| Toshio Ozaki | |
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| Name Kanji | 尾崎 敏夫 Ozaki Toshio |
| Race | Human |
| Age | 32 |
| Status | Alive |
| Gender | Male |
| Personal Status | |
| Occupation | Doctor |
| First appearance | |
| Anime Debut | Episode 1 |
| Portrayal | |
| Seiyū | Ookawa Tooru |
| Voice Actor | David Wald |
- "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 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 Shikis, carefully approching the supernatural rationally and with logic as when Ikumi confronted him with most of the villagers on her claim that the existences of the Shikis 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 Shikis, he became more determine to put an end to the Shikis, 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.
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.
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.
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