Fusataro Fussa

Name	Fusataro Fussa
First Appearance	Chapter 12
Species	Human
Age	39
Birthday	N/A
Dôji	Rage
Affiliation	Evil
Team	The Evil Dôji Branch

Fusataro Fussa (福生 フサ太郎 Fussa Fusatarou) is a 39-year old music producer and the master of Rage. His role in the One Hundred Machine Funeral and association with Vice allows him to travels through space-time, and age to 42 within the series, though only for a brief time.

Appearance

Fussa is a tall man with a dark hair styled in an afro and has a beard. He wears an oxford shirt with the collar push up, with a light-colored sweater tied over it in a preppy style, dark pants, and oxford shoes. In all of his appearances, he wears sunglasses, even when it is nighttime. In his first appearance, he is seen with a cigarette.

In Part III, while living in 1947, Fussa appears with a light-colored military uniform with dark-colored boots, stating it to be "MacArthur style", and has a pipe instead of a cigarette.

For his ICON suit, Fussa's suit is a short one-piece, sleeveless jumpsuit with a one-shoulder strap, a pteruges-style skirt that are studded around his waist, and wears pads around his ankles, one on his left thigh, and two on his arms.

Gallery

Fussa wearing his military uniform.

Personality

Fussa appears to have a calm, joker-like personality, and has a habit of using 60s' style slang is his speech, such as saying "Holy Rock and Rolly" when shocked or surprised. However, underneath his facade, Fussa is shown to be very apathetic, fitting his position as an evil dôji master. Such examples would be when he calls Shin Ekoda an "idiot" after his fatal outburst at Mt. Fuji, and when he greeted Mizho and Paresse with a smile subsequently when they were about to kill a young man. With his interactions some the The Good Dôji Club members, Fussa seems to prefers to lie and smooth talk his enemies into false security so he can manipulate them, though his tactics mostly ends up failing.

Unlike most of The Evil Dôji Branch, Fussa shown to have some honor as when he was fighting Musashi Murayama, he refused to kill him, following the One Hundred Machine Funeral's rules and stating he won't attack someone that's helpless. Also, good dôji Service points out that Fussa actually cares about his comrades and willing to help if they need it.

In his younger years, Fussa claimed that he was passionate about music and believed in hard work and justice, but after the company that helped produced his band started to pressure him, he started to lose his ethics following the producers example that money and a good front are all that matters in being successful. He also claims that he was a fan of Shōnen Jump.

Biography

The 21st Century

Fussa (middle) with his band "Afrodite".

Fussa was once a musician and was the lead vocalist of a band called "Afrodite", which played the theme song for an anime called "Saint Satoru". However, the company that helped produce his music started to pressure him through some unknown, but sleazy methods. Eventually, this caused him break down to their level, become more concerned about image and money. Soon, Fussa and his band was disbanded and fade into obscurity.

In later years, Fussa became a music producer at Sony Music, but his bitterness and anger over his past attracted his Karakuri Dôji, Rage, to him. To spite the people in the company who pressured him, Fussa uses Rage as his top musician as well many other shallow artists as way to prove to the world that no one cared about talent anymore.

Part I

Fussa and Rage ambush and fatally injured Shin Ekoda and God Regla

Having been called in by K, Fussa first appeared along with the other members of The Evil Dôji Branch in the forest near Mt. Fuji for the One Hundred Machine Funeral. Ambushing the good dôji masters, Fussa and Rage intercepted Shin Ekoda and Regla in their ICON mode to prevent him from reaching Vice and K. After fatally stabbing God Regla through the abdomen, Fussa and Rage detransformed to introduced themselves to his enemies, with Fussa boasting Rage's electrical speed as the latter clutched Regla's spirit sphere in his hand. Annoyed by their appearance, Vice questioned why they were here since he previously told them not to come, but K explained that he was the one the called other Evil Dôji Branch members. After K gave a speech about how the evil dôji and masters are going became the "gods of a new world" after the One Hundred Machine Funeral, Fussa watched nonchalantly as his allies kill the rest of their enemies after Rage delivered the first kill by crushing Regla's spirited sphere.

Despite nearly winning, the Evil Dôji Branch's victory was halted by Yamato Agari using the remaining energy in God Ultimo to manipulated Space-Time, rewinding time to the day before. As a result, Fussa, his allies, and everyone else lost their memories of the events, with the expectation of Yamato and Musashi Murayama due to God Regla's abilities.

Part III

After Yamato reset time, Fussa and Rage go to Sparrow Place for an evening meeting of The Evil Doji Branch. They arrived in time to find Paresse was about to kill a young man and stopped him before he could. While he playfully remarked on Mizho's attitude, the latter was upset at Fussa and Rage for interrupting, and snapped at Fussa for he flirting with her, prompting Fussa to back off rather quickly. As Fussa questioned what Mizho planned to do with trio of bystanders, the other members arrived and bickered among themselves. Their banter were cut short when Vice made his presence known, making Fussa cowered in fear, and quickly kill off the bystanders. As Vice began the meeting, Roger Dunstan and his Karakuri Dôji Milieu appeared before them, causing Fussa panicked in his presence. Dunstan mentioned that he knew that Vice and other members were planning to defeat him, which made the rest more nervous about their situation. Fussa listen to Dunstan explained the "rules" for the One Hundred Machine Funeral and expressed his displeasured at the constrictions. The Evil Dôji Branch felt they were at a disadvantage, but Rune Kodaira pointed out they can keep defeating their enemies until they break their spirits. However, Vice expressed his distaste of these conditions and declared that he or the others didn't have to follow Dunstan's rules.

After Vice challenged Dunstan to an ICON fight, Fussa and the others witnessed Dunstan's overwhelming might as he easily defeated their leaders. Upon God Ultimo's arrival at the apartment, Fussa expressed great shock at their sudden appearance and watched on the The Good Dôji Club fail to fight off Dunstan. With everyone in attendance, Dunstan explained the rules for the One Hundred Machine Funeral and reminded everyone that he was watching them before disappearing. Afterwards, Rune mentioned to Yamato that the entire Evil Dôji Branch agreed to go about their lives and watch over how things will go during the year-long Hundred Machine Funeral, Fussa included.

By the next day, Fussa and Rage received orders from Vice to draw out an opponent, with the former choosing to target Musashi Murayama and Sophia. Arriving to Eco Sushi alone, Fussa casually showed up in front of Musashi, who nearly pulled out his ray gun in defense. After assuring Musashi that he wasn't there to harm him, Fussa claimed to have no interest in the One Hundred Machine Funeral, and offered to strike a deal for information on future in exchange intel about the Evil Dôji Branch. However, Musashi was hostile and refused to listen to Fussa, so the latter suggested that Musashi meet him at his office later, enticing Musashi with the lie of helping him understand the message the recently deceased Eco left for him before leaving.

By nightfall, Fussa welcomed Musashi and Sophia to his studio, who bluntly stated that they were there to fight and had no interest in making any deals. Bemused, Fussa quipped on Musashi's boldness, though an aggressive Rage demanded that skip the chatter and start fighting. Fussa reminded his Karakuri Dôji that they could kill them, but that will be against the rules and the company's head will be angry if Rage got hurt since he was their most successful artist. Noticing Fussa's album of Rage around the office, Muasahi commented about how "shameless" he was for using Rage as musician, but Fussa said that all he cared about was money. Whipping out a CD of Fussa's old band, Musashi brought up his past an inspiring musician before getting corrupted and was determined to bring the good out in Fussa. Enraged by his past being brought up, Fussa countered that he will turn Musashi to the evil side and claim Sophia. With the fight on, Fussa and Rage transformed into ICON mode and blast the good duo outside, destroying his studio in the process and likely a few subsequent other floors as well. Despite having the speed advantage, Demon Rage was unable to land a solid hit on God Sophia due to Musashi using Sophia's Noh on himself to heighten his senses to read their movement and dodged accordingly and the two ICONs were quickly locked in a stalemate. Wanting to end the fight quickly, God Sophia purposely let Demon Rage stabbed them to draw him in close to attack, but the internally broken Sophia suddenly shut down and Musashi unable to move. Vice, who was watching the fight with Jealous, ordered Fussa to kill Musashi off, but he refused to attack on an defenseless enemy. Annoyed by Fussa talking back to him, Vice furiously sent Fussa and Rage flying away with a powerful kick as punishment while an exasperated Jealous looked on.

Once Vice's achieved his second form and stole Ultimo's Time-Space Noh, Vice transported Fussa and rest of The Evil Dôji Branch via time-travel to 1944 of Japan. They lived and trained for three years in the Japanese army as they wait for The Good Dôji Club to arrived. Once Yamato and his friends arrived in 1947, the Evil Dôji Branch soon accepted Makoto Sayama as a new ally, who was secretly Dunstan's daughter and has betrayed Yamato in favor joining the former to defeat her father. Having heard of Hana Koganei and Edile's earlier defeat, Fussa and Rage went out to find Yamato and Ultimo to get payback. They find Yamato and Ultimo rushing to go find Sayama, the latter having just learned the girl was Dunstan's daughter, and intercepted them. Although Yamato wished to deal with them later, Fussa stopped the teen by asking Yamato if he still really trusted her. Fussa tells Yamato to forget Sayama as she can't be trusted, stating all women were "liars. When Yamato tried punched Fussa in retaliation for insulting his crush, Rage harmlessly blocked his fists from harming his master. Unfazed by Yamato's aggressive attitude and open distrust, Fussa offered to join his side, claiming to only care about his personal interests. While Yamato pondered over Fussa's proposal, Fussa inwardly reflected over his past and his anger towards music industry, considering it to be full over shallow clichés and is more focus on money than actual musical expression. Fussa planned to manipulate Yamato and use all the Karakuri Dôji to further his own career in a form of "revenge".

When Yamato demanded that they fight to decide who joins the opposing side, Fussa eagerly accepted, but he added the condition of not using ICONs. As the battle begin, Ultimo recognized that Rage was physically stronger than him, but was forbidden from using his Noh as Yamato deemed it unfair. Once Rage strike down Ultimo by using electric Noh and then attacked Yamato directly. Although Fussa nonchalantly reminds Rage that attacking masters are against the rules, he didn't stop Rage from attempting to kill Yamato. However, the duo was stopped by Rune Kodaira and Jealous, who was spying on them nearby and wanted to bring Yamato to Vice. As Fussa and Rage warily backed off, they watched as Rune hurt and demeaned Yamato, to the point off cutting the teen's arm off. However, Yamato came to have an epiphany, which allowed him to heal Ultimo's wounds, and Yoichi Oizumi and Service appeared behind Fussa to reattached Yamato's arm.

While Rune and Yamato begin an ICON battle, Fussa noticed that Yamato was much stronger than Rune since he has acrhieved Level 2 of his ICON and attempted to help his ally. However, Fussa and Rage Yoichi and Service blocked their way, with Service pointing out Fussa's caring nature towards his comrades and Yoichi emphasized with Fussa's rage was because "his love for music" and the injustice he felt in his past. After Yoichi vowed to turn Fussa and Rage to their side, the two pairs then transformed into their ICONs and engaged in combat. However, their fight was halted by Dunstan's arrival who was pleased how everything was going and proclaimed to everyone that the One Hundred Machine Funeral was almost over. Fussa watched as Yamato and Yoichi tried to fight Dunstan and failed stop him from taking Sayama to The 30th Century. Upon seeing Yoichi getting injured, Fussa expressed concern over him and later accompanied Yamato and others back to their hideout after both sides decided to retreat. Due to his concern towards Yoichi, Musashi stated that Fussa and Rage was on their side now, but Fussa weakly denied allying with them and only came with them because he only wanted to make sure Yoishi was okay.

Later, once Yamato and others managed to beat Vice into submission and make him an ally, both sides focus on training for their impending battle with Dunstan. Once they were ready, the masters and their Karakuri Dôji headed to Dunstan's tower in the 30th Century. During a group discussion, Fussa openly questioned whether Sayama will really side with them or with her father, but Hibari Oume assured that Yamato foresaw the right course that guarantee Sayama will be on their side. During the raid of Dunstan's tower, Fussa and the rest of the Evil Dôji Branch attacked Dunstan and Milieu to buy time for The Good Dôji Club save Sayama and synchronize Ultimo and Vice's spirit spheres to form Ideos Ultimo - a form symbolizing of the unity between good and evil.

Pleased by how both sides' realization of the nature of good and evil, Dunstan praised them for their efforts and revealed the real reason of his experiment was to save the future from its destruction. Dunstan then forcefully dispelled everyone from their ICON and immobilize the dôjis, leading all the masters to free fall in the air. Dunstan proclaimed everyone that his experiment isn't over and turned back time, but he allowed Fussa and the others masters to keep their memories and transformed the dôjis into humans. Choosing to stay together with Rage, a reformed Fussa took up his passion for music again and formed a band with Rage, Mizho and Paresse named "West Tokyo Incidents".

Relationships

Rage

Fussa has been the master of Rage throughout all the eras in which the series occurs. The dôji and master seem to get along very well, but Fussa is shown to be nervous around Rage when he gets angry. Fussa isn't above exploiting Rage's abilities to gain money and fame for his music company. At the end of the series, after Dunstan turns Rage into a human, Fussa and Rage choose to continue to live together and start a band "West Tokyo Incidents" with Mizho and Paresse.

Trivia

• Fussa shares a resemblance to Boring from Hiroyuki Takei's other manga work, Jumbor.