Ichirohiko

Ichirohiko is the main antagonist of Mamoru Hosoda's 2015 anime film, ''The Boy and the Beast. ''He is voiced by Austin Tindel.

History
Ichirohiko is a human boy, abandoned by his parents and later found by a beast named Iozen. Iozen took him to the beast kingdom and raised him there. However, humans possessed great darkness within their hearts. As Ichirohiko grew up, he believed he was a beast, but had trouble accepting the fact who he truly was.

One day, the lord of the beast kingdom was planning to retire to become a god and would pass down his position as lord to either one of his two disciples, Iozen and Kumatetsu.

Abilities
Ichirohiko possessed great darkness within his heart, which allows him to have the power of telekinesis. With it, he can use it to create astral forms, such as manifesting himself into a whale after looking through Kaede's book about Moby Dick. He is also very skilled at sword fighting, as he was raised by his father, who is a skilled fighter.

Personality
When Ichirohiko was growing up, his father kept his true identity as a human from him as a secret, making him feel self conscious. He envision his father as his idle and deemed Kumatetsu unworthy as he saw him as a slob, which made Ichirohiko kill him. He also had a great hatred towards Kyuta as he supported Kumatetsu. This made the darkness inside him corrupt him and drove him to the edge of insanity. After he was defeated by Kyuta and Kumatetsu, it was revealed that he had no recollection after the tournament, showing that it was the darkness inside of him. He then became empathetic for Kyuta as he saw a bracelet around his wrist that Kyuta gave to him.