Roku - Pop'n Music

PERSONALITY This grounded man is described as a skilled warrior, nicknamed the "Hip Rock Samurai". Roku writes down what he sees, hears, or the places he's been in kanji.

Roku does becomes rude in some instances, according to a few 4-koma adaptation stories. He's a very cool guy.

In pop'n music ラピストリア, Roku is only viewed as a character from sub-stories, and wields a cerulean diamond-shaped Lapis.

Roku's birthdate is identical to Castle's. Roku shares the cerulean diamond lapis with Takuto, Yuzuru, and Wolfgang. In pop'n music ラピストリア, Roku's debut design was the chosen rival character for 火風陸空 in the JAEPO 2014 location tests. In the final release, he got a new design and portrait, scrapping his prior design. Not counting his URA appearance and his side appearance with MZD in pop'n music 16 PARTY♪, he used to have a streak of presenting himself and his songs for every three games. That streak has been destroyed when he made an appearance in pop'n music ラピストリア, instead of pop'n music Sunny Park. He is one of the rare characters to have design changes in animation. Compared to his original palette in pop'n music 6, his 2P has a rabbit tattoo with Des-ROW's name written as "Desu Rou" (ですーろう, "Desu Rou"?). His alternate palette for 差無来!! has a skull with "samurai" written in katakana, eponymous to his insert song.

Roku's hobby, iai, is the art of quickly drawing one's sword, slicing down their opponent, and sheathing it immediately afterwards.

Roku is one of the several characters who have number etymologies for their names. The name, Roku (六, Roku?), is translated to "six" in Japanese, relating to pop'n music 6's release and probably the six-pronged mark on his chest. The month of June ("ro"/6) and the ninth day ("ku"/9) create a goroawase for Roku's name. According to shio, Roku's name was coined by former pop'n music director saito. Roku's name is written as "로쿠" (Roku) in the Korean mobile version.

Prior to pop'n music 6, Roku is invited as a new member to the 6th Pop'n party. Afterwards, he continues wandering around the entire country to do calligraphy and iai.

As of pop'n music portable 2's Party Mode, Roku is seen in Yamato Land guarding the section where the "God-Calling Scroll" to invite Guwanzesama resides. Reluctant to have Mimi and Nyami pass through, he ordered them to have a battle against, before they enter. He later caught Yoshio, who's aiming for the scroll and interfering the two girls.

In the Wishes for God Party, Roku was currently watching over Yoshio, before the vengeful Guwanzesama, who had disdain towards MZD, enters. After everything calms down, Roku ceased his eagle-eying towards Yoshio and returns home. Roku did not appear in Party Mode again, but Mimi and Nyami's past memory fragment of him resides in the Time Gap.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE Roku appears with cerulean-colored hair that was formed into sharp and double-splitting, cat-ear sections. He wears a white, open robe with black hems, red headphones around his neck, black circle centered in his robe, and sandals. He wields a katana and a paintbrush tipped with black paint. He then has black piercings to his earlobe and the upper ears. When taking his robe off, Roku is seen having a panda tattoo on his whole back, as of his WIN animation.

BASIC INFO Birthday: June 9th Birthplace: Main island of Japan Hobbies: Calligraphy, Iai Likes: Aimlessly wandering, Dry sake Dislikes: Taking the easy way out, Worldly desires

HIM DESCRIBED BY OTHERS "A patriotic hip-rock samurai who wanders the world to master the art of sword and speech. He's so popular that there are collectors of his calligraphy in every city. Sound is speech. Speech is sound. He's had the samurai spirit before it was cool. Yeah!"

"He wandered all over Japan and before he knew it, he ended up in a cold town. He drank and watched the snow fall while holding an umbrella he picked up along the way. So cool!"

"After another long journey, he finds himself surrounded by the colour of cherry blossoms in full bloom. The fragrence of the flowers invites him to have a drink at a cherry blossom viewing party. So cool!"

"Continuing along through life's journey. The end of the unknown road has been reached. Only you can decide if you want to follow the trail or make a new path."

"A samurai who's strong in body and mind with a brush in hand. He wanders around Japan and before you know it, he's in Lapistoria. The world is a big and interesting place! He seems to be enjoying it at his own pace."