Moguro Fukuzou

**Moguro Fukuzou** (喪黒 福造, *Moguro Fukuzō*) is the titular main character of the 2017 The Laughing Salesman remake, The Laughing Salesman NEW. In each episode he finds a new client and helps better their lives with his merchandise. But if the client cheats, or does not obey his strict rules he punishes the clients, often ruining their lives.

## Appearance

In The Laughing Salesman NEW, Moguro appears as a short, ominous man with pale skin and an ear to ear smile.

He sports a black overcoat, blue suit, and a white undershirt. Along with black pants, a grey striped tie, brown dress shoes, and a black top hat. Underneath his hat he has short, black hair with very visible roots.

## Personality

In The Laughing Salesman NEW, Moguro is a mischievous and cruel man. Along with a comedic side, he uses his charisma to become friends with people, only to use that friendship against them to get a laugh out of it. Throughout the show Moguro does not show any hatred to those he punishes, as he only does it for his own enjoyment.

## Biography

### Meeting Sakamaki

   A month before the events of the show, Moguro met with a very drunk and bored Sakamaki at an outdoor bar. After hearing that Sakamaki was bored he told Sakamaki about a club where he could drink with girls even in the daytime. After telling Sakamaki about all of the great qualities of the club, Sakamaki would bring his friend Nakajima Kenichi to the club.

### Daydream

After telling Sakamaki about the Daydream club Sakamaki brought his friend Nakajima Kenichi to the club. After arriving at the club so too would Moguro. After arriving he gave Nakajima his business card while Sakamaki told Nakajima how he and Moguro met. While at the club a girl at the bar named Haruka began to show affection for Nakajima, and Nakajima began to like her as well. After realizing it was 1:30 Nakajima and Sakamaki left in a hurry, as their boss would scold them if they left any later. That night, Moguro would again run into Nakijima when Nakajima tried to go to the daydream club during the night. After going to the club during the night Nakajima would be horrified by the girls that were there during the night, and would run away, and fall into Moguro's stomach. After Nakajima ran into Moguro, Moguro explained that the club only had beautiful girls during the day, and that during the night it was just another club. The next day, Sakamaki and Nakajima retuned to the dream club, where Moguro would give the two his black salesman whiskey, and encourage the two to drink the other alcoholic beverages at the club. And the two would soon cave, and two co-workers would become extremely drunk.

After the two realized it was almost one a clock, they attempted to leave, but Moguro used his abilities to keep them at the club, and the two got even more drunk. After they decided they finally had to leave, the two asked for the bill, and it totaled to a whopping 498,000 yen, which the salaryman couldn't pay. In the end, their true punishment would be an intense scolding by their boss after they got drunk during work hours.

## Etymology

* **Moguro** means "mourning black" (喪黒).
* **Fukuzou** means "happiness, fortune/good fortune, blessing, luck, wealth, weal" (福) (**fuku**) and "construction, create, make, structure, physique" (造) (**zou**).