Kiyomasa Senji

Kiyomasa Senji, also known as Crow, is a character from the Deadman Wonderland anime and manga.

Kiyomasa is a Deadman previously imprisoned in Deadman Wonderland. He has trained Ganta and helped him on multiple occasions.

Appearance
Senji is a tall, muscular man with a tan. He wears his short black hair spiked back and has the letters DSMK tattooed above his right eye in memory of his former teammates.

When he was still a police officer, he wore the standard police uniform. In Deadman Wonderland, he wore the regular prisoner uniform. When he was put in G Ward, he changed his clothes to dark blue pants with a black belt, a tank top, leather shoes, and a long black coat. He also has two rings with serrated blades built in them to slice open his forearms; he wears these on his thumbs. After his Carnival Corpse match with Ganta, he lost his right eye as part of the Penalty Game and now wears a black eyepatch. While trying to apply for a job he wore a business suit and straightened out his messy hair. After his battle with Hagire, Senji lost his right arm below the bicep.

In the epilogue, Senji wore casual clothes and grew a goatee.

Personality
He seems to thoroughly enjoy violence, and his favorite phrase is "Dead Center". Despite his wild and battle-hungry attitude, he does have a sense of honor and respects strength and determination, seen when he teaches Ganta multiple ways to use his branch of sin after Ganta's refusal to stay down during their seemingly one-sided Carnival Corpse. Senji also appears to be against the idea of needless killing, having opted to leave Ganta alone on their first encounter when he made no effort to defend himself against Senji, and he can be kind to those he respects. He also shows thoughtfulness when he tells Ganta to try and understand Shiro's predicament before coming to a decision.

In an ironic twist, Senji becomes flustered and embarrassed when a woman acts immodestly. When he first notices Shiro's form-fitting body tights, his face becomes red and he gives her his coat telling her to quickly cover up, and again turning red when Minatsuki flashes her underwear at him. The effect of those encounters can sometimes make him fall to the floor.

Abilities
Throughout the series, Senji has displayed numerous abilities:

Enhanced Endurance and Strength: Throughout the series, Senji has displayed a high level of endurance, being able to withstand eye removal, the breaking of his sternum, a number of cuts, stabs, bruises, gunshots, anemia and being hit by numerous Branches of Sin as well as surviving being crushed by an entire ceiling and the shredding of an arm. In less frequent occasions, Senji has displayed enhanced strength, such as in his battle with Ikazuchi Akatsuki, being able to push him back and injure him despite his constant doping and enhanced strength.

Precise Accuracy and Aiming: One of his highly recognized abilities is his accuracy. He can measure the distance between him and his opponent or an object just by looking. He possesses precise aiming, enabling him to hit dead center every time, even if the target is moving. He can also follow his opponent's moves and knows how to counterattack with ease if they reuse the same patterns. Senji also has a fast reaction time, being able to dodge incoming projectiles such as bullets. Despite losing his right eye, his accuracy appeared to remain the same as it was before.

Enhanced Speed: Senji has displayed inhuman speed on several occasions. Senji is able to surprise his enemies with his inhuman speed and cut them down, usually before they even notice. Thanks to his speed, Senji is able to function perfectly in sync with his Branch of Sin, being able to slice through steel with ease. This also helped Senji develop his Invisible Black.

Branch of Sin: As a Deadman, Senji has the ability to freely control his blood out of his body. He has specially-made rings with serrated blades that he uses to slice open his forearms to force the drainage of blood. After his initial battle with Hagire, he removed these rings. Senji has mastered his Branch of Sin's supersonic variant.

Branch of Sin: Crow Claw (Kurō Kurō): Senji can manifest his blood into scythe-like blades which he calls Crow Claw. He can alter the blades' forms. The straight blades are usually created from the top of his hand. He can create the blades on any part of his body, though they usually begin on his forearms. The basic use of this ability is to slice or cut things. Over the years, while he was at the Deadman Wonderland prison, Senji had trained and perfected his abilities. They are now powerful enough to slice through solid steel. He can use them to guard as well, by crossing them together to stop a direct attack or an incoming projectile. While the blades are typically two to three feet long, Senji can shape the blades in a netting-pattern, in order to greatly lengthen them, allowing him to attack people at long range, without wasting more blood. Unlike most of Deadmen that posses close range Branches of Sin, Senji is one of the few who can use his at a long range. One of the advantages his power provides him with is the ability to bring his already used blood back into himself but only as long as it's still attached to him. Depending on the situation, Senji intends to get creative to evade or defeat his opponents with his Branch of Sin, such as positioning multiple small Crow Claws at the soles of his feet. This way, he can climb up buildings by using the Branch of Sin as hooks. He can use extra blood to create a giant blade powerful enough to cut an entire room in two. He used this particular blade to bifurcate Ikazuchi Akatsuki when he was empowered by his Branch of Sin, which was impossible to do with his normal attacks. While his normal blades are used for cutting, this one is used more for sheer power. He's only been seen using this technique once, particularity because of the huge amount of blood that is required to form the blade, resulting in anemia, as well as its weight as it's shown that Senji had a hard time wielding it, barely managing swing it once. He can also create a barrier with his Crow Claw. He does this by creating many blades, mostly from his hands and forearms, in a formation that somewhat covers an entrance or exit. He can also shape the blades into a netting-pattern to extend it reaches and create a larger blockade. After Senji's right arm was shredded by Hagire, he was barely able to fight him off. Despite losing half of his right arm, Senji can still create an outverted blade from the remaining part of the arm. The blade functions the same and enables Senji to flourish it much faster and at greater length.

Invisible Black (Inbijiburu Burakku, Japanese for "Empty Hollow Flash): This is a cutting technique that Senji uses to create a large scythe-like blade at the top of his right hand, instead of his usual forearms. He uses one hand to tear the veins on top of his other and draws his blade to perform this technique. When Senji draws the blade to its limit, he detaches it from his hand and forms a hook at its point. He then slices the target to pieces at the speed of sound. While the top of the blade is still attached to his other hand, Senji can use it to guard against incoming projectiles, such as Ganta's blood bullets. He can use the blade to attack in any direction. The blade has a small difference in its appearance, but mostly at the edge of the blade. The length of the blade differs as well; instead of its usual length, Invisible black is at least half the length of Senji's body.

Branch of Sin: Evolved Crow Claw: Because of his strong will to live, Senji has developed the ability to evolve his Crow Claw. The blades appear inverted at the front and back of his palms instead of his forearms and they're also larger. With the Crow Claw in its evolved state, two differing black markings appear on his body. These markings appear as curved lines that divaricate along the way from both of his arms up to his left side of the face. It appears that it is more powerful in it's evolved state, being able to pierce Chan and En with ease. Like Ganta's Ganbare Gun, it is unknown if using this ability puts any added strain on Senji's body. Despite losing parts of his right arm, Senji can still use this ability with his left arm and unlike Ganta, can manifest the blades on any part of his body.

Equipment
Rings: In order to draw blood, Senji is equipped with special rings that have rotating blades on them. He wears them on both of this thumbs to cut his forearms. After he lost half of his right arm, he stopped wearing them.

Coin: He has a one-sided coin with a Salamander on both sides that was left to him by his Sensei Domon. This particular item is very special to him since it's from his deceased mentor. Senji used it to boost Ganta's confidence and win bets by constantly calling heads for him, knowing that the coin is one-sided. He later gave it to Ganta.

Trivia

 * Senji named Ganta's Branch of Sin the Ganta Gun. He also took it upon himself to name Ganta's more improved Branch of Sin the Ganbaru Gun; it is spelled similar to Ganta's name and it could translate to "Do Your Best Gun".
 * In the English dub, Senji's Branch of Sin can literally be translated to "Black Black". It is also the Japanese pronunciation of the English word, "Crow".
 * Senji's catchphrase, Zuppashi. Though his catchphrase changes throughout the different translations. One translation was 'Slice', which makes sense considering Senji's Branch of Sin and his enthusiasm using it.
 * Zuppashi is a made up word that has no meaning.