Arika Amazake
| Arika Amazake | |
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| Name | |
| Japanese: | 甘酒 アリカ Arika Amazake |
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| Official English: | Erika |
| Information | |
| Gender: | Female |
| Occupation: | Reporter |
| Medarots: | Sailor-Multi Pretty Prime Medamaid Fey Knit Sailormate Last Sailor Gallant Lady |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Voiced by: | Eri Sendrai, Lisa Yamanaka (EN, Medarot dub), Bryn McAuley (EN, Medarot Damashii dub) |
| Game appearances | |
| Medarot 2, Medarot R, Medarot 3, Medarot 4, Medarot Navi, Medarot 2 Core, Medabots AX, Medarot Brave, Medarot DS, Medarot 7, Medarot Dual (DLC), Medarot S | |
| Other appearances | |
| Anime: Medarot, Medarot Damashii Manga: Medarot 2 | |
Arika Amazake (Erika in English translations) is a recurring character in the Medarot series. A childhood friend of Ikki Tenryou, Arika dreams to become a journalist and as such is always interested to investigate the going-ons in town. She is tomboyish and has a short temper, though her flippant attitude hides a real fondness for Ikki.
As a Medarotter, Arika favours Sailor-type and female Knight-type Medarots, with her original Sailor-Multi (nicknamed "Brass") being her trademark Medarot.
In the games
Medarot 2
After Ikki acquires his starter Medarot and leaves his house, Arika greets him and proposes a warm-up battle with her Sailor-Multi. Wheter Ikki wins or succeeds, the story progresses.
Once at school, Arika explains The Screws have won the school's annual Robattle contest and prods Ikki into fighting them. After Ikki defeats them, Arika writes an article on his victory for the school's newspaper. However, she soons get winds of a new story when rumours of an invisible Medarot tickling girls and convinces Ikki to dress up as a girl to draw out the perpetrator. As they venture outside, Arika is tickled by the Medarot responsible and furiously chases after it, eventually driving it to hide in an abandoned Medarot factory. After Ikki goes inside and defeats the Roborobo Gang member responsible, Arika praises the Select Corps (who falsely took credit for Ikki's actions) for resolving the issue.
When rumors spread that a ghost Medarot has been stealing parts in Mt. Odoro and that The Screws announce their intention to go there and claim any part they find as their own, Arika decides to go there too and pressures Ikki to come with her. Once Ikki arrives at the mountain's base, Arika offers a warm-up Robattle with her Sailor-Multi and a Pretty Prime. Arika accompanies him through Mt. Odoro, but loses him when Ikki falls in the currents near the Select Corps camp. She is relieved when Ikki returns from Mt. Odoro Marsh.
Arika gets a ticket to go to Medarot Island and meets Ikki at the docks. When Ikki laments he can't go there because his parents are too busy, Arika invites him to come with her and her mother as her father had to stay due to work. Once at the amusement park, Arika asks Ikki if he's going to sign up for the Robattle tournament there and watch the upcoming parade with her. She is the first opponent in the Block B heats, using Sailor-Multi and two Pretty Primes.
During a break in the tournament, Arika invites him to watch the upcoming parade with her but Ikki is distracted when RoboRobo Gang goons steal a girl's medals. Arika comes on the scene and pretends to be upset at Ikki for breaking his promise. She is later found in the arcade and when spoken to, yells at Ikki for breaking her concentration and making her lose the Protect the Select Corps. HQ! arcade game at the last minute. After Ikki beats the game, Arika admits Kouji had already told her about what happened and she played dumb to see Ikki's reaction.
After Ikki wins the tournament, Arika invites him to go to the Spirit rollercoaster. While inside, Arika notices a camera flash and she and Ikki soon find the photo was taken by a RoboRobo Gang member who stalks the rollercoaster for pictures of girls. The pair confront the grunt who runs away, and Arika decides she'd rather go to the Witch's Castle attraction. While waiting in line, Arika asks Ikki to buy her a drink. Of the three items offered, the Orange Juice is what she wants.
Sidequest
Depending on the player's choice at various points, Ikki can romance either Arika, Karin or neither. If the player opts for the Arika route, she will give the CAT Medal at the start of the postgame.
Medarot R
In Medarot R Arika maintains her role as an aspiring journalist. In this continuity however, she doesn't have a Medarot initially and is excited to publish all of Ikki's victories in the school newspaper.
In chapter 5, Medal TV was auditioning girls for the role of Kirara in their show about the adventures of Hikaru (Who Ikki would play), however, RoboRobo Gang made paints on the faces of all the girls in the city so that their leader Pink Duck would be the only woman who could win the role.
What hadn't been predicted by Pink Duck is that Arika would be the only girl of ideal age who wouldn't have her face painted, due to her tomboy appearance making the grunts mistake her for a boy. Seeing her chance ruined, Pink Duck kidnaps Arika and personally paints her face. Ikki defeats Pink Duck but due to Arika's painted face the show is cancelled.
The next day Arika reveals that the paint came off her and the other girls' faces naturally over time and that her parents bought her new Medarot, Brass, to cheer her up. She decides to participate with Ikki in the Medarot tournament, beating Iwanoi but losing to Ikki.
Arika is also a Medarotter that can be fought at rank 43.
Medarot 3
Early in Medarot 3, Arika is at the Hop Mart buying film. When Ikki comes in, a broadcast of Medarot Weekly plays and has Yuuki Nimousaku announce the contest to visit the space station. After explaining to Ikki who Yuuki is, she goes to the park to do Robattle training but she is ambushed by The Screws, who pretend the park is their territory and that they'll only allow her in exchange for one Medarot part per hour. Arika has Ikki defeat The Screws but before their battle can escalate, a strange magnetic storm wipes out everyone's Medarotch data. Arika comments she would've been devastated if she lost Brass and goes to school to investigate the accident.
Arika's search leads her to find that all medarots that were deployed while the storm occured are safe, but that the medarotch data has definitely been wiped. After finding clues on the school's second floor, Arika relays to Ikki the new that the RoboRobo Gang lieutnants have escaped custody and deduces they may be responsible for the strange occurences all over town. Arika suggests they go to the abandoned factory due to it being the most suspicious place in town and once there, notices a new lock has been installed. Venturing inside the pitch black building, she is poked by the current occupant's medarot and leaves in disgust.
Medabots AX
Arika is the thirteennth opponent in the Tournament, using a Sailor-Multi as her leader and a 2nd Medarot with mixed parts.
In the anime
Medarot
Arika is one of the main character in the original anime and is portrayed similarly to Medarot 2. She is a childhood friend of Ikki and is the reason he takes posession of Metabee after she is threatened by The Rockers. Though quick to tease him, she is always happy to support Ikki in his adventures and sometimes drag him into her own investigations.
Medarot Damashii
Arika has a similar role and screentime in the sequel anime. Though still a tomboy, she displays to have more feminine interests, namely taking care of a secret garden hidden in the forest. She has a rivalry with Masu Izumi of the school's broadcast club and clears Ikki's name when he is falsely incriminated by the Death Medarot Company through edited video footage.
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