![]() ![]() When he was 18, he was to be assassinated in his sleep by his sensei, Mariya Enshirou, at Kariya Kagetoki's insistence. He wears glasses but Fuu states that they are "fake", indicating Jin wears them as an accessory rather than actually needing them. His kamon closely resembles that of the great Takeda Clan, leading to speculation that his family origins may be of nobility. He wears traditional hakama and gi in indigo blue patterned with a white diamond kamon made up of four small white diamonds. His swords have a lightning and twin-eyed design on the tsuba. Unlike Mugen, it is legal for him to carry a daisho, as he is of the samurai class. Jin is a 20-year-old man who wields a Katana, Wakizashi and spent the majority of his life training in kenjutsu dojos. However in the English version of the game for PS2, he is played by Liam O'Brien. version is Steven Blum, credited as Daniel Andrews to circumvent union regulations. Mugen also has a tendency to parry attacks with the steel base of his geta. His main weapon appears to be an amalgamation of the okinawan sai and Japanese katana. ![]() He carries two blades, his principal weapon a unique sword with a curved blade and a hilt with two prongs sheathed across his back and the other a small tantō concealed at the end of his scabbard (only resorted to as a trump card). Highly unorthodox swordplay and a fighting style based on breakdancing - dubbed "champuru kendo" (Champloo Kendo in English) and ostensibly developed by himself - taking bits and pieces from all forms of martial arts and making up the rest as he fights his opponents, make him a force to be reckoned with. I'm pretty sure that as far as the director's image went, he probably was thinking of someone like a 'rapper who acts like a bad guy.' But the way Mugen acts is relatively based on his core conviction." Character designer Kazuto Nakazawa stated in an interview: " When I was doing character design, the most difficult one was Mugen, as I expected. In several episodes it is made clear that Mugen is a womanizer. He is fond of fighting and has a tendency to pick fights for petty reasons. Rude, lewd, vulgar, and nihilistic, Mugen is somewhat of an antihero. ![]() ![]() The circumstances of his imprisonment are unclear at first, but it is later verified that he was to be executed for engaging in piracy. As for his parents, Mugen states that it has been a long time since he can remember what it is like to have parents in episode 20, "Elegy of Entrapment, Verse 1." The blue tattoos on his wrists and ankles indicate that he was once in prison. It also appears that he may be of Ainu origin, commenting that he grew up on the same music an Ainu fugitive was playing, though the Ainu man came from the far North, and Mugen came from the far south (ryukyuans are of same ethnic stock probably similar proto culture before Chinese influence on the Ryukyus). His Japanese is quite rough and "Yanki" and he is illiterate until later in the show. Incidentally, he writes his name using the infinity symbol (∞), a pun on his name, 'Mugen,' which is a homophone of the Japanese word for 'eternity'. His name means "dream, fantasy (夢幻), or infinite (無限). Mugen is a 19-year-old man and was born in a penal colony on the Ryukyu Islands, which in the Edo period was a separate kingdom with close ties to the Satsuma domain of Japan. ![]()
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