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Kusunoki Kasuga

春日楠 Kasuga Kusunoki
Character Information
Gender	Female
Age	18
Condition	Alive
Date of Birth	April 10
BWH	89-57-xc
Claret Type	B
Height	175 cm (5'9")
Weight	55 kg
Task	Fancy martial artist Successor to the Kasuga Dojo of Martial Arts
Grade	3-A
Aliases	Mai High's Sapphire Princess
Family	Hinoki Kasuga (sister)
School	Maijima Individual High School
Seiyū	Ami Koshimizu Maggie Flecknoe
Manga Debut	Affiliate xviii
Anime Debut	Episode 13.0

Kusunoki Kasuga (春日楠, Kasuga Kusunoki) is the successor to the Ancient Martial Art Kasuga-Style Life and Death Technique and besides the but member of the Women'due south Martial Arts Order at Maijima Individual High School. She is the 5th capture target in the serial.

1 Advent
two Personality
3 Background
4 Character History
- four.1 Kusunoki Kasuga Arc
- 4.2 Godzilla Sis Arc
- 4.3 Erstwhile Conquest Arc
- 4.iv Mai-Loftier Festival Arc
5 Abilities
six Relationships
- 6.1 Hinoki Kasuga
- half-dozen.2 Keima Katsuragi
- 6.3 The Cat
- 6.4 Others
7 Quotes
viii Etymology
nine Trivia
x References
11 Navigation

Appearance

Kusunoki has flowing knee-length brownish hair that had two pilus bands at her ii sides of her front pilus with bangs swept to the right, brownish eyes and she was quite renowned for her beauty as she was ane of the candidates to be placed in the Mai-loftier Princess and Princes competition.

In the past, Kusunoki wears a normal shirt and a normal brim. At present, the only vesture she wears is either her school uniform or her martial arts uniform, although she is shown to wear a track suit and Elsie's dress.

Personality

Kusunoki is an upperclassman at Maijima Loftier who is well respected for both her beauty and strength. Below her tough exterior every bit a young woman who has lived her entire life attempting to live up to expectations as the successor to a martial arts dojo lies a teenage daughter who is actually attracted to and enjoys cute and feminine things.

Considering of the fundamental noise between these 2 sides of her personality, Kusunoki chose to deny the feminine role of her personality and entirely embrace the martial arts side of her life. Despite this, it was shown that she nonetheless have a soft spot for cute things.

Aside from this, she is also shown to have the utmost respect for her capricious elder sis, Hinoki Kasuga, who is a fashion designer (forth with a couple other jobs) that ran away to America.

Afterward her experiences with Keima, she is still shown to value martial arts, merely has interspersed her life with the recurring cat from her arc, in addition to more feminine things, like placing a houseplant in the dojo. Every bit a issue, this improves the amount of respect she receives from her invariably male disciples at the dojo.

Hinoki said that she was a cry-baby when she was young, peradventure suggesting that Kunsonoki was meek and gentle before.

Background

In the past, Kusunoki and Hinoki were always together in the dojo. The sisters would always railroad train and had fun together and Hinoki would be the one who does things while Kusunoki would follow her sister. Even so, when Hinoki left, Kusunoki was heartbroken simply she nevertheless had to accept her begetter's wish and thus, she trained herself even more than to exist the successor of the Kasuga Dojo.

She would somewhen be so strong that fifty-fifty adults of loftier rank could non defeat her. However, Kusunoki however likes cute and girly things but existence the dojo's successor, she could non bring herself to take such things. She would believe that cute and girly things are a symbol of weakness and that she can only follow one road and sacrifice the other.

In the end, Kusunoki decided to carelessness all of her affections for cute things and began to reject them.

Character History

Kusunoki Kasuga Arc

Subsequently rescuing Keima Katsuragi from the school delinquents, every bit Keima tries to walks away, Kusunoki complains to Keima that he is a male and is supposed to exist able to save himself. Elsie appears, trying just failing to help Keima, she said that they were weak and she does not want to see them over again. Equally she heads to her ain classroom, Elsie's sensor went off, this was the first sign that she has a spirit inside of her torso.

When she arrived in her classroom she went to the balustrade afterwards seeing a cute true cat. Afterward scaring away the cat, a slice of paper flew at her. Grabbing the paper, she sees a drawing and found it to be cute. Later, Keima and Elsie observes Kusunoki practicing martial arts in the gymnasium. Despite Elsie telling Keima that it might exist difficult for Keima to interact with Kusunoki, he decides to face up Kusunoki directly past asking to exist her student. Afterward some persuading by Keima, Kusunoki accustomed him equally her student, though officially he is known just equally the managing director of the women's martial arts lodge. One solar day, while she was changing her wearing apparel in the gym locker room, she sees the same true cat from earlier.

Declining to chase abroad the cat this time, she was plant hugging the cat when Keima entered the locker room after cleaning the gym. Surprised and angry that Keima discovered this side of her, she hits Keima and pushes him out of the room. Kusunoki and then runs to the balcony with the intention of getting rid of the true cat by literally throwing it into the air. Withal, the spiritual manifestation of her feminine cocky appeared at the last moment and saved the true cat, much to the surprise of Keima and Elsie who were spying on Kusunoki in Elsie'due south magic cloth. Keima tells Kusunoki that he believes that her feminine spiritual manifestation volition appear when she is exposed to cute things and that she should defeat it. Elsie suggested that they should keep a date, causing the spiritual manifestation to temporarily appear.

A day after, at Maijima Wai Wai Route, Kusunoki, dressed in a beautiful dress made by Elsie, feeling embarrassed that everyone is staring at her. Keima brings her to a video game store. Kusunoki on the other hand brings him to a sports shop. They felt that they cannot connect with each other this style and decided to go to a game center where they challenged each other to a semi-physical game. Kusunoki becomes infuriated with Keima when he wins over her in a whack-a-lobster game, due to her competitive nature. Later, they went to the movies and Dezinisea Land. Towards the evening they went to the Night Public Park.

Withal, despite all their efforts, they did not seem to be making much progress. Refusing to give upward, Kusunoki eventually found a way to make the spiritual manifestation announced and challenged information technology to a fight. During the fight, Kusunoki found out that it was non as weak as she assumed, and she had problem defeating information technology. To Kusunoki'south anger, Keima brash her to larn to accept the role of her that likes cute things instead of trying to defeat it by fighting. Later some arguing, both the manifestation and Kusunoki was convinced by Keima to accept each other.

The manifestation then went into Kusunoki's body and tries to force a osculation with Keima past decision-making Kusunoki's body. Kusunoki and Keima both struggled to avoid the kiss, while the manifestation within Kusunoki asks if she hates Keima. Realizing that she has fallen in love with Keima, Kusunoki allows the osculation, expelling the spirit from her torso. After this, Kusunoki can be seen conveying a cute true cat in her arm, while still believing in being stiff.

Godzilla Sister Arc

Kusunoki reappears later when her freelancing older sister, Hinoki, reappears in town, and is revealed to have an escaped spirit inside her heart. She plays a disquisitional role in expelling the spirit, since the gap in Hinoki'due south heart was created primarily past her want to maintain a facade as a superior and adept older sister. Despite having forgotten virtually her own conquest (having had her memories modified as shoddily as Mio's), and Keima confirming that there is no Goddess within her, like almost other conquests, she continues to display an element of attraction to Keima.

Old Conquest Arc

Although not officially shown, Kusunoki's photo was seen as one of the candidates for the Mai-High Pre Pre competition.

Mai-Loftier Festival Arc

Kusunoki was confirmed to be captured by Vintage and was near to exist killed by Lune simply was saved for a while when Lune's superior called in. Later, due to the events and actions of Keima, Runaway Spirit Squad and the goddesses, she forth with the other captured targets were freed.

Kusunoki was later shown to be in the festival every bit her disciples surrounds her trying to offering her food.

Abilities

Being the heir to her dojo, Kusunoki was trained in martial arts at a very young age alongside Hinoki Kasuga. She was seen to be extremely quick and powerful. She was able to quickly get behind her opponent and attack them. However, in the past, due to Kusunoki's more meek attitude, she could non defeat her sister. When Hinoki left, Kusunoki made her resolve to inherit the dojo and begin to train more than ofttimes. As a upshot, by the time Hinoki returned, Kusunoki's skills had surpassed her sister's.

Kusonoki'southward physical prowess is big, beingness able to punch through several tiles with i arm.^[ane]

Relationships

Hinoki Kasuga

Kusunoki has the utmost respect for her older sister, referring to her as "Ane-ue." When she was a small kid, she was surprisingly timid and looked upwards to her talented older sis, Hinoki, who looked out for Kusunoki whenever she could. She genuinely loves her older sister and tries to convince her to stay at domicile forever, but Hinoki vanishes off to pursue her own dreams. Shown in Hinoki'south 4-koma, Kusunoki has so much respect, or maybe fear, for her older sister that she would do any requests she asks.

Keima Katsuragi

Originally Kusunoki saw Keima as a worthless and weak individual, but she later became attracted to him, even being made to exit on a date that her feminine side confessed to have enjoyed. However, since her memories were reformatted, she still recognizes Keima as the one who joined the Women'south Martial Arts Club at Maijima for a brusk while, but other than an inexplicable reaction to seeing soft-serve ice cream, she does not seem to recall being conquered by him. Yet, during the Hinoki arc, she displays elements of jealousy whenever Hinoki Kasuga and Keima interact.

The Cat

The devious cat is a recurring minor grapheme in Kusunoki'south arc that she views equally a symbol of all the weak, feminine things in her heart. Although she attempted to remove the cat from her life by throwing it from an upper level flooring of the school, she is shown to really like the true cat and eventually takes it in equally her ain.

Others

The students at her dojo (who are all hulking, muscular martial arts practitioners) plainly accept the utmost respect for her, despite her being non only female but probably younger than all of them. Nonetheless, they seem to show some concern for her complete devotion to martial arts and are correspondingly delighted when she does such things as place a houseplant in the dojo, exclaiming that she has finally killed someone. Even so, they are also rather perverted towards her at times shown when they all back up the thought of Hinoki ad the dojo past putting upwards a poster, wherein Kusunoki is dressed up in a revealing bikini. In the anime, later her capture it appears that she has some female students in school now.

Quotes

(To the Delinquents) "Attacking a defenseless person...That's non something a real man would do!!" ^[2]
(To Keima Katsuragi) "You weak looking punk. You give me the creeps, nosotros shall fix that! Specially...fix that face!" ^[iii]
(To Keima) "In that location's no dubiousness near it, y'all were the 1 who was in the daughter'southward karate club before." ^[4]
(Her thoughts) "The potent must defend the weak!"

Etymology

The proper name Kusunoki means "cinnamomum camphora" (楠).
- Office of the name Kusu comes from Kusu Station (楠駅, Kusu-eki).
Kusunoki's surname Kasuga ways "spring" (春) (ka) and "dominicus, day" (日) (suka/suga).
- Kasuga is derived from the Kasuga Station.

Trivia

Kusunoki is known for having the title of "Mai High Sapphire Princess". This might be come from "Prince Sapphire" from Princess Knight.
An omake reveals the post-obit:
- She likes stiff things, hard-baked senbei (rice crackers), and cute things.
- She dislikes weak things and brownish carbohydrate senbei.
- Her recent problem is giving a cute name to the true cat in her dojo.
- Kusunoki can't turn down Hinoki'southward requests. For example, Hinoki chosen in one case and told Kusunoki to bring some rice-balls all the manner to America. Some other time, Hinoki commanded that Kusunoki must confess to Keima within ten seconds. In both cases, she actually attempted to behave out these orders.
- Kusunoki was based on Mishado Shinohara, the female parent of Yūki (Yūki being the protagonist in Seikesshō Albatross).

References

↑ Chapter nineteen, page 3
↑ Season 2 Episode 1; Affiliate 18, p.vi
↑ Affiliate 19, p.vii
↑ Affiliate 91, p.18

Navigation

v•eastward The World God Only Knows
Primary Characters	Keima Katsuragi • Elucia de Lute Ima • Haqua du Lot Herminium • Tenri Ayukawa
Jupiter Sisters	Diana • Apollo • Vulcan • Mars • Minerva • Mercury
Capture targets	Ayumi Takahara • Mio Aoyama • Kanon Nakagawa • Shiori Shiomiya • Kusunoki Kasuga • Chihiro Kosaka • Jun Nagase • Tsukiyo Kujyō • Minami Ikoma • Rieko Hinaga • Sumire Uemoto • Nanaka Haibara • Yui Goidō • Hinoki Kasuga • Dokuro (Human) • Urara Shiratori
Pocket-sized characters	Mari Katsuragi • Keiichi Katsuragi • Miyako Terada • Izumi Ishikiri • Fujiidera • Ichirō Kodama • Morita • Hiyori Sakurai • Sora Asuka • Airi • Mobuko • Yuu Hatori • Yotsuba Sugimoto • Mai-High Delinquents • Okada • Yui'southward mother • Hiroyuki Ishigami • Yanagi • Shoutaro Shiratori
Novel characters	Tooru Amami • Asami Yoshino • Ikumi Yoshino • Shino Akuragawa • Aoba Fuse
Magi Kanon characters	Kozue • Bell Mark Atsume

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