The Inugami Roh is one of the main characters from the Kishin Douji Zenki series. He is a male Dog Deity with a humanlike appearance, who sports fuzzy, blonde hair, a pony tail and a necklace (which is was a birthpresent from his mother).
His eyecolor differs depending on his incarnation. While the manga features Roh having violet eyes, all of his other incarnations depict him with blue eyes.
The Inugami Roh is also known as simply Roh or the Inugami. He is also known as the "Prince of the Realm of the Dead" or the "Dog Deity Prince Roh", though these are only the case in the anime, where this stems from him being the son of King Engai, a character, that is only mentioned by name, but is never seen in the actual series.
Like his mother, Roh once used to be human, but his father raised him as an Inugami, so that the would forget his past as a human being and serve Engai as his heir. As such, Roh became the prince of the Realm of the Dead and didn't know about his mother until he had grown into a young man and met her again in Episode 46.
Roh is one of the major antagonists of the Inugami or Dog Deity ark, with the other one being Kagetora.
For everyone else beside Kokutei, Roh shows hardly any feelings at all. This becomes clear, when the anime depicts one of Chiaki's friends falling in love with Roh and he shows her the cold shoulder.
Roh is very powerful and can defeat Demon God Zenki at ease with his only his finger. However, Great Demon God Zenki is vastly more powerful than Roh and turns the tables.
Roh mainly uses his fists, energy beams and teleporting techniques. He often also sends out Kokutei to aid him in battle.
The deep respect and love for Kokutei is exclusive to Roh from the anime.
Roh's manga counterpart only sees Kokutei as a tool and wants to sacrifice him as soon as Kokutei has transformed into a "demon beast that will threaten the world". Kokutei doesn't seem to notice this and only cares for the Hyouinomi.
Roh and Kokutei first appear after Zenki has defeated a powerful Hyouijuu at nighttime. When Zenki tries to eat the Hyouinomi as usual, Kokutei swiftly snatches it away and eats it in front of Zenki, greatly shocking the latter.
After that, Zenki hates Roh and Kokutei and they often get into fights over the Hyouinomi.
In the anime Roh often wanders around with Kokutei and doesn't seem to have any followers or something like that. His people often plot against him and even try to kill Roh. In one episode of the anime, they even kidnap Kokutei.
In the manga Roh is accompanied not only by Kokutei, but also by the Shitenou, which are led by Hiki the Black Tortoise. These are very powerful foes which try to protect Roh and Kokutei from Zenki and his friends, so Roh can "bring justice to this greed filled world".
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