Black★Matagi

Black★Matagi (ブラック★マタギ, Burakku Matagi) is an original character designed by huke.

Appearance
Black★Matagi is a girl with short black hair and purple eyes. Her right eye is covered by a black eyepatch. She wears an outfit similar to a sailor uniform, with a white collar, long sleeves, a short pleated skirt, and a predominant black color scheme. She appears to wear a blouse with thin shoulder straps under her outfit. Black★Matagi also wears a pair of knee-high boots. Her accessories are a pair of headphones and a white armband with a black pentagram design.

Her weapon is a gunblade, a large artillery weapon with an even larger blade attached to its end. Its overall length appears to rival Black★Matagi's height.

Concept
The description for the illustration on Pixiv states that her weapon is solely meant for striking. Black★Matagi herself is a charlatan matagi in a pose straddling her weapon. huke thinks of her as being cold.

History
huke uploaded the illustration to Pixiv on January 16, 2008 and his personal blog the day after. The illustration of Black★Matagi is chronologically the third in a number of illustrations uploaded by huke that follow a naming convention beginning with "ブラック★" (Black★), after Black★Devil Girl and Black★Rock Shooter.

Trivia

 * Matagi are traditional winter hunters who live in Tōhoku, the northern region of Japan's main island, Honshu. Their symbolic prey are Japanese black bears.