Kuroda Kunika

Kuroda Kunika
Kanji Name	黒田 那佳
Age	15 (1944)
Birth Date	17 September 1929
Height	158 cm
Affiliation(s)	Fuso Imperial Army 33rd Fighter Squadron
Team	506th Joint Fighter Wing
Rank	Flying Officer
Striker Unit(s)	Nagashima Ki-43-II Messerscharf BF 109 K-4 (The Movie)
Weapon(s)	Ho-103 MG 42
Familiar	Shiba Inu

The protagonist of the Noble Witches series.

Kuroda Kunika (黒田 那佳) is a Witch of the 506th Joint Fighter Wing, originating from Fuso and attached to the Fuso Imperial Army. She wears a purple hakama, a color that only nobles are allowed to wear.

Her personality, to be blunt, is more on the commoners-side: easily getting carried away and never putting on airs. She doesn't have much interest in the matters of the upper echelons of society. Very lively, she is popular among old people. It seems that she doesn't understand at all the wishes of her commander - Squadron Leader Grunne - of having her becoming a mediation with the B-unit that is centered around Liberion. She tends to care a lot about money, but cares more about her teammates.

Background

Kunika was born in a branch family of a former daimyo house, the Kuroda-marquis House. Because in the end they were just a branch family, any local merchant was more economically prosperous than them. When the 506th Joint Fighter Wing was established, she was sent in after being ushered into adoption by the main family to add some prestige.

She decorated her first battle on the deathbed of the Fuso Sea Incident, in which she shot down 3 Neuroi while withstanding an injury. Afterwards, while she left the front lines due to her injury, Kunika matriculated into a military academy and was later reinstated to her home unit - the 33rd Fighter Squadron - while appointed as a Pilot Officer. With the end of the Fuso Sea Incident, her unit was tasked with the defense of the Fuso Sea district, but because the Neuroi invasion of Europe started immediately after, it departed to a fleet escort mission in the Red Sea district.

With the transport route between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea cut off due the Neuroi invasion of North Africa, she fought in many battles at the Persian district and steadily increased her shot down count on account of oil fields defense missions. She repeatedly repelled Neuroy who flied from Egypt in fierce battles, despite almost no operating machines were available.

Since joining 506th, she has been mostly paired up with Heinrike despite their opposite personality. The two are close.

Appearances

Anime

• Strike Witches Movie (unnamed cameo)

Manga

• Noble Witches: The 506th Joint Fighter Wing (Manga)

Light Novel

• Noble Witches: The 506th Joint Fighter Wing (Novel)

other

• Kuroda short story

Trivia

• Kunika is based on Kuroki Tameyoshi(黒木 為義)

Gallery

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