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| “ | There is evil that goes unpunished and good that goes unrewarded. Without my blade, how could anything in this mortal world ever hope for balance!? | „ |
| ~ Suehiro Tetcho's little tantrum |
Tetchō Suehiro is a major antagonist in the manga and anime series Bungo Stray Dogs. He is fictionalized version of the author with the same name.
Tetcho is one of the 5 Hunting Dogs, infamously known for his strength and his ability which allows him to shape his size of sword, shape and length of his sword. He was recruited by Ōchi Fukuchi and is known as the strongest Hunting Dogs in strength. Little to no information is known about what his life was before joining the Hunting Dogs.
He is voiced by Yōhei Azakami in the original Japanese, who also voiced Deathpierce and Michael Roa Valdamjong. In the English dubbed version, he was voiced by Griffin Puatu, who additionally dubbed Sunday and provided one of The Man in the Wall's voices.
Appearance[]
Tetcho is a young man with brown hair, 3 little tattoos under his eye and wears the usual Hunting Dogs uniform which consists of black boots, red coat, red cape, a special Hunting Dogs cap, and also fingerless gloves.
Biography[]
Hunting Dogs Arc[]
Tetcho arrives at the Highway.
The Hunting Dogs are summoned by the government to go after the Armed Detective Agency who have been identified as the Decay of the Angel. As Yosano, Kenji, Kunikida and Tanizaki drive away by a car they politely hijacked, Jouno and Tetcho have found them, by using Jouno's high senses. As Jouno uses his ability to turn into particles, he is in the car now and Kenji tries fighting Jouno, but Jouno grabs his fist. Tanizaki uses Light Snow as Kenji and Jouno get out of the car, Kenji dragging Jouno. Tetcho arrives and gets run over by the car, commedically flying before landing on the ground. He uses his ability, which he uses to attack Tanizaki and Kenji, managing to stab Kenji. He injures most of all the Armed Detective Agency members, before Chūya Nakahara arrives and saves the Armed Detective Agency. In a last ditch effort, Tetcho makes his sword bigger, making it stab Kenji again while he is in the helicopter. Tetcho is about to enter the helicopter mid-air but Kunikida grabs Tetcho, jumps out of the helicopter and uses a grenade to blow himself and Tetcho up, Tetcho and Kunikida both surviving.
Later, he appears when Yosano is about to get defeated by the "5th Hunting Dog member" and he and the other Hunting Dog members appear as Tachihara reveals that he is the 5th Hunting Dog member, him in the end deciding to spare Yosano.
Sky Casino Arc[]
Tetcho and Jouno at a cafe
Some time later at the Hunting Dog's HQ, Tetcho has been analyzing ants for the last 8 hours. At the meeting, they discuss that they have found the base of the terrorists(them still believing it's the Armed Detective Agency, so they sent Jouno and Tetcho to investigate. Jouno and Tetcho go to a cafe next to the Armed Detective Agency where the detectives usually went before they were framed as terrorists. There, Jouno starts threatening and tormenting the owner of the cafe, telling him the nasty stuff that will happen to Lucy. Tetcho stops Jouno by stabbing him in the leg, which annoys Jouno. Tetcho vows on his sword that the Armed Detective Agency will get a fair trail and that nothing will happen to Lucy, if the cafe owner tells them where they are, to which the latter tells the 2 Hunting Dogs that they are at the Sky Casino. After this, Fukuchi sends Teruko and Tachihara to the Sky Casino.
Vampire Infection Outbreak Arc[]
Tetcho stops Jouno from threatening Aya.
After the visit at the Sky Casino, Fukuchi, who has revealed himself as Kamui to Tachihara, killed him(alongside Akutagawa on the ship) and used Bram to make them vampires. At the Hunting Dogs meeting, they all talk about the outbreak, Tetcho being calm. After this, they go to the airport, them not knowing it's actually run by Vampires, by Bram's ability. Jouno walks to Tetcho and Teruko and accidentally makes Aya fall, not even apologizing. When Aya overhears the Hunting Dogs talking about the Vampire Infection Outbreak, Jouno senses Aya's heart beating loudly at the mention of the Armed Detective Agency being terrorists. Jouno turns back to Aya and starts tormenting her and torturing her psychologically about what she knows about the Armed Detective Agency, to which he is met with Tetcho stabbing his butt with his sword, telling him to leave Aya alone since she's just a little girl. After Jouno gets taken away to talk with Fukuchi, the latter is going to kill Jouno if he doesn't cooperate into becoming a Decay of Angels, Aya steals Bram and the citizens at the airport and the staff, who are revealed as vampires, start to go after Aya. Kenji comes to her rescue. Meanwhile, an explosion happened(caused by Kunikia) and Teruko drives a car, while Tetcho is on top of it as the plane is about to crash inside the airport, but Tetcho cuts the plane in half, making it drop the One Order.
Tetcho and Kenji after their fight.
After Kenji saves Aya and Bram from the vampires, Tetcho appears and he aims his sword at Kenji, demanding to know where Jouno is. Kenji in a sweet voice tells Tetcho that he will help him find Jouno, which shocks Tetcho, but it is just a facade as he starts attacking Kenji. Kenji attempts to use his superhuman strength to overpower Tetcho, but Tetcho reveals that he is as strong if not stronger than Kenji. The 2 fight across the airport as Kenji becomes mad and starts wiping the floor with Tetcho. When Tetcho gets backed up into a wall at the airport, he tells Kenji to kill him, but Kenji gets tired and tries shaking Tetcho's hand, saying that they should find Jouno together. Kenji collapses to the floor alongside Tetcho as they say each other's names.
Personality[]
Tetcho is a calm, reasonable men, often not wanting to cause trouble, unlike his other partners. He often is aloof, calm and also is very loyal to the Hunting Dogs, and to saving innocent people. When he gets angry or irritated, most of the times directed at Jouno, he stabs the latter in the foot, butt or whatever spot he can find. At Hunting Dogs meetings, he usually doesn't talk. Like when the time he fought Kenji, he was calm, not irritated. The other time he fought Kenji at the airport during Bram Stoker's outbreak, he was mad and annoyed, wanting to find Jouno, which the latter turned into a vampire. Another example was the time he and Jouno were searching for the car Kunikida, Yosano, Kenji and Tanizaki stole when they got framed by the Decay of Angels.
Relationships[]
Saigiku Jouno[]
| “ | I would place Jouno above justice for just 5 minutes | „ |
| ~ Tetcho about Jouno |
Tetcho and Jouno are often partners during missions by the Hunting Dogs. They are always bickering, arguing or Jouno calling out Tetcho, telling him that his breathing is too loud or that he should go die. Despite this, the 2 are good friends, often having each other's backs like the time they attacked Kenji, Yosano, Kunikikda and Tanizaki. And another example, is the time during the Vampire Infection Outbreak where Tetcho was concerned and worried about where Jouno is and started looking for him angrily, even engaging in a fight with a 14-year-old Kenji and wanting to kill him if it meant "saving Jouno". In the end, the 2 are partners in the Hunting Dogs.
Ōchi Fukuchi[]
The 2 aren't always seen interacting with one and other, but Fukuchi has a high sense of respect for Tetcho, seeing him as one of the strongest Hunting Dogs, which is why he often has Tetcho and Jouno, the Blind King and the Meteor-Slasher go together on missions.
Ability[]
Plum Blossoms in Snow
Plum Blossoms in Snow is Tetcho's ability which allows him to change his sword size, length and shape. It is unknown weather or not he can use it on other's swords besides his own.
Trivia[]
- The name Tetchō means "Iron Stomach", consisting of the kanji (鐵) (tetsu) meaning "Iron" and (腸) (chō) meaning "stomach".
- The surname Suehiro means "end" (末) (sue) and "broad" (広) (hiro).
- Tetcho is 184cm tall.
- He wants a personal gym.
- The last time he laughed was when he was a baby.
