Igawa Sakura

Sakura is the younger sister of Asagi and a main characters of the series.

Starting out as trainee Taimanin in TA1, she becomes a full-blown Taimanin in TA2, going on missions with her sister. Later in the timeline she becomes a teacher at Gosha Academy as shown in Taimanin Yukikaze and Taimanin Asagi 3.

Personality
Sakura is carefree, upbeat and vigorous. She teases people about their romance in a fun way, trying to break serious situations. She is lax with housework and would rather drink or plays video games with friends. As a tomboy, she loves the idea of Taimanin being heroes of justice. Though she acts goofy at times, she gets serious when in fights.

She is also a teacher who is easy to deal with and gives her students good advice. She respects her students' accomplishments and would defend them and her sister with her life.

She acts obliviously, silly and childish a lot of the time and is also very forgiving.

Overall, Sakura spreads cheerful vibes where she goes and acts very friendly. She only feels down if she thinks she is a burden to her sister.

Relationships

Appearance
Sakura has short, blonde hair styled with some spiky bangs.

She has blue eyes and has a bigger bust than her elder sister.

History
Sakura was born as the daughter of the head of the Igawa clan, Igawa Yusai. Her mother Igawa Kiku died of illness shortly after her birth. Her father also died when she was young, leaving only her elder sister to raise her. She lived in Tokyo with her retired Taimanin sister and Kyousuke (Asagi's boyfriend). Without much training, Sakura wished to become a Taimanin herself and would later awaken her own ninja art.

Telling her sister about her goal to be a real Taimanin made Asagi feel a bit uneasy, but Asagi respected Sakura's choice. After Asagi and Kyousuke got captured by Oboro, she tried to save them herself but was tricked and simply ran into a trap.

Now used to blackmail Asagi, she was tortured and underwent Body Modification. The goal was to break her and make the sisters fight to the death in the Chaos Arena. Using her art unknown to Oboro gave Sakura a chance for a counter attack. Both sisters would escape but Kyousuke lost his life in the process. She helped kill the Taimanin Senior that had given information to Oboro's side.

Both sisters moved to the headquarters of the Taimanin to Gosha Village and lived in the Igawa Estate. Having gone to a normal school before, Asagi pushed her to go to Gosha Academy, as her abilities were still lacking. She learned together with Yatsu Murasaki and quickly became an elite Taimanin. She also helped in the capture of Kiryu Sabato.

After finishing the Academy, she became an instructor and teacher in Gosha Academy, responsible for Yukikaze, Rinko Tatsurou and Sawaki Kosuke training. After Dealing with her modified body for around 10 years she was cured by Kiryuu Sabato, who healed her in Taimanin Asagi 3. She defended Gosha Academy from an attack by the Kanda Brigade but became a prisoner to save her students. She was killed later on after torture and was revived by Edwin Black but in danger of demonization. In the true ending, she is rescued in time and cured by Kiryu Sabato and back to her normal self.

Timeline TABA
Taimanin Asagi 3 does not take place. She is still a teacher but most events are not connected to her. Instead moved from parallel universes by Brain Flayers, a younger Sakura, looking like the ZERO version, joins Fuuma Kotaro, Fuuma Organization. That version becomes one of his main members together with a younger version of Murasaki. That Sakura is kidnapped later by Fulst and rescued afterwards. The normal older Sakura and her never meet.

Timeline RPGX
Taimanin Asagi 3 does not take place. She is still a teacher but some events are not connected to her. Instead moved from parallel universes by Brain Flayers, a younger Sakura, looking like the ZERO version, joins Fuuma Kotaro. However, unlike TABA she is still part of Gosha Village, as this Kotaro isn't part of a criminal group and she remains hidden in his house. Helping out on missions for the village.

Timeline Action
Taimanin Asagi 3 does not take place. Originally, the situation was the same as in RPGX but was later rewritten. Sakura in the Action Taimanin is just younger and still a student of Gosha Academy and not a teacher. It is not clear if the events of the Chaos Arena played out for her in this world but she does join Fuuma Kotaro, Taimanin Task Force as one of the first members.

OVA
In the first OVA, she has different and alternative scenes. For example. where her breasts are enlarged, they were reduced in the games. Otherwise, it mostly follows the first game.

In the second OVA, the story of her follows pretty much the same way as the bad end route.

The third OVA does have some major and minor changes but follows the bad end route of TA3, in which she becomes a demon via Black's influence. While the game is explicit about her death in the route and revival, the OVA cuts out a lot of the interactions and context.

Powers/Abilities
Main Weapon: Two Ninjato or ninja daggers
 * Ninja Arts: Shadow Art: Her main ability to travel between shadows, create shadow creatures or blades, and to remain hidden within the shadows if needed. It is considered a unique ninja art.
 * Shadow Stealth: Allows Sakura to hide herself within the shadows of people and objects. She can also hide weapons and other items in her own shadow.
 * Shadow Teleportation: Is able to teleport between shadows in an instant.
 * Animated Shadow: Create shadow creatures like sharks or bears.
 * Shadow Construction: Can create shadow blades.


 * Particle Control: Taimanin are able to manipulate Taima Particles to enhance their physical strength, speed and defense. The particles also are used to counter demonic influences and strengthen damage to demons.


 * Sex Slave/Toy: She and her sister were modified to be perfect sex slave/toys.

Media

 * Taimanin Asagi
 * OVA
 * Taimanin Asagi 2
 * OVA
 * Taimanin Asagi 3
 * OVA
 * Taimanin Asagi ZERO
 * Taimanin Yukikaze
 * Taimanin Yukikaze 2 (Mention)
 * Taimanin Asagi The Nightmare - LILITH-IZM 02
 * Taimanin Asagi Tanned Skin - LILITH-IZM 04
 * Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena
 * Taimanin RPGX
 * Action Taimanin (ZERO design)

Trivia

 * Age 14 and 15 are the result of a retcon mistake and was not intentional at the first release of TA1. The age of Sakura in SFW Action Taimanin is much younger and can only be explained by another timeline.
 * Sakura turns soon 25, and is 24 years old around Taimanin Asagi 3.
 * She seems to play video games and watch anime.
 * She thinks her best friend is Murasaki but in reality Murasaki dislikes her somewhat. What they share is closer to a love-hate relation.
 * The duo of Murasaki and Sakura are known as "Sakumura".
 * She is still weaker than her sister by a large margin.
 * In Action Taimanin Sakura, is about as old as Yukikaze or Fuuma Kotaro. This is the result of a retcon, originally in Taimanin RPGX the older and a younger Sakura (from another world) existed in the same universe. While originally Action mentioned some of this in the Japanese release, most of the lines are now no longer voices and have been rewritten, for continuity reasons. The Sakura of action seems to be the only one in Action and IS NOT from another world in that continuity.