Shi (Ana Ishikawa) is a fictional comic book character created by writer/illustrator William Tucci. She first appeared in Razor Annual #1 (1993) and had appeared in numerous books by various publishers ever since, such as the famous Crusade Comics. Shi is a young woman of mixed decent: Japanese and American, whose ancestry was drafted into a modern-day "shadow war" between descendants of the infamous Sohei warrior monks of medieval Japan. Japanese culture, history, and mythology are deeply embedded within the storyline, also within the character herself. The word "Shi" literally translates to death (死) in Japanese, and her signature weapon is the naginata.