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| “ | Now then, from which tooth shall you receive my present of love? | ” |
–Lady Bat, Episode 61 | ||
Lady Bat (レディーバット Redī-batto) is Michel's vampire-like servant and one of the four main antagonists in the anime Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Pure. Lady Bat calls herself "the wings of love and pleasure". She was most determined to become Michel's favorite servant. Her song hypnotizes the listeners so that she can "bite" a person while they're in a trance. She is also strong enough to turn the Idol-form Princesses back into Mermaid-form.
History[]
Pichi Pichi Pitch[]
Lady Bat did not make an appearance in Mermaid Melody's first season, but her creation had already been planned at that time. As Michel said to Fuku, when he created Lady Bat, he was passing his plan to the next level so Lady Bat's creation had already been planned by that time. That is a contrast to Alala's creation which was sudden.
Pure[]
Lady Bat was created by Michel and she was Michel's second servant after the Black Beauty Sisters. Michel created Lady Bat by combining many bats that he had just created. Lady Bat's first words showed her loyalty to him. In her first plan to catch the mermaid princesses she just sang her song, that made the mermaids hypnotized and unable to protect themselves. She almost bit them, but everything went wrong, when Hanon heard Kaito playing Mizuiro no Senritsu on the piano. She sang the song and the mermaids defeated the demon.
After that she realized, with her sixth sense, that Coco, Caren and Noel were fighting the Black Beauty Sisters and arrived to intercept them. She sang her song and almost succeeded in biting Coco; but failed when the rest of the mermaid princesses came to help. Lady Bat left very angry as she had the chance to catch all the mermaid princesses but failed.
Later Michel called his servants and gave them each ball of light which made them stronger. Then Michel asked his servants, who was ready to use his new powers first. Sheshe and Mimi told to Michel their plan and asked him to use Seira's piece of soul. Michel agreed, however the other servants of him disagreed to that as Michel had given many chances to Sheshe and Mimi. Sheshe tried to persuade him that their plan will be good and they succeeded it. The plan was to wreck the theater, where Lucia, Hanon and Rina, were watching a concert, by singing their song along with the other servants of Michel. However when the plan was taking place, everything went wrong when Rihito revealed his Panthalassa powers and saved the building from sure destruction. The other servants of Michel blamed the Black Beauty Sisters for their loss and left the place. Sheshe and Mimi tried to save the situation by fighting the mermaids, but they were defeated soon, because the Mermaid Princesses got a new song from Aqua Regina.
After a few weeks Lady Bat thought another plan: She disguised herself as a medium to catch the princesses. She erected a tent and pretended to be a medium. The girls in the town that the mermaids were living, thought that Lady Bat was a real medium and they were coming to her, to help them, every day. She was hypnotizing them to learn their problems and then she was telling them to throw their most precious item into the sea. The same thing happened to Lucia. However if Hanon and Rina, had not interrupted, Lady Bat could learn the human form of Lucia. But Lucia despite of what happened, threw her most precious item into the sea. The same night Lady Bat wrote a sign, which was telling that the medium was fake, and she placed it at the place where she used to tell the future. When Lucia realized that the medium was fake she came to the sea, where Lady Bat was waiting for her. The girls tried to fight her but she caught them with energy ropes. Then, she teleported Lucia, Hanon and Rina to Michel's lair. However, Seira sang her song and they were teleported back to the sea, where the mermaids sang their song and defeated Lady Bat. That is the only time that Lady Bat fought the mermaid princesses without singing her song.
Lady Bat disguised as a waiter
Later, the Black Beauty Sisters created a smart water demon The Napoleon fish which made a plan to catch the mermaid princesses. He said that if they could kidnap Hippo, the mermaid princesses would come to save him and then they will catch them. After Alala's try failed, it was Lady Bat's turn. Lady Bat created, with the help of Napoleon fish, a snow sofa, which attracted Hippo. Lady Bat captured Hippo, but then the Mermaid Princesses came, sang their song and defeated Lady Bat. Then Lanhua tried too, but she failed. For the first time Michel's creation felt shame in front of the Black Beauty Sisters. After that, the Napoleon fish told to all the servants of Michel to disguise themselves as waiters of a restaurant and serve curry to Hippo and when he comes to eat, they will capture him. Everything went according to the plan, but then the Nermaids appeared again and sang their song. Lady Bat was the unlucky one of the situation, as she was the only one who was forced to hear their song, because the others managed to go away. But then Napoleon fish executed the next part of her plan, using a ferry boat to pull the floor on which the mermaid princesses were singing their song, causing them to fall into the sea and the gillains got away with Hippo. He brought Hippo into a pagoda where the Mermaids defeated Alala, Lanhua, Lady Bat with vary clever ways. Then Hippo managed to escape and sang the song Legend of Mermaid. That, of course, didn't do anything to the Black Beauty Sisters. Then the mermaids sang their song and defeated them. This time was the last in which, Lady Bat fought alongside the Black Beauty Sisters.
Lady Bat as a magician
After several weeks she devised another plan. She knew that the powers of the mermaid princesses was based on love, so she disguised herself as a magician and made a fake magic show, in which couples could come and see her making magic tricks. Hanon and Nagisa came to his show. She started doing magic tricks which made the audience impressed. She then created a fog that made her song to be heard anywhere. Then, Hanon recognized her, but it was too late. That made the whole audience hypnotized and unable to protect themselves. Then she created a magical disco ball, which could make any mermaid princess very weak. That was the way to find out which person was a mermaid princess in the whole audience. Hanon could barely stand and said to Nagisa to stop the light from the disco ball that made her weak. Nagisa punch the disco ball and broke it. Then Lady Bat, angry of what Nagisa did, kicked him. Hanon transformed and revealed her mermaid identity. Lady Bat transformed too, into her real form. She sang his whole song, for the first time, and almost managed to capture Hanon. However everything went wrong, after Lucia and Rina arrived. They sang their song and defeated Lady Bat, who, for the first time, was so much close on catching a mermaid princess. That was the last battle in which, Lady Bat fought alone the mermaid princesses.
Later, she, Lanhua and Alala, were sent by Michel to stop the mermaid princesses on stopping Michal becoming an angel, however they didn't know anything about the Mikaru and her relationship with Michel. They sang their song together and they made the mermaid princesses very weak and unable even to move. However, then Lucia said Kaito's name and he along with Rihito felt that, and with their Panthalessa powers made two very powerful light rays, which made the servants of Michel very weak. Then that was the chance of the mermaid princesses to attack, they sung a new song, given by Aqua Regina, and defeated once again the servants of Michel. That was the last time in which, Lady Bat fought the mermaid princesses in the series.
Lady Bat right before her absorption
A day later, Lady Bat told to Michel that she and the other servants of him are ready to catch the mermaid princesses. Michel told them that he does not need them anymore, as he had absorbed Mikaru and they are useless for him. He tried to absorb them, but at that time Lady Bat revealed to Michel that his real form is a statue. Michel, being angry about that comment absorbed them all. Later Lady Bat and the other servants of Michel appeared in some flashbacks when Michel was remembering the moment of their absorption.
After Mermaid Melody Pure[]
Like the Black Beauty Sisters and Michal, Lady Bat may have been freed out of Michel and left her to live somewhere else or to get revenge on the mermaids alone. However there is a case that she has changed her mind about the mermaid princesses after she was absorbed by Michel.
Personality[]
Lady Bat has a cool and calm personality, but can be easily irritated, mostly when her plans fail and has to listen the song of the mermaid princesses. She is shown to be a very confident person, and a bit egotistical at points. She is very over the top in many ways, but has shown a good ability to be serious when need be. She also talks about love a lot, and is saying things like: I give all my love to you or Come to take the last kiss from my lips, when she greets the mermaid princesses. She is sometimes shown to have a comical sense of humor. She tends to believe everything which is said to her.
She was also very loyal to Michel and wanted to be the best of his servants. That is most likely to have changed after she was absorbed by him. She does not seem to be really evil, she just followed Michel blindly, maybe she was afraid of him or she wanted to repay Michel, because he created her. She also likes to be the boss as she was leading Lanhua and Alala in the last time that he fought the mermaid princesses. However it is also possible that Mikeru made her the leader in that plan, because her behavior did not annoy Lanhua or Alala. However if that is true, Lady Bat is really the favorite servant of Michel.
She does not seem to like the Black Beauty Sisters as she liked Lanhua and Alala, maybe because Michel has given them many chances, more than hers, Lanhua's and Alala's chances and although they lose in every chance, he continues to give them more chances. That was shown when Michel let the Black Beauty Sisters to use first the piece of Seira's soul and Lady Bat said that it is unfair to give them more chances, as they had too many before. It is very possible thatw he has changed her opinion about the mermaid princesses after she was absorbed by Michel. She also seems to dislike Hanon a little more than the other mermaids, possibly because her first lost was because of the mermaid.
Appearance[]
Lady Bat wears a white shirt with long sleeve that has a V-neck. She wears also very tight dark blue-purple skirt. She wears a violet belt too. She has big and long bat wings. The wings in their front side are dark purple and in their back side are black. On the top of his wings there is a pink prickle in each wing. She sometimes wears a dark maroon, pointed bat mask, but she puts it off when she is fighting the mermaid princesses. She has pointed elf-like ears. Her hair is a dark shade of red, but it changes to black in his human form. Her eyes are lavender, but they change to gray in her human form. She also wears long, dark purple boots. She has fangs in her mouth, so she can bite someone to forget everything. She is considerably taller than the other servants of Michel. She has very white skin and sharp claws. She has shown with the costume of magician, waiter and medium.
Forms and Aspects[]
Lady Bat can transform into human if she wants. In her human form she has black hair, instead of dark red and gray eyes, instead of lavender.
Bat can also transform into a swarm of bats as a form of teleportation instead of the traditional way. It is unknown if she can transform into both many and one bat, like Lanhua, who can transform both into one and many butterflies.
Powers[]
Lady Bat's powers in brief are:
- Hypnotize People with her song (make them unable to protect themselves)
- Hypnotize People (make them to tell him everything he wants)
- Make People forget everything
- Magic Powers
- Sparkle Object Creation
- Bats Control
- Bats Consolidation
- Fog Creation
- Powerful Disco ball Creation
- Sixth Sense
- Teleportation
- Telekinesis
- Bats Transformation
- Human Transformation
- Underwater Breathing
- Hydrokinisis
- Weather Control
- Flight
- Levitation
- Powerful Ropes Creation
Hypnotizing Powers[]
She can sing a song (Ankoku no Tsubasa) that makes the mermaid princesses and other people hypnotized and unable to protect themselves. After she hypnotize people she bites them to forget everything. She can also hypnotize someone to tell him everything she wants, like she did to Lucia.
Magic Powers[]
She is able to use magic (or something like powerful tricks) as shown when she was hosting a fake magic show to catch Hanon. Her magical abilities include the ability to create objects that sparkle, the ability to control and consolidate bats, hypnotize people (by making her song to be heard everywhere), create a thick purple fog and make a mermaid princess weak, by using a magical disco ball. She can teleport herself wherever she wants and she can fly by using her wings. When she was in his medium disguise she could levitate herself, without using her wings. She has a sixth sense too, as she could sense the mermaid princesses, when they were fighting the Black Beauty Sisters. She can transform into a swarm of bats (as another way of teleportation) and she can transform into human. However she has demonstrated more powers like telekinesis, as she can move objects with her mind (when she made a sphere to fly in the air).
Elemental Powers[]
She can also control water (hydrokinesis) as she could split a whole ocean in two, making in the middle of them immense waterfalls. She also, despite being an original demon, from the land, can breath underwater. She has the ability to control weather too, as when he appeared to Coco, Caren and Noel the weather changed from a very sunny day into a stormy one. She can also create yellow, energy ropes that can tie and electrocute someone or even teleport him/her to Michel's lair.
Image Song[]
- Main article: Ankoku no Tsubasa
Mermaid Melody - Ankoku no Tsubasa Lyrics
Ankoku no Tsubasa (with Lyrics)
Lady Bat's only song in the series is Ankoku no Tsubasa. This song hypnotizes someone and makes him/her unable to protect himself/herself. She sings this song with her microphone that is near her mouth. She sang his song for the first time in the episode 9 of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Pure. She sang his whole song in the episode 31 of the second season of the series. The "sphere" that surrounds her when singing his song is the darkest in the series.
She also took place to the song Evil Mix (悪混ぜる) 1 and 2, along with Sheshe, Mimi, Lanhua and Alala. When she is singing his song along with other villains, like in Evil Mix, he cause very great pain and especially very great headache to others, instead of hypnotizing them.
Appearances in the Show[]
| Number of the Episode in the Whole Series | Number of the Episode in Pure | Name of the Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 61 | 9 | Love Etude |
| 68 | 16 | It's Summer Vacation! Let's Gather, Everybody! |
| 75 | 23 | Feelings Inside |
| 77 | 25 | Love Fortune |
| 81 | 29 | Gloom by a Triple-Threat |
| 83 | 31 | The Last Love Letter |
| 87 | 35 | Instead of a Goodbye... |
| 88 | 36 |
The End of Despair |
| 89 | 37 | To the Castle in the Sky... (flashback) |
Trivia[]
- Lady Bat's name in Greek had been translated as Lady Marcielago (Λαίδη Μαρσελάγο) (Marcielago means Bat in Spanish), instead of Lady Bat (Λαίδη Νυχτερίδα), as the greek version was dubbed over the Castilian Spanish dub most of the time.
- In the Greek dub of episode 31 in a specific part of Ankoku no Tsubasa, Lady Bat has a the voice of a man.
- In the French dub of the anime, Ankoku no Tsubasa's first part is actually a presentation of Lady Bat, instead of a translation of the Japanese lyrics.
- In the Italian dub, Ankoku no Tsubasa is the same song with the Italian version of Concert of Darkness called "Voce Del Buio". She is the only of Michel's Servants who has not sang La Nostra Forza.
- Lady Bat has the third biggest wings (the first is Michel's and the second is Lanhua's) and the first longest wings in the series.
- Lady Bat has the darkest "singing sphere" in the series.
- Lady Bat is the only creation of Michel that does not have a certain opinion about humans (Lanhua hates them and Alala loves them).
- Many fans of the series say that Lady Bat is a vampire because her appearance is similar to it. However, Lady Bat is a Demon, because she was created by Michel, by many bats that combined and made her, while vampires are humans, that other vampires bite them. She also has demonic-magic powers instead of vampire powers (like super speed, super strength etc.).
- Lady Bat was born in November 2004, because Seira's birth was supposed to be approximately in October 2004, one month before Lady Bat's birth.
- She is the tallest out of all the servants of Michel.
- Lady Bat's visual is based on Nishikawa Takanori, a Japanese singer and actor.
| Anime Characters | |
|---|---|
| Mermaid Princesses | Lucia Nanami • Hanon Hōshō • Rina Tōin • Caren • Noel • Coco • Seira • Sara |
| Supporting Characters | Aqua Regina • Kaito Dōmoto • Hippo • Nikora Nanami • Madame Taki Tarō Mitsuki • Rihito Amagi • Michal Amagi • Nagisa Shirai • Masahiro Hamasaki |
| Season 1 Villains | Gaito • Izuru • Eriru • Yuri • Maria • Sheshe • Mimi |
| Season 2 Villains | Michel • Sheshe • Mimi • Lady Bat • Lanhua • Alala • Fuku • The Great One |
| Minor Villains | Beyrich's Slit Shell • Bubble Crab • Galeos • Giant Jellyfish • Ice Fairy Lionfish • Mehikari • Napoleon Fish • Sardines Sea Cucumber • Sea Snake • Tachi Brothers • Tropical Fish • Water Dragons |
| Minor Characters | Auri • Ayaka • Coral Spirit • Jennifer Houston Kashiwagi • Kōsuke Sakiya • Makoto • Mami • Meru • Meru's Mother • Maki Minke • Momo • Pipi • Kura-chan • Richard • Ryo • Saori • Somegorō • Subaru Yukie • Yuya Ishibashi |