Suzuko

**Suzuko** is a 14 year old orphaned girl, known for randomly karate-chopping people when she is angry, and one of the four main protagonists of the *Doraemon* franchise. Suzuko is one of the classic main characters, she first appeared in the first episode of the series in 1996.

She is also the human counterpart of Shadowsky.

## Characteristics

### Personality

Suzuko is intelligent, sensible and gives things a thought before doing them, and always thinks twice before trusting anybody. She is not an easy person to fool and villains often see her as an obstacle. Suzuko is most of the time on her guard, alert and aware of every little happening around her, with nothing ever getting past her.

Suzuko’s first reaction when she is mad is a very painful karate chop. This rather turned into a signature move and became an internet meme, fans often refer to her woth her karate-chopping. Suzuko always thinks twice before doing anything, but her weak point is anger. It clouds her thinking, and makes her go "don't think, just do". She is not short-tempered, she is quite a calm person but she does get angry sometimes and does things (mostly her karate-chopping) without thinking at all.

Suzuko’s pastimes include football, reading, duelling and (formerly) playing the violin awfully (she no longer plays the violin). Shizuka seems to enjoy football the most out of the three, and her next favourite thing to do is read a science fiction book. Suzuko picked up duelling with a swird from her animal counterpart Shadowsky, and now she enjoys that too.

### Physical appearance

Suzuko is rather tall (the tallest among herself, Namit and Stephen) and rather slim. She has somewhat thick medium brown hair held in two pigtails, and medium sized brown eyes with thin dark eyebrows. Suzuko has an upturned nose and a mouth made for talking.

She is usually wearing a purple top with either a deep pink skirt or light pink shorts.

### Animal counterpart

Suzuko’s animal counterpart is a pink panther called Shadowsky, because of whom Suzuko grew an interest in swordfighting and duelling. Shadow is also a teacher to her and shows her the different techniques of medieval weaponry. Because they have an interest in common and both have just, sensible and thoughtful characters, they rarely fight or argue over things and usually get along very well. Suzuko however is more hot-tempered than Shadow, Shadow often tries to stop her from randomly dislodging people with her karate chops.

## Appearances and depiction

Suzuko is one of the classic four main characters, she first appeared in the first series in 1996. Suzuko was 10 years old back then, and also had a hobby of playing the violin which she was awful at. Suzuko’s this personality carried on through the entire series, but was taken out in the 2015 series.

Suzuko went back to her fearless, hot-tempered and cheeky self 2015 onwards, and still remains so to this day, throughout the 2015 series and the films.

## Quotes

"*You messed with the wrong sister*"
— To Brad when he was bullying Kazu
## Gallery

*Click here to view the image gallery for Suzuko.*

## Scenes

* Suzuko meets Shadowsky

^**Humans**^

Aqua Whizz ● Laughterblast ● Shadowsky ● Lightning Dash
^**Animal Counterparts**^