Taki

1= "I cannot ignore your evil deeds"

- Taki

2= "Demon, begone!"

- One of Taki's catchphrase when fighting supernatural creatures.

3= "It's time to go beyond the impossible!"

- Taki's catchphrase in Tengen Toppa Evolution Stage 2

4= "Bare witness of the bond between us!"

- Taki's catchphrase, shared alongside Goro Izumi before fusing with the latter during transformation into Jet Phoenix Armor

5= "I'll carve...my own fate!"

- Taki's transformation call for Galaxy Armor

6= "The past, present, and future connected together, transcending history and the world! Now, prepare yourself!"

- Taki's catchphrase in Galaxy Armor

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

- Taki's post-mortem 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. A kunoichi with a sense of honor, she is considered to be the foil to Samus Aran/Kamen Rider Huntress in terms of their personalities and duties, who is in turn to be a rival towards Samus. She is the love interest of Goro Izumi, who provided her new sets of arsenal and a Cyber Armor to combat the Kamui Tribe.

She will later transform into Kamen Rider Taki (仮面ライダータキ) using the and the Taki.

History

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

Stumbling 400 Years into the Future
TBA

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 capable of 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, Taki eventually learns about that overtime after she shares intimacy with Goro, thus hinting a mutual connection between the two.

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.

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.


 *  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.

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 device as Kamen Rider Taki
 * Triwatch Holder - wrist-worn carrier strap for Ridewatches, also used in tandem with the Galaxy Riser.
 * - Used to grant abilities and perform special attacks with the Denryujin.
 * - secondary transformation trinkets.
 * Key Set Connector - to be announced
 * - communication device

Weapons

 * Rekki-Maru & Mekki-Maru - Taki's personal dual kodachi.
 * Kris Naga - Taki's secondary dual kodachi which is used to activate Tengen Toppa Evolution.
 * Gurren & Lagann - Taki's katar/blade boomerang weapons.
 * Ryuseimaru - Taki's twin-bladed short sword personal weapon in Galaxy Armor that can be split into a pair of daggers that utilize Ridewatches.
 * Zikan Kenganbrade - Kamen Rider Taki's personal weapon.

Allies

 * G7 Riders
 * Goro Izumi:
 * Anzu Izumi:
 * Reiji Matsushima:
 * Space Explorers
 * Samus Aran:
 * Keiichi Karasuma:
 * government and
 * People from 2068
 * Fubuki Izumi
 * Keiichi Karasuma:
 * government and
 * People from 2068
 * Fubuki Izumi
 * government and
 * People from 2068
 * Fubuki Izumi
 * People from 2068
 * Fubuki Izumi
 * People from 2068
 * Fubuki Izumi
 * People from 2068
 * Fubuki Izumi
 * Fubuki Izumi
 * Fubuki Izumi
 * Fubuki Izumi

Enemies

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

Enemies

 * Cervantes de Leon

Allies

 * Natsu:

Allies

 * Taki (New Timeline):

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.