Gaku

Gaku (楽がく?) is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Kashima) of Sakamoto Days.
He was an assassin working with Slur and a member of X’s Organization as he aids him in overthrowing the JAA. He was an orphan at the Al-Kamar Orphanage, a failed plan to create Order members.

Appearance

Gaku was 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 a yellow button that loosely falls around his body that is covered in multiple scars with the sleeves rolled up, bandaged hands, navy blue baggy pants and white sneakers with light grey stripes and a black lace (the sneakers are fully white in the manga). He always carries his weapon wrapped in bandanges 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.

Personality

Gaku is shown to be an extremely calm and laidback individual who rarely got agitated or angry, even during fights or life-and-death situations such as when he lost an arm during his encounter with Takamura. He often compared real life to a video game, describing a deadly injury as a “speedrun to death” or describing killing itself as a “game”. His nonchalant attitude was shown on multiple occasions, such as when he ate snacks or played 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 even using the restroom after getting blasted through a door.

Besides his extremely casual behavior, Gaku was also be an extremely brutal person to deal with, killing JAA members many times without hesitation or mercy. He disregarded any pain or collateral damage done to Shinaya when he overexerted the man’s body while controlling him and was 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 is 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 grew up in the Al-Kamar Orphanage and were later freed by Uzuki. Kumanomi has shown to care deeply about Gaku, treating him as a little 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 protective towards Gaku, pursuing and attacking Hyo after discovering that an Order member had cut off his ear.

Takamura
Despite never knowing Takamura in the first place, he saw him as a enemy. As he ended up slicing both Gaku´s ears, arms and fingers in a fight, causing him to be stitched by Kashima like some sort of doctor. Later on when he invaded the museum, he insulted Takamura after biting the blade of its katana and blinded him until he got impaled to death.

Skills & Abilities

Overall Skill Level: Gaku is an extremely strong assassin that had demonstrated to be incredibly 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 stated that Gaku is the strongest opponent he’s ever fought.

Master Combatant: Gaku is a very skilled combatant, able to use his large mace in battle with great proficiency and capable of using a one-inch punch with incredible force behind it. His combat prowess, by Nagumo, was said to be monstrous and even resemble Taro Sakamoto when he was younger.

Enhanced Strength: Gaku has tremendous physical strength, such as swinging his large mace around with ease, disemboweling a JAA guard with a single punch and later on proceeded to tear apart multiple assassins with his mace. 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 had proved his strength multiple times, sending Nagumo crash through multiple walls of a museum with a single swing of his mace and sending him fly with a single punch.

Equipment

Mace: Gaku carried 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 shot laser beams. It was destroyed in his fight with Takamura but was later replaced.

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