Tora (Ushio and Tora)

Tora (とら, Tiger) is the titular deuteragonist in Ushio and Tora. He is a youkai, who was released when Ushio Aotsuki pulled out the Beast Spear that kept him pinned to the basement wall of the family temple. Before being sealed, Tora was known as Nagatobimaru, famously feared among the youkai community for his sheer size, strength, and powers.
He is voiced by Koyama Rikiya in the Japanese dub and Brett Weaver in the English dub.
==Backstory==
2,000 years ago, in Ancient India, Tora was once an ordinary man by the name of Shagakusha. When he was born, Hakumen no Mono appeared as a shooting star and coincidentally chose the baby to be his vessel. The shooting star fell on the newborn baby’s house and the people were shocked, and Shagakusha was known to cursed child. While growing up, he despised everyone and everything around him. He would get into fights and steal food just to survive. But the more his hatred grew, the more his shoulder throbed. 
As an adult, Shagakusha became a muscular man and was a known to be a great asset to the Indiain army. During battles in a war, his hatred grew stronger on his comrades and enemies, but the townspeople saw him as a hero. One day, Shagakusha was greeted by a young boy named Raama, who was annoyed at how Shagakusha was treated by the royals. He asked if Raama's sick of being the attendant of a man like him, but said he wanted to be just as strong and kind as Shagakusha one day in the future. Later, three royals harass a woman by stealing her bag of precious seeds and toss it to one another, while ordering the woman to serve them some drinks. As the bag landed in front of Shagakusha, he punched the royal thugs several times and knocked them out and the woman thanked him for saving her. After learning that the woman was Raama's sister and drank some soup she cooked, Shagakusha had finally smiled for the first time in his life and realized that there was no way he could hate Raama and his sister. One day, Shagakusha was informed by fellow men from the army that a scout had returned from enemy lands and they would attack them tonight. He was ordered to guard the central gate because it'll be a fierce battle. But instead, Shagakusha decided to run away with Raama and his sister. Shagakusha worried that their land would be defeated in a single blow because the enemy is a huge nation and determined to protect Raama's sister, he grabbed her arm and ran through the forest of a mountain. She told him that he needed to protect everyone, but he didn't believe that the citizens wanted a cursed child to protect them. After that, Shagakusha returned from the battle and found out that Raama and his sister had been brutely killed. The pain in shoulders became extremley unbearable, it exploded, and Hakumen no Mono came out of his shoulders and caused destruction and mayhem to everything it touched. Shagakusha then decided to go on a very long journey to find a way to stop and kill the monster for 800 years. Eventually, he managed to find the Beast Spear and became Tora.  
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