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Anji Mito
Official Guilty Gear XX Accent Core artwork for Anji Mito.
Game series	Guilty Gear series
First game	Guilty Gear X
Creator(s)	Daisuke Ishiwatari
Voice actor(s)	Tōru Igarashi
In-Universe Information
Birthplace	Pre-destruction Japan
Blood type	B
Theme song	"Fuuga (Elegance) " (GGX -) "Riding the Clouds" (Korean XX #Reload)

Anji Mito (御津闇慈, Mito Anji^?) is a character in the Guilty Gear fighting game series, making his first appearance in the second game, Guilty Gear X: By Your Side. He is an escaped Japanese, and because of that is being pursued by the Post-War Administration Bureau. A very curious and friendly man, he is wielder of the legendary Zessen (Stopping) fans, one of the “jinki” of Outrage.

1 Story
2 Music References
3 Trivia
4 Notes

[edit] Story

[edit] Background

Anji is among the few people born of Japanese descent. Because of this, he is protected by the government since full-blooded Japanese are considered an endangered species. While there are those who accept this lifestyle, Anji doesn’t - he compares acceptance of government to living in a zoo's cage. To regain his freedom, he escaped from his colony and pursued That Man for answers for his ever-curious mind.

No one knows exactly how he heard of That Man and the Gears themselves, nor how he came to possess the Zessen fans. It is implied that Anji stole the Zessen, which had been stored in the Japanese colony, before escaping.

[edit] Guilty Gear X: By Your Side

Anji chases after the footsteps of That Man, his eyes constantly on the goal, and ponders on what he learned from running in to Dizzy.

[edit] Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival

In this game, Anji is trying to find "That Man" to ask him about the gears. In one ending he defeats I-No and "That Man" offers to tell him what he wants to know, he specifically says, "If you're ready to defy both Heaven and Earth, come with me." which most players take as an offer to turn him into a Gear (in the ending picture that man has his hand extended towards Anji, revealing that his skin is Blue). In another ending he fights a brainwashed Chipp, before fighting with a Robo-Ky, and upon learning of the hunt for people of Japanese descent feels that he needs to protect Baiken. In the third ending he fights Ky (whom he mistakes as Robo-Ky), and then learns that someone is trying to capture him. Ky tells him to lie low.

[edit] Music References

Anji-Mito's theme song, "Fuuga", is based on a Mötley Crüe song, "Live Wire". Also, his "Shitsu" projectile bears a distinct resemblance to Aerosmith's logo when transformed. The name "Anji" is most likely a reference to the instrumental guitar piece titled "Anji" written by Davy Graham. The song is also known as Angi, or Angie, but Anji is how the song appears when Simon and Garfunkel covered the song on their album Sounds of Silence.

[edit] Trivia

Anji is somewhat vain, and afraid of growing old. Therefore, he hates it when May and Bridget call him “ojisan” (meaning "middle-aged gentleman" or "uncle", which is a polite way to refer to a man older than oneself in Japanese) presumably because he would prefer something that has a more youthful connotation, like "aniki" (which means "one's senior" or "elder brother", but is still respectful enough to not be too familiar).
Anji is one of the few characters that wears glasses. It is not known if he really does need them for sight or just uses them for fashion sense.
In the game Guilty Gear Judgement Raymond refers to him as "Anji Mito, aka Kakukyaku", implying that Anji Mito may not be his real name.

[edit] Notes

I↑ : Although his eye color is listed as "black" in his English character profile, this is actually a mistranslation of 黒. While 黒 normally does mean black, it can also mean 'dark'; in this case, dark brown. This is easily substansiated as his eyes are clearly and consistantly brown in all of his official artwork and in-game sprites.

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