Kokoa Shuzen

**Kokoa Shuzen** (朱染 心愛, *Shuzen Kokoa*), is both a fictional character and tritagonist from the *Rosario + Vampire* series. She is the younger sister of Moka Akashiya and the second sister of the Shuzen Family. She arrives as a first-year student to Yōkai Academy. Like her sister, Kokoa is also a Vampiress, but her powers are not sealed. Being younger, Kokoa is not as strong as the 'sealed' Inner Moka, but in spite of this she is able to carry the Transformer Bat, named Kou (also named Koumori Nazo and Kou-Buddy (Kou-buddy being the English dub version of "Kō-chan"), which she was going to give to Moka for her tenth birthday. It was too heavy for Moka so she passed it up. Kokoa kept it, and is able to wield it herself with enough strength to make herself formidable.

"*.*"

—Kokoa Shuzen.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Kira Davis (English), Chiwa Saitō (Japanese), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (French), Not Known (German), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Poland), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish)

### Appearance

Kokoa has red hair, with a few similarities to her older sister, outer Moka Akashiya: green eyes, and fair skin. She keeps her hair tied in two bushy ponytails with big red bows. Kokoa's outfit is a typical Japanese "sailor suit" or "sailor girl", and/or "sailor fuku" based outfit in appearance to what some girls may wear in Japan in other schools, properly most notably human girls in human schools.

She wears a white shirt and a red sailor girl top, with buttons and a tie split in two. She wears a short yellow-green skirt like all the female students, and long red-brown stockings with a white stripe at the top. This entire outfit acts as a sailor-fuku in appearance, due to its necktie, which gives the appearance as being split in two, and the white collar "flaps" that do not actually go to the neck like a collar. Either that, or it is just open-collared. She wears brown prom heels with bows and has a little bracelet on the left wrist in appearance, which in appearance, seems to be a "uniform bracelet" as its sailor-fuku plaid schoolgirl color deeply resembles that of her shirt or schoolgirl top.

* Hair Color: Red
* Skin Color: Pale
* Eye Color: Green
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: March 22
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Kokoa can be energetic and kind if she gets to know someone. She worships inner Moka, but loathes the sweet outer personality. Despite how many times she's been told something, Kokoa never listens to elders. However, there is a mutual respect between herself and Yukari. Though a bit angry and jealous of Tsukune (for being given all Moka's attention), Kokoa grows to like him in the back of her mind. Also noted, she is smug and snobby, thinking vampiresses are prettier than all other monsters, but fears dragons, despite not letting this fear be shown. Examples of this include her reasonable annoyance of Akua and Kahlua and not to mention her comical annoyance of Ms. Nekonome. But she can also be brave and determined as such when she was little and refused to give up on besting Moka in martial arts. She displays a strong inferiority complex towards her sisters due to their status as geniuses and strives to be recognized by them due to this. After training and fighting with Haiji, she managed to overcome her fear of Kahlua and effectively shocked her mother by overpowering her, showing that her inferiority complex had some strong effect on her overall performance in battle.

Kokoa has been portrayed with nosebleeds towards the perverted antics of her club mates, such as when Kurumu flaunts her chest in front of Tsukune or places his head between them. It is implied from these nosebleeds that she is more dirty minded than she would have others believe (as she hates being touched in any way by Tsukune and constantly accuses him of groping her, for which she consequently kicks him far away.) Stemming from her pride, she appears to rate others on their grace, as she only warmed up to the newspaper club after seeing them fight. Keeping with this she later stated that Kahlua's graceful appearance was such that she could completely fall for her, however one has to consider that this was merely a verbal expression of her respect towards her.

Unlike the other women around Tsukune, she has not displayed much in the way of romantic affection towards him, she has however been shown to be clearly attracted to the smell and taste of his blood. Her affection for Moka often sees her attempting to drive a wedge between Tsukune and her sister, implying that even if she does hold some attraction towards him it is most likely dwarfed by her obsession towards Moka.

## Relationships

### Family

* Issa Shuzen (Father)
* Gyokuro Shuzen (Mother)
* Moka Akashiya (Older sister)
* Akua Shuzen (Younger sister)
* Kahlua Shuzen (Younger sister)

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Vampirism**: As a vampiress, Kokoa is one of the toughest yōkai there is possessing more powers and finesse in her monster abilities with Inner Moka remarking that Kokoa will be tougher to fight in comparison to most monsters that the Newspaper Club fought before. Despite this though it has been stated many times that due to her being the second youngest in the Shuzen Family and with her immaturity, Kokoa's powers aren't as developed or great as the older members of her family particularly being no match for her sisters and parents and step mother. After training for 3 months, Kokoa's powers had developed to the point that she could match Kahlua's first release state on her own and even defeat her, impressing her sister greatly, and forcing her to unleash her full powers to defeat Kokoa.
	+ **Yōki Detection**: Like every other vampiress she can sense other people's Yōki.
	+ **Charm**: Though not in the same league as a Succubus, Kokoa can use the Charm ability. The ability itself is used to distract others so she can bite them rather than controlling them completely.

* **Enhanced Strength**: Young Moka made a remark about how Kokoa can handle heavy weights starting at a very young age with ease. When she fought Kahlua to help save Moka in chapter 57, when determined and after 3 months of training, Kokoa was able to cut through her sister's razor sharp bat-wing arms, and is the only character thus far who's been able to do so. Her physical strength also proved strong enough to hold off one of Kahlua's blades with her leg. In her older form, she was shown easily breaking reinforced tombstones, a feat that the karate club members who arranged it considered impossible.

* **Enhanced Durability**: Kokoa can take hits and kicks from Kahlua and Moka and wave them off. She is known as a vampiress who exerts strength through Yōkai and she is extremely strong for one who does. It is not known where her limits of endurance lay, but out of the four sisters it is most likely that she possesses the highest overall, ignoring Kahlua's Charm, since that technique merely allows a person to "ignore" injuries. Kokoa also displayed the ability to tolerate the painful effects of water in her final clash with Kahlua to the point she struck the final blow with enough force to mortally wound Kahlua.

* **Enhanced Stamina**: As a vampiress, Kokoa possesses more stamina and produces less fatigue toxins than humans or ordinary monsters being able to fight for extended periods of time with little strain in her performance. Originally she didn't display any noteworthy feats of endurance at the beginning but after training with Haiji for a month Kokoa was able to last much longer against her younger sister, Kahlua, than when the Newspaper Club first fought her at the Yuki-Onna village even well into the morning with Kokoa defeating Kahlua’s first released state.

### Equipment

* **Shapeshifting Bat**: Kokoa's weapon of choice is a shapeshifting bat named Batty (Kou). This bat can take many forms, usually weapons like:
	+ **Sword**: Kokoa can transform the bat into a broad cleaver-like sword. She uses this mode to break one of Kahlua's wings while Kahlua was using wealth of power.
	+ **Rapier**: In this form, the bat assumes a rapier-type form in order to counter swifter opponents.
	+ **Katana**: Kokoa shows Moka that she can transform the bat into a Katana when trying to convince Moka that the transforming bat was a good present.
	+ **Axe**: Axe Mode she used against Moka in a short quarrel in Moka's memory arc.
	+ **Mace**: This is the most common form that Kokoa uses and probably the most powerful known mode next to Kokoa's sword mode, which broke one of Kahlua's wings in wealth of power.
	+ **Naginata**: Kokoa transforms Kou into a Japanese bladed spear in preparation to fight against Kahlua when she returned to the Yuki-Onna Village to warn Kokoa and Ruby of Akua's return.

## History

### Past

Kokoa started out as the runt of the Shuzen Family litter, being right after Moka, who was the oldest middle. Kokoa always constantly tried to fight Moka every single day, but never won even one match. She tried fighting Moka with her Transformer Bat, Koumori Nazo. Kokoa was too frail and weak, being the second oldest, and Moka, always won easily,notably in said flashbacks she was not even scratched by Kokoa while Kokoa was beaten to a pulp each time. She grew tired of always losing and got sick of being last, and always chased Outer Moka around after the real Moka got sealed away by an Akasha-like personality with pale pink hair, and Moka eventually lost her until the second serialization.

## Translation and Dub Issues

* **Koko Shuzen** and *Koko* in the English translated manga by the Shonen Jump Manga company

## Notes & Trivia

* In the episode "Skiing and a Vampire" Tsukune hugged a freezing Kokoa while shirtless to give warm her up while they were in a cave; due to the cold she was having minor hypothermia issues.
* Kokoa is always shown with her panties exposed every time she appears on the show.
* Inner Moka and Kokoa both share some sisterly similarities: they both like the smell of Tsukune's blood, (*following is anime only*), they both find a skeleton keychain to be cute, and they both show disrespect on one episode when they both slapped down a curry from their teacher.
* Kokoa is later seen again wearing panties with a bat design even though her bat companion is on her shoulder.
* Some students on the hot spring's inn saw her without her underwear while she was running away from Miss Nekonome. (prompting said students to have a fountain of blood from each nostril)
* Kokoa refused to play with Kahlua when they were young, being terrified of her.
* In the final "Rosario+Vampire: Capu2" episode, Kokoa was not only surprised that Tsukune was prepared to deal with her father at the cost of his life, but she later seemed troubled at the thought of Tsukune dying in a clash with her father. She was planning to intervene when Moka stopped her. Due to her part in the monster energy overflow, she also received a spanking in a comical scene.
* Like her younger sister Akua Shuzen she is not shown to have a limiter.
* In the Manga, before Tsukune began to turn into a Ghoul at Fairy Tale HQ, Gyokuro Shuzen said that Team B, which Kokoa, Touhou Fuhai, Ling Ling Huang, Ginei Morioka, & Haiji Miyamoto were the members of had been torn to pieces & consumed by the Ghouls. However, since all of them are confirmed alive, it can be deduced that this claim of Kokoa and the others supposed horrible fate was used to accelerate Tsukune's transformation into a Ghoul. Given the fact that Tsukune became notably riled at this, it means that he cares deeply for all of Team B & for Kokoa.
* Kokoa can lift the Transformer Bat or Mysterious Bat weapon, despite it being too heavy for her older sister Moka, and Moka technically being the stronger of the two.
* In the 62nd chapter of the manga, as Inner Moka spots her, Kokoa urges her to run as Kahlua is nearby. Moka then spots that Kahlua has removed both of her limiters.
* In manga Chapter 63, after Kurumu and Mizore reveal that White and Black Duet Number 13 was specifically made for Vampires, Kokoa closed in on Kahlua (who the water had weakened badly) and stabbed Kahlua through the chest with Batty. Before she did, Kahlua said she loves Kokoa, who was crying. That says even though Kahlua terrified Kokoa, Kokoa still loved her little sister.
* As Kahlua was dying she told Kokoa that their mother had been very harsh with her as Gyokuro had hoped that Kokoa being around would make Issa come back to her, which failed. Disappointed and frustrated that the second daughter didn't win back Issa, Gyokuro took all her hurt out on Kokoa by saying that she was inferior to her sisters. Kokoa seemed shocked that the source of her emotional pain and inferiority complex was her mother's sorrow at not winning back Issa with her birth.
* Ten months after Alucard's demise, Kokoa seems to have emotionally leveled from Kahlua's final words. She seems calmer (not so eager for a fight), and has an easier time interacting with her clubmates.
* The Manga's Epilogue tales state that Kokoa and Haiji became a couple and started dating, *of course as they are seen sparring, the statement that neither one knows what's done on a date is accurate.*