"Whether in a town or a village, whether toward a cow or a person... If you're sincere toward others, they'll respond in kind. That approach has yet to fail me." |
Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治, Miyazawa Kenji?) is a member of the Armed Detective Agency.
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Appearance
Kenji is a young boy with gold eyes and short blond hair that reaches past the nape of his neck. His bangs are gathered at the center of his forehead and he has freckles across his cheeks.
He wears blue overalls that are cuffed and a black belt around his waist. His overalls are worn over a loose beige shirt that has tattered sleeves. He wears a black undershirt that has sleeves ending a little past the elbows. He wears an old straw hat around his neck. He usually goes barefoot but is sometimes shown wearing sandals.
Personality
Hailing from a small rural village, Kenji is a simple, but carefree and hospitable boy, who never fails to greet people with a smile on his face. It's because of this welcoming disposition that makes him very popular with the residents in the city.
He carries an exceedingly optimistic outlook and always believes in the innate sincerity of others, regardless of what they may appear, say, or do. His obliviousness to the dangers some situations pose may be attributed to his rustic upbringing, but it's a mentality that has aided him in several investigations, given his high track record in solving difficult cases.
Because Kenji is from the countryside, he is also unable to comprehend basic urban concepts such as money and often has to rely on his rural instincts. This leads to more peculiar "methods" of the resolution, such as using his ability to beat culprits into submission, an act that has yielded him a fearsome reputation amongst the more suspect groups in the area.
Ability
Kenji's ability, Undefeated by the Rain (雨ニモマケズ, Ame ni mo Makezu?), grants him superhuman strength. This lets him perform feats he normally wouldn't be able to do, such as lifting cars with ease or pulling street signs out of the cement. He can even rip a steel door from the same type as is used in high-security bank safes from the wall. It also seems to grant him superhuman durability, as he was attacked in the back of the head with a lead pipe and suffered no ill damage whatsoever (such a blow could damage or kill a person) and he mentions getting kicked in the head by cows all the time and seems to have survived with little to no damage.
The catch to his ability is that he is only able to use it on an empty stomach, and will fall asleep after eating.
Background
Until Yukichi Fukuzawa found him and recruited him into the Company about two months earlier, Kenji had been living in a rural village named Ihatovo where he herded cows with his family. He had been living without any forms of phones and electricity, and the concept of money was new to him as the inhabitants of Ihatovo only bartered.
Kenji also states that the police in his village wasn't as busy as the ones in Yokohama, as the criminals in Ihatovo simply got tied up and thrown off a cliff.
Appearances
Armed Detective Agency vs. Port Mafia Arc
- Chapter 1 - Looking the Gift Tiger in the Mouth
- Chapter 5 - The Fatalist's Sorrow
- Chapter 6 - Murder on D Street
- Chapter 7 - Kill A Man and Die Thee Too, Part 1
- Chapter 10 - Detective Boys
- Chapter 11 - Back in the Day... (flashback)
- Chapter 13 - The Rupturous Detective Agency
The Guild Arc
- Chapter 15 - Constantly Pushed to the Past, Part 1
- Chapter 16 - Constantly Pushed to the Past, Part 2
- Chapter 18 - Flowers and Autumn Leaves, Snow and Gold
- Chapter 19 - The Three-Way Battle
- Chapter 21 - The Brother and the Devil
- Chapter 22 - The Strategy of Conflict
- Chapter 30 - The Silent Tower and the Raven's Feast
- Chapter 35 - Rashomon, the Tiger and the Last Tycoon (flashback)
- Chapter 36 - If I May Lay Down This Burden Today
- Chapter 37 - Closing the Party
The Guild Aftermath Arc
- Chapter 38 - Slap the Stick
- Chapter 40 - Walking Alone
Cannibalism Arc
- Chapter 46 - The Masked Assassin
- Chapter 47 - Mutual Destruction, Part 1
- Chapter 49 - Mutual Destruction, Part 3
- Chapter 50 - Mutual Destruction, Part 4
- Chapter 52 - Echo, Part 2
- Chapter 53 - Echo, Part 3
Decay of Angels Arc
- Chapter 56 - The Perfect Murder, The Perfect Killer, Part 3 (cameo)
- Chapter 58 - Sunday Tragedy, Part 2
- Chapter 59 - Dogs Hunt Dogs, Part 1
- Chapter 60 - Dogs Hunt Dogs, Part 2
- Chapter 61 - Dogs Hunt Dogs, Part 3
- Chapter 62 - Dogs Hunt Dogs, Part 4
- Chapter 63 - Enemies of Society
- Chapter 65 - Dreaming of Butterflies, Part 1
- Chapter 66 - Dreaming of Butterflies, Part 2
- Chapter 67 - The Sadness of Those Without Wings, Part 1
- Chapter 77 - Skyfall, Part 4 (image)
- Chapter 78 - To Threaten God, Part 1 (image)
- Chapter 81 - The Strongest Man, Part 2 (cameo)
- Chapter 88 - As Though Tumbling Down (flashback)
- Chapter 89 - Hero War, Gang War (cover)
Armed Detective Agency vs. Port Mafia Arc
- Episode 1 - Fortune is Unpredictable and Mutable
- Episode 4 - The Tragedy of the Fatalist
- Episode 7 - Love for the Disease Called Ideals
- Episode 8 - Teaching Them to Kill; Then to Die
- Episode 9 - The Beauty Is Quiet Like a Stone Statue
- Episode 11 - First, an Unsuitable Profession for Her / Second, an Ecstatic Detective Agency
The Guild Arc
- Episode 12 - Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Past
- Episode 17 - Three Companies Conflict
- Episode 18 - The Strategy of Conflict
- Episode 24 - If I May Shed Away My Burden Now
The Guild Aftermath Arc
- Episode 30 - Slap the Stick & Addict
Cannibalism Arc
- Episode 33 - The Masked Assassin
- Episode 34 - Cannibalism (Part 1)
- Episode 35 - Cannibalism (Part 2)
- Episode 37 - Echo
- Chapter 5 - Conditions
- Chapter 6 - Half
- Chapter 7 - Obstacle of Ideals
- Chapter 9.2 - Encounter <Second Part>
- Chapter 11 - Time Limit (silhouette)
Quotes
- (to Atsushi Nakajima) "Whether in a town or a village, whether toward a cow or a person... If you're sincere toward others, they'll respond in kind. That approach has yet to fail me." [1]
- (to Atsushi Nakajima) "Oh, I just love cows! Raising them, working with them, eating them too!" [1]
- "Undefeated by the rain, undefeated by the wind, undefeated by metal pipes, knives, or aluminim bats, strong in body, undefeated by desire and certainly without offending others, always with a quiet smile to be such a person. "
- (to his fellow Agency members) "Let's live, everyone, beyond the storm and beyond the dawn, because in the end, on this spinning rock called the Earth, we must keep living."[3]
Trivia
- His family's motto is "If cows defies you, strike it with something handy." [1]
- He along with several other characters made a guest appearance in the mobile game Love Heaven as limited-time characters.
- The name of the rural village where he lived, Ihatovo, is a reference to the fictional land Miyazawa created, basing the name off his beloved Iwate Prefecture. In fact, the name lends from Esperanto.
