Asuka Koukawa

Portrait from Taigaia vs. Senryuukaku

> *“You want me as a comrade? I don't mind thinking about it, but only under one condition!”*
> —Asuka Koukawa
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**Asuka Koukawa** (甲河 アスカ, *Kōkawa Asuka*?) is one of the characters introduced in the final arc of the *Mahou Kaiju Series*. She first appeared in a post-credits scene in *Kaiju World War: Part 1* before becoming one of the main characters of *Taigaia vs. Senryuukaku*. Though she is a Taimanin, she is a warrior who fights on her own terms and has the ability to transform into the pink dragon kaiju Momodra.

## Appearance

Asuka is a very beautiful young woman with a curvaceous body, coupled with a large bust and wide hips. Along with sky-blue irises on her eyes, she has very long and straight light-brown hair that extends all the way down to her thighs with a "hime cut", with cheek-long sidelocks and her front bangs cut in a fringe.

Her Taimanin combat suit is entirely pink in color with black outlines around the fishnet areas on the sides of her upper thighs and below her breasts. While she is actually limbless, she has cybernetic implants as her arms and legs. They are metallic and colored in pink with silver closings.

## Background

Asuka is the young head of the noted Koukawa shinobi family and sole living member of its main branch. After her entire family was killed by Edwin Black, she was taken in and raised by Asagi.

She distinguished herself at 14, and together with Sakura and Murasaki who recognized her ability as a Taimanin, she took on many dangerous missions, performing tremendously. However, during a battle with the forces of darkness, she disobeyed an order from Asagi and challenged Edwin Black alone. She was defeated and sustained heavy injuries, losing both arms and legs in the process, and subsequently left the Taimanin.

She went missing for a long time after that, but eventually reappeared with two artificial "android arms" and two artificial "android legs", and began burying anyone, human and demon alike, that supported the dark entities in the world. Nowadays, like Asagi, she is a feared existence for evil beings, and has been named "The Steel God of Death" by them.

Her artificial arms are considered to be the height of technology seeing as they resulted from the fusion of hell's medical techniques and human science. She can move them precisely with ease as if they were her original flesh and blood, all while taking advantage of the power you would expect from a machine arm, not to mention the various weapons they have built-in. She is rumored to be supported by a US organization, but this can't be verified.

## Abilites

* **Taimablades** (対魔剣, *Taimaken*?) - Two sickle-shaped blades that are built into her artificial arms.
* **Ninja Art, Wind God Jutsu** - A strong offense and defense system of ninja art applied by using wind-style jutsu. Placing oneself upon wind in order to move at high speeds with "Wind God, Swallow", soaring through the air with "Wind God, Flight", compressing wind into a blade that can be used to attack with "Wind God, War Blade", and using wind style to control the course of flying objects with "Wind God, Sky Formation" are some of the things she's able to do by freely manipulating wind.
* **Mecha Piloting** -

## Etymology

* The name **Asuka** is written in katakana (アスカ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (明日香 or 飛鳥), it could possibly mean:
	+ 明日香 - "tomorrow" (明日) (**asu**) and "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (**ka**).
	+ 飛鳥 - "to fly" (飛) (**asu**) and "bird, poultry, fowl" (鳥) (**ka**).
* Asuka's surname **Koukawa** means "instep, shell, grade A, first in rank" (甲) (**kou**) and "river, stream" (河) (**kawa**).

## Gallery

### Character Art

Character art from *Kaiju World War: Parts 1* and *2*In her school uniform
### Portraits

Portrait art from *Taigaia vs. Senryuukaku*Portrait art from *Kaiju World War: Parts 1* and *2*