Yami (in Japanese: 闇) is a worldwide organization of martial artists who use their skills to gain power and the main antagonists of the second half of the History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi series.
Yami was created after WWII to keep the old arts alive because many martial artists died during the war. It is divided into two divisions: the Hand-to-Hand Combat Division and the Weapons Division. Both Divisions normally work separately and are lead by two completely different units, but recently have joined forces to complete their goal of starting the "Eternal Setting Sun" and claiming the title of "Strongest in History". The leaders of the Hand-to-Hand Combat Division are The One Shadow Nine Fists, and the leaders of the Weapons Division are the Hachiou Executioner Blade, both teams are considered to the strongest in their divisions, and overall equal in terms of manpower and skills. Yami is the opposite of Ryozanpaku: it has enough funds to become a nation of its own while Ryozanpaku veers on the edge of bankruptcy, but at the same time its members lack the emotional bonds with one another that is so often present amongst the members of Ryozanpaku. Its own top members admit that Yami is just a solution to keep its members from fighting and killing each other.
It should be noted that because Yami's operations are (currently) mostly in Japan and its members are mostly Japanese, the organization mostly goes by the name "Yami". However, Christopher Eclair has called it by the name "L'Obscurité", meaning "The Darkness" in French, and then stating that the organization's name was "'Yami' in this country", referring to Japan and indicating that the organization may be known by other names synonymous with "darkness" depending on the country of operations.
Its members seem to anticipate an event known as the Eternal Setting Sun, which seemingly intends to create a Third World War so that their skills will not "rot away in these times of peace". The ultimate goal is to create a world in a state of constant combat so the need for martial artists, specifically those willing to kill, will become essential and those martial artists will have an environment that suits their need for unrestricted combat and killing.
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Yami is divided into two main divisions. The first is the Unarmed Division which specializes in hand-to-hand combat and is headed by the One Shadow Nine Fists. The second is the Armed Division which specializes in Weapons and armed combat and is headed by the Hachiou Executioner Blade. There is also a Ballistics Division which specializes in military combat using high tech weapons.
There is also a sub-group called, YOMI, which is made up of disciples from the leading groups of each division. There are two YOMI groups, one for each major division. Most masters have one disciple, but some choose to have multiple disciples.
Most of the leading members of the former two divisions are at master-class, and each division operates in a different way to the other. The most powerful members of the former two divisions are separated from the rest of the division members by rank and power, and overall have formed a small fighting unit of their own which is independent of the rest of the divisions. Just two members of the One Shadow Nine Fists and one Hachiou Executioner Blade member can take over an Army Base and start a war. During the attempt to start the Eternal Setting Sun, Yami is dealt a crushing defeat. Six members of the One Shadow Nine Fists defect from Yami, Senzui, the leader of the Unarmed Division, perishes, and a majority of the armed division is defeated.
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Ragnarök Valkyrie | Thor | Hermit | Siegfried | Loki Three of Cards Other members Takdea | Ukita | Koga | Tsuji | Yami Leader Unarmed Division One Shadow Nine Fists Alexander Gaidar | Akira Hongō | Agaard Jum Sai | Cyril Rahman | Diego Carlo | Isshinsai Ogata | Mikumo Kushinada | Silkwat Jenezad | Sōgetsu Ma Armed Division Hachiou Executioner Blade Seitarō Raigō | Rin Tachibana | Mihai Știrbey | Mildred Lawrence | Marmaduke Brown | Raki Hoshinano | Edeltraft von Schiller | Unarmed Division Armed Division | ||
