Kamogawa Yohsuke (鴨川 羊介 Kamogawa Yōsuke) is the main antagonist of the Shaman King Flowers manga and anime series. He is the General of Team YVS for the Flower of Maize.
He originally first appeared in Hiroyuki Takei's one shot, Yahabe.
Appearance[]
Yohsuke as a child.
Yohsuke is a tall man with short black hair that sometimes covers one of his bright green eyes. He wears a white suit, with a green and yellow patterned tie depicting an Eye of Providence.[2] Despite his appearance, he is actually only 13 years old.[1]
As a child, he had similar, albeit shorter hair with one fringe sticking up at an angle. He wore a school uniform, consisting of a red tie, white dress shirt, and blue jeans and brown shoes. He also wore glasses.
Personality[]
Yohsuke appears confident of his own abilities, assuring his companion that he is certain that he can create a wonderful new world for him. He is also rather arrogant and believes that money is power and so struggling to improve one's strength is pointless as one can just earn the power they need through wealth. In addition, he is rather blunt with his words and isn't one for subtlety.
As a child, he was very disillusioned with the world believing the only talents or contributions to the world he had was his interest in the TCG, God-Hand Q. Even then, he contemplated suicide after realizing he wasn't too good at that, being eliminated in the first round of a God-Hand Q tournament.
Yohsuke is at heart a misanthropic nihilist with a sociopathic amount of cruelty, being capable of commiting murder and genocide without any restraint or guilt. He was in fact able to directly shoot at Tao Jeanne and kill her with a smile on his face, while lying to Niaes Varge about the deed. Yohsuke's current demeanor is largely a result of YVS' manipulation who took advantage of him on his youth when he had poor self-esteem, and was emotionally vulnerable which fed into the growing hate within Yohsuke. In fact, Yohsuke's primary motivation is to make the current world "a little bit saner", evidencing his overall negative outlook on reality.
As a result Yohsuke "relates" with Hana whom he views as a peer, who is also a socially problematic child whose life circumstances have nurtured anger and hatred within him, viewing himself in Hana, and thus seeks to make Hana his ally.
Abilities and Powers[]
Yohsuke uses an YVS Card to view souls.
Yohsuke has no innate shamanic abilities and must use YVS' power to see spirits.[1]
YVS Cards
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Yohsuke's abilities are related to various different YVS cards he carries around. The cards are purchased from YVS, with costs ranging from ¥500 to several trillion. In addition, the cards are finite in use as Yohsuke can only use each card once, though he can combine their various effects. However, he can purchase as many as he likes, so long as he can pay for them. The cost of the cards is little concern to Yohsuke, who confidently asserts that he can use the cards themselves to win more money.[1]
History[]
Past[]
Yohsuke meets YVS for the first time.
As a child, Yohsuke felt disillusioned with the world; proclaiming that all that's left for him is the Godhand Q TCG, as he is terrible at studying, sports and everything else. Lamenting that despite spending all of his allowance money to compete in it, he still lost in the first match of a Godhand Q tournament and felt that no matter what he'd never win, contemplating jumping off the large tower he was on, thinking he would be famous for it. However, before he could YVS interrupted him and demanded him to give him money, saying that he was starving but money was like food to him and that Yohsuke wouldn't need money if he was going to be dead anyway. Threatening him after being annoyed at his lack of reaction, he demands money once more at which Yohsuke mentions he only has a measly 500 yen, YVS offers him his Time Warp card, allowing him to jump forward or backward in time approximately 12 hours. Yohsuke accepts, thinking he will reverse his loss at the tournament and puts his 500 yen coin in a slot on YVS, before boldly jumping off of the tower. Yohsuke then wakes up at home, being alarmed at seeing YVS in his room. YVS questions what he thinks of its power, and explains how the cards and their mechanics work.
Yohsuke faces Kamemaguma in the God Hand Q Tournament.
On his way to school, he encounters several of his friends who taunt him due to his low skill at the God-Hand Q game. As he was sent back in time with YVS' card, he recalls the exact words they had said to him as they taunt him. Later at the tournament, he uses another card he acquired from YVS, X-Ray 125 to help him defeat his opponent. In the middle of his next battle, YVS uses his card and notices that "they" are there and had already seen him. Panicking YVS flees with Yohsuke, much to Yohsuke's protests.
Eventually, Yohsuke stops and reflects that YVS allowed him to relive that day, and despite his harsh words, he found something he could enjoy and vows to protect the world. Noticing his resolve, YVS asks him which card he wanted, to which Yohsuke responded with one that would be able to drive them away. As a large assortment of helicopters, tanks, and armed soldiers advance on them, Yohsuke freaks out before YVS initializes his strongest card, "Obelisk", to demolish their foes. Later in Yohsuke's room, YVS tells him that that particular card was worth 100,000,000 $ much to Yohsuke's dismay. YVS tells him that it would be okay to take his time repaying him that, mentioning that he can't break their contract till his debt is repaid, bemusing that they were going to be great partners, as Yohsuke sits on his bed with a blank look on his face.[3]
Yohsuke and Rapts destroy the Patch Village and fight Hana.
Sometime later, Yohsuke and several Rapts destroyed the Patch Village and intentionally left Alumi Numbirch as the sole survivor of the Patch Tribe. Asakura Hana, who was visiting at the time, attacked Yohsuke, so Yohsuke used a card to freeze time.[4] However, despite time still being frozen, Hana regained consciousness and killed Yohsuke. Dong Dehon then immobilized Hana and retrieved Yohsuke's body, while Shahon erased Hana's memories of the events.[5]
Red Crimson[]
Yohsuke shoots Jeanne for Niaes.
Yohsuke and Dong Yonhon took Niaes Varge to assassinate Tao Jeanne in order to increase Niaes's strength. When Niaes hesitated to shoot Jeanne, Yohsuke threateningly questioned Niaes's resolve. Seeing this conflict within Niaes, Jeanne chose to have Shamash pass judgment on herself. Before Shamash could execute Jeanne, Yohsuke stopped time for everyone but himself and Yonhon. Yohsuke then took the gun from Niaes and fired it into Jeanne's head so that Jeanne would die to the gunshot once time resumed. Afterwards, Yohsuke had false memories placed into Niaes' mind to convince her that she was the one to kill Jeanne.[6] Jeanne's spirit was also made into Niaes' Guardian Ghost for the Flower of Maize.[7]
Flowers[]
From a nearby building, Yohsuke and YVS were spying on Asakura Hana and Yohane and watched the duel between Amidamaru and Oboro Daikyoh on the rooftop of Shinra Private Academy. Yohsuke praised Amidamaru's abilities and how he had managed to bring his previous master to the continent of Mū. However, YVS believed that Amidamaru was nothing but scum, to which Yohsuke replied that he was at least compared to YVS. Noting that Amidamaru was a model samurai and made his master look much worthier, Yohsuke asked YVS if it made him feel like taking one away from another.[8]
When Hana and Yohane decided to explore the new mall, Yohsuke purchased Zion Mall ahead of their visit, so that Asakura Luca and Ichihara Ryuji could ambush Hana. YVS did not want to go since he hates crowds and mixing in with commoners, to which Yohsuke affirmed that he had known him a long time and was already aware of this. Yohsuke told him not to forget that he was once one of those commoners before he had met YVS. When YVS reminded Yohsuke of his promise to eliminate the strong opponents in Japan before the Flower of Maize begins, Yohsuke assured YVS that he had a plan already in motion.[9]
Yohsuke flies away with the petrified Amidamaru.
After Hana summoned out the Daidarabotchi and crushed the shrine spirit, Alumi suppressed the Yami-Oni, so Yohsuke stepped in and stole Amidamaru, who had been petrified, and the shrine spirit, erasing everyone else's memories of his involvement. Yohsuke then transformed YVS into a flying mechanism and escaped from the mall. He questioned whether it was worth stealing Amidamaru due to Hana awakening the the powerful Yami-Oni and potentially regaining his erased memories.[10]
Yohsuke later advised the sons of Khafre Puljiz and Nakht Pitrah that Tao Men was incredibly dangerous, despite only being 7 years old, and is the strongest of Team Hao in terms of Furyoku. He revealed that Men was out of their league, but they might stand a chance now that Men was separated from his parents. As they left, he mentioned to YVS how reckless the men were and that they would probably die. YVS questioned why Yohsuke did not kill his enemies himself, to which Yohsuke responded that he still wished to make Hana an ally and use Hana's oni for their side.[11]
Anime/Manga Difference[]
Yohsuke originally debuted in Takei's Yahabe, which was both a manga one-shot and an anime OVA.
Trivia[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Shaman King Manga - Flowers Chapter 24
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Flowers Volume 6 cover
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Zero Chapter 8
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - The Super Star Chapter 13
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - The Super Star Chapter 29
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Red Crimson Chapter 4
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Flowers Chapter 22
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Flowers Chapter 7
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Flowers Chapters 8-9
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Flowers Chapters 10-11
- ↑ Shaman King Manga - Flowers Chapter 16; Pages 01-05
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