Yatagarasu

Towering and lean, Yatagarasu draws the eye first with the strange light-colored pompadour curling up over the right portion of his scalp. His face is heavily styled, framed by long lashes, eyeliner, and a dark lipstick, and rounded out by a thin chin-strap beard and a pencil mustache. On the job he dresses in a transparent high-collared button coat over dark trousers and pointed shoes to match.

Cutting hair is less a job for him than a near-obsession, and he is bluntly tactless toward anyone whose style he judges crude. He repeatedly told Kinta his hair looked strange and dogged him until the boy relented to a trim. Yet the same man shrugs off any criticism of his own outlandish look, a double standard that reveals how completely he believes nothing is wrong with it. He talks with theatrical flair, often leaning hard to one side mid-sentence, but the showmanship vanishes the moment he picks up his scissors, replaced by an unsettling, laser focus on the client.

Near the Super Amusement Park, just beyond his barbershop, Yatagarasu runs into Kinta and Bamora and at once needles the boy over his bizarre haircut, dogging the pair until the irritated Kinta agrees to a trim simply to be rid of him. He brushes off Bamora's request for a style of her own, telling her to wait outside, then unnerves Kinta by silently staring at him in the mirror, later claiming he had mistaken the silence for a staring contest. When the Dragon Knights activate Empty Space, he leaves the two at his shop and joins Okarun and Aira against the invaders. He scatters Gillesderais, Blagojevic, and the others, counters Gillesderais's giant scissors with his own ordinary pair, and directs Aira to anchor strands of her Acrobatic Silky hair so he can cut and spread them into a traction-giving carpet over the frozen floor. He then sends Aira and Okarun back to the protective barrier of his barbershop, refusing Okarun's plea to rejoin Momo and Jiji given his poor condition.

His combat skill flows from his trade. A master with his scissors, he turned Aira's hair into artificial turf with swift, precise cuts, and he proved a capable hand-to-hand fighter, holding off Gillesderais while outnumbered and even landing an uppercut he calls the Shoryuken. His name nods to the Yatagarasu of Shinto myth, a three-legged crow revered as a guiding deity said to have led figures like Emperor Jimmu.