Gin Ibushi

飯伏(イブシ) 銀(ギン), *Ibushi Gin*?

**Gin Ibushi** (飯伏(イブシ) 銀(ギン), *Ibushi Gin*?) is a 6th grader and one of the 20 participants forced into playing the Death Game.

## Appearance

Gin is a 12-year-old boy with brown hair and green eyes. He wears blue denim shorts, a gray T-shirt, and a gray medical mask. He also wears socks and a pair of slippers that are orange with paws on the top. His outfit is themed around a variety of animals, and includes a pair of bat wings, a monkey tail, and a cape with a hood that features cat ears. He also wears large animal paw mittens and carries around a dog cushion which he very affectionately calls 'Mew-chan'.

Being a participant of the Death Game, He likely wears a Collar, except Gin is not seen to be wearing one in any sprite or artwork so far.

## Personality

Gin tries to remain positive and optimistic despite his situation. While he warms up to people easily, he can occasionally be sarcastic or blunt to them. Gin is rarely melancholy. He gets attached to those he meets easily. He becomes especially attached to Sara, viewing her as a trustworthy and kind big sister figure. While he may be young, Gin always attempts his best to help the group by finding clues and remains strong despite the circumstances. He ends the majority of his sentences with "meow" and "woof", and tends to casually nickname those around him.

## History

### Background

Gin Ibushi is a student at Heiwa Elementary. He is in Class 6-3 and takes care of the class animals. He describes not finding school fun because he doesn’t like some of the other students, but he still thinks it's nice to meet up with friends and play together. He actually doesn’t wear his in-game outfit to school because teachers and other students don't approve of it and get mad at him, so he only wears it at home. This makes Gin uneasy at school, as he finds it easier to communicate and talk to people when he wears his outfit.

His adherence to the school rules gives his classmates the impression that he is obedient, but Gin himself disagrees. Gin explained to Sara that he has autism. This explains Gin’s verbal stims of using 'meow' and 'woof', and the comfort he finds in familiar clothing. Gin further elaborated that for a while before the death game he was unable to go outside without his outfit.

Gin frequently visited his school counselor who he talked to about his school, home life, and autism. His counselor was actually Sou Hiyori, who promised Gin he could "get better" and then offered him the consent form, saying it was a magic paper that could grant wishes. Gin wished for his mom to have a long healthy life and signed the form, unaware of what it really was.

His aspiration is to live with animals always. His current favorite animals are alligators.

### The Death Game

The details of Gin's First Trial are unknown, but sometime after being kidnapped, he successfully completed his First Trial and arrived in the Central Hall of the 1st floor to meet the other surviving participants, where Keiji Shinogi suggests that everyone introduces themselves. When talking with Sara, he automatically takes a liking to her, immediately referring to her as "Big Sis Sara". After introductions are over, Q-taro Burgerberg reveals the box that he carried for his First Trial. Inside is a doll head, with a note that asks to find the rest of its body. The group splits up to search. Gin searches with Professor Mishima in the bar.

Eventually, all the doll parts are collected, and everyone gathers in the Pink Room. The doll is assembled, and a white gas fills the room. After is dissipates, standing in front on the participants is the Laughing Doll, Sue Miley. She explains they are going to hold a practice vote and hands each person a voting tablet. Gin subsequently votes for himself. Mishima ends up receiving the most votes, so Miley kills him by having his collar burn through his neck.

After Miley leaves, a note on the back of the Pink Room door is discovered that told them had the vote been a tie, no one would have died. Nao and Gin, shocked by the professor's death, sit mourning next to his body. Sara decides to leave the room and after solving a series of puzzles, discovers a man in the Red Room. Upon bringing him back to the Pink Room, a body collection message is broadcasted. Nao, frightened by the idea that the professor is going to be taken away, stuffs the professor's head into the box the doll head was in and runs away. Gin runs after her.

Sara and Keiji venture forth to the second floor. Entering the "Ro" room there, they find Gin trapped in a cage, steadily sinking into the floor. They try to get him out, but nevertheless, the cage becomes embedded in the floor. Sara and Keiji climb down a ladder and find Gin in the cage hanging over a green switch. Papers explain to them that in this game, the "Birdcage game," to free the hostage from the cage, the green switch must be pressed. While doing so, masks will appear to attack, but can be destroyed using "holy light," or rather, a flashlight.

Gin is successfully saved and the three exit the "Ro" room. They return to the first floor, with no luck in finding Nao. Joe asks to come to the bar, to meet the man from the Red Room that had regained consciousness. Eventually, they gather that his name is Gonbee Yamada and that he is in the exact same situation as the others. The participants go to split up again. Reko tells Gin to rest with Kanna and Sou in the bar, but he refuses and asks to go with Sara. If she refuses, Reko will take Gin with her, but they travel as a group along with Keiji anyway. Solving the puzzle in the "Mir" room, the gate to the 2F Back Hallway opens. There, a key is found that opens the door to the kitchen, revealing Nao.

At some point, Gin finds a Commoner Card for the Main Game.

After Nao is calmed, the 2F Back Hallway is explored. In the Black Room, Gin offers to search the shredder full of paper and try to put fragments together. At some point, Gin enters the red door that leads to the Last Supper Room.

Soon the Main Game begins. Q-taro starts a discussion by saying that Gin, Nao and Kanna are the weakest out of everyone. Gin eventually proves himself by showing what he found in the paper scraps in the Black Room. This leads to the discovery that Gonbee's name is actually Alice, a murderer and the older brother of Reko.

In the preliminary vote, Gin is not one of the five voted. In the end, Kai was the Sage and gained the majority vote, Joe was the Sacrifice and both die.

The participants are then transported to the third floor, where they meet Rio Ranger and Tia Safalin, the new Floor Masters. They are introduced to the new Sub-Game, in which they must collect Clear Chips by completing attractions. It is also a game of trust, where people can trade their Me-Tokens between each other. Gin refuses to take any of the other's Me-Tokens, but is open to giving out his own, as seen if Sara decides to negotiate with him.

    By the morning of the fourth day, the time limit has run out. Since everyone, including Gin, collected 10 Clear Chips, they all proceed to the Final Attraction. Ranger lines everyone up according to how many tokens they received. Suddenly, a giant target hoists up first-place Q-taro on one side and last-place Gin on the other. Ranger explains that Gin will be injected with deadly venom unless Q-taro presses a button that will switch their places, and Q-taro will be targeted instead. It is up to Sara, Nao and Reko, placed in the "Arbitration Room" to figure out a way to save Gin.

The Reko currently in the Arbitration Room is revealed to be a doll AI, and it eventually comes down to choosing to push her down the pit or not. Gin is able to survive the venom regardless of Sara's decision, thanks to Q-taro pressing the switch and/or Keiji retrieving an antidote from the Medical Office, but either Reko or Alice's life is lost.

After recovering from the effects of the venom, Gin, like everyone else, is informed about the second Main Game. Gin starts off with a Commoner card, and doesn't have his role traded by anyone in the 3 hours before it begins. On a whim, Gin finds the secret passage in the Room of Rubble and sneaks off into the first floor, prompting Sara and Keiji to go and look for him.

Upon being interrupted by the sound of a card trade, both Sara and Keiji retreat without finding Gin. Somehow, Gin manages to successfully return to the third floor by himself. Once Sara is traded the Sacrifice and attempts to take the deceased Yabusame's tokens off their corpse, she finds out that the tokens were already taken. This prompts her hallucination of Joe to taunt her over her impending death, but Gin steps in with encouragement to believe in what Joe really was. Through Gin's words, Sara manages to drive back the hallucination for the moment.

Gin does not contribute much to the discussion in the second Main Game, and he is not one of the four voted in the preliminary vote. During the final vote, while he expresses a desire to vote for Sou, Sara pressures him into voting for Kanna so that she can bear the burden of deciding who lives or dies. If Sara then votes for Nao, the Sacrifice, Gin perishes along with everyone else as Sara and Nao win the Death Game together. If Sara instead votes for either Sou or Kanna, both Nao and Sou/Kanna die, with Gin regrouping with the remaining participants in either the lobby or Sara's bedroom.

Gin then accompanies everyone else to the fifth floor, where they are introduced to Midori and the Dummies. For the Murderer Game, Gin is assigned Shunsuke Hayasaka as his partner, and views him similarly to how he saw the late Mishima. While exploring a locker room, both Gin and Hayasaka are pulled up to the ceiling, but they are eventually released.

Eventually, it is revealed that the goal of the Dummies is to kill their partner before Midori is killed. If he is still alive up to that point, Hayasaka is reluctant to hurt Gin, and instead tries to discourage him from getting involved. The idea of reconciling with the Dummies to take part in the Banquet is then brought up, and Gin is one of the more eager to make up with Hayasaka.

When the participants decide to engage in the Banquet, Gin volunteers to act as the challenger for them, citing that he wants to protect those he cares about instead of the other way around - this means that he is placed in a coffin alongside Midori, the Dummies and Q-taro (having took Keiji's place earlier) and put at risk of being drilled to death. In fact, Midori eventually manages to figure out Gin's position, and is only prevented from killing him by Sara signing a consent form, forcing him to target Anzu's coffin instead.

Once Keiji makes his presence known, both Midori and Meister blackmail Sara by promising to not execute Keiji for violating rules if Gin is killed. Nevertheless, Sara ignores them and chooses Midori to be drilled, saving Gin. But as Gin climbs out of the coffin (optionally accompanied by either Kurumada, Mai or Hayasaka), he discovers to his sorrow that Keiji doesn't have to die - Q-taro was the true rule violator, and in fact was already dead, having been replaced by a Doll. The Doll version of Q-taro comforts Gin, crying in his arms, as he runs out of power and shuts down. With this, Gin becomes one of the guaranteed participants for the upcoming Main Game.

## Relationships

### Family

Gin is an only child, he lives with his mother and step-father. Both of his parents work so he tends to get quite lonely. He loves his mother very dearly, and Gin very affectionately mentions how she's super nice, and regardless of how late she gets home or how exhausted she is, she always cooks dinner for him, but this is much to Gin's dismay because he worries about her overworking herself.

Gin does like his step-father, but he has an alcohol problem that Gin gets annoyed and embarrassed about. Gin states that he doesn’t want to become 'that kind of pathetic grownup.' His step-father married his mother when Gin was 2 years old.

### Sara Chidouin

Gin refers to Sara as "Big Sis Sara" immediately, even without her fully understanding it or accepting of it. Gin usually is tasked by Sara during the Main Games to get clues like the Four Papers found in Chapter 1. However, during Chapter 2, Gin is playing with her during his negotiation events, like tag, or just cleaning his Mew-chan pillow. Sara sees Gin as a trusted ally, and Gin does in a similar way. Gin comes to comfort Sara in the Room of Lies after her hallucinations start destroying her mental health after she gets the Sacrifice card.

Throughout each of the chapters, Sara rescues Gin from many traps. In Chapter 1, she and Keiji Shinogi rescue him from the Birdcage Game where he is trapped in a giant cage. In Chapter 2, the story diverges based on how Sara will save Gin from the venom of the Rikuto giant scorpion, by either pushing the fake Reko Yabusame to gain 35.5 kg (78.3 lbs) or to let Q-taro Burgerberg press the switch. In Chapter 3, he and Shunsuke Hayasaka get hung by their collars due to a magnetic force in the ceiling, but are eventually released by Midori after Sara, Keiji, Ranmaru Kageyama, and Hinako Mishuku try to get them both down.

### Joe Tazuna

Similar to that of Sara Chidouin, Gin and Joe have a friendly relationship with each other. Gin refers to him as "Big Bro Joe" and relies on him like an older brother. In Chapter 1, when Gin complains about alcohol and his drunkard father, Joe falls silent before changing the subject. Out of all the other participants, he seemed to trust Joe and Sara the most. Gin is very disconsolate after Joe is revealed to be the Sacrifice during the Main Game.

When Sara almost allows her hallucinations of Joe to conquer her mind, Gin tells her to believe in the real Joe instead.

### Q-taro Burgerberg

Gin is initially distrusting around Q-taro, especially when the latter threatens his life in the First Main Game to force him to reveal the scraps of the Four Papers. In Chapter 2, Gin's life is put in Q-taro's hands in the Final Attraction, and regardless of if Q-taro hits the switch, Gin thanks him for saving his life. By Chapter 3, Gin is heartbroken to discover that Q-taro died and was replaced with a Doll in the Murderer Game, and cries into his arms as Q-taro shuts down.

### Kazumi Mishima

Gin and Mishima did not have a very close relationship when introduced, as stated by Gin who refers to him as overly suspicious and is caught off-guard when learning of his occupation. The two then decide to search the bar together. Gin is frightened and heartbroken after witnessing Mishima's untimely demise, he and Nao Egokoro staying behind next to the body. It is implied that he views Shunsuke Hayasaka similarly to how he viewed Mishima.

### Shunsuke Hayasaka

Gin first learns of Hayasaka after viewing his First Trial on the first floor. Later on, the two are paired together on the fourth floor. It is thought by Keiji Shinogi that Hayasaka is viewed similarly to how Gin viewed the late Kazumi Mishima when questioned by Hayasaka as to why Gin treats him the way he does. If Hayasaka is killed in the library, Gin is momentarily shaken again after watching someone he was semi-close with die. He is also admittedly upset after learning the Dummies' real objective, having most likely trusted Hayasaka a lot. If Hayasaka is the survivor of the Banquet, Gin promises to bring him back as fast as he can once Hayasaka runs out of battery.

### Sou Hiyori

Sou was a big part of Gin's life because of him taking the role of a school counselor for him. It was this time that Gin was aware of his autism and Sou was there to help him out and understand him better, Gin did many tests with him which was probably a front of him to gather information about Gin towards the Death Game.

In an almost comedic way, Sou almost told Gin what he does normally.

## Appellations

* Participants A
* Participants B
* Organization members
* Others

 Gin's mom

## Trivia

* His likes are listed as Mew-chan, cushions, cats, and dogs in his character profile. Though, currently, he's into gators.
* Gin has a distaste for peppers and possibly coffee.
* Gin's paw gloves have claws that can retract, however he chooses to keep them out, according to his character profile.
* He's the only character whose collar is not seen in the game in any sprite or artwork.
* It is revealed in Chapter 3, Part One that Gin is autistic, making him the only confirmed disabled character.

* Gin's mother can be seen in one of Nankidai's twitter sketches.
* Based on Gin's birthday, age, and grade, it can be deduced that the events of the Death Game take place between March 13 and early April. In Japan, the school year ends in late March and begins early April. 6th graders are aged 11-12, and since his birthday is in March, Gin would be one of the youngest of his peers; turning 12 just as his sixth year was ending and entering 7th grade/middle school the next month. Thus, the events of the Death Game must start between Gin's birthday on March 13th but before entering his first year of middle school in April.
* The kanji that makes up his first name is 銀, *gin*?, lit. "silver".
* He has a 1.3% chance of winning the Death Game.
* As of Chapter 3, Part One, Gin, Keiji and Sara are the only participants who cannot die or have their fate chosen by the player, not including game over sequences or the Massacre Ending.
* Gin's 35.5kg weight is said to be average in the world of YTTD, but both this weight and height is under what is average to current Japanese 12-year-olds.
* Gin is one of the few characters that have not been shown to wear a collar, alongside Sue Miley, Tia Safalin, and Rio Ranger.
* Gin is one of three participants whose First Trials are unknown, along with Reko and Kai

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1, Part One. *Your Turn to Die ―Death Game By Majority―* (キミガシネ　―多数決デスゲーム―) by Nankidai. August 28, 2017.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 2, Part One. *Your Turn to Die ―Death Game By Majority―* (キミガシネ　―多数決デスゲーム―) by Nankidai. August 7, 2018. Gin AI
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Nankidai (May 30, 2019). Kimi Ga Shine Character Profile Vol. 1 (キミガシネ　キャラクタープロフィール第1弾, *Kimigashine kyarakutāpurofīru dai 1-dan*?) (Japanese). Pixiv.
4. ↑ Chapter 3, Part One, Section B. *Your Turn to Die ―Death Game By Majority―* (キミガシネ　―多数決デスゲーム―) by Nankidai., Gin's memories; "I don't really get all the details, but... I have this sorta condition called autism, meow... [...] If I don't wear this... I feel really embarrassed. I get nervous, woof... I know it's weird, meow..."
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kai's Story. *Your Turn to Shine: Island Existence* (キミガシネ番外編　～生存島～) by Nankidai. March 3, 2022.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Mishima's Story. *Your Turn to Shine: Island Existence* (キミガシネ番外編　～生存島～) by Nankidai. December 20, 2019.
Nankidai. Tokyo: Dwango. 2021. Print. *Kimi ga Shine Character Settei Materials: Survivor Roster*
8. ↑ 12歳の平均身長・体重は？身長を伸ばすために親ができるサポート (Japanese) (June 18, 2020). Retrieved on April 12, 2022.