Jarks

**Jarks**(ジャークス *Jākusu*) is the first Mutian from Episode 1 of Shichisei Tōshin Guyferd. He was once a human named Taki.

His human form is played by **Kenta Hino**.

## Personality

Taki is a prideful Dojo Master who gets very competitive and becomes easily enraged at anyone who upstages him. Once infected by the Fallah parasite, Jarks became a unstoppable force of nature who will destroy anything and anyone he comes across, but seeks for a challenge to prove his own strength.

## Appearance

In his Mutian form, Jarks has a muscular, gold-colored body with large, hair-like appendages going down from the back of his head to his back. He has exposed, sharp teeth, a green orb embedded in his left pec, and is wearing a black mawashi.

## Biography

A Dojo Master, named Taki, was confronted by a man named Kazama Gou, who was looking for his brother, Masato, while he was in the middle of class. Taki tells Gou that Masato ran away out of fear of losing against him in a tournament but Gou says that his brother wouldn’t run away nor lose against him. Feeling insulted, Taki starts fighting against Gou in the Dojo with his technique, Gokuakushou, in front of his class but ends up losing.

Feeling insulted, Taki calls Gou during night time to meet him at an alley with the intention of handing him over to an organization called Crown, who were the ones that kidnapped Masato. There, one of Crown’s soliders, called a Guyborg, appears and fights Gou until he tasers him. The Guyborg then turns on Taki and tases him as well. Both Taki and Gou are then taken to Crown’s headquarters where Gou gets modified into another Guyborg while Taki gets injected with a green parasite substance called Fallah.

Once injected with the Fallah, Taki starts to mutate into a Mutian called Jarks. With the Fallah parasite in his system, Jarks’ life energy turns physical and allows him to shoot out energy orbs whenever he performs his Gokuakushou technique. Jarks starts to go out of control and rampages inside Crown, destroying their power lines in the process that ends up freeing Gou and a scientist named Professor Shiroishi.

Jarks manages to break out of Crown’s headquarters and fights off the Guyborgs that were sent after him. Gou and Professor Shiroishi witness Jarks fighting and sees him using his powers. Jarks notices Gou and demands him to fight with him. Gou, however, isn’t interested in fighting him, but Professor Shiroishi isn’t willing to let a Mutian be and tries to fight back with one of the Guyborg’s guns. The gun has no effect, however, and Jarks uses his Gokuakushou to attack Professor Shiroishi but Gou manages to defend him. Not willing to let Jarks harm Professor Shiroishi, Gou changes into his Guyborg form and fights against Jarks.

As they fight, Jarks manages to pin Gou onto the ground. Seeing that he can’t lose in the fight, Gou suddenly starts to change and is revealed that he himself was already infected by the Fallah parasite before. Gou’s transformation blasts Jarks off and he stands up to reveal his Fallah-infected Guyborg form, Guyferd. With both of them infected by the Fallah parasite, Guyferd and Jarks are now evenly matched and they continue fighting each other. Jarks uses his Gokuakushou to blast Guyferd, but he manages to jump over the blast and uses Kyokuseishin to fire an energy orb from his fist, blasting Jarks away and bursting him into flames.

## Powers/Abilities

**Super Strength**: Upon being infected by the Fallah parasite, Jarks has been given a lot of strength to take on a group of Guyborgs.

**Bullet Resistance**: Jarks’ body has been shown to be resistant against bullets.

**Gokuakushou**: Upon being infected by the Fallah parasite, Jarks’ life energy has been turned physical, allowing him to shoot out green energy projectiles from his palms.

**Energy Construct**: Jarks is able to form two bolt-shaped, solid forms of green energy to pin down an enemy.

## Trivia

* Jarks bares a strong resemblance to Blanka from the Street Fighter games. This is no coincidence as Capcom created the show alongside Toho.