Kimiko Miyashiro

The Female of the Species
Real Name	Kimiko Miyashiro
Alias(es)	The Female The Female of the Species Mon coeur, Petit Lazarus (by Frenchie) Feral pixie dream girl (by Billy Butcher) Terrorist
Physical description
Species	Supe
Gender	Female
Hair	Black
Height	5' 2"
Weight	100 lbs
Biographical Information
Status	Alive
Age	20s~30s
Social life
Citizenship	Japanese
Occupation	Member of the Boys, Soldier of Shining Light Liberation Army (forced; formerly)
Affiliation	The Boys Shining Light Liberation Army (formerly)
Family	Kenji Miyashiro† (Brother)
Romances	Frenchie (Friend/love interest/soulmate)
Series Information
Season(s)	1, 2
Episode count	8
First seen	The Female of the Species
Last seen	Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men
Portrayed by	Karen Fukuhara Momona Tamada (Young Kimiko)

For the comic version of the character, see The Female/Comics.

“

She looked innocent." "Innocent? She's locked up in a cage, underground, with two armed guards!" "I had a feeling about her. ―Frenchie and Mother's Milk

”

The Female of the Species or simply The Female (real name Kimiko Miyashiro) is one of the main characters in the Amazon series The Boys and a member of the vigilante group, The Boys.

When The Boys find The Female imprisoned in a cage in a basement under high security, they mistake her for a victim in desperate need of saving. But as The Boys unravel the mystery of The Female, they follow a trail of blood and gore to learn that she’s a badass who might just end up saving them instead.

And as they’ll discover, the puzzle of The Female’s origins is part of something larger and far more terrifying than they ever imagined.

The Boys Series

Background

In her youth, The Female was known as Kimiko Miyashiro and grew up with her parents and brother on the coast of Japan. Kimiko fondly remembers looking at palm trees in the moonlight from her home country. One night, a group of terrorists from the Shining Light Liberation Army broke into her home and gunned down her parents. The soldiers captured Kimiko and her brother, forcing them to serve in their army for many years.

One evening, Kimiko saw her brother ravenously eat through his small rations of food at their camp in a jungle. She quietly sneaks over to him and gives him the rest of her food. Her brother refuses and insists that she eat. Kimiko affectionately pats her brother on the head and leaves.

She managed to escape, however, and was taken prisoner and smuggled into the United States, where she was experimented on with Compound V provided by A-Train. Her experimentation was apart of an elaborate plan by Vought to create supervillains and allow them to wreak havoc over the world. This would force the U.S. government to allow superheroes to join the army and combat these superhuman threats. Kimiko would remain imprisoned in a Triad hideout underneath a grocery store in New York City, until her captors were ready to unleash her. Despite all of the trauma she endured, Kimiko resolved to find her brother and return to their home country.

Season One

Meeting The Boys

After blackmailing A-Train's girlfriend, Popclaw, the Boys discover that the speedster has developed an addiction to Compound V and discreetly runs the substance to Noodle Palace on Division in New York City. When they see a Filipino man grab a bag from another man who purposefully bumped into him, Frenchie, Hughie Campbell and Mother's Milk, follow him to small grocery store. There, they discover a secret hideout for Asian gangsters in the basement. After sneaking past the gangsters, M.M. and Hughie look through the boxes in a storage room to find the Compound V. Frenchie, however, hears loud Japanese music and discovers The Female in a cell, sitting underneath a table, watching a Japanese television show. Frenchie insists that they should free her, but M.M. says that they should find the Compound V and leave before the gangsters find them. Regardless, Frenchie frees her anyway and she slowly crawls from underneath the table. Suddenly, the gangsters run in the room armed and tell the Boys not to free the Female, before firing their machine guns at them. Using her superpowers, The Female quickly kills two of the gangsters, leaving a trail of blood and gore. The third gangster sees the bloodied remains of his comrades and shoots himself in the head to save himself from a painful death. Terrified, the Boys lock themselves in The Female's cell before she can kill them as well. Realizing she can't reach them now, The Female escapes from Triad hideout.

After investigating her cell, Frenchie finds a slip of paper with the words, "New York Penn Station", indicating that The Female plans to go to the Pennsylvania Station and leave New York. M.M. locates a package containing a syringe filled with Compound V in one of the boxes and calls one of his contacts to find out where it came from. Billy Butcher, Frenchie, and M.M. begin the search for The Female and plan to knock her unconscious using concentrated halothane given to them by Cherie. Meanwhile, A-Train arrives at gangsters hideout and discovers that his associates have been killed. A-Train decides to hide Popclaw while he finds out who is responsible before Homelander finds out.

After her escape, The Female enters a nail salon while covered in blood, deeply unsettling the staff and customers. She enters the office in the back and the Mamasan Matron offers her a special deal for a mani-pedi, while counting her money. When the woman turns around, The Female brutally tears her to pieces with her bare hands.

When the police arrive at the crime scene, A-Train tells them the murder was a gang hit, so they won't know about the superpowered Female. Butcher, Frenchie, and M.M. arrive shortly and pretend to be homicide detectives to investigate the crime. However, A-Train's presence forces them to leave, due to the speedster having previously seen Mother's Milk and Hughie a week ago. Before they leave, Frenchie discovers that the nail polish he found in The Female's prison matches the ones in the nail salon and one of employees recalls meeting The Female a year ago. M.M. says that the victim, Roberta Cho, previously smuggled in immigrants from across the Pacific. Butcher theorizes that she also smuggled in The Female. A-Train leaves the scene and Butcher worries that he will find The Female first do to his super speed. Fortunately, Frenchie informs them that The Female is headed to Penn Station next, based on the paper he found, and that she is working her way backwards trying to go home.

At the station, M.M. reveals that his contact is a postman, who has tracked where the Compound V used on The Female came from: Samaritan's Embrace, a Supe charity headed by Ezekiel. The three men split up to find The Female faster. Eventually, Frenchie finds The Female watching a Japanese television show, hidden in the back of an electronics store and texts her location to Butcher. Frenchie discovers her hiding underneath a table like before and The Female attempts to attack. Frenchie takes a submissive position and sets down his canister of halothane to convince The Female that he doesn't want to harm her. In an attempt to connect with her, Frenchie tells The Female that his father took him away from his mother when he was a boy. Every few nights, his father would take him out for a walk, to smoke a cigarette and tell him he loved him. However, he would also burn his legs with the cigarettes. Frenchie made many attempts to run away, jumping buses and trains or anything to return to his mother, but he was found by his father every time. Frenchie says that he understands her desire to go home and realizes that she is just scared, not bad. Frenchie offers his hand and tells her to let him help her. Suddenly, the channel changes on the TV. Frightened, The Female throws the table at Frenchie and flees from the store. Frenchie attempts to follow her, but quickly loses her in the crowd.

The Female makes her way to the subway and attempts to board a train, however, she is quickly spotted by the Boys, which results in a chase. The Female jumps onto the train tracks and attempts to escape into the tunnel, however, A-Train suddenly appears and uses his super speed to grab and carry her away from the civilians. The Female hits A-Train in the face, causing him to fall and drop her. The Female attempts to run away, however, A-Train quickly overtakes her and punches her through a concrete wall and repeatedly smashes her head into another wall at superspeed. With quick thinking, Frenchie makes a crowd by telling everyone in the subway that A-Train is here. To prevent a media disaster, A-Train is forced to stop the beating and greet his fans, while The Female is able to escape. The Boys go after The Female and corner her in a dark corridor. Butcher prepares to gas her, but Frenchie stops him and asks for a chance to talk to her. Frenchie tells The Female that he can help her go home, however, she is frightened and tackles him to the ground. In response, Butcher throws the halothane canisters, and the gas knocks out Frenchie and The Female.

Encounter with Black Noir

The Female is taken to a safe house and bound in chains, so she can't escape or attack any of the Boys. While the rest of the Boys go to Believe Expo to obtain more info about Compound V from Ezekiel, Frenchie is left to watch over The Female. Frenchie uses this as an opportunity to bond with The Female by cooking her a meal and trying to engage in conversation with her. Frenchie asks her to tell him who experimented on her, so he can help her go back home. The Female, however, is unwilling to talk and lunges at Frenchie, who's only saved by the chains that bind her.

Elsewhere, A-Train is ordered by Homelander to find The Female. While, A-Train looks through, the now dead, Popclaw's belongings, the speedster discovers surveillance footage of Butcher and Frenchie blackmailing her after looking through a hidden camera's flash drive. Although Butcher's back is to the camera, A-Train captures a clear image of Frenchie. With at least 34 different addresses and a dozen aliases, A-Train and Black Noir begin to track down Frenchie from building to building.

Later that night, The Female is asleep, while Frenchie receives a call from his girlfriend, Cherie. She informs him that his identity has been exposed and the Seven are looking for him, since she spotted Black Noir outside of her apartment. When Frenchie asks which addresses do they have, Cherie says if they found her apartment, they have all of them, before destroying her phone. While Frenchie gathers his belongings, he calls Butcher and says that he's been burned. Butcher asks how they found out and if the rest of The Boys were burned as well, and Frenchie replies that he doesn't know. Frenchie says that the Seven knows all of his locations and he must flee immediately. When Frenchie asks what to do with The Female, Butcher says to leave her behind and hangs up, as Frenchie protests. Frenchie discovers that The Female is awake and just heard his conversation. As Frenchie finishes packing his bag, he tells The Female that the Supes are coming and he has been ordered to leave her behind for them to find, which leaves her visibly frightened. He complains that he's not a weapon to be pointed and fired, but Butcher sees him that way and The Female is the same as him. Frenchie says that she doesn't deserve to be captured by the Seven and unchains her. The Female immediately runs away.

Frenchie goes to his car to escape, however, he sees Black Noir on the rooftops. Frenchie hides, but continues to his car, once he sees Black Noir leave. Suddenly, Black Noir drops down onto his car and menacingly approaches Frenchie. Before Black Noir can attack, The Female quickly knocks the Supe into a dumpster, then nods to Frenchie. Frenchie runs away, and Black Noir recovers and the Female fights him hand-to-hand. Using her enhanced speed and agility, The Female lands several hits on Black Noir, however, the dark superhero's strength, reflexes, and weaponry allowed him to hold an advantage. He implants a blade in her foot, pinning her to the alley floor, and then guts her with another blade. The Female collapses, bleeding out, and Black Noir leaves her. When Frenchie returns, he finds The Female apparently dead. He is visibly upset and, as a sign of respect for saving him, covers her body with his jacket. Suddenly, The Female gasps for air and Frenchie watches in amazement as her wounds heal. She grabs his arm, and Frenchie takes her hand and says that she's a miracle.

Reliving the past

At their safehouse, The Boys review what they've learned about Samaritan's Embrace and its smuggling of V. M.M. reveals that Samaritan's Embrace, bankrolled by Vought, has been shipping Compound V to 53 hospitals across the U.S. since 1971 and claim that the compound is polio vaccine. He reveals that no Supe is born, simply injected with Compound V as a baby. Hughie wonders if they know what happened to them and Butcher asks about Homelander. M.M. says that there are no public records about Homelander, but the records showed all of the other Supes are juiced-up lab rats. The Female wanders around, noisily grabbing papers and pens, angering M.M., who demands that Frenchie control her. Frenchie insists that he doesn't control her. Butcher admits that they have many charges to take to Raynor. Hughie checks on The Female, who is writing down edged spheres on the paper she's taken. When Hughie grabs one of her papers, The Female snarls at him and nearly attacks him, like a dog defending its territory. Fortunately, Frenchie intervenes and calms down The Female. Frenchie points out that The Female was injected with Compound V as an adult in a basement and that she recently rose from the dead. He thinks that she's trying to communicate with her drawings, but Butcher believes that she is no different than a feral animal who can't speak. Frenchie wants to find out, but Billy and Milk remind him that he's been burned and he can't risk leaving the safehouse.

Season Two

Reunion

When one of Frenchie's "friends" gets injured, The Boys investigate a harbor and find a ship smashed on land. While the Boys are looking around, Kimiko finds an origami figure and begins to think it was from her brother. The Boys find and watch video footage that showed the gang members were transporting a telekinetic super-terrorist, who lifted the ship and threw it at one of the members. Eventually, The Boys investigate a costume shop to track down the terrorist, Kimiko finds and kills a guard who is revealed to be from the Shining Light Liberation Army, and then she finds her brother, Kenji. While Kimiko embraces her brother, Butcher attempts to shoot Kenji, but gets stopped by Hughie; Kenji then uses his powers to neutralize The Boys, providing Kimiko and him a chance to flee. Kimiko and Kenji meet at swing set and reminisce about their time before they were separated. Kimiko uses their custom sign language to ask about her brother what happened after she was taken; Kenji reveals he was injected with Compound V after the Shining Light had a successful test with Kimiko. As the two continue to connect in a city, Kimiko suggests they go home back to their village or somewhere in Japan, while Kenji reveals their home is gone and was destroyed by the Americans. Kenji defends the Shining Light by attempting to convince Kimiko to help him fight a new global threat, America. Kimiko denies his statements and tries to remind him of the boy he was, but Kenji denies her statements as being memories from a long time ago.Their disagreement turns physical, when Kenji attempts to walk away and Kimiko grabs him. Kenji knocks back Kimiko and runs. Kimiko eventually catches up with Kenji and subdues him with a choke-hold, knocking him out, allowing for The Boys to arrive and bound Kenji.

Goodbye

Butcher makes a deal with Grace Mallory to turn in Kenji at a rendezvous point in return for information on Becca. Kimiko tries to reconnect with her brother by reminding him of the times they protected each other, saying that she still loves him, and is reluctantly doing this. Kenji then begs her to let him go and he won't hurt anyone, but Kimiko just apologizes before leaving. Eventually, The Deep intervenes and forces the boys into transporting Kenji using a different method via a storm drain. In order to save Hughie, The Boys temporally unbind Kenji so he can save Hughie from Homelander. Kenji then uses this opportunity to escape, while Kimiko chases after him, however the two are then confronted by Stormfront. Stormfront chases the two through an apartment building onto the rooftops where Kenji runs away while Kimiko fights with Stormfront. Stormfront overpowers The Female and begins to choke her, until Kenji comes back and attacks Stormfront. Stormfront incapacitates Kimiko temporarily with her lightning, when she awakens, she sees Stormfront break Kenji's wrists and taunt his inability to use his powers. Kimiko watches as Stormfront holds Kenji in a choke-hold and breaks his neck. A troubled Kimiko, runs away and regroups with the Boys with a new hatred for Stormfront brewing inside of her.

Friendship with Frenchie

From their initial meeting in The Female of the Species there seemed to be a connection between The Female and Frenchie. Frenchie is scared of The Female at first, however warms up to her after she saves him from Black Noir, nearly dying herself, he is deeply saddened to find her bleeding out in the street but is relieved to see her heal.

The relationship between the two develops further, as he becomes one of the only members of The Boys who is able to talk with The Female and calm her down in stressful situations. After an encounter with Mesmer, Frenchie asks if The Female would like to go and find her brother. In response, she simply holds his hand.

Relationship with Kenji

Kimiko and her younger brother Kenji were close together and became closer ever since their parents were killed and they were forcibly indoctrinated into a terrorist organization known as the Shinning Light Liberation Army. Kimiko became mute after their mother was killed, so the two had developed their own form of sign language to communicate with each other. The two became all they had left from their life before and would protect each other. Until eventually, Kimkio was separated from her brother, transported to America, and injected with Compound V turning her into a Supe-Terrorist. After being freed by The Boys and "read" by Mesmer, it became clear that her only goal was to get back to Japan and find her brother. Meanwhile, Kenji was later injected with Compound V, after the organization figured it would work the same as it did for her. Kenji would then be smuggled into America by gang members and stake out in a costume shop. The two siblings were finally reunited again, however their joyful reunion was short lived when they disagreed about The Shining Light Liberation Army. With Kenji believing the group ideologies, and Kimiko rejecting them. Kimiko then reluctantly aided The Boys in capturing Kenji to give him to the FBI.

Powers and Abilities

“

A miracle. You are a miracle. ―Frenchie

”

• Superhuman Strength: The Female's strength is greater than that of any human, allowing her to overpower people much larger than her. Her strength allows her to easily punch through people's ribcages, tear skulls apart, snap necks, break wrists, and take on other Supes with great strength.
• Superhuman Durability: The Female has enhanced durability which allows her to endure multiple types of attack and trauma. She was able to withstand being thrown through a brick wall and having her head bashed into a wall multiple times by A-Train. This power seems to only offer her protection against blunt force trauma, meaning she can be stabbed and slashed by sharp weapons.
• Superhuman Speed: The Female is capable of superhuman speeds which she used to slam into Black Noir who was about to attack Frenchie.
• Superhuman Agility: The Female possesses enhanced agility, balance, dexterity and bodily coordination that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete. Her abilities allowed her to pounce onto a man from across a room and tackle him to the ground. She similarly was able to use her agility in an attempt to overwhelm Black Noir, but failed to due to his own similar speed and strength.
• Superhuman Reflexes: The Female's reflexes are superior to those of the finest human athlete. She can use this ability to quickly overwhelm foes, dodge incoming attacks, and even react to a Supes with superhuman speed, such as A-Train.
• Regenerative Healing Factor: The Female possesses the power to regenerate, allowing her to completely heal from the most fatal of injuries in a matter of minutes. She was therefore able to survive and rapidly recover being repeatedly slashed and stabbed by Black Noir's daggers, though she momentarily succumbed to the severe wounds until her regenerative abilities began to kick in and revive her. Despite her abilties, tranquilizers can disable her nonetheless.

Personality

The Female could best be described as mute, brutal and unpredictable, due to the years of abuse and imprisonment she was force to endure.

The Female was a danger to everyone except Frenchie, who is implied to be the first person to treat her with kindness and starts to form a bond with him. After she flees and Frenchie gets attacked by Black Noir in an alley, Kimiko intervenes and saves his life, showing she had come to care for him.

After this, she seems to become significantly calmer and while still dangerous and unstable, she does not appear to have an involuntary compulsion to kill people, and acts more personable towards the rest of the group. Kimiko has shown to be capable of following instructions like a valid part of the team, whether it's beating batter in making French pastries to acting as Hughie's backup and breaking A-Train's leg with a pipe at the right time.

Relationships

Family

Kenji Miyashiro † - Brother

Allies

• The Boys
  • Frenchie - Colleague and Love Interest
  • Hughie Campbell - Colleague
  • Mother's Milk - Colleague
  • Billy Butcher - Reluctant Colleague

Enemies

• Shining Light Liberation Army
• Two Unnamed Asian Gangsters † - Victim
• Roberta Cho † - Victim
• Vought International
  • The Seven
    • Homelander
    • Black Noir - Attempted Killer
    • Stormfront - Attempted Killer and Nemesis
    • A-Train

Trivia

• Her animalistic behavior and healing factor are reminiscent to Wolverine and X-23 from the X-Men.
• In the show, according to Kenji Miyashiro, her mutism is because of the traumatic experience of seeing her parents got killed in front of her. In the comics, however, she is actually able to talk, but apparently suffers from selective mutism, with there being only one occasion in the comics when she spoke. Nonetheless, she usually communicates with others through Frenchie, who is somehow able to perfectly understand her gestures.
• She's the only supe in The Boys (in the show).
• She is Japanese and so is her name. Flashbacks show that she's taken to an unnamed, war-torn country in Asia that seems to resemble the likes of Myanmar or Vietnam.

Gallery

Promotional

Screencaps

Videos

The Boys Season 1 Kimiko Goes Wild - Prime Video