Characters / Dark Gathering Graduates

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Characters that appear in Dark Gathering. This page is for the graduates, Yayoi's Elite Mooks.

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General

From left to right(top row): The Courtesan, the High Priest, the Demon Sergeant and the Samurai

The most powerful ghosts in Yayoi's arsenal. Yayoi compares the normal ghosts in her room to students in learning, while these ghosts are those that "graduated" from her room by gaining enough power that they can't be stored inside her room anymore.

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• Bloody Horror: When they're unsealed, their dolls usually start releasing huge amount of blood to signal their arrival.
• Cannibalism Superpower: They gained their current power by consuming every other ghost in Yayoi's room.
• Elite Mooks: Yayoi's elite forces.
• Enemy Mine: They usually fight the ghost Yayoi is facing first because they're a bigger threat, while Yayoi assists them if needed.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Yayoi doesn't bother asking their real names and refer to them by titles that describes what they are.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: The eyes of their dolls start glowing when they are released.
• Godzilla Threshold: Highly dangerous ghosts who might bring harm to Yayoi and her team even by accident. They are powerful enough to ignore the substitute dolls and harm Yayoi directly, and most of them want to escape her control, and would attack her if they had the chance. Thus, they can only be used against enemies that she can't defeat by herself.
• Invocation: When Yayoi releases them, she gives a command followed by saying their title, in a way very reminiscent of Bleach.
• Leaking Can of Evil: Before Yayoi obtained the means to place a fourth seal, their powers were leaking from their dolls and could harm the people around them.
• Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom: Yayoi gave them long fancy titles that describes their abilities and identity.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Each of them have powers that can kill hundreds if they are let loose in a populated area.
• Punch-Clock Hero: They are helping Yayoi mainly because she's not really leaving them a choice and treats them as weapons. The Courtesan is openly hostile and would attack Yayoi if Old I Watergate ghost didn't annoy her more.
• Red Baron: Yayoi gives the graduates elaborate and fanciful titles based on their powers.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Require four layers of seals just to prevent their powers from hurting others around them.

The High Priest

High Priest of the Evil Sutra

Voiced by: Hironori Miyata (Japanese), Josh Morrison (English)

A spirit that was born after the ghosts in Yayoi's room cannibalized each other. The High Priest can recite a sutra that sends all those that listens to it to hell. Those who have heard the sutra, before dying, can be made to recite the sutra by the High Priest, so even finding a way to stop him from speaking won't stop the sutra.

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• Awesome, but Impractical: Yayoi rarely uses him because he can be easily killed by enemies that would attack aggressively rather than slowly torture their victims.
• Bald of Evil: He has no hair on his head and is quite evil.
• Black Speech: His sutra is indecipherable and can drag people to hell.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: He always has a large smile on his face showing all his teeth.
• Crippling Overspecialization: While his sutra is powerful, its also his only means of attack, meaning that if the opponent finds a way to overcome it he's defenseless.
• Dragged Off to Hell: Whoever listens to the sutra for a few seconds will have their souls dragged to hell by black hands that extends from the ground.
• Evil Phone: He can make a phone recite the sutra, though the owner has to pick up first.
• Glass Cannon: His sutra can kill enemies by the hundreds, but he has zero means of defending himself.
• Hell Is That Noise: An evil sutra that caused all those who listened to it to have their souls dragged to hell.
• Losing Your Head: Getting decapitated does nothing to stop him from continuing to recite his sutra.
• Next Tier Power-Up: His power strengthened considerably when he ate his fellow ghosts
• Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: So far only direct attacks to his brain damaged him, while being decapitated did nothing to faze him.
• Sinister Minister: Yayoi calls him a Dai-sojo, the highest rank for a member of the Japanese Buddhist clergy. Unlike normal monks, who recite souls for the dead to allow them to pass on, his sutra sends people to hell.
• Sole Survivor: The only one who survived the mass cannibalism in Yayoi's room, though there is another survivor who escaped the room beforehand.
• Speak in Unison: Can force any being that heard his sutra to recite it as well.

The Demon Sergeant

The Imprisoned Demon Sergeant who Died for his Country

Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese), Heath Morrow (English)

A ghost of a soldier that fought in WW2. He had such resilience that people considered him immortal, and was a famous soldier who killed hundred of enemies. After the war ended, he lived the rest of his life peacefully. After death, however, his soul reverted back to his appearance when he was a soldier. The ghosts of hundreds of enemy soldiers that he killed was clinging on to him and prevented him from passing on, biting and clawing at him constantly, but due to his regenerative abilities he just heals from it. The soldiers also attacked anybody nearby, be it ghosts or human. The Demon Sergeant suffered from his torment and the danger he brought to innocents that he begged for death. He made a deal with Yayoi where he will assists her, and in exchange she will help him pass on.

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• Blessed with Suck: His ghost form is able to regenerate, which means rather than being eaten and pass on, he will suffer from his enemies tormenting him endlessly.
• Bungled Suicide: He tries killing himself along with his enemy by using a grenade at point blank range. He still fails to die after doing this.
• Cavalry of the Dead: They aren't really an organized force, but the soldier ghosts will attack other ghosts to quench their thirst.
• Commissar Cap: He wears the clothes from his days as a soldier, including a military cap.
• Covered with Scars: He's covered with the scars he got from all the battles he survived.
• Death Seeker: He deliberately provokes enemy ghosts to make them kill him.
• Fate Worse than Death: He's already dead, but is imprisoned in the mortal world as the ghosts of his enemies cling on to him and torment him, while also harming innocent people around him.
• Geo Effects: Invokes this. When he is summoned, a formation is created on the ground. Anybody in this formation will suffer from the fatigue, starvation and injuries that the Demon Sergeant experienced in WW2.
• Geometric Magic: A giant eye symbol is formed on the ground that projects his powers.
• Healing Factor: Recovered really fast during his time at war, and as a ghost he can easily heal from being dismembered and eaten.
• Horror Hunger: The soldiers are horribly thirsty and will attack anyone for water.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: Due to his own healing abilities, he can't kill himself.
• Immortality Field: A downplayed example. Anybody in the formation he creates can't die, but won't heal from injuries and constantly suffer from pain and starvation.
• Immortality Hurts: The Demon Sergeant and all those caught in his formation will suffer from this.
• Kill It Through Its Stomach: Was eaten by the spirit of the old F tunnel, then proceeded to tear his way out.
• The Man Behind the Man: It's implied that the true ghosts responsible for the Demon Sergeant's fate isn't the enemy soldiers, but his dead allies who are possessing him to stay in existence.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's based on the historical Japanese soldier, Hiroshi Funasaka.
• No Shirt, Long Jacket: He wears his trench coat open with no shirt underneath, showing off his muscular and scarred torso.
• Nothing but Skin and Bones: Eventually anybody inside his formation will become this.
• One-Man Army: Even before his death, he was a famous soldier who killed hundreds of enemies.
• People Puppet: He is bounded by strings from his formation that forces him to fight.
• Reluctant Warrior: Not because of pacifism, but because he really wants to die.
• Rule of Symbolism: When he is summoned, a symbol of a giant eye with the Japanese flag made of blood appears on the ground, making the Sergeant fight by controlling him with literal strings, which seems like a jab at WW2 Japan's nationalism and how they forced their soldiers to fight to the death.
• Token Good Teammate: Of the known Graduates so far, the Sergeant is the least malicious of the lot towards humans, actually gets along well with Yayoi, and even willingly agreed to fight for her until the day she can help him pass on. He also refuses to harm opponents if they're female or if they're young, which Yayoi respects. What makes him dangerous are the demon soldiers who appear with him as they don't have his same scruples, and even then, that's not even his fault either.
• Unfriendly Fire: The formation expands outward as its powers strengthens, and anybody caught in it will be effected, friend or foe.
• Vampiric Draining: The soldiers clinging on to him can suck water out of people they bite.
• Willfully Weak: The Demon Sergeant's ability was supposed to weaken himself so that he could be killed, but it ended up being projected to anyone within the formation on the ground.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Yayoi cannot send him out against female opponents because he goes easy on women.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: He won't hurt children.

Otogiri

Otogiri, the Soul Sucking Oiran

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (Japanese), Christina Kelly (English)

A ghost that was possessing a mirror that absorbed life energy from those that used it. Yayoi bought it after hearing the rumors and placed it in her room, where it then proceeded to eat all the ghosts inside to become a graduate. When she was alive, she was a prostitute, given the name Otogiri. She eventually became an Oiran and was set be bought by a lord, but a courtesan serving under her named Kurenai poisoned his drink and framed Otogiri for it. The lord survived and beat Otogiri until she was disfigured. She was thrown out by the brothel, where her declining health caused her syphilis to progress to later stages. She used up her savings on mercury, believing it would cure her, but to no avail. Eventually Kurenai came and mocked her, telling Otogiri that the lord has bought her instead and showed Otogiri her disfigured face with the mirror that the latter gave to her as a present. Overcame with hatred, Otogiri burned the brothel, Kurenai and herself down.

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• Angst Nuke: Should she be shown her damaged face in a mirror, she will go berserk, set herself on fire and stop at nothing until she can gain the energy to fix it.
• Animal Motifs: She always appears surrounded by butterflies.
• Been There, Shaped History: She started the fire that burned Yoshiwara to the ground in the early 20th century.
• Berserk Button:
  • She gets pissed when Keitarou calls her a "cheap woman". She was an Oiran, who would be offered huge amounts of money for her services, but had to sell herself for a pittance when she was thrown out.
  • Damaging her face in any way and showing her her own reflection in that state causes her to set everything around her on fire.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: She has eyes with black sclerae.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: In spite of her great power, she rarely fights at full strength.
• Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Her spirit butterflies who suck the life energy of those they touch and give it to Otogiri, which heals her. They also make the victim suffer from symptoms of late stage syphilis. If necessary, she can ignite them, which sucks life energy at a faster rate and generate more butterflies.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She sold herself into prostitution, her lover believed she tried to kill him, was betrayed by her disciple, her beauty that she was proud of was beaten into disfigurement and ravaged by syphilis, and was thrown onto the streets and treated as trash when previously she lived in luxury as the top Oiran.
• Defiant to the End: Before she's resealed, she swears she'll escape from Yayoi's control one day and then she'll burn her and all her loved ones alive.
• Eye Scream: During the battle at the Old I Watergate, her eyes are sliced, causing her to lose control of her butterflies. By the time she recovers, she had been sealed away.
• Facial Horror: Her injuries from the lord and the sores from syphilis ruined her face. Then, she killed herself in a fire, resulting in her skin melting. Her face goes back to its half-melted state when a ghost injures her.
• Femme Fatalons: She's a vicious, life-sucking ghost woman with very long and sharp fingernails.
• Fiery Sensuality: She's a beautiful courtesan that can produce fire with her butterflies.
• Frame-Up: Was framed by Kurenai for poisoning the lord set to buy her.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: When she became a ghost, she wasn't that much different from most of the other spirits Yayoi usually captures, but after devouring the other ghosts in Yayoi's then current collection, Otogiri ended up becoming one of the most dangerous Graduates in her employ.
• Glass Cannon: While she has great offensive powers, her body is relatively defenseless, which nearly caused her defeat.
• Godiva Hair: When she takes Eiko's appearance, she reveals her breasts to seduce Keitarou, but her braids cover the nipples.
• Good Girl Gone Bad: She used to be a beautiful and kindhearted woman who sold herself into prostitution to feed her family. Then she was dumped and beaten by her lover after her jealous disciple poisoned him and framed her to ruin her. Her face was horribly disfigured by syphilis and her disciple kicked her while she was down by revealing she took everything from her out of pettiness. Otogiri took her revenge by setting herself and her disciple on fire. Now, she's one of the most malicious and murderous of Yayoi's ghosts.
• Happy Dance: She does one after winning, but it was actually fake to lead Yayoi into believing she was letting her guard down.
• Heal It With Fire: The fire her butterflies produce heals her.
• High-Class Call Girl: She was a top ranking courtesan in her life before death. A man was willing to pay the equivalent of 250 million yen to buy her freedom.
• High-Class Fan: She appears as she did back when she was a courtesan; a beautiful woman in a fancy kimono and holding a fan in her hand.
• Life Drinker: When she sucks away someone's life energy, they start aging rapidly.
• Master of Illusion: She can create an illusion that nearly tricked Keitarou even when sealed.
• Murder-Suicide: She killed Kurenai, the brothel that threw her out and herself, because she had nothing else to live for beyond revenge.
• Pet the Dog: Despite being a sadistic ghost, she's genuinely courteous towards the Demon Sergeant and treats him as if he were an old friend of hers.
• Plague Master: Her butterflies can inflict the symptoms of late stage syphilis.
• Playing with Fire: She can ignite her butterflies to set her opponent on fire, as well as a fiery ring around them to prevent them from escaping.
• Self-Immolation: She has to set herself on fire first to use her fire abilities.
• Shapeshifting Seducer: She tries to seduce Keitarou by pretending to be a topless Eiko to get him to unseal her. It doesn't work because he knows Eiko wouldn't act that way.
• The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female ghost of the Graduates.
• Squishy Wizard: She fights with fire, curses and illusions, but can barely take a hit.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: By using the mirror Otogiri was possessing and showing her disfigured face, she will screech in anger and start fighting at her full power.
• Vain Sorceress: She uses her butterflies to absorb others' life energy and regain the beauty she had before her death.
• The Vamp: She attempts to seduce Keitarou, taking the form of his girlfriend Eiko, to trick him into breaking her seal. It doesn't work.
• Vampiric Draining: Her butterflies drains the life force of anybody they touch, making them old and whitered.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Originally a kindhearted woman who genuinely treated Kurenai well and only sold herself for her family, and was also in love with the lord who wanted to buy her. Being thrown away like dirt and treated like a criminal, knowing that it was her disciple who betrayed her caused her to simply want to kill anyone she sees.
• Would Hurt a Child: Showed no hesitation in sadistically fighting against a child ghost as an enemy. She also shows no problem with wanting to harm Yayoi, who is also a child albeit a dangerous and competent one.

The Spirit in a Transitional Period

The Spirit in a Transitional Period

Voiced by: Hōchū Ōtsuka (Japanese), Cyrus Rodas (English)

^{Transitional form}

One of the only survivors of Yayoi's room after the attack by the unnamed Kami. As a result, the only ghost Yayoi can bring around for self-defense besides the graduates, and helps fight against weaker ghosts. Has since changed into a new form after consuming multiple ghosts.

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• Ascended Extra: He starts out as yet another nameless ghost in Yayoi's arsenal, but after defeating several enemy ghosts out on the field he's promoted to a proper graduate.
• The Berserker: Attacks like an animal against enemy ghosts.
• The Big Guy: In terms of size, he's the biggest one in Yayoi's arsenal, but is far from the strongest. Regularly assists in fighting weaker ghosts.
• Eating the Enemy: His primary way of attacking is by devouring the enemy ghosts.
• Flying Face: He can still fight easily even with only his head remaining.
• Ghost Amnesia: Yayoi implies that he lost his memories in chapter 22. He has since regained parts of his memories, but not enough to remember his identity.
• Gravity Master: He gained the power to project an arrow that sucks in his opponent, then crush them with intense weight. It's not actual gravity, but the weight of negative feelings from thousands of souls.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Only has the top half of his body.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Even when he only had half his body he was much larger than Yayoi, and in his evolved form Yayoi is smaller than his arms.
• Manly Facial Hair: His evolved form grows an unkempt beard.
• Megaton Punch: After he evolved, his physical abilities increased to the point that he can throw a punch strong enough that the resulting air pressure acted like a Hand Blast.
• No Name Given: The one time his name was shown was obscured out. The anime heavily implies his true identity is Taira no Masakado.
• The Reliable One: He frequently attacks the ghost on his own accord to protect Yayoi, and has saved Keitarou and Eiko several times.
• Requisite Royal Regalia: His new form wears a elaborate Sokutai, clothes worn by Japanese aristocrats, covered in chrysanthemum symbols, the symbol of the Japanese emperor.
• Roar Before Beating: He seems to roar loudly every time he attacks after evolving. When he uses his curse, the louder he roared, the stronger it became.
• Skull for a Head: The only thing left of his head is his skull.
• The Speechless: It may be because he doesn't have lips, but he never speaks. After he evolved, he speaks sparingly, requesting Yayoi for another chance to battle.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Can extract an arrow from a wound on his head.
• Troubled Backstory Flashback: His arrow shows him a memory of two children crying for his help, which drives him so mad that his roar started shaking the cave he was in.

S-Ranked Ghosts

Ghosts that haunted various infamous locations in Japan, and assessed by Yayoi to be more dangerous than regular ghosts. After losing a majority of her collected ghosts, Yayoi decided to start hunting them to replenish her army with stronger ghosts.

Child of a Thousand Souls who Cut Their Necks

Child of a Thousand Souls who Cut Their Necks

Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese), Katelyn Barr (English)

^{True form}

The spirit haunting H castle ruins. During the Azuchi-Momoyama period, a castle was under siege by an enemy army. With the men away fighting a battle elsewhere, the women decided to kill themselves rather than surrender, to prevent being slaughtered and be put on display to damage the men's morale. They stabbed their throats and threw their bodies over a waterfall, which stained the river red for three days and nights. While most of them passed on, a single woman decides to stay behind and, using powers gained from absorbing the mountain's energy, recreate their deaths so that they wouldn't be forgotten by history. A cursed object was placed in the waterfall which made her go berserk and start killing people. Based on the real life Hachioji castle ruins.

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• Better to Die than Be Killed: She represents the souls of the women and children that rather than being killed by their enemies and be displayed to their family, they killed themselves and threw their bodies down the waterfall to not be found.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: She was filled with hatred by a cursed arm being placed in the waterfall of the H castle ruins.
• The Corruption: She was made evil by a cursed arm.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Her floating arms allows her to attack her enemies from afar for numerous angles at frightening numbers, but lacks the firepower to end a fight against ghosts that are strong enough to withstand it.
• Cute Ghost Girl: When she isn't a Flying Face, she appears as a pretty cute young girl despite being a ghost.
• Death of a Thousand Cuts: She can do this by attacking with a great number of floating arms.
• Defeat Means Friendship: After her defeat, she feels indebted to Yayoi for freeing her from the curse that turned her into an evil spirit. She will teleport herself to help Yayoi when she needs it, while Yayoi gives blessed sake to her as an offering.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She's a ghost girl with long black hair and pure white skin.
• Ethereal White Dress: Her true form appears as a girl wearing a pure white Kosode, as that's the traditional clothing for the deceased in Japan.
• Evil Makes You Monstrous: Her body was nude, shriveled and had a inflated stomach from all the victims she's eaten, but once she becomes good, it's a normal headless body covered in a kimono surrounded by lotuses.
• Floating Limbs: She can create hundreds of floating arms to restrain or attack the enemy.
• Flying Face: When she uses her powers, her body projects itself over the surrounding area, leaving behind her head.
• Friendly Ghost: Before being made evil, she was a peaceful and relatively harmless spirit, beyond showing people a rather traumatic scene of mass suicide. After Yayoi removes the cursed object, she volunteers her help to Yayoi to repay her.
• Just Whistle: She gives Yayoi a silk belt to summon her if she needs her help.
• No Body Left Behind: The spirit of H castle ruins holds on to the bodies of her victims, leading to them being reported missing instead of killed.
• One-Man Army: A literal case. She splits her soul to create clones of her dead comrades, who can fight for her.
• Place of Power: The mountain the ruins are located in, which gave her power to sustain herself without eating other ghosts.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has blood red eyes and is introduced as a murderous spirit, but then it's subverted when it turns out she was being controlled. After Yayoi removes the item that was making her act violently, she's one of the most benevolent ghosts in the series.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Tried escaping into the forest to wait out the curse of the High Priest, which nearly worked if not for Keitarou's spirit sense tracking her down.
• Token Good Teammate: Unlike most of Yayoi's S-Ranked ghosts, she isn't naturally murderous or violent. She was only dangerous in her first appearance because a cursed arm turned her evil. Once the arm is removed from her haunting place, she's the most willingly helpful and peaceful of Yayoi's ghosts.
• Touch of Death: A downplayed example. Anything touched by her hands receives a cutting wound which slowly cuts into the target until it splits apart.
• Unwilling Suspension: Once she cuts her victims neck, the victim will be pulled into the sky and suspended in the sky where one can barely see them, then are kept there until their necks are sliced off.

The Rapacious Bleached Head

The Rapacious Bleached Head

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Japanese), John Swasey (English)

The ghost that haunts the old F tunnel. The tunnel became haunted after a family that owned a teahouse nearby was slaughtered by a robber with an axe, though it's unknown how he is related to that incident. A cruel sadistic serial killer, he tortures his victims and rips of their face to use as a mask. A few of his victims became vengeful ghosts that resented their fate so much they help him capture new victims. He resides in the previous old F tunnel, which is sealed off, along with the ghost of his victims. Based on the old Fukiage tunnel in Ome, Tokyo.

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• Ax-Crazy: A bloodthirsty killer who brutally tortures his victims to death with sadistic glee. Also uses an actual axe for combat.
• Berserk Button: Damaging his mask. The moment his mask was damaged, he stopped immediately to repair it, roaring in anger once he was done.
• Blood Knight: He has zero reason for killing beyond pure bloodlust. When Yayoi offers him a choice between being eaten or servitude, his first question is whether or not he gets to keep killing if he serves her.
• Bloody Handprint: The entrance of his tunnel is filled with them.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: He's an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer that enjoys to brutally kill his victims with an axe.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He was handed one by the Demon Sergeant, who wasn't even fighting seriously.
• Eating the Enemy: His biggest mistake, as the Demon Sergeant just tears through his stomach.
• Eye Scream: Tried this on Keitarou, and succeeded on one of his previous victim.
• Genuine Human Hide: He skins his victims for a mask.
• Human Head on the Wall: Only their faces, but is enough to fill the walls of his tunnel.
• Place of Power: The area surrounding the tunnels, where spirit energy gathers.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He backs out of his deal with Shuten Douji and betrays him by devouring him, saying that while they're both Ax-Crazy murderers, he hates that Shuten Douji goes for a brutal but quick kill on his targets because this doesn't align well with Rapacious Bleached Head's love for inflicting gruesome torture and a slow, painful death on his victims.
• Rubber Man: Can twist his body in unnatural ways to propel himself like a spring, or stretch his body to ensnare foes.
• Sadist: Puts his victims through inhumane torture, then kill them slowly as he enjoys them begging to be spared.
• Serial Killer: He has killed a lot of people that became his ghost prisoners in the tunnel.
• Serial Killings, Specific Target: In spite of Keitarou's ability to attract ghosts, he chooses Eiko as his target. A majority of his victims seem to women, though he isn't against killing men.
• Slave Collar: Keeps one of his victims like a pet, with an intestine as her chain.
• Unnaturally Looping Location: The old F tunnel. Leave from one end and you just end up going back in.
• Wall Crawl: Can crawl on walls by digging his fingers into it.

Black Asura of the Eclipse

Black Asura of the Eclipse

Voiced by: Aoba Oda (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)

The spirit haunting the old I Watergate. He was a normal boy who lived happily with his father. That changed when he got remarried. His stepmother abused him constantly, while he kept quiet about it to avoid ruining her relationship with his father. She also had an affair with another man, who eventually killed his father when the latter discovered him. To dispose of the corpse, they turned his father's body into meatballs and told the boy to dispose of it. Due to the stepmother starving him, he ate the meatballs, not knowing it was from his father's corpse. Eventually the stepmother killed the man in an argument, while the boy escaped to the watergate. He was caught and murdered by the stepmother, and as his ghost saw his body get turned into meatballs, he understood what he ate. He killed his stepmother in anger, but his hatred was so intense that he began to see everybody around him as her, and started killing indiscriminately. Based on the real life location, the old Iwabuchi watergate.

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• Antagonist Abilities: He has the means to explode people from any distance by drawing them on his artbook, illusion abilities, ghost mooks, multiple extendable arms and a Super Mode, which is the most number of abilities a ghost has shown at once.
• Ax-Crazy: He sees everyone as his stepmother, who he wants to brutally kill.
• Broken Tears: When he was defeated, he was driven to tears that he couldn't avenge his father since he believed it was his stepmother that defeated him.
• Combat Tentacles: He has multiple extendable arms that he uses to grab people.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Was beaten, starved, forced to stay outside in the cold, saw his father get killed, then accidentally ate him, and then was killed himself. It would be amazing if he didn't turned evil.
• Death from Above: Can summon rain that destroys flesh.
• Destroy the Villain's Weapon: Yayoi had to get rid of his artbook first before they could win.
• Enfant Terrible: He's the ghost of a little boy that sees everyone as the stepmother who killed him, driving him to kill in brutal ways.
• Extreme Doormat: When he was alive, he quietly endured the abuse and neglect from his stepmother because he didn't want to upset his father.
• Familial Cannibalism Surprise: When he was alive, he ate meatballs that his stepmother told him to throw away, unaware that those meatballs were made of his murdered father. After he was killed by his stepmother and she made his body into meatballs as well, he was horrified to discover he ate his own father.
• Harmful to Minors: When he was alive, his stepmother locked him in the balcony where he froze and starved as she brought over her lover and made the boy watch her having sex from the balcony. One day, he watched his father getting killed by the stepmother's lover, although the little boy didn't fully understand what happened until after his stepmother killed him too.
• Hates Their Parent: He hates his stepmother, who was responsible for the murder of his father and him. He will stop at nothing to kill her, even if its hallucinations of her.
• Home Field Advantage: He can manipulate the water level at the watergate to drown his enemies.
• Horror Hunger: A part of the reason why he hallucinates, which made him turn his victims into meatballs to eat.
• I'm a Humanitarian: He can turn the flesh he rips off into meatballs to eat.
• Master of Illusion: Created an image of himself to trick Yayoi into thinking he was alive by manipulating the light reflecting off the water.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has the ability to create a large number of arms that he uses to restrain and choke his targets. He can also wrap the arms around his body creating a pitch black suit of armor with four large limbs that are durable and quick. Anything grasped by those limbs are converted into meatballs.
• Murder Into Malevolence: He was brutally stabbed to death by his evil stepmother. After becoming a ghost, he sees everyone as his stepmother and this drives him to kill indiscriminately until Yayoi captures him and comes up with a method to let him know who isn't his enemy through scent.
• Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: His main power is a cursed sketchbook, by drawing a person in it and scribbling over their body, he can cause their chest to burst converting the flesh and energy into meatballs that appear in the piece of tupperware he carries around, eating the meatballs increases his power.
• Reality-Writing Book: His artbook allows him to kill people from afar by drawing his target and making them explode.
• Signature Scent: As he cannot differentiate friend from foe due to his hallucinations, Yayoi uses perfume on herself and others so that he know who he shouldn't attack.
• Stronger Than They Look: Despite being a child, he is the strongest ghost amongst the S rank ghosts so far.
• Super Mode: If he loses the artbook, he can turn into a combat form where he can shoot out his giant extendable arms with great force, as well as greatly increase his physical strength. Goes even further as it shows he has six levels of power ups to access, two created after being advised by Yayoi.
  • His base form can make illusions through manipulating light reflecting off water, as well altering the image on his artbook. He looks the same as he was when alive.
  • His second form allows him to kill anyone by instantly drawing anyone he sees on his notebook and explode them, turning them into meatballs that powers him up, manipulate water levels, summon mooks and extendable ghost arms.
  • His third form hardens the ghost arms and wrap them around his body for armor, while creating giant claws that turns any damage they cause into meatballs.
  • His fourth form hardens his armor further and beefs up his claws, as well as greatly increasing his physical strength.
  • His fifth form hardens his armor to the point that even Otogiri's energy absorption barely dents it.
  • His sixth form is concentrating his ghost arms exclusively for defense, creating a barrier that floats in the sky, while he focuses on killing people with his artbook. It also acts as a cocoon as he stores up energy for his final form.
  • His final form is a powered up version of his fifth form. In addition to durability, its more ductile, and anything touched by the claws will explode. In addition, he can create rain over the area, which are miniature versions of his curse that destroys beings they touch. Finally, a decoy is planted inside the armor, while the actual body hides in the water from the rain, piloting the armor remotely and can ambush enemies when they let their guard down.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Yayoi sympathizes him for his horrible experiences, promising that if he only attacks evil ghosts she will keep him well fed.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: He can only see other people as his stepmother, which drives him insane with rage.
• Troubled Child: Considering he was beaten, starved and force to stay outside in the cold, as well him and his father dying and the cannibalism on top of that, his anger is pretty justifiable.
• Undead Barefooter: When he reveals himself as a ghost, he appears barefoot.
• Undead Child: A ghost child that looks to be in elementary school age.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He was a nice boy that loved his father so much he wouldn't speak up of his abuse so that his father wouldn't be upset. After his stepmother killed his father and him to then turn them into meatballs, he wants to turn his mother into meatballs too, but he's so broken and insane that he sees everyone as his stepmother.
• Vengeful Ghost: Because he sees everyone as the stepmother who killed him and his father, he kills indiscriminately, believing he is killing her.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: His hatred was so intense that even killing his stepmother wasn't enough, and started to see everyone as her, which made him kill anyone who went near him.
• You Killed My Father: His Wicked Stepmother and her lover murdered his father before she murdered him. After death, he sees everyone as his stepmother and that drives him to kill.

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