Kuromaru Manpuku

**Kuromaru Manpuku** (満腹 黒丸 *Manpuku Kuromaru*)is a character in Kandagawa Jet Girls.She works together with Kaguya Shinjūin both on and off the Kandagawa competitive events.

## Appearance

Kuromaru has thigh-length pink hair that is tied in low pigtails by two yellow bows on each side with bangs hanging hanging on the left side and light-green eyes and large breasts.

### Casual

Her casual attire is a maid costume, with white frills, headpiece and apron. A buttoned blue uniform top that shows off deep cleavage, and short blue skirt with blue bows and ties on her upper arms. Her attire also shows hints of her status as a shinobi too. Her gauntlets, thigh-high boots with metal work, and a ninja shuriken buckle of the red rope around her waist that extends to sections on the clothing around her thighs.

She also carries around a large, oversize rolling pin on her back.

### Racing

Her racing attire is a black with grey full body wetsuit that covers her from the neck down to short heeled shoes. She also wears a black maid headpiece.

## Personality

Kuromaru has an excitable personality and she is agreeable to competitive events. She is extremely protective of Shinjuin as her maid and as a friend, and is dedicated to supporting her.
She is also a shinobi, with her family having served Shinjuin's for generations. She reacts with shock and surprise when this fact is discovered by other racers, but is protective of shinobi values.
She loves to eat, to the point of worrying others with an almost bottomless stomach, and regularly produces huge Onigiri (Japanese rice balls) out of seemingly nowhere to eat.

## Background

Kuromaru is from the Musashino Girls High School, which she attends together with Kaguya Shinjūin and she is Kaguya's personal kunoichi.

## Kandagawa Jet Girls Plot

### Episode 1: The Kandagawa is Calling

Kuromaru joins Kaguya Shinjūin along with a group of people in appearing at a fishing spot in the city. Herself along with Kaguya take part in a Kandagawa competition against Rin Namiki and Misa Aoi. Being skilled in the fire power side of the contest, she targets Misa's underwear and drawing close to the finish line, Kuromaru manages to incapacitate the competing vehicle and consequently allow Kaguya to drive themselves to victory.

## Videogame

In the Musashino Girls High School story arc, Kuromaru teams with Shinjuin as Dress to support her to win the Kandagawa Cup. Looking to prove to Shinjuin's father that the School's jet racing class shouldn't be closed down. They defeat the Kandagawa Jet Girls team in the first race, claiming 'ownership' of the river to practice on. As time passes, she works herself to the point of exhaustion to support Shinjuin. This causes Shinjuin to force her to rest and sleep in, intentionally missing the start time for their first Cup race. To their surprise, the other teams agreed to postpone the race to allow Dress to arrive and compete. They would go on to win the Cup and secure the future of the jet race team.

As part of Dress she plays roles in other stories too with varying importance. A regular theme being the other teams seeing Dress as the opponents to beat and prove themselves against. In the Kandagawa Jet Girls story arc, they instead lose the river bet race and towards the end no-show the Cup (it's implied that her exhaustion is the reason). In the Unkai Surfers story she's particularly worried and concerned by their demands to be taunt the ways of the shinobi and notes their stereotypical view of shiobis.

In the Grindcore arc, Dress becomes a rival team and becomes determined 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: Kaguya Shijuin

## Relationships

### Kaguya Shijuin

Kaguya is Kuromaru's teammate in Kandagawa jet racing events. She is also Shijuin's personal maid and best friend. Her family has served the Shijuin for generations. She deeply cares for her friend and is quick to defend her and works tirelessly to support her. Even to the point of ignoring her own health and wellbeing.

## Etymology

* The name **Kuromaru** means "black" (黒) (**kuro**) and "round, circle, pills, purity, suffix for ship names, complete" (丸) (**maru**).
* Kuromaru's surname **Manpuku** means "full, fullness, enough, satisfy" (満) (**man**) and "abdomen, belly, stomach" (腹) (**puku**), which shows that she eats a lot including rice balls.