Gai Ogata

**Gai Ogata** (緒方 凱, *Ogata Gai*) is the main protagonist of Sword Gai. He is the wielder of the Alma Core Shiryu and a Chrysalis.

## Physical Appearance

Gai has black-midnight purple hair and brown/red eyes, which at time, seems very cold. He has a rather thin build. His right arm is missing below the elbow due to an accident, and instead was replaced by a prosthesis made of the lesser Shiryu by Amon Ogata. This arm reaches up to Gai's shoulder.

What he wears is dependent on the episode.

## Personality/Traits

It is shown that Gai sometimes lacks expressions and he can be a bit cold to others. He tends to say that he is alone, believing that the world is against him at all times. This belief makes him desire to kill the entire world, as well as the darkness he perceives is following him.

Despite this, he seems to want to help people when they need it, and shows that he genuinely does care about people. He builds some trust with and desired to fulfill a personal promise made to Seiya Ichijō.

## History

Wakaba (Gai's biological mother) committed suicide near the Ogata household as she was fleeing the city after a killing rampage fueled by her possession of the lesser Shiryu, which she had acquired the sword when its original handler Tamotsu killed Takashi (Gai's biological father) in Episode 1 and she might have given birth to Gai *after* she hanged herself. Gai was found by Amon Ogata with the Shiryu in his arms and was taken in to the Ogata family. He studied sword making while living with Amon, but didn't make many friends, apart from the daughter of Amon, Sayaka Ogata.

Once as a child, he tried to run away from the Ogata household, but Sayaka followed after him. This led to her almost being attacked by a wolf, but Gai saved her at the cost of a bite to his arm.

Later on Sayaka tried to convince Gai to have fun with her, but he refused and got threatened by a jealous Tatsumi, who misunderstood the situation. Things almost escalated if not for the timely arrival of Amon, who ushered them to prepare for the Shiryu Cleansing ritual.

However, the ritual went awry when Tatsumi broke the protocol (perhaps to deny Gai 'his' rightful spot) and caused Sayaka to be possessed and attack him. But Gai rushed in to save Tatsumi and lost his arm in the process.

Amon reforged the Shiryu into a prosthetic for Gai, which caused Tatsumi to attack Sayaka in a fit of jealousy and betrayal. Gai interrupted Tatsumi but was overpowered by Shiryu's bloodlust. He approached Tatsumi in order to kill him only to be stopped by Sayaka's cries. After regaining his senses, Gai underwent a breakdown and attempted to ruin his mother's grave with a knife, blaming her for abandoning him.

## Abilities

Due to the unique circumstance of his weapon being forged into a cursed prosthetic arm, Gai can form his entire right arm into the Shiryu's blade and he is shown to be quite capable of using it in combat. He has held his own against powerful and even monstrous opponents, and in most cases, has won these altercations. Gai is not only unique because of the way his weapon is integrated into his body, but Gai is also the only Chrysalis shown to be capable of reverting from Busoma back to Chrysalis.

## Episodes

### Episode 2

Gai protects Sayaka Ogata from unwanted advances by Tatsumi, which later causes Gai to lose his arm in a ritual gone wrong.

### Episode 3

Amon Ogata forges the Shiryu into a prosthetic arm for Gai. Gai struggles with the new powers this brings him.

### Episode 4

Tatsumi, now a Busoma, and Gai, while in a murderous state of being controlled by the Shiryu, fight. This attracts the attention of the Shoshidai.

### Episode 5

The awakening of Gai's powers as a Chrysalis cause him to revert to a childlike state. Sayaka Ogata attempts to fix this, to no result. They are attacked by Tonbokiri, though saved by Seiya Ichijō.

### Episode 6

Gai and Seiya Ichijō Ichijo begin to fight, although this gets interrupted numerous times. Gai and Sayaka Ogata manage to escape into the forest, and talk for some time before returning to the Ogata household. Seiya offers to take Gai to the Shoshidai and Gai accepts.

### Episode 7

Seiya Ichijō takes both him and Gai to the house of Kei, Ichijo's lover. This ends with Gai getting thrown out of the house where he encounters the Flamberge wielding Midoriko.

### Episode 9

Gai helps Seiya Ichijō take down the double-weapon wielding Naoki Miki.

### Episode 10

Gai and Seiya Ichijō talk for some time, prompting Ichijo to reveal how he came into the possession of the Chakram.

### Episode 11

Gai finally arrives safely at the Shoshidai headquarters.

### Episode 12

Gai and Seiya Ichijō fight with Zsoltgewinn, but as they are about to win the Busoma Grimms interrupts. Gai insists on fighting him, losing control to the murderous rage of the Shiryu. Ichijo's attempts at awakening Gai only cause Gai to become a Busoma, though this leads to Gai stabbing Ichijo. Ichijo then becomes a Busoma, though succeeds in freeing Gai from the control of the Shiryu.

### Season 2 Episode 12

Gai gets stabbed by Sayaka Ogata with the blade he previously made for her to protect herself. The pain he felt as a result gave him the power to overcome the control of the Shiryu. Now back in control of his own body, he fights Shin Matoba who has the other, superior, version of the Shiryu. Just when Shin seems to win the battle he admits to Gai that he doesn't think he can stay in control and decides to allow Gai to kill him. As a result the other Shiryu also gets absorbed into Gai and turns Gai into what Grimms calls "the God of the Busomas". But instead of this "God" killing all humans as Grimms had planned all allong, we get to see how Gai is attached to humanity.

## Relationships

### **Amon Ogata**

Amon is Gai's adoptive father, but Gai doesn't seem emotionally attached to his adoptive father at all, though he says "he is grateful for what his master has done for him."

### **Sayaka Ogata**

Sayaka is Gai's adoptive older sister, although Gai tends to brush her aside often. However, he is also shown helping her and taking injuries in her stead, proving he does genuinely care for her. Although not quite shown to be reciprocated by him, Sayaka is strongly suggested to be in love with Gai despite his cold nature.

### Seiya Ichijō

Seiya takes on a mentor like role for Gai in the brief amount of time that they spend together.

## Etymology

* The name **Gai** means "victory song" (凱).
* Gai's surname **Ogata** means "thread" (緒) (**o**) and "one, person, side" (方) (**kata**/**gata**).

## Trivia

* Because **Gai Ogata** is a full name given by Amon Ogata, it is unknown on what Gai's real name is due to his biological parents (Takashi and Wakaba) being dead when he was still inside Wakaba's womb.