Kyudai Garaki

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I've only been living for the boy's sake... for Shigaraki.

Kyudai Garaki to Hizashi Yamada in "The Three of Us"

Kyudai Garaki
Biographical Information
Kanji Name	殻 (がら) 木 (き) 球 (きゅう) 大 (だい)
Rōmaji Name	Garaki Kyūdai
Alias	Daruma Ujiko (氏 (うじ) 子 (こ) 達磨 (だるま) , Ujiko Daruma?)
Personal Description
Age	120+
Gender	Male
Eye Color	Blue
Quirk	Life Force (Duplicate; formerly original)
Status
Status	Imprisoned
Occupation	Villain Jaku Hospital Board Chairman
Affiliation	League of Villains (Previously) Paranormal Liberation Front
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 21 (Voice) Chapter 59
Anime Debut	Episode 13 (Voice) Episode 33
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Minoru Inaba
English Voice	Mark Stoddard

Dr. Kyudai Garaki (殻 (がら) 木 (き) 球 (きゅう) 大 (だい) , Garaki Kyūdai^?), also known by the pseudonym of Daruma Ujiko (氏 (うじ) 子 (こ) 達磨 (だるま) , Ujiko Daruma^?), is a villain affiliated with the League of Villains. He is a faithful servant of All For One and later Tomura Shigaraki.

Appearance

Kyudai is a fairly old man of a portly and short stature. He is completely bald and has a very large and bushy mustache. As a villain, he wears a rather peculiar set of goggles that are shaped somewhat like gears, along with a white, buttoned-up labcoat. He looks very similar to Dr. Tsubasa, the doctor who told Izuku Midoriya that he was Quirkless.

As the chairman of Jaku General Hospital, Kyudai switches out his gear-like goggles in place of circular and black regular-looking ones. He also adorns a shirt and tie underneath his regular labcoat.

Kyudai's Quirk, Life Force, makes him appear younger than he actually is. Without this Quirk, he has many more wrinkles and his eyes are sunken.

Gallery

Kyudai's true age after his Quirk is erased.

Personality

Kyudai demands that Tomura proves his worth.

Kyudai is an eccentric and deranged scientist, who dutifully follows All For One's will. Like Gigantomachia, he did not believe Tomura was yet worthy of succeeding All For One, but due to a compromise he made with his former master, he was willing to give Tomura the chance to prove him wrong. Once Tomura exceeded his expectations by defeating the Meta Liberation Army, and getting Gigantomachia to submit, he accepted him as All For One's successor.

Kyudai is very prideful of his Nomu creations, referring to them as "children" and regarding the High-End ones as "masterpieces." He treats Nomus as offerings for All For One, although he has allowed some of them to be used by Tomura under his former master's wishes.

The doctor's kindly public façade.

Kyudai is overly cautious and secretive about any information pertaining to his person, preferring to stay in anonymity and avoiding close contact with anyone (except All For One) under the threat of death. Because of this, he favors communicating through electronics instead of directly, doing the latter only on special occasions, and through a Warping Quirk. This is likely due to his public presence as the well-reputed chairman of Jaku General Hospital. Towards his colleagues and the public, Kyudai presents himself as a benign and well-meaning man who is devoted to his medical research.

Despite the unethical manner of Kyudai's work, he is not completely heartless. He and All For One have been sincere friends, as Kyudai thanks him for his patronage with tears in his eyes. He also truly cares for the Nomus, as shown when he is saddened by Johnny and Mocha's deaths, as well as when he apologizes to his High-End Nomus as he is forced to release them early to stop the Pro Heroes.

Despite the fact that Kyudai is usually calm, collected and sure of himself and his goals, he is actually quite cowardly when faced with a threat, panicking and freaking out too easily, and making overly exaggerated expressions of shock, as seen when the heroes raid his secret lab. Likewise, he can just as easily be extremely overjoyed and excited when his plans work, being prone to rants and gloating over his achievements and the failures of the heroes.

Abilities

Genius Intellect: Kyudai has incredible knowledge over Quirks, being considered an expert on the field. He also appears to be a biological and technological genius. His remarkable intelligence has allowed him to create copies of countless Quirks to implant into his Nomu, even All For One, which he implanted into Nine and later used to give All For One a copy of his original Quirk while Tomura received the original. His genius also allowed him to modify Tomura's body to withstand the enormous strain of All For One. Furthermore, he was able to find a way to replicate the Quirk-Destroying Bullets, despite the fact that he did not possess Eri, the original source of the bullets.

• Medical Expertise: Kyudai was able to restore All For One to combat his condition after his disastrous first battle with All Might.

Quirk

Life Force (摂 (せっ) 生 (せい) , Sessei^?) (Duplicate): Kyudai's Quirk grants him an extended lifespan and a more youthful appearance than his true age, although he still appears fairly elderly. According to Kyudai himself, he has lived for over 120 years. As a side effect, it causes his physical mobility to worsen.

He no longer possesses the original version of his own Quirk and has a duplicated version of it. The difference between his original Quirk and the duplicate is unknown.

Trivia

• Kyudai's surname contains the kanji for "shell, husk" (殻, gara^?) and "wood" (木, ki^?), and his first name contains "ball, sphere, round" (球, kyū^?) and "big" (大, dai^?).
  • "Garaki" also refers to the surname of All For One, "Shigaraki".
• Kyudai's pseudonym may be a reference to a Daruma doll, which are occasionally depicted with only one visible eye, much like Kyudai himself.
• Kyudai's appearance and role as a mad scientist also resemble Doctor Ivo Robotnik, better known as Doctor Eggman, from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.
• Because of his Life Force Quirk, Kyudai is one of the oldest characters in the series, having been alive since the uprising of Quirks, although it's unclear whether he's older than All For One.

Quotes

• (To Tomura) "What a childish daydream! Saying all that with such a straight face was quite impressive!! Very well, Tomura Shigaraki!! I'll help you out, so show me you mean it! Prove to me that you can make your villainous pipe dreams a reality!!"
• (In regards to All For One) "He foresaw his downfall and entrusted all he had to his successor. He even chose to pass on his Quirk. So, just like I once did for him... He took a duplicate of his Quirk for himself... And gave the original to Tomura Shigaraki."