Asagi
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Asagi is a recurring minor character. She was rumored to be the new main character of an upcoming game titled Makai Wars, but the title was possibly scrapped; since then, she has become an unofficial mascot of Nippon Ichi, making cameo appearances in a number of games beginning with Makai Kingdom. Though her character design has stayed consistent in her appearances, her personality has changed considerably in each, appearing as a shy, naive girl, a stuckup, demanding girl, or anything in between, including something along the lines of insanity. Determined to become a protagonist, she attempts to take over whatever game she is appearing in.
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[edit] Appearances
[edit] Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
Asagi makes her first appearance in the Disgaea series in a Disgaea 2 extra map, where it's revealed Zetta placed a curse on her, forcing her to remain in Veldime until she can become stronger. Defeating her here rewards the player with the Summer Greetings Postcard. This is the only other time her Makai Kingdom sprites are reused, which is visible not only in her short height (alluded to in-game), but her attack is with a rifle, and her special, "Magic Shot", has her pull out a Makai Cannon to perform the attack. In the PSP remake "Dark Hero Days", her Makai kingdom recycled sprite is again referenced by the Magichange feature (which is implemented from Disgaea 3), Magichanging her into a Crossbow with her sitting on top, making it an... "Asagi Launcher". She also appears in "Axel Mode" in her Disgaea 3 Humanoid form as the second chapter's boss. Her humanoid form is also unlockable by leveling Asagi in "Adell Mode" to level 2000 and passing a bill.
[edit] Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
Her most recent game appearance is in an extra map in Disgaea 3. Here, she supposedly received a game where she's finally the main character, only to have it stolen. She comes to Evil Academy while in her search for her stolen game and while in the Heart Bank, Mao and the gang find her. Mao asks her what's up and she replies by saying that her game was stolen from her. Shortly afterwords, she jumps to the conclusion that Mao stole her game and attacks him. After her defeat, she feels utterly depressed and now believes that her game is lost forever, bursting into tears. Everyone else soon aims the blame on Mao for what happened. Mao then goes over to Asagi and tells her that he didn't steal her game but the Legendary Overlord may have been the culprit. He offers her the chance to come with them since they're in search of the overlord as well and Asagi happily joins. This is one of the few scenes where Mao shows an act of Kindness (in his own way). During battle Asagi is best with Guns due to that being her best weapon in Makai Kingdom. She also has 2 unique skills, Cameo Star and Magic Shot. Magic Shot has her fire powerful blasts from 2 pistols at the foes and Cameo Star, despite popular belief, has her attack a foe with a Morning Star weapon from Makai Kingdom. She also showed up in the in-game trailer for Raspberyl Mode playing Axel's Guitar but at no point actually shows up in Raspberyl mode (much like 99.9% of the trailer).
[edit] Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?
In Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero?, in an alternate storyline (accessed be either collecting the ten torn letter pieces or entering a code at the title screen) Asagi is a boss fight for every stage. Her attacks, much like in Soul Nomad, consist of weapons from Makai Kingdom, specializing in guns. Her stages are 4-7 stars in difficulty working through a pattern after the first level from 5-7-5-7and so on. Throughout the game it's shown that due to her constant cameo appearances and lack of her own game, she's become somewhat insane and occasionally lapses into a heavy street accent (similar to the accents spoken in Brooklyn and Boston) brought on by a newly developed, rougher personality. Again, throughout the game's "Asagi Mode", she is trying to gain the position of main character. She is fought multiple times after trying different approaches to become the hero such as hacking the game to make her level 9999, trying to get the monsters on her side, checking out other games such as fighting games with large breasted women and the popular Super Mario Brothers franchise (only hinted through parody) and even going as far as to transform into (read: dress as) a Prinny for the last battle. After defeating Prinny Asagi, it's revealed in a cutscene that she had put a bomb into her costume for no real reason, and set it to go off after three minutes. When she can't deactivate it or remove the suit in time, she gets killed in the blast however even after the explosion her corpse is still standing up (That's dedication there, dood!). After the credits roll, we find that Asagi has now been reincarnated into a black Prinny wondering if now she can be the main character.
There is also a downloadable battle with Asagi's smaller form from Makai Kingdom. Not only is she smaller, but she is also incredibly fast. Aside from whacking the Hero Prinny with her rifle whenever she's not shooting him, she can also throw two prinnies (comically larger than her), double jump, summon King Corn, and fire a "Magical Bullet", which is actually a large laser blast; the recoil from the blast sends her tumbling backwards some. Eventually, by writing in the Sacred Tome (Zetta), she summons a robot to attack with fire blasts, missiles, and three thrown prinnies. The robot eventually malfunctions and explodes, leaving Asagi to ride around on a small turret that fires wildly.
After winning the fight, she breaks down (her head rolling off again, as shown in the pre-battle cutscene), crying that "I'll never escape my destiny..." and disappears.
[edit] Appearances in other Nippon Ichi games
[edit] Makai Kingdom
Her first appearance is in Makai Kingdom as a bonus character. By granting the wish "Meet the Next Protagonist" Zetta teleports to her world. When Asagi is surprised by Zetta's appearance, Zetta assumed that the next Nippon Ichi game was going to be a serious drama like Phantom Brave was so he was determined to stop that from happening. After her defeat at Zetta's hands, she becomes his vassal. Gameplay wise, she has a high TEC stat, giving her proficiency with remotes, rifles, and vehicles.
[edit] Soul Nomad and the World Eaters
Asagi makes another return in Soul Nomad and the World Eaters. From her speech, it's inferred that under Zetta's training, she has become much stronger, although she may have turned on him. She has also become rather conceited, demanding the hero hand over his/her spot as the main character and calling herself the Queen of Games. Winning this extra stage allows for Asagi to be added to any squad, and this stage can be repeated to gain extra copies of Asagi, although a new cycle must be started, due to Asagi's power destroying the world. An interesting trick can be done with this mission as in a new cycle it can in fact be done an infinite amount of times meaning you can recruit and infinite amount of Asagis to join your army. Her attacks here feature weapons and mechanics from Makai Kingdom such as her use of Guns, Bazookas and Morning Stars as well as her combat skill as leader which involves her summoning the Yoshitsuna Battle Ship.
