Shuichiro Keido

Shuichiro Keido
General Info
Romaji Translation	Keido Shūichirō
Japanese Name	茎道 修一郎
Age	early to late 40s
Personal Info
Gender	Male
Status	Deceased
Relatives	Haruka Ouma (Younger Sister) Gai Tsutsugami (stepson) Shu Ouma (step nephew) Mana Ouma (step niece)
Affiliations	GHQ
Appearances
Anime Debut	Episode 1

Shuichiro Keido is a major character, who is head of the Antibodies in GHQ. He at first seems minor to the plot, but is revealed to be one of the series' principal antagonists.

Appearance

He is a middle aged man, with greying hair, and a medium sized mustache. He usually wore a lab coat, when in GHQ.

Background

As a graduate student, Shuichiro's brilliance isolated him from the rest of his peers whom he ultimately came to see as mere annoyances that obstructed his intellectual growth. Upon meeting Kurosu Ouma, he finally met a person whom he could call his equal and the two quickly became friends. However, over the years, Keido grew increasingly embittered towards Kurosu as he witnessed his colleague's success and intellect steadily eclipse his own. Upon learning that Kurosu's offspring would become the progenitors of a new race in the aftermath of the Fourth Apocalypse, he experimented on countless orphan boys (including Gai) to create an "Adam" that would deny Kurosu the privilege of shaping the next generation of humanity in his own image. After learning that Kurosu's research on the Apocalypse virus surpasses his own, he murders his friend in a jealous rage. From that moment forward, Keido dedicates his entire being to ending the world that Kurosu worked so desperately to save.

Personality

A very stoic individual, usually keeping a calm and collected face. During the flashbacks in episode 20,  the first thing that stands out about is his single-minded committment to his research and his arrogant contempt for all those less intelligent than himself. This changed when he first met Kurosu Ohma and found someone who could keep up with him intellectually.  While ata firs pleased by Kurosu's company, his feelings for Kurosu increasingly degenerated into envy and ultimately outright hatred as he realized that his colleague's talents surpassed his own. After Yu revealed to him that Kurosu's DNA would be the basis of the next generation of humans, Keido's bitterness transformed him into an utterly ruthless and cold-hearted man who had no qualms deceiving, manipulating, and even murdering those around him just for the sake of spiting his friend's legacy.