I've been reading a manga called Marriage Toxin lately, and I've been eyeing out for candidates to put up on this wiki, at first, people in this story at least pass the baseline, but then they redeem themselves usually for the villains up until this point in the franchise. Until this guy showed up and blew the heinous standards out of the water, our candidate today is Toshiro Dogo.
What's The Work?[]
Marriage Toxin is a manga following Gero who wants to find his ideal wife through marriage swindler Kinosaki, who helps him on his mission. His reasoning for this is to save his lesbian sister from being impregnated and birthing a clan. That's the synopsis of it, there's also a top five families plot on top of it, but I'll go more in depth on that bit in the Heinous Standard section.
Who Is He? What Did He Do?[]
Toshiro Dogo is the leader of the Dogo Animal Kingdom, ruling as it's king and the main antagonist of the arc with the same name.
At the age of ten, he was named the chairman of the Dogo Family Research Institute, and he was born into the distinguished Dogo family. He took part in the Beast Clan's Bestial Blood Rite to choose his lifelong mate on his thirteenth birthday. Toshiro took the clan leader's assignment of a bat as an insult, indicating that he wasn't prepared to take over the role of clan chief. He determined to outdo the main family on his own terms, feeling humiliated and furious. Leaving his family behind, Toshiro assembled defectors and outcasts from the smaller branches of the top five families to create the Dogo Animal Kingdom, a cult-like group.
The Animal Kingdom was founded on brutality and dominance. Bond chokers, which would kill a member instantly if removed or slowly drain their life when activated, were placed around each member's neck by Toshiro. The mountain of corpses he presented as a throne and called his "monument of pride" served as further evidence that no one was allowed to escape the realm alive, something he stated himself. He also recruited children under the guise of "destroying this rotten world together," demonstrating his hatred of the world. His empire was a dictatorship basically.
Toshiro descended into obsession as a result of his preoccupation with power and experimentation. He used the lives and blood of his subordinates, including Byakko, as nothing more than fodder to create the Hyakko, a beast made from the blood of ninety-three animals. His hideous scientific objectives were served by treating the people he seized or enslaved as fodder and killing them. Toshiro enjoyed using stress devices that involved smashing bats, which were previously a symbol of his clan, demonstrating his willingness to defile his own culture.
Using Arashiyama as bait to lure Gero to him, he used his army of animals to ambush Gero, Kinosaki, and Piichi. He put Arashiyama in jail with the other kidnapped test subjects he had gathered over the years after activating her choker, which reduced her life expectancy to three days. Toshiro seemed to sympathize with Gero as he approached and gave him "advice," only to follow through with a bomb intended to murder Gero and his friends. He was dishonest in everything he said and did, with his obsession to kill Gero and obtain his blood as well as Piichi's.
The Crimson Marriage Project, a perverse scientific attempt to combine specialized lineages and produce the ideal hybrid person, was the culmination of Toshiro's aspirations. He did this by stealing blood samples from Piichi and Gero in an attempt to combine their influence and claim to be the creator of a "new era." Toshiro laughed with sadistic glee as he remotely activated Gota's choker after he, one of his subordinats, failed to murder him. Loyalty and life were meaningless to him; subordinates were instruments to be thrown away.
When he faced Gero, he was sure that even Gero's genius couldn't defeat sheer numbers, so he ordered a hundred hybrid animals to assault him. Toshiro revealed the Hyakko itself as his trump card after Gero lived. When it failed to kill Piichi as he had commanded, he turned into a hideous man-beast hybrid by absorbing its blood. Toshiro went on his last rage, declaring his intention to wipe out the entire planet and promising to take Gero, Kinosaki, Ushio, Piichi, Arashiyama, and every last prisoner with him. His main goal, notwithstanding the fall of his empire, was destroyed before his vary eyes.
Migitating Factors[]
Alright lets go over every possible migitation that could effect his status.
At just ten years old, Toshiro was put in a position of authority and expected to carry on the Dogo family's tradition. He saw the Beast Clan's rite, which assigned him a bat as his companion, as a rejection, a symbolic declaration that he was unworthy. One may argue that internalized failure, self-loathing, and a need to prove himself are the root causes of his entire spiral. His background may have contributed to his derangement, but it does not justify the willful brutality and mass killings he carried out. His reaction was a combination of ambition and sadism rather than desperation, something he even states as he's not fighting for justice and just wants to claim the lives of many people.
When Byakko's mother dies, he meets her, and they become friends since they both despise the world. You might contend that this relationship demonstrates emotional intelligence because he sympathized with her pain and provided company while she was adrift. However, Toshiro took advantage of Byakko's sorrow. Instead of using her trauma as a sign of sympathy, he utilized it as a recruiting tool. Their relationship loses all legitimacy when he treats her later as fodder and a test subject. His "empathy" was conditional; it was only worthwhile when it suited his objectives.
Seeing himself as a revolutionary who wished to reconstruct society free from corruption, he stated that his objective was to "destroy this rotten world," suggesting a distorted sense of justice. This ideology collapses under scrutiny. He did not seek to fix the world, but to rule over it. His “new era” was one of forced evolution and control. Every act of destruction served to glorify his ego, not liberate anyone. Even his throne of corpses visually represents that his revolution was only for himself.
Heinous Standard[]
So Marriage Toxin's heinous standard from what I've read, it isn't high but it's not exactly low either. We have Captain Awa and Ushio, who both tortured Himekawa because she was an art theif, the torture wasn't a fate worse than death or anything, but Himekawa was an art theif who steals back stolen art and giving them to their rightful owners. Naruko also used his attacks as a sound user to exploit Shiori, even nearly triggering a near mass enforced suicide when awakening a beast. He redeems himself which is why he doesn't qualify for Pure Evil. Futae is a CEO of a company who wants to kill her own niece ironically the person she hired was Naruko. Yamada also attempts to bomb a wedding, but he also redeems himself which is why he doesn't qualify as Pure Evil.
Toshiro stands out amonst the heinous standard for so far having the highest body count in the series and attempting to destroy the world. He established his kingdom by creating the Hyakko and using animal and human blood. He is totally overcome by sadism once he begins killing followers to create the Hyakko and adorns his mountain with corpses. After that, attempting to eliminate the planet, enslaving subordinates, and killing his own soldiers with bond chokers only add salt to the wound.
Verdict[]
I give Toshiro Dogo an easy yes for trying to destroy the world and for all the lives he's claimed and nearly claimed, all because he was insulted when his family gave him a bat, that he uses as a stressball. Showing he's not far above hurting anyone if it's for his benefit. Now go ahead and decide.