History Manga / Inuyashiki

It tells the story of the eponymous protagonist, Ichiro Inuyashiki, an elderly {{salaryman}} who is shunned by his family and co-workers. One day, while walking out with his pet dog, he is caught in the blast of an explosion caused by an unknown entity, and finds himself reformed as a cyborg. He then decided to use his power to do some good and save people, but as it turns out, he wasn't the only one affected by the explosion- Shishigami, an emotionally disturbed teen, is using his powers for [[TeensAreMonsters destruction and violence]]. Things come to a head, and Inuyashiki soon finds himself as an unlikely hero in a desperate fight to save Japan- and soon enough, the world.

* AdaptedOut: [[spoiler: The meteorite]] and the {{Yakuza}} are nowhere to be found in the Live-Action version. The live action movie is meant to be part one of a trilogy, so that may change.
* AliensAreBastards: The entire plot of the series happened because an alien spacecraft crash-landed into the two main characters and the aliens decided to cover their asses by irresponsibly replacing them with ''high-tech KillerRobot'' copies of themselves. Though ultimately [[spoiler: their screw-up does unintentionally save the Earth from a meteor strike.]]
* AnAesop: Anyone has the ability to become a hero or a villain very quickly. Just the same, [[spoiler: everyone can go ''from'' a hero to a villain and back again just as quickly.]] The concept of a "hero" is constantly challenged by the story as well- despite being an incredibly badass cyborg with what are essentially [[Manga/AstroBoy Astro Boy's]] powers turned UpToEleven, Inuyashiki is still a doddering old man for the most part. [[spoiler: He still saves the day in the end, but at the cost of his own life.]]
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Implied in the manga, as in the last chapters [[spoiler: Shishigami remembered something they said when he was being rebuilt]]. Averted in the anime, in which the aliens talk in StarfishLanguage.
* AnArmAndALeg: When Inuyashiki and Shishigami fight each other, [[spoiler:Inuyashiki rips off both of Shishigami's arms]]. In the movie, [[spoiler: it's just one arm and his leg]].

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Played straight for most of the series with Shishigami, due to bullets and such just bouncing off his skin. [[spoiler:Averted, however, when Inuyashiki and Shishigami fight each other-Inuyashiki rips off the back piece of Shishigami's head casing, and both of his arms]].

* {{Bishounen}}: Shishigami is a [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon very handsome young man]], and his physical attractiveness is often mentioned in the manga, especially in the online medium. In spite of being suspected to be a serial killer, there are some people out there who [[DracoInLeatherPants made fan clubs for him.]] [[invoked]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Shishigami shows that there's some humanity left in him and pulls a HeroicSacrifice to stop an asteroid from crashing into the earth... which isn't enough, prompting Inuyashiki to do the same. But his relationship with his family was on much better terms than it was at the beginning of the series.]]
** EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Since the meteorite did not appear in the live-action film, Inuyashiki is now accepted by his family after saving his daughter from Shishigami and his heroic deeds are recognized by the media. The only bitter part is that Shishigami now has no family to live for and he leaves his friend behind, leaving to parts unknown. Also doubles as AdaptationalAlternateEnding]].

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Inuyashiki's daughter Mari is this in the beginning. After [[spoiler:being saved from a burning building by her father]] she has mellowed out considerably.

* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler: The asteroid about to collide with earth, which is only mentioned near the end.]]
* DoAnythingRobot: Both Inuyashiki and Hiro actually deconstruct this, in the way [[ComesGreatResponsibility they embrace the "do anything" part]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman as much as the "robot" part.]]
* DramaticIrony: When Inuyashiki is diagnosed with cancer, he laments that his family won't care if he dies. [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice After he sacrifices himself to save the world,]] they're all crying their eyes out.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Shishigami's mother kills herself when she learns he's the serial killer]].

** Shishigami is this to Shion Izumi from ''Manga/{{Gantz}}''. Both characters are exceptionally attractive students in their respective classrooms, and are both adrenaline seekers (Izumi's love of participating in Gantz Games and Shishigami's love of [[spoiler: killing innocent people]]). They both even have a soft spot for just one girl in particular.
** Inuyashiki is Franchise/{{Superman}} in most respects. Can hear everyone in the world crying for help, is nigh indestructible, SuperStrength, the works. He has the same personality to boot - incorruptible and humble despite his power.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The anime opening is full of surreal imagery, one of which consist of Inuyashiki's face falling from the space in direction to earth, [[spoiler: likely refering to the asteroid in the final arc of the story.]] There is also references to [[spoiler: the fight between Shishigami and Inuyashiki]] and [[spoiler: Mari being trapped in a building on fire]].
** Also only in the anime, there's a News Program mentioning the [[spoiler: asteroid]] during Episode 8, relatively far from the finale. Different of the manga, in which it's existence is only mentioned once at the very beginning of the story [[spoiler: when the aliens mention that Earth "is about to be destroyed"]].

* FingerFireArms: Shishigami is very capable of this, they're the least of his offensive capabilities. [[spoiler:Later on in their fight, Inuyashiki uses them as well.]] They've been suggested to actually be a case of FrickinLaserBeams being subverted: the alien laser weapon is so efficient that despite having a tiny emitter and being completely invisible, it can put holes right through people and objects.
* HealingHands: As cyborgs, Inuyashiki and Shishigami are both completely capable of this. Inuyashiki in particular spends quite a bit of time sneaking into hospitals to cure the people there. Like in the RealityEnsues example below, it doesn't take long for the doctors to notice what he's doing and spread the word, but when they confront him about it they simply ask him to keep doing what he's doing, without trying to force, investigate, or exploit him.

* HeroicSafeMode: When Inuyashiki gets knocked out, his body usually acts on its own and begins firing lasers at his assailants while flying him to safety. [[spoiler: Shishigami has this ability too, and then the two finally confront each other they eventually knock each other out and then their safe modes fight ''each other''.]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: When Inuyashiki hears a family trapped in a fire too far to reach on land, he tries to use the flying ability he saw Shishigami use. It takes a while to get it started, he can't fly with any stability, he botches the landing, and he does it all while singing the ''Manga/AstroBoy'' theme song. He makes it in time to save two people from the fire. [[spoiler: When Ando joins forces with Inuyashiki, he has to help him learn how to access other functions as well based on what Hiro told them they can do.]]
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Ultimately Shishigami's nature. He starts off as a serial killer but after some time with fellow classmate, he begins using his powers for good, however after his [[spoiler:[[MoralityChain classmate]] and her grandmother are shot by the swat team, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge this begins his revenge against the police]]]].
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Slight undertones of this can be seen in the scene where Shishigami talks to a pretty girl [[spoiler: whose family he just murdered.]] He caresses her face and her hair and ends in a [[AffectionateGestureToTheHead gesture probably meant to be comforting]], all before [[spoiler: slicing her hand up and then shooting her in the head as she made a desperate attempt to run away from him]].
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Inuyashiki has to give [[spoiler: Shishigami a hand with activating his self-destruct sequence]] after the latter has decided to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifice himself to save mankind from a giant asteroid]] for the rather prosaic reason that [[spoiler: the self-destruction of the alien combat units involves pressing the eyeballs-in with one's thumbs, and Inuyashiki has just ripped Shishigami's arms off.]]

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Inuyashiki and [[spoiler: Ando]].

--> ''(after killing the father, causing him to drown his son)'' I'm ''alive''.
* LeftHanging: The aliens. [[spoiler: Their only appearance is when they rebuild Shishigami and Inuyashiki, then they are completely gone from the story. Questions about who they are or what they were doing in the earth are left unanswered.]]

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Inuyashiki and Shishigami are each capable of launching hundreds (or possibly ''thousands'') of tiny missiles simultaneously, which are so smart that not only are they capable of {{roboteching}} beautifully to strike hundreds of different targets with pinpoint accuracy, but can apparently vary their payload from being less than that of a bullet (for example, to [[spoiler: deliver a FateWorseThanDeath to 237 yakuza thugs by targeting each one's eyes and vertebrae simultaneously so that they're left alive but blind and quadriplegic]]) to being powerful enough to cause massive explosions that shake the city buildings around them.

* MenDontCry: Averted. It's hard to find a male character in the series who ''doesn't'' cry. Even sociopathic Hiro cries his eyes out on numerous occasions.
* MoralityPet: Shishigami has a few. The first one is his mother, [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas whom he loves dearly]]. The second one is his childhood friend Ando, but they later have a falling out after he tells Shishigami to turn himself over to the police. The third and most obvious one and is Shion, a classmate who even manages to make him stop killing and start helping people instead. [[spoiler:Unfortunately after she and her grandmother are shot during a S.W.A.T raid he goes back to being an OmnicidalManiac]].

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted in the manga, as UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump is clearly stated to be the President of the US. Downplayed in the anime, as the President's name is not mentioned, but he's still clearly based on Trump.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Samejima says that the yakuza is fully capable of hunting down Inuyashiki and his family after the nonfatal massacre of yakuza leaders - [[ArcVillain but they drop out of the plot at the same time that he does.]]

* OmnicidalManiac: Like Inuyashiki, Shishigami was also turned into a cyborg by the explosion, but unlike Inuyashiki, he is a sociopath who decides to use his powers to murder people [[ForTheLulz just because he can]].

* RealityEnsues: Shishigami goes on a mass-murder spree with his powers. [[spoiler:It doesn't take the authorities very long at all to track him down. [[BullyingADragon Not that they are able to do a thing to stop him when they find him]].]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Shishigami gives his life to stop the world ending asteroid by triggering the bomb within him to shatter it into small pieces, this trope is subverted, as the explosion doesn't neutralize the threat and it takes Inuyashiki to finish the job.]]

* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Shishigami always says "bang" whenever he shoots his finger gun. He even goes "ratatatata" when using it as a machine gun [[spoiler:to kill the reporters who find and accost his father after he's outed as the serial killer.]] This is also unintentionally funny when both he and Inuyashiki have a shoot-out: the sight of a middle aged man and a teenager making finger guns, shouting "BANG!" and then reacting like they'd been shot would likely make a witness who didn't know this was actually deadly serious smile.
* SelectiveSlaughter: When [[spoiler:Shishigami invades another house to kill the family that lives in it, he finds that there some copycats of his "work" in there that already killed the father. Shishigami kills the copycats and spares the rest of the family, the mother and his daughter.]] However, in a possible subversion of this trope, he probably did it just because [[spoiler:killing the murderers already satisfied his bloodlust.]]

** The Inuyashiki family lives next to a large house belonging to a rich man called [[Creator/EiichiroOda Oda]], who is described by Mari's classmates as a [[Manga/OnePiece famous manga author.]]
** This series also features a [[Series/{{Heroes}} superpowered and normal pair of peers named Hiro and Ando respectively]]
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: [[spoiler: When Inuyashiki reveals his cybernetic nature to his family and sadly notes that he may not be the real Ichiro Inuyashiki, his wife asks him where they went on their honeymoon, and when he can recall it with perfect clarity, she happily realizes that it ''is'' him.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the Live-Action Movie, [[spoiler: since the meteorite did not appear, Inuyashiki is now living happily with his family and now being accepted by them. Shishigami is still alive too, but he is now all alone and heading to an unknown place]].

** The very first people Inuyashiki uses his powers against are a gang of kids harassing a homeless man by firing numerous fireworks before trying to attack him and Inuyashiki with baseball bats. [[LaserGuidedKarma Inuyashiki scares them away, then uploads the entire incident along with their their names and faces online, where everyone can see them.]]
** [[BigBad Shi]][[OmnicidalManiac shi]][[AxCrazy gami]] has no regard for anyone he isn't personally attached to, which leads directly to his murder spree upon becoming a cyborg.

* TomatoInTheMirror: Somehow the aliens are ''so good'' at restoring Inuyashiki and Hiro with memories intact into their new bodies that it takes quite a while for them to figure it out.
* TookALevelInKindness: Inuyashiki's family after [[spoiler:he rescues his daughter, Mari, from a building on fire.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: Inuyashiki has no form whatsoever. When he fights a group of thugs, he flails about very ungracefully. But when he lands a blow, he floors them.

* WeirdnessCensor: Inuyashiki goes to the doctor again after the incident - and leaves the doctors racking their brains over some very weird-looking x-rays. No specialists are called in, and the matter apparently never spreads out of the hospital.
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: After Hiro guns down a bunch of reporters in front of his father's home, his father and his family are never seen again.]]

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Inuyashiki is 58 but looks a lot older. Many people comment on this. This is most likely due to the cancer he had taking it's toll on his body before the alien ship crashed and he was ressurected as a cyborg.

* NotSoDifferent: Shishigami attempts to invoke this to Inuyashiki after they finally meet, claiming that, despite their different motivations, they are only killing and saving people, respectively, because both want to feel as they are still alive and not just being machines that pretend to be their old selves.

* MacrossMissileMassacare: Inuyashiki and Shishigami are each capable of launching hundreds (or possibly ''thousands'') of tiny missiles simultaneously, which are so smart that not only are they capable of striking hundreds of different targets with pinpoint accuracy, but can apparently vary their payload from being less than that of a bullet (for example, to [[spoiler: deliver a FateWorseThanDeath to 237 yakuza thugs by targeting each one's eyes and vertebrae simultaneously so that they're left alive but blind and quadriplegic]]) to being powerful enough to cause massive explosions that shake the city buildings around them.

* FingerFireArms: Shishigami is very capable of this, they're the least of his offensive capabilities. [[spoiler:Later on in their fight, Inuyashiki uses them as well.]]

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Inuyashiki is 58 but looks a lot older. Many people comment on this.
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*** He's also pretty similar to Manga/AstroBoy.

* AdaptedOut: [[spoiler: The meteorite]] and the {{Yakuza}} are nowhere to be found in the Live-Action version.

An 11-episode {{anime}} adaptation by Creator/{{MAPPA}} was released in October 2017, adapting all 10 volumes of the story. There will also be a live-action film adaptation which is set to be released in 2018.

* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Shishigami always says "bang" whenever he shoots his finger gun. He even goes "ratatatata" when using it as a machine gun [[spoiler:to kill the reporters who find and accost his father after he's outed as the serial killer.]]

* {{Bishounen}}: Shishigami is a [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon very handsome young man]], and his physical attractiveness is often mentioned in the manga, especially in the online medium. In spite of being suspected to be a serial killer, there are some people out there who [[DracoInLeatherPants made fan clubs for him.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Shishigami shows that there's some humanity left in him and pulls a HeroicSacrifice to stop an asteroid from crashing into the earth... which isn't enough, prompting Inuyashiki to do the same. But he gets what he wanted at the beginning - his family will remember him.]]
** EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: since the meteorite did not appear in the Live-Action film, Inuyashiki is now accepted by his family after saving his daughter from Shishigami and his heroic deeds were recognized by the media. The only bitter part is that Shishigami now has no family to live for and he leaves his friend behind, leaving to parts unknown. Also doubles as AdaptationalAlternateEnding]].

* ConspicuousCGI: Repeatedly in the anime, most notably with Hanako, and whenever Inuyashi or Shishigami's robot bits are showing. And even when they aren't.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:After Shishigami's mother is DrivenToSuicide, he goes out of his way to kill every one of the [[{{Imageboards}} 2chan]] trolls who laughed at her death, one by one, starting with the one who leaked his identity to the press.]]

** Inuyashiki is Franchise/{{Superman}}
in most respects. Can hear everyone in the world crying for help, is nigh indestructible, SuperStrength, the works. He has the same personality to boot - incorruptible and humble despite his power.

** Inuyashiki is Superman in most respects. Can hear everyone in the world crying for help, is nigh indestructible, SuperStrength, the works. He has the same personality to boot - incorruptible and humble despite his power.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted in the manga, as Donald Trump is clearly stated to be the President of the US. Downplayed in the anime, as the President's name is not mentioned, but he's still clearly based on Trump.

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[[caption-width-right:300: You ''wish'' your dad was this [[BadassGrandpa badass]].]]

* AssholeVictim: The internet troll that doxxed Hiro's mother, [[spoiler: leading to her suicide]]. The trolls that mocked her afterword were taken out next in a montage.
* BadassGrandpa: Inuyashiki after becoming a cyborg.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: in the Live-Action Movie, [[spoiler: since the meteorite did not appear, Inuyashiki is now living happily with his family and now being accepted by them. Shishigami is still alive too, but he is now all alone and heading to an unknown place]].

* AdaptedOut: [[spoiler: the meteorite]] and the {{Yakuza}} are nowhere to be found in the Live-Action version.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Shishigami shows that there's some humanity left in him and performs a HeroicSacrifice to stop an asteroid from crashing into the earth... which isn't enough, prompting Inuyashiki to do the same. But he gets what he wanted at the beginning - his family will remember him.]]

* BookEnds: Inuyashiki is diagnosed with cancer and laments that his family won't give a shit after he's dead...[[spoiler: and at the end, [[HeroicSacrifice after he sacrifices himself to save the world,]] they're all crying their eyes out.]]

* SelectiveSlaughter: When [[spoiler:Shishigami invades another house to kill the family that lives in it, he finds that there some copycats of his "work" in there that already killed the father. Shishigami kills the copycats and spares the rest of the mother and daughter.]] However, in a possible subversion of this trope, he probably did it just because [[spoiler:killing the murderers already satisfied his bloodlust.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Shishigami tells Ando that he finds {{Manga/Gantz}} terrible because of all the murderous characters in it, with himself being turned into a OmnicidalManiac not too long ago.

** EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: since the meteorite did not appear in the Live-Action film, Inuyashiki is now accepted by his family after saving his daughter from Shishigami and his heroic deeds were recognized by the media. the only bitter part is that Shishigami now has no family to live for and he leaves his friend behind, leaving to parts unknown. Also doubles as AdaptationalAlternateEnding]].

* GoodFeelsGood: Nothing gives Inuyashiki greater joy than using his powers to help others. It is the think that makes him feel most human.

** EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: since the meteorite did not appear in the Live-Action film, Inuyashiki is now accepted by his family after saving his daughter from Shishigami and his heroic deeds were recognized by the media. the only bitter part is that Shishigami now has no family to live for and he leaves his friend behind, leaving to parts unknown]].