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*** They also have seele scheiders, chain-saw-like arrows that can be wielded like swords if need be.

* Fuu Houiji in ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'', before the Magic Knights' weapons were all upgraded to identical swords. She was already a trained archer before the series started.

* Rei/Sailor Mars of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' gains a bow and arrow made of ''flames'' in the fourth season. She's a calm, mystical [[Miko]], rather than the typical temperamental fire warrior (in the manga at least, the anime makes her more [[Hot Blooded]]), although she occasionally made bids for the leadership (losing out to [[The Fool]], at that).

* Rei/Sailor Mars of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' gains a bow and arrow made of ''flames'' in the fourth season. She's a calm, mystical [[Miko]], rather than the typical temperamental fire warrior (in the manga at least, the anime makes her more [[Hot-Blooded]]), although she occasionally made bids for the leadership (losing out to [[The Fool]], at that).

* Mew Mint from ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' has a tiny bow and arrow covered in hearts. In the manga, it was an undetailed longbow, but this was changed out to its anime counterpart later on, along with the other weapons, because Ikumi Mia liked them better. Minto is a dainty [[Ojou]] with a surprising [[Fan Girl]] side, and Mew Mint fights mostly from the air, so it fits either way.

* In ''[[XXX Holic]]'', Doumeki Shizuka lives in a Shinto shrine and is a star of the school archery team. Not too surprisingly, he turns out to have the power to exorcise evil spirits with his bow.

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** The default weapon of [[Final Fantasy XII]]'s Fran is a bow, and her personality fits this trope as a level-headed member of the party - provided there's no Mist around.

* Archers are fairly common in the ''[[Tales Series]]''.

** Chester Barklight in ''[[Tales of Phantasia (Video Game)|Tales of Phantasia]]'' is a nontypical example; he's [[Hot Blooded]], aggressive, and highly driven. In the original, you can actually set his AI to "aim carefully" or "[[More Dakka|berserk fire]]," and his [[Infinity+1 Sword|best bow]] supports the latter, since its superiority is not in damage but in attack speed.

** Chester Barklight in ''[[Tales of Phantasia (Video Game)|Tales of Phantasia]]'' is a nontypical example; he's [[Hot-Blooded]], aggressive, and highly driven. In the original, you can actually set his AI to "aim carefully" or "[[More Dakka|berserk fire]]," and his [[Infinity+1 Sword|best bow]] supports the latter, since its superiority is not in damage but in attack speed.

** Chelsea Torn in ''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny]]'' (arguably, Garr/Woodrow can be considered one, but he mainly uses his Swordian).

** Nanaly Fletch in ''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny]] 2''.

** [[Badass Princess|Princess Natalia L.K Landvaldear]] in ''[[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]'', returning to old school bowmanship.

** ''[[Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)|Tales of Vesperia]]'' gives us Raven, who uses a bow-sword contraption. His personality is atypical for an archer. It's notable he switches to slashing with a dagger in close-combat.

** Hisui Hearts of ''[[Tales of Hearts (Video Game)|Tales of Hearts]]'', who is also [[Hot Blooded]], making him an atypical example of both this trope and [[The Medic]] archetype.

** Hisui Hearts of ''[[Tales of Hearts (Video Game)|Tales of Hearts]]'', who is also [[Hot-Blooded]], making him an atypical example of both this trope and [[The Medic]] archetype.

* The mecha Angelg from ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''. Its pilot Lamia Loveless also fits the typical "calm, self-possessed, analytical" personality.

* Also the Valzacard from ''W'' when it does it's Exa Nova Shot, which, being a Combining Mecha made of two ''battleships'', uses a [[Humongous Mecha]] for a bow.

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* The old Hungarian army (before converting to Christianity) also consisted mostly of horse archers with similar bows. Their predominant strategy was feigning retreat to get the enemy knights chase them (and thus break their formation) then showered them with arrows shot ''backwards''.

* Shooting while riding backwards is called the "Parthian shot" after the guys who first made it famous, the Parthians (from what is now north-eastern Iran). What made them even more awesome is that they did they same thing as the Hungarians except their saddles had no stirrups. Yep. No stirrups, full gallop, guiding their horses with nothing but leg pressure and shooting arrows behind you. That's [[Badass]].

* The samurai of Japan were mounted archers before they were swordsmen. The discipline of ''[~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Japanese_archery~~ kyuudo]'' is the remnant of this; it's still recognizable as horseback archery by the shape of the bow and way the bow is drawn down from overhead rather than back from the front (so that the horse doesn't get in the way.)

* The samurai of Japan were mounted archers before they were swordsmen. The discipline of ''[[wikipedia:Japanese archery|kyuudo]]'' is the remnant of this; it's still recognizable as horseback archery by the shape of the bow and way the bow is drawn down from overhead rather than back from the front (so that the horse doesn't get in the way.)

* [[Jack Churchill]] was a British officer in [[World War II]] who carried a longbow instead of a rifle, as well as a claymore (the one-handed sword, not the explosive). As a result, he was the only person in WWII to get a kill with a bow and arrow of any type.

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