Hoshimi Miyabi
Zenless Zone Zero: Fu Hua's Grand Entrance - A Fox's ObsessionContents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background / History
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Void Hunter Combat Ability
- 6.2Keen Intuition
- 6.3Swordsmanship and Frostfire
- 6.4Flying Sky Sword Style
- 6.5Demon Blade Thousand Blades
- 7Equipment / Weapons / Items
- 8Relationships
- 9Story Role / Major Arcs
- 9.1Anti-Air Sixth Division Encounter
- 9.2Investigation and Apprenticeship
- 9.3Weapon Mastery
- 9.4Bringer Pursuit
- 9.5Pursuit of Li Sushang
- 10Notable Quotes
- 11Trivia
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Hoshimi Miyabi (星见雅) |
| Alias(es) | Miyabi; Section Chief Miyabi; youngest Void Hunter; genius of the Hoshimi Family |
| Species/Race | Fox |
| Gender | Female |
| Affiliation | Anti-Air Sixth Division; Hoshimi Family; trainee of the Taixu Sect |
| Occupation/Role | Section Chief of the Anti-Air Sixth Division; Void Hunter; swordswoman |
| Family | Soichiro (father); unnamed deceased mother |
| Status | Active 132 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 13 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Void Hunter and Demon Blade wielder | 14 | Awakens her Demon Blade by fingerprint during the Anti-Air Sixth Division's clash with Fu Hua; recognizes that Fu Hua's attacks were guiding her movements. |
| Fu Hua's sword-training student | 28 | Requests Fu Hua's instruction after pursuing her to Taixu Mountain; Fu Hua agrees to offer guidance while stressing that Miyabi must follow her own martial path. |
| Sixty-second trial: 50.01 seconds | 29 | Endures Fu Hua's escalating materialized-sword barrage for 50.01 seconds. Fu Hua identifies Miyabi's incomplete unity with her Demon Blade. |
| Intensified Demon Blade training | 32 | Following Fu Hua's trial, significantly improves her speed and doubles the intensity of her usual training, cutting apart an all-angle bullet barrage. |
| Wooden-sword discipline | 62 | Entrusts her Demon Blade to Fu Hua and trains with wooden swords against Li Sushang. After a month and 101 wooden swords, she can spar with Sushang without being disadvantaged. |
| Heavenly Soaring Dragon Flash | 81 | Realizes and performs a new Flying Sky Sword Style iaijutsu against an impostor of herself, manifesting an azure ice-flame dragon. |
| Demon Blade Thousand Blades unlocked | 84 | Successfully conquers the cracked Demon Blade Thousand Blades, enabling its fragments to disassemble and reassemble under her control. |
| Dual-Demon-Blade integration | 88 | Combines Thousand Blades' fragments with Tail-less while pursuing Bringer, creating a strengthened composite sword and forming an ice-flame dragon around the blade. |
Background / History
Miyabi is the daughter of Soichiro and a member of the Hoshimi Family, a prominent martial lineage. Her mother died in the incident that caused the Old Capital's fall; Miyabi visits the Great Rift Memorial Site in her memory and vows to bring every responsible criminal and accomplice to justice 80.
As the Anti-Air Sixth Division's Section Chief and the youngest Void Hunter, Miyabi is already renowned enough that students immediately recognize her when she attends Fu Hua's class 16 17. Her family intuition allows her to sense powerful presences and fuels her conviction that Fu Hua was the armored woman encountered in the Hollow 13 16.
Appearance
Miyabi is a black-furred fox woman whose composed demeanor contrasts with expressive fox ears that perk, twitch, or droop according to her mood 80 91.
- Two large, pointed fox ears 13
- Black hair that can emit a blue glow during combat 20 62
- Sharp eyes and a restrained, formal bearing 80
- Anti-Air Sixth Division uniform 48
- Usually carries one or more swords; by the time she unlocks Thousand Blades, she wears a wooden sword, Tail-less, and Thousand Blades 84
Personality
Miyabi is disciplined, formal, and relentlessly self-improving. She treats nearly everything—including standing still, investigation, travel, and even emotional situations—as training. After Fu Hua decisively defeats her, Miyabi does not resent the loss; instead, she recognizes the value of the guidance hidden within it and makes finding Fu Hua part of her training 14 20.
Her single-mindedness can become comically excessive. She repeatedly seeks Fu Hua out for sparring, arrives at Taixu Mountain at three in the morning, and neglects work when training beckons 26 28 56. Despite this intensity, she accepts Fu Hua's rules, including being required to complete her official duties before returning for instruction 56 91.
Miyabi is calm under pressure and protective of her division. When Bringer attempts to use the Anti-Air Sixth Division's contact with suspects against them, she takes responsibility herself to protect her subordinates 86. Her rigidity softens around Li Sushang: Miyabi openly pursues her, though her literal understanding of romance and reliance on love manuals often leave Sushang bewildered 113 117.
Abilities & Skills
Void Hunter Combat Ability
Miyabi is a high-level combatant capable of moving as an icy-blue afterimage, rapidly traversing buildings, and cutting through weaker Remnants while pursuing larger targets 54.
- Deflects or cuts apart bullet barrages with her sword 32.
- Shatters a pursuing Remnant before it can attack Belle and an examiner 54.
- Pursues Niniwe across rooftops and wounds it with a high-speed empowered slash, though the Remnant escapes and regenerates 54.
- Easily breaks ordinary handcuffs and escapes custody to continue pursuing Bringer 88.
- Can fight Voids independently; at her later level, she considers such opponents easy to dispatch 111.
Keen Intuition
As a Hoshimi Family member, Miyabi possesses unusually sharp intuition.
- Detects Fu Hua's powerful presence inside a Hollow before visually locating her 13.
- Continues to identify Fu Hua as the armored fighter despite Fu Hua's civilian identity and lack of visible oppressive aura 16.
- Relies on intuition where she lacks hard evidence, which limits her ability to act formally against suspected deception 16.
Swordsmanship and Frostfire
Miyabi's primary style centers on extremely fast draw-slashes, ice-blue sword energy, and cold blue flames.
- Her Demon Blade can produce ice-blue mist and frostfire when awakened 14 29.
- Creates an ice bridge across the sea while carrying Li Sushang, then crosses it at extreme speed 113.
- Her early swordsmanship lacks the experience and weapon unity needed to match Fu Hua; Fu Hua attributes this gap to Miyabi's lack of time-tempering rather than a lack of talent 20 29.
- Her powerful strike against Niniwe fails to fully sever the target, leading Miyabi to acknowledge that her swordsmanship remains insufficient 54.
Flying Sky Sword Style
Miyabi purchases the Flying Sky Sword Style manual for 100,000 Deni and studies it obsessively despite her colleagues assuming it is another scam purchase 80 81.
- Develops Heavenly Soaring Dragon Flash while trapped in a virtual world against an impostor of herself 81.
- The technique takes the form of an azure ice-flame dragon that overwhelms the copied opponent's matching iaijutsu 81.
- Her rapid mastery confirms Fu Hua's confidence in Miyabi's exceptional talent 81 82.
Demon Blade Thousand Blades
A cracked blade sold to Miyabi for one million Deni, Thousand Blades requires conquest before its power can be used 83.
- Shatters into numerous fragments, then reassembles into a complete blade or a larger attacking formation 84 95.
- Launches its fragments like meteors and can reform them inside an opponent's defensive field for a delayed, massive slash 95.
- Can merge with Tail-less, extending and reinforcing Miyabi's family blade 88.
- Its stated principle is “attack without defense,” making it overwhelmingly offensive but requiring decisive control 84.
Equipment / Weapons / Items
- Demon Blade Tail-less — Hoshimi Family heirloom Demon Blade; Miyabi unlocks it with her fingerprint and uses it as her primary family weapon 14 86.
- Demon Blade Thousand Blades — cracked, fragmenting Demon Blade purchased from the Herrscher of Reason for one million Deni; later conquered and unlocked by Miyabi 83 84.
- Wooden sword — issued by Fu Hua after the latter confiscates Miyabi's Demon Blade for foundational training. Miyabi eventually gives her 101st wooden sword a scabbard after it survives a spar with Li Sushang 62.
- Flying Sky Sword Style — martial-arts manual purchased for 100,000 Deni; source of Miyabi's Heavenly Soaring Dragon Flash 80 81.
Relationships
- Fu Hua — Miyabi's teacher and the person she initially investigates as the armored fighter from the Hollow. After repeated defeats and requests for sparring, Miyabi becomes Fu Hua's student and deeply respects her guidance 16 28 29.
- Li Sushang — Miyabi's wooden-sword sparring partner and the object of her romantic affection. Miyabi confesses that she wants to marry Sushang, while Sushang remains surprised and uncertain but continues to support her 62 113 114.
- Tsukishiro Yanagi — Miyabi's deputy and trusted Anti-Air Sixth Division subordinate. Ryu manages Miyabi's workload, questions her training fixation, and remains concerned for her safety 20 54 117.
- Soichiro — Miyabi's father and a member of the Hoshimi Family. He worries that she focuses too much on training, but supports her growth and later accepts her interest in Li Sushang 84 119.
- Herrscher of Reason — tests Miyabi in combat, sells her the Flying Sky Sword Style and Thousand Blades, and alternates between teasing, manipulating, and acknowledging Miyabi's progress 48 80 83.
- Anti-Air Sixth Division — Miyabi's team, including Tsukishiro Yanagi, Asaba Yuma, and Soukaku. Miyabi leads them in Hollow operations and takes personal responsibility when Bringer threatens the division 13 86.
- Bringer — hostile political figure who has Miyabi arrested after the Anti-Air Sixth Division rescues Perlman. Miyabi breaks free and leads the pursuit into the Void 86 88.
- Belle and Wise — acquaintances who meet Miyabi at the Great Rift Memorial Site and learn of her determination to seek justice for her mother and the Old Capital 80.
Story Role / Major Arcs
Anti-Air Sixth Division Encounter
Miyabi senses Fu Hua in a Hollow and leads the Anti-Air Sixth Division into a confrontation with her. Although Fu Hua overwhelms the entire team, Miyabi realizes the battle contains instruction rather than hostility and resolves to find Fu Hua again 13 14.
Investigation and Apprenticeship
Convinced by intuition that Fu Hua is concealing her identity, Miyabi confronts her at a dessert shop and observes her classes. Her investigation transforms into a desire for martial instruction; after seeking Fu Hua out at Taixu Mountain, Miyabi becomes her student 16 28.
Weapon Mastery
Fu Hua identifies Miyabi's incomplete bond with Tail-less and restructures her training around wooden-sword sparring with Li Sushang. Miyabi later learns the Flying Sky Sword Style, unlocks Thousand Blades, and becomes capable of wielding multiple swords and combining her Demon Blades 29 62 81 84 88.
Bringer Pursuit
Miyabi and the Anti-Air Sixth Division rescue Perlman but are framed by Bringer. Miyabi accepts arrest to shield her subordinates, then breaks free when Bringer escapes into the Void and pursues him with her Demon Blades 86 88.
Pursuit of Li Sushang
While traveling with Li Sushang, Miyabi grows increasingly attached to her and eventually confesses her desire to marry her. She explains that Sushang's companionship, encouragement, martial support, and a char siu bun given during a lonely night all contributed to her feelings 112 113 114.
Notable Quotes
“I want to see her again. I gained a great deal from that battle. I want to fight her once more.” 14
“I will catch every last one of them. Not a single one will be spared.” 80
“Weapons are no longer important to me. A wooden sword will suffice.” 85
“I am undergoing training to stay by Li Sushang's side for my entire life.” 117
Trivia
- Miyabi repeatedly refers to non-combat activities as “training,” including standing, mourning, emotional restraint, and spending time with Li Sushang 16 80 85 117.
- She once came to Taixu Mountain at three in the morning solely to request a spar with Fu Hua 28.
- Her colleagues note that she becomes unusually obedient around Fu Hua despite being domineering in most other situations 91.
- Her 101st wooden sword is the first to survive a spar with Li Sushang, prompting Miyabi to have it fitted with a scabbard 62.