Shokichi Komachi

Shokichi Komachi (小町 小吉, Komachi Shōkichi) is one of the main characters of science-fiction horror manga/anime series called Terra Formars, serving as the main protagonist of BUGS2 Arc and tritagonist of the rest of the manga. He is of Japanese descent. He later becomes the leader of the Japanese and American squad for Annex I. His insect base is the Asian Giant Hornet.
He was voiced by Hidenobu Kiuchi in the Japanese version, and by Christopher Corey Smith in the English version.
==Personality==
Despite disliking conflict, Shokichi has a strong sense of justice. When he was 15 years old, he saw Nanao's stepfather abusing her and killed the man with his bare hands to protect her. After being released from juvenile prison, he underwent the B.U.G.S. procedure to follow after Nanao.
He likes tropical fish and has a strong dislike for cockroaches.
==Biography==
===Backstory===
Prior to the events of the manga, Shokichi Komachi was a childhood friend of Nanao Akita. At the age of fifteen, when he saw her step-father abuse her, he killed him with his bare hands before her very eyes. After that, he went to juvenile prison.
Seven years later, he underwent a BUGS Procedure and joined a group of genetically modified non-professional astronauts in a spacecraft called BUGS2, consisting mostly out of criminals. BUGS Procedure allowed them to mimicry special attributes of insects they were modified after, but only temporarily and upon injecting themselves with BUGS Serum. As such, Shokichi Komachi was implanted with abilities of Asian giant hornet.
===BUGS2 Incident===
In 2599, Shokichi Komachi, alongside BUGS2, was sent to Mars to wipe out a species of mutated humanoid cockroaches known as Terraformars. Shokichi himself is first seen at the ship, consuming silkworm moths alongside the rest of the group, encouraging Nanao Akita to join in. When she refuses, Shokichi is mocked by his co-workers, only for the Captain Donatello K. Davis to exclaim that they have arrived on a red planet.
The team spreads out to search for the cockroaches, with Shokichi and Nanao going together. They encounter a lone Terraformar who walks up to them and snaps Nanao's neck, allowing Komachi to mourn her. Frustrated, Shokichi attempts to injects himself with BUGS Serum, but is stopped by Thien and Maria Viren, who tell him that the Terraformar is not attacking. In response, cockroach disappeared out of their sight.
Back aboard, God Lee mocks Nanao's death, claiming that she lived like a worm and died like a worm. He then went out to face a Terraformar alone, only to be beheaded. A cockroach then assaults the spacecraft, killing Maria Viren and facing Captain Donatello, Ichiro Haruma also stayed behind to cut off oxygen supply on the ship to kill the roaches, while Shokichi and the rest of the crew escape with the help of Tejas Viji's ability to produce propulsion flames and a vehicle. However, Tejas dies as his head is ripped off by one of Terraformars in the crowd, which arrived soon afterwards.
Once the momentum of the vehicle dies down, Shokichi and the rest of the crew find the remains of BUGS1 spacecraft, whose crew has been wiped out by Terraformars in 2577. John Welthork and Redon Bergsmuller stay outside to check for the cockroaches' presence, whereas Shokichi and his team investigate the ship's interior. Inside, they find out that BUGS1 was in moderately good condition and that something has been transmitted to Earth.
Upon going back outside, BUGS2 team has been ambushed by Terraformars armed with guns. They shot Yang Huwan dead and proceed to rip apart Jaina Eisenstein and Toshio Blight, while Shokichi, Thien and Zhang Ming-Ming undergo transformations. With his hornet powers, Shokichi proved himself to be more than a match for Terraformars, massacring them one after one. Once roaches are dealt with, BUGS2 team discovers Egyptian pyraminds on Mars.
After unsuccessful attempt to betray her team with Ichiro and leaving Mars, Victoria Wood is killed by Evolved Terraformar twins, who summon a mob of their kinsmen to crash the spacecraft back on the ground. While Thien and Ichiro take care of a group of Terraformars and the first of Evolved Terraformars, Shokichi catches the second Evolved Terraformer red-handed on stealing Nanao's corpse. Creature hands it over to him, immediately getting kicked in the groin by Shokichi. When roach is unfazed, Shokichi punches it through the window and leaves the planet with Ichiro, as Thien mutates into human-sized desert locust. While far from dead, an Evolved Terraformar stops its subordinates from pursuing humans.
===Prior to Annex I===
In 2619, Shokichi Komachi and Michelle K. Davis go over Central Kingdom of Thailand near the Bangkok. They arrive at concert hall in the suburbs, which was actually an underground battle arena. There, they find Akari Hizamaru, a Karate martial artist going against a massive man-eating bear. Akari was fighting to make money to save Yuriko Minamoto, who was infected with Alien Engine Virus, one-hundred-percent lethal virus of extraterrestrial origin. Despite initially being knocked down and fed upon by bear, Akari suddenly recovers and brutally kills the bear, much to Michelle's and Shokichi's expectations. 
After the match, Akari is interrogating a man, whose gang kidnapped Yuriko and threatened to kill her if he did not win the fight. However, the man tells him that they have already sold Yuriko and pointed at Shokichi, who walked through the door. Hizamaru immediately grabs Shokichi, who tells him that Yuriko died. In response, Akari kicks Shokichi in the face, but he simply hugs Akari and told him that he is a post-surgery-born child, which explained his superhuman strength and endurance. Shokichi then proposes Akari to help those that also got sick to Alien Engine Virus by going to Mars, and that he has also lost his close companions.
A few days later, after Akari has been suspected to BUGS Procedure, Shokichi meets him and three new volunteers: Sheila Levitt, Alex K. Stewart and Marcos E. Garcia. Shokichi is pleased to see bonds between the trio, comparing them to his own team from twenty years back. He explains that they have 36% of surviving the surgery and it will allow them to survive intense, long activities on Mars. He then introduces Adolf Reinhard, an officer of German Branch with electric powers.
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