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Character
Shuten-Douji
酒呑童子
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Due to her anecdotes and vestiges, she is classified as an "anti-hero." Assassin's True Name is Shuten Douji, one of Japan's Three Great Monsters. In the Heian Era, Shuten was the king of Mount Ooe who was a commander of many fearsome demons. There are many origin stories surrounding Shuten Douji. One goes that she was born on Mount Ibuki to Yamata-no-Orochi and a human girl, another says she descended as the Dragon King Kuzuryuu's godsend. But no matter what, she is the child of a dragon god: something she shar…
