List of Variable Geo characters
The following is a list of characters in the Variable Geo series of fighting games. The V.G. series is notable as being one of the few games in the genre to feature an entirely female cast (the only exception is K-1, who only appeared once).
Recurrent characters
Introduced in V.G.: Variable Geo
Yuka Takeuchi (武内 優香 Takeuchi Yuka) is a practitioner of karate who resides in Tokyo. After her parents died when she was young, her grandfather took her in and trained her in the martial arts, including Karate and the manipulation of ki energy. She enters the VG tournaments simply for the purpose of furthering her training and testing herself against strong opponents. Her virtuous, outgoing personality wins her many friends among the other fighters, among whom are Chiho Masuda, Jun Kubota, and Satomi Yajima, the latter of whom she has been best friends with for years.
- Chiho Masuda (増田 千穂 Masuda Chiho) is a trained ninja and was once the heir apparent to her family's ninja clan. However, she desires a life of freedom and happiness and thus has run away, becoming a "Missing-nin." She participates in hopes of using the prize money and free real estate to finance her new life.
- Jun Kubota (久保田 潤 Kubota Jun) a wrestler with vast amounts of strength, Jun once participated in the Olympics while in high school. However, she was ejected from the games due to repeated unsportsmanlike conduct. She later joins the V.G. competitions because she can treat her opponents as roughly as she pleases. Despite this however, Jun operates by her own personal honor code. She fiercely believes that the use of weaponry in a martial arts bout is unacceptable.
- Manami Kusunoki (楠 真奈美 Kusunoki Manami) is the youngest competitor in the VG Tournament at age 16. Along with her relative youth, she is also woefully immature, often acting like a girl half her age. Despite this however, she is a surprisingly clever and capable fighter, incorporating the natural energeticness of a child, as well her own vivid imagination into her fighting style. Her reason for entering the competitions is solely to obtain the large cash prize awarded to the winner. She is often the most lighthearted competitor in any given tournament, treating the fights as if they were all a big game.
- Kaori Yanase (梁瀬 かおり Yanase Kaori) is a 19-year old computer technician schooled in the art of Tae Kwon Do. She initially entered the V.G. tournament to test her own abilities, but found herself humiliated in the final round by Reimi Jahana. Ever since, she has devoted her training to defeating the multi-time V.G. champion. Despite this, Kaori apparently bears no ill will towards her would-be rival and simply sees defeating her as part of the path she must travel to become stronger.
- Reimi Jahana (レイミ・謝花) is the head of the Jahana Group, the organization which supervises the V.G. tournaments. Reimi is wealthy, highly intelligent, and extremely beautiful. She is also a skilled martial artist and a three-time V.G. champion. Reimi initially sees the competitions as a chance to prove herself the strongest and most beautiful warrior of all, and takes a kind of perverse pleasure in watching those who lose against her be humiliated in various ways. After being defeated by Yuka, she reforms and re-enters the tournament with the hopes of regaining her title.
Introduced in Advanced V.G.
- Satomi Yajima (八島 聡美 Yajima Satomi) is a young woman who lives with her younger brother, Daisuke. their parents died when they're young. She earns money for living expenses and school tuition by working part-time jobs while caring for Daisuke. While she is an honest, straightforward person, she is also practical and realistic when it comes to situations involving money. This is because they have no other living relatives to provide for them, Satomi is often forced to take various odd jobs simply in order to make ends meet.
- Ayako Yuuki (結城 綾子 Yūki Ayako) is the star attraction of the SoTO, a techno/rave dance club and restaurant, where she dazzles visitors with her flashy dancing. While appearing on the surface to be nothing more than a good-looking "Party girl", Ayako spends a great deal of her free time providing volunteer services to the needy and homeless. She also makes a pastime of luring out rapists, muggers, and stalkers and then beating them to within an inch of their lives, because they do unjust things to women.
Erina Goldsmith (エリナ・ゴールドスミス Erina Gorudosumissu), also known as Elirin, is a full-blooded American born and raised in Osaka. She is loud, outspoken, and fond of bawdy humor. She owns and operates her own restaurant, The Rival, and fights in the V.G. tournaments in hopes of bringing her paternal grandmother from the United States to live with her in Japan. Erina practices no particular martial art, but instead fights using improvised methods derived from years of street brawling which she took up to vent her anger at her treatment by others due to a kind of prejudice commonly shown by Japanese towards foreigners.
Introduced in Advanced V.G. 2
- Tamao Mitsurugi (御剣 珠緒 Mitsurugi 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.
- Kyouko Kirishima (霧島 恭子 Kirishima Kyōko) is a member of one of the Masuda clan's branch families and Chiho's distant cousin. She is sent to compete under orders to either force Chiho back into the clan or kill her.
Non-recurring characters
The following characters were only featured in a single game, usually serving a position as a boss or sub-boss. The only exception is Yumiko.
From V.G. II: Bout of Cabalistic Goddess
- Yumiko Watanuki (綿貫 弓子 Watanuki Yumiko) : The first of Kotoe's bodyguards who specializes in Chinese martial arts. She would later reappear as a playable character in V.G. Max.
- Terumi Kannazuki (神無月 輝美 Kannazuki Terumi): The second of Kotoe's bodyguards. She uses Muay Thai and treats Yumiko as if she were her younger sister.
- Kotoe Kashima (嘉島 琴荏 Kashima Kotoe): A childhood rival of Reimi. She organizes the Bout of Cabalistic Goddess tournament in order to prove that she is superior to Reimi in every way. Extremely vain and antagonistic.
From Advanced V.G.
- False Yuka: A clone of Yuka. She has more powerful versions of all of Yuka's own techniques.
- Keiichi Sonezaki (曾根崎 啓一 Sonezaki Keīchi) / K-1 (Keiichi): The first model of Miranda Jahana's "Hybrids", genetically engineered supersoldiers. He has the distinction of being the only male to appear in a combat role in any V.G. game.
- Kei Sonezaki (曾根崎 恵 Sonezaki Kei) / K-2 (ケーツー Kētsū)* : The second model of Hybrid sent to attack anyone who could prove more powerful than Reimi. She and her brother were killed after being defeated by Yuka.
- (Note: False Yuka only appears in the original Turbo CD and Sega Saturn versions of the game. K-1 and K-2 take her place as the final bosses of all subsequent versions.)
From Advanced V.G. 2
- Saki Shinjou (新条 サキ Shinjō Saki): A sadistic, cold-blooded killer who fights for the sake of her own bloodlust. She competes in the V.G. tournament after being hired by Miranda. She also has an unexplained grudge against Reimi and frequently expresses a desire to kill her.
- Material (マテリアル Materiaru): The latest model of Hybrid designed by Miranda. There are two of these units, and both are programmed to express no emotions of their own since Miranda believed emotions to have been the ultimate downfall of the K-series. Both are defeated separately by Yuka and Tamao and die.
- Miranda Jahana (ミランダ・謝華): Reimi's mother and the true head of the Jahana Group, which supervises the V.G. tournaments. She had hoped to create the ultimate fighting machine using data collected from the fighters in her tournaments. After the Material units are disabled, she engages Yuka, who is able to match her in strength. After being somewhat weakened by this exchange, she is attacked by Tamao, who is barely able to defeat her. Following this, she is caught in a combined attack by both Yuka and Tamao and is presumed dead, although she makes a cameo appearance in a background in V.G. Max.
From V.G. Max
- Masako Houjouin (北条院 雅子 Hōjōin Masako): A mercenary who enters the competition with the selfish desire of winning the prize money and becoming fabulously rich. Although she practices no specific martial art, she is a master of using a number of weapons, which she keeps concealed until they are needed. Among her various arms are a knife, chain whip, guan dao, spiked mace, and a seemingly endless supply of grenades.
From V.G. Rebirth / V.G. Rebirth Dash
- Hiyori Sakuragi (桜木 ひより Sakuragi Hiyori): A shy, constantly depressed young woman who was forced to enter V.G. due to a number of mishaps that had occurred at the restaurant where she works. Although not a fighter by nature, she is capable of a staggering amount of strength when angered or upset.
- Keiko Hatano (羽田野 恵子 Hatano Keiko): Nearly the polar opposite of Hiyori, Keiko is upbeat, cheerful, and outgoing. During a bout with Yuka, the latter expressed surprise that Keiko had enough power to apparently rival her own.
From V.G. Neo
- Yuu Asuka (飛鳥 優 Asuka Yū): The new main heroine/senshi. Yuu lives with her older brother in a restaurant which doubles as their own home (Her brother is the manager.). Upon an accident involving the restaurant she was in desperate need to find a way to fix the damage. She decided to risk it all by taking part of the Variable Geo tournament without letting her brother know.
- Sanari Misumi (三角 沙奈理 Misumi Sanari): Yuu's long-time close friend, rival and classmate. A very energetic girl. Since their dojo days, Sanari has wished to have one real fight against Yuu, and thus picks a fight with Yuu every time they meet. Sanari did not work in a restaurant until she found out about Yuu's participation in the Variable Geo tournament and enters at the last minute.
- Ayumi Okamoto (岡本 歩美 Okamoto Ayumi): A girl who is often very frightened and clumsy. Despite this, she becomes a capable fighter. Although she has no specific style, she copies other warriors' moves (it is rumored that she is trying to replicate moves of a legendary V.G. fighter).
- Diane Ryan (ダイアン・ライアン Daian Raian): Diane is a skilled martial artist from America. A girl with a rather bright personality and has a big appetite for food. Her motives for joining the tournament are unknown.
- Kei Sagara (相楽 桂 Sagara Kei): A warrior skilled in aikido and carries the elemental power of lightning. She joins to test her strength.
Yui Zhenzhu (玉 真珠 Yui Chinjū): Zhenzhu hails from China and specializes in Chinese martial arts. She lives a very poor life with her old master and 18 brothers. Due to a past relationship, she has lost her faith in love. Like many before her, she has her eyes on the prize money.
- Anna Fairgold (アンナ・フェアゴールド Anna Feagōrudo): The current Variable Geo champion. A feared cold-blooded fighter who is sometimes driven insane. She fears the penalty because she had been through it once before.