Yoshino

Yoshino is a character that first appeared on Metal Slug Attack as a Playable Unit, she's one of the main antagonists of Metal Slug 9.

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She is the Ptolemaic army's martial arts instructor. She mastered the japones ninjutsu's secret techniques and her battle abilities are monstrous. She can easily manipulate weapon prototypes that nobody can. According to Dragunov, she is the N°1 person with which she doesn't want to open hostilities.

Story
Metal Slug 9

Yoshino and Caroline finds Dragunov's dead body in middle of the beach in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), she immediately reports at the base about the situation while Caroline keeps screaming desperately.

On Mission 4 she finds PF Squad and faces them more to destroy them than to avenge Dragunov's dead, she immediately got hurt and forced to leave.

On Mission 6 she restored herself and fights Marco & co. once more but she got defeated and teleports herself to another part.

On Final Mission she attacked PF Squad from behind inside Stone Turtle, unfortunately she was killed by Regular Army.

Metal Slug 9 (Lord Moogoo)

Yoshino with Dragonov lead the major assault team on the communications tower on Earth to convert tens of thousands of soldiers into mindless cult followers to awaken the Elder One.

Yoshino received major power thanks to Ptolemaios's new discoveries on his home planet. Her hammer became a large powerful demon sledgehammer, and her powers could summon demon cult members from the grave.

Despite this, she saw a vision in her dreams one night. She never knew who her father was. But she saw a man... somewhere in the mountains. Could it be ? It was a large bulky man from the Rebel Army... Allen O Neil ?!!

It turns out that Yoshino was actually a daughter of Allen O Neil, but an invasion by the Ptolemaic army had taken her away when she was young. Allen had actually joined the Rebel Army in search for her. She had a distinct scar, but Allen could never see it in battle. But now that Ptolemaios has possessed Allen's body, she is horrified to find out how Ptolemaios has killed many of her colleagues just for his power.

She turns against him, and she manages to reunite with her true father. However, Ptolemaios shoots a large burst of lightning in rage, and Yoshino sacrifices herself to protect her father, Caroline and others. This triggers Allen into a rage. Her body was recovered and laid to rest at the end of the game. Thanks to her swing with her hammer at the last moment, she critically damaged Ptolemaios central core and destroyed the defenses of the home planet, allowing the Regular Forces to assault him.

It turns out Ptolemaios had hidden Allen's wife on the secret planet. They managed to reunify but mourned the loss of their long lost daughter. Allen refused to fight with Morden anymore, joining the Regular Army.

Theme Music

 * Silent Shinobi ~ Metal Slug 9
 * Assault Theme (MS9 Arrange) ~ Metal Slug 9

Metal Slug Appearances
Metal Slug 9

She is a boss on Missions 4, 6 and Final Mission.

Metal Slug Fighters

Yoshino is one of the characters of the game.

Crossover Appearances
Neo Geo 2: Match of the century

Cameo on Akari's Shikigami Hyakkiyakou/100 Demons' Night.

Cross Maximum 2: Exceed Sky

Yoshino appears as one of the characters from SNK side along with some Metal Slug characters.