Bijomaru mogami

Bijomaru Mogami
"I hate to break up such a nice romantic scene, but I want you to die."

"With that wonderful expression...they beg me to kill them." Manga

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Personality
In a highly fictionalized era under the iron fist of Tokugawa reign following a bloody warring period known as Sengoku of Japan, 3 warlords still thirst for bloodshed as well as more wars for personal acquisition of power, nothing is black and white in the world of Azumi...

Yet despite the gray boundaries of morality, the Handsome Fencer still stood as an eccentric and interesting psychopath that both the side of the self claimed 'protagonist' band of child assassin, as well as the brutal militants of Kato Kiyomasa's clan, despise to their visceral soul. Unlike neither the child soldiers and proclaimed 'peacemakers' nor the brutal but cunning warlords bent on national domination, Bijomaru only has one purpose in life. Becoming a literal personification of shinigami and death as a grim reminder to the sane ones...as evident by his favourite kimono, a sober white gown like a bloodless cadaver and an sick, grotesque obession for the meaning of flower as funeral prye items.

The Kato Kiyomasa's ninja's in particular hating his cruel, inhumane habits of playing a defeated warrior by slow physical and emotion torture with a slow death, which sometimes served absolutely no purpose in military strategy other than for Bijomaru's own enjoyment in extremely gory sadistm and his nihilistic fantasy driving him to live to prove it; life is nothing. That everything a man or woman fights for ends in tragedy and meaninglessness, no matter how brave or successful they are. Mogami is remorseless and apathetic towards life itself. Willing to kill a girl just so he could torture a defeated teenage assassin for longer (Slicing him joint by joint in the manga.)

While the movie version reveals little of Bijomaru's background other than a once great samurai turned ronin who went crazy and ended up locked in a dungeon for the sole purpose of keeping in a highly efficient, emotionless killing machne....the manga delves more into Bijomaru's abusive upbringing by his mother and possibly hint that he has a deep sexual disgust by dressing up like a woman in female outfits of the time, wearing long loose hair with eye make ups. It also suggest that his mother was abusive which somehow caused his twisted and vile view of life, which eventually led to him murdering her and striving to murder more woman and mothers to stop it all happening again.