Kureha Shinogi

ℹ️️**Notice**This is a crossover character and is therefore not canon to Glad you Came

**Kureha Shinogi** (鎬 紅葉, *Shinogi Kureha*) is a fictional character from anime and manga series of Baki the Grappler. He is a surgical genius able to do surgical wonders, such as restarting a heart barehanded without piercing the skin, and a fighter with a powerful body. Kureha is the older brother of Koushou Shinogi.

He is known as the "Super Doctor" (スーパー・ドクター, *Sūpā Dokutā*).

## Personality

He's very narcissistic and overly self-confident. Kureha is also an eloquent person with a calm and gentle way of being. At first, he considered all martial artists to be amateurs in the world of human anatomy. He is proud and builds the strength of his body on his own through rigorous weight training. He claims to have the perfect body with all the traits of several Olympic level athletes, the speed of a sprinter, the endurance of a marathon runner, the flexibility of an amateur wrestler and the reaction time and hitting strength of a heavyweight boxer. He claimed that his knowledge of the human body was enough to show his superiority over martial arts. He also believed himself strong enough to hold his own against Yuujirou Hanma before being defeated by Baki Hanma. He seemed to be quite nice at times and even saved Doppo Orochi's life of his own free will, but in fact his concern was only because he wanted to arrogantly present himself as a genius among amateurs. It turned out that he even hated all fighters, which is why he wanted to destroy Baki in the blink of an eye during their fight and show everyone his superiority. He was extremely upset that martial arts can be considered as something better than medical knowledge.

At first, he had no criticism of himself. He did not see his own mistake when he was accused of cruelty to his patients, whom he treated as ordinary guinea pigs during his medical experiments. Moreover, he was angry at his patients for not being grateful for the surgeries he'd performed. When he lost the match with Baki, he began to be more humble and changed his attitude towards other people, reducing his arrogance's level. He's still narcissistic, but it is shown he does care for the health of others. Like when he warned Jack Hanma to stop using his drugs or he will die. Although at first Jack bravely and brazenly ignored him, Kureha later started to help him "improve" Jack's physical abilities and they even became some kind of friends.

Kureha loves his brother, Koushou, but in the beginning he always treated him as someone worse and weaker. He was constantly looking at him patronizingly, which led to a huge amount of frustration in Koushou. Kureha's attitude was sometimes even a combination of care and cold severity towards his brother. He cruelly said he is the only person who had the right to hurt Koushou. An important situation in this relationship was their fight in the Underground Arena, when Kureha seemed to finally begin to see his brother's suffering and was moved by his incredible determination in this clash. Then Kureha surrendered and gave Koushou the victory in the fight, symbolically showing that Koushou finally came out of the shadow of his older brother.