Mao Kurosawa

Mao appearance

### Relatives

Daisuke Kurosawa (Father)Miu Hoshino (Mother)Kaito Kurosawa (Brother)Kaguya Kanda (Sister-in-law)

## Debut & VA

### Spanish Voice Actor

Carla Castañeda

> "A fire that burns with passion calls you,
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> Her warm hands look for you with maternal gentleness
> her sweet voice prays for your name and your safe arrival
> As long as you can hear the whispers, she will be there, waiting for you.
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> Loving you as I love you"
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— **Mao Kurosawa to Kaito**

Mao Kurosawa (真緒 黒澤 Kurosawa Mao) is a Shinigami, older sister of Kaito Kurosawa, the 3rd seat of the first division, the one in charge of guiding and teach the basic principles of the division to the new recruits and the best girl in the Kurosawa family

## Appeareance

Mao is a very peculiar woman. She is tall and broad, trained and with an appearance that she manages to intimidate just by walking her. The eyes are slanted and, unlike her mother or her brother Kaito, red like her father. Her face is broad, but with round cheeks and rosy lips, her nose is quite similar to her mother's, wide and curved downwards. The hair is long and difficult to style, but somehow she manages to style it with two short strands on the sides that highlight her face and help shape it, as well as wearing a ponytail.

She always wears two patches on her cheeks which cover two scars that were inflicted on her by her younger brother Kaito.

Also, from his ears hang two earrings given by the main head of his house, his father. These earrings give her the status of an elite Kurosawa and being elite in a family recognized for her power shows that this woman's strength is something to be feared.

She has a voluptuous fidget, but that due to her uniform hides it from her so things like her big breasts are hidden under her cloak. Her Shinigami uniform is quite peculiar as she wears a thick brown cape with a gold pattern, under it she has a blue cloth with a more elaborate gold pattern than her cape.

## Personality

Mao was Kaito's main moral compass as a child. She was playful and rebellious, but firm. As she became an adult, that thought of her changed and now, although she is still someone lazy, she shows a seriousness with the work of admiring her, but her mind is another matter apart from her.

In the Hueco Mundo arc, a glimpse of his mind was given during the battle with Scarga Sumither, there was seen that Mao is someone who constantly demands to be the best and be a role model for young people and pmainly for his brother, she was not allowed lose or show weakness. This was the reason why she lost her battle against the Arrancar.

## Powers & Abilities

**Master Swordman**: Her swordsmanship is prodigious, compared to someone she is a genius similar to Toshiro Hitsugaya. Her attacks are precise, heavy and suffocating, unlike Kaito she does not flip or fight madly as she is more effective and faster.

**Monstrous Force**: Mao Kurosawa is the woman with the greatest physical strength in soul society, the best record of this date from a fight where Mao faced a group of rebels who had stolen her sword and as a group moved to attack her. They all appeared crushed like soda cans.

**Hakuda Master**: She´s good at hand-to-hand fighting, not as good as her brother, but she is still a danger against people as Mao fights with short movements, very close to the opponent and hits brutally. Her heavy hands give her an advantage as her blows feel like a sledgehammer blow, it´s said that if Mao invites you to a bare handed fight it is because she wants to kill you.

On his fight against Scarga Sumither she demonstrated with Shigekuni Yamamoto a set of special movements of the Hakuda, these being the following ones:

* **Teikotsu** (低骨, Low *Bone*): Mao launched a front kick that broke Scarga's left arm and sent Scarga flying down several streets until he crashed into a building.
* **Atsuryoku** (圧力, *Pressure*): A hold that Mao used against Scarga. With this move Mao caused pressure on the leg of the Espada that made him unable to move it for several minutes, Scarga later claimed that if it weren't for his speed in reacting Mao could have made his leg explode by the force.
* **Kossetsu** (骨折, *Broken Bone*): An attack stronger than Teikotsu which is based on a sequence of three kicks that landed on Scarga's knee, abdomen and head. This attack was strong enough to render Scarga unconscious after he was sent flying through much of the city, passing through several buildings on the way.

**Kido expert**: Her experience has made her an expert in demonic arts, initially she had no talent for this but a man with brown hair and glasses taught her to better handle these techniques. She specializes in Bakudōs and Kaidōs (healing Kidō)

**Immeasurable Spiritual Power**: Mao's reiryoku is practically inexhaustible, similar to the case of Sosuke Aizen, however, his control with it is strange, she can use Kido like an expert and has all the reiryoku to be a beast without comparison, but unconsciously the flow of this cuts off when a certain amount of energy is released

**Shunpo Master**: It´s elusive, that would be the word that would describe Mao's Shunpo. Unlike many experts in this art, Mao moves for short distances at extraordinary speeds, flowing and escaping by millimeters of all movement on a whim.

**Enhanced Durability**: Mao's durability is surprising because surprising demonstrations have been seen of what he has been able to resist, the best example of this was the time where she faced Scarga Sumither's "Sunset Tomb" in his resurrection, she has resisted being bombed by consecutives strikes from Kaito Kurosawa in his golden age without taking a single step back and was once able to stay conscious after a two-handed strike from Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto.

### Zanpakutō

Keiyaku no hakobune (契約の箱舟, "A*rk of the covenant*") is Mao Zanpakuto, unlike her younger brother or her father who use the same electric Zanpakuto, she has a fire element one. Her blade is curved and the tip of her ends in a straight shape instead of the classic curve of all Zanpakuto. Her scabbard is a bluish-black color touched up with a pattern of golden waves. Also her Tsuba is golden, round and with four protrusions in each direction.

* **Shikai**: Mao's command phrase is "**Asphixia**" (窒息, *Chissoku*; Viz Choke). Keiyaku no hakobune's release makes four spheres of fire appear above Mao's head, presenting a set of double swords, one short and one long with red blades made of fire. Along with this release, her reiatsu is constantly leaking from the swords causing pressure in the environment that caused her rival to kneel on her first appearance because of how heavy her body felt.

***Shikai Special Ability:*** When she releases his zanpakuto, Mao is able to heat the blade of his sword with the floating spheres on his head, this allows the affected area to explode when it cuts a person or object. Depending on the resistance of the target, the fire that manifests in the explosion changes color, for example, against rivals like Shigekuni Yamamoto his explosions are tiny and hardly release heat, against people like Ichigo Kurosaki his explosions are big and cause great damage after occurring but they fail to become completely lethal, however against constructions, enemies at the level of lieutenants or simple infantry shinigami their fire is blinding and everything explodes into ashes.

* **Bankai**: Secret

***Bankai Special Ability:*** **Lol**

## Trivia

* Mao is very romantic and dreams of living a fairy tale love
* Has a hobby of collecting beetles
* She instilled the love of music in Kaito

## Quotes

(To Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto) "I guess i´m actually eighty steps behind you, sir, but at least a few years ago it was more than a hundred."

(To Shunsui Kyōraku) "Good luck next time! Say hi to Ukitake when you can get off your ass and go home."

(To new members of the first division) "Break and pulverize, if you can't get up and fight with a sword then use your fists, nails, teeth, it doesn't matter what it is, just show some guts"