Senju Kawaragi

Senju Akashi, or Senju Kawaragi, is the president of the delinquent gang Brahman.

Appearance
Senju is a young woman of below-average height with short light pink hair, green eyes, and prominent eyelashes, sharing similar facial characteristics with her older brother, Haruchiyo Sanzu. Due to her layered tousled bob hairstyle with unruly waves and blunt edges, she is often mistaken for a boy. Senju always wears the traditional Brahman uniform with its sleeves personally customized to a cherry blossom pattern instead of the gang logo, then wears skinny jeans for lower garments and a pair of black sneakers for footwear.

When she is not tending to her gang duties, Senju wears a pristine white sailor top with a red necktie and a matching light blue skirt that ends right above her knee. She sometimes ties her hair in a well-kept bun and allows her bangs to freely cascade down the sides of her face. To complete her school outfit, she wears a pair of school shoes and white mid-calf socks for footwear.

Personality
As the current reigning leader of Brahman, Senju is responsible for the status and welfare of her gang, making her a principled leader with a good moral compass as evidenced by her refusal to involve Brahman in fraudulent businesses despite primarily agreeing to a prostitution ring's partnership offer out of force. However, she is often overshadowed by her older brother and right-hand man Takeomi Akashi who tends to create decisions for her, once reminding her to separate personal emotions from making work-related decisions, and that being able to successfully do so is the major difference between a child (Senju) and an adult (Manjiro Sano).

Senju usually does not entertain Takeomi's sermon and instead chooses to ponder to herself silently, a reaction she frequently succumbs to in order to not provoke Takeomi and lead him down a detrimental path in life of power and greed. However, she eventually begins standing up for herself when she and her gang are put in danger. At one point after clashing with Rokuhara Tandai’s goons that resulted in Ken Ryuguji’s death, Senju is not afraid to talk back to her elderly gang members about ending the fight against Rokuhara Tandai and the Kanto Manji Gang, and later on, as half of Brahman falls in defeat, faces South Terano alone despite Takeomi's warnings, an act of declaration of her power and strength as Brahman's true and one and only boss.

When she is not working on her gang duties, Senju shows a freer side of herself. According to Takemichi Hanagaki, “…no matter how you look at it, she is really just an ordinary cute trendy girl.” Senju is playful and childlike as seen during her platonic dates with Takemichi where she liked to involve him in her shopping endeavors and drag him around the amusement park on Tanabata and is frequently assumed to be a normal high schooler when she is wearing her school uniform. She is also shown to be a loyal person who thinks lightly of herself when a friend is in danger. As such, she did not think twice about saving Takemichi from Rokuhara Tandai’s goons who threatened to shoot him after making a wish to protect him on a Tanzaku.

Authority
As the president of one of the strongest gangs that emerged during Tokyo's Sengoku Period, Senju has command of an incredibly fearsome fighting force. She has the allegiance of Black Dragon's founding members, one of which is her older brother, who are extremely powerful in their own right. Despite the generational differences between Senju and her subordinates, for Brahman is known to house fighters from older generations, she remains at the top of the ranks with the support of the First Generation Black Dragon.

Fighting Prowess
Apart from carrying the responsibility as Brahman’s president, Senju is also one of the gang’s notable fighters. She is a sly and cunning individual who chooses to have her right-hand man Takeomi Akashi lead her gang as a decoy for her to orchestrate sneak attacks when necessary, and is generally assertive in battle but has the ability to remain collected. During the spontaneous meet-up between Brahman and Rokuhara Tandai wherein both gangs ought to recruit Takemichi Hanagaki, Senju showcases her fighting prowess by landing a surprise attack on South Terano. She fights in a nimble and acrobatic style, befitting her small stature and can execute high level moves, i.e. doing a flipping ax kick as depicted in her attack against South. Additionally, her strength and fighting skills are fortified by her position as Brahman’s leader, as she was supposedly granted the title through her outstanding performance in “B1,” Brahman’s underground ring.

Appearances
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 * Chapter 207 - The final act
 * Chapter 212 - Battle of the titans
 * Chapter 213 - Living legends
 * Chapter 214 - The engine fired
 * Chapter 215 - After a storm comes calm
 * Chapter 216 - Shows her color
 * Chapter 217 - Have never seen anything like it
 * Chapter 218 - Queen it over
 * Chapter 219 - A sense of foreboding
 * Chapter 220 - Bull's-eye
 * Chapter 221 - Ups and downs of his fate
 * Chapter 223 - Good old days
 * Chapter 224 - Cutthroat
 * Chapter 225 - Free-for-all
 * Chapter 226 - Dynamic duo
 * Chapter 227 - Gangster
 * Chapter 228 - Beat hell out of
 * Chapter 229 - Go easy on
 * Chapter 230 - Get stuck-up

Etymology

 * The surname Akashi means "bright" (明) (aka) and "preside over" (司) (shi).
 * The name Senju means "thousand" (千) (sen) and curse (咒) (ju).
 * Senju's professional surname Kawaragi means "tile" (瓦) (kawara) and "castle" (城) (gi).