Yanagi Makoto

Yanagi Makoto (柳生真), also Yagyuu or Oyabin, becomes the first-ever sword-bearing student to graduate from Tenchi Academy.

Character
Makoto, with no prior experience in martial arts, joined the Hoshitori out of admiration for the swordsman-heroes of historical novels. Accordingly, her speech (and conduct) are inflected with samurai-era affectations and archaisms. She never had a shinyuu while a student, spending much of her time training alone in the woods.

Though she has made considerable improvements, and has an impressive showing during the Hifumi Arc, she still has a ways to go as a fighter.