Arisa Munakata

**Arisa Munakata** (宗像 亜里沙 *Munakata Arisa*) is an ally in Tomica Hyper Rescue: Drive Head. She first appears in Episode 01. She is voiced by Kaho Kouda.

## Personal

### Appearance

Munakata is a woman with shoulder length orange hair with long bangs and magenta-colored eyes. She wears a white crop top undershirt with purple trim, a purple jacket with a black collar, white stripes on the shoulders, black stripes beneath her arms, and a golden badge reading "DH". She wears purple pants with a black belt and purple fingerless gloves. She also wears a purple choker necklace.

### Personality

Munakata is reliable and always a hard worker. She is clever and multi-talented.

### Relationships

* Sanae Munakata- Munakata's grandmother, whom she visits sometimes.
* Takahito Saionji- She seems to respect him and was very concerned when he was trapped in an oil plant.
* Megumi Shinmon- The two are good friends and are sometimes seen together outside of work.
* Toshimichi Izawa and Hayato Isurugi- Munakata is in command of them while working at disaster scenes.

## In the TV series

Munakata is the chief of the Mobile Rescue Police. She originally grew up on an island, where her grandmother Sanae currently lives. Her grandmother calls her "Acchan". She does various tasks for the Mobile Rescue Police, including operating, remotely controlling support vehicles, and going right out to the site of the rescue to assist.

When Taiga Yagura was first learning Synchro Fusion, Munakata worked with him in secret to help him fuse with the support Vehicle, Fire Truck.

When a disaster prevention event was held at Takatomi Elementary School, Munakata served as a host there for the Mobile Rescue Police, who were invited as special guests.

During summer vacation, the drivers are tired of their constant training, and Shinmon keeps insisting they do homework. Munakata is able to come up with a compromise. She invites the drivers to join her and Shinmon on a trip to an island. There, they can also do training at sea. When they get to the island, Munakata meets her grandmother. According to her grandmother, there have been supernatural occurrences on the island. She and Shinmon plan to secretly investigate and leave the kids behind, but Mikoto Ishino overhears their plans, so they all go together. They eventually find that these occurrences were not supernatural at all. There was a movie being filmed on the island.

When the Mobile Rescue Police are tasked with stopping the Mega Dream Ferris Wheel, which was derailed at rolling through the city, Munakata comes up with a strategy to finally stop it.

During the incident where Ooguma Dam is in danger of bursting, Munakata directly pilots the Rescue Helicopter in order to head out to the scene.

When Commander Saionji goes to visit Regal Crown, a state-of-the-art oil plant to do an inspection, he ends up trapped there. This is because the Evil AI took over the supervising robots there and caused a fire. Munakata is naturally concerned over this. She ends up taking over the position of Commander temporarily, and goes to the scene personally. Fortunately, Taiga is able to rescue Saionji.

When explosives fall into a crater, and are about to detonate and cause damage, Munakata uses the Blitz Jet Fighter, a support vehicle to lift the explosives and get them away.

When Saionji has a day off, he goes out fishing with the drivers, and Munakata joins them. She's able to catch an extremely large fish. Munakata then warns them all to leave, because she senses a storm is coming. This turns out to be correct.

Munakata accompanies Mikoto and Jin Ishino, when they go to a concert of the idol Sala Manda. The twins were supposed to appear as surprise guests, in their Drive Head White Crystal Hope. Munakata is concerned when the twins, who were out having fun, don't return in time. She learns that they had to launch in White Crystal Hope to deal with an emergency, which ruins the surprise. But it all works out, and Munakata is seen enjoying the concert later.

When the Transporter support vehicle is upgraded to the Transporter Gaia, Munakata tests it out. The kids are all impressed by her skill in controlling it. They ask her to help them out if there's a disaster, because they're going on a school trip. While they weren't actually serious, Munakata agrees to do this. As it turns out, a disaster does strike that day. None of the drivers are able to launch, because their teacher doesn't know that they're drivers and makes them get on the bus. Therefore, Munakata takes the Transporter Gaia and uses it to fight off Beavers, forestry Walker Vehicles which went crazy because of the Evil AI. Later, she tells the kids that she thinks she can understand a little better how hard they work every day.

Munakata continues to use the Transporter Gaia to help in disasters after this incident. But secretly, a Black Chip was placed inside the Transporter Gaia when Maiko got into the Mobile Rescue Police Headquarters. Axel tries to warn Munakata not to launch, but she ignores him and does so anyway. The Transporter Gaia loses control and Munakata is trapped inside. She is eventually able to get out, but it takes bringing in another Transporter Gaia to defeat the renegade one. Afterwards, Munakata gives Axel a big meal in apology.

When the drivers go to confront Ark, the supercomputer which the Evil AI originated from, Munakata also launches to help. She is able to take out some of the fake Drive Heads which the Evil AI created. After that, she lets Taiga perform a Synchro Fusion with the Transporter Gaia.

## In the web series

When floods occur due to the shifting of the earth's axis, Munakata assists with the rescue work. She also heads to the scene to help when an avalanche caused by the same issue derails a train.

## In the movie

Munakata launches in the Transporter Gaia along with the drivers, when they go to rescue workers after a fire breaks out in a methane hydrate mining facility. The Transporter Gaia has been upgraded to be able to function on water.

Later, Munakata and the others in the Mobile Rescue Police are shocked to learn that Dr. Karigari is still alive, when he contacts them to warn them about Terra.

When Terra, the humanoid form which the Evil AI took on after merging with a robot designed for terraforming, attacks the Mobile Rescue Police's cyber network, Gou is forced to face him using the simulator. Munakata assists him by operating the simulator from outside.

Later, Munakata launches in the Transporter Gaia to assist the drivers in facing Terra, who has been sucking in all the metal around him and reached a new mountain-like form. However, Saionji instructs her to stop attacking, when they learn that Kasumi Haruno is trapped inside. While trying to locate Kasumi, Jin is almost sucked in himself, but Gou arrives to rescue him. Munakata is concerned when Gou and Jin crash down from the sky, but is relieved when she finds that they both are safe.

## Etymology

* Arisa's surname **Munakata** is composed of the characters for "sect" (宗) and "image" (像).

## Trivia

### Notes

* In the Korean dub, Munakata's name was changed to **Alice** (앨리스) where it is likely derived from her first name in the original Japanese version "**Arisa**".