Battle Girls: Time Paradox

## Fandom

***Battle Girls: Time Paradox***, known in Japan as ***Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox*** (戦国乙女～桃色パラドックス～, *Sengoku Otome ~Momoiro Paradokkusu~*, lit. *Warring States Maidens: Pink Paradox*), is a 2011 Japanese anime television series based on the *CR Sengoku Otome* pachinko game series developed by Heiwa. Produced by TMS Entertainment under the direction of Hideki Okamoto, the anime series aired on TV Tokyo between April 4, 2011 and June 27, 2011. The series has been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks. A video game based on the series, *Sengoku Otome: Legend Battle*, was released for PlayStation Vita on August 25, 2016.

## Overview

An original work based on the characters of the pachinko machine "CR Sengoku Otome" released by Heiwa. Also, the voice actors have been completely replaced from the pachinko version.

The next notice is titled "*Sengoku Maiden's Notice*", and Rina Hidaka (Yoshino Hinode) and Yuka Hirata (Date Sensei) appear in live action.

In addition, although Peace is attached to the sponsor, due to the effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake (Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Earthquake), the company  commercials were voluntarily refrained until episode 6, and were replaced with AC Japan's commercials.

## Synopsis

Yoshino Hide is an average girl who always seems to find trouble wherever she goes. One day Yoshino visits a local shrine to pray in order to pass her upcoming test. However, Yoshino sees a blue light coming from inside the Shrine and looks inside to find a mysterious person performing a magic spell. In a stroke of bad luck, Yoshino trips on a small bell and crashes into the shrine, prompting the stranger to catch her. Upon Yoshino's capture, the magic spell spirals out of control and sends Yoshino back in time to the Sengoku Era.

Yoshino then encounters Akechi Mitsuhide and Oda Nobunaga. But unlike what really happened during the era, Hideyoshino realizes that everyone in the world is female. She then decides to help Oda Nobunaga find the Crimson Armor which is said to allow the person wearing the armor to conquer all of Japan.

## Opening Theme

### OP Composer:

Tenka Tori Tai (天下取り隊) (Satomi Akesaka, Mariya Ise, Sachi Kokuryu, Rei Mochizuki)

## Ending Theme

### ED Title:

* Atsuki Ya no Gotoku (熱き矢の如く)
* Atsuki Ya no Gotoku ~Shinjuu Otome Version~ (熱き矢の如く～心中乙女バージョン～)
* Ashita e (あしたへ)

### ED Composer:

* Tenka Tori Tai (eps 1-9, 11-12)
* Eri Kitamura (eps 10)
* Rina Hidaka (eps 13)

The anime aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 5, 2011 and June 27, 2011 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. Sentai Filmworks have licensed the series in North America and released it on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on February 26, 2013. The opening theme is "Heatwaves" (陽炎-kagerou-) while the ending theme is "A Flaming Arrow Comes" (熱き矢の如く, *Atsuki Ya no Gotoku*), both performed by Tenka Tori Tai (Satomi Akesaka, Mariya Ise, Sachi Kokoryu and Rei Mochizuki).

* ***Staff***
	+ Original - Peace Co., Ltd. (From CR Sengoku Otome)
	+ Director - Hideki Okamoto
	+ Series Composition - Douko Machida
	+ Character design draft - Shirogumi
	+ Anime Character Design & Chief Drawing Director - Koji Yamakawa
	+ Effect Animation Director - Hiroto Kato
	+ Prop Design - Toshihiko Shimada, Kanae Komatsu
	+ Art Director - Nobuhito Sakamoto
	+ Art setting - Ryu Sakamoto
	+ Color design - Hitomi Ikeda
	+ Editing - Kiyoshi Hirose
	+ Cinematographer-Yoshihiro Sekiya
	+ Sound Director - Yuichi Imaizumi
	+ Music - Hideshi Segawa
	+ Music Production - Pony Canyon
	+ Music Producer - Shinji Sekizawa
	+ Producers - Masaru Nikaido, Yu Jozono, Tetsuya Kinoshita, and Ryosuke Ohno
	+ Animation Production - Toms Entertainment
	+ Production - Tenka Unification Club

### Video game

An action video game developed and published by Planet G, titled *Sengoku Otome: Legend Battle*, was released for the PlayStation Vita on August 25, 2016.

## Yoshino "Hideyoshi" Hide

### Aliases:

* Toyotomi Hideyoshi
* Monkey *(by Oda Nobunaga)*

### Allied:

* Akerin & Tokunyan *(School Friend)*
* Akechi Mitsuhide *(Friend)*
* Masamune Date/Date-Sensei *(Teacher)*
* Tokugawa Ieyasu

## 「Biographical Information」

### Relatives:

* Unnamed Mother
* Unnamed Father
* Oda Nobunaga *(Boss/Love Interest)*
* Shiro *(Guide)*

### Occupation:

* Elementary Student
* Samurai <Retainer>

### Residence:

* Fushimi Castle, Kyoto *(Feudal Japan)*
* Japan *(yr. 20XX)*

## 「Voice Actor」

### Japan VA:

* Ayano Niina *(Game)*
* Rina Hidaka *(Anime)*

### English VA:

Brittney Karbowski

A ditsy schoolgirl who finds herself transported to an alternate Feudal Japan made up of women. She often brings a lot of modern ethics to this time, including finding uses for her mobile phone despite not being able to get a reception. She is made Oda's retainer after showing skill with a staff. She is nicknamed "*Hideyoshi*" after Toyotomi Hideyoshi. She is a mischievous, childish, naive and curious junior high school girl. She is sent to the world of Sengoku Otome, and she is picked up by Nobunaga and joins her action.

She doesn't use her honorifics at all, and calls Nobunaga "Oyakata" (Oyakata → Oyakata?), and people who are similar to her real-world friends, such as Mitsuhide, by their nicknames. She is not good at history, and like a junior high school girl, she values ​​her mobile phone more than her life. She is also particular about fashion, and she even coordinates the interior of the room she is given with a kimono. She also has a crush on her sweets.

Treated as a leading role along with Nobunaga, he lived in a village deep in the mountains in Owari when he was a child from the family of Haruna no Mamorito, but lost his parents after being attacked by Murasame and his subordinates. Since Nobunaga saved his life at that time, he calls him "Mr. After becoming Nobunaga's vassal, he began to stand on the battlefield with a gourd hammer, but he was unable to fight due to the fear of the battlefield, and he was annoyed by Nobunaga.

She is also not accustomed to seeing his comrades and others die in battle, and he has a personality that can't leave people in trouble. He fell in love with Nobunaga from the bottom of his heart, and when he became emotional and rebelled against Nobunaga, he regretted it later. Dreaming of Nobunaga's unification of the world and a peaceful world without conflict, he is looking for Haruna, who his parents tried to protect, to help Nobunaga unify the world and eventually She returning to the real world at the end.

### Abilities

She is full of curiosity about everything and is energetic to the bottom, her first person is "Atashi." She is a mischievous, childish, innocent, and curious maiden. After the end of Anime series, Hideyoshi find Shiro again in his own timeline, because of this she suspect something is wrong and shiro tells her what gonna happen. Hideyoshi go back to the Feudal Japan Era to help Nobunaga to her conquer.

She wields a diminutive but *gigantic gourd hammer* that gave to her by a blacksmith that work to Nobunaga it can shatter anything that gets in her way. She possesses superhuman strength that cannot be imagined from her small size and she can easily swings its *giant gourd-shaped hammer* to smash anything that gets in its way.

「***Tenshō tsuida Gangeki*** (天翔槌打岩撃, Sky Hammering Rock Attack)」is a Special Move of Hideyoshi. It carries the power of absolute Genocide. The attack has been described as a powerful attack.
* It is an attack that Hideyoshi pounds herself upward to gather momentum and a powerful pound is released from a gigantic gourd hammer and mows down/crushes the surrounding enemies and creates a crater in impact.

Due to her bright personality, a wealth of facial expressions were created from the stage of the setting drawing. When it is an SD character, the gourd hammer has "*Genocide*" written on it. She was also excellent at the spear because of her training.

## Manga

### Volumes

3

***Hyakka Ryouran: Sengoku Otome - Haruna Denshou-hen*** "Dengeki Daioh" (*ASCII Media Works*) serialized from the March 2009 issue to the March 2012 issue. Yura Shinano is in charge of the manga, and Shirogumi is in charge of the script and character design.

* Volume 1, December 18, 2009 (First Edition) - ISBN 978-4-04-868299-2
* Volume 2, October 27, 2010 (First Edition) - ISBN 978-4-04-868991-5
* Volume 3, March 27, 2012 (First Edition) - ISBN 978-4-04-886491-6

Manga Vol. 1Manga Vol. 2Manga Vol. 3
***Hyakka Ryouran: Sengoku Otome - Karakuri Soudou-hen*** Serialized from the September 2018 issue to the February 2019 issue of "*Dengeki Daioh*" as a special project for the 10th anniversary of Sengoku Otome. The original is Heiwa, the screenplay is written by Shirogumi, the name is written by Rio Nanami , and the manga is written by Yawata.

* Volume 1, March 27, 2019 (First Edition) - ISBN 978-4-04-912419-4

Manga Vol. 1

## <Internet Radio>Sengoku Otome: Radio Paradox

### Radio DJ:

* Rina Hidaka *(playing Hideyoshi Toyotomi)*
* Yuka Hirata *(playing Masamune Date)*

* Delivery period: April 5, 2011-September 20, 2011 (delivered every other Tuesday) (13 times in total)
 *Personality:** Rina Hidaka (role of Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
 *Guest:** Vol.3: Megumi Toyoguchi
* 4th: Tenkatori-tai
* Episode 7: Rei Mochizuki
* Vol.8: Eri Kitamura
* Vol.10: Satomi Akesaka
* Vol.11: Mariya Ise
 *Radio CD:** Radio CD "Sengoku Otome ~Radio Paradox~" (October 2011, 10, Publisher/Distributor: Tablier Communications )
	+ Recorded content
		- DISC1 (Audio CD): Includes newly recorded radio.
		- DISC2 (data CD): All 13 radio episodes are recorded in MP3.

## External Links

* ***Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox***
	+ *TV Anime Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox* Official Website ─ (Archive as of December 10, 2012)
	+ *Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox* ─ ANIME TELE
	+ *Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox, Internet radio station <Onsen>* ─ Wayback machine (for archived April 4, 2004)
	+ *Tenka Unification Club* (@tenkatouituclub) - Twitter (in Japanese)
	+ *Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox* ─ Wikipedia (in Japanese)
	+ *Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox* ─ Wikipedia (in English)
* ***CR Sengoku Otome***
	+ *CR Sengoku Otome ─ Portal Site* (in Japanese)
	+ *Sengoku Otome 6: Akatsuki no Sekigahara* | Peace Official Website (in Japanese)
	+ *Sengoku Otome 5: Sweet Digi* | Peace Official Website (in Japanese)
	+ *Sengoku Otome 5: 10th Anniversary* | Heiwa Official Website (in Japanese)
	+ *Heiwa CR Sengoku Otome 3 Model Introduction Site*
	+ *Heiwa CR Sengoku Otome 2 Model Introduction Site*
	+ *HEIWA CR Sengoku Otome Model Introduction Site*
	+ *Pachislot Sengoku Otome: Akatsuki no Sekigahara -DARKNESS-* | Heiwa Official Website (in Japanese)
	+ *Pachislot Sengoku Otome 3: Successor to the Heavenly Sword* | Peace Official Website (in Japanese)
	+ *Pachislot Sengoku Otome TYPE-A+* | Olympia Official Website (in Japanese)
		- *Otome Masters ~ A white trajectory flying in the sky ~*｜Olympia
	+ *Pachislot Sengoku Otome TYPE-A* | Olympia Official Website (in Japanese)
	+ *Sengoku Otome 2: Noble Commander Shining in the Abyss* | Olympia Official Website (in Japanese)
	+ *Sengoku Otome: White Kensei Dancing in Swordsplay*｜Olympia Official Website (in Japanese)
		- *Sengoku Otome: White Sword Saint Dancing in Swordplay- Saigoku Participation Edition* | Olympia Official Website (in Japanese)
	+ *Shirogumi Sengoku Otome* ─ Widget & Manga Introduction Site
	+ *P Sengoku Otome 6: Akatsuki no Sekigahara*｜Ichigeki Official Website (in Japanese)
	+ *P Sengoku Otome: LEGEND BATTLE*｜Ichigeki Official Website (in Japanese)
	+ *P Sengoku Otome: LEGEND BATTLE* | Peace Official Website (in Japanese)
	+ *CR Sengoku Otome* ─ Wikipedia (in Japanese)
	+ *CR Sengoku Otome* ─ Portal Site (in Japanese)
	+ *Hyakka Ryouran: Sengoku Otome - Karakuri Soudou-hen* ─ Official Manga Website (in Japanese)