History Characters / KemonoJihen

* LawOfDiminishingDefensiveEffort: Kabane's extraordinarily powerful HealingFactor and an inability to feel pain lead him to simply throw himself at his opponents recklessly because it's nearly impossible to for him to die. But even if he can't feel pain, he can still be injured and temporarily incapacitated, as shown when Kabane gets his neck broken while training with the tanuki of Yajima Village. Kabane's experiences slowly beat this mindset out of him, making him fight more carefully than before. But his inability to remain wounded still allows him to make reckless plays that no one else can, such as [[spoiler:letting Nobimaru light him on fire to counter Yui's ice powers]] and later [[spoiler:using himself as kindling for Kaede's fire powers.]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyumuMurase (Japanese), Cassie Ewulu (English)

* LawOfDiminishingDefensiveEffort: Kabane's extraordinarily powerful HealingFactor and an inability to feel pain lead him to simply throw himself at his opponents recklessly because it's nearly impossible to for him to die. But even if he can't feel pain, he can still be injured and temporarily incapacitated, as shown when Kabane gets his neck broken while training with the tanuki of Yajima Village. Kabane's experiences slowly beat this mindset out of him, making him fight more carefully than before. But his inability to remain wounded still allows him to make reckless plays that no one else can, such as [[spoiler:using himself as kindling for Kaede's fire powers.]]
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':

* SmarterThanYouLook: Despite his social awkwardness and his cousin's claims that Kabane can't even write his own name, the half-Khoular knows several morbid and unusually complex terms for a thirteen year old during a game of Shiritori, or "say a word that starts with the last letter of the word someone else just said".

* SuperMode: When under pressure or needing additional assistance when fighting, he can call upon his hidden strength by partially letting go of his human side and unleashing more of his Kemono heritage thus making him much stronger than before, but allows him to stay in control of himself. The result of which causes both his eyes and hair to glowing red, as well as a red energy sparkling around him when he fights. [[spoiler:After better mastering his fear of his oni side, Kabane learns to shroud himself in fire to take on a pseudo-oni form while still remaining in control of himself, which lets him deal serious damage to Kaede and Akagi's Kagetsuchi form in tandem with his new Totsuka technique.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: It's implied that Kabane's abusive childhood has left him with a form of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia alexithymia]], an inability to properly identify and express emotions. Kabane struggles to read the mood of a room, speaks candidly without any filters, and grapples with concepts like "love", showing great interest in trying to better understand them. While he gradually improves through experience, he continues to be awkward in social situations because of his tendency to bottle up his feelings because he can't express himself properly.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Downplayed. While he has a sense of right and wrong, it's muddled by his perspective as both a kemono hybrid and his lack of social experience until being taken in by Inugami. As a result, he feels nothing when killing others if they attacked him first and even offers to [[spoiler:help Shiki murder his uncle]] if he wants him to. Kabane is equally unperturbed when [[spoiler:he learns that the oni are raising humans as livestock for slaughter.]]

** His strength and regeneration can let him deal with most mindless Kemono, but his time in Yashima Villages shows that he'll be easily beaten by those with far better technique than him. Because of this, he spends his time there learning to not rely on his HealingFactor and to be more observant of his opponent's actions and his surroundings to better make use of his abilities.

* OurGhoulsAreDifferent: He is half-Khoular, a type of Japanese corpse spirit. This means that he's technically alive, but he doesn't die when he's killed and quickly heals away most wounds, even fatal ones. In addition, anything he bites while his Khoular powers are active begins to rot. On top of this, he possesses disproportionate strength and speed versus his size, cannot feel pain, and completely lacks blood, instead having a strange white fluid and fire in his circulatory system. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Khoular don't procreate directly, instead creating more of their kind by sharing the fire that gives them their life energy and regeneration abilities. It would be more accurate to call Kabane a human with a Khoularl's flame. Even more unusually, his regeneration is as powerful as a full-blooded Khoular.]] Inugami also refers to him as an oni, and when he takes his Life Calculus off, his skin flakes away to reveal pitch-black muscle underneath and a horn grows from his head.

* HeelFaceTurn: After [[spoiler:Kabane's calculus merges with the Nil Calculus and nullifies it]], Yui is restored to his senses and aims to repent for his actions, becoming an ally of Inugami of fice.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Insists on bossing Kabane around and is generally quite abrasive as a whole, but is deeply insecure about Kabane's sudden arrival at the office and is constantly wondering what made Inugami so interested in taking him in. This cools off considerably as they get to know each other., with Shiki taking more of

* SwissArmySuperpower: His kemono ability lets him convert his sweat into spider webs. Aside from the obvious applications like a BuildingSwing or [[AllWebbedUp webbing his opponents up]], he spends most of the story trying to come up with new applications for it. This includes making use of its reflective appearance to coat his body in a layer of it to become nearly invisible, creating bouncy web "shoes" for mobility and attack, and even using it as a makeshift noose for hanging someone.

* IAmAMonster: She calls herself an "abhorrent thing" and is afraid that revealing her true identity would make the Inugami Agency hate her. She later gets over it quickly soon after she reveals what she is. ''Too'' quickly.

* BreakTheCutie: Happened long before the series started, with his aunt mistreating him since day one due to being a half-Khoular hybrid, making him work in the fields instead of going to school, effectively using him for slave labor, and being pelted with insults so frequently that his first response to hearing someone say that he smelled so bad that others would have to rip their noses off to stand him is, "Okay, be careful." His lack of self-worth is so profound that he's utterly baffled at Inugami's friendly demeanor towards him.

* CluelessChickMagnet: Kon and [[spoiler:Aya, Shiki's younger half-sister]] have demonstrated blatant romantic interest in Kabane, but his complete lack of social skills and understanding of love leaves him immune to their advances.

* MenCantKeepHouse: Inverte. Due to spending his entire life working at his aunt's inn, Kabane is exceedingly skilled and farmwork and housework, cleaning up the entire Kemono office and making it a spotless and neat workplace in just one hour. The only thing he can't do well is cook due to his aunt keeping him away from food at all times and he has already promised to work on getting better.
* MundaneLuxury: Played with. Kabane is utterly perplexed by basic things like people treating him with common decency and respect, and it's implied the his hammock is the first time he's actually had a bed, but he ends up sleeping on the floor anyway because it's too soft and fluffy for his tastes.

* ParentalAbandonment: His parents left him on his Aunt's front door when he was just a year old and fled for reasons unknown, only leaving instructions to "raise him as a human". But given the incredibly valuable and rare Life Calculus that hangs around his neck, Inugami suspects that [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou that this decision was not by choice but necessity.]]

Nicknamed Dorotabō by his abusive family members and neighbors, Kabane grew up oblivious to his nature as a half-ghoul, being forced to work as a farmhand by his aunt after his parents left him in her care for unknown reasons. After being blamed for an incident where a monstrous deer was eating the local wildlife, causing the corpses to rot he's taken in by detective Inugami to work at his Kemono office.

* BreakTheCutie: Happened long before the series started, with his aunt mistreating him since day one due to being a Half-Ghoul hybrid, making him work in the fields instead of going to school, effectively using him for slave labor, and being pelted with insults so frequently that his first response to hearing someone say that he smelled so bad that others would have to rip their noses off to stand him is, "Okay, be careful." His lack of self-worth is so profound that he's utterly baffled at Inugami's friendly demeanor towards him.

* FeelNoPain: Ghouls are incapable of feeling any pain. As a result, whenever Kabane actually takes a hit, he never complains since he never actually feels its effects. He is also perfectly okay with having a chunk of his leg ripped off by sticky thread and once tore his own arm off to escape a trap. But that doesn't mean he can't be injured and he'll feel it if something's off (i.e. he takes a back injury that makes it harder for him to move).

* HalfHumanHybrid: Half-ghoul, half-human.

* HorrorHunger: As a ghoul, he'd normally have the urge to attack and eat humans. However, the Life Calculus that hangs around his neck acts as a RestrainingBolt that keeps his hunger in check so long as he keeps it near him.

* KidHero: He's 13... probably, in his words.

* MenCantKeepHouse: Subverted. Due to spending his entire life working at his aunt's inn, Kabane is exceedingly skilled and farmwork and housework, cleaning up the entire Kemono office and making it a spotless and neat workplace in just one hour. The only thing he can't do well is cook due to his aunt keeping him away from food at all times and he has already promised to work on getting better.

* OurGhoulsAreDifferent: He is half-ghoul, meaning that he's technically alive, but he doesn't die when he's killed and quickly heals away most wounds, even fatal ones. In addition, anything he bites while his ghoul powers are active begins to rot. On top of this, he possesses disproportionate strength and speed versus his size, cannot feel pain, and completely lacks blood, instead having a strange white fluid and fire in his circulatory system. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that ghouls don't procreate directly, instead creating more of their kind by sharing the fire that gives them their life energy and regeneration abilities. It would be more accurate to call Kabane a human with a ghoul's flame. Even more unusually, his regeneration is as powerful as a full-blooded ghoul.]] Inugami also refers to him as an oni, and when he takes his Life Calculus off, his skin flakes away to reveal pitch-black muscle underneath and a horn grows from his head.

* PowerDyesYourHair: While tapping into more of his ghoul strength, his hair turns a blazing red.
* PowerLimiter: His Life Calculus keeps his Ghoul side in check and prevents him instinctively attacking and feeding on humans.

* RageBreakingPoint: Kabane is usually able to keep a cool head in most situations, and at most he gets into a TranquilFury state where he calmly tears apart anything that needs to die. Though this comes into play when the first time he genuinely loses his cool in the first part of the series when his cousin Yataro insults him about being an orphan and rips his Life Calus necklace away from him, Kabane loses his cool by belting the latter in the face while walking towards him in his ghoulish form. The second time however he becomes truly ''pissed'' is when [[spoiler:Nobimaru seemingly kills Kon and taunts him over it. He tackles Nobimaru to the floor in an uncharacteristic fit of rage.]]
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: Discussed. Yui wonders if Kabane could actually be the heir to the most powerful of ghouls and potentially the leader of all kemono, as he possesses top-class regeneration for his species despite only being half-ghoul. Kabane's possession of the Life Calculus, rare and powerful stones entrusted to the strongest kemono of each clan, seems to corroborate this, though Yui admits that this is purely baseless speculation on his part. Shiki also brings up the possibility of Kabane's parents simply acquiring it sometime before leaving it with Kabane rather than inheriting it.

* RestrainingBolt: Kabane's Life Calculus suppresses his ghoulish desire to attack and consume humans so long as he has it near him, letting him live like a normal human without worrying about succumbing to his HorrorHunger. [[spoiler:By the time of the Tanuki village arc, talks to his restraint and training he can stand being without it for considerable amounts of time. However, even if he can suppress the HorrorHunger, he would still eventually need to eat human flesh to survive, while being with his Calculus removes the desire entirely and lets him live off common food.]]

* ShoutOut: When Kabane's ghoul traits emerge, the sclera of his eyes darken as his irises grow even more red in a manner reminiscent of [[Manga/TokyoGhoul another series with ghouls]].
* SmarterThanYouLook: Despite his social awkwardness and his cousin's claims that Kabane can't even write his own name, the half-Ghoul knows several morbid and unusually complex terms for a thirteen year old during a game of Shiritori, or "say a word that starts with the last letter of the word someone else just said", such as necrosis, Ebola, and thorium after reading about them in a newspaper.[[note]]According to the fan translation anyways.[[/note]]

** Fukuhime teaches Kabane "Totsuka", a special palm strike technique to multiple the strength of his blows tenfold. With this he's able to deal serious damage to [[spoiler:Kaede and Akagi's enormous Kagetsuchi form, destroying one of their legs in the process.]]

* DumbMuscle: His firepower is incredible, but he completely lacks the ability to form illusions on his own. In addition, his carefree, child-like mindset makes it easy for him to hyper-fixate on something that interests him.

* PsychopathicManchild: He has the temperament of a kid, approaching his work as if it's a source of fun, and getting easily frustrated whenever anyone manages to dodge his attacks too much, losing control of himself. This makes him very predictable and his strategy too straightforward, meaning characters who are capable of planning like Shiki and Kabane can get an advantage over him despite his raw firepower.

* AntiquatedLinguistics: After he's br

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyaHisakawa (Japanese), Heather Gonzalez (English)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NatsukiHanae (Japanese), A.J. Beckles (English)

* Gasshole: Ume's power, "Slowed Perception Gas", requires him to fart.

* TheChick: Fills in this role for the Kemono office, being extremely effeminate and emotional in contrast to Kabane's stoic and Shiki's hot-headedness. He's also the worst of the trio at fighting and panics at the first sign of danger.

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaitoIshikawa (Japanese), Ben Balmaceda (English)

* FantasticMedicinalBodyProduct: Although Robara typically uses his glue for its BodyHorror applications, it also has powerful medical applications, as it is able to become whatever it's shaped into and glued to. He can replace lost eyes with fully functional ones with ease and put people who've been sliced in half back together.

A happy and outgoing Kitsune that wants to have sex with Inari. Akagi's partner in the investigation. Unlike many Kitsune, he has no illusionary powers but his fire is extremely powerful.

* DumbMuscle: His firepower is incredible but he completely lacks the ability to form illusions on his own. In addition, his carefree, child-like mindset makes it easy for him to hyper-fixate on something that interests him.

* AmbiguousDisorder: It's implied that Kabane's abusive childhood has left him with a form of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia Alexithymia]], an inability to properly identify emotions. Kabane struggles to read the mood of a room, speaks candidly without any filters, and grapples with concepts like "love", showing great interest in trying to better understand them. While he gradually improves through experience, he continues to be awkward in social situations because of his tendency to bottle up his feelings because he can't express himself properly.

* AntiRegeneration: He regenerates from his head down, so decapitating him and putting his head on an enclosed space or blocking his (remaining) neck will prevent him from regenerating. He can only regenerate at a limited rate as well, so setting him on fire will drain his ability to do so.

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Kabane's healing ability makes him a prime target for deadlier attacks, including having his head torn off. However, he can only regenerate if he has enough space to, and can thus be incapacitated if his severed head is kept in a suitcase.

* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: Discussed. Yui wonders if Kabane could actually be the heir to the most powerful of ghouls and potentially the leader of all kemono, as he possesses top-class regeneration for his species despite only being half-ghoul. Kabane's possession of the Life Calculus, rare and powerful stones entrusted to the strongest kemono of each clan, seems to corroborate this, though Yui admits that this is purely baseless speculation on his part. Shiki also brings up the possibility of Kabane's parents could have simply acquired it sometime before leaving it with Kabane rather than inheriting it.

* ShoutOut: When Kabane's Ghoul traits emerge, the sclera of his eyes darken as his irises grow even more red in a manner reminiscent of [[Manga/TokyoGhoul another series with ghouls]].

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: DoubleSubverted. [[spoiler:Robara undergoes a brutal RasputnianDeath, getting thoroughly scorched by having the equivalent of dozens of grenades go off in her face at once, getting punched in the face so hard that her eye popped out of its socket, and then TakingTheBullet for Robara in such a way that her heart is gouged out. Robara then rips the arms off her corpse in his grief before repairing her body to pristine condition with his glue, replacing her missing eye with a flower.]]