Lady Shinjo

**Lady Shinjo** is the deuteragonist of *Samurai Warriors Crossroads*, the main protagonist of the add-on: *Aftermath Justice*, and a major character in *Crossroads 2*. The biological wife of Haru Kikkawa, and the daughter of Nobunao Kumagai, she is known for her calm and accepting personality towards everything her wife does on a daily basis. She is also one of the main benefactors behind the prosperity of Sagami.

## Description

* Haru's wife, and the one with a gauntlet for a weapon, that can convert into a blade. Known for her accepting approach with her wife, Shinjo's one of the Kikkawa clan's notable supporters."

## Appearance

Lady Shinjo has short black hair, shaped like a bob, with sharp black eyes, and a mature complexion.

### Official

She wears a blue and white jacket and shirt combo, gloves, shorts, and black shoes with socks.

## Personality

Lady Shinjo is a calm, sheltered woman who shut her own heart from the rest of the world after a relationship from her past went horribly wrong.

### Love Struck

She is obviously a fool in dealing with love. However,

### Warriors Orochi

In Warriors Orochi 5, she has interactions with Cai Wenji, Lu Meng, Pang Tong, Sun Shangxiang, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Kanetsugu Naoe, Gracia and Lady Hayakawa.

## Story

### Haru's story

She makes her first appearance when Nobunao Kumagai introduced himself to Motonari Mori, as well as introducing his own daughter (Shinjo) to them.

While her role in her wife's story is somewhat limited, Shinjo does, however, appear to propose for marriage with Haru.

Just as she came back from a day out, she saw her wife's still corpse

### Aftermath Justice

She is the main protagonist in this expansion so she appears in all missions

### Justice

However, she can't put her mind to pull the trigger.

## Fighting Styles

### Protector

Her main fighting style in Aftermath Justice. Despite her calm and composed demeanour, she demonstrates slow but powerful strikes

### Street Rush

Her second fighting style. Taking notes from street-brawling, when in this style, Shinjo gains access to a variety

### Thug (Goro Majima's first style)

Her third fighting style. Despite that it was pulled from Yakuza 0,

### Knife-Play (DLC)

Her only DLC style. With her knife-skills into play. This style was mainly inspired by

No matter the styles, she emits a blue aura similar to Akira Nishikiyama from Yakuza Kiwami to completely contrast herself from Haru and Hiroie.

## Weapons

In Aftermath Justice, she gains a new and unique set of weapons due to her role as a DLC character.

### Her Own Story

1. Iron Gauntlet
2. Copper Razor
3. Emerald Hawk
4. Sapphire Falcon (RARE)
5. Deliverance (RARE)

### Warriors Orochi

1. Iron Gauntlet
2. Copper Razor
3. Steel Thunder
4. Deliverance
5. Deliverance X
6. Da Vinci's Gauntlet

## Tropes

* Action Girl - She is just as capable of fighting like other characters.
* Adaptational Angst Upgrade: While no one knows how, Shinjo, despite her ugly-ish appearance in history, loved Motoharu constantly. In this game, Shinjo is constantly worried about her wife's continuous ways of making people happy.
* Adaptational Attractiveness - In history, there were reports that she was plainly unattractive yet Motoharu loved her for who she is. In C*rossroads*, she's just as beautiful as the rest of the female cast, since she's not only modeled after a real-life person, but is quite attractive in spite of her issues with her image.
* Adaptational Badass: Especially compared to
* Adorkable - On her downtime, she loves to talk about Motorcycles (Which is surprising since at that time, Bikes were not even made yet)
* Asian and Nerdy: A female variant though it
* Badass Normal: The other member of the new Mori clan that hasn't had any yet with help from her
* Beware the Nice Ones: Although she's calmer than her wife, she DOES have a limit to her patience.
* Boyish Short Hair: Well, considering who she's inspired on, that's expected, but her hair is mostly a variant.
* Character Development: Before her appearance, she was depicted as a shy woman who rarely opens up due to her past relationship going horribly wrong. It wasn't until Haru's childlike personality and kindness that made her open up. In fact, she's currently the only person who had truly known about her jail sentence.
* Clingy Jealous Girl: Has some shades to this, but is mostly friendly towards everyone. She is obviously rivals to Lady Goryu, who had missed Haru for quite some time.
* Contralto of Danger: Her voice is softened to the point
* Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Out of the characters in the Ryu Ga Gotoku library, she is not only completely different from the likes of Haruka Sawamura and Saeko Mukoda, the previous two female leads of the Like a Dragon franchise (Excluding Kaoru Sayama, per say) but she is this to Masaharu Kaito in terms of her role. And like Kaito, Shinjo would eventually receive a happy ending of her own when she finally has the courage to move forward in her life due to Hiroie's efforts.
* Covert Pervert - In spite of the above, she's not afraid to share her fascinating discoveries about the human body, especially when she always has a habit of feeling . Also, she loves tickling Haru's body a lot for whatever reason.
* Dimension Traveller - She does it a bit more than Haru, but mostly, the reason why was because she went to check and see if Haru herself is doing ok. This was evident during the Symphogear collab where she revealed that Haru was suddenly transported to
* Dissonant Serenity - Possibly inherited this from her husband (Haru Kikkawa), but it's likely because she grew used to what Haru does
* Everyone Has Standards: She may be the wife of the Dragon, but there are moments where she starts questioning where her life had ended up.
* Expy: think of her as a version of Luka Milfy if she had the same issues as Meg Griffin.
* From Nobody to Nightmare - To an extent. She went from a common woman who had a messy relationship to becoming one of the main benefactors behind Sagami's flourishing, as well as her being the wife of Haru Kikkawa.
* Genius Bruiser - In spite of her gauntlet, she's one of the smartest women in the Sengoku period.
* The Glomp - Well, she does seem to get a bit lonely when Haru is on one of her daily missions
* Good Parents - With Haru, strangely enough.
* Heartbreak and Ice Cream - After her wife dies, she's been eating Ice Cream ever since that fateful Christmas day. She soon snaps out of it
* Her Heart Will Go On - After Haru's death, she decides to take care of her children for her sake.
* Hero of Another Story: She is the main character of Aftermath Justice.
* Hypocrite - Played with. in her Warriors Orochi appearance, Sun Shangxiang notices how she's been keeping Haru away from other girls, despite being no different from them due to her mentioning how she would get lonely.
* Improvised Weapon - Her weapon is a gauntlet that can
* Ink-Suit Actor - Due to the Dragon Engine, Lady Shinjo is directly modeled after her Japanese voice actress; Mao Ichimichi, in a similar fashion to Naotora li
* Joke Item - One of her Warriors Orochi 5 weapons is a chinese trap.
* Leitmotif - her theme is
* Love Confession - Ends up receiving one from this.
* Marry for Love - She marries Haru because she loved her for her kindness and childlike personality, which makes her the perfect person to help her heal her emotional wounds. However, even she was unaware of Haru confessing instead, as she wanted to do it.
* Move-Set Clone: Significantly downplayed. While her attack string is almost identical to Tatsuo Shinada, she has many unique attacks that truly make her stand out from the former baseball player.
* Ms. Fanservice: A downplayed example, since her clothes fit into the Tamer and Chaster category, but she still fits this because of her curves, as explained by Word of God.
* Non-Standard Character Design: In a similar fashion to Kagetora Uesugi and Hideyori Toyotomi, she is given a unique design. Word of God explains that the entire concept of her unique design was based off her adventurous personality.
* Only Sane Man: When Haru occasionally travels anywhere, she had to make sure her wife (Haru, in that case) doesn't get herself distracted by a single thing, especially girls, of which she would try to
* Positive Friend Influence: Arguably to Lady Goryu. Crossroads 2 confirms that Shinjo helped Goryu so much that
* Power Fist: One of her gauntlet power-ups has her mask her hand into a fist.
* Promoted to Playable: She becomes a playable character in Crossroads although as the main protagonist in her own expansion: Aftermath Justice, but despite that, it still counts, as she receives a new move-set.
* The Rival - To Lady Goryu, exactly like history.
* Tender Tears: She rarely cries, but if something horrible happens to her entire family, she would invoke this trope. An example would have to be her grieving over the death of Haru and Motonaga before Hiroie snapped her out of it.
* Weak, but Skilled: Say what you will about her fighting style, but she is entirely graceful and skilled with her gauntlet.
* What the hell, hero?:
* Zettai Ryouki - A D variant. Once you pull up her combat jeans, she wears stockings.