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| “ | A curse upon you, how does it feel? Are you prepared to witness true horror? | „ |
| ~ Souichi cursing a student by hammering nails into a doll |
Souichi Tsujii (辻井 双一, Tsujii Sōichi) is the main antagonist of the Junji Ito manga universe.
He is an enigmatic 11-year-old boy. Like many of other villains created by Junji Ito, Souichi is well known for his schemes. However, unlike most other antagonists created by him, Souichi is well-known for having his evil schemes backfire on him, often in comedic ways.
History
Past
Although he claims that he was born on the 6th of June, at precisely 6:06 and 6 seconds, he was actually born on May 3rd. Not much else is known about his past, though it is believed that he has a rare condition where he must constantly consume iron. It is suspected this is where he gets his ability to produce nails; he also regularly keeps them in his mouth.
Biography
Once he used matches and some candles to trick a character to be scared of something else so he won't be distracted.
Personality
He is psychopathic and is quite intelligent, as he can use nails by his will.
Villainous Acts
- In "Souichi's Convenient Curse" Souichi first uses a katashiro doll, sticking pins into its stomach causing a student in his class. Ooya, to have bad stomach pain for which he was sent to the hospital. He then uses his black magic to make two students fight each other Later, he goes to the forest and buries another doll into the ground, which leads to a kid getting his entire body buried in the same fashion. Then he tricks a classmate by leading him to the park where he wears a giant spider like costume to scare him; however, the owner of the trees who had been finding Souichi's nails stuck in them, had set traps in the area. The boy steps in one of them, snared up into a tree and getting stuck, where the owner of the trees finds him and throws an axe at him before Kouichi appears to take Souichi back home. Finally, he neglects a toad he kept in a box; Souichi goes back to his room later finding it dead.
- In "The Room of Four Heavy Walls" Souichi constantly messes with Kouichi whenever he is studying for a test, tricking him into believing a poltergeist is inside the house. Kouichi decides he wants a room where he can work in peace, so a man named Mr. Tagaisu arrives and, along with Souichi, builds a set of four walls. However, Souichi climbs inside of the walls and starts mimicking crickets chirping; Kouichi chases Souichi is unable to catch him, While waiting for his older brother to come back, due to the lack of oxygen he almost suffocates but is rescued.
- In "Coffin Tub" Souichi constantly asks his grandpa to build him a perfect coffin for him to sleep in; after his grandpa dies, Souichi uses a curse where his grandpa comes back from the dead to keep building him a coffin.
- In "Rumors" Souichi spreads misinformation about himself so the other kids well give him attention, such as rescuing children and old ladies or being the cousin of a famous celebrity. A local swamp is said to make anyone beautiful who swims in there; Midori visits the pond and discovers this is another rumor that Souichi made up. He starts taking pictures of Midori to embarrass her for the whole school to see, then a giant woman appears out of the pond. As he took her photo without copyright permission, she eats Souichi alive.
- In "Souichi's Beloved Pet" When Kouichi and Mayuri bring home a stray cat they found, upon meeting the creature Souichi starts choking it with a rope; Mayuri slaps him for abusing the animal, who they name Collin. Souichi gets jealous that people are paying more attention to the cat than him. He cast a curse upon the cat to make him feral but this backfires on Souichi; Collin emits a great surge of electricity, shocking Souichi and leaving him severely injured.
- In "Secret of the Haunted Mansion" A now-adult Souichi opens up a haunted house in town, where he has people pay a ridiculous price for entry. When a man who enters runs away screaming, the police are sent to investigate the house. Kouichi and Satoshi attempt to sneak inside; Souichi admires this and lets in for free. Inside, the exhibits all include members of the Tsujii family; Kouichi tells the two boys that his younger brother is forcing all of them to do this against their will. He also tells how he had a child with a strange lady; he keeps moving towns so he can escape her. The two boys come across Souichi's son Binzo, who eats one of the boys; Souichi chases after Kouichi buy is horrified upon seeing his wife, who threatens to eat him if he ever tries to leave her again.
- In "The Souichi Front" Michina searches for her family after not seeing them for years. She stays with a woman whose son has nails in his mouth like Souichi; the mother says he went to a haunted house and was never the same after that. An old man asks her to help him, but runs away until she follows him into a haunted house where Souichi is whipping him, Michina tells Souichi to stop, and encounters Binzo in a cage. Sayuri says the kid ate their parents alive. Souichi orders Kouichi to put Michina into the cage to be eaten, Michina starts telling Kouichi all the fun times they had together as kids, which breaks the spell over him. He kicks the cage, and Binzo attacks Souichi who runs outside where he runs into Fuichi who chomps off his head. However, this is all revealed to be a dream by a still-11-year-old Souichi.
- In "Fun Summer Vacation" When Yuusuke and Michina visit their extended family who live in the countryside, the two of them go to see Souichi who shoots a nail at them in order to scare them off. He ends up getting scolded by Kouichi, he later gives Michina a stomach ache by pounding a nail into a doll. Plunging a doll into a fish tank, he almost drowns Yuusuke. Sneaking into Michina's room that night, he tells her that he needs blood and lunges at her but gets slapped in the face leading to the nails in his mouth piercing his cheeks.
- In "Fun Winter Vacation" a woman named Yumiko Fukaya visits Souichi's town, finding one of his dolls hammered onto a tree. Taunting her, he sets a trap causing her to fall into cold water, He later badly injures Hirose, Yumiko's boyfriend by having a sign fall on him; he had wanted to kill him, however. Souichi ends up having an awful stomach ache from the snow cone that he was eating, which had actual snow in it.
- In "Cloth Teacher" Souichi creates cloth copies of two teachers at school who act very violent and insane, causes a student to grow a beard, and tries to frame a kid by making a completely naked doll of him and have him run around the school in his "birthday suit." This backfires on him as one of the cloth teachers chases after him, shooting a nail into his buttocks, and pulling his pants down in front of all the students and extremely humiliating him.
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Trivia
- Souichi often believes himself to be a vampire, by shaping his teeth to be fangs, drinking the blood of women, and having his grandpa build him a westernized coffin.
- He only resembles one member of the Tsujii family, that being his grandmother who is deceased.
- Souichi doesn't wear two candles on his head randomly or to be able to see in the dark, it's a part of a Japanese ritual called "Ushi no toki mairi" meaning "Visit at the hour of the ox", the purpose of the ritual is to cast a curse upon someone. The curse has to be conducted between 1am to 3am (the hour of the Ox). Between these hours the practitioner has to wear candles on his/her head, and nail a straw doll that represents their target, to a tree, in order for the curse to take place.
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