- This article is about the Elemental Master. For the dragon labelled the same name by the Advanced Systems Lab, see Zanth. For the Ice Fisher with a similar name, see Sorla.
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Sora (born Ana) is the Elemental Master of Technology, an inventor, and one of Lloyd's ninja students. Born as an Imperian citizen, she was one of the smartest inventors of her kingdom. After seeing how it treated dragons and being mistreated by her parents, she left her home after the Merge. She chose her current name, and befriended Arin, who became her first and best friend. Years later, Sora makes a connection to a dragon called Riyu, who helped her discover her Elemental Power. She was being trained by the Green Ninja Lloyd, and destroyed the Photacs during the Battle of the Second Monastery. Afterwards, Sora and Nya searched for the Yellow Dragon Core, meeting Cole along the way. Sora started to harness her powers and unlocked her True Potential without the help of Riyu during the Liberation of Imperium, after realizing the ninja were her true family.
Sometime later, Sora built three mechs for herself, Kai, and Cole out of Chronosteel to handle Lobbo being mutated, stopping the Mechanic, and stopping the Lava-Tides from stealing dragon eggs.
Her popularity as a ninja continued to rise until Cinder stole the Mallet of Shattering and broke Wyldfyre's leg, leading her and most of the ninja to head to a dojo, where she was assigned to be taught under Rontu. Sora solemnly watched Egalt demote Arin before the Blood Moon interfered with their training. Later, they headed to the Wyldness, where she, Kai, and Wyldfyre infiltrated the Wolf Clan to try and rescue Euphrasia and some of the Writers of Destiny who were assigned to be sacrifices for the Forbidden Five. Although they were successful, Ras sent Kai into the Nether-Space, releasing Nokt in the process. Sora secretly helped Arin defeat Ras by using her powers until the blood moon was over.
After some time, Sora assisted Arin in trying to locate his missing parents, but instead discovered the brutal murder of Riyu's Matriarch and the theft of her Crown of Horns. Advised by the Source Dragon of Motion, the ninja participated in the Tournament of the Sources. However, Sora began to feel suspicious of Jordana due to her strange behavior, while also developing distrust for Frak, Arin's old friend and one of Ras' students. Sora later learned that Arin was aware of her deception, as Ras had revealed the truth to him. Throughout the tournament matches, Sora advanced to the finals, where she faced Nokt, but was defeated. However, thanks to Wyldfyre and Zur who brought to light the sabotage of the tournament, Nokt's celebration was cut short. But he and Rox, who had managed to possess Jordana during the ritual, used the stolen elements to free the remaining members of the Forbidden Five, while Nya rescued Kai and Bonzle in the process. Luckily, Roby, the Game Master, absorbed the stolen powers and returned them to their rightful owners. This caused the Forbidden Five to flee, dragging Ras along with them, while Arin lost his faith in the ninja. In the end, Sora was proclaimed the winner by default while she grieved over Arin's disappearance.
With Arin gone, Sora tried to fill his role by trying to bake pies (which she failed miserably), causing her to seek help from Frak, who had joined the ninja. During one of the pie baking lessons, Sora ends up giving Zane the clue he needed to locate the place Arin and Ras were sent to. That allows her to join a search team along with Lloyd, Frak, Riyu, Zane and Zanth. During the search, Sora still retained some distrust on Frak, but the two managed to come to understandment. Their search leads them to a confrontation with the Forbidden Five and notice their interest in obtaining the Prismatic Blades. Thanks to a sudden encounter with Nya when they are summoned (along with Riyu) by Arrakore to help him against Rox, she learns about the Forbidden Five's intention to free Thunderfang, with her informing Lloyd. Using the Prismatic Blade in their possession, they are able to locate the remaining one, which is with Arin and Ras, allowing them to reunite. During that reunion, Sora is able to reconcile with Arin and convince him to rejoin the ninja, at least until they stop the Forbidden Five and rescue Ras. After Thunderfang is defeated, Sora, determined to not get separated from Arin again, decides to accompany him and Ras.
Sora helps Arin and Ras reach the Underworld, so they can get to the Forge of the Forgotten to forge a Dragon Icon. During their journey, they come across the threat of the Spectral Dragonian Warriors. However, once at the forge, Ras revealed he only allowed Sora to accompany them so he could sacrifice her to use it, causing Arin to turn against him to save her. After managing to escape Ras, Sora takes Arin to where his parents' graves are located, only for them to discover them empty, leading them to discover Lee's underground neighborhood, finding the ninja and Arin's parents. Thanks to her kindness and understanding, Sora managed to convince Lee to free his captives, telling him if he did that, maybe some of them would be willing to stay for real. However, once he did that, the Spectral Dragonian Warriors arrive, and hollow Lee and the citizens. After sending Arin's parents to the monastery, Sora and Arin rejoin the ninja in their quest to defeat Thunderfang once and for all. After learning from Bleckt the only way to do it was through the Arc Dragon of Focus, whose halves had been divided and put to sleep in different locations, Sora, along with Wyldfyre, Frak, Riyu and Zanth, goes to the Cave of Bells in Djinjago to awaken the tan half. After awakening their half, the cave came under attack by Spectrals, accompanied by Kur, but they manage to hold them back enough for Lloyd and Arin to defeat Thunderfang. When Sora, Wyldfyre, and Frak attempt to return to the monastery, due to Ras tampering with the portal gates, they end up in a monastery in some plains.
Inventions
This is a list of all the inventions made by Sora:
- Photacs (disabled)
- Grapple Gun
- SA Mark 01
- Weaponized armor (destroyed by Beatrix)
- Elemental Tech Mech
- Elemental Earth Mech
- Elemental Fire Mech (destroyed)
- Dragon Hooks
- Climber Mech
- Ninja Team Combo Vehicle
- Her jet
- P.I.X.A.L.'s car
- Gliders (copied, destroyed)
- Race bikes (transformed into the Jet Mech)
- Jet Mech
- Spinjitzu Battle Mech
Vehicles
Dragons
- Zanth
- A dragon that Sora shared a bond with and named herself after before learning her original name.
- She first appeared in "Return to Imperium."
Mechs
- SA Mark 01
- A vehicle that can take form between a mech and a bike because of her power of Technology.
- It first appeared in "The Merge: Part 1."
- Elemental Tech Mech
- A mech created from Chronosteel, enabling it to harness Technology. Additionally, it possesses the ability to interchange components with other Elemental Mechs.
- It first appear in "What the Mech?"
Bikes
- Race bike
- A bike Sora created to travel to Mysterium and the Underworld.
- It first appears in "The Hollow Ones"
Jets
Others
- Ninja Team Combo Vehicle Glider
- A Glider that is part of the Ninja Team Combo Vehicle that Sora created.
- It first appears in "United We Fall."
Appearance
Sora has long pink hair done up in a ponytail with pink eyeshadow and whisker-like markings on both cheeks to mark her status as an Imperian. From "The Merge: Part 1" to "The Shatter Dragon", she wore a navy blue sweatshirt with cat ears on the hood underneath a white racing suit which had navy blue markings. On it were the first two letters of her name in dark blue and the last two in pink, both on the right side. She wore pink belts with golden accents and had a pink cat design on the back of her suit. She wore a dark blue glove on one arm and gold Imperian armor on the other, along with navy blue cat-eared headphones. The armor is speculated to be a prosthetic arm by some fans.
During her time in Imperium as Ana, she had space buns and wore a standard black Imperian children’s uniform.
From "Return to Imperium" to "The Battle of the Second Monastery", Sora donned the disguise of an Imperian citizen under the alias of Sora Surname, with an added marking on both cheeks.
From "Enter the City of Temples" to "Elements of Betrayal", Sora wore her Tournament of Sources suit. It included a white undershirt with three bows, pink accents and pink sash, as well as white pants. On top of that she wore a white and blue sleeveless robe with golden cat details along with a dark blue belt. She also had navy blue gloves, golden armor on one arm and a navy blue mask she wore occasionally.
Age
The ninja's ages are not specified.[1]
Sora is a teenager. She was a child when the Merge happened, as well as when she escaped Imperium and met Arin.
Possible estimations: According to Sabrina Pitre, Sora was described to be 15 years old when she auditioned.[2]
Relationships
- Main article: Sora's relationships
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Enemies
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Abilities
- Technology: As an Elemental Master of Technology, Sora can take control of any technological constructs, allowing her to modify their mechanisms or change it into something else, as she was able to morph the SA Mark 01 into a bike.
- Elemental Powers (briefly): With enough skill, Sora was able to use almost every Elemental Power she won during the Tournament of Sources, such as Balance, Heat, Ice, Reflex, Quake, and Smoke, although she had more difficulty with the latter.
- Spinjitzu: Although only momentary and very short lived, Sora did briefly display the ability to generate pink swirling wisps around her body while she was rapidly rotating, which indicated she was in the first stage of Spinjitzu, even before she was able to manifest an actual tornado. During the final half of Season 3, Sora began growing more in tune with using Spinjitzu, to the extent of actually manifesting proto-spinjitzu on more than on occasion and for extended periods of time.
- Skilled combatant: Initially, Sora had struggled through the training course but she became a skilled fighter. Like the rest of the Ninja, she often combined her elemental power with her combat skills. Even powerless, she manage to briefly fight off Chaos-empowered Wolf warriors, but still struggled to defeat them, resorting to using a piece of metal to help knock them back. Later on, she managed to improve her skills and hold her own against Dragonian warriors several times. Later on, with the help of Arin, she was able to hold against Ras, but was unable to defeat him.
- Mechanical skills: Sora is a gifted inventor whose mechanical genius was recognized by Dr. LaRow and the Advanced Systems Lab, even as a child. She pioneered the creation of the indestructible hard light Photacs. Her engineering skills would even receive praise from Nya, a prodigal inventor herself, for being innovative and unique.
- Hacking: Because of her interest in technology since childhood, Sora also became a professional at hacking and splicing, being able to hack through the mainframes of any machinery in seconds and bypass online security.
- Stealth: Being a ninja, Sora is able to sneak into places without being noticed.
Personality
Sora is a kind and caring young girl towards the people she loves, but at the same time she is cynical and has trouble trusting people. This comes from having her childhood idol, Dr. LaRow, betray her and use her invention to hunt down and enslave dragons and later on her own parents turn against her. Due to having been raised in a different realm, Sora never came to know the Ninja or their feats, so she would show some cynicism towards her best friend Arin's admiration towards them. But after Lloyd saved them from the Claws of Imperium and he took them in to teach them how to be a Ninja, she started to develop a great deal of trust towards them. When it comes to trust on people that once were on the opposite side as her, she takes longer to warm up with them, as seen with Frak, who used to be Ras' student.
She often lacks confidence, as she is afraid of letting down the people she cares about, and even feels insecure about her elemental power and worries she cannot control it. This had led her to feel she didn't have a place on the Ninja, after seen how her power would fail on many occasions and was dependent on Riyu to work. After she managed to free herself from what was holding her back, Sora managed to unlock her full potential, with that increasing her confidence.
Despite her insecurity, Sora is brave, loyal, and willing to do almost anything for the people she cares about, such as the Ninja. She is kind and compassionate towards dragons and her friends, but she can also show it towards strangers. Sora is also skilled, independent and creative, qualities she developed through her passion for technology and having to fend for herself after the Merge. She is always ready to help those she cares about in any way she can.
Official description
Introducing Sora
“Why go anywhere when the best of the realms are here. For example...me!”
Skillful, independent and definitely not lacking in confidence, Sora seized her chance to leave the shadowy city of Imperium when The Merge hit. Now she’s struck up a friendship with Arin that could take them both to new heights...[3]
Creative
Sora, a genius inventor and hacker, shares a connection with baby dragon Riyu. Her rapid creations are crucial for the ninja in their quest to save the world.[4]
Play Stories
- STRENGTH: Loyalty
- TALENT: Master of Technology
- SECRET FEAR: Being without Riyu
- ULTIMATE GOAL: To trust herself
YOUNG HEROES AGAINST EVIL FORCES!
The brains of the team
- Grew up in the Empire
- Has a special connection to the young dragon Riyu
- Is a real tech wizard
- Pessimistic: has difficulty trusting others[5]
LEGO.com
Sora is the new Master of Technology. She is an inventor from Imperium who sought out a fresh start in the Crossroads where she met Arin. If Arin is the heart of their duo, Sora is the brains.
Appearances
Etymology
The name Sora is primarily a gender-neutral name of Japanese origin that means "sky". However, in-universe, her name comes from the ancient Imperium word for orphan. She named herself after Zanth, who was nicknamed Sora at the time.[6] After she cuts her ties with her parents, she fully embraced the Imperium's meaning of the word.
Her birth name, Ana, means "favored grace."
Behind the scenes
- According to Chris "Doc" Wyatt, the plating on her left arm is just armor and not a prosthetic robot arm.[7]
- Despite this, Play Stories claims that her left arm is a prosthetic.
- Both minifigures of Sora in casual attire use a hair piece of the pigtails she had in her youth.
- In early concept, Sora was originally depicted as a non-human kitsune as a callback to Akita.[8]
- Chris "Doc" Wyatt has stated that Sora has a last name, though it's currently unknown when it will be revealed.[9]
Trivia
- According to Chris "Doc" Wyatt, Sora feels the power of Technology in her brain.[10]
- In particular designs, Sora's appearance and hair color are based off the character Aelita Schaffer from Code Lyoko and her powers are technology and creation as well.
- In "Return to Imperium," the ID card Sora creates for herself says "Sora Surname" in Ninjargon.
- She appears to be fond of cats, based on her headphones, hood, and the cat symbol on the back of her racing suit. Even her facial markings resemble cat whiskers.
- In "Fallen Wishes", she is shown to love cats and begs Nya to tell Arrakore to wish for kittens.
- It is unknown when or why she got her Imperium face markings, as she is without them when living in the Crossroads with Arin, and had seemingly renounced her Imperian cultural heritage.
- She is the first ninja who was not born in Ninjago, the second being Wyldfyre.
- Before the Tournament of the Sources, she and Wyldfyre were the only ninja who didn't have ninja suits, as her outfit was a racing suit and Wyldfyre's was a normal outfit.
- Sora did not have a ninja suit before the Tournament of Sources because "even though it's been a while since she left Imperium, Sora's still got a thing against wearing what everyone else is wearing."[11]
- However, it is possible that she is starting to slowly warm up the idea of wearing similar outfits to the other Ninja, because starting with "The Hollow Ones" she can be seen wearing a Ghost Hunter suit, matching the other ninja in terms of shoulder armor and mask style but still making the torso unique to her.
- Her minifigure face print has two additional markings on her forehead that are normally obscured by her hair.
- She shares some similarities with her master, Lloyd:
- Both of them were outcasts in their schools, due to not fitting in with the norm (Sora for being too unique and Lloyd for not being bad enough).
- Both were opposed and disowned by at least one of their parents.
- Both had to deal with the dangerous consequences of the choices they made as children (Sora for creating the Photacs and Lloyd for releasing the Serpentine).
- They both doubt themselves at times, like Sora believing she is a "black cloud" in "The Last Djinn" and Lloyd questioning whether or not he will live up to the legacy of his father and uncle as heard in "The Hands of Time".
- Both took over a tower in their home cities and delivered a speech against an emperor/empress (Garmadon and Beatrix respectively).
- Both feel a tremendous guilt when they are unable to help people and are forced to leave them behind.
- She is claustrophobic.[12]
Video
Translations
Ana
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Sora
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Foreign voice actors
| Dub | Voice Actors |
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| Arabic | نانسي نبيل (Season 1) عائشة بسيوني (Season 2 onwards) |
| Bulgarian | Радослава Стойнева |
| Cantonese | 簡森 |
| Croatian | Helena Novosel |
| Czech | Klára Nováková |
| Danish | Maria Corydon Hellborn |
| Dutch | Sarah Nauta |
| Finnish | Amy Burgess |
| French (Europe) | Marie Braam |
| German | Julia Bautz |
| Greek | Άννα Φιλιππάκη (AbFab Productions) Μυρτώ Ναούμ (Power Media Productions) |
| Hebrew | נעמה שטרית (NDG Studios) מיה אלון (Ullman Media) |
| Hindi | मेघा जोशी |
| Hungarian | Viktória Staub |
| Indonesian | Wan Leoni Mutiarza (Erfas Studio) Esty Rohmiati (Iyuno Indonesia) |
| Italian | Lavinia Paladino (up to Season 2 Part 1) Tiziana Martello (Season 2 Part 2 onwards) |
| Japanese | 花井美春 |
| Korean | 이새아 |
| Mandarin (CHN) | 简单 |
| Mandarin (TWN) | 郭怡心 |
| Norwegian | Nora Gjestvang |
| Polish | Maja Kwiatkowska (Season 1) Katarzyna Domalewska (Season 2 - Season 3) |
| Portuguese (BRA) | Isabella Guarnieri |
| Portuguese (POR) | Isabella Guarnieri |
| Romanian | Aimee Georgescu |
| Russian | Лина Иванова (Episode 1 – Episode 15) Таисия Тришина (Episode 16 – Episode 20) Майя Ведерникова (Season 2) Unknown (Season 3 |
| Serbian | Ирина Арсенијевић |
| Spanish (LA) | Amanda Hinojosa |
| Spanish (ESP) | Paula Yuste |
| Slovene | Katja Ajster |
| Swedish | Beata Hedman |
| Thai | พรประภา แสวงศักดิ์ |
| Ukrainian | Єлизавета Зіновенко (Tak Treba Production) Юлія Шаповал (1+1 Production) |
| Vietnamese | Lê Hà Giang (Season 1) Trương Ngọc Châu (Season 2 onwards) |
| Turkish | Milay Ezengin |
References
- ↑ https://x.com/otherland71/status/1662922746509287424
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRU0Eql55DQ&t=343s
- ↑ https://youtu.be/aFVhk48ZI-8
- ↑ https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/ninjago/dragons-rising?icmp=LP-SHQL-Standard-Ninjago_QL_Standard_Dragons_rising-TH-NJ-TATOA6YIPV
- ↑ Bandit Raid!
- ↑ "Return to Imperium"
- ↑ https://x.com/otherland71/status/1665398843884576768
- ↑ https://x.com/mikerayhawk/status/1706042271278215328?s=61
- ↑ https://x.com/otherland71/status/1854983574455566767?t=cu6057St444ClkgNWMRoxQ&s=19
- ↑ https://bsky.app/profile/docwyattbeyond.bsky.social/post/3lb6o6vmv522e
- ↑ https://x.com/otherland71/status/1799190499582218376
- ↑ The Ultimate Object of Admiration