FACTS:

Full name: Kaori Makimura
Nick name: she doesn't have an official one, even if I'd call her "Twister" (the tornado I mean... ^__^)
Birthday: March 31st, 1965 (in the manga) or 1967 (in the anime)
Nationality: Japanese
Birth Place: Japan
Sex: Female (even if sometimes you doubt it...)
Height: 5'63 (before Kaori stop having her measurement taking at 9th grade)
Weight: Who's gonna ask her? :-)!!
Measurements: Bust: 34'8, Waist: 23'6, Hips: 34'4...
(she should be a model! I think Ryo is someway blind...)
Blood type: AB
Relations: She shares her flat with Ryo, his job partner.
Current Address: Shinjuku, Tokyo
Special Skills: The boggy trap setting skills learned from Umibozu, cooking and, last but not least, use of giant mines and magical hammers in taking care of hentai.
Interests: Visiting orphanage, taking care of pervert, shooting practice.
Personal Goal: Success in work, becoming a good assistant for Ryo and... marry him! ^__^
Fave Food: Buffet.
Sport: Jazz dancing, aerobic exercise.




DESCRIPTION:

Hideyuki Makimura's dad, a policeman, one day returned home with an infant baby. He picked up the baby after the baby's father, a murderer on the run, was killed in a shootout. That baby was Kaori Makimura.

Kaori is a tomboy, short hair, actives. Her biggest frustration is being looked at as a man, or going down the street without a guy looking at her direction, or with other girl having a better figure than she does, or with girls chasing after her all over the place thinking she is a guy.....(or even after knowing she is a girl. She is quite famous for her popularity among the female students in high school. :)

You get the idea.

Kaori never did get a chance to know about her true parentage. Hideyuki was suppose to tell her about it on her 20th birthday, but that was also the day he was murdered by the drug ring. He never did make it to the birthday dinner that night. Afterward Ryo considered the feeling between Kaori and her brother, never did have the heart to tell her. Later on Kaori meet her true big sister but choose to stay ignorant in order to be with Ryo.

Kaori moved into Ryo's apartment complex and took over his brother job after he died. She basically does the same thing as Hideyuki, setting up appointment and acts as the middleman for Ryo and his client. However, she does one more thing than her brother, and that is to act as the protective buffer between Ryo and his beautiful clients. Thanks to Kaori all of Ryo's advances fails miserly.

Kaori uses a Colt 357 Magnum Lawman MK III with a 2.5" barrel. It is the same gun her brother used before his death. Her shooting skill is some what less than desire. That is because to avoid and prevent Kaori from killing someone, Ryo had secretly adjusted the gun so there is no way any shot from that gun will get anywhere close to the target. Ryo also placed a tracker/listener button on her shirt to insure her safety. After Kaori discovered the gun was adjusted Ryo explained to her his intention to keep Kaori's hands clean and prepare her eventually to leave his world for a normal life one day. However, Kaori chose to accept the gun (now fixed) and to stay on as Ryo's partner instead.

You can also find other things in her purse such as mace, whip, grenade, morning star, electroshock rod, etc. (You start to wonder how she can fit all those things in a hand bag :)

However, Kaori's favor weapon is her "Super Magic Hammer", a giant hammer she can produce at anywhere and any time. There is usually writing on the side to indicate the tonnage of the hammer. So far it has ranged from 10 kg to 10 to the 88th power metric tons! Kaori usually sticks with the 100 tons and the 250 tons hammer, with some other rare one reserves for the special occasion. She is also known to throw giant spike ball once a while. There is probably nothing Ryo fears more than the sight of Kaori coming his way with a hammer.

Kaori in the manga drives a Honda Civic CRX, in the series she drives a green Fiat.

Kaori LOVES Ryo Saeba. However, she's really shy and with Ryo's acting she never comes out and say the magic words to him. Instead they spent most of the time fighting between each others. However, when thing is on the line they show complete trust to each other even if it is the difference between life and death.

Comments on Kaori: One can best describe her as Tendo Akane of the show Ranma 1/2. They are not perfect, but there is something about them that people like Ryo or Ranma just can not ignore. Cuteness is in the eye of beholder.
-- Chih-Ping Kuo
[Description "borrowed" from http://www.serpent.org/info-ch-ryo.shtml]


HIDEYUKI MAKIMURA

DESCRIPTION:

A former policeman and Ryo's first partner in Japan. He acted as the middleman between Ryo and the client.

Quite capable in using his snub nose 357 Magnum revolver or throwing knifes. However, he is one of peaceful nature and probably the more reasonable, conservative one on the show.

He was killed early on by a drug cartel when he refused to bow to their pressure in joining that organization with Ryo. Upon his death in Ryo's arms, he asked Ryo to take care of his little sister.
-- Chih-Ping Kuo
[Description "borrowed" from http://www.serpent.org/info-ch-hideyuki.shtml




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