Gaku (
Appearance[]
Gaku is a tall and muscular young man with spiky slicked back bluish-grey hair and hot pink eyes adorned with a red eyeliner in the outer corner. He wears a pair of black square-shaped earrings, a high-collared navy blue jacket with yellow buttons that loosely falls around his body that's is covered in multiple scars with the sleeves rolled up, bandaged hands, navy blue baggy pants and white sneakers. He always carry his weapon covered in wrappings over a bag in its right arm.
After his fight with Takamura during the events of the JAA raid, Gaku lost his right ear, parts of his left middle and ring fingers, and his entire right hand. Later on, Kashima would reattach Gaku's fingers and hand, but would not be able to reattach Gaku's ear. As he now wears a circular-shaped patch in the place of his missing ear.
In his teenage years, Gaku had a skinny body and wears a black tank top shirt and a pair of white shorts.
Personality[]
Gaku is shown to be an extremely calm and laidback man who always talks calmly and rarely gets agitated or angry, even during fights or life-and-death situations such as when he lost an arm during his encounter with Takamura[5]. He often compares real life to a video game, describing a deadly injury as a "speedrun to death" or describing killing itself as a game. Gaku's nonchalant attitude has been demonstrated on multiple other occasions, such as when he is seen eating snacks or playing video games in the middle of a fight. For instance, he compared fighting against the JJA applicants while controlling Shinaya to playing Resident Evil, or he even used the restroom after getting blasted through a door.
Besides his extremely casual behavior, Gaku can also be a extremely brutal person to deal with, killing JAA members many times without hesitation or mercy. He disregards any pain or collateral damage done to Shinaya when he overexerts Shinaya's body while controlling him. Gaku has also shown to have fun during fights or even when killing a strong opponent, commenting that the action of killing is something you have to enjoy or it's a waste.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
Uzuki[]
Gaku was one of the orphans raised in the Al-Kamar Orphanage along with Uzuki, Kumanomi and several other orphans such as Haruma. After Uzuki managed to free all the orphans from the orphanage, Gaku along with a few of them became part of the X's Organization. When Gaku was still 13, Asaki (then in charge of the Al-Kamar orphanage) would take him hostage as a way to force Uzuki to kill Kindaka and once Uzuki had killed Rion Akao, he managed to free Gaku.[6]
Kumanomi[]
Both Kumanomi and Gaku has both grew up in the Al-Kamar Orphanage and later on freed by Uzuki. Kumanomi has shown to care deeply about Gaku, treating him as a litte brother and constantly worrying about him, even starting to cry after witnessing Gaku getting hurt and injured by Nagumo during their fight. Kumanomi has always shown to be very protecting towards Gaku, pursuing and attacking Hyo after discovering that an order member had cut off his ear.
Skills & Abilities[]
Overall Skill Level: Gaku is an extremely strong assassin that has demonstrated to be extremely strong and deadly, massacring hundreds of JAA members with his ease as well as somewhat hold his own against Takamura, an extremely skilled and deadly member of the Order. During their fight, Nagumo states that Gaku is the strongest opponent he’s ever fought.[7]
Master Combatant: Gaku is a very skilled combatant, able to use his large mace in battle with great proficiency and he is also capable of using a one-inch punch with incredible force behind it.[8] His combat prowess is said to be monstrous[9] and even resemble Taro Sakamoto when he was younger.[10]
Enhanced Strength: Gaku has tremendous physical strength, such an swinging his large mace around with ease, disemboweling a JAA guard with a single punch[11] and later on proceeds to literally tear apart multiple assassins with his mace.[12] When controlling Shinaya, Gaku was nigh-unstoppable, wiping out almost every JCC faculty on the island, overwhelming Shin Asakura and Joichiro Kaji as well as other applicants like Mafuyu Seba and Nao Toramaru. Gaku has proved his strength multiple times, sending Nagumo crash through multiple walls of a museum with a single swing of his mace and send him fly with a single punch.[13]
Enhanced Speed and Reflexes: Gaku is extremely fast, moving so quick that even several skilled JAA members were unable to defend themselves from his attacks.[12] He also managed to outrun shots from machine guns.[14] When controlling Shinaya, Gaku was able to quickly respond to Sakamoto's attacks. His speed is shown to be on par with Nagumo.[15] After his awakening and speedrun to death, Gaku has shown to be even faster, sending Nagumo fly and hitting him multiple times without him being able to react.
Immense Endurance: Gaku has tremendous levels of stamina and tolerance to pain, capable of taking multiple strikes that would kill any normal human being and remained completely unfazed. After losing his right hand, his right ear as well as two of his fingers, he barely flinched and continued fighting, reacting by throwing his lost arm towards his opponent. He was also able to still fight after sustaining multiple attacks from Nagumo and receiving a lethal stab on his gut, managing to keep up with him even after getting stabbed both in the arm and in his stomach.[16]
Equipment[]
Mace: Gaku carries around a mace-like weapon with a pole and cubical head covered in spikes, vaguely resembling that of a meat tenderizer. The tip of the mace also shoots laser beams. It was destroyed in his fight with Takamura but was later replaced.
Console: Gaku is seen playing multiple times with a PlayStation Portable he keeps by himself and utilizes even during fights or whenever he is bored.
Battles & Events[]
- Death Row Prisoners Arc
- JAA assassins vs Gaku: Win
- Gaku vs Takamura : Interrupted
- JCC Transfer Exams Arc
- Shin Asakura, Nao Toramaru, Joichiro Kaji, Taro Sakamoto & JCC Staff vs Gaku: Lose
- Assassin Exhibition of the Century Arc
- Gaku vs Nagumo: Lose
- Taro Sakamoto, Yoichi Nagumo, Kei Uzuki, Haruma & Gaku vs Takamura: Lose
Etymology[]
- Gaku means "ease/easy, comfort" (楽).
Trivia[]
- Gaku ranked 9th place in the manga's 1st Character Popularity Poll with 2,472 votes.
- Gaku is a big fan of the Resident Evil series. He even commented on the lag of a remote-control system.
- While fighting, Gaku pictures the battlefield as a video game.[17][18]
- Gaku was 14 years old when he went missing from the Al-Kamar Orphanage and he is the youngest member of the Slur's group.[19]
Notes[]
References[]
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 104
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 173
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 175
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Character Profile
- ↑ Sakamoto Days, Chapter 52
- ↑ Sakamoto Days, Chapter 173
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 151 (Page 2)
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 149 (Pages 16-17)
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 51 (Page 10)
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 151 (Page 8)
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 50 (Page 16)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 51 (Pages 3-5)
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 151 (Pages 6-8)
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 51 (Page 6)
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 150 (Pages 12-18)
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 152 (Pages 1-11)
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 151 (Page 13)
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 152 (Page 4)
- ↑ Sakamoto Days Manga: Chapter 104 (Page 12)
