Mashira

**Mashira**(マシラ *Mashira*) is an ape-based Incarnation Ninja from Episode 2 of Henshin Ninja Arashi.

He is voiced by **Eken Mine**.

## Personality

Mashira is a cruel Incarnation Ninja who takes pride in his own ability to have a body covered with steel.

## Appearance

Mashira has the appearance of a humanoid ape with white fur and a wrinkled brown face with a mouth filled with sharp teeth. He is wearing a brown toga with a war skirt and bandages wrapped around his arms and legs.

## Biography

Villagers were beginning to be spirited away once a flying symbol places itself on the victim’s home. However, as it turns out, the targeted villagers are abducted by the Blood Wheel Clan’s newest Incarnation Ninja, Mashira, whom brings the abducted villagers to a building site for the Blood Wheel Clan’s new base. The daughter, named Osei, of a recently abducted father, named Mr. Tarobei, comes across Hayate and his friends where she lets them know about the villagers being abducted. Hayate realizes that the Blood Wheel Clan is behind this, so they help out Osei. After spying on the next victim’s home, Hayate and his friends witness Mashira abducting the villager and heading off. Hayate chases after Mashira and manages to save the villager, however, Devil Sai appears and summons the Ninjas to fight against Hayate. Tatsumaki and his son, Tsumuji, arrive and help fight off the Ninjas, but once Hayate starts fighting against Mashira, he soon finds out his sword has no effect against the Incarnation Ninja’s body. Mashira reveals that he’s using the Blood Wheel Clan’s Ninja Art, Steel Mashira, where his body is the same as steel. With Hayate’s blows having no effect, Mashira throws two spears at him and gets him into a trap. After Mashira tells Hayate that Gaikotsumaru will take care of his friends, Hayate frees himself from the trap and transforms himself into Arashi to save his friends but is too late as Tatsumaki and Tsumiji are kidnapped. Later, as Hayate and Kasumi arrive back at the village, they find all the abducted villagers back to their homes, especially Mr. Tarobei. However, Kasumi discovers the Mr. Tarobei’s body in the water, revealing that the one in the village is an imposter. Kasumi gets taken as prisoner with her father and brother, but manages to warn Arashi with a flute he gave her. Just as the fake Mr. Tarobei is giving Hayate some poisoned sake, Hayate’s sword response to the flute and he slices the imposter down, revealing to be Mashira. Mashira fights with Hayate as the ninjas reveal themselves until Mashira makes his escape. Hayate chases after Mashira as Arashi and catches up to him in the woods. Once fighting off some more ninjas, Arashi and Mashira duel against each other with their weapons. Arashi manages to disarm Mashira but finds that his body is still the same as steel. With Mashira’s body indestructible, Arashi decides to aim for the eyes. So he performs Secret Blade, Shadow Reflection to reflect the light off his sword into Mashira’s eyes, disorienting him and allowing Arashi to fling a throwing knife at one of his eyes. With Mashira blinded, Arashi lays two fatal blows on the injured Incarnation Ninja. Once struck by the sword’s blows, Mashira falls down a hill and blows up in a puff of smoke.

## Powers/Abilities

**Blood Wheel Ninja Art, Steel Mashira**:
Mashira’s body is hardened enough to act the same as steel, making sword blows on his body ineffective.

**Throwing Spears**: Mashira can summon spears out of nowhere to throw at his enemies and to duel with.

**Human Disguise**: Mashira can disguise himself as a human villager to deceive his enemies.

**Agility**: Mashira can jump high and hang onto ceilings with ease.

## Trivia

* Mashira’s name is another Japanese word for “monkey”.
* Mashira’s design may have been based off the Japanese Snow Monkey.