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Name: Sho Minamimoto

Age: 18

Noise form Leo Cantus

Classification: High-ranking Officer, Game Master in Joshua's Chapter

Nickname(s): Pi-Face, The Grim Heaper, Tabooty, Dr. Pin (In Another Day chapter), Junior (In "Another Day" chapter)

-Quotes-

'So zetta slow!'

'Factoring hectopascals!'

'Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally! '

'ZETTA SLOW.'

'Alright it's time.'

'i blew it..'

'do the math!'

'sine!'

'co-sine!'

'Tangent!!'

'infinity!!'

'Stupid sine curve!'

'this mic is Zetta sexy!'

'DIE radian!!'

'Hollow-skulled hectopascals!!'


'SOH-CAH-TOA!'

'Attention, all yoctograms!'

'FOIL; First outer inner last!'

-Personality-

Sho Minamimoto cannot refrain from making a calculation or from telling a math joke during conversation. Arrogant, he ceaselessly tries to prove his value and his strength. He has a strange habit of gathering together junk heaps when playing the part of game master, claiming that they are a precisely calculated form of art; this can be viewed as performance art reflecting his views that "The world is garbage" and lacks any beauty.

~Story~

Sho Minamimoto is the youngest Game Master of the Reapers in Shibuya at 18, and the second Game Master Neku battles. More a mathematician than a brawler, it is revealed he excels in all areas of leadership except one -- he will not cooperate with others. Given his obsession with mathematics, he loves to speak in mathematical terms with other people.

Sho Minamimoto is selected as Game Master for Week 2, though he has little regard for the rules of the Game. For most of Week 2, he does not issue missions or report to the Conductor. He also begins creating Taboo Noise, erasing Reapers and Players alike. He personally meets Neku and Joshua on several occasions, mostly in order to insult them. Each time Sho approaches, Neku receives a severe headache for reasons unknown. (It is thought that because Sho and Joshua were both present when Neku was killed, seeing them both in the same place stresses his mind and puts it on the brink of relapsing and remembering what happened to him. However, since Joshua has taken this memory, he cannot recover it on his own, and was stuck with just a headache)

After Minamimoto is defeated by Neku and Joshua, he releases a powerful Leveli Flare psych, which apparently erases both himself and Joshua, though Joshua escapes to an alternate reality and Minamimoto returns in Week 3, emerging from a Taboo Noise refinery sigil in a new body with far greater powers.

Later in Week Three, he makes his way to the Shibuya river to challenge the Composer. After a brief encounter with Neku and Beat, he is sent along by Mitsuki Konishi. After Neku and Beat defeat the GM, they find Minamimoto further along the tunnel crushed under a car and a soda machine, apparently dead. Later it is revealed that in the RG before the game even started, it was in fact Joshua who killed Neku in search of a Proxy, and that Minamimoto's target had been Joshua, the Composer, the whole time.

Joshua explains that Minamimoto was obsessed with taking over his job as Composer and had somehow discovered what his RG self looked like even though he'd suppressed his vibe. Joshua also comments that the only reason he kept Minamimoto around was because he 'really knew how to heat up a Game' but had to 'retire him early'. However, all previously seen Players, Reapers, and Noise disappear entirely upon being "killed" (erased), whereas Sho's physical body remained, thus leading to the conclusion that he was just knocked out. It is currently unknown if he survived the event through the game.

In the alternate universe of "Another Day", Sho is known as "Dr. Pin", and seems to be the apprentice of ramen chef and former Tin Pin founder Ken Doi. This Sho appears much less malicious than his counterpart, and freely gives advice to Shooter, Neku and company. Though the pins he develops are rather lacking, he does create a new Launcher for Shooter, taking on the appearance of his Taboo form in the process, giving him a more wreaked appearance (noting that he must have had some difficulty while creating the Omega Launcher).

It is also revealed in the secret reports after the game is completed that Minamimoto's Taboo Noise experiments were actually aided secretly by Hanekoma himself.

-Abilities-

Minamimoto is able to summon Taboo Noise. Hanekoma states in early Secret Reports that Minamimoto was taught the techniques to summon Taboo Noise by a "Fallen Angel." It is later revealed that the "Fallen Angel" was in fact Hanekoma himself. Minamimoto uses his abilities at the beginning of his battle against Neku and Joshua. When he enters the battle himself, he transforms into Leo Cantus (レオカンタス, Reo Kantasu?, Latin for "singing lion"), his Noise form. Leo Cantus is an anthropomorphic (humanoid) lion. Unlike most Reapers in Noise form, Minamimoto transforms by absorbing Taboo Noise and is treated as one - he exists on only one screen, leaving the other partner to deal with the Taboo Noise he absorbed. Destroying all of the Taboo Noise causes him to revert to normal for a few seconds before he switches screens and repeats the process. Also unlike most Reapers who enter Noise form, Minamimoto's wings shatter prior to the fight with him, suggesting that he is no longer a Reaper. Also of interest; most Reapers only have two wings, while Minamimoto had six, a possible reference to seraphim, or the Satan portrayed in Dante's Inferno.

After his defeat, Minamimoto is revived through his Taboo Noise refinery sigil, becoming a corrupted version of his former self. The corrupted portions of his skin, especially around his midsection, bears some resemblance to the Leo Noise symbol upon closer inspection. The Leo Noise symbol can also be seen as his belt buckle, similar to Higashizawa. Though he no longer summons Taboo Noise, he is vastly more powerful in this second form and recovers some HP upon time. In both forms, he attacks primarily using energy bursts (with a cry of "Infinity!") and has the frequently-used ability to teleport to evade attacks.