Okoi

Okoi
Ninja Stats
Gender:	Female
Special Ability:	Blood Absorption
Status:	Killed by Nenki Mino
Affiliation:	Kouga Clan
Family:	Saemon (Brother)
Appearances
First Appearance (Manga):	Chapter 7
First Appearance (Anime):	Episode 5
Voice Actors
Japanese:	Haruka Kimura
English:	Monica Rial

Okoi (Okoi, お胡夷) is a member of the Kouga Manjidani clan and one of the ten ninjas selected by Danjou to participate in the war against the Iga. She is the younger sister of fellow Kouga ninja Saemon Kisaragi.

Appearance

Okoi is a young woman with shoulder-length brown hair which she keeps tied up with a ponytail. Despite being a tomboy she dresses in a more revealing manner than the other kunoichi, wearing a hip length, purple sleeveless kimono, a red sash tied around her waist and shortened pale hakama that resemble Daisy Dukes. Okoi has big prominent breast. She is featured on the opening song of anime showing big breast on a tree branch. She also has quite a well-endowed frame and very large lips, which are very prominent in the manga version.

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Okoi as shown in the opening song in anime.

Biography

Before the War

In an anime only scene Okoi is seen crouched in the woods with a spear, hunting a boar with Gyoubu. She is interrupted by Jousuke, who attempts to grab her from behind while she is bending over. She screams, scaring the boar away in the process. Angered she screams at him and he tries to escape. He rolls down a hill to where Saemon and Shougen are fishing, making a huge splash and letting the fish get away. Okoi appears with Gyoubu, who jokingly suggests they should eat Jousuke for dinner instead of the boar. Jousuke unwisely joked that if Okoi ate something as fatty as himself than her hips would become too big; at which point Okoi soundly thrashed him.

Trip to Iga

Okoi is first seen with Saemon, who informs her of Gennosuke and Jousuke staying at Iga. Okoi is annoyed she didn't get a chance to go, as she wanted to see the inside of Iga. Okoi takes a large bite out of a fish and complains about how boring it is, due to not being able to train her ninja skills or speak to her teatime friend Juubei. Saemon asks when she became friends with Juubei but she ignores him and complains about how Gyoubu can't go boar hunting either. She suggests Saemon should go boar hunting too but he refuses, saying he prefers fishing. She jokes that he could be the bait, which causes the pair to burst out laughing. Saemon then asks Okoi to go to Iga and check on Genosuke, which she agrees to immediately. He goes with her to the woods and she waves goodbye before heading off to Iga.

As she headed through the trees she spotted a suspicious ninja spying on her village from a treetop. When she demanded he identify himself, the ninja retreated with Okoi in hot pursuit through the branches and then along the ground. Okoi was just about to apprehend him when the ninja tricked her into falling off the edge of a sudden cliff. Okoi managed to save herself by throwing a weighted chain around a rock projection but lost sight of her quarry. The suspicious ninja was actually Kyohachiro Hattori; the adopted son of Hattori Hanzo the 4th who had been charged with observing the duel between Kouga and Iga.

Okoi later stops for a drink at a river, unaware she is being watched from the bushes. A group of five Iga ninja ambush her, surrounding her on all sides while Tenzen if she is Okoi of Kouga. He tells her they are from Iga and they had just left Kouga, where they were attacked when trying to deliver the message of Gennosuke staying in Iga. Okoi grins and tells them they underestimated the Kouga and asks if Gennosuke is safe. Tenzen tells her she wouldn't believe what they told her and that she should accompany them to Iga to see for herself. Okoi declines the offer, leaping backwards into the trees saying she would return to Kouga to find out what realy happened. Nenki quickly gives chase as Tenzen, Koshirou, Hotarubi and Rousai watch from the ground. Nenki uses his hair to swing on the branches as he chases, allowing him to catch up with her quickly. In desperation she turns and throws several Kunai at him, cheering when they seem to hit him. Hoever at that instant he throws his staff at her, which collides into her stomach. She looks up to see he caught the Kunai in his hair, which he throws back at her. Just then she falls through the trees, the Kunai narrowly missing her, and hits the ground hard. Tenzen appears in time to stop Nenki from killing her, saying they should take her back to Iga to interrogate her.

Confinement in Iga

Okoi wakes up to find herself stripped (with the exception of her small, opened kimono top) and bound, locked within the Iga's salt shed. Its not long before Rousai enters, planning to interrogate her. He tells her he'll let her live if she answers his questions and then begins to ask about Hyouma, Kagerou and Saemon. Okoi stays silent and Rousai breaks open a salt barrel in frustration, before threatenning her again. He then threateningly places his hand on Okoi's exposed shoulder, only to find he can't take it off. Okoi grins as she starts to drain Rousai's blood and when he places his other hand on her shoulder she starts to drain blood from that hand too. He tries to kick her but she blocks with her foot, creating more direct contact. She steps on his other foot and then constricts him between her legs, draining the remainder of his blood. Lastly she bites into his neck and drains the last of the blood from Rousai's veins. She then lets go of the dried up body and picks up Rousai's knife with her foot, using it to slice through the ropes. She then vomits the blood behind the salt barrels before hiding the scroll he dropped and preparing to check on Gennosuke.

As she prepares to leave Jingorou Amayo arrives looking for Rousai and Okoi quickly lies down before he notices she's untied. Okoi asks Jingorou to kill her, lying and telling him Rousai raped her and that a Kouga woman couldn't live on after such an experience. Jingorou falls for Okoi's trap and attempts to rape her, unaware of Rousai's body hidden nearby. As he attempts the rape he becomes stuck to Okoi and she begins to drain the blood from him, spinning round and catching him in a headlock, placing her hand on his face. She taunts Jingorou about the pain he's in before biting his neck, however as she does so Jingoru begins to dissolve, having fallen in the salt Rousai spilled earlier. Disgusted she back away from Jingorou and picks up a knife just as the door opens again. Nenki enters the store but is caught off-guard by Okoi's sudden attack, which slices through his staff. However nenki manages to disarm her and catch her from behind, grabbing at her breast at the same time. She begins to drain the blood from his hand but realises she needs more skin contact to hurry the process up. She reaches behind her to touch Nenki's body but finds only thick hair, preventing her from touching any skin. Nenki then hardens the hair into needles and impales Okoi on them, breaking her technique and fatally wounding her.

Later Saemon arrives, disguised as Yashamaru, and grabs her hand. Barely conscious, Okoi tells him using coded hand movements that she killed 'that old fool' and that the scroll was hidden in between the salt barrels. Saemon tells her that he's proud of her and that he'll retrieve the scroll. She repeats the word 'brother' to Saemon a few times before she finally succumbs to her wounds and dies.

Personality

Tomboyish and energetic, Okoi represents the popular concept of the kunoichi while Akeginu and Kagerou both embody the more historically traditional version. Although a capable fighter, Okoi is not opposed to using her ample assets to lure men into a state of false security if she has to. She is also a very sociable person, making friends easy and it is said not even Gennosuke would get mad at her. Despite her friendly nature she does sometimes get angry and is shown to rough people up if the situatuion calls for it, such as when Jousuke ruined her hunting trip.

Abilities

Blood Absorption: Upon physical contact with an enemy Okoi is able to adhere her skin onto her opponent's and then absorb their blood into herself; leaving her enemies as dried up husks. Upon completion, Okoi must then vomit out the excess blood before she can use the technique again. The reason why she dresses in a revealing way is to allow her to gain more contact with an opponent, with more contact meaning faster blood absorption.

Knife User: Okoi's primary weapon is a knife, which she can use rather effectively as shown when she fights with Nenki and breaks his Bo staff. She is also shown using Kunai, a type of throwing knife.

Relationships

Saemon

Okoi has a very deep bond with her brother and is one of the few people capable of making him smile.

Gyoubu

In the anime Okoi has a strong friendship with Gyoubu, who is normally a rather unapproachable man. The pair sometimes go on hunting trips together to catch wild boar in the surrounding forests.

Jousuke

Jousuke, as he does with most women, continually attempts to flirt with Okoi. This, coupled with his jokes about her hip size, often irritates Okoi and can lead to Jousuke taking a beating.

Trivia

• In the manga, Okoi's personality stayed quite the same but her relationship with the other members of her clan is not expanded beyond Saemon; leaving most of her character to be underdeveloped in comparison to the other Kouga.
• Okoi was not included in the film Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, a film based on the same source material as Basilisk.