Misa (The Punisher)

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Misa (ミサ) is an evil female ninja master from the 1993 Capcom arcade beat 'em up game The Punisher. She and her subordinates (Luna, Midori, Mizuki) serve the American crime boss The Kingpin who is the target of Frank Castle (Punisher) and Nick Fury.
Misa ("Beautiful Bloom") is a muscular and busty Japanese woman. She is the rarest and most dangerous to appear of the four (beginning during the boss fight of Stage 4) and as such can be considered a miniboss of sort. Like the others, she is very acrobatic and contortionistic, using a sword and ninja magic, and clad in a revealing armor (black in her case and dropping a matching sapphire ring when killed). Unlike the others, she has a distinctive head with dark brown hair pulled up in a bun.
Misa was animated by Eri Nakamura ("Epiyon", who also designed the famously sexy ninja Psylocke for Capcom's fighting games), who visually based her on a female ninja character that made an appearance in an issue of The Punisher comic book she had at home. (Katherine Yakamoto, an ally of The Punisher and not a villainess at all.) According to info in Japanese Wikipedia, Misa is wife of the game's Stage 1 boss Scully, who incidentally was the villain of the same issue. Her sprite was modified to create Luna, Midori and Mizuki (younger blonde girls clad in red, green, and blue), the last one of whom became especially popular.
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