Shin Asakura

Shin Asakura (朝倉あさくらシン Asakura Shin?), also known as the Clairvoyant (千里眼の), is the deuteragonist in the series Sakamoto Days. Shin is an ex-hitman and an employee at the Sakamoto’s Store that was once an old partner and former student of Taro Sakamoto. After failing to kill Sakamoto, Shin joins him and his family.

His name at birth would likely have been Shin Ando, however, at some point, he took that name of Asakura, going by Shin Asakura. However, all materials related to the JAA (his hitman license[3]) and JCC (his test results[4]) show just his given name, Shin.

Appearance

Shin is a slim, childish-looking young man of medium height. He has blond, medium-length hair and large blue eyes (black in the manga). His first appearance shows Shin in an open leather jacket along with a plain tee, baggy dark pants, and bright tennis shoes. He later appears often in his work attire consisting of a collared dress shirt, a pair of slacks, and a green apron. His attire tends to vary as the chapters continue but still keeps the same basic green apron pattern.

Personality

Shin is an honest, straightforward, and collected young man. He typically remains calm and composed even in serious situations, though this occasionally can be broken by comical bouts of anger, irritation, or fear from mundane stimuli. Shin is confident but is not arrogant and remains analytical in fights. He takes pride in his clairvoyance, knowing its strengths, and limitations and how to apply them in battle.

Shin has immense determination and willpower. This, coupled with his loyalty, inherently caring nature, and value for life allows him to continue fighting against heavily stacked odds. Like many others, Shin respects and looks up to Sakamoto.

Relationships

Tasuku Ando
Shin’s current feelings towards his biological father, Tasuku, are unknown.

As a child, he leaves to look for Ando, believing someone connected to him by blood would understand and accept him for who he is. [5] [6] But after being ignored by his father Tasuku Ando, he becomes upset with him, referring to him as scum. [6][7] Despite that, he doesn’t want Sakamoto to kill him. [6][7]

Asakura
Asakura is like an uncle and father figure to Shin, having taken care of him in his childhood. During Asakura’s research in developing superhuman powers, a young Shin took an interest in seeing his success.

Shin remained protective of Asakura’s work, whether it was when other researchers showed doubt or, once it proved successful with Shin able to read thoughts, Asakura regretted it after his colleagues began avoiding Shin. In contrast, Shin wanted Asakura to be glad his work succeeded and even rejected his want to reverse the effects.[8]

Years later, Shin reunited with Asakura while on a mission to save Lu Shaotang and commended his research. This time, acknowledging how Shin has been able to take advantage of his clairvoyance, Asakura agreed.

Skills & Abilities

Overall Skill Level: Shin is a competent clairvoyant hand-to-hand combatant. Sakamoto’s last assessment during the JCC infiltration[9] puts Shin at a little above the level of the average JAA teacher, except for outliers such as the late Satoda. As a part of the Sakamoto family, Shin restrains himself from killing anyone.

Enhanced Strength: Shin has held his own handling dangerous serial killers such as Saw, as well as dealing blows powerful enough to Shinaya that Gaku (who was controlling Shinaya and capable of fighting Order members), decided to take him more seriously. Shin was also able to dive down, retrieve an unconscious Toramaru, and swim back to the surface.[10] In his battle with Haruma , Shin gives a blow punch and threw Haruma out of the arena(sumo), Haruma admits that Shin’s blows are suprisingly powerful. Shin’s blows made Tenkyu’s mouth bleed and knocked out one of his teeth.

Enhanced Speed: In addition to his clairvoyance, Shin was able to avoid blows from Toramaru and Shinaya, both special-recommendation JAA applicants. During a fight on a rollercoaster track, Shin was able to dodge an incoming cart and evade throwing knives in midair [11], as well as an airsoft bullet being fired by Kill Baby even when he is wearing a blindfold .[12] In his battle with Tenkyu,Shin commands his mind to function at max power. In other words, Shin can push his brain to process at peak speed, this made everything he saw slow down.

Enhanced Durability: Shin was able to take blows from Shinaya, who was able to send fellow assassins flying with one hand. After being sent flying across a theme park and crashing onto a stage, Shin got up with no difficulty.[13] Shin was even able to take casual strikes from Sakamoto. Shin was still able to stand up even though Haruma slammed him and received a blow from Haruma. in his battle with Tenkyu, Shin was still able to survive and win even though he suffered many injuries to his body due to falling from a height, arrow shots, punches and materials such as rocks.

Equipment

Power Glove: Created by Natsuki Seba, the glove gives Shin access to enhanced strength by turning off the limiter in his brain to utilize his latent potential. When attacking with the glove, there is a delayed reaction which requires Shin to look into the future to use it properly. The more of a delay there is, the more powerful the attack. Upon receiving the glove initially, the delay is set to 0.5 seconds.

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