Yasha

Yasha (夜叉, Yasha) is one of the main antagonists of New Sakura Wars. She is an advanced Kouma and a member of Gouma with Sotetsu Genan and Oboro.

Appearance
Yasha is a young girl resembling Sakura Shinguji, the original star of the Imperial Combat Revue's Flower Division. She has dark blue hair tied up in a ponytail and the same voice as Sakura Shinguji which makes her resemblance to the young swordswoman uncanny.

Yasha's appearance consists of a grey outfit with a black cape around her body. She also has black gloves and grey boots. Her most important motif is the mask that she wears on her face which covers her red eyes.

Background
Not much is known about Yasha aside from the fact that she sided with the demons Sotetsu Genan and Oboro to summon Shadow Tokyo and revive the Archdemon.

A flock of hair remaining after her death implies that she's a clone of Sakura Shinguji who sealed herself away with the original Imperial Combat Revue to defeat the Archdemon. However, the actual circumstances regarding her creation are unknown (though her alliance with Genan implies that he's the one who created her).

Chapter 1 : Winds of Change
In 1940, Yasha first appears leading a demon attack in Ginza. Watching over from the top of a building, Yasha is wondering about the whereabouts of the Imperial Sword when the Imperial Combat Revue's Flower Division appears to fight back against the Demons.

After the Flower Division dispatches the Demons around Ginza, Yasha calmly approaches the Grand Imperial Theater and summons a dark cloud that engulfs the entire area in a realm of darkness.

Chapter 3 :
Yasha first makes her debut bombing the opening ceremony of the Combat Revue World Games, and damaging President G's ship. Her appearance and voice lead Sakura Amamiya to believe that she is none other than the legendary Sakura Shinguji. But the new theatre manager Sumire Kanzaki, believes not to be the case and forced to disclose Operation Twin Capitals to the new Imperial Revue.

Yasha's goal is to obtain the Imperial Key, the key item of the operation to seal the Archdemon in Shadow Tokyo. To this end, she placed Anastasia Palma in the Flower Division as a spy, promising to reunite her with her deceased family. When Yasha learns that the Key is Sakura Amamiya's Katana she activates her mole. As Anastasia completes her mission and delivers the Teiken to Yasha, Yasha cuts her down with a near mortal wound.

She confronts the Flower Division once more as Shadow Tokyo begins to unseal. Charged with demonic energy, Yasha is able to finish off the Flower heroines one after another. Hatusho is the last to challenge Yasha, but eventually falls too but managing to breakthrough Yasha's power, allowing Sakura, and Seijuro Kamiyama to defeat her.

As the wounded Yasha emerges from her mech, her mask falls off revealing her demonic aberration with a distorted face and crystal protrusions. The revelation that Yasha was not Shinguji at all encourages Sakura Amamiya to finally finish her off borrowing Kamiyama's katana. Yasha fades away as a single lock of hair remains, implying she's some sort of flawed clone of the real Sakura Shinguji.

Powers and Abilities
Master Swordswoman

Etymology

 * The name Yasha means "female demon" (夜叉).
 * It can also mean "night" (夜) (ya) and "fork, crotch" (叉) (sha).

Trivia

 * In the manga, Yasha's face was revealed to be the same as Sakura Shinguji.