Aoi Kunieda

"Kunieda" redirects here. For other uses, see Kunieda (disambiguation).

is a junior from Ishiyama high and was the third leader of Red Tail as well as a former Tōhōshinki member.

Appearance
Aoi is a petite, cute faced woman with long black hair and blue eyes. Early in the series she would commonly wear a white trench-coat with cargo pants but recently has taken up wearing an average school girl uniform. In her Aoi Kunie disguise she wears a simple dress, a bucket hat and a pair of glasses and changes her hair style.

Personality
Kunieda is first portayed as a strong and determined young woman who would not hesitate to beat down those who opposed her and is said to be very charismatic, which is what allowed her to become the leader of the Red-Tails. She retained a serious attitude throughout her earlier appearances. However, after her "defeat" at the hands of Oga her attitude has relaxed considerably, revealing a somewhat kind personality. Her eyes at first tend to be sharp and serious. However, during the process of the series, her eyes starts to be show more happiness and relaxment. But she still retains her delinquent characteristics in serious situations or when pertaining to her rivalry with Hilda. Most people (besides Oga) tends to easily read her emotions. Like her crush on Oga, or her jealousy of Hilda.

She has an obvious crush on Oga which makes her act shy whenever he is around, she also tries her best to hide her alter ego from Oga because she thinks he'll hate her.

She also tends to lash out lectures to anybody that she sees does anything wrong. Especially Oga. She also knows basic First Aid when Hilda got stabbed by Hecatos's Spear.

Ishiyama High
Kunieda appears for the first time in the park with her little brother where she was teased by other mothers for having a kid when she was only 17. She meets Oga there for the first time after he threw Beelzebub to far After he scared away the other mothers he asked her to have his "Park Debut" with her and she eventually agreed after misunderstanding him and thinking he was asking her on a date. She later defends Oga from a cop who also sees her as trash and is about to slap him only to stop when Oga attacks the cop first and throw him into the trash bin. She is one of the Tohoshinki, and she is stronger than Kanzaki and Himekawa. After hearing what happened in Ishiyama High, she went there to find Oga and punish him for the sake of Ishiyama's girls, until she realized that he was the same person from the park and froze. At first she tries to get Oga to fight but just dodges her attacks, when Oga realize Beelzebub likes Aoi he tries to get her to be Beel mother, but this lead to confusion and an embarassed Aoi runs away. It was evident that Aoi develope a crush on Oga but when he hears about Hilda she becomes enraged. Later Hilda challenges her and states that she may be strong but not on the same level as Oga. Soon Aoi was informed that Nene and Chiaki were beaten up and assumed it was Oga doing. She then challenges him on the roof unaware it was a trap set up by Miwa. When Aoi seem to have defeated Oga, Miwa exposes his plan and the true mastermind behind the attack. Just as Miwa was about to attack Oga awakes and defeats Miwa by slamming him deep in the ground. Aoi realize her mistake and Oga tries to pass Beel to her when she apologizes. She then was told the truth of relationship between Oga, Hilda, and Beel but still doesn't know that Hilda and Beel are demons. Afterwards Aoi quits the Red Tails to try to make amends and become closer to Oga much to the Red Tails charging. She is later seen along with the Red Tails asissting Oga get to Tojo by using a wooden halberd clearing a path for him from the deliquents blocking him. After Oga finishes his fight with Tojo she leaves Oga alone stating that she will only get in his way.

During summer she takes Kouta out while in disguise with her grandfather Ittosai Kuneida to Mapputatsu mountain to deliver something for a friend and by chance encounters Oga training Beel to get over his fear of insects. He fails to realize she is Aoi Kuneida and invites her for ice cream. Oga ask what was her name and just before she can say her name, Ittosai comes to check up on her. She then in a rush came up with the name Aoi Kunie. When Ittosai ask who Oga is she panic and states that he a friend. He suddenly toss Oga and challenges him to test his strength. After Ittosai uses Nadeshiko on Oga, Aoi buds in yelling at Ittosai only to be interupt when he realize his package was stolen. Aoi and her grandfather chased the three deliquents to a park with a ledge. Just as her grandfather was about to beat up the deliquents she suggest he look behind them. Pretending that he fell Oga steps in and punches one of the deliquents running away while the others are apprehended by Ittosai single handly. He states that he has potential and he is free to come to their dojo and become a possible son in law much to Aoi embarassment before walking away with him.

Abilities
She uses a wooden sword in combat that she is really adept with. She uses the Shingetsu Style taught by her grandfather which also gives her the ability to break rocks barehanded. However, unlike a good number of characters that have appeared, her physical strength appears to be about average given that she is winded after carrying a relatively small stone. She is also seen using a wooden halberd which she used to defeat a whole group of thugs with one swing.

Shingetsu (Heart Moon) Style: 
 * Nadeshiko - A stone breaking technique
 * Battou-Jutsu - Sword drawing technique
 * Ichishiki Hagan Kiku Ichimonji (First Ceremony Wave Rock Chrysanthemum Straight Line) - Aoi draws her sword, slashing her target horizanally, then reseathes it.
 * Nishiki Hyakka Midare Zakura (Second Ceremony 100 Flower Storming Sakura) - Aoi slashes her opponent with a wave like pattern.
 * Sanshiki (Third Ceremony Upturned Swallow Tailed Eaves) - Aoi slash with a circle like pattern, it was use against lower class demons in manga chapter 126, page 05.

After being attacked by demons, she and Oga go training. When she return she has shown improvement in her skills, able to use demonic power, and can be on par with Hilda in combat. What skills she can use with demonic power has yet to be seen, though she is later seen with a large dog like familiar named Koma. So far Koma has shown that he protects Aoi from attacks and can transfer his demonic energy into her wooden sword.

Hildegard
Aoi has seen Hilda as a rival ever since the fight between the two of them. Aoi is seen being jealous of Hilda for being Oga's "wife", when it is just a misunderstanding of hers just like every other students in the Ishiyama Highschool. They started to get along with each other after the St. Ishiyama Arc although they do still have a rivalry.

Oga Tatsumi
Aoi Kunieda has a crush on Oga ever since she had met him in the park, when Aoi was in her disguise. She is seen showing her shyness around Oga or blushing whenever she is talking to him. Oga though seems to be more friendlier towards Aoi who is in her disguise, he even invites her to go get some ice cream in one chapter. In chapter 113 Oga (Beelzebub) hugs her making her blush. Oga is also the only person she quickly forgives after she gets mad. When Oga and Kunieda were having a fight up on the roof, she thought that Oga went to Ne-Ne and Chiaki and beat them to unconsciousness. However, after finding out the truth, she quickly forgives him saying that it was her fault. She also tends to lectures Oga after he does or say something that are either rude or almost giving out informations about demons. For example, when Oga was giving Kunieda a ride home on his bike, he and Baby Beel were yelling out to get stronger, only for Kunieda to tell them to be quiet as it was rude for the neighbors. Or when Oga were telling Teimu's Shadow Force Gang about Baby Beel's demon praying dance, she quickly take Oga to the side and lectures him about being careful to what he says about demons. As the series progresses, Oga and Kunieda starts to be together more and more, and her feelings for Oga starts to be stronger and stronger as she quickly starts to think what others think about her and Oga being together. (For ex. When on the ship to Decapitation Island, an old lady says they look like a newly wed couple going on a trip together. Causing her to blush.)

Quotes

 * "I wonder....is he divorced....?" (to Nene and Chiaki)
 * "A....anyway the demon stuff is confidential!! Got it!" (to Oga)
 * "Excuse me!? And what about you? Why can't you properly do your job as a wet nurse" (to Hilda)
 * "I'm feeling relieved. it looks like the wound you recieved before have healed completely. However, it's from here on that I will show you.....the results of my training." (to Hilda while fighting)
 * "Get out here now! I don't know if you're truly a tengu or not, but if something like you is a god, then I'll destroy both you gods and demons." (to Koma)

Trivia

 * Her Name means "Japanese Hollywock's Branch"
 * A recuring joke is that Aoi misinterprets most things Oga says as something romantic, when that isn't actually the case: "Will you go out with me?" (manga)/ "Will you do it with me?" (anime)- Oga referring to a "park debut", and probably the most easily misunderstood-; "Ah... oy" she thinks he is reffering her by given name (Aoi) (in Japanese culture, typically only people who are close are allowed to refer to an individual in such a manner); his asking her if she wants to be Be'el's mother (when he actually means just getting rid of Be'el and giving him to her); and in an instance when he gives her Be'el and tells her not to go farther then 15m (so that he won't get electrocuted) she mistakes it as "stay by my side".
 * It seems Oga cannot tell Aoi is the same girl he met the park- either because he is too dense or he cannot distinguish the similarities of her disguise of "Kunie" and her school look.
 * In chapter 39, Oga is friendlier towards Aoi in disguise, he also invites her to get some ice cream, causing Aoi thinks she's on a date with Oga.
 * She is one of the five human individuals that can feel Satome use demonic power which proves she has considerable strengh as a human. The other people would be Oga, Tojo, Shizuka, and Miki.
 * In chapter 115, Tengu insults Aoi's bust size by calling it a 70. She becomes upset and says it's an 80, though it is unknown if this is true or if she's just bluffing. In the anime, her bust is much larger.
 * Oga treats her nicer and probably the nicest of all the characters in the series. He never shows animosity and listens to her, and show concerns when she was captured by a demon. He also smiles anytime Kunieda does something that always impresses him or others.