Ken Murata is a male character in the *Maru-Ma* media-mix series, including *Kyo Kara Maoh! - God*, known as Yuri Shibuya’s sharp-tongued friend and the reincarnation of the Great Sage of the Double Black.
Name: Ken Murata
Gender: Male
Nickname: Muraken
Birthday: June 6
Voice Actor: Kouki Miyata
School: Seijō High School, a famous private preparatory school
Ken Murata was Yuri Shibuya’s classmate during their second and third years of junior high school.
He currently attends the prestigious private prep school Seijō High School and is known as an outstanding student.
He is also secretly learning martial arts through a correspondence course, which fits his oddly resourceful personality.
Despite his age, he often brings up old jokes and references, many of them from the Shōwa era.
He has a fairly scheming side, and his gift for smooth talking is said to come from his mother.
Murata looks like a polite honor student, but he is much more calculating than he first appears.
He is clever, quick with words, and surprisingly worldly, often acting as if he has lived far longer than a normal teenager.
His humor is one of his strangest charms.
He casually drops references that feel far too old for someone his age, making him both funny and suspiciously mature.
Murata and Yuri Shibuya became close after a shakedown incident, although they had actually met earlier than that.
He is now the manager of the Dandylions, Yuri’s baseball team.
Murata also gets along well with Yuri’s mother, Miko, and sometimes shares meals with the Shibuya family.
At the end of the original novels and drama CDs, he appears with Yuri as the duo “Murakens.”
He also occasionally forms the irregular glasses-wearing duo “Meganees” with Shori Shibuya.
Murata is a brilliant student with an A-level evaluation for admission to the University of Tokyo.
He once ranked second nationwide in a mock examination.
He is also skilled in software development and stock trading.
According to Shori, Murata has even made money through these activities.
His language ability is excellent, which is connected to the many lives and places he has experienced across history.
Murata is the reincarnation of the Great Sage of the Double Black.
He possesses every memory from 4,000 years ago up to the present.
One of his past lives was Christine, an adult film actress living in Hong Kong.
Another was Henri Réjean.
His other past incarnations include a Spanish baker, a Venetian bread seller, an ancient Egyptian mummy maker, and a Crusader soldier.
Over 3,000 years ago, the first Great Sage fled to Earth while carrying two boxes.
Since then, Murata has continued reincarnating on Earth.
Murata dislikes the True King.
Around 2,000 years ago, he reincarnated in Cimaron as Généus.
In that life, he created the “White Crows” in order to serve the True King remembered within his own memories.
This part of his history gives him a complicated and sometimes unsettling connection to the ancient events behind the story.
Murata’s parents are often busy with work, and there is little conversation at home.
However, this is not treated as cruelty so much as complete noninterference.
He is a latchkey child, used to handling things on his own.
That independence may be one reason he is so composed, capable, and hard to read.
During the Caloria arc only, Murata has blond hair.
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