Dr. Koshiro Kisaragi is the inventor of the Airborne Element Fixing Device and the father of Honey Kisaragi in Cutie Honey: The Live. He is portrayed by Cutie Honey's creator Go Nagai
History
In the special DVD exclusive episode of the series, Dr. Kisaragi's backstory is given. Koshiro was a scientist who was obsessed with completing his work on the Airborne Element Fixing Device. Because of this, his wife divorced him and left their daughter in his care after she was born. He showed little affection for his daughter and cared only about completing his work. While he was working on the device, his daughter tried to give him a letter of encouragement on a playing card only to be disintegrated by the device, much to Dr. Kisaragi's horror. However, he at first coldly considered it as the first experimental data on the project, stating in his diary that his device could destroy humans. As time went on however, he began feeling grief over the loss of his daughter and emotions of denial and obsession about bringing her back, going so far as to say she merely "disappeared" in his diary. He then began experiments on unwilling test subjects to bring his daughter back, starting with Miki Saotome, killing her parents using the device and abducting her. He brainwashed her and reformatted her memory to be exactly like Honey, then used her as a test subject for his "Honey System" a smaller version of his device.
He later considers the first experiment a failure, as Miki's memories began to resurface and her Honey System began to go out of control. He then planned to discard her and use a new test subject, a terminally ill girl named Yuki Kenmochi, he killed her parents using the device and abducted her from the hospital. He reformatted her memory entirely and added an artificial organ to better regulate the Honey System. He also removed the cancer from Yuki's body. Despite this, the system was still flawed and caused random objects to appear out of nowhere. He then sent Yuki away to a fake family to live with to get rid of her and hoped she would die from the device inside of her. Frustrated with the failures of both experiments, Dr. Kisaragi decided to build an android who would be the perfect representation of his daughter. A being who would embody unconditional love for humanity as well as himself. However as he constructs Honey, Miki learns the truth about her past as well as Dr. Kisaragi's intent on killing her to destroy the evidence of her parents murder. Miki confronts him and in her rage kills him by stabbing him in the gut with the Boomerang Bleu. Honey wakes up for the first time, searching for her father, only to find his corpse lying on the ground.
Personality
Unlike previous incarnations of the character Dr. Kisaragi, who were benevolent scientists caught up in the machinations of Panther Claw leading to their death. Koshiro is depicted as a cold individual who is obsessed with his work and cares little of the consequences of his actions, save for the death of his daughter. His death is a result of his own selfishness rather than at the hands of Panther Claw. His actions of murder and kidnapping to regain his daughter make him a much more of an evil mad scientist incarnation of the character, despite his sympathetic intentions.
Notes
- Dr. Koshiro Kisaragi's motivations can be compared to that of Sou Fueki from Kamen Rider Wizard. As both men lost their daughters and would willingly cause death and destruction to ressurect them.