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**Daijin** is the main antagonist turned supporting character of the 2023 adventure anime movie Suzume. He is one of the 2 keystone that appeared in the movie that was unintentionally freed by Suzume Iwato and the main cause of the Worms appearing in different locations in Japan.

He is voiced by Ann Yamane in Japanese and by Lena Josephien Marano in English.

## Appearance

Before gaining the appearance of an innocent-looking small white cat with yellow pupils, green iris, a black mark around his left eye and a long tail. He also had pink ears and fuzzy white fur across across his body.

As a keystone he had the appearance of a stone structure shaped-cat with a triangular head with closed eyes that has a motif on its left eye and later on the rest of the object as well. It was also seen to have some moss around it. Upon being picked up by Suzume, the object appeared to be much longer than it seem and was seen to be cold as seen the ice began to melt along with cold fog and water falling down.

## History

Daijin is picked up in his keystone form by Suzume when she noticed the stone object on the floor covered by water. As Suzume was looking at the door, the stone object is turned into a white fuzzy animal, to which Suzume throws it away out of suprise. The white creature then rans away. He later on appears on the window of Suzume's house who suprises her with a meow as she presented herself to Souta Munakata. He was seen with wet fur. Suzume then feeds him with small fishes and asks him if he wants to become his pet to which he answers with a yeah, telling her that she is kind and that he likes her, revealing him to be capable of human speech. He then looks at Souta, telling him that he is in the way and fuses his body with the 3-legged chair that he was sitting on. Upon realizing that he gained the body of a chair, he asks Daijin if he did, causing the animal to run away. Despite his major change, Souta quickly adapts to his new body to chase Daiji. Satou jumps out of the window and run across the garden then the street, with Suzume who was also chasing behind. Eventually Daiji would run aboard on a cruise ship followed by Satou and Suzume. Upon arriving on top of the ship, seeminly with no way other path to go, Satou makes his attempt to catch the cat, the animal however manages to escape by quickly climbing on top of the pole of the cruise and jump from it, landing on a boat that was passing by. With no other choices to stay on the ship, as it already began its departure, Suzume and Satou with its new body, decides to spend their night aboard the boat. Upon arriving at the port in the morning, as Suzume scrolls on her phone she discovers that Daiji had met many peoples who took photo of him across social media and as well as learning his name to be “Daiji”.

He later on appears again when Suzume succeeded on closing her first door with the help of Satou, praising her to be amazing and that another gate will be opened. Daiji appears again at the bar where Suzume began to work temporarily for the night, Daiji is seen sitting on the couch of the bar between customers who are having fun and treating him as if he was a human. Realizing that he was found, he ran away with Suzume and Satou on his path again. They later on arrives at the amusement park nearby where Daiji was seen on top of the ferris wheel, enjoying the disaster that was about to be caused by the worms. Daiji then jumps on the rails of the roller coaster nearby with Satou runnings alongside the rails and manages to catch him by jumping from the other side, causing the ferris wheel to be activated upon landing on the floor. Daiji was being restrainted by chair-form Satou who was forcing him to revert to a keystone and seal the worm that was starting to which he refuses. He then tells that he wants to play with Suzume, realizing that she needed aid to close the door that was one of the room of the ferris wheel who began to spin because the activation of its circuit breaker panel. Leading Satou to leave Daiji and let her help. The next morning, they now learn that Daijin is at Tokyo by using using social media to know. At Tokyo, Daiji is seen again, running alongside Suzume as she caught another Worm appearing. As Souta begins another chase, Daiji runs on the street and eventually Souta manages to catch him the second time landing on a bridge, telling him again to revert back to a keystone only to refuse. An incoming car then causes again Souta to fail on restraining Daiji giving another opportunity to ran away. He later on is seen on the worm that was flying by and is then seen again on the sky and top of a tentacle of the worm warning Suzume that once the Worm falls the Earth is gonna break causing a lot of death. He then lands on Souta, revealing that he is no longer the keystone, that his former role was passed on to Souta and convinces her to use him into the worm in order to stop the disaster.

Upon finally deciding to piece the chair-formed Souta into the worm, causing the enormous worm that was covering a large part of the city to vanish. With nothing to stand on, Suzume becomes unconcious and starts falling from the sky alongside with Daiji who decides to protect her from falling to her death by enlarging its body. Suzume wakes up underground and finds the Tokyo Gate where she sees Souta now as a chair placed on top of the mountain in the Ever-After. As Daiji appears, Suzume blames him that it is his fault that Souta is now the keystone and that he is no longer human. She then grabs Daiji, forcing him to get him back and intially had the desire to throw him to the ground. She then however let go of him, telling him to never talk to her again causing Daiji to be devastated and walk away.

He appears again in Serizawa’s car, interrupting the argument between Suzume and her aunt about going home. On their way to the location of Suzume’s house as a child, Daiji was sleeping as well as for Suzume. Moments later, Daiji wakes up because of feeling the shaking of presumably from an Earthquake as well as for Suzume who tells him to stop the car on a plain nearby to look for the presence of any worms appearing. Later on they makes another stop at a gas station. As Suzume and her aunt starts a conflict, Daiji realizes that her aunt is being possessed by the second keystone knows as Sadaijin who was right behind her causing him to get angry and rush to the giant cat behind. With Sadaijin easily winning thanks to its bigger size, he joins their field trip to Suzume’s house while carrying Daiji in his mouth. The next morning, Serizawa unintentionally drove his car down the road, leaving Daiji and the rest of them to continue their path on bicycle. Upon finally arriving at their destination, Daiji guides her to the door that she opened as a child. As Suzume thanks Daijin, she opens to door and jumps into the Ever-After to save Souta alongside Daiji. Souta is seen isolated on top of the mountain in his chair form now acting as the keystone. As Suzume tries to pull him out, Daiji warns her that the worm will escape once again, to which she answers that she’ll be the new keystone, leading Daiji to join her to pull him out. Upon succeeding on freeing Souta, Daiji is seen laying uncouncious on the floor. Suzume rushes to pick him up, where Daiji tells his last words that he couldn’t become her pet before reverting back to a keystone.