Bamora

**Bamora** (バモラ, *Bamora*?, *Viz*: Vamola) is one of the main characters in *Dandadan* and was the primary antagonist during the Kaiju Arc.

She is a Sumerian and the sole surviving child of her race. After arriving on Earth from escaping an invasion on her home planet, Bamora honors her adoptive mother's wishes to find a worthy husband who can help her preserve the Sumerian bloodline. Her quest leads to her battling against Momo and Okarun, along with their allies, and choosing Okarun as her partner to marry in the end.

## Appearance

As a Sumerian, Bamora's physical appearance indistinguishably matches that of a young female Earthling, as her body is completely humanoid with a slender build and has short hair. The only unique characteristics that sets her apart are her antennas attached to the top of her head and her eyes that have star shape corneal reflections. She is greatly recognized as being very pretty by the boys around her.

Bamora wears a form-fitting body suit that only exposes her shoulders and thighs but keeps this attire concealed while wearing her kaiju suit.

After Seiko decided to have her attend Momo and Okarun's high school as an exchange student, Bamora used her kaiju suit to replica Momo's school uniform, with the only difference being the kaiju head left unaltered as a hoody or helmet of sorts. Currently, instead of Momo's sweater, she now switches to wearing the school blazer but has it customized with a hoody resembling the head of her kaiju suit.

### Gallery

Bamora's full appearance.Bamora's first school uniform.Bamora's second school uniform.
## Personality

Bamora behaves harmlessly around others but becomes serious when going into battle inside her kaiju suit.

## Background

Bamora was found by Banga as the sole surviving child of her people during the invasion of Sumer by an invading army. As she grew up fighting alongside the other surviving female Sumerians, Bamora was taken care of by Banga, along with her colleagues Tome and Aja, and came to acknowledge her as her mother in light of the woman's refusal to be viewed as such. The four female Sumerians soon became the only survivors of the resistance after the group was annihilated by the enemy. While in hiding, Bamora began to lose hope in staying alive but became reassured by Banga that they may be able to transport themselves to another planet using the Sumerian pyramid. Going along with this plan, Bamora and the others fought through the invading army with the enslaved male Sumerians who became liberated by Banga's words. Bamora and Banga managed to make it to the pyramid together and activated the portal to the next planet. However, Bamora was forced by Banga to enter it alone with the battle suit she acquired due to the portal only having enough power to transport one person, much to her distress as she cried out to Banga on the other side. Before parting ways, Bamora was requested by Banga, who fell into tears as well from seeing her daughter leaving, to find a strong man to marry on the next planet to continue the Sumerian bloodline.

## Synopsis

### Kaiju Arc

At some point upon her arrival on Earth, Bamora was sighted at an apartment complex where the invisibility mode on her kaiju suit exposed its golden core. This then leads to her clashing against Momo, Okarun and Kinta, with the former and latter's reason for being at the apartment complex is to retrieve the core as they believe that it is the missing kintama belonging to Okarun. With the invisibility of her kaiju suit active, Bamora proves to be too difficult for Momo and Okarun to face, however, after Kinta figures out the workings behind the invisibility and relays the information to Momo and Okarun, Bamora becomes restrained by Momo's psychic powers after she swings herself around to the side of the balcony and is knocked out of the building by an All-Out charge attack from Okarun, temporarily putting her down.

As a result of Okarun's attack on her, Bamora loses control of her battle suit after the Emergency Defense System activates to target Momo, Okarun, Aira, Jiji, and Kinta. The suit is soon shut down by Momo and Aira's powerbomb attack using a giant mecha that was previously piloted by Kinta to fight back against the kaiju. After being found inside the kaiju suit by Okarun, Jiji, and Kinta, Bamora sees Okarun's face and responds by kissing him, having recognized his strength and accepted him as her suitor from being defeated by him at the apartment. Bamora is then attacked by an angry Momo after she witnesses this scene but is saved by Okarun who rationalizes to Momo that Bamora does not seem too driven to continue fighting them and that they need to ask her about the missing kintama. Bamora then walks with Okarun, Jiji and Kinta to visit Mr. Mantis Shrimp to see if he could translate Bamora's words to them. Using the alien's translator device that could only pick up on a few of Bamora's words, Bamora explains to Okarun that her purpose for coming to Earth is to fight against a powerful opponent and to marry this person if she were to lose, much to his shock. Though Kinta steps in to claim credit, in an attempt to have her switch her liking over to him, Bamora continues to accept Okarun as she comes in to hug him.

At the Ayase residence, Bamora joins the others, along with Seiko and the Turbo-Granny, for dinner as they talk about her and gets into a brief facial interaction with Momo after she makes an angry face at her. Shortly after, Bamora goes to her kaiju suit and accidently allows Jiji to step inside, causing a signal to be sent to an alien who had recently attacked the Serpo.

### Space Globalists Arc

Bamora is given permission by Seiko to stay with her and Momo at their house and is decided by the latter to be sent to Momo's school as a transfer student. As the two walked together, Bamora is taught by Momo how to say her name and is asked to see the golden ball powering her suit to see if it was one of Okarun's kintama. She then runs with Momo to a shortcut to school, after she realizes that they are almost late, but end up running into a yokai named Reiko Kashima. After seeing Reiko Kashima attack Momo, Bamora uses her kaiju suit to fight the slit-mouthed woman. However, her attacks do no damage and is slammed to the ground by Reiko Kashima. Bamora then tries restraining Reiko Kashima to stop her from pursing Momo but ends up being trapped inside her mirror. After Momo also becomes trapped, Bamora follows her league in forcing Reiko Kashima to release them by acting cute inside her mirror and activates the invisibility of her kaiju suit to hide Momo from Reiko Kashima as she completes the spell that has the yokai disappear. Bamora then hugs Momo in relief after making it out of the area while repeat her words "been in trouble", which causes Momo to feel that she is trustworthy.

Bamora and Momo manage to arrive on time for school and meet up with Okarun and Aira who were waiting up for them. Shortly after being assigned to Okarun's class, where his classmates help her learn a few words, Bamora meets up with Momo and the others and shows them the golden ball her suit possesses, as Momo wonders if it is Okarun's kintama. At the Ayase residence, Bamora sleeps with Momo in her room while she tries to prevent Reiko Kashima from coming after her.

The next day, Bamora eats breakfast with Momo, Seiko, and the Turbo-Granny and is given a new bag by the latter as they walk to school, which leads to them running into Okarun and Bamora trying to hold Momo back from randomly attacking him over last night's episode. At school, Bamora continues to receive lessons from her classmates on how to speak their language and meets up with Momo and the others outside as per Jiji's request to show them his new control over his powers. After school, Bamora thanks Momo before she heads off to work and is walked home by Okarun. Bamora tries to hold up Okarun by the time they reach the Ayase residence and communicates to him in her language. Though he didn't understand her, Okarun tells Bamora that he can't marry her since he is in love with Momo and runs off.

At the Ayase house, Bamora sits by Okarun's bedside as he, Aira, and Jiji are being treated by Mr. Mantis Shrimp for the injuries they received from her former enemies and is attacked by Momo after she comes under the impression that she is affiliated with the alien group. Bamora responds by activating her kaiju suit to push her off and turns invisible to run outside where Momo angrily yells at her to never show her face around her again. Hearing this, Bamora turns invisible and walks away.

Though she blamed herself for what had happened to her new friends and was afraid to once again face her former enemies, Bamora musters up the courage to meet up with Momo and the others as they battle against the suited aliens and arrives on time to save the former from the Mecha Suit Alien. However, after being restrained and taken out of her battle suit by the Jet Booster Suit and Spatial Suit Aliens, Bamora is fatally wounded by the latter after he stabs her through the stomach with his tail. Momo then tries to save her with her psychic powers, which results in her unintentionally viewing her memories, along with her friends through the Serpo communication device. Unable to continue keep his force field up for much long to protect Momo, the Serpo resorts to using his body needle to heal Bamora's wound before he dies from using up the last bit of his strength. With Bamora revived, Momo hugs her as she apologizes for antagonizing her before, assures her that her mother is still alive, and has her stand by her side as she fights the Spatial Suit and Jet Booster Suit Aliens.

Just as Momo loses ground fighting the Spatial Suit Alien, she and Bamora are overwhelmed and restrained by the reinforcements that had come from the gate. However, they are saved by the timely arrival of Okarun, Aira, Mr. Mantis Shrimp, and the Evil Eye. Bamora joins them in battle using her battle suit, but is forcibly removed from it by the Spatial Suit Alien who activates its Slaughter Mode as its new pilot. Bamora is then thrown out and sent falling from a great height but is saved by Kinta who calls on the nanoskin from the Ayase House to form the Great Kinta and fight the Spatial Suit Alien, which Bamora became impressed with his performance in battle. After the Spatial Suit Alien removes the piloting core from the mecha, Kinta has him and Bamora eject from it and relocate onto the kaiju suits' back to form a jetpack that he and Bamora controls to perform a devastating powerbomb that finishes off the Spatial Suit Alien. With the invasion coming to an end, thanks to Reiko Kashima trapping the whole invading army inside her mirror, Bamora cries with Momo after everyone managed to make it through the battle and leaves off with them.

## Weapons

Bamora goes into combat using a battle suit that is in the form of a kaiju. The battle suit has a tubular body, with the only exception being its four-fingered claw hands, three-toed feet, and thighs. Its head has a dark line running down to each of its eyes and is followed up with two dark lines running down to its jaw. Previously, the kaiju had three horns, two on its head and one on its nose, but was left with only the nose horn after the suit took damage in battle against the Great Kinta Bodhisattiva, Zeta Version piloted by Kinta. The mouth of the kaiju can be opened to allow Bamora to stick her head out and roam around.

## Trivia

* Like all aliens in the series, Bamora takes references from the Ultraman series*:*
	+ Bamora's name and battle suit references the kaiju Bamora. With the kaiju being mechanical, the suit also makes a reference to the mechanical kaiju known Mecha Bamora.
	+ While named after the kaiju Bamora, Bamora's battle suit greatly resembles the kaiju Gomora.
* Bamora might be modeled after Rie Ota, the Japanese stuntwoman who was the primary suit actress for Baragon in *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*.
* Bamora also bears a resemblance to Rei Ayanami from the *Neon Genesis Evangelion* franchise. Additionally, they are both pilots of a mecha and have similar designs to their piloting outfits.