Tamaki Amajiki, also known as the Omnivore Hero: Suneater, was a student in Class 3-A[4] at U.A. High School and was part of The Big 3.[5]
Following the Final War, Tamaki graduated from U.A. and becomes a Pro Hero,[6] as well as Fat Gum's Sidekick.[7] Eight years later, he is the current No. 18 Hero.[8]
Appearance#
Tamaki is a tall young man with rather pale skin. His ears are longer than most, their tips pointy and somewhat elf-like. He has messy, dark indigo hair, which sticks out behind his head, and thin, tired-looking eyes, partially covered by his bangs. Tamaki's shoulders are usually hunched, and he avoids eye contact with people. Eight years following the Final War, Tamaki has cut his hair much shorter.
In his school uniform, Tamaki dresses like most of the male students, although wears his tie slightly loosened, his shirt is only partially tucked in, and has a belt with a large, round, golden buckle.
Tamaki's hero costume consists of a black bodysuit decorated with beige plating around the arms and shoulders. He dons a white tunic, matching cape, and hood with more beige layering on the top. The cape connects to a scarf-like collar with a silver front mask, while also sporting a thin beige mask with a transparent purple lens over his face, and a matching purple carrier vest with brown straps and multiple pouches. He is also barefoot, giving him more freedom when using his Quirk.
Eight years after the Final War, his hero costume has receive some significant changes. His mask remains the same, but his carrier vest and pouches are now dark green with white wrist armors and a black bodysuit, and his tunic and hood are colored an intimidating scarlet. The latter is also redesigned with white jaw-like spikes decorating the opening, giving it a more sinister appearance. Additionally, there is a small straw-like protrusion on the left side of his cheek, possibly to help quickly administer food and power his Quirk.
Personality#
Tamaki is extremely shy, aloof, depressed, "intimidating", and introverted, especially around big audiences. He gets nervous very easily when talking to other people. If his anxiety gets the best of him, Tamaki will often face away and lean into a wall to hide his face from others.[9] This also happens whenever Tamaki has a bad feeling or feels insulted.[10]
While his physical abilities and Quirk are outstanding, Tamaki is socially awkward and lacks confidence in his powers. He feels overwhelmed by the pressure to be perfect, which has damaged his self-esteem.[11] Tamaki is quick to point out when others are too optimistic in his pessimistic opinion and cannot recognize his achievements. His pessimism directly contrasts with Fat Gum's optimism. Even after being complimented by Fat Gum, Tamaki often takes his mentor's praise for taunting.[1]
Despite his timid heart, Tamaki can show flashes of bravery. Even though he's always been a shy and reserved boy, Tamaki was able to hone his skills and climb the ranks into one of U.A.'s Big 3. Mirio Togata is a big inspiration for Tamaki, and their cooperation throughout their lives has led him to establish his own set of stern beliefs that he will uphold and vocalize.
Tamaki does not believe anyone should undermine another person's hard work. He noticed Class 1-A could not recognize how much work Mirio put into honing his power, and even showed his face to comment on it.[12] Mirio often inspires Tamaki to act even when he's feeling anxious. Inspired by Mirio's bravery during the yakuza raid, Suneater shows a bright flash of courage, stepping up to the challenge of facing three villains alone so that the others can complete the mission.[13]
While fighting against the villains, Tamaki pushes himself to his limit to uphold the expectations set on him by Fat Gum, Mirio, and others who believe in him. Tamaki voiced his disapproval of the way Toya Setsuno, Yu Hojo, and Soramitsu Tabe consider themselves expendable to Overhaul, but he appears to understand the bond between allies very well.[14]
Abilities#
Overall Abilities: Tamaki is one of U.A. High School's most powerful students alongside Mirio Togata and Nejire Hado, who are all collectively known as The Big 3. Tamaki has been stated to have skills and abilities that far outclass that of most Pro Heroes.
Tamaki has mastered his Quirk, Manifest, through vigorous training. He can manipulate feature selection, size manipulation, and simultaneous manifestations. This multifaceted aspect gives Tamaki's fighting style incredible variation and unpredictability.[14] Tamaki eats plenty of Takoyaki and Clams daily because he believes they're great for offense and defense. For example, Tamaki often uses tentacle fingers to bind his opponents while using a clamshell husk for protection.[1] Tamaki has a variety of other powerful combinations as well, including using chicken talon strengthened with octopus muscles or tentacle fingers reinforced by crab shells. Fat Gum strongly believes Tamaki's abilities are above his own and an entire team of Pro heroes and students that included the rest of the Big Three, Ryukyu, Eraser Head, and Rock Lock.[11]
Tamaki has proven his strength on multiple occasions. He was able to effortlessly neutralize dangerous villains before having his Quirk temporarily erased.[1] Tamaki's mettle was proven when he faced off against Toya Setsuno, Yu Hojo, and Soramitsu Tabe of the Eight Bullets in a 3-on-1 fight and was confident that he could take on the Yakuza trio by himself.
Tactical Intellect: Tamaki demonstrates incredible tactical judgments during fights. He acted quickly to disarm Toya, Yu, and Soramitsu at once to tip the favor to the heroes. After doing so, he stated it was a bad idea for all of the present heroes to fight the trinity at once, correctly deducing that the villains were trying to stall as many heroes as possible for Overhaul to make his getaway with Eri. He noted that it's best that the rest of his comrades, especially Eraser Head, save their Quirks for when they get deeper into the Yakuza fortress, and they need to be at 100% of their power to break through the shifting walls caused by Joi Irinaka's Mimicry Quirk.
During his battle with three of the Eight Bullets, Tamaki showcased his aptitude to create strategies amid battle. Tamaki attempted to manifest the neurotoxin from an octopus's saliva within his arm, knowing that Soramitsu wouldn't be able to move if he ate the appendage. Even when overwhelmed by the trio's camaraderie, Suneater developed an impromptu strategy quickly. He disrupted their teamwork by first obscuring Toya's vision, knowing the object-stealing villain relies on sight to use Larceny. He then used Yu Hojo's crystals against him by devouring them and creating a solid defense to stop Yu.
After defeating the trio, Tamaki relieved them of their masks and kept them on hand as a precaution, having witnessed Toya reveal that he had a hidden dagger concealed within his mask at the beginning of the bout.
During the Final War against the Villains, Tamaki was selected to join the Assault team pitted against the body-enhanced "Tomura Shigaraki," undoubtedly the most powerful in the world. A short while later, alongside his Big Three teammates, they could hold back the enhanced villain for an extended period.
Quirk#
Manifest: Tamaki's Quirk grants him the ability to manifest the physical characteristics of anything he's eaten; for example, if he eats takoyaki, he can transform his fingers into octopus tentacles. Additionally, anything Tamaki manifests is significantly stronger than normal, as seen by how his crab claws can easily crush metal weapons. The more of a substance Tamaki eats, the stronger his manifestation will be.
He can only manifest the traits of substances still in his system and loses access to those traits once the substance is fully digested. He must resupply his Quirk daily and decide what foods to eat beforehand.
After vigorous training at U.A., Tamaki can use multiple manifestations simultaneously, control the manifestation's size, and accurately choose the best features of whatever he's eaten to fit any situation.
Ultimate Moves#
- Vast Hybrid: Tamaki makes use of his Manifest Quirk and produces one or more instance of animal or food on his body in any way he likes. This technique can be used for multiple purposes, including offense and stealth. This move is also called Vast Hybrid Chimera.
- Kraken: Tamaki's arms change into a pair of four giant tentacles coated in suction cups, which he uses to thrash in a large area, hitting multiple opponents.
- Centaur: Tamaki transforms his lower body into the lower half of a bull, grow horns and his hands transform into vines that hold different hard fruits on the end of them that he uses to strike multiple enemies at once.[7]
- Octopus Mirage: Tamaki replicates the cloaking abilities of octopuses to mask his presence with the surroundings so he can attack his target by surprise.[15]
- Scorpius Toxin: Tamaki manifests scorpion tails on his body with which to attack his opponent and inject venom into them.[15]
- Plasma Cannon: Tamaki transforms his arm into a monstrous form with the attributes of multiple manifestations, which when combined with Nejire's energy, can produce a giant laser blast. Elements that make up this combination include but are not limited to, zebra tarantula, dragonfruit, spider crab, sika deer, American alligator, green sea turtle, locust, red sea urchin, soft shell turtle, watermelon, and moso bamboo.[16]
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Equipment#
Food Pouches: Tamaki's Hero Costume is equipped with a number of pockets where he keeps various foods that he can eat on the spot, giving him access to more manifestations.
Battles & Events#
Shie Hassaikai Arc Hero Work-Studies: Round 1 Fat Gum Agency vs. Villains Shie Hassaikai Raid Suneater vs. Toya, Yu & Soramitsu U.A. School Festival Arc U.A. School Festival Pro Hero Arc Class 1-A vs. Nejire Chan & Suneater Endeavor Agency Arc Hero Work-Studies: Round 2 Paranormal Liberation War Arc Paranormal Liberation War Gunga Mountain Villa Raid Villa Raid Team vs. Paranormal Liberation Front Villa Raid Team & Trainees vs. Paranormal Liberation Front Final War Arc Final War Operation Troy Pro Heroes & Trainees vs. Tomura Shigaraki
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Trivia#
- Tamaki's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as following:
- Ranked 17th in the Third Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 29th in the Fourth Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 22nd in the Fifth Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 25th in the Sixth and Seventh Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 16th in the Eighth Popularity Poll.
- Tamaki's surname contains the kanji for "heaven" and "eating", and his first name contains "ring, link".
- According to Kohei Horikoshi, Tamaki's anxiety is inspired by his own experience when he attended the Jump Festa in 2017 and had to face an enormous crowd.
- In addition to that, Tamaki's experience transferring grade schools was based off his experience of moving and attending a new middle school. He even had someone approach him and ask to be friends with him like Mirio did with Tamaki.
- Tamaki's favorite things are butterflies.[3]
- Tamaki's Quirk could be a reference to the saying "you are what you eat".
- Some of Tamaki's Ultimate Moves are named after mythical creatures.
- Chimera: A creature made from the parts of different animals put together.
- Kraken: A gigantic octopus-like sea monster.
- Centaur: A human with the body of a horse in place of legs.
- Tamaki's English voice actor, Aaron Dismuke, also voiced Kosei Tsuburaba in Season 2.
- Tamaki shares his birthday with Untenmaru Kurumada.
- Tamaki's Ultra Analysis profile describes him as an "ultra negative man".[4]
- Of the Big 3, Tamaki is the only member whose appearance or costume hasn't significantly changed in the pre-timeskip, as Mirio's costume was slightly redesigned and Nejire's hair and wrist guards were shortened.
- This pattern would be somewhat reversed in the post-timeskip, with Mirio and Nejire's appearances and costumes staying largely the same as before, while Tamaki cut his hair significantly shorter and has a costume that keeps the same base elements as the first, but with a more ominous make and color scheme.
- Tamaki is the only known Sidekick to rank in the Hero Billboard Chart JP.
Quotes#
- (To Toya Setsuno, Yu Hojo, and Soramitsu Tabe) "I might not understand your grief. Your rage. Everything that led you here... but I know all about solid bonds · And my friends don't use each other... because friends don't eat friends."[17]