Arco

* Visual Novel
* Anime

**Arco** (*アルコ Aruko*) is a main female character in the Marco and The Galaxy Dragon series by Tokyotoon. She is a treasure hunter with Marco and Emergency Rations. She is also a Galaxy Dragon.

> Do you know about the Galaxy Dragon?
>
> -Arco

## Personality

Arco is a bit of a mischievous girl, as she's a bit childish compared to of her true form. She'd be skipping Marco and Emergency Rations for the reward, counting back from their previous adventures. She's a food lover like her friend, as she's born from a black hole from outer space. But she's a really joyful and energetic person with good intentions as Arco wants to protect her friend and served a promise not to eat her until she's delicious. She also really cares about Marco, being very close to her as a friend to promise her to eat Marco when she's delicious enough.

## Appearance

Arco has black to red horns by her silver hair with a pinkish Ombre with red eyes and sharp fangs. She has a black coat with armor by her shoulders and fur by the hem. By her coat, she has a pinkish red neckerchief by her blouse. She also has a skirt with suspenders, along with a garter attached to her stockings and black pumps. In the cartoon segments, Arco has her eyes less stylized, fully red horns and the same outfit and hair just less detailed. In her alternate outfit, she wears a black choker with strings attached to the top of her outfit. She has a sort of G-string and the same stockings and pumps from her other outfit. When she has an empty stomach, she takes the form of a mini version of her dragon from, with an entirely plain black body, bat-like wings, three small diamonds that are a part of her body, pointy ears, and small legs and arms. However, in this form, she is eyeless and has a sort of cloak part by her neck.

   She also wore a school uniform for Isezaki Academy, where she has a yellow bow by her chest, a black dress shirt, a black plaid skirt, black socks by her knees, and pumps. In her swimsuit, Arco has blue bikini top, a bandkini at the bottom, and blue goggles with a yellow snorkel.

## History

Prior to the story, she was born from a black hole in outer space, as a galaxy dragon. But at some point, all of them went extinct, except for her. Then, she decided to go to different planets to find more like her. However, it scares off the other residents, as her appearance and hunger shows. She did try to make friends with someone but ate it, scaring the other aliens. She then found Marco and wanted to be friends with her by having the decision to eat her. But Marco convinced her to not eat her because she isn't tasty. But then proceeded to eat her, erasing her memories. However, Marco was the grossest Arco had ever ate. She made a promise to Marco she'll eat her until she is delicious enough by then. Arco then found her again as a slave on Planet Epic, making the same promise as she did before. As Marco grew up they went on many misadventures, mostly abandoning her and ER for the treasure. They then go to Planet Zeta to find the red tears there at the colosseum, but Arco and Emergency Rations are not allowed in the arena, due to a rule stating no pets are allowed. However, they go to the food market to find some chicken tenders and infiltrate the arena to meet Marco. But the slug king finds out that they're gonna steal the red tear, summoning the slug guards to surround Marco and her friends.

Miya Origa then shows up to swish away the guards so they'd claim the bounty of Marco. They then captured the trio with a sheet of paper, but Arco turns into the galaxy dragon to shred the paper. Arco and Marco then fly away from the arena, going into the ship. In Dosgoro's ship, they sing a song about going on vacation until Dosgoro calls Marco. Marco is assigned to collect all of the red tears so they can be sold for money. They travel on their ship to find Planet Zeta, but when Marco turns right, the control stick breaks, leading ER into squealing and crashing onto a village of the same planet. The trio searches for food and encounter Pasara Mido's restaurant to eat there. When they enter inside, Mido hugs Arco tightly, even though she doesn't like her tightness. Mido is glad to serve them food, but it ends up being awful.

## Plot

One day, they found the Lizard Stone willing to sell it to someone who can offer it, so they arrive at Earth looking for a place to travel and search on. They went from France, Guiana, Egypt, and then to the deep sea, until they reached Gold Cord for a place to eat. Arco is then tired and transforms back to her mini dragon form. They then reach a soba restaurant, where they meet Ruri for curry. After they left the restaurant, they go to a baseball field to look for Collection Joe to have an offer. They thought that they'd just have the money, but Joe decided to offer the money to a cat after Astaroth is mentioned by Marco. They're now wandering in the street worrying about being hungry while Marco talks about her past, wanting to eat croquettes. Arco and Marco were on the verge of eating Emergency Rations, until they found a sign of what leads to a supermarket.

At night, they find the missing half of Marco's photo and go to a photo studio to inspect it. Marco then tells her past about the newly found photo to Arco as she admires it. She then looks up to the beautiful night sky with her and Emergency Rations of how she's gonna find her 'hidden treasure', no matter what. The next day, they discover some explosions from far away and decide to check it out, but suddenly, Jormungandr Haqua shows up to steal the Lizard Stone and threaten her, but Marco calls Arco out to transform into her dragon form so she'd be protected.

     Haqua then disappears with the petals as Arco changes back into a small dragon tiredly. The photo studio owner then finds the duo lying down to get back to the studio for safety. After they ate breakfast, the duo encounter Dosgoro again in person as he's grabbing Ruri by his side with a cat piloting a robot and CJ again as a threat to give the Lizard Stone back. Marco eventually gives the stone back to him to save and go to Ruri's restaurant for lunch. Arco is eating tomato ramen, but Marco is jealous of her ordering the food she wanted.

The next day, Marco introduces her to boxes during their homelessness. They mope around for a while until deciding to go to Ruri's restaurant. They eat somen as breakfast for a while until Arco requested more of it. Marco tells Sakurako about the stone, until Arco mentioned that Ruri wanted to borrow it. Marco tells her not to hand people something random but she tells her that Ruri's a good person. They find the Lizard Stone all scratched up, worrying Marco that it'll lose its value. However, the stone suddenly opens to another stone inside with a hidden aura, but is closed for now. Arco then requests another soba refill for her stomach. The group then go to Isezaki Academy where they find a rich person about the Lizard Stone, as Arco and Emergency Rations tag along with them. They go inside the room to see Terra Isezaki about the stone. A while later,

## Trivia

* Arco's original birthplace, being that of a black hole, is based off of how a black hole's gravity is so strong that nothing, including light, is able to escape it. Hence her love for food as well as eating creatures when she tried to make friends once.

* There are a couple of CGs exclusive to the GALAXY EDITION pack, one is when Arco is feeding Marco more food and soon gets fat due to the amount of food she had, the second where Marco goes outside at night where it's raining and finds her, the third where Arco is about to eat her, the fourth one where Gargouille and the duo are in a theater, the fifth where Marco and Arco are by a Japanese lantern, and a sixth where Arco is in her school clothes, feeding in a small octopus.

## References

1. ↑ https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/マルコと銀河竜\_〜MARCO\_&\_GALAXY\_DRAGON〜
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/MATGDFanPage/status/1499275254874599431