Milfeulle Sakuraba
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| Milfeulle Sakuraba (ミルフィーユ 桜葉) | |
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| Name origin: | French pastry mille-feuille; Sakuraba is from the Japanese word "sakura" meaning cherry blossom, and might explain her bright pink hair |
| Gender: | Female |
| Age: | 17 (21 in GA II) |
| Seiyū: | Ryoko Shintani |
| Height: | 156cm |
| Hair color: | Pink |
| Eye color: | Blue purple |
| First appearance: | Episode 1, Galaxy Angel Season 1 |
The character Milfeulle Sakuraba (ミルフィーユ 桜葉) is from the anime, manga and dating sim series, Galaxy Angel. Her first name is derived from the name for the French pastry mille-feuille. Her hobby is cooking snacks, particularly cake, and making tea. She pilots the balanced Angel Frame known as "Lucky Star".
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[edit] In the anime
This seventeen-year-old, selfless pink-haired girl is the newest member of the Angel Troupe and joined at the start of the series. She has an incredible amount of good luck with extremely bad luck periodically to counter it. The bad luck can cause disastrous outcomes like destroying a whole planet or even an entire galaxy.
Strangely enough, the damage is minimized if Milfeulle is happy; for example, in one of the last episodes of season 2 she reaches the tip of her good luck, and has terrible luck the entire day. The other angels have to keep her happy if they are to survive. So they send her on vacation. But when the flowers she gets are run over by a car she becomes very sad. And that opens up a large black hole that was a threat to the entire galaxy.
In the last episode of the second season (ONLY in this episode), the Angel Troupe receives a new set of uniforms that actually gives them different powers. Milfeulle is the last to reveal hers; when yet another "hateful" fight between the other four Angels broke out, her heartfelt plea to end the feud activated her power, which was a heavy downpour of the same kind of flower as the one she wears. Her plea plus the pleasant feeling of her flowers ended the fight.
She also appears in the seventh episode in Galaxy Angelune, the anime version of Galaxy Angel II, along with the rest of the original Angel Troupe, by then called the Moon Angel Troupe. Unlike her game incarnation however (see below), her character design remains the same. She also appears in the last episode wherein she joins and helps the Rune Angel Troupe defeat a giant peach. This is the only direct interaction between the Rune Angel Troupe and a member of the Moon Angel Troupe as the seventh episode only has a comparison between the two troupes and never a direct interaction.
[edit] In the manga
She is main character of the manga because her story (which is based on the game but with a few changes) is followed. She first meets Takuto Meyers when she accidentally falls and got her skirt caught which left her hanging upside down; fortunately for her, Takuto was there to help her down. Milfie was the one who invited Takuto to join them in their mission and she is the first person in the manga who openly trusts Takuto.
In the manga, there was an incident when she saw Takuto and Ranpha kiss, not knowing this was an accident. This affected both her relationship with Takuto and her ability to pilot the Lucky Star temporarily. The situation was remedied when both of them were able to talk things out while being unintentionally trapped in the Whale Room with giant worms and biting chesnuts.
In Galaxy Angel Beta, Milfie and Takuto's relationship becomes grows deeper as they were able to overcome a few misunderstandings. Milfie is the one who spends time with Chitose a lot to try to make her feel welcome, not noticing that Chitose is slowly starting to develop feelings for Takuto.
Things turn rocky when Chitose (who is being controlled by Noa), injures and captures Takuto (instead of Prince Shiva). She still trusted her even though she did this (because she knew Chitose was being controlled), but she was shaken to the core when she found out that Takuto was piloting the newly discovered "Sharp Shooter" toghether with Chitose. It was made worse when Takuto confessed to her and shot her down afterwards intentionally. Luckily, Takuto was able to overcome Noa's control and so did Chitose, revealing afterwards that he did not shoot the Lucky Star in a critical point. Toghether with Chitose, they both destroyed Eonia's mothership with the Fatal Arrow and the Hyper Cannon.
When Noa took control of the Black Moon, Chitose died sacrificing her life to block an attack from the Black Moon. The Lucky Star reacted dramatically to Milfie's feelings which blocked the Black Moon's power and revived Chitose. The Black Moon was destroyed with the Chrono Break Cannon, but everyone's memory of Chitose (excluding General Luft and Shatoyarn) have been erased.
Near the end of the manga, when Takuto asked Milfie how she felt when she found out that he was the one piloting the Sharp Shooter, he leans in to kiss her before she could even continue answering Takuto's question for her.
In the manga of Galaxy Angel II, Milfie is the current gate keeper and is married to Takuto.
[edit] In the games
An original member of the Angel Troupe, Milfeulle is always caring and cheerful, and will never hesitate to help another person, even people whom are considered by others as enemies. She possesses a supernatural level of good luck to the point where strange things keep occurring around her (sometimes causing great annoyance to others) but always in some way beneficial to herself. Even in normal situations, like tossing a coin, she will get all heads or all tails. By the definition given in the game, Milfeulle has the ability to fail all probability measures and cause one outcome to be 100%.
Unfortunately, her luck caused her problems when she was younger, as no one wanted to do anything with her because of the strange situations caused by her luck. However, she has a true friend, Ranpha Franboise, whom she met in the military academy, and later, her meeting with the other members of the Angel Troupe along with the people onboard the Elsior have begun to heal her painful wounds of her past. Milfeulle is also very emotional, and blames herself whenever something goes wrong, often blaming it on her luck. In both the games and the manga, she's nicknamed "Milfie" (ミルフィー)" by her friends. This nickname does not carry over to the Galaxy Angel anime.
In the first game "Galaxy Angel", if Takuto chooses to take her to the Fargo dance that occurs halfway into the game, she accidentally sets the lower part of her dress on fire, causing her to become depressed. Takuto cheers her up by suggesting that she cut the lower part of her dress to shorten it up to her knees, which turned out to be a successful solution. In the later part of the game after the dance, when the Elle Ciel's systems were overloaded by an enemy attack and the other members of the Angel Troupe were incapacitated, Milfeulle uses up her entire life's worth of luck in order to repair all the systems aboard the Elle Ciel and charge the Chrono Break Cannon with feathers from her Angel Frame. After the battle, she leaves the Angel Troupe because she can no longer pilot an Angel Frame (the Lucky Star only ran due to her luck). However, Takuto surprises her by retiring from the military so that they can be together.
In Moonlit Lovers a resort planet they're visiting together is attacked and they happen to run into the Elsior. They rejoin the other Angels all the way through the events of the game and into the third game Eternal Lovers. A running joke in Moonlit Lovers is how Takuto and Milfie have been a couple for some time, but haven't even kissed yet. Needless to say, the other Angels try to spy on them to catch the magic moment when it happens, but more often than not wind up ruining the moment. Fortunately, Milfeulle and Tact are able to kiss near the end of the game while Milfeulle is in the sick bay.
In Eternal Lovers, Milfie suffers an injury that results in retrograde amnesia: she is completely unable to remember Takuto at all. This forces Takuto to rebuild their entire relationship from scratch, starting with getting her to call him 'Takuto-san' as opposed to the more formal 'Commander Meyers'. Following the liberation of EDEN, the two share what Milfie refers to as her second first kiss. At the end, when the two are trapped in Another Space following the final battle with the Val-Fasq, Takuto asks her to marry him and she is more than happy to accept.
[edit] Galaxy Angel II
In Galaxy Angel II, which is four years after the Val-Fasq, she is the Gate Keeper of a set of interstellar gates which are connected in a third space called ABSOLUTE, it allows travel between EDEN and NEUE (the newly discovered dimension). Milfie powers the central core in ABSOLUTE to ensure that the gate remains open at all times. Because she holds an important role in inter-dimensional travel, enemy forces capture her probably for the reasons of invasions, as seen in trailers.
Probably one of the reasons why she alone is the only current gate keeper is because of her extraordinary luck. Her luck may have given her the power to control the gate (and to make sure nothing bad happens); one event to back this reason up is her periodical bad luck's ability to destroy a whole planet or galaxy when in a bad mood.
Considering Milfie's personality, it may be a little difficult for some to perceive that such a crucial and important task was given to her. For that matter, almost every picture of her shows her happily smiling, so how she visibly became a more somber person is unknown.
Milfie is the older sister of Apricot Sakuraba, who is also the main character in Galaxy Angel II. Both of them are very skilled cooks with the love for sugary foods such as cakes. While Milfie was born with extraordinary luck, her sister is born with extraordinary strength (which is manifested unconsciously).
| Galaxy Angel characters |
| Moon Angels |
| Milfeulle Sakuraba - Mint Blancmanche - Ranpha Franboise Forte Stollen - Vanilla H - Chitose Karasuma |
| Rune Angels |
| Apricot Sakuraba - Lily C. Sherbet - Nano-Nano Pudding Kahlua/Tequilla Marjoram - Anise Azeat |
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| Game and manga |
| Takuto Meyers - Kazuya Shiranami - Lester Cooldaras - Almo and Coco - Shiva |
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| Anime only |
| Normad |
