Masayuki Kaneki

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## Guile Villain

* Unmasked
* Masked
* Child

### Full Name

Woo Jong Woo
Matsuda (Japanese, First name Unknown)

### Alias

Masayuki Kaneki (Japanese Name)
Professor Kaneki
Mr. Kaneki
Sensei
Wire Shun

### Allies

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

* Koichi Fujiyama
* Jeon Chang-soo
* Saburo Fujiyama

### Powers/Skills

Genius-level intelligence
Manipulation
Charisma
Political influence
Bilingualism
Hypnosis
Trickery
Extraordinary knowledge of psychology
Intimidation
Murder methodology
Cunning

### Goals

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

### "Evil is Cool" Zone

Ordering Jeon Chang-soo to kidnap Na Hong-soo, which caused someone to sacrifice their life.
Tracking down Jeon Chang-soo with a locator.

### MEH or Most Evil Actions

Murdering Miho Fujiyama and framing his father for it.
Spending most of his life torturing and corrupting his brother.
Torturing and killing his wife, Yukiko Kaneki.

### Crimes

Serial murder
Mass corruption
Uxoricide
Kidnapping
Brainwashing
Organized crime
Hate crimes
Conspiracy
Snuff filming
Incrimination
Animal cruelty
Terrorism
Mutilation
Cannibalism
Torture
Blackmail
Abuse

### Type of Villain

Nihilistic Misanthrope

**Professor Masayuki Kaneki** (In Japanese: 金木雅之, **Kaneki Masayuki**) is a major antagonist in the 2017-2021 South Korean crime thriller series *Voice*, serving as an unseen antagonist of *Voice Season 2: Generation of Disgust* and the main antagonist of *Voice Season 3: City of Accomplices*. He is also the archenemy of Do Kang-woo, the husband of Yukiko Kaneki, and a respected human rights activist and professor in Japan. He has a warm and intelligent appearance and gentlemanly attitude, as well as a conceptual image of acting against injustice. He is the person who took first place. His real name is **Woo-Jong Woo** (In Korean: 우종우, **Woo-Jong Woo**), and he is the older brother of Do Kang-woo and a Korean-Japanese man.

However, the real truth of him is that he's a criminal mastermind who runs a hateful business against humanity, receiving murder tools, videos, and body parts and selling them on the dark web 'Auction Fabre', which can only be accessed by 0.001% VVIP members. and the real culprit who killed Yukiko.

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

## His Cool and Evil Rankings

### What Makes Him a Guile Villain?

* In the past, he has been bullied by Japanese children due to the fact that he's a Korean-Japanese. While his tragedy doesn't justify his actions, Masayuki is still seen as a tragic and sympathetic character based on Park Byung-eun's words.
* He had his men kidnap Kang Kwon-joo and trapping her in a goshiwon. He then set up a remote-controlled bomb and attempted to kill Kwon-joo by blowing her up. This event caused great damage to her hearing senses. This makes him a sophisticated conspirator who sends his henchmen out to commit atrocities.
* He is extremely charismatic, as he ordered Jeon Chang-soo to kidnap Na Hong-soo, which lead to Na Hong-soo sacrificing himself to save Do Kang-woo.
* He can feign affability in front of anyone before torturing and murdering them in very brutal and vile ways.
* He tracked down Jeon Chang-soo with a locator, showing how smart he is. As soon as Kaneki confronted Chang-soo, he killed Chang-soo with a wire, chopped off Chang-soo's ear, and then wrote "Never Dry Desire" with Chang-soo's blood.

### What Makes Him Evil?

* As a child, he murdered Miho Fujiyama, which caused his father to be wrongfully accused of her murder and sentenced to death. This event irreparably shattered his family, which caused his brother, Do Kang-woo, to greatly suffer.
* He spent his whole life tormenting his brother. This caused his brother to be constantly subjected to hallucinations of himself murdering someone else almost every day.
* When 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.
* When he worked as a professor at the Sokpo Alternative School, he brainwashed and corrupted many students.
* He tortured and murdered his wife, Yukiko Kaneki, while listening to Mozart's Lacrimosa, by dismembering her with wires. He then 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 then committed cannbalism on Koichi's dead corpse.
* In the morgue where Koichi's corpse was stored, 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 then ridiculed Koichi's corpse.
* He went to Kang Kwon-joo's hospital room with a bouquet of *Ranunculus* and tried to cut off her ear with a wire.
* He realized that his father-in-law, Shoichi Makio, has started to suspect him of killing his wife, Yukiko. So, he invited Makio to his studio and drugged Makio's bodyguard. After killing the bodyguard by breaking his neck, he strangled Shoichi Makio to death with a wire.
* 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 her ears. He then 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.
* Because of 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

* Currently, Masayuki is the only Guile Villain from *Voice*, and he is ironically the most evil villain in the series due to killing his wife and committing cannibalism multiple times.
	+ With that logic, he would have *easily* been a Hate Sink if his creator did not view him as a tragic, sympathetic and three-dimensional character. Other examples of this include Gaku Yashiro, Bob Barnes and Frank Underwood.

## External Links

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