Guren

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**Guren** is one of the main characters from the **Kishin Douji Zenki series**. He is a human man with spiky, purple hair, brown eyes, a pony tail and a cape. Sometimes he also wears a more or less complete, golden armor with a horned helmet.

He is a major antagonist of the Karuma ark and Karuma's most loyal servant. Guren is so loyal, he would give up his own life to protect Karuma from any harm.

He is a powerful magician, who mainly uses energy attacks and barriers.

## Anime

### **Episode 2**

Guren first appears in Karuma's dimension with Karuma (who is levitating in mid air) and her other servants Goura 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.

### **Episode 21**

At the end of Episode 21, Guren and Goura fought Zenki together and almost defeated him, but due to his access to the Diamond Axe, Zenki was able to kill Guren. In his dying breath, Guren calls Goura a traitor and both of them are sent back to the future through the time portal.

### **Episode 22 to 24**

In Episode 22, due to his loyality to Karuma and him proving that Goura was a traitor, Karuma revives Guren. After loyally serving Karuma for another two episodes, Zenki ends Guren's life once and for all in Episode 24 when they battle again and Guren is reduced to dust by the Diamond Axe.

## Manga

Guren is a character exclusive to the anime and the games.

His only appearance in the manga shows him and Karuma's other servants in the manga series' dev sketches sections.

Their cameo is exclusive to the dev sketches section of Volume 6, which presents two drawings of each of the four characters.

## Ingame

He appears in two of the SNES Kishin Douji Zenki games, Den Ei Rai Bu and Tenchi Meidou.
In these games, he is both a major character and a boss.

More information about Guren's ingame appearances can be found via the links featured in the **Ingame stats and behaviour**-section of this article or by visiting his Ingame subpage.

### ***Trivia***

#### **Misspelled names**

* **Guren'**s name is commonly misspelled as *Gulen*.
	+ His name sometimes is also mistranslated as *Glenn* or *Glen*.

#### **Voice actors**

* In the original, Japanese version, Guren shares his voice with Hirumaki.
Both of them are voiced by Keiichi Nanba.
* In the English dub, Guren shares his voice with Chibi Zenki.
Both of them are voiced by Peter Doyle.

## Den Ei Rai Bu

Guren is fought twice in this game, with his first battle being an anime sequence battle and his second battle has him as a jump-and-run boss.

This stands in contrast to Goura's and Karuma's battles, as, while they are fought twice as well, they are exclusive to the anime sequence battles.

As such, Guren stands out as the only boss that is fought both in the anime sequence battles and the jump-and-run stages.

To visit the respective subpages, please click any of the images or desired links below:

Anime Sequence Battle BossJump-and-Run Mini-Boss
### **Trivia - Unique Boss**

While one might also count the Goliath Seed, which later is revealed to be Hyouinomi, as such an unique kind of boss (as it is fought both as a jump-and-run mini-boss and later an anime sequence battle boss), this is debatable, as the creature takes on two different forms ingame and its first appearance features it merged with other beings of its kind. This stands in contrast to Guren, who is always the same individual.

## Tenchi Meidou

In this game, Guren serves as a boss, that is fought alongside Karuma, Goura and Anju starting from the Karuma ark of the game and up to the endgame phases.

He is a powerful foe, that should not be underestimated.

To visit the respective subpage, please click the image or desired link below:

Boss character

## Anime Sequence Battle

### Main Game

#### Sprites

Guren as he appears in the anime sequence battlesGuren's idle animationGuren's tired closeup when his health is low.Guren's eyes as they appear in the upper corner of his side when he has decided his move while it's the enemy's turn.Guren avoiding an attackGuren avoiding an attackGuren blocking a basic attackGuren using his basic attackGuren using his low or medium power special attackGuren smiling proudly before using his high power special attackGuren using his high power special attackGuren when he recovers his health (low or medium power)Guren when he gets hit by a basic attackGuren recovering from a takedown
#### Other

Chiaki and Zenki VS GurenThe beginning of the battle between Zenki and GurenThe individual stages of Guren's power bar from the game's Anime Sequence Battles.
### Multiplayer

#### Sprites

Guren's icon in the hidden VS mode menuGuren's idle animation (alternate color palette)Guren's tired closeup when his health is low. (alternate color palette)
#### In Battle

##### **Special Attack (high power)**

When Guren uses his second most powerful special attack, he will take a proud stance.Shortly afterwards, he will stand there with a fierce expression on his face and......lift his fist, extending his pointer finger, which then lights up with a powerful, white glow.A huge energy ball, almost as large as Guren himself, will appear at his pointerfinger as the background starts flashing.Guren then shoots the energy ball at his foe while the background keeps flashing. As the energy ball gently floats towards the foe, sparkles will fly away from the energy ball. Just like any other powerful projectile, the energy ball will hit the foe full force, crashing into them.
##### **Special Attack (high power with advantage)**

When Guren uses his most powerful special attack, the background will start flashing and Guren will raise his fist with the pointer finger extended. He then charges up energy, which......he then will fire at his opponent from his palm!A powerful beam will shoot at his opponent, taking out two health bars if it connects!
##### **Recovery**

Guren using the medium power version of his health recovery move. He makes the well known beheading gesture by quickly drawing the fist with his stretched out thumb along his own throat.If he uses his full power health recovery move, he will cross his arms and......start yelling!
*(here's Guren using his health recovery move in another batlle scene)*The background will go dark until it turns completely black......then Guren lets out a roar, showing himself in a pose that just says that he's ready for anything his opponent throws at him!To emphasize this, the background will turn blue with energy raising upwards!Then it will flash as Guren ends his roar.
##### **Other**

Goura fighting Guren in the two player versus modeGuren using his basic attack. He leaps at his opponent and takes a swing at them.When Guren uses his medium power special attack, he will use the tip of his pointer finger and shoot energy balls at his foe!
## Jump-and-run stage boss

The jump-and-run boss battle against Guren. He attacks by flying offscreen and throwing fireballs, causing Zenki to do a funny dance on the fire and getting hurt. This can be avoided by jumping out of the way.Guren as he appears in his jump-and-run sequence boss battleGuren dying, after being defeated by Chibi Zenki

## Anime

### Without armor

When Karuma threatens to punish Anju, Guren seems rather concerned despite his deep loyality towards Karuma. (Episode 17)in Episode 21in Episode 21