After meeting the rest of the 00 Cyborgs and Dr. One night, Joe would attempt to break out from the reformatory, but would be captured by two Black Ghost operatives, who would take him away to be remodeled into Cyborg 009. His luck would worsen when he defended a fellow biracial friend named Jiro from a gang, and wound up sent to a reformatory for his violence, taking the fall for Jiro.

Tanabe and his daughter Yuri, and had come to see Tanabe as something like a father.

At one point, he stayed with a man named Dr. In his teens, Joe became a delinquent due to the bullying and ostracizing he had received over his mixed race heritage. The only memory Joe has of his mother is a photograph in his private possessions. When he was a year old, his mother deposited him off at an orphanage, dying shortly after. Joe was born to a Japanese mother and a father of unknown nationality. It was only after Freyja sacrificing herself to help the 00 Cyborgs did he realize that Freyja was good all along and apologized for misjudging her. However, when Freyja defected and attempted to atone for her misdeeds, Joe rejected her believing her to be still evil. Because of the Norse cyborgs' actions, Joe believes that the concepts of God and divine faiths are false. That said, he can't stand any kind of injustice and hates anyone who commits evil.ĭuring the Yggdrasil Arc, Joe held a grudge against the Norse cyborgs after seeing their acts of cruelty towards humans, rejecting Odin's offer for the 00 Cyborg team to become gods. Joe is a compassionate and righteous young man who desires to fight for the good of all mankind. When not fighting, Joe can be seen wearing various civilian clothing, usually a light beige pea jacket with pants and shoes. He wears knee-high black boots and a long, yellow scarf wrapped around his neck. On his waist is a black belt with a gun holster that holds his blaster, his main weapon. In battle, Joe wears a red, double-breasted military uniform with padded shoulders, black contrast bands, and four large yellow buttons on his chest and torso. Joe is an athletic young man with short, perpetually windswept blonde hair, black eyebrows and dark brown eyes.

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