Shino

Shino (Japanese: シノ) is a 16 year old unemployed ninja who along with Izuna, Gen-An, and Mitsumoto lost her job as a ninja in service of lord Mugen. She is traveling with her surrogate family to find a new village to live in.

Background
Shino worked with Izuna as a ninja. It is assumed Gen-An taught them both ninja skills. She was not fired for being a poor ninja but because "Ninja's are so yesterday"

Personality
Shino is much more calm and less dramatic than Izuna although she looks to Izuna as almost a little sister, despite being the same age. She respects Izuna's abilities enough to not baby her but vowed to travel with her until she learned to take care of herself.

In Other Media
Rondo of Swords= Windy X Windam= Metal Saga: The Ark of Wastes= Making their third cameo appearance in Metal Saga: The Ark of Wastes (Japanese: メタルサーガ 〜荒野の方舟〜), Izuna and Shino were available three times as the twenty fourth ultra rare player character armor (skins) available via an in-game lottery as well as a unique weapon. When equipped, the Shino armor would offer benefits to avoidance", "action", and "attack power" . Each piece of armor additionally had the ability to negate a different status condition. Service ended on February 28, 2018, giving players 7 months to use the equipment and making it no longer available for use.

Items

 * (Japanese: 降魔霊符伝くじ ～壱～)
 * (Japanese: シノマフラー): Invalidates gas.
 * (Japanese: シノ装束): Invalidates poison.
 * (Japanese: シノの籠手): Invalidates flames.
 * (Japanese: シノの草鞋): Invalidates sleep.
 * (Japanese: 絶)

Trivia

 * Shino is the boss of the Path of Trials Dungeon in Izuna 1. Although it's hinted at that it's a fake Shino, not the real person.

External Sources
 Metal Saga: The Ark of Wastes Sources 


 * Translated name via WIkipedia.
 * Japanese wikipedia article.
 * Carpen Atari's video showing gameplay of the lottery.

July 2017


 * Japanese fan wiki Shino armor set page.
 * Metal Saga: The Ark of Wastes official Twitter post. July 31, 2017.
 * Japanese fan wiki.

October 2017


 * Metal Saga: The Ark of Wastes official Twitter post. October 16, 2017.
 * ApplivGames news article for October 2017.
 * Gamer mews article for October 2017.

November 2017


 * Metal Saga: The Ark of Wastes official Twitter post. November 21, 2017.
 * BoonAppGames news article.
 * 4Gamer news article.
 * appmajin news article.
 * Gamebiz news article.