Battle Vixens (literally "a lone rider with the strength to withstand a thousand") is manga by Yuji Shiozaki  

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Battle Vixens (一騎当千, Ikkitōsen?, literally "a lone rider with the strength to withstand a thousand") is manga by Yuji Shiozaki loosely based on the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The series is known for being full of fan service, featuring a very large cast of attractive young girls, who fight in short skirts and dresses which get constantly ripped off, in addition to numerous other ecchi situations, including numerous rape scenes.
An anime TV series ran on AT-X from July 30, 2003 to October 22, 2003, and its license is held by Enoki Films. The whole series has been licensed by Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. for the North America market, and is available on four separate DVDs. The manga is released in English by TOKYOPOP under the title Battle Vixens. The official German title is Dragon Girls, while in France and Spain it is called Ikkitousen.
As with numerous other Geneon series, the anime is distributed in the United Kingdom by MVM Films. But unlike Geneon, MVM seem to have some ties with TOKYOPOP, as their releases use both "Ikki Tousen" and "Battle Vixens" as titles, using the title graphic from TOKYOPOP's manga for the latter of these. The DVD covers are reversible, for those who prefer the original title, and a limited edition of the first DVD came in a box set with the first volume of the manga.
A second season of Ikki Tousen was picked up, titled Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny, which began airing in February 2007. An accompanying radio series named "Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny Radio" was hosted on Media Factory. A DVD for chapter 0 was released on Comic Market 71 for 1000 yen, featuring an unedited Dragon Destiny promotional video, voice actor interviews, and DVD for Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny Radio, recently Ikki Tousen: Destiny was licensed by Media Blasters.
A third season, called Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians, began airing in the summer of 2008, involving a brand-new storyline and added characters. [1] One of the new characters introduced is Sonken Chuubou, based on Sun Quan.
OVAs were also created to accompany DVD and soundtrack releases. It is a short series of OVAs focusing on elements of fan service and are uncensored with scenes involving full frontal nudity with in-themed censoring of the genitals for legality.









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Characters in comic Ichigo Mashimaro  
















































Nobue Ito (伊藤 伸恵, Itō Nobue?)
Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame (Japanese), Carol-Anne Day (English)
Nobue is the eldest main character. She is Chika's older sister and usually has final authority on all matters. She often tries to "borrow" money from Chika to buy cigarettes. Nobue is perpetually searching for a part-time job to earn money for more cigarettes to calm her nicotine addiction.
The story suggests that Nobue derives some kind of sensual pleasure from watching the girls do cute things. In this respect, Nobue appears to appreciate the moe aesthetic.[6] It is seen during the anime that Nobue prefers Matsuri and Ana over Chika and Miu.
The Nobue character changed from the manga to the anime. In the manga, she is a sixteen-year-old high school freshman,[7] while in the anime she is a twenty-year-old junior-college student.[8] Her age is presumably changed because of her smoking and drinking habit, both becoming legal in Japan at age twenty. Although in the first episode of the anime she introduces herself as a sixteen-year-old, this was intended to be a joke as she quickly stated that she was twenty. She tends to act somewhat less mature in her manga incarnation, doing things such as tricking Matsuri into thinking that Miu is dead. Her appearance changes radically in the early stages of the manga, especially her hair, which goes from blond to dark brown (and is black in the anime). Her birthday is on October 18.
Chika Ito (伊藤 千佳, Itō Chika?)
Voiced by: Saeko Chiba (Japanese), Wendy Morrison (English)
Chika is one of two twelve-year-olds in the story. Chika is the same age as Miu, and attends the same class as her neighbor Miu. Chika is a cheerful girl who shows more common sense than the other girls, especially Miu. Her main role in the series is that of an average, twelve-year-old girl, which is emphasized in the first manga volume, where Nobue describes Chika as specializing 'in being totally generic'. Her special skill is cooking, especially baking cookies. Chika is Nobue's little sister. She is nicknamed Chi-chan or just Chi. Her birthday is on May 11.
Miu Matsuoka (松岡 美羽, Matsuoka Miu?)
Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese), Caitlynne Medrek (English)
Miu is another twelve-year-old girl who is depicted in the story as having a problem-child personality. A childhood friend of Chika, she lives next door to the Ito house and attends the same class as Chika. Miu likes to say random things out of the blue and often plays pranks on Matsuri and Ana, but is most of the time interrupted by Nobue (and sometimes by Chika), ending up lying face-down on the floor. She has the least common sense or manners of the girls, and is rarely taken seriously because of her weird ideas and comments. She seems to harbor some sort of jealousy of Ana and Matsuri, because Nobue finds them cuter. Miu is nicknamed "Micchan". Her birthday is on September 8. Miu has been described as "Yotsuba Koiwai with fangs".[9]
Matsuri Sakuragi (桜木 茉莉, Sakuragi Matsuri?)
Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Kylie Beaven (English)
Matsuri, nicknamed "Mats" in the manga, is an eleven-year-old glasses-wearing girl with a pet ferret named John, and is depicted as having a very timid personality in the story. She is often the subject of Miu's teasing and can resort to crying and hiding behind Nobue. She is one grade below Chika and Miu, in the same class as Ana, with whom she quickly became friends. Matsuri discovers that Ana can speak Japanese fluently and helps her hide both her Japanese language skills from the rest of their class and her lack of English language skills. While she has gray hair in the anime, her hair is white in the manga.[10] Her birthday is on January 25.
Ana Coppola (アナ・コッポラ, Ana Koppora?)
Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Katie Rowan (English)
Ana is an eleven-year-old girl who originally came from Cornwall, England, five years before the series, but seems to have forgotten how to speak English. She first pretends that she speaks only English, but it is not long before she is discovered by Matsuri while speaking very polite Japanese. Matsuri tries to help her re-learn English. Ana is often teased by Miu because of her name, Ana Coppola, which in Japanese sounds like a typical psychomime (a form of onomatopoeic sound). Ana really dislikes her last name for that and get angry every time Miu calls her "Coppola-chan". Miu also makes things worse by spelling her name in kanji to mean "hole", "bone", and "cave" (穴骨洞?). Ana's "proper Japanese" personality is reflected by her very traditionally feminine and polite speaking style. And her impressive knowledge of Japanese words, kanji, customs and traditions makes her more "Japanese" than most Japanese people (which she also tries to hide). Later in the series, her ability to speak Japanese is discovered by the other students in her class. Her birthday is on June 18.








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Seasons play an important role throughout Strawberry Marshmallow as the characters are involved in many normal seasonal activities  
















































Seasons play an important role throughout Strawberry Marshmallow as the characters are involved in many normal seasonal activities. The series is speckled with many small, music-related allusions, such as Ana's dog Frusciante being named after John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, while episode eight of the anime sees two goldfish called Richard and James. The title itself was inspired from "Mashimaro", a single by Japanese rock artist Tamio Okuda.[4] The series' focus on young girls, as well as the manga author's history in publications such as Weekly Dearest My Brother, has caused some to classify Strawberry Marshmallow in the lolicon genre







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Ichigo Mashimaro  
















































Strawberry Marshmallow (苺ましまろ, Ichigo Mashimaro) is a Japanese manga series by manga creator Barasui about the adventures of four elementary school girls and their older sister-figure.[1] It was created by Barasui for the manga magazine Dengeki Daioh in 2002. In 2005, the series was adapted into an anime series and a PlayStation 2 video game. Three original video animation episodes were later released from February to April 2007. Another OVA project was announced in 2008 called Strawberry Marshmallow Encore[2] and released in 2009.
In Japanese, marshmallow is either mashimaro (マシマロ) or mashumaro (マシュマロ), pronounced roughly identically in fluent speech. The Japanese title of the series is Ichigo Mashimaro (苺ましまろ). Confusingly, there is a completely different manga titled Ichigo Mashumaro







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Yuki Inoue ( better known by her stage name Satsuki Yukino  







































Yuki Inoue (井上 由起, Inoue Yuki?), better known by her stage name Satsuki Yukino (雪野 五月 (previously 雪乃 五月), Yukino Satsuki?), is a popular Japanese voice actress. Yukino is also a singer as part of the Hinata Girls. She was born on May 25, 1970 in Ōtsu, Shiga. She is a member of Ken Production.
Yukino's most well-known voice roles include Kagome Higurashi in Inuyasha, Yoruichi Shihouin in Bleach, Kaname Chidori in all the Full Metal Panic series, Mion and Shion Sonozaki in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Mutsumi Otohime in Love Hina, and Milly Thompson in Trigun.






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