So last night, me and my girlfriend Sam (whom I plan to propose to on our next date, we been together for 3 years, wish me luck!) were watching a movie together, and all of a sudden she gave me an idea for a new character for my Punisher Animated Series that I've been posting articles about for a while now.
The characters name is Makoto Sung. Makoto is a former Yakuza who specialized in the use of a six shooter. Makoto was once a coldblooded killer and was feared by rivals of the Yakuza. But when he met his wife, Sayuri, the two fell in love and he decided he wanted to marry her. However, his life in the Yakuza would interfere with that, so he decided to, with his superiors' permission, to retire from his work as an assassin. He eventually left Japan for New York with his wife and new born daughter, Naomi. He took on a job at the local supermarket and they lived in a quiet apartment.
However, things would not be happy for Sung for long. While Sayuri was walking Naomi home from school, the two were stopped by a large mugger. When Sayuri refused him money and then turned pepper spray on him, the mugger shot her four times in the head, then, the mugger also being a pedophile, brutally raped and tortured Naomi before shooting her through the mouth. Sung discovered their bodies on his drive home from work.
After weeks of mourning, Sung took their deaths as a revelation that almost everyone he killed in his days in the Yakuza had families too and he felt immense grief. He sought redemption for himself and found it in the Punisher, who he realized was almost a mirror image of himself, which Castle also came to realize. The two made a deal: Sung take on the guise of a Yakuza once again and would serve as Punisher's contact from within various underground crime rings and would give him the layouts of their operations so as to better plan an attack.
Sung voices a deep regret for his killings in his days as a killer and also hates all those who do evil along with Castle, particularly pedophiles, whom he will often execute himself with the use of his six shooter. Sung and Castle have a rather uneasy relationship at best, but the two can manage. Sung does however share a somewhat friendship with Micro.
Sung would be voiced by Dante Basco, best known in his adult career for his role as Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender (BTW screw you M. Night) I think Basco would be very good in this role, as I intended this character to show emotions very strongly. Dante is a great voice actor and I would love to see him play this role.
First Article of the New Year! Happy 2011! Anyways, leave a comment below with any comments or questions you may have about my Punisher Animated series! And make sure you look out for another article sometime this weekend on a new character I created by the name of Bryan Peak, a third sometime next week on a rather enigmatic new character named Tyson Rudolph and a fourth sometime next weekend on a mysterious assassin called The Father.
So for now my fellow CBM goers I bid you farewell!
Until Next Time...