Zakuro | |
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Name Information | |
Kanji | 石榴 |
Kana | ざくろ |
Rōmaji | Zakuro |
Series Information | |
Debut | Movie |
Appearances | Ninja Scroll |
Original Dub | Masako Katsuki |
English Dub | Maureen O'Connell |
Personal Information | |
Gender | Female |
Relations | Genma Himuro (Leader) |
Affiliation | Eight People of Kimon |
Status | Deceased |
Zakuro is a fictional character from the Ninja Scroll movie. She is a gunpowder expert who has the ability to make living things, actually once living things, explode.
Personality[]
Zakuro is a very vengeful and powerful woman with a nasty temper, prone to jealousy and highly sadistic. She serves Genma Himuro by reanimating corpses and loading their bodies with explosive powder.
She is in love with Yurimaru, who instead loves Genma (Genma is apparently bisexual as he apparently sleeps with both Yurimaru and Benisato). Zakuro doesn't take Yurimaru rejecting her well at all. Being rebuffed one too many times by Yurimaru made her decide to murder him. She holds grudges and is extremely dangerous even to her allies; by this end, she is very vengeful and took revenge against Yurimaru for rejecting her.
Appearance[]
While not as beautiful or seductive as Benisato, Zakuro is a young attractive woman with dark hair and more battle hardened features. She wears red ninja garbs with feathers. She sports a large scar in the right side of her face and left side of chest, which also looks stitched, possibly implying self-experimentation just like she does to corpses. In some scenes, she also wears a large sandogasa hat.
Biography[]
Towards the end of the film, Zakuro confronts Dakuan in the hold of Gemma's ship. Planning to exploit her use of gunpowder in order to sink the ship, Dakuan throws a bottle of oil at Zakuro and then wields a candle to set her alight. Zakuro is too quick for him and extinguishes his flame by throwing a kunai. However, Jūbei Kibagami arrives holding another lit candle and finishes the job, setting Zakuro on fire and igniting her powders which then explode and destroy her.
Abilities[]
Zakuro has the ability to manipulate gunpowder. Her specialty lies in opening living or dead creatures up and turning them into explosive traps, then stitching them back together, and finally putting them somewhere useful to her.
To use her gunpowder explosions the way she does, she has to have a large supply on her person at all times. Both Dakuan and Jubei realize that this means that if they could set off her gunpowder, she'd be blown to pieces along with anything else nearby that is valuable to the ninjas of Kimon. While she managed to prevent Dakuan from exploiting that weakness, she wasn't so fortunate with Jūbei. Ultimately, she is covered in either oil or sake by Dakuan and Jūbei sets her on fire, which also causes all the explosives she carries to go off.
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Trivia[]
- The name Zakuro means "pomegranate" (石榴), which might or might not be a multi-language cultural pun.
- The Spanish and Portuguese word for pomegranate is the homophone of "hand grenade", which would echo her usage of gunpowder and explosive techniques (and likely not by coincidence, those were popularized in Japan by Spanish and Portuguese merchants).
- Zakuro is the seventh demonic ninja to be defeated.