Masayuki Kaneki

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## Complete Nightmare

* Unmasked
* Masked (Noh Mask)
* Child

### Full Name

Woo Jong Woo
Matsuda (Japanese, first name unknown)

### Alias

Masayuki Kaneki
Professor Kaneki
Mr. Kaneki
Sensei
Wire Shun

### Allies

Goddess Lee
Bang Jae-soo (formerly)
**Wire Shun:**

* Koichi Fujiyama
* Jeon Chang-soo
* Saburo Fujiyama

### Resources

Genius-level intelligence
Manipulation
Charisma
Strategic mind
Gunmanship
Political influence
Bilingualism
Knowledge of hypnosis
Trickery
Extraordinary knowledge of psychology
Intimidation
Murder methodology
Cunning

### Goals

"Color" all humans with loathing and hatred.
Kill Shoichi Makio.
Turn his younger brother, Kang-woo Do, into a monster like himself. (all failed)

### What Makes Them Ridiculous

Murdering Miho Fujiyama and framing his father for it.
Torturing his brother Kang Do-woo throughout his life and trying to turn him into a nihilistic monster.
Torturing and killing his wife Yukiko Kaneki just to roast her heart and eat it.

### Cool/Complex/Good Qualities

While his past doesn't justify his actions, Masayuki had a tragic childhood of being bullied for his Korean-Japanese heritage.
Park Byueng-eun's performance is really good.
His outfit looks cool and both of his theme songs sound really intense.

### Most Evil Crimes

Serial murder
Mass corruption
Uxoricide
Pseudocide
Suicide inducement
Hate crimes
Snuff filming
Incrimination
Animal cruelty
Terrorism
Mutilation
Vandalism
Cannibalism
Torture
Abuse

### Type of CN

Nihilistic Misanthrope

**Professor Masayuki Kaneki** (In Japanese: **金木雅之, Kaneki Masayuki**) is the main antagonist in *Voice 3: City of Accomplices*, and an unseen antagonist in *Voice 2: Generation of Disgust*. He is Do Kang-woo's older brother and archenemy and he is also Yukiko Kaneki's husband. Masayuki is a respected human rights activist and professor in Japan.

His true identity is **Woo Jong Woo** (In Korean: **우종우, Woo Jong Woo**), the true culprit behind the murder of Miho Fujiyama, an event that shocked Japan and the fake owner of a dark website called Auction Fabre.

He was portrayed by Park Byung-eun, and his younger self was portrayed by Jo Yong-jin.

## What Makes Him a Complete Nightmare?

* Even if he did have a genuinely tragic past since he was bullied by Japanese children due to the fact that he's a Korean-Japanese, none of the tragedy's aspects justify his motives to become a crime lord later on.
* He murdered Miho Fujiyama when he was a child.
* After murdering Miho, Masayuki falsely accused his father of her murder and sentenced to death.
* He spent most of life tormenting his brother. This caused his brother to be constantly subjected to hallucinations of himself murdering someone else almost every day.
* Even hen he was adopted by the Kaneki household and lived under the alias of Masayuki Kaneki, he repeatedly cut off animals' ears and kept them as his collection.
* Even as a professor, Masayuki brainwashed and corrupted many students.
* He had his men kidnap Kang Kwon-joo and trapping her in a goshiwon.
* After his men catch Kwon-joo, he set up a remote-controlled bomb and attempted to kill Kwon-joo by blowing her up, and this resulted in great damage to her hearing senses.
* He tortured and murdered his wife, Yukiko Kaneki, while listening to Mozart's Lacrimosa, by dismembering her with garrote wires.
* When he killed Yukiko, he cut her hair and used her blood to write "Flower of Heaven" on the floor.
* In his hideout, he roasted his wife's heart and ate it.
* He ordered his men to murder one of his students by cutting her tongue off.
* He used a DuPont lighter to hypnotize his subordinates.
* He forced his right-hand, Koichi Fujiyama, to drink poison and commit suicide.
* He ate Koichi's dead corpse after he forced him to kill himself.
* He acted like a husband who was angry when he faced the murderer who killed his wife. However, he immediately dropped his façade and revealed his true nature as soon as the coroner left.
* He went to Kang Kwon-joo's hospital room with a bouquet of *Ranunculus* and tried to cut off her ear with his garrote wire.
* He ordered Jeon Chang-soo to kidnap Na Hong-soo, which lead to Na Hong-soo sacrificing himself to save Do Kang-woo's life.
* He tracked down Jeon Chang-soo with a locator.
* As soon as Kaneki confronted Chang-soo, he killed Chang-soo with his garrote wire, chopped off Chang-soo's ear, and then wrote "Never Dry Desire" with Chang-soo's blood.
* When he invited Makio to his studio and drugged Makio's bodyguard, he strangled Shoichi Makio to death with his garrote wire after killing the bodyguard by breaking his neck.
* He tried to ruin Do Kang-woo publicly by broadcasting Kang-woo's illness on radio.
* He injured Detective Park Joong-ki with a magnum pistol, who came to his studio. He then threatened to kill Kang Kwon-joo.
* He tied up Kang Kwon-joo into a chair and tried to cut off both of her ears.
* He told his younger brother Do Kang-woo that they were different from dirty bugs, and tried to turn Kang-woo into a nihilistic monster like him.
* After his brother Do Kang-woo killed him to save Kang Kwon-joo from him, the police came in and shot Kang-woo due to a misunderstanding, ending the two brothers in a bloody tragedy.

## Trivia

* Masayuki is one of the four villains in the Korean drama *Voice* to be a Complete Nightmare alongside Hwang Kyung-il, Mo Tae Gu and Yeom Ki-tae. Coincidentally, all of those villains are Pure Evil.
	+ However, Masayuki is the evilest and darkest villain in *Voice* due to being a cannibal who cuts people's ears off and he also killed his own wife. He also feigned his own death to save himself.

## External Links

* Masayuki Kaneki on the Villains Wiki
* Masayuki Kaneki on the Pure Evil Wiki