Kaguya Shinjūin

**Kaguya Shinjūin** (紫集院 かぐや *Shinjūin Kaguya*) is a character in Kandagawa Jet Girls. She competes in races with Kuromaru Manpuku.

## Appearance

Kaguya has thigh-length silvery-gray hair that is curled in four main parts where it has a butterfly clip worn in her top left section of her hair with bangs swept to the right side and bright violet eyes.

### School

She wears a lavender colored, four button jacket and a long purple skirt. At the back the skirt drapes along the floor but is shorter in length as the front so Kaguya can walk unhindered in her burgundy colored high heeled shoes.

### Racing

Her racing attire is a full skin black with dark purple wetsuit from neck to feet, with short heeled shoes. With small red triangles on the neck and shoes. In the anime she doesn't wear the butterfly clip with her wetsuit; but in the video game, she does.

## Personality

Kaguya is a stereotypical rich girl who expected people present on the harbor to simply vacate upon her arrival since she intended to practice a Kandagawa jet race with her group. In light of Rin Namiki refusing to move, Kaguya was amicable enough to suggest a competition to settle the dispute.

Despite her arrogance and lofty nature, she cares deeply for those close to her and her jet racing. Willing to abandon the Kandagawa Cup to protect the health of her maid and friend Manpuku. She also shows concern for Grindcore and works to show them through defeat that there's more to jet racing than wins or losses.

## Background

Kaguya is from the Musashino Girls High School, which she attends together with Kuromaru Manpuku.

## Kandagawa Jet Girls Plot

### Episode 1: The Kandagawa is Calling

Kaguya is with Kuromaru Manpuku and a group of other people when she comes across Rin Namiki and Misa Aoi fishing. She thinks to introduce the ways things work around Tokyo when Rin shows no sign on leaving when requested, Confronting her up close, Kaguya suggests a Kandagawa jet race.

## Video Game

In her story arc with Kuromaru Manpuku, she enters the Kandagawa Cup as Dress in order to stop her father, the principle of the High School, from closing down the school's racing team. The determination to win puts her at odds with other teams, including the Kandagawa Jet Girls who she and Manpuku defeat in their first race to claim 'ownership' of the river to race in. As time passes, she realises that Manpuku is overworking herself to the point of collapse. Deliberately giving up on making a race deadline for the Cup to protect her maid and friend. However, to her surprise, the other teams agreed to postpone the race time until their arrival. Dress would go on to win the Cup and secure the future of the School race team.

She and Manpuku play varying roles in other arcs with differing influence. A reoccuring theme however is the intimidation factor of Dress being the top jet racing team. In the Kandagawa Jer Girls' arc Dress lose the river bet race instead of winning it as they do in her story. Towards the end, Dress no-show the Cup (it's implied that Manpuku's exhaustion is the reason). Often she is confused and concerned by Unkai Surfers' obsession with Manpuku's shinobi status.

In the Grindcore arc, Dress becomes a rival team and becomes determinded to show Grindcore the errors of their ways. In the final story, Dress hands Grindcore their first jet racing loss which opens Kamui Kurenai's eyes to the reality of both jet racing and her teammate.

## Team

* Team: Dress
* Jet: Tamakaze
* Teammate: Kuromaru Manpuku

## Relationships

### Kuromaru Manpuku

Kuromaru is Kaguya's teammate in Kandagawa events. Manpuku is also her faithful maid and best friend, with the Manpuku family having served hers for generations. She is also aware of Manpuku's status as a shinobi. She regularly treats Manpuku to food, including all-you-can-eat buffets. She is also deeply caring for her maid as a friend. In the video game, she was willing to forfeit competing to protect Manpuku's health.

## Etymology

* Kaguya's surname **Shinjūin** means "purple, violet" (紫) (**shin**), "assembly, collection, gather, meet, congregate, swarm, flock" (集) (**ju**) and "hospital" (院) (**in**).

## Trivia

* Kaguya's appearance is somewhat extravagant when compared to other girls around her in terms of her hair and manner of clothing.