Ellen Kohagura

* Anime
* Game

**Ellen Kohagura** (古波蔵エレン, *Kohagura Eren*) is a first-year high school student of Osafune Girls' Academy.

## Appearance

Ellen is a beautiful, well-endowed girl with straight waist-length blonde hair that has a black headband with bangs hanging on the left side, bluish-purple eyes and large breasts.

She is often seen with Osafune Girls' Academy uniform with black high-heeled Mary Janes and asymmetrical white stockings.

## Personality

Ellen tends to be the moodmaker, having a simplistic personality and a smile on her face all the time; a good relationship with Kaoru Mashiko as a partner. She immediately acts friendly to people she meets, and has a tendency to make up nicknames for anyone she meets in combat.

Despite that, she is clever and brave, willingly risking her life to protect her comrades.

## Background

Ellen is half-Japanese and half-American who was born from a Japanese man (Kimitake Kohagura) and an American woman (Jacqueline Anne Kohagura). Her grandfather, Richard Friedman, was the pioneer in developing S-Equipment and she joined Osafune Girls' Academy, meeting Kaoru Mashiko and becoming her friend at some point before the series' start.

## Chronology

Ellen participated in the National Swordsmanship Tournament along with Kaoru Mashiko as Osafune Girls' Academy's representative, but she lost to Hiyori Juujou.

## Combat Abilities

**Expert Swordsmanship**: Ellen proved to be well-versed in kenjutsu, being able to hold her own against Hiyori Juujou, another skilled Toji.

* **Swordsmanship Style**: **Taisha-Ryu** (タイ捨流, ***Taisha-Ryu***) - a swordsmanship style known for its energetic movements consisting of hopping and spinning one's body, a style that deviates from other traditional ones. This style adopts *kenpo* techniques from Mainland China, but with the addition of thrusting strikes and kicks.

**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combat**: She also is very good at hand-to-hand combat, easily overwhelming Yomi when she combined her sword skill with punches and kicks.

**Immense Durability**: Ellen is very skilled in using Kongoushi, which in tandem with Toji's power provides her with strong physical defense.

**Immense Stamina**: Ellen is shown to have a good amount of stamina, capable of fighting for a long time using Utsushi.

**Keen Intellect**: Ellen is quite smart, capable of noticing small details of her surrounding and situations she is in; capable of forming a decent plan, doing infiltration, acting and hiding her true intentions from Suzuka Konohana, a tactical expert of Origami Family's Elite Guard. As a granddaughter of Friedman she has very good knowledge of Noro technology.

**Utsushi Proficiency**: Ellen is capable of maintaining Utsushi for a very long time, and reactivating it multiple times during her fight with Yomi. She is even capable of maintaining it while enduring numerous slashes.

## Equipment

**Okatana**: **Echizen Yasutsugu** (越前康継, ***Echizen Yasutsugu***) - an uchigatana crafted by Yasutsugu Echizen, a swordsmith that had worked under the Tokugawa shogunate. At the beginning, a large amount of Yasutsugu's swords were composed of "*namban-tetsu*", a kind of steel imported from Europe.

**Knife**: She is shown to have a knife hidden inside the heel of one of her shoes.

## Etymology

* The name **Ellen** means "light" in Greek.
* Ellen's surname **Kohagura** means "old, antiquity, ancient time, used, secondhand" (古) (**ko**), "wave, breaker" (波) (**ha**) and "warehouse, cellar, magazine" (蔵) (**kura**/**gura**).

## Trivia

* Ellen has nicknames for the girls she met:
	+ Mai Yanase - Maimai.
	+ Kanami Etou - Kanamin.
	+ Hiyori Juujou - Hiyoyon.
	+ Sayaka Itomi - Saaya.
* Kaoru Mashiko is the only person whom Ellen does not call under a nickname. During the early stages of their friendship, Ellen once called her "Oruoru", something that Kaoru did not like, so Ellen decided to call her "Kaoru" instead.

## Gallery

Concept art for the anime.Concept art for Toji no Miko: Kizamishi Issen no Tomoshibi.Kohagura Ellen