Professor Akihiro Kurata (simply known as Akihiro Kurata, Professor Kurata or Kurata) is the main antagonist of Digimon Savers/Data Squad and the titular group's sworn enemy, and Marcus and Keenan’s arch-nemesis. One of the few human antagonists in the series, Kurata hated all Digimon and vowed to destroy them along with the Digital World itself.
He was voiced by Masami Kikuchi in the original Japanese version and by Brian Palermo in the English dubbed version.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He wants to sadistically destroyed all Digimon that he couldn't personally control, all because of a petty grudge.
- He created the Gizumon, mechanical monstrosities that completely kill other Digimon by stopping them from reincarnating like usual.
- He used his Gizumon to destroy hundreds of Digimon and Frigimon, which scared Keenan and made him hate humans (though he didn't know he was a human).
- This also caused Spencer to be imprisoned by King Drasil for a single decade.
- He indirectly caused the Digimon to go to the Human World, which led to some of them manipulating people to do their bidding and causing destruction.
- He had a Gomamon to digivolve into Ikkakumon to attack him and the group during his backstory after frightening the Gomamon after accidentally shooting a SaberLeomon.
- While he did stop Gotsumon's attack on the city, he only did it for his own purposes.
- He had his Gizumon killed SaberLeomon. Though it did save the DATS team, he again did it for his own purposes.
- He killed Merukimon and mocked him about humans and Digimon living together.
- He lied to the to government that the Data Squad were traitors and had Commander Sampson arrested. He also imprisoned Agumon, Gaomon, Lalamon, Falcomon, PwanChessmon, Kudamon, Keenan, Miki and Megumi, while Marcus, Thomas, Yoshi, Kristy and Sarah had their memories temporarily erased. They also had to go through painful headache when getting there memories back.
- He destroyed DATS HQ to make sure the Data Squad didn't follow him.
- He hired Kouki, Nanami and Ivan and turn them into bio-hybrid Digimon to do his bidding.
- He didn't care when the bio-hybrids lost to DATS.
- He created the Gizumon Javelin that killed ElDoradimon and thousands of Digimon in one shot.
- He forced Thomas to work for him by threatening to kill his little sister in an experiment, and tried to replicate his hybrid experiments on said sister.
- He awakened a mighty Demon Lord called Belphemon and merged with it to destroy all of his enemies so that he could then wipe out all Digimon and have total control of both the Digital World and the Human World.
- He caused the barrier between the Digital World and the Human World to break, which almost destroyed both worlds.
- In his final moments, he cowardly begged the team for help before being killed in the white light.
- His actions cause King Drasil to lose faith in humanity and cause him to try to destroy the Human World.
External Links[]
- Akihiro Kurata on the Villains Wiki
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