Musician Of The Forest, Cranberry

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## Musician of The Forest, Cranberry / Ichigo Kurano

* Unmarked
* Anime
* Manga

(Nickname in Archfiend Cram School)

* Ichigo-Chan (by Miya Octave)

**Musician Of The Forest, Cranberry** or **Cranberry, the Forest Musician** (森の音楽家クラムベリ) in the original Japanese release, also known by her real name **Ichigo Kurano**(蔵野苺), is one of the main antagonists of *Magical Girl Raising Project* and appeared as a flashback character in *Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart*.

She is a recluse living within the forests in the outskirts of N-City as well as supposedly the city's first Magical Girl.

 In *White*, it is revealed that Miss Satou is another homunculus clone of her.

## Appearance

### Human

In Unripe Duet, it is revealed that Ichigo still looks nine years old due to always remaining in her magical girl form. She is seen to have short, dark colored hair.

### Magical Girl

As a Magical Girl, Cranberry has short, dirty-blonde hair with wavy front strands and salmon-red colored eyes.

She has pointed elf ears and her attire has a strong rose motif, with her clothing being adorned by dark blue-magenta roses around her head with vines and leaves; even wearing a blue-magenta rose flower crown with dark green leaves. Cranberry wears a button-down white dress and a short dark green jacket that has long sleeves and a flared collar that almost resembles a ruff collar with a white stripe in the middle.

She has white cuffs with 2 black stripes at the ends of her cuffs. In the middle, it has a black flower design in the middle with white outlines.

The collar is frilly and she wears a white choker with laces. To close her jacket, a golden bell-like button clasps the two sides together.

In her light novel/manga adaptation, her legs are bare and are wrapped in red roses and thorns, while her anime adaptation wears pale green tights that have a red rose and thorny vine print design on her right thigh. She wears black high heels with a single leaf protruding from the back of them. her dress is a bit more longer

## Personality

Cranberry appears to be quite reserved at first, staying in her cabin, but over time, it is shown that she hungers for fights with strong enemies, even having a sadistic side to her. This darker side of her is shown prominently during her fight with La Pucelle. Despite this dark nature, she is quite formal and even somewhat chivalrous in battle.

## Magic

***Can freely manipulate sound.***

Cranberry's magic allows her to freely manipulate sound. She can generate sound from any location, as well as recreate someone's voice. It's also possible for her to erase sound waves.

She can generate destructive sound waves. By generating explosive sound, she can use it as a shock wave that is powerful enough to destroy a huge object.

As a result of her magic, she has enhanced hearing, better than that of normal Magical Girls. She can identify a sound with very high or low frequency. Also, her hearing allows her to identify the location of objects. If they are living things, she can identify them by their heartbeats. If they are non-living things, she can locate the objects by using sound waves.

### Special Move(s)

* ***Forte - Striking Sound:*** A shockwave attack that strikes multiple targets at once.
* ***Sforzando - Internal Fracture Sound:*** A single-target directed soundwave attack.
* ***Fortissimo - Large Explosive Sound:*** An area-of-effect attack that targets a wide range of enemies. It is strong enough to create a crater in the ground.

### Special Item(s)

*She owns all the 5 Magical Items since Fav and her requested it from the Magical Kingdom.*

* ***Ruler (Former):*** A magical item. Similar to a halberd, it's a weapon with a blade length of 30 centimeters and a handle the length of 1 meter. It is completely unbreakable and indestructible. Formerly owned by Swim Swim, who named it *Ruler.*
* ***Lucky Rabbit's Foot (Former):*** A magical item that grants good luck to the owner when they're in a pinch. However, it's quite unclear as to how it will manifest.
* ***4-Dimensional Bag (Former):*** A magical bag that allows you to store a variety of items, regardless of size. The bag itself is small and portable, but its contents are large.
* ***Invisibility Cloak (Former):*** A magical cloak that can erase appearance and smell. However, sound and heart movement is ineffaceable.
* ***Healing Medicine (Former):*** A magical medicine. It strengthens the ability of those who take it.

## Relationships

### Fav

Cranberry is Fav's master in *Unmarked (Arc 1)*. Their relationship blossomed when a Demon who had gone berserk, according to Fav, was slain by Cranberry after every other Magical Girl was killed.

Cranberry and Fav both shared darker opinions on how the process of testing Magical Girls was boring, and so together in the Arc 1, they orchestrated the free-for-all battling of Magical Girls to make things more interesting under the guise of collecting Candies.

After Cranberry is killed, Fav doesn't even take time to mourn her death and proceeds to casually think how her killer could work as the new mastermind of the magical girl raising project, Fav later has a conversation with the killer of Cranberry's killer about the same topic. This reveals that Fav never saw Cranberry as something more than a tool for his own plans with the testing of Magical Girls.

However, Fav began to miss Cranberry upon discovering that the new master didn't actually care much about the selection.

### La Pucelle

During the events of *Unmarked*, Cranberry confronts La Pucelle in order to challenge her to a fight. Cranberry wanted to fight La Pucelle after hearing about the latter's fight with Team Ruler.

Cranberry ultimateley wins the fight, directly leading to La Pucelle getting killed afterwards.

### Sister Nana

Upon realizing that Sister Nana and Weiss Winterprison were trying to gain allies to stop the elimination game, Cranberry decided to meet up with them with the intention of stopping the two from succeeding.

### Weiss Winterprison

Weiss Winterprison was the first Magical Girl Cranberry directly confronted in Arc 1 in order to fight, hearing that Winterprison was a strong Magical Girl. Cranberry overpowered Winterprison, but Sister Nana's magic gave Winterprison the upper hand in battle, allowing them to escape Cranberry's surprise attack. Cranberry let them escape for the time being. Ever since then, Winterprison has been skeptical of other Magical Girls and the current system they are facing, wondering if Cranberry had anything to do with the grim turn of events. Cranberry was disappointed when the former was killed by what she calls "boring opponents".

### Archfiend Pam

Archfiend Pam was Cranberry's mentor and graduated from Archfiend Cram School by managing to land a hit on Archfiend Pam.

### Melville

Cranberry was Melville's mentor. Melville worshipped and adored Cranberry to extreme levels, following her guidance almost entirely. In Melville's elimination test, Cranberry accepted Melville as her student and requested for Melville to retain her memories.

Melville was extremely angered after finding out her master had died, and that she was killed by Tama.

### Marika Fukuroi

Marika and Cranberry both attended Archfiend Cram School and would fight together for long periods of time. They both referred to it as "the best fight of their lives".

### Swim Swim

Cranberry is interested in Swim Swim because of the number of Magical Girls she killed. In Cranberry's eyes, this means she is a strong and worthy opponent. When Cranberry fights Swim Swim and her team, she is attacked by Tama and Swim Swim, but ultimately overpowered her and rendered Swim Swim unconscious. Cranberry comments on her disappointment towards Swim Swim's quick defeat, mocking her lack of experience.

Upon revealing Swim Swim's true identity and age, Cranberry briefly hesitated to kill her, expressing her confusion on how such a young girl could achieve such a leading role in the elimination test.

### Tama

Tama accompanied Swim Swim and Minael on a mission to kill Cranberry, although Tama wasn't fond of the idea. Cranberry discovered Tama, who was using her invisibility cloak and threw a rock to Tama, hurting Tama and making her bleed. Cranberry wasn't interested in fighting Tama.

When Tama perceives that Swim Swim was about to be killed by Cranberry, Tama uses her magic and scratches Cranberry's chest, which creates a massive hole on Cranberry that manages to kill her. Immediately after Cranberry's death, Tama threw up at the sight of her disfigured corpse.

### Minael

Minael accompanied Swim Swim and Tama on a mission to kill Cranberry. Minael and Tama decide to make a surprise attack on Cranberry. Minael would use her magic to transform into a rock and Tama would use her invisibility cloak so that Swim Swim could kill her with Ruler. Unfortunately for Minael, Cranberry hears her heart beating while transformed and stabs Minael using her arm. Cranberry was notoriously disappointed at how the girl who managed to kill Weiss Winterprison didn't represent a challenge.

### Calamity Mary

As Cranberry planned to enter in the exam of the first novel as another participant, Fav thought that she could become Calamity Mary's mentor and arranged a meeting. The reunion quickly backfired, as they disliked each other's attitudes. Fearing that they would start a fight before the exam could begin, Fav made sure that they wouldn't meet each other again.

All that changed weeks later, when Cranberry and Fav accepted a mission of the Magical Kingdom to kill a magical creature that escaped to the mountains of a neighboring city. As the fight quickly escalated and went out of control, Mary, who secretly followed Cranberry, assisted her with a bulldozer. The two of them worked together to kill the remaining magic creatures.

After that, although Cranberry wasn't very fond of Mary's fighting methods, she respected her a little more and the idea that the other candidates could have the same fighting spirit as Mary motivated Cranberry for the exam.

### Akane

Cranberry visited Akane's house and convinced her and her whole family to become Magical Girls. Unfortunately for Akane, this leads to all of her relatives dying in an elimination test which only Akane survived.

As a result of the trauma of seeing her family dying, Akane developed PTSD and started searching for Cranberry in order to kill her as an act of revenge for leading her relatives to a horrible death. Her hate for Cranberry was strong enough to ignore the erasing of memories Akane was a victim of, although it managed to make Akane forget how Cranberry physically looked like. However, she still remembered she was a musician and her main goal was to kill her. She never discovered that her target had already passed away, that her seeking of revenge was completely pointless and that Melville, a student of Cranberry, knew about it.

### Miya Octave

Prior to becoming Magical Girls, Ichigo and Momo were childhood best friends. The two of them lived together within a children’s home, meeting after a chick that Ichigo had won from a festival passed away. The two of them worked together to bury it, becoming friends thereafter. Eventually the two of them would become Magical Girls. Cranberry was happy to finally be able to look down at Miya after looking up to her for so long.

The happy moment would quickly take a tragic turn when suddenly, a homunculus would go on a rampage, severely injuring Miya Octave in the process. Cranberry would be overtaken by rage, going on a rampage and killing the homunculus, ending up being the only survivor. Miya’s initial death and the rampage that followed would lead Cranberry to become the magical girl she is today.

The two of them eventually reunite once Tell-Me Doll manages to track Cranberry down. Cranberry is shocked to see Miya alive, but the reunion is cut short after Tell-Me Doll attempts to attack Cranberry. When numerous homunculi merge from her coat, Cranberry works with Tell-Me Doll and Miya to take them all down. Even when the homunculi are defeated, the energy remains sour, leading to Miya using her magic to reduce the two magical girls’ wills to fight. Cranberry shares a memory of the buried chick with Miya, which Tell-Me uses as an opportunity to distract Cranberry with her magic. When going in for the kill, Miya blocks the attack and is stabbed instead.

Cranberry is once again enraged, quickly dodging anymore attacks from Tell-Me and using her magic to fatally attack her head. She then turned to Miya, holding her in her arms as she bled. Miya laments her inability to protect herself or Cranberry, with the latter begging her to stop talking so she would be able to stop the bleeding. Miya uses her last words to ask Cranberry to save Pechka, as well as apologize for leaving her alone. Miya dies, and Cranberry honors her final wish by carrying Pechka away from the mountain.

## Trivia

* It is stated she was the first Magical Girl of N-City.
* The names of all her special moves were based on musical notation.
	+ Forte means "loud".
	+ Sforzando indicates a forceful accent.
	+ Fortissimo means "very loud".
* In Fanbook 1, Cranberry has the following stats:
Physical Ability: 5/5
Communication Skill: 3/5
Magic Rarity: 3/5
Magic Experience: 5/5
Mental Strength: 4/5
Singing: 3/5
* Cranberry has a height of 170 cm.
* During the events of *Unripe Duet*, it is revealed that Cranberry’s birthday is March 31st.
	+ This makes her one of the only characters to have a confirmed birthday, with the only other character to have one being Miya Octave.

## Reference

1. ↑  Cranberry was 9 when she become a Magical Girl, and Unripe Duet takes place about 20 years after that. Age is a rough estimate, since we don't know how far apart Unripe Duet and Unmarked are
2. ↑ "Magical Girl Raising Project Official Fanbook", "TV アニメ 魔法少女育成計画 才フィシャルファンブック"

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