History Characters / Ajin

* BenevolentBoss: You wouldn't think it at first, but Tosaki turns out to be a pretty decent guy to his subordinates. [[spoiler:While he's seemingly blackmailing Izumi into working for him, it's later revealed to be a whole bunch of hot air and he actually destroyed all of the records that she was an ajin. He even defends her honor when Sokabe refers to her by her birth name. Later on, he gives Kei and Ko the chance to walk away from everything after their first attempt to take down Sato fails.]]

* DeathbedConfession: [[spoiler:He confesses the truth to the public about the government performing unethical experiments on ajin before bleeding to death. Though it's zigzagged in that he was already in the process of leaking the truth and was fully ready to face the consequences before he got stabbed by Sokabe.]]

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Sort of. He thought kidnapping Ogura, who was visiting Japan at the time as part of a joint Ajin research program between the U.S. and Japan, during Satou's attack on the lab and faking his death would have gone uninvestigated. [[spoiler: Not only does the U.S. send agents to conduct an investigation, the absence of Ogura's cigarettes among the evidence that was collected immediately clues them in on his survival.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:He holds a press conference revealing the truth about the Japanese government performing unethical experiments on ajin while bleeding to death. Notably, he doesn't show his injured state at all, maintaining his composure until the end.]]

* FantasticRacism: Tosaki seems to genuinely resent ajin as a whole, getting angry when Kei's IBM looks at him and threatening to leak Izumi's secret to the higher-ups. [[spoiler:Though it turns out to be a more downplayed example, as he does treat Kei and Ko with a surprising amount of decency after the failed attempt to capture Sato and turns out to be a far nicer boss to Izumi than he comes off as.]]

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:He turns out to be a ''far'' better person than he initially comes across. While he was complicit in the immoral treatment of ajin, he was only doing it to save up the money to pay for his fiance's surgery and secretly planned to reveal everything to the press. Furthermore, unlike his superior he's shown to be someone who genuinely cares about doing the right thing, deciding to continue putting his life on the line even after the Japanese government decides to concede to Sato's demands.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: He has absolutely no sympathy towards the Ajin, and is no stranger to [[spoiler: kidnapping and subjecting a known scientist to ColdBloodedTorture when he has information he needs]]. He's also a bit of a BadBoss towards his subordinate Izumi, whom he uses occasionally for his own purposes. However close he skirts going towards LackOfEmpathy levels with Ajin, however, he never quite manages it: it's caring about people that fundamentally drives his Jerkassery.

* SecretKeeper: He knows that [[spoiler: Izumi is an Ajin, but is pulling strings to prevent her from being used for experiments. However, he's not doing this out of kindness, but is using her for his own purposes]].
* SecretStabWound: [[spoiler: Gets stabbed by Sokabe in his side. Eventually dies from this. ]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her life before becoming Tosaki's assistant was not easy. [[spoiler: Her father died in an accident while she was in high school. She had a shaky relationship with her mother, due to [[ParentWithNewParamour the latter insisting on keeping a useless, money-sucking boyfriend around]], and ''her'' own boyfriend was cheating on her with one of her friends. When Izumi's stepfather tries to sexually assault her, he accidentally kills her, finding out upon Izumi's resuscitation that she's an Ajin, and decides to use her to get money. Witnessing her mother's silence over this, Izumi runs away from home. Later she finds out that her mother [[MamaBear killed her stepfather to stop him from outing her as an Ajin]], but was also killed by him during their struggle. Living on the streets, she had to prostitute herself to survive, but eventually contracted an STD which was killing her slowly and painfully when Tosaki found her. He [[MercyKill relieved her of the pain]], then proceeded to blackmail her into working for him against her fellow ajin, and is still doing so.]]

* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler:She shows zero hesitation when she guns down the Health Minister's guards when saving Tanaka. Justified, as she has pretty understandable reasons to resent them considering that she herself is an ajin.]]

-->'''Sato''': Whenever I play videogames, I always make sure to play [[HarderThanHard the hardest mode the game has to offer]].

* CombatPragmatist: Has no trouble in using others as human shields. Oh, and his declaration about attacking the Grant Pharmaceutical HQ? [[spoiler: He meant he was going to crash a plane (a skyscraper in the anime) on it]].

* DeathIsCheap: Like all ajin, he resurrects after dying. Unlike them, he's very casual about this and will happily kill himself for the benefits of resetting.

* OffWithHisHead: Promises to do this to Kei. [[spoiler: Ends up on the receiving end of this from Kei. It only slows him down long enough for the American military to capture him though.]]

* EvilGenius: He is responsible for all the high tech work in Satou's terrorist cell, being able to hack for information and construct complex destructive devices.

* InsistentTerminology: [[SpellMyNameWithAnS It's To-SA-ki, not To-ZA-ki]].

* {{Otaku}}: He loves video games and pop culture in general and is often seen playing arcade games and game consoles, from the Platform/GameBoy in flashbacks to UsefulNotes/XBox360 in the present day. He didn't want to go back to Asia after being discharged from the military until he was informed that he was going to Japan, the birthplace of VideoGame/PacMan and many other games.

* {{Otaku}}: He loves video games and pop culture in general and is often seen playing arcade games and game consoles, from the UsefulNotes/GameBoy in flashbacks to UsefulNotes/XBox360 in the present day. He didn't want to go back to Asia after being discharged from the military until he was informed that he was going to Japan, the birthplace of VideoGame/PacMan and many other games.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:He holds a press conference revealing the truth about the Japanese government performing unethical experiments on ajin while bleeding to death.]]
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler: To the man who sold out Nagai because of a rumor that the government would be offering money to anyone who found any wanted Ajin.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There's quite a few hints that [[spoiler:he's a human]] before the audience is told about it. [[spoiler:During the first wave, he surrenders after Takahashi is shot by police snipers. During the assault on Forge Security, he stays out of the line of fire and supports Tanaka and Takahashi by reseting them when they're hit by tranquilizers. After Sato breaks into the building, he wakes up both Tanaka and Takahashi by killing them to get the tranquilizer drug out of their system, but Gen is carried by the other two on a stretcher as killing him would be fatal.]]

* OneManArmy: Don't let Sato's age fool you; he's borderline unbeatable in a direct fight. [[spoiler:As if to drive the point home, he clears out an ''entire JSDF base on his own''.]]

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:He's shot through the neck by Sato. However, this causes Kei to trigger a flood which narrowly manages to save Kaito's life.]]

* TerroristsWithoutACause: Ultimately, Tanaka is the ''only'' one who actually cares about securing ajin rights. The rest of them are just so bored with modern life that they turned to Sato as a way to get their thrills.

* AxCrazy: Being repeatedly killed in incredibly gruesome ways didn't do his sanity any favors.

* IWillFightNoMoreForever: [[spoiler:He decides there's been enough bloodshed after the assault on Forge Security and decides to peacefully negotiate with the Japanese government. Unfortunately, [[AxCrazy Sato]] doesn't quite see eye-to-eye.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: Out of everyone in Sato's group, Tanaka has by far the most sympathetic reason for joining up with Sato, being horrifically tortured and exploited by the Japanese government for a decade until Sato rescued him. Furthermore, he's the only one who at least ''[[PetTheDog tries]]'' to avoid needless casualties. [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, he's the one who pulls a HeelFaceTurn.]]

** He goes beyond even other Ajin in regards to this. He literally has no fear. Even pragmatic Ajin like Kei who have gotten used to dying and regenerating have certain concerns, such as being decapitated (the biggest part of an Ajin's dead body is what regenerates, when decapitated, the decapitated head dies while a new head reforms onto the body with all of the Ajin's memories.) This idea scares Kei who does everything he can to avoid it. Sato on the other hand has no such worries. He [[spoiler:cut his own hand off to have it snuck into a secure airport before throwing himself into a ''meat grinder'' so that he would fully reform inside the airport. He then proceeded to perform the same trick repeatedly so that he could fly jets into various important government buildings before reforming back at the airport to do it again.]]