<Dl> <Dd> Voiced by: Ryūsuke Ōbayashi (drama CD), Rikiya Koyama (anime) (Japanese); John Swasey (English) </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Voiced by: Ryūsuke Ōbayashi (drama CD), Rikiya Koyama (anime) (Japanese); John Swasey (English) </Dd> <P> Shinigami (死神), also known as Death (デス, Desu) and named "Lord Death" in the English anime dub, is the headmaster of Death Weapon Meister Academy and father to both Asura and Death the Kid . He is the personification of madness through order, reflected by his desire to maintain peace in the world and his aversion towards chaos . However, though he could render humanity into mindless drones, Shinigami allows them to keep their free will . He is also the former leader of the Great Old Ones prior to sealing away his apprentice and first child Asura eight centuries ago who had become a kishin, binding his own soul around Death City to keep Asura imprisoned underground . Unable to leave the city as a result, Shinigami creates DWMA to train meisters and weapons to prevent more kishin from surfacing, and to create death scythes to help him maintain the peace . As headmaster, Shinigami normally resides in a special chamber in DWMA building called the Death Room, which others can contact through mirrors and reflective objects . </P> <P> While more menacing in his earlier days, Shinigami alters his appearance into a more cartoonish form and acting eccentric to appease his younger students who were frightened of his true form . Some aspects of his actual form remain, like his large white hands that now resemble foam hands, which he uses to perform a karate chop as a form of discipline for those who act out of hand . As a grim reaper, he prefers scythe - type weapons and makes Spirit, Maka's father, his primary death scythe . Shinigami also raises his second child, Death the Kid, to be his heir and not end up like Asura . Though knowing that he would die once Kid connects his Lines of Sanzu, Shinigami accepts his fate and perishes upon Kid's ascension during his fight against Asura . </P>

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