#Tenchu kiku series

Ayame was also featured in the girls of gaming special of play magazine that same year. PVC figures of Rikimaru and Ayame, sculpted after their appearances in Wrath of Heaven by Keiji Iwakure, were manufactured and released by Kotobukiya in mid-September 2003 although categorized as action figures, these only feature movable wrist joints. Yuka Eda portrayed Ayame in a stage play adaptation Tenchu Butai in 2014. She is an only playable character in the mobile game Tenchu: Ayame's Tale (2005). In the game's extended ending, Ayame is shown speaking in Onikage's voice, suggesting that this traumatic experience caused her to be possessed by him when he was killed.ДЄyame is also playable in the spin-off games Tenchu: Time of the Assassins (2005), Tenchu: Dark Secret (2006) and Shadow Assault: Tenchu (2008). At first considered an enemy by the young survivor Rin, they later ally to discover who was behind the attack.ДЄt the end of 2008's Tenchu: Shadow Assassins, Princess Kiku is killed by Rikimaru after she was used as a human shield by the series' recurring villain Onikage. She later pairs up with the returning Rikimaru.Дuring the events of 2004's Tenchu: Fatal Shadows, Ayame was patrolling the border of Lord Gohda's territory when she happened upon a burned ninja village. In 2003's Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven ( Tenchu: Return from Darkness on the Xbox), set one year later, Ayame is the sole remaining Azuma Ninja in the care of Lord Gohda after Rikimaru's disappearance, tasked to search for his body. She has developed a strong relationship Lord Gohda's daughter Princess Kiku, as if she was her younger sister after the death of Princess Kiku's mother Lady Kei, and Ayame swears to protect her at any cost from any harm. Now 21-year-old, Ayame is tough and sarcastic, killing her enemies cold-blooded without the sign of any doubt or hesitation, though she knows feelings like love, sadness and desperation. Her story continues in 1998's Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, as seven years have passed since Ayame has lost her master Azuma Shiunsai and her love interest Tatsumaru. She carried this pain within, making her a colder and more proficient killer. This has deeply impacted her even though she remained silent. After the incident and when she confronted him he brushed her off, unknowingly to her, he lost his memory and was a pawn at the time. She would call him due to her deep infatuation of the elder student. She lies in question towards Tatsumaru, the man who she vowed at youth to marry under a blossom tree. Ayame's character changes from a laid-back girl into a more mature woman.Дeep down within her cold and distant exterior remains a broken heart. Soon after her initiation as a ninja, however, turmoil falls as her duties to Lord Gohda and duties to her love Tatsumaru fall apart.

#Tenchu kiku series

Ayame becomes known for her sharp tongue and quick, deadly techniques, with a set of skills very different from Rikimaru, as she is faster and weaker but more cunning and aggressive than him, using a unique style of acrobatic, smooth attacks.Д¬hronology-wise, the first game in the series is 2000's Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins, which begins just while Ayame completes her final exam. Despite her late start and bad attitude, she is initiated into the circle of ninja when she is only 12. Ayame is the most raw-talented of Shiunsai's students, including his other students Rikimaru and Tatsumaru. Shiunsai finds himself unable to neither leave or help her and so he eventually decides to take her with him and train her to become a kunoichi (female ninja). Appearances In the Tenchu series ДЄyame's story begins when a young shocked girl, unable to remember anything but her name and age, is discovered by Master Shiunsai of the small Azuma school of ninjutsu (Azuma Shinobi-ryu ) in the desolate ruins of Kyoto after it was devastated by the ЕЊnin War (1467вЂ“1477) during the Muromachi period.