Izana Kurokawa

Izana Kurokawa is the former 8th leader of Black Dragons and the former president of Tenjiku. He is also one of the main antagonists of The Tenjiku Arc.

Appearance
Izana is a young man of average height with large, vacant purple eyes, and has a tan complexion, similar to Tetta Kisaki. His bleach blond hair styled in a center-parted undercut almost appears as if it was white hair. As the leader of Tenjiku, Izana wears the red Tenjuku uniform, as well as hanafuda-derived earrings.

Personality
Izana had the possibility of being the kind compassionate elder brother he was when he left Emma, but due to his years alone, he became ruthless and cruel. He strives for absolute power due to being helpless as a child and now has a hate for his "siblings".

History
Izana thought he was the younger half-brother to Shinichiro who he looks up to and often wrote letters to and the older blood brother to Emma who he left when she was 3. Izana has a distaste and jealousy towards his "younger half brother" Manjiro for Shinichiro gave Mikey the gang instead of him. Shinichiro was the first family he felt since he was a small child and he'd often talk about Mikey which made Izana unpleased. After Shin died there was nobody holding him still on the right path.

Being alone made him susceptible to betrayal. He created Tenjiku and lead with a stern hand while being manipulated by his subordinate.

By his orders Tetta Kisaki murdered his "sister"; and later after the fight with Mikey and the fall of Tenjiku. Izana died by Kisaki gun protecting Kakucho. Izana proceeded to explain that he is not a blood-brother to the Sano siblings, but a subject of an affair of another. He finally accepts that he isn't alone because of Kakucho and accepts the defeat in his dying moments.

Skills
Izana Kurokawa is the leader of Tenjiku, which means he has command over all his subordinates. He is shown to be the strongest member in the entire Tenjiku Gang, Izana was shown to be able to somewhat keep up with Sano Manjiro and managed to damage him pretty badly, however after an indefinite amount of time Izana still lost.

According to the Former Fifth Division Commander and Top Executive of Tenjiku, Yasuhiro Mutou. The reason why Izana is so strong is not because of his physical strength or martial arts, albeit he has shown quite the expertise when it comes to martial arts and the physical prowess in order to damage Mikey, it's his "Undefeatable Senses" which makes him so strong. This enables him to read his opponent's moves with relative ease and thus is able to counter them.

Etymology

 * Izana's surname Kurokawa means "black" (黒) (kuro) and "river, stream" (川) (kawa).