The Relationship between Roh and Kokutei
Anime/Manga
Differences between the Anime/Manga
Timeline changes
While Karuma and her servants don't appear in the manga's actual storyline, they do show up in the devsketches sections. More on this can be read in the manga related section of Karuma's article.
Kokutei's wings
Trivia
Manga
In the manga, Kokutei is referred to by the Furigana and Kanji writings of こくてい and 黒帝 respectively.
- The hidden meaning behind the Kanji writing of his name is "Black Emperor", which is likely a hint towards his later transformations and the great threat he poses once he has eaten 108 Hyouinomi, as he becomes the world ending beast.
- This is especially notable in the final episodes of the anime, where Great Demon God Zenki and Goki (in his Level 1 form) greatly struggle against Kokutei. They are only able to defeat him with Chiaki's and the Inugami Roh's aid, as well as the prayers from Shikigami-chou's people.
Kokutei is one of the main characters from the Kishin Douji Zenki series. He is a magically enhanched wolf with fuzzy, black and grey fur, red eyes and a cross shaped mark on his forehead.
He is a major antagonist of the Inugami or Dog Deity ark. Kokutei is the Inugami Roh's pet wolf. Roh really loves his wolf and would do anything, so Kokutei can eat as many Hyouinomi as possible, so his wolf can transform into a ferocious, world ending beast. Kokutei only seems to care about his master and shows everyone else the cold shoulder. He also readily picks fights with Zenki and others.
Kokutei is very fast and uses this ability to steal Hyouinomi from Zenki before he can grab them. However, Kokutei is very weak otherwise and gets quickly struck down by most foes.
The deep respect and love for Kokutei is exclusive to Roh from the anime.
While Roh's manga counterpart only sees Kokutei as a tool and wants to sacrifice him as soon as Kokutei has transformed into a "demon beast that will threaten the world", Roh's anime counterpart joins the final battle against Kokutei's demonic form to save his best friend and return him to back to normal.
In the manga, Kokutei doesn't seem to notice that Roh just uses him and only cares for the Hyouinomi, while in the anime, the two of them are basically inseperable.
Roh and Kokutei first appear after Zenki has defeated a powerful Hyouijuu at nighttime. When Zenki tries to eat the Hyouinomi as usual, Kokutei swiftly snatches it away and eats it in front of Zenki, greatly shocking the latter.
After that, Zenki hates Roh and Kokutei and they often get into fights over the Hyouinomi.
Kokutei as a gigantic cocoon
In the anime Roh often wanders around with Kokutei and doesn't seem to have any followers or something like that. His people often plot against him and even try to kill Roh. In one episode of the anime, they even kidnap Kokutei.
In the manga Roh is accompanied not only by Kokutei, but also by the Shitenou, which are led by Hiki the Black Tortoise. These are very powerful foes which try to protect Roh and Kokutei from Zenki and his friends, so Roh can "bring justice to this greed filled world".
When Kokutei manages to finally eat 108 Hyouinomi, he turns into a huge cocoon in Volume 6 of the manga. The anime has this happen way later when Kagetora and his soldiers capture Kokutei and force-feed him multiple seeds at a time to quickly turn him into a cocoon against his will and at a much faster rate than intended.
Unlike his manga counterpart, anime Kokutei never grows wings as the force-feeding probably causes him to skip that stage of his transformation.
While Kokutei's final form from the manga depicts him as a petrified demon man, which never awakens as he lends Roh his powers and fades away once Roh has died, the anime depicts him in his fully awakened state as a world ending beast, again skipping yet another form from the manga.
Once Kokutei has transformed into his final form, he becomes a giant, spaceship-like monster (the aforementioned "world ending beast") and completely loses his mind. He loses his free will, his affectionate side for Roh and his love for Hyouinomi and becomes a mindless killing machine only bent on destruction, unable to think or feel anything else.
When Kokutei dies at the end of the anime, after his defeat at the hands of Zenki, Goki, Chiaki and Roh, Kokutei states that "All life ends with destruction."
So just like in the manga, Kokutei learns to talk once he has turning into his transformed state. It is heavily implied that he talks by using telepathy as his mouth never moves in his later forms.
While in the Anime, the Karuma ark is set before the Inugami ark, the manga doesn't even have a Karuma ark, as Karuma has been said to have been defeated by Ozunu, Zenki and Goki back in the past before the actual events of the manga.
Also Roh and Kokutei appear as early as in the fourth volume of the manga, while the anime has them appear very late (about halfway into the series).
Kokutei starts out without wings, but as the story progresses he grows wings. This can be seen best in the Manga, where he suddenly grows wings when he is fed enough Hyouinomi, which happens in Volume 5.
Thus in the Anime, Kokutei never grows wings, because he never gets to eat enough Hyouinomi for this to happen.
Wingless Kokutei appears in the Anime, Vajura Fight and the Manga, while winged Kokutei appears in the Manga and Tenchi Meidou.
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