Taro Oshisou

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Taro Oshisou (多思想　太郎 Ooshisou Tarou), original name Taro Komaeda (小前田　太郎 Komaeda Tarou) is the Stage 2 Midboss and Boss of Adamantine Memory Blade. He also appears as the recurring Extra Stage Midboss of all SeitenTouji games.

General Information

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Personality

Taro is an enigmatic person who seems overly excited about everything yet delves into the darkest of thought experiments. He seeks power of the occult and arcane sorts, yet seems to simply pick up pieces of machinery with complete disregard to anything else.

Abilities

Taro has no special abilities, though he can project his thoughts into a semitangible state.

Taro's attack style involves turning various though experiments into a semitangible form. He tends to either attack directly or sit back and have 'familiars' do the work for him. Many of his attacks can be approached in multiple ways.

Occupation

As of the ending of Adamantine Memory Blade, he is still wandering around. Or is he actually stalking Teiki and co? Who knows? Either way, it seems that he's taken up an interest in their adventures...

Taro has also come to operate a rudimentary telecommunications system, which later grows into a proper fiberoptic system carrying an actual preliminary Internet for Daiten Daichi.

Backstory

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Born Taro Komaeda, he was an ordinary kid in an ordinary family. It is unknown how he died, but it seems that he was responsible for the pillaging of a number of classmates...

After reincarnation, he stayed away from society (or rather, what little society exists in Daiten Daichi), drawn to power.

Character Design

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Origin

Taro was created along with the other non-robot cast members for stages 1-5. Later on, when his initial spell and attack concepts were developed, it was decided that he would have a few screws loose somewhere. Much later, on May 24, 2015, his name was changed to match this and to avoid insulting real life people with the same name - he was initially planned to be an overly generic, relatable type of person.

Name

His self-given last name, Oshisou, refers to thought and his ability to express thought experiments as danmaku.

Design

Taro has short black hair with a blue tinge, and boasts a leanish build. In AMB, he appears with a shirt depicting the Trolley Problem as well as pants depicting a PVC (permanent virtual circuit) and shoes whose color scheme usually tends to invoke a memory of a bad shopping experience. Overall, he stands out and looks really horrible, partly due to Sparen's terrible color combination abilities.

Taro's Appearances

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SeitenTouji 1 - Adamantine Memory Blade

Taro is the Stage 2 Midboss and Boss of Adamantine Memory Blade, as well as the Extra Stage Midboss. When he first meets Teiki, he explains a little bit about Daiten Daichi. In the Extra Stage, he goes stabbity stab stab and tears Teiki's soul out of his body for a little bit. Fun!

Relationships

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Teiki Tetsurou

Taro maintains a professional relationship with Teiki, as Taro provides telecommunications, information, and job requests. However, Taro's rather blunt and occasionally painful methods ensure that Teiki remains wary of Taro.

Koro Sanjou

Taro is acquaintances with Koro, mainly due to proximity. Given that Koro is rapidly becoming a Divine Soul and that Taro communicates with Souls on a daily basis, they find each other interesting.

Other Relationships

Taro comes off as friendly and a little bloodthirsty at first, but it typically goes downhill from there. People tend to avoid him unless they know him well enough.

ExAttacks

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ExAttack Name	Japanese Name	Comments	Games	Spell ID
Imagination 「Imaginary Friend」			AMB	AMB: 012-015
Thought Experiment 「Survival Lottery」			AMB	AMB: 016-019
Impulse Sigil 「Neuronic Circuit」			AMB	AMB: 020-021
Demonic Impulse 「Bloody Circuit」			AMB	AMB: 022-023
Impulse Sigil 「Pulvinar of Repulse -Within-」			AMB	AMB: 024-025
Impulse Sigil 「Pulvinar of Repulse -External-」			AMB	AMB: 026-027
Soul Sigil 「Double Edged Sword」			AMB	AMB: 120
Figments of the Imagination 「Mirrored Phantasmagoric Barrage」			AMB	AMB: 121
Thought Experiment 「Avicenna's Floating Man」			AMB	AMB: 122
Murderous Impulse Sigil 「Pulvinar of Repulse -Slaughter-」		AMB: Overdrive	AMB	AMB: 134
Thought Sigil 「Philosopher's Newfound Trauma」		AMB: Last Word	AMB	AMB: 142

Additional Information

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Taro was designed by Sparen

Music Themes

Adamantine Memory Blade
---Thought Amalgam ~ Unknown Hypothesis