Shana Clone/Sandbox



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The Shana Clone is a character archetype originating in Japanese Light Novels, Manga and their Anime adaptations, begun by the popularity of the character Shana from the Light Novel series Shakugan no Shana.

The Shana Character Archetype includes the following:
 * The character is a teenage girl, though sometimes younger, with a Loli body-type, meaning she is very short in stature, flat-chested and usually Older Than She Looks, often resulting in Mistaken Age, a Napoleon Complex and A-Cup Angst.
 * The character has long, at least waist-length Rapunzel Hair, usually unkempt or tied into Twin Tails. The actual color is less important, but blond, pink or or red are the most common.
 * The character wears dresses and Zettai Ryouiki at Grade A, often qualifying for Grade S, though if her dress is a long one, it may be difficult to identify the grade and my simply appear to be full tights.
 * The character is a heavily Type A Tsundere, infamous for her use of the Violent Approach. She physical assaults her Love Interest on a regular basis, sometimes with little to no provocation. To some extant this attitude may stem from a Hair-Trigger Temper and awkward social skills with boys, but hers is also often a result of an inherently dominant, bossy personality, almost to the point of evoking the attitude of a Dominatrix.
 * The character is the female lead of the work, and the main Love Interest of the male lead, their relationship heavy on the Belligerent Sexual Tension and Can't Spit It Out. Often there is a Supporting Harem of other girls as rivals.

Though perhaps not the actual Trope Maker, Shana certainly popularized this specific combination of characteristics and they are becoming an extremely common archetype, especially in Light Novels. This series of characters even had direct shout outs to the original, effectively identifying them as Expies of Shana, but then came some other, indirectly related characters following the formula, resulting in the formation of a whole new archetype rather than a collection of Expies, in much the same way as the Rei Ayanami Expy came to be.

Adding to the archetype are a number of more 'optional' traits which have come to be associated with theses characters, some of which did not originate with Shana herself:


 * The character is voice by Rie Kugimiya, who after voicing Shana in the anime adaptation of Shakugan no Shana went on to voice a series of similar characters, further emphasizing the similarities.
 * The character addresses the Love Interest in some extremely demeaning manner, such as treating him as her property, as being lower than human, or lower in status, even using belittling names like "dog", "slave", or "toy" instead.
 * The character may be a Big Eater, especially of a certain kind of food, usually sweet breads (Shana's was melon bread).
 * The character come from a wealthy family to in some way justify her high and mighty attitude towards the Love Interest who is often a 'commoner'. This probably starting with Louise.
 * The character may carry some type of weapon, commonly a katana or whip, which she uses to beat the male Love Interest when he defies her.

Compare Rei Ayanami Expy and Char Clone for a similar phenomenon. This trope is a subtrope of both Tiny Tyrannical Girl and Tsundere.