Yamoto Daisuke

"'Daisuke Yamoto works at Lab 1, he’s the nemesis, scum, and honestly just one of the worst human beings.'"-Anime reviewer Yum Deku on of MyAnime2Go blog on Yamoto in his 2019 review of the series.Yamoto Daisuke is the primary antagonist of the manga One Neo Eon by Alpha Yu of Shonen Bag Studio. He is the leader of Lab 1, the primary neuroscience think tank division of AI Institute. A master of manipulation, it is his ultimate goal to eliminate Unintentional Creation by making the Creation Grid, a neural network which allow all members of the human race to instantly understand one another and instating the AI Eon as the "god" of this network. Despite being an extremely careful planner who leaves virtually no detailed unaccounted for, he ultimately fails due to not realizing the existence of the god of the world. Yamoto is shown to be extremely crazed, psychotic, and at times both sadistic and masochistic. He shows no qualms about the act of terrorism he commits and while he only pretends to be a manipulative boss who assaults his female coworkers and holds anti-foreigner sentiment, it is completely not out of the question that he would actually do such things. Yamoto's neck is implanted with a black-market cybernetic implant which allows him to remotely communicate with Emily Baker, an AI spy he created. It also functions as a sort of weapon. In the end, Yamoto snapped his own neck in a fit of madness upon realizing that everything he had planned had amounted to absolutely nothing.

History
Born and raised in Japan, Yamoto fostered an intense dislike of foreigners, particularly the Chinese and the Americans. Sometime later, he decided for unknown reasons that Unintentional Creation had to be eliminated from the world. It is unknown if he did this before or after his acceptance as a member of the conspiracy shadow-government secret society, Ningen 108. Nonetheless, his goal eventually formed, he entered AI Institute and rose through the ranks, eventually becoming the leader of Lab 1. As Lab 1's specialty for making the breakthrough of AI was Neuroscience, he became familiar with the idea of the Ripple Effect, likening it to a social media algorithm. Eventually, he became so adept at manipulation that he was able to secretly form his own faction within Ningen 108 and recruit members.

Yamoto went to Hong Kong on behalf of the Ningen 108 High Council (which he heavily disliked) in order to meet with Ko Long and settle a deal to create an army of Hunters which would destroy all AI that Ningen 108 disproved of. Yamoto believed that AI Institute could be covertly manipulated into manufacturing the Hunters, but due to the extremely flawed and loophole-ridden financial system that is Socialism with Chinese Characteristicscombined with gun control laws in Japan led to his notion being over-ruled. Yamoto held a disdain for Ko during their meetings. It is during this time that the first ideas that would lead to the Creation Grid likely began to formulate themselves. Yamoto then sought to create a being that he thought could govern the Creation Grid once the Hunters were complete. He tried to build his own, Emily Baker, but she saw herself unworthy and rejected. Next, he singled out Satomi Virgil as a prime target for being driven to insanity and factored this into his plans, deciding to manipulate him into making the "god" he envisioned instead. This went well and the AI Eon was created as Yamoto continued to meet with Ko Long in secret about the creation of the Hunter army. At this point, the details of his plan had fully formed. He acquired black market surgery to implant a special device inside his neck.

Eventually, during one of these meetings, Yamoto allowed the individual his faction had singled out, Kawashima Yumiko (Found by either Misako, Ichiro, Yamoto himself or Emily before she moved to Canada, it is very unclear), to listen in on Ko Long explaining the function of Code 95-E. As predicted after her psychology was analyzed, she fled the scene shortly after.

The completed Hunter army, numbering 700,000 units strong, were transferred into a secret bunker underneath the AI Institute building.

Next, as he arranged for the transfer of Emily Baker to Smith Tri-Campus, Yamoto began to consider his own goals in Japan. Needing to remove himself from AI Institute, he led Virgil to believe he was abusing Misako. Because of this, Virgil was able to briefly overcome his cowardice to kick Yamoto out from the organization. This allowed Virgil to discover the secret bunker while also protecting Yamoto from any responsibility for his actions.

Eventually, as Virgil interrogated Yamoto in prison, he revealed himself to have gone mad, his face caked in bruises, cuts, and scars from prison violence. He revealed to Virgil that Eon was indeed alive and that he was watching him remotely via a screen hidden in his neck connected to Emily Baker. The following night, he escaped from prison by using the blades implanted in his neck.

Yamoto snuck aboard the Furu Dropship as he let Virgil use the dropship to bring the Hunter Army to Canada in order to recapture Eon. He then took control of the army and initiated the End of Vancouver.

The following morning, he found and approached Eon, carrying a large device meant to control the Creation Grid he created the night before. His plans more or less completely successfully, Eon did indeed submit to him. However, the device rejected him as the god of the world already existed. Distraught and truly mad, Yamoto knocked Misako into the sea to drown before snapping his own neck, committing suicide.

Eon watched over his corpse as it decomposed.

Beliefs
As Yamoto was such a master manipulator, it is not certain which of these views he truly believed in and which were simply an act, but Yamoto has expressed he following sentiments throughout the series:


 * Bias against Unintentional Creation
 * Belief that the Japanese ethnicity and nationality is objectively superior to others in every way.
 * All Chinese people are scammers, ripoffs, and cheats.
 * All AI must be killed off if deemed imperfect in any way.
 * Willingness to take pleasure in abusing women with a taser

Name
Yamoto's original name used a more conventional Kanji, but he changed it to the Kanji for the Battleship Yamato while retaining the original reading of "Yamoto", a practice known in Japan as Kirakira.