Kaoru Matsubara

Kaoru Matsubara, also known as Powered Buttercup and Buttercup, is one of the main characters from the Powerpuff Girls Z series.
== Charactah Account ==
Kaoru transforms using the phrase "Powered Buttercup" and uses a Daruma Otoshi hammer. Like the original Buttercup, Kaoru is a tomboy and is the most easily enraged of the three. She is known at school for being the most athletic girl as she plays tennis, practices martial arts, and numerous other activities, and spends a great deal of time watching sports on television. She is especially good at soccer due to her strengthened determination after receiving new soccer cleats when she was younger. This may be part of the reason why she has so many fangirls, much to her dismay. She dislikes girls, who she considers very "girly". This includes Momoko and Miyako. This, in addition to the fact that she hates skirts, makes Kaoru the most reluctant of the girls, only joining due to the power it has given her. In later episodes, she begins to care about Momoko and Miyako and is no longer reluctant about joining them in whatever they do, but she often tries to act calm and indifferent. She speaks with a hard and masculine edge and rarely uses honorifics when speaking. Her greatest fear is ghosts. Kaoru lives with her father, who is a professional masked-wrestler, mother and two brothers, one older and one younger. She is represented by stars. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Powerpuff Girls Z
=== Manga ===
* Powerpuff Girls Z
=== Video Games ===
* Game de Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z
== Trivia ==
* Kaoru theme song is called Toori Ame by Wiz-us.
* Kaoru is the only one without any long eyelashes.
* Kaoru hair style is the same as he's older brother, Dai Matsubara.
* The kanji of Kaoru's name means is a purely phonetic form in hiragana; no inherent meaning.
* Powered Buttercup doesn't have any special powers unlike the other two has. She is very similar to the original Buttercup.
* Kaoru's the only member who is strong.
* Buttercup's signature weapon is similar to Amy Rose's Piko Piko Hammer. Ironically, in Powerpuff Girls Z Kai, her boyfriend is Sonic. 
* Buttercup is also the only Powerpuff who can only speak in one language, which is English. Bubbles can speak Spanish and Japanese and Blossom can speak Chinese (however, in Powerpuff Girls Z, the show is in Japanese, with slight English).
* Buttercup from Powerpuff Girls Z was designed after Akane from Ranma ½.
* Buttercup from Powerpuff Girls Z has a similar hairstyle to Goku from Dragon Ball Z/Dragon Ball Z Kai series. Ironically, Tails is voiced by Sean Schemmel and has Goku's hairstyle.
* Matsubara means is 'pine tree plain'.
* Her favorite food is Eel and egg. (Episode 3, part 2)
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kaoru Matsubara at The Powerpuffgirls Z Wiki
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