Kajiyama Jyousei

— Jyousei explaining to Oshyun why he kept striking his fist with the hammer.

**Kajiyama Jyousei** (梶山　丈青かじやま　じょうせい, *Kajiyama Jyousei*; "*Jyousei Kajiyama*") is a recurring character in *Batuque* and a member of Ogun Union, a hangure organization. His incredible skills in traditional karate earned him a spot in the organization's most elite members, known as the Top Brass.

## Appearance

Jyousei has light-colored, braided hair that goes up into a distinctive spike. He wears a vest and a vertically striped, extremely tight t-shirt. His physical appearance is mostly known for his prominent. He usually carries a wooden hammer, which he uses to hit his knuckles and gave his hands an unnatural appearance, yet they are tougher and harder to break.

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## Personality

Jyousei is mostly known for his overall aggressive behavior and getting straight to the point, though it shows a part of him being impatient at certain times. He formerly displayed an irrational distaste against full-contact karate, which developed after a practitioner of it told Jyousei that traditional karate is for "cowards."
He shows to have a caring side too, since he pushes the blame off of Oshyun when Ogun Tetsuma is angry at them for going behind his back. He also seems to care deeply for his sister and mother. After fighting Kai Kei, he brought Translucent home and initially planned to kill the cat but instead decided to make his family happy. He is obviously protective of his family, mostly his little sister. This shows how much he is willing to put others over himself.

Jyousei is known for his strong determination when it comes to fighting or even during dangerous situations, staying composed and careful against opponents who uses weapons. But this determination can also become pure stubbornness, as he stated himself he cannot stop hitting his knuckles with the wooden hammer he caries with.

It is rare for Jyousei to be anxious or afraid, an example was when he was quite nervous when he had to go behind Tetsuma's back. Later on, when Tetsuma discovered something he did not know about capoeiristas, Jyousei was internally panicking and sweating.

## Biography

### Past & Youth

Jyousei's father passed away from unknown circumstances, who used to hit his knuckles with a hammer for no particular reasons. Jyousei, who observed his father hammering his knuckles before he died, decided to mimic him and started to hit his knuckles just like his father. He started at a very young age and kept hitting to this day.

#### Learning Traditional Karate

Jyousei was taught traditional karate at a dojo. At some point, a full-contact karate practitioner mocked the fundamentals of traditional karate, which started Jyousei's intense loathing against any full-contact karate styles.

#### Joining the Ogun Union

At some point, he acquired a debt which caused him to quit karate lessons at his dojo and join Ogun Union. During his time within the union, Sendou Ryuudai says he taught Jyousei how to properly fight in the crime underworld and the two remained close allies ever since.

### Ogun Union Saga

Jyousei fights Kai Kei from the order of Obe Nobunari requested him to do, after Obe receive a call from of B.J.

#### Hayatomo High School Festival Arc

Alongside other high ranked members of the Top Brass, Jyousei goes to the Hayatomo High School's festival in order search and retrieve Sanjou Ichiri, from the orders of Obe. During his search, he encounters a random student and asks him if he saw "*a girl who practices capoeira*"; in which he beat the student violently because the latter doesn't know what Jyousei was talking about. He forces the student to find this girl, leading to the school's cafeteria and points at Hirota Rua. Much to his anger, Jyousei grabbed the student and threatens the young boy to stop messing with him. Hirota decided to go change her clothing and wore a Japanese schoolgirl uniform (or known as "*seifuku*"), trying to attract Jyousei's attention.

## Abilities

### Summary

Jyousei is among the strongest members of the Top Brass, displaying both great physical and mental abilities with a variety of powerful techniques and skills in karate. He is possibly one of the fastest fighters in the union, most of his opponents were unable to react to his strikes.

### Mental Abilities

Jyousei possess a sharp mind, being cautious about incoming changes within the organization and can identify something wrong going on and stays on alert. He has a fast initiative when it comes to fighting, using all his knowledge on karate to attack his enemy or defend himself.

### Fighting Style

Jyousei practices traditional karate on an expert level, to the point his techniques have devastating results and possibly lethal. He displays a variety of karate techniques, mostly punching and kicking. Although he claims his style is "traditional karate", he never mentioned the name of his karate school. It is unknown if his belt's rank and color was before he left his karate dojo, it is assumed he could be highly ranked.

### Techniques

* **Motionless Tsuki**: His personal favorite technique. Jyousei will launch himself at incredible speed, travelling a quite descent distance and land a powerful punch either to the head or the body. He often aims at the head for knocking out his enemies. Jyousei will often start to hop to warm up before unleashing the strike. It's his fastest attack in his entire arsenal.

### Weaknesses

* **Knee Injury** (formerly): During his last fight against Kai's alternate personality, Jyousei's left knee was injured due to a kick from Kai and could barely use his Motionless Tsuki. This left him extremely vulnerable against enemies, especially those who are armed with weaponry.

### Miscellaneous

* **Wooden Hammer**: A small wooden hammer he always carries with him. He uses it to do his partial training, forming a fist with one of his hands and hitting his fist's knuckles with the hammer. Jyousei claims he started this partial training ever since his father passed away, who also used to hit his fists with the tool.
* **Chocolate Bar**: Jyousei used the chocolate bar to help Kai regain his energy back, the latter was deprived for food and water for 3 days straight in a forest and awoken his hidden personality named "Ryback". Whenever Kai (as Ryback) is deprived of his stamina, Jyousei gave him a chunk of the bar to resplenish him back and fight again, but for only a short time and the candy is quite small.

## Relationships

### Family

* Aya: His younger sister, she is often seen braiding his hair. Although he doesn't show it, he greatly protects his sister.
* Unnamed mother: He also is protective for his mother.
* Unnamed deceased father: There is little known about Jyousei's father who passed away from unknown circumstances. Jyousei only mentioned his wooden hammer came from his father, who also used to hit his knuckles. It is unknown if his father is a karate practioner.

### Friends & Allies

* Ogun Tetsuma: Alongside Ryuudai, Jyousei is often seen following Tetsuma whenever the Union leader decides to go somewhere, either for a fight or going in a bar. However, Tetsuma wouldn't hesitate to hit Jyousei if he sees something suspicious, as seen during the Brawler Festival where he obliterates Jyousei with a single punch. Even after Tetsuma beat Jyousei and defected the organization, Jyousei still remained on Tetsuma's side.
* Sendou Ryuudai: Ryuudai taught Jyousei how to fight and views Ryuudai as his superior, showing great respect. Jyousei knows how Ryuudai can behave from very calm to extremely violent and explosive, in which he has to carefully chose his words in order to not get in troubles.
* Amamiya Shyun: Jyousei and Oshyun are seemingly close comrades, both are aware of Obe's secret plans and motives and knows how to be discret on sharing such information, as seen when they sit next to each other during the Brawlers Festival. They trust each others to the point Jyousei tells Tetsuma that he asked Oshyun to go on Obe's mission, saving her from Tetsuma's wrath. Although Jyousei wasn't pleased to hear Shyun chose to side with Obe, he decided to team up with her during the Athletic Park War's final moments.
* Obe Nobunari: He respects and obeys to the orders from "Ogun Union's N.02", though questioned himself on why Obe wanted to capture Ichiri. Jyousei was among the few who noticed the rebel of Obe and his secret schemes to overthrow and replace Tetsuma.
* Kai Kei: After their rivalry ended, Jyousei seems to trust Kei and views him as a strong martial artist. His views on full-contact karate has greatly changed since their last fight and respects Kei for showing his skills. Their friendship evolved even more when Jyousei admit he didn't killed Translucent and they both agreed they share the ownership on the cat.
* Translucent: Jyousei despised the cat because he is allergic to a cat's fur. He initially planned to kill him but changed his mind and let the cat play with Aya.

### Rivals & Enemies

* Kai Kei (formerly): Used to despise every full-contact karatekas in the past, in which he automatically hated Kei the first time they meet.
* Kiuchi: Although he wasn't a rival nor an enemy, Jyousei hated Kiuchi's friendly attitude toward Kei and saw him as a nuisance rather than someone useful for the union.

## Notes & Trivia

* The "Kaji"/"梶" in Jyousei's name is the same as the "Kaji"/"梶" in Kaji Takaomi's name, a main character in Sako Toshio's other work, *Usogui*.
* Even though his karate style's name is unknown, traditional karate is often tied to it's original roots in Okinawa, which is the birthland of Okinawan karate.
* Jyousei is allergic to cats and even being around one will make him unwillingly cry immediately. Despite his allergy, he still accepts Translucent ot be around at his home but he requires to wear a mask to protect himself from his allergy.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 57 (page 7)
2. ↑ Chapter 97 (page 3)
3. ↑ Chapter 97 (page 3)
4. ↑ Chapter 97 (page 3)