Megaton Musashi Main Character Index
The Pilots and their Rogues | Shelter Ixia and other factions | Draktors and other factions
The prominent playable characters of Megaton Musashi, as well as their giant robots known as "Rogues".The Pilots and their Rogues | Shelter Ixia and other factions | Draktors and other factions
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The Protagonists
Yamato Ichidaiji
The Hero and one of the primary protagonists of the story.
A rather unhinged troublemaker with a natural talent for fighting, Yamato seems to be experiencing occasional unsettling glimpses of what appears to be his family dying in an unknown incident. Recruited by Teru Asami on behalf of Oblivion Bay, he discovers that the town he's in was living ignorantly in a false peace and that humanity was actually fighting a Hopeless War against the Draktors, whom he discovered to have been responsible for his family's death.
Fueled by anger and extreme prejudice against the very invaders who took everything from him, Yamato agrees to be the pilot of the Megaton-Class Rogue, Musashi, of which his violent fighting style and unorthodox outside-context problem-solving skills translate perfectly.
Tropes applied to Yamato:
- Ax-Crazy: To say that he's insane is that much of an understatement. Justified, as his recurring nightmares (and eventual remembrance) of his family's death at the hands of the Draktor drove him crazy, though he's slowly fewer signs of this, even as he warming up to Arshem and became aware of her goals for both races.
- Blood Knight: Enjoys a good scuffle in and out of Rogues.
- Crazy Enough to Work: Yamato tends to use outside-context solutions when dealing with Draktor forces that were considered impossible to overcome, even if said method could kill him and everyone else on the spot. Is an enemy Draktor unit too far away? Launching the Musashi toward the enemy mech using centrifugal force at such high speed that it can inflict a deep cut on its torso. Enemy having a powerful forcefield? Have the Musashi overcharged the "Southern Cross Slash" to the point of nearly blowing itself up, just enough to slice it wide open. A Draktor unit self-destructing to cut the heroes off valuable resources? Use a combination of "Meteor Kick" and the explosive recoil of the "Megaton Punch" to drill upwards from below the ground and strike a Draktor mech from below.
- Fantastic Racism: Has a burning hatred for the Draktor and those connected to them due to the deaths of his family during the invasion. Of course, Arshem is one such exception to this, being fully supportive of her goals and rise to power as Xidol Queen.
- Stock Shōnen Hero: Deconstructed. On the outside, he's an Expy of Ryoma Nagare, a Hot-Blooded brawler prone to doing crazy things. However, even though Ryoma is a Blood Knight of the highest caliber, not even his Getter Robo Armageddon counterpart is as bad as Yamato as Yamato does crazier things than he has, putting his allies in danger and not really thinking things through most of the time.
- Revenge: His primary motivation in piloting the Musashi is to avenge his family and all those who died by the Draktors' hands, though this was downplayed later on.
- Official Couple: With Arshem.
Teru Asami
An enigmatic figure in his own right, Teru was a narcissistic honorary student serving as Oblivion Bay's liaison, often assessing potential pilots of other "Megaton-Class" Rogues, as well as being one of the selected pilots for Oblivion Bay's first "Megaton-Class" Rogue, Musashi. While cool-headed and often acting as the tactician amongst the other pilots, Teru seems to hiding quite a few secrets...
Being Oblivion Bay's tactician, he serves as one of the pilots of the Musashi, often handling the mech's communication tech and overall statistics, before eventually receiving his own Rogue befitting of his intellect: the Sparkman.
Tropes applied to Teru:
- Narcissist: Basically his whole deal, often keeping up the act as he rode to battle. Like with Yamato, this might be his coping mechanism in regards to the horrors the Draktors have inflicted upon humanity.
- Deus Sex Machina: Much of Mirai Asami's entire existence can be summed up to Teru being forced upon by a delirious Minami.
- Sink or Swim Fatherhood: Poor Teru ends up in this position shortly after Minami's death, as he discovered that she was harboring their child. Much of the second half of the anime and game's subplot revolves around Teru struggling with the prospect of being a single father to his daughter Mirai.
Ryugo Nijikata
The Big Guy of the group, and one of the initial pilots of the Musashi.
Quite a burly guy who relishes in the thrill of battle, Ryugo is the go-to guy when traditional brains and brawns aren't enough, yet he does crack under pressure on a few occasions when the right buttons are pressed. Strangely for a guy like him, he is also the most sensitive among other pilots, often showing concerns about his friends and even crying to his mother when overwhelmed with fear.
His brute strength and proficiency in close-quarters combat make him the perfect match for a Rogue equally important on the battlefield: the Gaudia, a Rogue with enough brute strength and unrivaled to call his own.
Tropes applied to Ryugo:
- Blood Knight: Enjoys fighting anyone as long as it keeps him fired up...
- Bash Brothers: With Yamato, though the two would get themselves into trouble whenever they start a ruckus. This also makes it a lot painful to witness Yamato making a Heroic Sacrifice.
- Dark and Troubled Past: In his past, his mother was an Abusive Parent, locking him in the closet.
- Emotional Bruiser: A big guy who likes to punch anyone and anything, but also cries whenever he gets emotional? Yep.
- Momma's Boy: Whenever he's in serious danger, this usually pops up, often crying for help at times. This also what unlocks his past memories, much to his dismay.
Reiji Amemiya
The Lancer of the group, and one of the few chosen pilots picked by Oblivion Bay for the next line of Rogues following the Musashi's successful deployment.
Unlike most of his fellow pilots, Reiji wants nothing to do with fighting for humanity's sake, let alone piloting a Rogue. All he ever wanted was to be with cats, as he found comfort and serenity with them than other people like him. Yet, his caretaker and guardian, the brilliant Dr. Raider, keeps on persuading him to pilot a Rogue if he ever wanted a nice peaceful moment with his object of affection... and not because the good doctor saw something else in him...
Possessing unbelievable piloting skills despite his reluctance towards fighting, Reiji is assigned to his own Rogue: the Arthur, which also equipped with the "Act Riser", a special device that allows him to not only pilot the Rogue solo unlike the Musashi (initially), but to also enabled him to unknowingly channel his latent potential...
Tropes applied to Reiji:
- The Ace: Even without his latent Psycho-Rise abilities, Reiji is widely considered as this, though this was only held back by his pessimistic nature and undying love for cats.
- Berserk Button: Hurting cats (and later on, Jun) is a surefire way to provoke him to take the fight seriously easily.
- Empowered Badass Normal: According to Dr. Raider, Reiji seems to possess an unexplained power known as "Psycho-Rise" that made him a formidable fighter, usually emerging when experiencing greater amounts of stress and even higher amounts of emotion, such as Jun's brief death.
- Expy: Is this to both Amuro Ray and Shinji Ikari: a sheltered distant young boy forced to pilot a giant robot against his will by his distant father (adopted father, in this case) with powerful psychic abilities.
- My Greatest Failure: In Chapter 4, Reiji is forced to fight after Dr. Raider takes control of the cat he took possession of and lead him to the cockpit of Arthur. Reiji refused to fight and was attacked, the cat flying and breaking its neck against the cockpit viewscreen. Reiji tries to take a Never My Fault attitude, but ultimately accepts it.
- He also seems to be developing one regarding Jun after the latter was injured during Griffas' attack on Shelter Ixia, feeling that his detachment from humanity in favor of his attachment to cats ended up causing more harm than good.
Jun Kirishima
The first female pilot picked by Oblivion Bay to be the pilots for the next line of Rogues.
Described by many as the campus' idol, Jun was rather talented and heavily admired by many, yet all of this made her somewhat felt empty, as if something was missing in her heart. Thus, like Ryugo, she also found comfort in the heat of battle against other local gangs, putting her on par with both Yamato and Ryugo.
Through a series of suspicions regarding the boys, she was scouted by Genta Ibushi to be the primary pilot of the Maximus, one of the newest Rogues and a literal artillery unit with enough missiles to launch at her enemies.
Tropes applied to Jun:
- Action Girl: One of the most prominent female combatants amongst the cast, both on foot and on the Rogue.
- Disney Death: In Chapter 10, Jun refuses to eject and takes a massive blast head on within the Maximus. The blast does kill her, but Reiji's Psycho-Rise powers end up resurrecting her.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: As it turns out, Jun’s "gang", Kings and Jokers, aren’t really a gang, but just a group that hung around her after she showed them she could win an idol contest. The "KJ" logo? It’s her initials and everyone else thought they were a gang without realizing the truth.
- Teacher/Student Romance: Deconstructed. Early in the story, she tries to win over her classroom teacher, only for Momoka to stop her and point out how wrong that is. Jun attempts to justify it that her love is "pure", but Momoka doesn't buy it at all, leaving Jun frustrated.
Arshem Laia
The main heroine and the deuteragonist of the story.
A sheltered royal princess of the whole Draktor race, Arshem seeks a more peaceful option as her people invade the Earth in a violent 48-hour insurgence, something which her brother and her mother relish as 99.9% of humanity died at the invaders' hands.
Realized that her people won't stop until all life on the planet is destroyed, Arshem fled from home and seeks refuge in Shelter Ixia alongside her servant Sarzant Evol, all with one goal in mind: learning mankind's culture by walking the human life and finding the one person willing to help her in uniting humanity and the entire Draktor race under a single leadership.
While a capable fighter herself, Arshem is mostly a pacifist who isn't afraid to confront her foes up close if it means making them listen to her. It wasn't until she was separated from Shelter Ixia and subsequently rescued by Victor Jaeger that she was able to also pilot the Musashi's Super Prototype, Musashi O.
Tropes applied to Arshem:
- Action Girl: Trained to be an effective assassin for the Draktors, yet her good-hearted nature and willingness to fight for peace between the two species makes her humanity's "angel". Piloting a Rogue on her own is also a plus.
- Alien Princess: Arshem is born as one. Losses this status once she unwillingly ascended in queenhood.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Through Grieffas' Batman Gambit, albeit unwillingly, Arshem ascends to the throne and became the new Xidol queen, just in time to fend off El Zeid's approaching forces. However, by the time she finally accomplished her dream of uniting mankind and Xidol under a new leadership as the Xidol queen, the girl was reduced to a depressed sobbing mess as the result of Yamato's death, stating that she didn't deserve her new role now that her one reason to move forward (Yamato) is gone.
- Break the Cutie: Despite her efforts, the princess had it rough the moment she stepped foot into Shelter Ixia. Not only does she witnessed Sarzant died by Grieffas' hand and got separated from Yamato during a scuffle against Grieffas, having experienced a rough life amongst the survivors of a small community Shelter, sensed her mother's death, learned of Yamato's sacrifice to stop the war from further escalating, and being forced to assimilate her brother as a part of his gambit to complete his mission of fully eradicating the last of the human race by turning her into a more ruthless queen of the entire Draktor race. Fortunately, she pulled through in the end.
- Character Tic: She tends to touch her forehead quite a bit whenever she needs to focus.
- Official Couple: With Yamato.
- Took a Level in Badass: Goes from a young sheltered pacifist to a young mech-piloting queen of the Draktor race also fighting for the human race.
Other Pilots
Pilots introduced in Megaton Musashi
Momoka Saotome
A Kendo practitioner and the second co-pilot of the Maximus. She has something of a rivalry with Jun due to their clashing personalities. Momoka is recruited along with Kota after the former manhandled a group of black suits seeking to capture and dismantle Kota.Takumi Kindaichi
Kota Akutagawa
Ginta Ibushi
Pilots introduced in Megaton Musashi X
Masamune Kuze
Victor Jaeger
Tetsuo Iwata
Shizuka Manami
Pilots introduced in Megaton Musashi W: Wired (MAJOR SPOILERS)
Kojiro Toyama
Mirai Asami
The main protagonist of Megaton Musashi W: Wired's exclusive third storyline.
Mirai is Teru Asami and Sayaka Minami's daughter, conceived with both human and Sidr genes in her blood, making her the link between humanity and the Draktors.
Tropes applied to Mirai:
- Half-Human Hybrid: Possessed both human and Xidol DNA in her body.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: As stated by Dr. Raider, her Xidol genes cause her body to age much quicker than an average human, with the initial manifestation of her Xidol powers accelerating her growth and mentality as she goes from an infant to a young child in an instant, much to Teru and Ryugo's shock. By the events of the anime's epilogue and the third storyline's opening scene, it's implied that she has since aged normally at the age of 16.
The Rogues
Built from the ultra-resilient "Megatonium" alloy, these gigantic combat mechs were humanity's last line of defense against the invading Dracters.- Humongous Mecha: There's a reason the main Rogues were classified as a "Megaton-Class"...
- Limit Break: Kabuki Functions serves as this for all Rogues, being powerful gigantic attacks capable of obliterating anything in their wake, though Gameplay and Story Segregation suggests that executing one is a time-consuming process.
Musashi
Rogue Type: Ogre
Pilot: Yamato Ichidaiji (primary), Teru Asaminote , Ryugo Nijikatanote , Masamune Kuze (temporarily stolen)
The eponymous mecha and the first completed Rogue made by Oblivion Bay.Armed with a pair of swords, a built-in energy cannon in its torso, and a pair of hidden "Heavy Arm" armaments in its forearm capable of generating explosive energy, the Musashi is the Jack of All Trades amongst other Rogues, equally as strong and durable as it needs to be.
Unlike most Rogues later down the line, the Musashi comprised three units that sometimes need to be combined during the freefall "Sky Build" sequence.
In preparation for the upcoming assault of Ame no Murakumo, the Rogue was given a significant upgrade in the form of the Musashi Xnote , a more powerful Rogue made with Yamato's immense abilities in mind.
Tropes applied to the Musashi:
- Finishing Move:
- Megaton Punch: Launches an explosive fiery punch, piercing through multiple units before exploding in a wide radius, dealing additional damage.
- X Break: Performs an X-shaped slash that travels in a straight path, dealing multiple hits as it passes through enemies.
- Diffusion Blaster: Fires a large laser from the Musashi's built-in cannon in its torso, dealing continuous damage to whatever it hits.
- Meteor Kick: An energy-infused drop kick.
Arthur
Rogue Type: Ogre
Pilot: Reiji Amemiya
Maximus
Rogue Type: Ogre
Pilot: Jun Kirishima, Momoka Saotome (co-pilot)
If the Musashi is built to be the Jack of All Trades and the Arthur being the Lightning Bruiser, the Maximus is made to be a walking artillery unit.Armed with multiple missile launchers all over its body, the Maximus is known for raining destruction upon its foes with overwhelming amounts of missiles.
Tropes applied to the Maximus:
- Macross Missile Massacre: It's definitive bread-and-butter. Even its special attack, "Smash Zone"note , complements this.
Gaudia
Sparkman
Rogue Type: Ogre
Pilot: Teru Asami
The Sparkman is the fourth Rogue to be made by Oblivion Bay, as well as one of the Rogues built alongside the Gaudia.Equipped with a pair of electrical generators on its shoulders and head, the Sparkman is specialized in providing defensive traps against enemies and added an offensive boost to itself and other Rogues' weapons by imbuing them with high-voltage discharges.
Tropes applied to the Sparkman:
- Jousting Lance: Its main weapon, which also benefits from being imbued with electricity.
- Shock and Awe: Able to generate its electrical field to be used for defensive and offensive maneuvers.
Musashi O
Rogue Type: Ogre
Pilot: Victor Jaeger, Arshem Laia
The Musashi's predecessor, as well as its Super Prototype from which every Rogue will be based on since.Fire Loader
Yoshitsune
Musashi Delta
Rogue Type: Slim
Pilot: Mirai Asami
The Musashi's successor unit, as well as the first of the Slim-Type Rogues.Tropes applied to the Musashi Delta:
Mazinger Z
Rogue Type: Ogre/Collab
A Rogue based off of the designs of the legendary mecha that did battle with Dr. Hell's Mechanibeasts.Tropes applied to the Mazinger Z:
- Adaptational Wimp: Due to game limitations, the Mazinger Z Rogue only has Rocket Punch and Breast Fire for its attacks.
- Finishing Move:
- Rocket Punch: Fly, Iron Fist! The original Rocket Punch is here!
- Breast Fire: Fire it! Finish it! The original Chest Blaster is here as well!
Getter Robo
Rogue Type: Ogre/Collab
A Rogue based off of the designs of the legendary mecha that did battle with the Dinosaur Empire.Tropes applied to the Getter Robo
- Adaptational Wimp: Due to game limitations, the Getter Robo Rogue is stuck as only Getter-1. Despite this, the mission you get this from suggests that it is literally powered by Getter Rays, thus it's still a threat.
- Finishing Move:
- Getter Tomahawk: Hack and slash your opponents with twin axes!
- Getter Beam: Harness the power of Getter and blast your opponents away!
