Name Honjou Kamatari
Voice Actor Unknown
Nickname The Preppy Crossdresser, Juppon Gatana Ogama
Hair Color Red
Eye Color Red
Height Unknown
Birth Stuff Unknown
Zodiac Sign Unknown
Age 29 at the begining of the Rurouni Kenshin series
Weapon Giant straight scythe and a chain, a needle like dagger
Weapon Technique Honjouryu
Special Moves Midare-Benten (Random Spinning Attack), Benten-Mawashi
Personality Kamatari is in love and total loyalty to Shishio. Kamatari does not want to be a man, and perceeves a female role. He wants to be near Shishio's side and would do anything to be with him. Because he is not a woman, he so can't be Shishio's lover like Yumi and because he is not as powerful as Soujiro, he cannot be by his side as a fighter. This makes Kamatari very miserable.
Backround History Not much is known about his past. Kamatari joins the Juppon Gatana to fight for and be near Shishio. He was sent, along with Anji and Owanbo to keep Kaoru, Yahiko and the Oniwabanshu out of Shishio's way. Kamatari is defeated by Kaoru and Misao and knocked out. After the Juppon Gatana is defeated Kamatari works for the government as a spy pretending to be a female exchange student.
Watsuki's View "An okama who fights with a kama*...my assistant started it all with these few words. As I said in the section about Usui in the fourteenth book, most of the Ten Swords started as my assistant's ideas that I developed, and Kamatari was the first we decided on. Well, it’s all very well to decide this, but when I actually thought about it, I couldn’t settle on what to do with him. At first I thought I’d do a character who looked completely masculine but whose personality was all woman, then I thought about one who looked like a totally sexy, sultry woman on the outside but who acted like a guy, and finally a macho, bearded gay; I just kept thinking of things and rejecting them, thinking them up and turning them down, until a friend of mine said "How about a cute girl type?" It’s pretty conventional, but I drew it, and he ended up being tenth in the polls . . . So I tasted another secret at the depths of the art of manga--overthinking an idea. I meant his personality to be more thoroughly light and sunny, but in the end his serious side came out and I changed my mind. (Serious is the next thing to being dark. Soon, I’ll have a bad habit of tending that way, proof that I’m still inexperienced at writing.) Thoroughly sunny plus the character’s thoughts--that’s my task for the next time we meet Kamatari. As for the design, to put it simply, his face is based on Ikari Yui from Evangelion. His body was drawn completely ad-lib, so there was no design. My analysis is that the overall triangular silhouette was influenced by Reirei in Vampire Hunter. Also, the great scythe is a real weapon. But, to get the force you saw, I exaggerated the scythe part quite a bit, and you can’t really wield it like Kamatari does. (Well, you shouldn’t be able to.) The real great scythe is a chain scythe with a long handle and is used like a mix of the usual chain scythe and a chigirigi. It’s an interesting weapon, so I think it would have been more fun to show a more realistic way of fighting with it, so I’m a little disappointed. * Okama means omosexual and kama is scythe"