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| “ | Longg, Bring the Storm! | „ |
| ~ Kagami during her transformation into Ryuko. |
Kagami Tsurugi is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Luka Couffaine) of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. In season 3, she receives the Dragon Miraculous from Ladybug, which, when inhabited by the kwami Longg, can transform her into Ryuko, a dragon-themed superhero.
She is voiced by Faye Mata in English, who also voiced Aqua in Konosuba, and Nanako Mori in Japanese.
Appearance[]
Kagami is a Japanese girl, that recently moved to Paris with her mother and attended the D'Argencourt fencing academy. She has dark blue hair that has light blue reflections and yellow-brown eyes.
As a civilian, she wears a white long-sleeved blazer that has black outlines around the collar, running down across her waist all the way to the bottom to the hem, cuffs and two black accents on the top of the fastened outer pockets. The blazer has two gold pockets around the waist and each side of the cuffs. On the top right of her chest is an attached logo that is shaped as a rouleaux triangle. The logo includes her family's crest, with the gold sign of Japanese kanji for female fastened on top of the green, white and red fabric with a gold outline surrounding the logo. Underneath, she wears a black collared blouse with many gold buttons. Attached to the collar is a red tie with blue parallel lines that intersects with each other.
Kagami wears a red skirt with an asymmetrical texture that has blue and white intersecting vertical and horizontal lines. She wears tight black leggings and a pair of red sneakers with white toecaps, laces, a black logo on the heel counter and black soles. On the ring finger of her right hand, she wears a black ring that has her family's crest and it has two long outward spikes stretching from the mark.
As her superhero identity, Ryuko, she wears a red suit with an image of a black rose with a yellow outlining involving her from her left leg to her chest with the flower holding the images that represent the three elements she controls: lightning, air, and water. She also has a black collar/turtleneck (where she has her choker), black forearm-length gloves and black legs starting at a point in the middle of her lower legs, both with yellow outlining. On the back of her head, she has four red dragon-like horns with yellow tips with black outlining, and, on her back, she has a holder for her sword. On her face, she wears a red mask around her eyes with a yellow and black outline at the base of the sides. Her eyes also get golden with yellow scleras.
Personality[]
Powers and abilities[]
As a civilian[]
Kagami is a very skilled fencer, thanks to intense training by her mother. She is so skilled that she even has stated that she's been considered the best everywhere she's went.
As Ryuko[]
Like all Miraculous wielders, Ryuko has enchanted abilities like speed and strength, and most notably agility, being able to jump much higher than either Ladybug or Cat Noir. Her weapon is her sword. She is a skilled swordfighter. Her special ability allows her to transform herself into three different elements: water, air, and lightning. Unlike with most Miraculouses' special abilities, which cause an under-aged wielder to start reverting back to civilian form after only one use, Ryuko can use all three elements before the countdown starts for her to revert to civilian form. However, should she be able to overcome the limiter failsafe on the Dragon Miraculous like Cat Noir and Ladybug did with their Miraculous through sheer willpower, she would be able to use special abilities repeatedly without the need to revert back to recuperate.
Biography[]
Season 1[]
Season 2[]
In "Riposte", Kagami is akumatized by Hawk Moth into the fencing supervillain Riposte after losing a fencing match against Adrien Agreste, who wants to kill Adrien in revenge. After she has been deakumatized, Adrien goes to give her her sai back and they apologize to each other. Kagami also seems to think that Adrien has a crush on Marinette, asking him if he likes her, although Adrien thinks she's talking about friendship. Her mother then comes to pick her up, and she tells Adrien her name before going with her.
Season 3[]
In "Animaestro", she is revealed to be enemies with Chloé Bourgeois, the wealthy daughter of the mayor of Paris.
In "Oni-Chan", Kagami is akumatized again into the phantom shinobi Oni-Chan after Lila Rossi sends her a photo of herself kissing Adrien.
In "Ikari Gozen", Ladybug gives the Dragon Miraculous to Kagami to help defeat her mother, who has been transformed by Hawk Moth into the supervillain Ikari Gozen by being fused with her self-driving car. Kagami meet Longg, the Dragon Kwami, who tried to explain to her about Ladybug's plan before she activates her transformation to Ryuko.
Miraculous New York[]
Season 4[]
In "Lies", Kagami gets akumatized again. This time as Lies, due to thinking that Adrien has been lying to her for not spending enough time with her, it's because of his secret heroic actions as Cat Noir.
Kagami becomes Ryuko again to help Ladybug against Risk and Strikeback in the season finale, but is overpowered by the Sentimonster until Ladybug is able to find a way to defeat both Risk and Strikeback. However, after she returns the Dragon Miraculous and Longg to Ladybug, Longg and the Miraculous are stolen by Felix Fathom and handed over to Shadow Moth, allowing him access to all of the Miraculous except for Ladybug and Cat Noir, leaving Kagami unable to help Ladybug and Cat Noir anymore as Ryuko, nor seek help from the rest of the French Miraculous Superhero Team.
Season 5[]
In "Jubilation", Ryuko is among the superheroes attending Ladybug and Cat Noir's wedding in the dream caused by Gift/Jubilation when they are fighting Darker Owl in reality.
In "Determination", to try and help restore morale to Paris because of losing Ryuko and the other heroes, Grevin Museum curator Veronique has a wax figurine of Ryuko made, alongside those of the rest of the team, in hopes of helping to boost hope. When Mayor Bourgeois, under Chloe's influence again, refuses to let the figures be displayed, Veronique is Akumatized by Monarch into Manipula, bringing the wax figures of Ryuko and the others to life to try and make Manipula look like a hero by bringing the team back.
At one point, when Kagami falls into despair, Monarch akumatizes her again into Ryukomori. However, the ring he infected with the akuma led to him being brutally confronted by Tomoe, warning Gabriel to never put her daughter in danger again, or their partnership will be dissolved, as he owes Tomoe everything regarding their master plan. Cowed, Gabriel promises not to akumatize Kagami again.
As part of their ultimate plan, codenamed Operation Perfect Alliance, Tomoe and Gabriel send Kagami and Adrien to London to keep them safe and out of the way of their intentions. Kagami is given transport back to Paris by Argos so they can show Marinette the truth of Felix and Adrien's origins, and hint to her who Monarch really is. However, when she returns to London, a furious Tomoe and Gabriel put Kagami and Adrien in solitary confinement to ensure they stay in London so they can complete their plan.
There's nothing Kagami can do until sometime after Gabriel sacrificed himself to end Monarch's threat and that of Operation Perfect Alliance in the season finale, "The Final Day". After Marinette recovers the Miraculous Gabriel had acquired, and with the help of the Miraculous Grimoire she recovered from the Agreste Mansion after her final battle with Gabriel/Monarch, she is able to restore the Miraculous back to their original designs, and to ensure no one can get all of them again, she returns Longg and the Dragon Miraculous to Kagami permanently, allowing her to become Ryuko again and join the rest of the French Miraculous Superhero Team to defend Paris from the threat of the new Hawk Moth in Lila Rossi/Cerise Bianca.
Miraculous London[]
Taking place during the final moments of "Re-creation (The Final Day - Part 2)", Kagami is still in her solitary confinement in London when Marinette, as Bug Noire, arrives to bust her out. Kagami reveals that she knows Marinette's secret, and Marinette reveals what happened with Gabriel/Monarch when he made his wish to Gimmi. When Marinette explains the cover story that she and Nathalie are going to spin to the public about Gabriel sacrificing himself to take Monarch down with him, Kagami worries about her mother Tomoe, as she was a willing accomplice/partner to Gabriel's mad schemes, which Marinette also knew about after being told of Tomoe's partnership with Gabriel by Nathalie. Not wishing to have Kagami be an orphan herself if Tomoe is sent to prison for life for her crimes working with Gabriel, knowing full well Tomoe might spill the truth as retribution for Gabriel's death and destroy Ladybug's reputation after she lied to everyone, Marinette leaves it up to Kagami to speak to Tomoe to convince her to seek atonement for her sins. They then go to free Adrien, helped by the Gorilla, Placide I.T., but as he breaks down crying over the death of his father, as now he's lost both his parents in Gabriel and Emilie, Kagami comforts him before thanking Bug Noire and tells her she should head back home as she's got a lot to do, and Bug Noire returns to Paris with a heavy heart over having told a half-truth to Adrien after promising Nathalie, and the late Gabriel, to never speak the truth to anyone, even Adrien.
Adrien and Kagami later return to Paris aboard the Startrain with the Gorilla, but while Nathalie and Tomoe are waiting for them, no words are exchanged between Kagami and Tomoe before Tomoe escorts Kagami away, presumably to speak to her in private regarding what Tomoe heard from Ladybug about Gabriel's death that she told the public and press. However, thanks to what Marinette told her, Kagami does have some leverage over her mother to keep her from exposing the truth to the public and destroying Ladybug's reputation in revenge, and can use it to convince her mother to seek atonement for her own crimes, which appears to have happened at the end of "Re-creation" when Tomoe took over Gabriel's brand under the surmise of "continuing his legacy", referring to his clothing line, and had the Alliance Rings destroyed and melted down into a statue to honor Gabriel, thus erasing any evidence of Tomoe's collaboration with Gabriel.
Trivia[]
- "Ryuko" is the name of the protagonist from Kill la Kill, and Kagami and Ryūko Matoi even have similar color schemes, prominently featuring dark blue and red.
- Kagami is one of the few Miraculous characters to have their birthdays revealed, in her case, it is November 20, according to an official post in Marinette's Instagram account. Also, she is one of the few Miraculous to have their Chinese Zodiac sign and zodiac sign revealed, in her case, it is Dragon (in the English dub) and Scorpio (in the French dub), respectively.
- So this means that she was born on November 20, 2000, as the date is on the sign of Scorpio and on the Chinese Zodiac sign of Dragon. Also, she is stated to be 15 in "Ikari Gozen", which takes place on July 30, 2016.
- She is the seventh person to become to a Miraculous holder who was also an akumatized villain, following Nino Lahiffe in "The Bubbler", Alya Césaire in "Lady Wifi", Lê Chiến Kim in "Dark Cupid", Max Kanté in "Gamer", Chloé Bourgeois in "Antibug", Luka Couffaine in "Silencer", but excluding Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth, who akumatized himself in "The Collector" into the titular villain.
- While the name "Ryuko" can have many meanings in Japanese, it is most likely that the particular translation used here is “Child of the Dragon” (龍 "ryu" meaning dragon, and 子 "ko" meaning child).
- She is the second superhero whose civilian identity is known by Hawk Moth, with the first being Chloé as Queen Bee:
- Unlike Chloé, her identity is not known by the public.
- Using the Dragon Miraculous makes Kagami one of twelve Miraculous Users who's Kwamis represent the Chinese Zodiac. In her case, the Dragon.
External Links[]
- Ryuko on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
- Ryuko on the Miraculous Ladybug Wiki
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