Magical Girls Explained By Silver~Chan

#60: Ryoko Natsu

Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about another Tokime Tribe magical girl, who's hot-blooded; Ryoko Natsu so let's begin.

(General Info)

Ryoko Natsu is a 17 year old Balance type magical girl, her eyes are red and hair is black.

Ryoko's soul gem is a Red flame-shaped gem that looks like a hair clip which is located in her hair while in Magical girl form. Her weapon that she uses to fight with is a Keisaku which in japanese is a flat wooden stick or slat used during periods of meditation to remedy sleepiness or lapses of concentration. With names like "warning stick", or "awakening stick", I think it's obvious not because it's related to her background in why she uses the Keisaku as a weapon in this case.

Ryoko's Witch and Doppel form is called "Gosirsa", and her wish to become a magical girl was to expose the corruption of City Officials and Politicians that try to demolish the temple she is related to: Suitoku Temple.

Her known relatives are her unnamed grandfather and parents, however her parents are listed as deceased. She seemed to have originated from an Unknown Small Town near Kamihama City, but now lives in Sankyo Ward in Kamihama.

She attends Minaminagi Liberty Academy where she transferred, and has ties with the Magical Girl group; Tokime Tribe.

Ryoko's Magical Girl element is the Fire Element, and her powers and abilities are called Sermon (creates a pocket dimension resembling Suitoku Temple where fighting is not possible and Ryoko's words have strengthened influence).

(Summary)

A hot-blooded Magical girl who grew up in a temple, she detests the corruption belonging to the Tokime Tribe. She lost her parents when she was very young, and was rigidly raised by her strict grandfather who lives in "Suitoku" Temple, a temple near Kamihama. She came to Kamihama with a passion in order to support the young girl that's the head of house.

(Gosirsa Info)

The Doppel of stalwart honesty. Its form is an ox cart. The master of this emotion has faith in her honest, straightforward nature, but is also aware of how her own inflexibility may drive her into a corner in the future. Though this Doppel plows ahead with singular purpose, its sense of urgency overtakes its body and constantly puts it on the verge of tumbling forward. But thanks to the support it receives from its many wheeled arms, it will push onward until it physically cannot continue. Even if it meets with an obstacle, its buzzsaw arms will likely carve straight through. As such, this single-minded Doppel serves to reaffirm its master's way of being.

(Side Story)

The Tokime Tribe's base is at the temple, which was originally planned to be demolished, as a part of a neighborhood renovation plan. They covered up the details about the consequences for the people who would suffer from the loss of it, though. Ryoko was not happy that this situation was presented to people as something good, especially considering her beliefs. So, she wished for the details of the demolition to be disclosed. The irony is, she is not even from Kamihama, but from a neighboring town. However, she is a part of the Tokime Tribe through blood. The temple she saved belongs to one of the branch families. Another irony is, she didn't want to be a hero and a part of the Tokime Tribe in the first place.

She lost her parents when she was young and she was raised at the Buddhist temple by her grandfather. She was told that her mother was "a hero, who saved the country". Yet she died and left Ryoko behind. As a result, the girl was raised in the traditional, ascetic manner. Eventually, Ryoko developed a grudge against heroes and viewed acts of heroism as simply the means for someone to obtain empty fame.

During a flashback, Moeka Megumi was attempting to save a drowning kitten despite being unable to swim, resulting in Ryoko having to save her. She asked for a reason for such recklessness afterwards. Moeka answered that she did it simply because she can't stand someone dying on her watch. Though Ryoko didn't think she was serious at the time, since the thought of someone acting heroic just to be perceived as a hero by others was still too strong in her. This continued until her grandfather let her listen to a recording which contained her mom's final message, the one Ryoko was to listen to when she grew up enough. The truth was that her mom had worked for the intelligence agency - Ryoko's grandfather euphemistically called "a job that related with maintenance of public order in the Police". She was gathering intel on domestic terrorist cells, but the clock was ticking on the terrorist cell's plan and the back-up didn't make it in time. Her heroic actions led to her preventing a potential war outbreak.

Such a discovery changed Ryoko's views significantly which led her to joining the Tokime Tribe (despite previously refusing them, after they had shown her the Tokime village). Her grandpa knows she's a magical girl because he saw her after her transformation - Her debut in "A New Beginning" happened because she heard a monk from the temple she saved telling her grandfather that the village members of the tribe will come to Kamihama. She got curious and witnessed Touka's Doppel when she arrived.

(Abilities)

Ryoko's Powers are called "Sermon" which is described as being to create a pocket dimension that resembles the Suitoku Temple. In this dimension it prevents fighting so it's impossible to fight but inside this dimension the words from Ryoko are strengthened in influence.

(Etymology)

Her first name "Ryoko" means "cool/refreshing" and "Child", while her last name "Natsu" means "South" and "Harbor" respectively.

(5 Facts About Ryoko Natsu)

Fact #1: Her illustrator is "Azure."

Fact #2: Her grandfather is aware of her being a Magical Girl, as he has seen her in her transformed state.

Fact #3: Her Doppel's name; Gosirsa is the original name of the deity Gozu-Tennou, a Japanese Mythological God, who is associated with oxes.

Fact #4: According to her grandfather's testimony, it is presumed that Ryoko's mother was an operative for a Japanese intelligence agency - technically a Security Bureau of Japanese Police (possibly the NPA Security Bureau or TMPD Public Security Bureau). Ryoko's mother participated in a black ops mission to neutralize the domestic terrorists who were trying to launch a terrorist attack and implicate the operative of another country's intelligence agency, with the aim of instigating a full-scale war between Japan and the other country. As a result of the operation, the domestic terrorist group's plan failed, but Ryoko's mother was killed in action in an unfair fight.

Fact #5: Ryoko's VA is listed as Yukina Tomatsu who is best known for roles such as; Ber in Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle and Ao Shinohara from Extreme Hearts.

(Ending)

And that's Ryoko Natsu, and this also now ends off for me talking about The Side story magical girls...for now, and how it really took me like 2 years to get to the end of this....well just for now, I'll go back to them later But I think we all deserve to talk about the Queen Magical Girl of the whole Puella Magica series, you know who it is we will go to the OGs. of course for their Magia Record shelves.....well we will see once we are there anyways take care~bye.