Jagi

Jagi
	; Jagi as he appears in the manga.
Name in Kanji	ジャギ
Name in Romaji	n/a
Alternate spelling(s)	none
Fighting Style	Hokuto Shin Ken, Nanto Sei Ken
Allegiance(s)	Raoh
Family	Raoh (adoptive older brother); Toki (adoptive older brother); Kenshirō (adoptive younger brother); Ryuken (adoptive father/sifu)
Position(s)	The Third of the Four Brothers of Hokuto (北斗四兄弟の三兄)
Appearances	Manga (ch. 38-44), Anime (ep. 29-32), Legends of the True Savior series, Jagi Gaiden and more.
Voice actor(s)	Kōji Totani; Chikao Ōtsuka (1986 movie) ; David Itō (Legends of the True Savior);

The second-youngest of the four Hokuto brothers, Jagi (ジャギ) was looked down on for his underhand tactics, which dictated victory at any cost, such as relying on a shotgun or spitting needles. His desire to cheat was only rivalled by his contempt for Kenshirō, his younger adoptive brother. Jagi believed that younger siblings must respect their elders and that it would be unforgivable for a younger brother to surpass him.

Hearing the news that Kenshirō was named successor, an outraged Jagi confronted him and ordered him to step down. Failing that, Jagi tried to kill him but was defeated, only to be spared at the last moment. Escaping with a disfigured head, Jagi had to use metal implants to relieve the swelling and adopted a helmet to hide his now hideous face. He exacted his revenge by manipulating Shin of the Nanto Sei Ken into defeating Kenshirō and kidnapping his fiancée Yuria. Shin had always loved Yuria from afar, and Jagi convinced him that Kenshirō wasn't worthy of protecting her in the violent wasteland.

Jagi became a ruthless gang-leader, and lived only to hate his younger brother. His wounded pride and disfigured appearance also made him violently paranoid and even caused him to murder his own minions. He attempted to defame Kenshirō by impersonating him, intentionally scarring himself to replicate the seven scars on his chest. He terrorized villages in Kenshirō's name, killed Rei's parents and kidnapped his younger sister Airi, selling her into a life of slavery. Kenshirō finally caught up with Jagi, who was outmatched and outfought. He even tried his own style of Nanto Seiken, which Kenshirō remarked was 'slow' and an insult to Shin's style. Kenshirō insisted that an ugly death befitted Jagi, before obliterating him once and for all. However, before dying, Jagi revealed to Kenshiro that both Raoh and Toki were still alive, and this started Kenshiro's quest to find his brothers and end the battle for the succession of Hokuto Shinken.

After his death, Jagi is usually unaccounted for in the manga when the Hokuto Brothers are mentioned.

The Jagi Gaiden manga expands Jagi's past history beyond what is shown in the original anime and manga, and does much to explain both his relationship with Ryuken and the Hokuto brothers and the events that led to him turning into a villain. When Jagi was an infant, his parents died in a fire from which Ryuken managed to save him, and Ryuken adopted Jagi as a son. Afterwards, Ryuken eventually adopted Raoh, Toki and Kenshiro, and Jagi was jealous of them for being taught Hokuto Shinken while he, Ryuken's son, was not. Ryuken eventually relented and announced to Jagi that he was not his son anymore, but just a student like the other three, and Jagi accepted. Jagi, however, was not as naturally gifted as Raoh and Toki, and this fed an inferiority complex in him, which Jagi took out on Kenshiro by tormenting him whenever possible. Jagi was also too headstrong and would escape the temple at times against Ryuken's orders, eventually joining a motorcycle gang. The gang's leader was impressed by Jagi's passion, and Jagi befriended the leader's sister, Anna, and developed romantic feelings for her. However, Jagi remained behind Raoh and Toki in terms of skill in Hokuto Shinken, and his hatred of them and Kenshiro made him leave the temple permanently.

Eventually, Anna was kidnapped by a rival motorcycle gang, and was raped and murdered by them. This drove Jagi into despair, and he attacked the rival motorcycle gang, breaking the iron-clad rule of using Hokuto Shinken unless chosen successor. The members of the gang, frightened and amazed by Hokuto Shinken's power, vowed allegiance to Jagi, but Jagi was suicidal with grief, and any pleasures he sought as leader of his own gang did not fulfill him. In suicidal despair, Jagi resorted to self-mutilation to escape reality, but then his henchmen informed him of something that led him from despair to rage: Kenshiro was chosen as the successor of Hokuto Shinken. Mad with anger, Jagi attacked Ryuken's temple and confronted him, but as he was going to attack him, Kenshiro stopped Jagi and disfigured him, but spared his life. This was the defining moment that led to Jagi dedicating his entire life to destroying Kenshiro, and from then on every one of his action's was with the intent of making Kenshiro suffer.

Trivia

Jagi's mask is believed to have been inspired by the manga Sukeban Deka and its TV series, Sukeban Deka II: Shōjo Tekkamen Densetsu.

His "What's my name?" line is attributed to Muhammad Ali, who shouted this to Ernie Terrell.
In Hokuto Musou, Jagi appears to have become more overconfident than he is depicted as in the anime/manga. When the player selects him in Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage, he laughs and then says, "Say my name, bitches!"
Kenshiro preforming four series of attacks on Jagi could be compared to Son Goku's attacks against Nappa in Dragon Ball Z. Kenshiro does an attack each for Shin, Yuria, the two brothers he recently met and his own rage. Son Goku does an attack for each of his deceased friends; Yamcha, Piccolo, Tenshinhan/Tien Shinhan and Chaozu/Chiaotzu.