Akisame Kōetsuji
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Kōetsuji Akisame
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First Appearance:
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Battle 7
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Age:
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38-39
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Nickname:
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The Philosophical Jujitsu Master
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Voice Actor:
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Jūrōta Kosugi (Japanese)
Kent Williams (English) |
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Kōetsuji Akisame is a philosophical Jujutsu master, and one of the senior members of Ryonzanpaku and the Doctor from the Ryonzanpoku. He was also the the first master willing to train Kenichi (though he is the least considerate to Kenichi's feelings). Akisame is the third oldest Master of the Ryonzanpaku.
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Personality
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Despite having a very kind and understanding appearance, Akisame is noted to be the most strict of all the teachers at Ryozanpaku. Because of the grueling training Akisame forces on Kenichi, in the manga Kenichi often runs home to him in times of problems screaming "DORAEMON!" (coincidentally while Akisame is eating dorayaki) in a parody of the recurring gag from the manga of the same name. According to Kenichi, he is capable of unspeakable brutality. His training often involves the usage of various machines that grabs Kenichi's arms and legs and often pulverizes him to nothing, which often leaves Kenichi in a exhausted mess, which is often a running gag as Kenichi often tries to run away whenever he sees his crazy training machines.
While normally a composed and collected individual, at times he has shown anger, such as he did after learning about Ogata's treatment of his disciple. According to Ma Kensei, whenever Akisame says "Eh, I don't want to", his stubborness becomes unrivaled to the point where no amount of compensation can change his mind, and according a flashback, Akisame refused all manners of payment for a statue he crafted offered by a rich country leader (much to Miu's distress) and even sent the assassins and professional thieves hired to steal the statue back beaten up with an "Eh, I don't want to" note.
Kōetsuji believes that masters should not interfere with their disciples' battles, and often has to convince Sakaki not to pulverize those who beat up Kenichi. However, like all the other masters at the dojo, he worries about Kenichi as well. He later believes that Kenichi will climb the ladder of a true martial artist and has on some occasion's praised his disciple whenever he impresses him, such as how Kenichi saved the congress woman from her death in the fight against Alexander Gaidar.
He seems to hold some kind of grudge against Takeda's master James Shiba as seen when James often insults Akisame's mustache. This grudge held to the point of a rivalry of some sorts as the two actually bet their mustache's to be saved should the losers disciple lose the match. Though Akisame choose to let Shiba go, after seeing Shiba only shave a small amount off, he became enraged and ordered Shigure to "shave all the hair off his body". The one thing Akisame cannot stand is green peppers, as he reacts with an expression of distaste when Kensei threatened to cook only green peppers and beef, and picks out green pepper after green pepper out of Kensei's Qing Jiao Rou, depositing them in Apachai's bowl. He also has a habit of scratching his mustache after he lies. He has no trouble using his friends as guinea pigs to come up with new techniques.
AppearanceEdit
Akisame is a man of above-average height and messy brown hair. He is almost constantly seen in his hakama. Despite his seemingly small physique, he has actually developed his muscles' built and definition to perfection. He takes most pride in his small and well-groomed mustache. A unique trait in his appearance is the dull and nearly colorless pupils of his eyes.
BackgroundEdit
In his younger days, Akisame traveled the world to further the development of his unique Jijitsu style, taking in aspects and inspiration from other styles he studied. He later met and became friends of Miu's father, Saiga. During one of his journeys, he met the child and not-yet-named Shigure who was raised deep in the mountains along with her father, who was a great master at both crafting and wielding weapons. Because her father was suffering from a terminal illness, he requested Akisame to take his life away in a duel so that he could die a warrior's death. Akisame initially refused, but eventually had to throw him off a cliff after a forced confrontation. Before dying, shigure father admitted he did not really want to die in battle, but was trying to be a bad example so his daughter would avoid repeating his mistakes. Akisame then gave Shigure her name and took her to be raised by Akisame's old friend, the late master of the Kōsaka-style. After the old man passed away, Akisame brought Shigure into Ryōzanpaku.
Plot OutlineEdit
Ragnarock SagaEdit
Akisame is introduced when Miu brings Kenichi to Ryozanpaku to train. When Kenich is under his training, Kenichi notes how cruel and horrible he is when he almost kills him in all his training methods. As Kenichi trains more, Akisame reveals that his physique is built to perfection after having shown Kenichi about his fighting style. He would occasionally watch some of his fights against Ragnarok and bet with Sakaki about who would win and Sakaki would bet on Kenichi. Akisames role in the Ragnarock Saga is somewhat short and only trains Kenichi and helps heal him and his friends. He later watches Kenichi's fight against Ryuto and became enraged at Ogata's treatment on how he uses his own desciple as a guinea pig. He congratulates Kenichi as do the other masters for his victory.
Yami/YOMI SagaEdit
He accompanies the other masters for the D of D tournament and helps defeat the associates of Yami and have them arrested. After the DofD tournament, Akisame, Sakaki, and Kenichi go on a job as bodyguards for the Congress woman of Russia. It turns out that Alexander Gaidar was after the Congress woman for her information on Yami. Akisame goes after him with Kenichi as Sakaki was fighting two Yami masters. Akisame and Kenichi run into Boris Ivanov, who could only hold Akisame off for just over 1 second. Kenichi holds off Boris and his group while Akisame fights Alexander. Both masters seemed to be evenly matched since both use similar styles relying on grapples and throws, though Alexander's SAMBO has greater offensive power than Akisame's Jujutsu. However, Akisame has far more experience than Alexander as well as a better body build. Akisame gives Kenichi a signal to get the Congress woman while he holds Alexander off, though he receives a blow as a result off doing this. They both do their job and save her thanks to the last minute arrival of Sakaki. Both Alexander and Boris take their leave, failing their mission. He gives Kenichi a complement afterwards for completing the mission.
Akisame and Sakaki go towards Russia's main government base. Akisame takes the mission on alone and knocks out all the guards without arousing attention. Both he and Alexander once again begin where they left off. Akisame initially appeared to have the upper hand, but has the situation turned against him when Alexander utilizes an imitation of his ultimate technique. This forced Akisame to do the same and both are unable to see each other. Akisame is caught by Alexander, who sees one of his conscious soldiers still awake watching the battle and looks at the reflection formed by his eyes to see Akisame. However, Akisame, who has been used to being thrown countless times, counters Alexander's attack by using his ki to manipulate Alexander into various throws. When Alexander uses his Forward March of Death, Akisame utilizes a grapple that knocks Alexander out for 2 seconds, prompting Alexander to view it as a loss and to allow himself to be taken to Big Lock.
After Rachel Stanley is taken by Jenazad, Akisame and the other masters with Kenichi and Ethan (Rachels brother) assist in saving her. Akisame and the other masters all go to Okinawa and while Apachai fights Agaard, Akisame is paired with Spear of the East and wins. After Apachai is left for dead after his fight with Agaard, Akisame and Kensei arrive to save him and use his medical expertise to save him and nurse him on their flight back home. After returning home, Akisame and the other masters leave due to the police arrive and must disband for the moment. Eventually, they all return and go back to their usuall daily activities.
RelationshipsEdit
RyozanpakuEdit
Akisame, while being a strict master, is none-the-less a very kind and understanding person who went as far as to say that Kenichi reminded him of himself at that age. He is noted to be one of the more disciplined of the masters and is usually a reliable voice of reason in the dojo. He also gets along with all of the other masters in the dojo and considers them all good friends. He has a great respect for the Elder, he treats him with the most respect than others. He also gets along with his granddaughter, Miu, as he helped her prepare for her play and helps her train with Kenichi. With that in mind, he seems to have a rivalry with both Ma and Sakaki in a variety of areas and seems to get along well with the good-natured Apachai, calling him "Apachai-Kun". He occasionally goes on trips with Sakaki to earn money fro Ryozanpaku and is the one who keeps him from interfearing with Kenichi's fights with other disciples. He treats Ma on an intellectual level, as both having a profesion in medice and have a respect as fellow doctors. Out of all the Masters, Akisame is seemingly closest to Shigure due to having known her since she was a little girl and took her in after her father's death and even named her. The relationship with her can be linkened to a father-daughter like relationship as Shigure does anything he asks without question.
Kenichi ShirahamaEdit
Kenichi wants to train with Akisame the least due to how hard and strict he is with him. Akisame also pushes Kenichi in his training more than any other master. However, Akisame has stated that Kenichi remind him of himself at that age. He's often the one master he seems to be afraid of the most. Despite this, Kenichi has never questioned his training methods and holds him in high regard as his master. However, Kenichi will try to run away from Akisame's crazy training machines most the time. Even Akisame will, on rare occasions praise him for his tenacities or how brave he becomes in fights or in the missions he's with him on.
James ShibaEdit
He seems to hold some kind of grudge against Takeda's master James Shiba as seen when James often insults Akisame's mustache. This grudge held to the point of a rivalry of some sorts as the two actually bet their mustache's to be saved should the losers disciple lose the match. Though Akisame choose to let Shiba go, after seeing Shiba only shave a small amount off, he became enraged and ordered Shigure to "shave all the hair off his body".
Saiga FūrinjiEdit
According to Akisame, Saiga was his best friend. What ended their friendship is unknown, but it may have something to do with Saiga going down the path of the Satsujinken and being a member of Yami and presumably killing Miu's mother Shizuha.
Skills and AbilitiesEdit
Akisame has repeatedly shown himself a remarkably skilled man. While a specialist in defensive methods of battle, Akisame is an extremely powerful man who should the need come, can easily cause great harm to his opponent. He once accidently dislocated a man's shoulder, claiming it to have been an unwanted habit. The true exent of Akisame's skill is yet to be seen, yet in each confrontation with Yami member Alexander, he has maintained a calm and detatched demeanor, able to fight on equal ground with him while spliting his attention or completely overwhelming Alexander once getting serious. using his ki Akisame can flip an opponent without actually touching them),
Renaissance Man: Unlike most of the other masters of Ryōzanpaku, Akisame is a highly skilled and accomplished man in a variety of areas outside of martial arts. He is an expert in many fields of study including literature, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, history, art history, anthropology, linguistics, and music. He is a famous and legendary artisan, who has mastered all forms of fine art, including calligraphy, painting, pottery, and sculpting. He is also a remarkable engineer and doctor, often using these talents to help the dojo get by or to further Kenichi's training. Akisame is also fluent in many languages, including Russian and English.
Medical Master: His medical skills are such that he is renowned for being able to heal seemingly any injury, new or old, even to the point of saving lives most doctors would deem lost causes. He also owns an orthopedic clinic, and can reset and fix bones with ease. It is from his immense skill and knowledge of medicine and anatomy that he developed his unique physical conditioning methods. His skills in the medical field are so great that he was able to save Apachai's life while the latter had a hole in his side and even using tools from Shigure and performing the surgury on flight, Apachai's life was saved. He is known amongs doctors as the "The medic demon Theyre also quite afraid of him. He is able to do difficult operation on a airplane in the air, is a very famous surgeon'
Keen Intellect: Akisame has frightening powers of perception that allow him to seemingly know everything that is going on to every last detail even if he isn't there. He even knows when people are talking about him. He also has very good insight on people, often knowing if they are troubled or hiding something; he sometimes even knows what a person is thinking, which scares Kenichi. With keen observation, Akisame is also a quick study, able to quickly replicate Nijima's computer skills. He is a master of strategy games, having never lost a game of Othello, Shōgi, and Go. Intelligence: Skilled combatant, is a master of Jujitsu
In battle, he is also an incredible strategist and tactician, able to quickly analyze the situation at hand, consider past details, and discern an opponent's battle tactics and techniques. After doing this he can quickly think several moves ahead of his opponent and formulate the best counter strategy. Akisame is very resourceful, able to use a wide array of unorthodox tactics to accomplish his goal, most commonly seen from his training methods for himself and Kenichi. During his fight at Okinawa with one of Yami's weapon masters, he got in range of the enemy's long reach with his speed, applied countermeasures to avoid being harmed (such as hanging onto a chandelier using his toes), and forced his opponent's armor to vibrate, knocking him out.
Immense Physical Prowess and Speed: As a man who puts strong emphasis on physical conditioning, Akisame has trained himself to the absolute peak of human physical potential. This has come from 20 years of in-depth research and strict training. Transforming all his muscle into pink tissue, Akisame has reached the perfect balance between speed and stamina with strength and durability and has conditioned both to their highest possible level. Akisame is also quite fast, being able to save a young Shigure from a falling boulder across a long distance, with Shigure's father remarking that he was even faster than himself. His speed allows him to quickly write Russian symbols legibly even when driving a motorcycle at high speeds. He has been noted as having inhuman strength for his size, seen from being able to easily overpower a man twice his size and built and using a single finger to push a bent street pole back into place. Sakaki, who is noted to have immense physical strength, has stated that he rates Akisame's strength at a high level and that in a real fight, one of them would definitely die.
TechniquesEdit
Sekijin Jijousan (Mountain of Self Pity): Koetsuji ties numerous opponents up in pairs and stacks them into a pile.
Koetsuji Yanagihayurashi: A special movement technique where he seemingly fades away. This technique can even baffle Master class fighters.
Koetsuji Kawasu Hineri: An evasive technique consisting of twisting the entire body.
Forced Into an Agonizing Position, Destruction Hell: A combination of a throw, kick and joint lock that literally scrambles an opponent's body. Despite the end result, the attack does not kill the victim (according to Akisame, anyway). Although classified as a move that immobilizes without killing, Kenichi claims it would be more merciful to let them die.
Added by Shintoe2993Shin Kokyuu Nage: Using the enemy's improved reflexes and his ki, Koetsuji feigns attacks in a way that the enemy masters simply dodge and end up throwing themselves forcefully to the ground. It's only used against masters, as Koetsuji remarked.
Kuchiki Daoshi: A Jujitsu move in which the user grabs the enemy's leg and lifts it up over their head, causing the target to fall over backward. As displayed in Kenichi's fight with Thor, however, this move can also be used to toss the opponent into the air should the user have sufficient strength.
Idori- A Jujutsu technique where the user sits down and waits for the opponent to attack and then nullify that attack and place the opponent into submission as well.
Sumokudori]- A Jujustu technique used when an opponent has attacked and counter it. The user grabs the opponent's arm, places the arm at the back of the neck then trip the opponent with a sweep of the leg.
Ushiro Ukemi (Backward Roll): After getting thrown Kenichi lands on his back.
Battle Log Edit
Battles pastEdit
vs Hachirobe Kosaka (won, though Hachirobe aimed to lose)
vs Yami subordinates (won)
vs probably James Shiba (unknown)
Battles presentEdit
vs Wrestling Boss (won)
vs Alexander Gaider round 1 (undecided)
vs Alexander Gaider round 2 (won)
vs Yami Rapier User (won)
vs Spear of the East (won)
TriviaEdit
- The actual techniques Akisame is seen utalizing in the manga are akin to the japanese arts of aikijujutsu and aikido. However Akisame makes it clear that he has studied several forms of jujitsu and does not teach a particular style.
