Taki

1= "I cannot ignore your evil deeds."

- Taki's catchphrase when confronting an "evil" character.

2= "Demon vanquished, the deed is done!"

- Taki's post-mortem catchphrase

3= "The seal is complete!"

- Taki's alternate post-mortem catchphrase

4= "Like a creature in the night, I strike in the shadows!"

- Kamen Rider Taki's pre-battle catchphrase

Taki (タキ) is a guest character originating from the Soul series, and is the female lead of Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations Vol. 3: Fates Intertwined, later the main protagonist of Taki Gaiden: The Kunoichi Who Leapt Through Time.

She, along with her disciple, Natsu stumble 400 years into the future, where Soul Edge no longer exists, but is dragged into the battle between the Kamen Riders and the Space Demon Clan Kamui Tribe, and subsequently the, and lastly. Following the merging of the, Taki rekindles her objective in destroying Soul Edge in the past after meeting her future daughter. After learning that her original timeline was rebooted, she becomes an anomaly to the new timeline and subsequently encountered an alternate timeline version of herself, but still extended her mission in the new timeline to destroy the cursed sword. In addition, Taki would also be involved in the ensuing conflict between Kamen Riders and  and the  and their.

After an encounter with her future self, who entrusts her the after her sealed Ridewatch awakens as the Taki, she gains the ability to transform into Kamen Rider Taki (仮面ライダータキ).

History

 * For this character's canon history, go to her main article in Soul Calibur Wiki

Stumbling 400 Years into the Future

 * Main article: Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations Vol. 3: Fates Intertwined

The Kunoichi Who Leapt Through Time

 * Main article: Taki Gaiden: The Kunoichi Who Leapt Through Time

Personality
"You want to know why I am keeping my loved ones away from being drawn to either of the two soul swords? I don't want to lose them, just like what Soul Edge's influence did to my master... The moment you are drawn to either Soul Edge or Soul Calibur, you must be prepared of facing the risk of losing everything... From everything to people you love, and at worst, your own soul."

- Taki warns about the risks of being entwined to Soul Calibur As a ninja, Taki puts her mission above everything else. She will end evil through her own ways. She seems to show concern to some people who are connected with Soul Edge (i.e. Sophitia) and warns them the dangers of the evil blade. She can be emotionless and serious, as a ninja should be. She easily sees through deceptions and will use the best attack to defeat her opponent.

Taki truly cares for her apprentice, Natsu, having chosen to take an active part in raising her due to her own perceived failure in stopping Arahabaki in time. However, she has mentally prepared herself to 'do what's necessary' if the seal containing the demon within Natsu were ever broken.

Throughout Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations Vol. 3: Fates Intertwined, Taki also develops a rivalry towards bounty hunter Samus Aran, despite that they're very alike in terms of their personalities and duties, neither of them harbor any ill will towards each other, only that Taki is interested to duel her at a given chance, similar to 's encounters with.

After meeting with Goro Izumi, she's very cold towards him, despite his arrogant and narcissistic bravado. She ends up commandeering his mansion for her own benefit. Despite her stern and ruthless personality, Taki is not without empathy, she cares for her allies and loved ones alike aside from her student. She even shows geniune concern towards Goro, especially when he recklessly fought one of the Kamui Tribe's demons to protect his precious technology. Despite her lack of interest to forms of romantic relationship, she eventually becomes more romantically involved with him to the point that she realizes that her strength is also drawn from her love towards not just Goro, but from the people who believed in her. She also cares for her future daughter's well being despite their awkward start.

A running gag throughout the story is Taki's experience with culture shock after she and Natsu ended 410 years into the future, her unfamiliarity with the modern era is explored thoroughly. While her disciple Natsu, is very quick to adapt into the present day, Taki is taking time to blend in the current society and usually forces herself to ask help from other people such as Goro and Anzu. Overtime, Taki eventually learns much more in adapting and getting experience in the modern era.

During Taki Gaiden: The Kunoichi Who Leapt Through Time, Taki comes to doubt of her own existence in the past after encountering the other Taki of 1586; where she shows a self-deprecating nature facing turmoil and confusion from within. Regardless of these flaws, her determination to return from the past also stems from rekindling her objective in destroying Soul Edge. As the story progresses, Taki easily adapts with modern and futuristic technologies such as piloting a  and using the 's Phone and Gun mode functionalities.

After reigniting her goal in destroying Soul Edge, Taki is more willing to protect her allies and loved ones in the present to prevent them from being drawn to the cursed sword, the same thing applies to Soul Calibur. When becomes focused in seeking after the spirit sword and use it to kill  before he becomes, Taki is determined to stop him from doing so before Geiz might eventually become a puppet to the spirit sword.

Though she is mostly focused in destroying Soul Edge, Taki is willing to drag herself into the battle between Zi-O and Geiz against the Time Jackers and their Another Riders. When asked of her involvement, Taki will simply reply that she is just a "wildcard" in that she places herself in neutral ground between opposing parties. She is more willing to form alliances with enemies (i.e., the Time Jackers) in case facing an even bigger threat.

As Kamen Rider Taki, upon entering the battle she will proclaim, "Like a creature in the night, I strike in the shadows!" (夜生き物のように、影を打ちつける！)

Family

 * Toki - adoptive father and master, deceased
 * Goro Izumi - boyfriend and future husband, Kamen Rider G7 Icarus (XYZ)
 * Fubuki Izumi - future daughter
 * Reina Izumi - future adoptive daughter
 * Anzu Izumi - future sister-in-law, Kamen Rider G7 Type-S
 * Natsu - student

Powers And Abilities

 * Musoh-Battoh-Ryu


 * One of Taki's defining abilities in terms of her sword fighting style. Her trademark fighting style involves using twin ninja blades - Rekki-Maru and Mekki-Maru.


 * Tengen Toppa Musoh-Battoh-Ryu


 * The advanced version of Taki's Musoh-Battoh-Ryu ninja fighting style when she is in the state of Tengen Toppa Evolution.


 * Full Bottles Purification


 * Taki also possesses a unique ability to instantly purify a Full Bottle that receives either Smash or youkai hybrid materials to make them compatible with Goro's Build Driver. Unlike 's ability that requires her purifying ability through the microwave incubator created, Taki makes use of her demon-sealing techniques to exorcise even evil spirits that is still intact inside of the bottle.


 * Tengen Toppa Evolution (天元突破エボルション)


 * Main article: Tengen Toppa Evolution


 * This is Taki's super-powered ability once tapping to the Kris Naga's magical power to its fullest. Being a highly experienced ninja, Taki has to go undergo spiritual training to tap to the Kris Naga's full power in order to unlock this power, as well as a mutual connection to an individual because of Kris Naga's ability to respond to the feelings of the wielder. In this mode, Taki undergoes in a physical transformation, her hair is immediately let loosed from her usual ponytail and its immediately dyed blue, her skin tone, along with her clothing becomes lighter mainly due to the energy and light output of the bluish aura. Her demon face mask then changes transforms into diagonally triangular-shaped glasses, then into a three-pointed star-shaped visor. It is Goro who christened the name of her transformed state because of his fondness for the anime mecha, .
 * Secret Trick: Space-Time Shattering Burst Spinning Punch (裏技：時空烈断バーストスピニングパンチ)
 * Taki gathers Tengen Toppa ki on her hands and channels it on her fist and unleashes a punch at her opponent.
 * Secret Technique: Super Galaxy Mega Cutter (奥義：超銀河大切断)
 * Taki combines the two Kris Naga blades and interlocks them into a scissor/bladed boomerang-like weapon, Taki then throws the combined weapon like a throwing blade at the enemy. The finisher takes effect once Taki sheaths back the Kris Naga blades after splitting them back.


 * Expert Blacksmith
 * Taki is a masterful blacksmith, and she is known for having forged her signature dual kodachi and having imbued them with mystical abilities. She even infused a shard of Soul Edge in her other blade, Mekki-Maru. She is also able to create one of her own weapons before becoming a Kamen Rider.
 * Demon Sealing
 * Being trained by the Fu-Ma ninja clan, Taki's defining abilities are her ability to seal away demonic beings. She can also contain demons inside, and later,.
 *  manipulation
 * After being first exposed to the Ridewatches, starting with the Huntress Ridewatch, and later by gathering the G7 Icarus XYZ and Type-S Ridewatches; which are needed to form the GalaxyArmor, the aforementioned watches are bonded to Taki, which grants her the ability to manipulate the Ridewatches to her will.
 * Sealing Symbols
 * Taki can invoke bright pink sealing symbols around her body as part of awakening Mekki-Maru to its true potential. Later on, she also gains the "Kamen" (カメン) logo from and 's helmets on her forehead to differentiate herself from her New Timeline counterpart.
 * Time Manipulation
 * Sometime after being exposed to the Ridewatches, Taki regains the ability to stop and/or slow time to her will. She can also do this with the Ridewatch.


 * Time Freeze Immunity and Cancellation
 * After a long period of intense training and simultaneous mastery of Ridewatches, Taki becomes unaffected by the ' ability to stop time, including that of . A feat that's highly impossible to achieve by any normal human being, let alone sheer willpower itself whereas Sougo and Geiz can still feel the Time Jackers' presence even when they freeze time. Taki can counteract the Time Jackers' time stoppage by instantly canceling them.


 *  Sensing
 * Taki somehow gains the ability to sense disturbances caused by Another Riders even from greater distances. Making it easier for Sougo and Geiz to track the Another Rider she sensed.


 * Elemental Ninja Arts
 * Shortly after attaining any elemental Futurering Forms, Taki later gains the ability to harness their elemental powers as part of her ninja arts.
 * Water-elemental Arts
 * Futurering Aqua Mermaid's powers grants her the ability to control water. Additionally, it is also possible for her to walk in water.
 * Fire-elemental Arts
 * Futurering Jet Phoenix's powers grants her the ability to control fire.

Weakness

 * : During her fight against Huntress Ninja Gamer, the latter used Maximum Mighty X on the on Taki. This causes Taki to lose the ability to harness the magical properties of Rekki-Maru and Mekki-Maru due to Maximum Mighty X's reprogramming ability, inadvertently altering the molecular bonds with the swords, at the same time destroying Mekki-Maru and permanently disabling both blades' magical properties. Later on, Mekki-Maru's glow changes from purple to light blue, whenever it senses.
 *  (formerly): When Taki came in possession of the Kamen Rider Huntress Ridewatch, she begins to have visions of foreseen events in the future - among those are the re-merging of two Earths, a silhouetted form Taki transforms into using the Ridewatches of Huntress, G7 Icarus XYZ and G7 Type-S with an unknown device, and lastly an encounter with a . Later, the Ridewatch is revealed to steal the power of the Rider it is based on.

Devices

 * Denryujin - Taki's ninjatou/flute transformation device and weapon that allows her to activate Victory Armor with the Heisei Rider Fullbottles Alpha and Beta.
 * Victory Braceulette - Taki's roulette-bracelet device granting her the power to use of previous Heisei Kamen Riders' Final Forms.
 * Galaxy Riser - transformation device for Galaxy Armor.
 * - transformation belt as Kamen Rider Taki
 * Triwatch Holder - wrist-worn carrier strap for Ridewatches, also used in tandem with the Galaxy Riser. Worn on the right wrist.
 * - wrist-worn carrier strap for Miridewatches. Worn on the left wrist.
 * - Used to grant abilities and perform special attacks with the Denryujin.
 * - secondary transformation trinkets.
 * - communication device

Weapons
Handheld weapons: Suit-equipped weapons:
 * Rekki-Maru & Mekki-Maru - Taki's personal dual kodachi.
 * Ryuseimaru - The evolved form Rekki-Maru & Mekki-Maru after prolonged exposure to Ridewatches. Taki's twin-bladed short sword personal weapon in Galaxy Armor that can be split into a pair of daggers that utilize Ridewatches. Taki retains this weapon after becoming Kamen Rider Taki.
 * Kris Naga - Taki's secondary dual kodachi which is used to activate Tengen Toppa Evolution.
 * Gurren & Lagann - Taki's katar/blade boomerang weapons.
 * Zikan Kenganbrade - Kamen Rider Taki's personal weapon.
 * Titan Killers - Futurering Rock's personal weapon based on Kamen Rider Rock's Titan Crusher.

Vehicles

 * - 's Rider Machine, summoned through the Drive Ridewatch.
 * - Twin go-kart Rider Machines used as armaments for Tridoron, summoned through the Drive Ridewatch.
 * - 's Rider Machine, summoned through the Drive Ridewatch.
 * - Twin go-kart Rider Machines used as armaments for Tridoron, summoned through the Drive Ridewatch.

Allies

 * G7 Riders
 * Goro Izumi/Kamen Rider G7 Icarus XYZ:
 * Anzu Izumi/Kamen Rider G7 Type-S (Aqua):
 * Reiji Matsushima/Kamen Rider New G7 Icarus:
 * Space Explorers
 * Samus Aran/Kamen Rider Huntress:
 * /Kamen Rider Mage:
 * /Kamen Rider Ryugen:
 * /Kamen Rider Mach:
 * /Kamen Rider Specter:
 * /Kamen Rider Necrom:
 * Keiichi Karasuma:
 * /Kamen Rider Build
 * /Kamen Rider Cross-Z
 * government and
 * /Kamen Rider Grease:
 * /Kamen Rider Zi-O
 * People from 2068
 * /Kamen Rider Geiz
 * Fubuki Izumi
 * Future Riders
 * /Kamen Rider Woz
 * People from 2068
 * /Kamen Rider Geiz
 * Fubuki Izumi
 * Future Riders
 * /Kamen Rider Woz
 * Future Riders
 * /Kamen Rider Woz

Enemies

 * Faust
 * Elpis Corporation
 * Kaguya Kozuki
 * People from 2068
 * Ray
 * Time Jackers
 * Time Jackers

Enemies

 * Cervantes de Leon

Allies

 * Natsu:

Allies

 * Another Taki:

Portrayal
Taki is portrayed by Asana Mamoru (護 あさな), who previously portrayed Jill from Garo: Makai no Hana. When donning the Victory Armor and Galaxy Armor and as Kamen Rider Taki, her suit actor is Shimozono Ayumi (下園 愛弓), her extreme martial arts suit actor is Sugiguchi Hideki (杉口 秀樹), who has previously done extreme martial arts moves for.

In the English version of Taki Gaiden: The Kunoichi Who Leapt Through Time, she is voiced by Cynthia Holloway, who has voiced the character since Soulcalibur III onwards.

Etymology
Taki's name means "Much Rejoicing", according to the limited edition art book that was released with the pre-orders of Soulcalibur II. Her name is rendered there as 多喜 ( 多 - ta - 'many'; 喜 - ki - 'joy'; 'rejoicing'), instead of 滝 (taki - 'waterfall').

Fittingly, with her involvement with the cast of ' in Taki Gaiden: The Kunoichi Who Leapt Through Time, will usually proclaim with enthusiasm to rejoice''' over his  ascension to becoming a king.