Kiyone Makibi
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| Kiyone Makibi | |
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| Gender: | Female |
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| Age: | 23 |
| Seiyū: | Yuri Amano |
| Voice actress: | Sherry Lynn (1st) Wendee Lee (2nd) |
| Height: | 5'7" |
| Hair color: | Teal blue Black (as "Evil Kiyone") |
| Eye color: | Blue Light blue (as "Evil Kiyone") |
| Bloodtype: | A |
Kiyone Makibi (真備 清音 Makibi Kiyone?) is a fictional character of the Tenchi Muyo! series. She is an original creation of first OVA series' co-writer Naoko Hasegawa, appearing in most Tenchi Muyo! canons with the exception of the official OVA canon accepted by the series creator Masaki Kajishima.
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[edit] History
Kiyone Makibi is a first class Galaxy Police detective who graduated with the second highest marks her year, and through her athletic and analytical skill, commitment to her work, and responsible nature was thought to be the cream of the GP crop; the best of the younger generation of Galaxy Police.
Then she was saddled with Mihoshi Kuramitsu as a partner...
Since then, Kiyone's once-promising career has gone south. She has become somewhat bitter and depressed with her position in life, as Mihoshi's bumbling can get on her nerves and ruins the best-laid plans. She hopes that by earning a promotion she can transfer away from Mihoshi, but with her partner around Kiyone's future prospects are not very good. Regardless of all that has happened, Kiyone holds a small amount of fondness towards Mihoshi... but don't expect her to admit it right away.
Despite all her problems, Kiyone is an exceptional detective with great sharpshooting skills with a GP Blaster, and is capable of using any of the GP-issue equipment properly. She also maintains a fondness towards karaoke.
Kiyone is one of the very few female characters NOT infatuated with Tenchi, or at the very least, not nearly as much as the others. Rather, she is too focused on improving her career to do anything about it; not to mention "taking care" of Mihoshi.
[edit] Series introduction
Kiyone made her debut in the first of Naoko Hasegawa's novels, One Visitor After Another: Hexagram Of Love (SenKyaku BanRai: Ai no Hexagram), released in May of 1993. The best known of these books would be Manatsu no Eve, adapted into a film by AIC in 1997 and released by Pioneer LDC in the U.S. as Tenchi the Movie 2: The Daughter of Darkness. Her character would later be imported with a different background into the Mihoshi Special, and after gaining a fan-base Kiyone would make future appearances in many Tenchi Muyo! series.
In the Mihoshi Special, Kiyone is assigned to rescue Investigator Tenchi and secure the stolen Ultra Energy Matter from the space pirate Ryoko with her. Accompanying them are Ayeka, the heiress of Jurai plutocrats, and the apprentice detective Sasami. After capturing Ryoko, Kiyone after looking through Ryoko's things found out the infamous Professor Washu was behind Ryoko's actions. But after Mihoshi released Ryoko who kidnapped Tenchi again, Kiyone became very depressed over Mihoshi's actions, feeling her career was now down the toilet. After heading to Washu's hideout Mihoshi, Kiyone and Ayeka were captured. Fortunately, Sasami became Pretty Sammy, and Kiyone was able to stop Washu from using her Galaxy Destroyer. But because of Mihoshi's bumbling, Kiyone accidentally fell over and disappeared. Although Mihoshi thought that Kiyone had sacrificed herself out of duty, unbeknownst to her Kiyone was still alive, alone and floating adrift in space plotting her partner's imminent demise.
Because this story is considered to be an exaggeration by Mihoshi, it is not part of the regular OVA canon; however, Kiyone proved appealing enough to become part of the TV series cast. A PC-FX game based on Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki (Tenchi Muyo! OVA 9.8: Crashing into Kiyone) later re-introduces her character, as she is ordered to check on her old partner. Joining her is the stowaway GP officer Hakua, a "protegé" of Mihoshi who finds it hard to believe that the erstwhile Kiyone was never actually dead. She is able to verify a few points in Mihoshi's story however, meaning that while details were exaggerated the "Ultra-Energy Matter" caper does have its basis in fact.
[edit] Negishi canon
[edit] Tenchi Universe
In the first Tenchi television series, Kiyone was assigned to locate her missing partner Mihoshi. But to her disbelief, not only was she alive but she was living with the galaxy's most wanted space pirate Ryoko, the two missing Jurai princesses Ayeka and Sasami, and the galaxy's legendary mad scientist Washu. Kiyone tried to arrest Ryoko with some assistance from Ayeka but failed due to Mihoshi. Then after contacting headquarters, Kiyone found out that she and Mihoshi have been transferred to patrolling the Solar System, which was very depressing for her. Not wanting to be a burden on Tenchi Masaki, Kiyone decides for her and Mihoshi to move into a low rent apartment. However it becomes tough with the part-time jobs Kiyone and Mihoshi have to take as they get fired repeatly, not only due to Mihoshi's incompentance, but also when they are on duty they have drop what they are doing and respond to it.
After Ayeka and Sasami are accused of treason on planet Jurai, Kiyone found out that the Galaxy Police were aiding the Jurai military with the task of locating them. But because of Mihoshi, both of them were accused of being accomplices. With little choice, Kiyone joins the others to journey to Jurai to clear their names, with her shuttle the Yagami being used to travel across space and because Washu created an invention that allowed the Masaki Home to be put into the Yagami via one of her interdimmensional inventions. At the end of the series despite being promoted to the GP's high ranks, Kiyone comes back to earth for reasons unknown.
[edit] Tenchi Muyo! in Love
At the beginning of the first film, Kiyone and Mihoshi witness Kain's break-out and destruction of the GP headquarters, and are later "volunteered" by Ryoko to go back in time with the group to 1970 in order to save Tenchi's then teenaged mother Achika from the criminal. While the other pose as students, teachers, or stay out of the way altogether, Kiyone has the decidedly unglamorous task of going undercover as the school janitor.
Later brought back to the present for a brief time by Washu, Kiyone brings information and equipment back with her to help everyone deal with the threat. When a plan to convert spiritual energy from Tokyo's five-color Fudo shrines to generate enough Jurai power to recapture Kain fails, Washu sends the dimensional cannon, a weapon with enough destructive power to raze entire galaxies. Kiyone is charged with operating the machine, and fires just as Achika exits sub-space with Kain in close pursuit, killing him and ending the villain's threat to the Masaki family.
[edit] Tenchi Forever!
Though Kiyone is not present over the course of most of the final film, the GP detective's role is still an important one; she and Mihoshi break into the Galaxy Academy to hack into their dimension stabilizing system so that Washu will be able to create a gateway to track down the missing Tenchi. Later, the two officers set up energy collectors on all the camellia trees planted by Katsuhito Masaki, thus giving Ryoko and Ayeka access to Haruna's fantasy world.
[edit] Tenchi in Tokyo
In Tenchi in Tokyo, Kiyone's character design and personality are fairly different. Kiyone acts more along the lines of a manic depressive and is even more driven towards being promoted and assigned to the Galaxy Police headquarters than her Tenchi Universe counterpart. She is also much more open with her feelings for Tenchi.
Mihoshi and Kiyone were originally part of the Galaxy Police task force assigned to apprehend the space pirate Ryoko and her partner Washu in order to recover the stolen Jurai Light stone. After the incident, Kiyone was unhappy with being assigned to Earth. After arresting the criminal Bent Cougar, she is pleased with being given the opportunity for transfer to Pluto, and was willing to forget all of her experiences on Earth, even after finding out that Ryoko went back to being a space pirate. But after being assigned to infiltrate Ryoko's gang, Kiyone decided to find out why the space pirate had went back to her old ways (at Mihoshi's suggestion). However, Yugi's servant Hotsuma, not wanting Ryoko to reconnect with her old friends, framed them for tipping off the Galaxy Police and fled.
Kiyone became more stable and less overly ambitious over matters concerning her job and promotion, and in the end chooses friendship over selfish career needs by returning to Earth with Mihoshi to fight Yugi. But their shuttle was shot down en route by Tsugaru, another of Yugi's attendants. Using an experimental antimatter bullet, Kiyone was able to kill Tsuguru after Mihoshi shielded her from an attack; she then helped Tenchi and the others in the final battle against Yugi. Shortly thereafter, the two GP officers are all too happy to patrol the Earth beat once again.
[edit] Pretty Sammy
While not seen in the actual series, the whip-wielding Evil Kiyone makes her appearance in the music video for "Pretty Sammy, the Magical Girl", played during the end credits of the Mihoshi Special. This short, originally part of the Tenchi Muyo! Soundfile, marked Pretty Sammy's video debut, with Kiyone serving as the magical girl's first-ever animated foe. With her henchmen in tow (one being Amagasaki), Kiyone interrupts a lover's kiss between Sasami and Tenchi, stealing the boy away with her magical powers and cackling madly as they escape in her bicycle-powered spaceship. By transforming into Pretty Sammy, Sasami is able to stop them cold with the Pretty Coquettish Bomber, saving Tenchi from the ample witch's clutches.
In spite of gaining a small measure of popularity in Tenchi fandom, this Kiyone never makes a second appearance in later incarnartions of the series.
During the Pretty Sammy OVAs, Kiyone - as Yuri Kiyone (清音 由梨 Kiyone Yuri?) - works alongside Mihoshi at CD Vision, the music store owned by Sasami and Tenchi's mother Chihiro Kawai. Kiyone is somewhat depressed, as Mihoshi had made it into college while she had failed her entrance exams.
In Magical Project S (AKA Pretty Sammy TV), Kiyone - as Kiyone Amayuri (雨百合 清音 Amayuri Kiyone?) - works at Sasami and Misao's school as the teacher of a neighboring class. Kiyone has known fellow teacher Mihoshi Mizutani since junior high and deeply resents her. The noise from Mihoshi's class has a tendency to bother Kiyone incessantly, and she would jump at the chance to prove that she is a better teacher than Mihoshi.
What could have been an arranged marriage to Andou Toyokawa was busted by Pixy Misa and her Love-Love Monster Break-Up Girl, though most likely to the teacher's benefit. Having a rational mind, she finds it impossible to accept things so outside the norm as the events that often transpire at the school, and usually faints dead away when insanity erupts.
[edit] Okuda manga
Kiyone makes scant appearances in Hitoshi Okuda's manga, as the comics are based off the continuity of the first OVA, in which Kiyone does not take part. In the rare times she does make an appearance, it is usually for a role that takes place outside of "official" canon (i.e. Tenchi Muyo in Love or Pretty Sammy adaptations), sometimes breaking the fourth wall by begging for a larger part.
The GP officer also cameoed occasionally in Okuda's collection of yonkoma, "Tenchi, Heaven Forbid! G...", though she seems much happier forgotten, as the manga explains - tongue-firmly-in-cheek - Kiyone's whereabouts and just why she isn't a force in Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki.
[edit] Trivia
- Kiyone's name is taken from the Kiyone station on Japan's Hakubi railway line. Kiyone was also the name of a village in Tsukubo District.
- Kiyone's surname has been the topic of much debate, as it, like with all the characters of Tenchi Muyo!, was taken from a place name in Okayama Prefecture in Japan. Her name comes specifically from 真備町 Mabi-cho (town), in 吉備郡 Kibi-gun (district). There was a supposed mistranslation of the kanji that makes up her name during the series, combining the two names, Mabi and Kibi, into one: Makibi. As any kanji dictionary consulted will state, the kanji (真) can be pronounced "shin" or "ma" or "makoto", with various forms of either, but never "maki"; also, the kanji (備) can be pronounced "bi" or "sona" or "tsubasa", but never "biki" or "kibi". Thus, her surname is more likely to be Mabi instead of Makibi or Mabiki, as it was initally thought.
- Note: Many of the towns and villages of Okayama were merged to form newer, larger cities and towns. Many of the places whose names were used in Tenchi Muyo! are no longer separate entities to be found on the map. See the Okayama Prefecture section for more information.
- She is not to be confused with Kiyone Masaki, the character recognized as Tenchi's mother in the Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OVAs.
- Some believe that the Tenchi character Noike Jurai is Tenchi Muyo! character designer and co-creator Masaki Kajishima's answer to Kiyone's popularity, as she is the creation of another co-creator, Naoko Hasegawa. Both have teal hair and were at one time Mihoshi's Galaxy Police partner, so it could be said Noike is either a homage to Hasegawa or a replacement to avoid confusion between Tenchi's mother in the OVA series, Kiyone Masaki.
[edit] External links
| Tenchi Muyo! characters | |
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| Main Characters | |
| Tenchi | Ryoko | Ayeka | Sasami | Mihoshi | Washu | Kiyone | Ryo-Ohki | Noike | |
| The Chousin | |
| Washu | Tsunami | Tokimi | |
| Villains | |
| Kagato | Dr. Clay | Z | Yugi | Kain | Yuzuha | Haruna | Seiryo | Tarant | Yakage | Shima Brothers | Yume | Mikamo & Yataka | Garyu | Dark Washu | |
| Masaki Family | |
| Katsuhito | Nobuyuki | Achika | Tennyo | Airi | Rea | |
| Guardians & Royalty of Jurai | |
| Azaka & Kamidake | Azusa | Funaho | Misaki | Seto | |
| Galaxy Police | |
| Seina | Minami | Misao | Sabato | |
| Pretty Sammy | |
| Sasami Kawai | Pixy Misa | Ramia | Rumiya | Chief Pretty Sammy characters | Chief Magical Project S characters | |
| Others | |
| Nagi | Sakuya | Mayuka | Zero | Minagi | Hiwa | Asahi | Kazuma | Tama | Chief GXP characters | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki | Tenchi Universe | Tenchi in Tokyo | Tenchi Muyo! GXP | Pretty Sammy | Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club |
