Toshiaki

Toshiaki is the secondary antagonist of Tim Burton's 2012 film Frankenweenie, along with his lab partner, Nassor. He is a scientific rival of Victor Frankenstein.
==Description==
Toshiaki is over-achieving and mega-competitive. He is 12-years old. He delights in beating Victor at his own game and like a power-hungry mad scientist, Toshiaki will stop at nothing to win the top prize in the school’s science fair—even if it means stealing Victor’s ideas to do it.
==Appearances==
=== Frankenweenie===
Toshiaki is first seen with his other classmates attending science class with his teacher being Mr. Rzykruski. During class, he replies that lightning happens to people all the time here which Bob replies that his father was hit by lightning twice, telling his teacher that New Holland was built on an abandoned gold mine. After class ends, Toshiaki walks out of class with the other students. The next day during a game of baseball, Toshiaki serves as the pitcher. After Victor gets a home run, everyone else reacts to Victor who scored a home run. Later when Edgar visits Toshiaki to show him the invisible goldfish, he shines the lamp for him and Bob to see which Edgar plans to keep it a secret.
Later, Toshiaki places fizzing soda bottles on Bob's back trying to test the experiment for him to work on after feeling inspired by the poster of a rocket ship in his house. As the soda bottles burst, Toshiaki videotapes him via camera to make sure the experiment work only for Bob to fall down from the roof, injuring his arm while Bob's mother sees her son who is furious of him and Toshiaki doing this dangerous act. Later at the baseball field, Toshiaki hangs out with Nassor and Bob on the bleachers which their conversation when Edgar interrupts as he tells the three of what Victor did to Sparky.
When learning that Victor managed to bring Sparky back to life through the use of lightning, he, Toshiaki, Nassor, the Weird Girl and Bob end up copying his research to try and win the upcoming science fair with their own revived animals. At the cemetery, Toshiaki digs up a grave of a turtle named Shelley where Toshiaki grabs her remains and plans to revive the turtle. The lightning then strikes Shelley, followed by Mr. Whiskers, Were-Rat, the Sea-Monkeys, and Colossus. Toshiaki returns to the spot where Shelley was electrocuted, where he discovers that Shelley has mutated into a gigantic turtle just as Shelley attempts to eat him, but becomes distracted upon seeing a carnival from a distance. Toshiaki then rides on a Ferris wheel at the Dutch Day carnival where he attempts to escape from his seat, Shelley grabs him with his teeth, causing his shirt to be stuck which Victor and Sparky plan to stop the turtle, electrocuting the gigantic turtle, causing Toshiaki to fall into an awning and then a tub of tulips. He then films Shelley being electrocuted which Shelley suddenly reverts into an ordinary turtle shell with no turtle inside, much to Toshiaki feeling confused. It is unknown of what happened to Toshiaki afterwards.
==Trivia==
*In the film, when Toshiaki revives his deceased pet turtle, Shelley, it mutates and grows to a horrific size. In this state, Shelley closely resembles popular Japanese Kaiju monster Gamera. Additionally, the scene in which Shelley crushes a police car with its foot is a reference to the teaser trailer for the 1998 Godzilla movie, an American reboot of the popular Japanese Kaiju franchise. All of this is given further significance by the fact that Toshiaki is Japanese.
*Toshiaki can be interpreted as a dark twist on the various child characters of Godzilla and Gamera films from the late 60s and early 70s, who often had a fondness for monsters and a deeper understanding of them compared to the adults. Gamera himself was billed as the "Friend of All Children" and protected them from other kaiju, so Shelley turning on Toshiaki is a possible subversion of that relationship.
*Toshiaki is a 12-year old boy. He is younger than Nassor.
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