Tokio Kurohara

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**Tokio Kurohara** (黒原 トキオ, *Kurohara Tokio*?) is the main character of the Choujin X manga series. He is 17 years old and a second-year student at Tsuru High. Following the events of the first chapter, Tokio became a **Bestial Choujin** (獣化の超人, *Jūka no Chōjin*?).

## Appearance

Tokio is a tall, fairly slim teenage boy with no particularly striking features. His relatively short black hair, which covers a good portion of the right side of his face including his eye, neatly flows down the back of his neck and spikes upwards at the ends. His eyes, which are black in colour, seem to have rather small irises in contrast with other characters seen thus far. Throughout the series he wears a multitude of different outfits, the only consistent one being his school uniform.
Following his one year of training, he has increased in height even more and his hair has grown slightly longer.

At 16 years old Tokio’s Full Beastification transforms him into a vulture like form. While transformed, his upper body, arms along with most of his feet and head take on a white colouration while his legs, tip of his beak and tip of his feet are black. In this form Tokio’s head becomes reminiscent of a vulture’s skull with empty dark holes for eyes. His upper body becomes toned and is uniformly covered with horizontal lines and his hands become long, sharp claws and his feet become shoe like. Finally he grows a mass of feathers from his neck that typically resembles a cape.

After his year at Iwato, his beast form sports a more muscular appearance with sharper lines on his torso. His hands have turned black and feature longer claws along with his feathers having grown in length as well. His feet also have a single line going through the middle of them.

When Tokio goes into Chaos, his overall body is largely similar to his normal beastification with some notable differences. His eyes disappear and he gains notable black lips rather than a beak. His feathers become lengthy enough to touch the ground, his feet grow three dark talons each and he gains an extra right arm.

## Personality

Tokio is quite laid-back, not caring at all for his classes and seemingly having no motivation to stand out in some way. He'd rather stay in Azuma's shadow, feeling popular in his stead. He's meek and awkward around people he's not close to, often not knowing what to say or how to hold a proper conversation. He easily empathizes with others, is quick to understand their circumstances and thus has a tendency of prioritizing others' well being before his own. He recognizes his lack of motivation and intelligence along with his inability to apply himself to anything seriously and feels slightly jealous of people who have what he doesn't.

## Background

As a small child, he and his classmates went on a field trip to a zoo, where they had to draw an animal that represented them. After Azuma got compared to a lion, Tokio's peers decided to mock him by comparing him to a vulture, an animal that has negative undertones associated with it. They continued to bully him until he broke down into tears before running away. Later, Azuma caught up to him and consoled him, pointing out a cool fact about vultures, which made Tokio see them in a more positive way. The event seemingly became a treasured memory for him, as his room can be seen decorated with a picture of a vulture.

## Plot

Tokio Kurohara, a 16-year-old high school student from Tsuru High in Yamato Prefecture, notices a plane falling from the sky as he is daydreaming. After getting reprimanded by his teacher, he goes out and notices a young woman getting harassed by a group of thugs led by Johnny Kiyoshi Takeyama. Tokio calls his friend Azuma Higashi to come and help defeat the thugs. Azuma breaks both of Johnny's arms and rescues the young woman, gaining her thanks. The duo walk away and discuss the terrorist attack on the plane that occurred earlier, and how it was committed by a Choujin. Azuma goes on to say that Choujin should use their power for good instead of yielding it selfishly. They then discuss roly polies (also known as pill bugs), and the metaphor between them and Choujin.

Tokio, now at home, reminisces about his childhood and how Azuma consoled him after getting bullied. The next morning, he and Azuma are volunteers helping with the clean-up of the plane crash, but notes that the plane is almost intact and that there were 200 survivors.

That night, as both boys are going back home, they are ambushed by Johnny and his gang. Johnny attacks Azuma and knocks him to the floor, and his arms are completely healed. Azuma fights back, but when he punches Johnny, he realizes that his body is now elastic

and has rubbery skin, making him impervious to physical attacks by Azuma. He has become a Choujin. Johnny extends his neck out to beat Azuma up with ease. The frightened goons plead for their boss to stop, but he doesn't, giving Tokio a window for running away and save Azuma. Tokio swims away with Azuma in his grip and land on a concrete riverbank, where they notice a syringe. Azuma wants to take the syringe himself to become a Choujin and defeat Johnny, but Tokio can't bear watching from the side-lines any more and wants to help. He injects himself with the syringe and goes to fight Johnny. Tokio transformed into a vulture-like form and swiftly defeats Johnny.

He carries Azuma in an attempt to get him to the hospital, he falls and Azuma wakes up, he is grateful that Azuma is okay. Azuma says that he'll go to the hospital by himself and that Tokio should head back home. He wakes up the next day and is hungry so he makes himself food and calls his school pretending to have a fever. He calls Azuma to check if he is okay, when he doesn't reply, Tokio got worried and thinks about what Azuma told him, he dresses up to best hide his face and says that he's headed to the shop. He walks to Azuma's house worrying about if he's okay or not, when he finally gets there he calls Azuma and notices a light on in his house, Azuma picks up and apologises for not replying and said that he had a blood test and noticed that there was nothing out of the ordinary. Tokio remarks that he still looks like a bird, and Azuma says that he thinks **Choujin take on the form that they most desire**. Tokio is asking him what to do and Azuma yells at him, making them both really upset.

## Abilities

Tokio is able to take the form of a vulture, with a bird's skull for a head, a thick black mane on his shoulders and the rest of his body wrapped in white bandages. This form enhances his physical abilities, allowing him to run at high speeds, make long jumps, as well as increasing his reaction speed and the distance and accuracy with which he can see. he is able to maintain this power for 10-15 minutes currently.
Tokio is able to beastify individual parts of his body, like his legs or arms without morphing completely into a vulture, allowing him to tire less than maintaining a full beastification. After a week of intensive training he is also able to manifest large wings that allow him to fly. he is able to maintain this power for 30-45 minutes currently.
Tokio is able to quickly manifest large wings that are hard enough to protect him from strong attacks but also light enough to guarantee him the possibility of hovering in flight without impediments.
Tokio is able to fling dozens of feathers from his wings with enough force and speed to embed them into his targets. By increasing the number of feathers released he is even able to create a small tornado that can protect in close range and slash enemies close to him.
Tokio is able to manifest large wings on his back and use them to fly. He appears to be strong enough to hold another person while in the air.
Tokio is able to understand the language of birds and communicate with them.
Tokio is able to manifest small black harpes which seems to be particularly effective against Choujin as they hamper their regeneration. In his Chaos form, he possesses three blades of this type and larger in size. After a year in Iwato he learned to control this ability even without losing control, despite the small size of the weapon in exchange.
Tokio is able to get visions of possible future events in the form of dreams.

## Trivia

* Tokio's last name is comprised of the kanji 黒 (kuro), meaning black and 原 (hara), meaning field.