- "Grandpa's ok I guess... he taught me everything I know about using my sticks. But I wish he wasn't so old fashioned about things. He doesn't understand that a high-school girl's got to have time to have fun. He's always nagging that I should spend more time in the Kusanami-dojo and less time hanging out with the Orchids. I just let him talk, then I go and do what I want. After all, since my mom ran off to America with that lawyer, I'm all the family he's got. What's he gonna do, disinherit me?"
Lisa Kusanami (草波 リサ) is a character from the fighting game Last Bronx, and the 17 year old drum playing leader of the international high school rock band gang, the Orchids. She wields a pair of metal hanbo in combat.
Story[]
The granddaughter of the master of the Kusanami line of martial arts, her mother, the next intended successor of the school, fell in love with her surrogate father, an American lawyer, and left a young Lisa after the disastrous bubble crash in Japan for a wealthy life in the United States. From this, her grandfather soon placed it upon Lisa to become the next successor. While raised in a strict upbringing and training regiment in the Kusanami family line, the generation gap eventually made itself known by Lisa's teens, and her call of youth eventually saw her rise together with her friends to form the Orchids rock band. Still under the pressures and responsibilities of her family legacy, and with want of her independence of her own way in life, sessions with the Orchids seemed to become the one escape to help vent her frustrations creatively and to avoid the pressures of her grandfather in turn.
But in the face of heckling, gang related "irrefutable services and cover fees" at venues on their turf, and the imposition of haters as the Orchids further rose to popularity in disparate Japan, soon enough, Lisa and her friends saw themselves drawing the attention of Redrum, as being able to thrash down local gangs as well as instruments live on stage soon made word just as fast on the streets. As their means of protection and self defense for their self expression throws them into dark places and with Redrum making grim examples of those of who refuse the call to battle in the Second All Tokyo Street War Tournament, Lisa risks her life in the fray to keep back the grip of the underworld away from her friends and fans, knowing all too well that she got more than what she wished for.