Kouji Yamada

Kouji Yamada (山田光司, Yamada Kouji) is a man fascinated with gothic structures in Europe and originally worked as a photographer, but it is said his only ability with the camera was to photograph ghosts. He is also known by his nickname, "Damayaji" (ダマヤジ).

Appearance
Kouji has a unique hairstyle, with his hair split into two spikes pointing upwards and according to Usui Horokeu, he resembles a vampire more than his teammate, Boris Tepes Dracula.

His typical attire was a long black and red cloak(dark shades of Blue in the anime), worn over black pants and black boots.

five years before the grand Shaman tournament Fight, his hair was much longer, and fashioned into a ponytail style, in which he humorous claimed that Boris had copied him.

Personality
He is a man who cares for the beauty of nature, which is why Asakura Hao wanted him on his team. Yamada also enjoyed drinking alcohol and eating crabs.

Spirit

 * See More: Crab Spirit | Centipede Spirit

His guardian ghost was the nature spirit of a red king crab. They got on well because Kouji himself resembled a hermit crab.

Past
Yamada once used to be a photographer and he would always visited famous monuments and historic ruins. It was during one of these trips that he was visited by the nine year old Asakura Hao, who sympathized with his care for the nature and therefor wanted Yamada to join him.

Travel Through America
He was first introduced when Asakura Yoh and his friends finally found the old Patch Village. There he, the rest of Team "Kaze-Gumi" and Team "Tsuki-Gumi" approached Yoh and his friends with orders from Hao to kill all of the Shamans present there except for Yoh.

However, after Horohoro claimed he looked more like a vampire than Boris, his partner stabs him through the chest, and then disintegrated him into dust.

Invading the Plants
He is seen on the Soul Train withint the Great Spirit next to Boris and ask Hao if his Shaman-only world was supposed to be on Earth.

Anime/Manga Difference
Damayaji had a major short yet made two anime appearances along with his partner. one he was along with hao and then later encountering with Boris for the first time while posing as a priest. He proceeds to tell Yoh and the others about Boris Tepes Dracula's false background story, even pretending to be on Yoh's side. Later on, he appears in a dark Basement, after kidnapping both Ellie and Millie to run away from him. He proceeds to attack them, but is shortly later on he was killed by Boris. Also in the anime, his guardian ghost appears to take the form of a centipede-like human spirit.

In the 4Kidsdub like his partner boris, before being impale in the back given by Boris was edited out too along with his cross necklace.