and deliver us from evil
Ryou Naruse is the head of a private practice, a lawyer well known for seeking out and winning hopeless cases, gaining him fame and attention in the media, which has dubbed him the 'Angelic Lawyer.' He seems well-liked and admired by his colleagues and keeps his personal life very private. He takes care of his blind and ill sister, visiting her in the hospital weekly. He always brings her favorite flowers. He is Catholic, attends Mass on a regular basis, gives to charities, and offers his services out of good faith. He is always polite, but sometimes strikes people as very distant. Other than that, Ryou Naruse seems to be perfect.
Ryou Naruse is a lie.
Name: Tomoo Manaka
Aliases: Ryou Naruse, Amano Makoto
Age: 28
History: Tomoo Manaka came from a lower income family consisting of his hard-working mother and his younger brother Hideo. Hideo was adored by both his mother and his older brother, both of whom sacrificed to entire the young boy would achieve the future he dreamed of. Hideo, however, is killed in a horrible incident at school, his death ruled as being a case of self-defense by the court system. Shortly after, his mother is overwhelmed by despair and dies after a short illness.
Tomoo Manaka, alone in the world, swore revenge on those he considers responsible for murdering his brother.
Homeless after his mother's death, he spent his days with another homeless boy, but tragically his friend too died after a accident that left his body crushed and unidentifiable. Seeing an opportunity, Tomoo swapped his school identification card with that of his dead friend, and from then on became Ryou Naruse, body and soul. It took him many years of planning and hard work to gain his position as the head of a private practice in Tokyo, but at the age of twenty-eight, he was finally ready to set his plans into motion and begin to kill off his victims in the way he feels they deserve.
Naruse considers one man to be responsible for his brother's death, Police Detective Naoto Serizawa, and spent much of his time stalking and plotting to carry out his revenge. Almost all of his murder victims are directly connected to both his brother’s death and Serizawa, and each one is designed to cause the detective the most pain. Through hints sent to the police in the form of Tarot cards and quotes from Dante and Goethe’s Faust, he continues to manipulate events and the people he torments. Serizawa’s punishment is one he is saving for last.
Personality: Naruse is a sociopath, capable of mimicking emotion in order to manipulate the people and events around him. He can be very charismatic, seemingly warm and willing to help. He considers everyone a resource when it comes to completing his goals, and often kills his victim indirectly, manipulating innocent people into creating the events needed, and even into committing the murder themselves. Naruse makes several parallels when it comes to Christian punishment, including making parallels between himself and the devil in the hints he sends to the police about his murders. He is even willing to use the woman who testified in his brother’s defense because her unique powers can be manipulated in his favor.
Naruse is extremely driven and seems to believe in the Catholic religion he uses as material for his crimes; he’s well aware his revenge will damn him, and he’s quite willing to make the sacrifice. Several times he hints at the possibility that he is the devil in human form; at other times he is quite frank about believing himself beyond saving, his revenge the only thing left for him. He is very intelligent, well-read, and quite accomplished, and while he isn’t sane by any means, he is unlikely to kill someone unless they firmly deserve it in his mind, and he is very careful not to kill anyone directly but to either set up their death through someone else or in ways that can be ruled off as an accident. As such he has little reason to kill or harm anyone unless he perceives them to be a direct threat to himself or his revenge plans.
Ryou Naruse is a lie.
Name: Tomoo Manaka
Aliases: Ryou Naruse, Amano Makoto
Age: 28
History: Tomoo Manaka came from a lower income family consisting of his hard-working mother and his younger brother Hideo. Hideo was adored by both his mother and his older brother, both of whom sacrificed to entire the young boy would achieve the future he dreamed of. Hideo, however, is killed in a horrible incident at school, his death ruled as being a case of self-defense by the court system. Shortly after, his mother is overwhelmed by despair and dies after a short illness.
Tomoo Manaka, alone in the world, swore revenge on those he considers responsible for murdering his brother.
Homeless after his mother's death, he spent his days with another homeless boy, but tragically his friend too died after a accident that left his body crushed and unidentifiable. Seeing an opportunity, Tomoo swapped his school identification card with that of his dead friend, and from then on became Ryou Naruse, body and soul. It took him many years of planning and hard work to gain his position as the head of a private practice in Tokyo, but at the age of twenty-eight, he was finally ready to set his plans into motion and begin to kill off his victims in the way he feels they deserve.
Naruse considers one man to be responsible for his brother's death, Police Detective Naoto Serizawa, and spent much of his time stalking and plotting to carry out his revenge. Almost all of his murder victims are directly connected to both his brother’s death and Serizawa, and each one is designed to cause the detective the most pain. Through hints sent to the police in the form of Tarot cards and quotes from Dante and Goethe’s Faust, he continues to manipulate events and the people he torments. Serizawa’s punishment is one he is saving for last.
Personality: Naruse is a sociopath, capable of mimicking emotion in order to manipulate the people and events around him. He can be very charismatic, seemingly warm and willing to help. He considers everyone a resource when it comes to completing his goals, and often kills his victim indirectly, manipulating innocent people into creating the events needed, and even into committing the murder themselves. Naruse makes several parallels when it comes to Christian punishment, including making parallels between himself and the devil in the hints he sends to the police about his murders. He is even willing to use the woman who testified in his brother’s defense because her unique powers can be manipulated in his favor.
Naruse is extremely driven and seems to believe in the Catholic religion he uses as material for his crimes; he’s well aware his revenge will damn him, and he’s quite willing to make the sacrifice. Several times he hints at the possibility that he is the devil in human form; at other times he is quite frank about believing himself beyond saving, his revenge the only thing left for him. He is very intelligent, well-read, and quite accomplished, and while he isn’t sane by any means, he is unlikely to kill someone unless they firmly deserve it in his mind, and he is very careful not to kill anyone directly but to either set up their death through someone else or in ways that can be ruled off as an accident. As such he has little reason to kill or harm anyone unless he perceives them to be a direct threat to himself or his revenge plans.