Bando (Elfen Lied)

Bando is a recurring antagonist turned anti-hero in the Anime/Manga, Elfen Lied.

About
When Bando was first introduced, is an operative for the National Police Agency's Special Assault Team (SAT). His combat skills, blood lust, and determination made him one of its top agents. His personality, while normally being highly apathetic, aggressive to the point of sadism and decidedly anti-social, was also driven by a deeply felt sense of honor and obiligation.

He and the S.A.T team were sent in pursuit of the recently-escaped Lucy. Finding her as the amnesiac Nyu, Bando rendered first Yuka and then the protesting Kouta unconscious before attempting to engage Nyu in battle. Disgusted when she failed to prove the menace his briefings had spoken of, Bando ordered his junior partner, Satou, to kill her instead.

He slowly developed a relationship with the young girl, Mayu, who he grudgingly came to accept, even while maintaining his gruff exterior. Mayu even called on him to rescue her and Nana from the pedophilic, sick piece of shit known as The Unknown Man, but their relationship nearly ended when he learned that Mayu had lied to him about the presence in the Maple House of Kaede/Lucy/Nyu. Seeking his forgiveness, she got caught up in a battle on the beach between Bando, Lucy, and the Unknown Man. Bando, having wisely scoured the beach to clear it of potential weapons for Lucy, was also able to somehow dodge both direct attacks from Lucy's vectors and many of her most clever indirect attacks, mostly by feeling for vibrations in the air. He also made good use of the crossbow he seized from Unknown Man to place Lucy firmly on the defensive for once. This crossbow would once again turn up in the possession of Saseba's agent inside Kakuzawa's organization.