Souichirou Akagi rules the Akagi family with the iron grip of a born oligarch, leveraging inherited wealth and political clout to maintain dominion over both corporate boardrooms and his fractured household. A marriage to a social inferior produced son Gunma, whom Souichirou swiftly discarded to avoid scandal, reclaiming the boy only after his mother’s death—not out of remorse, but to contain the lingering threat to his meticulously crafted statesman persona. His contempt for the youth remains palpable, treating Gunma as both a shameful relic of past weakness and an obstacle to his ambitions.

As Akagi Corporation’s chairman, he enforces obedience through visceral displays of dominance, from smashing a bowl of Go stones against Gunma’s skull to orchestrating humiliating public spectacles that reduce family bonds to performative cruelty. He derides his son’s ambitions as delusional, branding him a “pale imitation” unfit for their lineage. Parallel to corporate machinations, Souichirou’s political crusades amplify domestic strife, Gunma’s rebelliousness clashing with his father’s image-conscious ruthlessness—a conflict culminating in the patriarch disowning his son and severing educational ties without hesitation.

The family’s corrosive dynamics extend to his other progeny: eldest son Shoma internalizes Souichirou’s cutthroat tactics, while youngest Yuuma navigates a rival racing career and congenital heart condition with clinical detachment. Even mechanic Tamotsu operates under Souichirou’s transactional ethos, receiving financial support in exchange for unswerving loyalty. Unchanged across narratives, Souichirou endures as an architect of systemic oppression, his neglect and brutality igniting Gunma’s resolve to carve a legacy beyond the Akagi name’s shadow.