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Kengan Annihilation Tournament Roster
In General
- Blood Knight: Most of them are all here not just to represent their company but also to enjoy a good fight with each other.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A lot of these guys are decidedly odd, fighting ability aside. Each in their own way, some more than others, and even the more serious, stone-faced fighters have some odd quirks and mentalities that show either in-story or in omakes.
- Carnival of Killers: Quite a number of them are killers of different sorts; consisting of renowned assassins (Inaba, Raian, Rei, and Kuroki), mercenaries (Muteba, Ren), flat-out murderers (Kiryu, Akoya, Meguro, Bando), and Hajime Hanafusa, and they have all gathered to win the tournament.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: The story lacks any true supernatural elements and their abilities are based on martial arts and physiology in real life. That said, they still push these skills way past what actual humans can do. Most of the most outright ridiculous traits are acknowledged as incredibly rare mutations, and any kind of Super Mode the human body can produce is usually an insane risk to the person using it's health.
- Combat Commentator: Most of them every now and then (usually Wakatsuki, Muteba, Sekibayashi, Himuro, Okubo, and/or Kaneda), in particular when a move related to their own fighting styles or expertise is being used.
- Ensemble Cast: While Ohma and Kazuo are the main characters, a huge chunk of the story starting at the tournament is dedicated to developing each individual fighters' backstory, motivations, abilities, and personalities.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The fighters come from such a diverse background with wildly different motivations that getting them to work together potentially leads to problems. Come the Kengan Association vs. Purgatory Tournament, the assembled team are at each other's throats, unable or unwilling to strategize against the opposing team.
Other Fighters
Koji Kaburagi - Koyama Mart, Inc.
Medicine Man
Age: 45
Fighter for Koyama Mart, Inc. who was Ohma's second opponent in the Kengan Matches.
- Acrofatic: Downplayed. He has an overweight-looking face, but while has a bit of a gut, he's also very well-built underneath his clothes and just looks a lot fatter than he is. It's also downplayed because he's not a particularly good fighter without his cheating.
- Big Damn Heroes: He plays a vital role in preventing Hayami's coup by infiltrating his side and rescuing the hostages that the latter took during the coup by beating the crap out of the guardians watching over them and setting them free.
- Combat Pragmatist: Always fights dirty, and is rarely caught.
- Determined Defeatist: He doesn't really aim to win, but that doesn't mean he makes the "victories" of his opponents easy.
- Fat and Skinny: With Hassad.
- Good All Along: His generally despicable behavior initially makes him seem like a cheating scumbag trying to make an easy living in the Kengan matches, but his infiltration of Ganryu Island turns out to be one of Nogi's machinations, and his actions are vital in taking down Hayami.
- Go for the Eye: Puts poison on his fists to blind his opponents.
- Gonk: Downplayed. He looks entirely normal, with no outright deformity or odd proportion, but... he's still not very attractive, to say the least. He has a large gut, bulbous nose, hair shorn near to baldness, and he overall looks like he is mid-to-late 40s.
- Hidden Weapons: His specialty, including a needle in the skin on his wrist he uses to finish off his blinded opponents.
- Improbable Weapon User: Uses his own dislodged teeth as projectiles after Ohma hits him in the mouth.
- Odd Friendship: He fishes Hassad out of the ocean after the Bodyguard Yodoe trashes him, whereupon they work in secret to prevent Hayami's coup. Kaburagi even mentions that he really wasn't expecting them to get along so well, and Hassad later introduces him to King Rama XIII of Thailand as a friend.
- The Mole: While it seems he's been hired as Hayami's henchman to kidnap the CEO's allied with him if their fighters lose so that they can be used as hostages, He's actually on Nogi's payroll to prevent Hayami from doing exactly that.
- Sonic Stunner: The Mosquito. He uses a high-frequency sound that can only be heard by young people to stun and distract his opponents.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: Despite being Ohma's second fight and making several appearances afterwards, he completely vanishes after Hayami's defeat.
- The Bus Came Back: After disappearing for almost 300 chapters, he makes his reappearance as part of a group tracking down Xia Ji and other Worms while the Association is on high alert.
Toshio Ozu - Koyo Academy Group
The Intelligent Barbarian
An affiliated fighter of the Koyo Academy Group with a record of 11 wins and no losses, as well as the Associate Professor of English Literature at the Koyo Women's University. He was tasked with an examination program for potential fighters in the Kengan matches. He single-handedly defeated all 35 applicants, but then he himself was horribly curb-stomped by Setsuna Kiryu.
- The Cameo: Makes a few appearances in How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? as the writer of a training book and the instructor in the included DVD that the girls use.
- Cultured Badass: He's a professor of English Literature and a Kengan fighter as well.
- Genius Bruiser: In addition to being an 11-0 Kengan fighter, he's also the Associate Professor of English Literature in Koyo Academy.
- Gonk: Even putting aside the giant unyielding grin he has, he's drawn with glossier skin then other characters and his eyes are tiny in comparison to the rest of his face.
- Hidden Depths: Matsuda was both surprised and disturbed that who she knew to be a seemingly gentle English professor was a Kengan fighter. Apparently, he's fussy about his public image.
- Neck Snap: A 180 degree neck snap.
- Perpetual Smiler: A decidedly creepy example.
- Unexplained Recovery: You'd assume him to be dead after the Neck Snap he received from Setsuna, but his appearance in How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? reveals that he actually survived when he recounts the event as a very tough battle.
Jerry Tyson - 22th FAX Corporation
Rocket Man
Voiced by: Richard Epcar, Imari Williams (English)
Age: 37
Fighter for 22th FAX Corporation. He fought Ohma in the preliminaries of the Annihilation Tournament and was knocked out, but stuck around to spectate. By Omega he has retired from fighting after a string of losses and become a Kengan Association official.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: Despite his eccentricism, he ends up calling the winner of the Annihilation Tournament by internally expressing that no one could beat Gensai Kuroki after seeing him effortlessly parry Kiryu's attacks without even moving his stanced up foot.
- Combat Commentator: Actually becomes an official commentator of the tournament after just spontaneously falling into the commentator booth during the opening bout after recognizing Adam Dudley. Thanks to being an experienced fighter, he is able to spot techniques and explain them (with decent success, though even he is stumped at times), where his cohost has no such expertise, making them a fantastic dynamic duo on the mic.
- Eagleland: He's an American, and he's loud and boastful (although that applies to most Kengan fighters), but he's a nice guy who apologizes after Kaede almost gets caught by one of his attacks that was originally aimed at Ohma.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: His introductory spiel listed below is the only time he talks in such a bizarre fashion in any of the languages he speaks. He's still bombastic as hell and throws in some slang here and there, but is very well-spoken.
- Fantastic Fighting Style: Uses Xing Yi Quan, but instead of mimicking the movement of animals, he mimics weapons.
- Foe-Tossing Charge: Most of his moves are him charging through people.
- Friendly Enemy: He's pretty nice to everyone in the prelims, as he's kicking their asses.
- Gratuitous English: His Japanese seems to be fairly poor, and he often used English words instead, resulting in this.
- Large Ham: Introduced as this right off the bat. After knocking out a number of fighters in the preliminaries:Jerry: YESSS!! Sum damn pigfucker! Wid a bangin' on em motha fuk'n ass wipes! (I certainly gave you what for, you swine!!! I trounced those little nitwits' hineys!!!!)
- Retired Badass: He retired from his Kengan career by the time of Omega. Apparently, he also used to be a detective before he started fighting.
- Screaming at Squick: He was not pleased when witnessing the way Bando's limbs could move, screaming out for his mother as a result.
Hassad - Persia Petroleum
The Arabian Whirlwind
Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese)
Age: 27
Fighter for Persia Petroleum. He passes the prelims of the Annihilation Tournament, but picks a fight with Metsudo Katahara over his methods and is tossed out by one of the Bodyguards.- Curb-Stomp Battle: By a Bodyguard. Later he returns the favor.
- Fat and Skinny: With Kaburagi.
- Honor Before Reason: He attacks Metsudo Katahara over having to fight in the prelims, even though he passed through them easily.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: He later trashes the Bodyguard that beat him on the cruise ship and two other Bodyguards in the blink of an eye, suggesting that he was either caught off guard by the Bodyguard's strength the first time or that he wanted to lose.
- Instant Expert: Reconstructed Shukuchi from just reading about it in a book.
- King Incognito: Actually a prince wandering the earth to find himself.
- Mr. Fanservice
- Odd Friendship: With Koji Kaburagi, after he saves Hassad from the ocean.
- Single-Stroke Battle: Before the Annihilation Tournament, he held the Kengan Association record for fastest win, at two seconds.
- Walking the Earth: Was doing this before he started participating in Kengan Matches.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: Like Kaburagi, he completely vanishes once the subplot with Hayami's insurgence is resolved.
- The Worf Effect: He manages to survive the preliminaries, suggesting he may at least be at the level of Lihito and Ohma. He immediately gets into a confrontation with one of Metsudo's lesser bodyguards and is promptly bloodied with a single punch and thrown overboard by a single kick. His character bio humorously describes a phenomenon among the fanbase in which Hassad's name has become a verb for when a recently-introduced character who seems interesting and powerful is swiftly and unceremoniously defeated to prove somebody else's strength.
Ryo Himuro - Ginokuniya Bookstores
The Icy Emperor
Voiced by: Masaaki Mizunaka (Japanese), Joe Hernandez (English)
Age: 25
A fighter from The Inside who was the initial representative for Ginokuniya Bookstores until he was beaten by Suekichi Kaneda for the job. Despite this and getting a broken arm from the fight, he befriends his replacement and chooses to spectate the tournament.
- Ambiguously Bi: He's a renown playboy, but also gets so moved by Kaneda's courage that he says "if I were a girl, I'd kiss you". His choice of 'I' seems to imply that he really does want to kiss Kaneda, but thinks Kaneda wouldn't be up for it.
- Attention Whore: He sulks when Jerry Tyson gets hired on as an official ringside commentator because he feels like he himself would have been very popular with the crowd.
- Badass Teacher: Tries to be this for Ryuki and Koga early on in Omega and fails. Ryuki outright refused to be under this tutorage (despite Ryo’s best efforts) and Koga, although much more willing to grow stronger, ends up being taught and trained by numerous other fighters and associates besides him.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He's very laid-back and one of the friendliest people in the series, but he does not take disrespect lightly (as Koga finds out the hard way.)
- The Casanova: If there is a pretty woman nearby, Himuro will try to charm her... often successfully.
- Combat Pragmatist: When Kaneda starts doubting his own strength because he only managed to defeat Himuro by luck and exploitation, Himuro tells him not to overthink it. The fact that Kaneda won, regardless of means or measures, is all that counts. That's how life was on the Inside, and that's how fights go in Kengan. In Himuro's words, it's not the strong that win, but the winners who are strong.
- The Dandy: Played mostly straight, he really cares about his appearance, dresses incredibly nice, is very laid back, and is just as womanizing as Lihito and Okubo (although he's a lot more successful at it than the other two). However, unlike other examples, he is very willing to get down and dirty when it comes to fighting, never prioritizing his looks or comfort over his pride as a fighter.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He came from the Inside, the same lawless cesspool Ohma hails from. And he has no fond memories of it.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Mostly played for laughs but present. During the Tournament he is very upset many of the other fighters who actually got to fight in it don’t know who he is or acknowledge him. In Omega it’s played a bit more seriously, as he really doesn’t take Koga’s lack of respect for him early on sitting down, going as far as to punch him in the face for it (which triggers Ryuki). Later during the Purgatory and Kengan Showdown he shows offhand annoyance towards Koga when he addresses Kaneda with more respectfulness than he does with him.
- Easily Forgiven: Despite Kaneda taking his spot, beating him and putting his arm in a cast for the rest of the tournament, he befriends and even encourages him as a fighter. In fact, he is the one who tells Kaneda to stop feeling guilty for using dirty tactics to beat him.
- Handicapped Badass: Even with his arm broken, he helps fight off Hamayi's men with a pair of nunchucks.
- Hypocritical Humor: He loudly disapproves of flamboyant, narcissistic men while his friends stare at him incredulously.
- Pride: Like many fighters in the Kengan Associations employ, he takes his pride as fighter very seriously but often let’s this get the better of him. He is at first very insulted Kaneda even suggested he could take his spot as a fighter for the Annihilation tournament and holds back incredibly when fighting him because of it, resulting in his defeat. He gets over that slight by the time the tournament starts in earnest, but from time to time is very insulted by other fighters not knowing who he is when commentating on the last few fights on the tournament. Just as present in Omega where he is very much insulted by any disrespect Koga threw at him in their first meeting (going as far as to sucker punch him across the face for it) and in general isn’t a fan of being looked down on by anyone.
- Took a Level in Badass: Goes from being beaten by Kaneda before he can fight in the tournament in Ashura to having an unbeaten record of 21 wins and becoming a close ally to Yamashita who takes on Inside related jobs in Omega. During the Berserker Bowl preliminaries he finally gets regarded as someone close to the Kengan legends.
- Underestimating Badassery: On both the giving and receiving ends of this. He severely underestimates Kaneda during their fight, resulting in his defeat. However, in every other situation where someone dismisses his skills (such as Koga or Xia Ji), he effortlessly beats them down.
Hisayasu Takemoto - Byakuya News
God of War
Age: 82
The very image of a "Master", Hisayasu founded Takemoto-style Combat Kempo at age 45 and has used it ever since then to stand undefeated in over 90 outdoor matches.
Despite this fearsome reputation and being the newly recruited fighter for the 3rd biggest company in the Kengan Association, he never makes it to the tournament.
- Cool Old Guy: Still an active Kengan Fighter in his early 80's.
- Expy: Looks identical to Oro from Street Fighter III, cementing that he wasn't designed to be a major character from the start.
- Old Master: His reputation. He... doesn't deliver on it.
- Red Herring: Introduced as a major contender, but doesn't make it into the tournament.
- The Worf Effect: His entire backstory as a fearsome fighter builds to him being unceremoniously curb-stomped offscreen by Ren Nikaido. To his credit, his injuries and the state of the room seems to imply Ren may have used a weapon or caught Hisayasu by surprise, but he still goes down without delivering as much as a scratch on Ren.
Misasa (Spoilers)
"That was rough. I can't stand being talked down to by a piece of shit like you."
The Eighth Fang of Metsudo
Age: 27
The former captain of the 5th squad of Katahara Metsudo's Bodyguards and Katahara Retsudo's second-in-command of the Extermination Force. As of Omega, he has become the Eighth Fang of Metsudo, making him the second representative of Dainippon Bank as one of the 13 Fighters for the Kengan Association-Purgatory Tournament. He is the fourth to fight against Hikaru Yumigahama.
- The Ace: Out of all the members in the Extermination Squad, a group made of the elite members of Metsudo's Bodyguards, he is the best-unarmed combatant and Retsudo's martial arts master. It's for this reason why Retsudo passed on the chance to take over as the next Fang of Metsudo, recommending Misasa instead.
- Ascended Extra: In Ashura, Misasa is a background character with no characterisation outside of the
Word of God profile provided in the end of a chapter. In Omega he is promoted to a main character as the Eighth Fang of Metsudo and is sent to compete in the Kengan Association-Purgatory Tournament. - Badass Normal: Compared to most of the other over-the-top fighting styles and secret techniques used by Kengan fighters (especially other Fangs of Metsudo), Misasa is an expert in the very real style of Silat, and doesn't seem to have a specific finishing move. So far, it's proved more than enough to demolish anything in his path.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Par for the course as someone who works for Metsudo, he is sharply dressed in a black suit. He's also unique in that he's willing to fight in official duels in slacks and dress shirts.
- Batman Gambit: He enters the fourth match of the competition ahead of Purgatory's pick and provokes Yumigahama by calling him a "pussy" if he didn't come down and fight him. True to form, Yumigahama doesn't take the insult well and jumps in the ring, hoping to beat the shit out of him. He also stayed on defense until the ring was small enough for Yumigahama's size to work against him, so he can deliver a one sided beating.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He's easygoing and respectful, but he's the Fang Of Metsudo for a reason. As Yumigahama found out the hard way, pissing him off will lead to a very painful beatdown.
- Boring, but Practical: Compared to fellow Fangs of Metsudo his fighting style comes off as this, Erioh Kure had the assassination techniques of the Kure clan and Removal, Agito Kanoh learns the style of his opponent and adapts to his opponent, and Hikaru Yumigahama uses various weapons based style that he adapts for hand to hand combat. Misasa uses the very real style of Silat, relying on his elbows to deflect as well as attack from every angle, including angles that his opponent cannot see. His practical style allows him to fight well in a shrinking ring against Yumigahama and beat his larger opponent down with comparable ease.
- The Coats Are Off: His fighting attire is him taking off his jacket, tie and shoes and rolling up his sleeves. His shirt comes off too when he starts going on the offensive.
- Close-Range Combatant: In a series built around hand-to-hand combat, Misasa stands out as one of the strikers who absolutely excels at nearly point-blank combat. This is due to both his Silat skills being ideal for up-close shots, and his smaller build meaning that fighting in close negates the extended reach of taller fighters.
- Expecting Someone Taller: At a height of 173cm, he is the shortest fighter of the 13 representatives of the Kengan Association. He is also the newest Fang of Metsudo, making him a best choice out of all of Metsudo's Bodyguards and Retsudo's squad. Both Okubo and Lihito comment on his size when they first meet him.
- A Father to His Men: He cares deeply for the men in his command, and the reason why he goes so far out of his way to humiliate Yumigahama is because he killed a man that served under Misasa.
- Foil: Physically he is this to every other known Fang of Metsudo. While the others are all tall, powerfully built fighters who appear to be in their mid 40's (or at least look it). Misasa is a young man and one of the shortest and lightest fighters seen in the series.
- Handicapped Badass: Potentially. His profile states that he has a hunchback that he hopes to fix. While it's unknown whether or not he has fixed it within the two years since Ashura, it doesn't change that he is one of the best fighters out there.
- Humble Hero: Says he got lucky during his fight with Yumigahama and that he is more expendable. However Naidan points out how one sided the beating is after the ring shrank (with extermination members that know Misasa noticing he was toying with his opponent out of habit). Lolong thinks that even without Yumigahama's self-sabotage Misasa is simply that dangerous.
- It's Personal: Like Kanoh he desires to fight Yumigahama, dropping his polite demeanor when he challenges the traitor Fang. He also reveals that Yumigahama killed a Bodyguard that worked under Misasa.
- New Meat: Though he has been a bodyguard and a captain of the Extermination Force since Ashura, it's hinted that he became the eighth Fang of Metsudo fairly recently. He considers himself to be a newbie when it comes to fighting in matches compared to the likes of Wakatsuki or Kaolan, and uses that as a justification to fight early in the competition against Purgatory instead of waiting until the more important matches down the line.
- Nice Guy: He's a laid-back and personable guy, and doesn't typically get involved in the rest of the team squabbles.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Gives one to Yumigahama during their fight, battering him with elbow strikes and hitting him in the throat with a chop, before dislocating his jaw and finishing with a punch so hard it left a crater in his face. The bodyguards and Metsudo see it more as a sanction than a fight.
- Pintsized Powerhouse: He is the smallest fighter on the Kengan team at 173cm and 68 kilos, but hits like a man twice his size by exploiting his short reach and small size to excel at point-blank range using his elbows to make up for his lack of firepower in terms of his frame. His only fight so far consists of him annihilating a man more than twice his weight through sheer ingenuinity and surprising power.
- Respected by the Respected: At different points, Retsudo, Kanoh, and Rolón, three of the biggest Smug Supers on the planet, all speak highly of his skills and acknowledge him as very strong, with Kanoh noting that Misasa is practically unmatched at fighting in tight spaces.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Stands in for Cosmo as a comparably well-built, short-haired, blonde fighter of average height. Unlike Cosmo, who uses Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to make use of his size, he accomodates his size by using Silat, a fighting style focused on strikes.
- Strong and Skilled: He is rather small but can still use really damaging attacks with his Silat, using his elbow to parry and knock bigger enemies off guard.
- Stronger Than They Look: For a Kengan Fighter, he is definitely on the small side in both height and weight especially considering his position as The Fang of Metsudo, whose known predecessors have included incredibly massive men more often than not. Yet he is capable of absurd strength for his size to such a degree he is able to seriously injure Yumigahama despite the size difference.
- Tranquil Fury: He doesn't raise his voice, but he doesn't hide his hatred of Yumigahama.Misasa: Washouts don't belong in the spotlight.
- Trash Talk: Five little words were all it took for Misasa to send Yumigahama barreling into the ring to fight him."Don't you pussy out, biiiiiiiiiitch🎵"
- Villain Respect: After seeing him in action, Donaire greatly respects his skill, noting that while he has no doubt about his ability to beat Misasa, it would not be an easy win.
- Weak, but Skilled: While he's still very strong, Misasa is quite small compared to most of his opponents. However, his absolute mastery of Silat allows him to easily outmaneuver his opponents and pummel them into the ground.
Fighters Introduced in Kengan Omega
Kokuro Utsubuki
"Don't you dare insult the guys that I fought. Take it back."
The Wolf Soldier
Age: 30
A five-time Bogu Karate national champion from a family of athletes who's excelled in pretty much every kind of PE during his youth, and freelance fighter within the Kengan Matches, currently fighting for Taniishi Confectionary Inc.. He is a rookie fighter in the Kengan Matches with only a year under his belt. He has racked up an impressive score of 7 wins against reputable fighters, and is considered the best rookie fighter of the year. He is the first fighter that both Ryuki and Koga face in Omega.
- Ambiguously Brown: He is noticeably darker skin colour and unlike Himuro or Sayaka, is not a blond.
- Chivalrous Pervert: He might be a womanizer, and a flirt who likes to show off to the ladies to make them swoon for him, but he's also a highly respectful and honorable man with a huge heart.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Seems to hold this philosophy towards people he defeats. As he’s very friendly towards Koga after he defeats him and treats him with nothing but respect and admiration for his goals of becoming a stronger fighter. He even defends Murobuchi when his loss to him was brought up in passing (citing that Murobuchi’s injuries from a prior fight when they fought) and clearly holds him in high esteem.
- Foil: To Lihito in his first appearance. Both of them are womanisers who spend time impressing and flirting with women. However, whilst Lihito was an arrogant womaniser who looked down on Ohma and sought him out before their first fight, Kokuro is a humble Nice Guy who was challenged to a fight by Koga. Hilariously, the two end up meeting after Lihito returns from training in Okinawa.
- Establishing Character Moment: Chapter 4 of Omega starts with him in Gold Pleasure Group club impressing women by destroying numerous hundred thousand yen bottles of alcohol to get a date, followed by him facing Koga in an alley, and telling him not to dare insult the fighters he has beaten. This shows him to be a womaniser with an honourable Nice Guy streak.
- Genius Bruiser: He is a very competent tactician during a fight as he uses one winning strategy to initially probe his opponents, but calmly changes his fighting pattern if he notices that it no longer works on his opponents.
- Graceful Loser: He doesn’t seem to be the type to hold grudges after he losses a fight. His discussion with Koga after his loss against Masaki "Hayami" and his thoughts on it are fairly accepting of his defeat alongside how quickly he got taken out to boot and shows no real sign of resentment or anger over that fact.
- Humble Hero: He has great respect for the fighters he has beaten. He states that his fight against Harada was a tough fight, and he doubts that he would have been able to beat Murobuchi if he was not recovering from a previous injury.
- I Know Kung Fu: He's from a family of athletes so he's always excelled in sports, but Kokuro's expertise lies in Bogu Karate, which fights with full protective gear in gloves by a point system. While this means all his attacks aren't as strong as one would expect from a man of his size (but still strong enough to throw a middleweight like Koga off his feet if they hit clean), it also means Kokuro has ridiculous hand and foot speed, allowing him to excel at controlling the fights with jabs and using lightning-fast kicks for knockouts.
- Nice Guy: Contrary to his initial appearance, he is a humble, honourable and forgiving person. This is seen in his first interaction with Koga. He respects the opponents he has defeated, telling Koga not to badmouth them. He then calls for an ambulance after beating him badly, remarks that he too is a Nice Guy for not setting up traps or using stuff in the alley as a weapon despite baiting him into a fight, and invites him to come to watch his match against Ryuki. When he next sees Koga, he is friendly and holds no grudge against him for picking a fight with him even though the sentiment obviously isn't mutual.
- Punch-Clock Villain: As Koga learns after initially antagonizing him for his own personal faults early in Omega, Kokuro is actually a pretty good guy who just happens to occasionally beat people up for a living as a Kengan Fighter.
- Signature Move: His "Stinger", a Tsumasaki Gerinote that can pierce through bottles without shattering them and cause immense damage. The kick is faster than a jab and none of his opponents were able to see it coming and dodge it.
- Smoking Is Cool: He is consistently seen smoking a cigarette after a workout or a fight.
- Starter Villain: Whilst not a villain, he is the first opponent that both Koga and Ryuki face in Omega.
- Training from Hell: He's done at least 2000 front kicks a day for the last 8 years. The amount of practice means his Karate kicks that snap at the knee are faster than even jabs.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: He is this to Koga, showing the gap between him and Kengan Association fighters. They both use Karate and they both "dabbled" in other martial arts. He completely trounces Koga in their fight, barely taking a scratch.
- The Worf Effect: Twice. First, he loses almost instantly to Ryuki to demonstrate both the power of Gaoh Style and establish the gap in power between Ryuki and Koga. Then he gets subjected to an offscreen Curb-Stomp Battle to establish Masaki Hayami is a genuine fighter.
Taiju Yurikawa
The Brutal Lily
Age: 26
Another of the new generation of fighters. A Pankration fighter with three wins and no losses.
- Chuunibyou: The term to describe Taiju would be "Graecophile". He wears a toga to the ring and a hairband common in Ancient Greek fashion, he's built like a marble statue at 106kg's of top-heavy muscle and practices Pankrationnote
- Informed Attribute: Both Adam and Cosmo say that he's a strong fighter like Kokuro Utsubuki. The next we see of him is him losing to Ryuki. Both Adam and Cosmo are shocked at how easily he went down.
- Jobber: Downplayed in that he goes down to Ryuki in an unseen match off-screen but Word of God notes that he gave Ryuki a run for his money, noticeably bruising him and being able to parry his Earth-Crouching Dragon with relative ease.
- Mythology Gag: Yurikawa's fighting style, Pankration, was supposed to be Agito Kanoh's main martial art before he became more of a Bruce Lee Clone with his Formless style.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Introduced as one of the New Generations and his fighting style before the next panel shows him defeated by Ryuki.
- Worf Effect: Both Ryuki and Cosmo beat him soundly to show how strong they are and how strong the latter have become at striking.
Tokumichi Tokuno'o
“I admired the author Dazai, and aspired to join the world of literature. But what God gave me instead was the body of Melos.”
Nitoku
Age: 35
A fighter of five years experience who Ryuki replaced in his debut match. A master of Sambo which he picked up while studying literature in Russia, who keeps his abysmal novelist career afloat with the fight money he earns in occasional Kengan matches. He becomes one of the 13 fighters to represent the Kengan Association and is the tenth to fight in the tournament against Liu Dongcheng.
- 10-Minute Retirement: He frequently announces his retirement after winning his fight, only to get back into the ring after he runs out of money. It is one of the reasons why he has only 8 wins and 1 loss in spite of fighting for five years in the Kengan Association. This is because he wants to be a novelist and only fights when he's out of cash.
- Awesomeness by Analysis:
- He is able to see through Yuzaki's Weishen (False Body) technique after seeing it once and counter, ending the match.
- He is also able to get Yamashita to confirm that there is a cross association tournament between the Kengan Association and Purgatory. He doesn't have any interest in fighting in the tournament but would like to watch for inspiration, though Cosmo and Yamashita believe he will end up fighting for them when he's out of money. They were absolutely right and he asks to be one of the fighters for the tournament for this exact reason.
- Badass Bookworm: He has a degree in literature and is a struggling novelist. He can also fight with the best of those in the Kengan Association in spite of starting his martial arts training late at the age of 20.
- Badass Pacifist:
- Compared to other fighters seen, after destroying Yuzaki's knee, he tells him it's pointless to continue fighting and recommends he go to the hospital before the injuries become permanent. He wins when it's clear his opponent cannot fight anymore.
- He also puts his job as a novelist before his role as a fighter, fighting only when he runs out of money.
- Because I'm Good At It: Reconstructed. His strength and physique are almost completely natural, and he took to athletics like a duck to water. However, he considered his body a curse due to people constantly dismissing his interest in literature in favor of fields that could take advantage of his talents and led to him taking up sambo and underground martial arts basically as an act of spite. It was only after losing to Agito and volunteering for the tournament against Purgatory that he realized his grudge was no excuse not to make full use of his talents and do his best to win.
- Boring, but Practical: Sambo is infamously acknowledged for not being a particularly aesthetically pleasing martial art, but its results on the world stage such as in major MMA promotions speak for themselves. Nitoku will simply swing wild but powerful hooks at his opponent until he secures a grapple, at which point he will immediately go into a nasty submission hold or lung-busting throw. It's not pretty and as Liu puts it, it's even amateurish, but when Nitoku makes you hurt, you get hurt bad.
- Born Winner: He was born with a great physique and could be a great athlete in almost any sport, to the point where he pitched 150km/h baseballs when he stopped by to help the baseball club in highschool. It bugs him since he is a novellist at heart and wishes his natural talents were something other than natural strength.
- Cerebus Retcon: His status as a failed novelist is initially and relentlessly mined for comedy. When we later learn more about him as a person this same trait is mined for pathos by Nitoku feeling like a Fish out of Water.
- Cultured Badass: He's a huge history and literature nerd stuck in the body of a born fighter that moved to Russia to become a Master of Sports in Sambo while he got his literature degrees.
- Death or Glory Attack: Sambo is defined as being the grappling equivalent of this when compared to comparable martial arts seen earlier in the series such as Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Judo as it encourages a more aggressive and direct approach of attack to better maneuver an opponent into devastating Judo-like throws and locks.
- Dented Iron: Tokuno'o is tough as nails and he knows it, and thus he's willing to take compromising hits to secure the advantage even if it begins taking it's toll on him in the long run. This ends up working against him against Liu Dongcheng, who only gets more and more fearsome as the fight goes on while Nitoku has to take his Fa Jin strikes while Liu is still getting in gear to hold the advantage over him. Liu's One Inch Punch hurts him so bad that he's essentially knocked out on his feet, armbarring his opponent on pure reflex and delirium while Liu's head is crystal-clear and resolved to pull a Deliberate Injury Gambit to beat Tokuno'o.
- Determinator: He doesn't have a big interest in fighting but if he enters a fight he still sets his mind to win no matter how painful it's going to be. He ended up in recovery for six months after fighting Agito since he wouldn't stop until he was to the brink and in his fight with Liu he takes multiple rounds of strikes from his opponent head on so he can overpower him using Sambo.Terashi, when Nitoku eats a One-Inch-Punch to the stomach: "Is he immortal?"
- Epic Fail:
- Despite his belief that he wouldn't need to participate in the conflict against Purgatory and that he would only be a spectator, he ends up joining because he blew off all of his money in a short amount of time.
- His latest novel is so mediocre that Ryuki Gaoh, a man who just recently learned how to read, critiques it as having a simple plot with no interesting twists, a boring setting, and stilted dialogue that consists of info dumps, shattering the writer's self-esteem.
- Expy: Being an author himself, he cant help but see the comparisons in himself in the titular character Melos from "Hashire, Melos", one of Ozamu Dasai's earlier works about an astute young kid who feels out of place because people only seem to care about his athletic prowess and strength instead of his feelings or what goes on in his head, but still going through great physical ordeals to save his friend from execution. Tokuno'o's great ordeal ends up being going through an absolutely painstaking fight to convince Liu Dongcheng to give up on his Revenge Before Reason before he goes down a path he won't be able to endure mentally.
- Foil: To Sen Hatsumi. Both are relaxed, unreliable Brilliant, but Lazy fighters with records that do not reflect their abilities, who would rather spend their time pursuing their interests (womanizing for Sen, writing for Tokumichi). However, Sen has a genuine passion for fighting at heart, while Tokumichi has no desire to fight, treating it as a part-time job.
- Genius Bruiser: He considers himself a novelist first and foremost, and despite his work not being that good, he does have a degree in literature. He's also an incredibly muscular Sambo master who, despite starting his training relatively late, can easily go toe-to-toe with the best fighters Purgatory and the Kengan Association have to offer. This extends to his combat style, as he strategically maneuvers himself into grappling range while lulling opponents into a false sense of security with his powerful, but comparatively unrefined striking.
- Honor Before Reason: He is a struggling novelist under the pen name "Nitoku Onomichi" who fails to sell his books and only fights when he runs out of money. In spite of this, and clearly being more talented at fighting than writing novels, he refuses to live the life of luxury that he could get from being a fighter until he becomes recognized as an author.
- High Hopes, Zero Talent: Both played straight and inverted, to two facets of his character.
- His dream is to be a novelist, but his books always flop. According to Ryuki, someone who just learned to read, his latest book has a simple plot with no interesting twists, a boring setting, and stilted dialogue that consists of info dumps. This is his fifth attempt at a book.
- His fighting talent is phenomenal: he started training at twenty* , takes very long breaks in between fights to work on his novels, and his only loss is to Agito Kanoh. Despite all of this, he doesn't want to be a career fighter.
- Info Dump: Ryuki Gaoh, a formerly illiterate man who recently learned how to read, admits that Nitoku's dialogue is stilted because it's made out of info dumps. He complains that it looks like comes straight out of a reference book, much to Nitoku's dismay.
- Made of Iron: He can take some hard hits while remaining as calm as ever. Though he still feels it, he can brush them off rather quickly."I feel awful, like I'm about to turn inside-out. But I still weathered it."
- Only in It for the Money: To an extent, he only fights in the Kengan Association so that he has enough money to go back to his job as a writer, he has no goal of becoming a successful fighter. This rears its head at the start of the Kengan Association vs. Purgatory Tournament, where he conflicts with other fighters, only wanting to collect his cheque.
- Punny Name: His epithet Nitoku is a pun based on the fact that the kanji for "Toku" appears twice in his name. It can also be read as Toku Squared, Toku Toku or double Toku. He also uses it as his pen name, "Nitoku Onomichi."
- Remember the New Guy?: Justified. Despite being a fighter powerful enough to give Agito a good run for his money, he also has a tendency to go months without fighting due to his frequent retirements and the previously mentioned fight with Agito put him into recovery for over half a year, which is the reason he didn't participate in the Annihilation Tournament.
- Retired Badass:
- Or rather semi-retired badass. He is a master of Sambo and someone that Cosmo believes would have done well in the Kengan Annihilation Tournament had he not been retired at the time. Cosmo also notes that when it comes to hard submissions like armbars and heel hooks, he is unmatched. This is shown when he fights former Purgatory A-lister Mumon Yuzaki and is able to fight toe-to-toe with him and easily putting him into an armbar.
- Turns out Cosmo's praise of him is well deserved. His only loss was against Agito Kanoh, who he brought to the brink before losing. The result of the fight ended with him entering retiring for six months of rehab.
- Starving Artist: He is a novelist with five publications, but none of his books sell, leading to him fighting for the Kengan Association for enough money to return to novel writing... only to come back to fighting when his next book flops.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Stands in for Sen Hatsumi in Omega as a comparably disheveled and eccentric master with an erratic attendance record with the Kengan organization.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Nitoku's striking abilities, while powerful, are described as sloppy and rely more on his physical strength. Having Sambo as his core style, he is mostly skilled in wrestling but his training gives him a lot of muscle power he can strike with. Once he grabs someone however he can deliver brutal throws or savage submission lock thanks to both his skills and natural strength.
- Warrior Poet: He is seen quoting Japanese philosopher Rai San'yo in the middle of his fight against Mumon Yuzaki, and Yu Wuling, Leo Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde to Liu Dongcheng. This is not surprising as he is a novelist with a degree in literature.
- You Were Trying Too Hard: Nitoku was advised by Japan's premier author to step away from writing while noting that there wasn't really anything stopping him from being a first class author, although Nitoku didn't seem to understand his intention. It was only after discarding any thoughts about literature and devoting himself entirely to his match with Dongcheng that Nitoku reached a state where he felt he could write properly.
Mumon Yuzaki
The Ghost
Age: 28
A former A-List gladiator of Purgatory and a new fighter for the Kengan Association.
- Achilles' Heel: His Weishen (False Body) secret technique only works so long as the opponent doesn't know what he is doing. After using it early in his match with Nitoku to tackle him, Yuzaki gets his shit pushed in when he attempts it again.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: He uses Kunlun-Style Snake Fist, a form of kung fu which places emphasis on training of the fingertips and uses poking, sweeping, grabbing, pinching and scratching. It allows him to pierce through Nitoku's leg with just his pinkie and ring finger when trapped in an armbar.
- Dead Person Impersonation: The real Mumon Yuzaki was an A-List gladiator who used the Seven Stars Snake Fist, not the Kunlun Style, and his cremated body was discovered only shortly after the fight with Nitoku. This "Mumon" is later revealed to have been a member of Worm.
- Fingore: After having his knee destroyed by Nitoku, Yuzaki's final counterattack earns him three broken and very red-swollen fingers.
- Killing Intent: Ryuki notes that he's fighting with the intent to kill his opponent, in spite of the new penalties under the Kengan Association. It turns out the new rules are not completely against him doing this.
- Killed Off for Real: After the match with Nitoku, he is found dead in the street the next day after attempting to capture Ryuki despite his broken knee. The real one had also died long before.
- Meaningful Name: His moniker The Ghost is because of both the ghastly Nightmare Face he pulls off and his secret technique Weishen, which makes use of his opponent's Awesomeness by Analysis by throwing fake tells and making minor gestures that throw off the visual indicators of his attacks. To those with great visual abilities such as Nitoku, Koga, and Yamashita, it looks like an afterimage appears before he moves. It makes him the natural antithesis to fighters who rely heavily on foresight. Plus, the real Mumon is already dead and the one we see is an imposter from the Worm.
- Nightmare Face: He made a horrendous, ghostly face when placed in an armbar by Nitoku.
- Pressure Point: Since he specializes in finger strikes, he's an effective user of this, causing a jet of blood to spurt from Nitoku's leg by stabbing his Sanyinjiao point with two fingers.
- The Worf Effect: The real Yuzaki was effortlessly manhandled by Jurota Arashiyama in the Judoka's first match after fifteen years of training.
Shuya Murasame
The Demon Orca
Age: 28
A fighter for the Kengan Association and the fighter who Koga faces in his Fighter Employment exam.
- Achilles' Heel: He can only throw his pseudo-Fa Jin hammer fist with his left hand. This leaves him wide open for a counter and unable to adapt. It's no wonder he's ranked one of the weakest fighters in the association.
- Jerkass: He immediately starts insulting the attendees to Koga's exams, stating how he would rather be somewhere else. Koga immediately likens him to Yumigahama from his attitude and size.
- Jobber: After being defeated by Koga, it's revealed that he had an abysmal record of only one victory and three defeats. His victory was over a fellow jobber that didn't have a single win to his name, effectively making Murasame the weakest fighter of the Kengan Association.
- Lightning Bruiser: He's 204cm and 150kg all the while able to attack with a level of speed and intensity that means he will eventually catch his opponent. Koga outright compares him to a bear.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He acts tough but is a bottom of the barrel Kengan fighter. Koga immediately realizes after dropping him that it was too easy.
- Starter Villain: He's the first proper antagonistic opponent Koga fights and stands as the gatekeeper to being hired as a Kengan Association fighter.
- Super-Strength: He can use a pseudo-Fa Jin strike from a hammer fist which allows him to send Koga flying and rock him even after he blocked the strike. He uses hammer fists to break through his opponent's guard.
- Unskilled, but Strong: He fights with rough and wild attacks in an unoriginal way, but his strength and size make him a threat. When he regains his cool, he becomes more skilled, relying on compact boxing moves with a hammer fist as a finisher.
Masaki "Hayami" (Spoilers)
"It's funny. I'm hurting like hell, but I feel great."
The Killing Throw
Katsumasa Hayami's "son", introduced in Omega. He bears a mysterious resemblance to the deceased Meguro Masaki, but despite this, is an upstanding member of society. He's the leader of his university's Judo Club that he got the Judo team to practice with after a bit of negotiation, and also teaches kids' Judo and does volunteer work on the side. He becomes one of the 13 representative fighters against Purgatory as part of a deal with his "father". He is the eighth to fight against Jurota Arashiyama.
- Artificial Human: He is a biological clone of the original Meguro Masaki created with Worm technology and resources and then growing up as a normal child, albeit one trained from birth to do Judo with the same Feels No Pain brain condition as his "brother".
- Awesome by Analysis: As their battle stretches on, he's able to accurately gauge the speed of Arashiyama's movements, allowing him to perform some ludicrously precise tactics like hooking his toes around the legs of his pants when he raises up a leg to deflect a kick and smashing his collarbone with a devastating elbow strike while he's in the process of being thrown to the ground.
- Badass Bookworm: A college student who, outside his first appearance, is constantly seen reading John Allen Paulos' Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences and even claims to have read all of Tokuno'o books. He also defeated Kokuro Utsubuki almost instantly and without injuring him. Kokuro estimates he may be more powerful than Ryuki.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: Aside from lacking the scar and Overly-Long Tongue that Meguro has, he has a much gentler and calmer face, and overrall looks less threatening and more approachable than Meguro does.
- Break the Cutie: While he isn't exactly cute, he's exceptionally kindhearted and good-natured compared to the rest of the Kengan fighters. He's also been subjected to a hellish upbringing "sparring" against Meguro, and is slowly being driven insane by Katsumasa making him constantly listen to Meguro's deranged confessions of his murders, to the point where he forgets to leave his wireless earbuds for it on the bench when he squares up against Arashiyama.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Calls Hayami a maggot after deciding to end him.
- Child Prodigy: Just like his “brother”, he is a natural born genius Judoka who essentially arrived at the level of a Kengan Fighter without ever having to practice Judo professional or competitively, only ever doing it as a hobby at his universities’ club. This is by design, as he was cloned by Hayami with the express intent to capture the original’s immense talent without compromising the sanity that held the original back, in essence making him an even greater prodigy due to operating like a perfectly functional and exceptionally intelligent young adult while retaining all the natural aptitude for martial arts.
- Clones Are People, Too: It's eventually revealed that Masaki Hayami is a clone of Meguro, but unlike the utterly psychotic and racist original, Hayami is a Nice Guy, highly intelligent and dutiful, and while still wildly crazy he does not lash out at random.
- Combat Pragmatist: To a lesser extent than Meguro. Masaki is willing to use strikes in combat. While punches, kicks and ground-and-pound are not foreign to Judo as a martial art, they are not allowed in official Judo matches.
- Creepy Good: His unsettling appearance is off-putting, but by all accounts he's a Nice Guy and Friend to All Children.
- Curb Stomp Cushion: Inverted when he cheerfully points out that if he and Arashiyama had been fighting by regular judo rules, he would have lost within the first four seconds of the match being called. He also mentions he would have straight up died under Kengan matches as his opponent doesn't need to wait a ten count to resume fighting.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: Due to his uncanny resilience allowing him to take over a dozen Judo throws without landing properly on any of them, clever use of the rules, his opponent's mindset both towards his own martial arts as well as towards Masaki, he manages to barely squeeze out a win against Arashiyama, one of the strongest fighters on the Purgatory team, who would have utterly destroyed Masaki in a "real" fight. Arashiyama himself admits that any shortcomings of his due to the rules are still a genuine weakness that can and should be exploited.
- Dissonant Serenity: The fact that he seems genuine affable down to the core only makes it more unnerving that he has the same face as the most Ax-Crazy fighter to date. The panelwork plays this up for all it's worth, making him look super creepy.
- Establishing Character Moment:
- His first page is Meguro's psychotic grin contrasted by him smiling and talking formally to Kazuo Yamashita. All things considered, it's rather unsettling.
- His next appearance shows him reading Innumeracy while making a throwaway flippant comment while tensions rise in the team. It shows that he is a bookworm who is relaxed and uninterested about the conflict in the team.
- Explosive Leash: Hayami planted 3 bombs in Masaki's body, in case Masaki ever turned against him. Unfortunately for Hayami, Masaki bluffed that he got them removed, shocking Hayami long enough for Masaki to just lunge at him, grabbing his face and crushing the device that would have detonated the bombs.
- Facial Horror: After being thrown face first into the ground so fast Masaki stopped trying to break his fall he starts looking more and more like a bloodied Meguro. By the time the fight is done, his face is basically one big bloodied bruise, and perhaps even more chillingly, he has a marking across his face that, while faded, is identical to the line running across the face of his "brother".
- Feels No Pain: A lot less potent then his “brother” Meguro, but he also has a condition that translates his pain into pleasure, which makes sense, as he is a clone of him.
- Foil: Despite their identical appearances, the only thing he seems to have in common with Meguro Masaki is that both are skilled judoka. Where Meguro Masaki was an animalistic maniac who took please in suffering and inflicting pain, not to mention a racist, Masaki is shown to be a normal guy and is implied to not at all indulge in violence.
- Gathering Steam: In a disquieting reversal of how it usually goes for most fighters, the more Masaki is knocked down, the faster he gets back up for more.
- Gentle Giant: He's one of the bigger fighters at 195cm (6'4") tall with a very broad build to match. He's also an extremely Nice Guy to everybody he meets.
- Genius Bruiser: Not only is he an inhumanly-tough Judo master who's built like a brick wall, he's also a highly intelligent college student with a love of mathematics. Extends to his fighting as well, since he can precisely time his opponent's movements and determine the perfect time to strike.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: To shield him from scrutiny, Katsumasa only ever allowed Masaki to join Judo clubs in school, but never a competitive team, due to the former being under far less scrutiny. His Child Prodigy status and being looking identical to Masaki would have blown his cover and possibly gotten Toyo Electric and Masaki in major legal trouble, but in the wake of Katsumasa's death, this just means that a chillingly skilled man wearing a Mask of Sanity has now fully integrated with the public.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: He doesn't resemble his "father" in the slightest, since they're not biologically related. However, despite being raised by Katsumasa, Masaki doesn't seem to show any traces of his father's power-hungry ruthlessness or his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, being described by everyone in his social circle as being very pleasant and humble.
- Made of Iron: To the point Jerry likens him to a zombie with how unfazed he remains even after being thrown harder and harder on the ground. He might very well have a harder skull than Saw Paing. He takes such an incredible amount of damage that the leverage of killing him and being disqualified is an actual threat to Arashiyama's chances of winning later in the fight.
- Mask of Sanity: He turns out to be just as psychopathic as his “brother” was, regardless of Hayami not fiddling with his brain this time. He’s simply far better at hiding it. That said, he's also apparently not one for 'mindless' bloodshed, as despite being into combat in a similar manner as his brother, he restrains himself and never really commits an act of senseless violence; he doesn't even have to be pulled off of Arashiyama by the ref and stops the ground-and-pound the moment his opponent is out cold, whereas Meguro was always a hair-trigger away from killing somebody. Even when he turns on and kills his father, it''s done more because Hayami immediately intended to resume his attempts to usurp leadership over the Kengan Association the second he heard Erioh was dead, noting that his dad was a 'maggot' and his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder needed to be stopped.
- Modified Clone: What he is intended to be. Hayami wanted to create a clone superior to the original Meguro, so Masaki lacks his mental illness that resulted in the original being a murderous animal, while retaining the natural talent and mutation that turns his pain into pleasure.
- Nice Guy: He helps out with charity work, teaches judo to young children in his free time, and no one in his circle of friends and acquaintances has a single negative thing to say about him. He's easily the most personable man on the Kengan Association's roster and friendly even with his opponents, though Katsumasa, who cloned him, is attempting to turn him as crazy as the original Masaki through the use of the Wu's Huisheng in his earbuds, implying this might not last. That said, even when it's revealed that he's naturally been insane the whole time, his pleasant and friendly demeanour doesn't appear to have been an act. He ultimately kills his father Hayami, not because the latter was mentally conditioning him similarly to Meguro, but rather because he intended to immediately resume his attempts to usurp leadership of the Kengan Association upon Erioh's death, noting that the organisation would be better off without him, implicitly not wanting the fellow fighters he's been friendly with to get inconvenienced by his father's ambitions.
- Perpetual Smiler: Basically every panel featuring this guy has his expression being of him smiling or grinning in one way or another, even when he's being beaten bloody.
- Progressively Prettier: Or at least cuter. He goes from basically looking like a version of Meguro without the iconic scar he has to having a gentler and kinder face.
- Remember the New Guy?: Apparently, this Masaki was a registered fighter for three years. The only reason he flew under the radar was because he hadn't participated in any Kengan match up until his fight with Kokuro. He's never fought in public Judo tournaments either due to never being part of a team, only joining more casual Judo clubs.
- Self-Made Orphan: He suddenly turns on his 'father' Hayami after the Kengan VS Purgatory tournament, killing him by crushing his head and breaking his spine. It's heavily implied that Rino had a hand in this, telling him of the bombs Hayami put into his body in-case Masaki ever tried to go against him.
- Stepford Smiler: Even when he is physically in pain he goes back to calmly smiling.
- Stone Wall: When fighting Jurota. He is hopelessly outclassed in everything but durability so he simply takes the beatings until he figures out the right timing for his own attacks.
- Significant Name Overlap: Hayami deliberately gave him the same name as his predecessor, Meguro Masaki, presumably to hammer in the point that they are basically the same person.
- Superior Successor: His mastery of judo allows him to knock out Kokuro with a single expert throw whereas Meguro needed to exert considerably more effort to defeat opponents who possessed similar builds. Turns out he is intended to be one, he has the prodigal skill and isn't a straight-up animalistic berserker, but still completely off his rocker.
- Training from Hell: Some of which involved "sparring" with Meguro himself. His resilience to throws come from Meguro spiking him face first hoping to break his neck and Masaki refusing to die.
- Younger Than They Look: He's 21, but looks virtually identical to the late 33-year-old Meguro.
Leonardo Silva
Miracle of Sao Paulo
Fifth son of Antonio Silva, too hot headed for public Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and one of the Supernova, meaning one the most promising new generation fighter.- Boring, but Practical: He doesn't have any flashy moves he just throws people to the ground and chokes them from behind.
- Counter-Attack: He only uses strikes to parry until he can attempt to disable an arm by dislocating or break his opponent's elbow by punching the inside of it while they are mid swing, or to grapple.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Outside of the arena he is always well dressed with proper shoes and patterned shirt.
- Signature Move: Goes for rear naked choke once the opponent is on the ground.
- Weak, but Skilled: Downplayed as he is a 93kg Heavyweight, but having fought people way stronger than him, Leonardo chose to focus on simple but lightning-fast transitions into sleeper holds, allowing him to choke out anyone of any size if he can find an opening.
