Sho Minamimoto

From The World Ends With You

Name	Sho Minamimoto
Age	18
Noise form	Leo Cantus
Classification	High-ranking Officer, Game Master in Joshua's Chapter
Nicknames	Pi-Face, The Grim Heaper, Tabooty, Dr. Pin (In Another Day chapter)
Voice Actor	Japanese: 藤本隆行 (Fujimoto Takayuki) English: Andy Hirsch

Contents 1 Main Information 1.1 Personality 1.2 Story 1.3 Abilities

[edit] Main Information

Sho Minamimoto is the youngest Game Master of the Reapers in Shibuya, 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.

[edit] Personality

Sho Minamimoto cannot refrain from making a calculation or from telling a maths 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.

Some of his quotes are:

• (It's x 2) DIE!
• SINE!
• COSINE!
• TANGENT!
• CRUNCH! I'll add it to the heap!
• Any tree can drop an apple. I'll drop the freaking moon.

(Written on a junk pile.)

• Any sound can shake the air. My voice shakes the heart!

(Written on a junk pile.)

• You're so zetta slow!

("Zetta-" is a prefix used for metric (SI) measurements, and is equivalent to 10²¹, or one sextillion.)

• Factoring Hectopascals

(Pascal is a SI unit for pressure and thus, cannot be factored.)

• Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally!

(It's a mnemonic for Parenthesis; Exponentials; Multiplication; Division; Addition; Subtraction)

• SOH-CAH-TOA! ("Some Old Horses Can Always Hear Their Owner Approach" or "Slabs of Ham, Celery And Horseradish, Tons Of Asparagus")

(It's a mnemonic for trigonometric functions: Sine = Opposite / Hypotenuse; Cosine = Adjacent / Hypotenuse; Tangent = Opposite / Adjacent)

• Attention, all yoctograms!

("Yocto-" is a metric (SI) prefix that is equivalent to 10^-24, or one septillionth.)

• This is subtracting from my arts and crafts time.
• What the factor took so long?
• Who gives a digit?
• Stupid 000s!
• You're outta your vector!
• Die, radians!
• The world is garbage!
• Inverse matrix!
• You zetta sons of digits!
• INFINITY!
• FOIL; First outer inner last!
• Where's your beauty?
• 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937 510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211 706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111!

(The first 156 digits of pi.)

• Alright, it's time...
• Hmm? Why, hello! This mic is zetta sexy!
• Prepare to be iterated

His attack against Joshua at the end of week 2 is called Level i Flare.

the i is in italics, referring to imaginary unit i. In Final Fantasy games, there is a spell called Level x Flare (x is an natural number which changes from game to game) which casts a specific spell on characters with a level at a multiple of x. A Level i Flare would work on 2 factors, where the RG body of the victim is and if they are in an imaginary no. world. The first condition, should the player not be dead will be hit in the UG and RG. The second condition, if active, would annihilate the victim in all planes, possibly being able to hurt the Composer.

[edit] Story

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.

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 when 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 UG 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. While this may be a side-effect of his unique Taboo/Reaper makeup, it is also possible that Sho is still "alive", and was merely incapacitated.

[edit] 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, his Noise form. Leo Cantus is an anthropomorphic (humanoid) lion. (As evidenced by its name.) 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.

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. Though he no longer summons Taboo Noise, he is vastly more powerful in this second form and sometimes drains HP upon contact. 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.