Shino Kuribayashi

Shino Kuribayashi is a character from the ''Gate - Thus the JDSF Fought There! ''anime and manga.

Shino is a female soldier and member of the Third Recon Team.

In the Heroes Coalition fics, Shino is currently a member of the Heroes Coalition and is a part of the Triumph Division.

Appearance
Shino is pretty short, she has a short brown hair with a small sidetail on the left side and has brown eyes. She wears wears a dark-green camouflage military uniform, dark-green camouflage pants and black boots.

Personality
Shino has a short temper and can get easily angered when someone gets on her nerves. She is also sadistic and enjoys fighting, preferably charging headlong into melee combat. This recklessness is often frowned upon by her fellow members, and often results in getting her equipment damaged beyond repair. She does not kill without reason (i.e. in self-defense or upon a superior's order), but relishes in cutting loose whenever she gets the chance.

In spite of her violent nature, Shino also longs for a man in her life, once asking Itami to introduce her to single men in the Special Forces. It is revealed that she has dated before, but said "dates" inevitably involved going to a martial arts dojo for a "friendly spar", and any boyfriend who failed to beat - or at worst, match - her was summarily dumped, on the spot showing that her man must be the ones that can beat the crap out of her. Because of her tomboyish nature, however, she ironically makes herself more popular with the women in the Special Region, particularly the Warrior Bunnies; Maminaadmires Shino's battle moves at Italica, and in the novels Delilah and Shino become best friends, as both are violent and reckless in battle. She is also shown to be friendly with Rory Mercury, having apparently gained her respect after they fought along side each other in the Siege of Italica, and two are seen drinking together in the manga, and retrieving the boys together in the video. Shino is the shortest compared to the rest of Third Recon, but undoubtedly the most ferocious.

Kuribayashi openly dislikes Itami, due to his otaku nature. Her greatest personal ambition is to enlist into Japan's elite forces, the Rangers and Special Forces, and as a result she is severely shocked upon learning that a slacker like Itami, who shies away from any kind of exertion or responsibility, has managed to become a certified member of both. Although her dislike for his laidback personality has not lessened over time, she (albeit very) slowly comes to respect him as an able field commander.

Abilities
In the Heroes Coalition fics, Shino is a Blessed with an unspecified Gift.
 * Basic Training: Like all JSDF personnel, Kuribayashi has undergone basic physical and combat training, and is good physical condition, and is a competent marksman.
 * Close Combat Expert: Shino is very experienced in hand-to-hand combat and can take down people easily who are several times larger than her. She is also shown to strong enough to fight toe-to-toe with a shapeshifter in her beast form using only a combat knife.
 * Weapons Expert: She is proficient with her bayonet on her Type 64 rifle, proving herself capable of killing multiple armored Imperial soldiers in close combat. Shino is also a skilled shot with a handgun and her rifle, and in the use of hand grenades.

Trivia

 * If one compares her manga depiction to her anime one, she went from a muscular party girl to a petite, younger-looking one. Although her LN design is more attractive and closer to the anime one.
 * In the manga, she shows off really huge and muscular arms, and some of the boys like Itami and Kurata describe her as a muscle-head. She still has a few admirers and fanservice scenes.
 * Later in the novels, she falls in love with Akira Tomita and asks him to marry her, even though she knows he is in a relationship with Bozes. Even when he refuses, she stays by his side.
 * Shares her surname with Tadamichi Kuribayashi who was the commanding Japanese general of the Battle of Iwo Jima.