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Yonemi Kamon is the overarching antagonist of the manga Battle Royale. He is the administrator of the program and the archenemy of Shuya Nanahara, Shogo Kawada, and Yoshitoki Kuninobu.
What Makes Him a Hate Sink?[]
- Is the one to oversee the Battle Royale program, which has a class of students kidnapped so they could kill each other until there is only one left, every year. This makes Kamon indirectly responsible for all the deaths caused by the players in the games. He also films the deaths and sells it to the public for money.
- This has been going on for at least more than half of a decade, as Shuya saw in the news the winner of the program of that year who went insane and was heavily mutilated when he was just a child in the orphanage, and Shuya would have been been at least 9 years-old at the time.
- He had Shogo's father killed when he tried to go against Shogo joining the program, thus leaving Shogo an orphan after the end of his program.
- Had Class 9-B kidnapped so they could kill each other for the program of that year.
- He went to the orphanage where Shuya and Yoshitoki lived to talk to Ms. Ryoko about them joining the program, which infuriated her and she told them to bring them back. Calling her reaction "typical", he raped her, with him even mentioning that he actualy whished that she was gangraped instead of just being him doing the act because of how much he enjoyed that moment.
- What makes this worse is the fact that Ms. Ryoko promised Shuya and Yoshitoki when they were children that she would never allow them to join the program, thus Kamon was also taunting her over that promise being now meaningless.
- After introducing himself to Class 9-B, he revealed that he had the teacher of the class killed and then showed them his decomposed body to break them psychologicaly, and even taunting Noriko in particular, who was the most optimistic student in the class.
- When a student asked Kamon if he could leave the program due to his father being a high-ranking official, Kamon tells him that he won't because he wants equality between stusents and psychologicaly breaks him until he was in tears and felt like he needed to sit down.
- While Kamon speaks of equality among students, he is nothing more than a hypocrite since he treats students who killed more with respect and jokes about the deaths of those who either die or don't kill anyone and still had hope in them, proving he was only using this as an excuse to not allow the student to leave and simply break him more with it.
- He taunted Shuya and Yoshitoki over the fact that he raped Ms. Ryoko, provoking the latter into trying to kill Kamon, and then arrograntly saying that he couldn't kill him because he was part of the goverment and then asked if he thought Ms. Ryoko ever liked Yoshitoki and that she was waiting to have sex with him, further taunting him as a result.
- After Yoshitoki made it clear he wanted to kill him, Kamon shot him in the face, disfiguring him in the process.
- When Noriko tried to save Yoshitoki from being killed, Kamon shot her in the leg, and after she started begging him to save Yoshitoki, Kamon decided to "finish what he started" and shoots Yoshitoki to death.
- He tried to kill Shuya when he tried to attack him for everything he did against the people he loved before Mimura kicked him in order to save his life.
- Nearly killed Noriko before Mimura stopped him by convincing him that she could be useful to the program, and after doing so, Kamon told Shuya, Noriko, and Mimura to get back on their "f*cking seats".
- When he heard Fumiyo whispering during his presentation, Kamon threw a knife at her head, killing her. This would layer be the main reason why Seto helped Mimura in creating a bomb so they could destroy the school and kill Kamon and his soldiers.
- He faked being Megumi's father on a phone call in order to give her hope that not everything in the program wasn't completly hopeless only for him to destroy it by revealing that it was Kamon and asked her to say something he could masturbate to, psychologicaly breaking her due to this.
- Throught the manga, he jokes about the deaths of the students by announcing the students who have died every 12 hours simply for fun, such as joking about Yumiko and Yukiko being gunned down by Kazuo, saying it's "two for the price of one", or when he joked about Hiroki Sugimura's meaningless sacrifice to try to save Kayoko by saying they were acting like Romeo and Juliet and saying that Kayoko's death was a lost of a pair of breasts.
- It's reavealed by Kamon that he filmed Mitsuko Souma taking a bath, with the intent of selling it as a pornography.
- When Shogo faked killing Shuya and Noriko in order to save their lives and Shogo was announced as the winner, Kamon had him go to a boat so he could tell him in private that he found out about his plan and knew that Noriko and Shuya were still alive, and sent a hellicopter to the island to realease poisonous gas to kill them, believing they were still on the island. He then attempted to kill Shigo before he heard gunshits and distracted him for a moment, giving Shogo the chance to kill him.
- Despite treating his soldiers well at times and being friendly to them on a few occasions, it's clearly for pragmatic reasons, and he also is shown to be abusive towards them as he threw a book at one of them when they failed to find out how Mimura and Seto were able to create a bomb that nearly killed him and destroyed the school he was in.
- While he respects Kazuo, calling him Young Master Kiriyama and even compliments him for his kills, this respect comes from the fact that Kazuo is mentaly and figuratively a killing machine that had excelent fighting skills and was able to get an extreme high kill count in such a short period of time, so this respect comes from him being a cold hearted killer rather than actual care, and he put a bet of 20000 ien because he believed he was going to win due to his sheer ruthlessness. He also doesn't mourn him, only being sad that he lost a ton of money on Kazuo.
- His goofy facade does nothing to distract his actions, as the manga does absolutely nothing to downplay the cruelty made in the program and it's graphic nature.
- Unlikely nearly all the characters in the manga, Kamon is never played in a sympatetic light.
Trivia[]
- He is one of the two characters in Battle Royale to be Hate Sinks, alongside Mitsuko Souma's Step-father.
External links[]
- Yonemi Kamon on the Pure Evil Wiki.
- Yonemi Kamon on the Villains Wiki.