Koukawa Asuka

Asuka is the third protagonist introduced in Taimanin Asagi 3 visual novel and cameos in the OVA adaption.

She is Asagi's adopted daughter, a prodigy and rogue Taimanin. Asuka lost her limbs in a battle with Edwin Black and was saved by the "Masked Taimanin". Not returning to Asagi or Gosha Village afterwards, she joined the group of her savior, the DSO.

Personality
Asuka is a bit of a "Gal", has a cheerful, bubbly and playful attitude most of the time. She also has a childish temper that gets the better of her at times. She is upbeat and confident in her strength, to the point she can almost come across as careless.

Asuka is quick to come up with a plan on the fly and analyse her surroundings and pretends to be more foolish than she really is. She tends to get bored quickly and is rather impatient and childish at times, rushing things and endangering herself or equipment.

She will often smile, instead of stating her own sadness and wants on matters, like her missing limbs or missing day to day normal life.

Asuka gets serious when she thinks about her original family, that was killed by Black.

Relationships

Appearance
She is a young woman with waist length, brown hair in a hime cut, blue eyes and a large bust.

She has 4 artificial limbs she can take off, near the middle of both upper leg and upper arm. Without them, she is a quadruple amputee.

She wears a pink battle suit when on duty.

History
Born into the prestigious Koukawa clan in Gosha Village, she is a distant relative of Koukawa Oboro. When she was very young, her clan was destroyed by an attack party of Edwin Black. Asuka was taken hostage to convince Koukawa Oboro to join Black and his Nomad group. Oboro challenged Black to a duel instead, which regardless of the outcome would have guaranteed that Asuka would be left alone. Oboro "died" in front of Asuka and her body was taken but Asuka was left alone afterwards.

Asuka was later adopted by Asagi, together with another child, Kousuke. Both would train to become strong Taimanin and Asuka became known as a prodigy and very dedicated as the last of her clan. She developed a light crush on her adopted brother and lived together with Asagi, Sakura and Kousuke in the Igawa Estate.

Two years before Taimanin Asagi 3, when she was around 14, Asuka ignored Asagi's direct orders to not go on a mission. Knowing that she could find Black on that one, she rushed ahead alone.

Going face to face with Black she struck with her wind arts but was defeated badly, losing all her limbs to his dark mist. Seeing also a demonized Oboro, who did not recognize her anymore, broke her heart and she was just about to die in despair. However, the real Koukawa Oboro who had survived years ago and joined the UFS, saved her and both were able to escape.

Asuka would not return to Gosha Village and Asagi. Instead joining her two time savior, in the UFS's DSO anti-nomad group. Kotani Kenji developed and improved her current Prosthetics Limbs bit by bit, making her even stronger.

Asuka visited her brother Kousuke, one year later and both kept it a secret, even from Asagi. She now goes to Midoribashi Academy trying to have a normal life, while also going to the Orange Industry Building that is the secret HQ of the DSO, in Japan. She works as a rogue Taimanin for the DSO, across the globe.

In her prologue missions in Taimanin Asagi 3, she fights secret advanced weapons of the Chinese Union. Her limbs get damaged, but she is able to defeat the enemy "Ghouls" and "High Ghoul". Back at command her arms were improved and repaired by her fellow DSO member Kenji. This was in the hope that the current version was strong enough to take down Edwin Black.

Asuka would be confronted by Asagi multiple times in Taimanin Asagi 3, where Asagi did not agree with her independent status, resulting in short confrontations.

While back home from a mission, Asuka agreed to a date with Ishiyama Takuto, a popular young man. This was to annoy her adopted brother and she still secretly meets from time to time. What she didn't know was that Takuto and his brother Ishiyama Ryouji, had connections with the demonic underworld and Oboro.

As the political situation shifted and the prime minister used the death of a politician to raid Gosha Village. She rushed to save her brother at the village and freed some captured Taimanin. After learning that her brother was transformed to a living ball of meat by the  Nomad scientist Fulst, she almost died after a fight with Edwin Black. She lost her mentor in the process and she returns badly hurt, finding the Orange Industry Building under siege as well.

Knocked out and blackmailed by Takuto and Ryouji, with meatball Kousuke. Asuka agrees to serve the brothers sexual whims and training with the hope of a counter-attack.

In the end, Asuka was able to save Igawa Asagi and killed Edwin Black. She remains an independent Taimanin but now is on better terms with Asagi, wishing to find a cure for her adopted brother.

Timeline TABA/RPGX
Taimanin Asagi 3 does not take place. The DSO in turn, cooperates far more with the Fuuma Organization and because of that, she and Fuuma Kotaro come into contact with each other. She is tricked into some sexual situations with him but supports him on other missions to take down his father and Nomad. In RPGX, she assists also Fuuma Kotaro. Asagi seems not to be aware in TABA Asuka is still alive.

Timeline Action
Taimanin Asagi 3 does not take place. She lost her limbs on that mission around age 14 in that Online Universe. However, she has met Asagi without TA3. She works with the Taimanin Task Force and fights side by side with Asagi at times but both still have a strained relationship.

OVA
Asuka only appears twice, with no sex scenes in the OVA. Once in a flashback at the beginning having killed an unknown person, telling Asagi she is going to save her brother and a second time on a tree, watching a broken Asagi having sex with her husband orc. She doesn't do anything else in the OVA, unlike the game which has an entire route for her, which is required for the true ending. Due to her limited screen time in the OVA, her personality is not shown at all.

Powers/Abilities
Main Weapon: Her artificial limb blades


 * Ninja Art: "Wind God Arts"  she can manipulate wind to attack and defend or change her movements
 * Flight: "Rising wind" clouds her within wind and lets her fly through the air.
 * Shield: Uses the wind to create a passive shield, protecting her from bullets.
 * Cybernetics: She is a cyborg which comes with benefits like:
 * Enhanced Strength: has physical power through her limbs far beyond anything human.
 * Enhanced Durability is able to take quite a beating that would have killed most normal people.
 * Enhanced Speed: Has super human speed.
 * Laser Beams: Is able to fire a giant laser created out of Taima particles.
 * Acceleration Mode: Can use Taima particles to increase her movement speed 1000 times of her normal speed, this does damage her mechanical limbs extremely though.
 * Rockets: Asuka is able to fire multiple "Annihilation Missiles" from her limbs.
 * Arm and Leg blades: She can extend scythe-like blades from her artificial limbs
 * Particle Control: As a Taimanin, she is able to manipulate Taima Particles to enhance her physical strength, speed and defense. The particles also are used to counter demonic influences and strengthen damage to demons.

Media

 * Taimanin Asagi 3
 * OVA
 * Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena
 * Taimanin RPGX
 * Action Taimanin

Trivia

 * She is a quadruple amputee
 * With her mechanical limbs she is able to fight with Asagi on similar footing.
 * Her limbs are the product of normal technology and hell technology.
 * She is somehow worse at cooking and sweet making, than Yukikaze.