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Haruo is easily the biggest fighter in the Kengan Annihilation Tournament , with an extremely heavy set, bulky, overweight frame. He has a chubby hairless face, generally squinted eyes and black hair that is neatly combed and parted to each side with a flick of hair sprouting from the top. Haruo wears a pair of circular glasses, as well as a pair of dungarees with the company he is representing, Nentendo, imprinted on the top of it. After his encounter with Sekibayashi Jun , he trades this in for a Super Japan Pro Wrestling t-shirt.
Haruo when he was Haru
When Haruo was still "Haru", he was an extremely tall, muscularly well-defined youth with his hair set into locks that fell either side his head. At that time he wore only a loincloth and weighed an impressive 158kg. [1]
Two years after the events of the Kengan Annihilation Tournament, Haruo has grown even larger with his CJW t-shirt barely fitting over his stomach. Jose Kanzaki noted that Haruo gains at least 10kg every tour. [7]

Haruo is extremely lazy and addicted to computer games and sweets. He seemed disinterested before fighting Akoya, and would have rather played video games. He is easily frustrated when presented with challenges, whether in video games or in fighting, and throws frequent tantrums which require near-constant repairs to his house.
Haruo, when still "Haru", was a kind and caring person to his village with the villagers seeing him as a symbol of strength and protectiveness. This was shown by how reluctant he was to leave the village after Kono Akio came to recruit him and the tears he shed when he was leaving.
Two years after the events of the Kengan Annihilation Tournament, Haruo is a more upbeat and jovial person, having found a new reason for living and training under Sekibayashi Jun and Kurachi Karugo . His voracious appetite has not wavered however, enthusiastically enjoying meal times when they present themselves.


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Raian is a muscular man of above-average height. He has short, spiked light blond hair with a small widow's peak and a notch on his hairline's right side. As a member of the Kure Clan, he has dark scelera eyes. He bears a passing resemblance to the current clan patriarch, Kure Erioh , during his youth.
His combat attire during the Kengan Annihilation Tournament consisted of a dark pair of fighting shorts a white cross. In the Kengan Association VS Purgatory Tournament , he wears a similar pair with its colors inverted.
In regards to casual wear, Raian developed a preference for sportswear-based fashion two years after the Annihilation Tournament, wearing unzipped track jackets with a tank top undershirt and matching track pants underneath.

Raian is a violent and psychopathic man who cares for little more than domination, violence, and killing. He does not seem to bear any remorse for his violent actions, and in fact, appears to relish in it. He speaks aggressively and often with profanity. He also does not seem to enjoy or care for camaraderie or festive social events, seeing as how he derisively dismissed his clan's farewell party for Ohma Tokita as "kumbaya shit."
In his first appearance during the Kengan Annihilation Tournament , Raian was testy and hostile towards just about everyone around him, even his own clan's patriarch. Raian often went out of his way to provoke fellow tournament participants Lihito or Mikazuchi Rei . He always made it clear that he would kill all of the tournament participants to prove that he was the "strongest".
Raian never hesitates to taunt, insult, and provoke people to get a rise and stir conflict, such as when he ambushed Lihito in the restroom and when he mocked and derided Mokichi Robinson throughout their match in the Kengan Annihilation Tournament .
According to Kure Karura , Raian is considered the black sheep of his clan, most likely because of his psychopathic and ruthless attitude. Erioh himself said to Katahara Metsudo that Raian is "irregular" among his fellow clan members and described him as a "demon who slaughters as many people as he wants".
Despite this, Raian can act level-headed and composed to a degree, especially two years after the Annihilation Tournament, demonstrating a more condescending side of his personality that contrasts his indiscriminate brutality that tends to come out when he is sufficiently motivated — or provoked.
He also likes to test his strength against strong opponents that interests him, such as Edward Wu . Right after his fight against Alan Wu , Raian chased Edward until he finally found and provoked him to fight to the death.


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Kuroki is a powerfully imposing individual with a large mass of black hair atop his head with an equally voluminous beard, and stern, hardened facial features. In combat, he wears a black gi.
At around 35 years of age, Kuroki's hair was relatively short, and only had a short stubble where his beard would later grow.

Kuroki is a generally stern and taciturn individual, who does not make idle chatter and only speaks when necessary, avoiding being wasteful with his words and his time. Despite adamantly refusing to accept apprentices, he seems to be a natural teacher and tends to teach by example in the middle of combat, even though he denies this.
Because of his tremendous experience and skill, he has very little patience for the arrogant, especially those who are weak. He very rarely brings his full force to bear against weaker opponents and pulls his punches before killing blows. However, in the rare case where he is angered, his wrath is fearsome and relentless.
Kuroki is not above being arrogant and prove it to his opponent, like in his fight against Kiryu Setsuna when he drew an imaginary circle and limitated himself in that spot just to show to Kiryu how much stronger he is than him.


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Leonardo is a tall man with ash blonde hair and a thin mustache. He wears a bright blue gi when fighting. Outside of the arena, he is always well dressed with proper shoes, a patterned shirt, and sunglasses

Leonardo, like most fighters, is very confident in his fighting prowess. While he mostly has a relaxed expression, Leonardo can be very hot headed when push comes to shove.


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Lihito is a brute of a man with a bulky, powerful build, a hairless face, messy blonde hair and small blonde eyebrows. He has an animated facial expression, usually beaming with confidence.

Lihito is a very self-confident person who doesn't have much in the way of nous, being easily tricked into becoming part of Nogi's team to try and win the Kengan Annihilation Tournament .
He is also a shameless pervert who is always trying it on with women. Akiyama Kaede is one such unfortunate target of his shameless ways. His behavior with her borders on outright harrassment, insistently trying with her regardless of her very openly disliking the notion.


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Meguro was a heavy-set man, with a notably muscular upper body and an overall hunched, bestial posture. He had a messy mop of spiky black hair on his head, psychotic eyes, a dark strip tattooed across the middle of his face from ear to ear and a seemingly permanent open-mouthed grin with his abnormally long tongue lolling out. Meguro wore dark coveralls with the middle tied with rope and he always went barefoot. Before this outfit, Meguro would sport a normal black judogi.

Meguro could be described as a clinically insane person who had severe sadistic, masochistic and psychopathic tendencies. He greatly enjoyed the act of murder and constantly uttered to himself how he should go about the act, always wondering whether the kill would be better than the murder of his father. His sheer ecstasy when fighting and killing lead him to cry blood , earning him the nickname the "Crying Man". He was also incredibly impatient, which was a weakness of his. [1]
In his younger days, for a very long time Meguro was able to hide his true nature and he put up an alarmingly gentle, loving façade for thirteen years, with all those around him respecting him for his talent and behaviour. After freeing himself of the burden of hiding his true nature, he since devolved into nothing more than a beast.


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Rei is an attractive young man with a youthful face, voluminous spiky black hair with two very large bangs that fall either side of his face, eyes with a bored look in them and a powerfully defined physique.

Rei is an extremely confident man, bordering on arrogance, believing himself unbeatable due to his martial arts style (though after fighting Saw Paing, he began to doubt himself). He is also obsessively in love with his employer, Kurayoshi Rino , clinging to her and burying his face in her cleavage at every opportunity he can, and looking upset whenever she is paying attention to someone else; Rei loves everything about Rino. [1] For Rino, Rei stopped killing and swore with his lover that he would never kill again. Before this, Rei was a completely apathetic killing machine, feeling nothing special about it and never hesitating to kill people or avenge someone's death, even his father. [5] Despite all this, Mikazuchi Rei is still a fighter who wants to get stronger. After being defeated by Kuroki Gensai , he set his sights on trying to surpass him, thinking the "him" now is not enough. [6]


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Misasa is a small man with a very lean, toned build and a bob haircut that is perpetually swept to his right. His default expression is a tired gaze with a confident smile. Wearing a black suit and tie, he keeps on his dress shirt and pants when fighting.

Misasa is orderly and professional at nearly all times. In casual environments, and even amongst other fighters, he retains his politeness in spite of Lihito and Naoya Ohkubo's skepticism of his abilities as the Fang of Metsudo during their first meeting and acting as a mediator between the Kengan Fighters' clashes. Despite his prestige, Misasa remains humble, stating himself to be a "rookie" of the Association's thirteen representatives.
However, Misasa also has acerbic and somewhat vulgar side of himself, albeit with his level-headededness intact. He ridiculed The Black Messengers in their unsuccessful attack on Ganryu Island during the Kengan Annihilation Tournament , laughing about it to his fellow Extermination Force member and direct superior, Katahara Retsudo . During the Merger Tournament, he taunted Hikaru into fighting him.
When fighting seriously, Misasa is ruthless and unflinching. Pairing this with his masterful combat skills, Misasa is capable of expressing his aggression and viciousness through his fighting style once he decides that it is time to finish a fight—a trait based off of his habit of toying around with his opponents before getting serious in the "last minute", as noted by his teammate Kaike .
Misasa especially dislikes Hikaru, due to him using the title of Fang as a stepping stone, as well as killing one of his former subordinates.


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Mokichi is tall, muscular man with flowing chin-length blonde hair that is split on either side and gentle blue eyes. He normally wears his priest garments, even when he's not actively on priest duty. While fighting, Mokichi wears a keikogi of his style.
When he was younger, Mokichi's hair was longer, wore more casual attire and had a lip piercing.
Two years after the tournament, Mokichi now has a noticeable scar around his neck from the near-fatal injuries he sustained after his fight against Kure Raian .

Mokichi is a very serene man who is generally very happy and always smiling, especially when his younger half-sister Elena Robinson joins and supports him. However, Mokichi is overwhelmingly overprotective of Elena, becoming surprisingly aggressive to any men who dare to come close to and/or talk to his sister. On one occasion, he called two oglers "dead wankers" when he caught them checking Elena out. [8]


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Murasame is an imposing, heavyset individual with chipmunk-like facial features, small eyes, a noticeable lack of eyebrows with prominent eyebrow ridges and dark hair set into short twists with the sides of his head shaven.

Murasame is an arrogant individual befitting of his large bulk.


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Murobuchi Gozo is a powerfully athletic man with a strong build, short cropped black hair with a small widow's peak, a long face, with a circle extended goatee beard and confident eyes. He is almost always sporting a confident grin. Murobuchi tends to wear clothes from the United Clothing brand, the company he fights for.

Murobuchi is a confident individual with an indomitable attitude when it comes to overcoming seemingly insurmountable challenges, no doubt due to his background as an unbeatable gold medallist decathlete.
In spite of that, he is also humble, admitting Akoya is his superior.


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Muteba is a tall, very muscular black man with whited-out eyes and whose entire head and body are covered in numerous tribal tattoos. While fighting in the Kengan Annihilation Tournament, he wears only a pair of black Speedos, except for between rounds, where he typically wears high-class formal wear such as his white suit topped with a fedora and sunglasses.

Muteba is a rather calm and composed individual and is known to take pleasure in the "manhunt" of his opponents; he believes in the ideal that people without money or power should know their place. He also has a voracious sexual appetite. Despite enjoying the thrill of a "manhunt" and also of fighting strong opponents, Muteba values his survival above everything else and will not continue a pursuit if he feels it is not worth the risk. [6] Despite his delight in the "manhunt", Muteba is offended when compared to serial killers like Meguro Masaki and does not attempt to kill his other opponents as there is no reason to.
He shows respect to the fighting spirit and style of Sekibayashi Jun , and is generally friendly with everyone he meets. Despite his grim profession and composed attitude, Muteba almost always has a smile and a jovial comment for any situation.
Muteba is also very fashion-conscious, considering himself a sapeur , and dresses in fancy suits in his off-time. [7] [1]


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A young man, Koga has a lean muscular build, green eyes, and wavy spiked hair; his hair and eyebrows are both bleached white. [7] (his natural hair color is dark). [8] Outside of his karate gi , he has been shown wearing a button-up dress shirt over a white under-shirt with a gold chain necklace, white pants, and loafers. Koga tends to dress in very stylish, expensive-looking clothes.

Koga is a brash, somewhat arrogant young man who has an intense thirst for overwhelming violent power; to that end, he harbors an underlying inferiority complex stemming from his crushing defeat to Tokita Ohma three years prior. Koga is short-tempered and quickly flies off the handle when his buttons are pressed. Despite this, he can be polite when he wants to be and is also surprisingly diligent, working hard so that he doesn't have to owe anyone. He acts like a backwoods delinquent, for better or worse, though he is gentle towards close friends but shows open hostility against those he considers his enemy. [2] His demeanor is slowly changing after meeting Yamashita Kazuo and the others.
After the Merger Tournament, Koga became calmer and more mellowed out. He was far more amicable with Ohma, with the latter even going so far as to teach him the Niko Style because he asked. His habit of wishing to be trained by various fighters, even the ones who just defeated him, earns him respect and connections with them such as Ohma, Utsubuki Kokuro , Funayama Yoshiki, Carlos Medel , Liu Dongcheng , Kanoh Agito and Rolón Donaire . Medel himself gives much praise for this "greedy" trait, believing not just anyone can do it.


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Nezu is an extremely tall, muscular young man. He looks like a stereotypical classic delinquent, complete with an impossibly large pompadour and a prominent chin. He also has uniquely-shaped eyebrows that are zigzagged at their ends. Nezu spends most of his time dressed in the mascot costume of Mockey Mouse. The costume is only about half as big as he is, forcing him to scrunch in at an impossible angle.

Nezu is described as being a strong idiot with a huge adoration towards Mockey Mouse (and Tochigi Destiny Land as a whole). He was heart-broken when he discovered Tochigi Destiny Land was closing.


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Ren possesses an androgynous face with sharp eyes surrounded by black eyeliner, sharp eyelashes, a hairless visage and black hair set in a side-parting, with one side being swept over the left side of his face. He has an extremely toned but lean physique. He tends to have a stern, unnamed expression on his face and wears a sleeveless chángshān with floral patterns down the right side.
In battle, he wears a much more revealing black outfit, covering only his chest and groin, and leaving his midriff exposed. The upper portion has a symbol on the back with a striking resemblance to a yin-yang. He also wears long fingerless gloves and leg warmers on his shins. This outfit is not a traditional Heavenly Wolves outfit, and is actually one made to suit his own tastes. [1] He has also been known to wear extremely risqué outfits in public. [4] [5]

Ren is a decidedly narcissistic person with a firm belief in his own strength; his narcissism is blinding, living to the beat of his own drum and being completely oblivious to others' notice of it. [6] He is deceptively forceful and willing to use lethal force to maintain order.


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Okubo is an extremely muscular, powerful-looking man of great height. His shoulders, back, and arm muscles are massive, befitting his wrestling background. He has a plain round face, with subtle tear-troughs, and a shaved head.
During bouts he wears only shorts with black and red vertical stripes. Outside of that, he wears a combination of t-shirts and trousers, with the occasional baseball cap and chains that Ryo likened him to a rapper. During the Merger Tournament, Naoya dressed as Kuidaore Taro , the mascot of the Osaka area from which he hails. He eventually removes his hat and glasses, and then his boots once it was his turn to fight.

Okubo is a goofy, light-hearted man, considered by many to be less than intellectual as evidenced by his stubbornness in playing Shogi to the point of losing composure. His personality is quite like Lihito, with the two getting along with one another mainly predicated on their shared perveted and lecherous interests.
That being said, all this bellies an extremely intelligent and analytical fighter. Naoya, despite being considered to be a flip-flopper in his choice of sports, has dedicated himself fully to fighting, not missing a single day of training and being driven to win, to the point of not losing his fighting spirit after being defeated by Agito Kanoh , when not many others whom have been defeated by the Fang can lay claim to the same feat. He also displays a more impulsive and hot-blooded behavior whenever something goes wrong.


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Ozu is an extremely muscular and powerful looking man with tanned skin, sharp powerful facial features, a confident grin, small eyes and slicked down black hair that is parted in the middle. Despite being Koyo Academy's affiliated fighter, while working as an English Literature Professor he wears rectangular glasses.

Ozu is a very confident man, due in part to the large amount of time he put in to attain his strength as well as his undefeated record in the Kengan Matches . He took his roles very seriously, seen when he pulled no punches while examining potential fighters in Koyo Academy's hidden fight. Ozu is very fussy about his public image and maintained a gentle persona while working as an English Literature Professor, however while fighting his true fight-loving persona came to the surface.


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Sawada is a very androgynous young man with beautiful golden eyes with eyeshadow and eyeliner applied, carefully done eyelashes, lips with lipstick applied to them and a remarkably unique hairstyle resembling that of a Kabuki lion. Sawada has an extremely well-defined lithe figure, befitting of his ballet dancer background.

Sawada believes very strongly in manners, etiquette and fairness, especially in regards to women, getting aggressively fierce when such things are called into question. He also gets extremely offended when referred to with homophobic slurs.


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Sekibayashi is a monster of a man with a dense heavy-set musculature befitting his power as a professional wrestler. He has broad facial features, cauliflower ears, usually sets his hair into cornrows, he has determined eyes and a distinguishing tattoo around his left eye.
Before the start of his match with Kiozan Takeru , Sekibayashi had his hair styled in a reverse ginkgo leaf top knot tied with a white string to mock Kiozan, before he got it ripped off by him just before their match started.

Sekibayashi is a proud professional wrestler who takes his occupation very seriously, maintaining that as a wrestler it is his responsibility to tank any and all damage that comes his way. To that end, he fights with entertaining the audience as his first goal and defeating his opponent the second.
Even in a non-wrestling, underground match, Sekibayashi maintains kayfabe, or at least, his in-stage character.


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Despite his age, Takemoto has a well-defined frame, is mostly bald, with some greyed hair remaining on the back of his head, has whited out eyes and many wrinkles adorning his visage, a sign of his elderly age.


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Ohma is a handsome tan-skinned man of above-average height and has an extremely athletic build. His most notable trait is his mop of messy, dark hair that has been compared to seaweed. In addition, Ohma possesses a narrow gaze that exudes both confidence and general indifference.
He usually wears a black and grey t-shirt, blue jeans and gold-white sneakers. In his first appearance, he wore a red and white hooded jacket that had white Christian crosses on both sides of the sleeves.
His first set of fighting attire was a pair of black boxing shorts that are red at the bottom. During the Annihilation Tournament, Ohma wore light-blue colored boxing shorts with black spats underneath. He would also wear this in the Merger Tournament.

Ohma is a rough, yet well-meaning individual. He was initially rather arrogant, which often surfaced whenever he fought. During his fights, he was condescending and often belittled and provoked his opponents.
A defining trait of Ohma is his lust for battle; ever eager to fight against those who are strong. Despite this love for fighting, he will not fight those that refuse to fight him. Such was the case when Kazuo and his son had done so on separate occasions. That being said, he was also short-tempered and can be quite violent. He was willing to physically assault Nogi Hideki , his employer, when the latter refused to make him Nogi Group's representative fighter, before being stopped by Hatsumi Sen .
Ohma was not without his good traits, however. He is less aggressive and even protective to those that support him, such as when he protected Akiyama Kaede when she was trapped together with him in the Kengan Annihilation Tournament preliminaries.
After meeting Karla, he was shocked after learning her motives, additionally running away from her. She is the only one  who made fear due to her desire to mate him.
After regaining his memories he becomes more open and less arrogant to the point where he is capable of casually speaking with other fighters and able to speak with Karla without running away.
As he was born and raised in The Inside , Ohma lacked basic education on simple facts and was also illiterate. He often called people by their full names; in the manga, their names are spelled using katakana rather than with kanji. The notable exceptions are when Ohma refers to Tokita Niko and Kiryu Setsuna .
Two years after, Ohma now calls people by their first or last names. However, he still refers to Kazuo by his full name, showing his fondness and attachment towards his former employer and their time together. His relationship with Narushima Koga , while started off as hostile, seems to have turned amicable with each other. Ohma also shows to be pleased with Koga's progress as a fighter, giving him advices on getting stronger during their sparring.


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Nitoku is a languid-looking man with a muscular frame, messy dark hair that falls loosely on his head, indolent-looking eyes and a very light sprinkling facial hair above his lip and on his chin. During battle, he appears to wear loose-fitting dark-coloured yukata over shorts spats. When not fighting, Nitoku wears a small pair of spectacles.

Nitoku is a very relaxed individual and, befitting his occupation, is articulate and sharp. He is also shrewd, managing to coax out information regarding the upcoming Kengan Association VS Purgatory Tournament from Kazuo Yamashita . [6] Due to being a professional writer, he often questions why he returns to fighting after his "retirements".
He has a habit of suddenly announcing his retirement before making a return. [5] This is because he lives on the bare minimum financially, then focuses on writing. Nitoku only enters another match when he runs out of money. [6]


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Kokuro is a tan-skinned man with broad, dark, intimidating features. He has a noticeably powerful musculature, typical of most affiliated fighters, black hair set in a relaxed bulb and skin-faded, an angular chin with a thin layer of facial hair running along his jawline and pronounced eyebrow ridges with an apparent lack of eyebrows. He is a smoker, often seen with a lit cigarette in his mouth when relaxing. Kokuro seems to prefer wearing simple outfits along with basic sandals.

In contrast to his intimidating appearance, Kokuro is actually quite a respectful and genial individual. [1] He chided Koga for calling the opponents he had defeated "weak" and gave the boy praise after knocking him out for fighting him fairly, even calling Koga an ambulance. [5] [6] In battle, Kokuro is particularly composed and rational, able to make pragmatic decisions that are unaffected by conceit in his own abilities. [7]


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Takeshi is a powerfully imposing individual with dense well-defined musculature. He has short blonde hair, thick blonde facial hair on his chin, dark eyebrows, a chiselled cheek structure and discerning eyes. Takeshi tends to wear tight-fitting tops that accentuate his already muscular frame, as well as simple pants and footwear to finish off his outfits.
After his battle with Julius Reinhold , the right side of Takeshi's head was left shaved, and remained that way for the rest of the Kengan Annihilation tournament. His hair has since returned to its original state since then and the skin tone difference in the side of his face that had been grafted is still present.
In the past, Takeshi dyed his hair black, before reverting to his natural hair colour.

Takeshi is quiet, yet easy to befriend. He's highly analytical, making observations some people wouldn't notice. When fighting, he's incredibly ferocious, according to his ephithet, but will change his strategy at the last minute if needed. This was shown during his battle with Julius, where he took all of Julius's blows, then defeated him with a vicious kick to the head, after he deduced he couldn't win through body strikes. He values strength above most other things, though he is also humble and modest, and honestly admits to being nervous when entering a fight. Despite his calm-and-collected personality, Takeshi is surprisingly sloppy. [1]
Takeshi is also very cautious. He does not usually share his techniques and tends to keep them as a secret. He also doesn't like to show his injuries received in combat to avoid information leaking to his opponents, just like after his fight against Julius Reinhold, Takeshi refused medical attention so as not to disclose confidential information  about himself to his next oponent.
He hides a side of himself that does not mind sacrificing his physical integrity in order to face Kanoh Agito and get his revenge, proving that he's also quite obsessive and thirsty for a rematch against his greatest obstacle.


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Ichinoshin had an appearance vaguely similar to his descendant. He had thick black eyebrows, a narrow discerning gaze and black hair with the sides shaved. Fitting of his fighting prowess, Ichinoshin had a very defined musculature.

Ichinoshin was an honorable, steadfast, and noble man. He had a strong bond with his employer to whom he swore absolute loyalty, and even fought to help Eikichi achieve his dream despite being badly wounded.


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Saw Paing is a Burmese fighter with a lean yet well-built and tall physique. He arguably appears much younger than he is, with a youthful and hairless face and spiky, voluminous brown hair and hazel eyes. True to his personality, he often sports a determined and enthusiastic expression with wide eyes and a perpetual grin.
During bouts, he wears nothing except red shorts, a mongkol (also known as a mongkhon) and a pra jiad on both arms, being his headband and armbands respectively traditionally worn during Muay Thai bouts to ascribe confidence and luck to the fighter. Outside of bouts, he prefers to wears shorts and Hawaiian shirts.

Saw Paing is the polar opposite of his self-proclaimed rival, Kaolan Wongsawat ; while the latter is calm and apathetic, Saw Paing is hot-blooded, brash, and easily excitable. He is a frequent shouter and yells loud enough to drown out the announcer on the mic in a crowded stadium. [3] His adoptive father, Sanemitsu, casually states that Saw Paing is not a very intelligent person, though he does have (a certain degree of) common sense. [2] Despite his hot-blooded nature, Saw Paing is surprisingly understanding, such as delaying fights with Kaolan if the latter has an appointment. [12]
His rivalry with Kaolan is seemingly one-sided; after Kaolan beat him in a cross-border match at age 16, he frequently sneaks across the border to challenge him to a rematch, even climbing up Kaolan's high-rise apartment to do so, [13] much to the latter's annoyance. [14]


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The infiltrator mimicked the real Yuzaki physically. He had an imposingly intimidating individual with a powerful and muscular frame, black slicked back hair and dark rings around both eyes. He almost always had an apathetic expression on his face, though when pressed during battle he would take on a frightening ghost-like expression. However, Toyoda Idemitsu noted he could tell that this Yuzaki was not the real one by the individual's eyes. [2]

He appeared to be extremely taciturn, rarely uttering anything, and possessed a very intimidating and frightening aura.


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Kaede is a beautiful young woman with bra-strap length or mid-back length (when let down as seen in Chapter 168 ) blonde hair that is tied in a ponytail with bangs swept to the right side and some parts swept a little to the left side while she has a chin-length hair strand hanging on the right side as her bangs, brown eyes and her most notable feature is her big bust.
She wears red oval-shaped glasses and a long sleeve white shirt with a coral-pink blazer that is fully buttoned.
In Story , back when Kaede started working as Nogi Hideki 's secretary, her hair was styled in a bob similar to Akiyama Sakura 's hairstyle.

While Kaede seems like she has a cold persona, the truth is that she is just socially awkward. [1] However, she usually holds a professional demeanor about her and is quite polite to those she interacts with. She appears to have a complex about her weight and age, getting noticeably irritated when the topic is brought up and chastising people who bring attention to it.


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Sakura is an attractive young lady with a bob of blonde hair that has bangs swept to the left side and beautiful yet droopy golden eyes with thin eyebrows. While she generally has a disembodied expression on her face, Sakura tends to pout when she is being mocked.
She almost always wears smart clothing and dresses.

Despite holding such an authoritative position, Sakura is a surprisingly absent-minded person who often gets lost in her own world; in that sense she is the complete opposite of her younger sister Akiyama Kaede . She has been described as a person who marches to the beat of her own drum; because of this trait, Sakura unconsciously manipulates the people around her, including her sister Kaede and even Kiozan Takeru . [1]


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Fujio is a well-defined man with sharp cheekbones, focused eyes and facial hair on his chin. He typically wears an encompassing black beanie on his head, a black vest, dark cargo pants held up by a utility belt, combat boots and pyramidal knuckledusters on his fists.

Described as an "evil madman" and a "callous violence machine", Fujio is a man whose principles lie in that he will do almost anything as long as he is paid for it. [1]


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Edward was a large imposing man with a devilish face and slicked-back, light-colored hair. Like the other Wu and Kure, he had black-sclera eyes with white pupils. Edward tended to wear loud purple animal print short-sleeved shirts with slacks, dress shoes, and sunglasses that covered his distinctive eyes.

A recipient of Wu Hei's memories and personality, Edward was both outwardly confident and extremely dangerous. He took his business with the Kure Clan very seriously, more so than his affiliation with The Worm. Edward was also quite prideful of his Clan, deeming them to be quite different if not superior to the Worm. However, he was still respectful enough to acknowledge Raian's strength, considering him, at the very least, someone interesting to have fun with.
He didn't appear to enjoy fighting that much, at least not for its own sake, given his continually shown preference for ending fights quickly and his annoyance at how the Kure he fought kept getting back up. He also proposed to Wu Xing and Kure Erioh that they stop fighting and negotiate, suggesting that he genuinely wanted to reunite the Westward and Mainline Wu along with the Kure Clan. However, it's just as likely that he was lying, trying to get them to let their guards down or just for taunting them.


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Elena is a beautiful young woman with flowing upper-back length blonde hair that has chest-length hair strands hanging on either side, gentle blue eyes, a deceptively defined physique and a small frame.
She tends to wear dresses that goes down to her thighs, and stockings that match.

Elena is a gentle and sweet individual who is generally very happy, especially when she's around her older half-brother Mokichi. She has also grown to be close friends to Kure Karura . She's known to be very kind as well, showing care for Mokichi and Hanafusa Hajime when the two "died."


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Furumi is a portly individual with a round chubby face with generally round facial features including a round nose and round eyes. He has thick black eyebrows and a thick black Jewfro .
He is almost always seen wearing a smart formal business suit.

Furumi is a casually jovial individual in general. He is a very compassionate person who acts on his sense of duty; [2] this can be seen when he mentioned that as he runs a pharmaceutical company, he will treat anyone regardless of who they are, even if they are a criminal on death row. [3] Much like many of the Kengan Association members, Furumi is very composed, casually conversing with Dazai Yukio despite being threatened. [3] He describes himself as an "active fatty", but is concerned about his non-stop weight gain. [1]


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Mukaku was a powerfully imposing individual, with a bulky muscular frame and an obviously battle-worn body and face littered with scars. He had a mat of hair atop his head, thick distinctive eyebrows, cauliflower ears and thin stubble above his lip and on his chin. Gaoh typically wore dark bottoms and wrapped his stomach in bandages (essentially creating a rudimentary haramaki ) with a loop of bandage wrapping over each shoulder.
In Ryuki's memories of him, Mukaku was much older than when he was training the Tokita Niko's . He had grown out a goatee, and his eyes had grown weary, either from age or something else. His two scars and eyebrows remain very much the same however.
In his full first appearance in Omega , he is seen a little chubbier and wore a tatterred, sleeveless kimono and a kasa. While he was training the Nikos, his hair hadn't gone grey yet, and sported a bushy mustache.

On the surface, Gaoh Mukaku seems like a mellow but joyful old man who cares for his disciples. He also shows a comedic side like when he was shocked to know that Katahara Retsudo was Katahara Metsudo son and not his grandson.
In reality, he's an immensly cold-hearted opportunist. Perhaps born out of witnessing Wulong slaughter his entire tribe, Mukaku would grab any advantage he could, no matter who got harmed or killed. He saw not only his disciples, but even his adoptive grandson Ryuki as a means to an end, not caring if they die or not. Back in the day he would even use his comrades as shields to survive. [2] His other most notable trait was his massive grudge against Wulong. Despite this grudge, he's also painfully aware that he can't ever beat him in a straight fight. In one of his conversations with Ryuki, he admitted that he knows that all things he had done were awful. If he died, then everything he had done would be for nothing. At the very least, he trusted that if he did die, Ryuki will carry out his vengeance in his stead.
Mukaku's life was filled with abandoned plans. He always sought the strength needed to take on Wulong, but lacked the heart necessary to go through with them the moment a setback occurs. His motivations for fighting was simply to survive and kill Wulong.


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Genzan was a gruff-looking older man with a wrinkled face, thick messy fair hair atop his head, a lack of eyebrows with thick eyebrow ridges, deadened eyes and a well-defined muscular build. He tended to wear traditional keikogi .

Genzan appeared to be a man who greatly enjoyed the thrill of battle and the self-achievement of killing powerful foes.


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Hayami Katsumasa was a distinguished looking gentleman with graying hair set in a middle-parting and a thick grey mustache. The left side of his face was horrifically disfigured and his left eye was whitened. He was always seen wearing a light-colored smart suit.
Twenty years ago, when he found Meguro Masaki , Hayami had dark hair and lacked a mustache. However, his facial disfigurement was still present during this time.

Hayami was an extremely intimidating individual, able to exert charismatic pressure that rivals that of Katahara Metsudo . He had an opportunistic, ruthless, and Machiavellian disposition in his ambitious hunger for power and influence, finding those who work under him, no matter how skilled or capable they may be, as little more than expendable pawns that only exist to help elevate his position. To this end, he was willing to go to great lengths and commit atrocities in order to secure dominance in the political and financial worlds that he inhabitated.
However, it was implied by Yoroizuka Sanemitsu that he wasn't the malicious individual he currently was, back in the earlier days of the Kengan Association, once described as an idealistic individual who pursued his goals with his fellow comrades.


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Hiyama is a petite young woman with black hair set in a neat bob hairstyle with neatly cut square bangs that fall just over her eyes, large dark eyes, small full lips with dark lipstick applied to them and a moderately sized bosom.

Hiyama is an extremely precise woman who tracks her life to the second. However, she seems to have a crippling dislike of solitude [1] as seen when she lost her normally calm composure after Akoya Seishu criticized her for her performance in his match. [2] She is completely tied to Akoya, in a manner far beyond Stockholm syndrome , and views him as her saviour, despite his actions of enforcing justice going beyond reason.
She has a surprising lack of modesty, like attempting to walk into a shower naked before even getting close to the shower. [3]


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Ivan is a man with a lean build, fair hair, a thin face with deep cheekbones, barely any eyebrows and thin stubble on his chin.

Ivan is very confident in his own abilities, bordering on overconfidence. While generally maintaining a cool, focused demeanour, this crumbles when he is put in a pinch.


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Metsudo is a distinguished old man with sharp defined facial features, noticeably defined wrinkles, long white hair that flows past his neck, piercing eyes, thick white eyebrows, a white thick moustache and a short thick beard that splits down the middle.
He is typically seen wearing traditional high-class Japanese robes.

Metsudo is an extremely confident and wily individual who takes pride in the influential position he has maintained for scores of years. He is very enthusiastic and animated when announcing to others. His jovial person belies an incredible dominating and overwhelmingly presence that is said to feel like he is the supernatural compressed into human form; Metsudo was noted to feel like he was erupting with energy like a volcano with his outlandish pressure still growing despite his age. [4]
He is shown to be incredibly whimsical and flexible, choosing to rarely enforce rules as long as breaking them makes things more interesting, and showing little regard for his own safety, much to the consternation of his Bodyguards. He relishes challenge, as evidenced by his changes to the tournament rules that put himself at a disadvantage. He enjoys spending time with Association members, fighters, and his relatives, and particularly enjoys the company of foreign visitors, introducing them to elements of Japanese culture, and trying out his heavily accented English.
While he is the oldest living member of the Kengan Association, he is still often regarded as a newcomer by many members whose ancestors have been in the Association for centuries.


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Retsudo is a good-looking young man with condescending look in his eyes, neatly styled red hair that falls over the right side of his face and is tied into a single distinct braided plait (which was done by his sister Sayaka), [2] thin dark eyebrows, a lack of facial hair and a distinguishing tattoo of Hebrew script that runs down the left side of his face, running over his left eye.
Like the Bodyguards that serve his father, Retsudo is always seen wearing a smart formal black suit leaving the top buttons of his white shirt undone.

Retsudo is a man who is fully confident in his own abilities as well as the abilities of his peers and colleagues. To this end, he can come across as seeming very arrogant and condescending. However, he has a fierce loyalty to his fellow Bodyguards and appreciates when actions are made in their favor, as shown when he rewarded Tokita Ohma for subduing Kiryu Setsuna after the latter had killed some of the Bodyguards. [3]
He is incredibly protective of his half-sister Sayaka , and disapproves of her revealing outfits and her naiveté with men. This leads his teammates on the Extermination Force to speculate that he has a sister complex; he does indeed have a severe sister complex. [1] [2] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Retsu's most prominent trait is his ambition to one day take over the Kengan Association. Like his father, he is very cunning and inteligent, being able to outsmart Gaoh Mukaku and make him give away his affiliation to the Worm.


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Sayaka is an extremely beautiful young woman with smooth tanned skin, straight platinum hair that is partially plaited on the left side with long bangs hanging on the right side, red eyes and a voluptuous hourglass figure.
In the first round, she wears a low-cut, high-slitted dark evening gown. This was later changed to a skirted corset with high boots in the second round, and then a shoulderless, midriff-baring, pencil-skirted leather dress during the final day.
In the anime, Sayaka is mostly seen wearing a red ankle-length dress that splits at the bottom on the lower left side where it stops to her thigh and white high-heels.

Sayaka is an enthusiastic and bubbly individual who is very tolerant and open-minded, able to get along with anyone like Yoroizuka Saw Paing or Himuro Ryo without getting easily offended. [2]
Sayaka also possesses a sort of exhibitionist streak, wearing clothes or dresses that reveal her skin and happily taking baths with others regardless of their gender, much to the chagrin of her younger half-brother Katahara Retsudo .


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Gunji is a large man, roughly the same height and size as Takayama Minoru , with squared features, ruffled blonde hair and sideburns, a near-permanent grinning expression and multiple scars on his face. He is always seen wearing a pair of tinted glasses and wears the typical white suit of the Guardians.

Gunji appears to be a very confident and derisive individual, as seen when he arrogantly mocked Takayama Minoru before fighting him. [2] However, he also appears to be cautious to a degree as he was willing to abandon his position when he thought Hayami's plans were doomed to fail. [3]


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Kurachi is a powerfully built man with a well-defined bulky musculature, cropped black hair, a neatly styled moustache, cauliflower ears and a permanent grin on his face.

Kurachi is a man who takes pride in the art of wrestling. He is also apparently very Spartan in his ways.


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Rino is an overall beautiful and classy-looking woman with mid-back length blond hair (maroon-colored in anime ) that is styled in curly ringlets at the tips where it two hair strands falls past her neck to her sizeable chest with bangs swept to the left side, an hourglass figure and full lips neatly painted with red lipstick.
She wears an ankle-length sleeveless dress that exposes her chest/back and high heels.

In the manga, the top part of her dress has flower patterns all over it and she wears light-colored high heels. In Chapter 41 , she was seen wearing a beaded necklace with a heart in the middle. Her design in the anime is much simpler where her dress is plain white and her high heels are a yale-blue color.

Rino is an "alpha female", able to manipulate and make "alpha males" submit to her on a whim. Despite her standing as a Kengan Association member, she has a revulsion towards "unnatural deaths" (such as the deaths caused in the Kengan matches ). [2] As a result, whenever one of Rino's fighters lost just a single match, she would "order" them to quit using her power so that they wouldn't die. [2]


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Erioh was an elderly man with slicked-back silver hair and a wrinkled face befitting his age. He wore traditional Japanese attire rather than more modern clothes, contrasting the rest of the Kure.
In his youth, his appearance was very similar to his grand-relative Kure Raian .

Erioh was an upstanding man who was fiercely protective over his family and its reputation, especially in regards to his great-granddaughter Kure Karura . [2] Erioh puts his clan's pride above even its reputation. If need be, he will even put the clan's reputation on the line if it meant lost pride can be recovered.
Erioh was a lot more vicious and headstrong when he was younger, but age had mellowed him out; now possessing a dignified sense of self as the patriarch of his clan. However, forms of disrespect and slander will bring back the vicious demon that still dwells within. [2]


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Fusui is an attractive young woman with a cute face, dainty facial features, a bob of black hair with a large bang that floats in between her eyes, a moderately sized bust and the dark sclera and white irises associated with the Kure Clan .

Fusui is an honours student at Koyo Academy. [1] She is very up-to-date with the latest trends, and has even been seen texting and aiming her sniper scope at the same time. She appears to be a playful person and enjoys teasing her relatives.


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Hollis is a bulky man with straight black hair left to hang in a bobcut style, strong facial features and a generally stern expression on his face.

Hollis is a generally serious and discerning individual. However, he retains a polite demeanour when talking to others.


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Karura is a beautiful young woman with a deceptively defined physique, a small frame and a moderately sized bosom. She has long black hair with several bangs that hang over her forehead and two long lengths of hair that drape either side of her face, a small dainty nose, full lips and the telltale sclera and pupils of the Kure Clan .
Initially, she wore a parka, dark-blue shorts with wrappings around her legs and ankle-length brown boots with buckles. After her identity was fully revealed, she later switched to a dark-purple sailor fuku uniform with wrappings around her legs.
Two years after the Tournament, now a college student, Karura's newer outfit was a vest and turtleneck, alongside a coat and beret.

Karura is an extremely curious and independent individual, going off to explore wherever she wants on a whim. Upon sensing Tokita Ohma 's great strength, Karura has become infatuated with him to stalker-like levels, bluntly telling him that she wanted his children. However, she has also grown to be close friends to Elena Robinson, showing concern for her and her brother Mokichi , and expressing rage at her own relative Raian for nearly killing him.


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Mitsuyo is a muscular individual with a youthful visage, long red hair that he ties into a ponytail with two long bangs framing his face, and countless battle nicks covering his skin. The scar that runs horizontally across his nose was earned from Hayakuwa Samato . While fighting strong opponents, he is known to pull facial expressions that indicate his ecstasy and enjoyment.

Mitsuyo is an eccentric individual with a noticeably prominent fight-loving streak; he holds a belief that martial arts are meant for killing. [7] Kureishi also has a 'fetish' for breaking other people's bones, something he realised at the tender age of 2, and gets visibly aroused when fighting strong opponents [6]
Over the years, Kureishi seems to have mellowed, becoming a sarcastic yet confident indivudal. He also enjoys relaxing and does not like doing things that are not in his own interests.


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Rin is a cute young lady with a bob of hair, thin eyebrows and seemingly perpetually closed eyes.
She wears a smart black waistcoat over a white long-sleeved shirt, with a black tie, a short black skirt and simple dark pumps.

She appears to be a flighty person with underlying traits of cunning, befitting the surveillance role given to her by Nogi.
At the end of the tournament, it is revealed she was infiltrating the Nogi Group at the behest of Katahara Metsudo , revealing that she was from the Inside , just like Tokita Ohma , whom she was sent to spy on. [2] Despite all this, she chose to leave Katahara Metsudo to stay with Yamashita Kazuo as she had grown fond of him and his group of friends, claiming that he was still a novice to which she needed to keep her eyes on his actions.


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Long Min was a tall, youthful man of Chinese descent. He had straight shoulder-length black hair, a single strand of hair always loose, and a subtly arrogant and condescending expression on his face. Like the other Guardians, Long wore a completely white suit with a white tie and shirt. He had a centipede-like tattoo on his left collarbone.

Long Min possessed an air of composed arrogance about him, never losing his cool in any situation and taking things at his own pace.


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Tomoko is a nice-looking young lady with black hair set in a bob style with bangs swept to the right side, brown eyes and a mole on the lower left side of her lips.
She generally wears a conservative smart style of dress, fitting of her position.

Tomoko is a slightly naive person who is unexpectedly unnerved by the brutality that is environment that surrounds the Kengan matches . She is very perverted and enjoys the manservice provided in the Kengan fights. To that end, she is probably the person who is enjoying the Kengan Annihilation Tournament the most. [1]


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Ginji was powerfully built bald-headed man, with unnerving eyes that held a disconcertingly wide-eyed gaze, a seeming lack of eyebrows and the phrase "They must be judged" tattooed down the left side of his face. He wore a perturbing emotionless expression on his face.

He was a surprisingly polite man who followed his faith to a unhealthy degree. To that end, Ginji always spoke with piety and religion at the forefront.


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Nishihonji is a tan-skinned handsome looking man with a lean well-defined frame, youthful facial features, black matted hair, a chinstrap beard and a generally smiling expression on his face. He generally wears smart casual clothes that match his easygoing personality.

Nishihonji is a level-headed, mature individual who is overall known to be a very pleasant person. He is also quite intuitive and discerning. Never wearing his emotions on his sleeve and always putting on a refreshing smile, Nishihonji has a severe side in that he'll use others to achieve his goals. [1] Despite his age, Nishihonji is quite knowledgeable in regards to the members of the Kengan Association. He has a keen eye for fighters, most likely due to his own martial experience experience. [1]


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Nogi Hideki is an esteemed looking gentleman, always seen wearing the finest threads. He has black hair that is slicked back and wrinkled yet experienced facial features.

Nogi is a shrewd individual with an experienced and cunning air about him. He has a good eye for noticing other person's useful qualities and manipulating them to benefit himself. As an experienced member of the Kengan Association , Nogi has a perceptive eye in regards to the fighting environment, being able to perceive and recognize the actions and movements of the fighters he observes. He is also sharp and cunning enough to outmaneuver and outwit an Association member of Hayami Katsumasa's level.


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Ohya Ken is a jovial looking man with a plump face with rosy cheeks and a rosy nose (usually due to being intoxicated), thick black eyebrows and short matted fair hair atop his head. He dresses casually, usually wearing a white shirt with the top buttons undone and casual trousers.

Kenny is a surprisingly attentive and persuasive man, contrasting his booze-loving appearance. He is also extremely casual and easygoing, able to strike up conversations with complete strangers and make acquaintances from them.


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Omori is a huge imposing man with a powerful frame, small eyes, a small circle beard and black hair styled with a right side-parting with the left side being swept over where it falls over and covers his left eye. Like the other Bodyguards , Omori wears a smart black suit with a black tie.

Omori is a very level-headed and composed individual, always doing his duties as his master wishes.


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Rama is an effeminate young man of Thai descent. He has a completely hairless body, straight flowing black hair and a lean yet well-defined musculature. He generally has a smiling fox-like expression on his face.
Rama wears white toga-like robes with two necklaces around his neck, multiple bracelets around his bandage-wrapped wrists, a metal band around each arm and rings on each finger of his left hand.

Rama XIII is a king with a charismatic and eccentric personality. He accepts anybody, Eastern or Western, to become one of his bodyguards, as long as they are strong; he even accepted a hot-blooded airhead like Saw Paing to be his company simply because he doesn't care about class issue. [2] He allows Yato Trading Co. to have Kaolan as their affiliated fighter because he likes people with bottomless desire, like Iida Tadashi . [3] Rama also has absolute trust in Kaolan, seeing him as a brother and confidently making a substantially sized bet with Katahara Metsudo when Kaolan fought Kanoh Agito . [4]
Rama also doesn't have a firm grasp on what it means to be inconspicuous, even when he needs to be. He travels by elephant everywhere he goes in Thailand and has a large retinue following behind him. [5] [6] Though he tries to go to vacations incognito, he usually gets found out for the same reasons. [1] [7]


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Shion is a definitive and attractive woman with long blond hair (dark-red hair in the anime ) that has two shorter strands to frame her face where it is parted slightly to her left (her hair was chin-length with bangs split on either side back when she first met and dated Hatsumi Sen during high school in Story ), full lips with neatly applied lipstick, she has a generally unimpressed expression covering her face and she has a notably large bosom.
She wears formal clothing in such a way that shows them off and she also usually has a cigarette on her person.

Shion is a wary individual with surprisingly masculine tendencies [1] and her muscle fetish is one of the main reasons she dated Hatsumi Sen . According to her younger sister Soryuin Akemi , Shion told her to go after men with big muscles over handsome men. [4] She quietly enjoys the brutality and carnage surrounding and within the Kengan matches .
Despite her strictness, she is surprisingly doting to her sister Akemi, using her connections to get her sister into various gyms, including Silverman's Gym. [4] She once allowed Akemi and her friends to use their private jet to go to America, just because Akemi asked her. [5]


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Mihono is a young woman with straight medium-length hair, worried eyes with dark rings around them, a moderately-sized bosom and a generally despairing expression on her face. During the first day of the tournament, Mihono wore a rose flower-hemmed dress.

Mihono is a completely average young woman, who is no good at gambling and has a seemingly frazzled demeanour, most likely due to her being shoved into the cut-throat position as a CEO of a large company without much warning.


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Takakaze is a broad man with light-coloured hair, thick mutton chops and a generally at-ease expression on his face. He is almost always seen wearing a black suit over a white open-buttoned shirt, finished with a black cowboy hat that has a white skull on the front. Takakaze also wears a necklace with a cross on it.

Takakaze is known to be a maverick, with a generally relaxed and easygoing personality. Noting that power has never quite sat right with him, [2] he openly states that he has little interest in power and authority, [1] going as far as to nominate someone else to become the new Kengan Association chairman, because the chairman's position was too heavy a burden and he wouldn't be able to soar while carrying it. [3]


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Minoru is a large man with mid-length, disheveled hair, and his face is covered by a mask. Underneath that mask, he has both of his cheeks torn open to form an extended grin , with stitches on each side, a wound he sustained from his first fight against Kanoh Agito . Like the other Bodyguards , he wears a smart black suit.

Takayama is a stern, brutal man with a short temper. He generally has a no-nonsense attitude, immediately restraining Ohma before the latter could react to his presence. Nevertheless, he remains loyal to Katahara Metsudo and has a great sense of respect for him, always seen by his side along with Omori Masamichi .
He bears a deep grudge towards Kanoh Agito, being the one responsible for permanently scarring Takayama's face during their youth. [4] From that moment on, Takayama stayed determined enough to swear revenge on Agito one day. Despite his grudge, he respects Agito as a fighter and fellow Bodyguard.
His indomitable spirit that urges him to keep on fighting no matter how many times he is defeated is held in high regard by both Metsudo and Agito. [1]


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The Other Niko is a muscular man with menacing and wild facial features, almost like those of a tiger. He had long light hair swept behind his head and mild beard and moustache. His most notable features were his big eyes with light irises and narrow pupils.
In Agito's memories of him, he possessed a shorter haircut compared to when Ohma first encountered him.
As Six, he originally sported black hair that obscured his eyes for the most part. While they were occasionally seen in spars, once he revealed his traitorous nature, they became much more prominent.

The Other Niko is a ruthless and immoral martial artist known for his constant pursuit of greater power, though his full motivations remain mysterious. He takes a pragmatic and experimental approach to martial arts: adapting, creating, and discarding techniques as he sees fit, with no particular loyalty to any tradition or style. He is even willing to discard the Niko Style he was originally trained in, though he continues to use it with great proficiency up to the present day.
With little regard for the lives of others, the Other Niko has a particular habit of using his students as unwitting volunteers for his martial arts experiments. He teaches them dangerous, inherently self-harming techniques that he himself would not use so that he can observe the results, even if it results in their deaths. This can be seen in his planting of the Possessing Spirit within his involuntary "student" Ohma, and his teaching of the Fallen Demon and Guihun to Kiryu Setsuna and Lu Tian, respectively. The Other Niko also demonstrates a willingness to ruthlessly cull his students, often pitting them against each other in human Gu rituals that leave only the strongest alive. Ultimately, however, he cares little for even his most uniquely successful and loyal students, as he was unfazed by the death of Fei Wangfang, who had survived a Gu ritual and mastered the Other Niko's most dangerous techniques.
Despite his ruthlessness and brutality, the Other Niko also has a cultured side, as well as a sense of discretion and practicality. He enjoys fine dining and expensive wines, and prefers not to get into fights in public settings. He even tried to pacify Kiryu Setsuna by offering him some wine right after Setsuna had tried to kill him in a restaurant with a surprise attack. He initially didn't fight back despite Setsuna's provocations, and only became angry after Setsuna shattered the bottle of wine and began using the broken bottle as a weapon against him. Even then, he was mostly angered due to the expensive, ¥1,600,000 price of the wasted wine.


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Tomari is a young woman with crazy-looking sanpaku eyes, thin black eyebrows, long black hair that falls down her back and some strands that fall over her face, an ample bosom, rotund buttocks [1] , full red lips, a toothy grin revealing her shark-like teeth and a pair of rectangular semi-rimmed glasses. Tomari generally has a crazy-looking facial expression.
She generally wears a white smart shirt that's unbuttoned at the top, showcasing her cleavage, and dark pants.

Tomari possesses a steady skill for management which contrasts heavily with her bizarre behaviours; feared as a "merchant of death" she is generally considered a dangerous person. [2] She doesn't care about the destruction and death her weapons cause as she believes her job ends at selling. Tomari possesses anti-authoritarian tendencies though she still has a surprisingly rationalistic personality; to this end, she will easily bend her convictions if its in her best interests. While she may not be the most honest, she only takes crazy actions when they're in her best interests. [1]


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Niko was a well-defined, muscular man with long black hair, which he tied into a ponytail that hung over his right shoulder. He had confident eyes with pronounced tear troughs and thin facial hair on his chin. Like the rest of the Nikos, he wore a cloak that covered most of his body, with hood that can further obscure his identity.

Niko was a confident man who followed the beat of his own drum, doing whatever he thought was best. He developed a soft spot for Ohma after their first encounter, which caused them to have a master-student relationship from that point thereafter.


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Urita is a handsome CEO with a sharp face, discerning eyes and black hair set in a middle-parting that flows off to each side. He wears rectangular semi-rimmed glasses and is almost always seen wearing a sharp black suit.

He is a discerning and shrewd individual who possesses superior powers of analysis. [2] He was sharp enough to inherit the CEO position (from his father) while still in his twenties. [1]


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Xia Ji possesses a defined musculature with a lean, tall physique, a mane of long shaggy white hair and thin, mischievous eyes; his Worm tattoo is on the back of his right hand. He is always seen wearing a sleeveless purple chángshān with detached loose forearm sleeves.

On the surface, Xia Ji, presents himself with a lax and shrewd demeanor, seemingly unfazed by problematic incidents as though everything his under his control. He expressed no worry when informed that all of his students that had marked Gaoh Ryuki had been killed and seemed more interested in the show he was watching. [2] He likes absolutely winning games. [1] As noted by Lu Tian , he would do anything in his power to achieve his goals. [3]
He seems to be wary of those stronger than him due to his, comparatively, poorer fighting skills.
However, this cool and collected facade quickly shatters when things do not go his way, such as when his brother, Xia Yan , was chosen to be the Head of the Worm over him—a lifelong goal Ji had thought was assuredly handed to him from an early age, thinking him being born into wealth and high status within the Worm were key factors into his promotion—or whenever he is confronted by dangerous people like Lu Tian, who violently eliminated a retinue of elite bodyguards in front of him in the past, being cornered by Tokita Ohma and Kure Raian while attempting to escape following a failed ambush against Yamashita Kazuo , and hanging around with Edward Wu , who would constantly admonish and even bully him around for his incompetence throughout the Kengan Association VS Purgatory Tournament behind the scenes.
When stressed out and not in his element, Xia Ji is arrogant, impulsive, reckless, and extremely temperamental, prone to emotional outbursts and panicking. This erratic behavior also tends to mesh with his shrewd assassin persona, which elevates his already unpredictable nature. He tends to berate and scream at his enemies, but at the same time, cower and be terrified at the prospect of them hurting him back, often resorting to retreating as soon as the moment presents itself. He doesn't hesitate to let everyone know that he doesn't want to fight, often yelling (in vain) that he is much stronger or deadlier than anyone thinks, but at the same time, applies his powerful but limited fighting skill set and surprise attacks to try and eliminate his enemies as quickly as possible.
Because of his contradictory and unpredictable nature, he has been described as a "dragon that should have been born a rat", describing his naturally gifted physique and position of power that is negated by his innate incompetence and spoiled, incompetent personality.


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Kazuo is an average-looking middle-aged man with a small, unassuming frame and a generally underwhelming presence. He has black hair with the sides greyed and light facial hair, framed by his pair of blocky glasses.

Kazuo starts as a timid, average person pushed around by the manager in his company and by other people in general. However, due to always being exposed to Ohma's blood lust and other fighters in the Kengan world, he started to lose his fear of ordinary people such as his manager and even to thugs who threaten to kill him.
During the Kengan Annihilation Tournament, Kazuo becomes more overtly brave such as when he threatened Erioh Kure to protect his son, despite himself. [4] He respects Ohma more than anybody, due to fighter's strength and will. Even after being told by Hideki to make Ohma substitute out, Kazuo refused because he respects Ohma's will to fight more than anybody.


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Kenzo has a decidedly androgynous appearance with a long hairless face, long black hair that falls past his neck and is styled with a middle parting, cold dead-looking eyes, a thin nose, full lips and finally a pair of rectangular semi-rimless glasses; his overall facial expression conveys a cold calculating feeling. Because Kenzo spends all of his time inside his room, he typically only wears a shirt and dark pants. Kenzo's face & eyes bear a striking resemblance to his paternal ancestor Yamashita Ichinoshin .

Kenzo is an extremely calculating and methodological person who cares not for the recognition of others but is content with ruling from the shadows; to that end, he does not trust anyone and even modded his house into a fortress over the time he had shut himself in without his family finding out. [2] He can be described as a high-functioning hikikomori , due to not leaving his house in a decade; he stops his hikikomori tendencies after his encounter with the Kure Clan. [3] Similar to Hanafusa Hajime , he has no qualms about going to unethical extremes for scientific advancement, like trying to grow a brain from rat neurons. [4]


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Yasuo is an average looking teenager with black hair that he covers with a snapback cap that he wears backwards and a thin sprinkling of facial hair on his chin. He is usually seen wearing a casual t-shirt and jeans.

Yasuo is a rebellious youth who doesn't care much for his father's situation. However, despite his seemingly tough demeanour he shows his father, Yasuo is actually quite timid but hid due to his affiliation with Grandia. After Tokita Ohma effortlessly took the entire Grandia crew down, Yasuo changed his ways and became hard working.


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Yoshioka is characterised by his long hair, which he usually puts up in a ponytail, and an eyepatch over his left eye, which he lost in a fight against Kanoh Agito .

While still an active assassin, Yoshioka was a horribly diminutive person, drunk on his own power. However, since losing to the Fang, he has considerably mellowed out, acting polite, gentlemanly, and hospitably.


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Yoshitake has an effeminate appearance with short shaved light hair, a noticeable widow's peak, large eyes and noticeably small eyebrows. He wears frameless spectacles and has a single ring piercing in his left ear. When he stands, he commonly holds a pose with his pinky finger out (even sticking it out while doing menial tasks). [3]
Like most bosses, he wears a stylish formal suit.

Yoshitake is a outwardly flamboyant person with a tendency to pick on those weaker than him to feed his self-esteem. He has no qualms with tossing away people who have failed him and is always looking for the next best thing. Despite this attitude, Yoshitake sometimes shows a more caring and helpful side (as seen when he informed Yamashita Kazuo on the inner workings of the Kengan Association ). [4] He is not the type of person to spinelessly submit to and obey a greater power unconditionally. [1]


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Kokomi is a young woman with blonde hair that is tied in a bun with bangs hanging over her forehead while she has shoulder-length hair strands hanging on either side, amethyst-colored eyes, a voluptuous figure with moderately large, curvy breasts.
She wears a tight, cosplay looking nurse suit, which exposes her cleavage, showcasing her beautiful curves.


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Alan was a tall, muscular man with long, black hair, swept on the right in a long wavy tuft and kept in a headband and black-sclera eyes. Despite his height, he usually appeared shorter at times due to his habit of slouching.
Alan's outfit consisted of a sleeveless Chinese outfit, with a yin-yang symbol on the lower part, black pants, and wraps around his arms and feet.

Alan was arrogant and aggressive. He was dismissive of others' prowess, especially the gladiators of Purgatory, sneering at them for not being "real combatants" in his eyes. Much like Kure Raian , Alan was sadistic and ruthless, reveling in brutality and death.
Due to the influence of Huisheng, Alan was the vessel for the memories and personality of Wu Hei , the ancestor of the Wu and Kure from 5000 years ago. Since he underwent Huisheng in early childhood, his personality was a more complete mix of his personality and Wu Hei's when compared to his counterparts. Wu Hei's influence even spread to how he treated his own "descendants."
Alan treated Raian as both a plaything to break and one of his children.


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Gilbert is a handsome young man of a tall and muscular build, with looks identical to that of Edward Wu when he was in his youth. He later slicks his hair back, bearing an even greater resemblance to his father. He wears a hoodie with lightning-like patterns upon it.

Gilbert, inheriting the memories of his father, essentially 'is' a younger Edward. Just like Edward, Gilbert was outwardly confident and prideful of his abilities, belittling his uncle for even thinking of taking over the clan upon Edward's passing. At the same time, he also respected those with real strength, praising Willem for being the only survivor besides himself after killing the moderates, and even praising his uncle Howard for being a 'monster', despite being the one who killed him.


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Terashi is a tall, slender man with long, slicked-back black hair styled into a short ponytail. He wears an all-black outfit along with an eyeless mask. The mask itself follows the pattern of the Taijitu , otherwise known as the "yin-yang symbol". [5]
Under his mask, Terashi possess a youthful face with delicate features. Due to plastic surgery, the 'impression' his face gives off is slightly different to his previous one. Thanks to his artificial kinetic vision, the veins in his eyes are very prominent when in active use.

Terashi is a calm and analytical individual with an intuitive mind. He possesses an immense respect for Rolon Donaire , being wary of even the slightlest moves from him.
Terashi is also not above mockery, declaring that a martial artist's strength is a complete waste. Despite this, Terashi is otherwise aware that he's nowhere near as strong as the rest. After his defeat against Naoya, Terashi admitted he completely underestimated the strength of a pro martial artist, and leaves the ring with no hard feelings.


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Willem is handsome young man of tall and muscular build, with his hair in an undercut hairstyle, with the long unshaven hair swept to his right and hanging slightly in his face. Being part of the Wu Clan, Willem posses black-sclera eyes.

Willem is overall a calm and collected man who is greatly loyal to Gilber Wu. He shows great confidence in his fighting prowess, stating that with his Superman Syndrome combined with Guihun, he has the strongest muscles in the world. He also does not like it when his subordinates give him orders.


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Wu Xing is a handsome tall young man with an athletic physique, blonde medium-length hair styled into a bob cut, thin eyebrows and black-sclera eyes of the Wu Clan.
He wears a white changshan and a pair of white pants. His first appearance also had him wearing a mask, which he took off soon after.

Xing is a level-headed and serious individual. He's not above showing disdain for the likes of traitors, such as Alan Wu .
Xing is on friendly terms with Kure Erioh , the patriarch of the Kure Clan . Conversely, he bares a hatred for Edward Wu , who is responsible for killing Xing's mentor.


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Jurota is a tall, muscular man with dark, messy hair and light facial hair. He wears a judogi with a black obi for his fights, with a dark haori on top and a pair of Geta for when he's not. He also possesses cauliflower ears , likely from his judo background.

Jurota is a stoic individual with an analytical mind. Always aware of his surroundings, Jurota won't even bother to defend himself if he knows that someone else would deal with it for him. Jurota is also rational enough to want to discover what was going on behind the scenes. Ironically, not even he is immune to Yamashita Kazuo's somewhat unwarranted reputation, believing him to be a mighty and dangerous man, contrary to the actual person.
Jurota also disapproves of unnecessary violence, such as his disgust at Raian for the murder of Alan Wu .
Like Carlos Medel , Jurota lamented that he was too strong for him to enjoy the fights he had. Because of his strength, the only one he believes that can give him a challenge is Meguro Masaki , who he recognizes as both a prodigy and an utter monster in judo. Because of this want for a great nemesis to fight, Meguro's existence is the only thing that can even crack Jurota's usual demeanor.
Being a master Judoka, Jurota is someone who continues sticking to his Judo while fighting, even though anything goes. While it gives him an undeniable disadvantage, Jurota has poured everything into Judo, without giving other marital arts so much as a look, with that he reached the strength he now has.


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Carlos is a man of average height and bronze skin and donned many physiques throughout his boxing career to become a champion across five weight divisions from middleweight to heavyweight. As such, his appearance has ranged from lean and defined to hulking and voluminous. However, after departing from boxing and entering the underground scene, he has since shed all unnecessary weight.
His bantamweight is him in his most comfortable physique: thin and wiry to the point of being considered emaciated by other fighters. He has a gaunt facial structure and a narrow jawline, slicked-back hair, and a thin mustache.
As a fighter for Purgatory, he tends to wear wraps around his arms and feet. He also wears dark shorts with the imprint of a Calavera on the left.

Carlos is a relatively calm and confident person with a quiet yet profound sense of pride in his abilities and his talent as a fighter. During fights, Carlos is prone to be even more boastful than he already is, bordering on trash talk at times, and plays at psychological warfare on his opponent - maintaining his calm demeanor, arguably to the point of extreme pride by playing with Kaolan. Despite his skill, he is still not above utilizing Purgatory's rule-set to his advantage, winning by ring out if need be.
Carlos desires to be strong above all else, ready to adapt as necessary to acquire that strength. In the face of unfamiliar difficulty, he would go as far as expand his skillset more martial arts to his repertoire. When he had trouble in underground matches in Brazil, he started to practice capoeira. After his fight with Kaolan, he recognized that he would need to adapt yet again.
Carlos is also quite the playboy, flattering and acting like a gentleman with Akiyama Kaede . He seems to also hold a great sense of camaraderie.
Carlos is also a smoker.


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Jose is a large and very imposing individual, with a bulky muscular frame befitting his being a pro wrestler (especially in the SJPW), long straight black hair that he ties into a long ponytail and a thick long bang that falls over the right side of his face. While wrestling, he wears a skeletal lucha libre mask over his face. Unlike the majority of other pro wrestlers, Jose doesn't have cauliflower ears .

While in kayfabe as El Ninja, Jose is a very serious, somewhat arrogant and can be incredibly intimidating. Outside of kayfabe, Jose is arguably the complete opposite of his persona, being kind with great camaraderie and a sense of kinship as evidenced when Yumigahama sucker punched Koga , Jose flew into rage and was ready to fight then and there. [6]
He is described by other wrestlers as a complete wrestling fanatic, having becoming enraged when Gaoh Ryuki seemed like he disrespected wrestling for a single second after having called Koga's training "a waste" even when Ryuki attempted to deescalate the situation.


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Wangfang was a tall young man with light long hair styled into a ponytail.
He wore a white chángshān and black pants, and hides a second, more form-fitting chángshān underneath.

Wangfang, at first glance, was a fairly laid-back individual, acting as one of the more rational gladiators.
His real personality bled through when he taunted Rolón Donaire without fear, with a muted malice on his face. The real Wangfang was an immensely proud martial artist, killing Long Min for trying to one-up him at every turn. That said, he only really cared about proving that he was Niko's heir; initially considering Gaoh Ryuki to be a threat to that future, only to change his mind upon learning that he doesn't use the Niko Style.
Due to being a major obstacle to being considered a true heir, Wangfang harbors an immense grudge for Tokita Ohma . In his eyes, Ohma was an outsider who his master gave the Possessing Spirit to on a whim. In his final moments, upon realizing who Ohma (and by extension, Ryuki) was a clone of, he could only curse out The Other Niko for using him as nothing more than a test subject for the true Tiger's Vessel.


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Lu Tian was a tall man with a muscular build. He had long, white hair tied into a ponytail and a chinstrap beard. He wore a trench coat over his clothes, only taking it off when fighting in a match. He had a small black Worm tattoo on the tip of his tongue.
When unleashing his latent strength, his muscles grew, and his hair became messier. Also, his eyes gained the black-sclera typical of the descendants of Wu Hei .
In Xia Ji's flashback, Lu Tian had shorter hair and was clean-shaven, though he still wore his trench coat and clothes underneath.
Two years after the Tournament, the effects of utilzing Guihun were still apparent, with half of his body seemingly permanently 'activated', with his affected half showing it was still 'unrestrained'.

On the surface, Lu Tian was a stern, no-nonsense individual. In reality, it's a mask to hide the vicious beast he was. His ability to socialize and form genuine bonds with others is why hardly anyone suspected him.
As someone who claimed to have mastered the Formless stance under The Other Niko's tutelage, he looked down on Kanoh Agito , deeming him to be an inferior prototype since the Other Niko never taught him. Despite his affiliation with the Worm, his loyalty lied with his master rather than the organization. Unlike Agito, Lu Tian "surrendered" to the beast within, being described by Xia Ji as a "loose cannon".
In his life as a Gladiator, he seemed to be friends with Arashiyama Jurota and Nicolas Le Banner , while far less amicable with Liu Dongcheng .


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Naidan was a tall, well-built man with short and spiky white hair. He had a heavyset body frame accentuated with his stylized Bökh uniform that showed off his large and well-toned physique.
His uniform is an Inner Mongolian wrestling uniform with heavy liberties taken. His jacket was not a traditional zodog by any means, if even one at all, being sleeveless and made of fur, with a lighter fur as piping. As he was from the Southern Mongolian style of Bökh, he eschewed a shuudag (briefs) in favor of traditional trousers that went down to his ankle,  with bandages around his ankle.
He had a white tattoo with a centipede design (a symbol that signifies a high-ranking Worm ) on his right forearm, the color allowing him to keep it hidden until he desires to show it.

Naidan was a relatively quiet yet stern man. As a loyal, high-ranking member of the Worm, he tended to be fairly neutral to the things happening around him and had his mission as a Worm as the primary objective in his mind. One exception to that mindset came in the form of Liu Dongcheng who, despite his rather laid-back and irreverent personality, Naidan found a friend in him.
However, this friendship did not stop him from fulfilling his goals. Understanding that his death was required to fully unleash the potential of the Omega, Gaoh Ryuki , he went in to ensure that Ryuki would become a "Connector" to lead the Worm, for reasons not made clear yet. Curiously, he possessed a distrust of Nicolas Le Banner , going as far as to warn Dongcheng not to trust Nicolas.


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Nicolas was a handsome man of slight frame and build, with defined yet lean musculature. He had dark blond hair and sharp eyes.

The real Nicolas seemed to be a mentally unstable sociopath, showing no remorse in murdering multiple civilians and even his teammates, considering himself a "cure", and his killings the thing that kept the world's harmony in place. Though he shared a bond with Jean-Luc, not even he was spared from his bloodthristy nature.


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Wu Hei's appearance was shrouded in mystery. What is known was that he was an apparently muscular individual and the telltale black eyes of his descendants were due to his ceaseless slaughter of everything on his path.

Wu Hei, according to legend, was incredibly bloodthirsty, gaining infamy from his killing spree. By Edward's admission, Wu Hei despises working under others, which mostly prohibits Huisheng to the current head. Of course, to prevent the memory of Wu Hei from ceasing, spares are needed.


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Yuzaki was an imposingly intimidating individual with a powerful and muscular frame, black slicked back hair and dark rings around both eyes. It was inferred that he almost always had an apathetic expression on his face, though when pressed during battle it can be assumed he would take on a frightening ghost-like expression. All of these physical characteristics were taken by his imposter.

Yuzaki was supposedly extremely taciturn, rarely uttering anything while also possessing a very intimidating and frightening aura.


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Alisa is a beautiful curvy woman with shoulder-length dark-colored hair that is styled into a ponytail (her hair was seen down during the match between Narushima Koga and Utsubuki Kokuro ) with long bangs framing her face, light-colored eyes and a stern look.
She wears two different outfits:

As a referee of Purgatory, she wears a fancy evening dress. During the Berserker Bowl , she wore the same referee uniform as the referees of the Kengan Association.

Alisa possesses a charisma that allows her to entertain and hype up the entirety of attendees at Mt. Godslayer . As a referee, she is very serious and firm. During the fight between Kure Raian and Alan Wu , she was extremely horrified by Alan's death at the hands of Raian. [4] During the fight between Takeshi Wakatsuki and Fei Wangfang , Alisa got freaked out when Wangfang rubbed his bleeding palm in her face.


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Liu Dongcheng is a youthful man with a light physical frame with long black hair styled into a ponytail. He wears a dark chángshān with white pants.

Dongcheng is an otherwise composed individual marked by a volatile temprament. He has a disdain for the talkative or poetic types, whether it would be from the dismissive, boastful statements of Alan Wu , or the philosophical, poetic musings from Tokuno'o Tokumichi . In spite of this, Dongcheng is willing to act more friendly towards those who gain his sympathy, considering he shaked hands with Nitoku after beating him despite not liking him before.
Dongcheng shared a close bond with fellow A-List Gladiator Naidan Mönkhbat , whom he had met three years before the Kengan Association VS Purgatory Tournament , and is also a friend to his other fellow Gladiators like Fei Wangfang and Nicolas Le Banner .
Perhaps due to the risk of his temper flaring up and costing him a match, Dongcheng is always wary of fighting unless he deems it worthwhile. He masks this with a variety of colorful excuses, such as the "will of his father" preventing him from fighting in the first match, and daunted at the prospect of fighting Misasa after learning that he was the current Fang of Metsudo .


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Nicolas is a handsome man of slight frame and build, with defined yet lean musculature. He has fair hair that falls over the left side of his face. Originally, his hair was much shorter.
Nicolas' attire consists of short-sleeved shirts, summer shorts, trainers, and circular-rimmed sunglasses. When fighting, he sports only a pair of dark spats.

Nicolas is, ostensibly, an easy-going man. He likes to socialize with his fellow gladiators and tends to light-heartedly mock them, especially Yumigahama Hikaru . Underneath the demanor belies a bloodthirsty psychopath. Bold and impulsive, Nicolas considers killing to be entertaining no matter where it happens, and would even disregard his own life for that to happen.
If something doesn't interest him, Nicolas tends to brush it off with practically no effect to himself, such as his loss against Jose Kanzaki or that Purgatory's rules forbade killing your opponents.
When he was Jean, he held an immense admiration for the real Nicolas Le Banner , seeing him as a hero and the protagonist of his world. His killing of the Real Nicolas in self-defense weighed heavily on his psyche; he ended up "becoming" Nicolas to rebuild that shattered view.
During his brief awakening, Nicolas believes that he is both Nicolas and Jean at once, switching between the two in what appears to be a form of Disassociate Personality Disorder.


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Rolón is a tall muscular man with slicked-back, light blond hair. His outfit during the tournament consists of a simple tanktop, dark pants and a pair of sneakers. When it was his turn to fight, he wears only his pants.

Rolón is a collected and level-headed individual. He is highly analytical while talking about fights, and very informed about Kengan fighters. He prefers to not interfere with other people's fights, as seen when he didn't feel the need to warn Yumigahama Hikaru about the risks of his match and when he asked Liu Dongcheng to do the same during Naidan Mönkhbat's fight against Gaoh Ryuki (though in the former case it's more of a personal dislike for the man), although he is willing to stop a fight when he deems it necessary. Rolón is also very intuitive, able to understand the situation in front of him and even what another person might think.
As a result of his high position in the Purgatory rankings, Rolón is respected and feared by his fellow gladiators. In return, Rolón also gives respect to those that deserve it, such as Carlos Medel and the other king, Arashiyama Jurota .


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Falcon is a young man with windswept hair, sharp eyes and a decent build. His fingernails and toenails are remarkably sharp.
While in his formal attire he wears his black suit finishing his outfit off with Aviator sunglasses and a pair of black gloves.
When in the arena, he sports a sleeveless gi and bands around arms and ankles.

Falcon is a rationalist with a romantic side. By his account, one of the reasons he became a wrecker was to avoid the death penalty. The other reason is, despite his love for magic, he recognizes that it is not an economically viable option on its own. After watching a movie about ninjas, he later developed an obsession with them, motivating him to emulate them, to the point that he speaks with archaic terms; putting on theatrics all the while. As part of his obsession, he also has ninja memorabilia all over his room. Even outside of a fight, he likes evoking the style of a ninja, having his right pointer and middle fingers at eye level at nearly all times.
In the pursuit of reason, his fight with Lihito opened his eyes to the shell he was in. Recognising Lihito as the "Second Impact" in his life, Falcon tries to irrationally fight Kuroki Gensai despite his injuries, in an effort to grow as a person. After been swiftly defeated by the older master of the Kaiwan Style , Falcon have began to identify himself as one of Kuroki's "students" and see him as his "ninja master".
He also appears to have a subservient relationship with Toyoda Idemitsu , who had persuaded him to join Purgatory after learning of his obsession.


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Toa is a humungous, musclebound dark-skinned man with light-colored hair styled into an upright little ponytail, mustache, and goatee. He also has tribal tattoos that are present throughout his body.

Toa is a serious man who firmly believes in his strength and ideals. He looks down on people he doesn't deem worthy opponents.
He dismisses his heritage as a Maori warrior. He instead deems himself a Seeker who pursues the title of the strongest. His ambition to prove himself as the strongest has led him to declare that he will even surpass even his ancestor, Jonah Mudo.
Toa's most significant weaknesses are both his ego and pride. Those flaws were why he lost his fight against Julius Reinhold when he believed that he could take on his opponent's fully enhanced strike instead of trying to avoid it. As Rolón Donaire puts it, Toa's passivity costs him the victory.


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Hikaru is a large, imposing man with characteristics that make him look much older than he really is. He possesses a very muscular frame, accented by his typical attire, a simple dark, long-sleeved shirt with matching slacks. He also has a head of shocked, shaggy black hair, mild sideburns, and a sharp, angular jawline that ends with a long chin. His typical facial expression is a distinct, toothy grin complemented by his thick, hairless brows.

Hikaru is an arrogant and highly self-centered individual, continually putting himself up to a higher standard than those around him. Often addressing them as his "stepping stones," and in particular, identifies the Kengan Association and everything and everyone related to it as such. To that extent, he betrayed the Association that recruited him in favor of Purgatory for apparently no other reason than the fact that the latter organization promised "better conditions," even though by that point, he became the Sixth Fang of Metsudo.
Due to his ego, Hikaru is not above getting provoked, quickly lashing out against those he deems to be inferior to him. One such example is him sucker-punching Koga Narushima in the liver when the latter dismissed him while trying to talk Jose Kanzaki out of getting into an argument with him. Another was when Misasa goaded him into fighting him after mocking him. The exception to this is Rolón Donaire , who even dared Hikaru to say something against him, with Hikaru reluctantly holding his tongue.
He also has no qualms with murder, having killed a fellow bodyguard as he left Metsudo's employ—a fact that he callously brushes off when Misasa brought it up. After his humiliating defeat against Misasa, Hikaru showed to be quite a sore loser as he screamed in both rage and pain while swearing to kill his hated enemy and demanded the 8th Fang of Metsudo to not turn his back on him.


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Ryozo is a languid looking individual who almost always wears an equally relaxed, disinterested facial expression. He has long hair that he ties into a high ponytail with two long thick bangs that frame his face, noticeable bags under his eyes and an unkempt circle beard.

He is a noticeably relaxed and blasé person, who would rather do whatever he wants than anything else. Despite being a fighting prodigy, Ryozo has little interest in fighting and is more into smoking and drinking.


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Samato is a well muscled individual with a long face, a sharp nose and long light-coloured hair, which he wears in a single long, crescent-shaped bang that covers the right side of his face. However, his most distinguishing feature are his completely black sclera at .

Samato is arrogant and aggressive. Much like his relative Kure Raian, he is sadistic and ruthless, reveling in brutality and death.


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Ikeuchi has short, close-cropped hair and is fairly large, being noticeably larger than Kureishi Mitsuyo . His most distinguishing feature are his prominent cheekbones. He also has developed cauliflower ears over the months since the first Rokushin Kaikan Tournament. After abandoning karate, Ikeuchi stops wearing his gi and instead wears a pair of boxing shorts during his fights.

Ikeuchi is a noticeably driven individual. He is also humble enough to recognise and acknowledge his own weaknesses.


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Koyasu is an incredibly domineering man with broad facial features, thick light-coloured hair, an equally thick beard and sideburns, thick eyebrows and a confident grin almost always affixed to his face. When he gets serious and excited in his fights, his eyes can take on a cat-like appearance.

Koyasu is a confident individual, befitting his great strength. He is also very perceptive, especially in regards to karate, able to correctly deduce the method Ikeuchi Mentaro was utilising to make up for his lack of intuition. [2] [3]


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Joji is a physically powerful man with a highly built frame, messy fair-coloured hair and lines under his eyes. His most distinguishing feature is his blinded left eye. While it was injured while fighting a bear during a training in the mountains, the three scars are from when he was scratched in a marital dispute.

Joji is a generally serious individual, who rarely minces his words.