Chief Kakuzawa
角沢長官 (Kakuzawa Chōkan)
Biological Information
Age:	Around 50-70 years old
Species:	Descendant of Original Diclonii and Non-horned Humans
Gender:	Male
Relatives:	Professor Kakuzawa (son) Anna Kakuzawa (daughter) Male Diclonius (son)
Occupation:	Chief Director of the Diclonius Research Institute
Character Information
First seen:	Manga: Chapter 17 Anime: Episode 2
Last seen:	Manga: Chapter 91 Anime: Episode 13
Voice actor (Japanese):	Kinryu Arimoto
Voice actor (English):	Andy McAvin

Chief/Director Kakuzawa is the series main antagonist. He is in charge of the research facility where young Diclonius Silpelits, and Kaede "the Queen" as well, are taken and often brutally experimented on. His apparent and public goal was to contain the Diclonius threat, thus gaining support and cooperation from the government of Japan. In reality, he wished and strove for the opposite - to bring about the dominance of the Diclonii over the humans. Kakuzawa had three known children: the elder son who was active in the research project hierarchy and was very much in the same personality mold as him; A daughter, Anna, who lacked the family tendency towards having horns on their heads and genius-level acumen in science and business; she was raised to believe she was inferior as a result; and a son, born of his rape of Kaede's mother, who was one of the only known male Diclonius, who was along with Kaede one of the keys to his dream of reawakening the power in his family line. He is depicted as a fanatic, willing to sacrifice anyone, including himself to achieve his goal. His personal authority was vast, allowing him access to Japan's elite Special Assault Team, something normally reserved for the Prime Minister. Even when ultimately thwarted on a personal level, his plans and schemes would later haunt the world by causing a ruinous war.

Biography

Family history

Kakuzawa's family for generations held to a racial myth about a genetic mutation in their line which causes a bone disorder causing a cranial condition resembling Diclonii horns. This myth told that they were descendents of demons (because of their horns) and that once the family was "pure demon" and wielded vast supernatural powers, which was diluted by intermarriage with non-horned humans. After their bloodline became diluted, they were driven off their land and hunted down by non-horned humans, a situation Kakuzawa likened to the fate of the Neanderthals. The hunted Kakuzawas migrated to an underground cave, at the bottom of a small island, situated off the coast of the actual Kamakura, in order to survive. The site became a holy place, where they prayed for the arrival of a Messiah - a pure blood 'demon' who would restore the mighty power of the Kakuzawas.

Diclonii

After the appearance of a powerful horned race in modern times, Kakuzawa thought he now had absolute proof regarding the stories about his ancestors. Completely believing this race was the same as his, he used Homo Diclonius (Two Horned) to describe both. He founded, with some government aid (it is unclear the extent to which the government of Japan aided or had control over him; but they were anxious to hide it) a facility meant to study and control Diclonii, in particular the bloodline that produced the Queen, who he concluded was the long awaited Messiah of his kind. It was he who re-named Kaede 'Lucy' after the fossilized remains of an ancient Australopithecus woman whose DNA strains are found in all Human groups to this day, being a kind of mitochondrial Eve, since he intended her to be 'mother' of a new race.

He built the Diclonius Research Institute on the island that once hid and housed his persecuted ancestors.

In order to learn the origin of Lucy the Queen, he searched for her parents. After discovering that Kaede's mother had the ability to give birth to fully-reproductive Diclonii, Chief Kakuzawa worked hard to produce more Queen-level Diclonius. Only one Diclonius was born from this, a fully-reproductive male, born from Kakuzawa's rape of his and Kaede's mother, shortly before her suicide. Despite dissection of her reproductive organs, attempts at insemination and other methods, the boy remained the only result.

Lebensborn Project

Kakuzawa and his family developed a eugenics project, with the goal to build a New Humanity, made of only pure diclonii, and destroy the 'old foolish' Humanity. The project was divided into two steps: the first was to spread the Diclonius virus on a global scale. While this was achieved, its goal was halted by the vaccine that ironically his son began developing in order to have control over the Diclonius. The second was to make Lucy the Queen, be the Mitochondrial Eve of the new Humanity.

His daughter, Anna, lacked the family's genius-level intellectual as well as their mark of superiority, horns. Still striving to be useful to him, Anna agreed to endure experiments on herself, and seemingly became a monstrously-sized globe-like creature in which form she could compute impossibly complex sets of detailed probabilities involving her father's plans, but was forced to float in the underground lake due to her mass. She became the Lebensborn Oracle. Despite the pain involved, she was happy to serve her father. Kakuzawa truly believed that he had created a Goddess.

Lucy's escape

After three years, Lucy managed to escape from the Diclonius Research Institute. The next day, Director Kurama immediately sends SAT to Kamakura, in order to locate and strike down Lucy, but the mission fails. Chief Kakuzawa, after learning that Kurama ordered SAT to kill rather than re-capture Lucy, warns him to use other methods. Despite a parental affection, Kurama then sends Nana, the only Diclonius Silpelit that can be managed without threat, to find Lucy, by using her "Diclonius Telepathy", but again the re-capture fails, ending with the brutal dismemberment of Nana.

Seeing her as useless, Chief Kakuzawa orders Kurama to kill Nana, knowing of their affection. But Kurama disobeys and releases Nana. Chief Kakuzawa, in order to make Kurama pay for his disobedience, orders Shirakawa to send Silpelit # 35, Kurama's true daughter, to re-capture Lucy, and if the chance arose, to kill Nana.

The Project fails

In the end, Kakuzawa recaptured Lucy and revealed his master plan to her. Lucy rejected it all, saying he had believed a myth about his family, that Diclonius were Human after all and then finally killing both him and her half-brother by him, feeling that their bloodline must die. Lucy also seemingly killed Anna, who admitted she knew her family was not truly Diclonius, but who allowed her father to keep his delusion to the end. His legacy was slowly destroyed as the island was bombarded and hundreds of angry Diclonius girls awoke. Only Anna, who had not been killed and whose monster form was only a shell for her real body, survived of all the family. His headless body was taken by the sea as the island where he thought he would remake the world sank beneath the waves.

Personality

Chief Kakuzawa shared the immense hatred the majority of his family felt for non-horned Humans, a trait that first developed because of the discrimination his clan suffered for ages.

He was an utter psychopath and fanatic, using anyone, including his own children, to accomplish the dominance of the Diclonii.

He was also a very cold man, almost inhuman, not feeling any remorse for killing people, raping women, and even using his own children. He would personally shoot and kill others by his own hand. For example, he had virtually no discernible reaction to the death of his eldest son. Once, merely to prove a point, he shot through his own hand.

Despite his psychopathic personality, Kakuzawa was a very intellectual, cultured and intelligent person, a trait shared by his family, in an effort to prove themselves superior to Humans.

However, he appeared to have a little bit of Humanity inside him, as he told his own daughter Anna that just because she didn't have horns, that wouldn't make her dumb, but that she only learned slowly. When he radically transformed her into a giant monster, in order to give her precognitive powers, he truly believed that he had made her a Goddess. But even then, the globe-like form was not her true body, but a mere shell that had grown around it. It seems that he made it this way, in order to not let it damage her real body, but it's also possible that it there was no other way, or that he needed a failsafe to control her with, should the need arise.

The Chief had an immense fixation on the Judaeo-Christian/Western Monotheistic Biblical story of Genesis, and he believed firmly that being the father of the 'New Adam' would in effect, make him the one true God, displacing the original in the minds of the new dominant race to come. Like his belief that his and Lucy's people were of the same species, his fixation appears to have blinded him to the notion that trying to displace God and Humanity would in effect make him Lucifer.

Trivia

• The timeframe of the Chief personally learning of Lucy's existence and the capture of Lucy's mother is unknown, and may have preceded that of his son and Kurama. Given his penchant for complete secrecy, it can be speculated that Kakuzawa may have also known of and allowed Kaede/Lucy's father to abandon her as an infant, wishing to see her power grow and her view of Humans darken.
• It is said by some that the Diclonii were chosen by God as the new Humanity. This belief was an obvious influence on Kakuzawa, since he considered the Diclonii and his ancestors to be superior to regular humans. He was known to quote passages from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
• Besides Lebensborn, there are many parallels between Chief Kakuzawa and Adolf Hitler, including the belief in a diluted bloodline from an ancient Master Race. Ironically, Nazi scientists, when classifying Humans into 'approved' groups, often assigned horn-like protrusions to members of 'inferior' types of people, whereas the Kakuzawas considered them a sign of superiority.

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