Might Guy
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| Might Guy | |
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| (マイト・ガイ) | |
 Might Guy by Masashi Kishimoto |
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| Debut | Manga Chapter 38 Anime Episode 22 |
| Seiyū | Masashi Ebara |
| Voice actor(s) | Skip Stellrecht |
| Profile | |
| Age | 26-27 in Part I 29 in Part II |
| Date of birth | January 1 |
| Blood type | B |
| Height | 184 cm |
| Weight | 76 kg |
| Information | |
| Current rank | Jonin |
| Current affiliation | Konohagakure |
| Current team | Team Guy (Might Guy, Neji Hyuga, Rock Lee, Tenten) |
| Signature jutsu/Kekkei genkai | |
Might Guy is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Naruto. Fansubs have often dubbed his name as Maito Gai, a direct and unaltered transliteration of the character's name, but the second official Naruto data book (Hiden: Tō no Sho) states his name as Might Guy. The English version of the anime and manga both use Might Guy as well.
The name "Might Guy" is a joke aimed at the "hot-headed hero" archetype that appears in many movies and anime. There is even a giant robot anime named Yuusha Tokkyuu Might Gaine for the same reason. In the Might Gaine anime, the "Nice Guy pose" is made by a giant robot. His look and mannerisms are similar to Bruce Lee.
In the Shonen Jump magazine, Viz rendered Guy's name as "Mighty Guy" in some chapters; this was changed back to "Maito Gai" in most of the graphic novel stories. Later this was changed to "Might Guy" when the guidebooks were released.
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[edit] Personality
Might Guy is a Konoha Jonin who is notorious for his thick eyebrows, green jumpsuit, shiny bowl haircut, and exceedingly boisterous personality. He graduated from the Academy at age seven, and became a Chunin at age eleven. He refers to himself as "Konoha's Prideful Green Beast" (木ノ葉の気高き碧い猛獣, Konoha no Kedakai Aoi Mōjū) and Naruto usually addresses him as Gejimayu-sensei (Master Thick Eyebrows). He is the sensei of the ninja team consisting of Neji Hyuga, Tenten, and Rock Lee. Of the three, he has bonded with Lee the most, because Lee reminds Guy of himself when he was younger. Guy's guidance prompted Lee to start tapping into his potential, despite having been considered sub par in all ninja categories up until then. In his first appearance, Guy was accompanied by Ninkame, a large red tortoise (his summon). This tortoise has not been seen since then. Guy believes that "hard work without believing in yourself is worthless", and though he uses the terms "youth", "power" and "explosion" a lot, he sadly notes that his own youthful power seems to have started fading. He first mentions this during training with Lee, who he can no longer keep up with.
Guy is perhaps the most emotional character in the series, and possesses several odd mannerisms accentuating this fact. Even by anime standards, in which character emotions are often ridiculously overstated, Guy over-reacts to just about everything. The first and foremost of these is his "nice guy pose", which consists of giving the thumbs up and smiling with teeth so white they give the proverbial "ping". It's often used by both Guy and Lee to indicate commitment to whatever statement they just made, the highest form of a promise. His relationship with Lee also carries these overtones. When Lee makes any sort of infraction, Guy will punch him and give him some sort of ridiculous task. The two then burst into tears and embrace. When this happens, a beach at sunset, complete with crashing waves, usually appears behind them.
Many of Guy's mannerisms and quirks are references to common clichés of seishun (青春, "youth," especially in the sense of "springtime of one's life") anime. The coach whose "tough love" and harsh training is eventually respected and loved by his charges whom he has turned from losers into champions is a staple of such sports anime, as well as US sports movies. These clichés are often viewed as hopelessly corny and commonly parodied in gag anime.
According to the official databook, Might Guy's favorite foods are super-spicy curry rice and curry udon. As to his least favorite food, he proclaims, "There is no such thing!" His hobbies are repeatedly jumping sideways and hitting mitts, and his favorite phrase is "Bursting with youth!"
Guy is the self-proclaimed rival of Kakashi Hatake, who appears indifferent to their rivalry, similar to Lee's rivalry with Neji. This annoys Guy to no end, and he can't stand Kakashi's "cool" attitude. Guy has a record of 50 wins and 49 losses against his rival, and is very proud of it. This achievement, however, is not nearly as impressive as Guy makes it seem. In a flashback, these contests are shown to include 100-meter dashes, sumo-wrestling, ramen-eating contests, and even Rock, Paper, Scissors. Guy actually objected to the last item on the list, but Kakashi convinced him that luck was a skill. Incidentally, Guy lost that contest.
In his rivalry with Kakashi, he has developed a taijutsu counter against Sharingan users. By focusing on his enemy's feet, Guy can both avoid genjutsu induced through eye contact and predict their movements.
Despite his rather goofy nature, Guy is actually a very powerful Jonin, and can be serious when the situation demands it. When he saves Kakashi, Asuma, and Kurenai from Kisame during the Return of Itachi arc, Itachi narrows his eyes at his appearance. Kisame disregards Guy as foolish, but Itachi warns him to not underestimate Guy. In Part II, as Team Guy is approaching the Akatsuki hideout, Itachi warns the other members of Akatsuki again to not take Guy lightly. Considering the strength of each member of the organization and Itachi in particular, that Guy would merit such a warning is a sure indicator that he is a potent combatant.
Guy has never been shown using ninjutsu or genjutsu (even going so far as to use a regular disguise instead of using a transformation jutsu). However, unlike Lee, he is given a ninjutsu and genjutsu score of three out of five in the databooks, so one can assume that he simply doesn't like to use either. It is implied early on in the series that Guy summoned Ninkame on at least one occasion (offscreen), and he is capable of dispelling genjutsu (as seen during the Invasion of Konoha arc).
[edit] Part I
[edit] Chunin Exam arc
Guy first appears in the Chunin Exam arc, where he recommended that Kakashi hold his students back for a year so they could train. Kakashi asked if Guy was afraid that his own students would lose, which annoyed him. Guy later appears to stop the fight between Lee and Sasuke, which Lee was about to finish with a forbidden technique. This is Team 7's first introduction to Guy. While Naruto and Sakura can't help but focus on his comical resemblance to Lee and the goofy, overemotional student-teacher relationship between them, Sasuke is focused on his record against Kakashi, which Guy announced during his entrance. He also notes Guy's speed, which is greater than Kakashi's.
Guy makes several more appearances beyond this point, but most are simply speaking roles. During the preliminary exams, he notes Sasuke's similarity to Kakashi after watching him copy one of Lee's Lotus techniques. During Lee's fight with Gaara, he reveals that he taught Lee how to open five of the eight chakra gates, which Kakashi thinks was rather reckless of him. Guy defends himself, saying that he did so in order to help Lee achieve his goals. When Lee is about to be killed by Gaara, he steps in to stop the fight.
Guy ends up repeating Kakashi's earlier statement when he learns that Kakashi taught Sasuke the Chidori. Kakashi merely alludes to what Guy taught Lee as a response. After the attack on Konoha begins, both he and Kakashi spend the entire time taking out the enemy ninja. Even in the midst of the battle, Guy insists on outdoing Kakashi, ensuring that he defeats more shinobi than his rival.
[edit] Return of Itachi and Search for Tsunade arc
During the Search for Tsunade arc, Guy rescues Kakashi, Asuma, and Kurenai Yuhi from Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki, who were looking for Naruto. They retreat when Guy arrives, stating that they didn't want to start a war. After Kakashi is taken to the hospital, Itachi's arrival is accidentally revealed to Sasuke, who goes to find him. Guy ends up pursuing Sasuke, but only arrives after the fight between Jiraiya, Kisame, and Itachi. Guy ends up comically attacking Jiraiya with "Dynamic Entry!" (a flying kick), mistaking Jiraiya's reflection in his forehead protector for that of the enemy. Needless to say, he's embarrassed about the mistake. He also tells them that he will take Sasuke to medication. As Jiraiya and Naruto depart, he gives Naruto one of the body suits that he and Lee wear. Jiraiya convinces Naruto not to wear the suit after Guy leaves, pointing out how silly Guy looks in it, although Naruto seems reluctant, and brings the suit out again during the filler arc with pride.
Later on, after Tsunade gives Lee the poor odds of success for his operation, it is Guy who convinces Lee to go through with it. A short flashback explains their "My Rules" philosophy, which centers around setting goals for failure, insuring that some good will come of it, as well as some measure of karmic return for the investment. Guy tells Lee that with all of the work Lee has done so far, he will definitely survive the operation, and if by some cruel twist of fate Lee doesn't, then he will die too. As Guy puts it, they're both simply too stupid to live without their way of the ninja, which is becoming a great ninja for Lee and helping Lee become a great ninja for Guy. He also explains Lee's dangerous reaction to alcohol during Lee's fight with Kimimaro.
[edit] Filler arcs
Guy appears in several of the filler episodes. He appeared in episode 152 when Tsunade was assigning his team and Naruto to go to the village under Raiga's control. He appears at the end of episode 161, at which point both he and Lee meet the two men who had been impersonating them. They quickly send the two imposters flying.
He appears again in episode 193, where he attempts to challenge Lee in his newly-built dojo while disguised as someone else, in order to build the reputation of Lee's dojo. His disguise is poor to say the least, consisting of only a gray mustache and a gray afro wig, but Lee falls for it. While on his way to the dojo, he ends up being called away for an emergency, which gives a foreign ninja an opportunity to sneak into the village disguised as Guy. After a series of events which leaves Naruto fighting Lee while disguised as Guy, and the foreign ninja disguised as Lee, Guy arrives and challenges the disguised ninja to a fight. Guy promptly knocks him unconscious, not knowing that he's an imposter, and berates him for his easy defeat. When everyone meets up and realizes who the ninja is, they take him to Tsunade, who conveniently happens to have a warrant for his arrest.
In The Third Great Beast arc, Guy begins training a visiting ninja, Yagura. Yagura ends up sparring with Lee, and nearly breaks his ankle with an advanced intercepting technique.
With Lee out of commission, Yagura ends up going on a mission with Guy. He makes it a point to discourage Lee with this information. During the mission, he reveals that he is in fact intending to get revenge on Guy, whom he holds responsible for his father's death. His clan specializes in fighting with kung fu training posts in a style akin to that used with puppets. The training posts, however, are nowhere near as versatile. Guy destroys quite a few posts, but ends up trapped in a house made of the posts. Lee, Naruto and the rest of Team Guy, eventually find out and come to help.
While Naruto and the rest of Team Guy fight the weaker posts, Lee and Guy are trapped inside a castle constructed of other training posts. Lee and Guy are trapped in separate rooms, in which a single training post is kept. As they fight the posts, the posts seem to know their moves exactly. In reality, Yagura is using a jutsu that causes the posts to mimic Lee and Guys moves. After Lee begins to unravel his bandages to attempt the Primary Lotus, Guy sees through the technique and communicates to his student through Morse code with his feet. The two then work out a way to defeat the posts: break them apart through stress. They both open the first five chakra gates and bounce around the room at high speed, breaking the jutsu and the entire castle along with it. After the ninja is defeated, Guy reveals that his father was an honorable man, who just wanted another match with Guy, not revenge.
In the Konoha 11 arc, Guy is seen leading most of Konoha's available Jonin to stop a suspected invasion by Takigakure. Though it seems as if they might actually attack, they are in fact just performing a training exercise.
It is revealed in episode 203 in the filler arc (the 90 minute special) that Kurenai is envious of Guy's ability to inspire his students, and that Guy performs morning marathons and gymnastics to "sweat out the impurities that built up in your body while sleeping!"
[edit] Part II
Guy's first appearance in Naruto: Hurricane Chronicles is with his team, where they are sent as backup for Team Kakashi. When Zetsu informs the other members of Akatsuki that Guy's team was approaching, Kisame requests that he be the one to take care of them, as he wants to repay Guy for "the kick he gave [him] earlier." However, when they faced off, Guy could not seem to recall who Kisame was, which agitated Kisame greatly. Kisame, attacking through a remote-controlled body substitute, overwhelms Team Guy and traps everyone but Guy in water prisons. To finish the battle, Guy opens the sixth chakra gate and uses his signature Morning Peacock move, defeating Kisame and revealing the fact that their attacker was actually a body double.
Upon reaching the Akatsuki hideout, Kakashi instructs Team Guy on how to disable the barrier around the hideout. Upon doing so, they are forced to fight off clones of themselves, created as a failsafe should the barrier be disabled. At the conclusion of the Rescue Gaara arc, Guy carries an exhausted Kakashi to Konoha on his back. Their students stare and Sakura comments on how disturbing the scene is. Guy doesn't seem to notice, and challenges the others to keep up as he runs with Kakashi still on his back, further disturbing them. Lee takes it as training and offers to carry Neji, who flatly refuses the offer.
