Arisaka

*I am a weapons development officer, Arisaka! At last, Arisaka has become a Train Knight♪ Let's ride the Mist Train to various places♪ Ghwah～, I'm really looking forward to it!*

## Profile

Arisaka is a former Eisengrad weaponsmith that deserted the military due to her distaste of corruption and poor-quality weapons she has to make, sullying her family name. She hid in caves on the northeastern parts of Eisengrad in order to look for the fabled iridescent cloud stone, so that she can make the ultimate weapon to fend off Mist Monsters.

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When questioned about her true identity, Arisaka confessed that she hails from Eisengrad, and her family is involved in developing weapons in secret for the Eisengrad Army. She is fed up being treated as a lab rat, with manufacturing cheap, low-quality weapons that are not good against Mist Monsters. When questioning on the quality of the weapons and wanting to make better ones, she was 'quarantined' for harbouring radical ideas, and thus she left. Yakutsk stated that she has heard of dealings under the table as an Eisengradian officer, and apologized to her for the mistreatment she received even if she is not directly involved.
After finishing her task in making her first "Type Arisaka" weapon, she handed it to the SSS before her presence is rejected by the iridescent cloud ore and is spirited away to somewhere else. Both sides are happy regardless, and is sure that they'll meet again.

## Trivia

* Arisaka's name is derived from the Arisaka rifle family, a family of Japanese military bolt-action service rifles. In Nishiki, the three best families that make weapons are the Arisaka, Murata and Nambu families, the latter two are also rifle models used in Japan.
* The animal motif for Arisaka is the Tosa Inu. The Tosa Inu (土佐, also called the Tosa-Ken and Japanese Mastiff) is a breed of dog of Japanese origin that is considered rare. It was originally bred in Tosa, Shikoku (present day Kōchi) as a fighting dog and is the only breed still used (legally) in Japanese dog fighting. Ownership is restricted in some countries as a dangerous breed.
* Arisaka's first appearance is in Ultimate Weapon - Extreme Magic Arms, and she is the navigator for menus involving ultimate weapons.
* Arisaka was born in Nishiki, but became an Eisengradian resident. This may be a reference to Arisaka rifles in real life, where the most predominant user was the Russian Empire, who ordered up to 600000 Arisaka rifles, with at least half of those being Type 30 rifles and carbines.
* Like Yuuzen, Arisaka has the innate ability to use overlay sorcery to stack various arts together with multiplicative effects, which cannot be taught and consequences are disastrous if messed up. Very few people in Nishiki has the ability to do so.
* Arisaka is only one of the very few characters (excluding collaborations) to not have their name derived from train stations, however, her [Successor of Type Arisaka] Layer indicates that she is based of Nishi Iwakuni station (西岩国駅) in Iwakuni, Suo province, which is the birthplace of Arisaka Nariakira, creator of the Arisaka rifles.

## Counterpart

Nishi-Iwakuni Station (西岩国駅, Nishi-Iwakuni-eki) is a passenger railway station on the Gantoku Line, located in Nishikimi 6-chome, Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. It is operated jointly by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Nishi-Iwakuni Station is served by the JR West Gantoku Line, and is located 3.7 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Iwakuni. The Nishi-Iwakuni Station is also served by trains on the Nishikichō Seiryū Line, which connect from Kawanishi Station, but as the line between Iwakuni Station and Kawanishi Station, including this station, is a single-track connection to the JR line, JR fares apply even for trains on the Nishikichō line even if the station itself is purely a JR West station.

The station opened on 5 April 1929, initially named Iwakuni Station, serving the terminus for the partial opening of the Iwatoku Line, with 10 staff at the time of its opening. Sumo wrestling tournaments were held to celebrate the opening. The Iwatoku Line was renamed to the Iwatoku-Higashi Line in 29 May 1932, to which this station belonged. The Iwatoku-Higashi Line was later incorporated as a new line between Marifu Station and Kushigahama Station on the Sanyo Main Line in 1 December 1934.

It was renamed Nishi-Iwakuni in 1942, and at the same time, the original Marifu Station was renamed Iwakuni Station. The station then reconnects to the Iwatoku Line in 11 October 1944, as the line between Iwakuni Station and Kushigahama Station on the Sanyo Main Line was returned to its original route via Yanai Station. Frieght handling was discontinued in 1961, making Nishi-Iwakuni a pure passenger station. On it's 50th Anniversasy, Nishi-Iwakuni was restored for permanent preservation with waiting room lighting, benches, and turnstile railings installed for passenger convenience, combined with commemorative tree-planting and installation of station name origin markers. With the privatization of the Japan National Railway (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan railway Company (JR West).

Nishi Iwakuni is an above-ground station with one single platform and one island platform. The station originally had two platforms and three lines, but the island platform "No. 2 line" was removed and replaced with the current configuration. The station building is located on the former single platform "Track 1", and the two platforms are connected to each other by a bridge near Kuga. Formerly with staff, it has turned into an unmanned station in 1 December 1992. The station building is registered as a national tangible cultural property by Japan in 3 August 2006. Wikipedia

The Arisaka rifle (有坂銃, romanized: Arisaka-jū) is a family of Japanese military bolt-action service rifles, in production and use since approximately 1897, when it replaced the Murata rifle (村田銃, Murata-jū) family, until the end of World War II in 1945. The most common specimens include the Type 38 chambered for the 6.5×50mmSR Type 38 cartridge, and the Type 99 chambered for the 7.7×58mm Type 99 cartridge, which is comparable in power to a modern .308 Winchester round.

The Arisaka rifle was designed by Colonel Arisaka Nariakira (有坂 成章; 1852–1915), who was later promoted to lieutenant general and also received the title of baron from Emperor Meiji, in 1907. Over the course of various wars several productions runs and variants were made, including the transition from the 6.5mm Type 38 cartridge to the larger 7.7mm Type 99, and the introduction of a paratrooper rifle that could be disassembled into two major parts for airborne operations. Tests on samples of Arisaka rifles conducted after the war showed that their bolts and receivers were constructed of carbon steel "similar to SAE steel grade No. 1085 with a carbon content of 0.80% to 0.90%, and a manganese content of 0.60% to 0.90%." During destructive tests, the Arisakas were shown to be stronger than the M1903 Springfield, Lee–Enfield, and Mauser rifles. The Arisakas were also one of the only guns of the era to use polygonal rifling in its barrels, rather than the more traditional lands and grooves.

The Arisaka bolt-action service rifle was used everywhere in the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Prior to World War II, Arisakas were used by the British Navy and Russian Army, in Finland and Albania. The Czech Legions that fought in the Russian Revolution were almost entirely armed with Type 30s and 38s. Many captured Arisaka rifles were employed by neighboring countries both during and after World War II, in places such as China, Thailand and Cambodia. However, after the Japanese surrender in the summer of 1945, manufacture of rifles and ammunition stopped abruptly, and the Arisaka quickly became obsolete. Wikipedia

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