Generator Gawl

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Generator Gawl

ジェネレイター　ガウル (Generator Gawl)
Genre	Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
TV anime
Directed by	Seiji Mizushima
Studio	Production I.G., Tatsunoko Productions
Network	TV Tokyo
Original run	6 October 1998 – 22 December 1998
No. of episodes	12

Generator Gawl (ジェネレイター　ガウル ) is an anime series about three young men, Koji, Ryo and Gawl, who traveled back in time to the year 2007 to prevent Professor Takuma Nekasa from discovering a gene code which would start a devastating war. "Generators" are sent back from the future to stop the trio.

1 Characters
2 Generators
3 Spoilers
4 External links

[edit] Characters

Gawl Kudo: The hero and main character of the story, Gawl is a Generator with ungaugeable power. Though somewhat dim-witted, Gawl shows loyalty and protectiveness for his friends, even if it means putting his life on the line.

Koji Suzuki: Koji is the level-headed one of the trio and a true intellectual. He rarely displays much emotion at all and only laughs one time in the series.

Ryo: Ryo is the more sensitive of the three, but he is also quite brilliant. He was head of Kubere's Project Achilles to create Gawl and feels intense guilt for his experiments on Gawl.

Masami Shippo: A red-haired girl who met up with the three early on in the series. Masami constantly fights with Gawl due to a poor first impression. Though this may be, it is quite obvious that she has somewhat of a romantic interest in the story's protagonist.

Natsumi: A pink-haired girl who is extremely shy and Masami's best friend. She constantly attempts to calm Gawl and Masami down when they get in a heated conflict but never succeeds.

Ryuko Saito: The antagonist of the story. She is distrustful, sadistic, and egoistic. She uses Dr. Tekuma Nekasa's desire to recover his past to bend him to her will. She is constantly calling Generators to do her dirty work and often tries to kill or capture Gawl and his friends. She doesn't care whether or not Gawl is alive, as long as she has his core.

[edit] Generators

Generator: A being with the ability to transform into a metaloid (metallic/organic) warrior with powers far beyond those of humans. There are many types of Generator, such as Gawl ("Razor?"), Cyclops, Manta, and many more. All of which have their own abilities that were either designed for weaponry or for the Reconstruction when they were "officially" introduced. There are also multiple "phases" of Generator, which refers to the power output of a Generator and the stage of development, Gawl likely being Phase 4 and Ryuko Saito being a Phase 5.

There is also a "Control" level to Generators. First is completely controlled through hard wire connections, Second and Third are semi-autonomous with preset commands and free to achieve them in whatever parameters are set. Third Levels are capable of reverting to human form. Fourth is when the subject is completely self-aware, capable of full physical control and able to revert to human form, but unable to communicate in any way. Fifth is complete control, able to communicate and capable of using the immense power in any way that the body is able to.

Exogenerate: Also known in the American dub as "generate," this is the ability to transform into Generator Form through the mental trigger of activating the transformation gene. Surprisingly, in one of the later episodes, Koji and Ryo generate; they, however, are less powerful than Gawl, being Phase 1. This is due to the fact that they activated their Include Cells as they are, not like Gawl who was activated before he was born.

Core: The heart of a Generator, all relays of power and life functions are processed in here. The core is crystalline in hardness and can only be destroyed by another Generator. Once it is shattered, the Generator dies and turns into either energy or dust. It is often exposed on the chest, but in certain designs, such as Sound and Cyclops, it may be hidden within the body (Sound) or exposed on the back (Cyclops).

[edit] Spoilers

It is revealed later in the series that Natsumi is working for Ryuko, and knew who and what Gawl, Koji, and Ryo were since she first saw Generator Gawl and the Sound type outside the fast-food restaurant Masami works at. She is used as a spy to track them and, in one episode, used as a human bomb. However, at this point Natsumi rebels and leaves a recorded message for the trio and Masami and goes off into the forest so that the bomb inside her body won't destroy the others.

Koji and Ryo are Phase 1 Generators who aren't as powerful as Gawl.

It is known that Koji, Ryo, and Gawl were grown either by in-vitro fertilization or in some form of growth tube. Either way, it is fact that their genetic mother is Natsumi, as evidenced later in the series when Ryuko's assistant, who is in fact an older Koji, notices the ID numbers for eggs that Ryuko removed from Natsumi shortly before the suicide mission. The ID numbers directly coincided with Gawl, Ryo and Koji's IDs back in their own time, which identify who they were cloned from.

Professor Tekuma Nekasa is Ryo. At the end of the series, Gawl and the others confront Ryuko, only for her to rip out Gawl's core. As a result two things happen. First is that Ryo and Koji are thrown backwards in time, with Ryo losing his memories of everything except the include cells that allow exogeneration. The second is Gawl speaking to an image of Natsumi in his head, and using his desires to control the temporal energies and successfully stop Ryuko's plans by "recreating the world." However, he was unable to bring Natsumi back.

Natsumi's death drove Gawl into a blind rage, triggering a Rage form. Rage Gawl stands 3 meters tall and makes quick work out of all others, except Generator Ryuko, who makes quick work out of him.