Kouta Shinohara

**Kouta Shinohara** is an oddity specialist who specializes in vampire hunting. He acts as a mercenary who is willing to cooperate with other specialists when paid. He is a vampire himself.

## Appearance

Kouta has brown hair of medium length and not too neatly combed, as well as crimson eyes. He wears a white uniform with a green trench coat and wields a wide variety of weapons in his arsenal.

In Owari no Kizuna, he grows taller and his hair is slightly longer. Instead of having brown hair, it turns jet-black due to his vampiric nature increasing.

## Abilities

Kouta is by far the strongest vampire currently. It is stated that the flowers of blood and slaughter blossom wherever he goes.

### Physical Abilities:

**Regeneration:** Described as "a man that even in death cannot die," Kouta possesses one of the best regeneration capabilities in the series. He is able to regenerate any part of his body no matter how severe the injury is. He can keep on moving even without his head or innards. He needs only a few minutes to recover from an extremely mutilated state and regrow his left arm. His regeneration is so fast that one of Natiko's bats was unable to escape before Kouta fully healed. However, this regeneration does not give Kouta full immortality, as he will die if his eyes and heart are ripped out.

**Immeasurable Endurance:** Kouta got famous from one fight against a monster that lasted 140 hours. The Arata Organization's simulations show that Kouta is capable of withstanding an onslaught from Natiko in Carnage Mode for an entire week. Kouta defeated Scythe despite suffering about 200 lethal wounds in 30 minutes.

**Immeasurable Stamina:** Kouta has an incredible threshold for extensive physical activity, displaying one of the most impressive feats of stamina in the series and being able to fight for hours on end while his expedient recovery rate handles the more serious of injuries he suffers.

**Enhanced Strength:** Kouta is capable of killing an SS-level aberration with his own strength. He was also strong enough to bend a thick steel bar with his bare hands, but this can be due to his vampire nature.

**Superhuman Speed and Reflexes**: Kouta is too fast for the human eye to follow, but other specialists such as Aradia Megido and Lucas Mitsuri can keep eyes on him just fine. Mukade Takusa can also do this, matching him step for step and blow for blow in a fight. Kouta's reaction times are top-notch, letting him catch Stephanie's bullets with his teeth, despite a single one of these bullets penetrating an SR-71 blackbird multiple times while the plane was moving at Mach 2.8.

### Fighting Styles

**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** When not relying on his long-ranged weapons, Kouta engages in close quarters combat. AO's simulations show that Kouta can find a way to kill Chairman with a counter-attack after the aberration exhausted himself. By his own admission, fighting is not his forte. He seems to possess a decent amount of skill during close-quarters combat as he defeated Scythe, a Vampire capable of easily catching bullets.

**Swordsman:** Kouta has been shown wielding two machetes (which can be seen as swords) at the same time against Scythe. He is also capable of wielding a machete in one hand and an axe in the other. While him and Mukade were fighting Pharasee, it is shown that Kouta is very capable of wielding Mukade's kusanagi.

**Marksman:** Kouta is shown using various guns with some proficiency.

### Miscellaneous Abilities

**Proficient Detective:** Kouta has been shown to have some skills in investigation, as he was able to locate Poison with little information to work with. Kouta states that undercover work is his specialty, which includes scouting, spying, and investigating aberration-infested areas.

**Dark Amongst:** Kouta is capable of materializing ravens ranging from small size to the size of a pickup truck.

**Efficient Piloting:** Kouta is capable of operating aircraft, as shown in Imada Sleeping, Kouta pilots an SR-71 Blackbird, and nosedives straight down at Chishiki High school.

### Equipment

**Trench Coat:** Kouta's trench coat possesses special properties allowing him to carry a lot of various weapons with him at all times.

* **Quick Draw Sleeve Gun System:** Kouta possesses a hidden gun supply system tucked within the forearms of his coat. He uses them to procure extra firearms in the heat of battle.
* **FN FAL:** Kouta's favorite weapon to use in combat. Despite this, he is rarely shown using it. The FAL carries 7.62mm NATO rounds, capable of piercing through heavily armored aberrations.
* **Desert Eagle:** One of Kouta's signature handguns. Kouta wields a black desert eagle. The Desert Eagle has Kouta's last name engraved on the gun's frame on the right side. He will often make use of two of them when dealing with stronger foes, and can exchange regular ammunition with heavier caliber ammunition which carries greater stopping power at the cost of greater recoil that will break his limbs.
* **44 Magnum:** Kouta possesses a black 8 inch 44 magnum revolver. The revolver has Kouta's last name engraved on the gun's frame on the right side. He has not, thus far, utilized it in combat.
* **Beretta M9:** At one point, Kouta wields a black Pietro Beretta 9mm. Like his revolver, he has not utilized this weapon in combat.
* **Glock 17:** In preparation for the raid on Heckler, Kouta had a Glock pistol concealed inside his own body as an ace up his sleeve. He procures the pistol after his other weapons are destroyed by Saw.
* **PTRS-41:**
* **Long-bearded Axe**: Kouta's favored melee weapon. Kouta has been witnessed using a long-bearded axe as one of his primary weapons. The axe has a wooden handle and a larger blade than most axes. It greatly resembles axes used in battles in the Viking Era. He is shown wielding it when confronting Osuna.

* **Machetes**: Kouta is shown using two machetes that he carries on his back under his coat.

## Quotes

(To Imada Nishio) *"Those who dare to impersonate the dead, are judged to join their ranks."*

(To Scythe) "*The Arata Organization told me to bring you back alive, but my second thoughts are telling me otherwise."*

(To Osuna Tobiichi) *"People have to save themselves, one person saving another is impossible."*