Denji

A pale-skinned teenage boy, Denji keeps his blond hair in a messy tangle. His eyes are a yellow-brown shade, and his teeth taper to sharp, jagged points. For clothing he favors a white shirt whose sleeves are shoved up, plus a necktie and slacks.

His libido rules him almost entirely, leaving him ready to plunge into peril whenever a pretty or cute woman is somehow part of the picture. A charming female can bend him to her will with a single request. Fighting in his Hybrid form, he tends to get caught up in the rush and lose sight of his objective. Once he committed to facing the Typhoon Human, his thoughts wandered to pitching Beam a get-rich scheme: a shark-meat sushi joint built on the flying sharks the storm flung about.

When the Typhoon Human surfaces over the waters off Japan, Denji and his partner Beam are ordered to destroy it, mistaking the storm for the Typhoon Devil. Beam shifts into his shark shape to ride the violent updrafts while Denji, in Hybrid form, anchors himself to his partner with chains. He wants the storm gone mainly because it threatens his shot at the hotel's racy late-night channel. A shark comes flying at them on the gale; warned by Beam, Denji whips a chainsaw from his arm and cleaves it in half, which sparks his pitch for a shark-sushi empire. Beam spots a passing airplane and wonders about helping its passengers.

Denji is set on heading home to ogle the women on TV until he glimpses Bamora through a window and, smitten, orders Beam straight at the Typhoon Human. The creature spews sharks from its nostrils; Beam weaves clear as Denji clings on, then hurls himself in to slice off its mouth and nose. The triumph is brief, for the monster heals at once and fires two sharks that knock the pair into the sea. They struggle ashore, Denji drained of blood and Beam hobbled by cramps, until a shout warns them out of the water ahead of the storm. Realizing the caller is a good-looking lifeguard rushing over, Denji obeys without a moment's pause.