Hao Asakura

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* Onmyoji

**Hao Asakura** (麻(あさ)倉(くら) ハオ, *Asakura Hao*?) also known as **Zeke Asakura** is a main character in the fan-made series **Universal Warriors**, and the main antagonist in the manga and anime series of **Shaman King**.

Hao was born **Douji Asaha** (麻(あさ)葉(は)童(どう)子(じ), *Asaha Dōji*?) in **Japan** during the Heian era. During his third life, he was reborn as the twin brother of his descendant **Yoh Asakura**. He is leader is the **Hao's followers** and the leader of ones of Hao's teams, **Team "Hoshi-Gumi"**, and the most powerful shaman in the entirety of the series and the current **Shaman King**.

## Personality

During his first life, he lived under the uncertainty of corrupted and uncaring Heian nobility which drove the country into chaos and poverty. He saw the world as a grim and dark place until he met a small demon named Ohachiyo, who taught him all the positive aspects of life. However, after an accident involving Hao's first Over Soul, Ohachiyo became a permanent part of Hao and cursed him with a dangerous ability of **Reishi** (霊(れい)視(し), *Reading the Heart*?). In his teen years, having witnessed the corruption and greed in the capital, Hao was aloof to those around him, but as he grew into an adult, he became a relatively peaceful man who sought to help the people around him, and thanks to him the Asakura Family prospered. It was because of this gentle and kind nature that he took in the cat Matamune, whom he considered his only friend.

However, his Reishi abilities became quite strong and eventually went beyond his control. The negative emotions and thoughts of others were constantly overwhelming him and, since he was unable to turn his Reishi off, the deluge of negativity eventually created an "Oni" inside his own heart. The internal confusion and disorder that was created eventually led to his desire of creating the Shaman Kingdom on Earth and drove him to become the Shaman King in order to reach this main goal.

In his third and most current incarnation, Hao is usually calm, cruel, and always smiles. The occasions when he is really angry is very rare and when he is angry with someone, that person is usually killed off and burned to death down to their soul by The Spirit of Fire. He also likes to watch the Shaman Fights, particularly those that involve strong Shamans, and Asakura Yoh. He is not only interested in that, but he also proclaims that when Yoh reaches his limits, he will become one with him to become the strongest Shaman.

He has shown some dislike of being given family titles, as he coldly glared at Yoh when he addressed him as "Nii-chan"(Big brother) and asked his nephew Hana to stop calling him "Uncle", though he would later address both in the same way. Despite all his misgivings towards humanity, Hao loved his mother immensely as it was her death that primarily caused his extreme hatred and resentment towards humanity.

Hao regards money as a primary reason behind the corruption in society. He refuses to use it and has his group follow the philosophy of being completely self-sufficient - even if it means stealing something to obtain it.

## Character Design

Being Yoh's older twin brother and ancestor, Hao is very identical to Yoh in many ways physically, prominently in facial features and body structure, as they both have dark brown hair and brown eyes. Differing from his younger twin, Hao's hair is much longer in length, reaching past his waist and he is a bit taller and more muscular than Yoh. He often wears a pale yellow poncho cloak that covers only his upper body, while wearing nothing beneath.

He wears a pair of black with red lining fingerless gloves with four small protrusions where the knuckles are imprinted with his own name on them and as well as a pair of dark red baggy pants with two sections each with a set of three straps on each leg and shoes with two studs protruding from the toes. He also wears a belt embedded with the Five Point Star and the straps are lined with it as well. A five-pointed star pattern is also found in the medium-sized gauge stud earrings he wears. When Hao uses the Over Soul or his Yin Yang Jutsu, his hair folds up in several spikes.

While in public Hao wears a pair of dark blue jeans and a half-buttoned white shirt with oversized collars and cuffs.

## Abilities and Equipment

As an ancient shamanic master who has died and reincarnated two times Hao has a tremendously overwhelming level of Furyoku, 1,250,000 in total, as for his current life. During his first life, according to Asakura Yohmei, he was so strong that even the strongest Shikigamis swore their loyalty to him.

Because Hao has lived as both an Onmyouji and also a Patch priest of the Patch tribe and was reborn with all the knowledge of his previous two lives, he has a wide arsenal of shamanic techniques and spells.

### Powers and Abilities

* **Red Sword Soul**: He possesses a red Color of the Soul.

#### Technique

* **Full Counter** (全反撃(フルカウンター), "Furukauntā"):

* **Magma Upper** (マグマアッパー, *Maguma Appā*): An attack where the Spirit of Fire stretches its arm forwards and showers the opponent in Magma, with a temperature exceeding 1200°C.

* **Onibi** (鬼火, *Onibi*): An attack that blasts the opponent with the two cannons on Hao's back. This attack is strong enough to destroy the archangel Azazel, an angel whose Reiryoku level was higher than that of the Spirit of Fire.

* **Telepathy** (念話(テレパシー), "Terepashī"):

#### Shamanic Spells

* **Onmyōdō** (陰(おん)陽(みょう)道(どう), "Onmyō Lord"): Hao's original abilities of a taijutsu master from his first life have given him full control over the elements and divination powers. He is not only able to manipulate the six elements of nature, fire, earth, wood, metal, and water materially but also spiritually as shown when he converts the Spirit of Fire into the Spirit of Water, albeit temporarily. Even without the spirit of fire, Hao possesses great elemental and divination abilities and can easily bend oni and demigods to his will. However, with the addition of the Spirit of Fire, one can only assume that he can greatly amplify the circular properties of his art by using it as a power source. However, the spirit of fire uses mostly physical attacks, and on occasion, its fire attributes have been used in combat. Since Hao is quite fond of the element fire, he is rarely seen using his taijutsu arts in both the manga series and the anime series. Nevertheless, the combination that his Onmyōdō abilities and the Spirit of Fire forms definitely gives him an Over Soul second in power only to one with the Great Spirit.

* **Reishi** (霊(れい)視(し), "Reading the Heart"): This ability is able to read the hearts of others. Though it was quite a useful ability, Hao was unable to control this ability and was constantly inundated with the thoughts of those surrounding him. Though he initially used it to help humans from suffering, he would begin to see the darker side of human nature as he discovered through his reishi that those he helped were jealous and afraid of his own power, and convinced them that he was evil. He eventually became filled with contempt for humanity and sought to create a world with only shamans. According to Hao, the ability derives from a strong sense of loneliness. He retains the ability in each of his incarnations until he is confronted by all the spirits he has ever encountered; soon afterward, Anna makes him realize that he is unable to read minds because he is no longer lonely as a result of meeting Yoh, who had the same effect on her.

* **Taizan Fukun no Sai** (泰山府君の祭(たいざいふんくんのさい), ""): The technique requires the shaman to have mastered all five elements of the pentagram and they must defeat the seventy-five lords of Hell in order to reach Taizan Fukun to bargain with him. Through this technique, Hao was able to be reborn five hundred years later as a member of the Patch Tribe, and then again five hundred years later.

* **Curse Reflection** (呪(のろ)いの反(はん)射(しゃ), "Noroi no Hansha"): Curse Reflection is an ability used only once by him during the invasion of the secret patch island by the military, when Amano Teruko tried to use her special skill, "2'O Clock Curse", which badly backfired and almost killed her instantly. It appears that Hao used this technique subconsciously, not showing any signs of acknowledging her presence.

* Ring of Fire (炎の輪, "Honō no Wa"): An attack similar to that of Yoh's Shockwave Buddha Giri

#### Skills

* **Piloting Skills**:
* **Immortality**: More than 1000 years ago, Hao was cursed to neither grow old nor die.
* **Self-healing**: He has the ability to heal wounds easily.
* **Devotion**:
* **Enhanced Strength**:
* **Enhanced Speed**:
* **Immense Durability**:

### Equipment

* **Edens One** (EDENS(エデンズ) ONE(ワン), "Edenzu Wan"):A large spaceship Ziggy created. he become a successor after Ziggy died.

* **GAT-X105 Strike Gundam**

* **GAT-X105+P202QX Strike Gundam IWSP**
* **GAT-X105+P204QX Lightning Strike Gundam**
* **GAT-X105+AQM/E-X03 Launcher Strike Gundam**

* **GAT-X105+AQM/E-YM1 Perfect Strike Gundam**

* **GAT-X105+AQM/E-X01 Aile Strike Gundam**

* **MBF-02+AQM/E-X01 Aile Strike Rouge**

* **MBF-02 Strike Rouge**

* **MBF-02+EW454F Strike Rouge Ootori**

* **MSN-06S Sinanju Stein**

* **MSN-06S Sinanju**

* **NZ-999 Neo Zeong**

* **ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos**

* **ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos Lupus**

* **ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos Lupus Rex**

* **RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 03 Phenex**

#### Spirits

*See More:* Ohachiyo | Zenki and Goki | Spirit of Fire | Great Spirit
His first Guardian Ghost was a demon named Ohachiyo when he was younger. Hao only used him once to create a small kanabō Over Soul with a broken katana as a shamanic medium.

As he grew into an adult during his first life, Hao used his Onmyōdō magic to turn the two pair of Shikigamis Zenki and Goki into demi-god spirits, who he would later use to protect his book of teachings called the Chō-Senjiryakketsu. It was also during that time that he gave a cat he had saved, Matamune, a portion of his Furyoku to keep with him after Hao had passed away.
When he reincarnated into the Patch Tribe, Hao stole the Spirit of Fire, which was one of five elemental spirits created from the Great Spirit itself. However, as he was reincarnated again, so did the Spirit of Fire, and Hao had his third life, been constantly feeding it the souls of those he has killed off to make it much stronger.
After winning the Shaman Fight, Hao has become the new Shaman King and has assimilated with the Great Spirit. This grants him both omniscience and omnipotence. He is now able to absorb other souls simply by glaring at them.
## Srory

### Original

#### First Life

Born in Japan by Douji Asanoha, he was named Douji Asaha by his mother. However, a group of humans killed his mother Asanoha, because they thought that she was a demon. Having his house burnt down to the ground, Asaha wandered and lived aimlessly by himself, while believing himself to be a boy with strange demonic powers and thought of exterminating all humankind. One day while sitting by a gate, he met a spirit by the named Ohachiyo and they quickly became friends. Ohachiyo gave him the nickname "Douji Mappa" after noting the similarity between Asaha's and Asanoha's names. The demon persuaded Asaha to forget his own vengeance and rather enjoy the aspects of new life. Ohachiyo taught him many things such as fishing, writing, and most importantly the dangerous ability Reishi.

Asaha followed his word and lived life with a smile on his face, for a moment at least. However, when a guard apparently heard him conversing with himself at night, he immediately suspected him of being a demon and reported to Monk Densen Hoshi. Densen confronted Hao but proved to be a fraud and was easily overpowered by him. As he recognized the man to be the one who killed his mother and performed his first murder. By over depleting his Furyoku, Asaha was unable to maintain control of his Over Soul and unintentionally consumed Ohachiyo's power.

Asaha would end up in the streets of Kyoto where he was found lying unconscious by an Onmyōji Hamo Tadatomo and his apprentice Daitaro. Hamo was searching out Asaha as the source of many Onis being summoned in the area. After clearing out all the Onis and seeing Asaha´s potential, Tadatomo took him in as his apprentice.

At a yearly ceremony for exorcising the capital of Onis, Asaha´s fellow apprentice, Daitaro was used as a test subject by Tadatomo, who intended to create a human Shikigami hybrid that regular humans were able to see. Asaha tried to intervene but was restricted by Tadatomo´s Shikigami until Tadatomo was killed by Daitaro, making them disappear. Despite their aides claim that they should flee, Asaha decided to surpass Tadatomo by defeating Daitaro, using the Onis within his own body to gain control over him. In the five years that followed, his skills had him named the guardian of Kyoto and inspired by his office, he was given the name Asakura Hao.

With the experience of his childhood, Hao became a talented Onmyōji and founded the Asakura Family in Kyoto. Due to his loneliness, Hao created Onis all the time, but that wasn't a problem for him because he had the ability to control Onis. During that time Hao met Matamune a stray cat. Hao stated that Matamune was his only friend, and gave Matamune some of his spiritual energy in the hoping that Matamune would stay with him forever.

Nevertheless, the curse implanted on Hao from Ohachiyo was permanent and eventually drove Hao completely crazy. Hao would eventually learn of the Shaman King. Because of his plans to destroy all of humanity, the Asakura family ousted him, though he remained in Kyoto where he founded a branch of the Asakura Family. He was eventually killed by one of his own relatives during the Shaman Fights.

#### Second Life

Hao's Yin-Yang Jutsu, the mastery of the five elements, prevented his permanent death as he could now control the circumstances of his own reincarnation. He was able to gain the ability to control his soul using the ritual of Taizan Kuzun. Though Taizan Kuzun could only be reached by getting past the seventy-five Lords of Hell, succeeding in making a contract with him gives one the ability to resurrect the dead or reincarnate themselves at will.

Hao then chose to be reincarnated as a Patch Tribe member, the ones that organized the Shaman King Tournament, and then he later stole the Spirit of Fire from the Patch tribe. During this time as a Patch, he was married had a wife and a child. With his new guardian ghost, Hao conquered many great enemies with such ease, including the four Seminoa Warriors, who heard his goals decided to stop him.

He once again projected his idea of a Shaman world but was rejected by the shamans he was trying to promote. He had the same plans of ruling the world and killing all of humankind, but he was stopped by Asakura Yohken and Matamune. Despite the fact that he died before becoming Shaman King, he achieved his goal of capturing the legendary the Spirit of Fire for using as his guardian ghost in his next life. His wife and child that he left behind were about to be killed, when the Patch Tribe realized that they were now missing a priest, they allowed both of them to live in order to keep the line of Patch Priests. As a result, several generations later Silva of the Ten Patch Officiants was born from the same lineage of Hao.

#### Third Life

After being killed off as a member of the Patch he chooses to be reborn into his original bloodline to become quite stronger. His late actions were foreseen by Asakura Yohmei and it was decided that Hao should be killed upon his rebirth. However, when Yohmei was about to strike the infant he quickly hesitated, and that was enough for Hao to summon the Spirit of Fire. Mikihisa placed himself in the way after Hao tried to kill Yohmei with a punch, and got badly burned in the process. Hao then told Keiko to stay still as he did not wish his important "Other Half" to not to die before being born. With these words, as he laughed and while disappeared.

After escaping the Asakura family he was apparently raised by Brocken Meyer. When he was at the age of five, he and Brocken left while looking for new henchmen. Wherever Hao went, he left a path of destruction in his wake. He killed Lyserg's parents when they recognized him as a great evil and tried to stop him, meanwhile, he maimed Cebin Mendel for unknown reasons, then he killed a military unit when he was looking for Mohamed Tabarsi. then He also destroyed the church-orphanage home of Marco Lasso and killed everyone within the church. At the age of eight, Hao had gathered himself an incredible amount of henchmen that he would teach many of his own personal techniques, such as the Fumon Tonkō.

## Relationships

### Original

#### Family

* Yohken Asakura (Ancestor; Deceased)
* Yohmei Asakura (Grandfather)
* Asakura Kino (Grandmother)
* Asakura Mikihisa (Father)
* Asakura Keiko (Mother)
* Yoh Asakura (Brother)
* Anna Asakura (Sister-in-law)
* Hana Asakura (Nephew)

#### Allies

* Luchist Lasso
* Opacho
* Kanna Bismarch
* Matilda Matisse
* Marion Phauna
* Peyote Diaz
* BoZ Brothers
* Mohamed Tabarsi
* Hang Zang-Ching
* Bill Burton
* Boris Tepes Dracula
* Kouji Yamada
* Brocken Meyer

### Universal Warriors

#### The Universes

* Jennifer Amantea
* Natsu Dragneel
* Lucy Heartfilia
* Gray Fullbuster
* Erza Scarlet
* Wendy Marvell
* Aladdin
* Alibaba Saluja
* Morgiana
* Hakuryuu Ren
* Kouha Ren
* Sinbad
* Kougyoku Ren
* Gingka Hagane
* Kenta Yumiya
* Madoka Amano
* Yu Tendo
* Masamune Kadoya
* Benkei Hanawa
* Kyoya Tategami

#### The Another World

* Mirajane Strauss
* Juvia Lockser
* Mard Geer Tartaros
* Sonya
* Elie
* Lucia Raregroove
* Rebecca Bluegarden
* Yoh Asakura
* Lyserg Diethel
* Eren Yeager
* Mikasa Ackerman
* Annie Leonhart
* Reiner Braun
* Sasha Blouse
* Hange Zoë
* Zeke Yeager
* Pieck Finger
* Porco Galliard
* Colt Grice
* Yelena
* Cecily Fairchild
* Anavel Gato
* Aina Sahalin
* Gym Ghingham
* Cagalli Yula Athha
* Full Frontal
* Akihiro Altland
* Gaelio Bauduin
* Zoltan Akkanen
* Lane Aim
* Yukimura Sanada
* Nobunaga Oda
* Ieyasu Tokugawa
* Shiemi Moriyama
* Cheng-Long Liu
* Duke Hyou
* Kan Ki
* Mou Ten
* Ri Boku
* Slaine Troyard
* Elizabeth Liones
* Derieri
* Ikoma
* Mumei
* Biba Amatori
* Hikayu Hoshikawa
* Vladilena Milizé
* Anju Emma
* Sakura Li
* Kurogane
* Kaolan Wongsawat
* Brunhilde
* Lü Bu
* Kojiro Sasaki
* Poseidon
* Raiden Tameemon
* Qin Shi Huang
* Kei Mizusawa
* Naotora Takeda
* Tatsuomi Uesugi
* Tsubasa Tokugawa
* Soma Date
* Seiroku Inukawa
* Aijiro Inue
* Imari Inuyama
* Ryoma Nagare
* Anya Alstreim
* Lenalee Lee
* Akira Renbokoji
* A-drei
* H-neun
* Susumu Kodai
* Adeltrud Alter
* Shion Shishibe
* Germán Luís
* Raikou
* Tughril Mahmut
* Lelederik of Ellvaldez
* Al-Kaplan Balaban
* Nancy Schaal Bancroft
* Mischa
* Genjo Sanzo
* Alisha Diphda
* Noelle Silva
* Adele von Ascham
* Fena Houtman
* Atlee Ariel
* Zetsu Daidan
* Ren Sin
* Kyo Meiketsu
* Fine Forte
* Prax Conrad
* Virgo Fudō
* Torque
* Mora Chester

## Trivia

* According to his Character Profile:

* Hao's favorite subject is music, while his least favorite subject is ethics.
* His favorite food is curry and bread and disliked food is nothing in particular.
* Hao prefers bewitching woman and he doesn't like people who pollute humanity.
* The people he respects or admires are Yoh.
* The people he dislikes or fears are Yoh and Noelle.
* His special skill is unknown.
* His hobby is composition.
* He dislikes Humanoid.

* His name translates to "Leaf King". The kanji that makes up the "*Ha*" portion of his name is also the same kanji that made up of Yoh's name, and the "*o*" portion is a Japanese honorific, usually indicating that the person is of very high status
* According to Marco Lasso, over 80% of the contestants in the Shaman Tournament are related to Hao in some way..
* Hao seems to be based on the historical person of Abe no Seimei, the most powerful Onmyoji living during the Heian era.
* His an annihilator of the whole world, but he has no ability to annihilate.
* Apparently 80% of the contestants in the Shaman King Tournament have some relation to Hao in one way or another.
* In the manga Hao is a Tragic Villain but in the original anime (2001), he's Pure Evil.
* In Japanese version Hao was voiced by Minami Takayama, while Hikaru Midorikawa voiced his Patch Hao incarnation.

## Gallery

*Main article: Hao Asakura/Image Gallery*
## References

1. ↑ Asakura Hao#cite note-1
2. ↑ Asakura Hao#cite note-4
3. ↑ *Shaman King Manga* - Chapter 298; Page 22-23
4. ↑ *Shaman King Manga* - Chapter 262; Page 17
5. ↑ *Shaman King Manga* - Kang Zeng Bang Volume 16 Extras; Shaman File 209