Characters / Inuyashiki

Main Duo

Ichiro Inuyashiki

Voiced by: Fumiyo Kohinata

The main protagonist, a 58-year-old salaryman who gets mortally wounded in a UFO crash and rebuilt as a cyborg made of advanced weaponry. To deal with his new condition and stave off the depression of his dull life and unappreciative family, he decides to become a superhero.

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• All-Loving Hero: He derives joy simply from saving everyone, and is moved to tears merely by healing a cat that was hit by a car.
• The Anti-Nihilist: In what might be the most blatant metaphor for an existential awakening in Oku's work yet, Inuyashiki's despair with life reaches a climax in a brush with death at its most senseless, random, and sudden (specifically, his own), followed immediately by a terrified realization that he's "just a machine" (in his case, literally), an object possibly devoid of whatever spiritual spark is believed to grant a lasting purpose or direction to human life. Yet, very quickly, rather than concluding that nothing matters because of it or that there's no reason to have morals anymore, he makes up his mind precisely because of that to go out of his way to be a good person, act kindly, and help others.
• Arm Cannon: He gets a pretty strong one, though he rarely ever uses it.
• Beam Spam: His signature — and most potent — attack is a combination of this and Macross Missile Massacre, launching a cascade of beams from his back that can home in intelligently to various targets and either explode, cut with surgical precision or simply cause incredible blunt force damage.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Following his revival, Inuyashiki will never look away when he hears the cry for help.
• Cool Old Guy: Played With. Ichiro is considered boorish, forgettable and lame by just about everyone he knows prior to the spaceship crash incident, and even after it he is still perceived as an unassuming old geezer. However, Ichiro's amazing superpowers, earnest dedication to heroism and steady increase in confidence over the course of the story definitely makes him cool.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: He struggles with this belief for much of the story, questioning whether he can still be considered the man he once was and openly doubting his worth as a human being. It takes defeating Shishigami and rescuing his daughter from one of the many fires in Tokyo for him to move past this mindset.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Since becoming a robot, Ichiro desperately seeks any possible greater purpose or meaning behind his new existence. He initially finds it in saving people's lives, but due to his insecurity, he's always looking for something even more profound.
• The Eeyore: His cancer diagnosis and the coldness his family treats him with bring him into a severe depression. It gets worse after he comes to believe the weaponry has made him less of a man, so he resolves to live altruistically partly to prove to himself that he's still human.
• Expy: Bears a strong similarity to The Iron Giant. Both have origin stories rooted in alien life, both have a tendency to elaborately unfold their bodies to reveal and use their copious weapons, and both compare themselves to their countries' respective national heroes: Superman and Astro Boy. And they both sacrifice their lives to stop something destructive in the atmosphere from killing their loved ones, though Inuyashiki doesn't come back from it.
• Extreme Doormat: One of his flaws. Despite his heroics and genuine will to make the world better, he's very passive at heart and believes he isn't strong or skilled enough yet to have a chance against Shishigami, which leads him to react to most of the killings with little more than sorrow. He finally has enough and brings the fight to Shishigami once the latter starts dropping planes on Tokyo.
• Friend to All Living Things: The first thing he uses his healing ability on is a stray mother cat who was killed in an accident. After the cat comes back from the dead, he is immediately filled with joy.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: He simply can't believe that somebody as evil as Samejima exists, and when he tries to keep him from kidnapping Fumino again, he keeps repeating that what Samejima has done is unforgivable.
• Good Feels Good: Inuyashiki felt that only by helping others he can feel human again.
• Healing Hands: One of his powers. As soon as he discovers this, he starts spending most of his days healing people in local hospitals.
• The Hero Dies: Sadly, Inuyashiki is killed after saving Earth from an asteroid.
• Heroes Love Dogs: He adopts a shiba inu named Hanako, the one living being in the world whom he believes would mourn him when he dies.
• Heroic Sacrifice: His final act of heroism is blowing himself up to save Earth from the asteroid.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Due to his depression and self-doubt, he's constantly bringing himself down and denying that he's truly heroic. Even after he cures a child at the hospital with Ando present, he's depressed because he could only save one person on that trip, and thus feels like a fraud. It's pretty clear that he has some form of impostor syndrome.
• How Do I Shot Web?: It takes a good while for Ichiro to fully adjust to his powers. Shortly after the accident, he unwittingly activates his new body's defence mechanisms and flails around wildly. He is still learning new abilities several chapters into the story.
• Ideal Hero: He does good for the sake of it and the sake of it alone, helping out complete and utter strangers who have no relation to him due to his deep sense of compassion and empathy alongside having more than enough power to act out on this sense of righteousness and benevolence.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Subverted. Unlike even the most novice of superheroes, Ichiro has no natural fighting ability whatsoever, not even from imitating pop culture. Without the aid of his powers, his fighting style mostly consists of flailing his arms around unskillfully until he hits something. Although, Ichiro does use his knowledge of Astro Boy to help him fly for the first time, but that's about the bare extent to which his cultural knowledge helps him.
• The Joy of First Flight: Subverted. He's scared out of his mind the first time he accesses his flight powers, only keeping himself afloat with his Astro Boy nostalgia and the knowledge that he's doing it to save someone else. He adjusts after a few times, though.
• Messianic Archetype: He's a gentle, completely selfless All-Loving Hero with Healing Hands and other miraculous abilities, who's even treated as a deity by everyone he helps. Everyone starts openly hailing him as God after the chaos in Tokyo subsides and he appears on live cameras.
• Nice Guy: By far the friendliest and most heroic characters in the series.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Although Ichiro is the kindest old man you could ever hope to meet, his cyborg powers can be decidedly unfriendly, especially when his subconscious self-defence systems activate. The yakuza learn this the hard way when Ichiro's unconscious body rains retribution onto every single one of them. Fortunately, even unconscious he seems to have a degree of control over it.
• Pro-Human Transhuman: Unlike the villainous Shishigami, Inuyashiki uses his new profound robotic powers to save innocent lives and help those in need, and his intentions are motivated by joy from the kindness of his heroic actions.
• Religious Bruiser: Ichiro is a staunch adherent to Shinto, Japan's most common religion. He often prays to Kami (God) for guidance, and he initially seems to believe that his powers were divinely imbued to him rather than hastily built into his robotic body by some careless aliens.
• Supporting Protagonist: Downplayed. While he shares considerable narrative focus, Hiro has as much screen-time if not more then him, along with receiving a more detailed characterization.
• Touched by Vorlons: His abilities stem from aliens who tried to rebuild his body with weapons.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Without his cybernetic powers, Ichiro would be utterly helpless in a fight, which makes it all the more shocking when he smacks around men twice his size with his outwardly ineffectual blows. His complete lack of dexterity makes him easily underestimated, however.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: His superhero costume basically consists of him going shirtless (and shoeless), apparently to prevent his cybernetics from always ripping open his clothes. It's decidedly not played for Fanservice, though.
• We Help the Helpless: This is what he does with his enhanced powers. While he does fight evil when he sees it, Ichiro's incentive is purely to save those in danger, everything from road collisions to house fires.
• Younger Than He Looks: He's only 58, but looks to be about 70 or 80. He reflects later on that he aged outwardly much faster than most people, scaring his daughter into thinking he would die soon.
• Your Days Are Numbered: Prior to the loss of his organic body, he's diagnosed with inoperable cancer and given only a few months to live. Tragically, his Heroic Sacrifice to stop the meteor ends up happening around that time anyway.

Hiro Shishigami

Voiced by: Nijirō Murakami

The other man who was hit by the UFO crash, a high school student who happens to go to the same school as Inuyashiki's daughter. A born sociopath, he decides on a whim to use his powers to become an unstoppable Serial Killer, and quickly becomes the most dangerous being in Japan.

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• An Arm and a Leg: His battle with Inuyashiki ends when the old man rips off his arms and the back of his head, rendering him virtually harmless.
• Ax-Crazy: And how. One of the first thing he is shown doing when showing off his powers to Ando is that he causes a massive car crash simply because he can, and it gets worse from there.
• Beware the Superman: While Inuyashiki uses his powers to help people, Shishigami uses them to wreak havoc.
• Big Bad: The main villain of the story.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: The way he sees the world, judges his own actions, and gauges which people are worth caring about and which are meaty targets could fill up whole essays with its bizarre complexity.
• Creepy Monotone: He speaks in a serene tone, even when he is murdering people.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: He has healing abilities that he could easily make a fortune off of through social media. He also has the ability to hack any bank account to bring a rival company to their knees or to take down the ill-gotten resources of criminals. These two traits would be useful to help net him an easy living, but he’d much rather be engaging in serial murders and acts of terrorism.
• Dark Is Evil: He predominately wears dark colors, which match his sadistic personality.
• Dark Messiah: As a counterpart to Inuyashiki's Messianic Archetype. Once he's outed, he gets numerous fans and admirers despite being nothing more than a petty monster.
• Death Equals Redemption: Zig-zagged. His choice to self-destruct on the asteroid helps Inuyashiki destroy it completely with his own Heroic Sacrifice, and he states that he's doing it so that the people he cares about — his surviving family, Ando, and Shion and her grandmother — will continue to live happily. However, he couldn't give less of a damn about everyone else he's helping on Earth and clearly never turns around to regretting his past actions, so in the end even this seems motivated by the same selfishness that previously drove him.
• Dissonant Serenity: He conducts all of his bloody business with the same nonchalance and casual cheer that others his age would have when talking to their friends, and his expression rarely changes unless he's truly taken aback by something. His first onscreen home invasion even concludes with him striking up a friendly conversation with the shellshocked surviving daughter about her favorite One Piece character.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He's very close to his mother. Her suicide after his cover is blown pushes him to dangerous extremes.
• Evil Counterpart: On top of their disparate ages and identical skill sets, Inuyashiki's desire to save people as a means to feel human is contrasted directly against his own desire to kill people as a means toward the same end.
• Evil Feels Good: In contrast to Inuyashiki, Shishigami kills in order to feel alive.
• Evil Is Petty: He kills people for annoying him at school, for seeming undesirable in his eyes, for being an unintentional hindrance to what he wants, for just being in whatever houses he randomly chooses...
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: He has the looks and facial features of a bishounen hero, but he is a sinister psychopath who delights in committing petty crimes and killing innocent people.
• Faux Affably Evil: He can be surprisingly charming when he wants to be, but it's nothing but a mask for the monster beneath.
• Finger Gun: He fires a "phantom bullet" of some sort. By pointing at someone or something and saying "Bang", the person or surface will be damaged as if by a corresponding gunshot wound. Inuyashiki turns this ability around on him at the start of their battle.
• Foil: To Inuyashiki.
  • Inuyashiki is an old man, Hiro is a young adult.
  • Inuyashiki uses his powers solely for the sake of others, namely by helping them out. Hiro uses his powers for his own sake, through randomly killing people at the drop of a hat.
  • Inuyashiki was miserable before he got his powers, and realized that helping others out makes him feel human. Hiro's power wind up bringing him great pain and misery, as his actions cause a bunch of internet trolls to bully his mother to the point where she kills herself.
  • Inuyashiki is implied to like vintage manga and anime, as he is shown to have a liking for Astro Boy, which is known for it's philosophical themes and often has tragic or at least Bittersweet Endings, Hiro likes modern anime and manga with more idealistic settings.
• For the Evulz: He murders people because that is the only thing that gives his life any meaning.
• Healing Hands: He has this ability just like Inuyashiki, and even figures it out a while before the former does. However, since he's The Sociopath, he's confused as to why he would go around curing the sick and injured when it does nothing to benefit him. He briefly comes around when he realizes it makes Shion happy to see him help people, but immediately drops it and reverts back to his usual weapons later.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: On two occasions. The first is when he manages to set up a good life for his mother after using his powers to cure her terminal illness and give her enough money to be comfortable forever, vowing to put his evil ways behind him after. Unfortunately, the police start going after him when they deduce he is a serial murderer. After his mother is Driven to Suicide by 2ch trolls, he begins to hunt them down one by one. Later, at Shion's insistance, Shishigami tries to leave behind his murderous ways and use his powers to heal people, not unlike what Inuyashiki was doing. Unfortunately, he was still a wanted criminal and was targeted by a SWAT team that nearly killed Shion and her grandmother. Although he manages to save them, their near-deaths push him over the Despair Event Horizon and become the impetus for him to completely depopulate Japan in retribution.
• Hidden Depths: As utterly irredeemable as he is, it's clear that he's not just a cartoonish Generic Doomsday Villain. He forges a much more genuine attachment to the people close to him than most sociopaths tend to, and still tries to protect them even after it stops benefitting him; for instance, he still makes sure Ando isn't skipping school or being bullied even after they're no longer friends. And while he takes active pleasure in killing, it's ambiguous how much of this is from outright sexual sadism rather than the joy of being powerful enough to have the option. Notably, he vows to stop killing twice and seems serious about it, and he is either naive or delusional enough to think that there's always a way to a happy ending for him and his loved ones even after everyone knows he's a Serial Killer.
• Hypocrite: Hiro chastises Ando for liking Gantz because it's a manga full of petty murderers, while Hiro shows himself to be no better than even Gantz's worst characters.
• Ironic Name: His name sounded like the English word "hero" but he is anything but one. In fact, he actually thinks he is one until meeting Inuyashiki for the second time.
• Lack of Empathy: Zig-zagged. Hiro doesn't have any empathy for people he doesn't know and/or don't care about, which is the reason way he kills so many innocents without showing any sign of remorse. On the other hand, he does feel a lot of empathy for the people he know and care about, such as his mom and dad, his friend Ando and his girlfriend Shion. This is so jarring that Hiro, who killed hundreds of people at that point, burst into tears when Ando rejects their friendship for sure.
• Laughably Evil: While a horrific mass-murderer, the degree of casualness with which he performs his actions, his interest in stereotypical teenage boy interests like video games and manga and his bizarre Psychopathic Manchild mannerisms end up making him very comical a considerable amount of the time.
  Victim: Are my father and little brother dead too?
  Hiro: What does that matter? We were talking about One Piece.
• Momma's Boy: Oddly enough, this facet of him is portrayed somewhat sympathetically. He genuinely loves his mother the most of anyone in his family, and uses his hacking powers to provide for her and help her buy a fancy new place. It's shown that she is one of the few people he can unwind and feel truly human around. Her suicide spurns him to start his national killing spree by slaughtering the 2channel trolls who badmouthed her.
• Obliviously Evil: Shishigami has been killing innocent people (many without a reason), massacred everyone in a police station and causes chaos to the entire country without thinking what is right and wrong. When he meets Inuyashiki for the second time, he finally realizes that he is the villain of his own story. Following his defeat at the hands of Inuyashiki, he believes that he can simply turn back the clock and let everything goes back the way it used to be until Ando rejected him.
• Omnicidal Maniac: After his mother's suicide and the disruption of his life with Shion, he ultimately becomes this, coldly massacring a quota of people per day with the end goal of completely erasing Japan. His only justification is that he won't be able to live a happy life until everyone who wants him dead is dead themselves.
• Otaku: He's obsessed with reading the latest Shonen Jump issues, injects geeky references into casual conversation (including with some of his victims), and admits to caring far more about fictional characters than real people. One of the last priorities he has on Earth is to visit Ando and read one last issue for old time's sake.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: And how! After his mother’s suicide, the first thing he does is go after the trolls who helped instigate it, gunning them all down remotely after taunting and torturing the one who leaked his family's addresses to the media.
• Psychopathic Manchild: A more subdued example than most, but still evident. He's a sociopathic Otaku who feels a strong attachment to fictional characters and talks casually about them even as he's committing horrible atrocities, and while he knows what he's doing is legally wrong, he doesn't truly understand why. He's also nowhere near as cunning as the genius villains he can be compared to, since his contingencies boil down to "kill everyone who comes after me until they stop".
  • Also shown in the series he likes and doesn't like, he tends to dislike and be displeased of dark, gritty mangas like Gantz and Attack on Titan, but he enjoys more idealistic shounen mangas like One Piece, probably ties into why he's Wrong Genre Savvy.
  • When choosing houses to enter, he spins around like a child playing a game before pointing at one and saying "You're it".
• Serial Killer: Uses his powers to kill people, from wiping out whole families in their homes to sniping people from rooftops and crashing cars into each other on the street, pretty much For the Evulz. After all, now that he can do it, why wouldn't he?
• The Sociopath: A textbook case. He sees the vast majority of humanity as inconsequential things for him to play around with, only feeling emotional attachment to a select few people close to him, and has no qualms whatsoever about casually wiping out entire families. He occasionally tries to paint this as a case of Came Back Wrong, but flashbacks show that he was clearly like this long before the aliens arrived. The only reason he even bothers trying to pull a Death Equals Redemption to save Earth is in order to protect those scant few people.
• Teens Are Monsters: A young teenager and one of the most loathsome villains in all of anime.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: He has the soft voice and good looks of a stereotypical high school anime protagonist, and is quite popular at school and loved by his family.
• Touched by Vorlons: In the same incident and manner as Inuyashiki.
• Transhuman Treachery: In stark contrast with the heroic Inuyashiki, Shishigami uses his augmented powers to commit petty crimes, kill innocent lives, and anyone else who gets in his way.
• The Unfettered: His very limited pool of loved ones aside, he has absolutely no moral restrictions or lines he can't cross once he gets his new abilities. If he has the ability to do it and get away with it, he will, even if it doesn't benefit him in any real way.
• The Unreveal: Why was Shishigami at the park when the aliens arrived? Your first guess might be that he was just taking a walk (and characteristically ignoring the hysterically crying old man next to him). But when Inuyashiki asks him this in the final episode, Shishigami ignores him and asks him to help with his self-destruct sequence instead.
• Villainous Breakdown: Starts sliding into one once he begins openly slaughtering people in the streets, but he loses his cool for good when he meets Inuyashiki again after the latter saves dozens of planes Shishigami was trying to crash. The revelation that the old man is like him and he's the villain of the story cracks his facade of Dissonant Serenity.
  Hiro: So I'm the villain... and this old man is the hero? [...] You're the same as me! Don't get it wrong! We only care about ourselves! [...] Why am I...? Why am I the villain? When an old man like this...
• Would Hurt a Child: Quite cheerfully, in fact. His introductory episode has him drowning a young boy in a bath under his father's corpse, and he goes on to kill or attempt to kill several other children over the course of his spree.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Thinks he's the hero of his own tale, and he has the classic appearance for it. When he realizes how wrong he is, he doesn't take it well.

Family & Associates

Mari Inuyashiki

Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka

Inuyashiki's teenage daughter.

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• Closet Geek: She's revealed late in the story to dream of writing manga rather than going to college like her mother wants. No one except Inuyashiki supports this move or thinks she has any chance of being successful. The very last scene shows her getting accepted into Shonen Jump.
• Daddy's Girl: While she's going through the typical teenager phase of distancing herself from her father, she definitely loves him deep down and is the first of his family to let him know that. When she's seemingly dying in the burning building, her last phone call is to him, just repeating over and over that she loves him.
• Disney Death: She succumbs to smoke inhalation shortly before her father arrives, and appears to be well and truly dead for several minutes as Inuyashiki tearfully rants to her motionless body. Then, miraculously, his continued efforts finally draw a cough from her, revealing that she survived.
• Mangaka: Her dream career; she's been writing manga since she was young, and secretly wants to go professional with it. In the end, she does.
• Out of Focus: Like the rest of Inuyashiki's family, she becomes this after the first few episodes as the plot kicks off. Unlike her mother and brother, though, she comes back and takes more prominence prior to the finale.

Naoyuki Ando

Voiced by: Kanata Hongō

Hiro's best friend and a fellow manga enthusiast. Once he learns of his friend's proclivities, he quickly severs their ties and turns to Inuyashiki for help.

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• Foil: To Hiro. They're both shut-in Otaku and Shonen Jump fanboys, but Ando doesn't let his fondness for fiction distance him from real people, and he immediately takes Inuyashiki's side in the conflict and does his best to help him save lives.
• Hero-Worshipper: He idolizes Inuyashiki to the point of being moved to tears when seeing him cure a child with cancer.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Kanata Hongo resembles him so much, he even reprises his role in the live action movie.
• Morality Chain: One of the few people Hiro actually cares about and refuses to ever harm, even after their friendship is destroyed.
• Otaku: Similar to Shishigami, though as a genuine Nice Guy who goes on to eagerly help Inuyashiki stop his former friend, he demonstrates that one can be an obsessive nerd and still be a good, well-adjusted person.
• Sidekick: He gradually becomes this to Inuyashiki's traditional superhero, serving as his Voice with an Internet Connection and scouting things on the ground level that his older ally isn't suited for, as well as helping him learn and refine his powers.

Shion Watanabe

Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi

A shy girl who goes to school with Hiro and has a crush on him.

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• Embarrassing Nickname: The kids at school dub her "Pube Head" for her curly hair.
• Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: She puts on sandals while in her pajamas expecting to talk outside with Hiro, who doesn't even bother with any need for footwear in his inhuman state, but when he becomes genocidal, Hiro drags her into the sky and flies her above the city with intent to let go, Shion's sandals are blown off and tumble away to the ground, illustrating her peril along with her frantic pleading with him. Both of them end up hugging and share a tender moment, outside a playground and barefoot in their PJs.
• Morality Pet: Deliberately tries to make herself this for Shishigami, allowing him to hide out at her place once the police are coming after him and insisting that he's a good person even once he starts ranting about how he wants to kill everyone who ever dares to cross him. It even kind of works for a time, as Shishigami switches to helping people just to make her happy, but the murders eventually resume once the cops track him down — even worse this time because he thinks he can achieve a happy ending for them both if he kills enough of their pursuers, and is shocked when she turns him down.
• Selective Obliviousness: Willfully ignores the numerous red flags about Hiro for the sake of her infatuation with him, up to and including flat-out denying things he eventually tells her about himself.

Yuko Shishigami

Voiced by: Yuuko Katou

Hiro's mother, whom he's very close to.

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• Driven to Suicide: The knowledge that her son is an infamous Serial Killer and the subsequent media condemnation ultimately drive her to kill herself.
• Morality Chain: She and her son are extremely close, and she's one of the few people he actually values and cares for. Her death kickstarts his transformation into a full-on Omnicidal Maniac.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Her suicide is the first time Shishigami experiences an actual loss, and it only amps up his aggression.
• Where Did We Go Wrong?: She can't believe the son she raised and loved turned out to be... well, Hiro Shishigami.
• Your Days Are Numbered: Like Inuyashiki, she receives a cancer diagnosis that gives her a set date of death. However, Hiro destroys the cancer with his Healing Hands, bringing her back to health.

Other

Samejima

Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda

A vicious Yakuza boss who menaces a young couple Inuyashiki is trying to help.

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• Arc Villain: Of his volume and corresponding episode. He's entirely unrelated to Shishigami or any other aspects of the story, and is out of the way before Shishigami comes back into focus.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Despite being a major criminal and a serious threat to the women of Japan, he can't hold a candle to Shishigami and turns out to just be a Dirty Coward hiding behind his men and his sword. It takes very little effort in the end for Inuyashiki to deal with him.
• Bullying a Dragon: He naively thinks that trying to pick a fight with an elderly cyborg who's impervious to bullets would be a great idea. It is not.
• Defiant to the End: He won't stop ranting about how the yakuza can hunt down Inuyashiki and still make his life a living hell when he's rendered blind and paraplegic himself.
• Depraved Bisexual: His repeated abductions, rapes, and murders of young women are the focus of his conflict, but he also forces an uncooperative underling to give him oral sex in a sauna.
• Eye Scream: He loses both of his eyes during his fight with Inuyashiki and the close-up of his face is horrifying.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: As he lays crippled and blinded after Inuyashiki's assault, he can only ask what the hell he ever did to deserve it.
• Fate Worse than Death: He and all of his men are left permanently blinded and crippled by Inuyashiki's attack, left until the end of their lives to do nothing but reflect on their crimes.
• Faux Affably Evil: He rarely raises his voice and likes to project the appearance of being a refined leader, but he's an unrepentantly savage thug to the core.
• Groin Attack: One of the shots that cripples him seems to blow his crotch straight off.
• Hate Sink: He is one of the most despicable and hated characters in the entire series. His crimes were so awful that he could be considered more evil than Hiro. Unlike Hiro, who loves his mother and has more redeeming features, Samejima has no humanity inside him, serving as a reminder that humans can be much worse than others may think.
• Hated by All: Pretty much everybody hates him due to how depraved and despicable he is, even for a yakuza. Everyone's glad to be rid of him after Inuyashiki permanently cripples him.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He's very fond of kidnapping women he finds appealing before drugging and raping them. Even Inuyashiki finds him unforgivable.
• Serial Rapist: His defining crime.
• Tattooed Crook: His body is covered in tattoos, befitting a high-ranked Yakuza.
• What the Hell Are You?: He says this word for word after Inuyashiki No Sells an entire pistol's worth of bullets twice.
• Villainous Breakdown: Inuyashiki once again tanking his gunshots marks the point where Samejima absolutely loses his shit. Even after Inuyashiki floors him with one punch, he vows that the yakuza will hunt down him and everybody he loves.

The Aliens

The pilots of the UFO that crashed into Inuyashiki and Shishigami, who promptly rebuilt them with weapons before fleeing.

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• Anatomically Ignorant Healing: Zig-zagged. They apparently have some basic idea how to heal humans, but they're so panicked and short-supplied that they end up fixing Inuyashiki and Hiro with advanced weapons instead.
• Anthropic Principle: Their sole purpose is to smash and rebuild the main characters, kicking off the real plot.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Despite "resurrecting" Inuyashiki and Hiro, they aren't concerned about the possible problems of rebuilding two humans into living weapons. One of them was even ambivalent about the prospect that these two super cyborgs may end up destroying Earth.
• The Ghost: Only heard via their Starfish Language, never seen onscreen.
• Lilliputians: On the one page they do appear, they are shown to be tiny enough that Hanako could probably swallow them whole.
• MacGyvering: Basically how they "rebuilt" Inuyashiki and Hiro, due to their on-board inventory being limited to only advanced weaponry and nothing proper to replicate or restore humans with. What came out of this were two improvised beings that looked human on the outside, but are complete war machines on the inside.
• Oh, Crap!: Their reaction upon realizing they almost killed two humans is to panic, and hastily rebuild them with whatever's on hand before high-tailing it off Earth.
• Starfish Language: What we hear them speaking, though the audience (and, apparently, Hiro) understands them anyway.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: They never appear again after the rebuilding sequence, so we're left to wonder who they were, why they were around Earth, what caused them to crash, and what happened to them after they flew off.
• Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: The whole reason they were on Earth to begin with. They just happened to randomly jump into the park at the exact moment Inuyashiki and Hiro were standing in their way.