Amiba: Difference between revisions

|name_japanese=アミバ

|nameromaji=Amiba

|allegiance=[[Raoh]]

|voice=[[Takaya Hashi]]<br/>[[Kazuyuki Okitsu]] (''Ten no Haoh'')<br/> [[Tomokazu Seki]] (''Hokuto Musou'')<br/>[[Kirk Thornton]] (anime dub)

|appearances=Manga (ch. 45-51), Anime (ep. 33-36),  ''Rei Gaiden'', ''Toki Gaiden'' and others.

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: When Toki was imprisoned in [[Cassandra]] by [[Raoh]], Amiba took the opportunity to exact his revenge by impersonating Toki and destroying his reputation. He rearranged his appearance to model Toki, right down to the scar on his back, and began gathering martial artists and villagers under the guise of the legendary healer. He experimented on them with cruel "new vital point tests", and reported his findings to Raoh. Eventually, however, his village was visited by [[Kenshiro]], searching for his brothers after [[Jagi]] hinted that they were still alive.

: Initially, Amiba fooled Kenshiro into thinking that he really was Toki, with his precise use of Hokuto Shinken and the scar on his back supporting his claims. "Toki" taunted Kenshiro with his apparent change of heart, "explaining" that he had abandoned his peaceful ideals after seeing his village ravaged by bandits. He bragged that violence was the true path of his martial art, believing that Kenshiro would not be able to fight his beloved brother, only to be surprised when Kenshiro engaged him in battle nonetheless, having decided that "Toki" had fallen too far and hurt too many innocent people to continue living.

: Although Amiba was briefly overwhelmed by Kenshiro's skills, he seemingly defeated the Hokuto Shinken successor by striking a new power point that paralyzed his body. However, Amiba was exposed as a fraud by [[Rei]] (who trained with him during his Nanto Seiken days), and [[Kenshiro]] quickly overcame his paralysis, claiming that only the real Toki would have been able to truly immobilize him. Amiba called on his remaining minions to attack Kenshiro and his allies, but they refused to obey him (having followed him previously because they thought he was Toki). In desperation, Amiba used another of his newly-discovered vital points to power himself up, only for the technique to backfire and destroy his hands.

==Fighting style==

: Amiba was originally a student of ''Nanto Seiken'', but later dropped the style in order to become a master of ''Hokuto Shinken''. As a result of his gruesome vital point research, he was able to enhance the abilities of his minions - granting them inhuman speed and strength - and perform basic Hokuto techniques with enough precision to fool Kenshiro into thinking he was actually Toki. However, Amiba's abilities pale in comparison to a true master of ''Hokuto Shinken'', which he discovered quite painfully when Kenshiro got over his regret and dedicated himself to stopping "Toki" from hurting the innocent.

: During his studies, Amiba discovered several new vital points, including one that can paralyze a person and others that drastically increase the subject's muscle mass - however, the latter backfired and caused his hands to explode. It is unclear if this was due to Amiba's incomplete understanding of the points, or simply an error he made due to his increasing anger and desperation to defeat Kenshiro.

: In the manga spin-off ''[[Rei Gaiden]]'', it was revealed that Amiba studied ''[[Nanto Suichō Ken]]'' under the previous master, [[Rofu]]. During a flashback to their early years, Amiba conspires with [[Yuda |Yuda]] in a plot to assassinate Rei and become successor of the style.

==Character Rating==