Nakoruru

Nakoruru is a beautiful Ainu girl from the Samurai Showdown series. Sweet and nature-loving, she sees herself as both a defender of her village as well as nature, fighting to protect the forest and people she loves.

Appearance
Nakoruru has long black hair, usually tied with a red ribbon, and is commonly described as being extremely pretty. She is typically seen wearing her Ainu outfit, consisting of a mostly white kimono top with red patterns and a yellow sash across her waist holding the top together. She also wears fairly baggy white pants, which end just above her ankles, and red cloth shoes. Her sword, a small Japanese kodachi, is sheathed behind her back. On her hands, she wears large white fingerless gloves.

In Edge of Destiny, she swaps her pants for a knee-length skirt with the same red patterns across the hem.

Nakoruru wears a white sarashi cloth and fundoshi-style panties beneath her clothes, which can sometimes be seen when fatal attacks are performed on her.

Personality
Nakoruru is a kind and gentle girl, and cares deeply for the people around her. Her mannerisms tend to be shy, which makes people describe her as "doll-like" due to her shyness and beauty, although she dislikes the term. She strongly believes that nature can be protected without violence, and tends to be non-aggressive when confrontations occur. She is particularly protective of her sister, Rimururu, with whom she shares a very close relationship.

Depiction in media
Nakoruru appears throughout the Samurai Shodown series, as well as several crossover series where she is a playable character. She is very popular with fans primarily for her appearance and personality, and numerous spinoff media featuring her have been made.

In most games, she is a speed-type character who has a variety of ambush and hit-and-run style attacks. Her slashes and kicks are fast compared to most other characters, although they have very limited range due to the shortness of her sword, relying on her special attacks to close-in with the opponent. However, her health and defense are low, and many of her attacks are unsafe if blocked, causing her to be killed very quickly if her attacks are countered against.

Since Samurai Shodown V Special, where female characters were susceptible to fatal attacks, Nakoruru was known to have particularly brutal and undignified death animations, leading her to be the victim in numerous ryona videos where she is killed by the other characters in the game.