Tokichiro Wakabayashi

**Tokichiro Wakabayashi** is a major ally introduced in *Justice is Unbreakable*. First featured as an antagonist, he cooperates in the search for Fukuyama Yoshimitsu.

A successful professional mangaka, Tokichiro is often roped into paranormal events while conducting research for his latest manga. He is a Vision User who uses his Dendro Vision, to transform others into books and read them for inspiration.

## Appearance

Tokichiro is a slim young man of average height. He has green hair that is styled in a slicked-sideways undercut. He has a well-sculpted face with sharp cheekbones and delicate eyebrows. While his eyes are green in the anime and animated OVAs, they notably are heterochromatic in the colorized manga OVAs, with the right being blue and the left gold. In these OVAs, he also wears lipstick. While his outfits regularly change, Tokichiro keeps his trademark headband that is jagged on both sides and sits on his crown.

He also always wears dangly earrings that have manga pen tips at the ends. Manga pens are apparent in almost all his outfits, either as jewelry or the pattern of his clothes itself. His overall style is somewhat feminine and notably revealing. They are form-fitting and of unique designs, accompanied by some baggy article of clothing.

## Personality

Tokichiro is above all defined by his dedication to his work. With great draftmanship talents, Tokichiro has constantly sought to make the best manga possible in order to keep being read. His wish to be read is so great it trumps any other motivation, disdaining money or glory and feeling no need for kinship either. When drawing, Tokichiro falls into an artistic trance, drawing with abandon and being distracted with great difficulty. Because of his tremendous drawing skill, the one thing Tokichiro seeks the most is inspiration to fuel his work as everything else is an effortless formality.

## Abilities

**Mastery**: His Dendro Vision simple yet exceptionally versatile power to transform people into books makes Tokichiro a formidable Vision User. There has been a noticeable shift in Tokichiro's mastery of his Stand as he initially required someone to look at a manga page to be transformed into a book, but then could draw his art in the air to trigger the effect and has recently been shown to only need a touch to turn targets into books. This shift has been stated as his own progress as a Vision User. He can also use his power in unexpected ways as people are literally transformed into paper and take on paper's property. Thus, he can easily immobilize someone by turning articulations into paper and has transformed an obese man into paper that could unfold and fit between two speeding trains.

**Dexterity, Draftsmanship**: Tokichiro is an exceptionally talented draftsman, capable if he chooses of finishing manga pages of quality at superhuman speed. He can draw competently without construction lines and shade precisely simply by throwing ink drops with his pen. Such is his speed that he is able to do 19 pages in four days, a feat he can easily surpass, as is noted when he still can meet the deadline for his manga during Alejandro accelerated time ability, where time has hastened to the point that ink can dry before it gets to the paper. Incidentally, his skill also gives him the necessary arm speed to draw a paper sheet off his desk even before Tenma can complete a punch. He was also able to throw pen nibs with such speed that they pierced Tenma's skin during their initial encounter.

**Dendrokinesis**: As a Dendro Vision user, Tokichiro can mimics the plants and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms are standard yet varied swordsmanship techniques that focus on swift and powerful strikes that always follow the shape and pattern of a vines and plants.

* **Book Transmutation**: Tokichiro Elemental Ability can turn people into books, pages unfurling from their bodies in the shape of whatever body part it opens from (for example, if from the face, the shape of the pages is of the person's entire face, eyeholes included). The contents of the books contain detailed and absolutely true information on their subject, including physical characteristics, memories and thoughts from their earliest to their latest, personality, and any details on their Vision, if they have one.

## Etymology

* His name **Tokichiro** means "Wisteria"
* His surname **Wakabayashi** means "Young Forest"