
Affably Evil: He comes across as formal and polite during his extremely brief amount of screen time, asking Genkai if she's sure he's allowed to use lethal force in the tournament.Voiced by: Ken Shiroyama (JP), Brice Armstrong (EN)Īn assassin who is highly skilled with knives. Speak Ill of the Dead: The two are shown mocking Yusuke during his wake.While he never outright prevents Keiko from interacting with Yusuke, he still makes it clear that he'd prefer if she would just pay him no mind, proving that he considers those in Yusuke's position lost causes.
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Both of them don't have a high opinion of delinquents with Iwamoto's last appearance in the series giving his present class a speech on how having one bad apple (namely Yusuke) can spoil the whole bunch.Only One Name: Neither of their given names is revealed.Iwamoto got a probation for the rest of his career and a bad repuptation as a teacher. As for Iwamoto, he failed to get Yusuke expelled. My Greatest Failure: Akashi's failure was to get Kuwabara expelled and this lead to Akashi getting fired.However, these two get their comeuppance. Jerkass: Both teachers are outright bullies at best and borderline criminals at worst.Even Keiko, his best student and the one he seems the most cordial with, privately hates his guts. Iwamoto takes the cake as he's not above badmouthing Yusuke's mother in order to provoke him into a possible assault charge. Hate Sink: Both of them exist to be as unpleasant and unlikeable as possible.Only a timely interruption by Koenma causes Iwamoto to be exposed and clears Yusuke of the wrongdoing.

He "confiscates" several students' belongings, including an expensive fountain pen with real gold trimming, all while Yusuke skips a period of class and makes everyone think that he's the guilty party. High, Iwamoto wastes no time in trying to kick him out permanently. Frame-Up: The same day Yusuke returns to Sarayashiki Jr.Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Iwamoto is never seen without his eyewear.Evil Teacher: Iwamoto steals students' possessions and tries to pin the blame on Yusuke, Akashi arranges for thugs to attack Kuwabara in an attempt to get him expelled, and when Kuwabara passes a test that he needed to complete as a stipulation for Okubo keeping his after-school job, the two erase a correct answer so it'll look like he failed (in the anime at least in the manga Akashi acts on his own).It's likely that the former was fired from his position whilst the latter was given probation for giving his colleague the idea in the first place, though that's only in the anime. Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Akashi disappears from the narrative after Takenaka makes him correct Kuwabara's test score whilst Iwamoto continues to make sporadic appearances.This gets in trouble after the incident causing him to have another strike on his probation. Brainwashed and Crazy: Iwamoto is taken over by a Makai Insect during the Saint Beasts arc, and leads the hunt to try to kill Keiko.Asian Buck Teeth: Akashi's would make any rodent proud.They, mostly Iwamoto, repeatedly connive in order to expel any "cockroaches" they deem unworthy, namely Yusuke and Kuwabara. Ikuo Nishikawa (JP), Sean Schemmel (EN), Diego Sabre (IT)Ī pair of contemptible teachers from Sarayashiki Junior High. However, his comments also emphasize how conflicted he was in hearing about Yusuke's sacrifice, opining that his student died before getting to show the world just how good of a person he had the potential to be. He castigates Iwamoto and Akashi for their cruel comments about Yusuke and pays tribute to the latter at his memorial service. Speak Ill of the Dead: A downplayed case.note The actual principal is only seen in the manga once from behind when Atsuko and her implied yakuza friends intimidate him into letting Yusuke back into school Many readers have commonly mistaken him for the school principal but is in fact not.

