Samurai Goroh (Anime)

This article is about Anime Universe Samurai Goroh. For the Main Universe character with the same name, see Samurai Goroh.

## Samurai Goroh

### Aliases

Kojiro (Supposedly, from Lap 4 recap for the F-Zero Climax game)

## Appearances

### Voiced by

Yasunobu Iwata (JP)
Marc Thompson (4Kids English Dub)

### Appears in

F-Zero Farukon Densetsu (Anime)
F-Zero GP Legend (GBA game)
F-Zero Climax

### Debut

F-Zero Farukon Densetsu (Anime) Lap 4 - Calling on Samurai Goroh

Samurai Goroh is the pilot of the Fire Stingray, and Lisa Brilliant's husband. He is the leader of a group of space bandits which reside on the planet Cryton, and is known as one of the best bandits in the galaxy. Besides piloting an F-Zero machine, he also owns a battleship called the Fire Needle.

## Personality

While he is a thief and carries a katana, Samurai Goroh is honorable, has never killed anyone. Because of his moral stance, he is often on good terms with Ryu Suzaku, and the two occasionally work together. At one point, he even tries to convince Ryu to join the bandits, promising a life of adventure, but Ryu kindly declines.

He is more calm and collected than his Mainverse counterpart.

Though it is clear that Goroh loves his wife, Lisa, they have an established rule in which they can never betray each other or get too involved in each other's business.

## History

### **Pre-2201**

Samurai Goroh and his gang resided on the planet Cryton. At some point, he became the husband of Lisa Brilliant.

#### **2201**

Debuting in Lap 4, Samurai Goroh initially helped Ryu Suzaku to find the fake Samurai Goroh (Bibiribitch), after the real Goroh was framed for attacking a transport ship and stealing a rare medicine that could only be found on the planet Wondo. Though Bibiribitch and his men escaped, Goroh seemingly betrayed Ryu, leaving him tied up beside the Dragon Bird. However, the rope restraint would release as soon as Goroh and Sasuke left the scene with the transport ship's treasure. Ryu then found that the rare medicine was within a case on his Dragon Bird, showing that Goroh is not coldhearted.

#### **2202**

In Lap 13, there was an instance in which Lisa Brilliant urged Goroh to reconsider his trust in Antonio Guster who had been too reckless, in her view. But she ultimately backed off upon not getting through to her husband, who had faith in Antonio due to their close bond.

Towards the few final episodes of the anime, Goroh had rescued Miss Killer from the depths of space, after Black Shadow no longer saw a use for her when she regained her memories. He alerted Ryu by sending Sasuke to deliver the message, and fought against Dark Million to buy time for Ryu to appear.

Goroh, in the Fire Needle, was even present during during the final battle against Dark Million in Lap 51, assisting Ryu and the Elite Mobile Task Force. His wife, Lisa Brilliant, in her Excellent Queen battleship, accompanied him.

#### **2207**

Goroh was later seen with Lisa seen at the new Grand Prix in the year 2207. After Super Arrow makes his presence known at the Grand Prix, Goroh says "What a loudmouth." prompting Lisa to respond with "You don't say that often, hubby. Are you feeling alright?"

## F-Zero GP Legend (GBA game)

In the F-Zero GP Legend GBA game, Samurai Goroh is a playable character with his machine, the Fire Stingray. He is also featured as a Story Mode character.

*Note: The GPL manual bio contradicts the anime, as does the rest of the Story Mode. Animeverse Samurai Goroh should be from Cryton, which is not connected to Red Canyon.*

### **F-Zero GP Legend Story Mode**

Due to the game being released only 8 episodes into the anime's original JP airtime, and the game being loosely based on the anime, the Story Mode is not canon.

* F-Zero GP Legend (GBA game)/Samurai Goroh's Story

## F-Zero Climax

自らキャプテンファルコンをライバル視していて、いつか決着をつけたいと思っている。
本人いわく殺しは決してやらないらしい。
 **Samurai Goroh (English Translation):** He is well known as the leader of a group of space bandits. Considering Captain Falcon as his rival, Goroh aims to settle the score between them someday. According to himself, he never kills anyone. He also loves his wife Lisa with all his heart, but they do not live together.

## Gallery

Goroh as seen on the DVD cover for Volume 5. Note the small Goroh and Lisa charms.Anime eyecatch.F-Zero GP Legend sprite.F-Zero Climax sprite.A reference sheet of Samurai Goroh from the Falcon Densetsu DVD.
## Trivia

* On one of the DVD covers for the anime, Goroh is seen brandishing his katana with doll-like charms of both himself and Lisa attached to the sheath. This is the only time such a thing is seen.
* Despite Goroh apparently viewing Falcon as a rival, similar to their Mainverse counterparts, this dynamic is not explored in the anime.
	+ In the F-Zero GP Legend GBA game, during the non-canon Story Mode, their dynamic is more parallel to their Mainverse counterparts. This is, however, somewhat out of character for the Animeverse Goroh, who was usually depicted as cool and collected in the anime.
	+ The only time the Goroh/Falcon rivalry is brought up in the anime is during a Bart's F-Zero Classroom segment, in which 'Bart' laughs at the thought.
	+ Another time that this rivalry is brought up is in F-Zero Climax's pilot profile for Goroh.
* F-Zero Climax's episode recap for Lap 4 claims that Goroh went by an alias of "Kojiro." Neither Operation Spin Booster nor Dreadopp and Zedopp's fan subs pick up on this, nor is the name audibly heard.