Pleinair

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Pleinair and Usagi-san in Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories.

Pleinair (プレネール）is a fictional character who has made appearances in several games in Nippon Ichi's tactical role-playing game series. She is something of a mascot character for the artist and character designer of these games, Takehito Harada.

1 Description
2 Appearances
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Description

Due to her appearances in video games being little more than cameos, not much is known of Pleinair outside of her physical appearance. She is typically portrayed as a petite, blue-haired girl wearing a red ribbon, a white dress, white stockings, and sometimes Glasses. She is often accompanied by a stuffed rabbit named "Usagi-san" and a stuffed shark named "Same-san." A common motif in images of Pleinair is Usagi-san being eaten (or at least bitten) by either Pleinair or Same-san. [1] [2]

[edit] Appearances

Pleinair served as the receptionist to the Dark Assembly in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, where she first had a speaking part.

In Phantom Brave, the player visits the bustling city of Monetopia on several occasions. Random characters litter the background scenery, and Pleinair can often be found. Usagi-san has a separate cameo as a stuffed animal in Castille's bedroom.

In Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories, short scenes are shown between chapters in which Pleinair, Usagi-san, and Same-san serve as the crew for a news program. Usagi-san and Same-san both have speaking parts, while Pleinair is only credited with the occasional ellipsis. (Edit) After conquering Dark World in a side quest Pleinair is the only one to deliver the news. After several ellipsis and facial expressions she utters the word Congratulations.

Harada's personal website contains many images of Pleinair [3] as well as an oekaki BBS [4] where fans draw pictures of Pleinair and other characters designed by Harada. Pleinair is occasionally featured in doujinshi or fan art by other artists. Figures of Pleinair [5] have also been created by fans. "PLEINAIR HANDBOOK," A compilation of Pleinair fan art by many different Japanese artists, was published in Japan in 2003.

In Episode 5 of Pani Poni Dash! Pleinair and Usagi-san (or two look-alikes) appear sitting against a sign.

In the recent publication of the Disgaea 2 manga published by Broccoli Books by Hekaton Pleienair has a comapartively vocal part again as the Dark Assembely Receptionist.