Kōji Tanaka

Kōji Tanaka
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Information
Name	Kōji Tanaka
Kanji	田中 功次
Rōmaji	Tanaka Kōji
Status	Alive
Age	20-30
Gender	Male
Hair Color	Black
First Appearance	Chapter 1
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Kōji Tanaka (田中 功次, Tanaka Kōji) is the second Ajin discovered in Japan. He is a partner to Satō.

Appearance

Tanaka is a rather tall man, with a square chin and slightly broad shoulders. He has small, piercing eyes. He has long, slicked back black hair and is often seen wearing a black baseball cap with the letters UCB in them. In the manga, he frequently wears a black leather jacket and olive trousers. In the anime, his black leather jacket is replaced with a red and white jacket instead. He wears a navy shirt underneath. He also wears navy jeans and black shoes.

Personality

Tanaka shows a rather large resentment towards humanity after the daily torture and experiments he was subjected to during his capture. Other than this, he is rather impassive; not really getting frustrated or angry in many situations, and is completely unresponsive to bloodshed and gore.

However, he is shown to care about some people at times, such as the case when he warned two girls about an upcoming terrorist attack as well as helping a woman escape from Satō. He was even willing to protect someone from Satō after showing remorse for their previous actions claiming that he didn't believe that she deserved to die

History

As the second Ajin discovered in Japan, Tanaka was put into government custody. There, he became a living test subject for various Ajin experimentation by a secret medical facility not known to the public. 

After 10 years of being experimented upon, Tanaka is rescued by Sato and escapes the facility. It is assumed the two have been in correspondence since then in pro-Ajin movements across the country. 

Abilities And Powers

Tanaka has been shown to possess most of the abilities many Ajin possess, as well as some he gained through his capture.

• Immortality - Tanaka has been shown to have complete immortality, unable to die under any circumstance, including being completely crushed and shot point blank in the head.
• Paralysis Scream - While he has never been witnessed to use this, it can be assumed that he can paralyse others around him by screaming, as it is a basic trait amongst Ajin. As explained, by screaming, any person around him will be completely immobilized by a certain period of time, however this loses its effectiveness somewhat if the person is aware that the user is an Ajin, or has ear protection.
• Immense tolerance to pain - Due to his capture by the government and his daily torture, Tanaka has developed an extremely high pain tolerance.

IBM

Tanaka's ghost impaling Izumi Shimomura

Tanaka has been seen to use an ability possessed by many Ajin, the power to produce a strange invisible matter that can form into a Black Ghost, or IBM, as the government refers to them. Tanaka's ghost is fairly basic in its appearance, with a rounded, dome-like head, and a thin body that looks like it is composed of bandages. It has extremely sharp claws capable of cutting flesh, bone, and even other ghosts with ease (although Black Ghosts are unable to be destroyed by cutting blows), as well as sharp teeth that have not been incorporated in combat thus far. It is extremely limber, able to attach itself to walls and "bounce" between foes in combat with lethal effectiveness.

Trivia

• There is a running gag in the series on how he's bad at shooting, with Satō mentioning it several times.