Asai (浅井 Asai?) is a member of the Kouga School of Ninjutsu.
Appearance[]
Asai was a tall muscular young man with buzz cut hair. He wore a dark-colored sleeveless shirt and a light colored pants. He also carried a rock climbing equipment at his back.[3][4][2][5][6][Notes 2]
Background[]
Asai's background is largely unknown, but they were apparently trained alongside Sakata, Yasu, and Tsurigane Saryou when she was still with the Kouga.[7]
Asai remained in the service of the Kouga with the others while Tsurigane went undercover as a Child Error in Academy City.[3] By the later months of the story's first year, with the Kouga reaching their limits in the changing times, they sought to acquire new methods and abilities to contend with the likes of Academy City and Baggage City, which would result in Asai, Sakata and Yasu going on at least two missions to that end, under Oumi Shuri's lead.[1][3][6]
Chronology[]
Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index[]
Baggage City Arc[]
- Main article: Baggage City Arc
In mid-November, Asai, Sakata, Yasu, and Oumi Shuri, went to Baggage City for the Natural Selector tournament in order to find an interesting person that they could get and analyze their abilities for the sake of the Kouga School.[1]
Asai, Sakata, and Yasu later come upon Kihara Enshuu, while Shuri contacts them regarding a treasure she found fit for the Kouga, though only their screams reach their ears, as they describe her as a monster.[1] They are presumably killed by Enshuu.[Notes 1]
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun[]
Jailbreaker Arc[]
- Main article: Jailbreaker Arc
Asai was part of the Kouga group led by Oumi Shuri, together with Sakata and Yasu, who infiltrated Academy City in mid-October with Tsurigane's help to learn what they could in the city for the Kouga, and subsequently participated in the Jailbreak Trial two days later on Tsurigane's suggestion (actually to aid her city friends in breaking out Shundan Kimi).[3][4][2][5][8][9]
During the event, they scaled the outer walls, over the top around the time that other competitors had opened a hole in the wall below,[3] and once inside the grounds, fought off the guard robots with their respective ninjutsu.[4] Inside the prison building, the group split up, reuniting a little while later after Oumi took a painful blow to her rear end, shortly before the event concluded.[2][5]
When Tsurigane was defeated by Shirai Kuroko after openly betraying the Kouga, Asai and the other ninjas observed the events from a nearby rooftop. After hearing from Oumi about how the Dark May Project had affected Tsurigane and it had proved the risk of incorporating Academy City's technology into their ninjutsu, Asai acknowledged Oumi's declaration that Tsurigane's judgment would be left to the city's laws and that its technology was not to be touched again, before the group departed.[6]
Abilities[]
Being a Kouga ninja, Asai was trained in their techniques since early childhood.[3][7] His combined ninjutsu and athletic abilities were sufficient to traverse the Second Reformatory's outer defenses, scale the outer wall and fend off the facility's guard robots during the Jailbreak Trial.[3][4]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 While the deaths of Asai, Sakata and Yasu are not explicitly confirmed, given the nature of their last communication, the situation they were in, who they were up against, and subsequent events afterwards, it is presumed that they were killed by Kihara Enshuu.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Due to the fact that Asai and Sakata were addressed in the same manga panel and visually identified nowhere else, it is not completely certain yet which is which. For the time being and for the sake of convenience, Asai has been assumed to be the male on the left given the order of the names and the right-to-left reading and address (also applied for Yasu and Tsurigane in the neighboring panel).
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 04 Sub.09
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 103
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 101
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 102
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 104
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 114
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 113
- ↑ Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 106
- ↑ Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 107
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Kouga School | ||
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Oumi Shuri | Tsurigane Saryou | Sugitani |
Sakata | Asai | Yasu |
Hattori Clan | Iga Clan | Fuma Clan |
Hattori Hanzou | Kuruwa | Houjou Arei |
Natural Selector Competitors | |||
Saflee Opendays | Ayles Bigant | Osad Flakehelm | Grecky Reletsman |
Oumi Shuri | Asai | Sakata | Yasu |
Science Guardian | |||
Weissland Strainikov | Shar Berylan |