Mukuro (軀) is one of the three kings of the Makai realm. Early in her childhood she is sold into slavery to a humanoid demon named Chikou. Her master is continuously cruel to her and used Mukuro as a sex slave. He raped her every year on her birthday. To control her, he implanted a single memory of himself being kind to her mind, which she remembered each time she thought of killing him. When she turned seven years old, she poured acid on herself, hoping that her master would lose interest in her. It worked, and he disowned her. She eventually becomes one of the Three Kings. She discovered Hiei while preparing for war and, after testing his strength against Shigure, placed him as her second in command. Mukuro is quick to agree when Yusuke proposes the demon world tournament and ends up losing to Enki in the final round. In the anime adaptation Mukuro's backstory is changed to exclude the parts about her being a sex slave, and that she was simply an abandoned child found by Chikou and taken in for slavery. In the anime television series, Mukuro is voiced by Minami Takayama in Japanese and Wendy Powell in English. Togashi has stated that Mukuro is one of his favorite characters. The author had desired to write more about her abuse before the series ended.[His inspiration for the character was Kushana of Torumekia from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.