Zaria

Zaria
	; Zaria, as he appears in the anime.
Name in Kanji	ザリア
Name in Romaji	Zaria
Fighting Style	Nanto Anshō Ken
Allegiance(s)	Shin
Position(s)	Member of KING
Appearances	Anime (ep. 15)
Voice actor(s)	Katsuji Mori; Milton James (dub)

Zaria (ザリア): Appearing in the TV Series, Zaria is a servant of KING who wears a large wig and glasses. He rules over a village from a cathedral with his Nanto Anshō Ken, using its bell to perform mass hypnosis on the villagers at night and turn them into mindless zombies. He possesses one of the villagers, Karen, and uses her to help kidnap Lin to use as leverage against Kenshiro.; Kenshiro ventures into Zaria's lair to rescue Lin, destroying his minions in the process. However, Zaria blackmails Kenshiro with the possessed Lin's life and hypnotizes him. Zaria resurrects his fallen minions, but before they can kill Kenshiro, Lin's cries manage to break the spell. Kenshiro takes out Zaria's hands and kicks him through the ceiling where he's crucified on the steeple and struck to death by lightning, which also destroys the cathedral while he crumbles to dust. After his death, the villagers return to their senses and the village is freed from his curse.

Appearance

He is a bald, gaunt looking older man who has prominent cheekbones, slightly pointed ears, pointy fingernails, and a large chin. He wears a pair of glasses with round lenses that cover up his bloodshot eyes, a red afro-like wig, a purple suit, a teal cape over a pair of red shoulder pads, a pair of fingerless gloves, and a pair of dress shoes.

Personality

Like many villains in Fist of The North Star, he is a sadistic, cruel, and power-hungry tyrant, as he took over a village and ruled it from a nearby cathedral, and hypnotized the innocent inhabitants to be his personal army. He is implied to be self conscious about his appearance, given that he covers up his baldness and his frightening-looking eyes with a wig and a pair of glasses respectively.

Trivia

The appearance of his wig might be inspired by the appearance of the titular antagonist in the 1992 film adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and his outfit, which consists of a fancy suit and a cape, and his ability to hypnotize others might make him a reference to vampires in general, given that those are two typical traits that vampires have.

Gallery

Zaria without wig.
Zaria's minions