Gaku Yashiro

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## Evil-doer

* Anime
* Manga
* Live Action

### Alias

The Murderer
The Kidnapper
Manabu Yashiro
Manabu Nishizono
The Killer
Mr. Yashiro

### Occupation

County lawmaker
Teacher (both formerly)
Serial killer
Inmate (currently, post-defeat)

### Resources

Manipulation
Genius-level intelligence
Charisma
Political influence
Murder methodology
Torture methodology

### Hobby

Eating candy.
Experiencing thrill in his everyday life.
Smoking (formerly).

### Goals

Kill his brother and get away with it (succeeded).
Get away with his serial killings for as long as possible (succeeded for a while, but ultimately failed).
Kill Satoru and Kumi (failed; succeeded in the 2016 film; only killed Satoru but was caught).

### Moral Event Horizon

Killing Satoru's mother Sachiko.
Attempting to kill Satoru and Kumi, the latter of whom was a defenseless child with terminal cancer.

### Crimes

Serial murder
Torture
Kidnapping
Mutilation
Incrimination
Stalking
Burglary
Usurpation
Familicide
Terrorism
Animal cruelty
Vandalism
Trespassing
Rape by proxy (manga only)
Arson (anime only)

### Type of Villain

Manipulative Serial Killer

**Gaku Yashiro** (in Japanese: 八代 学, **Yashiro Gaku**) is the main antagonist of the manga and anime series *ERASED*. A respected teacher and later politician, Gaku Yashiro is also a serial killer who mainly targets children. He is the archenemy of Satoru Fujinuma, the main protagonist.

He was voiced by Mitsuru Miyamoto in Japanese and David W. Collins in English, he was also played by Mitsuhiro Oikawa in the 2016 live action series.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* His brother convinced him to lure a girl to a shed and manipulated her to remain silent about the incident.
* Yashiro enjoys watching his brother raping young little girls monthly, and getting the "thrill" he wanted out of his life by getting the chance to manipulate the girls.
* He dumped a box of baby hamsters into a jar of water. Hours later, he was thrilled after seeing one of them survived, plus named the surviving one "Spice" as his pet.
* Killed his brother after he accidentally killed the victim and planning to frame him for it, and made his death looks like an accident, regardless his brother deserved it for raping those innocent girls.
* Although he felt loss when Spice died, it is only because he didn't have anything else to entertain himself.
* After murdering his brother, Yashiro started his life of crime by manipulating and murdering people.
* As an elementary school teacher, he lured neighborhood children to isolated areas so he could murder them.
* When confronted by his fiancé, who believed Yashiro had something to do with a recent child death, he pushed her out of a window to make it look like she committed suicide from too much stress.
* Kidnapped a 10-year old girl named Kayo Hinazuki, took pictures of her half-naked body, threw her into a freezer, then sprayed her with a water bottle until she slowly froze to death.
* Pinned the murders on a local food delivery worker, Jun "Yuuki" Shiratori, getting him arrested and put on death row.
* In 2006, he not only married the daughter of a politician, but also killed said politician to steal his position as county lawmaker.
* Over the years, he murdered dozens of children and always framed somebody else for his crimes.
* He is responsible for the death of Sachiko Fujinuma, the mother of Satoru. After knowing Sachiko could incriminate him, he brutally stabs her to death, then framed her son Satoru for it, but fortunately, thanks to a Revival, he got sent back in time right after that to stop one of Yashiro's crimes.
* During Satoru's coma, he stop killing girls, but not out of remorse, he did it cause he was bored and possibly to lay low.
* Going by the alias "Nishizono Manabu", he leads the investigation trying to capture Satoru, and in an attempt to further incriminate Satoru, plus he tries to burn Airi alive by setting her house on fire while she is inside.
* When Satoru was in the hospital, while he is keeping a low profile, he also plans to kill Kumi, who is the latter diagnosed with leukemia, by poisoning her IV bag.
* During his final confrontation with Satoru, not only he would kill Satoru but also himself.
* While he did admitted his murders following his defeat to reduce his death sentence to a life sentence, he didn't done it out of remorse but only just to "save" himself, although he deserved it for all the murders he done, but gave him a fate worse than death.
* While it's true that his older brother abused him greatly and forces him to be an accomplice in his crimes, this doesn't justify any of his unforgiving actions as a serial killer and it was shown that he already had disturbing desires in the past which only pulls up more red flags.