Tamako Shiraizumi

Tamako Shiraizumi (白泉たま子) is a character from the Mega Man Battle Network series. Her NetNavi is MetalMan.EXE. She wears a shuriken-like hair ornament and enjoys NetBattling.

Mega Man Battle Network 3
Tamako appears as the owner of the gift shop next to Ura Inn in Yoka. She battles people using MetalMan. Tamako participates in the N1 Grand Prix and battles Lan Hikari 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.

Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge
Tamako participates in the Battle Chip GP.

Mega Man Battle Network 4: Blue Moon
Tamako participates in the Hawk Tournament. 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. Tamako gives him a gatecode that will open in Town 4. After his lesson, Tamako and Lan NetBattle in the Hawk Tournament. She loses, but uses it as an opportunity to advertise Ura Inn and the gift shop.

Anime
Tamako servers a minor role in MegaMan NT Warrior Axess as an obsessed rival of Lan. She and HeavyMetalMan help Lan defeat SavageMan. She later makes two cameos in Rockman.EXE Beast+.

Other appearances
Tamako has a cameo appearance in the MegaMan NT Warrior manga as one of Mr. Famous' students. She also appears in the manga Battle Story Rockman.EXE.

Trivia

 * It was revealed in the book Rockman.EXE no Himitsu - Official Settei Illustration Guide that Tamako is the maternal aunt of Mamoru Urakawa, whose mother is Tamako's older sister.