- "This is my clinic, understand!? I'm not going to let you in so just give up! Get out of here! Go!"
- ―Toshio to Nao
Personality
Many aspects of his personality are what might be expected from a doctor. He cares greatly for his patients and would do everything he can to save them, as he became increasingly distressed when he failed to save his patients. He always puts his patients lives above all else, as he would use drastic measures to save them and he doesn't do it out of the Ozaki family name or for the money.
He is serious and reliable during his work, though he can be cranky and sarcastic. He is also friendly and kind to his friends, young people and children in the village. However, he can also be extremely cunning, intuitive, fearless and daring, especially when planning on how to eradicate the Shiki, carefully approching the supernatural rationally and with logic as when Ikumi confronted him with most of the villagers on her claim that the existence of the Shiki being the cause of all the deaths, he denied any of her claims, as he didn't had proof of the Shikis. At the beginning of the series, when he continued to failed in saving his patients, he became more frustrated and agitated to the point where he would lashed out at people, friends or patients, something which he usually doesn't do.
After the failure to save Setsuko from the Shiki, he became more determine to put an end to the Shiki, even going far in dissecting on his wife, who had just turned into a Shiki in order to learn how to kill them. During the Shiki extermination, he displayed qualities of leadership. As noted from Seishin, during their childhood days, Toshio was very rebellious and he still is, though it had been toned down as he matured.
Plot
As a child he played in the clinic with Seishin Muroi. When he was young he never liked to lose. He wasn't the sort that would want to be an underling of the older children, so he and Seishin Muroi would always play together. This worked out well because Seishin was shy and Toshio could be in charge. Mikiyasu Yasumori, who was four years younger, would always fallow them along. His father pressured him to become a doctor.
He knew Seishin since he was young. Seishin and he were both pressured to take over their family business. Though Toshio knew his duty dince he was young, Seishin tried to deny it.
Three years ago, his father's death forced him to return to the village. He had to intention to returning to the village before this.
On August 12th, Megumi is found be villagers. She can stand and the villagers call Toshio Ozaki.
Dr. Ozaki goes to Megumi's house where her parents thank him for coming all the way there. He finds that there isn't anything wrong with her physically. She won't eat anything. She doesn't have a fever, just some insect bites. She is found to be anemic. He says that he is going to draw some blood. Her parents are both relieved. Mugumi says that she's very sleepy. She can only remember being welcomed by Tatsumi and Seishirou Kirishiki.
After the murder of Setsuko Yasumori, Toshio could never forgice the shiki and decided o drive them out of town.
Appearance
Toshio has tan skin, brown eyes and messy brown hair, and has a facial stubble. He is always seen wearing a white lab coat over a T-shirt and blue pants. As the deaths of Sotoba kept increasing, his appearance becomes haggard and strained with tired eyes due to him working non-stop in finding a way to stop the Shikis. After being targeted as Prey by Chiziru (also Natsuno). His tan fades and his skin is bright white. His tan returns later on In the series.
Biography
He is one of the two main protagonists in the series. The dean of the hospital in Sotoba, Toshio resigned from university hospital, returning to take up his father's position when he died. He is fondly given a nickname, "Waka-sensei" (young doctor), by his colleagues as well as the residents. Toshio dislikes both his mother and his late father, as both of them often put reputation of the Ozaki family before anything else. He is childhood friends with Seishin Muroi and Mikiyasu Yasumori. Toshio is 32 years old and married to a woman, Kyoko, whom he rarely sees, and he is a chain smoker.
He is the first to make a bold decision to hunt the Shiki. His hard faced determination leads him to a truly human depth that is unlayered throughout the series, as he tries to rationalize what is moral and what is not when handling the sentient, emotionally equivalent, Shiki and their human pawns.
Battle Against the Shiki
He is baffled by the mysterious deaths and swears to solve the case and protect his village. He is one of the first people to discover the existence of the Shiki and later becomes the leader of the resistance against them. He exposes Chizuru as a Shiki in front of many of the villagers. He also participates in the extermination of the village and survives the attempts on his life.
The End
In the final episode, he is among the last to escape the fires that ultimately consume Sotoba.
Relationships
Ozaki
- "I'm yelling instead of listening, just like him..."
- ―Toshio
Toshio did not seem to have a good relation ship with his father. Since he was young, his father pressured him into becoming a doctor, as he was the only Ozaki child. [1] He also worries that he is becoming like his father.
Kyouko Ozaki
- "I'm yelling instead of listening, just like him..."
- ―Toshio
Kyouko is the wife of Toshio. It's revealed in the manga that Toshio didn't really care for her. When he was working part time out of town, he met her. Her father owned the store where he worked. Once she found out that he was going to medical school and inheriting the hospital, she started to show more interest in him. He didn't truly like her either, though, and thinks that he probably did it so he wouldn't have to marry a girl that his parents chose for him.[2]
Seishin Muroi
- I do not want to become a mass murderer. There is no such thing as righteous justice when it comes to killing others, no matter what moral duty obliges you to.
- Allow me to tell you something, since you don't realize it yourself... People like you are called hypocrites.
Toshio and Seishin were friends since they were children. Both of them were pressured into continuing their family business. [3]
Family Tree
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Anime Appearances
Trivia
- He's a chain smoker.
- He's the first person who recovers from a blood drain by Natsuno and Chizuru, who had both bitten him.
- ↑ You are the Ozaki heir. You understand, don't you? (Sixth Skull)
- ↑ I can't remember at all... Why I chose Kyouko as my wife. I can remember us dating up until the wedding. The first time we met, it was at my part-time job. While I was a student at the iniversity in town, I worked at the cafe of an antique shop. Kyouko was the owners daughter. When kyouko learned that I was a medical student and on top of that, inheriting a hospital, she started to talk to me more frequently. After graduating university, I worked at the town hospital and we started dating, but from that time onward there's nothing. That's probably all there was to it. (Volume 6, Chapter 20
- ↑ We are not tools to carry on our family name! We are individuals with free will! Therefore, we have the right to live our life as we please! -Seishin to Toshio (Volume 6, Chapter 20)
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