Hitoshizuku Amaō


 * Amaou is a human character in the Kiss Players portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Commander Amaou is an officer in the Earth Defense Command. She is in charge of at least the Tokyo-based Ne Autrooper squad, and possibly all 12 of the known Kiss Player teams.

Apart from her glasses and double-pierced ears, Commander Amaou dresses in the style of the Japanese Heian era, complete with a traditional bamboo-handled parasol, cleavage-baring kimono, and "princess cut" hairstyle. Unlike pretty much any other female in Kiss Players, she appears to be over the age of 20.

She behaves maternally toward her young Kiss Player charges, but is not above shouting wildly from the sidelines during a battle.

Amaou drives a police-style Mazda RX-8 that is visually identical to an Autrooper in its vehicle mode. Whether her transport is indeed an Autrooper, and whether it is one of the established 48 or an additional unit, is unknown.

Her name means "Sweet Cherry Blossoms" in Japanese.

Kiss Players
Following a Transformers-related subway attack in Tokyo, Commander Amaou arrived on the scene and was greeted by two panic-stricken members of Ne Squad. As one tearfully informed her that a Legion had escaped the scene and that Shao-Shao Li's kiss-play time had nearly expired, Amaou comforted her, pressing the girl's face to her ample bosom.

Shortly thereafter, as the aggressive Legion confronted Atari Hitotonari and an unconscious Shao, Amaou pulled up in her car and observed the encounter from the sidelines, noting with excitement that the two powerful Kiss Players had been drawn together, just as she had thought they might be. Evidently, the young Atari had been under observation by the E.D.C. for some time as a potential Kiss Player operative.

Although she shouted advice from the sidelines, encouraging Atari to kiss the Ne 04 Autrooper, neither Amaou nor the unseen squad member who arrived at the battle with her seemed inclined to lend any actual assistance.

When Atari did indeed kiss and merge with the Autrooper, Amaou rejoiced that she had been correct about the girl's power. Her celebration was rudely cut short a few moments later when the Legion's severed head and lolling tongue landed with a splash of goo only a couple of meters away.