Tamako Shiraizumi

Tamako Shiraizumi (白泉たま子) is a character from the MegaMan Battle Network series. She appears in MegaMan Battle Network 3 and MegaMan Battle Network 4. Her NetNavi is MetalMan.EXE. She has one shuriken-like hair ornament and enjoys battling.

MegaMan Battle Network 3
She appears as the owner of the gift shop next to Ura Inn. She battles people using MetalMan. Tamako participates in the N1 Grand Prix and battles Lan in his first battle. She loses and falls down a pit which was filled with pillows. She also gives people her shop's P-code as a promotional item.

MegaMan Battle Network 4
Tamako participates in the Hawk Tournament in MegaMan Battle Network 4 Blue Moon. She encounters Lan before their match and declares that she'll win. When Lan challenges that claim, she takes him to a rock and tells him to break it. Lan refuses, saying that it was impossible. Tamako says she could break it and punched the rock. It turns out she couldn't break it and hurt her hand pretty badly. But she says that the fact that she tried meant that she had more will than Lan. She told him to go to a Navi that would teach MegaMan.EXE how to break Cyber rocks. After his lesson, Tamako and Lan NetBattle in the Hawk Tournament. She loses but uses it as a opportunity to advertise Ura Inn and the gift shop.

MegaMan NT Warrior
She appears in two episodes of MegaMan NT Warrior Axess. In episode 5 Lan and his friends went to Ura Inn. He walks into her shop and looks her merchandise. She gains a crush on him and challenges him to a NetBattle, saying that if he win he can take anything free, but if he lose he will buy what she asks and if he could not pay he would have to date her. Lan loses to her, and the two begin a date, Meiru supports there realtionship.

At the end of the series Tamako and Netto married and Lan took up her last name, do to losing to her again.