her patience, snaps, and draws her blade, she ends up becoming the center of the trouble herself.
Her fighting style centers on slashes from her two long blades.
- Ambiguously Brown
- Animal Companion: A crow, who was also her Only Friend during childhood in her home village.
- Ax-Crazy: When her battle hungry side comes out.
- Berserk Button: If there's bickering going on, she wants it resolved.... Or else.
- The Berserker: When she unsheathes her swords, there's no stopping her.
- Blood Knight: Becomes this if she's holding her swords for too long.
- Character Tic: She always pauses in the middle of speaking.
- Collector of the Strange: Anything shiny, she wants it. No matter what it is. Even if its other people's stuff. (Technically speaking, it's magpies that have the reputation for collecting shiny things, not crows).
- Yūyaki: Leo of the Zodiac Squad has a weapon that is..... very clean and sparkling. I would..... like to have it.
- Cute and Psycho
- The Dreaded: Misato and Kumi know firsthand how terrifying she can be when she's angry. So much that they're willing to team up just to stop her.
- Even when she isn't in a bad mood, thugs and gang members will haul ass just by the mere sight of her.
- Dual Wielding
- Expy: Of Mina Majikina from Samurai Shodown, albeit her swords make her look like Yoshitora Tokugawa from the same series.
- The Face: Her and Leo are this for New Wave G Burst.
- Face Framed in Shadow: Happens whenever Yūyaki is angry, which makes her even more intimidating.
- Insistent Terminology: One of the first things she does in her Paradise Episode's introduction in Peach Beach Splash is point out that she's called Yūyaki, not Yūyake.
- The Leader
- Lightning Bruiser
- Promoted to Playable: Alongside Soji and Leo, Yuyaki is playable in ''Peach Beach Splash'.
- Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: New Link reveals that Yūyaki has a yoma named Yaksha sealed within her.
- Split Personality: She can go from a strong-willed leader to an unhinged beast if her mediation isn't taken to consideration.
- Suddenly Voiced: Yuyaki is the fourth New Wave character, in NW history, to be voice acted.
- Youkai: An incredibly skilled martial artist who has an association with crows? Yuuyaki is clearly connected to the mythical Tengu.
Misato
A member of the Tōno Tengu Ninja Squad and a third year high school student. She calls herself "the strategist of the Touno."
She wants to be seen as a cool-headed intellectual, but as she's a highly emotional person at heart, she doesn't really pull it off very often. Kumi likes to tease her over this, and the two fight a lot as a result.
She fights by manipulating the weather with a fan made of leaves.
- Combat Hand Fan: One made of leaves nonetheless.
- Idiot Hair
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Kumi's red oni.
- The Strategist
- Tanuki: In her shinobi transformation, she has a raccoon tail, the colors on her clothing have the same colors as one, has leaves over her pigtails (like how tanukis have them on their forehead to transform) and even has one as a ninja animal.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Kumi.
- Weather Manipulation: What her fighting style revolves around.
Kumi
A member of the Tōno Tengu Ninja Squad and a third-year high school student. Freewheeling, aggressive, and always seeming close to blowing her top, she's the very model of a "problem child." That said, when it comes to the weak or people who are relying on her, she's got a big-sisterly disposition. She'll take care of them to the last, though she'll complain while doing it.
She fights by using her nine tails to wield a variety of weapons.
- Asian Fox Spirit: She has nine tails and fox ears during her shinobi transformation.
- Berserk Button: Go ahead. Touch one of her tails and see if she won't cut you up.
- It's also a pretty bad idea to steal her udon.
- Doesn't Like Guns: One of her quotes state that she finds melee weapons to be a lot better than guns.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She will blow her stack over almost anything. Especially when Misato's tanuki stole her udon.
- Hot-Blooded
- Multi-Melee Master: Her weapons include a katana, a sword, a machete, a mace, a war axe, a sickle, a scythe, a javelin and a nose hatchet. And that is just her character artwork!
- Multiple-Tailed Beast: When she engages in combat.
- Prehensile Tail: She can somehow wield her weapons with her fox tails.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Misato's blue oni.
- Tsundere
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Misato.
- Wall of Weapons: Where else is she gonna put all the weapons she collects?
Ushimaru
A member of the Tōno Tengu Ninja Squad and a second-year high school student. She does everything at her own comfortable pace. She's serious and hard-working, but both the course and tempo of her efforts tend to be out of synch with those around her.
Her whip attacks are ever-changing and unpredictable. Her slow movements leave her opponents off-guard when her whip's tip comes at them at high speed and from all directions.
- Animal Motifs: Cows
- Gender-Blender Name: "-maru" is a common suffix for boys. Ushimaru is most certainly not a boy.
- Lightning Bruiser: Her secret ninja art Super Sonic increases her movement and attack speed significantly.
- Meaningful Name: Given her animal motif is cattle, her name literally means "cow" in Japanese.
- Mellow Fellow: The laid-back, easy going one of the group.
- Mighty Glacier: Subverted. She moves slowly at first, but then pulls off some unexpectedly quick attacks with her whip.
- Super-Speed: Super Sonic temporarily gives her this.
- Weapon Specialization: She fights with a whip.
Nachi
A member of the Tōno Tengu Ninja Squad and a third-year high school student. She's always all smiles when dealing with others, but even if she loses her temper, it never shows on her face, making it hard to tell how she's really feeling. Also, she's always harboring some secret ulterior motive.
She loves money and carries around multiple rolls of bills at all times. She tries to resolve any and all situations with money.
In battle, when she swings her fishing rod, the hook transforms into something else to attack her foes.
- Disappeared Dad: Her shinobi interview implies that something happened to her father because of a tragic event.
- Expy: To none other than The Unmatched Smiling Monster herself, Chiffon Fairchild.
- Eyes Always Shut: Her eyes are always closed for some reason.
- Perpetual Smiler: There hasn't been a single instance of her frowning. Absolutely none.
Zodiac Guiding Star Association
A group of elite shinobi that revolve around Western Zodiac motifs.
Related to all Zodiac Guiding Star shinobi
- Western Zodiac: Unlike the other factions, they all behave accordingly to whatever sign zodiac sign is. Most notably, the western types.
- Leo is associated with....Well... Leo.
- Ginrei is associated with Virgo.
- Kurohoro is associated with Scorpio.
- Syuri is associated with Gemini.
- Aimu is associated with Sagittarius.
Leo
Leader of the Zodiac Guiding Star Association. Second-year high school student. Always calm, cool, and collected, she holds her team together with her strong leadership skills. With astronomical wealth, Leo is the celebrity socialite daughter of a high-class family. She prizes elegance and decorum.
Also, she loves naps, and will take even the smallest opportunity to doze off a little. She retains her elegance even while doing this.
Her fighting style centers on high-speed, flashing attacks from her energy sword.
- Animal Motif: Of a lion with her having a yellow costume with white fur on it, especially on her collar.
- BFS: Her sword is as long as Hien, if not longer.
- Big Fancy House: One of the perks of her being rich is also living in a huge estate. In fact, her mansion has appeared as a level for two events so far.
- Blue Blood: She does come from a wealthy family after all.
- Cain and Abel: Abel to Hiyoki's Cain.
- The Face: Her and Yūyaki are this for New Wave G Burst.
- Force and Finesse: The finesse to Ginrei's force.
- Implausible Fencing Powers: Type 2. Leo is able to pull off several sword fighting techniques based on speed and precision alone.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Her turnover is pretty damn gorgeous.
- Lady of War: Subverted. While her elegant nature gives off the vibe that she could be a lady of war, her fighting style, and animation, depict very fast fencing and sword slashing techniques.
- The Leader
- Lightning Bruiser: Especially when it comes to speed since she's one of the fastest characters in the series.
- Non-Idle Rich: Don't underestimate her appearance. She may look like a refined and upper-class individual, but she can still kick your ass.
- Ojou
- Promoted to Playable: Alongside Soji and Yuyaki, Leo is playable in Peach Beach Splash.
- Purple Is Powerful: She has purple eyes, and she's the leader of the Zodiac Guiding Star Association, as well as an extremely wealthy celebrity socialite.
- Sleepyhead: Give her any opportunity to nod off and she'll take it.
- Socialite: Engages in several social events arranged by her family.
- Suddenly Voiced: Leo is the fifth New Wave character, in NW history, to be voice acted.
Ginrei
Member of the Zodiac Guiding Star Association and a second-year high school student. She gets along well with Leo in both public and private, acting as her leader's right-hand woman. Loyal to Leo above all others and possessing comparable combat prowess, she reigns as the team's Number 2. However, she has a bad habit of mistaking her objectives and going off on a misdirected rampage. Possesses a deep love for spiral-shaped sculpted objects.
When it comes to simple physical strength, she freely wields her long drill lance in battle.
- Bodyguarding a Badass: She acts mostly as Leo's bodyguard whenever the time calls for it.
- Childhood Friends: With Leo and Hyoki, as Ginrei's family has been serving their family for generations.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Towards Leo to some degree.
- Collector of the Strange: She will not hesitate to collect anything spiral-shaped.
- Force and Finesse: The force to Leo's finesse.
- Jousting Lance/This Is a Drill: Her weapon is a drill which is held like a lance.
- Mighty Glacier: Attacks more slowly than Leo, but her strength is still up there.
- Regal Ringlets: Her hair is full of ringlets.
- Undying Loyalty: In a similar fashion with Imu, Ginrei makes it perfectly clear that she's willing to die for Leo just to keep her safe. Leo even states that she'd do the same for her and her friends.
Kurohoro
A member of the Zodiac Guiding Star Association and a third-year high school student. A highly calculating person, her hobby is watching others dance in the palm of her hand.
She's in charge of information gathering and analysis, for which she employs astrology. However, she has a tendency to place too much trust in her abilities, leaving her extremely fragile when a situation proceeds in ways contrary to her expectations.
She specializes in hidden weapon techniques using the wide array of poisoned lethal weapons she keeps concealed in her sleeves.
- Astrologer: She uses Astrology to gather information and analyze data.
- Brainy Brunette
- Expy: To Hsien-Ko from Darkstalkers.
- Genius Bruiser
- Genre Savvy: During one of the festival events, she notices how out of character it is for Bashō to go on a "painting spree" and instantly deduces that Reiki used mind control in some way or another.
- Heel–Face Turn: Fatal Sisters reveals that she used to be a member of Senki Shu, but decided to betray them and join Leo's squad out of "sympathy for Leo's situation".
- Master Poisoner: Highly excelled at using poisoned weaponry on her enemies.
- Nothing Up My Sleeve: Her official artwork even shows that her wide array of weapons is more or less a giant Swiss-army knife set coming from her sleeves.
- Pimped-Out Dress
- Poisoned Weapons: Her specialty.
- Rolling Attack: Performs one in her fighting animation.
Syuri
A member of the Zodiac Guiding Star Association and a second-year student in high school. Serious and quiet in temperament, she tends not to stand out. A fervent believer in her own, wrong-headed, assumptions. She wants to become a magical girl, and is well-read in literature that has made her an expert on certain shady areas of knowledge, which is what led to her being scouted as a shinobi.
Her specialty is cutting attacks delivered from a distance by her blade-bearing yo-yos.
- Genius Bruiser: Knows a wide area of knowledge that most shinobi wouldn't. This usually gives her an edge in combat.
- Hair Antennae
- Killer Yoyo: Two killer yo-yos. Two huge killer yo-yos.
- Magical Girl Warrior
- Weak, but Skilled: Although her attacks don't do that much damage, she prides herself in technique rather than strength.
Aimu
A member of the Zodiac Guiding Star Association and a first-year high school student. Combining innocence and curiosity, she's every bit as childish as she looks. Her teammates dote on her like a little sister, and she spends her days indulging her every whim. She believes she was a fallen angel in a past life, and conducts herself as such.
In battle, she shoots from long distance with the large crossbow on her left arm.
- Automatic Crossbows: A very large one.
- Cloud Cuckoolander
- Long-Range Fighter
- One of the Kids: Alongside Minori and Ranmaru.
- Pie in the Face: She received on in the New Wave pie fight event.
- Punny Name: She is an archer called Aimu.
- Spread Shot: As she puts it, "why shoot one arrow when you can shoot several?"
Senki Shu
A group of evil shinobi who seek to capture yōma for their own bidding.
Hyōki
- Arc Villain: Of the Orochi Resurrection Arc in New Link.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Suiren in New Link, at least until their Heel–Face Turn.
- Big Sister Worship: As much as she resents Leo for having an easier life than her, she still loves her.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Leo's Abel.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: In New Link, after being defeated by Leo and Ginrei, she finally understand that her sister's life wasn't fun and games and she was a pawn to their father as much as Hyoki was. Just as she decided to end her murderous ways, she's possessed by Dogen. Fortunately, she was defeated and lost her powers, after which she went on to live peacefully with Leo.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Wears a legging in only one leg.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: Played for Drama; For years, she never had much in social skills due to being raised in a lab with no company than other girls who died from the experiments and her father, who was more interested in training her into an tool for his dirty work.
- Short Teens, Tall Adults: One of the youngest Senrans (if not the youngest), with a height close to Token Mini-Moe characters like Mirai and Minori, but one of her teammates in Senki Shu is Miki, a 20-year-old who's 10 inches taller than her.
- Stronger Sibling: Is much stronger than her sister Leo, but lacks her cunning and experience.
- Third-Person Person: Speaks this way, to demonstrate how childish she is.
- Worf Had the Flu: After her defeat in New Link, she was incapable of fighting any further. She takes it rather well, as she can finally have a normal life with Leo at her side.
- Younger Than They Look: Apart from her short height at only 4'9", she looks close to the other Senran Kagura characters' ages despite being only 14.
Miki
- The Baroness
- Clark Kenting: Famous model by day, evil puppet master by night.
- Marionette Master: Uses puppets through electromagnetism.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: Her suit gives a nice view of her back.
- Short Teens, Tall Adults: One of the few shinobi girls who isn't a teenager, Miki is 5'7", which makes her 10 inches taller than the 14-year-old Hyouki, who's also part of Senki Shu.
- Stripperiffic: Of all the characters, she probably wears the least in her normal outfit.
Reki
- Emergency Transformation: When she was almost killed by the shinobi she was helping to exterminate other yoma, a shinobi girl who was murdered alongside her for refusing to follow orders offered her body to let Reki live. Reki would have been fine Sharing a Body with her, but the girl chose to just die, leaving Reki as the sole inhabitant of the body.
- Master of Illusion
- Mind Manipulation: Her specialty to say the least.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: She is one of handful sentient yoma out there, and she detests her mindless brethren to the point that she used to work with shinobi to exterminate them. Even after her betrayal by the shinobi she helped out, she simply hates them as much as her own species.
- Ojou Ringlets: Her hair has a huge ringlet to go with her style of dress.
- Pimped-Out Dress
- Red Eyes, Take Warning
Maki
- Ax-Crazy: Outright violently insane, with no other goal than to murder anyone who gets her attention.
- Creepy Child
- Evil Counterpart: To Minori.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Part of the reason she's a threat is her drive to kill out of sheer jealousy.
- Mysterious Past: Her backstory is never elaborated on in contrast to her teammates, though some of her comments seem to imply that she had an abusive upbringing that turned her into the loathsome girl she is today.
- The Power of Hate: To the point that hatred is her main weapon. Maki can literally shoot negative energy at her enemies.
- Psychopathic Womanchild
- The Resenter
Yuki
- Ax-Crazy: Just like Maki, she has a screw loose or two.
- Epic Flail: Oddly enough, her weapon of choice is a phone charm that doubles as a flail.
- Evil Counterpart: To Shiki.
- Face Framed in Shadow: When she attacks the player. Also, when her mischievous side appears.
- Faux Affably Evil: Comes off as playful and sweet as first, until her true nature surfaces.
- Phoneaholic Teenager
