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Minoru Kamiya (神谷 実 Kamiya Minoru?), also known by the alias, "The Doctor" (医者ドクター, Dokutā, literally translated as Doctor) is a secret criminal agent and a former member of the Sensui Seven.

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Minoru Kamiya, a character in Yu Yu Hakusho, utilizes his medical expertise for harmful deeds. He targets specific body points to cause severe damage, demonstrated when he paralyzed Kido. His primary ability, Body Chemical Manipulation, lets him alter his body's chemistry. He used this power to create a virus. He eradicates witnesses to his actions, and frames others for his crimes. He also released a swarm of altered Makai insects in a hospital with the intent to exterminate all occupants.
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Minoru Kamiya, a character in the Yu Yu Hakusho series, uses his medical expertise and energy scalpel to paralyze Kido by targeting specific pressure points and joints.
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In the anime and manga series Yu Yu Hakusho, Minoru Kamiya carries the alias 'Doctor'. He formerly served as a member of the Sensui Seven and currently operates as a freelancing physician.
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Minoru Kamiya, alias 'The Doctor', was a clandestine operative and ex-member of the Sensui Seven. Concurrently working as a hospital physician, he pledged allegiance to Sensui, driven by his belief in human malevolence. His disdain for mankind led him to a drastic decision: to perish along with humanity by enabling a dimensional rift, thereby unleashing demons.
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Personality[]

Ironically, as a doctor, he developed the power to save those who would otherwise die, but he instead chose to use his gifts to kill. Doctor is one of the cruelest characters in the series. He paralyzed Kido's spine, and attempted to murder an entire hospital full of patients and workers. Minoru believed that the human race was diseased, and therefore fully devoted himself to destroying his species. He also didn't seem to mind at all that he may also be killed by the demons he would unleash on the Earth. He was also not above lying to his opponents in battle to lure them into a false sense of security. These aspects and actions echoed of similar sentiments expressed by psychopathic spree killers and mass murderers. However, at the end of the Chapter Black Saga, he seems to have given humanity a second chance, and is using his powers to help people.

In his fight with Yusuke, he claimed killing was “like a narcotic,” and he needed to continuously kill to block out the feelings of guilt. This suggests he may not have been as heartless as he appeared and may explain why he renounced his murderous ways. He seemed fond of his ally, Sniper (enough to heal the other man when Doctor found him unconscious) and apparently respected Yusuke’s team. He commented after examining Sniper’s wound that he didn’t think Sensui could beat them, though it is unclear if he was impressed with Hiei's skill, his resolve not to kill unnecessarily, or both.

His experiences in the medical world and the number of people he witnessed die of disease, violence, and even just old age may have been contributing factors to his extreme reaction to the Chapter Black video tape compared to the other members of Sensui's faction. As a medical practitioner, he has seen his fair share of horror and death, making him especially susceptible to mental breakdowns, as heightened stress is a common mental and physical health problem for people who work in the medical field.

Background[]

Sensui Seven[]

While he continued to serve as a general hospital physician, Kamiya joined the Sensui Seven and pledged loyalty to Sensui himself after he began to believe that humans are an evil species bent on destruction. Due to the Chapter Black video footage, and other nerve-racking personal experiences, Kamiya began to hate mankind. As a result, he decided that it would be best to die and take all of mankind with him in a grand fashion, by allowing the dimensional rift to split open and demons to roam freely between worlds, ultimately bringing an end to mankind. He explains that at least he would die with a mound of corpses. After accepting and wanting to die himself, Kamiya hopes to spread his mentality of death and bring misery upon the Earth's population.

Shortly afterwards, Kamiya diagnosed Sensui with aggressive malignant tumors; his prognosis was that Sensui only had two weeks left.

Chapter Black Saga[]

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Kamiya fighting Yusuke

Kamiya uses the identity of the Doctor in order to assume control of a general hospital he is stationed at. After Murota is shot by Sniper and sent for emergency care, the hospital is infiltrated by Yusuke and his comrades, after Doctor triggers his Territory to lure them out and strike them down in deceitful fashion. He also goes as far as to eliminate anyone who sees his actions in order to ensure that no survivors would tell of his identity. After his cover is blown by a fellow nurse while deceiving and incapacitating Kido, Kamiya uses his guise to try to frame Kido as the suspect and evade suspicion. Kido tries to tell Yusuke that Kamiya is "The Doctor", and successfully does so upon dislocating his shadow and writing out the culprit's name in his own blood. Kamiya proceeds to swiftly and skillfully eliminate a room full of nurses and doctors and goes all out in his plans upon being discovered, by sending out the Makai insects he modified to plague and kill everyone in the hospital. Doctor then tries to take out Yusuke, but to no avail, while Yusuke tries to get Doctor to cease the plague on the hospital without trying to kill him. As Doctor tries to pry into Yusuke's mind with guilt and psychology, Mitsunari Yanagisawa appears in the body of a nurse in order to trick Kamiya, tossing sulfuric acid onto his face.

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The Doctor getting interrogated by the police

The disguise is effective to an extent, and while Yusuke gives Doctor another chance, Murota rushes out to warn Yusuke of Doctor's ruse, in that he has no cure and he is only feigning giving in to trick him. Having no other choice and in disgust, Yusuke then proceeds to brutally pulverize Kamiya. Although beaten severely to the margins of death, Doctor is partially revived by Genkai. He is later imprisoned and explains that he is proud of his actions and only the end of man could satisfy him.


Aftermath[]

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Kamiya talking to Hagiri

Kamiya somehow manages to escape from police captivity and later on he meets up once again with Kaname Hagiri in a forest. During this brief rendezvous, Kamiya talks about how all the demon insects he modified have all vanished and tells Hagiri that due to the precision and laceration of the slash Hagiri had received from Hiei earlier, he knew that the Sensui Seven would not succeed. He explains that their loss was imminent. After accepting their defeat, Kamiya tells Hagiri he will have to go into hiding for a while.

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The Doctor's new face.

He is later seen walking past a wanted poster of himself. After briefly examining the poster, he continues to walk away. This is his last appearance in the series. He is said to have changed his appearance, especially his facial features and eye color, using his skills of plastic surgery in order to evade the law. He eventually labeled his skill "psychic healing" and founded a dojo (an institution which he ironically uses to save millions of lives in the English dub) of the "miracle hand," apparently in connection to his surgical skills.

Powers and Abilities[]

Fighting Style[]

Mad Doctor: Out of Sensui's followers, Doctor seems to be the most psychologically damaged from the video, as seen in the way he battles. Once he is revealed, the calm, caring façade of the doctor is no more, replaced with an insane killer who resorts to extreme violence in order to get things done. Because he has tinkered with his body to be much stronger and faster, as well as lose all sense of pain, he is able to fight to the fullest that his body is capable of, with the only way to stop him being death (knocking him unconscious is possible but exceedingly difficult). Despite his psychopathy, he retains enough of his self and medical knowledge to be able to aim for specific points of the body for devastating effects, as shown when he paralyzed Kido. His precision as a doctor as well as his brutality as a murderer makes him a fearsome opponent.

  • Body Chemical Manipulation : Kamiya's main special ability allows him to psychically manipulate his body's chemistry when his territory is activated.
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      Doctor's Virus

      He used this ability to create a disease, and modified the demon insects (that appeared when the tunnel to the Makai began opening) in a way that they could contain and inject people with the virus. The insect's sting infects his victims and slowly kills them, while causing severe pain and a significant decrease in body heat. The weaker the victims energy, the faster the virus can kill them. The only way to stop the virus is to kill him or knock him unconscious.
    • His tweaking of his body's chemistry, such as increasing adrenaline, grants him superhuman strength, speed, and endurance. He can even nullify his ability to feel pain by cutting off his analeptic chemicals, making it extremely difficult for him to fall unconscious.
    • He can reattach severed body parts, as he did when Yusuke blew his arm off. This process is near-instantaneous and also fixes his shirt and lab coat. This makes him even more difficult to defeat without resorting to lethal force.
  • Physic Scalpel YYH

    Psychic Scalpel

    Psychic Scalpel: By focusing his energy in his fingers, Kamiya can turn his fingers into an energy scalpel that can slice through body parts. He is even able to reattach his own limbs should they be severed from their body. The wave of energy created by this technique is exceedingly sharp as it sliced through metal and concrete with Yusuke needing to dodge the attack rather than take it head on.
  • Paralyzing Strikes YYH

    Kamiya paralyzing Kido

    Paralyzing Strikes: Thanks to his medical knowledge and with his energy scalpel, he can bind foes by striking certain pressure points/joints.

Trivia[]

  • His given name is the same as one of Shinobu Sensui's seven multiple personalities.
  • Since each of Sensui's Seven represent one of the seven deadly sins, Doctor represents Wrath in how he will almost always resort to violence to get his job done.
  • In the English dub, his name is mispronounced once as Kamaiya.
  • Doctor became a former member of the Sensui Seven. But ultimately, Kamiya did not become an ally of Team Urameshi, like Sniper and Amanuma, except for Mitarai, who joined Urameshi and his team. Instead, he lives a normal life.
  • He is the second enemy to use Demon World Insects to attack the Human World (the first one was Suzaku).
  • It is worth noting that Kamiya's appearance, both before and after, is basically identical to psychopathic villain Sōsuke Aizen from Tite Kubo's Bleach.
  • In consideration of this arc's horror themes, Minoru's surname Kamiya rhymes with that of the Mamiya artist household, the central figures of the 1988 horror film Sweet Home.

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Members: Shinobu Sensui | Itsuki | Kaname Hagiri | Minoru Kamiya | Kiyoshi Mitarai | Tsukihito Amanuma | Sadao Makihara | Elder Toguro
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