Takeru Kiohzan

The Brawler of the Sumo Ring

20

July 28

6'4

351 lbs

Magatanien

Sumo wrestler, underground fighter

Sumo

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2

Shinobu Ko'ozan & Ken Ryuozan (brothers), Ko'ozan's wife and son (sister-in-law and nephew)

Kiohzan, befitting of a sumo wrestler, is an extremely bulky, heavy-set individual with an angular face, thin arrogant eyes, short black eyebrows and black hair set into a traditional ponytail with a single strand of hair falling over the left side of his face. Unlike many of his peers and sumo wrestlers in real life, Takeru's muscles are very prominent, even his abdominals, resembling more of a powerlifter or even a bodybuilder. Kiohzan typically has an intense or rather aggressive gaze. He also has multiple wrappings on his arms and elbows, though these seem to change or are simply not visible under his attire. Outside of battle, Kiozan wears a traditional kimono with one arm resting inside it. In battle, he wears a traditional mawashi.

Kiohzan is a notably arrogant individual who supposedly takes great pride in his style of 'ancient' sumo, considering modern sumo to be a failure. As a man who seeks to fight the strongest and prove his way of sumo is the best, he is easily annoyed and angered when he feels like his pride has been disrespected. After being defeated by pro wrestler, Jun Sekibayashi in the Kengan Annihilation Tournament, Takeru appeared to have become a lot more respectful to his martial art, now taking modern sumo seriously again.

Kiohzan, a younger brother to distinguished yokozunas over time had his faith in sumo as a martial art diminish, stricken with the belief that with the sumo wrestler's strong body, that restricting such a body to only simple slaps was foolish. In response, he began integrating other strikes into his style and dubbing it "ancient sumo" much to the chagrin of his older brothers who believe Takeru's style to be blasphemous to sumo. At some point prior to the tournament, Kiozan annihilated the members of the Manly Kickboxing Gym before easily dispatching its boss, Haruki Haga, a GO-1 Grand Prix heavyweight champion.

Takeru is an extremely physically powerful professional sumo wrestler. His muscular strength is immense, with his legs being particularly strong, due to being trained from dawn till dusk, 365 days a year. As a result of his incredible leg strength, Kiozan is deceptively fast despite his rather large and heavy build, being able to knock out a champion kickboxer before the man even had time to react.

is a variant of the ramming charge, which involves Kiohzan going into the traditional sumo squatting position and then lowering it even further, so his center of gravity is as low as possible, before charging at his opponent at nigh-untraceable speeds to the point where even Kazuo's Fist Eye couldn't follow him. The technique is only possible due to Kiohzan's particularly powerful legs (even by a sumo's standards of Makuuchi, who can run 100m in 13 seconds with a body of 150kg), with the charging strike being twice as fast and four times as powerful as normal. The technique has an offensive range of 4.55 meters and, while it limits him to forward motion, his speed in this range exceeds that of even Gozo Murobuchi. Despite its great power, this technique puts strong internal pressure and strain on Kiohzan's legs, making him unable to stand up after using it.

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