Tachibana Ichiro

* Rokuhara (RPGX)

**Ichirou** Tachibana (橘 **壱郎**) The protagonist of Tentacle and Witches, he was turned into a tentacle monster by mistake. His grandmother was a powerful witch, and he has that potential as well.

He appears in both Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena and Taimanin RPGX.

## Personality

Ichirou often loses himself in fantasies. Down to earth and playful, he will risk his life for the people he cares for. Though he can get scared, he does defend the people he cares for, regardless of his strength and danger to himself.

His room is often shown as rather untidy, and Lily views him as somewhat lazy. Ichirou cared deeply for his grandmother who had passed away and still keeps the charm she gave him for protection, close to him at all times.

Has a crush on his teacher, Morino Yuuko. When, Futaba Lily Ramses joins the school, both often fights. With both of them slowly falling in love, Lily becomes his favorite regardless of chest size.

## Appearance

He has a normal human boy of medium height.

In his cursed form, the tentacle/slime monster. He also later gains a power ranger-like form.

## History

Born human with magical potential.

His family has a connection to mages, which is unknown to him at first. His grandmother, the former witch of the great ocean, was the teacher of Morino Yuuko. Ichirou's father transferred to Tokyo because of work, and his mother followed him. They both are still of good health but left him at the school under the watchful eye of Morino Yuuko. When he was just a toddler, the Magicians Association/Onmyoji were concerned if he would become a dangerous mage, as 7 other male mages in his past had become a danger in the human and demon realm. As people feared, he was a danger and some suggested killing him, but his grandmother the witch of the great ocean rejected the idea. To keep Ichiro save, it was agreed for now that he would be kept away from magic training in any form, but other factions kept an eye out for him.

Ichirou is a second year student at Higashisaka Kitano Academy, but often spies on his homeroom teacher, Morino Yuuko. When Futaba Lily Ramses, arrives from oversea as a student, both often fight, but Lily also wants to become a witch student of Yuuko. She is later tricked to take a cursed item by a disguised Eisen Faust, which plans to use Ichirou as the host body for his master's resurrection, the ancient Sorcerer Faust.

Unfortunately, Ichirou becomes cursed by this item and is changed to a tentacled demon, thanks to Lily. Thanks to Yuko-sensei's quick thinking and offering her body, he manages to keep his mind and continue his school life. However, gains the magic and monster-skills, which at times overpower him unless he interacts with witches to remain human.

Both Futaba Lily Ramses and Morino Yuuko become addicted to his demonic fluids and in order to keep him sane have sexual intercourse with him, something Lily specially wasn't that offended by. Both fall in love with him, but when a third witch "Kaya Blanche" appears some conflict breaks out. Kaya being sent by the higher ups of magic to hunt Faust and kill anybody which could help the resurrection of his master.

At some point, Faust appears and makes his plan known to use Ichirou and turn him fully into a monster and vessel for Sorcerer Faust.

Kaya is taken, and Ichirou tries to rescue her and defeat Faust together with Futaba Lily Ramses and Morino Yuuko. Depending on route, some details change, which lead either to Ichirou using her grandmothers power using the charm she had left him or uses the transformation he obtained as a vessel for Faust. Regardless Eisen Faust is defeated, and Futaba Lily Ramses, Morino Yuuko or Kaya Blanche become his consensual wives/consensual slaves, in a happy ending.

Both LILITH-IZM 04 Tanned Skin and LILITH-IZM 06 Digital anime with Lily & Lilia: Another Story add additional scenes, making the Lily route the most canon.

### Timeline TABA

A version of him is teleported into the Taimanin Universe by Brain Flayers. Ichirou is captured by 12 Angels, that reformed after their defeat after Special Agent Rei & Fuko. Using his tentacle monster form to create "Neo Milk". Futaba Lily Ramses of his world follows him and together with Fuuma Kotaro takes down 12 Angels. Both are able to return.

Another version of his Lily and Yuuko, also use a Brain Flayer to come to the Kotaro's universe to take down Guignol Faust another Golem like "Eisen Faust", a creation of Faust of their own world, which created chaos in the Taimanin world.

### Timeline RPGX

Shares an identical version of his backstory with the normal canon. It is only added that, the Magicians Association/Onmyoji parties that were defending him in his toddler years also included Neu Eazlane.

Most of the history of Tentacle and Witches is identical until his transformation by the curse charm from Eisen Faust, which Futaba Lily Ramses used on him by mistake. To keep Ichiro save, Morino Yuuko and the headmaster of Gogyo Academy decided to keep him under surveillance. Though, the headmaster does threaten him with annihilation should he escape. Yuuko tries to awaken his native magic, so he can no longer be corrupted and be freed from any doubt of being an evil mage.

As a recent student of Gogyo Academy, in which he learned magic, he has yet to display magic outside his tentacle form. Futaba Lily Ramses, visited the place as an exchange student and obtained a magical scroll, which turned him into a tentacle monster. Lily tries to currently cure him, and has learned the spell to turn him, was a trap for Ichirou by an unknown party.

At a later point Efreet, observes Ichirou as the vessel for Sorcerer Faust.

While Morino Yuuko sent out mercenary Coolidge, to find the vendor in the demon realm. Coolidge is captured and the Onmyoji, make their way to the realm for rescue. Ichiro is told to stay behind but uses his invisibility magic to follow the group. In the conflict with the "Lady of the Ruins", Futaba Lily Ramses is stabbed and drained of her magic by the blade of the Lady. Ichiro uncloaks and rams the lady, which temporary cancels her dust shield. The lady is defeated by the water magic of Yuuko, and though Lily falls unconscious, (in secret really thankful) she can be saved. While back at the academy, Ichiro avoids a harsh punishment from the principal Gogyo Academy, Kibino Sanki. Against the worst fears, he is only punished to clean all the toilets. On a continued question if this also includes the women's bathrooms, Sanki asks him if he is unhappy with the punishment and desires a real "Onmyoji punishment" before he runs out in fear to do the job.

## Additional Material

* He remains almost unchanged in the OVA, following the true ending. The transformation he suffers in the OVA is much weaker as in the Visual Novel, he also starts to gain strange markings on his skin.

## Powers/Abilities

**Main Weapon:** Tentacles

* **Potential For Magic**: Thanks to his family line.
* **Invisibility Magic**
* **Animation Magic**: "Life Magic" able to create life and resurrect, which can overgrow and overpower others, unlike the power to create golems, it creates true lifeforms. (End of TaW)
	+ Grants the power to heal even from death, at least for some time, can also be used to turn somebody into an immortal "tree".
* **Barrier Breaking**: Able to break magical barriers, even unintentionally.
* **Transformed**: Tentacle form or vessel form.
	+ **Tentacles**: Can create tentacles from his body, to crush enemies.
	+ **Powered Form**: Can use a power ranger-like form near the end of his game and in TABA. This was meant to be the body for Sorcerer Faust and his control is not perfect.
	+ **Pheromones**: His pheromones will bind a person and create lust in them.

## Media

* Tentacle and Witches
* LILITH-IZM 04
* LILITH-IZM 06
* Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena
* Taimanin RPGX

## Trivia

* He is captured by 12 Angels, having been replaced from his own dimension to the Taimanin world but is saved by Fuuma Kotaro and Futaba Lily Ramses, returning to their own world after.
* He shares his family name with Tachibana Rikurou, Tachibana Fumi and Tachibana Serika but so far no family connection is confirmed.
* In Lily's route, Ichirou will use his Anima magic, while in the Yuuko route, he will his new golem body to defeat Eisen Faust.
* In RPGX, he could be considered an Onmyoji. Otherwise, he only has magical potential.
* Introduced with his special ability, "fantasies"
* His demon form bears resemblance to the Toho kaiju Hedorah.

## Gallery

Transformation magicTogether with Futaba Lily RamsesSmug and scared