Princess Lightning

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## Princess Lightning / Ai Tanaka

**Princess Lightning** (プリンセス・ライトニング), also known by her real name **Ai Tanaka** (田中愛染), is one of the main protagonists of *Magical Girl Raising Project: Black*, *Magical Girl Raising Project: White*, and *Magical Girl Raising Project: Red*.

She is a leader of Class 2-F's Group 3 at Umemizaki Middle School and was recommended to the Magical Girl Class by the Research and Development Division.

 In *Red*, an army of Princess Lightnings assist Old Blue in her raid on Umemizaki, attacking both Pythie's forces as well as Lightnings' own classmates.

## Appearance

* Princess Lightning in *Black*, *White*, and *Red*
* Princess Lightning's human form, Ai Tanaka
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### Human

As a human, Ai Tanaka has long black hair fashioned in a hime cut with dark eyes. Her face is described to be "well organized," even before transformation. She has bright red lips, and wears a school uniform.

### Magical Girl

Lightning has a light, messy purple hair with streaks of yellow resembling bolts of lightning. The tips of her hair appear frayed and charred black like something being shocked and burned. She wears a princess tiara with black rays behind it. Around her neck, she wears a purple collar with a diamond symbol. She wears a short, sleeveless black dress with a tight belt around her stomach. Her right arm is covered with a long black glove, while her left arm is covered only with a bracelet and a biker’s glove. She wears a gem leglet around her right leg and black boots.

## Personality

In *Black,* Princess Lightning appears to be one of the most mysterious of the students from Class 2-F, having a playful personality and bearing a mischievous smile. She seems detached and untouchable.

In *White,* Lightning is noted to have undergone a change in personality, much to the confusion of her classmates. Rather than being her enigmatic self, she is suddenly far more proactive in getting to know the other students of Class 2-F, even those outside of Group Three, and was amongst the most enthusiastic of the bunch about joining the school festival. She is also a huge glutton. Overall, her classmates described her as being rather eager and childish. However, when confronted with the apparent sudden change in her demeanor, Lightning acts coy, claiming that she hasn't noticed any abnormalities about herself.

The vast differences in Lightning's personalities in *Black* and *White* are later explained following the revelation that she is an Artificial Magical Girl with multiple clone bodies; they were different people all along.

## Magic

***Fights enemies with the power of lightning.***

Princess Lightning can control electricity, being able to throw it as projectiles. She has also displayed the ability to absorb electricity from outside sources, rendering any such attacks against her useless. However, after she mysteriously reinvigorated herself following her fight with Abelheid, her classmates began to theorize that her electromancy might actually be a ruse for her to hide her true ability.

### Special Move(s)

* ***Luxury Mode:***
* ***Luxury Mode Burst:***
* ***Lightning Bolt:*** Upon raising her sword, lightning will strike down and disintegrated anyone nearby.
* ***Plasma Ball:*** Makes any lightning in the area grow in brightness and size.
* ***Thunder Break:*** Attracts lightning to daggers she had thrown into the ceiling, hitting anyone nearby.
* ***Thor's Hammer:*** Shoots out a purple flash of lightning from Lightning's sword, which becomes a torrent that overruns the floor, windows, hallway, and ceiling.

### Special Item(s)

* ***Princess Jewel:*** The jewelry used for the Pure Elements' transformation. After transformation, it becomes the tiara.
* ***Princess Lightning's Dagger:*** A dagger that is part of Princess lightning's outfit motif. She gave it to Miss Ril hoping that her group could distract Group 2.
* ***Princess Lightning's Sword:*** A sword with bolt of lightning. It sparked in jagged shapes as it grew longer.
* ***Princess Lightning's Drums:*** TBA

## Relationships

### Diko Narakunoin

Princess Lightning and Diko Narakunoin are in the same class group. Like Diko, Lighting is actually an "associate" of the First Lapis Lazuline, though the former did not know about this until Lightning revealed herself to her sometime between the events of *Black* and *White*. Afterward, the two seem to have build somewhat of a working relationship.

### Pshuke Prains

Princess Lightning and Psyche Plains are in the same class group. After Lightning's fight with Adelheid, Pshuke Prains allied with Sally Raven against her.

### Sally Raven

Princess Lightning and Sally Raven are in the same class group. After Lightning's fight with Adelheid, Sally Raven allied with Pshuke Prains against her.

### Ranyi

Princess Lightning and Ranyi are in the same class group. When Ranyi was being discharged from the hospital, Lightning came to pick her up alongside Diko. It was here that Lighning revealed that, like Ranyi herself, she was actually an "associate" of The First Lapis Lazuline, which Ranyi did not know until then.

### Thunder General Adelheid

In *Black,* Princess Lightning seems to view Adelheid as something of a rival, as they are both Magical Girls with electricity-based abilities. At one point in time, Lighting even goes as far as to attack Adelheid, causing a a genuine fight rather than a mock battle. After being defeated, however, Lightning simply walked away and acted as if nothing happened, much to Adelheid's shock. Princess Lightning later refers to their battle as a romantic encounter underneath the moonlight.

In *White,* Princess Lightning continuously approaches Adelheid, suggesting that the two of them should work together and showing interest in Adelheid as a person. However, Adelheid is only confused by this and tells Lightning that she seems different, to which Lightning coyly replied that she has not noticed any such change in herself.

When the school is attacked, Lightning and Adelheid face off once more, being allied with Old Blue and Pythie Frederica respectively. While exchanging playful banter throughout the fight, Adelheid ultimately delivers a fatal blow to Lightning. As she passed on, Lightning requested Adelheid to feed her Lapis Lazuline III's candy, to which she obliged. The truth behind Lightning's strange changes in personality toward Adelheid is then revealed: she is actually an Artificial Magical Girl, akin to the Shufflin series, and Adelheid had been interacting with multiple different clones of her.

### Old Blue

Princess Lightning works for the First Lapis Lazuline. In *White,* she reveals to Ranyi that she is actually a relative of the First Lapis Lazuline, as they share a surname, 'Tanaka.'

In actuality, Princess Lightning and the First Lapis Lazuline aren't actual relatives. Rather, the First Lapis Lazuline took Princess Lightning under her wing after she was created by an unknown mage, in which Ai assumingly took on her surname afterward.

### Lapis Lazuline III

In *Black,* Bluebell Candy seems to show dislike for Princess Lightning upon her name being mentioned, though her reasoning is not disclosed.

In *White,* it is revealed that Bluebell Candy finds the origins of Princess Lightning's creation to be distasteful, describing her as being born to be a literal commodity. While she pities Princess Lightning's existence, she frowns upon her largely due to the fact that her Master, the First Lapis Lazuline, seems to glorify her creation.

### Snow White

Princess Lightning first learned of the *Magical Girl Hunter* during school lectures. Upon actually meeting her, however, Lightning was disappointed upon finding that she was completely different from what her exploits suggested. Still, the fact that Old Blue had the Third Lapis Lazuline seal away Lightning's memories and altered their plans to avoid a confrontation with her, causes Lightning to view Snow White as a great threat.

### The Mage That Created Princess Lightning

Princess Lightning was created by an anonymous mage. As described by Bluebell Candy, while the mage created Princess Lightning to only be beautiful, viewing her as a toy, it is unknown how Princess Lightning feels about her creator or the origins of her existence.

## Etymology

### Real Name

* The name **Ai** means "love, affection" (愛) (**a**) and "dye/dyeing, color, paint, stain, print" (染) (**i**).
* Ai's surname **Tanaka** means "field, rice paddy" (田) (**ta**) and "middle" (中) (**naka**), which literally means "dweller in the rice fields" altogether.

## Trivia

* During the second Mock Battle:
	+ She is the only Magical Girl who detransformed as a result of fainting from overworked.
	+ She is the only Magical Girl who did not fight any major Shadow Magical Girl but rather just normal homunculus.