Unji Zuma

Standing tall, Unji keeps his hair cropped short with the sides shaved and two yellow stripes running across, plus a bit of chin stubble. A piercing sits over his left eyebrow alongside stud earrings. His usual outfit layers a dark long-sleeve tee under a spotted collar shirt with dark belted pants, and he prefers geta sandals for footwear.

His look shifted constantly through his life. As a small child his head was already shaved and he dressed plainly; being orphaned left dark rings circling his eyes for years afterward. In adolescence he grew a swept-back, lightened undercut, lost his eyebrows, and picked up his piercings and a scar on his left chin. Juvenile detention reset his hair to its original cut and his brows grew back. Later, after escaping the Danmara trunk, his hair came in scruffy with a center part and he took to glasses, since the shrinking treats that affected Momo also weakened his eyesight.

For all his rough exterior, Unji is deeply kind, selfless, and giving, the sort who shelters troubled teenagers and puts their needs ahead of his own. That generosity earned him fierce loyalty from the outcasts he took in, who would do anything to drag him out of Danmara. Around women he turns notably chivalrous, going so far as to lend Momo his pants during the obstacle course and insisting she keep them. The yokai power he borrows tends to amplify this gentle streak, though he normally wears a flat, impassive expression.

He has his simple-minded moments, needing Momo to point out that his geta sandals were why he kept losing his balance. Once granted yokai abilities, he carries an easy confidence, even boasting to his followers that conquering the world of Danmara would be effortless. His love of geta sandals comes down to simply finding them cool.

Unji grew up poor alongside his younger brother Futa. Their father was worked to death and the employer refused the life insurance, blaming the moped accident on him, which left their mother struggling alone. Tragedy compounded when Futa drowned in a river during a storm, filling Unji with guilt for not protecting him. Broken by grief, their mother took Unji out to an amusement park to enjoy one final happy day before attempting a murder-suicide, leaping toward an oncoming train with him in tow. Unji instinctively fought free, surviving while he watched his mother die, deepening his sense of failure.

Orphaned and bitter at a world he felt had set his family up to fail, he ran from a foster home and grew into a gang leader bent on stirring conflict. After he sent his followers to assault the police, he was arrested by officer Vega and sent to juvenile detention. Vega later took him into custody, and though Unji repeatedly tried to attack him with an umbrella in revenge, he relented after seeing Vega asleep beside a family photo. The turning point came when Unji raced to help Vega save a drowning boy and met Umbrella Boy, who shared his powers so Unji could pull them both from the river.

Seldom showing up at Renjaku High, Unji poured his time into supporting peers with hard lives, turning a building into a haven for them and winning their fierce loyalty. He took in Daiki Hakono, a boy whom years trapped inside a diorama had aged into an old man, and claimed the diorama himself to study it. While digging through cursed artifacts at a library, he encountered a mysterious figure who charged him with diving into the realm sealed within the diorama to tear it down. The man then steered him toward the Kamigoe Police Box, where Okarun's second kintama waited and could supposedly switch on his powers. After collecting it, Unji cast himself into the inner world, released his captured follower, and set to work exterminating every monster lurking there.