Kamui Gakupo

**Kamui Gakupo** is a minor antagonist in Silylily - The Story.

Having grown up with Gumi, Gakupo is committed to looking after her by any means necessary. This leads to disparity between him and Lily, but the two are forced to associate with one another when Gumi brings Lily along to join Internet.

## Summary

The young samurai Kamui Gakupo grew up alongside Gumi, but when she befriends Lily at school, he grows jealous of their budding relationship and seeks to stand between them. As adults, he and Gumi become the first members of Internet, a household for singers of the vocaloid genre of music. Gumi brings Lily into it as well, furthering the tension between her and the samurai. Ryuto, CUL, galaco (temporarily), kokone, Chika, and Otomachi Una also join Internet, but Gumi and Gakupo remain the most famous musicians in it. Una later shares the same status as them. As Gakupo grows overbearing while preventing Gumi from interacting with Lily, Gumi starts finding ways to deceive him in order to hang out with her friend. Nevertheless, Gumi and Gakupo are always the ones booked to perform at major concerts and events.

Upon being invited to a major dance celebration as guests of honor, Gakupo prevents Gumi from bringing any dates, adhering to the rules. At the celebration, Lily asks Gumi to dance, causing Gakupo to place her in an isolated area. During this, she pickpockets his trademark katana. Later, Gumi tells Gakupo off and decides to dance with Lily anyway. Months later, Gakupo is tasked with hosting Gumi's birthday party, where he announces he will be taking her on "the Great Vocaloid Tour," the biggest vocaloid concert in the world. During the party, an attacker knocks Gumi unconscious on the stage. Gakupo notices that the assailant has blonde hair, causing him to blame Lily for the attack. He throws Lily out of the party along with kokone, who sympathizes with her. The two girls later catch the real attacker and Gumi makes Gakupo apologize. When Lily and kokone leave with their band for a gig, Gakupo makes the rest of Internet (sans Chika) leave early for the tour. This causes them to miss Lily's birthday, but Gakupo insists that Lily is a "big girl" and discourages Gumi from thinking about her.

## Characterization

Despite popular depictions of Gakupo being mostly positive, silylilyanimove's admin wanted to take the character in a direction that was more in line with his marketing as a vocaloid. As Lily was regularly cast aside in favor of Gakupo, the admin could not help but see him as an antagonizing figure to her. While Gakupo's off-putting attitude toward Lily started off as an ongoing joke, when *Silylily - The Story* took on a more continuity-based storyline, it started to be played straight. Due to the amount of Gakupo fans that followed silylilyanimove, the admin kept Gakupo's appearances to a minimum to avoid consistently showing him in a negative light. Humorous comics such as Lily's New Maid and The Challenge depict him in a more lighthearted manner, even showing him interacting positively with Lily and kokone. In spite of his portrayal, Gakupo is one of the admin's favorite male vocaloids.

## Trivia

* In A Vocaloid Christmas Carol, Gakupo is shown to work part-time as a mall Santa.