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Onna-musha (女武者) is a term referring to female warriors in pre-modern Japan, [1] [2] who were members of the bushi class. They were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] many of them fought in battle alongside samurai men.
Voiced by: Tomohiro Nishimura (Japanese); Jason Gray-Stanford (TV), Andrew Francis (OVA) (English) Kento Rei Faung, known in Japan as Xiu Lihuang (秀 麗黄, jp: Shū Reifuan, ch: Xiù Lì Huáng) is the Warrior of Earth (地の戦士, Chi no Senshi).
While Asuka befriends her classmates, Nozomi Makino and Sayako Hata, a group of terrorists free their comrade, Kim Kanth, from a police truck, attacking innocent bystanders as they make their escape. When Sayako gets caught up in the danger, Asuka once again becomes a magical girl to protect her and stop the terrorists.
Plastic models of tanks based on those within the anime have topped sales charts in Japan. [144] An opinion piece published on 22 January 2013 in the China National Defense Newspaper , a subsidiary of the state-owned People's Liberation Army Daily, criticized the anime for promoting "militarist sentiments behind the guise of cute characters."
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A live-action prequel [2] and spin-off [3] of Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the film is a co-production between Studio Ghibli, Special Effects Laboratory Co., Ltd, and Khara, Inc. In the film, a woman from Tokyo recounts how her city was obliterated within hours by giant divine warriors.
Mao Onigawara Voiced by: Kimiko Koyama (Japanese), Sandy Fox (English) Mao is the girl with pink pigtails held by red bows, who defends Japan from the ground by using a plastic tank (the tank was officially named 'White Tiger,' but she refers to it as 'Mi-kun' because when she was little, she had a kitten she called Mi-kun, but it got lost in a river while she was playing near it one day.