Goura (Zenki Series)

 

Goura is one of the main characters from the Kishin Douji Zenki series. He is an elderly human man with with grey hair, black eyes, a priest robe and a hat. He also wears a necklace, horn-like attachments on his shoulders and has a beard. His robe is also more detailed than Karuma's plain robe.

Goura is a powerful magician, who mainly uses telekinesis to fling rocks at his foes or even to cause small earthquakes. He is a major antagonist of the Karuma ark and Karuma's most experienced servant.

Goura is very wise, but he only acts loyal to Karuma. In Episode 22 of the Anime, he even tries to kill her while she is resting. His plan is foiled when Karuma awakes before he is able to strike.

At the end of Episode 23, Guren reveals Goura as a traitor. This results in the failure Goura's plans to topple Karuma and becoming the leader of the group. Also, Karuma goes ahead and kills him instead.

Anime
Manga
Their cameo is exclusive to the dev sketches section of Volume 6, which presents two drawings of each of the four characters.His only appearance in the manga shows him and Karuma's other servants in the manga series' dev sketches sections.
Similarities to Chimaru
Ingame
In these games, he is both a major character and a boss.
Den Ei Rai Bu
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Goura first appears in Karuma's dimension with Karuma (who is levitating in mid air) and her other servants Guren and Anju standing on three rock pillars, where Karuma gives them orders.

Guren and Goura often get into arguments about who is Karuma's best servant, while Karuma and Anju try to calm them down.

While Goura never appears in the manga, there's actually a character who bears some similarities to him.

There is vampire man, named Chimaru, who at first works for the Shitennou and seems very loyal to the Inugami Roh. He aids the Inugami in battle and being some kind of general, leading the his armies of beastmen (which Raigou is a member of).

Yet the similarities to Goura get obvious when Chimaru later turns out to be a backstabber.

Goura from the anime wants to kill Karuma and, unlike Roh from the manga, she never notices this. This later results in Karuma's truely loyal servant Guren noticing this and simply killing Goura for being a traitor.

While his actual motives in betraying Karuma never come clear, it is different for Chimaru, who only works for the Inugami as he seeks the power of the worldending beast. He wants to control the transformed Kokutei in the Inugami's stead, yet it is unclear what Chimaru wants to do once he acquires the power of the worldending beast.

Nevertheless, Chimaru falls in battle against Zenki and his friends, when he kills Shinsenbou and triggers Goki's wrath, thus in the end, both traitors (Goura and Chimaru) wind up dead.

He appears in two of the SNES Kishin Douji Zenki games, Den Ei Rai Bu and Tenchi Meidou.

Goura is very special in this game, as he is the only character, besides Karuma, who is fought twice in the anime sequence battles.

Karuma's other servant Guren doesn't count here, as he is also fought twice, but his the first battle is an anime sequence battle, while his second battle has him as a jump-and-run boss. This stands in contrast to Goura's and Karuma's battles.