Tamao Mitsurugi
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| Tamao Mitsurugi | |
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 Tamao, as she appears in the limited edition V.G. Adventure game. |
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| Game series | Variable Geo series |
| First game | Advanced V. G. 2 |
| Voiced by | Chinami Nishimura |
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| Birthplace | Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan |
| Blood type | AB |
| Height | 150 cm (4'8) |
| Weight | Unknown |
| Measurements | 77/53/81 (30-21-32) |
| Birthday | December 6 (Sagittarius) |
| Likes | Fighting games, fortune-telling, and Yuka |
| Dislikes | Tomatoes and Karaoke |
| Restaurant | Silver Parrot |
Tamao Mitsurugi (御剣珠緒 Mitsurugi Tamao?) is a fictional character from Variable Geo fighting game series and is the main protagonist of Advanced V.G. 2.
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[edit] Background
Tamao is a young girl who dreams of one day being like her idol, Yuka Takeuchi. To that end, she has tirelessly spent her spare time practicing amateur Karate and attempting to copy Yuka's various techniques. She somehow gained the ability to control her energy before her fourteenth birthday. Much like Yuka, Tamao is hard working, honest, and generally outgoing, which allows her to make friends easily. However, she is clumsy, forgetful, and tends to act before thinking things through. Satomi Yajima states that Tamao looks almost exactly like Yuka did at her age, which caused confusion when the two first met.
[edit] Fictional Character History
[edit] Advanced V.G. 2
After achieving her dream of becoming a V.G. warrior, Tamao immediately sets out to find and meet Yuka. She encounters Kaori Yanase, Ayako Yuuki, and Manami Kusunoki, all of whom she defeats (The latter of which she does without using any of her special attacks because Manami had dared her to).
She encounters Satomi Yajima, who mistakes her for Yuka, at a hotel. Sensing a great power within Tamao, Satomi challenges her to a fight, which Tamao wins despite her lack of experience. Impressed, Satomi informs Tamao that she had been searching for Yuka as well, because she had been missing since the previous tournament. She then points Tamao towards places that Yuka might be found.
After a bout with Kyoko Kirishima, Tamao eventually finds Yuka, who at this point has been rendered powerless due to an emotional breakdown suffered after seeing K-1 and K-2, genetically created fighters from the previous tournament, kill themselves after Yuka had defeated them.
Yuka is then involved in a match against Jun Kubota, who easily defeats the powerless girl, attempting to reignite her fighting spirit. Tamao however, does not know of this and believes her to be bullying her beloved idol. She flies into a rage and defeats both Jun and Erina Goldsmith in a one-on-two match.
The previous encounter having stirred something in her soul, Yuka regains her powers and challenges Tamao, both to see which of them can advance to the tournament finals, and to see if Tamao can surpass Yuka. The match ends when Yuka launches an energy blast, which Tamao is somehow able to reflect back at her. Despite having lost, Yuka declares that she is proud of Tamao for having come so far.
Tamao goes on to face Reimi Jahana, and then Saki Shindou in the tournament finals. Upon defeating her, she is attacked by the twin Material units, genetically engineered children created by Miranda Jahana to be the successors to the K units Yuka had previously faced. With Yuka arriving to help out, they each defeat one Matieral unit, and after seeing the two die in grief over the fact that they were unable to live an ordinary life, Tamao becomes upset, causing her to seek out Miranda, who is engaged in an equal struggle with Yuka. Tamao relieves Yuka and fights Miranda herself. With emotion and rage swelling in her heart, she defeats Miranda with the special attack she created based on Yuka's Kikoudan energy blast.
Following her defeat, Miranda is immediately cut off from the Jahana fortune due to a combination of Reimi rescuing her father, Ryuuichirou Jahana from Miranda's clutches and Kaori using her computer skills to remove all traces of Miranda's influence from the company, Miranda herself escapes through a hidden door, swearing revenge on Yuka and Tamao. The pair give chase, only to catch up just as Miranda is taking off on a private jet from a nearby airfield. At that moment, Reimi and Kaori, along with Satomi and Jun, arrive at the airfield. Through a radio broadcast, Tamao learns that Chiho Masuda, Kyoko's cousin and an expert ninja, had sneaked aboard Miranda's jet with the hopes of assassinating the former Jahana head before she could do any more damage.
Unfortunately, Miranda was not unprepared, and shot Chiho with a pistol she had hidden on her person. With what appear to be her dying breaths, Chiho urges the fighters gathered at the airfield to combine their powers and destroy the plane before Miranda can escape completely. Although Tamao is reluctant to do so at first, not wanting to kill Chiho, the ninja replies that she had long be prepared to die for the sake of her friends. At this, Tamao agrees and, after Yuka and the others gather enough power and combine it into a large blast, Tamao adds in her own and directs it into the distance, killing Miranda and apparently Chiho in the ensuing explosion.
A short time later, Yuka, Satomi, and Tamao gather around a makeshift grave they had made for Chiho overlooking the sea. As Tamao weeps for her fallen friend, a hand not belonging to Yuka or Satomi touches her shoulder, and Tamao turns around to find that Chiho is alive and well, having escaped the plane at the last second.
[edit] V.G. Rebirth
[edit] Other Appearances
Tamao is also a playable character in the super deformed game V.G. Max, which occurs outside the regular series established canon. In her ending, she uses the prize money to have an android double of Yuka built so that she can be around her idol's likeness at all times.
[edit] Trivia
- Tamao is something of a parody of other "Knock-off" characters in fighting games such as Sakura Kasugano from Street Fighter, Lilith Aensland from Darkstalkers, and Shingo Yabuki from The King of Fighters in that she utilizes a greatly similar --although ultimately toned down-- version of the moveset of the main character of her series, as Sakura does with Ryu, Lilith does with Morrigan Aensland, and Shingo does with Kyo Kusanagi.
- Tamao is the only character in Advanced V.G. 2 to only have one super move, however, in V.G. Max, she includes upgraded versions of two of her other techniques to round out her style.
- At 14 years of age, Tamao is the youngest character in the series, dethroning Manami from that position.
- Tamao's relationship with Yuka is often taken to be a kind of "girl crush", and as such, they are a popular pairing in fan art and fiction.
[edit] See also
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