Arashi Shinozuka

Arashi Shinozuka is a 16 year old girl. Arashi is the daughter of a great martial-artist, Arashi left her home in Day Town to live on her own in Night Town, going to the same neighborhood catholic school as Hajiki Sanada and his friends.

Biography
Arashi ran away from home feeling she would never be good enough for her father, who expected before her birth to have a son only to be disappointed with a daughter instead and Arashi was given a boy's name because of that. As she came from a good part of town, Arashi has some trouble at first adjusting to life in the ghetto such as her belongings getting stolen and not having batteries to cope with the power shutting off at midnight. She soon learns and tries to teach herself to fit in, doing everything from making friends with some of the boys at school to getting a job as a billboard repair worker to support herself. She is witness to the creation of Lightning, and after seeing Zero, Thunderbolt and Messah Schmidt, she longs for a Gad of her own, something she later finds by accident.

Arashi is meant to be Hajiki's love interest, even though he all but ignores her through the first part of the series. At first she seems to annoy him, but Hajiki eventually grows accustomed to her even if her idealistic views don’t always coincide with his. Arashi follows after him relentlessly, seeming hellbent on staying with him to the point of following him to work and popping up in the middle of several of his Techode battles. In a few episodes when their views have clashed, Arashi has used her karate skills on Hajiki. By the end of the series, Arashi and Hajiki affirm their feelings for each other, much to the shock of the teachers who just happened to walk in when they kissed for the first time.

Gad
Arashi was among the fortunate few to spawn a Techode from a Gad, which she named Hayate.