Youka Naze is a character from the Medaka Box anime and manga.
Youka is the resident mad scientist of the Flask Plan and Medaka's older sister. She has an obsession with being as miserable as possible, believing that hardship is the root of all genius. To this end, she forsook the love of her family and their wealth and covers her face in ugly bandages with a knife sticking out to cover up her good looks, believing that anything that gives her a natural advantage will only get in the way. Her only close companion is Koga Itami.
In the AWA fics, Youka is set to debut in a future AWA storyline.
In the XP4 fics, Youka debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - AKB0048.
Appearance[]
Naze has shoulder-length purple hair and red eyes. She often keeps her head wrapped in bandages, exposing only her eyes and mouth, with a dagger sticking out of her forehead. Beneath the bandages, she is noted to have a pretty face, and in place of the knife is a band-aid. She wears a skin tight black suit beneath Hakoniwa Academy's girl's uniform. She does not wear a bra, and keeps her arms crossed constantly to hold up her breasts. She wears two pairs of panties, one on top of her black suit, and a second pair beneath it. When with the other members of the Thirteen Party, Naze tends to wear a black cloak, and adjusts her bandages to cover her mouth. During the battle to decide the academy's new Student Council, Naze wears the Student Council's Battle Attire Red Model. When dressed casually, Naze keeps her knife and bandages, but wears a flower-patterned scarf, a dark, short-sleeved jacket over a light, long-sleeved shirt, a matching skirt, and leggings. After joining Zenkichi's Student Council, Naze now wears a black version of her original uniform. She continues to wear her black bodysuit, but no longer wears her facial gear. The blue armband signifying her as the Vice-President is worn around her left arm. Ten years later, Naze wears a lab coat with a black vest over a white dress and tights.
While younger, Naze wore a long-sleeved, light green hoodie, black shorts, and brown and white shoes. While in middle school, she wore a short-sleeved. white collared shirt, along with a beige vest and a black skirt. She covered her head with a paper bag, with a single eye hole for her left eye.
Personality[]
When she was young she believed that the best geniuses came from a hell-like environment and she grew up hating her great life because of it. She is a extreme stoic (doesn't show her true emotions) and likes to study. She is intelligent about Biology which allows her to modify bodies. Even thought she had a great life, she wanted to live in a deeper hell so she ran away from home and changed her name. Because she wanted it, she was bullied in Class 11 which is where she met Itami Koga who she loves as a friend. However, she does seem to have a slight weakness of boasting, shown during the fight between Zenkichi and Misogi Kumagawa where she repeatedly extols the magnificence of the person who trained Zenkichi for the fight (i.e. herself) and comparing the result as being far more successful then what her brother could have achieved. She does however exhibit some personality traits of a Minus: when provided with the opportunity, she nearly betrayed her comrades to help Kumagawa, before remembering that she cared about them. Recently, she has also taken up Medaka's habit of sending Maguro flying into a wall every time he hugs her.
XP4 Fanfics[]
Youka is a member of the Heroes Coalitions and is part of the Dream Team as an honorary member. She also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - AKB0048[]
In Chapter 22, Youka took part in a battle against the DES within inside the Vegastar.
In Chapter 24, Youka, alongside her team and Mace Wyndu's crew, finished their mission at Vegastar where they watched the asteroid getting blasted to bits. She is later present during the aftermath of the mission at Baltistar and later witnessed Kazeyoshi Imai's announcement all across the universe.
In Chapter 28, Youka, alongside everyone, are seen approaching Kasumigastar and upon arriving at one city, they were confronted by Noboru Takizawa and his cohorts, demanding them to leave but they refuse. They then later witnessed the arrival of thousand of AKB-fans, much to their shock and awe.
In Chapter 29, Youka, alongside everyone, are seen backstage of the concert hall in a city somewhere Kasumigastar with a look of awe at the large number of crowd gathered for the concert and later witnessed the return of Atsuko Katagiri and the rest of the missing idols, and had a great time watching the performances afterwards. They then learned that Noboru Takizawa escaped which prompted Kazeyoshi Imai and Mace Wyndu to go after him.
In Chapter 32, Youka took part of paying respects for Mace Wyndu's death by attending his funeral via burial at sea in Atamistar before witnessing the arrival of a fleet of Dimensional Defense Union ships whom paid their respects for Mace by gifting him with a Heroes' Tribute.
In the Epilogue, Youka, alongside the heroes and the idols, is present in the AKB-exclusive space terminal in Akibastar where they said their goodbyes to the members of Unit W and Alpha Squadron. Afterwards, everyone decided to take a break for the rest of the day.
Abilities[]
Abnormality[]
Remodeling (Kaizou): Naze's Abnormality allows her to remodel people, in a vein similar to her brother Maguro's Analysis. She has performed several experiments on animals while a part of the Flask Plan, making them strong enough to not even fear Medaka. She has also worked with several members of the Thirteen Party, training both Takachiho and Munakata. She has also trained Zenkichi, though time restraints kept her from using drugs or major surgery. Naze's most extensive work however has been with Koga, who she fully remade into a cyborg. Aside from remodeling others, Naze is also fully capable of using her Abnormality on herself. She first remodeled herself six years ago, and again during her battle with Shibushi, to create the Minus skill Ice Fire.
Minus[]
Ice Fire (Aisu Faia): Naze's Minus, created during her battle with Shibushi with her Abnormality Remodeling. Ice Fire allows Naze to manipulate her body temperature. By doing this she can lower her temperature to create ice around her using vapor in the air and manipulate ice. She can also instantly seal wounds by freezing her veins and skin, as well as keep her head cool to prevent suffering from mental damage. Naze can use this ability with ice on other people and objects, the skill having a large range. Naze can also create ice mirrors. Because Ice Fire is a temperature skill and not an ice skill, Naze can freeze other liquids aside from water. She can also raise her body temperature to produce fire. Naze is also capable of manipulating the temperature around her in such a way that she creates a gust of wind which she can ride on, essentially allowing her to fly. The appearance of Ice Fire has changed over time. When first created, Ice Fire creates a large piece of ice on Naze's forehead in place of her band-aid, and her hair turns a lighter shade. Several wrappings form around her to cover her body, with two large straps crossing one another suspended around her person. This form remains when Naze uses Ice Fire for the second time. After joining Zenkichi's Student Council however, the wrappings disappear when Naze uses Ice Fire, though the piece of ice on her forehead and the lighter shade of hair remain.
- Red Sword & Blue Blade (Reddo Soudo ando Buruu Bureido): Naze creates a sword of fire in one hand and a blade of ice in the other.
- Ice Tank (Aisu Tanku): Naze creates a defensive armor out of her ice. In this form, Naze can also freeze her surroundings by spreading ice out from her feet. She can also create an ice sword.
- Aienkien (Sorrowful Flames): Naze creates a giant ball of fire which she hurls at her opponent.
- Himekuri (Fire Flip): Naze creates a small ball of fire in her hand, which she hurls at her opponent.
- Contradicting Cold Ash (Hyoutan Hai Rei Zu): Naze's strongest move, she attacks with spears of ice and balls of fire.
Equipment[]
Chaotic Intravenous Injections (Joumyakuchuushya no Midareuchi): Naze stabs several syringes filled with various chemicals into the opponent's body to achieve any range of physical effects.
- Normalize Liquid (Noumaraizu Rikiddo): Naze's primary medicine when using her syringes. When an Abnormal is injected, they are temporarily deprived of their ability, but only for a very short time. Naze later reduced the potency to increase the amount of time, though this proved ineffective as her opponent was a Minus and thus not a valid target for the Normalize Liquid.
- Doctor Stop (Dokutaa Sutoppu): As the name implies, this formula immobilizes; when used on Zenkichi, it caused him to collapse on his back in a daze. Naze considers Doctor Stop a "pretty strong" anesthetic, and was surprised when Zenkichi awoke a short time later.
Black Ogre (Burakku Ouga): Naze has a special suit called Black Ogre, created by Munakata. The material it is made from is resistant to shredding and tearing, as even Shibushi could not cut it with her razors. It is also resistant to extremely high and low temperature and also allows for unrestricted movement and maneuverability, though it is not as thick as Unzen's Snow White.
Trivia[]
- The members of the Kurokami family are named after marine creatures. Kujira means whale. Unlike the rest of the Kurokami family, Kujira is named after a mammal rather than a fish.
- When translated from kanji, Kurokami means Black God.
- When translated from kanji, Black White means Black Bandage.
- When translated from kanji, Ice Fire means Frozen Fire Pillar.
- When translated from kanji, Red Sword & Blue Blade means Demon Sword of Flame and Holy Blade of Ice.Medaka Box
- Both her project name and the name of her Minus are contradictions, being Black White and Ice Fire respectively.
- As Naze, her speech bubbles have a rough edge, while this effect disappears in her Kujira persona, suggesting that her voice sounds different between each.
- Naze was voted the fifth most popular character in the series in the third popularity poll with 725 votes.
- Naze was voted the third most popular character in the series in the second popularity poll with 905 votes.
- Naze was voted the fourth most popular character in the series in the first popularity poll with 318 votes.