S.I.N.K or Swim: Pointshift

*S.I.N.K or Swim: Pointshift* is a 2024 American action-adventure mystery spy novel and upcoming animated series by PGD543. The series is a prequel to *S.I.N.K or Swim* and it focuses on the original show's tritagonist Satori Yakuzawa, depicting the events leading up to her departure from Japan for Hexicon City and her becoming a member of S.I.N.K. It is rated TV-MA LSV due to graphic and frequent violence, swearing, controversial topics, suggestive themes, and inappropriate jokes.

## Summary

Two years before the events of *S.I.N.K or Swim*, Satori Yakuzawa is living an average life in her hometown of Osaka - as normal a life as a member of the Nippon Nine, the nine strongest Unsealed, or superpowered human, in all of Japan, could live. Her. along with her best frenemy Ayaka Kunimura, another member of the Nine, take a trip to Tokyo where they have a chance meeting with Englishman Bailey Robinson, who works as "Wildboy" Kent Corrigan, a gaijin (foreign) pro wrestler for Mega Japan Pro Wrestling. After becoming friends with him, he invites the two to MJPW's biggest show of the year in the fabled Tokyo Dome, but when a freak accident happens during a match that leaves Bailey unfairly blacklisted from the injury, Satori and Ayaka are thrust headfirst into a morbid conspiracy involving the dark dealings of both the Japanese government and the other members of the Nine, leading her to question everything she's ever known.

## Characters

#### Satori Yakuzawa

* Voiced by Sally Amaki. A no-nonsense and calculating 19 year old Japanese woman, Satori was a child prodigy and is highly intelligent with an IQ of 242. She is one of what are called the Unsealed, who are people born with a initially locked part of their brain that enables them to manipulate the illusion of reality in a unique way, giving them extraordinary powers, unlocked from birth. Her power, Pointshift, can relocate her molecules and the molecules of a touched object to effectively replace herself into its position by calculating the 11th dimensional positioning of herself, the object, and the direction to relocate. However she has to wear a specially designed suit to use this ability or her molecules will scatter, killing her. In *Pointshift*, she is much more relaxed and less cynical about how the world operates for people with extraordinary attributes.

#### Ayaka Kunimura / "Nadeshiko Fudenosuke"

* Voiced by Bryn Apprill. A gung-ho and energetic 19 year old Japanese woman, Ayaka is a very girly girl and has a great love for cute things, but also has very strong convictions and a sense of self-duty. She is also an Unsealed, possessing the ability of Objectifier, which allows her to incorporate inanimate objects into her psyche as extensions of her own consciousness, letting her freely control them at will. She and Satori have known each other since grade school and have developed a rivalry, but also a very deep and close friendship though neither is willing to fully admit it. She took on the fake name of "Nadeshiko Fudenosuke" in her early teens when she began developing her ability, fearing she could possibly be hunted down. She calls it her "pen name", as Fudenosuke is a brand of Japanese artist's pen.

#### Bailey Robinson / "Wildboy" Kent Corrigan

* Voiced by Zack Gibson. A 20 year old Englishman born in the island of Jersey, Bailey is a very down-to-earth and approachable guy. He got his start working as a wrestler on the British independent circuit before making the jump to Japan to join Mega Japan Pro Wrestling. His Unsealed ability is Stem Boost, which enhances his stem cells and as a result all his other cells, but is able to turn it on and off at will. However he is blacklisted from the Japanese scene when his ability activates against his will during a match and nearly kills his opponent, and despite considering moving back to the UK, decides to join an insistent Satori and Ayaka, who had dedicated themselves to uncovering the truth behind the incident in the match.

#### Genshiro Shirayanagi / The Absent One

* Voiced by Austin Tindle. A 29 year old Japanese man, Genshiro is a mathematical genius, but feels burdened by the fact that so many around him are far from his intellectual level. He believes that intelligence is not strictly confined to geniuses and sees idiocy as a disgusting plague to be eradicated by the medicine of Unsealed power. His efforts to find ways to enhance and tinker with Unsealed abilities, believing that amplifying them will help progress scientific discovery, slowly drives him insane. His ability is Absence, which gives him immense nihilikinetic abilities such as breaking the law of conservation of energy by erasing energy and even preventing energy from ever being conceived. He is considered the most powerful member of the Nine.

#### Emi Matsudo / Warstar

* Voiced by Emi Lo. A 20 year old Japanese-Chinese woman, Emi, despite being a powerful Unsealed, is not quite sure what to do with her life. Due to her not being in the Nippon Nine despite her vast power, as well as her part-Chinese heritage, she was only seen as someone who wasn't strong enough to go the distance, leading many to decline interest in her. She eventually accepts a job as Genshiro's personal valet, who promised her that he would never abandon her the way the world did. Because of this, she developed a sense of loyalty towards him and by proxy is soon pitted against Satori, Ayaka, and Bailey. Her ability is Aurora Field, which gives her a personal magnetic field that can absorb expulsed plasma from the suns outermost atmosphere allowing her to control and intensify solar winds. When these winds combine with the oxygen atoms in the air, it excites them which produces the aurora lights the power is known for.