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Keigo Onishi is a central figure in the underworld of the city of Lux. He holds the position of head of the Onishi Office and serves as the executive director or deputy chairman of the Organo, a powerful yakuza-like organization that controls significant portions of the city's economy. Onishi is a well-built man with a cool and strong gaze, brown eyes, and slicked-back brown hair, typically dressed in a light grey suit with a red shirt and black tie.
Onishi is defined by his deep commitment to bringing order and stability to Lux, a city perpetually on the brink of chaos and self-destruction. He is a strong, righteous, and highly capable leader whose competence and collected demeanor allowed him to rise quickly through the ranks of the Organo. At his core, he is a man obsessed with control—over his own life, the people around him, and the city itself—as he seeks to prevent Lux from collapsing into anarchy.
To gain the influence necessary to climb the Organo's hierarchy, Onishi made a significant sacrifice: he sold his biological legs to the Class, the enigmatic rulers of Lux, in exchange for the starter money he needed. In their place, he received texhnolyzed prosthetic legs. This procedure granted him a unique and powerful ability, as his prosthetics allow him to hear the "voice of the city," a form of telepathic contact that provides him with vital information and premonitions. This voice is later revealed to be the seer Ran, who communicates with him directly.
In his role as a leader, Onishi is pragmatic and often unscrupulous. He is shown to permit, tolerate, or even manipulate violent events and morally questionable people if he believes it will safeguard Lux. He is widely perceived as being "soft" by his more aggressive and corrupt underlings because he prefers to talk things through and avoid unnecessary bloodshed, a trait that leads to several plots to oust him from power. Despite his busy schedule, he remains a man of duty and respect, making it a point to regularly visit Hirohisa Gotoh, the ailing head of the Organo, in the hospital.
His personal life is marked by emotional distance, particularly in his marriage to his wife, Mana, which is depicted as cold and almost catatonic, with the couple sleeping in separate beds. In contrast, he carries on a love affair with his secretary, Michiko Hirota. Despite this, his stoic facade cracks most noticeably when Mana is taken hostage and killed, revealing a genuine, if hidden, love for her.
Onishi's relationship with the protagonist, Ichise, forms a key part of his development. Their first encounter is brutal: Onishi dismisses the de-limbed, bleeding fighter as a stray dog and refuses to grant him a mercy killing, instead firing a shot into the ground beside him as a test of his will to live. It takes much of the series for Onishi to warm to Ichise, initially acting cold and patronizing towards him. However, as the story progresses, Onishi recognizes Ichise's potential and begins acting in a more fatherly or brotherly fashion, eventually taking him under his wing and serving as his benefactor.
Onishi is also a formidable fighter, being nearly unbeatable with his sword-wielding technique. He demonstrates this skill and his intimidating calm when he single-handedly disarms and kills two would-be assassins. Over the course of the series, he faces numerous betrayals from within his own organization and survives attempts on his life. In the end, after a bloody battle to oppose the forces of the Shapes, he arrives at the Obelisk. Complying with the request of the city's voice, he drives his katana into the obelisk to kill Ran, an act he hopes will stop the madness engulfing Lux. Immediately afterward, he is shot to death by an angry mob of Luxites, and all that remains of him are his texhnolyzed legs, still standing upright. Through these trials, despite his flaws and deficiencies in conventional heroic qualities, Onishi emerges as one of the closest figures the series has to a hero, a man who remains true to his goals and dies with pride.
Onishi is defined by his deep commitment to bringing order and stability to Lux, a city perpetually on the brink of chaos and self-destruction. He is a strong, righteous, and highly capable leader whose competence and collected demeanor allowed him to rise quickly through the ranks of the Organo. At his core, he is a man obsessed with control—over his own life, the people around him, and the city itself—as he seeks to prevent Lux from collapsing into anarchy.
To gain the influence necessary to climb the Organo's hierarchy, Onishi made a significant sacrifice: he sold his biological legs to the Class, the enigmatic rulers of Lux, in exchange for the starter money he needed. In their place, he received texhnolyzed prosthetic legs. This procedure granted him a unique and powerful ability, as his prosthetics allow him to hear the "voice of the city," a form of telepathic contact that provides him with vital information and premonitions. This voice is later revealed to be the seer Ran, who communicates with him directly.
In his role as a leader, Onishi is pragmatic and often unscrupulous. He is shown to permit, tolerate, or even manipulate violent events and morally questionable people if he believes it will safeguard Lux. He is widely perceived as being "soft" by his more aggressive and corrupt underlings because he prefers to talk things through and avoid unnecessary bloodshed, a trait that leads to several plots to oust him from power. Despite his busy schedule, he remains a man of duty and respect, making it a point to regularly visit Hirohisa Gotoh, the ailing head of the Organo, in the hospital.
His personal life is marked by emotional distance, particularly in his marriage to his wife, Mana, which is depicted as cold and almost catatonic, with the couple sleeping in separate beds. In contrast, he carries on a love affair with his secretary, Michiko Hirota. Despite this, his stoic facade cracks most noticeably when Mana is taken hostage and killed, revealing a genuine, if hidden, love for her.
Onishi's relationship with the protagonist, Ichise, forms a key part of his development. Their first encounter is brutal: Onishi dismisses the de-limbed, bleeding fighter as a stray dog and refuses to grant him a mercy killing, instead firing a shot into the ground beside him as a test of his will to live. It takes much of the series for Onishi to warm to Ichise, initially acting cold and patronizing towards him. However, as the story progresses, Onishi recognizes Ichise's potential and begins acting in a more fatherly or brotherly fashion, eventually taking him under his wing and serving as his benefactor.
Onishi is also a formidable fighter, being nearly unbeatable with his sword-wielding technique. He demonstrates this skill and his intimidating calm when he single-handedly disarms and kills two would-be assassins. Over the course of the series, he faces numerous betrayals from within his own organization and survives attempts on his life. In the end, after a bloody battle to oppose the forces of the Shapes, he arrives at the Obelisk. Complying with the request of the city's voice, he drives his katana into the obelisk to kill Ran, an act he hopes will stop the madness engulfing Lux. Immediately afterward, he is shot to death by an angry mob of Luxites, and all that remains of him are his texhnolyzed legs, still standing upright. Through these trials, despite his flaws and deficiencies in conventional heroic qualities, Onishi emerges as one of the closest figures the series has to a hero, a man who remains true to his goals and dies with pride.