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The following is a list of characters from the manga series Akumetsu written by Yoshiaki Tabata, and illustrated by Yûki Yugo. ==Main Characters== ; :The protagonist of the series. He appears to be an easygoing, reckless and somehow comical high-school student known only for constantly arriving late for classes. However, he is in fact one of the results of an experiment from years before by a powerful crime syndicate lord; there are seemingly unlimited Shous throughout the series, each nearly the same as the last. The crime lord, dying of old age, tried to use medicine and advanced technology to revive himself as a youth, and thus create a cloning facility where he experimented with cloning humans and transferring memories and experience from a mind to another, so as to be reborn as an "ultimate being" However, his plans failed, as he died before his project could be brought into fruition, and thus the numerous Shou clones were scattered far and wide in Japan, until two of them encountered each other by chance, thus prompting all clones to reunite. It is implied from the later chapters that there are over three hundred Shous scattered across Japan. :Because of a flashback involving Katsuragi (Shou's former classmate who died due to cancer caused by tainted medicine), the clones vow to redeem Japan and destroy what they perceive as evil, in a similar way of a terror group. They first go back to their lives for a certain period of time, each of them focusing on a single area of expertise (be it stunt-driving, surgery, military training, and so on), before returning to reunite all their experiences into a 'perfect' Shou; a Shou with all the experience, memories and training of every previous clone. The original clones then commit suicide; the current Shou (who switches up several times throughout the series) is cloned from this first perfect Shou. :While their methods are indeed brutal and extremely shocking, one thing has to be noted: the Shou clones all follows something of a code of conduct named ''one man, one kill'', meaning only the chosen target will be put to death, no matter how many clones would be sacrificed in the process (one such example was the assassination of Takeo Tsuruta, involving the deaths of eighty clones). Obstacles such as police or bodyguards are simply evaded or subdued without deadly force. :All the Shou clones are aided in their acts by a peculiar, demonic mask which not only conceals their identity, but also serves as technologically advanced equipment. When worn, it drills itself into the wearer's skull and links to the brain, so as to assimilate all memories of that Shou and pass it on the others when he dies, normally after a killing. Also, to further prevent the world from understanding who they really are, each mask injects a bomb into the head of a Shou on the brink of death, which makes the head explode so as to prevent recognition and leaves only a headless body behind. :Presenting themselves as terrorists while making heavy use of costumes and even a cartoonish mascot nicknamed "Aametsu-kun," the Akumetsu group (the Shou clones) aim at one thing only: to purge Japan of all whom they perceive as "evil-doers", that is, all those in a position of power who are corrupt and revel in such chaos as a mean to make easy money, or simply those who, while capable of making changes, refuse to do so and only complain. Their executions are always presented as some sort of a show, where usually the Akumetsu, dressed appropriately (from a race driver to a ghost to a businessman) interrogates, frames for their wrongdoings and in the end massacres its intended victims, often in much brutal fashion to which follows his even more grisly death. :Without sermons or pleads, the Akumetsu are also very specific in explaining their motives and objectives to society, and while labeled terrorists by the media and the people, they also gained support from the masses in their bloody quest of disposing of the "evil-doers". To most of them, Akumetsu became not only the name of the "masked men", but also a moniker for the killing of those to be blamed for the crisis. :Akumetsu dies at the end of the series, by the mass death of every living Akumetsu clone and the destruction of the clone factory. Most of the Shous die as Akumetsu without their names ever being mentioned, with very few exceptions. At the point where the story begins, all the clones have already 'unified' once and the 'original' ones were killed to be used for raw materials for future clones. It is implied that they go through this process several times throughout the story, so probably the same name has been used by different individuals. ; :The catalyst that starts off the events of Akumetsu, he is the first to use the clone plant and the memory transfer device to 'revive' after receiving a near fatal injury while trying to save Katsuragi from getting run over by a truck. He becomes determined to punish those responsible for his friend Katsuragi's illness and eventual death, and he convinces the other clones to join him in his crusade. He is captured and then brutally tortured to death by Kitagami. This name is a pun on "two," as he is the second Shou to be introduced after Hazama. ; :A clone discovered and brought to the Shou conclave by Niikura after the first unification. He neither plays a very big role in the Akumetsu organization nor in the grand scheme, but he plays a central role in the plot in that everything begins and ends with Hazama. He is the only Akumetsu to survive the final battle with the Yakuza, but he sacrifices his own body so that Shiina can continue to live on. This name is a pun on "one." ; :Raised in the plant by one of the researchers who originally developed the cloning program, he continues to take care of the clone plant even after the death of "Grandma Sachiko." He continues to work on the clone research and eventually perfects the technology. He dies along with the clone plant. ; :Working at the TV station, he is the one who directs all Akumetsu's hijacked broadcasts and the final Akumetsu Documentary. He is killed in the final battle against the soldiers hired by the Takemaru group. ; :Sushi chef, shot and killed by Niikura's teacher Kuronuma who was posing as Akumetsu. ;??? :A clone mistaken to be a distant relative of criminal king pin M Gouda, and is captured and placed in a mental ward run by the Takimaru group. He dies as a lab rat. ;Shou Hayasaka :A reporter. By infiltrating the media, he does most of the investigative work for the group. He leads the decisive final battle against Takimaru and Kitagami. He is shot by Kaori and dies before he could see his friends for the last time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Akumetsu characters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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