Matoba Jin

arrogant, graceful, aloof, sterile, ruthless, deep, gentle, cold Blood Knight: He wanders the Earth challenging other strong martial artists and killing them in duels, until he crosses paths with Ryo. Bolivian Army Ending: At the end of episode 39 a heavily wounded Jin walks into Zydos and a large squad of Mooks. He is seen beating the shit out of a lot of them, but the final shot of the episode consists of Jin being shot at. Empowered Badass Normal: After being defeated by Ryo, he receives a power boost from Zydos, giving him the ability to use Youryuku. Freudian Excuse: His own master treated him poorly, cutting off his original left arm. Involuntary Shapeshifting: Zydos manages to turn him into a skeletal werewolfish creature named Garouki. Literal Split Personality: The rangers are able to split both his Garouki form and his original human form apart from each other, able to take out Garouki without killing Jin and freeing Jin from Zydos' curse. Not in This for Your Revolution: Zydos looks forward to use Jin as a powerful subordinate to defeat the Dairangers with, and offers to empower him in hopes to sway Jin to his side. Jin takes the power boost from Zydos, but then kicks him off, making it clear that he won't serve him, claiming he obeys no one, and leaves. Though this doesn't prevent Zydos from using him anyway. The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Pulls this in episode 35, when he jumps in front of an attack meant for Ryo. Our Werewolves Are Different: Zydos has him cursed to become Garouki, a skeletal werewolf monster that attacks anyone it sees. Red Right Hand: After being empowered by Zydos, his prosthetic left arm becomes grotesquely deformed, looking demonic. The Rival: To Ryo. That Man Is Dead: He says this to his former girlfriend Aki, when she tries to reason with him and stop him from his dark and violent path. He claims he died ever since his master cut his left arm off, and warns her not to come close to him or he'll kill her. She insists and later be killed by Jin. From beyond the grave Jin delivers one to Ryo when the latter is about to give up after Kaku has disbanded the Dairangers to prevent Daijinryuu from coming back to Earth and destroying the world. Jin points out to Ryo that Kaku's existence is not tied to the Dairangers and that he, Ryo, must remain calm and not let his emotions get in his way. Worthy Opponent: Gradually forms this bond with Ryo. At first, they couldn't stand each others guts. Ryo because Jin casually kills martial artists and Jin because Ryo defeated him once. During Jins final appearance, Ryo shows genuine concern for him, while Jin grudgingly shows gratefulness for this. A story to describe him: Death by Hanahaki is slow and painful.  It takes months for the flowers to take root in a victim's lungs.  Even longer for petals to form, to grow enough that they spill out and warn the victim of their impending doom.  Some live for years while the disease takes root in their chest, vines wrapping around their heart as they wither away.