Joe Shimamura

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Joe Shimamura, designated "009", is one of the nine protagonists of the anime, Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier. He was originally a half-Japanese orphan who was raised by a Catholic priest until he was wrongfully framed for his murder and the fire that followed by Black Ghost. He is seen as a powerful combination of almost all his 00 Cyborg companions, possessing Geronimo, Jr's strength, Pyunma's underwater breathing, and an upgraded version of Jet Link's acceleration module.

Joe has a rough time adjusting to being a cyborg. He still can't fully remember what happened before Black Ghost, and wonders why he is a cyborg. The other cyborgs, seeing this, comfort 009, and remind him that there's nine of them, not one. At the suggestion by the newly formed team, they become a family, although this was not made clear until some time later, and share their pasts.

Appearance:
Joe is a young man of average height and a slender build, and approximately 18 years old. He is chronologically the youngest team member, even being a year younger than his teammate, Francoise Arnoul (when not counting the 40 years that she spent cryogenically frozen). He has dark brown hair that looks windswept, and has red eyes; one eye is always covered by his bangs.

Like his teammates, Joe wears a red, double-breasted military uniform with four large buttons on the front, padded shoulders, and black contrast bands underneath. On his waist is a black belt with a holster for his gun (which has 6 modes; the blue ray gun; the gold blaster; the magnum shot; the freeze ray; the sleep ray and the needle gun), and he wears knee-high black boots.

In the OVA "Conclusion: GOD'S WAR", the Joe of that timeline wears a similar uniform, but in dark blue and with a red scarf.

Abilities:
While Joe possesses some of the previous cyborgs' powers, his signature ability is his Acceleration Mode. By activating a switch in his back molar, Joe can move at superhuman speed which makes everything around him stop to a stand still or move very slowly.

In the anime adaptation of Conclusion: GOD'S WAR, Ivan enhanced his abilities to a higher level, allowing him not only to move faster than light, but accelerate the molecules of objects on contact, causing them to explode.