For this Fighter File we have the mysterious new Fang of Metsudo, Misasa, due to the lack of information available to analyze or comment, I’ll also add another Fighter into the File, the Traitor Fang, Yumigahama Hikaru.
Little is known about this fighter, “Misasa” is not even his real name. The only thing we know for certain is that he’s undoubtfully the strongest bodyguard in service when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, and that’s all we need to know.
Strengths: There’s a clear gap in terms of raw power and physical prowess between Misasa and the previous fangs of Metsudo, so far Omori Masamichi, Kanoh Agito and Yumigahama Hikaru being at least 201 cm tall and Takayama Minoru, one of the top-candidates to succeed the title being 207 cm. How did the smaller Misasa became such a strong contender like those four? Instead of being limited by his weakness, a smaller frame, Misasa managed to turn it into his best asset in the moment of fighting. By a smart use of the techniques of Silat, Misasa pushes the fight into his own rhythm and turn it into a close range fight. As someone smaller, Misasa is pretty experienced when it comes to fight someone bigger than him and in enclosed spaces meanwhile it’s the opposite for the bigger guys, it’s like a southpaw boxer. Misasa’s style is consist in parrying the opponent’s incoming attack and strike its weak points right after he loses balance. To further decrease the distance between him and his opponent giving him more advantage, Misasa limits his attacks and parries to the use of his elbows. This strategy is pretty simple which makes it harder to overcome. No to mention is pretty easy to limit one’s fighting space, as long as he keeps pressing, the opponent is bound to move backwards and run out of space even if it wasn’t a fight with ring-out rules.
Weakness: So far as I can tell, Misasa didn’t displayed any weakness, after all the only match were we saw him fight was one-sided, this doesn’t necessarily mean he’s unbeatable, any fighter such as Kanoh can lose despite not having any notable weaknesses.
On the other side, we have the so full of himself, savant of martial arts, the one reaping for rewards, Yumigahama Hikaru, the one man who managed to fool Dainipon Bank and the Kengan Association by himself.
Strengths: Yumigahama managed to do something that hasn’t been done since the first Kengan Match, to recreate bare-handedly the usage of weapons, as improbable it seems, and differencing it from attack such as the Devil Lance, Yumigahama’s form completely recreates the form of usage and effects of a weapon, with some tricks such as the redirected spear he can use to exploit the similitude of a weaponized style to trick the opponents. To make this possible, Yumigahama employs an incredible finger-strength and hardness, alongside his big frame and long limbs to recreate the range of weapons. To further increase his martial prowess, Yumigahama Hikaru seems to be able to recreate the usage of any kind of weapon technique (as long as its a contact weapon), even dual use of weapons. Of course, his arsenal is not limited to weaponized martial arts but some bare-handed combat as well. So far, all the styles he used in his fight in the Kengan vs Purgatory tournament specialized in different kind of attacks, so its most likely that Hikaru has at least one fighting style for any kind of situation.
Weakness: The biggest enemy of a collector is time, the time he spent perfecting one of his many styles is time he doesn’t spend perfecting the rest, let’s just say Misasa and Hikaru are both fighter level 1000, but meanwhile Misasa is a complete 1000, Hikaru is a 1000/X, he’s a fighter of quantity instead of quality, he can’t beat a 1000 level fighter using 100, 90 and 120 all separately.
Hikaru’s other and biggest weakness so far, like Toa, is that he’s pretty much too blinded by his invincibility delusions, considering himself superior to everyone else just because he became the fang of Metsudo in record time and made a fool out of one of the most powerful factions in the underworld. According to what we know, Hikaru stopped training after joining Purgatory, which further accentuate the previous weakness, of course he wouldn’t be able to maintain such physique without training, but he clearly became weaker as he got his head so full. He beat José, however the later broke his right arm, but he still joined the competition despite the time he spent recovering didn’t left him any time to train. During his fight against Misasa he self-sabotaged himself by being to conscious of staying into the illuminated part of the ring, that was mostly because he clearly believed that Misasa’s only chance to beat him was via ring-out rules and proves he’s still overestimating himself so much.