Goki (Zenki Series)

 

Goki (also known as Akira Gotou or Gokimaru) is one of the main characters from the Kishin Douji Zenki series. He is a Demon God with blue hair, blue eyes, detailed armor and two horns on his head. He has pointy ears and his fang is on the right side. In his human form he lacks the armor, horns and fang.

Goki is one of Chiaki Enno's guardian deities. He likes making figures and sculptures. Goki is generally a very mature person, as he is calm and very intelligent. He is also humble and extremely loyal.

In the anime, Goki's human self is mainly referred to as Akira and rarely by his full name Gotou Akira or Akira Gotou. When he transforms into his demon god self, he refers to himself as Goki and the other characters refer to him by the same name.

This is different in the manga, where Goki only calls himself Goki when he transforms and is occasionally called that way by the other characters. Shinsenbou, though mainly refers to Goki's human self as Waka, which means the young one and Goki mainly calls himself Gokimaru, which can be either translated as Goki's circle of life or the perfection of Goki.

After his initial transformation in the manga, Goki is mainly referred to as Gokimaru regardless if he is in his human or demon god form. This is due to Akira being perceived as the embodiment of the legendary Azure Demon Warrior God in human shape.

As Gokimaru gains more elements and grows into a young man, his height steadily increases until his Level 4 form just takes a huge leap when he turns into the true reincarnation of the ancient Goki (aka the Level FINAL form). This presents a stark contrast to Zenki, whose different forms (excluding his Chibi form) always stay the same height-wise.

Unlike Zenki's forms, Goki's forms don't have individual names, being just referred to as either just Goki or Goki the Demon God of Protection and Revival.

Goki is Zenki's closest comrade and keeps Zenki's true powers protected by a seal that only he and his master can break. He is also older than Zenki.

Goki is at least 1300 years old and acts like an older brother to Zenki and thus is sometimes mistaken as his brother. Akira is a reincarnation of the deceased original Goki and thus his human self is way younger than the actual Guardian Warrior.

He is also known as the God of Azure Light, Protection, Recreation and Revival. He is the protector of Ozunu Enno's aescetic disciples on Mount Oomine.

Goki is one of the two divines (the other one being Zenki) faithfully serving Ozunu Enno in the past. His kind nature and boundless love for mankind were notable as he willingly became a part of the mortal world with a human wife and five children. Later reincarnated as a human being, he vows to protect the human race and the world until his last breath.

In the ancient days, Goki, the noble guardian warrior, having been sent to save humanity from the forces of evil, descended to earth as a brilliant light that connects both Heaven and Earth. He was a loving, married man with a wife and his children waiting for him at home.

In Episode 28 of the anime the very same light can be seen shining from Akira's body when Goki reawakens inside his descendant. More about Akira's family relationships in the modern days can be read in the article about the Gotou family and the Yamabushi.

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Moreover, Goki is sometimes referred to as the Blue Lord and is (especially in the later volumes of the manga) known for his very strong temper. He never regretted loving his human maiden even when his race turned their backs on him. He never complained once taking an oath to dedicate his entire life protecting the human race and risking everything for Chiaki, a descendant of Ozunu.

Goki cares about other people's feelings and always responds to those feelings with empathy and compassion, but in the face of his enemies, however, Goki can be wicked, straightforward and blunt.

Although in the beginning Akira had no idea that he was the reincarnated Goki. When Akira jumped in to protect Chiaki for the first time, it was due to Goki's will. This left Shinsenbou and the other Yamabushi astonished because Akira has always been a very timid and fragile child which now acted completely out of character.

Goki with Akira's parents

Goki can heal and revive himself and other people when he still has enough energy left in him, whereas Zenki needs Chiaki to heal his wounds and restore his full health. The worst downside of this advantage, however, is that no one else can help heal Goki besides himself, not even Chiaki.

Volume 10 of the manga has Akira sacrifice himself, so Zenki can use his full strength to protect Chiaki and the others. While Chiaki and the others mourn Akira's death, Akira ends up in some kind of dying dream, where his parents remind of him of his mission to protect Chiaki. Akira decides that he can't let his friends down and revives himself. This also causes him to reach a higher level of Goki's power, the level 3 form. (also called the lateteen stage)

The fact that Goki is a free demon, who willingly servers the Ennos instead of being dependant on them like Zenki and that unlike Zenki's, Goki's powers aren't sealed away by a multi-layer seal, allows Goki to use various techniques based on his five power elements.

Ozunu put a multi-layer seal on Zenki, because Zenki might otherwise end up hurting himself and others in his recklessness. The seal also limits Zenki into his natural elements Fire and Thunder. While also makes Goki more powerful than Zenki (in this sealed state), Ozunu entrusted Goki with the spell to seal Vasara, if the later would ever become a threat again.

Ozunu generally trusted the Blue Lord, whom he deeply resepected because of his calm and collected nature.

Goki's influence on releasing Zenki's true powers can especially be seen in Episode 27, 28 and 29 of the anime, when Zenki can only reach his Great Demon God form through Goki's and Chiaki's aid.

In the anime, Akira is a young boy raised by his surrogate father Kyoji. When Karuma sends some Hyouijuu to kill the Gotou family, Kyoji sacrifices himself to protect Akira, but dies from his severe injuries.

Luckily Akira can escape and is saved by Miss Kazue, who escorts him to professor Kuwaori's lab. After that, Kazue becomes Akira's protector.

Later when Akira and Kazue are on the run again, they end up at the Enno Shrine. When Chiaki, Zenki and their friends are in grave danger Goki appears as a bright light shining from Akira's body. Akira is transformed into Goki and saves everyone with his barrier powers.

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In the manga Akira first appears as a timid young boy who lives in a shrine on a mountain with his brothers, father and grandfather.

Some day, Zenki and Chiaki meet a powerful foe, named Hiki the Black Tortoise. No matter what Zenki tries, he can't deal any damage to Hiki, thus Zenki decides that he has no choice but to use Rudra. Unlike any other foe before him, Hiki is completely unharmed by Rudra, leaving Zenki in a very dire situation.

Now Zenki is mortally wounded while his foe laughs at him. While Zenki is at Hiki's mercy, Hiki succeeds in sealing Zenki into a small ball.

As Zenki can't fight anymore, now Hiki is very sure of his victory and threatens to kill Zenki and Chiaki. As Chiaki cries out to help, the Bracelet of Protection lights up, but seemingly nothing happens, until...

Akira, who is currently having a walk with Shinsenbou, suddenly has a vision that his new master has awakened and needs his help, so Akira runs off into the forest to help Chiaki and Zenki.

This leaves his brother very worried, but when Akira meets up with Chiaki and Zenki, he quickly awakens as Goki and defeats Hiki.