Shinobu Oshino

Shinobu Oshino, also known as Acerola, Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade, Fair Princess and Lola, is one of the main characters from the Monogatari Series series.
== Charactah Account ==
Formerly Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade, she is the dying vampire whom Koyomi meets in Kizumonogatari. When she begs him to save her, Koyomi offers her his blood, expecting to die—but she turns him into her vampire servant instead, and has him reclaim the various body parts that vampire hunters stole from her while she is stuck in various too-young bodies. After this is done, she tries to provoke Koyomi to kill her to get his humanity back, but he realizes her true intentions and can't go through with it. Instead, Koyomi takes nearly all of her power away in order to become mostly-human, leaving her in a near-powerless eight-year-old body and rendering her unable to survive without his own blood. Oshino then renames her, giving her his own surname and the given name "Shinobu", which is written with the kanji for "heart" under the kanji for "blade".
After losing most of her vampire powers, Shinobu falls into a long period of stupor. She is frequently seen in Oshino's place with her hands tucking her knees in, her face always in an emotionless state. She often spends most of the day in one spot, doing mostly nothing with a bitter expression. Shinobu also does not talk to anyone, but she is familiar with Koyomi Araragi and Meme Oshino, and would follow requests from either of them.
Later she reverts back to her brighter personality after "reconciling" with Koyomi. She is rather talkative, and often asserts her superiority through her archaic speech. She mostly plays with Koyomi's tendency to act as the follower between the two. During sometime after Koyomi Vamp, she appears to find a liking to donuts and they become her obsession.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Bakemonogatari
* Kizumonogatari Part 1: Iron-Blooded
* Kizumonogatari Part 2: Hot-Blooded
* Kizumonogatari Part 3: Cold-Blooded
* Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp
* Koyomi History
* Koyomimonogatari
* Monogatari Series: Second Season
* Nekomonogatari Black
* Nisemonogatari
* Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku x Monogatari
* Owarimonogatari
* Owarimonogatari Second Season
* Owarimonogatari Second Season Recaps
* Tsukimonogatari
* Zoku Owarimonogatari
=== Light Novels ===
* Monogatari Series Heroine Hon
* Monogatari Series: Final Season
* Monogatari Series: First Season
* Monogatari Series: Monster Season
* Monogatari Series: Off Season
* Monogatari Series: Second Season
=== Manga ===
* Bakemonogatari
=== Video Games ===
* 300 Heroes
* Bakemonogatari Portable
* Kizumonogatari VR
* Koyomimonogatari
* Monogatari Series Puc Puc
* Monster Strike
* Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record
* Wazamonogatari
== Trivia ==
* Shinobu always labels herself as around 500 years old; her actual age is 598.
* Shinobu's former nickname as Kiss-shot was The Iron-blooded, Hot-blooded, Cold-blooded Vampire (Tekketsu ni shite Nekketsu ni shite Reiketsu no Kyuuketsuki). This kind of title is also seen in the case of Deathtopia Virtuoso Suicide-Master.
* In the first trailer of the Kizumonogatari movie, the name of the voice actor who will play as Shinobu is shown only as "××××". Although Shinobu's voice actress in the Bakemonogatari drama CD is Aya Hirano, Maaya Sakamoto took the role of Shinobu in the Nisemonogatari anime series.
* Her current voice actress, Maaya Sakamoto, refuses to sing character songs. This is why Shinobu Time and Shinobu Mail have unique themes with opera style singing.
* Exclusive to the novels, Shinobu has a Nintendo DS she uses when she's in Koyomi's shadow. She made it herself through matter generation, likely basing it off the DS he was borrowing from Nadeko.
* Her appearance on the cover of Wazamonogatari bares a striking resemblance to her 10 year old form in Kizumonogatari. Assuming the cover is supposed to be her in the first arc of the book, this form could represent her original appearance as a human. Otherwise, the cover could be referring to Karen Ogre instead.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Shinobu Oshino at Bakemonogatari Wiki
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