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| “ | Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. | „ |
| ~ Yozo about feeling like he can't relate to humans, seeing himself as anything but human. Also his most famous quote. |
| “ | I...I...I am a clown! I'm a clown. I lived a lie. Mine has been full of lies!! I played the clown all this time, it was to deceive others. As a result, I brought unfathomable misfortune to those around me. My lies drove my classmate Takeichi to suicide, I destroyed my relatives, those sisters!! The older killed by the younger......and I created an accursed child with the younger! I planned a suicide with the unfortunate cafe waitress, and I left her alone to die!! Deceived the innocent tobacco shop girl who knew no doubt...and I turned her into a paranoid wreck, jumping at shadows, pushing her to a death in madness. And the woman at the pharmacy! She was utterly blameless. I turned her into a pitch-black charred corpse!! They're all victims of my own clowning, I can not be forgiven for this. | „ |
| ~ Yozo expressing extreme guilt and admitting his clowning was all a fake and got people who loved him killed. |
Yozo Oba or Oba Yozo is the main protagonist of the No Longer Human adaptation made by Junji Ito which was originally written by Osamu Dazai. Yozo is a man who is incapable of relating to other people, he has anxiety about humans holding a strong resentment towards them. As he got older he was unable to overcome his feelings of alienation and trauma, leading him down a path of self-destruction.
While not a villain in the original Literature, he acts more malevolent than in the original with his antics getting several people killed in the process.
Appearance[]
Yozo is a tall middle aged man who has brown hair, he is shown to have good looks which makes ladies attracted to him as well as his melancholy. He is often seen wearing a green kimeno with a black shirt underneath.
Personality[]
As a kid Yozo didn't understand human beings, not seeing why in the one moment they could be nice in the next without warning could harm you. Or why they needed to eat as he never once felt hungry seeing eating as a ritual of sorts, he came to a conclusion that all human beings are selfish, vile creatures who only care about there own needs. He would adopt a clown persona to hide his true feelings from everyone else.
Making people laugh with his antics he felt like it would keep the humans at bay and please them if only for a while, he used this as escapism to forget about his trauma about being molested as a child. As he got older he would use alcohol and drugs to cope with his anxiety.
He would later end up expressing guilt for his actions of getting people hurt, saying that he did it on purpose, and how much of a clown he isn't. By the spirits of his victims who were torturing him mentally, from that point on his life wouldn't get much better with him wasting away as the days pass.
Biography[]
Past[]
During Yozo's childhood he didn't understand the concepts that humans had, he felt immense fear of them which lead to anxiety. During breakfast, lunch, or diner he didn't feel hungry at all seeing no purpose in eating, he would put on his clown persona to appease humans at his home and school. He would often get molested by some of the members of his family which Yozo described as one of the worst things a human can do to another human this lead to him developing trauma.
At school there was this unpopular, ugly classmate Yozo had named Takeichi. Takeichi was dumb, slow-witted, and not very bright. One day while in gym class Yozo failed a jump on purpose with Takeichi noticing he did it on purpose seeing right through his facade, Yozo to stop Takeichi from exposing his secret decides to befriend him to be with him 24/7.
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Trivia[]
- Yozo is essentially a stand-in for Dazai, surprisingly Dazai makes a full appearance at the end of the Junji Ito manga saying that Dazai's life is similar to Yozo's own live, with Osamu written No Longer Human as a novel about Yozo's whole life.
- Readers have diagnosed that his psychology contains elements of depression, dissociation, anxiety, and possibly autism. A modern analyst by the name of Naoko Miyaji, has proposed Dazai may have been suffering from complex post-traumatic stress disorder when he was written the novel.
- Yozo can be considered one of the most tragic villains of Junji Ito as well as Frankenstein's Monster, Chikara Kawabe, and Mr. Todoh.
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