Kanda Brigade

Kanda Brigade Soldiers

The **Kanda Brigade** (**神田旅団**) is an independent army corp of the Marine Self-Defense Forces that are stationed on the northern islands of Japan. They are part of internal affairs and are under direct orders of the Prime Minister.

## Policy

They are roughless and violent, known for their cruel tactics, most of their members are closer to war criminals. They serve the Prime Minister of Japan and Kanda directly but are kept as a last resort.

The Brigade has a poor view of Taimanin, and is bitter that they were unable to kill and pillage for multiple years. Highly dangerous and immoral, murder and rape has been tolerated and even encouraged within their group.

## History

The corp is named after major Kanda.

The Kanda Bridge is an army corp of mercenaries founded by the Marine Self-Defense Force of the GSDF. They were originally meant to retake recapture occupied islands in the north, in-universe Peninsula Conflict. During the war, it was mainly engaged in illegal activities, such as intelligence operations, assassination. Although the Kanda Brigade is suspected of numerous war crimes, from massacring non-combatants to looting, assaulting women, and other crimes, they were heavily favored by the powers that be for their excellence in combat and ease of use. After the war, they were stationed on an isolated island in the north of Japan, where they were virtually imprisoned, and were assigned various dirty jobs by the authorities.

They later have access to Raiden units, which have been a result of GSDF research.

In Taimanin Asagi 3; after Prime Minister Asai Koujirou proclaimed a state of emergency, with the death of Nonomura Hiroo. Asai accused the Gosha Taimanin of his murder and ordered the Kanda Brigade, to attack Gosha Village and occupy it. Having made sure that Igawa Asagi wasn't there at the time, as she was the prime suspect, and knowing that most of the hard hitting Taimanin were on missions, the Brigade attacked with multiple Raiden units.

With only Igawa Sakura and Yatsu Murasaki really able to fight back, they send most students over a mountain path however, the brigade had already stationed 1000s of soldiers around the area. Killing half of the fleeing weaker Taimanin and capturing the rest, they then used them as hostages, forcing Sakura and Murasaki to surrender.

Searching for information about other Taimanin on undercover missions and in save houses, they tortured Murasaki and Sakura. Though unsuccessfully on the two veterans, the Brigade collected the needed information instead from the weaker students outside the torture tent. While still pointlessly torturing the two Taimanin out of revenge, a large explosion was heard near Gosha Academy. In the result of Koukawa Asuka arriving in Gosha to save Sawaki Kosuke, some of the soldiers were killed but in the end with the arrival of Edwin Black Asuka was forced to flee.

The Kanda Brigade afterward annoyed with their unsuccessful breaking killed both Murasaki and Sakura, and multiple of their soldiers with Raiden made their way to the servers that would house the data about Taimanin currently not in Gosha. (Though Sakura and Murasaki were later recovered by Edwin Black and revived)

One of the captains of the group Konou was on his way to the data storage but Igawa Asagi was already at the scene and destroyed the servers. Asagi was shown the recordings of Murasaki's and Sakura's death by Konou that mocked her. As a result, Asagi used her transformation and killed both the pilots of the Raiden units and Konou. However, growing weak afterward, she was knocked out and captured by Edwin Black which arrived after her rampage.

The Kanda Brigade was later pulled back after the end of the occupation with the death of Asai and full pardon of the Taimanin. However, the damage they're done was significant.

### Timeline TABA

TA3 does not play out.

Some of their members are seen in an attack on Gosha Village but are beaten back.

### Timeline RPGX

TA3 does not play out.

Kanda cooperates with David Dahl of Task Force G, some Kanda Brigade troops are involved in an attack on Mizuki Mansion. This attack acts as a diversion to free Major from Gosha custody. Both Kanda and David Dahl use the corpse lord Teutates as an ally, to take down the Taimanin and Nomad. However, their true goal is currently not known.

## Members

* Kanda
* Konou

## Trivia

* The group is shown to still exist in Taimanin RPGX, as 3 plays before RPGX and on different timelines.
* Their commander Kanda is never killed in the original timeline.
* KANDARYODAN is a common name for a member of this unit.