CHARACTER PROFILE
Shohei Tsuchiyama
- Primary work
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: Short Story Collection
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Shohei Tsuchiyama (土山 章平, Tsuchiyama Shōhei) is a primary antagonist of the short story " Symmetry Room," part of the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: Short Story Collection.
He is a well-known architect that became famous through an unusual obsession with symmetry.
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01Basic information
02Appearance
Shohei Tsuchiyama is described to be an adult man that embodies symmetry in an uncanny way. He's dressed in a professor-like outfit. He also wears a watch on both arms, one of which is inverted. He was completely reshaped to be as perfectly symmetric as possible through plastic surgery. His muscle mass and injuries uphold the same symmetric principle.↗↗
According to Rohan, he resembles a robot or a low-poly model more than a human being.↗
03Personality
Shohei is an architectural genius that obtained a fascination with symmetry to the point of obsession, falling in love with symmetry washed away all of his previous values. He's a thorough sort of man, he dedicates his work to recreating the perfect symmetry he saw years prior. His thorough personality reaches the point of altering his very appearance as a fanatic sort of tribute. His dedicated efforts led to fame and status. His obsessive personality irritates Rohan.↗↗
Very little tends to faze Shohei, but if his absolute desire for symmetry is opposed or if someone makes him "unbalanced", it's enough for him to snap.↗↗
04Story
SPOILERS
Background
A few years ago, Shohei Tsuchiyama explores Greece. He finds what he believes to be a temple. He came to recognize symmetry as an absolute beauty, and he has gained his current fame and status with his "symmetrical construction method" that reproduces the art of the Greek building he saw.↗
At some point, Shohei becomes reliant on the Sakanoue Tax Accounting Office. By chance, he calls the office during a meeting between Rohan and his tax advisor, Seiko Sakanoue, abruptly halting their conversation.↗↗
One day, Shohei is contacted to help construct for the new school building: Morioh University of Information and Communication Technology. The president proceeds to cut corners with his orders, the planned construction goes against the architect's "wonders of symmetry", angering Shohei due to a presumed lack of competence from the president. He then leads the president to a multipurpose hall on the 5th floor of the new school building to show the construction considered to be his masterpiece.↗↗
Symmetry Room
Curious about the president's death, Rohan Kishibe arrives to the school building. Shohei meets him and initiates a chat which leads to Rohan disagreeing with his philosophical obsession with symmetry. Tsuchiyama leads Rohan to his masterpiece then traps him on the 5th floor as a mysterious black hand appears to stop the asymmetrical manga artist. The encounter nearly ends fatally until Rohan finds a way to escape using the symmetrical coding language he learned.↗↗↗
Shohei later returns, Rohan uses Heaven's Door to remove his devotional love of symmetry. The architect is reported by Toru Karasawa to have fallen into a slump, eventually being arrested for setting fire to the school building he designed.↗↗↗
05Plot details
SPOILERS
Appearance
His hair is parted dead center; his jacket, sweater, piercings, and even his eyebrows, moles, and fingernails are all meticulously mirrored on both sides.↗↗
Personality
His rage is potent enough that he's willing to lure victims to get them killed by a demon.↗↗
Profile details
Status: Retired (TSKR)↗
06Sources & attribution
- Shohei Tsuchiyama
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