Kage-Maru

Kage-Maru (影丸 Kagemaru) is a character from the Virtua Fighter video game series. He is also a character in I-3's Virtua Fighter FM.

Story
The tenth-generation of Kage-Maru, member Hagakure clan. As the son of the ninth-generation Kage-Maru and the eighth-generation Tsukikage, this ninja master is on a path of redemption. He entered the World Fighting Tournament to find information about J6, the tournament sponsor. He found them responsible for his father’s murder and his mother’s abduction.

Despite his impressive showing as a fighter, he had no luck finding info on J6. Kage enters the second tournament learning that his mother might be alive. He rescues Tsukikage, discovering her to be Dural and that she is sick due to a side effect of the transformation. He heads to the third tournament to capture the new model Dural in hopes that it can save his mother.

Kage wins the tournament and obtains a piece of the new Dural assuming it was a cure. Unfortunately, Tsukikage transforms back into Dural attacking her son and returns to J6. Determined to end her suffering, Kage infiltrated the fourth tournament to defeat an improved Dural as a way to rescue and cure her.

He makes it to the final round but his battle is interrupted by Dural. He destroys her only to discover that this Dural was a full machine. Discovering that J6 is now mass-producing Dural, Kage-Maru participates in the fifth tournament to save Tsukikage and put an end to J6.