Mugenji

Mugenji is a character who appears in *Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage*, voiced by Enma Itō. He is a homicidal murderer driven insane by his abnormal obsession with beauty and butterflies. As a child, he was ostracized by his village for his unruly appearance, often living alone in fields of flowers. A blind girl named Ocho (meaning 'butterfly') befriended him. One day, Ocho told him excitedly that she would see a doctor to gain her sight. For dubious reasons – implied to be his fear of her seeing what he looks like – he strangles her to death. Believing he will be reborn as a butterfly, Mugenji travels across the land, killing anyone in his path. In his ending, he defeats the Three Blades of Dominion and returns to a field full of flowers and butterflies. He collapses, mortally spent from his wounds. As a butterfly whisks above him, he crushes it. Mugenji developed a strange philosophy due to his childhood inferiority complex. According to it, all dark, evil deeds and emotions are welcome, while all light and good things are vile and should be punished. As a self-proclaimed servant of darkness, he needs to constantly slaughter good people as sacrifices to a dark lord and purify the land. He is highly protective of his "sanctuary," believing others "defile" this sacred area and scare away the butterflies. Mugenji's fighting style is similar to Yaci and Yuda, based on reversals, stuns, and a projectile that drains an opponent's life bar. His main strength lies in close combat, where his normal attacks enable long combos. If he empties an opponent's first life bar with Issen and sustains 15 seconds without taking damage (and without fully depleting the next lifebar), a butterfly appears on the opponent. The effects of this are unknown. His sword, made of Damascus steel, is believed to be non-Japanese and resembles a large nata with a spike.