Satoru Kanzaki

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**Satoru Kanzaki** (神崎悟, Kanz*aki Satoru*), also known as **The Conqueror**, is the head of the Kanzaki Clan and the current master of his personal unknown style. During the New Kengan Annihilation Tournament, he represented ShinEtsu Chemical as their affiliated fighter.

## Appearance

Satoru is an exceptionally imposing young man with a powerful muscular physique. He has sharp light eyes, slightly tanned skin and messy blond hair. He is usually seen wearing a traditional kimono attire and having the appearance befitting a clan head. He sports a white long-sleeved shirt that buttons at the colour underneath a black kimono. He completes his outfit with light-coloured hakama bottoms and sandal. Satoru's expression is often depicted with an arrogant grin plastered across his face.

## Personality

Satoru is a sarcastic, confident and straight-forward young man. Though he enjoys provoking people and teasing others, at times he can be condescending, and very selfish. He is noted to have a very fiery personality and is highly competitive causing him to make rash decisions, when his emotions manage to get the better of him. He also has a very striking flirtatious personality and enjoys goofing around with his fellow fighters.

Satoru often shows a deceptively cunning side and serious side, when warranted and uses idle conversation to distract his opponents and is considered very manipulative, tricking people into doing what he wants them to.

In general, he isn't a forgiving person and finds it hard to understand people who choose not to be swallowed by the impulse for revenge. Satoru's very stubborn mindset and self-awareness of his abilities, causes him to think that he is better than most others which makes him appear quite condescending in nature. Ironically, he is also very perceptive of the people around him, being able to tell their intentions, emotions and troubles with a simple stare, even while unable to distinguish his own emotions.

## Powers & Abilities

Satoru is the current head of the infamous Kanzaki Clan and the grandmaster of the Kanzaki Clan Style as well as his own Renewal Taekwondo. The combination of his immense physical power and vast martial arts prowess makes him one of the most powerful hand-to-hand combatants in the world. Satoru's main strength, however, lies in his intelligence and learning ability.

### **Instinct**

While fighting, Tatsuki possesses a demon-like instinct that has often resulted in him performing atypical actions that end up helping him. His instincts provide him with excellent situational awareness during battle, allowing him to use the environment to his advantage. Tatsuki also possesses great creativity, and frequently comes up with unusual methods to take the advantage in a fight.

### Body Structure

Satoru possesses a unique body structure with a muscle composition that has the density one hundred times that of a regular human, allowing him to deal exceptionally powerful blows. This special muscle composition gives him colossal natural strength and toughness from an early age, His muscle also acts as an armour, allowing him to withstand attacks from fighters who possess incredible strength. He also has tremendous bone density that allow him to even further withstand powerful blows with no fear for fractures. Because of the sheer density of his skeleton, his muscles are able to clench harder without repercussion, enabling him to perform more powerful blows and nullify vital attacks. He also has a herculean back, which supports his supernatural strength and make his back muscles take the shape of a demon. Tatsuki also possesses natural poison resistance, that stems from years of building up an immunity to an array of poisons by taking in minuscule doses.

### Martial Arts

Satoru is one of the most powerful martial artists in the world and the current grandmaster of the Kanzaki Clan Style martial art. He is capable of calmly defeating multiple opponents at once through physical combat, disarming and dodging attacks from many directions. He can strike with precision before his opponent could react, and overpower individuals twice his size. What makes him so frightening is his ability to adapt to combat and environment in order to give himself the advantage. His **learning ability** (超学習能力, Chō Gakushū Nōryoku) allows him to learn countermeasures to other people's fighting styles while making their fighting styles his own. While fighting his opponents, Satoru gains access to their fighting styles and techniques, simply by witnessing them once. Moreover, his skill lies in using his intelligence in battle where he aims for the vital points and joints to make his opponents lose the ability to fight back and gradually lose concentration. Furthermore, through analysing his opponent's line of vision, posture, muscle tension, breathing, energy, movement patterns, and center of gravity he can almost perfectly predict his opponent's next movement.

## Etymology

* The name **Satoru** means "enlightenment" (悟).
* His surname **Kanzaki** comes from 神 *(Kan)* meaning "god" and *崎 (saki)* meaning "cape, peninsula".

## Notes & Trivia

* Satoru's muscle density is said to be due to the extremely rare condition known as "Superman Syndrome". In reality, "Superman syndrome" is a relatively common genetic condition that does not affect muscle growth or density. The more likely genetic mutation that was meant is probably myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy.