Izumi Maki
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- Izumi Maki is also the name of a Japanese bondage model: see Izumi Maki (bondage model)
In the anime Martian Successor Nadesico, Izumi Maki (真木イズミ) is the third Aestivalis pilot who serves aboard the Nadesico, along with her fellow pilots Ryoko Subaru and Hikaru Amano. Her "Custom Zero-G Frame" is blue. At the time of the series, she is eighteen years old. Of an especially eccentric group, she is, remarkably, probably the weirdest one.
At first glance, Izumi resembles a member of the Goth subculture, with her long dark hair, pale skin and far-away look; from some perspectives, she resembles a giddy corpse. She could be considered attractive, but only in a darkly unsettling way. Her original Japanese voice acting is considered booming and ominous, especially for a woman.
Another notable feature of her is that she is an incurable punster, making jokes every other sentence that are not limited to any particular region, ethnicity, or timeline. She is a terrible but seemingly enthusiastic singer who can play the ukulele with moderate success. She can also be caught alluding to some famous philosophy, if not poetry, in her ceaseless jokes. This is probably related to something in her past.
Izumi is not a fan of war, for all that she is a talented pilot. She thinks that she is doing the right thing by fighting, but like most of the crew of the Nadesico, she would give it up if she could. Having lost two boyfriends in her life, one to disease and one to a mechanical accident, she is one of the few women aboard the ship not interested in Akito Tenkawa, although she is most likely to tease her friend Ryoko Subaru about having a crush on said young man. She is often joined in this by fellow pilot Hikaru Amano.
[edit] Quotes
- Izumi: "I ran out of filters so I ran the tea through a copy of Shakespeare, now I have the Tempest in a Teapot, that's trouble brewing."
- Nagare: "Now I lay the down to sleep."
- Izumi: "But in space there is no down. In order to lie down, you've got to get a duck."
- Ryoko: "I got 'em!"
- Izumi: "Got'am... isn't that where Batman lives?"
- Izumi: "His face has been defaced... is that from his wife?"
- Hikaru: "That's the price of a timely plot twist, I guess."
- Hikaru: "Seems that Akatsuki doesn't quite pack the punch he used to."
- Izumi: "And he's losing his hair... it hangs by a hair."
- Izumi: "My brother got arrested for steeling cars. But he said he only liked hot wheels"
- Izumi: "This ship is but a shell, its hall lies in vacuum hell, no robot bug nor alien race chills my soul as cold as space. Or something like that"
- Izumi: "I told my young friend to marry Chris. Marry Chris miss." (Said during a Christmas Episode)
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| Series | |||||
| Akito Tenkawa | Yurika Misumaru | Ruri Hoshino | Gai Daigoji | Megumi Reinard | Jun Aoi | Inez Fressange | Izumi Maki | Ryoko Subaru | Hikaru Amano | Nagare Akatsuki | |||||
| Other Info | |||||
| Nergal | ND-001 Nadesico | Gekigangar III | The Prince of Darkness | |||||
