Sati Saigan

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Japanese Name	サティ・サイガン
Romanized Name	Sati Saigan
English Name	Sati Saigan
First Appearance	Chapter 61 (Manga) Episode 10 (2021 Anime)
Affiliations	Gandhara (Team "Nyorai") Daremoine Team YVS (Moxy 6)
Occupations	Shaman
Epithet	"Miroku" (ミロク/弥勒菩薩, Miroku/Miroku-bosatsu, Kodansha: "Maitreya")
Furyoku Level	700,000 (Initial) 750,000 (Final)
Birthdate	December 31, 1963
Star Sign	Capricorn
Blood Type	A
Japanese VA	Kotono Mitsuishi (2021) Yuka Komatsu (Funbari Spirits)
English VA	Erika Harlacher
Guardian Ghosts
Kami Class Dainichi Nyorai • Moloch

Sati Saigan (サティ・サイガン, Sati Saigan), formerly Saigan Sachi (西岸サチ, Saigan Sachi, Kodansha: "Sachi Saigan"), is a fictional character in the Shaman King manga and anime series. She is the leader of the Gandhara group, one of the three great powers in the Shaman Fight of AD 2000. She is also the team leader of Team "Nyorai".

As a child, she believed herself to be a Buddhist messiah known as Miroku, and traveled from Japan to India on a journey seeking enlightenment. In truth, this was a false story crafted by Fra YVS and meant to mold Sati into a false messiah. After awakening to the truth, Sati secretly served as a top-ranking member of Daremoine.

For the Flower of Maize, Sati joins Spimea Lasso's Moxy 6 and becomes a Captain of Team YVS.

Appearance

10-year-old Sati

Sati has long red-brown hair and typically wears an orange dress. She also wears a Buddhist crown with a long veil and carries a staff.

Her casual clothing consists only of a simple two parted white dress.

Personality

Sati projects an air of serenity and peace. She heavily opposes wanton violence and killing, though she is willing to fight in defense of others. She seeks to save everyone in the world and believes that spreading love will bring about true joy in everyone.

Sati is also very polite and is the only one who addresses Ryu as "Ryunosuke".

As a child, Sati's personality was somewhat the opposite of what it now is as a grown woman. She was rather short-tempered, having outbursts when annoyed, and was also rather reckless. However, she was also willing to help others, like Kado, whom she intended to try and "cure" from his greed back then.

Abilities and Powers

As a child, Sati inadvertently summoned the spirits of various bodhisattva as numerous Over Souls and continuously maintained them for multiple years. This served as extreme training that increased her furyoku. Like the rest of Gandhara, she has undergone training in Hell to strengthen her soul and increase her furyoku, as well as befriending spirits there. The Buddhistic spirits of Gandhara also have furyoku-nullification abilities, enabling the hosting shamans to win battles with minimal violence.

Spirit

See More: Dainichi Nyorai | Butsu Zone | Moloch

Sati's first and main Guardian Ghost is Dainichi Nyorai, who is initially manifested through a wooden statue of Senju Kannon. During the Shaman Fight, Sati channels him through a wansen (Buddhist armlet). With Dainichi, she is able to revive the dead and to send souls to Hell. Ahead of the Flower of Maize, she hands over Senju to Daremoine so he could rejoin Lucifer.

For the Flower of Maize, Sati accepts the devil Moloch as her new Guardian Ghost.

History

Past

Sati was born on December 31, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan. When she was 10 years old, she came to a temple that held a wooden statue of Senju Kannon and talked to it about the injustice in the world. She was interrupted by three land speculators who threatened to throw her out unless she could pay them. When Sati attempted to defend the statue and the temple, the men offered to take her instead because the statue was worthless. Before they could hurt Sati, she unintentionally Over Souled Dainichi Nyorai into the statue. Senju threatened to beat the men up with his thousand hands, which scared the three men away.

Sati and Senju then traveled together and journeyed to India, eventually reaching Delhi in 1976. Along the way, Sati unwittingly manifested an army of additional Butsu Zones, who acted as her friends and protectors. While in Delhi, she approached the Maharaja Kado about food and lodging, to which he agreed in exchange for her hand in marriage. However, this was merely an excuse for him to throw an extravagant party to bury his regret over losing his family. After learning the truth, Sati decided to beat the true meaning of love into him. Kado turned against her and attacked with his O.S. "Ganesha Nature". Sati was clueless about Over Souls, but her army of Butsu Zones came to her defense and defeated Kado.

As she continued traveling, she saved numerous people, some of whom became her devoted followers and joined as members of Gandhara. Sati went on to establish a school in India, as well as an orphanage and hospital. From among the students, Sati identified Komeri's shamanic potential and trained her to become the next leader of Gandhara.

Shaman Fight Second Round

Sati protects Ryu from Peyote.

As Peyote Diaz and Turbine fought and mortally wounded Umemiya Ryunosuke, Sati and Gandhara arrived and attacked Peyote, as well as subsequently reviving Ryu. Sati explained that although they do not like fighting and killing, they came to help Ryu because they received Asakura Yoh's kind and pure-hearted prayer, and she told Ryu to go thank Yoh. With their job done, Sati and Gandhara prepared to leave.

Later that night, Ryu brought the deceased Chocolove McDonnell and members of Shaft to Sati so she could revive them. At Chocolove's request, Gandhara also took away his eyesight.

The next day, Sati and her team, "Nyorai", faced off against and easily defeated Team "Haiti 800", dissolving their Zombie Soldiers.

The next day, Sati and the rest of Gandhara watched as Team "Myooh" faced off against Team "The Ren". As the match ended, Sati thanked Ryo, Zen, and Tao Jun for the information they had provided since it confirmed the boys' qualities to be the Five Elemental Warriors.

Sati sends Yoh's soul to Hell for training.

Sati and most of Gandhara then sought out Team "Funbari Onsen", who were training at one of the island's ports. As part of the preparation for the Warriors, Sati challenged Asakura Yoh to a fight, but the X-Laws' attack on Hao forced her to rush the plan. She killed Yoh with a strike and then sent the boy's soul directly to Sanjiva for training. Sati explained her plan to Ryu and Johann Faust VIII: to steal the Five Grand Elemental Spirits and give them to the Five Elemental Warriors, who will ambush Hao while he is sleeping to become the Shaman King. Having overheard Sati's plan, Namari warned her and Ryu about challenging the Patch Officiants. He then announced that X-II's members were dead so Team "Nyorai" would be fighting Team "Kabbalahers" next.

Hang Zang-Ching kills Sati.

Team "Tsuki-Gumi" then brought the news that all of the X-Laws were dead and that Lyserg's and Jeanne's had been blown up. Hang Zang-Ching mocked Gandhara's foiled plan and threatened to destroy Yoh's body as well. Ryu wanted to kill Zang-Ching, but Sati stood in Ryu's way and insisted that he not kill anyone. However, this left her open to Zang-Ching stabbing her in the back and killing her. After Team "Tsuki-Gumi" killed the rest of Gandhara, Johann revived Yoh and then Sati. Yoh singlehandedly defeated Team "Tsuki-Gumi", and then Hao's followers were all called away.

Sati brought Jeanne's body to the village and revived her so they both could begin reviving the fallen Gandhara members. Team "Myooh" brought news about the success of Team "The Ren". Although Lyserg had not returned yet, Sati announced that they would continue with their plan to retrieve that Grand Elemental Spirits.

After reviving Lyserg, Sati and Jeanne accompanied him to the Patch Stadium, where they interrupted the match between Teams "Funbari Onsen" and "The Ren". Sati announced the withdrawals of Teams "Nyorai" and "Kabbalahers" and return of X-I, bringing an end to the main tournament since there were only four teams remaining.

Invading the Plants

Sati faces Enma Daioh.

While the Five Elemental Warriors were fighting their way through the Patch Tribe on Mū, Sati was in Hell and confronted Enma Daioh who was the guardian of the Spirit of Earth. Despite the two knowing each other for long time, Enma Daioh was bound by the contract with the Patch Tribe and refused Sati's request to turn over the Spirit of Earth, so she had no choice but to fight the king.

By the next morning, all four Grand Elemental Spirits had been retrieved, and the Gandhara members boarded the Sphinx so they could deliver the spirits to Mū. However, before they could reach the underwater continent, Hao awoke as the Shaman King and destroyed the Sphinx and everyone inside it.

Gandhara boarded the train of souls in the Great Spirit and rode it up to the highest commune, where the Five Elemental Warriors were fighting Hao. When Hao criticized them all as unwanted guests, Sati pointed out that Hao had secretly wanted certain people to appear. After being reunited with Ohachiyo and Asanoha, Hao relented and revived those who had died, including the members of Gandhara.

Day After Maize

Following the Shaman Fight, Sati and Asakura Yohken trained Tamamura Tamao and made her into a powerful shaman.

Some time after Kado left Gandhara, Sati led an attack against him, but Shiva Sahasranama overpowered and defeated Gandhara and its spirits.

Later, Sati disbanded the group and settled in India, along with her Buddha spirits and Komeri. Nakaizumi Yakumo sought her out, hoping to become her disciple. She refused initially due to her own loss of belief in the middle path, and told him the story of Gandhara's founder, Mr. B. She ultimately took him on as a disciple.

Flowers

In August 2014, Sati visited Funbari Onsen and revived Asakura Hana's body so that the boy could finish recruiting Sakurai Sakutaro. Afterwards, Sati talked with Tamao and asked her to join another team for the Flower of Maize, but Tamao refused due to her loyalty to the Asakura Family. As Tamao was questioning Sati's past decision to drop out of the Shaman Fight, they were interrupted by Dainichi reminding Sati about their train to Kyoto, Japan. As she left, Sati expressed her wish to fight alongside Tamao in the future.

Sati is stabbed by Niaes.

In Kyoto Tower, Sati met with the rest of Team YVS so that Dainichi could be reunited with the rest of Lucifer. Sati greeted the others and then apologized to Kamogawa Yohsuke for her absence. Lucifer thanked her for returning his final piece; however, inspired by Sati's wish to save everyone, Dainichi attempted to fight against Lucifer. After Senju was defeated and Sati was mocked for his failure, she revealed that it was not a rebellion, but a prayer for their happiness of everyone present and what she learned on her journey in life. When Niaes Varge stabbed Sati with her Over Soul and mocked her beliefs, Sati told Nias that she still believed in a world where everyone could be happy.

The meeting was then interrupted by Asakura Hana, and Sati was pleased to see him. Spimea Lasso called off Niaes, who released her Over Soul. Sati accepted her role as the false messiah, Miroku, but still intended to save everyone. Spimea then fused Sati with the devil Moloch. Sati loomed over Hana, who was amazed by the transformation. When Oyamada Mansumi transformed and targeted Hana, Sati stepped in and blocked the dragon. Mansumi then attempted to strangle Sati, but Spimea transformed as well and threatened Mansumi, while pointing out that Sati's response was expected but Sati could not disobey Spimea now. Once Hana announced his intention to befriend Yohsuke, Mansumi stopped his attack on Sati and released his transformation.

Later, Spimea and her team of devils, Moxy 6, visited a recovered Sati in a hospital. That night, Spimea brought them to Funbari Onsen in order to retrieve Yohsuke, who had fled Kyoto. She introduced the Moxy 6 as the new Helpers and Captains of Team YVS, having replaced the Dong Siblings and Niaes. A fight almost broke out with Team B, but they came to an agreement for the return of Yohsuke. Sati thanked Komeri for taking on the responsibility of leading Team B and Gandhara. Spimea and the Moxy 6 left after Yohsuke agreed to leave with them.

Anime/Manga Difference

Sati does not appear in the 2001 anime series adaptation and was replaced by Lady Nyorai, an anime original character who shares a similar background and appearance to Sati.

Trivia

• Sati's name and much of her history are based on the protagonist of Hiroyuki Takei's manga series Butsu Zone. She was foretold to awaken in the year 1999. She also had a companion, an Itako Princess named Anna, who was later adapted into Anna Y. Kyouyama.
• Sati's name is also a reference to SATY, a Japanese store chain.
• In the character popularity polls, Sati ranked #31 in the second.

External Links

• Maitreya - A Wikipedia article about the future Buddha whom Sati is supposed to be.

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