Character Profile - Oibore


- This episode where Oibore is related to evokes the idea of "main character who sits among
the homeless". So I've got many people saying that the motif was "Spawn" and thus the motif of
Oibore would be the misterious old man Cagliostrus, who appears now and then to give advice.
But the truth is completely different. If the motif came from American comics, then it would be
the "Silver Surfer" from Möbius, translated into Japanese. (like the ressurrection of the 
main character)
  But the true motif is the "Go, Robot!" of the writer Ooishi Makoto sensei, a book for small
children. This book is a toy story about a robot who falls from a truck and start a voyage to
find its owner, a small boy. Kenshin is the robot who gets all destroyed in the middle of the
book, the Rakuninmura is the garbage where the robot is thrown into and Oibore is a gentle
empty can of powder milk (just to let you know, Kuma is from a one-eyed and a bit nihilist
bear ("kuma", in Japanese) doll found at the same garbage). My elder brother recommended this 
"Go, Robot!" when I was in the 12th year of school, but nevertheless I cried a lot, so moving
the book was. The works of Ooishi Makoto sensei are all awesome (his "A Classroom where there
is a witch" made me cry, so heart-gripping it was), I really shouldn't think that books for
children have no worth. 
  The ressurrection of Kenshin was set in a way that only Kenshin alone could do it, Oibore
giving only a small assistance, but I don't know if I succeeded or not... as I wrote in the 
Tomoe episode, the lack of time, endurance and willpower is a really serious problem.
  Oibore will be making one more appearance in the story. Perhaps an important one. 

- There's no design motif for him. I thought about a homeless, a developed sense of humanity and 
a misterious man at first sight, and so this Oibore was born. I've realized -- too late --
that he is exactly the same as Granpa Bob from "BOY - Booii - ", Umezawa Haruto sensei's work.
I really should improve my imagination and creativity.