Hime Kuzuki

* Normal
* Samurai Barrier Gear

## Portrayal

**Hime Kuzuki** (久月 姫, *Kuzuki Hime*) is the main protagonist of the SSSS.GRIDMAN: Hime & Samurai spin-off manga.

## Personality

Hime is shown to be a self-sufficient (able to take care of herself in her parents' absence due to work) and passionate young girl. She still struggled to fully adapt into her new school after arriving at Tsutsujidai and make new friends along the way, but nonetheless have strong desire to protect the others, which earned her recognition from Samurai Calibur who entrusted her one of his swords and with it, a fraction of Gridman's power which allows her to fight smaller kaiju Samurai Barrier Gear.

## History

Hime Kudzuki was a normal middle school girl who felt that she had a mission to protect Tsutsujidai from an alien invasion. One fateful day, a falling star fell on Hime but was miraculously unscathed whatever should have fallen simply disappeared. An out-of-control truck had almost killed her, but she was saved by a strange man who sliced the falling debris in half. Somehow, Hime could suddenly see monsters in the scenery in range of his presence who later informed her that danger is approaching.

The man's premonition came true as Hime later witnessed a monster rampaging around a cafe and attacking her friends. Unable to fight it himself at this point, Calibur saw Hime's desire to protect her friends and gave her one of his swords, allowing her to transform and defeat the monster.

## Abilities

**Samurai Barrier Gear** (サムライ・バリアギア, *Samurai Baria Gia*): Being a normal human who lacks lacked superhuman abilities of her own, Hime instead fights with Samurai Battle Gear, a Gridman-like powered suit of armor she dons to combat kaiju and originally one of Samurai Calibur's swords until he entrusted it to her upon being impressed by her determination to protect others. When not in use, the armor is stored within her smartphone as an app that can be activated by entering either Access Codes: "Calibur" or "Samurai Barrier Gear".

* **Superhuman Speed and Flight**: Using Samurai Barrier Gear's built-in thrusters, Hime can fly and even moves faster to swiftly evade her enemies' assaults.
* **Superhuman Durability**: Samurai Barrier Gear can endure blows that can otherwise crippled a human being.
* **Sword Mastery**: Samurai Barrier Gear comes with a futuristic sword as Hime's main weapon. Her special abilities with this weapon are:
	+ **Sword Beam**: A finishing move where Hime accumulates a large amount of energy into her sword before releasing it in form of a thin blade-like laser fired onto the target with a swing of the weapon, cleaving them into half. The attack consumes much of the armor's energy reserves that the technique cancels her transformation immediately afterwards.
	+ **Dorhivolen Blitzen Spear** (ドルヒボーレンブリッツェンシュピーア, *Doru Hibōren Burittsen Shupīa*): A devastating attack where Hime dives down from the sky while slashing the enemy with her energized sword, producing a large pillar of light and inflicting heavy damage at the same time.
* **Glenzen Princess Heavenly Kick** (グレンツェン・プリンセス・ヘヴンリーキック, *Gurentsen Purinsesu Hevunrī Kikku*): A flying kick attack boosted by Samurai Barrier Gear's built-in thrusters. The technique can only inflict moderate damage as the armor's greaves are mostly devised to protect the wearer's legs.

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