Nakoruru

Nakoruru (, Nakoruru) is a major character in the fighting game series. A young woman from Japan, she fights with a sword alongside her hawk Mamahaha and somethimes with her wolf Shikuru.

Origin
Nakoruru is a teenage (an indigenous Japanese people from Hokkaido) woman, living as a nature-loving priestess in the woods. She first gets involved in the story timeline-wise in Samurai Shodown 5 (known in Japan as Samurai Spirits Zero and the earliest installment chronologically), helping to stop the vicious warlord Gaoh Hinowanokami. After his defeat, Nakoruru follows in her late father's footsteps, becoming a Kamui warrior. She continues to protect nature and defeat the various villains in the series, even after sacrificing her human form to become a spirit of nature at the end of Samurai Shodown II. As a divine spirit, Nakoruru has traveled to The King of Fighters universe before in The King of Fighters XIV to defeat Verse. She also is one of the major female characters of SNK's creation, starring in her own drama CD, being a key member in SNK's image band and common mascot for SNK's social action programs for children and nature awareness campaigns along with Terry.

As a costume
Nakoruru makes her Smash debut as one of 's DLC Mii costumes. She appears as a with using her prized sword, Chichi-ushi. Notably, this Mii Costume has flowing hair physics, and the sword is given a yellow trail near the tip.

Nakoruru appears in the Costumes #4 trailer along with a Fletchling and Wolf in reference to her hawk Mamahaha and her wolf Shikuru (which usually appears alongside her dark alter ego, Rera). In the final shot where Wolf appears, she is standing in front of the cabin of the Ice-type morph of Pokémon Stadium 2; this is a reference to her original Samurai Shodown stage, in the snow-bound Kamui Kotan village. Additionally, also appears in the trailer as a stand-in for Mamahaha, when he uses his Fire Bird in a downward diagonal, similar to Nakoruru's Amube Yatoro move from her playable appearances.

As a spirit
Nakoruru also appears as an Advanced class support spirit. She appears as, along with a tiny as her puppet fighter, and is fought at  in its winter season. During the battle, they will have their attack power increased once they are at high damage.

Other
Nakoruru appeared in Terry's reveal trailer, where she ordered Mamahaha to catch the Smash invitation, but failed.

Trivia

 * Nakoruru is the only character that cameos in 's reveal trailer, and the only SNK character with a Mii costume, to not appear as a background character on King of Fighters Stadium.