Erika

**Erika** is the main heroine of the *Daimos* anime.

## Biography

The Balm princess, sister of Richter and the true love of Kazuya. Once a royal princess, while accompanying her father Leon and brother Richter to a council meeting with the earth forces, she witnessed her father's death, and, in attempting to calm Richter, accidentally caused Doctor Ryuzaki's death. Thus, to atone for the death of her father, she is working as a field doctor while Richter became the admiral for the Baam forces against Earth. In a space accident, she fell out of a burning spaceship and fell to the sea, losing her memory (temporary amnesia). Kazuya finds her unconscious after his first battle, and by that moment falls in love with her, unknowing that she is a Baam Seijin.

When Erika is eventually taken by Balbas back to Baam, Margaret is overjoyed and hugs her. She comforts Erika, though she doesn't know what happened to her while she was on Earth. Richter, who assumes that the Earthlings tortured Erika, brags that he will make them suffer and shows her live footage of his forces attacking Daimos, which horrifies Erika. Margaret then realizes that Erika is in love with Daimos' pilot, Kazuya Ryūzaki. Erika denies it at first. but Margaret says that over the years, she's learned a lot of wisdom as she aged, and recognizes the look on Erika's face as one of love.

Margaret keeps her love a secret, and helps Erika occasionally deliver gifts to Kazuya. In episode 10, Margaret brings Kazuya some flowers that Erika worked on, as a token of her love. In the prior episode, Erika and Margaret helped Gurney Halleck escape from prison after Richter ordered his execution. She is Erika's only confidant and closest friend during her stay in Little Baam. Margaret is the first person that Erika confesses her guilt of (accidentally) killing Kazuya's father to, using it as a reason as to why she must stay away from him. However Margaret says that if Kazuya is a good man, he must understand it was a mistake

In episode 13, Margaret confesses to Erika that while she was initially against her romance with Kazuya, she quickly realized that he was the one for her and supports her courting him.

Later, Margarete helps Erika escape from Little Baam so she could go to Earth, by creating a diversion through shocking herself. Richter is concerned for Margarete's safety, and doesn't notice that Erika stole a ship so that she could escape to Earth. Unbeknownst to Cindy, Erika and Margarete, Raiza overheard their plan, and decided not to intervene so that she could launch a surprise attack once Kazuya was lured out from his base.

As Erika and Kazuya reunite, Balbas arrives in a mecha, injuring Kazuya. Erika orders Cindy to help him to the Tryper. Though Kazuya forms Daimos and defeats the mecha, he is unable to save Erika and Cindy, who fall to Balbas' clutches. Cindy is then executed for being a "traitor". Some rebels in the castle stage a flood to save Erika and Margarete. Margarete then injects Erika with a serum that causes her to faint, tricking Richter and his goons into thinking she's dead. Even though he considers her a traitor, he decides to hold a funeral for her.

Erika is set to be buried on Earth, near the Daimovic area, which grabs Kazuya's attention. Kazuya meets Richter there, and Richter challenges him to a duel. Erika manages to wake up from the serum, shocking Kazuya, Richter and the rest of the spectators. Seeing Richter duel with Kazuya, Erika stands in front of the former, begging Kazuya not to kill her brother. Erika is then abducted by a spaceship.

The spaceship is piloted by none other than Olban's nephew Melvi. He takes her back to the Undersea Castle, but tells Richter that he will marry Erika. Erika is shocked, but refuses to say anything since Melvi is her only hope at staying alive. Richter wants to oppose him, but knows he cannot since Melvi is higher than him in terms of position.

Meanwhile, Margarete is forced into slavery and has her wings cut off by Richter for helping Erika.

Melvi then confesses to Erika that he knows of her romance with Kazuya and supports it, as do a lot of Baam-seijin, because King Leon would have wanted peace. He informs her of a resistance movement against Richter in New Zealand and orders her to join it, while giving her a ring full of personal information regarding the rebels. Raiza, angered that Melvi humiliated Richter, manages to kill Melvi and make it look like an accident, but Erika escapes to New Zealand. Later, she reunites with Margarete. The two assist Barandock's rebel activities and eventually she lets Kazuya know she's there but says they cannot reunite yet because they must prioritize ending the war, and he agrees.

Kazuya was often ridiculed (by Kyōshirō) and had his loyalty questioned (by Miwa) over his love for Erika. Miwa, at several points, expresses racist views towards the Baam-seijin, which causes Kazuya to get angry and rebuff him. Miwa also tries several times to have Kazuya's position as Daimos' pilot removed. Miwa has him arrested, but Nana and Kyōshirō rescue him. Miwa then abuses his position as a UN official to summon Kazuya and accuse him of treachery, but this is proven false when Georiya's forces attack and Kazuya repels them.

After Barandock dies, Erika leads the Baam-seijin in New Zealand. One day, she encounters a refugee from Small Balm, Kaya. Kaya tells her that Olban is a cruel king that genocides the remaining Baam in cryostatis, and bloody incidents happen every day. She also learns that it wasn't the humans that killed her father - Olban set up Georiya to do it. He made it look like the humans did it to hide his true intentions and overtake the throne. Kaya then dies from his injuries.

By this point, Georiya has overtaken the Undersea Castle and driven out Richter, Raiza and Balbas. Georiya reveals that he had many spies in the Undersea Castle and informs Richter of the truth - he killed Leon because Olban asked him to, and in addition, he also killed Isamu Ryuzaki - the bullet Richter shot missed. As Richter is outliving his usefulness as a Baam commander, Olban wants him dead too since he's a rival to the throne. Georiya tries to kill the three, but Richter falls into the sea and is rescued by Raiza. Balbas, on the other hand, washes up near the Daimovic base.

Balbas is taken prisoner by the Daimovic crew, amd they ask for his co-operation, but he says he would rather die than ally with the humans. Nevertheless, Kazuya treats him with kindness as if he was a fellow human, bringing him food and ensuring he is treated humanely. When Kazuya leaves the prison room, Balbas is brought to tears because of how unflinchingly kind Kazuya is despite him authorizing many attacks on Earth earlier.

Genta, out of curiousity, enters Balbas's room. Balbas then takes him hostage and threatens to kill him. Kazuya offers himself as a prisoner in exchange, which Balbas agrees to. He flies to a mountain with Kazuya, but on the way the two are shot by Georiya's forces. They decide to team up, and Balbas even uses his own bandage Kazuya's wound. Balbas then tells Kazuya the truth about Olban and how he betrayed Leon and Richter. Kazuya proposes working together with Richter, which makes Balbas happy. He agrees to fly the boy back to Daimovic. They reach the base but Balbas dies after being shot, and then stabbed multiple times, by Georiya's goons. Though Kazuya is appalled at his bleeding body, Balbas tells him to keep moving forward and forget about him, saying that the fate of a billion Baamites is in his hands. Kazuya is enraged and defeats Georiya's Baamite mecha.

Raiza takes Richter to a secret base she constructed. While tending to his injuries, she suggets appealing to the humans for help, but Richter disagrees, saying there is no way the humans would help them after all the bloodshed they've caused. Raiza tries to appeal to them anyway, asking Kazuya for help. Miwa overhears this and shoots Raiza, causing her to abandon all hope of allying with them. Raiza and Richter escape to Small Balm, where they plan to kill Olban.

Georiya then discovers Erika's base and tells her Olban wants to make her his bride. Erika, worried that the Baam-seijin refugees will die if she doesn't say yes, agrees, to the shock of Kazuya and Margarete. Margarete brings up Olban killed her father, and Kazuya asks her if their love meant nothing, and Erika lies and says that she loves Olban, and departs to Small Baam to marry him. The two are shocked.

Kazuya's heart is broken, but he fights anyway. He befriends two Baam-seijin soldiers, who were taught by propaganda that humans were cruel, but were pleasantly surprised that human doctors tended to their injuries. They offer to take Kazuya to Olban's base.

Near the series finale, Kazuya travels to Small Baam with Kyōshirō, Nana, Shinchiro, Okane, Genta and two Baam-seijin soldiers. Meanwhile, Olban wants Erika to shoot Kazuya to prove that she actually loves him. Erika plans to shoot him with a tranquilizer that had a microfilm in it, explaining that she's planning to kill Olban, but Gildo overhears this and switches it with an actual gun. When Kazuya and Kyōshirō attempt to rescue, Erika, she shoots Kazuya, severely injuring him. Erika then realizes that she had a real gun in her hands and is horrified.

Kyōshirō is angered and feels as if his bias against Erika was justified all along, and takes Kazuya to their ship to heal Kazuya's injuries. Kazuya believes that Erika was evil all along. Gildo's ship attacks the Daimovic ship, and Erika uses the same gun to kill Gildo, saving the Daimovic crew from his attacking mecha. She then flies back to Small Baam.

Once Kazuya's healed, the Daimovic crew enter Small Baam again, where they witness the cruelty of Olban.

Richter and Raiza try to kill Olban and Georiya by disguising themselves as priests. Richter manages to kill Georiya, avenging his father. He supposedly kills Olban too, but is informed later that it was a body double. Olban discovers Richter and Raiza are on Small Baam and orders his forces to capture them. Raiza, not wanting Richter to die, attacks Olban and tries to kill him, but fails. She is humiliated by Olban, who steps on her fingers as she clings to the building, before falling to her death. Richter is heartbroken and tells her corpse he will join her soon. Richter reveals himself, and Olban orders for his execution.

Erika prepares to marry Olban, preparing her gown. Margarete asks her one last time to reconsider but she refuses. Erika tells Margarete she must never see her again and thanks her for raising her as if she was her own daughter. Margarete is confused, but then notices a dagger in Erika's gown. Erika denies it and quickly runs away from her.

Unbeknownst to Margarete, Kyōshirō and Kazuya, Erika secretly plans to kill Olban to avenge her father. On the day of their wedding she attempts to take Olban's life with a dagger, but fails. Margarete applauds her, and asks why she didn't tell her of the plan - she would have helped. Olban order for his men to shoot Erika and Margarete. However, the "priest" officiating the wedding praises her, and reveals his true identity - her brother Richter. Olban is shocked, as he was under the assumption he ordered for Richter's execution. Richter replies that due to Olban's cruelty, he's made a lot of enemies on Small Baam, and they helped Richter escape execution.

The siblings vow to avenge their father, causing a panicked Olban to flee the scene. Kazuya and the Daimovic crew soon arrive. Kazuya recognizes Margarete and brings up Erika's betrayal, but Margarete tells him the truth - that Erika was set up by Gildo, restoring his faith in her. Sadly, Margarete passes away from her injuries afterwards, being shot by Baam-seijin soldiers.

Richter later confronts Olban in the final battle to kill him once and for all. Even though Olban threatens to cut off the life support for the frozen Baams, Richter manages to mortally wound him. However, before he dies, Olban reveals that he has a remote-control implant in his heart that if he died, would automatically move Small Baam towards Jupiter, killing all the Baam-seijin in cryostatis. Olban laughs before passing away, whike Erika and Richter try to stop Small Baam from crashing. Erika recognizes the Daimovic crew on Small Baam and insists on the humans helping them, but Richter refuses.

Kazuya tries to stop this, but along the way, he is shot by many of Olban's automated laser guns, rendering him immobile. Even though he is covered in scars, he still tries to bypass them, for the sake of the innocent Baam-seijin in cryostatis. Richter and Erika watch this, which makes Richter realize that Erika was right about him.

Moved by Kazuya's kindness and realizing that he was wrong about humans all along, Richter braves the automated laser guns, enters the control panel room and manages to prevent the crash, saving the remaining Baam-seijin. His body sustains many injuries along the way. Richter then praises Kazuya, calling him a man amongst men.

The Daimovic crew and remaining Baam-seijin cheer, glad that they're safe, but then Richter enters a ship. Believing that Baam and Earth can't be at peace as long as he's still alive since he has too many Earthlings' blood on his hands, Richter commits suicide by setting himself to crash to Jupiter, shocking Erika, Kazuya and the rest of the Daimovic crew. Kazuya yells at him not to, saying the war is over, and Erika begs him to stop, but Richter bids them farewell. Before he dies, Richter tells Kazuya to look after Erika for him, and that he can only beg for the mercy of the Earthern people. Kazuya tries to stop him, but is too injured too, and Richter dies, his ship creating a bright light as it explodes.

Some Daimovic workers are seen carrying Kazuya onto a stretcher. Erika, in her bridal gown, kneels and holds his hand. They are finally reunited. The anime then ends.

## Appearance

Erika is a beautiful girl with a long black hair styled in a hime-cut and has blue eyes (that sometime appear green). She has a pair of white-colored wings.

## Personality

Erika is a peace-loving princess and after losing her memories, she fell in love with Kazuya. After she recovers her memory, her guilty conscience becomes the greatest obstacle to their happiness.

## Abilities

Erika has the ability to fly thanks to her wings.

## Trivia

* Erika is voiced by Miyuki Ueda, who also voices Megumi Oka and Chizuru Nanbara.