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A race of savage monsters that were sealed away long ago. Their appearance in the human world has the Nōto on-edge.
In General
- Aborted Arc: It's implied that only certain people qualify as potential hosts for Jūto. That detail only serves to justify Natsumi's kidnapping and nothing else; going entirely unexplored otherwise.
- Achilles' Heel: The only ways to kill them are either bringing the human it copied back to the real world to make them mortal or simply cutting them down with the Ninjarksword.
- The Ageless: When Juto copy someone, this is Inverted: Their life-force syncs with their host's.
- Ancient Evil: The Jūto were a danger to both Earth and Ideon at some point before being sealed away.
- Animalistic Abomination: Sonoi's vision depicts the Jūto as a predatory wolf-monster draped in smoke. Their patron animal also represents their rank.
- Artifact Domination: The Jūto propagate themselves by making compatible people eat origami tainted with their essence, which becomes a tether keeping the two linked. It can however be removed and destroyed. At the end of #46, Taro uses the power of the Omikoshi Phoenix to destroy all pieces of tainted origami en-masse - saving every captive at once and permanently weakening their Juto duplicators.
- Artificial Human: Essentially what the Don Clan intended them to be, in order to provide a more stable source of brainwaves for the Nōto than humanity. As evidenced by the rest of the tropes on this page it... did not pan out that way.
- Cats Are Mean: The Cat Jūto are the most active in the series, and are hunting Anōni despite orders from the Cranes not to do so to keep a low profile.
- Clone Degeneration: If a copied human manages to escape the Juto realm, their corresponding duplicate loses their invulnerability and can be harmed.
- Cruel Mercy: By the end of the show, the forest the Juto call home is now their permanent prison, courtesy of Taro's Go Through Me decree.
- David Versus Goliath: They dwarf even the Nōto in power, who can't even conceivably hit them.
- Ditto Aliens: All the monster forms of Jūto shown share the same general body-type, yet their head-gear corresponds to their ranking - Cat Jūto possess dreadlocks while Crane Jūto have pointed heads in the shape of a wing. Penguin Jūto are the most decorative - having blue jewels across their foreheads, wing-shaped appendages across their bodies and a crown-shaped crest atop their heads.
- The Dreaded: Their power combined with their Super-Speed makes them a vastly bigger threat to the Noto, as the Noto generals are unable to even hit them, much less destroy them. When they make their first appearance in #9 in Sonoi's vision, he is incredibly unnerved by their sheer presence.
- Eating the Enemy: Jūto are shown on multiple occasions to hunt and consume the Anoni, who in turn consider the creatures their predator.
- Evil Knockoff: Juto (primarily Cat-types) are these to humans by nature of their ability to copy form - the majority of them are violent and instinct-driven with little regard for other people. Also in a narrative sense, given they were artificial offshoots meant to replace humans as batteries for the Noto Layer.
- Evil Versus Evil: The nominally-heroic Smug Super Nōto oppose them in the same vein they oppose the Hitotsu-Ki. They're also the bigger threat.
- The Cat and Crane Jūto make contact in #23, trading blows over the fate of Tsubasa. It becomes an ongoing rivalry after that point.
- Face–Monster Turn: The people that went on the bus-trip in #9 have returned as something much worse.
- Face Stealer: Rather than possess people, the Jūto copy the appearances of humans in order to blend better into society.
- Fantastic Rank System: The Jūto are organized by their "Strength," denoted by their patron animal type. Cats are at bottom of the totem pole, followed by Cranes, then the yet-to-be-seen Penguin type.
- Fog of Doom: The Jūto occasionally breath out a purple smog.
- Gang of Hats: What little society there is among the Juto is revealed in #30 to be this. Cat-types are inherently carefree monsters while Crane types are "storytellers" that hop into the lives of others. Penguin-types avert the trope - The few shown wildly differ in personality; their only constant being a connection to the Don Clan.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Their eyes glow a bright gold whenever they use their powers.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: The Jūto were created by the Don Clan as an alternative energy source for Ideon, in an effort to stop relying on human brain activity. Needless to say, it backfired on them big time, and led to the Don Clan sealing them away as well as implicitly being a reason for their overthrow by the Nōto.
- Hidden Villain: The Jūto have been active since #9, but wait eighteen episodes to reveal themselves in-full to all parties, led by Kenji Sayama into joining the massive brawl in the quarry.
- Hostage Situation: All Juto are walking embodiments of one. Due to their Synchronization with the humans they capture, anyone that opposes them cannot defeat them without the inherent risk of killing the copied party too...and that's if the opponent can scratch them at all. This also works against the monsters however - If their host is saved, it weakens them to the point they can be dispatched.
- Immortality Inducer: Inverted. Copying humans ironically "assigns" Juto the same lifespan as their hosts, which is why they're stashed away in the Forest. Terasaki's host has reached the end of his lifespan, which is why he's grooming Jiro into a replacement Penguin guardian for after he and his host expire.
- In a Single Bound: They can leap up to the tops of buildings from ground level.
- It Can Think: The Juto show more intelligence per Rank: Cat-types are little more than packs of predators while Cranes are pathological manipulators and the Penguin is an Arc Villain pulling a show-wide con on Jiro.
- Leaking Can of Evil: Jin's presence is essentially the padlock keeping them at-bay. It appears to be an imperfect one however - an entire bus full of people have already been "changed" into them. Jin even implies in #34 that they've simply found a way to bypass the seal entirely.
- Leitmotif: The music for the Forest of Slumber is an eerie duet between a One-Woman Wail and a male choral.
- Let's You and Him Fight: The bickering between the Donbrothers and the Noto allows the insidious Jūto to attack Humans and the Anoni relatively unopposed, their only "obstacles" too weak to even catch them properly.
- Living Battery: The Jūto were created by the Don Clan to serve as these to supersede the need for human desire. It went beyond wrong.
- Locked Out of the Loop: The Donbrothers remain unaware of these creatures' existences until their encounter with them in #27. Tsubasa has unknowingly encountered the creatures before but doesn't know what they are. Until #35, where he sees them fighting each other, all he knew was that they abducted Natsumi.
- Meaningful Name: Their Kanji translates to "Beast People."note Fitting for predatory Animalistic Abominations.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: The Jūto were initially Sealed Evil in a Can due to a lack of known ways to destroy them until Don Murasame destroys a Cat Jūto with ease and a Ninjarksword-possessed Tsubasa wounds Kenji in #29. It's eventually revealed that the link they share with the humans they duplicate is what gives them their power. If a Juto's host is liberated, they're weakened to the degree that anyone can take them down.
- Paper Master: All Jūto use Origami in some fashion. The bus driver in #14 and the Crane Juto can even weaponize them.
- Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Subverted. The Jūto are a bigger threat than the Nōto and were the ones that kidnapped Inu Brother's girlfriend Natsumi, yet they remain a third party in the show's primary conflict between the Donbrothers and the Nōto until episodes 44 to 46, which serve as a conclusion to their story arc.
- Single-Issue Wonk: All Jūto so far have an obsession with origami and will fold any paper they can into an animal of their respective type.
- Super-Speed: All shown Jūto possess it, even in their human guise; keeping up with modern-day vehicles with ease. Even the Nōto can't hit them.
- Synchronization: As long as the human it copies remains in the Jūto's realm, killing either the human or the Jūto would kill them both. If a human manages to escape the Juto realm however, this bond is broken and their duplicate becomes vulnerable. If a host has a sufficiently strong will, this can backfire and allow the host to pull Grand Theft Me on their own copied body - which Taro uses to reveal the location of the Forest of Slumbers.
- Takes One to Kill One: Jūto can harm each other (as demonstrated by the Cat and Crane's duel in #23) but cannot be harmed by outside forces unless the human they copy is returned to the human world or their opponent has the Ninjarksword.
- The Immune: #17 reveals that only some people are compatible to be Jūto. Tsubasa's girlfriend Natsumi was an ideal candidate. Those incompatible for the process can be put into a Forced Sleep, which (alongside Natsumi's disappearance) becomes the misunderstanding that pegs Tsubasa as a criminal.
- The Lost Woods: Their realm is a depressing, foggy forest where humans are hung from gnarly treetops like fruit for Juto to pluck their disguises from and unfortunate Anoni are sent to be hunted down.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Similar to the Anoni, the Jūto blend into human society by posing as their hosts.
- Vague Age: The Juto are artificial creatures that are highly-resistant to nearly all forms of harm. It isn't explained how long they live for. However, their ability to capture people and duplicate their forms links their lifespan to that of their hosts', who will eventually die of natural causes. If a copied host dies, its duplicator follows suit.
- Villain-Beating Artifact: Don Murasame/The Ninjarksword is able to bypass all defenses of the Juto and destroy them outright.
- Villain of Another Story: While they are mostly background threats, they also had a role to play in Tsubasa's past, essentially making them his Arch-Enemy, but even he doesn't know who they are. Taro ends up finding out who they are from Sonoi.
- Walking Spoiler: The Jūto are defined entirely by their connection to the Nōto and several of the Donbrothers.
- Weapon-Based Characterization:
- Swords: The Crane Jūto, being more refined and level-headed, use the Tsuru Saber.
- Wolverine Claws: The more feral Cat Jūto carry the "Neko Claw" gauntlets to slice their enemies up-close with.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: It's implied that only certain people can be copied by the Juto - It's the reason Natsumi was kidnapped while the rest of Tsubasa's troupe was only put in Forced Sleep - yet it's never explained what those requirements are. The Juto storyline eventually prioritizes Natsumi and Jiro anyway, making the other captives unimportant.
Cat Jūto
Portrayed by: Haruka Miwa, Yasuhiko Imai, Naoya Iguchi, Mutsumi Igarashi
The lowest-ranked Jūto at Rank B, also known as "the ones who roam free". They mostly act like wild savage beasts that could care less about obeying the chain of command nor hiding their true nature even when attempting to pretend to be their hosts.
"Kenji Sayama"
Portrayed by: Ryoji Sugimoto
A Cat Jūto who replaced the detective who had multiple run-ins with infamous felon Tsubasa Inuzuka, secretly Inu Brother of the Donbrothers.
For traits specific to the original Kenji as Keisatsu-Ki, see the Noto Layer page.
- Abandoned Warehouse: Runs Tsubasa into one in #29. Tsubasa is immediately possessed by the Ninjark Sword and scores a nasty slash against his cheek - angering him into running off.
- Amnesiac Resonance: His apparent method of "pretending" to be Kenji is to take his desire to arrest Tsubasa and turn it into a Single-Issue Wonk, often taking extreme measures to seek and take the latter down.
- Arch-Enemy: Kenji's Juto persona seems to be stalking Tsubasa almost specifically - cornering him a number of times. He in turn has had multiple run-ins with Miho/The Crane Juto.
- Came Back Wrong: Was one of the unfortunates replaced by a Juto in #9. When his co-workers inquire, he doesn't remember the trip at all.
- Cats Are Mean: Kenji has been replaced by a Cat-Strength Juto. Also ruined a ramen restaurant solely because he was hungry. After the carnage, he even lets out an exaggerated "Nyaaaaan~".
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Is thrashed by the Crane Juto in #23.
- Face–Monster Turn: Twice. His desires overwhelm him into the monstrous Keisatsu-Ki in #5, then he's replaced by the Juto as of #9.
- Hostage Situation: Supervises one in #5. Only, the "hostages" are the Donbrothers and aren't in any real danger.
- Jabba Table Manners: After being replaced by a Jūto, he's shown as a slovenly eater wherever he goes.
- Killed Off for Real: Gets destroyed by Tsubasa wielding the Ninjarksword, killing him (and his human counterpart by extension). Tsubasa is unaware of the greater implications until #44.
- Meddlesome Patrolman: Is one inadvertently, popping up whenever Tsubasa investigates Natsumi.
- Retirony: The man sitting on the bus next to him notes that Kenji's retirement is coming up. They're both taken away by the Juto a moment later.
- Satellite Character: Is practically the representative of the Juto, having the most appearances out of any of them.
- Slasher Smile: Sports a mean one upon seeing a weakened Inu Brother in #23. Then Miho's Crane Juto side awakens and promptly turns the smile into a frown.
- Suddenly Speaking: His Juto side gains a proper voice of its own after having uttered only one word from its debut to #30.
- Tantrum Throwing: After the bus-trip, the Juto impersonating Kenji has a fit in a ramen restaurant, eating all of their food and dunking the chef's face into scalding broth.
"Shizuka Hanamura"
Portrayed by: Mizuho Abe
A Cat Jūto impersonating the mother of Hitoshi Hanamura, Haruka's ex-boyfriend.
- Affably Evil: Zigzagged; despite being a Cat Juto, she's very friendly towards Haruka, even inviting her home and preparing lunch for her. However, the sukiyaki she cooks oddly lacks any meat, leading Haruka to believe that she herself is the meat.
- Red Herring: Her status as a Jūto is only brought up due to the Anōni blackmailing the Donbrothers into disposing the Jūto. With the blackmailers gone, Haruka has no more reasons for approaching "Shizuka" and promptly sneaks out.
"Tsubasa Inuzuka" (Unmarked spoilers)
Portrayed by: Toutaro (live), Kazuya Okada (suit)
A Cat Jūto impersonating Tsubasa Inuzuka.
For traits specific to the original Tsubasa as Inu Brother, see the team page.
- Amnesiac Resonance: In a similar way to "Natsumi" having a preference for hairstyling, he has a Single-Issue Wonk of cooking food and forcing it down on people. It's good enough to impress most of them despite the force-feeding, but it's a dip in quality as far as Taro is concerned which tips him off that something is wrong.
- Evil Doppelgänger: Of Tsubasa. When it's destroyed, Tsubasa declares that there only needs to be one of him.
- History Repeats: "Tsubasa" attacks the exact same restaurant "Kenji" did, aimlessly scarfing down its food and assaulting the very same chef - lampshaded by an exclamation of "Not again!" Only he takes it further by trying to run the place after.
- Irony: He's a Cat Jūto impersonating a dog-themed hero.
- Killed Off for Real: He gets defeated after the original Tsubasa escapes from the Forest of Slumbers and defeats him in a Single-Stroke Battle.
- Sacrificial Lamb: A rare villainous example. His death demonstrates a more humane method of killing a Jūto mentioned earlier in the same episode.
- Walking Spoiler: The events leading up to his appearance and exit are tied to critical information about the Jūto.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Only appears for one episode before the original Tsubasa finishes him off.
Crane Jūto
Rank A Jūto, also known as "the ones who weave stories". Considerably more calm and collected, they have the comprehension to create a separate identity from their Human Disguise, by means of becoming the "ideal version" of what their hosts dreamed of being. Miho Kijino (Unmarked spoilers)
Portrayed by: Momoko Arata (live), Suzuka Usami (stunt double, episode 44), Yuichi Hachisuka (suit)
A Crane Jūto bearing the likeness of Tsubasa's girlfriend Natsumi. She currently masquerades under a new identity who eventually married Tsuyoshi.
- 0% Approval Rating: She's hated by just about every other Juto in the show. She spends the show's second and third acts pursued by angry Cat Juto that attack her on sight. She's so deeply hated by the Cat types that when Taro and Tsubasa free the forest's captives, the Cats aren't rushing to the forest to defend it; they're giving Miho a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Affably Evil: Miho is at-least personable to Taro and tries her best to uphold The Masquerade, pitting her against the capricious Cat Juto in the process. She's also a serial manipulator that's effectively holding Tsubasa's girlfriend hostage and shows no empathy over playing both him and Tsuyoshi for saps.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Implied and Exploited. When she's confronted by Taro over the rift she caused between Tsuyoshi and Tsubasa, it's also indicated that "Miho" never reciprocated Tsuyoshi's love to begin with, and only sees him as a tool rather than an individual more than the latter seeing her as a possession.
- Ambiguous Situation: Tsuyoshi actively tries to keep her Locked Out of the Loop the fact that he is one of The Chosen Many forced to fight as a warrior, but it's not known if she knows despite this, given that she claimed it was The Power of Love that saved them from a road accident even though what really happened was Tsuyoshi using his Kiji Brother powers while she had her eyes closed. More ambiguity comes up when it is strongly implied that she is a Juto. This doesn't make it clear if she knows about her husband being a Donbrother. It also is a mystery whose side she is on, since she secretly saves Tsubasa from the sickness inflicted on him by another Juto and tips off Taro about how the Juto behave.
- Amnesiac Resonance: Despite being a separate personality from Natsumi, she retains Natsumi's skills and passion for hairstyling, albeit being able to properly pursue it as a career due to lacking the tendinitis Natsumi has.
- Arc Villain: She's the main antagonist of Tsuyoshi and Tsubasa's shared plotline. Her very existence is the cause of both men's personal struggles and she is not afraid to use them to her advantage.
- Asshole Victim: It's hard to feel bad for her given the amount of romantic chess she's been playing with Tsubasa and Tsuyoshi since the show's start and causing a rift within the Donbrothers. Getting ganged-up on and mauled to death by a horde of Juto is all the more satisfying.
- Contralto of Strength: As the Crane Juto, she is a scarily effective fighter, with her voice significantly deepening when she assumes said persona.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: She delivers one to the Cat Juto in #23 to protect Inu Brother, and is on the receiving end of one in #46.
- Expy:
- She's a decomposite of Maria, taking the traits of an antagonist who resembles a hero's love interest .
- Also of the Roxy Avatar, being an antagonist who assumes the form of hero's comatose love interest.
- Fairytale Motifs: While not obvious at first, she has the motif of The Crane's Wife, a story about a man falling in love with a woman who turned out to be a crane he had nursed back to health, a rather fitting tale for the Crane Juto.
- Hoist By Her Own Petard: Miho's callous interference in Tsuyoshi and Tsubasa's lives causes issues that both men are too preoccupied withnote to save her the one time she's in real danger.
- Hunting the Rogue: Downplayed. While the Juto never officially deem Miho a rogue, she's treated like one by the Cat-types after her foiling their attempt to use Haruka's aunt as leverage for Don Murasame. The rest of the show sees her periodically ambushed by Cat Juto packs. #46 takes this to an extreme after Taro foils Terasaki's plan and robs all Juto of their hosts en-masse. Rather than defend the Forest, they dog-pile Miho in a final act of defiance. She wins, but is mortally wounded during the brawl.
- Karmic Death: Her constant manipulation of Tsuyoshi and Tsubasa throughout the show ensures that the one time she actually needs them in her life, they're too busy dealing with the issues she caused to save her from a Cat Juto horde.
- Killed Off for Real: Miho succumbs to the wounds inflicted on her by the Cat Juto at the end of #46 and passes away, her corpse sailing into the Forest of Slumbers.
- Lack of Empathy: Discussed. While she takes the blame for manipulating Tsuyoshi and Tsubasa, she feels no sympathy and defers the issue to Taro instead of fixing the problem herself. Her inaction ensures that both men are too preoccupied with the issues brought on by her scheming to help her the one time she needs them.
- Lady Macbeth: She acts as one to Tsuyoshi. She manipulates Tsuyoshi and Tsubasa's emotions to form a rift between them (and the Donbrothers, by extension), being the main cause of Tsuyoshi's ever-spiraling mental state.
- Love-Interest Traitor: To Tsubasa and Tsuyoshi. The Crane has seized the appearance of Tsubasa's girlfriend and has married Tsuyoshi as the created identity "Miho." Tsubasa becomes suspicious after Spotting the Thread in #30 and appears to have regained his girlfriend at the end of #34, which puts him and the reactive Yandere Tsuyoshi at-odds - all attempts to articulate the mishap falling on deaf ears. The following episode reveals her change to have been an elaborate con to throw Tsubasa off, which gets him copied after a failed attempt to infiltrate the forest himself.
- Love Triangle: The cause of one. Tsuyoshi is happily married to his wife Miho, but Miho is a Juto that's stolen the appearance of Tsubasa's girlfriend Natsumi. When Tsubasa's investigating seemingly confirms the two are one and the same, the men find themselves at-odds over her.
- The Masquerade: The closest thing to a motive Miho has is maintaining the Juto's secrecy, which puts her afoul of the Cat-types when she busts up their attempts to strong-arm Don Murasame from the Donbrothers. This turns her into their Arch-Enemy from then on.
- Never My Fault: When Taro confronts her about the rift she created in the team by pretending to be both "Miho" and "Natsumi", she states he makes a fair point, but does nothing to resolve the problem herself and tells Taro to do it instead.
- Not-So-Small Role: Miho has a much bigger role in the story than just being a family member of the team who occasionally appears like Haruka's aunt, Yuriko.
- Spanner in the Works: Her reactionary slap to Taro's Juto copy in #46 is what allows Taro to hijack his duplicate and use it to reveal the forest's entrance.
- Token Heroic Orc: Is the only Juto on the side of good (or at least not hostile to the heroes), displaying some sort of concern for her kind and insistence on dealing with them herself.
- Two Aliases, One Character: The revelations by #17 highly implies that "Miho" is actually Natsumi, Tsubasa's girlfriend, under the possession of the Crane Juto. #30 reveals that the Juto only make copies of their victims for human forms - meaning Miho is using Natsumi's appearance, not her body. They are however linked and the death of one will also kill the other. However, whether or not her explanation was accurate or completely true comes into question in #34 since Natsumi awakens without any memory of being Miho. The events of #35 somewhat clear up the situation, however: "Miho" pretended to become "Natsumi" in order to throw Tsubasa off of her trail, though it ends up being a moot point as Tsubasa gets absorbed into the Jūto world and finds the real Natsumi there.
- Villain Respect: She expresses surprise and admiration for Taro, upon the latter successfully subduing the Juto at the Forest of Slumbers and freeing the captives.
- Walking Spoiler: It's hard to discuss Miho without bringing up her ties to Natsumi or her true identity.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Views the Juto this way; feeling the Juto are blameless for how they act and that they needn't be cut down.
Penguin Jūto
The strongest and highest-ranked Jūto at Rank S, also known as "the symbol of royalty". As such, they impersonate only members of the Don Clan and are tasked with being guardians of the Forest of Slumber. "Terasaki" (Unmarked spoilers)
Portrayed by: Ichizo
A Penguin Jūto taking the form of Don Clan member Terasaki, and the adoptive father of Jiro Momotani.
- Affably Evil: Despite his less-than-benevolent motives, he's a gracious host to Taro and Tsubasa, and is even genuinely happy at them being Jiro's friends.
- Anti-Villain: Not only is he an affable host, he also does care for Jiro in his own way and takes his duty of guarding the Forest of Slumbers seriously. That being said, his ulterior motive and his actions still mean he's a sympathetic villain at best.
- Arc Villain: He's the main antagonist of the Jūto storyline, being the one who ties everything together; the two-parter that reveals his true identity and his motivations are also the same ones that close out the arc.
- Broken Pedestal: To Jiro, once the latter finally learns the truth that Terasaki has been grooming him to be his successor as the guardian of the Forest of Slumbers.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Originally presented as simply Jiro's adoptive father, questions would eventually arise surrounding him and the village with his reappearance in the present.
- Copied the Morals, Too: The original Terasaki was a member of the Don Clan that deliberately allowed himself to be copied into a Penguin Juto to become functionally immortal. However, the Penguin inherited Terasaki's passion for protecting the forest and takes its duty as protector seriously. His Evil Plan reflects this, his goal being to convert Jiro into a Penguin that will inherit his position after his (and his template's) death.
- *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": He's been feeling his age for awhile and his body isn't as sturdy as it used to be, given that he's been inhabiting it for 100 years. He even asks Taro to rub his back and Tsubasa to rub his feet for him.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Terasaki was grooming Jiro to be his replacement Juto successor without the latter's knowledge. He also used his powers of illusion to conjure up a society's worth of friends for the boy to grow up with and is happy he's made real friends. He even sounds somewhat remorseful when forced to break the news to Jiro.
- Evil Counterpart: Terasaki raised Jiro in the same vein Jin did Taro...though he planned to turn the boy into a successor Juto guardian against his will unlike Jin, who encourages Taro (and his comrades) to help people with minimal input.
- Foil: Terasaki and Jin are both adoptive fathers to a member of the Don Clan and have little to no involvement with the plot due to their role in guarding the Jūto seal. When it comes to their past, Jin is a third party who is confined into a prison due to his relationship with Taro, while Terasaki is another member of the Don Clan that takes his role by choice. Jin is very cryptic when talking to the Donbrothers, while Terasaki is a gracious, very-forthcoming host to Taro and Tsubasa until Taro foils his plans to turn Jiro into his successor. Furthermore, while Jin doesn't show signs of age and reasons behind it is left unknown, Terasaki has lived 100 years and raised Jiro to be his successor due to his potential death by old age. Amusingly, both also show the tendency to reveal important information in exchange for favors: Jin is easily bribed with food while Terasaki gets chatty when physically tended to.
- Hero's Evil Predecessor: Invoked. Terasaki's plan was to become this to Jiro: Grooming him as the next guardian of the Forest of Slumbers before his natural death. Taro derails that plan by eating the origami himself and using his own Juto clone to invade the forest and free all of its captives in one shot.
- Master of Illusion: He conjures up an entire village to mold Jiro into being his successor.
- No Name Given: He was credited as simply "Policeman" in his first appearance, before the reveal of his name in #45.
- Pet the Dog: The illusionary friends Terasaki made for Jiro. He wanted Jiro to enjoy his life in the village despite his less-than-savory intentions for the boy. Notably, the illusions remain right up until Terasaki's final death, as if to allow Jiro to say goodbye.
- Supreme Chef: Turns out the vegetable stew that won Taro over in #38 was cooked by Jiro, using Terasaki’s advice.
- The Unfought: Terasaki never engages the heroes in direct combat and is destroyed when the origami linking him to his human host is severed by Taro's show of power.
- Walking Spoiler: Very little is known about him due to not having many appearances and information about the Penguin Jūto itself is very scarce, also that copying someone part of the Don Clan suddenly makes having the Don-Killer-Killer button start making sense.
- Your Days Are Numbered: With 100 years gone by and his human host being in his twilight years, Terasaki uses his remaining time to find a successor before he would eventually kick the bucket.
"Taro Momoi" (Unmarked spoilers)
Portrayed by: Kouhei Higuchi (live), Kosuke Asai (suit)
A Penguin Jūto impersonating Taro Momoi.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Miho's slapping the Juto disorients it enough for Taro to take it over and use it to infiltrate the Forest.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He speaks in a deep, guttural voice at first to distinguish him from the original Taro. After Miho slaps him, however, his personality gets overridden and he speaks in Taro's regular register.
- Unwitting Pawn: Taro uses the Penguin Jūto to show Tsubasa the entrance to the Forest. Once said task is done, Taro severs the link by spitting out the origami, forcing the vulnerable Jūto to flee in response.
