Sho Minamimoto

**Sho Minamimoto** is a major antagonist of the video-game *The World Ends With You* and major protagonist in the sequel *NEO: The World Ends With You*. He is a Reaper who is able to summon Taboo Noise. He is an excellent mathmatician who uses several maths puns. After being revived by Coco Atarashi he becomes a Player and eventually teams up with The Wicked Twisters.

He was voiced by Takayuki Fujimoto in the original Japanese, Andy Hirsch in the English games, and Brent Mukai in the English dub of the anime adaptation.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* He is widely agreed to be one of the funniest and most quotable characters in the franchise, with his love of mathematics making for a humorous gimmick and giving him plenty of hilarious lines, as well as his tendency to railroad conversations onto said topic and then walk away.
* Andy Hirsch in particular gives him an excellent vocal performance.
* He always has something up his sleeve, seeming acutely aware that his current plan could fail at any given moment, and is very skilled at making contingency plans:
	+ When Joshua enters the RG, Minamimoto makes the decision to ambush him there, figuring he might not have his powers and would be an easier target.
	+ When it turns out that Joshua *does* have his powers, Minamimoto makes an exit, managing to leave completely unscathed.
	+ When he finds out Joshua has joined the Reaper's Game in Week 2, the week that features him as a Game Master, he gives him and Neku a mission that nearly kills them both.
	+ When Neku and Joshua defeat him at the end of the week, he tries to take them both with him using his Level *i* Flare, an immensely powerful psych that forces Joshua to sacrifice himself to save Neku. While Joshua did survive this, he was left incredibly weakened, and Minamimoto had set up a failsafe Refinery Sigil that allowed him to resurrect later on.
* He is incredibly intelligent, being able to recite Pi up to 153 decimal places, and many of the missions on his week are obscure maths riddles that only Joshua is able to solve. Said intelligence is routinely acknowledged by other characters, to the extent that Coco Atarashi revives him for her schemes because she knows said intellect will make him useful.
* All of his boss fights are incredibly difficult and feature gimmicks rather than being straightforward, showcasing his combat prowess and intellect.
* Even though Joshua and Kitaniji are more successful than him, Joshua is the Composer and Kitaniji is the Conductor, both of whom are far more powerful than him, making it impressive that he is able to match them in the first place - to the extent that until Joshua told him, Kitaniji didn't even realise Minamimoto was scheming.
* In the sequel, he develops some redeeming qualities, and is commented on by Neku to be a better person than before. While he still wants to become the Composer, he is no longer resorting to the extremes that he once did, and is helping the heroes openly, albeit for his own gain.
* Throughout his entire runtime, he never once gives up, constantly coming back from the brink even in the face of failure and death. He is never cowardly and never suffers a villainous breakdown, instead calmly moving on to his next scheme.

## What Makes Him A Baddie?

* He has the highest kill count in the series, due to allowing his Taboo Noise to run amok throughout his week, and tries to kill Neku and Beat in the third week just to test out his new powers.
* His entire goal revolves around killing Joshua to become the new Composer in his place. While it is unknown what he wanted to do with his power as the Composer, based on the second quote listed above, it is unlikely to be anything good.
* Despite not being card-carrying or sadistic, he also never displays any remorse for anything he has done, even in the sequel.
* In *NEO*, he only helps the Wicked Twisters for the first week, and abandons them once he no longer needs them.

## Trivia

* At time of writing, Minamimoto is the only MB on this wiki to be from *The World Ends With You*.

## External Links

* Sho Minamimoto at the Villains Wiki
* Sho Minamimoto at the Heroes Wiki
* Sho Minamimoto at the Near Pure Evil Wiki